Headbang - 23 Nov, 2018 - Best Of voting

The votes are now in from all 10 of the Headbangers for their Favourite Tracks and Themes.

Once more, it demonstrates what a broad church we are, with 14 separate tracks receiving at least one nomination. The final result is:

1	Faces	Losing you	12
2	Various Artistes	While my guitar gently weeps	10
3	K T Tunstall	Black Horse and the Cherry Tree	7
4	Radiohead	Nobody does it better	6
5	Temperance Movement	Only Friend	5
6	Iggy Stooge	The passenger	4
7=	Tony Joe White	Rainy night in Georgia	3
7=	Duke Robillard	Anything it takes	3
9	Ronnie Lane	Ooh la la	2
10=	Blondie	Atomic	2
10=	Simon & Garfunkel	The boxer	2
10=	Doors	Unknown Soldier	2
13=	Jake Bugg	Universal Soldier	1
13=	Stevie Nicks/Fleetwood Mac	Rhiannon	1

As for the Themes, the voting was skewed a little with Gary and Malcolm missing the later themes and not being able to vote on them:

1	La La Land	55
2	Armistice Day Centenary	51
3=	Septuagenarians	49
3=	Rock Chicks	49
5	White Album 50	38
6	New(ish) Scottish Artistes	37
7	Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Nominations 2019	35
8	Obituary	33

As ever, the Obituary section is at the mercy of the stature of those who have passed recently, but it's also noticeable that the New(ish) Artistes struggled again - I had proposed dropping this section after previous poor marks, but, after a couple of appeals, I relented but reduced the number of tracks played in this theme, but that doesn't seem to have helped.

Again, however, the scoring was hugely varied with 3 of the themes - Armistice, Rock Chicks and Obituary - scoring both best and worst marks by different Headbangers. Another 4 of the themes - Septuagenarians, White Album, New(ish) and RnRHoF showed only fractionally less diversity, and even in the "winning" theme - La La Land - scoring varied from best to 3rd worst.