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With Round Five over, and our journey through the RiffMasters Musical Mystery Tour at half way,
we slide over another tile and reveal the Main Event Chapter Six Challenge - This gonna be fun!
No surprise, I'm sure many of saw it coming.... it's "#1 hits of the 1980’s!”
For many of us, the 80’s were a time of big life changes. Adolescence for some and college for many,
or for you others, starting careers such as construction, selling weed then coke, getting a chip truck, or
making Assistant Manager at Speaker City for most others here. So for this round, a treat. Relive those
glory days by covering a song we probably spun round, round like a record, baby, right round, round-round
many times! There was so much variety through the decade, new instruments, even entire new genres appeared. Waves ebbed and flowed, and the whole crazy concept of music videos pushed popular music beyond just an
aural experience, but into a visual pleasure medium as well.
It was totally awesome, man!
Your challenge for Main Event #5 is to:
Choose any #1 song from the 1980’s and redo it for us, any way you wish. Cover it faithfully, flavour it up,
do what thou whilst, but above all hoist up your creative freak flag for all to see! Might even choose to
Take on (me), a guilty pleasure song of yours - but above all, remember: the ONLY shame in RiffMasters is...
...not submitting!
GOLD RUSH!!! Repeats would be lame, so... this is first come, first served! Therefore, you MUST stake
your claim by naming your chosen hit as quickly as you can here in this thread. This to keep your pesky
Riffmaster competitors off your musical territory. Repeats will be viewed as very bad mojo, resulting in
disqualification from the vote. If you wish to try to keep it a secret, go ahead and take your chances, but
that’s a VERY risky play. Plus, it’s going to be great fun knowing what songs y’all be tweaking on!
Here’s a handy link to all the US Billboard #1 hits between 1980-1989, so many killer songs!
choose wisely!
ALL THE #1s of the 1980s
To make it EXTRA fun, there will be 2 bonus points awarded for each of the following:
“Most Brave” cover
“Most “We Can Dance If We Wanoo” 80’s Dance Mode ” cover
“Best Genre-Bending cover ” extreme twist ie: Dance House song -> Metal cover (etc.)
Can you believe those? Interpret them however you want, I don't want to hold anyone back.
Theoretically, some RiffMaster with extreme skills could scoop up ALL the bonus pts. and win the whole
dang round with one killer song choice, execution and submission - that would be CRAZEEEEEEE!
I'm still working out how these extra points will be judged, but judged they will be.
Round Four Main Event Scoring: 48 hour Community Poll Vote on submissions post deadline.
Top Vote Earner = 10 points
Second & Third Places = 7 points.
Participation Award: All other competitors who submit = 5 points
2 bonus pts ea. “Bravest” “Most 80’s Dance Mode” “Most Genre-Bending”
Your 80’s submission deadline is five weeks from tonight 7PM CST, Saturday, June 22nd
As usual there will also be further opportunities in a guitar duel and a side hustle in this round.
Any and all RiffMasters Challenges are 100% open to ANY member of the forum, whether you've played in the game prior or not. Regard this as a VERY Inclusive musical safe space.
It's all in the interest of a little creative boosting, sharing forum fellowship,
and making a total ass of ourselves.