Official Club Vivid Song Grab Announcement!!

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To keep the comments list small and manageable for people to read over when signing up, let me ask that you avoid comments that aren't specifically for claiming. I'm going delete any other comments. Feel free to e-mail me at luminosity dot deville at gmail dot com with any questions. Please put "Club Vivid" in the subject window.

Here at last is the Club Vivid Challenge list. A quick explanation for those new to VividCon: every year at the con, we have a dance vid party, where we show vids rather than just playing music. It's a great time, and it's an excuse to make dance vids that don't necessarily have a ton of deep meaning or narrative (not that we mind those!) but are just plain fun.

This year, we're running a special challenge for vids made specifically for Club Vivid. After soliciting suggestions from you all, we've picked out some of the most danceable songs from those submitted, and we're asking vidders to claim a song and make us a vid. These vids will be due April 21 -- more instructions on uploading will be posted here and at the VividCon website closer to that due date.

These vids will be shown at the con in Club Vivid, and will be eligible for inclusion on the con dvd, space permitting. You do not need to be a member of the con to submit vids to Club Vivid. Any genre of vid is welcome, any fandom is welcome.

How It Works:

• For simplicity, assignments are first-come, first-served.
  
• Look through the cut-tagged list below. Find a song you like. Check the comments to make sure it hasn't already been claimed.
  
• Post a comment saying "I claim song FOO" and include your e-mail address. Feel free to write it "I am whee at foo dot com" to protect against spammers and such, but please do include it. You do not need to have a livejournal account to post.
  
• Make sure that your comment has appeared below, and double-check that no one before you has claimed the song. If there is a conflict, whichever comment appears first in the livejournal listing wins.
  
• Make your vid to the song. The vid should be good enough quality to blow up to full-screen. Something like RealPlayer is not good enough -- something like DivX or a large WMV10 file is okay -- elementary MPEG-2 files (m2v and wav) are ideal.
  
• Get the vid done by April 21st, 2006, and upload it (or mail it to us on a disk). More detailed instructions will be forthcoming. The deadline is firm -- please do not claim a song if you can't make the vid by that time. We will be burning the show very shortly after that date, so we cannot give extensions.
  
• We would like to premiere these vids at the con. That is, we ask that you do not release the vid on the web or on a collection before the con (August 11-13 this year). After the con, you are of course welcome to do anything you like with it.

FAQ:

• Can I claim more than one song?
  For now, please only claim one. If there are songs still unclaimed by this Friday (February 17), feel free to claim a second and even a third at that time, if you are confident you can get those vids done and uploaded by April 21. If you have a pre-claimed song (ie, one that you claimed during the suggestion period and that is listed below), please wait until Friday to grab another song.
  
• Why so few songs?
  We only have time to show about 50 vids at Club Vivid, but there are a lot of songs here! We don't want to risk accidentally getting more vids than we can show, and we also want time to show some older vids and repeats from previous years. However, we want you to have a lot to choose from.
  
• Where can I hear these songs?
  One good place to hear samples is Amazon, which has samples in WMV and Real format of nearly everything. Try Google to find out what album a song is on.
  
• Why isn't the song I suggested/claimed listed?
  We received nearly 220 suggested songs, so we trimmed aggressively. Keep in mind that our criteria here was *solely* whether we think a song is really danceable and helped give us a nice mix of dance genres -- not at all whether we thought a song was going to make a great vid or not. If you claimed a song during the suggestion period, and it isn't listed here, that does not mean we don't want to see it. Please feel free to make the vid to submit to Premieres, or one of the themed shows -- those deadlines will be later on.


• ETA:I missed the song suggestions and I have the best vid idea ever?! Can I still vid it?
  We want good dancey vids so if you can email us at luminosity dot deville at gmail dot com with the song, artist and fandom that you want to do, we'll let you know if there's room for it.

We made our choices with the names of the suggesters/vidders stripped off, so it was completely non-personal. It is of course subjective, but you behold before you our best efforts!


Songs Up for Grabs!
(If the song is struck out, it's been claimed! Please check the comments before claiming though, as this may not be up to date.)

Would You Like to Dance With Me - Burn the Floor soundtrack
Bootystition Mashup
Zombie Jamboree - Various artists
Sexual - Amber
Ring My Bell - Anita Ward
Respect - Aretha
Girl from Mars - Ash
Cruel Summer - Bananarama
Bingo Bango - Basement Jaxx
Happy Feet (High Heels Mix) - Baz Luhrmann
Heaven Is a Place on Earth - Belinda Carlisle
Crazy in Love - Beyonce
Get Out of My Dreams, Get Into My Car - Billy Ocean
Everybody Everybody - Black Box, featuring Martha Wash
Stop - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Heart of Glass - Blondie
Girls and Boys - Blur
Monster Mash - Bobby Pickett & the Crypt Kickers
Rasputin - Boney M.
Gonna Make You Sweat - C&C Music Factory
Jerk It Out - Caesar's Palace
Finally - CeCe Peniston
I Feel For You - Chaka Khan
Got to Be Real - Cheryl Lynn
Good Times - Chic
Tubthumping - Chumbawamba
Brick House - Commodores
100% Pure Love - Crystal Waters
Reality - David Bowie
Witch Doctor - David Seville
Groove Is in the Heart - Deee-lite
Let's Hear It for the Boy - Deniece Williams
People are People - Depeche Mode
Upside Down - Diana Ross
She Works Hard for the Money - Donna Summer
Good Time Girl - DSICO
Girls on Film - Duran Duran
Rio - Duran Duran
A Little Less Conversation (JXL Remix) - Elvis
Unbelievable - EMF
Chains of Love - Erasure
Something's Got a Hold On Me - Etta James
Missing (Terry Todd Mix) Everything But the Girl
Point of No Return - Expose
What's Love - Fat Joe w/Ashannto
Praise You - Fatboy Slim
Weapon of Choice - Fatboy Slim
Relax (Don't Do It) - Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Do You Want To - Franz Ferdinand
Take Me Out - Franz Ferdinand
Olympian - Gene
Turn the Beat Around - Gloria Estafan
I Will Survive - Gloria Gaynor
Flagpole Sitta - Harvey Danger
Rock the Boat - Hewes Corporation
Latest Breaking News - Immaculate Machine
I Want You Back - Jackson 5
Papa's Got a Brand New Bag - James Brown
What Have You Done For Me Lately - Janet Jackson
I Love Rock & Roll - Joan Jett
'Cause I'm a Blonde - Julie Brown
D-d-d-don't Stop the Beat - Junior Senior
Concrete Schoolyard - Jurassic 5
Rock Your Body - Justin Timberlake
Golddigger - Kanye West
That's the Way I Like It - KC & the Sunshine Band
Kids in America - Kim Wilde
Jungle Boogie - Kool & the Gang
On a Night Like This - Kylie Minogue
Be My Lover - La Bouche
Daft Punk is Playing at My House - LCD Soundsystem
Funkytown - Lipps, Inc.
Do Ya (Feel the Love) - Love, Inc (QAF soundtrack)
Into the Groove - Madonna
Ray of Light - Madonna
Let's Get It On - Marvin Gaye
Who Can It Be Now - Men at Work
Sway (Passengerz European Mixshow) - Michael Buble
So Many Men, So Little Time - Miquel Brown
Bodyrock - Moby
Lumberjack Song - Monty Python
Pass the Dutchie - Musical Youth
OPP - Naughty by Nature
Temptation - New Order
Jam On It - Newcleus
Just a Girl - No Doubt
Dragostea Din Tea (aka the Ma-i-a-HEEE song) - O-Zone
Physical - Olivia Newton John
Blood Wedding - Oysterband
New Attitude - Patti LaBelle
Straight Up - Paula Abdul
Shake Your Groove Thing - Peaches & Herb
Homo Sapien - Pete Shelley
Closer to Heaven - Pet Shop Boys
Good - Pizzacato 5
Kiss - Prince
Somebody To Love - Queen
I Said Never Again - Rachel Stevens
Control - Razed in Black (leather strip mix)
I Like to Move It - Real 2 Real, featuring The Mad Stuntman
Disco Duck - Rick Dees
Livin' La Vida Loca - Ricky Martin
Take Your Mama Out - Scissor Sisters
Filthy/Gorgeous - Scissor Sisters
Whenever Wherever - Shakira
The Power - Snap!
Take the Last Girl - Sons & Daughters
Back to Life - Soul 2 Soul
Groovejet (If This Ain't Love) - Spiller
Spoon - Stay Don't Go
King Tut - Steve Martin
Superstition - Stevie Wonder
Rock This Town - Stray Cats
Whoomp! There It is - Tag Team
Tell It to My Heart - Taylor Dane
Mama Kin in the Street - Team 9 (Martha and the Vandellas vs. Aerosmith)
Move This (Shake That Body) - Technotronic featuring Ya Kid K
Lovers of Loving Love - Aquabats
Roam - B52's
Walk Like an Egyptian - The Bangles
You Should Be Dancing - Bee Gees
I Like It Like That - Blackout Allstars
Do You Love Me (Now That I Can Dance) - Contours
Roll It Up - Crystal Method
Close to Me - The Cure
Star Trekkin' - The Firm
Fighting in a Sack - The Shins
Disco Inferno - The Trammps
Warning Siren - Tiefschwarz featuring Matty Safer
Mambo Inn - Tito Puente
Mickey - Toni Basil
Something Good - Utah Saints
The Hustle - Van McCoy
Whipped - Vanessa Brown
Turn the Beat Around - Vickie Sue Robinson
C'mon, C'mon - Von Bondies
Like a Surgeon - Weird Al
Play That Funky Music - Wild Cherry
Land of 1000 Dances - Wilson Pickett
Bust a Move - Young MC
If I Can't Have You - Yvonne Ellman

Claimed Songs

Good Day Sunshine Mashup - CLAIMED Lum
Beep Beep - CLAIMED Kjono
Goody Two Shoes - CLAIMED laurashapiro
Technologic- CLAIMED lierdumoa and kanzeyori
Tre Sorelle - CLAIMED heresluck
Hot Summer Nights - CLAIMED merryish
God is a DJ - CLAIMED dualbunny
Vogue - CLAIMED Andraste
Club Foot - CLAIMED Gwyneth
Take a Chance on Me - CLAIMED sdwolfpup
I Like the Way - CLAIMED abby
Pump It - CLAIMED latoya b