It's all over. All that's left to do is to reveal the people behind each of the songs in the final, and by extension, the BIG WINNER.
Sheepeh (KISS - God Gave Rock And Roll To You)
53.3%Zardoz (The Stooges - I Wanna Be Your Dog)
46.7%Which means:
ALL SALUTE THE INAUGURAL BETEO SONG WARLORD SHEEPEH. And an especially conciliatory doff of the cap to runner-up Zardoz for making it such a closely fought final. Remember Zardoz, if Sheepeh is unable to fulfil his duties as Song Wars Champion, you'll be expected to take over, just like with Miss World. Although there aren't any actual duties involved, so this is admittedly unlikely.
It has been a long and interesting musical journey, taking wee-stops at a total of 273 different songs along the way. Namely... (spoilertagged for convenience)
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2 Live Crew - Hoochie Mama
4 Hero - Mr Kirk's Nightmare
a.P.A.t.T.-Happiness
AC/DC - Whole Lotta Rosie
Akira OST - Kaneda
All Saints - Under the bridge (RHCP)
Aneka - Japanese Boy
Aqua - Dr Jones
Aquabats! - Fashion Zombies
Architecture in Helsinki-It's 5
B*witched - C'est la vie
BabyBird - Back Together
Beach Boys - California Dreamin' (Mammas and Pappas)
Beautiful South - Rotterdam
Belle and Sebastian - Expectations
Belong - I Never Lose, Really Really
Ben Folds - Bitch Went Nuts
Billie - Because We Want To
Billy Bragg - St. Swithin's Day
Billy Joel - Miami 2017 (Seen The Lights Go Out On Broadway)
Billy Ray Cyrus - Achy Breaky Heart
Björk - Big Time Sensuality
Black Lace - Superman
Blink 182 - Family Reunion
Blink 182 - I Won't Be Home For Christmas
Bloodhound Gang - The Bad Touch
Blues Brothers - Everybody Needs Somebody
Bluetones - Fountainhead
Blur - Far Out (Demo)
Bomb The Bass - Bug Powder Dust
Bonnie Tyler - Holding out for a Hero (Footloose)
Booker T and the MGs - Green Onions
Bowie & Bing - Peace On Earth/Little Drummer Boy
Bran Van 3000 - Drinking In LA
British Sea Power - The Spirit of St. Louis
Bruce Springsteen - Atlantic City
Cake - The Distance
Can - Vernal Equinox (Live)
Chagall Guevara - Murder in the Big House
Chef - Chocolate Salty Balls
Chris Morris - Motherbanger
Chris Rea - Nothing to Fear
Chuck Berry - Johnny B. Goode (Back to the Future)
David Bowie - Underground (Labyrinth)
Day One - Ordinary Man
Death Cab For Cutie - A Movie Script Ending
Dee-Lite - Groove is in the Heart
Deerhoof- The Eyebright Bugler
Depeche Mode - Enjoy the Silence
Depeche Mode - Only when I lose myself (Lexicon Avenue Remix)
Depon Eye - Out 'Till 3
Dinosaur Jr - Just Like Heaven (The Cure)
DJ Broken Window - Der Cookie und Der Prinz
DNTEL - Umbrella
Duran Duran - A View To A Kill (A View To A Kill)
Dusty Springfield - Son Of A Preacher Man
DVDA - America, Fuck Yeah
Echobelly - Car Fiction
Editors - Smokers Outside the Hospital Doors
Eels - Hey Man (Now You're Really Living)
Electric Six - Radio Ga Ga (Queen)
Elvis Costello - Man Out Of Time
Emilie Autumn - Opheliac
Erasure - Breath of Life (Divine Inspiration Mix)
Eric Clapton - Better Make It Through Today
Falco - Rock Me Amadeus
Fall Out Boy - Beat It
Fightstar - Amethyst
Fountains of Wayne - Stacey's Mom
Garbage - Why Do You Love Me
George Bush -The End Of The World
Gin Blossoms - Hey Jealousy
Goldfinger - 99 Red Balloons (Nena)
Gonzales - Working Together
Grandaddy - A.M. 180
Green Jelly - Three Little Pigs
Guns n Roses - Welcome to the Jungle
HardDrive - No More Your Enemy
Hayseed Dixie - She Was Skinny When I Met Her
Hazekiah Jenkins - The Panic is On
Heaven 17 - (We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang
Hefner - The Hymn for the Alcohol
Honor Blackman and Patrick Macnee - Kinky Boots
Hope of the States - Black Dollar Bills
Huey Lewis and the News - Back in Time (Back to the Future)
Iggy Pop & The Stooges - Gimme Danger
Isis - So Did We
James Brown - I Got Ants In My Pants (And I Want To Dance)
Jan Doyle Band - Gun
Jarvis - Running the World
Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit (Woodstock 1969)
Jeffrey Lewis - The last time I did acid I went insane
Joey Ramone - What a Wonderful World (Louis Armstrong)
John Cale - Frozen Warnings
John Cale - Paris 1919
Jon Anderson - Do You Want to Be a Hero? (Biggles: Adventures in Time)
Jona Lewie - Stop the Cavalry
Jonathan Coulton - Baby Got Back (Sir Mix-A-Lot)
Josh Ritter - To The Dogs Or Whoever
Kathryn Williams - Spit on a Stranger (Pavement)
Kiss - God Gave Rock 'n' Roll To You
Kon Kan - I Beg Your Pardon (I Never Promised You A Rose Garden)
Le Tigre - Deceptacon
Lemon Demon - The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny
Lo-Fidelity Allstars - Vision Incision (12" Mix)
London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Simon Rattle - Vide Cor Meum
Louis Armstrong - Chim Chim Cher-ee (Dick van Dyke)
Lovage - Pit Stop (Take Me Home)
Low - Just like Christmas
Lucero - I Can Get Us Out of Here
Lucky Boys Confusion - Something to Believe
Ludovico Einaudi - Primavera
Machinae Supremacy - Through the Looking Glass
Madonna - American Pie (Don McLean)
Magazine - The Light Pours Out Of Me
Marilyn Manson- Tainted Love (Soft Cell)
Martha & the Vandellas - Nowhere to Run
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes - (Ghost) Riders in the Sky
Meat Loaf - Bat out of Hell
Medicine - Time Baby 3
Men without Hats - Safety Dance
Mercury Rev - Holes
Metallica - So what
Mexican Institute of Sound - Escribeme Pronto
Mike Harding - Dangermouse Theme
Mike Monday - I Am Plankton (Album Version)
Miranda Lambert - Dry Town
Mitch Benn - Christmas Single
Moby - Everloving
Modest Mouse - Black Cadillacs
Mogwai - Xmas Steps
Moist - Push
Morecambe and Wise - The Happiest Christmas Of All
Motorhead - Ace of Spades
Mr. Bungle - Pink Panther Theme
Neil Young - Like A Hurricane
Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
Nightmares on Wax - 70s 80s
Nightmares on Wax - Les Nuits
NOFX - Wore out the soles of my party boots
Nouvelle Vague - Too Drunk To Fuck (Dead Kennedys)
Orange Juice - Rip It Up
Orbital - Halcyon + on + on
Orbital - The Box
Otis Redding - (Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay
Otis Redding - White Christmas
Paul McCartney - Too Many People
Peggy Lee - Is that all there is?
Pet Shop Boys - It Doesn't Often Snow at Christmas
Peter, Bjorn & John - Young Folks
Phyllis Nelson - Move Closer
Pink Floyd - What Shall We Do Now?
Puddle of Mudd - She Fucking Hates Me
Pulp - Mile End
Pulp - This is Hardcore (Swedish Erotica Mix)
Queen - Don't Stop Me Now
Queen - Sail Away Sweet Sister
R.E.M. - (Don't Go Back To) Rockville
Radiohead - Street Spirit (Fade Out)
Regina Spektor - On The Radio
Revolte - Ironical Sexism (We Are Terrorists Remix)
Richard & Linda Thompson - Hokey Pokey (the Ice Cream Song)
Richard Harris - MacArthur Park
Rise Against-Ready To Fall
Ritchie Valens - La Bamba by
Rolf Harris - Two Little Boys
Roy Orbison - I drove all night
Roy Orbison - The Comedians (Elvis Costello)
Saint Etienne & Tim Burgess - I Was Born on Christmas Day
Saul Williams - Black Stacey
Scala Choir and Kolacny Brothers - Engel (Rammstein)
Schneider TM - The Light 3000 (The Smiths)
Scooter - Fire
Scorpions - Wind of Change
Scott Walker - Jackie (Jacques Brel)
Seer - We Are Just Riding On These Things
Shakin Stevens - Merry Christmas Everyone
She & Him - Why Do You Let Me Stay Here?
Shonen Knife - Space Christmas
Sin Destroyers - Gifts to the World
Siouxsie & the Banshees - This Wheels On Fire (Bob Dylan & The Band)
Slade - Merry Christmas Everybody
Slint- Good Morning Captain
Smokey Robinson - I Second that Emotion
Songstowearpantsto.com - Shoot The Zombies
Soul Coughing - Super Bon Bon (Propellerheads remix)
Spanky Wilson - Sunshine Of Your Love (Cream)
Spin Doctors - 2 Princes
Spiritualized - True Love Will Find You In The End (Daniel Johnston)
Spunge - Centrefold (J. Geils Band)
Stars - Your Ex-Lover Is Dead
Status Quo - Down Down
Stellastarr*- My Choco
Stereo Total - Le Diable (Brigitte Bardot)
Stevie Wonder - Living For The City
Survivor - Eye of the Tiger
t.A.T.u. - How Soon Is Now
Tech n9ne - Sleeping Beauty
Teenage Fanclub - Mellow Doubt
Terrance & Philip - Uncle Fucker
the Animaniacs - The Ballad of Magellan
The Apples in stereo - Can You Feel It?
The Auteurs - Unsolved Child Murder
The Balanescu Quartet - The Model
The Bangles - Hazy Shade Of Winter (Simon and Garfunkel)
The Beatles - Eleanor Rigby
The Beatles - Tax Man
The Breeders - Cannonball
the Comedian Harmonists - Mein Kleiner Grüner Kaktus
The Cure - How Beautiful You Are
The Dismemberment Plan - The Dismemberment Plan Gets Rich
The Divine Comedy - Idaho
The Facts of Life - Black Box Recorder
The Fall - Touch Sensitive
The Flaming Lips - A Change At Christmas
The Flaming Lips - Nobody Told Me? (John Lennon)
The Flight Commander - It's Christmas Again
The Go-Go's - Stuck In My Car
The Happy Mondays - Step On
The Hoax - High Expectations
The Hold Steady - Stay Positive
The Hotshots - Snoopy Vs. The Red Baron (The Royal Guardsmen)
The Housemartins - Happy Hour
The Lancashire Hotpots - Christmas in Lancashire
The Melvins feat. Leif Garrett - Smells Like Teen Spirit (Nirvana)
The Offspring - Spare Me The Details
The Only Ones - Another Girl, Another Planet
The Orb - Toxygene
The Pogues featuring Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale Of New York
The Presets - My People
The Primitives - Crash
The Prodigy - Charly
The Prodigy - Out of Space
The Prodigy - Weather Experience
The Saints - Know Your Product
The Secret Machines - 1,000 Seconds
The Shadows - The Frightened City
The Sisters Of Mercy - Alice
The Sonics - Don't Believe In Christmas
The Specals - Monkey Man (Toots and the Maytals)
The Stooges - I Wanna Be Your Dog
The String Tribute to Tool - Intolerance (Tool)
The Sugarhill Gang - 8th Wonder
The Troggs - Love is All Around
The Velvet Underground - Venus in Furs
The Waitresses - Christmas Wrapping (Merry Xmas)
The Warlocks - Shake The Dope Out
The White Stripes - Jolene (Dolly Parton)
They Might Be Giants - Museum Of Idiots
They Might Be Giants - One Dozen Monkeys
Those Dancing Days - Hitten
Tia Carrere - Ballroom Blitz (Wayne's World)
Tim Buckley - Once I was
TISM - Everyone Else Has Had More Sex Than Me
Toby Keith - Courtesy Of The Red, White And Blue (The Angry American)
Tom Lehrer - A Christmas Carol
Tom Waits - 16 Shells from a Thirty-Ought-Six
Tom Waits - I Don't Want to Grow Up
Trentemøller: Moan (Vocal Remix ft. Ane Trolle)
Tullycraft - Twee
Twisted Sister - We're not gonna take it
U2 - Stay (Faraway, So Close)
Vengaboys - We're Going to Ibiza
Weezer - My Name Is Jonas
Weird Al Yankovic - Angry White Boy Polka
Weird Al Yankovic - Christmas At Ground Zero
Weird Al Yankovic - I'll Sue Ya
White Town - Your Woman
Wilco - Via Chicago
William Shatner - Mr Tambourine Man
Wonder Stuff - Size Of A Cow
Yello - Oh Yeah
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So, just for fun, what have been your Top Three Songs Wars Songs That You Didn't Know You Liked Until The Song Wars? For me:
The Saints - Know Your Product
Richard Harris - MacArthur Park
Those Dancing Days - Hitten