I'm so glad you could attend, come inside, come inside.
This roulette is going to follow the KISS principle. As I look back at how I structured my first two, holy crap did I make them convoluted. This time, no rules. Send me good music. That's it. I'll simply offer the following guidelines.
Worth repeating from my first two roulette’s:
I'm not doing this to explore new genre's of music, so don't expect to get much love from death metal, electronica or any genre requiring "post" or "core" in its name.
If you do chose to participate... then please do so. I'm not going to hold anyone's hand during this, or remind/chase down people who don't submit in a timely manner - and by timely, I mean within a couple of days. My intention is for these first two rounds to take a week or so, then the main rounds to be under a week - 1-2 days for you to decide, 4-5 days for me to listen and writeup. As one of my old bosses used to say, this is the FIFO method - Fit In, or Fuck Off.
I'll notify everyone when I plan to start listening to all submissions. Submit whenever you want, but if you don't submit a song by the time I start listening, then you're self selecting your score. No sweat off my back.
First and foremost, MAKE IT FUN. Roulette's aren't just about sharing good music you think the organizer will like, it's about having fun. I can get excellent music recommendations for last.fm, Amazon, YouTube, BandCamp fishing expeditions, Progstreaming, and Spotify. I host a roulette to have fun WHILE discovering new music.
Banned artists. By-and-large, I'm not formally banning anything. I'll reject a lot, so review my last.fm listening stats - it's as good a guideline as I'll give. Even if I've listened to an artist lots of times, if there are songs/albums I don't know, I'll allow it. Great example, Zydar sent me Aerosmith in my first roulette. I have their box set, and a few albums, but I didn't know what he gave me. I'll allow that kinda stuff. There are lots of artists I like, but I don't know everything by them. Send what you will, but I have the right to reject if I know an artist too well. Here’s a link that includes a copy/paste of my iTunes Library for the ultra-keeners
jingle.boy listening tastes. It also has the bands that I received in my 1st two roulettes. Here’s my
jingle.boy last.fm - but the new interface sucks, and I’ve yet to find how you can sort the library A-Z. Below is the list of artists that I have over 100 listens to in my iTunes library - all 190 bands, along with the list of saved bands I have in Spotify. Like I said, not formally banned, but you'll likely be hard pressed to sneak one of these bands by me. Not impossible, but most of these would be off limits.
Participants. Come one come all. There will be 1 or 2 qualifying rounds as I did in my last roulette. I want to get down to about 10 participants, so depending on how many people sign up, qualifying may be one round, it may be 2. You either move on, or you don't.
Format. After qualification, I'll have 7 rounds. After that, top 3 (maybe 4) will play a final round.
Get out of jail. I'm going to potentially offer 'get out of jail' cards for some that I know have highly compatible music tastes, and I'm hoping/expecting to make it out of qualification. If they happen to shit the bed on a qualifying submission, I MIGHT give you a pass. If you think you may be one of those people, don't count on it and decide you might take a risk on your first submission. You may not be one of the people I have in mind.
Submitting. Spotify, or email me the .mp3 (chadrbelcher... I use gmail). If not available on either, just tell me the band/song ... I have ways. I prefer to avoid YT, as sometimes the quality is shyte.
My tastes. For those that don't know, figure it out yourself
. I will do this however - if you send a band that I already know I'm not that much of a fan of (eg, Opeth, C&C), I'll warn you that you're taking a risk. Sometimes there's a reason that a certain band doesn't have many last.fm plays - it's because I think they suck, or I don't "get" them. Feel free to take that risk, but I'll forewarn you.
More rules to follow when we start the official rounds.
With all that said, I intend to start listening to the first qualification round on Labour Day - September 7th. Results will depend on how many participants I end up with.
Bands with 100+ listens:
Abba
Absolute Priority
AC/DC
Aerosmith
Affector
After Forever
Allen / Lande
Alpha Rev
Amadeus Awad
Amaran's Plight
Amaranthe
Angra
Anthriel
Anubis
April Wine
Arjen Anthony Lucassen
At Vance
Avantasia
Axel Rudi Pell
Ayreon
Beautiful Sin
Beyond the Bridge
Bigelf
Blessed By A Broken Heart
Blind Guardian
Bon Jovi
Borealis
Boston
Brazen Abbot
Bruce Springsteen
Chain
Circus Maximus
Cloudscape
Consortium Project
Constantine
Cryptic Vision
Daedalus
Damian Wilson
Damn Yankees
Damnation Angels
Dec Burke
Def Leppard
Delain
Delta
Devin Townsend
DGM
Dimension Act
Dream Evil
Dream Theater
Echoes
Eclipse
Eden's Curse
Elegy
Enchant
Epysode
Erik Norlander
Eumeria
Europe
Evergrey
Everwood
Extreme
Firehouse
Firewind
First Signal
Flaming Row
Flying Colors
Frameshift
Freedom Call
Frost*
Genesis
Genius
Glass Mind
Hardline
Harem Scarem
Heart Of Cygnus
Heavens Fire
Henning Pauly
House Of Lords
Ice Age
Illusion Suite
Iq
Iq
Iron Maiden
It Bites
James Labrie
Jethro Tull
Jørn
Journey
Kamelot
Kingcrow
Last Tribe
Led Zeppelin
Lord
Lost In Thought
Magnitude 9
Magnus Karlsson's Free Fall
Masterplan
Mechanical Poet
Mind Key
Mind's Eye
MindMaze
Mob Rules
Mötley Crüe
Mr. Big
Mystery
Nemesea
Neonfly
Neverdream
Nightwish
Nocturnal Rites
Pagan's Mind
Pain Of Salvation
Pathosray
PelleK
Phantom's Opera
Pink Floyd
Planet Alliance
Poison
Poverty's No Crime
Powerworld
Presto Ballet
Pretty Maids
Primal Fear
Prymary
Pyramaze
Queen
Queensrÿche
Red Circuit
Redemption
ReVamp
Roswell Six
Royal Hunt
Rush
Sacrum
Sass Jordan
Savatage
Saxon
Secret Sphere
Section A
Serenity
Seven Steps To The Green Door
Seventh Wonder
Shadow Circus
Shadow Gallery
Silent Force
Skid Row
Slaughter
Soul Secret
Spock's Beard
Star One
Starbreaker
Stream of Passion
Sturm Und Drang
Styx
Subsignal
Sun Caged
Symphony X
Tears of Anger
Tellus Requiem
Ten
Tesla
The Dear Hunter
The Magnificent
The Tangent
Thought Chamber
Threshold
Thunderstone
Toby Hitchcock
Toxic Smile
Trans-Siberian Orchestra
Transatlantic
Transcend
Triosphere
Triumph
U2
Van Halen
Vanden Plas
Vandroya
Vanishing Point
Vengeance
Vision Divine
WarMachine
White Lion
Whitesnake
Wicked Sensation
Winger
Within Temptation
Xandria
Y&T
Yargos
Spotify saved bands:
Aeon Zen
Aisles
Alithia
Ancient Bards
Arcane Atlas
Art of Illusion
Artlantica
Awaken
Brave
Cain's Offering
The Codex
Crucified Barbara
Dreylands
Dynazty
Edgend
Endbound
Fairyland
Future's End
GPS
Impelliteri
Indigo Dying
Inner Odyssey
Innershine
Knight Area
Level 10
Lonely Robot
Maestrick
Majestic
Mindcage
Morning Starlett
Nightingale
One|Cinema
Opposing Motion
RavenBlack Project
Revolution Saints
Secret
Shaft of Steel
Silentlie
SinHeresY
Soulspell
A Sound of Thunder
Speric Universe Experience
Sweet&Lynch
Tony Mills
Unisonic
Until Rain
Voices from the Fuselage
The Winery Dogs
Bands submitted in Roulette:
The Screaming Jets
Theocracy
Rox Diamond
A.C.T.
Deadly Circus Fire
Rustfield
Lords Of The Trident
Accept
Ride the Sky
Anubis Gate
Rival Sons
Shear
Harvest
Sphere of Souls
Slash/Myles Kennedy
Helker
The Poodles
Rainbow
Shadowquest
Judas Priest
Paul Laine
Whyzdom
Arion
Age of Nemesis
Myrath
Triaxis
Arcane
Galahad
Racer-X
Thunder
Empyrios
Sylvan
Fastaway
W.A.S.P.
HolyHell
Alter Bridge
Millenium
Serpentine
Hibria
Ascendia
Almah
The Paralydium Project
Witherscape
Chaos Frame
Evil Masquerade
Holy Shire
Crash the System
Silent Call
Voodoo Circle
Abydos
UFO
Temperance
Circle II Circle
Angel Dust
Odd Logic
Unleash the Archers
Armoured Saint
H.E.A.T.
In This Moment
Heavy Bones
Solution .45
Sebastien
Diabulus in Musica
Mindwarp Chamber
Caligula's Horse