Parama's Confrontational Roulette v2.5 (Quick Album Reviews)

[Sacul]

gimme the C

[Crow]

: D_____ll __ ___ - T_e Golden __e
: T_m_____ - ____t __d Cl_c_
: T_e ___ed __d __m___ - L__d L__
: T_e _______ C__ce_t - _me_d_
: E_e___e_ - __m__ ___ t_e ____e_ (_____ _e_____)
: ____e_ Earth - __ L__el_ T__e__
: __c__e ___t_ - Matter
: _l__c_ _c______ & _____ M___ - C______ ________
: Motörhead - __e T__c_ M__d
: __ __! _____ ___d - ____

Letters guessed:
CDELMT

Sacul waits 3
Bolsters wait 2
LordCost waits 1

[home]

The Golden Age
Loud Lip?


K

[Crow]

: D_____ll __ ___ - The Golden Age
: T_m____k - ____t __d Cl_ck
: T_e __ked __d __m___ - L__d L__
: T_e _______ C__ce_t - _me_d_
: E_e___e_ - __m__ ___ t_e ___ke_ (_____ _e_____)
: ____e_ Earth - __ L__el_ T__e__
: __c__e ___t_ - Matter
: _l__c_ _c______ & _____ M__k - C______ ________
: Motörhead - __e T__ck M__d
: __ __! _____ ___d - K___

Letters guessed:
CDEKLMT

Home waits 3
Sacul waits 2
Bolsters wait 1

[Tomislav95]

Gimme V

[Crow]

: D_____ll __ ___ - The Golden Age
: T_m____k - ____t __d Cl_ck
: T_e __ked __d __m___ - L__d L__
: T_e _______ C__ce_t - _me_d_
: Eve___e_ - __m__ ___ t_e ___ke_ (_____ Ve_____)
: ____e_ Earth - __ L__el_ T__e__
: __c__e ___t_ - Matter
: _l__c_ _c______ & _____ M__k - C______ ________
: Motörhead - __e T__ck M__d
: __ __! _____ ___d - K___

Letters guessed:
CDEKLMTV

Tomislav waits 3
Home waits 2
Sacul waits 1

gave you 5

[home]

Point and Click?

[Luoto]

A

And the Motörhead song is One Track Mind

[Crow]

: D____all __ ___ - The Golden Age
: T_ma_a_k - Point and Click
: T_e _aked a_d _am___ - La_d L__
: T_e _______ C__ce_t - Ame_d_
: Eve___e_ - __m__ ___ t_e ___ke_ (__a__ Ve_____)
: _a__e_ Earth - __ L__el_ T__e__
: A_ca_e ___t_ - Matter
: _l__c_ _c__a___ & ___a_ M__k - C_a____ _a______
: Motörhead - One Track Mind
: __ __! __a__ _a_d - K_a_

Letters guessed:
ACDEKLMTV

Luoto waits 3
Tomislav waits 2
Home waits 1

[home]

Arcane Roots? Wow I'm just a playing a song of theirs on guitar xd

[Crow]

arcane right

[Nekov]

can't keep hangmanen going if nobody's guessing 
about to head into third listen in a short bit but from first two listens i can definitively say at least one of you totally blew it in this round

Pretty sure it's me

[Bolsters]

R

[Crow]

Like literally right after I left for work & won't be able to update until the evening, nice

[Stadler]

can't keep hangmanen going if nobody's guessing 
about to head into third listen in a short bit but from first two listens i can definitively say at least one of you totally blew it in this round

Pretty sure it's me

Well, history would say me, but I have some hope.   

[Crow]

: D____all __ __r - The Golden Age
: T_ma_a_k - Point and Click
: T_e _aked a_d _am___ - La_d L__
: T_e _______ C__ce_t - Ame_d_
: Ever_re_ - __m__ __r t_e _r_ke_ (__a__ Ver____)
: _arre_ Earth - __ L__el_ T__er_
: Arcane Roots - Matter
: _lr_c_ _c__a___ & ___a_ M__k - C_a____ Ra______
: Motörhead - One Track Mind
: __ __! _ra__ _a_d - K_a_

Letters guessed:
ACDEKLMRTV

Bolsters waits 3
Luoto waits 2
Tomislav waits 1

woops forgot to update this earlier post
i gotta say, this might be the weakest round of the roulette. there's one song here i really, truly love & will get a great score, and the next few songs are at least solid, maybe high 7's, but there's a lot of meh or outright mediocre tracks this round. the weakest song came from someone currently in the top 5 too, which is what i meant when i said someone really blew it. the top 5 may also shift when i finish relistens but probably not too much. also don't have secondary scores yet so i don't know who's qualifying for the finals through that route yet, but it could be interesting 

also it seems like y'all aren't doing any guessing who sent what

[home]

Tomahawk, sent by Tomislav?
Evergrey, sent by Evermind?

The baked and.. Land 
Amends
Barren Earth

There's some chance I blew it, I sent a band that's mostly brass on impulse  It's a pretty epic song tho, so shame on you if it gets a low score

[Train of Naught]

Arcane Roots? Wow I'm just a playing a song of theirs on guitar xd

Come to the concert man its almost sold out

The Naked and Famous - Laid Low (Bolsters)
Tomahawk - Point and Click can't be tomislav cause he sent a 17 minute blackmetal song Nekov?
Motorhead by Stadler
Barren Earth - On Lonely Towers (Luoto)
The Ongoing Concept - Amends - uhh this sounds interesting I think I enjoy it way more than Parama will. This could be any of Luke, home or LordCost to be honest, can I just guess all three of them? If not I'm going with Luke
Evermind - Hymns for the Broken (Piano Version) (Evergrey)
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - K_a_
Downfall of Nur - The Golden Age (Tomislav)

So results when

[Bolsters]

I'm more curious about the relisten results at this point (because I know they're coming sooner).

[LordCost]

I'm probably in the meh/mediocre section

[Crow]

Tomislav95: Downfall of Nur - The Golden Age
: Tomahawk - Point and Click
Bolsters: The Naked and Famous - Laid Low
twosuitsluke: The Ongoing Concept - Amends
Evergrey: Evermind - Hymns for the Broken (Piano Version)
Luoto: Barren Earth - On Lonely Towers
: Arcane Roots - Matter
: _lr_c_ _c__a___ & ___a_ M__k - C_a____ Ra______
Stadler: Motörhead - One Track Mind
: __ __! _ra__ _a_d - K_a_

Letters guessed:
ACDEKLMRTV

Bolsters waits 3
Luoto waits 2
Tomislav waits 1

jesus christ train 

[Sacul]

trainy sent arcane roots

[Stadler]

Sidebar while we're waiting for Parama to eliminate me from the final EP round.   I'm thinking of hosting a roulette myself.   I know the rules/requirements are here for a reason, presumably time tested, but I've not been part of many roulettes, so help me out a little.  Assuming I did one, what are your thoughts if:
- I didn't have a "banned list", but you submitted something I was intimately familiar with at your peril? 
- I did, say, 8 rounds, but each round was a genre or themed?  Too much work for you, the submitter? 

I'm trying to avoid a roulette where you're guessing what I might like.  I know what I like, and for the most part, I seek out that which I want to hear (and generally avoid that which I don't).  I'd rather be surprised by something.  I'd rather let you show your creativity.   For example, I'm HUGE into Purple, I know everything that Blackmore has put out (including the Renaissance and a lot of his early session work) but I couldn't sing you an Ian Gillan tune if my life depended on it.   I don't want you trying to convince me that growls are great, or that Bob Dylan CAN sing, but if you think there might be an example of either that isn't the run-of-the-mill tropes from the genre, that'd be something you might take a chance on. 

Any thoughts? Am I asking for trouble?

[Sacul]

- I didn't have a "banned list", but you submitted something I was intimately familiar with at your peril? 

You'd just have the reject the song - the point of a roulette is discover new music, and a banned list give us an idea of what you dig

- I did, say, 8 rounds, but each round was a genre or themed?  Too much work for you, the submitter? 

It depends on whether the theme or genre is too restrictive, but also on the players - if you had a "hard rock only" round I'd have nothing to send if I participated, for example. An idea I had for my future roulette, I was thinking of maybe having like 2 optional themes for every round and players could send tunes that fitted the theme they preferred.

[TAC]

Sidebar while we're waiting for Parama to eliminate me from the final EP round.   I'm thinking of hosting a roulette myself.   I know the rules/requirements are here for a reason, presumably time tested, but I've not been part of many roulettes, so help me out a little.  Assuming I did one, what are your thoughts if:
- I didn't have a "banned list", but you submitted something I was intimately familiar with at your peril? 
- I did, say, 8 rounds, but each round was a genre or themed?  Too much work for you, the submitter? 
 

Stadler, There's two reasons for a banned list. One gives the participant an idea of what you like, but maybe more importantly, it saves the time and trouble of sending and rejecting stuff you already know. Don't be fooled by the lightheartedness in these threads. Participants put a lot of thought and energy, often agonizing over what to send. Having a song rejected starts the cycle all over again.

As far as themed rounds, some people like them and some people don't. I wouldn't make them all themed. One Themed Round I did in my first one was a Savatage Round. I could never get into them, yet, everyone in my roulette was a big fan. So I asked them to convince me. It was a great way to get a crash course in a band.

Oh, and count me in for you roulette.

[Stadler]

Oh, I get the "agonized"; that's me, to a tee.  I get it.  I'll wait till the current ones complete, and I'll start one. 

Thanks everyone for your input, comments, and explanations. 

[Evermind]

How's it going?

[Crow]

as i already said, because i'm also doing round 5-9 relistens this round will take longer. chill. i may or may not finish by monday. no clue

[Evermind]

Yeah well, how the relistens are going?

[Sacul]

Time to put together my EP 

[Sacul]

Time to put together my EP 

Reduced it to 2:39 hours, really gonna have to decide on what mood I'll aim to, either a melancholic, dark EP or a joyful one.

[Bolsters]

I'm not putting any effort into an EP until I know whether or not I make it past this round (because I'm probably not).

[Crow]

Yeah well, how the relistens are going?

only have round 9 left, a few people are getting a few extra fractions of points but i dunno how much it'll affect the overall rankings yet

edit: so i've started writeups for this round & the first three scores i've given out are as follows:
3/10
5.25/10
6.25/10

sometimes i loosely order them before starting writeups and this is one of those times (haven't done it for every round, only ones i was more confident about)
but suffice to say, i did not enjoy this round very much. there are like, three songs here that i got any real enjoyment out of and only one i really loved. really weak ending to the whole thing if i'm being honest. hopefully the EP round will be better

edit2:
six done now and the highest score is only a 6.75, and the next song i'm doing a writeup for is maaaaybe a 7 at best but i'm not even sure. gosh. thank god for that one really good song being the light at the end of the tunnel here, that's half of why i'm doing this writeup order this time, to give me some goddamn motivation to finish 

[home]

Dibs on the 3/10!

I'm seriously pretty confident I screwed up. I did already put a list of songs together for an EP, but I bet you'll have to wait to hear them in a plug.dj session or something

[Bolsters]

I'm rather confident I didn't fuck up badly enough to get 3/10, probably not the 5.25 either. I wouldn't be surprised if I was the 6.25 though, given my other scores throughout this roulette.