The Coolest Roulette around! Cool Chris' Roulette - RESULTS

[King Postwhore]

Alright.  I need to hit one out of the park.  Sent!

[twosuitsluke]

Sent the round winner, unless anyone beat me to the punch 

[Cool Chris]

I think I see where you're coming from here - an official video could hurt or help the score, so you're going on sound only... especially since not all submissions would have an official video release.  However, for this live round... most (all?) songs will invariably have a live video release as well, I'd think watching the 'concert' footage (at least once) would be warranted.

Correct. With new music, I want to experience it for the first time on a purely aural level, and judge the music accordingly. I don't want any other (mis)conceptions about the band to taint my scoring. In that one instance, I thought the video was marring my opinion of the song, and realized I enjoyed it more not watching the video.

For this round, I will only listen to the song first, and then watch the live video, if there is one, on subsequent listens,

[TAC]

Unfortunately, there are no live videos of my song. I mean there are plenty of them, but just not THAT version, which is really the only version that counts.

[Crow]

I actually sent a video which I usually wouldn't so

Sorry about that

[King Postwhore]

Unfortunately, there are no live videos of my song. I mean there are plenty of them, but just not THAT version, which is really the only version that counts.

Same for me as well.

[jingle.boy]

Sucks for you guys.  Song and video sent.

Assess will be kicked.  No bubble-gum chewing though.

[TAC]

Sucks for you guys.  Song and video sent.

So basically what you're saying is that your song is not strong enough on it's own, it needs some fancy shmancy video to help sell it?

[jingle.boy]

Sucks for you guys.  Song and video sent.

So basically what you're saying is that your song is not strong enough on it's own, it needs some fancy shmancy video to help sell it?

Tell you what, next concert you go see, take a blindfold and tell me how good it was.   

[TAC]

So blind people can't go to concerts you insensitive bastard!



 

[jingle.boy]

So blind people can't go to concerts you insensitive bastard!



 

Fuck 'em.  Pretty sure I could elude them if they got testy.   

[Cool Chris]

Great stuff this round. 5 songs are at least 8s, if not higher. Am planning to get results up Friday night. Just waiting on Sacul.

[Crow]

heck yeah 3/10

[Cool Chris]

Parama, yours is the song I'm having the hardest time rating.

[jingle.boy]

Parama, yours is the song I'm having the hardest time rating.

[King Postwhore]

 

[Sacul]

Sorry, sent some industrial madness .

[Stadler]

Mine didn't need a video.     

[home]

Oh there was a round theme?  Should I resend? My song didn't come from a live release...

[Elite]

Oh there was a round theme?  Should I resend? My song didn't come from a live release...

Automatic loser of the round.

[King Postwhore]

 

Meeting Nick really threw you off Home.

[Evermind]

He probably enjoyed that Heineken he had left and then some.

[Cool Chris]

Round 2 - Live Tracks. Tried to rank each entry based on the song itself and the performance equally. I tried not to compare performances as live songs are always going to sound different based on era, recording, venue, etc.... Full disclosure, I didn't listen to any of the studio versions of the song prior to assigning scores.

Jingle.boy: Avantasia - Promised Land (from The Flying Opera)
10
The roulette's first 10. And I'm all out of bubble gum.

Stadler: Rainbow - All Night Long (from David's Hall 1983)
9
Couldn't type three words in an email to my boss while listening to this with the amount of headbanging going on.
 
TAC: UFO - Rock Bottom (from Strangers in the Night)
8
I liked the music more than I liked the song, if you buy that. The song was good, but the music was a virtual clinic.

Shadow Ninja 2.0: While Heaven Wept - Vessel (from Triumph:Tragedy:Transcendence)
8
Never heard of this band. Impressive first listen.

Parama: Pain of Salvation - Iter Impius (from Be Live)
8
Only have heard a small smattering of PoS, none of it sounded like this. From my limited knowledge, Be is a concept album, which makes it a little different evaluating a song on its own (correct me if I am wrong here)

kingshmegland: Sieges Even - Tidal (from Playgrounds)
7
Solid entry from a band I've never heard of.

Sacul: Anathema - Untouchable Part 1 (from Universal)
7
Good submission, but falls short of the top tier of songs I got this round.

Tomislav95: Iced Earth - A Question of Heaven (from Alive in Athens)
6
Didn't care for the vocals, but the music was awesome.

Twosuitsluke: The Dear Hunter - Home (from The Color Spectrum)
5
Never given this band a good listen despite seeing it all over dtf.org, glad it got submitted. Good song and performance, but tough competition here.

Elite: Pain of Salvation - Handful of Nothing (from Ending Themes)
4
Not great, not terrible, not memorable.

home: Vulfpeck - Animal Spirits
3
Maybe in the same county as FunkyTown, but definitely outside the city limits. Still, got my foot tapping a little bit.

[Crow]

BE is a concept album but most of the songs are confined to their own spaces regardless. Iter Impius is basically one of the fan favorites though (placed near the top in the recent PoS survivor, so  )

i've no clue what to send for most of these rounds so i'll try to scrounge up something

[twosuitsluke]

I was hoping for a bit better than a 5 but I'll take it.

I think this kind of confirms that I need to send stuff with a classic rock/metal vibe to win. Not sure if that's how I want to play it? I might just send stuff out of your comfort zone (but not too far out) to see if I can find you something you like.

I'll send when I get a chance.

Also, respect to home, flying that Vulfpeck flag in the face of 3/10 scores 

[Crow]

i sent my next three 2/10's, should be good times 
i have like literally nothing for round 7 though. the only 80's albums i have are... wdadu, a fates warning album, and operation mindcrime. like that's literally it. nothing else

[Tomislav95]

You can't not care for Matt Barlow's vocals but at least you liked some of it

[home]

Full disclosure, I didn't listen to any of the studio versions of the song prior to assigning scores.

Well this is not right, you listened to the studio version of my song.  Now your pm asking me which version of the song you should listen to makes a lot more sense.


sent some Roosterwave 

[Stadler]

I was hoping for a bit better than a 5 but I'll take it.

I think this kind of confirms that I need to send stuff with a classic rock/metal vibe to win. Not sure if that's how I want to play it? I might just send stuff out of your comfort zone (but not too far out) to see if I can find you something you like.

I'll send when I get a chance.

I struggle with this in almost every roulette I'm in.  I've opted now to send what I like in the hopes that someone will discover something.   I'm not going to pretend I'm something I'm not and send a bunch of death metal that I pulled off the interwebs randomly.    I have enough music in my collection that even for banned artists, I can probably send SOMETHING that the host hasn't heard before.

[jingle.boy]

The Striking Viking comes through for me. 

@Stadler/TAC... nice selections.  How did I know you'd be sending UFO?  Chris... are you going to post the standings?  My be the only time I have honors.   

[King Postwhore]

 

[Elite]

Alright then.. I'm going for lowest score and shortest write-ups from now on

[Cool Chris]

A short write-up isn't my way of being dismissive of a song. I am just not one for long reviews or details about how a song resonates with me.

jingle.boy: 18
TAC: 17
Shadow Ninja 2.0: 15
Tomislav95: 14
Stadler: 14
Parama: 13
Twosuitsluke: 12
Sacul: 10
Kingshmegland: 8
Elite: 8
home: 5

BE is a concept album but most of the songs are confined to their own spaces regardless.

Wasn't Be, or excuuuuse me, BE a bit divisive among the PoS fan base?

[Crow]

I mean probably more than the albums preceding it but less so than the Road Salt albums for sure

[TAC]

That's a high score for All Night Long, and Chris, how have you never heard that song before? That does not compute.



And J Boy, you better sig those standings while you can...