Ariich's ALBUM Roulette; or, Is The Man Completely Mad? (completed)

[Crow]

on one hand two listens of an album isn't nearly enough for me to judge it properly personally
on the other hand with 7 people that's probably in the range of 12-15 hours of listening to music, so 
several of my faves took a bit of time to grow on me admittedly. there's even a 5* album on my rym that I did not like at all on first listen

[TAC]

What did people send?

[ariich]

Sent something that might make me lose

Seriously though, nobody is going to send an album they think is bad

That would be a great round theme, though, no?   "Send me an album you think BLOWS". You could do it by saying "by a band you like" or "by a band where you own at least five of their records" or something like that. 

On the downside, I would be committed to at least two listens of multiple terrible albums. Not sure I want to put myself through that.

Ya'll have to remember that Rich had a "bad song" round in his first roulette.  Like, the kind of songs that make your ears bleed.

Oh my god I completely forgot about that. It was amazing: https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=29697.msg1161577#msg1161577

It was actually in my second roulette, so NO POINTS FOR YOU EITHER.

[ariich]

on one hand two listens of an album isn't nearly enough for me to judge it properly personally
on the other hand with 7 people that's probably in the range of 12-15 hours of listening to music, so 
several of my faves took a bit of time to grow on me admittedly. there's even a 5* album on my rym that I did not like at all on first listen

Depends a lot on the album, style etc. I've already listened to all the submissions, and have listened to two of them twice (and we're only one day in). So I'm thinking I should be able to get at least three listens of every album this round. As the number of participants drops, the easier it becomes to listen more.

[jingle.boy]

Yeah, that was quite funny actually

No, it was painful.  Some of those songs literally hurt my ears.  I'm not being figurative here... I'm literally being literal.  Actual pain.

[ariich]

I'm listening to them again and they're just as wonderfully awful.

[TAC]

What did people send?

In THIS round, not the old one..

[Crow]

What did people send?

In THIS round, not the old one..

I'm curious too 
Since Elite already guessed it anyways I shall spoil that I sent The Apologist because of course i did

[jingle.boy]

Maybe if he lists the albums, we can (try to) guess who sent what.

[ariich]

Maybe if he lists the albums, we can (try to) guess who sent what.

If everyone is happy for me to do that, then for sure - I'll give people a chance to say no first though.

[Nekov]

I have no problem with that

[lonestar]

Go for it.

[Elite]

Maybe if he lists the albums, we can (try to) guess who sent what.

Good plan. I'm guessing Parama sent The Apologist by East of the Wall





oh, and maybe Stadler sent Rainbow Rising?

[ariich]

Ok here's the list in alphabetical order.

Darwin's Radio – Template for a Generation
East Of The Wall – The Apologist
Papadosio – Pattern Integrities
Rainbow – Rising
Speaking to Stones – Elements
Toehider – What Kind Of Creature Am I?
Vanden Plas – Chronicles of the Immortals: Netherworld II

Maybe if he lists the albums, we can (try to) guess who sent what.

Good plan. I'm guessing Parama sent The Apologist by East of the Wall

oh, and maybe Stadler sent Rainbow Rising?

ALL HAIL THE GREAT SEER 

[TAC]

Ok here's the list in alphabetical order.

Darwin's Radio – Template for a Generation
East Of The Wall – The Apologist  Parama
Papadosio – Pattern Integrities
Rainbow – Rising   Stadler
Speaking to Stones – Elements  Lonestar
Toehider – What Kind Of Creature Am I?
Vanden Plas – Chronicles of the Immortals: Netherworld II  J Boy

[Nekov]

That means Tac sent darwins radio and elite sent toehider

[ariich]

That means Tac sent darwins radio and elite sent toehider

TAC isn't participating.

[TAC]

 

[jingle.boy]

That means Tac sent darwins radio and elite sent toehider

TAC isn't participating.

And he be wrong on me sending Vanden Plas... even though it was my AOTY for 2015.  Prog-Metal is a hit-or-miss proposition with Rich, so I wasn't going to lead with that in round 1.

Even if I didn't know what RJ sent, it would've been pretty easy to pick out Speaking to Stones as his.  Toehider ... shit, someone was mentioning them recently.  Was it 'the other Rich'?  I guess Nekov outed himself on Papadosio, which makes me want to have pizza for lunch.

[Tomislav95]

Evermind sent Vanden Plas.
BTW I'm so surprised you didn't hear Rainbow Rising, that's essential hard rock/heavy metal album for me, it was in my Top 50.

[Elite]

Maybe if he lists the albums, we can (try to) guess who sent what.

Good plan. I'm guessing Parama sent The Apologist by East of the Wall

oh, and maybe Stadler sent Rainbow Rising?

ALL HAIL THE GREAT SEER 

Well, I did guess Parama’s album through a PM before he mentioned it in this thread.

[Crow]

that toehider album is in the rare category of "albums i couldn't even sit through once"
so that's my pick for elimination 

[lonestar]

Hmm Darwins Radio, curious to see how that fares.

[Crow]

oh yeah that speaking to stones album

is okay

i haven't really returned to it much, all the songs feel kinda overlong

[Evermind]

I did send that Vanden Plas album indeed. Not sure about Rich and prog metal, but I figured I may as well send him some great prog metal records while I'm at it. I do think my album is better than Speaking to Stones one.

I also do, however, think that Rainbow - Rising is the best album out of this bunch. It's my #3 album of all time.

[Lowdz]

Rising is the clear winner there. Made my top 5 albums of all time.

[Elite]

I would have The Apologist win

[TAC]

I also do, however, think that Rainbow - Rising is the best album out of this bunch. It's my #3 album of all time.

Rising is the clear winner there. Made my top 5 albums of all time.

That's pretty high praise for an album with 2 good songs. 

[Crow]

aside from my own album which is the best album ever made imo i dunno which one i'd wanna see here. toehider is probably the worst but i am not familiar with most of the rest. rainbow's probably not up my alley, i wasn't too enthused with the vanden plas album i did get, the speaking to stones album is just average and i dunno what the other two are at all 

[TAC]

The Speaking To Stones is awesome. the Vanden Plas is......not.

[Evermind]

The Speaking To Stones is awesome. the Vanden Plas is......not.

I would've made that Steam Powered Giraffe rating joke, but I've also got that song in my roulette and I thought it was really catchy and quirky in a good way, so I'll pass.

[jingle.boy]

The Speaking To Stones is awesome. the Vanden Plas is......not.

I would've made that Steam Powered Giraffe rating joke, but I've also got that song in my roulette and I thought it was really catchy and quirky in a good way, so I'll pass.

Chlamydia is catchy too.

Rising may indeed be the "best" album generally speaking, but only there's only one opinion that really matters - and there weren't that many classic hard rock/metal albums in the 4*+ category.

Just sayin

[Evermind]

Rising may indeed be the "best" album generally speaking, but only there's only one opinion that really matters - and there weren't that many classic hard rock/metal albums in the 4*+ category.

That's precisely why I didn't search for Rainbow, Black Sabbath, Dio or anything related at his RYM profile.

But still, even if Stadler gets eliminated (which I really hope won't happen), there's absolutely no shame being eliminated if you sent Rising. 

[TAC]

The Speaking To Stones is awesome. the Vanden Plas is......not.

I would've made that Steam Powered Giraffe rating joke, but I've also got that song in my roulette and I thought it was really catchy and quirky in a good way, so I'll pass.

Yes it was. Great vocals.

[ariich]

I'm really enjoying all this speculatin' and opinionatin'. Doesn't affect my view at all but interesting seeing what people think and where that does or doesn't match up to what I think (based on my listens so far that is - I've got an idea of approx rankings/ratings, but need to do a bit more listening).