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General => General Music Discussion => Topic started by: jingle.boy on November 18, 2023, 05:07:05 AM
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Mentlegen… I don't know about you all, but I get a certain level of satisfaction and accomplishment when, as a participant, my songs are one of (or THE) last ones to be solved during the hangman reveals. Same goes for when I'm not easily identified/matched as the sender. After 10+ years, 85 roulettes, and probably 1000+ songs submitted, it's not always easy to be unpredictable. With Metro trying to inject some element of anonymity to his roulette, I got the idea of challenging the participants to be anonymous and unpredictable with each other. How is that going to be accomplished? Well, I'm glad you're curious.
Scoring:
Will be on 20 point scale, broken up into 3 components
1. Quality: 10 points for the quality of your submission (see more details below)
2. Unpredictability: up to 5 points allocated based on the order of whose song is solved in hangman. That is, the first person's song solved is given 0.5 points, 2nd solved gets 1, and so on. The last person solved gets 5 points.
3. Anonymity: up to 5 points allocated based on the order of matching submissions to the participant. Same deal… 0.5 assigned to the first participant matched to their song; 5 to the last one.
Participants:
10 players - the seven listed below are already invited and part of my "must have" list. Because of this scoring, it's simplest if there are only 10 participants; it makes the distribution of the unpredictability and matching points a lot easier to hand them out in 1/2 point increments. And frankly, I just don't have it in me to have a huge player list - plus, the longer the participant list, the longer it takes to solve hangman. 10 feels like the perfect balance. There will be an open qualifying round to fill the final 3 spots. If you're interested in participating in this, see below for the Qualifying Round details.
The Rest:
8 rounds - completely open.
No theme's whatsoever.
No time limits.
I'm not doing this out of a desire to discover new bands or music. I can do that well enough on my own - in fact, too much…. I've sampled over 150 albums from 2023 this year so far, along with who knows how many others I'm just discovering now from back catalogues. So, other than my most favorite of bands whom I know pretty much the entire discography (there's probably a few dozen of those - and if you're in this roulette, I expect you to have a pretty good idea of who those bands are), it's a wide open field - genres included. You want to take your chances with Country, knock yourself out. If Stads wants to send a hunk a burnin' love, have at it. If RJ has the pills to send kpop, go for it. Cover tunes - fair game. Tim want's to dig down into UFO or MSG, go for it (although, that might be too obvious and kill the unpredictability and/or matching points). None-the-less, I want you all to stretch yourself and challenge yourself to be unpredictable - that's why half of the points are structured the way they are. But ...
Quality:
I'm going to be brutally honest with the Quality category - think about it like a school grading method:
As get 9/10 (and 1/2 point increments)
Bs get 7/8
Cs get 6/7
Ds get 5/6
Fs get 4 - and if I get crap like Puppies sent a few roulette's ago (no offense dude, but some of that was just way out there for my liking), I'll fail things that I just really don't enjoy. So send stuff I'll like, but go 'off the reservation' from your usual/typical submissions, or your unpredictability/anonymity points will suffer. I will endeavour to open my mind a little more than usual, but at my advanced age, the hinges are pretty rusted up there. EDIT: Spotify is the preferred format. YT will suffice if it isn't on Spotify.
Hopefully I've made this as clear to you as (I think) it is in my mind. If not, ask questions. Except Tim. He's banned from asking questions. :lol
Invited/Confirmed:
1. Evermind
2. Indisipline
3. Kingshmegland
4. Lonestar
5. Stadler
6. TAC
7. wolfking
This above group need not submit anything just yet - the main portion of our contest will start next weekend.
Qualifiers:
8. LithoJazzoSphere
9. Puppies
10. Dr. DTVT
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Final Standings:
1. lonestar - 112
2. Evermind - 111.5
3. Litho - 110
4. Wolfking - 109.5
5. TAC - 107
6. Indiscipline - 104.5
7. Dr. DTVT - 102
8. Puppies - 100.5
9. King - 99.5
10. Stadler - 88
Final Quality
1. lonestar - 65
2. King - 65
2. Wolfking - 63.5
4. Indiscipline - 63
5. Dr. DTVT - 62.5
6. Puppies - 58.5
7. Evermind - 58
8. Litho - 57
9. TAC - 56.5
10. Stadler - 55.5
Total Scores (Unpredictability + Anonymity + Quality = Total)
Round 1:
Wolfking - Hollow Hour / The Canyon: 5 + 5 + 8 = 18
Litho - Dave Bainbridge / Love Remains: 4 + 3.5 + 8 = 15.5
TAC - Ekphrasis / A Maze In Oneiroi II: 4.5 + 4.5 + 6.5 = 15.5
lonestar - Joseph Magazine / Night of the Red Sky: 3.5 + 2 + 9 = 14.5
Dr. DTVT - Figure of Speechless / Tunnel at the End of the Light: 3 + 4 + 7 = 14
Indiscipline - Michael Schenker Group / Lost Horizons: 1 + 2.5 + 8.5 = 12
Puppies - Days Before Tomorrow / Wasted Years Part II: Sleepwalking: 0.5 + 3 + 8.5 = 12
Evermind - Angtoria / Confide in Me: 2.5 + 1.5 + 7.5 = 11.5
King - Advent Horizon / How Did it Get So Good: 2 + 1 + 7.5 = 10.5
Stadler - Sweet / Fox on the Run: 1.5 + 0.5 + 8 = 10
Round 2:
lonestar - Ikejirike / Liberta: 5 + 5 + 9 = 19
Dr. DTVT - The Biscuit Merchant / Superior Shores: 3.5 + 4.5 + 8.5 = 16.5
Puppies - Glass Hammer / Snowblind Girl: 4.5 + 4 + 7 = 15.5
Evermind - Meduza / Sleep: 4 + 3.5 + 7.5 = 15
King - Unruly Child / When Worlds Collide: 3 + 2 + 7.5 = 12.5
Litho - Manticora / Katana - Beheaded: 2.5 + 2.5 + 7.5 = 12.5
Wolfking - Anvil Therapy / Rage: 1.5 + 1 + 8 = 10.5
TAC - Cotopaxi / Exogenetic: 2 + 1.5 + 6.5 = 10
Indiscipline - Savatage / Believe: 1 + 0.5 + 7.5 = 9
Stadler - King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard / Alluda Majaka: 0.5 + 3 + 5.5 = 9
Round 3:
Litho - Luna Fawn Ripley / Diapason: 4.5 + 4.5 + 7.5 = 16.5
Evermind - Jono / Downside: 5 + 3.5 + 7.5 = 16
TAC - Todd Michael Hall / Not With A Sword: 4 + 5 + 6.5 = 15.5
Indiscipline - Gotthard / Firedance: 3 + 4 + 8 = 15
Kingshmegland - Molybaron / Reality Show: 2 + 2.5 + 8.5 = 13
Stadler - The Naomi Star / Glad That You Came: 3.5 + 2 + 7.5 = 13
wolfking - Sentire / End of the World: 2.5 + 3 + 7.5 = 13
Puppies - Soundscape / Resurrection: 1 + 1.5 + 8 = 10.5
lonestar - Plush / Athena: 1.5 + 0.5 + 7.5 = 9.5
Dr. DTVT - Byzantine / Jeremiad: 0.5 + 1 + 7 = 8.5
Round 4:
Indiscipline - Vandenberg / Skyfall: 5 + 4 + 7.5 = 16.5
Puppies - Drivhell / My Convictions: 4.5 + 3.5 + 7.5 = 15.5
wolfking - Animate / Threshold: 2.5 + 4.5 + 8 = 15
Litho - Hordes in Exile / The Emptiness In Which You Hide: 1 + 5 + 9 = 15
TAC - Mythika / Soulpaths: 4 + 1.5 + 9 = 14.5
Evermind - Jesse Cook / Cancion Triste: 3 + 2.5 + 8 = 13.5
Stadler - Seal / Crazy: 3.5 + 1 + 8.5 = 13
Doc - Legacy Pilots / True Spirit: 0.5 + 3 + 9 = 12.5
King - Xerosync / Torn Asunder to Sand: 2 + 2 + 8 = 12
lonestar - Tellus Requiem / Delusioned Mind: 1.5 + 0.5 + 9 = 11
Round 5:
Dr. DTVT - Barock Project / The Longest Sigh: 2.5 + 4 + 9.5 = 16
TAC - Paul Wardingham / Rise of the Horde: 3 + 5 + 8 = 16
lonestar - Spiritrial / 1999: 5 + 3 + 7.5 = 15.5
Evermind - Kenziner / Dimensions: 2 + 4.5 + 8.5 = 15
wolfking - Takayoshi Ohmura / Face the Sky: 4 + 2.5 + 8.5 = 15
LithoJazzoSphere - Karnataka / The Storm: 3.5 + 1.5 + 9 = 14
Kingshmegland - Earthside / The Lesser Evil: 1 + 3.5 + 9 = 13.5
Indiscipline - Embrace of Souls / The Number of Destiny: 1.5 + 1 + 8 = 10.5
Puppies - Cosmograf / Rattrapante: 0.5 + 0.5 + 7.5 = 8.5
Stadler - Radiohead / Exit Music (For A Film): 4.5 + 2 + 2 = 8.5
Round 6:
Litho - Jerome Mazza / Immortal: 5 + 4 + 7.5 = 16.5
lonestar - Myrath / Child of Prophecy: 4 + 4.5 + 8 = 16.5
Evermind - Merge / Helen: 4.5 + 2 + 8 = 14.5
TAC - Benighted Soul / One Of Your Ghosts (Cradle Of Filth): 3.5 + 2.5 + 8 = 14
King - Aether Void / What You Reap You Deserve: 0.5 + 5 + 7.5 = 13
Dr. DTVT - Yogi Lang / A Way out of Here: 1.5 + 3 + 7.5 = 12
Indiscipline - Heavens Gate / Fredless: 1 + 3.5 + 7.5 = 12
Wolfking - Victorius / Twilight Skies: 3 + 1 + 7 = 11
Puppies - Stonehenge / Wendigo: 2.5 + 1.5 + 6.5 = 10.5
Stadler - Cheap Trick / Speak Now Or Forever Hold Your Peace: 2 + 0.5 + 7.5 = 10
Round 7:
Indiscipline - Dr.Viossy / One Hundred and One Odobenus Rosmarus: 4 + 4.5 + 8 = 16.5
Stadler - Living Loud / Every Moment a Lifetime: 4.5 + 1.5 + 8 = 14
lonestar - Mikihiro Fujioka of TRICK BOX / Tonton Beat: 5 + 2.5 + 6 = 13.5
TAC - Gigafauna / Future Null Infinity: 3.5 + 3 + 6.5 = 13
Puppies - The Darkness / Rock and Roll Deserves to Die: 1 + 5 + 7 = 13
Evermind - Calum Graham / Phoenix Rising: 3 + 2 + 8 = 13
Litho - Markus Venehsalo / Projekt 13: 1.5 + 3.5 + 7.5 = 12.5
Dr. DTVT - Dream the Electric Sleep / Let the Light Flood In: 0.5 + 4 + 7.5 = 12
Wolfking - Mercia / Fire in the Sky: 2.5 + 0.5 + 8.5 = 11.5
King - Sky Empire / The Emissary: 2 + 1 + 7.5 = 10.5
Round 8:
Wolfking - Winterborn / Lovehunter: 3.5 + 4 + 8 = 15.5
Puppies - Wilton and Akerstache / Drag Ropes (Chaining My Heart): 4 + 4.5 + 6.5 = 15
King - Surreal / The Journey Begins: 2 + 3 + 9.5 = 14.5
Evermind - Chorny Kofe / Nochnoy jastreb: 5 + 5 + 3 = 13
Indiscipline - Marty Friedman / Miracle: 2.5 + 2.5 + 8 = 13
lonestar - Rie a.k.a. Suzaku / Heika Sojo: 3 + 0.5 + 9 = 12.5
Dr. DTVT - Oceans of Slumber / Pray for Fire: 0.5 + 3.5 + 6.5 = 10.5
Stadler - The Firm / Live in Peace: 1 + 1 + 8.5 = 10.5
TAC - Valfreya / Peuple Du Nord: 1.5 + 1.5 + 5.5 = 8.5
Litho - Ulrik Lyngs / Vanedisclosurejam: 4.5 + 2 + 1 = 7.5
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Qualifying Round:
Since there seemed to be a bit more interest than I can handle to fit in here, I'm going to have an open qualifying round to fill the final three spots. However, in the spirit of "anonymity", I've recruited TAC to proctor this qualifying round (and *only* the qualifying round). This has the added benefit of removing any unconscious bias I might have towards the tastes of any particular sender(s). So, the deadline - and this is a hard deadline - is Tuesday evening (Eastern time). That way, TAC can send the list of songs to me and all you US peeps can be done with this before Thanksgiving festivities and travel starts. The only rule in this round is make sure you don't send a song that I 'know' and will have to reject. Check my last.fm library (https://www.last.fm/user/jingle-boy/library/music/Led+Zeppelin) if in doubt … replace "led+zeppelin" with whatever band name you need to check, which you can then sift down and check specific albums/songs. If it seems I've played the song more than a handful of times, pretty decent chance I'll reject it. I don't want to burden TAC with any back-and-forth. Send him your song; he's gonna send me the list of submissions on Wednesday morning. If there's any I have to reject, then consider yourself rejected.
I don't want to exclude any players whom have shown a pretty clear incompatibility with my tastes, but if you don't think you've got 8 more bands/songs that are going to appeal to me, please have the courage to skip this one. I'd much rather have players that line up with my tastes participating and can send 9 songs that I'll enjoy, vs someone who happened to send a really great qualifying song, only to then send a handful songs that I'm all 'meh' about. Like I said, I'm not doing this to expand or grow into any new styles or genres - I just want to listen to new tunes and have a shit-ton of fun with the guys. So if your intention of playing is that you think you're going to get me 'in' to melo-death growls, or post-core-alt-punk-rock, pretty please with sugar on top…. sit this one out.
Let's not overcomplicate this one - just send me Tim a song you'll think I'll like. Best three get the final spots. No scoring, no ranking, no extra points for anonymity or unpredictability points in this qualifying round. No time limits, no theme. Just send me Tim a song I'll like.
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Must......resist..........sending..growls......
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Must......resist..........sending..growls......
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This seems like a very elaborate way to ensure you don't receive King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard (at least from me anyway).
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Just send me a song I'll like.
You mean send Tim a song you'll like. :P
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Just send me a song I'll like.
You mean send Tim a song you'll like. :P
Touche!
This seems like a very elaborate way to ensure you don't receive King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard (at least from me anyway).
I almost made a crack about this in my OP, but honestly, if you want to chance it.... knock your socks off.
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Must......resist..........sending..growls......
I trust you enough to know my tastes, so have at it if you feel you must. Just please don't send 8 rounds of growls/scream-o's.
And if you stray to far into yucky territory, I can always repay you with the softest of soft-cock shit when you get around to hosting again. ;)
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Proctor? I thought your PM said I would be your proctologist. I went out and bought a new pack of gloves already.
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Oh, I know a great song about a proctologist actually :lol
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Stuck in the Middle (finger) with You?
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Beefcake - I Want to Be a Proctologist
https://youtu.be/yQxHBjGe7ac?feature=shared (https://youtu.be/yQxHBjGe7ac?feature=shared)
Lyrical highlights...
I want to be a proctologist, I want to stick my finger right up your ass.
It's not really sexual frustration, I only deal in anal exploration.
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Stuck in the Middle (finger) with You?
Pulp Friction.
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Stuck in the Middle (finger) with You?
Pulp Friction.
Polyp Friction
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Hmm, first roulette with a qualifying round. I think I know you better than you know me, but can I prove that? Lots of choices, which is the one that would get me in. Let me overthink this for a couple days. :p
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In the Presence of Enemas?
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Sounds like a doctor is needed. And now I’m here.
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Following though I'll definitely sit this one out :lol
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May have found my proving grounds winning song. Let's sit on it for a bit though and see if anything else catches my attention.
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Sounds like a doctor is needed. And now I’m here.
:metal
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I don't know if I can compete with my very simple tastes
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I don't know if I can compete with my very simple tastes
It’s Chad. Don’t worry about it. ..
So I’ll compile all of the songs onto a playlist for Chad, and then he’ll rank them anonymously. Chad, did you mention when submissions are due?
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Are we getting a qualifying round hangman for shits and giggles?
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One Up The B-side!!!
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Chad, did you mention when submissions are due?
You were chosen to proctor a round you haven't even read the rules for? :neverusethis:
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Chad, did you mention when submissions are due?
You were chosen to proctor a round you haven't even read the rules for? :neverusethis:
He clearly didn't read at all. He's banned from asking questions.
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Someone get the ball gag for the Tgimp.
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Chad, did you mention when submissions are due?
You were chosen to proctor a round you haven't even read the rules for? :neverusethis:
He clearly didn't read at all. He's banned from asking questions.
:rollin Guess I gotta look for a new Proctor. :lol
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Chad, did you mention when submissions are due?
You were chosen to proctor a round you haven't even read the rules for? :neverusethis:
He clearly didn't read at all. He's banned from asking questions.
:rollin Guess I gotta look for a new Proctor. :lol
:lol
So, I know and I didn't really see eye to eye in the last roulette of yours I participated in (was that really 5 years ago now?), but after having you in a couple of my roulettes and seeing what you are sending in other roulletes, I think I have a pretty good grasp on your taste and I know I have stuff you will like, so I will try qualifying.
Now to find the right qualifying song.... :corn
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Let's go slackers. So far I only have one song!!!
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I'm just sitting here sipping on Gatorade Zero. Watching Tim lose his shit.
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No mention of Piblic Enema Number One? Disappointed.
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Must......resist..........sending..growls......
I trust you enough to know my tastes, so have at it if you feel you must. Just please don't send 8 rounds of growls/scream-o's.
And if you stray to far into yucky territory, I can always repay you with the softest of soft-cock shit when you get around to hosting again. ;)
Nah, Im joking of course. Although considering how much my tastes have strayed from yours, I'm really going to have to think about my submissions. I mean, I don't have anything lined up.
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Let's go slackers. So far I only have one song!!!
Tell ya what, swap places with me and I'll send a song in the next five minutes.
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It's possible I missed it, but what is your preferred source for listening to music? Spotify? Youtube? AM Radio?
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AM radio :lol
I'm making him a Spotify playlist so just send me a link or just the band-song name.
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Let's go slackers. So far I only have one song!!!
That's the TAC I was counting on.
It's possible I missed it, but what is your preferred source for listening to music? Spotify? Youtube? AM Radio?
Ah yes... good point. Spotify first; YT second. If it really comes down to it during the core game, sending .mp3s is acceptable too. Will add to the OP.
Are we getting a qualifying round hangman for shits and giggles?
Yes... it'll give me the chance to practice - I've never run a hangman before. I figure if Tim can figure it out, it can't be too difficult.
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Are we getting a qualifying round hangman for shits and giggles?
Yes... it'll give me the chance to practice - I've never run a hangman before. I figure if Tim can figure it out, it can't be too difficult.
My spreadsheet template is now linked in the tracker thread OP if you want to use that.
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You just gotta know how to use the technology. :neverusethis:
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Just in case Tim didn't re-read the Qualifying Round details ...
Qualifying Round:
Since there seemed to be a bit more interest than I can handle to fit in here, I'm going to have an open qualifying round to fill the final three spots. However, in the spirit of "anonymity", I've recruited TAC to proctor this qualifying round (and *only* the qualifying round). This has the added benefit of removing any unconscious bias I might have towards the tastes of any particular sender(s). So, the deadline - and this is a hard deadline - is Tuesday evening (Eastern time). That way, TAC can send the list of songs to me and all you US peeps can be done with this before Thanksgiving festivities and travel starts. The only rule in this round is make sure you don't send a song that I 'know' and will have to reject. Check my last.fm library (https://www.last.fm/user/jingle-boy/library/music/Led+Zeppelin) if in doubt … replace "led+zeppelin" with whatever band name you need to check, which you can then sift down and check specific albums/songs. If it seems I've played the song more than a handful of times, pretty decent chance I'll reject it. I don't want to burden TAC with any back-and-forth. Send him your song; he's gonna send me the list of submissions on Wednesday morning. If there's any I have to reject, then consider yourself rejected.
Are we getting a qualifying round hangman for shits and giggles?
Yes... it'll give me the chance to practice - I've never run a hangman before. I figure if Tim can figure it out, it can't be too difficult.
My spreadsheet template is now linked in the tracker thread OP if you want to use that.
Yup... I noticed that a while back, and that is exactly the plan. :tup
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You just gotta know how to use the technology. :neverusethis:
Somewhat glossing over the number of times you had to PM me about it. :neverusethis:
*ironically glosses over the fact that half those PMs were because I had an error in the spreadsheet*
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You just gotta know how to use the technology. :neverusethis:
Somewhat glossing over the number of times you had to PM me about it. :neverusethis:
*ironically glosses over the fact that half those PMs were because I had an error in the spreadsheet*
Yup. Leave it to me to debug something. :lol
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Must......resist..........sending..growls......
No shit. :lol
I think I still may do growls for at least one song. We'll see how it goes.
I'll bring my A-game for the hangman so you guys better send some obscure stuff.
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Following :corn
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Only following?
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Currently looking through your Last.fm to see if I even have bands to send lol I might through my hat in for the qualifier round
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Following as well!
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Only following?
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I have a large gap in getting new music, I doubt I could do well here. I don't know, maybe.
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Must......resist..........sending..growls......
No shit. :lol
I think I still may do growls for at least one song. We'll see how it goes.
I'll bring my A-game for the hangman so you guys better send some obscure stuff.
I think a splash of growls for at least one round can't hurt. ;D
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Must......resist..........sending..growls......
No shit. :lol
I think I still may do growls for at least one song. We'll see how it goes.
I'll bring my A-game for the hangman so you guys better send some obscure stuff.
I think a splash of growls for at least one round can't hurt. ;D
It won't hurt you!
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Must......resist..........sending..growls......
No shit. :lol
I think I still may do growls for at least one song. We'll see how it goes.
I'll bring my A-game for the hangman so you guys better send some obscure stuff.
I think a splash of growls for at least one round can't hurt. ;D
It won't hurt you!
I know it won't hurt me but might hurt you. :lol
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I have a large gap in getting new music, I doubt I could do well here. I don't know, maybe.
Come on in and forget new music!
I'm gonna submit nothing but Deep Purple, Rainbow, Blackmore's Night, Whitesnake, Trapeze and Gillian in a 30 days Quixotesque hissy fit.
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Just sent my qualifying round submission.
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Deadline end of day today to get your qualifier submission to Timbo.
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Jingle, So I think I have enough stuff to send if I were to move on from the qualifying round. But before I submit for it, the one thing I'm unsure about your taste is how you feel about instrumentals? Because I have a few I'm considering, but don't want to send any if you are not into them :)
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Jingle, So I think I have enough stuff to send if I were to move on from the qualifying round. But before I submit for it, the one thing I'm unsure about your taste is how you feel about instrumentals? Because I have a few I'm considering, but don't want to send any if you are not into them :)
Love 'em! I've been sending James quite a few in his roulette - and tried with you! :biggrin:
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Cool, got a few things to send then :metal
Edit:
Alright, sent a qualifier, and have a list of artists lined up in case I move on :corn
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nvm :P
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Last call for anyone that wants to take part in the Chad-off!
Eww, can't say that sounds very appealing.. ;D
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Last call for anyone that wants to take part in the Chad-off!
Eww, can't say that sounds very appealing.. ;D
Sending the playlist to Chad around 6am Boston time on Wednesday morning.
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Last call for anyone that wants to take part in the Chad-off!
Uhh.....is there still time to pull out........errr....no...wait.
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Last call. Last call for alcohol!
Tim knows that line from a local sports radio show and it's glorious way to finish a show.
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Last call. Last call for alcohol!
Tim knows that line from a local sports radio show and it's glorious way to finish a show.
The weiner whiner line!
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HELL YEAH!!
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How many are in so far?
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How many are in so far?
I'll let Chad answer that tomorrow if he wants. :P
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How many are in so far?
Chad has to answer that when he cleans up.
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Last call for anyone that wants to take part in the Chad-off!
Eww, can't say that sounds very appealing.. ;D
Sending the playlist to Chad around 6am Boston time on Wednesday morning.
Why not post it as well?
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Last call for anyone that wants to take part in the Chad-off!
Eww, can't say that sounds very appealing.. ;D
Sending the playlist to Chad around 6am Boston time on Wednesday morning.
Why not post it as well?
I'm Chad's proctologist, dammit. HIPPA regulations..
He can post it..
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We’re gonna do a Hangman first
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Are you going to try to guess senders?
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Cool shit.
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Are you going to try to guess senders?
Maybe at the end after I’ve selected the qualifiers.
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Seems a few people took my warning of 'sit this one out' quite seriously, and/or the format was too convoluted. Was hoping to get a few more, but this will work. Six qualifiiers... so there's a 50/50 chance for ya'll.
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Guessed: TRE
Edit - fixed one of the entries I'd reversed the band/song
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I wanted to play but I seriously didn't think I would have enough stuff to send. Sure, I could've experimented with stuff you're not usually into but I figured this wasn't that type of roulette :azn:
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I wanted to play but I seriously didn't think I would have enough stuff to send. Sure, I could've experimented with stuff you're not usually into but I figured this wasn't that type of roulette :azn:
Fair enough!
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The Contortionist - Thrive
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The Contortionist - Thrive
And so It begins ...
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??: The Contortionist - Thrive
??: ______ - T_e _e_t_ __ _______
??: ___e ____ _____ - _________e
??: ___r__ __ t_e ______ _____ - ____ __e_t
??: E____ _r_ - _e__re
??: E_er__ - Re____
The Contortionist - Thrive
And so It begins ...
Yeah, I think Evermind will be allocating most of the low 'Unpredictability' points to ya'll.
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U.
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??: The Contortionist - Thrive
??: ____u_ - T_e _e_t_ __ _______
??: ___e ____ _____ - _________e
??: __ur__ __ t_e ______ __u__ - ____ __e_t
??: E____ _r_ - _e__re
??: E_er__ - Re____
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The Contortionist - Thrive
And so It begins ...
I mean, this roulette practically asks for this :lol
Church of the Cosmic Skull - Cold Sweat
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Church of the Cosmic Skull - Cold Sweat
Soupy sent that to me in my roulette. Big Thin Lizzy vibes.
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Ebony Ark - Desire
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U Teet
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N
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U Teet
Nospūn - The Death of Simpson?
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??: The Contortionist - Thrive
??: Nospun - The Death of Simpson
??: N_ne _n__ N____ - ________ne
??: Church of the Cosmic Skull - Cold Sweat
??: Ebony Ark - Desire
??: E_er_n - Re____
Guessed: TREUN
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Duh, Nine Inch Nails - Discipline
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I considered it as well but after this week I am going to be a very busy man and I would rather just focus on my roulette for now.
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Everon - Replay?
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I expect Ruslan will get the full 5 anonymity points each round because he'll solve everyone else's before anyone has a chance to solve his.
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Pretty sure I know who sent what.
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I expect Ruslan will get the full 5 anonymity points each round because he'll solve everyone else's before anyone has a chance to solve his.
In that case it would be obvious which song/artist I sent.
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(https://i.giphy.com/media/d3mlE7uhX8KFgEmY/giphy.webp)
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I expect Ruslan will get the full 5 anonymity points each round because he'll solve everyone else's before anyone has a chance to solve his.
In that case it would me obvious which song/artist I sent.
Yes, good point. Tactical stalemate. :lol
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And she's done:
??: The Contortionist - Thrive
??: Nospun - The Death of Simpson
??: Nine Inch Nails - Discipline
??: Church of the Cosmic Skull - Cold Sweat
??: Ebony Ark - Desire
??: Everon - Replay
It *is* possible to stump Ruslan. Not easy, but not impossible.
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Playlist? Bout to drive to the parents house...
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I wanted to play but I seriously didn't think I would have enough stuff to send. Sure, I could've experimented with stuff you're not usually into but I figured this wasn't that type of roulette :azn:
This was me - I took the warning seriously and also the premise. There's stuff that wasn't banned that people would be able to guess was me sending it, and doesn't seem to be what jingle likes. Stuff I thought about sending that might not be guessed and that might have a better chance was already played on last.fm. Maybe if I had a little more time to think about it I'd find stuff, but I was traveling for a bit and yesterday was the only time I had to look into it.
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Crossposting from the Top 50 band countdown thread :lol
By the way Chad, can we try and guess the participants at the same time as we guess the hangman?
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Playlist? Bout to drive to the parents house...
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2vXlfE18I0N7XtAD1rgny1?si=8c64e69a103d4738
Crossposting from the Top 50 band countdown thread :lol
By the way Chad, can we try and guess the participants at the same time as we guess the hangman?
Hang tight if you don't mind, I'd like the songs to still be anonymous to me for a few more listens.
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(https://media.tenor.com/FEkW9VySvdIAAAAC/exciting-this-is-exciting.gif)
:corn
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Playlist? Bout to drive to the parents house...
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2vXlfE18I0N7XtAD1rgny1?si=8c64e69a103d4738
Crossposting from the Top 50 band countdown thread :lol
By the way Chad, can we try and guess the participants at the same time as we guess the hangman?
Hang tight if you don't mind, I'd like the songs to still be anonymous to me for a few more listens.
I think he might have been talking about the normal rounds, perhaps.
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I meant the question for Round 1 and onwards, Litho is correct. Or are we to send our songs for all rounds to Tim for anonymity? (that might not work in our favor as Tim also participates in this roulette and will then solve the hangman in no time :biggrin: )
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I meant the question for Round 1 and onwards, Litho is correct. Or are we to send our songs for all rounds to Tim for anonymity? (that might not work in our favor as Tim also participates in this roulette and will then solve the hangman in no time :biggrin: )
In fairness that's the only way anyone can solve it faster than you. :P
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I meant the question for Round 1 and onwards, Litho is correct. Or are we to send our songs for all rounds to Tim for anonymity? (that might not work in our favor as Tim also participates in this roulette and will then solve the hangman in no time :biggrin: )
In fairness that's the only way anyone can solve it faster than you. :P
During the Roulette, songs will come to me directly. I had toyed around the idea of waiting to guess who submitted songs until the entire Hangman was solved, but than that could/would pose some complications whereby someone could potentially match multiple participants to their submission, and then pick the order of who is revealed (and thus how many bonus points they get).
So, we'll play Hangman the same as any other roulette - matching songs with the participant can happen at anytime. All the more reason to go deep and obscure.
Not deep in obscure. :lol
:obscure:
(https://media.tenor.com/FEkW9VySvdIAAAAC/exciting-this-is-exciting.gif)
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What's exciting is that I'm not 100% sure which 6 submitted! Only a few people confirmed they sent or did not.
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I just want to say, The Beatles are amazing and they belong in here, 100%. My mom bought me the Red and Blue compilations when John Lennon died, and they've been special to me ever since.
;)
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:lol
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*applause emoticon*
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I just want to say, The Beatles are amazing and they belong in here, 100%. My mom bought me the Red and Blue compilations when John Lennon died, and they've been special to me ever since.
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Run your own roulette!
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I should have results by Saturday, btw.
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I should have results by Saturday, btw.
;D
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I have read the thread and would like to have access to the forum.
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I have read the thread and would like to have access to the forum.
Controversial opinions only!
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Poor Jingle, but this is why I love this forum so much.
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I have read the thread and would like to have access to the forum.
To quote Hef when I asked to be added the the political forum, "Oh Hell No!" :lol
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Gifpressions??
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(https://media.tenor.com/S0oEUgUdyXUAAAAC/lighter-concert.gif)
(https://i.gifer.com/origin/fd/fd98b92114738d9ee9dd019e1c7410c5_w200.gif)
(https://i.gifer.com/Ajb.gif)
(https://media0.giphy.com/media/e9naycep2pz7OHQ4n0/giphy.gif)
(https://media2.giphy.com/media/HTjcWZwMtHpyhuCGKZ/200w.gif?cid=6c09b95211bgo12hqmlu66gubnmpmeib7l627j2q8n24pgk6&ep=v1_gifs_search&rid=200w.gif&ct=g)
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Nvm
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Nvm
Let me guess... did it start with "Is mine ..." :lol
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I think it started with "Let's fucking go!!!!" ;D
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Oh boy, I think I have mine narrowed down to 2 of those gifpressions. :corn
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Seems a few people took my warning of 'sit this one out' quite seriously, and/or the format was too convoluted. Was hoping to get a few more, but this will work.
One of the reasons I haven't participated in any roulettes for a while is because I felt I was getting too predictable with my submissions, and the whole point of this roulette is to be unpredictable, so it didn't seem like a good fit. :lol Plus I might have struggled to fill a completely open roulette with appropriate submissions for you anyway.
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I can vouch for the format being convoluted! ;D
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Nvm
Let me guess... did it start with "Is mine ..." :lol
Get out of my head man lol
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I can vouch for the format being convoluted! ;D
The convoluted part is for me! All the participants have to do is send tunes that are outside your normal kind of submissions.
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We getting an answer tonight, Chad? I ranked these songs in one listen.
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Seems a few people took my warning of 'sit this one out' quite seriously, and/or the format was too convoluted. Was hoping to get a few more, but this will work.
One of the reasons I haven't participated in any roulettes for a while is because I felt I was getting too predictable with my submissions, and the whole point of this roulette is to be unpredictable, so it didn't seem like a good fit. :lol Plus I might have struggled to fill a completely open roulette with appropriate submissions for you anyway.
The irony is that those of us trying to get in have to prove in a single song that we understand jingle enough to participate, but then due to the format probably can't send anything else similar. :lol
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Seems a few people took my warning of 'sit this one out' quite seriously, and/or the format was too convoluted. Was hoping to get a few more, but this will work.
One of the reasons I haven't participated in any roulettes for a while is because I felt I was getting too predictable with my submissions, and the whole point of this roulette is to be unpredictable, so it didn't seem like a good fit. :lol Plus I might have struggled to fill a completely open roulette with appropriate submissions for you anyway.
I think people are overthinking this one. If anything, it's a roultte that really means the taste of the host could really be thrown out of the window. I mean, I have no idea which way I'm going to play it but it's kinda wide open. At first when Chad mentioned it, I was like, 'lol, WTF is this,' but the more I thought about it, I can send anything and in a way hedge my bets.
You can take a route of sending something he'd like, score well but fall over in the predictability column or just go fuck it, send something completely unknown and out of the box, maybe get some scores in that predictability column but then snag some points if by chance he likes it too. There's a few ways to play it.
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Seems a few people took my warning of 'sit this one out' quite seriously, and/or the format was too convoluted. Was hoping to get a few more, but this will work.
One of the reasons I haven't participated in any roulettes for a while is because I felt I was getting too predictable with my submissions, and the whole point of this roulette is to be unpredictable, so it didn't seem like a good fit. :lol Plus I might have struggled to fill a completely open roulette with appropriate submissions for you anyway.
The irony is that those of us trying to get in have to prove in a single song that we understand jingle enough to participate, but then due to the format probably can't send anything else similar. :lol
See my post, but I guess the other way is gun for a 10 in the 'Chad loves it' column and hope it's somewhat unknown to others that it would be you.
Saying that, definitely harder for you guys trying to qualify.
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Seems a few people took my warning of 'sit this one out' quite seriously, and/or the format was too convoluted. Was hoping to get a few more, but this will work.
One of the reasons I haven't participated in any roulettes for a while is because I felt I was getting too predictable with my submissions, and the whole point of this roulette is to be unpredictable, so it didn't seem like a good fit. :lol Plus I might have struggled to fill a completely open roulette with appropriate submissions for you anyway.
The irony is that those of us trying to get in have to prove in a single song that we understand jingle enough to participate, but then due to the format probably can't send anything else similar. :lol
Well, we only have to be unpredictable to each other. We can be totally predictable to Chad.
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Seems a few people took my warning of 'sit this one out' quite seriously, and/or the format was too convoluted. Was hoping to get a few more, but this will work.
One of the reasons I haven't participated in any roulettes for a while is because I felt I was getting too predictable with my submissions, and the whole point of this roulette is to be unpredictable, so it didn't seem like a good fit. :lol Plus I might have struggled to fill a completely open roulette with appropriate submissions for you anyway.
I think people are overthinking this one. If anything, it's a roultte that really means the taste of the host could really be thrown out of the window. I mean, I have no idea which way I'm going to play it but it's kinda wide open. At first when Chad mentioned it, I was like, 'lol, WTF is this,' but the more I thought about it, I can send anything and in a way hedge my bets.
You can take a route of sending something he'd like, score well but fall over in the predictability column or just go fuck it, send something completely unknown and out of the box, maybe get some scores in that predictability column but then snag some points if by chance he likes it too. There's a few ways to play it.
Yeah, there's a fine razor's edge of balance between the different scoring criteria, with merit to focusing on certain components more than others, and all kinds of potential for chicanery.
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Seems a few people took my warning of 'sit this one out' quite seriously, and/or the format was too convoluted. Was hoping to get a few more, but this will work.
One of the reasons I haven't participated in any roulettes for a while is because I felt I was getting too predictable with my submissions, and the whole point of this roulette is to be unpredictable, so it didn't seem like a good fit. :lol Plus I might have struggled to fill a completely open roulette with appropriate submissions for you anyway.
The irony is that those of us trying to get in have to prove in a single song that we understand jingle enough to participate, but then due to the format probably can't send anything else similar. :lol
Well, we only have to be unpredictable to each other. We can be totally predictable to Chad.
Good point mate. Well worth mentioning.
My issue is my tastes have greatly gone away from Chad's over time. There is nothing I sent you in your roulette for example that I would send to him. :lol
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He can post it..
WELL HE CAN FUCKING UNPOST IT!
For all you Lebowski fans out there
I wonder if those gif order corresponds to the list order on the previous page
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He can post it..
WELL HE CAN FUCKING UNPOST IT!
For all you Lebowski fans out there
I wonder if those gif order corresponds to the list order on the previous page
Welcome to the forum!
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I wonder if those gif order corresponds to the list order on the previous page
That would actually be quite unpredictable, but I highly doubt it. I have a decent idea of which goes to which, it'll be another little test to see how close I am.
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He can post it..
WELL HE CAN FUCKING UNPOST IT!
For all you Lebowski fans out there
I wonder if those gif order corresponds to the list order on the previous page
It does not.
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We getting an answer tonight, Chad? I ranked these songs in one listen.
I prefer to avoid premature rankulation.
I have a preliminary feel that I know the top 2, bottom 2, and middle 2. But I’ve only listened twice, so I’m gonna give it a couple of days and a proper amount of listens.
Enjoy your turkey, you turkey. Your time will come soon enough.
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We getting an answer tonight, Chad? I ranked these songs in one listen.
I prefer to avoid premature rankulation.
I have a preliminary feel that I know the top 2, bottom 2, and middle 2. But I’ve only listened twice, so I’m gonna give it a couple of days and a proper amount of listens.
It's 6 damn songs.
Jingle must be Canadian for 425..
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My issue is my tastes have greatly gone away from Chad's over time.
It's really about your preexisting library though. This is mostly a problem for the people that have the strategy of just sending the stuff they're currently into. Then if there's a disconnect things aren't going to go well. If I get in I'm sure as heck not sending my gloomiest funeral doom, darkwave, darker folk and such that's increasingly become a major part of my taste in recent years. It's a whole different kind of fun to be in roulettes where hosts have tastes that are more defined and you get to spend a few months inhabiting that sonic world relistening to potentially suitable things to send. Revisiting and exploring musical landscapes you may have been neglecting of late.
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Revisiting and exploring musical landscapes you may have been neglecting of late.
This is why I play in as many roulettes as possible. I've been saving 4-6 albums a week in my Sportify library for the last 5 or so years (not exactly) and it's great to go back and actually listen to a lot of it.
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Revisiting and exploring musical landscapes you may have been neglecting of late.
This is why I play in as many roulettes as possible. I've been saving 4-6 albums a week in my Sportify library for the last 5 or so years (not exactly) and it's great to go back and actually listen to a lot of it.
This is why I have such an elaborate set of playlists set up, it's to help me keep on top of all the albums I want to revisit but would easily forget about.
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We getting an answer tonight, Chad? I ranked these songs in one listen.
I prefer to avoid premature rankulation.
I have a preliminary feel that I know the top 2, bottom 2, and middle 2. But I’ve only listened twice, so I’m gonna give it a couple of days and a proper amount of listens.
It's 6 damn songs.
Jingle must be Canadian for 425..
Are you ever NOT cranky?
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Tim's roulette:
Myrath
Write-up: I've been sent Myrath seven times in roulettes before. I can't get past eastern influence. This time there's no eastern influence. Cool. 10 points.
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We getting an answer tonight, Chad? I ranked these songs in one listen.
I prefer to avoid premature rankulation.
I have a preliminary feel that I know the top 2, bottom 2, and middle 2. But I’ve only listened twice, so I’m gonna give it a couple of days and a proper amount of listens.
It's 6 damn songs.
Jingle must be Canadian for 425..
Are you ever NOT cranky?
:lol
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And now, my wordy impressions:
They've never been on my radar. Not bad, but not wow'd
Snappy… but not much bite to this. Really nice instrumentation though.
I think I may have listened to these guys once before, and if so, there was a reason it was only once.
Partway through this, I started wondering if this is Devy on the mic? The whole thing had me wondering if it was Haken on the instruments.
It's like a prog Power-Ballad. Pretty thin on the sound though.
Reminds me of Triosphere - both style wise, and vocally.
The last one should be pretty obvious which song that applies to.
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We getting an answer tonight, Chad? I ranked these songs in one listen.
I prefer to avoid premature rankulation.
I have a preliminary feel that I know the top 2, bottom 2, and middle 2. But I’ve only listened twice, so I’m gonna give it a couple of days and a proper amount of listens.
It's 6 damn songs.
Jingle must be Canadian for 425..
Are you ever NOT cranky?
:lol
I’m cranky today for sure. Thanksgiving is overrated.
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I think I may have listened to these guys once before, and if so, there was a reason it was only once.
The Contortionist or Nine Inch Nails? I haven't listened to the playlist.
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I think I may have listened to these guys once before, and if so, there was a reason it was only once.
The Contortionist or Nine Inch Nails? I haven't listened to the playlist.
You would not be incorrect.
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I'd say the Contortionist... Definitely outside of his wheelhouse.
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My issue is my tastes have greatly gone away from Chad's over time.
It's really about your preexisting library though. This is mostly a problem for the people that have the strategy of just sending the stuff they're currently into. Then if there's a disconnect things aren't going to go well. If I get in I'm sure as heck not sending my gloomiest funeral doom, darkwave, darker folk and such that's increasingly become a major part of my taste in recent years. It's a whole different kind of fun to be in roulettes where hosts have tastes that are more defined and you get to spend a few months inhabiting that sonic world relistening to potentially suitable things to send. Revisiting and exploring musical landscapes you may have been neglecting of late.
Oh yeah totally. While true, still finding stuff in your library still opens yourself up to predictability. It's finding those real gems you may need to discover more yourself.
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I think I may have listened to these guys once before, and if so, there was a reason it was only once.
The Contortionist or Nine Inch Nails? I haven't listened to the playlist.
I would have said NIN.
Snappy could be The Contortionist.
Devy/Haken is probably Nospun but could be The Contortionist.
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Results!!!!
Tonight :P. In the meantime, here's how the impressions matched up.
The Contortionist - Thrive
I think I may have listened to these guys once before, and if so, there was a reason it was only once.
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Nospun - The Death of Simpson
Partway through this, I started wondering if this is Devy on the mic? The whole thing had me wondering if it was Haken on the instruments.
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Nine Inch Nails - Discipline
They've never been on my radar. Not bad, but not wow'd
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Church of the Cosmic Skull - Cold Sweat
Snappy… but not much bite to this. Really nice instrumentation though.
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Ebony Ark - Desire
Reminds me of Triosphere - both style wise, and vocally.
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Everon - Replay
It's like a prog Power-Ballad. Pretty thin on the sound though.
(https://media.tenor.com/S0oEUgUdyXUAAAAC/lighter-concert.gif)
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Went to check Chad's last.fm, half of my obscure playlist for this roulette is thrown out of the window. Man, you've been busy apparently. :lol
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Went to check Chad's last.fm, half of my obscure playlist for this roulette is thrown out of the window. Man, you've been busy apparently. :lol
Unless I have/know virtually an entire discography, I'm going to allow artists that I've listened to before. I'd just stay away from songs/albums it's clear I've listened to at least 4+ times. Even things I've only tried once are fair game ... but also a risk. There could be a reason I didn't go back to those songs/bands. Of course, the reason could simply be that I forgot to.
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I think I'm still good for eight rounds. Might use one or two bands you listened to once. Was just surprised how deep your last.fm was.
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Yeah, I found in my roulette that while I initially was looking mostly for music I'd never heard before, I underrated the value of bringing a band to my attention that I'd already heard, but didn't consider a favorite yet. It's definitely a higher risk strategy though.
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Yeah, I found in my roulette that while I initially was looking mostly for music I'd never heard before, I underrated the value of bringing a band to my attention that I'd already heard, but didn't consider a favorite yet. It's definitely a higher risk strategy though.
Indeed. And my first four roulette's were mostly about discovering new bands to explore. I went bonkers after my 2nd, and bought something like 50+ albums from the roulette submissions (Spotify wasn't in Canada at that point).
This time around, it's not as much about discovering new artists, but just listening to good music, and stretching the players to go outside of their normal comfort zones, or go-to roulette bands.
And of course ... fun and shenanigans.
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Can we have points for fun and shenanigans?
Asking for a ponce
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I think I have 8 artists lined up that are new to roulettes.
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I think I have 8 artists lined up that are new to roulettes.
Same.
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I think I have 8 artists lined up that are new to roulettes.
Same.
Probably won’t need them until sometime next year.
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I have numerous candidates that have never even been mentioned before on DTF as far as I can tell.
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I think I have 8 artists lined up that are new to roulettes.
Same.
Probably won’t need them until sometime next year.
Keep it up, and you might not need yours at all!
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I think I'm still good for eight rounds. Might use one or two bands you listened to once. Was just surprised how deep your last.fm was.
Agree. I did some checking myself on there yesterday. So many bands I would be sure wouldn't be on there were there and multiple listens. Kinda threw me a bit.
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I made a list of qualifying round songs to send from lesser known bands and found that several of them already had a bunch of plays, so hopefully that was a sign I was on the right track.
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So, I know that vmadera and Litho are in; pretty sure that Doc and Puppers submitted; but not entirely sure on the final 2. I'm guessing Faizoff and ariich. I've included my predictions below, and fully expect to be 0/6 :lol
Edit... submittors confirmed by Tim. I was 2/6!
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In:
Litho: Ebony Ark / Desire (prediction: Litho)
This is the goods. Giving me Triosphere vibes was definitely a good thing. Nice riffage, and I like the metal side of the vocals - nice mix of Ida Haukland and Magali Luyten, and a little ‘sandpaper’ to them. It lost me a little with the operatic and smooth vocal melodies, but it wasn’t a turn off. Musically, it’s not anything that dropped my jaw, but was quite enjoyable.
Puppies: Everon / Replay (prediction: vmadero)
I love me a good Power Ballad. Throw in a heaping pile of prog, and what’s not to love about this song. I’m not usually a mid-tempo kinda guy, but when it comes through as a power ballad, then something just clicks for me. Lots of great elements here - in particular, the backing vocal melodies and the splashes from piano/keys are especially nice. The production is kinda thin - especially the drums - it’s like a stale/flat soda. But luckily that wasn’t a deal breaker. The musicianship in the drumming compensated for the weaker sound. Vocally… it did the job. I wasn’t wow’d, but it was good (enough).
Out:
Faizoff: Nine Inch Nails / Discipline (prediction: faizoff)
Ah, see… we’re off to a bad start. Whoever sent this had a set of stones on them. It wasn’t terrible, but this alt/grunge style just ain’t my thing. The industrial drone of the rhythm section and the keyboards had no appeal - it’s like it was trying to give me a hangover this morning. Vocally, not terribly interesting or compelling. I’m not sure I’ve ever heard a NIN song before, and this kind of justified why I never had any interest. Apologies to the sender, but not my thing.
Vmadera: The Contortionist / Thrive (prediction: ariich)
And an even bigger set here. I mean, Ruslan didn’t even need to listen to the songs to know that this (or NIN) was the impression it was. Vocally … I mean, it’s not bad, but there’s a certain something that just grates on me. It just sounds quasi-depressing.... like the guy ran over a dog on the way to the recording sessions - there was just no enjoyment in his voice. The repetitiveness of the guitar riff/arpeggio gets old pretty quick. The rhythm guitar being that ‘wall of sound’ didn’t click either. The slowdown/atmospheric part with the nice bass lines was the best part of the song - but then back to that guitar run and wall of sound. I think I should like this more than I did… there was a bit of a Kingcrow vibe, but it was the Kingcrow songs that I didn’t like as much.
On the bubble:
Ariich: Nospun / The Death of Simpson (prediction: Dr. DTVT)
Thank you for sending them, although I would’ve got to them at some point anyway, seeing as how they’re playing PPUSA. Devy vibes on the mic isn’t a bad thing; Haken vibes for the music could’ve been. I grew to like it, and will probably enjoy it more the more I continue to listen to it. But for the first few listens, this song was (imo) rather disjointed, and had a LOT (ie, too much) going on musically. I should really dig this, but there is a lot to digest here. Some of the passages are great (the 90 second segment after the intro in particular), then the Devy vibes kick in. Other passages sound out of place, and jammed in whether they were needed or not. This song sounds like it’s trying to pack about 4 different genres/styles into 9 minutes, and the flow suffered because of it.
Dr. DTVT: Church of the Cosmic Skull / Cold Sweat (prediction: Puppies)
Vocally, the style and range of this is largely similar to The Contortionist - but there’s life in the delivery. This one was fun, and I just found myself loving how eclectic this was. The bluesy guitar licks that dash in and out as an angst to the vocal harmonies, the subtle organ in the background. This one was pretty simple and straight-forward. The key change in the outro is such a cliche way to close out a song, but it worked.
Style wise, the Nospun submission is (should be?) more in my wheelhouse, and should be the one that appealed to me more. But I’m going to give the VERY SLIGHT nod to the sender of Cold Sweat for taking a chance, that paid off.
So, feel free to reveal yourselves, and every one else ….
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Yeah, I was surprised to see The Contortionist and Nine Inch Nails submitted :)
I should spin that Nospun record. I've heard good things about it but haven't had the chance to listen to it yet.
I'll send in a few hours.
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Excellent! I've had an unusual amount of duds in roulettes lately, and was worried I'd have one for my only shot here. :lol I wasn't even thinking about Triosphere, but when I saw the impression I can definitely hear it now. I kind of like how Beatriz seamlessly moves between the aggressive cleans, normal cleans, and more operatic ones occasionally. There are a handful of male growls on other songs, but they're just an occasional spice. Maybe you'll get more used to Beatriz' styles if you check out their albums. There are technically only two. Except, I totally forgot when sending that the album I sent from has a rerecorded version, with more modern production, a slightly different arrangement, and backing vocals from Marco Hietala and Amanda Somerville. I'm way more familiar with the original, so maybe I'd have gone with that anyway, but the deadline had already passed by the time I rediscovered the newer version, so it was too late to overthink that too. :p Definitely worth checking out anyway.
https://open.spotify.com/track/21tnH1ADcvT7oje2jAdXTp (https://open.spotify.com/track/21tnH1ADcvT7oje2jAdXTp)
I'm still deciding between two songs for next round (round 2?, or was this round 0?), and will hopefully send a little later today. I'll test the waters a bit while I work on what chicanery I can pull off later if need be.
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Yay! I'm at least 1/6 on matching song with sender
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So close!
I was Nospun. Wouldn't have sent you The Contortionist or NIN. :lol
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I thought you were Nospun, and thought that would be one of the three (quite liked it myself, more than others I've heard from them, and was worried it would get picked over my own choice). Clearly I'm not 100% on Chad's wavelength and have work to do.
Congrats sorry ariich! :p
I'm curious how TAC ranked the songs too (though if I was sending to him I'd have picked a different track).
I'm not doing this out of a desire to discover new bands or music. I can do that well enough on my own - in fact, too much
I've been thinking about this bit on and off, and to me while hopefully most people here are fully capable of discovering music on our own (I'm always perplexed when I see posts online from people who say they have no idea how to find new music), we also tend to have blind spots and are prone to falling into patterns and ruts. Ideally other people know fresher and different slants on styles we already know. This certainly happened over and over again in my own roulette, people found stuff for me that I doubt I'd have discovered on my own, or at least it would have taken much longer.
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So close!
I was Nospun. Wouldn't have sent you The Contortionist or NIN. :lol
Too funny... I was thinking that this was tantamount to my elimination from one of your roulette's when I sent Darwin's Radio (and Mystery for that matter) - playing it a little too safe. That's kinda how I heard things with Nospun ... good tune that is/should be right in my wheelhouse, but something just didn't quite fully click after a handful of listens.
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I'm not doing this out of a desire to discover new bands or music. I can do that well enough on my own - in fact, too much
I've been thinking about this bit on and off, and to me while hopefully most people here are fully capable of discovering music on our own (I'm always perplexed when I see posts online from people who say they have no idea how to find new music), we also tend to have blind spots and are prone to falling into patterns and ruts. Ideally other people know fresher and different slants on styles we already know. This certainly happened over and over again in my own roulette, people found stuff for me that I doubt I'd have discovered on my own, or at least it would have taken much longer.
100%. I love being challenged a bit in my roulettes. Doesn't always pay off for the players of course, but it can do. I've finished working my way through the artists from my first three rounds (I'll write up some thoughts on the round 3 ones hopefully this weekend) and Crow smashed all three rounds with artists I'd be unlikely to have discovered on my own or even from any other roulette players. :lol
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So close!
I was Nospun. Wouldn't have sent you The Contortionist or NIN. :lol
Too funny... I was thinking that this was tantamount to my elimination from one of your roulette's when I sent Darwin's Radio (and Mystery for that matter) - playing it a little too safe. That's kinda how I heard things with Nospun ... good tune that is/should be right in my wheelhouse, but something just didn't quite fully click after a handful of listens.
Yeah Darwin's Radio for sure. Mystery was an interesting one - I think it just wasn't a great song for introducing the band, because I took a punt on the album still and loved it (and their latest as well).
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I hear ya... and don't get me wrong, I'm always happy to discover new music. But, sometimes too much of a good thing is still too much. Part of the intent of this roulette is to give people the option to not immediately disqualify bands (or genres for that matter) that I may have some familiarity with, or that may not be in my 'wheelhouse'. Case in point, Church of the Cosmic Skull. I don't know what the rest of their music is like, but my gut says that this isn't going to be the kind of band I dive in to fully and completely.
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Crow smashed all three rounds with artists I'd be unlikely to have discovered on my own or even from any other roulette players. :lol
I'm actually a bit concerned about Crow, no posts in almost a month now.
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So close!
I was Nospun. Wouldn't have sent you The Contortionist or NIN. :lol
Too funny... I was thinking that this was tantamount to my elimination from one of your roulette's when I sent Darwin's Radio (and Mystery for that matter) - playing it a little too safe. That's kinda how I heard things with Nospun ... good tune that is/should be right in my wheelhouse, but something just didn't quite fully click after a handful of listens.
Yeah Darwin's Radio for sure. Mystery was an interesting one - I think it just wasn't a great song for introducing the band, because I took a punt on the album still and loved it (and their latest as well).
(https://i.postimg.cc/25V0C2Pz/20231008-194937.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/cKGRmMxj)
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Sent.
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Sent.
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Following :corn
:neverusethis:
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Well, I was counting on your subsequent post ....
Currently looking through your Last.fm to see if I even have bands to send lol I might through my hat in for the qualifier round
And now with Tim's confirmation ... enjoy your popcorn. :biggrin:
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Jesus Christ, Tim. Are you going to send, or not!?!? The Earth isn't turning any slower.
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Just sent it to you. I checked this morning. You did say results last night!!!!
I’m at work btw.
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Just sent it to you. I checked this morning. You did say results last night!!!!
I’m at work btw.
Yeah... I had good intentions of doing it last night, then crashed before I got the last two writeups done - and needed one more listen thru to decide between Nospun and Church of the Cosmic Skull.
I'm not at work, btw - but do have outdoor chores to do when it's 1 freakin degree (Celsius)!
P.S. no submission - just the confirmation of who sent what in the Qualifiers.
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Jesus Christ, Tim. Are you going to send, or not!?!? The Earth isn't turning any slower.
:rollin
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Sent. Or maybe wasn't me. And it was someone else's song, or was it?
There is no spoon.
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Sent. Or maybe wasn't me. And it was someone else's song, or was it?
There is no spoon.
Only a spork.
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I'm curious how TAC ranked the songs too (though if I was sending to him I'd have picked a different track)
I’d go.
Nospun
Ebony Ark
Everon
Cosmic Skull
Contortionist
NIN
And you all would’ve known on Wednesday!!!!!
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Jesus Christ, Tim. Are you going to send, or not!?!? The Earth isn't turning any slower.
Are we sending already? Ok. I’ll send when I get home from work. After my nap of course.
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Jesus Christ, Tim. Are you going to send, or not!?!? The Earth isn't turning any slower.
Are we sending already? Ok. I’ll send when I get home from work. After my nap of course.
We're on the clock? Deadline when?
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Well, I hope you can send before Monday. After all, you've had your invitation for over a week - well, almost a month, really. :biggrin:
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Woohoo! Now I get to annoy Chad by sending more stuff like The Mars Volta and Moonsorrow! :neverusethis:
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Woohoo! Now I get to annoy Chad by sending more stuff like The Mars Volta and Moonsorrow! :neverusethis:
Ariich, be ready to step in as 1st alternate. :lol
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Woohoo! Now I get to annoy Chad by sending more stuff like The Mars Volta and Moonsorrow! :neverusethis:
Ariich, be ready to step in as 1st alternate. :lol
I kid I kid. I actually have stuff lined up that I'm 90% sure you'll like. Besides if I sent Moonsorrow everyone would know it was me immediately.
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You'd probably get a full 5 points for the song title being guessed last though.
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You'd probably get a full 5 points for the song title being guessed last though.
:lol
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Well, I hope you can send before Monday. After all, you've had your invitation for over a week - well, almost a month, really. :biggrin:
Do my best.
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Well, I hope you can send before Monday. After all, you've had your invitation for over a week - well, almost a month, really. :biggrin:
Do my best.
Step up, son. Lol
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Woohoo! Now I get to annoy Chad by sending more stuff like The Mars Volta and Moonsorrow! :neverusethis:
Ariich, be ready to step in as 1st alternate. :lol
Of course!
Me being one of the few other DTFers who also likes TMV and Moonsorrow. :lol
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Ariich, I can't believe Chad didn't like that song. I had it top rated on the playlist.
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I'll send something tonight.
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Ariich, I can't believe Chad didn't like that song. I had it top rated on the playlist.
Maybe subconsciously biased by thinking it was Puppies and being afraid of receiving a load of black metal. :neverusethis:
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Ariich, I can't believe Chad didn't like that song. I had it top rated on the playlist.
Then you didn't read the writeup. I liked it plenty, and was liking it more with each listen.
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Ariich, I can't believe Chad didn't like that song. I had it top rated on the playlist.
Then you didn't read the writeup. I liked it plenty, and was liking it more with each listen.
No I didn't read the writeup.
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Well, I hope you can send before Monday. After all, you've had your invitation for over a week - well, almost a month, really. :biggrin:
Do my best.
Ya know... if ya'll get your picks in shortly, I could put up the hangmen while Ruslan is in bed, giving you all a chance for at least a few hours!
Oh, also - PLOT TWIST!!!!
Solving hangman is not limited to participants. Non-participants are also allowed to solve hangman and match players.
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You devil. Lol
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And I have sent. :corn
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And I have sent. :corn
As have I.
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Just waiting on Granddadler. ;)
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Well, I was counting on your subsequent post ....
Currently looking through your Last.fm to see if I even have bands to send lol I might through my hat in for the qualifier round
And now with Tim's confirmation ... enjoy your popcorn. :biggrin:
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I have come to the conclusion that going by Chad's Last FM, he has sampled or knows well enough pretty much every single band with clean vocals that ever existed.
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I'm so confused. Am I sending it to you, Chad, or to Tim? Spotify ok?
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I'm so confused. Am I sending it to you, Chad, or to Tim? Spotify ok?
To Chad directly. Spotify is fine.
I meant the question for Round 1 and onwards, Litho is correct. Or are we to send our songs for all rounds to Tim for anonymity? (that might not work in our favor as Tim also participates in this roulette and will then solve the hangman in no time :biggrin: )
In fairness that's the only way anyone can solve it faster than you. :P
During the Roulette, songs will come to me directly.
EDIT: Spotify is the preferred format. YT will suffice if it isn't on Spotify.
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Labyrinthine legal documents and court decisions: easy
Roulette rules: impossible!
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I'm so confused. Am I sending it to you, Chad, or to Tim? Spotify ok?
To Chad directly. Spotify is fine.
I meant the question for Round 1 and onwards, Litho is correct. Or are we to send our songs for all rounds to Tim for anonymity? (that might not work in our favor as Tim also participates in this roulette and will then solve the hangman in no time :biggrin: )
In fairness that's the only way anyone can solve it faster than you. :P
During the Roulette, songs will come to me directly.
EDIT: Spotify is the preferred format. YT will suffice if it isn't on Spotify.
Thank you.
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Labyrinthine legal documents and court decisions: easy
Roulette rules: impossible!
You're not wrong!!! :)
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Maybe Evermind has gone to bed by now. I give you an A to start:
??: _____ - ___ __ ___ ___
??: _a__ _a________ - ____ ___a___
??: ______ __ __________ - ______ a_ ___ ___ __ ___ _____
??: A_____ _______ - ___ ___ __ ___ __ ____
??: ______ _a_a____ - _____ __ ___ ___ ___
??: _____a___ - A _a__ __ _______ __
??: _a__ ______ ________ - _a____ __a__ _a__ __: ______a_____
??: A______a - _______ __ __
??: ______ ____ - ___ _a____
??: ____a__ ________ _____ - ____ _______
??: A______a - _______ __ __
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B
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O.
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O.
C-C-C-Combo Breaker! :lol
??: S____ - _o_ o_ ___ ___
??: _a__ Ba__b_____ - _o__ ___a__s
??: ______ o_ S_______ss - ______ a_ ___ ___ o_ ___ _____
??: A_____ _o___o_ - _o_ ___ __ ___ So _oo_
??: _os___ _a_a____ - _____ o_ ___ ___ S__
??: _____as_s - A _a__ __ O____o_ __
??: _a_s B__o__ _o_o__o_ - _as___ __a_s _a__ __: S_____a_____
??: A___o__a - _o_____ __ __
??: _o__o_ _o__ - ___ _a__o_
??: ____a__ S_______ __o__ - _os_ _o___o_
Guessed: ABOS
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S
EDIT: Also did two people send exactly the same song or is that a duplicate?
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EDIT: Also did two people send exactly the same song or is that a duplicate?
Good catch... I'd had one entry entered twice (there were 11 listed - I removed the dupe, the 11th line, from the above post)
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Days Before Tomorrow - "Wasted Years II: Sleepwalking"
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Michael Schenker Group-Lost Horizons-Stadler
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Michael Schenker Group - Lost Horizons
TAC?
*EDIT: Nevermind, didn't see TAC's post*
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Granddadler: Sweet - Fox on the Run
??: _a__ Ba__b_____ - _o__ ___a__s
??: ______ o_ S_______ss - T_____ at t__ ___ o_ t__ ____t
Kingshmeggin: Advent Horizon - How Did it Get So Good
??: _os___ _a_a____ - ____t o_ t__ ___ S__
??: _____as_s - A _a__ __ O____o_ __
??: Days Before Tomorrow - Wasted Years Part II: Sleepwalking
??: A__to__a - _o_____ __ __
??: _o__o_ _o__ - T__ _a__o_
??: Michael Schenker Group - Lost Horizon
Guessed: ABOST
Participants:
Dr. DTVT
Evermind
Indiscipline
Kingshmegland
Litho
lonestar
Puppies
Stadler
TAC
wolfking
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If that's really Stadler he either really doesn't care about this part of the roulette, or someone is impersonating him. :lol
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If that's really Stadler he either really doesn't care about this part of the roulette, or someone is impersonating him. :lol
Not Stadler; Not TAC.
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If that's really Stadler he either really doesn't care about this part of the roulette, or someone is impersonating him. :lol
Not Stadler; Not TAC.
Kade? :neverusethis:
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D
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Sweet - "Fox On the Run".
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Sweet - "Fox On the Run".
Litho ... The North American Evermind!
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Sweet - "Fox On the Run".
Stadler
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Advent Horizon-How Did It Get So Good-Kingshmegland
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D
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C.
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Angtoria-Confide In Me-Litho?
Chad's going to like this song.
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Seeing as how scoring will be connected to hangman, I think it's only fair to put a pause on people guessing multiple letters - lest Tim get thru the entire alphabet before lonestar gets home from work.
From this point forward, one letter per day.
Edit .. one letter per person per day
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Angtoria might be Evermind.
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Granddadler: Sweet - Fox on the Run
??: _a__ Ba__b_____ - _o__ ___a__s
??: Figure of Speechless - Tunnel at the End of the Light
Kingshmeggin: Advent Horizon - How Did it Get So Good
??: _os___ _a_a____ - ____t o_ t__ ___ S__
??: _____as_s - A _a__ __ O____o_ __
??: Days Before Tomorrow - Wasted Years Part II: Sleepwalking
Everbigbrain: Angtoria - Confide in Me
??: _o__o_ _o__ - T__ _a__o_
??: Michael Schenker Group - Lost Horizon
Guessed: ABOST
Participants:
Dr. DTVT
Evermind
Indiscipline
Kingshmegland
Litho
lonestar
Puppies
Stadler
TAC
wolfking
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Figure of Speechless - Tunnel at the End of the Light
Kade
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Figure of Speechless - Tunnel at the End of the Light
Bruce Dickinson side projects aren't banned?
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Gotta head out for a few hours. Play freely amongst yourselves.
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Figure of Speechless - Tunnel at the End of the Light
Bruce Dickinson side projects aren't banned?
Smooth move. You sent it!
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Seeing as how scoring will be connected to hangman, I think it's only fair to put a pause on people guessing multiple letters - lest Tim get thru the entire alphabet before lonestar gets home from work.
From this point forward, one letter per day.
Wait, what? So how the f- did I get guessed that quick? Sweet isn't THAT obvious; it's not like it was Asia for god's sake. ;) :) :)
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After being outed so early Ruslan is going to move to the US for the rest of the roulette.
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After being outed so early Ruslan is going to move to the US for the rest of the roulette.
:lol
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There is a band that fits perfectly into one of the slots, but they have no songs that fit, nor would they be a great idea to send to Chad.
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Seeing as how scoring will be connected to hangman, I think it's only fair to put a pause on people guessing multiple letters - lest Tim get thru the entire alphabet before lonestar gets home from work.
From this point forward, one letter per day.
Wait, what? So how the f- did I get guessed that quick? Sweet isn't THAT obvious; it's not like it was Asia for god's sake. ;) :) :)
Sweet was the first thing I thought of, but I was like...Nah... and skipped right by it.
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There is a band that fits perfectly into one of the slots, but they have no songs that fit, nor would they be a great idea to send to Chad.
Boston Horns?
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After being outed so early Ruslan is going to move to the US for the rest of the roulette.
:lol
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After being outed so early Ruslan is going to move to the US for the rest of the roulette.
:lol
Guess a letter fool. We're all shut off!
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No. I'm not to spite you. Suck it, Trebek.
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After being outed so early Ruslan is going to move to the US for the rest of the roulette.
:lol
Guess a letter fool. We're all shut off!
With Chad out for the next few hours we're all stuck until Ruslan brings out his supercomputers to assign the rest of us our guessing placements in the most punishing order.
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If that's really Stadler he either really doesn't care about this part of the roulette, or someone is impersonating him. :lol
Not Stadler; Not TAC.
Kade? :neverusethis:
You know I don't steal other peoples bands mate. ;D
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It sucks that this is tied to scoring. I got work during most days, and vacation coming up. I don’t have time for this hangman stuff. I just want to beat all your asses by sending awesome stuff.
And I was going to send Advent Horizon next round, you goof.
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On the positive side, I know next to nothing about your tastes, so I might not be able to guess your entries. ;)
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It sucks that this is tied to scoring. I got work during most days, and vacation coming up. I don’t have time for this hangman stuff. I just want to beat all your asses by sending awesome stuff.
And I was going to send Advent Horizon next round, you goof.
I've been making cookie dough for two hours, and then have to commute an hour home. :lol
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It sucks that this is tied to scoring. I got work during most days, and vacation coming up. I don’t have time for this hangman stuff. I just want to beat all your asses by sending awesome stuff.
And I was going to send Advent Horizon next round, you goof.
Love you too, Mason.
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To clarify, only Mason, Josh, and Tim are blocked from guessing letters (and Rich, I suppose). EVERYONE can guess a letter per day. I just didn't want any one or two people to rhyme off like 8 letters and solve the hangman while they were the only two people that happened to be online when the hangman was posted - which, I'm going to try and do at different times of the day throughout the next 7 rounds. For fairness.
Have at it the rest of ya!
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Well, Joe's being a pouty bitch. ;D
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To clarify, only Mason, Josh, and Tim are blocked from guessing letters (and Rich, I suppose). EVERYONE can guess a letter per day. I just didn't want any one or two people to rhyme off like 8 letters and solve the hangman while they were the only two people that happened to be online when the hangman was posted - which, I'm going to try and do at different times of the day throughout the next 7 rounds. For fairness.
Have at it the rest of ya!
Fuck that...I'm not giving Ruslan any more letters to figure shit out....
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Any K's?
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After being outed so early Ruslan is going to move to the US for the rest of the roulette.
:rollin
I checked the thread regularly yesterday. Chad posted the hangman 15 minutes after I went to sleep. :lol
I'll try and guess something on my commute.
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Figure of Speechless - Tunnel at the End of the Light
Bruce Dickinson side projects aren't banned?
Explain this to me!?
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It sucks that this is tied to scoring. I got work during most days, and vacation coming up. I don’t have time for this hangman stuff. I just want to beat all your asses by sending awesome stuff.
And I was going to send Advent Horizon next round, you goof.
The Hangman points are assigned not by players actually guessing, but awarded to the player who's submissions are "hardest" to guess, and "hardest" to match to the player. Unpredictability is solving the song/band; Anonymity is solving the participant who submitted the song.
In this case, the player who submitted Days Before Tomorrow / Wasted Years Part II: Sleepwalking will only get 0.5 point for Unpredictability because their song was guessed first. Conversely, Stadler gets 1.5 Unpredictability points for his song being guessed third, and 0.5 Anonymity point for being first matched to his submission. Hopefully this will all be much clearer at the end of the hangman. I'll put the order of things being solved in parenthesis to keep track of things.
To clarify, only Mason, Josh, and Tim are blocked from guessing letters (and Rich, I suppose). EVERYONE can guess a letter per day. I just didn't want any one or two people to rhyme off like 8 letters and solve the hangman while they were the only two people that happened to be online when the hangman was posted - which, I'm going to try and do at different times of the day throughout the next 7 rounds. For fairness.
Have at it the rest of ya!
Fuck that...I'm not giving Ruslan any more letters to figure shit out....
You should've tried before he woke up. The monster is lurking now! :lol :lol
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Figure of Speechless - Tunnel at the End of the Light
Bruce Dickinson side projects aren't banned?
Explain this to me!?
The singer sounds like Bruce Dickinson.
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Granddadler (0.5): Sweet - Fox on the Run (1.5)
??: _a__ Ba__b_____ - _o__ ___a__s
??: Figure of Speechless - Tunnel at the End of the Light (3)
Kingshmeggin (1): Advent Horizon - How Did it Get So Good (2)
??: _os___ _a_a____ - ____t o_ t__ ___ Sk_
??: _k___as_s - A _a__ __ O____o_ __
??: Days Before Tomorrow - Wasted Years Part II: Sleepwalking (0.5)
Everbigbrain (1.5): Angtoria - Confide in Me (2.5)
??: _o__o_ _o__ - T__ _a__o_
??: Michael Schenker Group - Lost Horizon (1)
Guessed: ABOSTK
Participants:
Dr. DTVT
Evermind
Indiscipline
Kingshmegland
Litho
lonestar
Puppies
Stadler
TAC
wolfking
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Figure of Speechless - Tunnel at the End of the Light
Bruce Dickinson side projects aren't banned?
Explain this to me!?
The singer sounds like Bruce Dickinson.
Ah....roger that.
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Joseph Magazine-Night Of The Red Sky
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Joseph Magazine-Night Of The Red Sky
Lonestar!
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You scamming my spotify or what?
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You scamming my spotify or what?
Seriously..
....nope!
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No idea how you got that one, they've never been mentioned on DTF as far as I know.
I'll take an R for "Ruslan figure this shit out..."
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The only friend activity I can see is Chad and Kattelox. And I never have that window open anyway. I used to see you and Joe, but I haven't in a couple of years. I must be blocked. :lol
No idea how you got that one, they've never been mentioned on DTF as far as I know.
I'm fucking smaht, that's how! ;D
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I’m just disappointed in whoever chose t instead of K so the first letters would have been ABOSK.
If TAC didn’t send Shenker, I’m going to guess Indisciplline just because he doesn’t participate in DTF SS and I can’t mess with Tim on that.
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Granddadler (0.5): Sweet - Fox on the Run (1.5)
??: _a__ Ba__br____ - _o__ R__a__s
??: Figure of Speechless - Tunnel at the End of the Light (3)
Kingshmeggin (1): Advent Horizon - How Did it Get So Good (2)
Forever alonestar (2): Joseph Magazine - Night of the Red Sky (3.5)
??: _k__ras_s - A _a__ __ O___ro_ __
??: Days Before Tomorrow - Wasted Years Part II: Sleepwalking (0.5)
Everbigbrain (1.5): Angtoria - Confide in Me (2.5)
??: _o__o_ _o_r - T__ _a__o_
Indiscipline Jones (2.5): Michael Schenker Group - Lost Horizon (1)
Guessed: ABOSTKR
Participants:
Dr. DTVT
Evermind
Indiscipline
Kingshmegland
Litho
lonestar
Puppies
Stadler
TAC
wolfking
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The only friend activity I can see is Chad and Kattelox. And I never have that window open anyway. I used to see you and Joe, but I haven't in a couple of years. I must be blocked. :lol
"Share Friend Activity" .... OFF.
Also, don't anyone bother trying to snoop my last.fm either. I've disconnected my Spotify scrobbling until Hangman is solved. :P :P
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Did Puppies send Days Before Tomorrow?
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Okay I'm on a train, let's see
Give me L
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Granddadler (0.5): Sweet - Fox on the Run (1.5)
LithoBluesCube (3.5): Dave Bainbridge - Love Remains (4)
Dr. DTPA (4): Figure of Speechless - Tunnel at the End of the Light (3)
Kingshmeggin (1): Advent Horizon - How Did it Get So Good (2)
Forever alonestar (2): Joseph Magazine - Night of the Red Sky (3.5)
??: _k__ras_s - A _a__ __ O___ro_ __
PuppiesOnShrooms (3): Days Before Tomorrow - Wasted Years Part II: Sleepwalking (0.5)
Everbigbrain (1.5): Angtoria - Confide in Me (2.5)
??: _ollo_ _o_r - T__ _a__o_
Indiscipline Jones (2.5): Michael Schenker Group - Lost Horizon (1)
Guessed: ABOSTKRL
Participants:
Dr. DTVT
Evermind
Indiscipline
Kingshmegland
LithoJazzoSphere
lonestar
Puppies
Stadler
TAC
wolfking
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Dave Bainbridge - Love Remains
Let's say Litho
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I still can't believe Litho got Days Before Tomorrow so easily. :yeahright
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I still can't believe Litho got Days Before Tomorrow so easily. :yeahright
I'm quite impressed with a lot of the solving that's going on.
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Figure of Speechless is Mason
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Two to go.
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??: _k__ras_s - A _a__ __ O___ro_ __
Whatever this is, is Tim.
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Ekphrasis - A Maze in Oneiroi II
Tim?
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??: _k__ras_s - A _a__ __ O___ro_ __
Whatever this is, is Tim.
Nice move :lol
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??: _k__ras_s - A _a__ __ O___ro_ __
Whatever this is, is Tim.
:clap:
I was wondering if one of you was going to out the other! :lol :lol
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Hollow Hour - The Canyon by Kade
Right on time before my stop too.
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??: _k__ras_s - A _a__ __ O___ro_ __
Whatever this is, is Tim.
Nice move :lol
Tim's in bed by now so it's an asshole yet no brainer play. :lol
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Hollow Hour - The Canyon by Kade
Fuck you're a magician at this.
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Granddadler (0.5): Sweet - Fox on the Run (1.5)
LithoBluesCube (3.5): Dave Bainbridge - Love Remains (4)
Dr.DTPA (4): Figure of Speechless - Tunnel at the End of the Light (3)
Kingshmeggin (1): Advent Horizon - How Did it Get So Good (2)
Forever alonestar (2): Joseph Magazine - Night of the Red Sky (3.5)
Tim's A Clown (4.5): Ekphrasis - A Maze in Oneiroi II (4.5)
PuppiesOnShrooms (3): Days Before Tomorrow - Wasted Years Part II: Sleepwalking (0.5)
Everbigbrain (1.5): Angtoria - Confide in Me (2.5)
lightningking (5): Hollow Hour - The Canyon (5)
Indiscipline Jones (2.5): Michael Schenker Group - Lost Horizon (1)
Guessed: ABOSTKRL
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Here's hoping for 10 points on quality. :corn
Gets 1....
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Re: Angtoria
I used the DTF search function before sending and the only mention of them on DTF is in Litho's roulette banned list. Thought if they get guessed he'd be the first suspect (and he was), but then he outed me :lol
Also giving an A right from the start was less than ideal for my band :lol
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Re: Angtoria
I used the DTF search function before sending and the only mention of them on DTF is in Litho's roulette banned list. Thought if they get guessed he'd be the first suspect (and he was), but then he outed me :lol
Dave Bainbridge - Love Remains
Let's say Litho
We seem to be in sync more since you snuck up with the 2nd place finish in my roulette. :biggrin:
I still can't believe Litho got Days Before Tomorrow so easily.
(https://i.giphy.com/media/VAyE4Armxbkezcszgd/giphy.webp)
But yeah, some of this is just the randomness of which letters get picked first.
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So, Jazzo by night, Ruslan by day ... we're in a Ladyhawke kinda hangman trap here.
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Who’s Ladyhawke?
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An 80's fantasy flick with a Michelle Pfeiffer to drool for.
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Lost Horizons is a GREAT friggin' tune.
And I'm going to slay the anonymity and unpredictability points next round. ;)
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1st listen is in the books. I put the playlist on random, and minimized Spotify so I literally had no idea what songs/bands I was listening to. A couple of them I could guess because of the lyrics (ie, the title/chorus) and others because of the sound (eg... pretty sure I knew which was the Sweet song ;)). Nothing grossed me out, so that's good. Couple things caught my attention. Couple of things were :-\.
I'll give second impressions tonight or tomorrow.
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How many times are you aiming to listen to the songs each round?
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At least 5
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Lost Horizons is a GREAT friggin' tune.
:metal
Although I prefer the Live At Budokan version with Cozy Powell's thunderous drums rather than Simon Phillips' pitter patter drums.
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1st listen is in the books. I put the playlist on random, and minimized Spotify so I literally had no idea what songs/bands I was listening to. A couple of them I could guess because of the lyrics (ie, the title/chorus) and others because of the sound (eg... pretty sure I knew which was the Sweet song ;)). Nothing grossed me out, so that's good. Couple things caught my attention. Couple of things were :-\.
I'll give second impressions tonight or tomorrow.
Yeah, for my song, title is the whole chorus. :lol
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Still working through the 2nd impressions. There's some really good shit here - well done boys. Quality scores will be quite respectable.
The Hangman scores:
Wolfking - Hollow Hour / The Canyon: 10
TAC - Ekphrasis / A Maze In Oneiroi II: 9
Litho - Dave Bainbridge / Love Remains: 7.5
Dr. DTVT - Figure of Speechless / Tunnel at the End of the Light: 7
lonestar - Joseph Magazine / Night of the Red Sky: 5.5
Evermind - Angtoria / Confide in Me: 4
Indiscipline - Michael Schenker Group / Lost Horizons: 3.5
Puppies - Days Before Tomorrow / Wasted Years Part II: Sleepwalking: 3.5
King - Advent Horizon / How Did it Get So Good: 3
Stadler - Sweet / Fox on the Run: 2
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Next hangman we all should guess Kade's and Tim's entries first :lol
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Next hangman we all should guess Kade's and Tim's entries first :lol
Well......you could have guessed them first this round! ;D
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Second impressions:
1. A beautiful overall composition and sound, start to finish, every instrument, every voice
2. The way it starts makes me all warm and fuzzy inside, and then ….
3. That's a lot of musicianship to take in. Is that a Damian Wilson fly-by?
4. Puppies - Days Before Tomorrow / Wasted Years Part II: Sleepwalking: Well lookie what you found ... my wheelhouse.
5. The album title is alarmingly accurate, and was a blatant hint of things to come.
6. Started good, but then turned into quite the plodder. Musically, very strong none-the-less
7. Wolfking - Hollow Hour / The Canyon: It's like The Dear Hunter smashed with Dynazty
8. lonestar - Joseph Magazine / Night of the Red Sky That is a very rich guitar tone, and some prog chops from the rest of the band to go along with it.
9. Indiscipline - Michael Schenker Group / Lost Horizons: Bitchin as fuck. So much emotion
10. You almost completely nailed the intention of what I want out of this roulette.
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Next hangman we all should guess Kade's and Tim's entries first :lol
Well......you could have guessed them first this round! ;D
He'll have his chance plenty - as I said, I'm intending to start hangman at different times of the day as we go along. Invariably, Ruslan won't be the only one to wake up to it mostly / completely solved. :lol
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No idea......8?
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Next hangman we all should guess Kade's and Tim's entries first :lol
Well......you could have guessed them first this round! ;D
I was asleep, but also there was no chance to get Tim's first with that Ephraksis and Oneiroi shit :lol
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No idea......8?
No idea also, 4?
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No idea......8?
(https://media.tenor.com/cz39H1rlK0UAAAAC/missed-it-by-that-much-missed.gif)
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Ooh, mine is probably 6. Starting off well I see :lol
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No idea......8?
No idea also, 4?
It could've been, but
(https://i.imgflip.com/87l7qg.jpg)
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Ooh, mine is probably 6. Starting off well I see :lol
Not at all.
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Well, in that case I'll take either 4 or 10 :)
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Well, in that case I'll take either 4 or 10 :)
How about 4/10 instead?
Dunno, 1?
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Well, in that case I'll take either 4 or 10 :)
Yes you will - the fourth.
Dunno, 1?
You're right, you dunno.
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Hopefully being in the wheelhouse means a homerun! :corn
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Hoping for 9, bracing for 2, realistically 6.
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No idea......8?
(https://media.tenor.com/cz39H1rlK0UAAAAC/missed-it-by-that-much-missed.gif)
Okay......7?
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Yes, and yes.
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6 or 8?
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6 or 8?
Indeedy!
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2 or 6
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2 or 6
(https://media0.giphy.com/media/j2pOFyuTJqWj9S5qdE/giphy.gif)
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5 then? The other ones are good, so I can't see them fitting. :) :) :) :) :) :) :)
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Okay, 6? :lol
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Both wrong.
5 then? The other ones are good, so I can't see them fitting. :) :) :) :) :) :) :)
"Best of Sweet" :lol. Well, you almost had it - you're not entirely wrong, but that's not the impression I had for yours.
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I think of the album name as "Desolation Boulevard". :)
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I think of the album name as "Desolation Boulevard". :)
Fair point. But then the album title would not be appropriate. Clearly I didn't add the song to my playlist directly from the link you gave me - Spotify's first search hit was from a Best of compilation.
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2!
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2!
No!
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Probably #3.
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2!
No!
Then 10?
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Second impressions:
1. A beautiful overall composition and sound, start to finish, every instrument, every voice
2. The way it starts makes me all warm and fuzzy inside, and then ….
3. Litho - Dave Bainbridge / Love Remains: That's a lot of musicianship to take in. Is that a Damian Wilson fly-by?
4. Puppies - Days Before Tomorrow / Wasted Years Part II: Sleepwalking: Well lookie what you found ... my wheelhouse.
5. The album title is alarmingly accurate, and was a blatant hint of things to come.
6. Started good, but then turned into quite the plodder. Musically, very strong none-the-less
7. Wolfking - Hollow Hour / The Canyon: It's like The Dear Hunter smashed with Dynazty
8. lonestar - Joseph Magazine / Night of the Red Sky That is a very rich guitar tone, and some prog chops from the rest of the band to go along with it.
9. Indiscipline - Michael Schenker Group / Lost Horizons: Bitchin as fuck. So much emotion
10. You almost completely nailed the intention of what I want out of this roulette.
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Fourth time the charm, 2?
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Probably #3.
Probably yes.
2!
No!
Then 10?
(https://i.gifer.com/EDu7.gif)
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Fourth time the charm, 2?
(https://media.giphy.com/media/3oEdv6sy3ulljPMGdy/giphy.gif)
Second impressions:
1. A beautiful overall composition and sound, start to finish, every instrument, every voice
2. Evermind - Angtoria / Confide in Me: The way it starts makes me all warm and fuzzy inside, and then ….
3. Litho - Dave Bainbridge / Love Remains: That's a lot of musicianship to take in. Is that a Damian Wilson fly-by?
4. Puppies - Days Before Tomorrow / Wasted Years Part II: Sleepwalking: Well lookie what you found ... my wheelhouse.
5. The album title is alarmingly accurate, and was a blatant hint of things to come.
6. Started good, but then turned into quite the plodder. Musically, very strong none-the-less
7. Wolfking - Hollow Hour / The Canyon: It's like The Dear Hunter smashed with Dynazty
8. lonestar - Joseph Magazine / Night of the Red Sky That is a very rich guitar tone, and some prog chops from the rest of the band to go along with it.
9. Indiscipline - Michael Schenker Group / Lost Horizons: Bitchin as fuck. So much emotion
10. You almost completely nailed the intention of what I want out of this roulette.
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6!
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6!
Alarmingly, no. I thought my hint was blatant.
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Second impressions:
1. A beautiful overall composition and sound, start to finish, every instrument, every voice
2. Evermind - Angtoria / Confide in Me: The way it starts makes me all warm and fuzzy inside, and then ….
3. Litho - Dave Bainbridge / Love Remains: That's a lot of musicianship to take in. Is that a Damian Wilson fly-by?
4. Puppies - Days Before Tomorrow / Wasted Years Part II: Sleepwalking: Well lookie what you found ... my wheelhouse.
5. TAC - Ekphrasis / A Maze In Oneiroi II: The album title is alarmingly accurate, and was a blatant hint of things to come.
6. Started good, but then turned into quite the plodder. Musically, very strong none-the-less
7. Wolfking - Hollow Hour / The Canyon: It's like The Dear Hunter smashed with Dynazty
8. lonestar - Joseph Magazine / Night of the Red Sky That is a very rich guitar tone, and some prog chops from the rest of the band to go along with it.
9. Indiscipline - Michael Schenker Group / Lost Horizons: Bitchin as fuck. So much emotion
10. Stadler - Sweet / Fox on the Run: You almost completely nailed the intention of what I want out of this roulette.
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Weird Interbreeding? :lol
Oh, I misread that—I thought you meant "hint of things to come in this roulette".
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Weird Interbreeding? :lol
Oh, I misread that—I thought you meant "hint of things to come in this roulette".
No, hint of things to come in the song.
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I think of the album name as "Desolation Boulevard". :)
Fair point. But then the album title would not be appropriate. Clearly I didn't add the song to my playlist directly from the link you gave me - Spotify's first search hit was from a Best of compilation.
Well, I didn't know that!!! :) :) :)
10? Or, 1? ;)
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I think of the album name as "Desolation Boulevard". :)
Fair point. But then the album title would not be appropriate. Clearly I didn't add the song to my playlist directly from the link you gave me - Spotify's first search hit was from a Best of compilation.
Well, I didn't know that!!! :) :) :)
10? Or, 1? ;)
Likely the only 10 you'll get this Roulette. :lol
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I'll assume mine is 6
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I'll assume mine is 6
Then you've made and ass out of u and me.
Have even listened to your song?? C'mon... that's some beautiful stuff!
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Second impressions - SOLVED!
1. King - Advent Horizon / How Did it Get So Good: A beautiful overall composition and sound, start to finish, every instrument, every voice
2. Evermind - Angtoria / Confide in Me: The way it starts makes me all warm and fuzzy inside, and then ….
3. Litho - Dave Bainbridge / Love Remains: That's a lot of musicianship to take in. Is that a Damian Wilson fly-by?
4. Puppies - Days Before Tomorrow / Wasted Years Part II: Sleepwalking: Well lookie what you found ... my wheelhouse.
5. TAC - Ekphrasis / A Maze In Oneiroi II: The album title is alarmingly accurate, and was a blatant hint of things to come.
6. Dr. DTVT - Figure of Speechless / Tunnel at the End of the Light: Started good, but then turned into quite the plodder. Musically, very strong none-the-less
7. Wolfking - Hollow Hour / The Canyon: It's like The Dear Hunter smashed with Dynazty
8. lonestar - Joseph Magazine / Night of the Red Sky That is a very rich guitar tone, and some prog chops from the rest of the band to go along with it.
9. Indiscipline - Michael Schenker Group / Lost Horizons: Bitchin as fuck. So much emotion
10. Stadler - Sweet / Fox on the Run: You almost completely nailed the intention of what I want out of this roulette.
Listening shall continue for a few more days. Maybe I'll get results fired up by Friday if Stadler will promise to submit before Monday :biggrin:
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I have every confidence that if you tell Stadler what the deadline is, he'll honor it.
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I'll assume mine is 6
Then you've made and ass out of u and me.
Have even listened to your song?? C'mon... that's some beautiful stuff!
You know why I said that.
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I have every confidence that if you tell Stadler what the deadline is, he'll honor it.
And I wouldn't let you down. Already sent. ;P)
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I'm confused. The reason you did this roulette was to get songs like Fox on the Run? :lol
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I'm confused. The reason you did this roulette was to get songs like Fox on the Run? :lol
Kinda... without stealing too much of the writeup, I didn't want to handcuff people from sending things that I might already know. I wanted people to challenge themselves to A) send good music that was also B) an unexpected/uncommon/unlikely song, AND C) outside of their normal comfort zone for roulette submissions and . Fox on the Run meets A, but didn't do so good in the B and C categories. I mean, as soon as it was solved as Sweet, it took about 0.5 seconds to know it was Bill.
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I think TAC has interpreted the intention to be to send the song with the most cryptic title. :p
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I'm confused. The reason you did this roulette was to get songs like Fox on the Run? :lol
Kinda... without stealing too much of the writeup, I didn't want to handcuff people from sending things that I might already know. I wanted people to challenge themselves to A) send good music that was also B) an unexpected/uncommon/unlikely song, AND C) outside of their normal comfort zone for roulette submissions and . Fox on the Run meets A, but didn't do so good in the B and C categories. I mean, as soon as it was solved as Sweet, it took about 0.5 seconds to know it was Bill.
Still confused. Bill nailed the intention of the roulette yet the song fails 2 out of the 3 categories.
So you're saying I should have sent Fox on the Run then? ;D
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I'm confused. The reason you did this roulette was to get songs like Fox on the Run? :lol
Kinda... without stealing too much of the writeup, I didn't want to handcuff people from sending things that I might already know. I wanted people to challenge themselves to A) send good music that was also B) an unexpected/uncommon/unlikely song, AND C) outside of their normal comfort zone for roulette submissions and . Fox on the Run meets A, but didn't do so good in the B and C categories. I mean, as soon as it was solved as Sweet, it took about 0.5 seconds to know it was Bill.
Still confused. Bill nailed the intention of the roulette yet the song fails 2 out of the 3 categories.
So you're saying I should have sent Fox on the Run then? ;D
Now you're getting it.
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I think TAC has interpreted the intention to be to send the song with the most cryptic title. :p
Well that's it; I'm sending something that is impossible to spell, even if you know the song, and is a known favorite of someone else here. The song blows, but who cares? I want you, I need you, but there ain't no way I'm ever gonna love you, now don't be sad! 'Cause two out of three ain't bad!
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I think TAC has interpreted the intention to be to send the song with the most cryptic title. :p
I got B and C covered, but not A. :lol
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I'm confused. The reason you did this roulette was to get songs like Fox on the Run? :lol
Kinda... without stealing too much of the writeup, I didn't want to handcuff people from sending things that I might already know. I wanted people to challenge themselves to A) send good music that was also B) an unexpected/uncommon/unlikely song, AND C) outside of their normal comfort zone for roulette submissions and . Fox on the Run meets A, but didn't do so good in the B and C categories. I mean, as soon as it was solved as Sweet, it took about 0.5 seconds to know it was Bill.
Still confused. Bill nailed the intention of the roulette yet the song fails 2 out of the 3 categories.
So you're saying I should have sent Fox on the Run then? ;D
Now you're getting it.
I did send something out of my comfort zone though. No growls anywhere in sight.
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Everyone gets an A for effort. Unfortunately, there is no scoring category for effort.
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I think TAC has interpreted the intention to be to send the song with the most cryptic title. :p
Well that's it; I'm sending something that is impossible to spell, even if you know the song, and is a known favorite of someone else here. The song blows, but who cares? I want you, I need you, but there ain't no way I'm ever gonna love you, now don't be sad! 'Cause two out of three ain't bad!
(https://media4.giphy.com/media/3oeSADYLqmcN5PVkf6/giphy.gif)
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I think TAC has interpreted the intention to be to send the song with the most cryptic title. :p
Well that's it; I'm sending something that is impossible to spell, even if you know the song, and is a known favorite of someone else here. The song blows, but who cares? I want you, I need you, but there ain't no way I'm ever gonna love you, now don't be sad! 'Cause two out of three ain't bad!
More like I want to like this song, I need to score this song, but there ain't no way I'm ever gonna love this song.
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Technically I can just send stuff with all Japanese kanji characters and people would have to guess that, right?
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Technically I can just send stuff with all Japanese kanji characters and people would have to guess that, right?
This is a move right out of the Jingle playbook! It's gotta be acceptable :lol
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If I get desperate I might take the Puppies strategy and just send songs with Swedish titles.
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Let me get this straight ... are we anticipating an upcoming hangman featuring:
RJ typing in Kanji
Jazzo typing in Swedish
Ruslan typing in Cyrillic
Me typing in Latin
Joe typing in Joetype?
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:rollin
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I think Joe is going to be typing in more of his wife's clothing.
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Let me get this straight ... are we anticipating an upcoming hangman featuring:
RJ typing in Kanji
Jazzo typing in Swedish
Ruslan typing in Cyrillic
Me typing in Latin
Joe typing in Joetype?
And yet, none of you can speak it.
I WIN!! :lol
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And Indiscipline, it's Kinganese.
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And Indiscipline, it's Kinganese.
Kingshmeglish
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And Indiscipline, it's Kinganese.
I snatd corectd.
*heart emoticon*
Actually you speak the King’s.
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I may be dead after what I posted on Facebook to my wife. Lol
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Technically I can just send stuff with all Japanese kanji characters and people would have to guess that, right?
Technically, if you finish in the negative, would that mean you lose a victory in the standings?
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Forgot to share the playlist:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1u96JUqzTxGp4iRYoaMGKY?si=59b8dca7115e4972
Plus, LJS's submission - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjVx87mossI
Just hammering thru some thoughts and first elements of the writeups
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I have every confidence that if you tell Stadler what the deadline is, he'll honor it.
And I wouldn't let you down. Already sent. ;P)
Well damn... guess I gotta have results in by Friday then.
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Results no later than dinner time today (ie, within 9 hours). Heading out with mrs.jingle in a couple hours to do a handful of things. Maybe I get them up before then, maybe not.
I'll give it to you guys for putting out a strong effort with the 'unpredictability' aspect. When going to research some of these bands, a few of them were not listed at metal-archives.
Remember, the Quality scoring is like a test grade... so not everyone is an A-student. B is a very good grade. C is respectable - especially when some of you have D musical tastes! jk. This was quite a strong round.
Highest quality score - 9 (A)
Lowest quality score - 6.5 (C)
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Lowest quality score - 6.5 (C)
So I get a 15.5 out of 20! ;D
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Highest quality score - 9 (A)
Lowest quality score - 6.5 (C)
A much narrower range than either the anonymity or unpredictability scores.
Interesting for future rounds...
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It almost might be worth sending unpredictable crap to game the system (does and makes a new band)
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There is such heavy weighting on being solved last that there's a strong temptation to just look for half-decent songs made up of foreign languages, symbols, and made-up or exotic words. I dunno if that was the intention, because you'd still get the anonymity/unpredictability factor from trying to guess who sent what.
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It almost might be worth sending unpredictable crap to game the system (does and makes a new band)
I thought so but in the end decided to stick to what Chad might like.
If I'm way behind after Round 5-6 I'll just send growls :lol
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There is such heavy weighting on being solved last that there's a strong temptation to just look for half-decent songs made up of foreign languages, symbols, and made-up or exotic words. I dunno if that was the intention, because you'd still get the anonymity/unpredictability factor from trying to guess who sent what.
Chad hates foreign-language vocals I think, so not sure if he will give it a pass. I can send tons of Russian metal bands though :lol
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There is such heavy weighting on being solved last that there's a strong temptation to just look for half-decent songs made up of foreign languages, symbols, and made-up or exotic words. I dunno if that was the intention, because you'd still get the anonymity/unpredictability factor from trying to guess who sent what.
Chad hates foreign-language vocals I think, so not sure if he will give it a pass. I can send tons of Russian metal bands though :lol
Gorky Park! ;D
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I'm still just trying to send the best music possible at the moment, but I'm just pointing out that the incentives are there to start going off the deep end. :lol
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I predict after this round everybody is going to get very predictable with their unpredictable submissions.
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There is such heavy weighting on being solved last that there's a strong temptation to just look for half-decent songs made up of foreign languages, symbols, and made-up or exotic words. I dunno if that was the intention, because you'd still get the anonymity/unpredictability factor from trying to guess who sent what.
Chad hates foreign-language vocals I think, so not sure if he will give it a pass. I can send tons of Russian metal bands though :lol
Gorky Park! ;D
:)
I've got Russian metal with growls. Would probably get a negative score.
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I thought so but in the end decided to stick to what Chad might like.
I'm still just trying to send the best music possible at the moment,
These guys get it ;)
The intention is definitely NOT for anyone to send what they know is/will be "mediocre" music just to earn the intangible points. If you're just in this to "win", by all means, send crap :lol. Like I said in the OP though, if it's stuff that I truly don't like, I don't need a stack ranking system to hand out a 1 or a 2 :P. The intent of the intangible scoring elements is to push everyone outside your normal Roulette comfort zone. It doesn't take foreign languages or symbols to be solved last. When I sent Tim Psychework/Viipuri, it wasn't because it was a Sweedish song title, it was because it was a kickass song that I thought Tim would like.
First rule of roulette's - have fun. It ain't gonna be any fun for me to listen to shit, and it ain't gonna be any fun for you to get a low failing score on quality - when quality is something (by-and-large) that you each have some manner of control over. You (royal) can't control how fast other people are going to solve and match your songs. If someone solves and/or matches your song quickly (ala Puppies and Stads this round), that's not on you. If you send me stuff I don't like ... that *is* on you.
Heading out soon, so results will be in 6-8 hours. I'll try to get 'em in before Ruslan's bedtime. :biggrin:
P.S. I'm thinking I may have a way to continue to give an end-of-roulette "bonus" that will continue to incent ya'll to want to send quality music. Got to noodle on this to see if it might bring everyone back to focusing on quality first.
P.P.S. In Hangman, symbols/punctuation need not be guessed - they will be auto-filled.
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Would a bottle of Macallan Sherry Oak Scotch Single Malt 12 Year help with scoring? :lol
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Would a bottle of Macallan Sherry Oak Scotch Single Malt 12 Year help with scoring? :lol
Only if served in a ladies' robe.
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Sherry cask single malt scotch is one of my favourite beverages, good shout.
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I still plan to check out this round playlist. Will probably get to it tomorrow and post my thoughts also.
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Would a bottle of Macallan Sherry Oak Scotch Single Malt 12 Year help with scoring? :lol
Only if served in a ladies' robe.
Done. :lol
Sherry cask single malt scotch is one of my favourite beverages, good shout.
I love my bourbons in sherry casks as well.
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Yeah, I'm just trying to observe how different it can be between what you design in your head and what the actual outcomes are when factoring in how the rules incentivize players. And given what a crapshoot trying to guess what people will like can be anyway, there's definitely some potential motivation to hope a slight drop in quality can be more than made up for in guessability.
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Yeah I wasn't at all suggesting people send Chad stuff he'll hate. :lol
But sending something completely obscure and impossible to guess that gets a 6/10 is arguably beneficial, score-wise.
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:lol
Just playing Chad's game Rich. Do you remember when I had Chad as my Secret Santa? I sent him a bottle and I had it on the package as a Lava Lamp. Chad had to make a second video opening the second box it came in. :lol
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Yeah, I'm just trying to observe how different it can be between what you design in your head and what the actual outcomes are when factoring in how the rules incentivize players. And given what a crapshoot trying to guess what people will like can be anyway, there's definitely some potential motivation to hope a slight drop in quality can be more than made up for in guessability.
On your last point, I think that theory got shot down with how quick Puppies’ and lonestar’s songs were guessed this round.
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Maybe they just didn't do it right, and TAC did. :neverusethis:
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:corn
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Maybe they just didn't do it right, and TAC did. :neverusethis:
The scores will tell the story.
Results momentarily .... (like 20 minutes or so)
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There is such heavy weighting on being solved last that there's a strong temptation to just look for half-decent songs made up of foreign languages, symbols, and made-up or exotic words. I dunno if that was the intention, because you'd still get the anonymity/unpredictability factor from trying to guess who sent what.
I kinda said this from the start. Send obscure enough bands that are never really mentioned here yet still has quality elements Chad may like. It's a balancing act for sure.
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Maybe they just didn't do it right, and TAC did. :neverusethis:
Don't drag me into this! :lol
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The below is reveled in order of the Quality score. Full standings at the bottom of the post. Claim moral victories where you can. :lol
Lonestar: Joseph Magazine / Night of the Red Sky
The Dream Theater influence is strong here - like slap me in the face strong. There were about 4-5 times throughout this song I'm thinking "boy, this is almost a rip off of <insert DT song here>". There was some Shattered Fortress, Illumination Theory, YtseJam, and In the Name of God. I'm sure Indi would find a few more if he gave a play-by-play on this one. But I digress. This was the fucking tits. It's musical wankery at it's finest. I mean, the guitar and keyboard noodling, the rich tones, marvellous musicianship, and so many different soundscapes stitched together magnificently. *chef's kiss*
Scores
Quality: 9
Unpredictability: 3.5
Anonymity: 2
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Indiscipline: Michael Schenker Group / Lost Horizons
So, I tried to follow the MSG discog discussion back in 2020, but fell behind, and then found it to be too daunting of a task to keep up - especially when so many albums were not on Spotify and I had to go hunting to have a listen of the albums (usually on YT which is a pain in the ass to do off my phone). I did listen to the s/t album, but must've not really been giving it my full attention, because :omg:. Naturally, this sounds like an album made in 1980 (I know - BECAUSE IT WAS!), but even as a "2000 Remaster", it sounded dated as hell. Regardless I'm a fogey, so that doesn't bother me much at all, and there is some un-fucking-real axe-work - man can he pull some serious fucking emotion out of those six little strings. The lyrics and vocals take a back seat to the shreddery of Schenker - though I did enjoy Barden much more than I remembered when I was running thru some of these albums 3 years ago. I doubt Tim/Kade/Bill are going to be bothered their submissions fell behind this tune.
Scores
Quality: 8.5
Unpredictability: 1
Anonymity: 2.5
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Puppies: Days Before Tomorrow / Wasted Years Part II: Sleepwalking
You've definitely been paying attention. This couldn't be any further from triple face plant you pulled with The Mars Volta/Novembre/Alkaloid. This song was somewhat formulaic, but it's a good formula. Strong vocals, nice mix of acoustic/electric guitar, smooth and comforting atmosphere provided by the keys, nice melodic chorus with sweet vocal harmonies, a nice mix of instrumentation … and it all flowed together seamlessly. My only gripe - the drums sound rather anorexic. I think I would've liked it even more if there was a beefier sound there, and the outro went on a liiiiittle bit longer than necessary.
Scores
Quality: 8.5
Unpredictability: 0.5
Anonymity: 3
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Litho: Dave Bainbridge / Love Remains
Upon investigation, it is indeed Damian Wilson - that's some jingle.boy quality cheating there :clap:. Unfortunately, he's sparsely used throughout the 13 minutes here - longest track of the round (by far), and the most "progressive" (also, by far). There's a lot to digest here, and it gets a little choppy at times with the transitions between the vocal passages and the instrumental wanking passages - and man was there a lot of instrumental wankery. Luckily, it was in a mostly good (think Transatlantic or Spock's Beard) way; not an "enough already" (think, Haken or Porcupine Tree) kinda way.
Scores
Quality: 8
Unpredictability: 4
Anonymity: 3.5
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Wolfking: Hollow Hour / The Canyon
Man, with the description you gave me, I was expecting some serious soft-cock shit. You don't dig this anymore? I mean, it's pretty heavy (what is this, post-core something or other - cuz it throws off vibes much like The Dear Hunter, but if the Dear Hunter was channelling some Accept or classic 80s/90s metal), and it was a really fun listen (ala Dynazty). Quick to the point, doesn't waste any time or stay past its welcome.
Scores
Quality: 8
Unpredictability: 5
Anonymity: 5
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Stadler: Sweet / Fox on the Run
I've very much heard this song many many times - it still gets fairly regular classic rock radio airtime. But honestly, I didn't know this was Sweet - gun to my head, I'd have said it was ELO. I could've swore Sweet was a one-hit wonder … but I guess they're a two-hit wonder :lol. Quality score… good stuff. I think you did get stiffed on the Unpredictability points - Litho was on a tear solving some of the first few entries - but I mean, it was a no brainer to match you to this one. You gotta up your game. Not quite an A, but a very strong B+, and I'll round up.
Scores
Quality: 8
Unpredictability: 1.5
Anonymity: 0.5
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King: Advent Horizon / How Did it Get So Good
I was only so-so on the album after quite a few DTF'rs pimped this hard when it first dropped. This was one of the songs that I kept in my 'best-of' 2023 playlist. But with only a couple of listens of it under my belt, it was something I could allow. Production is A, musicianship is fantastic, vocals are great - just a beautiful track. But beauty is in the eye (or ear) of the beholder. The repetitiveness of the title through the middle started to get more and more annoying with each listen. Otherwise, this had a real Presto Ballet, Dec Burke, It Bites vibe to it, but with a bit more edge than any of those acts deliver. The more I played it, the more that the main riff/melody/vocal line of the song title started wearing thin, and was just a little bit too repetitive.
Scores
Quality: 7.5
Unpredictability: 2
Anonymity: 1
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Evermind: Angtoria / Confide in Me
This starts out fucking hot… and then the vocals. First, I just was totally not expecting a female lead. As you know, this in-and-of-itself isn't an issue - I love a good female lead. But second - and here's the issue - she just didn't do much for me. There was no edge to her voice (like Maggy Luyten or Ida Haukland, or what LJS gave in the qualifier); she's not operatic or bold (like Floor or Diane VG); she isn't a vocal goddess (like AVG or Daisa Munhoz). She's just kinda there. Not bad, but not entirely memorable. Musically, it was quite excellent. This was trying to be a B+, but I felt I had to round down.
Scores
Quality: 7.5
Unpredictability: 2.5
Anonymity: 1.5
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Dr. DTVT: Figure of Speechless / Tunnel at the End of the Light
Definitely Bruce vibes here for sure - but not in a Hallowed/Rime kinda way. More in the way that I was lamenting in the Top 50 bands thread a few days back. I mean, until I looked it up, didn't even recognize this as Ray Alder - and it sure ain't Theories of Flight Ray Alder. I never would've guessed this was him on the mic until I "did my research" :D. The involvement of Sherinian and Bumblefoot should've made this one more enjoyable than it was. As I said in my impression, the music was really good (and the production was excellent as well). It was just missing a certain oomph. This kind of mid-tempo, low energy metal (ie, "plodder" in my ears) is hit and miss with me, and after the first few listens, this was more of a miss - let's call it a foul tip. This improved with multiple listens, and may have might have worked itself up to a bunt-single with another 1/2 or full point if I was to run this round for a few more days - it already gained a full point from my first impression of it.
Scores
Quality: 7
Unpredictability: 3
Anonymity: 4
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TAC: Ekphrasis / A Maze In Oneiroi II
If I was to describe this song in one sentence, it would be "For fans of Haken". And that sums up its score and placement here. This is a third track that has a shit ton of technical wankery … but my ears are hearing it in a Haken way. It just didn't flow together terribly well. The intro had way too many time changes making it sound VERY choppy, and the keys/piano were almost antagonistic to the main melody. It wasn't until the 2 minute mark that things settled down. When I went searching for some details on the band, I got the literal definition of the word "Ekphrasis": Greek for the written description of a work of art produced as a rhetorical or literary exercise … vivid, often dramatic, verbal description of a visual work of art, either real or imagined. Seems about right - I gather you imagined this would do well, when in reality, it didn't. Progarchives describes them as "Eclectic Prog". Boy, ain't that the truth - as if Prog wasn't already eclectic enough at times, these guys had to amp it up that much more. Which shouldn't be surprising, since they cite Frank Zappa as an influence.
I suspect that - like Nospun - my enjoyment of this will improve with age… if given the chance. But for the moment, I'm just not feelin it.
Scores
Quality: 6.5
Unpredictability: 4.5
Anonymity: 4.5
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Standings:
Wolfking - 18
Litho - 15.5
TAC - 15.5
Lonestar - 14.5
Dr. DTVT - 14
Puppies - 12
Indiscipline - 12
Evermind - 11.5
King - 10.5
Stadler - 10.5
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Quality score is all that matters to me :)
I'm still trying to go for more obscure acts though...
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You know, at some point you fuckers ought to recognize greatness when you're looking at it. What is great, you ask? How no matter WHAT the format, what the grading gtechnique, or what the combinations there are, I ALWAYS find a way to send bands that are quality bands that most people have heard of and yet... inevitably end up in last place. WTF.
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Submits best song.....is in 4th place... :lol
No matter, definitely claiming a victory. You already got my next round bro.
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Submits best song.....is in 4th place... :lol
Sends worst song....is tied for 2nd place... :lol
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(https://i.imgur.com/tRQPuHP.gif)
Quality baby!
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You know, at some point you fuckers ought to recognize greatness when you're looking at it. What is great, you ask? How no matter WHAT the format, what the grading technique, or what the combinations there are, I ALWAYS find a way to send bands that are quality bands that most people have heard of and yet... inevitably end up in last place. WTF.
Because you're the only one A) with the gumption to stand by your convictions; and B) can handle the outcome without bitching.
Actually, just A it seems. :lol :lol jk Bill. Love ya, and I loved you sending this tune. I've got a new appreciation and love for it now.
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Submits best song.....is in 4th place... :lol
No matter, definitely claiming a victory. You already got my next round bro.
7 more rounds boo. Don't sweat the score after the 1st possession.
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Submits best song.....is in 4th place... :lol
Sends worst song....is tied for 2nd place... :lol
RJ gets to claim the moral victory.
Tim can't ... because he has no morals.
I just hope he has better songs.
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You know, at some point you fuckers ought to recognize greatness when you're looking at it. What is great, you ask? How no matter WHAT the format, what the grading gtechnique, or what the combinations there are, I ALWAYS find a way to send bands that are quality bands that most people have heard of and yet... inevitably end up in last place. WTF.
Excuse me! I am the focker who told the world: “Stadler wins this round with Donna Summer”
*smiley emoticon*
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Litho: Dave Bainbridge / Love Remains
Upon investigation, it is indeed Damian Wilson - that's some jingle.boy quality cheating there :clap: . Unfortunately, he's sparsely used throughout the 13 minutes here - longest track of the round (by far), and the most "progressive" (also, by far). There's a lot to digest here, and it gets a little choppy at times with the transitions between the vocal passages and the instrumental wanking passages - and man was there a lot of instrumental wankery. Luckily, it was in a mostly good (think Transatlantic or Spock's Beard) way; not an "enough already" (think, Haken or Porcupine Tree) kinda way.
The funny thing is that when I put him on my short list for the roulette, I wasn't even thinking about Damian initially. But when I cued up tracks to decide from, I recalled that he has parts on a number of them, so that certainly influenced my decision. Definitely check those out at some point (and preferably the whole album, I'm kind of surprised it's never been mentioned here as far as I can tell, since the rhythm section for the album is Collin Leijenaar, who worked with Rudess, Neal Morse and others, and Randy George, also from Morse and with Portnoy). I guess its absence on streaming services makes it a bit hidden.
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Tim nailed the format!
Kade nailed everything!
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Litho: Dave Bainbridge / Love Remains
Upon investigation, it is indeed Damian Wilson - that's some jingle.boy quality cheating there :clap: . Unfortunately, he's sparsely used throughout the 13 minutes here - longest track of the round (by far), and the most "progressive" (also, by far). There's a lot to digest here, and it gets a little choppy at times with the transitions between the vocal passages and the instrumental wanking passages - and man was there a lot of instrumental wankery. Luckily, it was in a mostly good (think Transatlantic or Spock's Beard) way; not an "enough already" (think, Haken or Porcupine Tree) kinda way.
The funny thing is that when I put him on my short list for the roulette, I wasn't even thinking about Damian initially. But when I cued up tracks to decide from, I recalled that he has parts on a number of them, so that certainly influenced my decision. Definitely check those out at some point (and preferably the whole album, I'm kind of surprised it's never been mentioned here as far as I can tell, since the rhythm section for the album is Collin Leijenaar, who worked with Rudess, Neal Morse and others, and Randy George, also from Morse and with Portnoy). I guess its absence on streaming services makes it a bit hidden.
Yeah, I recognize Collin's name - he was also on Affector. And in the early 2010s, was supposed to be part of a project called Alpha Flood (https://blabbermouth.net/news/threshold-darkwater-ex-pain-of-salvation-members-join-forces-in-alpha-flood). That got scrapped by Dec (kicking out 3 of the members including Leijenaar) and became Audioplastik (https://www.loudersound.com/features/audioplastik-and-then-there-were-three) (which kinda sucked, imo).
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Submits best song.....is in 4th place... :lol
Sends worst song....is tied for 2nd place... :lol
RJ gets to claim the moral victory.
Tim can't ... because he has no morals.
I just hope he has better songs.
Oh snap...
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Sent for the next round.
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I didn't have time to play the games involved this week with the safety audit. Dammit.
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Yeah, I had a feeling Chad would enjoy that one. It's a nice album but that song in particular is really catchy.
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Not only did I suck in the hangman thing, I also somewhat sucked in the quality department. :lol Definitely thought you'd enjoy that a bit more, I really liked the vocals on my song.
I'll send in a couple of hours.
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Not only did I suck in the hangman thing, I also somewhat sucked in the quality department. :lol Definitely thought you'd enjoy that a bit more, I really liked the vocals on my song.
I'll send in a couple of hours.
There was nothing wrong with them, I just wasn't wow'd or ..... floor'd. :neverusethis:
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Round 2 sent.
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Round 2 sent.
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Cross-stitching right now and about to hit that Round 1 playlist. Will post my thoughts as I listen along, curious about what you guys sent.
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Cross-stitching right now and about to hit that Round 1 playlist. Will post my thoughts as I listen along, curious about what you guys sent.
Love it! I often hit up the playlists of other hosts, which can be a bit of a task with the size of most roulette's nowadays, and the diversity of tastes. Looking forward to hearing your thoughts.
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Ekphrasis - A Maze in Screw-Anyone-Who-Wants-to-Guess-My-Song-in-Hangman II: Tim, I find it hard to believe you actually like this. :lol Definitely can see the Haken comparisons due to a couple of moments but this is like Haken on a reduced budget of 100$ per album. 6.5 is generous for this, and I'm a big Haken fan.
Figure of Speechless - Tunnel at the Speed of Light: on one hand, this was fairly solid, on the other hand, this was utterly forgettable. I expected more whan I saw Bruce was on this. Maybe the problem with my expectations but I've no desire to hear this again.
Advent Horizon - How Did It Get So Good (Vocal Melodies Excluded): music was solid, vocal melodies were tedious on the first listen. If I had to say, I disliked it more than I liked it.
Hollow Hour - Now I'm Older (I don't think they mentioned the canyon even once but I definitely know the singer is older now as he said it like ten times): this was alright in a very vanilla sort of way. Didn't expect this from you Kade especially with how you shit on Frontiers. This is borderline Frontiers quality for me. Chad - it is softcock shit. :biggrin:
Sweet - Fox on the Run: yeah this is Stadler. This kind of older music is hit or miss with me. I didn't like this one, but I can see the appeal and this is a good thing to send Chad's way.
Second part is coming in a bit, I'm on MSG right now and I think that's the first song I actually like.
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Michael Schenker Group - Lost Horizons (2000 Remaster except we didn't do much so it still sounds like 1980): now this is fire :metal Solid song and exceptional soloing/instrumental part to end this song. I think I've asked this before but what should I check out if I wanted to get into MSG? Easily best song of the bunch so far.
Days Before Tomorrow: Wasted Years II: We Put II in the Song Title But We Didn't Put Oneiroi In It So Puppies Got Robbed of Unpredictability Points: this is perfectly inoffensive. Good keyboard work but otherwise can't see myself revisiting this at all.
Joseph Magazine - Night of the Red Sky: this is good! Is the whole album instrumental or just this track? I kinda liked this. Reminded me of Earthside's first album, which reminded me that I should check out their new album.
Dave Bainbridge - Love Remains (The Flow Doesn't): this was really good sans awkward transitions here and there which reminded me of Phideaux. Damian is always welcome (hi Tim). This is a lot to process with just one listen. Positive impression overall.
My Top 3: MSG > Joseph Magazine > Dave Bainbridge
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Figure of Speechless - Tunnel at the Speed of Light: on one hand, this was fairly solid, on the other hand, this was utterly forgettable. I expected more whan I saw Bruce was on this. Maybe the problem with my expectations but I've no desire to hear this again.
It actually isn't Bruce - it's Ray Alder!
I think we're on a bit of the same wavelength on most of these.
P.S. Love the additional takes in the bolded!
P.P.S. at 52, my cock is more and more soft as shit.
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Also, I've got 7 submissions.
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Figure of Speechless - Tunnel at the Speed of Light: on one hand, this was fairly solid, on the other hand, this was utterly forgettable. I expected more whan I saw Bruce was on this. Maybe the problem with my expectations but I've no desire to hear this again.
It actually isn't Bruce - it's Ray Alder!
Wtf? This didn't sound like Ray Alder at all.
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Figure of Speechless - Tunnel at the Speed of Light: on one hand, this was fairly solid, on the other hand, this was utterly forgettable. I expected more whan I saw Bruce was on this. Maybe the problem with my expectations but I've no desire to hear this again.
It actually isn't Bruce - it's Ray Alder!
Wtf? This didn't sound like Ray Alder at all.
That's what I thought. Then, when I knew it was Ray, I could kinda hear it.
https://www.headbangerslifestyle.com/music/flash-news/news-figure-of-speechless-promising-allstar-combo-reveals/
ALBUM LINE-UP:
Glen McMaster – Guitars/Songwriting
Derek Sherinian – Keyboards/Producer
Ron ‘Bumblefoot’ Thal – Guitar Solos/Mixing
Ray Alder – Vocals
Tony Franklin – Bass
Brian Tichy – Drums
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Cross-stitching right now and about to hit that Round 1 playlist. Will post my thoughts as I listen along, curious about what you guys sent.
Love it! I often hit up the playlists of other hosts, which can be a bit of a task with the size of most roulette's nowadays, and the diversity of tastes.
I'd love for roulettes to be even more interactive and collaborative. When I joined my first one last year I thought maybe they'd be kind of like a group listening party (part of why I like deepcut.fm), and occasionally it is, but a lot of the time I guess people don't have time or interest to hear the other entries. I generally try and get a single listen in to everything else, though I'm a bit behind at the moment (and fell way behind in ariich's, that'll be for sometime later I guess).
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Dave Bainbridge - Love Remains (The Flow Doesn't): this was really good sans awkward transitions here and there which reminded me of Phideaux. Damian is always welcome (hi Tim). This is a lot to process with just one listen. Positive impression overall.
You're the second person who's mentioned Phideaux in the past week or two to me. Probably should look into his stuff, especially given that he's on what over time has become one of my favorite Ayreon tracks.
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Dave Bainbridge - Love Remains (The Flow Doesn't): this was really good sans awkward transitions here and there which reminded me of Phideaux. Damian is always welcome (hi Tim). This is a lot to process with just one listen. Positive impression overall.
You're the second person who's mentioned Phideaux in the past week or two to me. Probably should look into his stuff, especially given that he's on what over time has become one of my favorite Ayreon tracks.
Doomsday Afternoon is a fan-favourite I think but I'd recommend Number Seven. Both are very good though.
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Ekphrasis - A Maze in Screw-Anyone-Who-Wants-to-Guess-My-Song-in-Hangman II: Tim, I find it hard to believe you actually like this. :lol Definitely can see the Haken comparisons due to a couple of moments but this is like Haken on a reduced budget of 100$ per album. 6.5 is generous for this, and I'm a big Haken fan.
Hah! I went through my Spotify Library and found this weird sounding band. I have no idea how they got in there. :lol
Anyway, that's the song I picked because of the obscurity, and yes the song blows and the 6.5 is more than generous. :lol
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Ekphrasis - A Maze in Screw-Anyone-Who-Wants-to-Guess-My-Song-in-Hangman II: Tim, I find it hard to believe you actually like this. :lol Definitely can see the Haken comparisons due to a couple of moments but this is like Haken on a reduced budget of 100$ per album. 6.5 is generous for this, and I'm a big Haken fan.
Hah! I went through my Spotify Library and found this weird sounding band. I have no idea how they got in there. :lol
Anyway, that's the song I picked because of the obscurity, and yes the song blows and the 6.5 is more than generous. :lol
Yeah that tracks :lol
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Ekphrasis - A Maze in Screw-Anyone-Who-Wants-to-Guess-My-Song-in-Hangman II: Tim, I find it hard to believe you actually like this. :lol Definitely can see the Haken comparisons due to a couple of moments but this is like Haken on a reduced budget of 100$ per album. 6.5 is generous for this, and I'm a big Haken fan.
Hah! I went through my Spotify Library and found this weird sounding band. I have no idea how they got in there. :lol
Anyway, that's the song I picked because of the obscurity, and yes the song blows and the 6.5 is more than generous. :lol
Sounds like someone is asking for a downgrade!? :lol
Hey, 6.5 is a "C". There's very little music that I can't find at least some things to enjoy about it. It takes a lot for me to actively dislike something.
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Hollow Hour - Now I'm Older (I don't think they mentioned the canyon even once but I definitely know the singer is older now as he said it like ten times): this was alright in a very vanilla sort of way. Didn't expect this from you Kade especially with how you shit on Frontiers. This is borderline Frontiers quality for me. Chad - it is softcock shit. :biggrin:
So given the roulette, I played the first round perfectly. :biggrin:
It is indeed some softcock stuff but I'd put it ahead of Frontiers quality. Recent Frontiers quality anyway.
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Michael Schenker Group - Lost Horizons (2000 Remaster except we didn't do much so it still sounds like 1980): now this is fire :metal Solid song and exceptional soloing/instrumental part to end this song. I think I've asked this before but what should I check out if I wanted to get into MSG? Easily best song of the bunch so far.
I’d start with One Night at Budokan to get a feeling, then go back to the debut and go on until the “M” becomes McAuley.
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Michael Schenker Group - Lost Horizons (2000 Remaster except we didn't do much so it still sounds like 1980): now this is fire :metal Solid song and exceptional soloing/instrumental part to end this song. I think I've asked this before but what should I check out if I wanted to get into MSG? Easily best song of the bunch so far.
I’d start with One Night at Budokan to get a feeling, then go back to the debut and go on until the “M” becomes McAuley.
I much prefer MSG, the 2nd album over the debut. Definitely prefer Cozy Powell over Simon Phillips, for one, but I find Michael way more engaged and the songs so much deeper. And all of those outro solos all over it. It's a Top 5 album for me and quite musical life changing.
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Ekphrasis - A Maze in Screw-Anyone-Who-Wants-to-Guess-My-Song-in-Hangman II: Tim, I find it hard to believe you actually like this. :lol Definitely can see the Haken comparisons due to a couple of moments but this is like Haken on a reduced budget of 100$ per album. 6.5 is generous for this, and I'm a big Haken fan.
Hah! I went through my Spotify Library and found this weird sounding band. I have no idea how they got in there. :lol
Anyway, that's the song I picked because of the obscurity, and yes the song blows and the 6.5 is more than generous. :lol
Sounds like someone is asking for a downgrade!? :lol
Hey, 6.5 is a "C". There's very little music that I can't find at least some things to enjoy about it. It takes a lot for me to actively dislike something.
Hey I managed it 3 rounds in a row :lol
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Also, I sent.
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Fucking finally...
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Ekphrasis - A Maze in Screw-Anyone-Who-Wants-to-Guess-My-Song-in-Hangman II: Tim, I find it hard to believe you actually like this. :lol Definitely can see the Haken comparisons due to a couple of moments but this is like Haken on a reduced budget of 100$ per album. 6.5 is generous for this, and I'm a big Haken fan.
Hah! I went through my Spotify Library and found this weird sounding band. I have no idea how they got in there. :lol
Anyway, that's the song I picked because of the obscurity, and yes the song blows and the 6.5 is more than generous. :lol
Sounds like someone is asking for a downgrade!? :lol
Hey, 6.5 is a "C". There's very little music that I can't find at least some things to enjoy about it. It takes a lot for me to actively dislike something.
Hey I managed it 3 rounds in a row :lol
And it was a spectacular fail.
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Fucking finally...
Still waiting on Doc
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A Doc has to weigh all options.
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Hey, 6.5 is a "C". There's very little music that I can't find at least some things to enjoy about it. It takes a lot for me to actively dislike something.
6.5 is a C in Canada, but a D in America.
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Hey, 6.5 is a "C". There's very little music that I can't find at least some things to enjoy about it. It takes a lot for me to actively dislike something.
6.5 is a C in Canada, but a D in America.
Penis weight in 2 countries.
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Just one more submission ....
(https://media0.giphy.com/media/1XdfVRTyn5d31Q1lG0/200w.gif)
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Nevermind ... didn't check my FB messages yet this morning. Hangman in a moment.
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Have at it:
??: ___ _______ ________ - ________ ______
??: _________ - ______-________
??: ________ - _______
??: _____ _______ - ____
??: ______ _____ - ____ ______ _______
??: ____ _______ ___ ___ ______ ______ - ______ ______
??: ______ - _____
??: _________ - _______
??: _____ ______ - _________ ____
??: ________ - __________
Guessed Letters:
Players:
Dr. DTVT
Evermind
Indiscipline
King
Litho
lonestar
Puppies
Stadler
TAC
Wolfking
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T
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Alluda Majaka?
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T
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Alluda Majaka?
Real weird pick, but still unable to stump Evermind.
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T
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Alluda Majaka?
Real weird pick, but still unable to stump Evermind.
It might be wrong :lol but since the stakes are high, I'm shooting in the dark with no letters revealed.
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??: T__ ______t _______t - ________ ______
??: ___t_____ - __t___-________
??: ____t___ - _______
??: _____ T______ - ____
??: ______ _____ - ____ ______ _______
??: King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Alluda Majaka
??: ______ - _____
??: _________ - _____t_
??: _____ ______ - _________ ____
??: __t_____ - _______t__
Guessed Letters: T
Players:
Dr. DTVT
Evermind
Indiscipline
King
Litho
lonestar
Puppies
Stadler
TAC
Wolfking
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Wow :rollin
No idea who sent that, let's say Puppies.
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Could be Indi?
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P
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A
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??: T__ ______t _____a_t - __p_____ ______
??: _a_t____a - _ata_a-____a___
Indiscipline (1): Savatage - Believe (2)
Wolfking (2): Anvil Therapy - Rage (3)
??: ______ _____ - ____ ______ _______
??: King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Alluda Majakan (1)
??: _____a - ____p
??: _________ - _____ta
??: __a__ _a____ - _________ ____
??: __t_pa__ - _______t__
Guessed Letters: TPA
Players:
Dr. DTVT
Evermind (T)
Indiscipline (P)
King
Litho
lonestar (A)
Puppies
Stadler
TAC
Wolfking
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Savatage - Believe (or Desirée) by Indi?
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??: ______ _____ - ____ ______ _______
Is that RJ?
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Anvil Therapy - Rage, let's say Kade because he's got the most points
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??: ______ _____ - ____ ______ _______
Is that RJ?
WTF man? :lol What did I do to you?
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??: ______ _____ - ____ ______ _______
Is that RJ?
WTF man? :lol What did I do to you?
You guessed A and this was the only entry without an A. :lol
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Me when I post hangman while Evermind is awake ...
(https://media.tenor.com/q7oPtRxCQjEAAAAC/hulk-you-guys-are-so-screwed-now.gif)
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Evermind, you're gonna win this on hangman alone, it doesn't even fucking matter what you send :lol
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Did Litho send King Gizzard?
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(https://i.imgflip.com/882y3b.jpg)
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Evermind, you're gonna win this on hangman alone, it doesn't even fucking matter what you send :lol
We'll see about that. Depending on how this plays out over the next few rounds, I may have some plot twists to rectify this if anyone starts pulling away because of their intangible scores, while their quality scores suck.
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Evermind, you're gonna win this on hangman alone, it doesn't even fucking matter what you send :lol
We'll see about that. Depending on how this plays out over the next few rounds, I may have some plot twists to rectify this if anyone starts pulling away because of their intangible scores, while their quality scores suck.
Besides, I might get one or two more if no more letters are revealed, but that's pretty much all I've got.
Also I'm honestly trying to send quality stuff. :lol
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??: ______ _____ - ____ ______ _______
Is that RJ?
WTF man? :lol What did I do to you?
You guessed A and this was the only entry without an A. :lol
Makes sense. :lol
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Everyone is waiting for Ruslan to go to bed before guessing any more letters...
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WITCHCRAFT!! :lol
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Everyone is waiting for Ruslan to go to bed before guessing any more letters...
Honestly, I was surprised two letters were offered up.
Seems as though the NPCs don't want to throw anyone under the bus.
*awaits Tim to ask what NPC is*
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I'm here to throw a spanner in the works...
E
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??: T_e ______t _e___a_t - __pe____ ____e_
??: _a_t____a - _ata_a-_e_eaded
Indiscipline (1): Savatage - Believe (2)
Wolfking (2): Anvil Therapy - Rage (3)
??: ______ ____d - __e_ ____d_ _____de
??: King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Alluda Majakan (1)
??: _ed__a - __eep
??: __e_____e - ___e_ta
??: __a__ _a__e_ - ________d ____
TAC (3): Cotopaxi - Exogenetic (4)
Guessed Letters: TPAED
Players:
Dr. DTVT (D)
Evermind (T)
Indiscipline (P)
King
Litho
lonestar (A)
Puppies
Stadler
TAC
Wolfking
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Cotopaxi - Exogenetic by let's say Tim
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Cotopaxi - Exogenetic by let's say Tim
What in the actual fuq?? At this rate, Evermind's going to normalize those intangible scores.
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My ghast Is flabbered!
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Next hangman we all should guess Kade's and Tim's entries first :lol
Well......you could have guessed them first this round! ;D
My job here is done :lol
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My ghast Is flabbered!
I'm honestly considering a sweep of my room for cameras! I mean, shit... I haven't even listened to the songs yet!
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D
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Updated!
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Manticora - Katana-Beheaded
Don't know, RJ?
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Isn’t Evermind supposed to be sleeping when we play this??
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Unruly Child - When Worlds Collide
King?
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??: T_e ______t _e___a_t - __pe____ ____e_
??: Manticora - Katana-Beheaded (5)
Indiscipline (1): Savatage - Believe (2)
Wolfking (2): Anvil Therapy - Rage (3)
King (4): Unruly Child - When Worlds Collide (6)
??: King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Alluda Majakan (1)
??: _ed__a - __eep
??: __e_____e - ___e_ta
??: __a__ _a__e_ - ________d ____
TAC (3): Cotopaxi - Exogenetic (4)
Guessed Letters: TPAED
Players:
Dr. DTVT (D)
Evermind (T)
Indiscipline (P)
King
Litho
lonestar (A)
Puppies
Stadler
TAC
Wolfking
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Manticora - Katana-Beheaded
Don't know, RJ?
Oh yeah, just assume that the song with the Japanese sword name in it is mine... I feel so profiled...
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Manticora - Katana-Beheaded
Don't know, RJ?
Oh yeah, just assume that the song with the Japanese sword name in it is mine... I feel so profiled...
Guilty as charged. :lol
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The Biscuit Merchant - Superior Shores
Maybe that's RJ? :)
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??: The Biscuit Merchant - Superior Shores (7)
??: Manticora - Katana-Beheaded (5)
Indiscipline (1): Savatage - Believe (2)
Wolfking (2): Anvil Therapy - Rage (3)
King (4): Unruly Child - When Worlds Collide (6)
??: King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Alluda Majakan (1)
??: _ed__a - __eep
??: __e_____e - ___e_ta
??: __a__ _a__e_ - ________d ____
TAC (3): Cotopaxi - Exogenetic (4)
Guessed Letters: TPAED
Players:
Dr. DTVT (D)
Evermind (T)
Indiscipline (P)
King
Litho
lonestar (A)
Puppies
Stadler
TAC
Wolfking
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Me 2 hours after posting Hangman while Evermind is still awake ...
(https://media.tenor.com/AVWcLTSiiZoAAAAC/arrested-development-season1.gif)
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Me 2 hours after posting Hangman while Evermind is still awake ...
(https://media.tenor.com/AVWcLTSiiZoAAAAC/arrested-development-season1.gif)
:lol
I'm done. Reading a book now and off to sleep soon.
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Me 2 hours after posting Hangman while Evermind is still awake ...
(https://media.tenor.com/AVWcLTSiiZoAAAAC/arrested-development-season1.gif)
:lol
I'm done. Reading a book now and off to sleep soon.
Is the book "How to wow your internet nerd friends"? I have news for you, that book is redundant now.
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If there's ever a Wheel of Fortune in Russia, Ev would clean up.
"Ruslan... the first spin goes to you"
"I'd like to solve the puzzle, Pat"
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R.
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R.
Dude, wtf are you doing? He's still online...
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You assume he's the only threat to me. :)
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R.
Dude, wtf are you doing? He's still online...
(https://i.imgflip.com/883dcc.jpg)
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??: The Biscuit Merchant - Superior Shores (7)
??: Manticora - Katana-Beheaded (5)
Indiscipline (1): Savatage - Believe (2)
Wolfking (2): Anvil Therapy - Rage (3)
King (4): Unruly Child - When Worlds Collide (6)
??: King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Alluda Majakan (1)
??: _ed__a - Sleep
??: __e__r__e - ___erta
??: __a__ _a__er - ________d __r_
TAC (3): Cotopaxi - Exogenetic (4)
Guessed Letters: TPAEDR
Players:
Dr. DTVT (D)
Evermind (T)
Indiscipline (P)
King
Litho (R)
lonestar (A)
Puppies
Stadler
TAC
Wolfking
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That one song name is Sleep
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That one song name is Sleep
It is... but full band/song combo is require to assign the points.
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I know... Just happy I got something :rollin
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Did DTVT send KGLW?
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Did DTVT send KGLW?
I think Doc might've sent Manticora but I've already guessed RJ for that so I don't think I get a second guess.
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Guys, we are in Lost and Ruslan is the Black Smokey Monster.
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Did DTVT send KGLW?
I think Doc might've sent Manticora but I've already guessed RJ for that so I don't think I get a second guess.
I don't remember him specifying a rule about guessing senders unless I missed it. Skimming last round, it looks like TAC guessed a bunch of the first few, so either we go with that precedent, or subtract points from his score. :neverusethis:
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Lonestar sent KG&TLW...going for Unpredictability scores.
N
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All these new King Gizzard fans :heart
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Not nearly as fun as when it initially looked like six different people sent them in Crow's "weird" round.
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??: The Biscuit Merchant - Superior Shores (7)
??: Manticora - Katana-Beheaded (5)
Indiscipline (1): Savatage - Believe (2)
Wolfking (2): Anvil Therapy - Rage (3)
King (4): Unruly Child - When Worlds Collide (6)
??: King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Alluda Majakan (1)
??: _ed__a - Sleep
??: __e__r__e - ___erta
??: __a__ _a__er - _n_____nd __r_
TAC (3): Cotopaxi - Exogenetic (4)
Guessed Letters: TPAEDRN
Players:
Dr. DTVT (D)
Evermind (T)
Indiscipline (P)
King
Litho (R)
lonestar (A)
Puppies
Stadler
TAC (N)
Wolfking
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All these new King Gizzard fans :heart
I think you're mixing fans with lunatics?
And ANYONE sending KG&LW is clearly doing so for anonymity points.
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Did lonestar send The Biscuit Merchant?
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Manticora is probably Litho
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All these new King Gizzard fans :heart
And ANYONE sending KG&LW is clearly doing so for anonymity points.
Dude, that's your narrative, but it certainly ain't mine :hat
Talking of narrative, I'd love it if someone had the balls to send Murder of the Universe :corn
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Lonestar sent KG&TLW...going for Unpredictability scores.
N
Nope. Only one left is Stadler. I didn't send them, and I'm pretty sure Ruslan didn't since he guessed them first.
Litho and Puppies have already been guessed.
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God, I hope it's Dadler
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God, I hope it's Dadler
Right? :lol
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I bet it is. Remember this little exchange?
That was pretty cool; I've heard a lot about them - here - but that's the first music I've listened to by them. Very Flaming Lips/Jellyfish-ish. But it seems like no two records are the same, so...
Glad you enjoyed it! I'm doing my best to get more people on board with this great band, but yes no two albums are the same, but at least the album this song is from, Butterfly 3000, is all in the same style. Give it a go.
I will; I dig both bands I mentioned above, so here we go!
Well Luke, you apparently picked the wrong fogies/fogies-in-training to send them to, it was Stadler who was young and hip all along!
Yep, you are correct. Stads, I knew there was something I liked about you :tup
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Gizzverse confirmed.
Alluda Majaka smacks of someone basically sticking their catalogue on random and sending the first song that plays :lol it's such a weird choice, but it has slight The Doors vibes so maybe that was enough for our Dadler.
God, I hope it's Dadler
Right? :lol
He definitely deserves the points as no fucker pegged him for it.
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Alluda Majaka smacks of someone basically sticking their catalogue on random and sending the first song that plays :lol it's such a weird choice, but it has slight The Doors vibes so maybe that was enough for our Dadler.
I had to look up what album it was from. :lol
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Alluda Majaka smacks of someone basically sticking their catalogue on random and sending the first song that plays :lol it's such a weird choice, but it has slight The Doors vibes so maybe that was enough for our Dadler.
I had to look up what album it was from. :lol
Ingest the Cats Vest
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It smacks of picking a song title that is hard to guess in hangman. Which didn't help anyway. ;D
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It smacks of picking a song title that is hard to guess in hangman. Which didn't help anyway. ;D
Think it's gonna get whipped in the actual scoring though. Plus, Chad will write the band off forever! I mean, Han-tyumi and the Murder of the Universe would get them written off even quicker, but at least he'd have witnessed the cyborgs demise.
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Chad will have to implement the Metro scoring system, because getting "whipped" has TAC in second place. :lol
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TAC will be happy in any position in which Chad chooses to whip him.
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It smacks of picking a song title that is hard to guess in hangman. Which didn't help anyway. ;D
Think it's gonna get whipped in the actual scoring though. Plus, Chad will write the band off forever! I mean, Han-tyumi and the Murder of the Universe would get them written off even quicker, but at least he'd have witnessed the cyborgs demise.
I think song quality would've had more an impact if Chad had done ranked scoring. People might be less willing to send some jibberish track name that sucked if it could result in a 1.
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Next hangman we all should guess Kade's and Tim's entries first :lol
Well......you could have guessed them first this round! ;D
My job here is done :lol
Mother fucker.......
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This roulette is fucking savage :lol
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He definitely deserves the points as no fucker pegged him for it.
Yeah... it's too bad I couldn't come up with a scoring system that also rewarded for only being solved via process of elimination.
Oh well, it's all in good fun, right?
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Stadler sauntering into this thread tomorrow like...
(https://64.media.tumblr.com/48216a725e41ce7ba2230c6f2449dbb9/tumblr_pyt2igP9a41qdkje4o1_400.gif)
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Lonestar sent KG&TLW...going for Unpredictability scores.
N
Nope. Only one left is Stadler. I didn't send them, and I'm pretty sure Ruslan didn't since he guessed them first.
Litho and Puppies have already been guessed.
When was Puppies guessed?
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I thought Ruslan guessed them right out of the gates.
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Wow :rollin
No idea who sent that, let's say Puppies.
First one, right after he guessed the band.
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??: The Biscuit Merchant - Superior Shores (7)
Litho (5): Manticora - Katana-Beheaded (5)
Indiscipline (1): Savatage - Believe (2)
Wolfking (2): Anvil Therapy - Rage (3)
King (4): Unruly Child - When Worlds Collide (6)
Stadler (6): King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Alluda Majakan (1)
??: _edu_a - Sleep
??: __e__r__e - __berta
??: __a__ _a__er - _n__b__nd __r_
TAC (3): Cotopaxi - Exogenetic (4)
Guessed Letters: TPAEDRN
Players:
Dr. DTVT (D)
Evermind (T)
Indiscipline (P)
King
Litho (R)
lonestar (A)
Puppies (B)
Stadler
TAC (N)
Wolfking
Puppies, King and Wolfking are free to offer up letters.
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Wow :rollin
No idea who sent that, let's say Puppies.
First one, right after he guessed the band.
Ok... gotchya now. I thought you were saying that Puppies' actual submission had been guessed.
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B
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Chad will have to implement the Metro scoring system, because getting "whipped" has TAC in second place. :lol
Stadler might have awakened the Metro in me this round.
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If Kade wants to get a letter guessed, I'll reset that clock - since King is at the football game today, and Stads is, well, weekending.
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If Kade wants to get a letter guessed, I'll reset that clock - since King is at the football game today, and Stads is, well, weekending.
Stads is only available on the weekend during Bruins games, apparently. :lol
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If Kade wants to get a letter guessed, I'll reset that clock - since King is at the football game today, and Stads is, well, weekending.
Stads is only available on the weekend during Bruins games, apparently. :lol
For important people. ;)
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If Kade wants to get a letter guessed, I'll reset that clock - since King is at the football game today, and Stads is, well, weekending.
U.
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If Kade wants to get a letter guessed, I'll reset that clock - since King is at the football game today, and Stads is, well, weekending.
U.
One "U"
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Medusa
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Medusa
Almost
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Medusa
Almost
Meduza
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Ruslan sent Meduza
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He did indeed. And then there were three.
(https://igamingbusiness.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/spiderman2.jpg)
??: The Biscuit Merchant - Superior Shores (7)
Litho (5): Manticora - Katana-Beheaded (5)
Indiscipline (1): Savatage - Believe (2)
Wolfking (2): Anvil Therapy - Rage (3)
King (4): Unruly Child - When Worlds Collide (6)
Stadler (6): King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Alluda Majakan (1)
Evermind (7): Meduza - Sleep (8)
??: __e__r__e - L_berta
??: _la__ _a__er - _n__bl_nd __rl
TAC (3): Cotopaxi - Exogenetic (4)
Guessed Letters: TPAEDRNL
Players:
Dr. DTVT (D)
Evermind (T)
Indiscipline (PL)
King
Litho (R)
lonestar (A)
Puppies (B)
Stadler
TAC (N)
Wolfking (U)
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I listened to it, totally a Ruslan track.
Mason sent the Biscuit Merchant?
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L
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:corn
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I :P
I tried Googling "Liberta song" and I still have no idea who the artist is.
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O
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Glass Hammer - "Snowblind Girl".
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Glass Hammer - "Snowblind Girl".
I’ll say puppies sent it
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Well, this ought to finish it now.
??: The Biscuit Merchant - Superior Shores (7)
Litho (5): Manticora - Katana-Beheaded (5)
Indiscipline (1): Savatage - Believe (2)
Wolfking (2): Anvil Therapy - Rage (3)
King (4): Unruly Child - When Worlds Collide (6)
Stadler (6): King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Alluda Majakan (1)
Evermind (7): Meduza - Sleep (8)
??: I_e_iri_e - Liberta (10)
Puppies (8): Glass Hammer - Snowblind Girl (9)
TAC (3): Cotopaxi - Exogenetic (4)
Guessed Letters: TPAEDRNLIO
Players:
Dr. DTVT (D)
Evermind (T)
Indiscipline (PL)
King
Litho (R)
lonestar (A)
Puppies (B)
Stadler
TAC (N)
Wolfking (U)
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I already guessed Mason sent the Biscuit Merchant.
I listened to it, totally a Ruslan track.
Mason sent the Biscuit Merchant?
I'll take my 10pts now :D
Let's see how long it takes for people to figure out my band... hint- They're Japanese
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I already guessed Mason sent the Biscuit Merchant.
I listened to it, totally a Ruslan track.
Mason sent the Biscuit Merchant?
I'll take my 10pts now :D
Let's see how long it takes for people to figure out my band... hint- They're Japanese
Ahhh... totally missed that.
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Ikejirike
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:clap:
It's actually a husband/wife team, that's their last name. Not only do they have a messed up name, but they only got like 6 tracks, and zero internet presence. I wouldn't even know about them if my favorite drummer didn't collaborate with the wife for a live show.
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Well, this ought to finish it now.
Dr. DTVT (9): The Biscuit Merchant - Superior Shores (7)
Litho (5): Manticora - Katana-Beheaded (5)
Indiscipline (1): Savatage - Believe (2)
Wolfking (2): Anvil Therapy - Rage (3)
King (4): Unruly Child - When Worlds Collide (6)
Stadler (6): King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Alluda Majakan (1)
Evermind (7): Meduza - Sleep (8)
lonestar (10): Ikejirike - Liberta (10)
Puppies (8): Glass Hammer - Snowblind Girl (9)
TAC (3): Cotopaxi - Exogenetic (4)
Guessed Letters: TPAEDRNLIO
Unpredictability + Anonymity Scores:
lonestar - Ikejirike / Liberta: 5 + 5 = 10
Puppies - Glass Hammer / Snowblind Girl: 4.5 + 4 = 8.5
Dr. DTVT - The Biscuit Merchant / Superior Shores: 3.5 + 4.5 = 8
Evermind - Meduza / Sleep: 4 + 3.5 = 7.5
Litho - Manticora / Katana - Beheaded: 2.5 + 2.5 = 5
King - Unruly Child / When Worlds Collide: 3 + 2 = 5
Stadler - King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard / Alluda Majaka: 0.5 + 3 = 3.5
TAC - Cotopaxi / Exogenetic: 2 + 1.5 = 3.5
Wolfking - Anvil Therapy / Rage: 1.5 + 1 = 2.5
Indiscipline - Savatage / Believe: 1 + 0.5 = 1.5
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It's actually a husband/wife team, that's their last name. Not only do they have a messed up name, but they only got like 6 tracks, and zero internet presence. I wouldn't even know about them if my favorite drummer didn't collaborate with the wife for a live show.
And yet, they are on Spotify... but Puppies' tune isn't. :lol
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Damn that 10 looks pretty....now let's add a 9 song quality score to it...
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Anvil Therapy - Rage, let's say Kade because he's got the most points
I'm genuinely intrigued how the fuck you did that?
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:lol
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Anvil Therapy - Rage, let's say Kade because he's got the most points
I'm genuinely intrigued how the fuck you did that?
The Russian mafia is everywhere. :lol
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Playlist
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1t3GNITa69CIYw1sAC4lSx?si=7052276bf0f543e8&pt=fb09d1bbf809ada755a13896f9065f46
Puppies tune you can get at Bandcamp - https://glasshammer.bandcamp.com/album/at-the-gate
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Playlist
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1t3GNITa69CIYw1sAC4lSx?si=7052276bf0f543e8&pt=fb09d1bbf809ada755a13896f9065f46
Puppies tune you can get at Bandcamp - https://glasshammer.bandcamp.com/album/at-the-gate
Oh cool, I didn't realize you could listen to it for free on Bandcamp. :metal
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Noob question incoming alert!
So, Chad, you listen to the songs on Spotify, yet they show up on your last.fm?
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Anvil Therapy - Rage, let's say Kade because he's got the most points
I'm genuinely intrigued how the fuck you did that?
Anvil Therapy sounded like your kind of thing. :)
Between Ikejirike and Cotopaxi this was probably the most difficult hangman so far.
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Five roulettes in 15 years of membership and 14 of ghosting, a penchant for incoherent babble ... and I am the most predictable sod!
I tip my hat to you gents, and cherish my time as witness to paranormal ESP activity.
But I will still choose quality. Everytime we swear off quality a terrorist loses its wings and the angels win.
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Anvil Therapy - Rage, let's say Kade because he's got the most points
I'm genuinely intrigued how the fuck you did that?
Anvil Therapy sounded like your kind of thing. :)
Between Ikejirike and Cotopaxi this was probably the most difficult hangman so far.
I mean, how the hell did you guess the band too? Lol. Although I was asleep and couldn't be asked seeing what letters were already guessed.
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I forgot, I believe it's "Libertŕ" (i.e. "Freedom"), with the accent.
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Anvil Therapy - Rage, let's say Kade because he's got the most points
I'm genuinely intrigued how the fuck you did that?
Anvil Therapy sounded like your kind of thing. :)
Between Ikejirike and Cotopaxi this was probably the most difficult hangman so far.
I mean, how the hell did you guess the band too? Lol. Although I was asleep and couldn't be asked seeing what letters were already guessed.
There was T, P and A. I guessed the word "therapy" and then it was easy to look it up on Spotify.
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Anvil Therapy - Rage, let's say Kade because he's got the most points
I'm genuinely intrigued how the fuck you did that?
Anvil Therapy sounded like your kind of thing. :)
Between Ikejirike and Cotopaxi this was probably the most difficult hangman so far.
I mean, how the hell did you guess the band too? Lol. Although I was asleep and couldn't be asked seeing what letters were already guessed.
There was T, P and A. I guessed the word "therapy" and then it was easy to look it up on Spotify.
Huh.....true. You're still a bastard. :lol
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Noob question incoming alert!
So, Chad, you listen to the songs on Spotify, yet they show up on your last.fm?
Yes, you can 'connect' last.fm to Spotify for the purposes of A) scrobbling, and B) playing songs in last.fm that are in Spotify.
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I really appreciate the word connect in quotations for my benefit to help me understand. :lol
I'm just getting into Spotify. If I ever get to last.fm though I think it means hell has just about frozen over.
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I really appreciate the word connect in quotations for my benefit to help me understand. :lol
I'm just getting into Spotify. If I ever get to last.fm though I think it means hell has just about frozen over.
Do it. Do it. Do it.
It's one short step now. You just create an account then let it keep a record of your listening (the addiction comes later).
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https://community.spotify.com/t5/FAQs/How-can-I-connect-Spotify-to-Last-fm/ta-p/4795301
last.fm will also scrobble from Youtube. It's a bit more manual from iTunes off an iPhone, but there's a desktop app to scrobble whatever you play through your computer. I have no idea what it's like off an Android phone - though, I did download some kind of scrobbler onto my FiiO mp3 player (which runs Android).
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Eh, I abandoned last.fm a few years ago as its output was just too unbalanced. Bands with short songs massively over-represented, bands with long songs massively under-represented.
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Eh, I abandoned last.fm a few years ago as its output was just too unbalanced. Bands with short songs massively over-represented, bands with long songs massively under-represented.
I hear ya, but I'm 12 years in to it now, and basically just let it run in the background. It sometimes glitches and counts songs like 20 times in a row, but otherwise it's just an interesting view into my listening habits. It seems like it would be a daunting task to switch to anything else, like RYM.
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I really appreciate the word connect in quotations for my benefit to help me understand. :lol
I'm just getting into Spotify. If I ever get to last.fm though I think it means hell has just about frozen over.
Do it. Do it. Do it.
It's one short step now. You just create an account then let it keep a record of your listening (the addiction comes later).
https://community.spotify.com/t5/FAQs/How-can-I-connect-Spotify-to-Last-fm/ta-p/4795301
last.fm will also scrobble from Youtube. It's a bit more manual from iTunes off an iPhone, but there's a desktop app to scrobble whatever you play through your computer. I have no idea what it's like off an Android phone - though, I did download some kind of scrobbler onto my FiiO mp3 player (which runs Android).
Woah hold up. One step at a time lads. I don't like moving so fast on a first date.
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Eh, I abandoned last.fm a few years ago as its output was just too unbalanced. Bands with short songs massively over-represented, bands with long songs massively under-represented.
Isn't that just the way it is though with any platform? Unless others go by time over tracks?
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Some bands don’t want their stuff on streaming services. Glass Hammer (which probably shouldn’t have taken that long to guess as they aren’t exactly a new or obscure band) probably chooses that route.
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1. I was really trying to find a way to enjoy this, and I kinda got there.
2. I had expectations of what this was going to be, and it was about spot on.
3. TAC: Cotopaxi - Exogenetic ... That was about 1 minute of music packed into 5+ minutes
4. Wow!!! and then eehhhhh - a different kind of wow … and then, Tolkein-metal
5. lonestar: Ikejirike - Libertŕ .... I think I dropped my jaw somehwere
6. Honor Thy Father pt 2
7. Evermind: Meduza - Sleep ... It's not MSG, but it's some bitchin axe-work
8. Perfectly inoffensive with a lot that should appeal to me.
9. With that shreddery, I now know how RJ feels after an Allegaeon show
10. Now THAT is some soft-cock shit
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3? I hope it's not 3 :lol
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5 :metal
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Here's your jaw, sir.
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Eh, I abandoned last.fm a few years ago as its output was just too unbalanced. Bands with short songs massively over-represented, bands with long songs massively under-represented.
Isn't that just the way it is though with any platform? Unless others go by time over tracks?
I'm not aware of any similar sites (including Spotify itself) that uses time played so I just don't use anything like that. I love Spotify but I only use it for listening to stuff and ignore any stats etc. For tracking albums I've listened to and how much I like them, I use RYM.
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Between Ikejirike and Cotopaxi this was probably the most difficult hangman so far.
Some bands don’t want their stuff on streaming services. Glass Hammer (which probably shouldn’t have taken that long to guess as they aren’t exactly a new or obscure band) probably chooses that route.
Well, someone should have solved them earlier then! :cow: I already knew who they were, but the combination of letters that were coming up and the fact that you can't find them on streaming made them quite difficult to find. Similar with Meduza.
Eh, I abandoned last.fm a few years ago as its output was just too unbalanced. Bands with short songs massively over-represented, bands with long songs massively under-represented.
I don't see that as a particularly massive deal, really. I used it for a few years, but I stopped because I found it wore me down trying to make sure everything I listened to was logged and properly tagged. Now with streaming tagging isn't as big of a deal for some people, but I would still find it a hassle because much of my music listening is from stuff on the hard drive.
I hear ya, but I'm 12 years in to it now, and basically just let it run in the background. It sometimes glitches and counts songs like 20 times in a row, but otherwise it's just an interesting view into my listening habits. It seems like it would be a daunting task to switch to anything else, like RYM.
The functionality of RYM is quite different from last.fm. The latter is more for real-time tracking, the former for cataloging your music whenever you want (and much more).
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3? I hope it's not 3 :lol
It's not.
RJ was right; Indi was not.
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Ok, at the risk of being signaturised ...
Is mine the soft cock?
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8?
Is mine the soft cock?
If 8 fails I may go for the soft cock too.
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Ok, at the risk of being signaturised ...
Is mine the soft cock?
Only Mrs Indi would know that, but as far as your submission goes, it is not.
@Ruslan ... wrong and wrong.
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:metal :metal :metal :metal
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Ok, at the risk of being signaturised ...
Is mine the soft cock?
Only Mrs Indi would know that, but as far as your submission goes, it is not.
@Ruslan ... wrong and wrong.
I suck at this as much as I rock in the actual hangman :lol
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Ok, at the risk of being signaturised ...
Is mine the soft cock?
Only Mrs Indi would know that, but as far as your submission goes, it is not.
@Ruslan ... wrong and wrong.
I suck at this as much as I rock in the actual hangman :lol
I was thinking the same thing! :lol
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:rollin
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1 or 3. ;D
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Fourth time the charm, 2?
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1 or 3. ;D
Three it is.
Fourth time the charm, 2?
My impression can be correlated to the 3:30 mark of your song.
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Gizzverse confirmed.
Alluda Majaka smacks of someone basically sticking their catalogue on random and sending the first song that plays :lol it's such a weird choice, but it has slight The Doors vibes so maybe that was enough for our Dadler.
God, I hope it's Dadler
Right? :lol
He definitely deserves the points as no fucker pegged him for it.
One, I've dug in to the Gizzard and I kind of like it, but I haven't yet really made sense of it, so I'm not at "love it". I dig the vibe of that song but two, honestly it was absolutely for the anonymity and unpredictability of it, and it seems like that backfired. Half a point? Are you kidding me? I'm sending Kiss next; maybe someone will say "Stadler can't be THAT obvious, can he?" Yes, yes, he can. :)
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7 then! :biggrin:
One, I've dug in to the Gizzard and I like it not love it. I dig the vibe of that song but two, honestly it was absolutely for the anonymity and unpredictability of it, and I got fucked. Half a point? Are you kidding me?
:lol
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It smacks of picking a song title that is hard to guess in hangman. Which didn't help anyway. ;D
Think it's gonna get whipped in the actual scoring though. Plus, Chad will write the band off forever! I mean, Han-tyumi and the Murder of the Universe would get them written off even quicker, but at least he'd have witnessed the cyborgs demise.
I think song quality would've had more an impact if Chad had done ranked scoring. People might be less willing to send some jibberish track name that sucked if it could result in a 1.
Look at my last, oh, ten roulettes. Do you think that would have deterred me? :) :) :) :) :)
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Ok, not soft. Inoffensive? (8)
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5. lonestar: Ikejirike - Libertŕ .... I think I dropped my jaw somehwere
..probably around Lonestar’s knees.
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5. lonestar: Ikejirike - Libertŕ .... I think I dropped my jaw somehwere
..probably around Lonestar’s knees.
Go listen to it, then report back to me.
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5. lonestar: Ikejirike - Libertŕ .... I think I dropped my jaw somehwere
..probably around Lonestar’s knees.
You're just jealous.
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7 then! :biggrin:
Yes guy!
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2?
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One, I've dug in to the Gizzard and I like it not love it. I dig the vibe of that song but two, honestly it was absolutely for the anonymity and unpredictability of it, and I got fucked. Half a point? Are you kidding me?
Dude... with all the talk about King G over the past, I dunno, 8-10 roulettes, how could you NOT know that the band name would be unique enough to be identifiable quickly. I even tried to do you a solid by replacing the "&" with "and".
@Indi... whilst not offensive, that's not your impression. The hint is that I told you I knew the TSO version rather well.
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2?
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One, I've dug in to the Gizzard and I like it not love it. I dig the vibe of that song but two, honestly it was absolutely for the anonymity and unpredictability of it, and I got fucked. Half a point? Are you kidding me?
Dude... with all the talk about King G over the past, I dunno, 8-10 roulettes, how could you NOT know that the band name would be unique enough to be identifiable quickly. I even tried to do you a solid by replacing the "&" with "and".
@Indi... whilst not offensive, that's not your impression. The hint is that I told you I knew the TSO version rather well.
Fair point. I'm still sending Kiss.
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One, I've dug in to the Gizzard and I like it not love it. I dig the vibe of that song but two, honestly it was absolutely for the anonymity and unpredictability of it, and I got fucked. Half a point? Are you kidding me?
Dude... with all the talk about King G over the past, I dunno, 8-10 roulettes, how could you NOT know that the band name would be unique enough to be identifiable quickly. I even tried to do you a solid by replacing the "&" with "and".
@Indi... whilst not offensive, that's not your impression. The hint is that I told you I knew the TSO version rather well.
Fair point. I'm still sending Kiss.
Indi will probably try to 'impersonate' you and beat you to it.
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If Kade wants to get a letter guessed, I'll reset that clock - since King is at the football game today, and Stads is, well, weekending.
Stads is only available on the weekend during Bruins games, apparently. :lol
I can text from phone on the couch. I do not DTF from the phone unless it's an absolute emergency. :) :) :) :) :)
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If Kade wants to get a letter guessed, I'll reset that clock - since King is at the football game today, and Stads is, well, weekending.
Stads is only available on the weekend during Bruins games, apparently. :lol
I can text from phone on the couch. I do not DTF from the phone unless it's an absolute emergency. :) :) :) :) :)
I only DTF from my phone :blush
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8?
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Ooh boy, probably 8 or 10, possibly 1?
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1. Stadler: King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard / Alluda Majaka ... I was really trying to find a way to enjoy this, and I kinda got there.
2. Indiscipline: Savatage / Believe ... I had expectations of what this was going to be, and it was about spot on.
3. TAC: Cotopaxi / Exogenetic ... That was about 1 minute of music packed into 5+ minutes
4. Litho: Manticora / Katana - Beheaded ... Wow!!! and then eehhhhh - a different kind of wow … and then, Tolkein-metal
5. lonestar: Ikejirike / Libertŕ .... I think I dropped my jaw somehwere
6. Wolfking: Anvil Therapy / Rage .... Honor Thy Father pt 2
7. Evermind: Meduza / Sleep ... It's not MSG, but it's some bitchin axe-work
8. Puppies: Glass Hammer / Snowblind Girl ... Perfectly inoffensive with a lot that should appeal to me.
9. Dr. DTVT: The Biscuit Merchant / Superior Shores ... With that shreddery, I now know how RJ feels after an Allegaeon show
10. King: Unruly Child / When Worlds Collide ... Now THAT is some soft-cock shit
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I'll take it :corn
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I think I am 6 or 9.
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I think I am 6 or 9.
I'll bet you are! :heybaby:
9 it is.
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2
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Going Kade with 10, just because of the Frontiers thread title.
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2
Nope, 2 Is me.
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2
Nope, 2 Is me.
Indeed it is.
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1 or 4? I'd say 1 if I had to pick one.
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Mine must be 1?
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Stads and his Gizz/Wiz gets #1. Not the only thing it was "first" in this round. :lol
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4?
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4?
Nope... which, by process of elimination puts you at #6. Some of the riffage gives me an Honor Thy Father vibe.
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I never would have picked that. :lol
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Apparently I'm #4. I'm not sure it makes any sense, but maybe it will by the time of the writeup. :justjen
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Apparently I'm #4. I'm not sure it makes any sense, but maybe it will by the time of the writeup. :justjen
Maybe ... or maybe I'm just daft and crap at articulating my thoughts. At least, that's what mrs.jingle tells me.
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Seems like the first three must match up to three different track times, but the last is the most confusing, unless it's just a general "fictional battle" reference, since the setting is in Asia (which worked to make people think it was RJ :coolio ).
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I definitely have the top 2; pretty sure I have the bottom two, and the remaining six are packed in pretty tight.
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:corn
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:corn
Moonwalking popcorn. Smooth
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I just noticed the quote on my photoshop skills. That description is why they are glorious. Lol
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I just noticed the quote on my photoshop skills. That description is why they are glorious. Lol
I was wondering when you'd notice :lol
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I did a double take. LOL
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I did a double take. LOL
Like all of us do with your 'shops
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I did a double take. LOL
Like all of us do with your 'shops
I shop you and get banned from here. LOL
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Sent for Round 3. There is going to be a Round 3, isn't there? ;D
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Waiting for the weekend to listen to the Round 2 playlist. Working Saturday but might still be able to do it in the evening.
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Waiting for the weekend to listen to the Round 2 playlist. Working Saturday but might still be able to do it in the evening.
You speaking for Chad?
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Waiting for the weekend to listen to the Round 2 playlist. Working Saturday but might still be able to do it in the evening.
You speaking for Chad?
:lol :lol
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Waiting for the weekend to listen to the Round 2 playlist. Working Saturday but might still be able to do it in the evening.
You speaking for Chad?
Apparently Ruslan is taking over :corn
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Some of ya'll would best be served to not rush this. Even over the past day, more than a couple of songs have worked up to a better rating. I was going to listen thru the weekend and let things marinate a little, but if you want your score now, it could be a matter of "careful what you wish for".
Plus, if I hang on to it thru the weekend, then for once Stadler can participate the Hangman shenanigans. After the first two rounds, I owe him at least that. :lol
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That was a boss move Dad. :lol
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You can stop listening when you decide my song is a 10
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Some of ya'll would best be served to not rush this. Even over the past day, more than a couple of songs have worked up to a better rating. I was going to listen thru the weekend and let things marinate a little, but if you want your score now, it could be a matter of "careful what you wish for".
Plus, if I hang on to it thru the weekend, then for once Stadler can participate the Hangman shenanigans. After the first two rounds, I owe him at least that. :lol
:heart
I'm so curious as to what this "hangman" thing is!!! :) :) :)
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So I'm up to two minutes of music in 5+ minutes. ;D
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Some of ya'll would best be served to not rush this. Even over the past day, more than a couple of songs have worked up to a better rating. I was going to listen thru the weekend and let things marinate a little, but if you want your score now, it could be a matter of "careful what you wish for".
Plus, if I hang on to it thru the weekend, then for once Stadler can participate the Hangman shenanigans. After the first two rounds, I owe him at least that. :lol
No rushing from me. I was just making a statement :P Take your time. :)
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So I'm up to two minutes of music in 5+ minutes. ;D
It's four minutes if you fold'em.
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So I'm up to two minutes of music in 5+ minutes. ;D
It's four minutes if you fold'em.
:lol :lol
Nah, Chad doesn't get it. :lol
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:lol
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So I'm up to two minutes of music in 5+ minutes. ;D
It's four minutes if you fold'em.
:rollin :rollin
Glorious.
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So I'm up to two minutes of music in 5+ minutes. ;D
It's four minutes if you fold'em.
:lol
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Just came back from work, I'm knackered but I'll hit that R2 playlist in ~30 minutes. If I sound more abrasive than usual that's normal as I'm fairly angry right now. I could use some growl music to be honest but I know this won't be it. :lol
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Just came back from work, I'm knackered but I'll hit that R2 playlist in ~30 minutes. If I sound more abrasive than usual that's normal as I'm fairly angry right now. I could use some growl music to be honest but I know this won't be it. :lol
You got that right!
I'll post results tomorrow morning - should be within the next 24 hours.
Did anyone else try any of these? The playlist is only an hour long
*awaits grief from Tim over how long I'm taking*
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Playing it when we head out for Christmas shopping.
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A lot of bus tomorrow, will definitely peruse the playlist.
I'm sending this evening though, because I'm a mess without a keyboard.
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The Chocolate Cake Merchant - Superior Scores - this is certainly one of the guitar instrumental tracks ever. I did not dislike it but I don't really like guitar shredfest instrumentals either.
Fuck off with that band name will you RJ - Roberta (that's what I googled before R was revealed) - yeah this is hot, well-executed and diverse enough to be interesting. Liked the pseudo(?)-orchestral parts.
Anvil to Your Face Therapy - Rage - is he going to sing the whole song this way? Okay thank fucking God. The second verse was good, especially the slower part, but these guys should really polish their memorable-chorus-writing-skill.
Manticora - I searched for "-" on metal-archives and got 9211 bands that had a "-" in their songs' names and got some entries like Pig-Ass Shit (paraphrasing) and Glorious Nuclear Rocket-Blown Anus (paraphrasing) and after some letters were revealed I tried *ata*a-* search but there was a motherfucking space between "Katana" and "-" that wasn't present in the hangman which is why my valiant efforts at metal-archives yielded pig-ass shit (not paraphrasing) - getting some real Blind-Guardian vibe from how strained these vocals are, and also wow, the wall of sound. These guys pull no punches. Overall liked the instrumental parts, didn't quite like the vocal passages. I think this is my second time listening to this band and something just doesn't click with me.
Second part coming soon. Currently enjoying Savatage.
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:lol
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I was searching yesterday and came across some Korean rock band's names who'd really fuck you all over... Unfortunately their music sucked and I do have some standards.
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Savatage - Believe - if it's from a rock opera, it's a safe bet Indi sent this. I know and love this song. :heart Classy stuff.
Unruly Child - When You Don't Listen to Metal - King, no offense, but I listened to five seconds of this when I guessed this song in the hangman and I instantly knew two things: 1) this is your song; 2) this is as softcock shit as it gets. I really have no complaints about this, but this is just so bland and inoffensive it's borderline offensive.
Cotopaxi - Try guessing Exogenetic when you have E___e_e___ and then find out that the song isn't even any good - see the title and also see my Biscuit Merchant comment. I actually like the shred in the ending better here. Tim - you really got fucked in this round regarding hangman :lol
Luke's 23rd Favourite Band - Hakuna Matata - uhh... yeah no.
Top 3: Savatage (probably because I'm too familiar with that) - my song = Ikejirike
Also RJ, what did you mean when you said Meduza track was totally my song? I'm really curious. :)
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Forgot about Puppies!
Glass Hammer - Snowblind Girl - was solid until the vocals started. Glass Hammer is a fitting name for this.
Now guys, recommend me some good growls-filled album I haven't heard yet.
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It just sounded like your type of tune. I remember how much you loved Fear of the Night by Absolute Priority and it had a lot of those vibes to it.
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Ah, Ruslan... you're a national treasure! I was severely LMAO'g at most of those.
Although, our opinions on the songs are not exactly in sync. Didn't mean to throw you off with the lack of spaces in around the "-" of the Manticora tune ... but when "-" is used as the separator in between band/song, I didn't want to create any confusion as to whether it was a two-word band vs two-word song.
As for recommending good growl filled albums, I'll leave that to others more capable of doing so.
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Didn't mean to throw you off with the lack of spaces in around the "-" of the Manticora tune ... but when "-" is used as the separator in between band/song, I didn't want to create any confusion as to whether it was a two-word band vs two-word song.
No hard feelings! I've learnt a few useful English phrases while browsing the search results.
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Lol. I'll give you a soft cock, Ruslan. :lol
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Lol. I'll give you a soft cock, Ruslan. :lol
He ain't wrong.
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Lol. I'll give you a soft cock, Ruslan. :lol
:lol
RJ, what should I say to that? Arigato or itadakimasu?
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Itadakimasu really sounds just right. :lol
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:lol
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Man, you read that word fast enough, and is almost “it’s a dick, I assume”
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Man, you read that word fast enough, and is almost “it’s a dick, I assume”
I humbly receive.
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Mind you, if you fold it you get half the mouthfuls.
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Mind you, if you fold it you get half the mouthfuls.
I need Tim's precise illustrations to see just how that works exactly.
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Luke's 23rd Favourite Band - Hakuna Matata - uhh... yeah no.
Dammit Stadler, you're ruining the cred for King Gizz I've so carefully cultivated.
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Mind you, if you fold it you get half the mouthfuls.
Tim folds easily. You just have to dust off the cobwebs, first.
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Mind you, if you fold it you get half the mouthfuls.
I need Tim's precise illustrations to see just how that works exactly.
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Now guys, recommend me some good growls-filled album I haven't heard yet.
Orbit Culture. Your welcome.
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Four instrumentals, two of which will open the scoring; two of which will close the scoring - it was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
Stadler: King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard / Alluda Majaka
Yeah … dude, this is a double - nay, triple - backfire. I'm still aghast that you thought it would score highly with the intangibles. As for the song, well, it wasn't complete suckage - some pieces were missing :biggrin:. The 'Doors' vibe you mentioned was there, but that's about the extent of what makes it mildly tolerable. The main thing that irks me is that it sounds like it was recorded on an 8-track in the metal lawnmower shed from my mother's backyard. Was that the sound they were going for? Like, it's not even demo-quality recording. Second, all the sampled sound effects (is that a horse neighing??? smdh). I tried REALLY hard to find things to like about this, but after 5-6 listens, I just wanted to stab my ears with an ice-pick. The best thing about this was that it was under 4 minutes. I'm going to generously give you a mercy pass.
Scores
Quality: 5.5
Unpredictability: 0.5
Anonymity: 3.0
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TAC: Cotopaxi / Exogenetic
Nice little intro, but it sets the stage of what's to come - repetition and rehashing 1 or 2 ideas, because the rest of the song is just the same 30 seconds washed/rinsed/repeat 8 or 10 times over. The underlying riff and rhythms don't change at all throughout the remaining 4 1/2 minutes, which is a shame because it's a really decent riff, and excellent sound, but there is virtually no creativity or artistry in this track. The solo'g (when it's there) is pretty good, and the musicianship is excellent, but man… give me even just a slice of variety. How did the writing sessions go? "Hey I got an idea… we start with a 4-bar acoustic riff, and repeat it 18 times in the first 90 seconds, than we take this other really cool 4-bar sequence, and repeat it 17 times for the next 4 minutes" …. "Yeah, but let's at least layer 45 seconds of guitar shredding over some of it"….. "Good point. Let's roll tape". Honestly, this was 1 minute of original ideas jam packed into 5 1/2 minutes. Despite how good the good parts were, this was the literal definition of too much of a good thing. It was like a dessert of chocolate chips - it should be part of the recipe, not the only thing I'm being served.
Scores
Quality: 6.5
Unpredictability: 2.0
Anonymity: 1.5
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Puppies: Glass Hammer / Snowblind Girl
As was Ruslan's description of your song in the 1st round - perfectly inoffensive (inoffensive must be one of those new English phrases Ruslan picked up ;D). But, there was a certain something lacking in this one for my ears. Especially on the vocals. There was just a certain 'meh' to her voice. The structure of the song was perfectly fine - some solid rock interlaced with an acoustic riff, little splashes of keyboard. The instrumental breakdown started fine, but then that spacey keyboard patch just sounded entirely out of place - transitioning into a splash of ELP-love. The band must've been munching some strong stuff when they wrote "Progressive-rock at it's finest" on their bandcamp page. This is some mild rock that tries to be throw some progressive elements into it, but falls flat on its face when it does.
Scores
Quality: 7.0
Unpredictability: 4.5
Anonymity: 4.0
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King: Unruly Child / When Worlds Collide
This is the kind of music that would inspire a Queensryche / FU rage-post by Kade. I mean, the Unruly Child album I have (which I'm certain came as a result of one of Brent's podcasts) is some high quality Melodic Rock. This song … not so much - it's quality, just not high quality. There's nothing terribly wrong with this, but there's nothing that lights my wick either. Unsurprisingly, this was released on Frontiers. This gets a solid B, and falls into the category of how I classify so much music that I enjoy/ed, but have little-to-no desire to revisit it … "good, but not wow'd". Vocally it was smooth, and Ruslan put it best - it was so inoffensive, it was borderline offensive.
Scores
Quality: 7.5
Unpredictability: 3.0
Anonymity: 2.0
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Indiscipline: Savatage / Believe
So yeah… I knew this song pretty well, but with TSO and vocalist Tim Hockenberry. But, the Savatage version was sufficiently different enough with Jon that I allowed it. I'm not sure which I prefer more. Tim's got a very raspy quality about him that kinda made me not enjoy the song as much as I wanted to for all the times that I heard it; plus it's a plodder. It's a beautiful Power Ballad - has all the elements that I like … except for goose-bump inducing vocals. I think this is one of the reasons I don't go to Savatage as often as I should - Jon's voice just falls a little limp for me. He's got a smoother deliver than Hockenberry, that's for sure, and even though it's a few bpm faster than the TSO cover, it's still missing a certain je ne sais quoi. I can appreciate that this is "the greatest power ballad ever penned" for you, but that's TASTESTM for you. I'm not sure I'd put this in my Top 50 of all-time power ballads.
Scores
Quality: 7.5
Unpredictability: 1.0
Anonymity: 0.5
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Evermind: Meduza / Sleep
I knew I recognized the vocalist in this - Apollo Papathanasio, whom I know from Evil Masqurade and early Firewind. This was another plodder, but the guitar work in the second half of the song saved it from falling behind some of the above songs. Multiple listens improved the score, along with Apollo's voice, but the tempo and meandering pace like this is often a turn off for me. The acoustic intro is great, and I was primed for so much more. There's an early Yngwie feel to this song, and the solo'g warrants it. Vocally, it might have been the best of the round. It took a while to get there (2 1/2 minutes - almost half the song), but the variety in the following 2 1/2 minutes of solo'g was very yummy.
Scores
Quality: 7.5
Unpredictability: 4.0
Anonymity: 3.5
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Litho: Manticora / Katana - Beheaded
Ok, so to explain my 2nd Impression. The intro - with no hyperbole, my jaw dropped. Like one of the best intro's of any song I've gotten in a roulette - up there with Obsessions. Then, the vocals kicked in and I was (m)eeehhhh… wincing a little like 'I'm not so sure about this' - they weren't terrible, but they certainly took me out of my state of awe over the intro. I was so focussed on the vox that I didn't even really notice how they flipped a switch and transitioned from prog-metal to speed-metal. The pre-chorus/chorus/solo was back to that jaw dropping moment I had in the intro. But during the back half of the song (starting at 4:00), the song practically slaps you in the face with the quintessential Fantasy/Viking (or Tolkein) metal sound - no matter the lyrics or storyline, that's what I hear - Dragonforce, Hammerfall, Gloryhammer, etc… all the speed metal feelz usually reserved for Fantasy/Viking metal. After the first listen of that intro, the rest of the song was a big lunch-bag letdown. Fortunately, after a few listens, I began to enjoy it for what it was, but it could've been so much better if it the rhythm section wasn't so schizophrenic, transitioning in-and-out of that double base kick + galloping bass riff.
Scores
Quality: 7.5
Unpredictability: 2.5
Anonymity: 2.5
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Wolfking: Anvil Therapy / Rage
Italian power metal eh … boy, you really are digging in to stuff that isn't in your wheelhouse anymore! The riff at 1:05 and back again at 2:10 isn't a direct rip from Honor Thy Father, but man does it totally give me a strange déjŕ vu for it. Couple in the abrupt slow down, and the key solo that tries to sound like a guitar solo that's the reason for the impression you got. While HTF is not my fave song from ToT, this iteration of it (;-)) was more enjoyable - maybe because it didn't go on for 10+ minutes. The opening 'reverb' effect in the vocals wasn't a complete turnoff, but I wasn't really sure of the purpose of it. Not a lot more to say about this one… a pretty straight forward metal track with a sufficient amount of progginess to it, and keeping itself contained to 5 1/2 minutes.
Scores
Quality: 8.0
Unpredictability: 1.5
Anonymity: 1.0
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Dr. DTVT: The Biscuit Merchant / Superior Shores
After a very mellow 90 second acoustic intro, in the words of the legendary Jim Ross "business is about to pick up". The first half is a slow build, with some amazing riffage, and soulful guitar work. Then for the latter half of the song, this fucker can shred! The difference between this track and Exogenetic was that they didn't rely on the underlying riffs - there was always some lead guitar solo'g going on over top of it. In the end, there was a lot of life in this track. I was a little disappointed to read that the rhythms are programmed, and his typical style is thrashy, death, and guttural. I mean, I'll check out the rest of their work, but I'll be ready to smash that skip button.
Scores
Quality: 8.5
Unpredictability: 3.5
Anonymity: 4.5
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Lonestar: Ikejirike / Liberta
Well, you already knew this was going to score strong before you even sent this (full disclosure to anyone reading this writeup - a couple months back RJ shared another tune from this outfit, and my response to it was "that was fucking hot"). And this one is no different - frantic, prog-af, metal-af, rich lush guitar tones, pounding (not speed) drums, symphonic and orchestral and choir patches thrown in appropriately to add even more warmth. Schwing-adellic!
Scores
Quality: 9.0
Unpredictability: 5.0
Anonymity: 5.0
Round 2 Scores:
lonestar - Ikejirike / Liberta: 5 + 5 + 9 = 19
Dr. DTVT - The Biscuit Merchant / Superior Shores: 3.5 + 4.5 + 8.5 = 16.5
Puppies - Glass Hammer / Snowblind Girl: 4.5 + 4 + 7 = 15.5
Evermind - Meduza / Sleep: 4 + 3.5 + 7.5 = 15
King - Unruly Child / When Worlds Collide: 3 + 2 + 7.5 = 12.5
Litho - Manticora / Katana - Beheaded: 2.5 + 2.5 + 7.5 = 12.5
Wolfking - Anvil Therapy / Rage: 1.5 + 1 + 8 = 10.5
TAC - Cotopaxi / Exogenetic: 2 + 1.5 + 6.5 = 10
Indiscipline - Savatage / Believe: 1 + 0.5 + 7.5 = 9
Stadler - King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard / Alluda Majaka: 0.5 + 3 + 5.5 = 9
P.S. Check my math, and file a grievance if needed.
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Overall Standings:
Total Score
1. lonestar - 33.5
2. Dr. DTVT - 30.5
3. Wolfking - 28.5
4. Litho - 28
5. Puppies - 27.5
6. Evermind - 26.5
7. TAC - 25.5
8. King - 23
9. Indiscipline - 21
10. Stadler - 19
Quality Score (ranking diff from Total)
1. lonestar - 18 (=)
2. Wolfking - 16 (+1)
2. Indiscipline - 16 (+7)
4. Dr. DTVT - 15.5 (-2)
4. Litho - 15.5 (=)
4. Puppies - 15.5 (+1)
7. Evermind - 15 (-1)
7. King - 15 (+1)
9. Stadler - 13.5 (+1)
10. TAC - 13 (-3)
What does this tell me? Indi is getting hosed on the intangibles. Gotta pick it up pal… you're apparently too predictable. Also, TAC is playing the intangible game well, but sending sub-par material. Everyone else is about where they would be without the intangible scores.
We'll see how this plays out over the next couple of rounds, and there's a fundamental mismatch between total score and quality score, I have a plot twist in mind that could help normalize it. The biggest concern is if someone WINS largely on the strength of their intangible scores.
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Man, I keep sending stuff I think you'll really like, and it's 7.5 both times. :lol I think I may be a little out of tune with your tastes nowadays, we'll see.
Whoever is awake to guess the next hangman, please target RJ and Mason next. :)
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:metal
You got my 3rd round already!!
Man, I keep sending stuff I think you'll really like, and it's 7.5 both times. :lol I think I may be a little out of tune with your tastes nowadays, we'll see.
Whoever is awake to guess the next hangman, please target RJ and Mason next. :)
Bro...
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What? You're in the lead.
You've probably sent another Japanese artist named something like Jinro Kawasagamuchi that has 8 followers on Spotify so they won't guess it anyway. :)
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Motherfucker...
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Man, I keep sending stuff I think you'll really like, and it's 7.5 both times. :lol I think I may be a little out of tune with your tastes nowadays, we'll see.
Whoever is awake to guess the next hangman, please target RJ and Mason next. :)
I know, it's tough to nail peoples' tastes - there's sometimes a fine line between being "solid", and being "wow'd". I'd say at least 50% of the stuff I sample on a yearly basis falls into that B/B+ range (so, 7.5-ish on a 10 point scale). It takes a lot to really push something into the A-grade after only 7-8 listens.
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Quality again!
I'm fine, Chad. If I go for obscure stuff I immediately start sucking and the precogs will fock me anyways.
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Dr. DTVT: The Biscuit Merchant / Superior Shores
After a very mellow 90 second acoustic intro, in the words of the legendary Jim Ross "business is about to pick up". The first half is a slow build, with some amazing riffage, and soulful guitar work. Then for the latter half of the song, this fucker can shred! The difference between this track and Exogenetic was that they didn't rely on the underlying riffs - there was always some lead guitar solo'g going on over top of it. In the end, there was a lot of life in this track. I was a little disappointed to read that the rhythms are programmed, and his typical style is thrashy, death, and guttural. I mean, I'll check out the rest of their work, but I'll be ready to smash that skip button.
Scores
Quality: 8.5
Unpredictability: 3.5
Anonymity: 4.5
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Woah. You probably know this already, but that's Ultimetalhead, formerly of these parts.
Also wtf RJ that's a ludicrous score. :lol
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:RJ:
Not sure if I can keep it up, two 9's in a row is an amazing feat for me on its own.
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Dr. DTVT: The Biscuit Merchant / Superior Shores
After a very mellow 90 second acoustic intro, in the words of the legendary Jim Ross "business is about to pick up". The first half is a slow build, with some amazing riffage, and soulful guitar work. Then for the latter half of the song, this fucker can shred! The difference between this track and Exogenetic was that they didn't rely on the underlying riffs - there was always some lead guitar solo'g going on over top of it. In the end, there was a lot of life in this track. I was a little disappointed to read that the rhythms are programmed, and his typical style is thrashy, death, and guttural. I mean, I'll check out the rest of their work, but I'll be ready to smash that skip button.
Scores
Quality: 8.5
Unpredictability: 3.5
Anonymity: 4.5
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Woah. You probably know this already, but that's Ultimetalhead, formerly of these parts.
Wel suck me sideways!! I did not know that. Nice :2metal:
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:RJ:
Not sure if I can keep it up, two 9's in a row is an amazing feat for me on its own.
:cheffypoo:
Lose the dart, man!
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:RJ:
Not sure if I can keep it up, two 9's in a row is an amazing feat for me on its own.
:cheffypoo:
Lose the dart, man!
I can never remember the code :rollin
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Dr. DTVT: The Biscuit Merchant / Superior Shores
After a very mellow 90 second acoustic intro, in the words of the legendary Jim Ross "business is about to pick up". The first half is a slow build, with some amazing riffage, and soulful guitar work. Then for the latter half of the song, this fucker can shred! The difference between this track and Exogenetic was that they didn't rely on the underlying riffs - there was always some lead guitar solo'g going on over top of it. In the end, there was a lot of life in this track. I was a little disappointed to read that the rhythms are programmed, and his typical style is thrashy, death, and guttural. I mean, I'll check out the rest of their work, but I'll be ready to smash that skip button.
Scores
Quality: 8.5
Unpredictability: 3.5
Anonymity: 4.5
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Woah. You probably know this already, but that's Ultimetalhead, formerly of these parts.
Oh wow, really? Gonna need to check this out.
Nice write ups Chad, definitely gonna give Litho and Lonestar's songs a listen.
I know you're unlikely to become a King Gizzard fan (especially now), but don't write them off completely, that was far from a good choice of song.
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Yeah. I still talk to Justin on Facebook.
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Yeah. I still talk to Justin on Facebook.
Can you thank him for his write ups on Devin Townsend's Deconstruction and Addicted! albums, he really helped me get into Devy :lol
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Played Disco Elysium for a few hours and forgot to pick what to send :lol I'll send tomorrow after work (in ~24 hours).
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Coolio!
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Ouch.
Well, I've got another song lined up already, so I will send in a bit.
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Sent with extreme difficulties from the phone.
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Sent for round 3! :corn
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Litho: Manticora / Katana - Beheaded
Ok, so to explain my 2nd Impression. The intro - with no hyperbole, my jaw dropped. Like one of the best intro's of any song I've gotten in a roulette - up there with Obsessions. Then, the vocals kicked in and I was (m)eeehhhh… wincing a little like 'I'm not so sure about this' - they weren't terrible, but they certainly took me out of my state of awe over the intro. I was so focussed on the vox that I didn't even really notice how they flipped a switch and transitioned from prog-metal to speed-metal. The pre-chorus/chorus/solo was back to that jaw dropping moment I had in the intro. But during the back half of the song (starting at 4:00), the song practically slaps you in the face with the quintessential Fantasy/Viking (or Tolkein) metal sound - no matter the lyrics or storyline, that's what I hear - Dragonforce, Hammerfall, Gloryhammer, etc… all the speed metal feelz usually reserved for Fantasy/Viking metal. After the first listen of that intro, the rest of the song was a big lunch-bag letdown. Fortunately, after a few listens, I began to enjoy it for what it was, but it could've been so much better if it the rhythm section wasn't so schizophrenic, transitioning in-and-out of that double base kick + galloping bass riff.
Interesting, I guess we hear the song quite differently. The vocals are commonly seen as their weak point, so I did worry about that a bit, though they're fine to me. I hoped based on what I can tell of your tastes that you'd like them more, though I guess that didn't quite work. I'm not sure what you would have wanted differently in the second half, it would be overbearing and monotonous if the rhythmic subdivisions didn't shift periodically, and some of them are repeats of sections from the first half, the new parts being the solo, harmonies, and post-solo section (the speed high points of the song for contrast) and another new riff that sets up the final chorus.
Anyway, sent for round 3. Getting kind of nervous about my next submissions and may need to rethink some of them. I'm starting to think I may have gotten lucky in the prelim, or maybe I'm just at a disadvantage now given almost everyone else has played in multiple roulettes of yours already.
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Litho: Manticora / Katana - Beheaded
Ok, so to explain my 2nd Impression. The intro - with no hyperbole, my jaw dropped. Like one of the best intro's of any song I've gotten in a roulette - up there with Obsessions. Then, the vocals kicked in and I was (m)eeehhhh… wincing a little like 'I'm not so sure about this' - they weren't terrible, but they certainly took me out of my state of awe over the intro. I was so focussed on the vox that I didn't even really notice how they flipped a switch and transitioned from prog-metal to speed-metal. The pre-chorus/chorus/solo was back to that jaw dropping moment I had in the intro. But during the back half of the song (starting at 4:00), the song practically slaps you in the face with the quintessential Fantasy/Viking (or Tolkein) metal sound - no matter the lyrics or storyline, that's what I hear - Dragonforce, Hammerfall, Gloryhammer, etc… all the speed metal feelz usually reserved for Fantasy/Viking metal. After the first listen of that intro, the rest of the song was a big lunch-bag letdown. Fortunately, after a few listens, I began to enjoy it for what it was, but it could've been so much better if it the rhythm section wasn't so schizophrenic, transitioning in-and-out of that double base kick + galloping bass riff.
Interesting, I guess we hear the song quite differently. The vocals are commonly seen as their weak point, so I did worry about that a bit, though they're fine to me. I hoped based on what I can tell of your tastes that you'd like them more, though I guess that didn't quite work. I'm not sure what you would have wanted differently in the second half, it would be overbearing and monotonous if the rhythmic subdivisions didn't shift periodically, and some of them are repeats of sections from the first half, the new parts being the solo, harmonies, and post-solo section (the speed high points of the song for contrast) and another new riff that sets up the final chorus.
Anyway, sent for round 3. Getting kind of nervous about my next submissions and may need to rethink some of them. I'm starting to think I may have gotten lucky in the prelim, or maybe I'm just at a disadvantage now given almost everyone else has played in multiple roulettes of yours already.
I sent Manticora to Jingle before with about the same result.....actually I think the song I sent did worse.
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Weird, it didn't show up in search results.
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Weird, it didn't show up in search results.
https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=52760.msg2463490#msg2463490
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While I benefited from it this round, the anonymity scoring doesn’t real work as intended. Think about it, everyone would know RJ would have sent the Japanese titled song, but since we can’t say that until we get the song, he gets a free ride on those points. In scientific parlance, you are not measuring what you are trying to measure. Artist/song get figured out early, the sender gets figured out early. #science_always_is_right
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Except that's probably the only Japanese song I'm sending this roulette. Your sample pool is ridiculously small.
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While I benefited from it this round, the anonymity scoring doesn’t real work as intended. Think about it, everyone would know RJ would have sent the Japanese titled song, but since we can’t say that until we get the song, he gets a free ride on those points. In scientific parlance, you are not measuring what you are trying to measure. Artist/song get figured out early, the sender gets figured out early. #science_always_is_right
(https://i.imgur.com/kwy2uyq.gif)
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While I benefited from it this round, the anonymity scoring doesn’t real work as intended. Think about it, everyone would know RJ would have sent the Japanese titled song, but since we can’t say that until we get the song, he gets a free ride on those points. In scientific parlance, you are not measuring what you are trying to measure. Artist/song get figured out early, the sender gets figured out early. #science_always_is_right
Word. I was guessed out of a process of elimination.
If anyone guesses mine this time, I'm throwing in the towel and just sending Kiss and Night Ranger for the rest of the roulette.
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Except that's probably the only Japanese song I'm sending this roulette. Your sample pool is ridiculously small.
You still can’t match a person to a song until the song is guessed though, so the same logic holds. Like I said, I benefitted from it last round as well. Song gets guessed, the person will be shortly after
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Except that's probably the only Japanese song I'm sending this roulette. Your sample pool is ridiculously small.
You still can’t match a person to a song until the song is guessed though, so the same logic holds. Like I said, I benefitted from it last round as well. Song gets guessed, the person will be shortly after
I think this logic is "common sense" :biggrin:. It doesn't explain how Puppies was the first song guessed in Round 1, but he was the 6th identified. Same thing with Stads and the Gizzard Wizard. By and large, the two are solved closely together.
Send harder to guess songs, and the anonymity points will be followed. ;D
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Except that's probably the only Japanese song I'm sending this roulette. Your sample pool is ridiculously small.
You still can’t match a person to a song until the song is guessed though, so the same logic holds. Like I said, I benefitted from it last round as well. Song gets guessed, the person will be shortly after
Yeah, it would be interesting to have a roulette (or even just a round or two) where there was no hangman, but people just immediately went to work guessing who sent what. I suspect it would generate a different sending strategy than it does currently.
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Except that's probably the only Japanese song I'm sending this roulette. Your sample pool is ridiculously small.
You still can’t match a person to a song until the song is guessed though, so the same logic holds. Like I said, I benefitted from it last round as well. Song gets guessed, the person will be shortly after
Yeah, it would be interesting to have a roulette (or even just a round or two) where there was no hangman, but people just immediately went to work guessing who sent what. I suspect it would generate a different sending strategy than it does currently.
Sounds like an idea for you to test out in your next roulette.
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Long day at work, on my commute now. Will send in 2 hours max.
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Except that's probably the only Japanese song I'm sending this roulette. Your sample pool is ridiculously small.
You still can’t match a person to a song until the song is guessed though, so the same logic holds. Like I said, I benefitted from it last round as well. Song gets guessed, the person will be shortly after
Yeah, it would be interesting to have a roulette (or even just a round or two) where there was no hangman, but people just immediately went to work guessing who sent what. I suspect it would generate a different sending strategy than it does currently.
Sounds like an idea for you to test out in your next roulette.
I might keep it in my back pocket as a possibility, though I'm not quite as intrigued by the idea as you or Metro. It probably works best with a host that is more equally interested in a wider range of genres, broadening the potential artist selection pool. Dunno who that would be, ariich and I would be candidates, except we definitely have predispositions against certain styles.
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I sent a demo tape from my band in high school. Let's see you fuckers guess that one.
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I sent a demo tape from my band in high school. Let's see you fuckers guess that one.
Stadler and the Amazing Technicolour KISScoat?
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Will send in a couple of hours.
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I sent a demo tape from my band in high school. Let's see you fuckers guess that one.
Wicked Lester.
Guessed right there.
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I sent a demo tape from my band in high school. Let's see you fuckers guess that one.
Wicked Lester.
Guessed right there.
I wish!!!!!
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I sent a demo tape from my band in high school. Let's see you fuckers guess that one.
Wicked Lester.
Guessed right there.
I wish!!!!!
Mo Lester?
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I sent a demo tape from my band in high school. Let's see you fuckers guess that one.
It'll probably sound better than that Gizzard Lizard track!
Will send in a couple of hours.
The quicker you do, the longer you guys have to play while Ruslan sleeps. :biggrin: :lol
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Yeah, he fucking blew me up last round.
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I sent a demo tape from my band in high school. Let's see you fuckers guess that one.
Wicked Lester.
Guessed right there.
I wish!!!!!
Mo Lester?
:facepalm:
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Yeah, he fucking blew me up last round.
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Your quality didn't do you any favours either. :lol
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I sent a demo tape from my band in high school. Let's see you fuckers guess that one.
It'll probably sound better than that Gizzard Lizard track!
Will send in a couple of hours.
The quicker you do, the longer you guys have to play while Ruslan sleeps. :biggrin: :lol
SENT!
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GO!
??: ____ - ____s__e
??: ____ ____ae_ _a__ - ___ ____ A S__r_
??: Byzantine - Jeremiad
??: Plush - Athena
??: Soundscape - Resurrection
??: _u_a _a__ R___e_ - __a_as__
??: Se___re - E__ __ __e __r__
??: _____ar_ - __re_a__e
??: ____bar__ - Rea____ S___
??: The _a___ Star - __a_ __a_ __u _a_e
Letters guessed: UABRES
Dr. DTVT
Evermind
Indiscipline
King
Litho
lonestar
Puppies
Stadler
TAC
Wolfking
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U
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A
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B
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B
Not a lot of help there.
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Rrrrr
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E
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Ev would've had 4 of these solved already. I sure hope you guys get some of these, otherwise Ruslan is going to run the board before I even get up! :lol
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As a reminder ...
Solving hangman is not limited to participants. Non-participants are also allowed to solve hangman and match players.
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A song called Resurrection
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This is terrible timing because I have to be out for a few hours soon. Dunno how much I can solve on a time crunch.
But we have Byzantine - "Jeremiad".
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Soundscape
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Indeed!
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Soundscape is Dr. DTVT
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Any M's?
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Plush - "Athena".
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The _a_____ Star
Hmmm...could be Soar I suppose.
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Any M's?
I'll fill it in at midnight if I'm still up. I instituted a rule that there's only one letter guess per person per day.
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Oh yeah, I forgot about that.
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So, Litho comes in here with a solve, but doesn't drop a letter to add to the reveal?
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Molybaron - Reality Show
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Molybaron - Reality Show
What time is it for you??
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??: ____ - ____s__e
??: ____ ____ae_ _a__ - ___ ____ A S__r_
??: Byzantine - Jeremiad (1)
??: Plush - Athena (3)
??: Soundscape - Resurrection (2)
??: _u_a _a__ R___e_ - __a_as__
??: Se___re - E__ __ __e __r__
??: _____ar_ - __re_a__e
??: Molybaron - Reality Show (4)
??: The _a___ Star - __a_ __a_ __u _a_e
Letters guessed: UABRES
Dr. DTVT
Evermind
Indiscipline
King
Litho
lonestar
Puppies
Stadler
TAC
Wolfking
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Molybaron - Reality Show
What time is it for you??
Two o' clock.
The reward for dressing like a cretin and playing the fool for old people is mornings without alarm clock.
Also, since Plush is an all-ladies outfit, it smells of LeChef
Bonne nuit
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Well shit... who the fuck guesses a 'u' first man...
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Well shit... who the fuck guesses a 'u' first man...
*scrolls up.....
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??: ____ - ____s__e
??: ____ ____ae_ _a__ - ___ ____ A S__r_
Dr. DTVT (2): Byzantine - Jeremiad (1)
lonestar (1): Plush - Athena (3)
Puppies (3): Soundscape - Resurrection (2)
??: _u_a _a__ R___e_ - __a_as__
??: Sentire - End of the World (5)
??: _____ar_ - __re_a__e
??: Molybaron - Reality Show (4)
??: The _a___ Star - __a_ __a_ __u _a_e
Letters guessed: UABRES
Dr. DTVT
Evermind
Indiscipline
King
Litho
lonestar
Puppies
Stadler
TAC
Wolfking
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Byzantine is Dr DTVT
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So.. That's 2 points... Let's hope I put up another 9 on quality, otherwise I'm fucked.
*goes for a deep dive into Japanese bands*
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Whoever is awake to guess the next hangman, please target RJ and Mason next. :)
Down goes Cheffy! DOWN GOES CHEFFY!
Byzantine is Dr DTVT
Down goes Doc! DOWN GOES DOC!!!
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End Of The World
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End Of The World
Seahaven
nevermind
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Sentire
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Did Indiscipline send Molybaron?
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Sentire
Yes
Did Indiscipline send Molybaron?
No
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Is Soundscape Puppies?
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Is Soundscape Puppies?
Yup!
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Whoever is awake to guess the next hangman, please target RJ and Mason next. :)
Nice job, guys. :lol
I'll see if I can get something when I get on the train in an hour.
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Whoever is awake to guess the next hangman, please target RJ and Mason next. :)
Nice job, guys. :lol
I'll see if I can get something when I get on the train in an hour.
"something" = "the rest" :lol
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Is Soundscape Puppies?
How in the hell?
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Whoever is awake to guess the next hangman, please target RJ and Mason next. :)
Nice job, guys. :lol
I'll see if I can get something when I get on the train in an hour.
"something" = "the rest" :lol
"get on the train" = "access the dark web"
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Whoever is awake to guess the next hangman, please target RJ and Mason next. :)
Nice job, guys. :lol
I'll see if I can get something when I get on the train in an hour.
Get em tiger.
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Gotthard-Firedance-has to be Kade
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The Naomi Star - "Glad That You Came". Stadler?
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So, Litho comes in here with a solve, but doesn't drop a letter to add to the reveal?
Didn't want to give out free letters while I was out and unable to solve anything.
Let's take an "O".
Is Sentire "Evermind"?
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Molybaron sounds like a Kingshmegland type band name
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It appears I barely have to do anything in this one. :lol
Is Sentire "LithoJazzoSphere"?
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Is Sentire "LithoJazzoSphere"?
Are we playing cat and mouse?
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Correct on the songs; correct on King/Molybaron; correct on Stads/Naomi
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??: _o_o - _o__s__e
??: _o__ ____ae_ _a__ - _o_ ____ A S_or_
Dr. DTVT (2): Byzantine - Jeremiad (1)
lonestar (1): Plush - Athena (3)
Puppies (3): Soundscape - Resurrection (2)
??: _u_a _a__ R___e_ - __a_aso_
wolfking (6): Sentire - End of the World (5)
??: Gotthard - Firedance (6)
Kingshmegland (5): Molybaron - Reality Show (4)
Stadler (4): The Naomi Star - Glad That You Came (7)
Letters guessed: UABRESO
Dr. DTVT
Evermind
Indiscipline
King
Litho
lonestar
Puppies
Stadler
TAC
Wolfking
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That first band isn't Toto is it?
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It should be John Michael something probably, but I'm unable to find a fitting musician so perhaps not
Is (1) Gotthard Litho and (2) Sentire Kade?
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Gotthard-Firedance-has to be Kade
Don't think I've heard any songs from them from memory.
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It should be John Michael something probably, but I'm unable to find a fitting musician so perhaps not
Is (1) Gotthard Litho and (2) Sentire Kade?
Yes.
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"??: _o_o - _o__s__e"
I think this is Evermind.
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Poco?
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Gotthard is Indiscipline??
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That first band isn't Toto is it?
No... Katt isn't in this roulette. :lol
"??: _o_o - _o__s__e"
I think this is Evermind.
Gotthard is Indiscipline??
Correct
I think you're (detective) Batman. Smooth move, noticing the song that he hasn't guessed at.
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Evermind (7): _o_o - _o__s__e
??: _o__ ____ae_ _a__ - _o_ ____ A S_or_
Dr. DTVT (2): Byzantine - Jeremiad (1)
lonestar (1): Plush - Athena (3)
Puppies (3): Soundscape - Resurrection (2)
??: _u_a _a__ R___e_ - __a_aso_
wolfking (6): Sentire - End of the World (5)
Indiscipline (8): Gotthard - Firedance (6)
Kingshmegland (5): Molybaron - Reality Show (4)
Stadler (4): The Naomi Star - Glad That You Came (7)
Letters guessed: UABRESO
Dr. DTVT
Evermind
Indiscipline
King
Litho
lonestar
Puppies
Stadler
TAC
Wolfking
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??: _u_a _a__ R___e_ - __a_aso_
Litho
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Poco?
Crazy guess.
??: _u_a _a__ R___e_ - __a_aso_
Litho
Smooth.
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Beat me by like 20 seconds. :lol
"??: _o__ ____ae_ _a__ - _o_ ____ A S_or_"
Obviously TAC.
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20 seconds equals 1/2 point. :D
Evermind (7): _o_o - _o__s__e (10)
TAC (10): Todd Michael Hall - Not With A Sword (8)
Dr. DTVT (2): Byzantine - Jeremiad (1)
lonestar (1): Plush - Athena (3)
Puppies (3): Soundscape - Resurrection (2)
Litho (9): Luna Fawn Ripley - Diapason (9)
wolfking (6): Sentire - End of the World (5)
Indiscipline (8): Gotthard - Firedance (6)
Kingshmegland (5): Molybaron - Reality Show (4)
Stadler (4): The Naomi Star - Glad That You Came (7)
Letters guessed: UABRESOM
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M
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Was hoping someone still hadn't guessed a letter. :D
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Updated with the M, and the "Michael" that Evermind guessed earlier. Forgot to, since the spreadsheet doesn't have a way to update individual words of a band or song.
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L
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Updated with the M, and the "Michael" that Evermind guessed earlier. Forgot to, since the spreadsheet doesn't have a way to update individual words of a band or song.
Todd Michael Hall - Not With A Sword
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Luna Fawn Ripley - Diapason
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Hell yeah, a 10! :biggrin:
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Damn, figured out "Todd Michael Hall" a few minutes ago, but hadn't come across the song yet. Doesn't make a difference I guess.
Now I can finally close the 50+ windows/tabs I had to open to do this. :lol
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Damn, figured out "Todd Michael Hall" a few minutes ago, but hadn't come across the song yet. Doesn't make a difference I guess.
Now I can finally close the 50+ windows/tabs I had to open to do this. :lol
It's a bonus track.
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Hint: my song is from a Frontiers-released album.
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I think I'm solved out for the night, you might as well just reveal it yourself. ;) Although half of this crowd has Frontiers as their browser homepage I think.
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Hint: my song is from a Frontiers-released album.
So it is Toto? :lol
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:lol
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Ok, I lied, curiosity got the cat.
It's Jono - "Downside".
I might have a listen to the other songs (the ones I haven't already been listening to tonight) and give some first impressions myself in the next couple days.
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Hangman start: 6:30pm ET
Hangman end: 11:16pm ET
I should go back and see how fast the first two rounds went. By round 8, I'll bet ya'll can have it done in less than an hour :lol
Evermind (7): Jono - Downside (10)
TAC (10): Todd Michael Hall - Not With A Sword (8)
Dr. DTVT (2): Byzantine - Jeremiad (1)
lonestar (1): Plush - Athena (3)
Puppies (3): Soundscape - Resurrection (2)
Litho (9): Luna Fawn Ripley - Diapason (9)
wolfking (6): Sentire - End of the World (5)
Indiscipline (8): Gotthard - Firedance (6)
Kingshmegland (5): Molybaron - Reality Show (4)
Stadler (4): The Naomi Star - Glad That You Came (7)
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By round 8, I'll bet ya'll can have it done in less than an hour :lol
By round 8 you're getting "Kxlzpqrty" by "Xytrnzl".
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Shit, I even held the round through the weekend so that Bill could play, but he never even showed.
Next round, I'm starting hangman at 9am ET - like most of us, the heavy DTF time is during work anyway. :lol
By round 8, I'll bet ya'll can have it done in less than an hour :lol
By round 8 you're getting "Kxlzpqrty" by "Xytrnzl".
:rollin :rollin
If you don't start sending better songs, it won't matter for you! :lol :P
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Next round, I'm starting hangman at 9am ET
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If you don't start sending better songs, it won't matter for you! :lol :P
Dunno about everyone else, but I haven't sent anything that wasn't already on my shortlist even before I knew what the format was.
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Jono? :lol Is he an Aussie driving a ute, a beer in his hand on his way to a BBQ wearing a flanno?
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Also, the playlist - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6UqONFLRCYlACQ2pjaanlB?si=0e72f9e8876f44a7
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The Naomi Star - "Glad That You Came". Stadler?
What the actual fuck?
I mean, that's not TECHNICALLY a demo of my band in high school, but pretty close. The guitar player was in my band (I suppose, since he has four albums out and I have none, that "I was in his band") in high school; that's his cousin singing.
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The Naomi Star - "Glad That You Came". Stadler?
What the actual fuck?
I mean, that's not TECHNICALLY a demo of my band in high school, but pretty close. The guitar player was in my band (I suppose, since he has four albums out and I have none, that "I was in his band") in high school; that's his cousin singing.
I'm tellin ya, Litho is the North American Evermind. You guys are getting it from both sides of the world.
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The Naomi Star - "Glad That You Came". Stadler?
What the actual fuck?
I mean, that's not TECHNICALLY a demo of my band in high school, but pretty close. The guitar player was in my band (I suppose, since he has four albums out and I have none, that "I was in his band") in high school; that's his cousin singing.
I'm tellin ya, Litho is the North American Evermind. You guys are getting it from both sides of the world.
Well, that leaves me no choice. A shitty cover of "Proud Mary" by Ground Zero is up next. :)
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Jono has a bit of Dio in his upper range.
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Jono? :lol Is he an Aussie driving a ute, a beer in his hand on his way to a BBQ wearing a flanno?
No smoko?
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Jono has a bit of Dio in his upper range.
I can see that. Really enjoy his voice.
Kade, the band name is for the founder/singer Johan Norrby but I like your idea better. :lol
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Jono? :lol Is he an Aussie driving a ute, a beer in his hand on his way to a BBQ wearing a flanno?
No smoko?
Always smoko so that's a given.
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Jono has a bit of Dio in his upper range.
I can see that. Really enjoy his voice.
Kade, the band name is for the founder/singer Johan Norrby but I like your idea better. :lol
Jono slang for Johan? That's weird. For us it's slang for John or Jonathon.
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Jono has a bit of Dio in his upper range.
I can see that. Really enjoy his voice.
Kade, the band name is for the founder/singer Johan Norrby but I like your idea better. :lol
Jono slang for Johan? That's weird. For us it's slang for John or Jonathon.
Johan Norrby
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Jono has a bit of Dio in his upper range.
I can see that. Really enjoy his voice.
Kade, the band name is for the founder/singer Johan Norrby but I like your idea better. :lol
Jono slang for Johan? That's weird. For us it's slang for John or Jonathon.
Is it early morning for you? :) It stands for Johan Norrby.
Edit: even Tim got it! :lol
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Jono has a bit of Dio in his upper range.
I can see that. Really enjoy his voice.
Kade, the band name is for the founder/singer Johan Norrby but I like your idea better. :lol
Jono slang for Johan? That's weird. For us it's slang for John or Jonathon.
Johan Norrby
That's fucking stupid. :lol
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Jono has a bit of Dio in his upper range.
I can see that. Really enjoy his voice.
Kade, the band name is for the founder/singer Johan Norrby but I like your idea better. :lol
Jono slang for Johan? That's weird. For us it's slang for John or Jonathon.
Is it early morning for you? :) It stands for Johan Norrby.
Edit: even Tim got it! :lol
:facepalm:
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Dunno, might start calling you Woki
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Listening to the playlist:
So far I'm impressed by a handful of really good voices and a delightful excercise in Who-ism
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Dunno, might start calling you Woki
Hmm.....not bad.
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Also, the playlist - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6UqONFLRCYlACQ2pjaanlB?si=0e72f9e8876f44a7
Have you decided not to even listen to my song?
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Also, the playlist - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6UqONFLRCYlACQ2pjaanlB?si=0e72f9e8876f44a7
Have you decided not to even listen to my song?
Oh shit! Sorry bro.
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It's fine mate. It's literally the first Spotify playlist I have ever opened too. :rollin
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Also, the playlist - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6UqONFLRCYlACQ2pjaanlB?si=0e72f9e8876f44a7 (https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6UqONFLRCYlACQ2pjaanlB?si=0e72f9e8876f44a7)
Have you decided not to even listen to my song?
Footage captured 10 seconds after first putting your song on.
(https://i.giphy.com/4kM4AecQtCLhPy7UcV.webp)
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Lots of great tunes! This is a quality round.
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Also, the playlist - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6UqONFLRCYlACQ2pjaanlB?si=0e72f9e8876f44a7 (https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6UqONFLRCYlACQ2pjaanlB?si=0e72f9e8876f44a7)
Have you decided not to even listen to my song?
Footage captured 10 seconds after first putting your song on.
(https://i.giphy.com/4kM4AecQtCLhPy7UcV.webp)
This was actually my reaction after a couple of them. :biggrin:
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Mine too! :lol
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Mine too! :lol
Probably 2 minutes into my song :lol
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Mine too! :lol
Probably 2 minutes into my song :lol
Oh, so it's YOU who sent that one? I ask, because the first time I listen to the playlist, I put it on random, and minimize the app, so I literally don't know which song is which (unless I pick it up on the lyrics). I'm guessing with your above comment, I know which one is yours now.
Edit... Nope. I'm not sure what the heck you were talking about. I was totally figuring your song was a different one.
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Mine too! :lol
Can't be mine as it wasn't in the playlist. ;D
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The Byzantine kicked ass.
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The Byzantine kicked ass.
If you say so.
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The Byzantine kicked ass.
If you say so.
:lol When it kicked in I was like, 'fuck yeah, Mason sent Chad some growls!!' :metal
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The Byzantine kicked ass.
If you say so.
:lol When it kicked in I was like, 'fuck yeah, Mason sent Chad some growls!!' :metal
When it kicked in I was like "who the fuck sent me growls!!" Honestly, I thought it was you taking the chance.
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Mine too! :lol
Probably 2 minutes into my song :lol
Oh, so it's YOU who sent that one? I ask, because the first time I listen to the playlist, I put it on random, and minimize the app, so I literally don't know which song is which (unless I pick it up on the lyrics). I'm guessing with your above comment, I know which one is yours now.
Edit... Nope. I'm not sure what the heck you were talking about. I was totally figuring your song was a different one.
I forgot what I sent for a second. I had another song in mind to send, but I chickened out at the last second. If I'm not in contention to win this thing by the last round I may send it. I'm sure you'll dig the instrumentation of the song, but the vocals are.....an acquired taste?.... (it's not growls, by the way)
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The Byzantine kicked ass.
If you say so.
:lol When it kicked in I was like, 'fuck yeah, Mason sent Chad some growls!!' :metal
When it kicked in I was like "who the fuck sent me growls!!" Honestly, I thought it was you taking the chance.
:lol I thought you'd think that too. I've never heard them before. Cool shit.
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After my second listen, only a couple of songs stood out. Pretty much everything was .... solid. :biggrin: Maybe multiple listens will start swinging the pendulum on some of them.
1. That took a set of stones the size of Montana.
2. Some tasty guitar licks splashed in during the verses keeps this interesting.
3. Beautiful choruses… Channelling some Queen there with the vocal harmonies.
4. Another ripping opening, only to be somewhat disappointed in the vocals.
5. Kingshmegland - Molybaron / Reality Show ... Straight up old school rock - wait, this wasn't made in the 80s/90s?
6. Really nice vocal harmonies. Hard to tell if this is hard rock, or light metal.
7. Face melting intro. Maybe the rest will grow on me.
8. If only the drums weren't so anorexic.
9. Stadler - The Naomi Star / Glad That You Came ... Hard not to know whose submission this was right from the first 30 seconds.
10. Truly middle of the road. Neither hard, nor soft. There's some grit in it though.
Dr. DTVT
Evermind
Indiscipline
Litho
lonestar
Puppies
TAC
Wolfking
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Time to suck!
10?
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Anorexic or middle of the road?
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5?
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Mine could be 8, 9, or 10.
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Mine could be 8, 9, or 10.
You get the Gordie Howe
The rest of you were all wrong.
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6?
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6?
(https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/HMnolEGgqsAFNmI0BxcJYg--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTY0MA--/http://globalfinance.zenfs.com/en_us/Finance/US_AFTP_SILICONALLEY_H_LIVE/The_US_Open_greens_are-26890b9e5366f79308e73cd1d153a658)
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:lol
10 then.
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I’m 4, but wish I was 7. I didn’t think what I sent was growlly
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:lol
10 then.
Colder
I’m 4, but wish I was 7. I didn’t think what I sent was growlly
(https://media.tenor.com/mlCnfpylJcsAAAAC/fingerwaving-no.gif)
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6?
(https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/HMnolEGgqsAFNmI0BxcJYg--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTY0MA--/http://globalfinance.zenfs.com/en_us/Finance/US_AFTP_SILICONALLEY_H_LIVE/The_US_Open_greens_are-26890b9e5366f79308e73cd1d153a658)
HAHAHAHA
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I watched the whole damn Gif. :lol
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Last guess, 5?
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Last guess, 5?
(https://media.tenor.com/NGCqdWmmmyIAAAAM/bingo-hans-landa.gif)
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4 on account of me overselling the vocals?
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6 or 10?
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6 or 10?
You get the Lafleur. :tup
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1. Dr. DTVT - Byzantine / Jeremiad ... That took a set of stones the size of Montana.
2. Indiscipline - Gotthard / Firedance ... Some tasty guitar licks splashed in during the verses keeps this interesting.
3. Beautiful choruses… Channelling some Queen there with the vocal harmonies.
4. Another ripping opening, only to be somewhat disappointed in the vocals.
5. Kingshmegland - Molybaron / Reality Show ... Straight up old school rock - wait, this wasn't made in the 80s/90s?
6. Really nice vocal harmonies. Hard to tell if this is hard rock, or light metal.
7. wolfking - Sentire / End of the World … Face melting intro. Maybe the rest will grow on me.
8. Puppies - Soundscape / Resurrection ... If only the drums weren't so anorexic.
9. Stadler - The Naomi Star / Glad That You Came ... Hard not to know whose submission this was right from the first 30 seconds.
10. TAC - Todd Michael Hall / Not With A Sword ... Truly middle of the road. Neither hard, nor soft. There's some grit in it though.
Evermind
Litho
lonestar
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4 on account of me overselling the vocals?
(https://i.imgflip.com/897ypl.jpg)
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6 or 7 then?
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6 or 7 then?
(https://media.tenor.com/hqze9KtFA0sAAAAC/blocked-kid.gif)
Think Kawhi Leonard
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Paper-mache ankles or 2.
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Paper-mache ankles or 2.
2 it is, but luckily, not a deuce.
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#8?
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#8?
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1 or 8, I guess...
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1 or 8, I guess...
(https://www.closerweekly.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/eight-is-enough-cast-3.jpg?quality=86&strip=all)
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Chad, you old bastard. :lol
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Who are these people?
1 is Mason?
Let's say mine's 6.
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Chad, you old bastard. :lol
Yeah. So.
Ev... it's a TV show from the 70s called "Eight is Enough".
And yes, Doc is 1; but you are not six'g me later.
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Ev... it's a TV show from the 70s called "Eight is Enough".
Thought I was having a TAC moment, but yeah there's no way I could've known that. :)
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See Chad. Lol.
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See Chad. Lol.
I doubt that was aired in the USSR!
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7?
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7?
(https://i.imgur.com/1lMJa.gif)
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See Chad. Lol.
I doubt that was aired in the USSR!
It was.
But it was called Six Is Enough as Grant Goodeve fell off a balcony and Willee Ames was poisoned.
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See Chad. Lol.
I doubt that was aired in the USSR!
It was.
But it was called Six Is Enough as Grant Goodeve fell off a balcony and Willee Ames was poisoned.
Starring Penis Van Patton. “Dick” was too offensive.
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See Chad. Lol.
I doubt that was aired in the USSR!
It was.
But it was called Six Is Enough as Grant Goodeve fell off a balcony and Willee Ames was poisoned.
Starring Penis Van Patton. “Dick” was too offensive.
Dick Van Putin
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Must be #4 then.
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6?
If it's 4 we can't be friends anymore.
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6?
If it's 4 we can't be friends anymore.
6 it is then!
P.S. It's a good thing it *was* six
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1. Dr. DTVT - Byzantine / Jeremiad ... That took a set of stones the size of Montana.
2. Indiscipline - Gotthard / Firedance ... Some tasty guitar licks splashed in during the verses keeps this interesting.
3. Evermind - Jono / Downside ... Beautiful choruses… Channelling some Queen there with the vocal harmonies.
4. Litho - Luna Fawn Ripley / Diapason ... Another ripping opening, only to be somewhat disappointed in the vocals.
5. Kingshmegland - Molybaron / Reality Show ... Straight up old school rock - wait, this wasn't made in the 80s/90s?
6. lonestar - Plush / Athena ... Really nice vocal harmonies. Hard to tell if this is hard rock, or light metal.
7. wolfking - Sentire / End of the World … Face melting intro. Maybe the rest will grow on me.
8. Puppies - Soundscape / Resurrection ... If only the drums weren't so anorexic.
9. Stadler - The Naomi Star / Glad That You Came ... Hard not to know whose submission this was right from the first 30 seconds.
10. TAC - Todd Michael Hall / Not With A Sword ... Truly middle of the road. Neither hard, nor soft. There's some grit in it though.
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Chad, I would like to suggest you use Day 2 of ProgPower to explore Atlanta…cause you ain’t gonna like it
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The title says 2nd impressions. Did I miss first impressions?
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Given your comments here and in the earlier rounds, I may have finally met my forum match in finding someone else equally picky about vocals. I kind of like them because of the contrast of them being calmer with the more frenetic music, it's a method not employed nearly as much as I'd like. Hopefully they'll grow on you.
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The title says 2nd impressions. Did I miss first impressions?
Nah.... it's just my impressions after listening to the songs a 2nd time each.
@ Mason... I'm fully prepared to be mostly 'meh' about some of those bands, but gonna try to gut it out. I haven't listened to Nospun yet (hopefully it's along the lines of what Rich sent me in the qualifying round), and I don't think that Northtale or Twilight Force are growl heavy. Scar Symmetry is a mix of growls and cleans though, right? Leprous will be a perfect time to go and get a nice sit-down dinner though. Dark Tranquility ... we'll see.
@ Josh... yeah, I'm not sure that it's so much being picky, but just TASTESTM!! More to follow in my writeup I guess.
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I'm like Chad where I'm not keen on growls. Those, if it's mixed with good, clean vocals (Opeth) I like it. It's full on growls throughout a full song that I'm not into.
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You'll get there one day lads, don't stress.
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We can all agree on good clean growlers though.
(the Brits are going to get this)
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You'll get there one day lads, don't stress.
Nah. I don't mind growls, just not for a full song and a full album.
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You'll get there one day lads, don't stress.
(https://media.tenor.com/vG78TCITSJwAAAAC/you-wanna-bet-kyle-broflovski.gif)
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No time to fire up the R3 playlist this week. Work has been extremely hectic and I won't be home for the weekend. I'll try to catch up during the next week maybe.
Chad, do you need me to send my song in advance or would Monday work for you?
Edit: also still need to listen to Orbit Culture. Gonna try and hit that next week too.
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Monday will be fine. I’m not getting a lot of listening in this week, so I’ll run this right up to Sunday.
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Here you go, punks. Again, writeups are sorted in order of quality.
TAC: Todd Michael Hall / Not With A Sword
AS per my impression, this was truly middle-of-the-road - neither hard, nor soft. I was trying to find some grit in it, but it eluded me. I was hoping this might grow on me, but spoiler alert… it didn't. With that title, I was expecting something totally different. I'm honestly very surprised this is A) something you enjoy, and B) something you think I'd enjoy. I mean, this guy sings in the relaunched version of Riot V as well?? Da fuq? The vocal harmonies in the chorus were enjoyable, and the guitar licks were pleasant, but otherwise this was the musical equivalent of a butter sandwich - and had all the edge of a softened block of butter. This song suffered (like your last submission) from a bit too much repetition in the rhythm.
Scores
Quality: 6.5
Unpredictability: 4.0
Anonymity: 5.0
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Dr. DTVT: Byzantine / Jeremiad
Great opening passage, and then the growls. Sure, they're short, but my first impression stands. The hard growls are tolerable (they're not overly offensive to my ears), while the harsh-ish vocals are too much screaming *at* me. The rest of the cleans are decent enough, but just 'decent'. I loved virtually all aspects of the music. But the real winning part of this song is the guitar solo (teaser at 1:15) and the full deal at 3:15 *chef's kiss*. I hear a tribute to A Nightmare to Remember at the 2:45 spot. The outro went on a bit longer than necessary, and was pretty pedestrian. Musically B+; Vocally C
Scores
Quality: 7.0
Unpredictability: 0.5
Anonymity: 1.0
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Stadler: The Naomi Star / Glad That You Came
Hard not to know whose submission this was right from the first 30 seconds. You've got a 'tell' when it comes to the sound/style, and I appreciate your convictions. Sometimes the songs hit, often times they're just … there. This has the sound as though it could've been used as a theme song for a sitcom in the late 80s or 90s (ala Friends/Rembrandts) For a 4 minute song, it seemed quite a bit longer. Simple, straight-forward. Good little diddy. Had me tappin my foot. Rather simple and uneventful, yet enjoyable. It's a solid B-, and it's the kind that deserves a rounding up
Scores
Quality: 7.5
Unpredictability: 3.5
Anonymity: 2.0
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Evermind: Jono / Downside
I hear the Dio resemblance in the chorus', but certainly not in the verses. The vocal cadence in the verses was kinda meh - wasn't much of a fan of rising scale (not sure how else to describe it) melody for the lyrics . Beautiful choruses though… Channelling some Queen there with the vocal harmonies. Nice piano work mid way through - it creates a nice haunting atmosphere, building up a nice crescendo for the ultimate climax, then a nice soft percussive landing. Second 1/2 of the song was definitely an A. First half was merely decent.
Scores
Quality: 7.5
Unpredictability: 5.0
Anonymity: 3.5
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Litho: Luna Fawn Ripley / Diapason
After a few listens, I figured out what my issue was with the vocals - they just don't match/align with the style of the song. She's got a very nice voice - pleasant, graceful, charming … but the style of the song is aggressive (especially with that machine gun snare - not much of a fan of that here), which just doesn't seem to match the vocal delivery I'm getting. I guess there's a certain kind of power I want/need/expect in this instance. The vocals are definitely the weak part of the song - which has strong composition and performance overall, but shit ... is her vocal hero Issa :lol? It's impressive that she does all the instrumentation sans the drumming, and I loved the closing acoustic - but that part felt like a totally different track… the quick switch to it, and a full 90 second epilogue. It was completely unexpected, and didn't jive with the style of rest of the song. There's was lots to like here, but I just couldn't score this any higher.
Scores
Quality: 7.5
Unpredictability: 4.5
Anonymity: 4.5
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Wolfking: Sentire / End of the World
Killer intro, which quickly becomes standard power metal fare with the double bass driving most of the song. Unfortunately, I'm not digging the galloping drum double kicks (again). I dunno, maybe I'm just in a bit of a funk over that rhythmic sound. Every other section of the song was far more appealing. The symphony patches were kinda weak though. Some powerful fucking drumming overall - notwithstanding my lack of appeal for the 'galloping' style. Ripping guitar solo, and the outro was great (although, abrupt). I want to round up, but the galloping drums are grating on me.
:imonahorse:
Scores
Quality: 7.5
Unpredictability: 2.5
Anonymity: 3.0
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Lonestar: Plush / Athena
Nice vocal harmonies overall. Very good stuff, though I'm not sure if this is hard rock, or light metal. Either way, better of the two female vox this round for sure. This is where it dawned on me why I wasn't digging the other one as much. There's a bit of grit in her voice, and it's entirely consistent with the style and sound of the song. Pretty straight forward rock/metal song, with the typical rock structure- intro, verse, chorus, bridge, solo, outro. Very likeable.
Scores
Quality: 7.5
Unpredictability: 1.5
Anonymity: 0.5
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Puppies: Soundscape / Resurrection
Beautiful vocal start! This one is proggy af. Sounds like they're trying to be Transatlantic or some kind of mashup of Moon Safari and Yes, and I'm diggin it. Drums sound pretty thin though, and the 'squeaky' pitch/sound of the guitar could've been better - but that mini-solo at 4:15 was just fantastic, as was the outro. Vocals end up being one of the weaker parts of this, so it's a good thing there were a lot of instrumental passages - kinda sounded like he was trying to be Jon Anderson, and falling far short. The vocal harmonies towards the end were on the verge of being cringey - again, like they're trying to be 'Topographic Oceans' Yes, but failed (almost spectacularly). If they'd cleaned up a few things in here, this could've been an A+ song.
Spotify: 9 Monthly listens - and we're two of them! Talk about obscure. You (along with RJ) got hosed with Kade opening up Hangman with a "U".
Scores
Quality: 8.0
Unpredictability: 1.0
Anonymity: 1.5
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Indiscipline: Gotthard / Firedance
I've got one of their albums saved in my Spotify library (#13 - literally, that's the title of the album), so I was looking forward to hearing more. The intro is basically Damn Yankees / Piledriver (which is one of my fave DY songs), and quickly turns into what I expect to be a meandering plodder. But it's just a mid-temp bass driven melody - which, all things being equal, is usually pretty 'meh' for me. Luckily, all things are not equal - tasty guitar fills and Steve Lee's vocals more than compensate for the pace (I knew I recognized his voice - he was on 01011001). I'm intrigued with these guys. Wikipedia references that they are influenced by Whitesnake - no shit! Lee is channelling quite a bit of Coverdale. There's some strong Maiden and Sabbath influence here as well. When all is said and done, I came to really like that bass line that is the engine of this song.
Scores
Quality: 8.0
Unpredictability: 3.0
Anonymity: 4.0
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King: Molybaron / Reality Show
This is some bitchin, high quality rock music - straight up old school rock. Nothing special to the primary vocals, call and return structure of the chorus was suh-weeet! Pounding rhythm and drums really get the head banging. The guitar solo is a nice pause mid-song, and is filled with a lot of sould … I was just disappointed with it's length - not the first time you've heard that I'm sure :neverusethis:. And it's a 2023 release that I'm now going to need to check out. No muss; no fuss - just a great rockin track. Simple can be good. The chorus was the biggest earworm this round.
Scores
Quality: 8.5
Unpredictability: 2.0
Anonymity: 2.5
Total Round 3:
Litho - Luna Fawn Ripley / Diapason: 4.5 + 4.5 + 7.5 = 16.5
Evermind - Jono / Downside: 5 + 3.5 + 7.5 = 16
TAC - Todd Michael Hall / Not With A Sword: 4 + 5 + 6.5 = 15.5
Indiscipline - Gotthard / Firedance: 3 + 4 + 8 = 15
Kingshmegland - Molybaron / Reality Show: 2 + 2.5 + 8.5 = 13
Stadler - The Naomi Star / Glad That You Came: 3.5 + 2 + 7.5 = 13
wolfking - Sentire / End of the World: 2.5 + 3 + 7.5 = 13
Puppies - Soundscape / Resurrection: 1 + 1.5 + 8 = 10.5
lonestar - Plush / Athena: 1.5 + 0.5 + 7.5 = 9.5
Dr. DTVT - Byzantine / Jeremiad: 0.5 + 1 + 7 = 8.5
Overall Standings:
Litho - 44.5
lonestar - 43
Evermind - 42.5
Wolfking - 41.5
TAC - 41
Dr. DTVT - 39
Puppies - 38
Indiscipline - 36
King - 36
Stadler - 32
And just so ya'll know the ranking of best quality through 3 rounds:
lonestar - 25.5
Indiscipline - 24
Wolfking - 23.5
Puppies - 23.5
King - 23.5
Litho - 23
Evermind - 22.5
Dr. DTVT - 22.5
Stadler - 21
TAC - 19.5
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Noice! Yeah that album is killer. And about the length....
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I thought you'll like the first half and find the second half meandering. :lol 7,5 seems a default score for me at this point.
I've been listening to this album for the past few weeks and it really is excellent IMO, 7,5 is way too low, but I'll take it.
You'll get my R4 song in ~27 hours.
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I thought you'll like the first half and find the second half meandering. :lol 7,5 seems a default score for me at this point.
7 and 7.5 is the default score for pretty much all music I sample. It really takes a lot for me to knock a rating down below that, and I have to be REALLY impressed to get something into the 8 / A range.
50% of the songs so far are 7 or 7.5; 40% are higher; 10% are lower.
Seems to make sense - I'd expect in a Roulette like this, there would be a higher than normal amount of 8s or higher. If I were to look at all the music I've sampled this year (170+ albums), I've only got about 40 (tops) I'd call 8+
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Tied for 3rd in overall quality, I'll take it!
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I knew you'd dig Moriah's voice, she has that Maggy edge to it, and the band is just well executed hard rock all around.
You got my next round already.
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A 6.5???
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Have you tried sending better music?
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A 6.5???
Average size.
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A 6.5???
For the 3rd round in a row no less. I dunno man, I'm beginning to wonder how I did so well in your Roulette's!
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A 6.5???
For the 3rd round in a row no less. I dunno man, I'm beginning to wonder how I did so well in your Roulette's!
I'd be leading if Evermind didn't blow me up in Round 2. :lol
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He does that to all of us. Lol
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Sent for Round 4 :corn
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Sent for Round 4 :corn
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Very nice! I'm sending as soon as I reach a keyboard.
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Will send in a couple of hours. I thought mine would do slightly better to be honest but meh.
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Sent!
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Not sure how to feel about this. I'm in the lead, but with a middle of the road quality score. :lol I might send something I had been holding back on because it could be too easy to guess. Lemme think about this a bit. I kind of don't like what it's doing to my thought process for sending, but I'm not the one who came up with these rules. :p
As for the song, I guess my enjoyment of the contrast of a harder/more forward instrumentation juxtaposed with softer vocals is a niche that not a great deal of people share, oh well. The guitar playing is definitely my favorite part though, and actually one of the guitar solos is played by Gabriel Borza, who contributes work on other tracks as well, along with Phil Tougas on another tune.
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Not sure how to feel about this. I'm in the lead, but with a middle of the road quality score. :lol
I'm in the dead middle of the pack with the worst quality score. ;D
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Not sure how to feel about this. I'm in the lead, but with a middle of the road quality score. :lol I might send something I had been holding back on because it could be too easy to guess. Lemme think about this a bit. I kind of don't like what it's doing to my thought process for sending, but I'm not the one who came up with these rules. :p
Don't overthink. Oh, wait ... nevermind.
Also, there's still 5 rounds to go. Nobody should feel terribly comfortable or uncomfortable with their position.
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Not sure how to feel about this. I'm in the lead, but with a middle of the road quality score. :lol
I'm in the dead middle of the pack with the worst quality score. ;D
Both of you STFU. I'm in almost dead last with a lousy quality score and apparently a neon sign on each of my submittals. :) :) :) :)
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Still ahead of Tim in quality.
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And sent!
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Just waitin on Sleepy Joe.
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Oh fuck, c'mon Joe!!
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I had to resend and I did an hour ago.
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Oh fuck, c'mon Joe!!
Oh, and shut it, Tim.
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??: _____t_ - T________
??: __t____ - __u___t__
??: ________ - __ ______t_____
??: ________ - T___ __u____ t_ ____
??: ______ __ _____ - T__ ___t_____ __ _____ __u ____
??: __________ - _______
??: ______ ____t_ - True _____t
??: T___u_ ___u___ - ___u______ ____
??: ____ - _____
??: _____ ____ - _______ T___t_
Letters guessed: TU
Dr. DTVT
Evermind
Indiscipline
King
Litho
lonestar
Puppies
Stadler
TAC
Wolfking
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T
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U
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U
Again??
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U
Again??
Yes hello, it's me again. ;D
I picked U last time.....huh, well fuck me.
Yes again!
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Guessing that word there in the 4th last one is true?
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Guessing that word there in the 4th last one is true?
Indeed.
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Legacy Pilots - True Spirit
King?
I'll have another crack at this once I arrive to work.
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I ain't guessing shit for letters till Ruslan is asleep.
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Hordes in Exile - The Emptiness in Which You Hide
No way to listen to it at work, so going by the title, Doc?
I ain't guessing shit for letters till Ruslan is asleep.
That's gonna take a while, 7 AM here.
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I ain't guessing shit for letters till Ruslan is asleep.
That's gonna take a while, 7 AM here.
Goodnight sweet prince :-*
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Well I've got to work too, you know.
Give me L
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No seriously......who the fuck do you do this? :lol
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I think it is amazing that either those were the only R and E was in True, or Chad screwed up big time :rollin
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I think the letters are only revealed through guessing them directly, not through guessing full words, otherwise this would've been over in like five minutes.
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I have no idea what that means.
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I think it is amazing that either those were the only R and E was in True, or Chad screwed up big time :rollin
I filled in "True" because ...
Guessing that word there in the 4th last one is true?
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??: _____t_ - T_r____l_
??: __t____ - __ul__t__
??: _r____ll - __ ______t_____
??: __r_____ - T_r_ __u___r t_ ____
??: Hordes in Exile - The Emptiness In Which You Hide (2)
??: ________r_ - _____ll
??: Legacy Pilots - True Spirit (1)
??: T_llu_ R__u___ - __lu______ ____
??: ___l - _r___
??: _____ ____ - _______ Tr__t_
Letters guessed: TULR
Dr. DTVT
Evermind
Indiscipline
King
Litho
lonestar
Puppies
Stadler
TAC
Wolfking
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Ah....that makes a bit more sense.
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R
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O
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Tellus Requim-Delusioned Mind
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Torn Asunder to something?
Don't have time to Google anything right now at work.
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Or turn something to something I guess :lol
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Tellus Requim-Delusioned Mind
Tellus Requiem, in case Chad is picky with spelling
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Tellus Requim-Delusioned Mind
Tellus Requiem, in case Chad is picky with spelling
He’s not. I gotta let King play too.
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Ruslan must actually be working, it's still mostly unsolved. Still ain't getting a fucking letter from me man...
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??: _____t_ - T_r___ol_
??: __t____ - _oul__t__
??: _r____ll - __ _o____t__o__
??: __ro____ - Torn Asunder to ____
??: Hordes in Exile - The Emptiness In Which You Hide (2)
??: ________r_ - _____ll
??: Legacy Pilots - True Spirit (1)
??: Tellus Requiem - Delusioned Mind (3)
??: ___l - _r___
??: _____ _oo_ - _____o_ Tr__t_
Letters guessed: TULRO
Dr. DTVT
Evermind
Indiscipline
King
Litho
lonestar
Puppies
Stadler
TAC
Wolfking
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You're letting me play? S then.
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Xerosync - "Torn Asunder To Sand".
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Xerosync - "Torn Asunder To Sand".
Ninja'd!
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Xerosync - "Torn Asunder To Sand".
Ninja'd!
Then Tim sent it
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Ruslan must actually be working
Crazy, right? :biggrin:
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Animate - Threshold
I'll say Litho because he's in the lead :lol
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Tellus Requiem is not lonestar, is it?
And let's get an "E".
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There is a Japanese prog metal band "Freewill" (and thus perfect lonestar fodder) which fits into a slot, but the songs on their albums don't fit, unless there's a hyper-obscure B-side he has.
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M for "My god I can't believe I haven't been guessed yet!"
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There is a Japanese prog metal band "Freewill" (and thus perfect lonestar fodder) which fits into a slot, but the songs on their albums don't fit, unless there's a hyper-obscure B-side he has.
Am I Tellus or Freewill? Pick one man..
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Thank you for your patience - I had to drive jingle.daughter to work today.
Good effort at the misdirection, Chef... but once guessed correctly, I'm taking the approach of 'a card laid is a card played'. Plus, Freewill no longer suits.
??: Animate - Threshold (5)
??: M_t____ - Soul__t_s
??: _r___ell - M_ _o____t__o_s
??: Xerosync - Torn Asunder to Sand (4)
??: Hordes in Exile - The Emptiness In Which You Hide (2)
??: ____e__er_ - S____ll
??: Legacy Pilots - True Spirit (1)
Star o' Lones (1): Tellus Requiem - Delusioned Mind (3)
??: Se_l - _r___
??: _esse _oo_ - _____o_ Tr_ste
Letters guessed: TULROSEM
Dr. DTVT
Evermind
Indiscipline
King
Litho
Puppies
Stadler
TAC
Wolfking
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Jesse Cook - Canción Triste. Indy?
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Quoting for new page, and Luke's reveal.
??: Animate - Threshold (5)
??: M_t____ - Soul__t_s
??: _r___ell - M_ _o____t__o_s
??: Xerosync - Torn Asunder to Sand (4)
??: Hordes in Exile - The Emptiness In Which You Hide (2)
??: ____e__er_ - S____ll
??: Legacy Pilots - True Spirit (1)
Star o' Lones (1): Tellus Requiem - Delusioned Mind (3)
??: Seal - Crazy (7)
??: Jesse Cook - Cancion Triste (6)
Letters guessed: TULROSEM
Dr. DTVT
Evermind
Indiscipline
King
Litho
Puppies
Stadler
TAC
Wolfking
I'm loving all the incorrect guesses at the senders! :tup
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Seal - "Crazy".
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Seal - "Crazy".
Stads.
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Jesse cook Cancion triste
Dammit.
If not Indiscipline, then Litho
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1. Legacy Pilots - Litho
2. Animate - King
3. Xerosync - Mason
4. Hordes in Exile - Kade
0/4
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Apparently I sent half these songs. :lol
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Seal - "Crazy".
Litho :lol
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Mythika - "Soulpaths". TAC?
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Jeez, now I'm actually rooting for Evermind's guesses.. :lol
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Xerosync is king.
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Xerosync is king.
Yup.
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Animate - DTVT
Hordes In Exile - Kade
Jesse Cook - Evermind
Legacy Pilots - Puppies
0/4?
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1. Legacy Pilots - Litho
2. Animate - King
3. Xerosync - Mason
4. Hordes in Exile - Kade
0/4
Spot on ... it was indeed 0/4! :lol
For as good as you are at solving the music, you're as good as *I* am at matching to the senders. :biggrin:
Seal is Stads
Mythika is TAC
Xerosync is King (as he confirmed)
Jesse Cook is Evermind
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N - just to keep things moving
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1. Legacy Pilots - Litho
2. Animate - King
3. Xerosync - Mason
4. Hordes in Exile - Kade
0/4
Spot on ... it was indeed 0/4! :lol
For as good as you are at solving the music, you're as good as *I* am at matching to the senders. :biggrin:
Figured I'll give it a go before someone guessed me for Jesse Cook. :lol
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??: Animate - Threshold (5)
T in the AC (3): Mythika - Soulpaths (8)
??: _r___ell - M_ _on___t__ons
Shmeglepuss (4): Xerosync - Torn Asunder to Sand (4)
??: Hordes in Exile - The Emptiness In Which You Hide (2)
??: __n_en_er_ - S____ll
??: Legacy Pilots - True Spirit (1)
Star o' Lones (1): Tellus Requiem - Delusioned Mind (3)
Waldorf's pal (2): Seal - Crazy (7)
Rainmind (5): Jesse Cook - Cancion Triste (6)
Letters guessed: TULROSEM
Dr. DTVT
Indiscipline
Litho
Puppies
Wolfking
Reminder ... letter reveal is one per day, not one per 24 hour period. And non-participants can also reveal letters.
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Hordes Is the doctor
Animate Is Jazzo
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Just because everyone else is guessing Litho, I’ll say Animate for him.
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Hordes in Exile - The Emptiness in Which You Hide
No way to listen to it at work, so going by the title, Doc?
I ain't guessing shit for letters till Ruslan is asleep.
That's gonna take a while, 7 AM here.
Hordes isn't Doc, I tried this when I guessed it.
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Drivhell - "My Convictions".
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Drivhell is Kade
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Ya know, I didn't think it would be statistically possible for so many guesses to be completely wrong :lol No luck for you blind squirrels.
??: Animate - Threshold (5)
T in the AC (3): Mythika - Soulpaths (8)
??: Drivhell - My Convictiions (9)
Shmeglepuss (4): Xerosync - Torn Asunder to Sand (4)
??: Hordes in Exile - The Emptiness In Which You Hide (2)
??: Vandenberg - Skyfall (10)
Virginian Physician (6): Legacy Pilots - True Spirit (1)
Star o' Lones (1): Tellus Requiem - Delusioned Mind (3)
Waldorf's pal (2): Seal - Crazy (7)
Rainmind (5): Jesse Cook - Cancion Triste (6)
Letters guessed: TULROSEMN
Indiscipline
Litho
Puppies
Wolfking
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Vandenberg - "Skymill".
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Vandenberg - "Skymill".
This is Litho
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Vandenberg - "Skymill".
This is Litho
This is wrong.
And hilarious as the sender of this song thought it was going to be simple to solve.
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I didn't send it? :huh: Must be wolfking then.
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I didn't send it? :huh: Must be wolfking then.
(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/08/65/3d/08653d59358581eec641a3e3ac8856f2.gif)
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Is Litho even is this roulette? :lol
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I haven't gone back to verify, but he might have been guessed for every song except the one he actually sent! :lol :lol
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DTVT may be Legacy Pilots.
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Litho sent Drivhell
Dr sent Vandenberg
Indi sent Legacy Pilots
Puppies sent Animate
Wolfie sent Hordes
All guesses are totally random.
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Litho sent Drivhell
Dr sent Vandenberg
Indi sent Legacy Pilots
Puppies sent Animate
Wolfie sent Hordes
All guesses are totally random.
All guesses are totally wrong. :rollin :rollin
Doc did indeed send Legacy Pilots.
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Puppies must be Drivhell.
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Indiscipline sent Vandenburg.
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Now you're catching on.
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Kade must be Animate then.
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Sadly, Kade was not here to defend himself.
Howlin Monarch (9): Animate - Threshold (5)
T in the AC (3): Mythika - Soulpaths (8)
K9s be trippin (7): Drivhell - My Convictiions (9)
Shmeglepuss (4): Xerosync - Torn Asunder to Sand (4)
Globe of Oil & Water (10): Hordes in Exile - The Emptiness In Which You Hide (2)
Indi's Disciples (8): Vandenberg - Skyfall (10)
Virginian Physician (6): Legacy Pilots - True Spirit (1)
Star o' Lones (1): Tellus Requiem - Delusioned Mind (3)
Waldorf's pal (2): Seal - Crazy (7)
Rainmind (5): Jesse Cook - Cancion Triste (6)
Litho was 2nd song solved, but last to be matched.
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So Litho was Hordes and I screwed him up early but he still got 10 points for unpredictability? Fuck me. :rollin
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I'm trying to figure out how the fuck Evermind blew me up with only 3 letters out of 40. :rollin I had to resort to drastic shenanigans after that. ;D
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I'm trying to figure out how the fuck Evermind blew me up with only 3 letters out of 40. :rollin I had to resort to drastic shenanigans after that. ;D
Well played :clap:
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My wife focked me.
I was clumsly sending the whole solution by phone when she had to focking call.
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So Litho was Hordes and I screwed him up early but he still got 10 points for unpredictability? Fuck me. :rollin
Well, 5 points for unpredictability. But yes. Hangman scores:
9.0 Indiscipline: Vandenberg - Skyfall
8.0 Puppies: Drivhell - My Convictiions
7.0 wolfking: Animate - Threshold
6.0 Litho: Hordes in Exile - The Emptiness In Which You Hide
5.5 TAC: Mythika - Soulpaths
5.5 Evermind: Jesse Cook - Cancion Triste
4.5 Stadler: Seal - Crazy
4.0 King: Xerosync - Torn Asunder to Sand
3.5 Doc: Legacy Pilots - True Spirit
2.0 Cheffy: Tellus Requiem - Delusioned Mind
2nd round in a row Cheffy got hosed by the "U". Fuck my life, I'm sensing some untranslatable deathcore j-metal coming on in Round 5. :zeltar:
My wife focked me.
I was clumsly sending the whole solution by phone when she had to focking call.
"Call me back in 10 sweetie, I'm about to solve Musical Wheel of Fortune with my internerds."
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My wife focked me.
I was clumsly sending the whole solution by phone when she had to focking call.
Gotta up your game next round.
(https://i.giphy.com/xTiN0MIU7OCSHEGfHa.webp)
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Ok, back to work for me. First play through will be in about an hour.
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My wife focked me.
I was clumsly sending the whole solution by phone when she had to focking call.
Gotta up your game next round.
It's a lost cause. I have primate thumbs and a different language T9.
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Yeah this was probably the most fun hangman so far.
2nd round in a row Cheffy got hosed by the "U". Fuck my life, I'm sensing some untranslatable deathcore j-metal coming on in Round 5. :zeltar:
No kidding: whenever I Googled a potential song name in the hangman this round, I also tried "<song name> japanese song". :lol My Google search history for today includes "take courage to live japanese song", "torn asunder to live japanese song", "bluewater japanese song", "soulmates japanese song", and also, in an unrelated to RJ turn of events, but because I miscounted the amount of letters in Litho's entry (inconvenient to do it on the phone), a guess-I'm-having-a-stroke search of "the of where you are song". :lol
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Yeah this was probably the most fun hangman so far.
Most stressful, yes. :censored I think last round was the most fun. :D
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Some serious bullshit is heading your way man.
Need I remind you, and everyone else, my last 'unpronounceable jmetal' submission won the round.
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Some serious bullshit is heading your way man.
Need I remind you, and everyone else, my last 'unpronounceable jmetal' submission won the round.
Going all Genghis Khan on us, eh RJ? :lol
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Some serious bullshit is heading your way man.
Need I remind you, and everyone else, my last 'unpronounceable jmetal' submission won the round.
Going all Genghis Khan on us, eh RJ? :lol
I prefer Kubla.
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Also, Playlist:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3Zaarz5WlFNU2VdtKbLwcG?si=46ff13433a8f44df
sans Puppies' song, as he continues to dig deep. Doesn't even seem to be on YT. You'll all just have to take my word for how it is. :)
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Three tracks in on my random spin, and there seems to be some attempts at cheating via the lead singer. I'm hearing what I think are some familiar voices, and names that some know I'm a fanboy of.
And the fourth (I think?) tune that popped up ... wow. I'll let your imagination run wild.
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Legacy Pilots for sure, I saw John Mitchell in the lineup when I looked the band up.
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I was playing with fire in sending mine, as if people knew me much and knew who was singing I could have been outed quickly. But it's in a different style than usual for him, so if anyone listened hopefully that threw them off. Based on last.fm you've definitely heard him before, but he doesn't seem to be a favorite per se.
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Legacy Pilots for sure, I saw John Mitchell in the lineup when I looked the band up.
Ok, that was one of the voices I thought I heard.
Pretty sure I also heard Ronnie Romero and Ted Leonard.
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Oof, I sure missed out on some action in here.
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:lol
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Oof, I sure missed out on some action in here.
Yeah, but at least you did ok with your intangible scores.
I think RJ is gonna cunt punch you if you reveal a key letter in his band/song again!
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Maybe next round ge should pick a band without a U in the name.....simple. ;D
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Maybe next round ge should pick a band without a U in the name.....simple. ;D
Currently looking for a band without a vowel in their name.
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jingle already knows DGM, Styx, and Y&T.
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I'm actually surprised Animate made it half way through the round to be fair. Expected it to go quicker.
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Maybe next round ge should pick a band without a U in the name.....simple. ;D
Currently looking for a band without a vowel in their name.
HAHAHA
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I actually found a few.. Unfortunately they all suck and I do have standards
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I actually found a few.. Unfortunately they all suck and I do have standards
I don't apparently.
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I actually found a few.. Unfortunately they all suck and I do have standards
I don't apparently.
You do.. You just drop them faster than you can lower them.
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Wait....Chad has standards? ;D
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Wait....Chad has standards? ;D
Only with his men.
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Didn't realize you were already a fan of Moon Safari. I had a song from their newest album queued up for the next round for you....Back to the drawing board :P
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Didn't realize you were already a fan of Moon Safari. I had a song from their newest album queued up for the next round for you....Back to the drawing board :P
Oh yeah... got in to them 6 years ago when they came over to do RoSFest. That was the festival where King, Hef, Doc, Nick and I all hung out (and Hef King and I got the chance to have 'za and beers with Coz on the way there too!)
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I'll find that picture and post it.
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(https://i.postimg.cc/mDxgnQhR/FB-IMG-1703075991646.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)
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:tup :tup
Remind me of Brandon's DTF handle?
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Damn, I don't remember. Coz would know.
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Ok, who are the two on the left?
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Far left is Brandon. I think his handle was 2Timer? Left to right the rest - Cosmo, Hef, jingle, Lisa (king’s wife) and king
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Also, Marco Minnemann was the drummer on that track. Other than the keyboard player/song writer, the rest of Legacy Pilots are guest spots, kind of like an Alan Parson’s Project album where you have different singers on different songs.
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Helluva good round, bitches. Heading out for an early Christmas dinner with jingle.mom, so impressions later tonight or in the morning.
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So surely this has been explained in the past, but as far as I can remember I've never seen it, so what's the story behind your username?
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Helluva good round, bitches. Heading out for an early Christmas dinner with jingle.mom, so impressions later tonight or in the morning.
Say hi to her for me. ;D
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So surely this has been explained in the past, but as far as I can remember I've never seen it, so what's the story behind your username?
From the 'Explain your username' thread - https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=33629.0
I was registering for some website about 15 years ago, and every username I chose (no matter how seemingly obscure - oooohhhh...nugget!), I kept getting 'that username is taken'. At the time, there was a commercial on TV around here with a family at a dinner table, and the daughter's boyfriend was dressed as a court jester. It was clearly an awkward moment for the family (it was total silence), and when mom asked someone to pass the potato's, the jester started to, and she yelled out "not you jingle boy!". My gf (now wife) loved that line, and used it over and over again.
That username was not taken, so it's kinda stuck in a lot of places I register at.
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Helluva good round, bitches. Heading out for an early Christmas dinner with jingle.mom, so impressions later tonight or in the morning.
Love to hear your impressions of jingle.mom for sure.
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That username was not taken
There's probably some poor dude trying to register at DTF going I can't believe jingle.boy is taken!!!
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That username was not taken
There's probably some poor dude trying to register at DTF going I can't believe jingle.boy is taken!!!
:lol
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So surely this has been explained in the past, but as far as I can remember I've never seen it, so what's the story behind your username?
From the 'Explain your username' thread - https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=33629.0 (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=33629.0)
I was registering for some website about 15 years ago, and every username I chose (no matter how seemingly obscure - oooohhhh...nugget!), I kept getting 'that username is taken'. At the time, there was a commercial on TV around here with a family at a dinner table, and the daughter's boyfriend was dressed as a court jester. It was clearly an awkward moment for the family (it was total silence), and when mom asked someone to pass the potato's, the jester started to, and she yelled out "not you jingle boy!". My gf (now wife) loved that line, and used it over and over again.
That username was not taken, so it's kinda stuck in a lot of places I register at.
Ok, so I turned into Tim for a minute and forgot that Google and search exist, and had just already finished reading that and was going to link to it and ask if there was anything to add since then, but I do notice that it explains the phrase, but not the significance of the ".". The versatility of it is fascinating, but where did it start?
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I think I put the period in there, as I’d assumed that spaces weren’t allowed in usernames.
Impression of jingle.mom …. She likes her desserts! Man was I stuffed.
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My current takes:
1. That is guitar crunchy and metal af.
2. Guitar almost as crunchy, but with better vocals.
3. I hope I warm up to the vocals, cuz the music is is tracking to an easy A.
4. Not the kind of music that I'd normally or proactively reach for, but what a beautiful performance.
5. This scratches a particular itch that I often have, and it does not bite.
6. It's about fucking time. That's some boner-inducing riffage.
7. What a powerful voice, and amazing vocalist. One of the best of the round.
8. I would've bet money this was Ted Leonard on the mic.
9. With that singer, you'd think I'd enjoy this more.
10. By far the most "prog" song of the round.
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3 or 4?
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7 or 9.
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4
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6
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I think mine is 4 or 9
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Indi and Ev yes; everyone else, no
1. That is guitar crunchy and metal af.
2. Guitar almost as crunchy, but with better vocals.
3. I hope I warm up to the vocals, cuz the music is is tracking to an easy A.
4. Evermind: Jesse Cook - Cancion Triste ... Not the kind of music that I'd normally or proactively reach for, but what a beautiful performance.
5. This scratches a particular itch that I often have, and it does not bite.
6. TAC: Mythika - Soulpaths ... It's about fucking time. That's some boner-inducing riffage.
7. What a powerful voice, and amazing vocalist. One of the best of the round.
8. I would've bet money this was Ted Leonard on the mic.
9. Indiscipline: Vandenberg - Skyfall With that singer, you'd think I'd enjoy this more.
10. King: Xerosync - Torn Asunder to Sand ... By far the most "prog" song of the round.
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10 then.
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10 then.
Ding ding ding
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I be am boner inducing.
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5
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I be am boner inducing.
I regret to inform you that you are not.
Your submission is though.
@ RJ... have a listen to the chorus in your track and make your final guess.
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I be am boner inducing.
You are a blue pill?
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I be am boner inducing.
I regret to inform you that you are not.
Your submission is though.
@ RJ... have a listen to the chorus in your track and make your final guess.
Working, not in music mode. Not all of us have cushy desk jobs... :P
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I be am boner inducing.
Sig'd.
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TAC sending Instant Boner next round, called it.
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7
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One more day at work and I'll be able to hit the playlist (probably will tackle Round 3 too).
In defense of my song for this round, Chad said any genre goes, plus it was a good fit for hangman with the non-English title.
Off to DT section to read Kade's astonishing rant.
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3 or 5?
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One more day at work and I'll be able to hit the playlist (probably will tackle Round 3 too).
In defense of my song for this round, Chad said any genre goes, plus it was a good fit for hangman with the non-English title.
Off to DT section to read Kade's astonishing rant.
No defense required. You and Stadler had the pills to go outside the norm this round. :tup
Bill... you are correct.
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1. That is guitar crunchy and metal af.
2. Guitar almost as crunchy, but with better vocals.
3. Puppies: Drivhell - My Convictions ... I hope I warm up to the vocals, cuz the music is is tracking to an easy A.
4. Evermind: Jesse Cook - Cancion Triste ... Not the kind of music that I'd normally or proactively reach for, but what a beautiful performance.
5. This scratches a particular itch that I often have, and it does not bite.
6. TAC: Mythika - Soulpaths ... It's about fucking time. That's some boner-inducing riffage.
7. Stadler: Seal - Crazy ... What a powerful voice, and amazing vocalist. One of the best of the round.
8. I would've bet money this was Ted Leonard on the mic.
9. Indiscipline: Vandenberg - Skyfall With that singer, you'd think I'd enjoy this more.
10. King: Xerosync - Torn Asunder to Sand ... By far the most "prog" song of the round.
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ooohhhh... I have some ideas for future rounds to spice up the impression stage.
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Off to DT section to read Kade's astonishing rant.
Thanks for the reminder :corn
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I be am boner inducing.
Sig'd.
:lol
It's Chad's fault.
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I guess I'm too late for this. Just saw it. I'm shot.
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8?
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8?
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Hoping for #2.
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Yeah, I figured the vocals might be a bit of a hurdle in the first quarter of the song, but I knew musically this song would be right up your alley. Hopefully the vocals grow on you more :corn
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Lonestar is indeed 8
Hoping for #2.
Well, since one of my primary rules of life ... never deprive anyone of hope - it might be all they have.
1. That is guitar crunchy and metal af.
2. Litho: Hordes in Exile - The Emptiness In Which You Hide ... Guitar almost as crunchy, but with better vocals.
3. Puppies: Drivhell - My Convictions ... I hope I warm up to the vocals, cuz the music is is tracking to an easy A.
4. Evermind: Jesse Cook - Cancion Triste ... Not the kind of music that I'd normally or proactively reach for, but what a beautiful performance.
5. This scratches a particular itch that I often have, and it does not bite.
6. TAC: Mythika - Soulpaths ... It's about fucking time. That's some boner-inducing riffage.
7. Stadler: Seal - Crazy ... What a powerful voice, and amazing vocalist. One of the best of the round.
8. Cheffy: Tellus Requiem - Delusioned Mind ... I would've bet money this was Ted Leonard on the mic.
9. Indiscipline: Vandenberg - Skyfall With that singer, you'd think I'd enjoy this more.
10. King: Xerosync - Torn Asunder to Sand ... By far the most "prog" song of the round.
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5?
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5?
Nope. Mason's song certainly doesn't have a metal af guitar riff.
1. wolfking: Animate - Threshold ... That is guitar crunchy and metal af.
2. Litho: Hordes in Exile - The Emptiness In Which You Hide ... Guitar almost as crunchy, but with better vocals.
3. Puppies: Drivhell - My Convictions ... I hope I warm up to the vocals, cuz the music is is tracking to an easy A.
4. Evermind: Jesse Cook - Cancion Triste ... Not the kind of music that I'd normally or proactively reach for, but what a beautiful performance.
5. Doc: Legacy Pilots - True Spirit ... This scratches a particular itch that I often have, and it does not bite.
6. TAC: Mythika - Soulpaths ... It's about fucking time. That's some boner-inducing riffage.
7. Stadler: Seal - Crazy ... What a powerful voice, and amazing vocalist. One of the best of the round.
8. Cheffy: Tellus Requiem - Delusioned Mind ... I would've bet money this was Ted Leonard on the mic.
9. Indiscipline: Vandenberg - Skyfall With that singer, you'd think I'd enjoy this more.
10. King: Xerosync - Torn Asunder to Sand ... By far the most "prog" song of the round.
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I'm going to be out today - Christmas visit with jingle.mother-in-law, and I'm not sure how much listening I'll get in tomorrow and on xmas day. So I will aim for results on Tuesday.
I tell ya though, I'm very glad I don't have to do this as a stack ranking (and you guys should too). There's likely only to be 1 or 2 that don't get an A rating. There's some really good shit here.
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Lol
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:corn
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For someone convinced they're in danger, you sure are casual with that popcorn munching.
My aim was off. I'll be doin 'em tomorrow morning over coffee.
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Indiscipline: Vandenberg / Skyfall
I think most know I'm a Ronnie Romero fanboy. There isn't much that he's sung on that I don't adore - Lords of Black is one of my more favored band discoveries from the 2010s. The chorus here is magnificent as is the solo. The rest of it though, just kind of lumbers along - there's probably a better song on this album that would've scored a little better - something that's got a little more pep in its step (like the opener, or Shitstorm). When I accepted this submission, I didn't realize it was from the album 2020, which I do have saved to Spotify, but I'd only played it 3 times. It's a decent song/album, but falls into that 'not wow'd' category.
Scores
Quality: 7.5
Unpredictability: 5
Anonymity: 4
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Puppies: Drivhell / My Convictions
Music A; vocals …. Sadly I did not warm up to them. Best I can do is a C+. Much like Litho's submission a couple rounds back, they're not terrible, but it just doesn't click with the music (imo). I find Italian vocalists of the Power Metal persuasion can be hit or miss with me. Fabio Lione and Michele Luppi - hit! Roberto Messina (Secret Sphere) - meh. This guy gets a big meh. So, the score falls somewhere in the middle given the gap between music and vocals. Not a bad song, but be thankful this wasn't a stack-rank scoring method this round. It was a very strong one, and this tune couldn't keep up.
Scores
Quality: 7.5
Unpredictability: 4.5
Anonymity: 3.5
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King: Torn Asunder to Sand / Xerosync
By far the most "prog" song of the round. You have a knack for finding that subtle, smooth prog-rock zone … Presto Ballet, Cell 15, Mile Marker Zero, A.C.T. that kind of schtick is when we click the best. This one didn't quite hit the mark as much as these though. I'm not sure if I can really pinpoint why though. The vocal harmonies aren't terribly strong, and the melody to the vocals is pretty rudimentary. The playing is fantastic, particularly the guitar - one of the better solos of the round. But the sum of the whole is a bit less than the individual parts here.
Scores
Quality: 8
Unpredictability: 2
Anonymity: 2
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Wolfking: Animate / Threshold
This is a simple and straight forward vocal delivery, and just a really nice metal track. Dayum those guitar riffs :metal. Very nice melody in the chorus, which is also the strong point of the song vocally.
Scores
Quality: 8
Unpredictability: 2.5
Anonymity: 4.5
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Evermind: Jesse Cook / Canción Triste
Magnificent playing, and just a lovely, beautiful, and soothing track. The way the cello (I assume it's a cello) compliments and takes over in the middle is chilling. Like I said, not the kind of thing I normally would think to reach for, but this was simply exquisite. I have a feeling that over time, I'll look/listen back on this track and think "I should've scored this higher it's so impeccable". But for now, 8 is about right. I'm also quite sure I'll check the rest of this album out, and likely save it for the odd times that I am in the mood for something like this. Now pass the queso!
Scores
Quality: 8
Unpredictability: 3
Anonymity: 2.5
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Stadler: Seal / Crazy
Well, this was the biggest surprise …. In that it had the biggest earworm of the round, and probably the best vocals. I know there's only so many "ifs" to add to the description/review of anything before they become meaningless, but if you take away the poppy/programmed drums, and if there was a bit more edge to the guitar work, this could be a helluva prog-rock track. Brass balls on you for sending this, and it hit the mark. Biggest grower of the round.
Scores
Quality: 8.5
Unpredictability: 3.5
Anonymity: 1
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Lonestar: Tellus Requiem / Delusioned Mind
At 7:15, this was the longest song of the round, but it didn't feel like it at all. I've got the first couple of albums from these guys, but don't remember this 2017 3-track EP (although, it turns out I did check it out back then, as this song is saved in my Spotify library). Perfect blend of prog and power metal here. Seriously though, how the fuck is that NOT Ted Leonard singing the chorus!?!?! I can't find anything on the interwebz to validate this, but he's
Scores
Quality: 9
Unpredictability: 1.5
Anonymity: 0.5
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Dr. DTVT: Legacy Pilots / True Spirit
This scratches a particular itch that I often have. The bass groove throughout is very sweet and sneakily a very important part of this tune - and right around 3 minutes brings a Raise the Knife feel, and dat solo to accompany it is god-tier, with a nice little keyboard arpeggio to come out of it. I'm not sure I've ever hard John Mitchell sing on something that I didn't like - Kino, Lonely Robot, Frost*, It Bites... all stuff that I would rate in various stages of very good to amazing. On the whole, this performance that everyone puts in on this track is crisp and on point. For as good as the bass work is, naturally Marco on the drums is duelling with John on the mic to see who is the star of the track. Damn you for making me check out another 2023 release - this could likely be an instant-purchase.
Scores
Quality: 9
Unpredictability: 0.5
Anonymity: 3
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TAC: Mythika / Soulpaths
Seriously, where was this kind of stuff in the first three rounds!?!? This is more like it. Another beautiful mix of prog and power. Not sure I've ever heard a band from Paraguay before - sometimes those South American vocalists are an absolute gem. Very much some Daydream XI vibes here, which as you know is a very good thing. Everything clicked with this track.
Scores
Quality: 9
Unpredictability: 4
Anonymity: 1.5
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Litho: Hordes in Exile / The Emptiness In Which You Hide
Fantastic Melodic Metal tune - right in my wheelhouse… like RIGHT in it. The guitar work in the bridges is delicious. Every ingredient here contributes to a great recipe - beautiful vocals, great guitar work in the bridges between verses (and splashed throughout the main rhythm), bright keyboard work to complement the main melody starting in the 2nd chorus. Kade might want to check this out, as 2/3 of the members from Solution .45, one of whom was also the original vocalist from Scar Symmetry. This was some wow-worthy music, I'll definitely be following this (assuming it's going to be a 2024 release?).
Scores
Quality: 9
Unpredictability: 1
Anonymity: 5
Total Round 4:
Indiscipline - Vandenberg / Skyfall: 5 + 4 + 7.5 = 16.5
Puppies - Drivhell / My Convictions: 4.5 + 3.5 + 7.5 = 15.5
wolfking - Animate / Threshold: 2.5 + 4.5 + 8 = 15
Litho - Hordes in Exile / The Emptiness In Which You Hide: 1 + 5 + 9 = 15
TAC - Mythika / Soulpaths: 4 + 1.5 + 9 = 14.5
Evermind - Jesse Cook / Cancion Triste: 3 + 2.5 + 8 = 13.5
Stadler - Seal / Crazy: 3.5 + 1 + 8.5 = 13
Doc - Legacy Pilots / True Spirit: 0.5 + 3 + 9 = 12.5
King - Xerosync / Torn Asunder to Sand: 2 + 2 + 8 = 12
lonestar - Tellus Requiem / Delusioned Mind: 1.5 + 0.5 + 9 = 11
<it's not lost on me that the 2 least best songs ended up with the highest scores this round - shit happens>
Overall Standings:
Litho - 59.5
Wolfking - 56.5
Evermind - 56
TAC - 55.5
lonestar - 54
Puppies - 53.5
Indiscipline - 52.5
Dr. DTVT - 51.5
King - 48
Stadler - 45
Quality through 4 Rounds:
lonestar - 34.5
Litho - 32
Wolfking - 31.5
Indiscipline - 31.5
Dr. DTVT - 31.5
King - 31.5
Puppies - 31
Evermind - 30.5
Stadler - 29.5
TAC - 28.5
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We've got to guess Litho for every song now :lol
Glad you enjoyed that Chad, the album is actually quite diverse (there are faster-paced tracks too. Seems like a very strong round overall.
I checked the playlist during the weekend, liked Vandenberg and Tellus Requiem but didn't have the energy to post impressions. Legacy Pilots and Hordes of Exile did nothing for me. Mythika - I'm surprised Tim shits so much on Jorn but listens to this. Not bad but the SOULPAAAATHS in the chorus comes kinda out of nowhere. Xerosync was interesting.
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Welp. Alright. I'll have to work on one tonight after a certain video call.
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I really had to debate giving a couple of the top songs a 9.5, but for the moment, I'm waiting to see if there's still room for ya'll to give me even better tunes on the back half of this thing.
Now, as for the matter of scores that are propped up due to the Hangman intangibles (cough … Tim … cough). After Round 8, if the person with the highest Quality score is *NOT* in the Top 3 overall, then I'm going to have a final four style tournament with the Top 3 + the Quality winner. For the last four rounds, this should still give the incentive to A) Send good fucking music, and B) Still send stuff that's a little out of the norm to earn the intangible points.
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I really had to debate giving a couple of the top songs a 9.5, but for the moment, I'm waiting to see if there's still room for ya'll to give me even better tunes on the back half of this thing.
Now, as for the matter of scores that are propped up due to the Hangman intangibles (cough … Tim … cough). After Round 8, if the person with the highest Quality score is *NOT* in the Top 3 overall, then I'm going to have a final four style tournament with the Top 3 + the Quality winner. For the last four rounds, this should still give the incentive to A) Send good fucking music, and B) Still send stuff that's a little out of the norm to earn the intangible points.
Bullshit!
If I knew this, it might have changed my strategy based on what was laid out in the OP. You can't change the rules on scoring halfway through. This should've been made clear in the OP from the start. My submissions probably would have been different.
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I really had to debate giving a couple of the top songs a 9.5, but for the moment, I'm waiting to see if there's still room for ya'll to give me even better tunes on the back half of this thing.
Now, as for the matter of scores that are propped up due to the Hangman intangibles (cough … Tim … cough). After Round 8, if the person with the highest Quality score is *NOT* in the Top 3 overall, then I'm going to have a final four style tournament with the Top 3 + the Quality winner. For the last four rounds, this should still give the incentive to A) Send good fucking music, and B) Still send stuff that's a little out of the norm to earn the intangible points.
Bullshit!
If I knew this, it might have changed my strategy based on what was laid out in the OP. You can't change the rules on scoring halfway through. This should've been made clear in the OP from the start. My submissions probably would have been different.
Your strategy should always have been to send good music :lol. I'm not *changing* the rules on scoring, I'm adding in a bonus round as this scoring system was never intended to overtly reward the mediocre songs that score well because no one has heard of them, or they're hard to spell. If I'd known that's how people were going to play, I would've put this bonus round in from the start. Clearly, there has been an unintended consequence of this scoring system that I didn't foresee. I think I was pretty clear from the start that I still wanted quality songs, and was also clear for the past couple of rounds I may modify something so as to motivate people to focus on that.
I'd hoped this would still be a normal played roulette, with just a bit of added FUN to motivate people to send out-of-their-comfort-zone music. I always thought these roulette's were about having fun and sharing great music, winning is just an added bonus.
P.S. As it stands now, you're not in a winning position with OR without the bonus round. :biggrin:
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P.S. As it stands now, you're not in a winning position with OR without the bonus round. :biggrin:
Oh, well, carry on then.. ;D
Seriously, if half of my score is obscurity and the half quality, then it's a balance and if they weren't weighted the same, that would've or could've changed my submissions. Maybe I have to read your proposal more carefully.
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P.S. As it stands now, you're not in a winning position with OR without the bonus round. :biggrin:
Oh, well, carry on then.. ;D
Seriously, if half of my score is obscurity and the half quality, then it's a balance and if they weren't weighted the same, that would've or could've changed my submissions. Maybe I have to read your proposal more carefully.
No, you got it right. It is setup so that 1/2 the points are hangman related; 1/2 are quality of the music. I couldn't really figure out a way to simplistically skew it a little more towards quality. But I still hoped quality would be the first thing to focus on.
Everyone carry on! I'm enjoying how all of this is playing out so far. And truthfully, the prospect of adding a couple of bonus rounds for some more good music is not a bad thing.
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I'll definitely take another quality win... 3/4 rounds now.
You got my next one...hopefully this will get some obscurity points as well.
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I really had to debate giving a couple of the top songs a 9.5, but for the moment, I'm waiting to see if there's still room for ya'll to give me even better tunes on the back half of this thing.
Now, as for the matter of scores that are propped up due to the Hangman intangibles (cough … Tim … cough). After Round 8, if the person with the highest Quality score is *NOT* in the Top 3 overall, then I'm going to have a final four style tournament with the Top 3 + the Quality winner. For the last four rounds, this should still give the incentive to A) Send good fucking music, and B) Still send stuff that's a little out of the norm to earn the intangible points.
Bullshit!
If I knew this, it might have changed my strategy based on what was laid out in the OP. You can't change the rules on scoring halfway through. This should've been made clear in the OP from the start. My submissions probably would have been different.
(https://i.postimg.cc/rmZnzTWS/received-1516285419209048.png) (https://postimages.org/)
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I don't care about the bonus round one way or another, I'm having too much fun with the anonymity/predictability hangman thing.
Unless I'm in the first place after Round 8, then no bonus rounds please.
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I'll definitely take another quality win... 3/4 rounds now.
Win... tie...
Potato ... po-tah-to
I don't care about the bonus round one way or another, I'm having too much fun with the anonymity/predictability hangman thing.
It's like watching (Lethal Weapon 1) Mel Gibson deciding which bad guy to kill first.
Litho is your 'Gary Busey'
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I'll definitely take another quality win... 3/4 rounds now.
Win... tie...
Potato ... po-tah-to
Tie for another win..split the difference.
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Adding a bonus round which may feature a quality score winner who is underperforming in intangibles probably isn't going to significantly shift my strategy, since I'm only sending stuff I'd had on my shortlist already anyway at this point. I have more stops to pull out if I get desperate though. I still think the rules prioritize attempting to game hangman more than actually trying to send "out of comfort zone" music, but I have no issues with the bonus round, if I don't start bombing it just potentially gives me room for one more song I'd have otherwise had to cut.
Litho: Hordes in Exile / The Emptiness In Which You Hide
Fantastic Melodic Metal tune - right in my wheelhouse… like RIGHT in it. The guitar work in the bridges is delicious. Every ingredient here contributes to a great recipe - beautiful vocals, great guitar work in the bridges between verses (and splashed throughout the main rhythm), bright keyboard work to complement the main melody starting in the 2nd chorus. Kade might want to check this out, as 2/3 of the members from Solution .45, one of whom was also the original vocalist from Scar Symmetry. This was some wow-worthy music, I'll definitely be following this (assuming it's going to be a 2024 release?).
I'm hoping that it could become Christian's version of The Night Flight Orchestra, which had been quite successful for Speed Strid. It's always been obvious he's had the potential for something like this given some of Scar Symmetry's choruses, but so far almost everything he's done is more a balance of cleans and growls. He's done some harsh only-albums, but not much clean-only, so this one was refreshing and it's cool that my intuition about it paid off.
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Woah, I'll check them out today. Never heard of the band.
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I'll definitely take another quality win... 3/4 rounds now.
Win... tie...
Potato ... po-tah-to
I don't care about the bonus round one way or another, I'm having too much fun with the anonymity/predictability hangman thing.
It's like watching (Lethal Weapon 1) Mel Gibson deciding which bad guy to kill first.
Litho is your 'Gary Busey'
Out of all the action heroes you could have went with you choose Mel Gibson?!
Also, you've never heard Crazy? That was a monster hit over here. Check out Iron Saviors cover.
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P.S. As it stands now, you're not in a winning position with OR without the bonus round. :biggrin:
Oh, well, carry on then.. ;D
Seriously, if half of my score is obscurity and the half quality, then it's a balance and if they weren't weighted the same, that would've or could've changed my submissions. Maybe I have to read your proposal more carefully.
No, you got it right. It is setup so that 1/2 the points are hangman related; 1/2 are quality of the music. I couldn't really figure out a way to simplistically skew it a little more towards quality. But I still hoped quality would be the first thing to focus on.
Everyone carry on! I'm enjoying how all of this is playing out so far. And truthfully, the prospect of adding a couple of bonus rounds for some more good music is not a bad thing.
While the maximum scores are 10 for quality and hangman, the spread of scores is very different. 1.0-10.0 for hangman-related, 6.0-9.0 for quality. In practice this means the hangman scores are so far weighted 3 times the quality scores. The incentive is definitely to prioritise anonymity and unpredictability as long as you don't actually hate the song.
I think if you'd used a 1.0-10.0 stack ranking system for scoring quality, that would have achieved what you were going for and been a genuine half and half weighting.
I noticed this early on (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=58755.msg3061184#msg3061184), but it was once round 1 was almost finished and you were compiling scores, so any change you'd have made would still be after the game had started. And in fairness you did at that point signal the possibility of making a change (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=58755.msg3061217#msg3061217) to incentivise quality.
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I definitely have been focussing a bit more towards obscurity too. It's definitely key to balance it with a good song though.
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*math stuff*
Seems the smart move would have been a formal consult / audit of the scoring system from a pro! Hindsight and all. :facepalm:
I think if you'd used a 1.0-10.0 stack ranking system for scoring quality, that would have achieved what you were going for and been a genuine half and half weighting.
The real dick move would be re-score rounds 1-4. That would REALLY chafe Tim’s chaps!!
I definitely have been focussing a bit more towards obscurity too. It's definitely key to balance it with a good song though.
This guy gets it.
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But as the rounds go on, I've focussed lla little less on obscurity just because Chad knows every clean vocal band ever.
Question, if a band has a couple of albums listened to in your last.fm but a couple of albums not there at all, are those albums fair game? Don't want to go down that path but may have to.
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*math stuff*
Seems the smart move would have been a formal consult / audit of the scoring system from a pro! Hindsight and all. :facepalm:
As an auditor by profession, I do maintain the view that audit can be helpful! :P :lol
In fairness, I probably would have commented at the start (early enough for you to do something about it) if I'd realised how narrow the quality scores would likely end up being, but I was more focused on trying unsuccessfully to qualify and didn't realise until round 1 was nearly over.
I think if you'd used a 1.0-10.0 stack ranking system for scoring quality, that would have achieved what you were going for and been a genuine half and half weighting.
The real dick move would be re-score rounds 1-4. That would REALLY chafe Tim’s chaps!!
Considering his current quality-only placement, that would be brutal. :lol
Anyway I think your amendment works quite well. It won't shift the priority for everyone, but it does create an incentive for those who are unlikely to catch up on hangman-related scores to prioritise quality and go for that opportunity.
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The other challenge is that quality is more unpredictable than guessability.
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but I was more focused on trying unsuccessfully to qualify
Chad...what about this? Can Ariich join my team?? ;D
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What in the wide world of sports is going on here?
Oh yeah, I unknowingly cheated and got busted, 7.5 is still nice though.
I'll send tomorrow if you don't mind; I need rest and clarity, and it's been one of those 400km drive - concert - 400km drive back - find out you blew this round - kind of day.
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What in the wide world of sports is going on here?
Oh yeah, I unknowingly cheated and got busted, 7.5 is still nice though.
I'll send tomorrow if you don't mind; I need rest and clarity, and it's been one of those 400km drive - concert - 400km drive back - find out you blew this round - kind of day.
If it makes you feel any better, I blew this round too :lol
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And sent.
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Woah, I'll check them out today. Never heard of the band.
Probably because I just realised they are a new band. Damn that was light for Christian. Still solid.
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I too have sent.
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Woah, I'll check them out today. Never heard of the band.
Probably because I just realised they are a new band. Damn that was light for Christian. Still solid.
Well, he has done even lighter, but yeah, most of his projects are more aggressive.
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Woah, I'll check them out today. Never heard of the band.
Probably because I just realised they are a new band. Damn that was light for Christian. Still solid.
Well, he has done even lighter, but yeah, most of his projects are more aggressive.
I don't think I've heard everything from him, and not sure if it's his solo EP you are referring to, but that is amazing.
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But as the rounds go on, I've focussed lla little less on obscurity just because Chad knows every clean vocal band ever.
Question, if a band has a couple of albums listened to in your last.fm but a couple of albums not there at all, are those albums fair game? Don't want to go down that path but may have to.
Yes, fair game. I allowed submissions of Tellus Requiem from RJ (I've got their first 2 albums, but only listened to the EP that he sent his song from a couple times), and Vandenberg from Alex (have that album saved on Spotify). My rule is if I can't come up with the melody of a song off the top of my head, the song is fair game. Which is also why Seal/Crazy was permissable. When Bill asked if it was ok, I thought "Aerosmith? Brittany Spears?" Don't remember the Seal version from back in the day at all.
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In my last couple of roulettes, I've gotten tons of bands and even songs that I had Saved in my Spotify.
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The other challenge is that quality is more unpredictable than guessability.
I would disagree. Indi thought he Vandenberg would be guessed quick; RJ was trying to go more obscure with Tellus Requiem. The swings on Hangman can be very unpredictable. Kade selecting "U" in hangman fucked RJ over two rounds in a row!
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but I was more focused on trying unsuccessfully to qualify
Chad...what about this? Can Ariich join my team?? ;D
Sure... you need the help.
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Oh, Snap.
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The other challenge is that quality is more unpredictable than guessability.
I would disagree. Indi thought he Vandenberg would be guessed quick; RJ was trying to go more obscure with Tellus Requiem. The swings on Hangman can be very unpredictable. Kade selecting "U" in hangman fucked RJ over two rounds in a row!
You might call it a ..... fuck U!
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What in the wide world of sports is going on here?
Oh yeah, I unknowingly cheated and got busted, 7.5 is still nice though.
I'll send tomorrow if you don't mind; I need rest and clarity, and it's been one of those 400km drive - concert - 400km drive back - find out you blew this round - kind of day.
Top score of the round = "blew this round"?
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What in the wide world of sports is going on here?
Oh yeah, I unknowingly cheated and got busted, 7.5 is still nice though.
I'll send tomorrow if you don't mind; I need rest and clarity, and it's been one of those 400km drive - concert - 400km drive back - find out you blew this round - kind of day.
If it makes you feel any better, I blew this round too :lol
2nd place score of the round = "blew this round too".
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The other challenge is that quality is more unpredictable than guessability.
I would disagree. Indi thought he Vandenberg would be guessed quick; RJ was trying to go more obscure with Tellus Requiem. The swings on Hangman can be very unpredictable. Kade selecting "U" in hangman fucked RJ over two rounds in a row!
You might call it a ..... fuck U!
(https://media0.giphy.com/media/a0Lgc1JvbfS4o/200w.gif?cid=6c09b952f1r3r6ievt8ahzscm39345b4h1e9p8x7rj501o74&ep=v1_gifs_search&rid=200w.gif&ct=g)
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Chris/Kade ... received and accepted.
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But as the rounds go on, I've focussed lla little less on obscurity just because Chad knows every clean vocal band ever.
Question, if a band has a couple of albums listened to in your last.fm but a couple of albums not there at all, are those albums fair game? Don't want to go down that path but may have to.
Yes, fair game. I allowed submissions of Tellus Requiem from RJ (I've got their first 2 albums, but only listened to the EP that he sent his song from a couple times), and Vandenberg from Alex (have that album saved on Spotify). My rule is if I can't come up with the melody of a song off the top of my head, the song is fair game. Which is also why Seal/Crazy was permissable. When Bill asked if it was ok, I thought "Aerosmith? Brittany Spears?" Don't remember the Seal version from back in the day at all.
Cheers. I remembered you mentioned I think in the OP most things are fair game unless they are super favs or whatever, just thought I'd check.
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I don't think I've heard everything from him, and not sure if it's his solo EP you are referring to, but that is amazing.
Yeah, that one, but also in particular collabs like this one, which is outside of the wheelhouse of most in the roulette.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5sw3utWEoY (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5sw3utWEoY)
The other challenge is that quality is more unpredictable than guessability.
I would disagree. Indi thought he Vandenberg would be guessed quick; RJ was trying to go more obscure with Tellus Requiem. The swings on Hangman can be very unpredictable. Kade selecting "U" in hangman fucked RJ over two rounds in a row!
There is certainly some variability depending upon what letters are revealed in which order. But neither "Vandenberg" nor "Skyfall" are easy or common words, so I don't know why he'd think that would be one of the first solved.
Top score of the round = "blew this round"?
2nd place score of the round = "blew this round too".
They had the lowest quality scores though. It's bittersweet to be doing better on intangibles than on quality.
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It's bittersweet to be doing better on intangibles than on quality.
Eh.. I can live with it. ;D
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It's bittersweet to be doing better on intangibles than on quality.
Eh.. I can live with it. ;D
Tell the Lovely Mrs. TAC that!
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Kade... got your revision.
And then your change to that.
Wait... another change? Or now.
What is it that you're submitting? This guy, that guy, or the other guy?
Or that last guy?
(https://i.gifer.com/BkG.gif)
I'm deleting all your messages. Send me your submission in the morning (my morning). :lol
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Oi!!! I told you you'd have my final call by the time you wake up!
Hmmm....maybe I can find a song with all the guys........now that would be something.....
(https://media.tenor.com/HG3Y8klpPBcAAAAC/hmmm-mmmm.gif)
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Yeah, I know. I just had to give you shit publicly too! :biggrin:
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(https://media.tenor.com/S3y2_dWjGw8AAAAC/i-cant-believe-it-al-bundy.gif)
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Yup, Jazzo is exactly right.
Sent!
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I don't think I've heard everything from him, and not sure if it's his solo EP you are referring to, but that is amazing.
Yeah, that one, but also in particular collabs like this one, which is outside of the wheelhouse of most in the roulette.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5sw3utWEoY (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5sw3utWEoY)
Ha! I didn't expect that. This guys voice seems to work on anything.
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When's the next round due? Do I have overnight?
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I'll send in a couple of hours. Long day at work.
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No worries lads. Whenever you get the chance. I'm still in holiday mode.
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Yeah I've just got home and I'm absolutely knackered. Just gonna get a hot shower and go to sleep, my entry is going to have to wait for tomorrow. Tomorrow's the last working day for this year and I expect to be done early (finished all major stuff today) so you'll get my song in ~19-20 hours if not earlier.
I like winter holidays but I hate the last week before them because it's always a hot mess scrambling to finish whatever we can before New Year.
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I'm sure it surprises no one that Stadlepuss still has to provide his offering.
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:omg:
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I looked at the thread title and that was my only guess and I couldn't even remember if he was playing in this one. I keep forgetting to pop in and read up.
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Maybe it was all part of Bill's plan to wait until after midnight, Russia time.
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??: __r___ _r__e_t - T_e ____e_t ____
??: E__r__e __ _____ - T_e ____er __ _e_t___
??: R_____e__ - E__t _____ (__r _ ____)
??: E_rt____e - T_e _e__er E___
??: _e____er - ___e______
Letters selected:t
Dr. DTVT
Evermind
Indiscipline
King
Litho
lonestar
Puppies
Stadler
TAC
Wolfking
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E
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R
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??: Cosmograf - Rattrapante (1)
??: T________ ____r_ - ___e t_e ___
??: __r___ _r__e_t - T_e ____e_t ____
??: E__r__e __ _____ - T_e ____er __ _e_t___
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Letters selected: ter
Dr. DTVT
Evermind
Indiscipline
King
Litho
lonestar
Puppies
Stadler
TAC
Wolfking
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Cosmograf-Rattrapante
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Cosmograf-Rattrapante
Puppies?
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I see Earthshine?
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Earthside - "The Lesser Evil".
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N.
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Earthside - "The Lesser Evil".
Dammit...was just about to guess that. I was so proud of myself too :lol
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There's another Project up there!
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Cosmograf-Rattrapante
WTF?
Cosmograf-Rattrapante
Puppies?
WTF!?!?
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Embrace Of Souls-The Number Of Destiny
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Embrace Of Souls-The Number Of Destiny
Indiscipline?
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Tim's on fire!
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Puppies (1): Cosmograf - Rattrapante (1)
??: T________ ____r_ - ___e t_e ___
??: __r___ Project - T_e __n_e_t ____
Indiscipline (1): Embrace of Souls - The Number of Destiny (3)
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??: Earthside - The Lesser Evil (2)
??: _en__ner - ___en___n_
Letters selected: tern
Dr. DTVT
Evermind
King
Litho
lonestar
Stadler
TAC
Wolfking
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Kenziner - "Dimensions".
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Barock project-The Longest Sigh
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"I".
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Kenziner - "Dimensions".
Is this Lonestar?
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Mother fock
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A
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Not Lonestar, but Kenziner is Kingshmegland.
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??: _a__ _ar_in__a_ - Ri_e __ t_e __r_e
??: _arnata_a - T_e _t_r_
Puppies (1): Cosmograf - Rattrapante (1)
??: Ta_a____i ____ra - _a_e t_e ___
??: Barock Project - The Longest Sigh (5)
Indiscipline (2): Embrace of Souls - The Number of Destiny (3)
??: Ra_i__ea_ - E_it ___i_ (__r A _i__)
??: Earthside - The Lesser Evil (2)
??: Kenziner - Dimensions (4)
Letters selected: ternia
Dr. DTVT
Evermind
King
Litho
lonestar
Stadler
TAC
Wolfking
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Barock project-The Longest Sigh
Probably King.
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Paul Wardingham - "Rise of the Horde".
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Karnataka-The storm
Litho
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Carnatia?
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Takayoshi Ohmura - "Face the Sky" - lonestar.
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Being Sodomised - Bentover
Mmmm, probably by Everybody?
(Kidding. I was working, couldn't protect myself properly.)
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Radiohead - "Exit Music (for a Film").
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Radiohead - "Exit Music (for a Film").
Stads?
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He hates Radiohead, so that would be the perfect cover.
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He hates Radiohead, so that would be the perfect cover.
That makes 2 of us!
??: __iritria_ - ____ (10)
??: Paul Wardingham - Rise of the Horde (6)
LithoJazzoSphere (3): Karnataka - The Storm (7)
Puppies (1): Cosmograf - Rattrapante (1)
??: Takayoshi Ohmura - Face the Sky (8)
??: Barock Project - The Longest Sigh (5)
Indiscipline (2): Embrace of Souls - The Number of Destiny (3)
Stadler (4): Radiohead - Exit Music (For A Film) (9)
??: Earthside - The Lesser Evil (2)
??: Kenziner - Dimensions (4)
Letters selected: ternia
Dr. DTVT
Evermind
King
lonestar
TAC
Wolfking
about 1/2 and 1/2 on correct/incorrect matching of senders. I'm still going to make you work for the unguessed song
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Is Paul Wardingham wolfking?
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Kenzinger is Wolfking
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It might be lonestar then.
Takayoshi could be TAC.
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M
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Takayoshi could be TAC.
It's Wolfking.
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No help with the M
Takayoshi could be TAC.
It's Wolfking.
Finally!
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lonestar (6): Spiritrial - 1999 (10)
??: Paul Wardingham - Rise of the Horde (6)
LithoJazzoSphere (3): Karnataka - The Storm (7)
Puppies (1): Cosmograf - Rattrapante (1)
wolfking (5): Takayoshi Ohmura - Face the Sky (8)
??: Barock Project - The Longest Sigh (5)
Indiscipline (2): Embrace of Souls - The Number of Destiny (3)
Stadler (4): Radiohead - Exit Music (For A Film) (9)
??: Earthside - The Lesser Evil (2)
??: Kenziner - Dimensions (4)
Letters selected: terniam
Dr. DTVT
Evermind
King
TAC
about 1/2 and 1/2 on correct/incorrect matching of senders. I'm still going to make you work for the unguessed song
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Sprirtrial-1999...Evermind?
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Sprirtrial-1999...Evermind?
Listening...japanese....Lonestar?
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Sprirtrial-1999...Evermind?
Yes, and also no.
And then back to yes
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Earthside-King?
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lonestar (6): Spiritrial - 1999 (10)
??: Paul Wardingham - Rise of the Horde (6)
LithoJazzoSphere (3): Karnataka - The Storm (7)
Puppies (1): Cosmograf - Rattrapante (1)
wolfking (5): Takayoshi Ohmura - Face the Sky (8)
Dr DTVT (8): Barock Project - The Longest Sigh (5)
Indiscipline (2): Embrace of Souls - The Number of Destiny (3)
Stadler (4): Radiohead - Exit Music (For A Film) (9)
Kingshmegland (7): Earthside - The Lesser Evil (2)
??: Kenziner - Dimensions (4)
Evermind
TAC
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Earthside-King?
(https://i.postimg.cc/d1HSxzK2/johnny-dangerously-2.gif) (https://postimages.org/)
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Barock project is DRDTVT
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Kenziner-Evermind
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Kenziner-Evermind
You really wanted those intangible points, din't ya!?!? :lol
lonestar (6): Spiritrial - 1999 (10)
TAC (10): Paul Wardingham - Rise of the Horde (6)
LithoJazzoSphere (3): Karnataka - The Storm (7)
Puppies (1): Cosmograf - Rattrapante (1)
wolfking (5): Takayoshi Ohmura - Face the Sky (8)
Dr DTVT (8): Barock Project - The Longest Sigh (5)
Indiscipline (2): Embrace of Souls - The Number of Destiny (3)
Stadler (4): Radiohead - Exit Music (For A Film) (9)
Kingshmegland (7): Earthside - The Lesser Evil (2)
Evermind (9): Kenziner - Dimensions (4)
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Kenziner-Evermind
You really wanted those intangible points, din't ya!?!? :lol
So I have 8 intangible points to go with my 6.5 for a 14.5 this round.
Sending for Round 6!
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Using a number as a song is pretty cheap. There should be a penalty imposed
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If this flops on quality and my lead cushion vaporizes it might be time for some monkey business.
Using a number as a song is pretty cheap. There should be a penalty imposed
I thought jingle was going to fill in punctuation and such. Since numbers aren't guessed, I would think that those come in pre-filled.
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It's Lonestar we're talking about. Chad will not penalize him for anything. ;D
But yes...numbers as song titles should be illegal, or we're gonna have a math round next round.
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We definitely need a ruling on that, because if it's allowed, boy do I have some ideas...
I do love that we solved this in just slightly over 2 hours all while Ruslan snoozed. :lol
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I was at work and was pretty useless as well.
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I mean..nowhere did it say songs with numbers weren't allowed...
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From now on, we should be able to guess a letter AND a number then.
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Nowhere did it say you couldn't guess numbers either. No matter, the seal is broken, it's only genius once.
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I thought it was kind of against the spirit of the rules.
P.P.S. In Hangman, symbols/punctuation need not be guessed - they will be auto-filled.
The idea being that we don't typically guess anything but letters in hangman. Otherwise there are bands/songs made up of special characters and ones unique to particular languages and such. If those are all fair game, well, it changes the game.
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If this flops on quality and my lead cushion vaporizes it might be time for some monkey business.
Using a number as a song is pretty cheap. There should be a penalty imposed
I thought jingle was going to fill in punctuation and such. Since numbers aren't guessed, I would think that should come in pre-filled.
I just go by Rich's spreadsheet - which does not autofill numbers, just punctuation. I'll give you my response when RJ asked about submitting it:
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afaic, any points negated are offset by employing my Roulette motto. As RJ said, it is only genius once. Ya'll are just jealous deep down that no one thought about it over the course of the first 4 rounds. :biggrin:
Kenziner-Evermind
You really wanted those intangible points, din't ya!?!? :lol
So I have 8 intangible points to go with my 6.5 for a 14.5 this round.
Sending for Round 6!
Ooooh I have an idea that is kinda spicey for you Timbo ... How about we play "Let's Make A Deal"!!!
Behind Door #1, you play the round out normally.
Behind Door #2, you take the guaranteed 6.5 right now before I even listen to your song.
Behind Door #3, take a stack rank score instead of your absolute rating out of 10.
You gotta ask yourself one question ... "Do I feel lucky?"
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From now on, we should be able to guess a letter AND a number then.
Oh, so NOW you want a change to the rules!
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It's Lonestar we're talking about. Chad will not penalize him for anything. ;D
Why would I penalize him when he pre-cleared it by asking a question ahead of time. That's what you get for not being allowed to ask questions! :lol :lol
But yes...numbers as song titles should be illegal, or we're gonna have a math round next round.
By all means, knock yourselves out.
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Tim bitching about numbers. That's gives me bingo on my Tim bitch card!
I WIN MOTHERFUCKERS!!
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Ya'll are just jealous deep down that no one thought about it over the course of the first 4 rounds. :biggrin:
I did think of it, but just figured it wasn't allowed. Let's see if I can hold myself back now... :yarr
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Ya'll are just jealous deep down that no one thought about it over the course of the first 4 rounds. :biggrin:
I did think of it, but just figured it wasn't allowed. Let's see if I can hold myself back now... :yarr
If you don't ask, the answer is always 'no'. The Chef was smart/brave/crazy enough to ask.
Look, I don't mind shenanigans... so long as you're also considering the quality element and sending me stuff you think I'll enjoy.
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Ooooh I have an idea that is kinda spicey for you Timbo ... How about we play "Let's Make A Deal"!!!
Behind Door #1, you play the round out normally.
Behind Door #2, you take the guaranteed 6.5 right now before I even listen to your song.
Behind Door #3, take a stack rank score instead of your absolute rating out of 10.
You gotta ask yourself one question ... "Do I feel lucky?"
:facepalm:
Taking Door #1, because my song has a 9 written all over it! ;D
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You're looking at it upside down.
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You're looking at it upside down.
What? I'm taking Door #1, and a 1 upside down is the same thing! ;D
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I have a 9 bruh.
Gets 6.5 consistently.
Fell me bruh.
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Tim every response
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Your gif answers all we all ready knew about you. Lol
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I'm still in shock my song was guessed first, and I was guessed for sending it. Here's hoping I didn't screw up the quality score again.
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I thought about sending a song named "2020" but decided it was too cheap. :lol
Hey, at least I scored well on unpredictability this time.
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Numbers have always been guessable in hangman, it's just not really mattered before because no points have been attached to hangman. Well played RJ. :lol
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Nice move RJ. Considering it's a roulette run by the guy who invented the term 'cheating', just gotta admire.
Thing is though, all the talk about sending numbers and whatnot means nothing if Chad thinks the song is shit. If RJ gets a nine then its a home run, if he gets a 6, it loses its novelty right away.
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And the playlist...
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5FET9G7gmvC8qG5Y3PbDZE?si=8bfd9da4098948ba
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Nice move RJ. Considering it's a roulette run by the guy who invented the term 'cheating', just gotta admire.
Thing is though, all the talk about sending numbers and whatnot means nothing if Chad thinks the song is shit. If RJ gets a nine then its a home run, if he gets a 6, it loses its novelty right away.
We'll see how that plays out, I took a chance in that it does have some Japanese language vocals in it, which Chad usually doesn't like, but these aren't cutesy female vox, but good solid clean male vox. The music should hit his sweet spot, being a solid prog rock tune. After 14 years we got a pretty general idea of what each other digs. I'm hoping for at least an 8 this round.
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Nice move RJ. Considering it's a roulette run by the guy who invented the term 'cheating', just gotta admire.
Thing is though, all the talk about sending numbers and whatnot means nothing if Chad thinks the song is shit. If RJ gets a nine then its a home run, if he gets a 6, it loses its novelty right away.
We'll see how that plays out, I took a chance in that it does have some Japanese language vocals in it, which Chad usually doesn't like, but these aren't cutesy female vox, but good solid clean male vox. The music should hit his sweet spot, being a solid prog rock tune. After 14 years we got a pretty general idea of what each other digs. I'm hoping for at least an 8 this round.
Well, you know my rule about hope... never deprive anyone of it, for it might be all they have. :lol
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No truer words from Cardinal Richelieu. :lol
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After 14 years we got a pretty general idea of what each other digs.
So how did Luke manage to almost double his score in your roulette? :neverusethis:
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After 14 years we got a pretty general idea of what each other digs.
So how did Luke manage to almost double his score in your roulette? :neverusethis:
Mainly because Chad was trying out new things, even he knew the stuff he sent wasn't going to win it.
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He may be in the zone now, but RJ has failed spectacularly in past roulette's of mine.
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He may be in the zone now, but RJ has failed spectacularly in past roulette's of mine.
See my Babymetal submission :lol
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He may be in the zone now, but RJ has failed spectacularly in past roulette's of mine.
See my Babymetal submission :lol
And you didn't even qualify for my 3rd roulette.
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Running through the Playlist on the train to Oakland...
Paul Wardinghamvery - very predictably Tim.. Should play well
Spiritrial - gets better with each spin
Karnataka - very, very nice track...
Cosmograf - eh, it's alright
Barock Project - ridiculously positive, not bad though
Embrace of Souls - eh, not bad, didn't really grab me though
Takayoshi Ohmura - nice, definitely has that Jmetal feel.
Earthside - already familiar with them, solid band
Kenziner - very fun, curious to see how this scores, may influence a future round submission
Radiohead - zzzzzzzzzzz....
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Paul Wardinghamvery - very predictably Tim.. Should play well
6.5 :metal
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Kenziner - very fun, curious to see how this scores, may influence a future round submission
It is very fun. Probably gonna get a 7.5.
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Takayoshi Ohmura - nice, definitely has that Jmetal feel.
You don't know this? The album is amazing.
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FIRST Impressions.
1. Yup, that's your song.
2. We got a Jason Richardson vibe going on with that guitar tone.
3. LithoJazzoSphere - Karnataka / The Storm ... Risky start, but it might end up paying off.
4. Risky start, and to quote Han "I've got a bad feeling about this"
5. Kingshmegland - Earthside / The Lesser Evil ... This is a sonic buffet. So much to listen to / for.
6. Oh my fucking Christ those background lyrics are so cringey.
7. These guys just scream RoSFest - absolutely the poster child for the music you'd expect there
8. Ahh… so this is where JP found his Budokan tone for Hollow Years.
9. Not sure on the lead vocal lines though (initially, I'm enjoying the backing vox more).
10. lonestar - Spiritrial / 1999 ... You're not gonna give up on this stuff with me, are ya?
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#3?
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#3?
Nailed it.
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5?
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5?
Nailed it!
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7 or 10?
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7 or 10?
The latter.
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1 or 4?
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6
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1 or 2
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1 or 4?
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6
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1 or 2
Yup, you get a deuce. :lol
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FIRST Impressions.
1. Yup, that's your song.
2. TAC - Paul Wardingham / Rise of the Horde ... We got a Jason Richardson vibe going on with that guitar tone.
3. LithoJazzoSphere - Karnataka / The Storm ... Risky start, but it might end up paying off.
4. Puppies - Cosmograf / Rattrapante ... Risky start, and to quote Han "I've got a bad feeling about this"
5. Kingshmegland - Earthside / The Lesser Evil ... This is a sonic buffet. So much to listen to / for.
6. Indiscipline - Embrace of Souls / The Number of Destiny ... Oh my fucking Christ those background lyrics are so cringey.
7. These guys just scream RoSFest - absolutely the poster child for the music you'd expect there
8. Ahh… so this is where JP found his Budokan tone for Hollow Years.
9. Not sure on the lead vocal lines though (initially, I'm enjoying the backing vox more).
10. lonestar - Spiritrial / 1999 ... You're not gonna give up on this stuff with me, are ya?
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4?
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Wardingham might have more Richardson tone, but his playing is eerily similar to Per Nilsson's at times.
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C'mon man...it's like half English/half Japanese...
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C'mon man...it's like half English/half Japanese...
Ok, so you're only half giving up?? :lol
4?
Nailed it!
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C'mon man...it's like half English/half Japanese...
Ok, so you're only half giving up?? :lol
Throw it against a wall enough times, eventually it's gotta stick... I recall Tim giving me a similar impression in the last round of his roulette, I believe it was "Ok, enough already!!!"
I also recall me winning that round handedly.
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How many "swing and a miss" gifs do you have? :lol
Let's say 7 or 8 then. Never been at RoSFest so no idea about that.
Less than an hour away from the new year here. I'm a little tipsy already but not enough for a drunk thread yet. Happy New Year everyone!
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1?
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I’m 7. They played there in 2018
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1?
Nope... and you're gonna be all :wtf: at your impression - which I must emphasize, is a FIRST impression.
Yes to Doc (I knew they played there) and Evermind. That first 30 seconds just screams Hollow Years.
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1. Stadler - Radiohead / Exit Music (For A Film) ... Yup, that's your song.
2. TAC - Paul Wardingham / Rise of the Horde ... We got a Jason Richardson vibe going on with that guitar tone.
3. LithoJazzoSphere - Karnataka / The Storm ... Risky start, but it might end up paying off.
4. Puppies - Cosmograf / Rattrapante ... Risky start, and to quote Han "I've got a bad feeling about this"
5. Kingshmegland - Earthside / The Lesser Evil ... This is a sonic buffet. So much to listen to / for.
6. Indiscipline - Embrace of Souls / The Number of Destiny ... Oh my fucking Christ those background lyrics are so cringey.
7. Dr. DTVT - Barock Project / The Longest Sigh ... These guys just scream RoSFest - absolutely the poster child for the music you'd expect there
8. Evermind - Kenziner / Dimensions ... Ahh… so this is where JP found his Budokan tone for Hollow Years.
9. wolfking - Takayoshi Ohmura / Face the Sky ... Not sure on the lead vocal lines though (initially, I'm enjoying the backing vox more).
10. lonestar - Spiritrial / 1999 ... You're not gonna give up on this stuff with me, are ya?
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You are correct, I am totally WTF at that impression. :lol
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First impressions are not always the final impressions. I just found the backing melodies better than the leads the first time I played it.
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First impressions are not always the final impressions. I just found the backing melodies better than the leads the first time I played it.
I admit, it took me a bit (as you know) to pick which song. This for me has clearly came out as the finest song on the album. Funny you mention melodies as the chorus melody has become something I can't stop playing.
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First impressions are not always the final impressions.
So...is that still Stadler's song?
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First impressions are not always the final impressions.
Quite. I'm currently working my way through Wolfheart's discography and I think my first impression when Kade sent them to me might be the wrongest first impression I ever gave. :lol
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Radiohead - "Exit Music (for a Film").
Stads?
Are you fucking kidding me? :)
This game sucks. ;) :) :)
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Radiohead - "Exit Music (for a Film").
Stads?
Are you fucking kidding me? :)
This game sucks. ;) :) :)
That was a similar reaction I had to receiving this song. :lol :lol
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Radiohead - "Exit Music (for a Film").
Stads?
Are you fucking kidding me? :)
This game sucks. ;) :) :)
That was a similar reaction I had to receiving this song. :lol :lol
I don't question that; the song sucks. It's everything else. I'm sure if I sent a Kiss song next, it'd be like
Jingle, 01-03-2024 10:56 AM: "Hey guys, got all the songs in, posting hangman tomorrow"
Litho, 01-03-2024 10:57 AM: "Stadler! Kiss!"
Pffft. HAHA.
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First impressions are not always the final impressions.
Quite. I'm currently working my way through Wolfheart's discography and I think my first impression when Kade sent them to me might be the wrongest first impression I ever gave. :lol
:metal
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*Wallowing in corn*
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*Wallowing in corn*
Wallow in my playlist instead.
I had an idea for some impressions. Later this afternoon as I hit my 5th run thru (I lost a couple of days of listening around the turn of the calendar).
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*Wallowing in corn*
Wallow in my playlist instead.
I had an idea for some impressions. Later this afternoon as I hit my 5th run thru (I lost a couple of days of listening around the turn of the calendar).
I can't, there's Radiohead inside.
However, Rattrapante is the best of the bunch, Barock Projects are my guys since they started 40kms from IndiMansion, the rest is solid.
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*Wallowing in corn*
Wallow in my playlist instead.
I had an idea for some impressions. Later this afternoon as I hit my 5th run thru (I lost a couple of days of listening around the turn of the calendar).
I can't, there's Radiohead inside.
However, Rattrapante is the best of the bunch, Barock Projects are my guys since they started 40kms from IndiMansion, the rest is solid.
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*Wallowing in corn*
Wallow in my playlist instead.
I had an idea for some impressions. Later this afternoon as I hit my 5th run thru (I lost a couple of days of listening around the turn of the calendar).
I can't, there's Radiohead inside.
Well, that was kinda the point. I don't want to have to wallow in it alone!
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I'm pretty sure this is where things are going to land, comparatively speaking.
Radiohead ? The Mars Volta/Novembre/Alkaloid
Paul Wardingham < Kenziner
Karnataka ? Earthside
Barock Project > Cosmograf
Embrace of Souls > Takayoshi Ohmura
Spiritrial < Prince
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Radiohead ? The Mars Volta/Novembre/Alkaloid
The unholy quartet.
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Wow, considering the impression of Embrace the Souls, I am shocked.
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I'm pretty sure this is where things are going to land, comparatively speaking.
Barock Project > Cosmograf
Oof.......but fair. Barock Project was actually on my short list to send.
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Apparently Kenziner won the round.
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While I like being equated to "This is a sonic buffet. So much to listen to / for.", he could be pulling a Jamesman and conclude with, "but ultimately the other 9 meals were even tastier."
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There is a part of me that really wants to send Chad the stuff I’m sending ShadowNinja
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There is a part of me that really wants to send Chad the stuff I’m sending ShadowNinja
Depending on how I go this round, he may be getting all growls from me. :biggrin:
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There is a part of me that really wants to send Chad the stuff I’m sending ShadowNinja
All of me knows how to use the skip button, which was used a few times this round.
Depending on how I go this round, he may be getting all growls from me. :biggrin:
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Had to get this out before Stadler left for the weekend. If he's going to ruin my week by making me listen to Radiohead, it's only fair that I ruin his weekend by giving the scores.
Stadler: Radiohead - Exit Music (For A Film)
Seriously, are you fucking shitting me!?!?! ... Is still my reaction after listening to this. I really don't know how to take this seriously, other than you're trying too hard for the intangible points (which is backfiring on you for the most part), and completely disregarding quality. Even if you'd had a perfect 10 on the intangibles, you'd still have a weak score here. The acoustic intro was decent, but in only 27 seconds, this song went to shit. The tone and content of the Yorke's singing was a bucket full of meh, and I'm being generous. Then the band kicks in at 2:55, and ... um, no. I might have been able to find some enjoyment (despite the depressing melancholy) if they'd just left it an acoustic piece, but the last 90 seconds are unlistenable - it literally hurts my ears. I gave this four honest listens, which by Tim's Winger-scale, was 5 listens too many.
You've tried the game the system twice now, and failed spectacularly both times - having a lowish intangible score, and sending music that had little-to-no appeal for me. Your best scores were the rounds you sent good music, so how's about focusing on quality first for the last few rounds, yes?
Scores
Quality: 2 (AND I STILL THINK THIS IS GENEROUS)
Unpredictability: 4.5
Anonymity: 2
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Puppies: Cosmograf - Rattrapante
#dafuq … did I just listen to? Risky, and in the words of Han… "I've got a bad feeling about this". On more dedicated listens, this actually had a lot to like - the opening has a big IQ vibe. I especially liked the vocal harmonies and musical melodies in the chorus, and I started to warm up to the first solo at 1:50; and the duel with the keyboards at 5:00 was mucho bueno, along with the subsequent instrumental after the NASA samples. It wasn't the longest song this round, but it sure felt like it. I suspect this is part of a concept album, and would likely work better in the broader context. It was clearly your turn to get hooped on the intangibles because of the unfortunate letter reveals (T and R... and methinks Tim just started firing vowels into R_ttr, letting Spotify auto-suggest - either that, or he is stalking you on Spotify via the Friend Activity). A rather enjoyable song, but one that falls just short of being able to round up to an A-ish score.
Scores
Quality: 7.5
Unpredictability: 0.5
Anonymity: 0.5
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Lonestar: Spiritrial - 1999
Ballsy, given the lyrical content of that middle section. You're not gonna give up on this stuff with me, are ya? Actually, I was wrong, this was not very "ballsy" at all - in the sense that most of it falls into the 'soft-cock' realm - especially that chorus (which actually, I liked the most about the song). There's very little 'balls' to this, and a bit too much simplicity. This has the text-book prog-power opening that slides right into my wheelhouse - acoustic with very melodic driven and silky smooth vocals. For the heavy verses and pre-chorus, something just isn't working - and it's not the Japanese lyrics. I don't think English lyrics would've made much of a difference - some difference but not much - I mean, the composition and structure of these sections are designed to highlight the singing, but it's hard to appreciate that when I don't know what's being sung. The breakdown starting with the bass-slappin at 5:20 was fucking awesome - but over in 35 seconds. Shit man, even I can stay hard for longer than that! The outro was pretty good, but on the whole, I was not wow'd with this one.
Scores
Quality: 7.5
Unpredictability: 5
Anonymity: 3
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TAC: Paul Wardingham - Rise of the Horde
You chose wisely, as door number 1 or 2 would've cost you some points. But, this certainly didn't have "9" written all over it. After the slow start, and the blast beats (man I hate those), we got a Jason Richardson vibe going on. Thankfully they dialed those blast beats back (with a brief reprise later in the song), but that first 90 seconds or so were just so-so. The 'chorus' melody at 1:40… now that was the goods. Really nice guitar tone throughout this entire track, and he does a great job of letting the rest of the instrumentation stay out of the way of his riffing and shredding. Luckily, those blast beats don't stick around for too long at any one-time - even still, I could do without them... They just make those parts too "thrashy" for my liking. Overall, very impressive for one person to perform everything about this song.
Scores
Quality: 8
Unpredictability: 3
Anonymity: 5
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Indiscipline: Embrace of Souls - The Number of Destiny
Cheesy as fuck- like a deep dish slice of 'za with 6 kinds of cheese on it. This is Italian prog/power done right (though, it's VERY light on the prog :D. Yet, those background lyrics are so cringey ("You are heeeeeeeere") :lolpalm:… they ALMOST trend in to the realm of "so bad they're good". Not really, that line in particular could spoil milk, but fortunately it's only a few bars at a time. The actual writing of the lyrics in the chorus is also kinda laughable - but at least they're in English :biggrin:! The guitar/keys solo duelling is mag-fucking-nificent - everything I want and love in power metal, with the rhythm section not being too bland or monotonous in support of the solos; frankly, in support of the entire song... regularly switching up the deployment of the double-bass kicks helps a lot. If it was constantly 'galloping', or the Dragonforce-esque speed double-bass, I'm not sure I'd be too keen with that. You too were screwed with the intangibles. This one was an A-, but you can blame the lyrics and backing vocals for rounding the score down to an 8.
Scores
Quality: 8
Unpredictability: 1.5
Anonymity: 1
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Wolfking: Takayoshi Ohmura - Face the Sky
Challenging Josh to see who can find the best Melodic Power metal eh? Musically, this started off hot; not sure on the lead vocal lines though (initially, I'm enjoying the backing vox more). I worried I steered you wrong when I told you I was a big Edman fan - I really am! And it took a couple of spins, but I really warmed up to the chorus with each and every listen; and a few more spins later, the lead vocal lines really settled in. The instrumental breakdown was dynamite, and the outro was very reminiscent of Magnus level melodic metal writing. And after a few more listens, I'm finding more to like in this one vs Embrace of Souls … but just by a sliver. It too gets an A-, but is just good enough to round up.
Scores
Quality: 8.5
Unpredictability: 4
Anonymity: 2.5
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Evermind:Kenziner - Dimensions
Ahh… so this is where JP found his Budokan tone for Hollow Years. Shit, 1/2 the song titles on this album steal from DT! (Live Forever, Trial of Tears, Eternity). Maybe DT stole "The Razor's Edge" from them?). I digress. After the Hollow Years homage, we get the purpose of the song …. shreddery. Glorious shreddery - like Cliffs of Dover level of glory. The unisons with the keyboard are very nicely done as well. Lots of great playing, great riffing, and great arpeggios. My only beef is that it was a rather abrupt slow down out of nowhere and then fade out that just left me wanting more.
Scores
Quality: 8.5
Unpredictability: 2
Anonymity: 4.5
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Litho: Karnataka - The Storm
Flutes, mother fuckers! It was a risky start, but it ended up paying off. She's got a gorgeous voice, and hey! You're learning… that voice matches the overall feel of the song :biggrin: And once the solo hits, man alive that was sexy. First half was a nice slow build; 2nd half said "hold my beer". Jesus H that was sweet - very Gilmour-esque. I'm very curious to know what 2 minutes was cut from this version - whether it trimmed some fat, or whether the live element just enhanced the hell out of this tune.
Scores
Quality: 9
Unpredictability: 3.5
Anonymity: 1.5
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King: Earthside - The Lesser Evil
This is a sonic buffet. So much to listen to / for. Let's detail our adventure … smooth and soulful vocals; atmospheric; tickling keyboard runs; horns; djent-y guitar riffs; pounding percussion; non-growlie screams; funk and soul splashed throughout; proggy-as-shit with all those time changes; keyboard solo extraordinaire (but brief); slow and mellow acoustic passage; and then a smorgasbord of it all together for the final 2.5 minutes. How do you classify this?? Motown-funk-progressive-metal ... AS FUCK, is as good as I can do.
Scores
Quality: 9
Unpredictability: 1
Anonymity: 3.5
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Dr. DTVT: Barock Project - The Longest Sigh
While Cheffy is looking for the prog-metal sweet spot; and Litho searches for the melodic metal sweet spot, you have absolutely found that neo-prog-rock sweet spot. I've tried a couple of the songs that King has pimped from these guys in roulette's, and while I enjoyed them all, nothing had grabbed me as much as this tune. These guys just scream RoSFest - absolutely the poster child for the music you'd expect there - I figured that was going to be a softball impression for you to pick. Other than the stomping nature of rhythm section at the start of the instrumental, this was a beauty from start-to-finish. But even in that section, the guitar and keyboard solos compensate for the dreary rhythm. Overall, it's like Moon Safari meets Mystery. I debated a perfect score, but
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Scores
Quality: 9.5
Unpredictability: 2.5
Anonymity: 4
Total Round 5:
Dr. DTVT - Barock Project / The Longest Sigh: 2.5 + 4 + 9.5 = 16
TAC - Paul Wardingham / Rise of the Horde: 3 + 5 + 8 = 16
lonestar - Spiritrial / 1999: 5 + 3 + 7.5 = 15.5
Evermind - Kenziner / Dimensions: 2 + 4.5 + 8.5 = 15
wolfking - Takayoshi Ohmura / Face the Sky: 4 + 2.5 + 8.5 = 15
LithoJazzoSphere - Karnataka / The Storm: 3.5 + 1.5 + 8.5 = 14
Kingshmegland - Earthside / The Lesser Evil: 1 + 3.5 + 9 = 13.5
Indiscipline - Embrace of Souls / The Number of Destiny: 1.5 + 1 + 8 = 10.5
Puppies - Cosmograf / Rattrapante: 0.5 + 0.5 + 7.5 = 8.5
Stadler - Radiohead / Exit Music (For A Film): 4.5 + 2 + 2 = 8.5
Overall Standings:
Litho - 73.5
TAC - 71.5
Wolfking - 71.5
Evermind - 71
lonestar - 69.5
Dr. DTVT - 67.5
Indiscipline - 63
Puppies - 62
King - 61.5
Stadler - 53.5
Quality through 5 Rounds:
lonestar - 42
Dr. DTVT - 41
Litho - 41
King - 40.5
Wolfking - 40
Indiscipline - 39.5
Evermind - 39
Puppies - 38.5
TAC - 36.5
Stadler - 31.5
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For a quirk this round, I'd like you to include your own version of my 1st impression to your song.
So, for the two eager-beavers that have already submitted, send me a note writing your version of what my 1st impression will be
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OK.. Just gotta remember what I sent lol
Nevermind, I got it. 9 in quality, 3 in intangibles
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Yeah, thought you'd like the shred component. Very fun instrumental, but the rest of the album is inconsistent and the vocals are debatable (but I kinda like it).
It's Christmas Eve here tomorrow (actual Christmas is January 7th) so I'll do my best to send something in the meanwhile but you may have to wait until Monday. I also may have to wait until Stadler is in so I'm finally here for the hangman. :lol
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Yeah, thought you'd like the shred component. Very fun instrumental, but the rest of the album is inconsistent and the vocals are debatable (but I kinda like it).
It's Christmas Eve here tomorrow (actual Christmas is January 7th) so I'll do my best to send something in the meanwhile but you may have to wait until Monday. I also may have to wait until Stadler is in so I'm finally here for the hangman. :lol
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Just like that Seinfeld episode ...
Jesus: Today's not my birthday
Russia: Well I beg to differ!
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:lol
I think that's just Catholic/Orthodox Christmas differences? I know it's Dec 25th for most of you guys.
It's not like I believe in that anyway—and I don't want to take it to P/R—but the tradition here is to be with your family/loved ones on Christmas so that's the plan.
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:lol
I think that's just Catholic/Orthodox Christmas differences? I know it's Dec 25th for most of you guys.
It's not like I believe in that anyway—and I don't want to take it to P/R—but the tradition here is to be with your family/loved ones on Christmas so that's the plan.
It's all good. That's largely what Christmas means for most of the West too.
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Boy, I'd be kicking ass if it was only quality. :lol
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Yeah, thought you'd like the shred component. Very fun instrumental, but the rest of the album is inconsistent and the vocals are debatable (but I kinda like it).
It's Christmas Eve here tomorrow (actual Christmas is January 7th) so I'll do my best to send something in the meanwhile but you may have to wait until Monday. I also may have to wait until Stadler is in so I'm finally here for the hangman. :lol
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Just like that Seinfeld episode ...
Jesus: Today's not my birthday
Russia: Well I beg to differ!
Jesus better stay away from 6th floor windows.
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Oof, got the same overall score as Stadler and he got a 2 for quality.
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Oof, got the same overall score as Stadler and he got a 2 for quality.
You got screwed for sure and it wasn't even my fault :lol
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Oof, got the same overall score as Stadler and he got a 2 for quality.
I'd be pissed at Tim too!
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Oof, got the same overall score as Stadler and he got a 2 for quality.
I'd be pissed at Tim too!
I do indeed blame him :biggrin:
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Oof, got the same overall score as Stadler and he got a 2 for quality.
I'd be pissed at Tim too!
I do indeed blame him :biggrin:
Imagine how the shame he feels about himself being second last in quality, but in 2nd place overall.
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Let me get off the bus and I'll send.
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Not bad. I was getting worried there for a bit.
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Definitely need to sick Ruslan on Tim
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Had to get this out before Stadler left for the weekend. If he's going to ruin my week by making me listen to Radiohead, it's only fair that I ruin his weekend by giving the scores.
Stadler: Radiohead - Exit Music (For A Film)
Seriously, are you fucking shitting me!?!?! ... Is still my reaction after listening to this. I really don't know how to take this seriously, other than you're trying too hard for the intangible points (which is backfiring on you for the most part), and completely disregarding quality. Even if you'd had a perfect 10 on the intangibles, you'd still have a weak score here. The acoustic intro was decent, but in only 27 seconds, this song went to shit. The tone and content of the Yorke's singing was a bucket full of meh, and I'm being generous. Then the band kicks in at 2:55, and ... um, no. I might have been able to find some enjoyment (despite the depressing melancholy) if they'd just left it an acoustic piece, but the last 90 seconds are unlistenable - it literally hurts my ears. I gave this four honest listens, which by Tim's Winger-scale, was 5 listens too many.
You've tried the game the system twice now, and failed spectacularly both times - having a lowish intangible score, and sending music that had little-to-no appeal for me. Your best scores were the rounds you sent good music, so how's about focusing on quality first for the last few rounds, yes?
Scores
Quality: 2 (AND I STILL THINK THIS IS GENEROUS)
Unpredictability: 4.5
Anonymity: 2
I've got no argument on the quality; Radiohead blows. We all know that. You make it sound like it's so easy to just abandon the rest and send "quality". I'm winging it here even in the good rounds!!!!
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Sent for round 6
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Had to get this out before Stadler left for the weekend. If he's going to ruin my week by making me listen to Radiohead, it's only fair that I ruin his weekend by giving the scores.
Stadler: Radiohead - Exit Music (For A Film)
Seriously, are you fucking shitting me!?!?! ... Is still my reaction after listening to this. I really don't know how to take this seriously, other than you're trying too hard for the intangible points (which is backfiring on you for the most part), and completely disregarding quality. Even if you'd had a perfect 10 on the intangibles, you'd still have a weak score here. The acoustic intro was decent, but in only 27 seconds, this song went to shit. The tone and content of the Yorke's singing was a bucket full of meh, and I'm being generous. Then the band kicks in at 2:55, and ... um, no. I might have been able to find some enjoyment (despite the depressing melancholy) if they'd just left it an acoustic piece, but the last 90 seconds are unlistenable - it literally hurts my ears. I gave this four honest listens, which by Tim's Winger-scale, was 5 listens too many.
You've tried the game the system twice now, and failed spectacularly both times - having a lowish intangible score, and sending music that had little-to-no appeal for me. Your best scores were the rounds you sent good music, so how's about focusing on quality first for the last few rounds, yes?
Scores
Quality: 2 (AND I STILL THINK THIS IS GENEROUS)
Unpredictability: 4.5
Anonymity: 2
I've got no argument on the quality; Radiohead blows. We all know that. You make it sound like it's so easy to just abandon the rest and send "quality". I'm winging it here even in the good rounds!!!!
You can at least TRY to send something that we both like!! :D :P
Not bad. I was getting worried there for a bit.
I was too... after the first listen, I was like "I swear to god I thought I liked Edman's voice!!" :lol Still very much looking forward to checking out that album.
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Litho: Karnataka - The Storm
Flutes, mother fuckers! It was a risky start, but it ended up paying off. She's got a gorgeous voice, and hey! You're learning… that voice matches the overall feel of the song :biggrin: And once the solo hits, man alive that was sexy. First half was a nice slow build; 2nd half said "hold my beer". Jesus H that was sweet - very Gilmour-esque. I'm very curious to know what 2 minutes was cut from this version - whether it trimmed some fat, or whether the live element just enhanced the hell out of this tune.
Being the last track, the studio version ends with a couple minutes of mostly just ocean noises to cap off the album and tie into the theme, nothing from the song itself is cut. I actually like Rachel's vocals slightly more on the studio version, and the bass is a bit more prominent, but the overall mix is slightly dry, which was kind of a trend for recordings at the time I think. The live version has a bit more ambiance, and more energy and power in the "storm" section for the guitar solo, which gives it a better contrast with the rest of the song.
But as for this...
Scores
Quality: 9
Unpredictability: 3.5
Anonymity: 1.5
LithoJazzoSphere - Karnataka / The Storm: 3.5 + 1.5 + 8.5 = 13.5
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Litho - 40.5
Ok, we know Tim has no scruples, but stealing 0.5 points from me between the writeup and the final tally? Now that's low. Should be a penalty for that. :D Should be 14.0 and 41.0.
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Thanks for catching that. Yours and Kade's were the last two I was deciding between scores. I obviously forgot to adjust that 8.5 to a 9. I'll modify the post, and the standings in Post #2 as well. Your total score is also up to 73.5 now.
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Litho, time to DDT Tim to the mat.
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What's a DDT?
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The fuq?!
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Tim, you shame us all.
https://youtu.be/IacYm3DcIXU?si=gHwkfB69gkaSBJDd
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The fuq?!
I haven't a clue either.
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Tim, you shame us all.
https://youtu.be/IacYm3DcIXU?si=gHwkfB69gkaSBJDd
Yeah, I stopped watching wrestling when I was 12. ;D
How do those guys not break their necks?
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It's a pesticide that headlocks bugs and slams them to the ground.
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Tim, you shame us all.
https://youtu.be/IacYm3DcIXU?si=gHwkfB69gkaSBJDd
Yeah, I stopped watching wrestling when I was 12. ;D
How do those guys not break their necks?
I'm still trying to figure out with DDT stands for.
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Tim, you shame us all.
https://youtu.be/IacYm3DcIXU?si=gHwkfB69gkaSBJDd
Yeah, I stopped watching wrestling when I was 12. ;D
How do those guys not break their necks?
I'm still trying to figure out with DDT stands for.
Diving dudes in thongs.
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See, Tim is well versed in that move.
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We could steal it and change it.
Dude.....Dream Theater!! :metal
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See, Tim is well versed in that move.
(https://gifbin.com/bin/012013/1360259491_unhappy_girl_accidentally__walks_into_wall.gif)
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The truth hurts.
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Boy, I'd be kicking ass if it was only quality. :lol
Fourt place is kicking ass? You wouldn’t be on the podium!
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Boy, I'd be kicking ass if it was only quality. :lol
Fourt place is kicking ass? You wouldn’t be on the podium!
Mason. I've infected you. Glorious.
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First, that compilation clip is a full fail with no Jake "The Snake"
Second, I believe he referred to the move as Damned Devastating Terror. But the real story, as told by the man himself:
Roberts has told the story of how he created the DDT numerous times, but if you’ve never heard it, the best part is that it was a complete accident, caused by a clumsy opponent who paid for his mistake by getting dropped on the top of his head. Ladies and gentlemen, the DDT:
JM: It sounds like it. … Here’s the next thing I’m curious about. The DDT. One of the best finishing moves of all time. Whose idea was it for you to do the DDT?
Jake Roberts: I invented it, so it was mine.
JM: You invented it? How did that happen?
Jake Roberts: Yeah, it was an accident. I was in the ring wrestling. I had a front facelock on a guy. He stepped on my feet and we fell backwards. He went on his head. I went on my back. And the fans went “OOOOHH.” I went, “Wait a minute; I’ve got something here.” And I started working on it, and come with it, and named it after the poison that everybody outlawed. I picked up the paper one day, and the front page was “[DDT] outlawed.” I was like, “Wait a minute. Very cool.” They had … “[DDT] poison to the brain.” I said, “Way cool.”
Talk about a happy accident. A happy, dangerous accident.
It’s crazy to think about how different Jake’s career would’ve been without his signature DDT, and how different pro wrestling would be today if Jake hadn’t innovated and popularized the hold. How much longer would it have taken wrestlers to figure out they can grab somebody by the head and fall backwards? That’s a building block for so many of today’s best moves.
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I just get giddy DDT'ing Tim in my head. Lol
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What's a DDT?
Saw that coming.
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First, that compilation clip is a full fail with no Jake "The Snake"
Second, I believe he referred to the move as Damned Devastating Terror. But the real story, as told by the man himself:
Roberts has told the story of how he created the DDT numerous times, but if you’ve never heard it, the best part is that it was a complete accident, caused by a clumsy opponent who paid for his mistake by getting dropped on the top of his head. Ladies and gentlemen, the DDT:
JM: It sounds like it. … Here’s the next thing I’m curious about. The DDT. One of the best finishing moves of all time. Whose idea was it for you to do the DDT?
Jake Roberts: I invented it, so it was mine.
JM: You invented it? How did that happen?
Jake Roberts: Yeah, it was an accident. I was in the ring wrestling. I had a front facelock on a guy. He stepped on my feet and we fell backwards. He went on his head. I went on my back. And the fans went “OOOOHH.” I went, “Wait a minute; I’ve got something here.” And I started working on it, and come with it, and named it after the poison that everybody outlawed. I picked up the paper one day, and the front page was “[DDT] outlawed.” I was like, “Wait a minute. Very cool.” They had … “[DDT] poison to the brain.” I said, “Way cool.”
Talk about a happy accident. A happy, dangerous accident.
It’s crazy to think about how different Jake’s career would’ve been without his signature DDT, and how different pro wrestling would be today if Jake hadn’t innovated and popularized the hold. How much longer would it have taken wrestlers to figure out they can grab somebody by the head and fall backwards? That’s a building block for so many of today’s best moves.
That's not a finishing move, these are finishing moves;
(https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-XpKlm8q8DIw/WeCoBSRacGI/AAAAAAAAFR0/TfNg7_QB0_EUYNg_VygIcT6HF6VtYgqZgCLcBGAs/s1600/mortal-kombat-finish-him.gif)(https://media.giphy.com/media/ofgnyDTOmwtOg/giphy.gif)
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None better than Jake the Snake
(https://pa1.aminoapps.com/6084/ac2e2896a2999de999ecc80f21cc78e9abaf9c6b_00.gif)
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I am feeling the quiet before the sudden Hangman explosion ...
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None better than Jake the Snake
(https://pa1.aminoapps.com/6084/ac2e2896a2999de999ecc80f21cc78e9abaf9c6b_00.gif)
It was my signature move as a young, dumb teen with my buddies. Lol
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I am feeling the quiet before the sudden Hangman explosion ...
It would only be 1/2 a hangman currently.
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Stadler sent KISS - "Carr Jam 1981".
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:lol
I'm totally ready to be the only person to have not sent a song with numbers in it.
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I'll be sending tomorrow.
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I'm totally ready to be the only person to have not sent a song with numbers in it.
I can neither confirm nor deny whether mine has numbers, diacritics, ampersands, tildes, macrons, cedillas, umlauts, or hieroglyphics in it.
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macrons
Isn't that a French political guy?
cedillas
Isn't that a fancy car brand?
Thankfully I know the rest of the stuff.
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Sent! (https://youtu.be/boaJCrHNRMA?si=7f50VQOME8BfWekF)
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I'm totally ready to be the only person to have not sent a song with numbers in it.
I can neither confirm nor deny whether mine has numbers, diacritics, ampersands, tildes, macrons, cedillas, umlauts, or hieroglyphics in it.
I do believe the rest will be auto-filled
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Here's my band's logo. Try putting this in hangman.
(https://d3zr9vspdnjxi.cloudfront.net/artistInfo/anitahun/big/658.jpg?1642178030)
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Sent.
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None better than Jake the Snake
(https://pa1.aminoapps.com/6084/ac2e2896a2999de999ecc80f21cc78e9abaf9c6b_00.gif)
I saw Rowdy Roddy Piper kick his ass in Hartford once. GREAT match. I was working as security and had a Piper t-shirt under my uniform. :)
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Litho sent Styx!!
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Caught red handed.
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Caught red handed.
Ooohhh! Pm me with what song.
BTW, do you know there was a poster here who was in a Styx tribute band who plays with Pattern-Seeking Animals?
Denis Atlas.
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"Castle Walls" is my favorite Styx song. I suspect most if not all of their work would be banned here though.
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Caught red handed.
Ooohhh! Pm me with what song.
BTW, do you know there was a poster here who was in a Styx tribute band who plays with Pattern-Seeking Animals?
Denis Atlas.
yeah, and I heard he carried the globe too.
Litho didn't send Styx fool.
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Oh. You got me. Go tug one out in victory. You'll need it you old F. Lol
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Go tug one out in victory.
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Exactly. Lol
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Here's my band's logo. Try putting this in hangman.
(https://d3zr9vspdnjxi.cloudfront.net/artistInfo/anitahun/big/658.jpg?1642178030)
I’ve got a match.
I'm totally ready to be the only person to have not sent a song with numbers in it.
I can neither confirm nor deny whether mine has numbers, diacritics, ampersands, tildes, macrons, cedillas, umlauts, or hieroglyphics in it.
I do believe the rest will be auto-filled
Including the write up “focus on quality, not hangman!!”
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Okay, I'll send in the next ~5 hours.
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Still waiting on one other as well.
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Still waiting on one other as well.
He'll probably send in ~8 hours when I'll be asleep. :)
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Sent!
Off to sleep in an hour or so. Just making that other person's (is it Stadler again?) job easier. :)
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Sent!
Off to sleep in an hour or so. Just making that other person's (is it Stadler again?) job easier. :)
I'm in.
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LET'S GOOOOOOOO
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ok, go!
??: _ea_e__ _a_e - __e__e__
??: _e_____e_ _o__ - O_e O_ _o__ __o___ (__a__e O_ _____)
??: _e_o_e _a__a - ___o__a_
??: ___a__ - _____ o_ __o__e__
??: ____o____ - ________ ___e_
??: _o__ _a__ - A _a_ o__ o_ _e_e
??: _e__e - _e_e_
??: __ea_ _____ - __ea_ _o_ O_ _o_e_e_ _o__ _o__ _ea_e
??: Ae__e_ _o__ - __a_ _o_ _ea_ _o_ _e_e__e
??: __o_e_e__e - _e____o
Letters guessed: EOA
Dr. DTVT
Evermind
Indiscipline
King
Litho
lonestar
Puppies
Stadler
TAC
Wolfking
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E
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O
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A
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Holy fucking vowels!!
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We need Kade for that U. :lol
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The Connells - 74-75
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Aether Void - What You Reap and Deserve
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Or is it "You Deserve"?
In any case, let's say Litho.
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Heaven's Gate - Fredless
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Heaven's Gate - Fredless
No idea if that's even correct but what the hell, Stadler?
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The Connells - 74-75
LMAO!
Or is it "You Deserve"?
In any case, let's say Litho.
Everyone's going to guess Litho I gather. :lol Target on his back. :D
??: Heavens Gate - Fredless (2)
??: _e_____e_ _o__ - O_e O_ _o__ __o___ (__a__e O_ _____)
??: _e_o_e _a__a - ___o__a_
??: ___a__ - _____ o_ __o__e__
??: ____o____ - ________ ___e_
??: _o__ _a__ - A _a_ o__ o_ _e_e
??: _e__e - _e_e_
??: __ea_ _____ - __ea_ _o_ O_ _o_e_e_ _o__ _o__ _ea_e
??: Aether Void - What You Reap You Deserve (1)
??: __o_e_e__e - _e____o
Letters guessed: EOA
Dr. DTVT
Evermind
Indiscipline
King
Litho
lonestar
Puppies
Stadler
TAC
Wolfking
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Yogi Lang - A Way Out of Here
Listening now to make an educated guess!
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??: Heavens Gate - Fredless (2)
??: _e_____e_ _o__ - O_e O_ _o__ __o___ (__a__e O_ _____)
??: _e_o_e _a__a - ___o__a_
??: ___a__ - _____ o_ __o__e__
??: ____o____ - ________ ___e_
??: Yogi Lang - A Way out of Here (3)
??: _e__e - _e_e_
??: __ea_ _____ - __ea_ _o_ O_ _o_e_e_ _o__ _o__ _ea_e
??: Aether Void - What You Reap You Deserve (1)
??: __o_e_e__e - _e____o
Letters guessed: EOA
Dr. DTVT
Evermind
Indiscipline
King
Litho
lonestar
Puppies
Stadler
TAC
Wolfking
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Letters, ye cowards!
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Yogi Lang - A Way Out of Here
Listening now to make an educated guess!
What the hell is this clip? :rollin I want to say Tim or Stadler but I've got to keep saying Litho.
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Letters, ye cowards!
Pretty sure I can get a few more from this.
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V
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Heaven's Gate - Fredless
No idea if that's even correct but what the hell, Stadler?
I fucking can't stand Fred. He brings nothing to the table. I'd gladly champion any song that was Fredless.
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Cheap Trick - Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace
I'll say Tim even though it's probably Stads :)
I fucking can't stand Fred. He brings nothing to the table. I'd gladly champion any song that was Fredless.
:lol
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??: Heavens Gate - Fredless (2)
??: _e_____e_ _o__ - O_e O_ _o__ __o___ (__a__e O_ _____)
??: _e_o_e _a__a - ___o__a_
??: ___a__ - _____ o_ __o__e__
??: V___o____ - ________ ___e_
??: Yogi Lang - A Way out of Here (3)
??: _e__e - _e_e_
??: Cheap Trick - Speak Now Or Forever Hold Your Peace (4)
??: Aether Void - What You Reap You Deserve (1)
??: __o_e_e__e - _e____o
Letters guessed: EOAV
Dr. DTVT
Evermind
Indiscipline
King
Litho
lonestar
Puppies
Stadler
TAC
Wolfking
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Stonehenge - Wendigo
This has got to be Tim (probably not)
in fact that's probably King but my guess it Tim :lol
alright I've reached the heavy part and it's not King for sure :lol
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??: Heavens Gate - Fredless (2)
??: _e____te_ _o__ - O_e O_ _o__ __o_t_ (__a__e O_ ___t_)
??: _e_o_e _a__a - ___o_ta_
??: ___at_ - _____ o_ __o__e__
??: V__to____ - T______t ___e_
??: Yogi Lang - A Way out of Here (3)
??: _e__e - _e_e_
??: Cheap Trick - Speak Now Or Forever Hold Your Peace (4)
??: Aether Void - What You Reap You Deserve (1)
??: Stonehenge - Wendigo (5)
Letters guessed: EOAVT
Dr. DTVT
Evermind
Indiscipline
King
Litho
lonestar
Puppies
Stadler
TAC
Wolfking
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0/5, nice :lol
I'll probably throw another who-guessed-what hail-mary before I go to sleep if that's okay with Chad.
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Letters, ye cowards!
It's too bad the 8 "guests" bots can't offer up some letters
0/5, nice :lol
I'll probably throw another who-guessed-what hail-mary before I go to sleep if that's okay with Chad.
Like the limit of 1 letter per day, I ought to limit the guesses to one per day (for each song) - lest anyone just run the gauntlet until they get it right.
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T.
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Like the limit of 1 letter per day, I ought to limit the guesses to one per day (for each song) - lest anyone just run the gauntlet until they get it right.
Absolutely cool with me. :tup People did guess more than that in the previous rounds I think, so I hope you keep track of that then. I do remember Tim guessing twice in a row but too lazy to go back and check.
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I'll probably throw another who-guessed-what hail-mary before I go to sleep if that's okay with Chad.
Like the limit of 1 letter per day, I ought to limit the guesses to one per day (for each song) - lest anyone just run the gauntlet until they get it right.
Absolutely cool with me. :tup People did guess more than that in the previous rounds I think, so I hope you keep track of that then. I do remember Tim guessing twice in a row but too lazy to go back and check.
I will. My bad - I should have cut that off back then.
Edit - "T" added above.
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Stads sent Cheap Trick?
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Victorious - "Twilight Skies".
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Heaven's Gate Is Tim.
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Victorious - "Twilight Skies".
Kade?
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Victorious - "Twilight Skies".
Kade?
Damn that's a nice song.
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Please Chad don't change the guessing rules mid-roulette. Multiple guessing has focked me over so far and I'd like consistency in the way I'm focked over, and for others to be focked over accordingly.
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Feeling obliged to give a shot at everything that's left before I'm off to sleep:
One of Long Shorts (Cradle of Filth)
Before Karma
Grind of Problems
Leper
Everything sent by Litho :lol
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Please Chad don't change the guessing rules mid-roulette. Multiple guessing has focked me over so far and I'd like consistency in the way I'm focked over, and for others to be focked over accordingly.
Ok... fair enough.
And everyone's been playing rather fair. I just didn't want a situation where one individual guesses:
Song XYZ - RJ, Tim, Kade, Puppies, etc... (in separate posts)
or vice versa ...
Tim - Song A, Song B, Song C etc...
But as I said, no one has really played that egregiously. I'd expect that from me though if I was a player. :lol
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I can't believe we haven't outed a single person yet.
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Please Chad don't change the guessing rules mid-roulette. Multiple guessing has focked me over so far and I'd like consistency in the way I'm focked over, and for others to be focked over accordingly.
Ok... fair enough.
I still won't go guessing again in this case, as I think that's against the spirit of the roulette. I've only guessed one person per song as a rule, otherwise it's really an asshole move (except when I was making fun guessing Litho for everything last round), so I'm good on that front.
My "everything sent by Litho" post above is also a joke. Don't count that. :lol
I'm also alright with people guessing multiple times. Go get them (don't get me).
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I can't believe we haven't outed a single person yet.
Do you want to guess the persons for the songs I revealed? There are like five of them. If you don't, you're in that batch for sure.
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Stads and wolfking have been correctly identified now.
??: Heavens Gate - Fredless (2)
??: _e____te_ _o__ - O_e O_ _o__ __o_t_ (__a__e O_ ___t_)
??: _e_o_e _a__a - ___o_ta_
??: ___at_ - _____ o_ __o__e__
wolfking (2): Victorius - Twilight Skies (6)
??: Yogi Lang - A Way out of Here (3)
??: _e__e - _e_e_
Stadler (1): Cheap Trick - Speak Now Or Forever Hold Your Peace (4)
??: Aether Void - What You Reap You Deserve (1)
??: Stonehenge - Wendigo (5)
Letters guessed: EOAVT
Dr. DTVT
Evermind
Indiscipline
King
Litho
lonestar
Puppies
TAC
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Benighted Soul - "One of Your Ghosts (Cradle of Filth)" - Evermind?
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Btw you guys, Litho is in the lead. He's definitely not Aether Void (I guessed that) and not Yogi Lang (I guessed that). Heaven's Gate and Stonehenge, he hasn't been guessed for these. It's open season on him. :biggrin:
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Please Chad don't change the guessing rules mid-roulette. Multiple guessing has focked me over so far and I'd like consistency in the way I'm focked over, and for others to be focked over accordingly.
Ok... fair enough.
I still won't go guessing again in this case, as I think that's against the spirit of the roulette. I've only guessed one person per song as a rule, otherwise it's really an asshole move (except when I was making fun guessing Litho for everything last round), so I'm good on that front.
My "everything sent by Litho" post above is also a joke. Don't count that. :lol
I'm also alright with people guessing multiple times. Go get them (don't get me).
If there was a like button, I'd hit it for this post. :tup
??: Heavens Gate - Fredless (2)
??: Benighted Soul - One Of Your Ghosts (Cradle Of Filth) (7)
??: _e_o_e _a__a - ___o_ta_
??: ___at_ - _____ o_ __o__e__
wolfking (2): Victorius - Twilight Skies (6)
??: Yogi Lang - A Way out of Here (3)
??: _e__e - _e_e_
Stadler (1): Cheap Trick - Speak Now Or Forever Hold Your Peace (4)
??: Aether Void - What You Reap You Deserve (1)
??: Stonehenge - Wendigo (5)
Letters guessed: EOAVT
Dr. DTVT
Evermind
Indiscipline
King
Litho
lonestar
Puppies
TAC
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Benighted Soul - "One of Your Ghosts (Cradle of Filth)" - Evermind?
Dude I'm not even in the top 3, what's your beef? I've got nothing against you.*
*In fact I probably have got something against you since you're in the lead right now. Can someone please guess Litho's song already?
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It seemed like something you might do to throw people off. :p It also sounds like a song you could possibly send.
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I'm astounded it was actually "Cradle of Filth". :lol I Googled it a couple of times and couldn't find the actual song.
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I can't believe we haven't outed a single person yet.
Do you want to guess the persons for the songs I revealed? There are like five of them. If you don't, you're in that batch for sure.
Litho, did you miss this post? :)
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Did I?
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Did I?
Well, it seems rich to say "I can't believe we haven't outed a single person yet." when you haven't even tried to guess one person at that time.
Mafia: The Chad's Roulette Edition
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S
The e-e one just reminds me of the Key and Peele east west bowl names skit
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Don't let Litho get away. At least someone guess him for the Stonehenge you guys. :)
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I think Stonehenge could be Puppies though.
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I think Stonehenge could be Puppies though.
I realise this is not the old board where I relentlessly played Mafia on but this is such a weak-ass defense I don't even have anything to say. I should be pushing people to check you on that Stonehenge track, and on that Heavens Gate track (even if I don't think that's you) hard. We've got so many people it doesn't even hurt anyone to make these two guesses.
I guess you could be one of the unguessed ones but then why post "uh oh I wonder how we didn't get anything yet" post unless it's ba-dum-tss misdirection.
Man I'm really on a warpath with you now. Too bad I'm off to sleep.
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The psychological mind games are at least half the fun of this. :lol
BTW people, targeting me is perfectly understandable, but don't let him try and play innocent either.
I'm not even in the top 3
You are 4th, 0.5 behind 2nd, with more capability than anyone else here to suddenly rocket even higher. :p
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Re: the games. Absolutely. :lol I'm having the time of my life.
I'm not innocent at all but I'm still at 4th place. Eliminate Litho and then come for me (or for Kade and Tim, as, you know, they're ahead of me too).
Now for real, I'm out. Got to wake up in 6 hours.
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I think Stonehenge could be Puppies though.
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Please Chad don't change the guessing rules mid-roulette. Multiple guessing has focked me over so far and I'd like consistency in the way I'm focked over, and for others to be focked over accordingly.
Ok... fair enough.
And everyone's been playing rather fair. I just didn't want a situation where one individual guesses:
Song XYZ - RJ, Tim, Kade, Puppies, etc... (in separate posts)
or vice versa ...
Tim - Song A, Song B, Song C etc...
But as I said, no one has really played that egregiously. I'd expect that from me though if I was a player. :lol
Oh, you mean like me? :) :) :)
In spirit, though, since I'm nothing if not a good sport and a team player, I'm with Indiscipline. Don't change it now. I'll take the beatings until morale improves, but lesson learned until next time. ;) :)
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Myrath-Child Of Prophecy
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Please Chad don't change the guessing rules mid-roulette. Multiple guessing has focked me over so far and I'd like consistency in the way I'm focked over, and for others to be focked over accordingly.
Ok... fair enough.
And everyone's been playing rather fair. I just didn't want a situation where one individual guesses:
Song XYZ - RJ, Tim, Kade, Puppies, etc... (in separate posts)
or vice versa ...
Tim - Song A, Song B, Song C etc...
But as I said, no one has really played that egregiously. I'd expect that from me though if I was a player. :lol
Oh, you mean like me? :) :) :)
In spirit, though, since I'm nothing if not a good sport and a team player, I'm with Indiscipline. Don't change it now. I'll take the beatings until morale improves, but lesson learned until next time. ;) :)
Love it. One of my favorite work-isms of all time that I use quite regularly.
Stonehenge is Puppies. "S" provided no additional help
??: Heavens Gate - Fredless (2)
??: Benighted Soul - One Of Your Ghosts (Cradle Of Filth) (7)
??: _e_o_e _a__a - ___o_ta_
??: Myrath - Child of Prophecy (8)
wolfking (2): Victorius - Twilight Skies (6)
??: Yogi Lang - A Way out of Here (3)
??: _e__e - _e_e_
Stadler (1): Cheap Trick - Speak Now Or Forever Hold Your Peace (4)
??: Aether Void - What You Reap You Deserve (1)
Puppies (3): Stonehenge - Wendigo (5)
Letters guessed: EOAVTS
Dr. DTVT
Evermind
Indiscipline
King
Litho
lonestar
TAC
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Is TAC Aether Void?
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M
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M
Well that just might finish things off...
??: Heavens Gate - Fredless (2)
??: Benighted Soul - One Of Your Ghosts (Cradle Of Filth) (7)
??: _e_ome Ma__a - _mmo_ta_
??: Myrath - Child of Prophecy (8)
wolfking (2): Victorius - Twilight Skies (6)
??: Yogi Lang - A Way out of Here (3)
??: Me__e - _e_e_
Stadler (1): Cheap Trick - Speak Now Or Forever Hold Your Peace (4)
??: Aether Void - What You Reap You Deserve (1)
Puppies (3): Stonehenge - Wendigo (5)
Letters guessed: EOAVTSM
Dr. DTVT
Evermind
Indiscipline
King
Litho
lonestar
TAC
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Merge - "Helen"?
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Jerome Mazza-Immortal
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Yup... that finished it.
??: Heavens Gate - Fredless (2)
TAC (5): Benighted Soul - One Of Your Ghosts (Cradle Of Filth) (7)
??: Jerome Mazza - Immortal (10)
??: Myrath - Child of Prophecy (8)
wolfking (2): Victorius - Twilight Skies (6)
??: Yogi Lang - A Way out of Here (3)
Evermind (4): Merge - Helen (9)
Stadler (1): Cheap Trick - Speak Now Or Forever Hold Your Peace (4)
??: Aether Void - What You Reap You Deserve (1)
Puppies (3): Stonehenge - Wendigo (5)
Dr. DTVT
Evermind
Indiscipline
King
Litho
lonestar
TAC
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Myrath for Evermind?
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Ł10 Evermind wakes up in a cold sweat, dreaming about this hangman and posts again in the next two hours.
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Myrath is Mason
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Jerome Mazza is Kingshmegland
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Yogi Lang is Indiscipline
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Myrath for Evermind?
No
Myrath is Mason
Nope
Jerome Mazza is Kingshmegland
Nada
Yogi Lang is Indiscipline
Negative
Man, you guys match submissions worse than I do!
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Evermind has to be Merge then.
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Evermind has to be Merge then.
Man, he's gonna be salty with you!
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(https://i.giphy.com/gCLSbycFEscu0O44dd.webp)
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TAC is Benighted Soul?
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TAC is Benighted Soul?
Ding Ding.
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Is Aether Void lonestar?
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Myrath for Jazzo
Heaven's Gate for King
Yogi Lang for the Doctor
Aether Void for lonestar
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Aether void is Mason
Heavens Gate is Ruslan
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Evermind was already confirmed for Merge.
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OK, Indiscipline is Heavens Gate
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OK, Indiscipline is Heavens Gate
It was Agatha all alooooong!
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Ya'll are just flinging shit against the wall to see what sticks! It's chaos... madness!!!
I like it.
Indiscipline (7): Heavens Gate - Fredless (2)
TAC (5): Benighted Soul - One Of Your Ghosts (Cradle Of Filth) (7)
??: Jerome Mazza - Immortal (10)
??: Myrath - Child of Prophecy (8)
wolfking (2): Victorius - Twilight Skies (6)
Dr. DTVT (6): Yogi Lang - A Way out of Here (3)
Evermind (4): Merge - Helen (9)
Stadler (1): Cheap Trick - Speak Now Or Forever Hold Your Peace (4)
??: Aether Void - What You Reap You Deserve (1)
Puppies (3): Stonehenge - Wendigo (5)
King
Litho
lonestar
Man, if Litho gets 10 + 10, Evermind is going to be salty with everyone!!
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Litho is Jerome Mazza
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lonestar is Myrath, king is Aether Void.
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Mazza is Jazzo
Myrath is lonestar
Aether is King
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King is Aether Void
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Victorious - "Twilight Skies".
Kade?
Damn that's a nice song.
Damn you!
But yes, amazing song. Killer album too.
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Let's just hope Litho's song sucks lol
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Damn, 14 seconds too late.
You guys owe me a new refresh button. :rollin
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Damn, 14 seconds too late.
You guys owe me a new refresh button. :rollin
15 seconds may cost you 1 point! Man, this is like the Geico of roulettes! Hilarious that King's song was first solved, but he was last matched.
Indiscipline (7): Heavens Gate - Fredless (2)
TAC (5): Benighted Soul - One Of Your Ghosts (Cradle Of Filth) (7)
LithoJazzoSphere (8): Jerome Mazza - Immortal (10)
lonestar (9): Myrath - Child of Prophecy (8)
wolfking (2): Victorius - Twilight Skies (6)
Dr. DTVT (6): Yogi Lang - A Way out of Here (3)
Evermind (4): Merge - Helen (9)
Stadler (1): Cheap Trick - Speak Now Or Forever Hold Your Peace (4)
Kingshmegland (10): Aether Void - What You Reap You Deserve (1)
Puppies (3): Stonehenge - Wendigo (5)
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Wait...so if he put King first in that post, I'd have the 10 spot?
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Let's just hope Litho's song sucks lol
Nah, it's more like this.
(https://i.giphy.com/xT1Ra3VzNv3qlDouyY.webp)
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Wait...so if he put King first in that post, I'd have the 10 spot?
Yeah... I gotta do it in order of who was revealed. I also assume it (and Indi's) were intentionally listed as such.
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Wait...so if he put King first in that post, I'd have the 10 spot?
(https://i.giphy.com/IedrY2VP5IO5ivDQAD.webp)
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Let's just hope Litho's song sucks lol
Nah, it's more like this.
(https://i.giphy.com/xT1Ra3VzNv3qlDouyY.webp)
That's what Tim thought last round.
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Chad, I commend you for creating a hell of a chaotic roulette environment.
Highlight of the round: while the two Prime Precogs (Jazzo and Ev) were at each others' throats with sophisticated ESP mindgames, the two beat-up regularly istantly guessed sods (Stadler and moi) were basically asking: "Don't change the rules! Sodomise me more!"
Happy times.
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Chad, I commend you for creating a hell of a chaotic roulette environment.
Highlight of the round: while the two Prime Precogs (Jazzo and Ev) were at each others' troaths with sophisticated ESP mindgames, the two beat-up regularly istantly guessed sods (Stadler and moi) were basically asking: "Don't change the rules! Sodomise me more!"
Happy times.
Even as a spectator it's great. Someone needs to check in on Evermind when he wakes up.
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Chad, I commend you for creating a hell of a chaotic roulette environment.
(https://y.yarn.co/1e354a4e-f7f9-4e43-b076-c2be1799a64c_text.gif)
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And da playlist.
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6AlmgIktcShNOI7W81hEp8?si=940c6e0275a04976
Even as a spectator it's great. Someone needs to check in on Evermind when he wakes up.
You gotta get in on this action, for some outside interference!
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Is some action related to the self-appointed first impressions on the menu?
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And da playlist.
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6AlmgIktcShNOI7W81hEp8?si=940c6e0275a04976
Even as a spectator it's great. Someone needs to check in on Evermind when he wakes up.
You gotta get in on this action, for some outside interference!
Yea, I'll try and fuck with Lizzo in the next round (love ya dude).
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Yea, I'll try and fuck with Lizzo in the next round.
(https://media2.giphy.com/media/KczIQ5REehGgQTmx9h/giphy.gif)
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Yea, I'll try and fuck with Lizzo in the next round.
(https://media2.giphy.com/media/KczIQ5REehGgQTmx9h/giphy.gif)
(https://i.postimg.cc/KvZhx5Jg/FB-IMG-1704672752345.jpg)
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And da playlist.
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6AlmgIktcShNOI7W81hEp8?si=940c6e0275a04976
Even as a spectator it's great. Someone needs to check in on Evermind when he wakes up.
You gotta get in on this action, for some outside interference!
Geography fucked me from getting in on the action this round!
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And da playlist.
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6AlmgIktcShNOI7W81hEp8?si=940c6e0275a04976
Even as a spectator it's great. Someone needs to check in on Evermind when he wakes up.
You gotta get in on this action, for some outside interference!
Geography fucked me from getting in on the action this round!
Yeah, I've been trying to spread out the times of when start the games. Next round I'll start early evening my time, so you can get in on some of it.
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Yea, I'll try and fuck with Lizzo in the next round.
(https://media2.giphy.com/media/KczIQ5REehGgQTmx9h/giphy.gif)
Hey, who leaked that? >:( You gotta pay top dollar for that kind of view.
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And da playlist.
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6AlmgIktcShNOI7W81hEp8?si=940c6e0275a04976
Even as a spectator it's great. Someone needs to check in on Evermind when he wakes up.
You gotta get in on this action, for some outside interference!
Geography fucked me from getting in on the action this round!
Yeah, I've been trying to spread out the times of when start the games. Next round I'll start early evening my time, so you can get in on some of it.
haha, yeah I know you've been doing that which is cool. I don't mind though, I'm not very good and haven't heard of most of the groups everyone is sending.
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Let's just hope Litho's song sucks lol
Nah, it's more like this.
(https://i.giphy.com/xT1Ra3VzNv3qlDouyY.webp)
That's what Tim thought last round.
Maybe, but based on his performance he has absolutely no warrant to expect it. (https://i.imgur.com/jYPvjM1.gif)
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haven't heard of most of the groups everyone is sending.
I'd only heard of Myrath and Cheap Trick ahead of time.
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And da playlist.
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6AlmgIktcShNOI7W81hEp8?si=940c6e0275a04976 (https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6AlmgIktcShNOI7W81hEp8?si=940c6e0275a04976)
You have the wrong song for mine. ;D
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I would have sent Myrath if I had known Chad didn’t know them.
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It's almost sort of cheating, since he already has 416 Myrath scrobbles.
But hey, Lethean slipped in some Jonas Renkse in my roulette, so anything can happen.
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Is some action related to the self-appointed first impressions on the menu?
I will post both at some point. It was more an interesting thing to see how well you (royal) think you know how I'll respond. But I still need some from a few people.
TAC
Stadler
wolfking
Evermind
For a quirk this round, I'd like you to include your own version of my 1st impression to your song.
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I would have sent Myrath if I had known Chad didn’t know them.
He knows some of their stuff, but not from this year's EP
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And da playlist.
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6AlmgIktcShNOI7W81hEp8?si=940c6e0275a04976 (https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6AlmgIktcShNOI7W81hEp8?si=940c6e0275a04976)
You have the wrong song for mine. ;D
Oh yeah, right .... fixed!
It's almost sort of cheating, since he already has 416 Myrath scrobbles.
Well, I hadn't listened to this current EP, and Myrath is in that 'really enjoyable but I rarely listen to' category, so there's no guarantee he's going to stick the landing with them. In fact, I just checked my iTunes library, and I've only rated 2 of their songs 5*. Everything else is 4 or lower.
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That's like an average of 7 listens for each album. Not exactly top favorite status, but they're in your top 125 most-listened to in the past decade.
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What exactly do you need from me?
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For the final round I'm flying Russell Allen over and recording a new song with a project name of my choosing that will only exist on my hard drive and jingle's when I send it to him.
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That's like an average of 7 listens for each album. Not exactly top favorite status, but they're in your top 125 most-listened to in the past decade.
Yeah, but virtually nothing since 2019, other than giving each album a cursory listen after Shehili came out. https://www.last.fm/user/jingle-boy/library/music/Myrath
What exactly do you need from me?
For a quirk this round, I'd like you to include your own version of my 1st impression to your song.
What part of this was confusing? I'm not trying to be coy, I'm literally unsure how much clearer I can make this.
For the final round I'm flying Russell Allen over and recording a new song with a project name of my choosing that will only exist on my hard drive and jingle's when I send it to him.
Whatever floats your boat. Though, I'm sure there's some Russell Allen project I haven't listened to. Hell, I found a Kiske fronted song to give to Tim.
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Is some action related to the self-appointed first impressions on the menu?
I will post both at some point. It was more an interesting thing to see how well you (royal) think you know how I'll respond. But I still need some from a few people.
TAC
Stadler
wolfking
Evermind
For a quirk this round, I'd like you to include your own version of my 1st impression to your song.
Oh I missed this.
Umm...
Shit, this is somewhat generic for the style but you weren't kidding when you said the older stuff is where its at.
Either that or we'll use what Ruslan said about it. ;D
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Actually, Chad's first impression was;
Kade is the most sexiest, most manly mother fucker I've ever seen. Could I turn for this guy.......I think I could.
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What exactly do you need from me?
For a quirk this round, I'd like you to include your own version of my 1st impression to your song.
What part of this was confusing? I'm not trying to be coy, I'm literally unsure how much clearer I can make this.
You...coy? :lol
I mean, do I do my impression in my Jingle voice, like what I think you'll say about it? Is that what you want?
Actually, Chad's first impression was;
Kade is the most sexiest, most manly mother fucker I've ever seen. Could I turn for this guy.......I think I could.
Did I forward you that PM by accident? Sorry Chad.
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For the final round I'm flying Russell Allen over and recording a new song with a project name of my choosing that will only exist on my hard drive and jingle's when I send it to him.
This seems a tad over the top....
*looks at who posted it....
Ah yeah, all good, nice plan.
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Kingshmegland's First Impression..
Thes sng is are sounds rally nece an I lyke tha sungar.
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Actually, Chad's first impression was;
Kade is the most sexiest, most manly mother fucker I've ever seen. Could I turn for this guy.......I think I could.
Did I forward you that PM by accident? Sorry Chad.
:lol
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Kingshmegland's First Impression..
Thes sng is are sounds rally nece an I lyke tha sungar.
Now do the impression after 5 beers...
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Sungar :lol
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Kingshmegland's First Impression..
Thes sng is are sounds rally nece an I lyke tha sungar.
Now do the impression after 5 beers...
A composition of such pulchritude catapults the senses into aural empyrean, bitch.
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I knew it would turn him into a poet!
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What on earth is pulchritude? :lol
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Wouldn't know, I'm sober!
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An Italian Pikachu.
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(https://i.imgur.com/Dk6XiD7.jpg)
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(https://i.imgur.com/Dk6XiD7.jpg)
This is anything but sober.
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It's pulchritudinous.
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Damn, Litho is nearly unbeatable at this.
I'll do the impression today, no problem.
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What on earth is pulchritude? :lol
One of the most incongruous words in the English (or any, for that matter) language.
Damn, Litho is nearly unbeatable at this.
You solved the first three in like 15 minutes with three letters. I'm not at that level yet.
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(https://i.imgur.com/Dk6XiD7.jpg)
:lol
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Damn, Litho is nearly unbeatable at this.
You solved the first three in like 15 minutes with three letters. I'm not at that level yet.
I think he meant you winning the roulette.
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I have plenty of time to fuck things up.
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I have plenty of time to fuck things up.
Yes, and so do we. You have a clear lead and 18 points already this round extends that further. Pick obscure shit for the next two rounds and you're close to home.
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Damn, Litho is nearly unbeatable at this.
You solved the first three in like 15 minutes with three letters. I'm not at that level yet.
I think he meant you winning the roulette.
Yep.
I Googled "jerome kalla" at some point yesterday so I was kinda close. :lol
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I have plenty of time to fuck things up.
Yes, and so do we. You have a clear lead and 18 points already this round extends that further. Pick obscure shit for the next two rounds and you're close to home.
9, actually. :p But I would have thought Hordes In Exile (a band with only one song so far) would have taken longer to find, but Ruslan worked his magic and ferreted it out quickly. I only saved disaster that round by pulling a rabbit out of a hat. That might not work the next two times. :corn
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Whining is a time-proven roulette strategy as a number of people in this one are well aware of. :lol
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Whining is a time-proven roulette strategy as a number of people in this one are well aware of. :lol
Especially the host.
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Whining is a time-proven roulette strategy as a number of people in this one are well aware of. :lol
Especially the host.
Bitching is your time-proven strategy.
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I have plenty of time to fuck things up.
Yes, and so do we. You have a clear lead and 18 points already this round extends that further. Pick obscure shit for the next two rounds and you're close to home.
9, actually. :p But I would have thought Hordes In Exile (a band with only one song so far) would have taken longer to find, but Ruslan worked his magic and ferreted it out quickly. I only saved disaster that round by pulling a rabbit out of a hat. That might not work the next two times. :corn
Yes, nice pick up. Silly me didn't think to add in our scores in my equation. Think positive and get it done.
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Whining is a time-proven roulette strategy as a number of people in this one are well aware of. :lol
Well, whining won't win it for you but it is a by-product of doing well and being in the hot seat.
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My version of Chad's first impression:
"Dammit, Stadler, you blow at this."
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This was a fairly mediocre round. As it stands, there are 2 really good tunes, and everything else is middle of the road. I hope ya'll didn't blow your collective load last round.
1. Got a Lonely Robot vibe going on here.
2. Yup, That's your song. Hard to argue with what your impression was.
3. Litho - Jerome Mazza / Immortal: Smooth vocals… smooth like butter, and the song is about as hard as melted butter.
<wow, Frontiers should have scooped this one up, they really missed out, and I did too>
4. Is this like alt-grunge-post-metal-core? I mean, what exactly am I listening to?
5. That is one eclectic tune.
6. Now I know what mrs.jingle feels like after nookie.
7. King - Aether Void / What You Reap You Deserve: Heavy, yes, but vocally, questionable.
<About fucking time, Callahan>
8. Decent stuff, but far from wow-worthy.
9. I can't listen, 55!
10. TAC - Benighted Soul / One Of Your Ghosts (Cradle Of Filth): Musically, quite hot… but there's something about the tone of the vocals that makes me wince.
<Good thing there are no themes, because I suck at following directions>
Edit: <adding *your* impressions as well>
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8
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10
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#3?
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Two correct.
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7?
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2?
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2?
Nada
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Probably 8 then
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I have plenty of extremely hard music, but I don't think you'd like it. :p I'm trying to go for a variety of different sounds anyway, at least as far as the rock/metal (and non-extreme) format allows.
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Probably 8 then
Probably not.
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I have plenty of extremely hard music, but I don't think you'd like it. :p I'm trying to go for a variety of different sounds anyway, at least as far as the rock/metal (and non-extreme) format allows.
I certainly appreciate variety - it's something I also try to do in my roulette submissions. Getting 8-10 songs that are all 'exactly' the same is kinda repetitive.
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8?
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8?
Nope.
Man... everyone want the un-wow'd impression.
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2?
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8?
Nope.
Man... everyone want the un-wow'd impression.
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Everyone else had tried so thought I would too. Process of elimination. :lol
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Daresay 2?
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Neither of you are 2
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No idea then.
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I'll take 8 I guess.
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I'll take 8 I guess.
You can take it, but I'm not going to give it to you.
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I'll take 8 I guess.
You can take it, but I'm not going to give it to you.
2 then?
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I'll take 8 I guess.
You can take it, but I'm not going to give it to you.
2 then?
Nope. Hint .... split the difference.
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So 5 then. :corn
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1. Dr. DTVT - Yogi Lang / A Way out of Here: Got a Lonely Robot vibe going on here.
<Catchy chorus and smooth voice>
2. lonestar - Myrath / Child of Prophecy: Yup, That's your song. Hard to argue with what your impression was.
<As good, of not better, than everything else I've heard from these guys>
3. Litho - Jerome Mazza / Immortal: Smooth vocals… smooth like butter, and the song is about as hard as melted butter.
<wow, Frontiers should have scooped this one up, they really missed out, and I did too>
4. Evermind - Merge / Helen: Is this like alt-grunge-post-metal-core? I mean, what exactly am I listening to?
<This is "10 pounds of shit in a 5 pound bag"-core.>
5. Puppies - Stonehenge / Wendigo: That is one eclectic tune.
<WTF is a Wendigo>
6. Now I know what mrs.jingle feels like after nookie.
7. King - Aether Void / What You Reap You Deserve: Heavy, yes, but vocally, questionable.
<About fucking time, Callahan>
8. Decent stuff, but far from wow-worthy.
9. I can't listen, 55!
10. TAC - Benighted Soul / One Of Your Ghosts (Cradle Of Filth): Musically, quite hot… but there's something about the tone of the vocals that makes me wince.
<Good thing there are no themes, because I suck at following directions>
Edit: <adding *your* impressions as well>
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2?
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4? If so, your impression goes very well with mine. :lol
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1? This is my last guess for a while. I’m on vacation dammit! Take your time scoring
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1?
4?
2?
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4. Evermind - Merge / Helen: Is this like alt-grunge-post-metal-core? I mean, what exactly am I listening to?
<This is "10 pounds of shit in a 5 pound bag"-core.>
Glad you asked! :lol
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Makes mine 6? What on earth does that mean? :lol
Depending on Mrs Jingle, means you think my song is very satisfying or very very boring and wishing it would end after one minute.
I should be worried, shouldn't I?
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Makes mine 6? What on earth does that mean? :lol
Depending on Mrs Jingle, means you think my song is very satisfying or very very boring and wishing it would end after one minute.
I should be worried, shouldn't I?
Don't be worried. My song is just 2 minutes of excitement, I'm afraid 6 is mine.
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:lol
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1. Dr. DTVT - Yogi Lang / A Way out of Here: Got a Lonely Robot vibe going on here.
<Catchy chorus and smooth voice>
2. lonestar - Myrath / Child of Prophecy: Yup, That's your song. Hard to argue with what your impression was.
<As good, of not better, than everything else I've heard from these guys>
3. Litho - Jerome Mazza / Immortal: Smooth vocals… smooth like butter, and the song is about as hard as melted butter.
<wow, Frontiers should have scooped this one up, they really missed out, and I did too>
4. Evermind - Merge / Helen: Is this like alt-grunge-post-metal-core? I mean, what exactly am I listening to?
<This is "10 pounds of shit in a 5 pound bag"-core.>
5. Puppies - Stonehenge / Wendigo: That is one eclectic tune.
<WTF is a Wendigo>
6. Indiscipline - Heavens Gate / Fredless: Now I know what mrs.jingle feels like after nookie.
<This is focking LTE a decade earlier>
7. King - Aether Void / What You Reap You Deserve: Heavy, yes, but vocally, questionable.
<About fucking time, Callahan>
8. Stadler - Cheap Trick / Speak Now Or Forever Hold Your Peace: Decent stuff, but far from wow-worthy.
<Dammit, Stadler, you blow at this>
9. Wolfking - Victorius / Twilight Skies: I can't listen, 55!
10. TAC - Benighted Soul / One Of Your Ghosts (Cradle Of Filth): Musically, quite hot… but there's something about the tone of the vocals that makes me wince.
<Good thing there are no themes, because I suck at following directions>
Edit: <adding *your* impressions as well>
@ Ale ... nailed it. The song is over just as it was getting good!
@ Kade .... I just had this "speed metal" vibe to it, and this was supposed to be a play on Hagar's flagship song.
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Yeah I got the reference to the Hagar song, I just didn't put 2 and 2 together I guess.
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I'm going to let this round run AT LEAST thru the weekend, to see if I warm up to some of these. I'm still hearing a lot of mediocrity at the moment.
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Results tonight while I watch the Leafs get their assess handed to them tonight. I won't be surprised if scores drop a point or more because of it.
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I’ll root for the Leafs tonight if it gets me that point. I like maple.
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:corn
Keep it in your pants tiger... I had to let my rage of yet another multi goal, and 3rd period lead get choked away. At least I was fully expecting it, so it's not a massive rage.
Puppies: Stonehenge - Wendigo
WTF is a Wendigo
Yeah, I'm wondering that too. Pretty eclectic song. Starts off simple and mildly enjoyable, and after a few listens I started to get Ayreon vibes - but not in a good way - like, Transitus-Ayeon. I could be way off, since I haven't listened to that album since it dropped, but it seems to have that kind of sound to it. After that, the song doesn't really do much or go anywhere. The heavy parts are plodding, and I'm not feeling it. Chorus was decent enough, but highly repetitive. That's not always a bad thing, but in this case, it was a little grating. The nstrumental breakdown was the best part of the song, that's for sure... but not enough to save it from the bottom of the pile.
Scores
Quality: 6.5
Unpredictability: 2.5
Anonymity: 1.5
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Wolfking: Victorius - Twilight Skies
Shit, this is somewhat generic for the style but you weren't kidding when you said the older stuff is where its at
Fastest song of the round, that's for sure. Like, where's the fire?? The drumming was far too one-dimensional for my liking, and as I've said a few times now, when the snare drum has that machine-gun stacatto to keep pace with a speed double-bass… well, it's not a sound that I've been digging very much. There are some songs of this style that I do like, but this just isn't clicking with me anymore for some reason. Too much of a good thing is still too much... and this is just too much speed - especially with the percussion. It would seem I've got a sweet spot for my preferred tempo - not too fast, not too slow (plodder) - I guess I'm like a musical Goldilocks in that regard.
Scores
Quality: 7
Unpredictability: 3
Anonymity: 1
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Stadler: Cheap Trick - Speak Now Or Forever Hold Your Peace
Dammit, Stadler, you blow at this
Decent stuff. Nothing wrong with it, but for my tastes nowadays, it's not going to "wow" me (ie, into the "A" territory); thought I was getting it on (Bang a Gong) to start. 35 years ago, I maybe should have explored Cheap Trick a bit more, but they were a running gag for me and my pals. See, a good buddy of mine in my teenage years was a HUGE Aerosmith fan. And for the Permanent Vacation tour, GnR was supposed to open for them here in Toronto, and all he did for months was talk about how amazing this show was going to be. Well, last minute, GnR cancelled (I forget why), and who ended up filling the opening slot?? … Cheap Trick. All we did for weeks was tease him about what a ….. cheap trick that was. So, I never really took the band seriously. My loss.
Scores
Quality: 7.5
Unpredictability: 2
Anonymity: 0.5
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King: Aether Void - What You Reap You Deserve
About fucking time, Callahan
hhmmm…. I'm not really sure what to think of this. Heavy, yes, but vocally, questionable. Until I looked it up, I NEVER would have pegged this as Italian Power Metal. It grew on my a little, but only a little. The constant drone of that very rich and deep double bass in the pre/chorus and solo kept pounding it's way thru my skull - at least the tempo was more to my liking than Victorius.
Scores
Quality: 7.5
Unpredictability: 0.5
Anonymity: 5
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Indiscipline: Heavens Gate - Fredless
This is focking LTE a decade earlier
Now I know what mrs.jingle feels like after nookie. This was bitchin, but it just left me wanting more. Your description may be accurate, but LTE farts longer than this song. There's a fine line between not wearing out your welcome, and actually staying long enough to be more than a tease. It's a great 2 minutes, but the short duration combined with the anorexic sounding production keeps it from jumping into an "A"
Scores
Quality: 7.5
Unpredictability: 1
Anonymity: 3.5
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Litho: Jerome Mazza - Immortal
wow, Frontiers should have scooped this one up, they really missed out, and I did too
smooth vocals… smooth like butter, and the song is about as hard as melted butter. That's the good part; musically… man is this just 'too much' Frontiers. Not terrible, but rather soft and ordinary, despite the strong vocals. I'm torn on this one too… I ought to like it more, but the soft cockery is too much.
Scores
Quality: 7.5
Unpredictability: 5
Anonymity: 4
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Dr. DTVT: Yogi Lang - A Way out of Here
Catchy chorus and smooth voice
Nice lineup. Got a Lonely Robot vibe going on here. Catchy indeed. Pretty straight forward tune that does a lot of things right. I wanted to score it a notch higher, but it just didn't wow me enough. And that's got nothing to do with the fact I'm 100% convinced the Leafs are about to blow another 3rd period lead (Edit… they didn't let me down - well they did, but I was fully expecting it. Cue the Cowboys jokes)
Scores
Quality: 7.5
Unpredictability: 1.5
Anonymity: 3
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TAC: Benighted Soul - One Of Your Ghosts (Cradle Of Filth)
Good thing there are no themes, because Tim suck's - and blows - at following directions (ie, no self-impression provided)
Musically, quite hot… smokin hawt. But there's something about the tone of the vocals that makes me wince. I think they (vox) ought to warm up to me … they did, a little, which is why this one elevates above the pack, but only just slightly so.
Scores
Quality: 8
Unpredictability: 3.5
Anonymity: 2.5
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Evermind: Merge - Helen
This is "10 pounds of shit in a 5 pound bag"-core.
Mellow, yet heavy at the same time. Is this like alt-grunge-post-metal-core? I mean, what exactly am I listening to? Do I like it, do I not? Is it enjoyable or depressing? I'm so torn here. I think I like this kind of in the way I like My Chemical Romance / The Black Parade. It shouldn't be my cup of tea, but something works here. In the words of Kugela… "it doesn't suck so bad this time papa". The final listen bumped this up to an 8, because it's got that 'memorable' factor.
Scores
Quality: 8
Unpredictability: 4.5
Anonymity: 2
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Lonestar: Myrath - Child of Prophecy
As good, of not better, than everything else I've heard from these guys
Yup, That's your song - the very distinct vocals of Zorgati come in at about 20 seconds, and then the even more distinct middle-eastern vibes land hard 30 seconds later. Hard to argue with what your impression was. I really should listen to these guys more often. Best song of the round, but I'm still struggling to think of the melody off the top of my head, even an hour after I just listened to it - so it clearly didn't stick with me *that* much. That drum rhythm in the chorus is straight up copycat of I Walk Beside You, and I Am (Circus Maximus), and a simple bit of playing that I do enjoy.
Scores
Quality: 8
Unpredictability: 4
Anonymity: 4.5
Total Round 4:
Litho - Jerome Mazza / Immortal: 5 + 4 + 7.5 = 16.5
lonestar - Myrath / Child of Prophecy: 4 + 4.5 + 8 = 16.5
Evermind - Merge / Helen: 4.5 + 2 + 8 = 14.5
TAC - Benighted Soul / One Of Your Ghosts (Cradle Of Filth): 3.5 + 2.5 + 8 = 14
King - Aether Void / What You Reap You Deserve: 0.5 + 5 + 7.5 = 13
Dr. DTVT - Yogi Lang / A Way out of Here: 1.5 + 3 + 7.5 = 12
Indiscipline - Heavens Gate / Fredless: 1 + 3.5 + 7.5 = 12
Puppies - Stonehenge / Wendigo: 2.5 + 1.5 + 6.5 = 10.5
Wolfking - Victorius / Twilight Skies: 3 + 1 + 7 = 11
Stadler - Cheap Trick / Speak Now Or Forever Hold Your Peace: 2 + 0.5 + 7.5 = 10
Overall Standings:
Litho - 90
lonestar - 86
TAC - 85.5
Evermind - 85.5
Wolfking - 82.5
Dr. DTVT - 79.5
Indiscipline - 75
King - 74.5
Puppies - 72.5
Stadler - 63.5
Quality through 5 Rounds:
lonestar - 50
Litho - 48.5
Dr. DTVT - 48.5
King - 48
Wolfking - 47
Indiscipline - 47
Evermind - 47
Puppies - 45
TAC - 44.5
Stadler - 39
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*sigh*
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It shouldn't be my cup of tea, but something works here.
Kinda hoped for that. I know it's not your genre but honestly the song is fairly enjoyable.
I'll send in 10 hours.
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Bugger. Didn't see that coming truthfully.
Looks like you just unlocked some growls my good friend!
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Sending in a minute.
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Bugger. Didn't see that coming truthfully.
Yeah... I think I'm becoming a bit of an enigma, and wildly inconsistent with my likes and dislikes.
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Bugger. Didn't see that coming truthfully.
Yeah... I think I'm becoming a bit of an enigma, and wildly inconsistent with my likes and dislikes.
That's for sure. :lol
Though it adds to my enjoyment to see Tim lose his shit when he gets an average score.
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I'll send in 10 hours.
I forgot to do that and I'm already in bed now, sorry Chad :lol New ETA: 24 hours.
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I'll send in 10 hours.
I forgot to do that and I'm already in bed now, sorry Chad :lol New ETA: 24 hours.
But in 24 hours you'll be in bed again.
Make it 22 hours. :P
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Bugger. Didn't see that coming truthfully.
Yeah... I think I'm becoming a bit of an enigma, and wildly inconsistent with my likes and dislikes.
That's for sure. :lol
Yeah, it's like there's always one element off. Wrong tempo, wrong vocal style, wrong drum sound, etc. A strike zone the size of a walnut.
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Eh. Men plan, ariich laughs.
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Bugger. Didn't see that coming truthfully.
Yeah... I think I'm becoming a bit of an enigma, and wildly inconsistent with my likes and dislikes.
That's for sure. :lol
Yeah, it's like there's always one element off. Wrong tempo, wrong vocal style, wrong drum sound, etc. A strike zone the size of a walnut.
The heart wants what the heart wants.
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Eh. Men plan, ariich laughs.
Well I didn't manage to qualify so I need to entertain myself somehow. :P
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Sent for Round 7
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I'll send in 10 hours.
I forgot to do that and I'm already in bed now, sorry Chad :lol New ETA: 24 hours.
But in 24 hours you'll be in bed again.
Make it 22 hours. :P
It was 24 hours max. ;)
Sent!
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We all in?
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We all in?
No... waiting on 2 maritimers
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We all in?
No... waiting on 2 maritimers
I bet one is an ancient mariner.
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We all in?
No... waiting on 2 maritimers
I bet one is an ancient mariner.
Both get a little slack due to their extra curricular responsibilities atm.
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.....and then there was only one left standing.
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Might have to skip hangman this time around. Went from work to the gym, then went to run, got to wake up in 8 hours and I'm just kinda done with everything today. :lol Gonna hit the shower and the bed right after.
Good luck everyone and please consider guessing Litho's song first! :biggrin:
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LITHO SENT THE 4TH SUBMISSION!!!
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I promised I'd start Wheel of Fortune when Kade was awake, and he's awake. Ya'll got a few hours until Ruslan crushes all your hopes and dreams. Have at it.
??: _a__u_ _e_e__a__ - ____e__ __
??: _e___a - ___e __ __e ___
??: ________ _u____a __ _____ ___ - ______ _ea_
??: __.______ - __e _u___e_ a__ __e ____e_u_ ____a_u_
??: _a_u_ __a_a_ - ___e___ ______
??: ___ E____e - __e E____a__
??: ______ __u_ - E_e__ ___e__ a ___e___e
??: __e _a___e__ - ____ a__ ____ _e_e__e_ __ __e
??: ___a_au_a - _u_u_e _u__ ________
??: __ea_ __e E_e_____ __ee_ - _e_ __e _____ _____ __
Letters guessed:aeu
Dr. DTVT
Evermind
Indiscipline
King
Litho
lonestar
Puppies
Stadler
TAC
Wolfking
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A!
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Given
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Litho
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Colonel Mustard
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E
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Not wasting anytime with the consonants, eh?
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U. ;D
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U. ;D
for updated!
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Might have to skip hangman this time around. Went from work to the gym, then went to run, got to wake up in 8 hours and I'm just kinda done with everything today. :lol Gonna hit the shower and the bed right after.
Good luck everyone and please consider guessing Litho's song first! :biggrin:
Running in snow now! Madman! Goggins got nothing on you mate!
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I promised I'd start Wheel of Fortune when Kade was awake, and he's awake.
Always so considerate. Too bad I fucking suck at this game lol.
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DReam The Electric Sleep-Let The Light flood in
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O
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DReam The Electric Sleep-Let The Light flood in
King?
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Not King.
??: _a__us _e_e_sa_o - __o_e__ __
??: _e___a - ___e __ __e S__
??: _______o _u__o_a o_ _____ _O_ - _o__o_ _ea_
??: __.__oss_ - O_e _u___e_ a__ O_e O_o_e_us _os_a_us
??: _a_u_ __a_a_ - __oe___ __s___
??: S__ E____e - __e E__ssa__
??: ______ _ou_ - E_e__ _o_e__ a ___e___e
??: __e _a___ess - _o__ a__ _o__ _ese__es _o __e
??: ___a_au_a - _u_u_e _u__ ________
??: Dream the Electric Sleep - Let the Light Flood In (1)
Letters guessed:aeuos
Dr. DTVT
Evermind
Indiscipline
King
Litho
lonestar
Puppies
Stadler
TAC
Wolfking
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S
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O and S unlocked.
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R
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The Darkness - Rock and Roll Deserves to Die
Stadler
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Mr. Glossy?
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Markus Venehsalo-Projekt 13
Indisipline
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Sky Empire - The Emissary
TAC
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I got nothin' :lol
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Sky Empire - The Emissary
TAC
Dr DTVT
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Mercia - Fire in the Sky
Kade
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Indi's on FIRE!
0-for on matching the senders. It is NOT Mr.Glossy
??: Markus Venehsalo - Projekt 13 (3)
??: Mercia - Fire in the Sky (5)
??: ______ro _u__o_a o_ _R___ _O_ - _o__o_ _ea_
??: _r.__oss_ - O_e _u__re_ a__ O_e O_o_e_us Ros_arus
??: _a_u_ _ra_a_ - __oe___ R_s___
??: Sky Empire - The Emissary (4)
??: ______ _ou_ - E_er_ _o_e__ a ___e___e
??: The Darkness - Rock and Roll Deserves to Die (2)
??: ___a_au_a - _u_ure _u__ ________
??: Dream the Electric Sleep - Let the Light Flood In (1)
Letters guessed:aeuos
Dr. DTVT
Evermind
Indiscipline
King
Litho
lonestar
Puppies
Stadler
TAC
Wolfking
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Mercia - Fire in the Sky
Kade
Mother fucker. I knew posting it a while back would bite me in the ass. Such a cool song though. I can't believe the band split up on this release of this song.
The EP from 2021 is really fucking good too.
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Calum Graham-Phoenix Rising
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Gigafauna - "Future Null Infinity".
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Calum Graham-Phoenix Rising
Lonestar?
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Is Sky Empire King?
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Dr. Viossy - "One Hundred and One Odobenus Rosmarus".
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Markus Venehsalo might be Puppies?
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Living Loud - "Every Moment a Lifetime".
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Living Loud - "Every Moment a Lifetime".
That's Stadler
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Is Sky Empire King?
Yup.
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Living Loud - "Every Moment a Lifetime".
Holy shit! How good, this album is wonderful. I know the Ozzy covers got slammed pretty hard and they certainly are different but I'm a bit biased on Jimmy. Steve Morse certainly got some criticism too for pretty much playing his own solos over these songs. The original tunes were strong enough also to carry the album between the covers. Great lineup. A shame only one album happened here.
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Can anybody solve the third song? (which is obviously Jazzo's)
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Dream the Electric is Litho?
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All but one song to go (which is not Litho). Most of the matches were correct
??: Markus Venehsalo - Projekt 13 (3)
wolfking (1): Mercia - Fire in the Sky (5)
lonestar (5): _i_i_iro _u_io_a o_ _RI__ _O_ - _o__o_ _ea_
??: Dr.Viossy - One Hundred and One Odobenus Rosmarus (8)
Evermind (4): Calum Graham - Phoenix Rising (6)
Kingshmegland (2): Sky Empire - The Emissary (4)
Stadler (3): Living Loud - Every Moment a Lifetime (9)
??: The Darkness - Rock and Roll Deserves to Die (2)
??: Gigafauna - Future Null Infinity (7)
??: Dream the Electric Sleep - Let the Light Flood In (1)
Letters guessed:aeuosr
Dr. DTVT
Evermind
Indiscipline
Litho
lonestar
Puppies
TAC
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I.
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Updated.
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Calum Graham might be Evermind.
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??: _i_i_iro _u_io_a o_ _RI__ _O_ - _o__o_ _ea_
This is lonestar.
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??: _i_i_iro _u_io_a o_ _RI__ _O_ - _o__o_ _ea_
This is lonestar.
(https://media3.giphy.com/media/l1KuhBCqxOoJyr0m4/giphy.gif)
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Gigafauna is Litho
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Gigafauna is Litho
It is not
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Gigafauna is Litho
If not, could be Tim.
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Gigafauna is Litho
It is not
Tim.
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Gigafauna is Litho
It is not
Dr Viossy?
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Litho has to be Markus Venehsalo
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My song will go unsolved in perpetuity.
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Gigafauna is Litho
It is not
Dr Viossy?
FFS, Litho solved that one!!
Litho has to be Markus Venehsalo
This guy thinks like a Vulcan. When you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
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Litho (7): Markus Venehsalo - Projekt 13 (3)
wolfking (1): Mercia - Fire in the Sky (5)
??: _i_i_iro _u_io_a o_ _RI__ _O_ - _o__o_ _ea_
??: Dr.Viossy - One Hundred and One Odobenus Rosmarus (8)
Evermind (4): Calum Graham - Phoenix Rising (6)
Kingshmegland (2): Sky Empire - The Emissary (4)
Stadler (3): Living Loud - Every Moment a Lifetime (9)
??: The Darkness - Rock and Roll Deserves to Die (2)
TAC (6): Gigafauna - Future Null Infinity (7)
??: Dream the Electric Sleep - Let the Light Flood In (1)
Letters guessed:aeuosr
Dr. DTVT
Indiscipline
Puppies
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So? He could be doing some 4 dimensional chess shit or something....
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DTVT is The Darkness.
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My song will go unsolved in perpetuity.
Too many vowels for me to solve. Lol
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Dr. DTVT is probably Dream the Electric sheep
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Dr. DTVT is probably Dream the Electric sheep
Correctomundo. And now the race is on between Puppies and Indi as to who can post faster
Litho (7): Markus Venehsalo - Projekt 13 (3)
wolfking (1): Mercia - Fire in the Sky (5)
lonestar (5): _i_i_iro _u_io_a o_ _RI__ _O_ - _o__o_ _ea_
??: Dr.Viossy - One Hundred and One Odobenus Rosmarus (8)
Evermind (4): Calum Graham - Phoenix Rising (6)
Kingshmegland (2): Sky Empire - The Emissary (4)
Stadler (3): Living Loud - Every Moment a Lifetime (9)
??: The Darkness - Rock and Roll Deserves to Die (2)
TAC (6): Gigafauna - Future Null Infinity (7)
Dr. DTVT: Dream the Electric Sleep (8) - Let the Light Flood In (1)
Puppies
Indi
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Indi sent Dr. Viossy
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Puppies Darkness
Fock!
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Puppies Darkness
Fock!
Love you buddy! :heart
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Oh man ... 11 focking seconds.
Litho (7): Markus Venehsalo - Projekt 13 (3)
wolfking (1): Mercia - Fire in the Sky (5)
lonestar (5): _i_i_iro _u_io_a o_ _RI__ _O_ - _o__o_ _ea_
Indiscipline (9): Dr.Viossy - One Hundred and One Odobenus Rosmarus (8)
Evermind (4): Calum Graham - Phoenix Rising (6)
Kingshmegland (2): Sky Empire - The Emissary (4)
Stadler (3): Living Loud - Every Moment a Lifetime (9)
Puppies (10): The Darkness - Rock and Roll Deserves to Die (2)
TAC (6): Gigafauna - Future Null Infinity (7)
Dr. DTVT: Dream the Electric Sleep - Let the Light Flood In (1)
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Puppies Darkness
Fock!
Love you buddy! :heart
*high fives*
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Hint for mine - a guitarist of a fairy famous Japanese band who died tragically in his early 30s.
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Wow... less than 2 hours start to finish. I've really improved everyone's Hangman game.
Except Kade.
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Hint for mine - a guitarist of a fairy famous Japanese band who died tragically in his early 30s.
Mikio Fujioka.
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Recently read the story on him after discovering Takayoshi. Fucking tragic. He had such a unique and interesting style, really impressive player.
This is fucking amazing. Hills of Wisteria! :metal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AfZH_xdIXE
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Wow... less than 2 hours start to finish. I've really improved everyone's Hangman game.
Except Kade.
I can't believe how shit I am. :lol
To be fair, I only know Living Loud and The Darkness and probably never would have guessed them.
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lonestar (5): _i_i_iro _u_io_a o_ _RI__ _O_ - _o__o_ _ea_
Wait.....no it's fucking not. :lol
I didn't even look to make sure, just assumed who it was.
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https://open.spotify.com/intl-it/track/2PCd5PQtg0gA1zczJhfnUY?si=706b09d8f2cc4f01 (https://open.spotify.com/intl-it/track/2PCd5PQtg0gA1zczJhfnUY?si=706b09d8f2cc4f01)
lonestar?
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Hint for mine - a guitarist of a fairy famous Japanese band who died tragically in his early 30s.
Mikio Jujioka.
Close enough
Full artist name Mikihiro Fujioka of TRICK Box, original guitarist for BABYMETAL
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Unpridictability point scores....I think I did it right.
Indiscipline......8.5
Lonestar......7.5
TAC......6.5
Stadler......6
Puppies......6
Evermind......5
Litho......5
Doc.....4.5
Kingshmegland.....3
Wolfking.....3
I'm glad we only have to do that one more time.. This is brutal.
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Hint for mine - a guitarist of a fairy famous Japanese band who died tragically in his early 30s.
Mikio Jujioka.
Close enough
Full artist name Mikihiro Fujioka of TRICK Box, original guitarist for BABYMETAL
Wait, how can you go by a name different from the one he goes by on streaming services?
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Hint for mine - a guitarist of a fairy famous Japanese band who died tragically in his early 30s.
Mikio Jujioka.
Close enough
Full artist name Mikihiro Fujioka of TRICK Box, original guitarist for BABYMETAL
Phew. :lol I knew the surname was an F, that was a typo.
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There are only 2 results for "Mikihiro Fujioka of TRICK Box" on Google, from some guy selling on eBay.
At least "Fujioka Mikio of TRICK Box" has 203.
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Wow... less than 2 hours start to finish. I've really improved everyone's Hangman game.
While Ruslan was sleeping, I might add.
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Fredodiscipline.
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(https://i.imgur.com/7R5kuDW.gif)
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:lol
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Unpridictability point scores....I think I did it right.
Indiscipline......8.5
Lonestar......7.5
TAC......6.5
Litho......6
Stadler......6
Puppies......6
Evermind......5
Doc.....4.5
Kingshmegland.....3
Wolfking.....3
I'm glad we only have to do that one more time.. This is brutal.
Don't think that's correct. Litho should have 5.
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Unpridictability point scores....I think I did it right.
Indiscipline......8.5
Lonestar......7.5
TAC......6.5
Litho......6
Stadler......6
Puppies......6
Evermind......5
Doc.....4.5
Kingshmegland.....3
Wolfking.....3
I'm glad we only have to do that one more time.. This is brutal.
Don't think that's correct. Litho should have 5.
You are correct. I fixed post.
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Unless lonestar's song bombs or mine knocks it out of the park, it's going to be a photo finish between us, with an outside chance of TAC or Evermind depending on how things go.
I still wanna hear a ruling on lonestar's song. I don't think you should be able to substitute an obscure name for an artist that isn't how they're actually referred to on streaming/social media/online presence.
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Unless lonestar's song bombs or mine knocks it out of the park, it's going to be a photo finish between us, with an outside chance of TAC or Evermind depending on how things go.
I still wanna hear a ruling on lonestar's song. I don't think you should be able to substitute an obscure name for an artist that isn't how they're actually referred to on streaming/social media/online presence.
Would it really have made a difference in anyone guessing it?
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It certainly could have.
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Unless lonestar's song bombs or mine knocks it out of the park, it's going to be a photo finish between us, with an outside chance of TAC or Evermind depending on how things go.
I still wanna hear a ruling on lonestar's song. I don't think you should be able to substitute an obscure name for an artist that isn't how they're actually referred to on streaming/social media/online presence.
I went with my translate function...
(https://i.postimg.cc/hGNfCczT/Screenshot-20240118-182331-Spotify.jpg)
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It certainly could have.
You for the next two weeks;
(https://th.bing.com/th/id/R.00a296d28156bf1a22de431461c8b889?rik=jZ0QTeQ6L4c9tQ&riu=http%3a%2f%2fwww.reactiongifs.com%2fr%2fbullets.gif&ehk=OA40jHx3FYWitK%2bB9iUH%2frLKiqpqcLMogIfR2O%2bJdP8%3d&risl=&pid=ImgRaw&r=0)
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Unless lonestar's song bombs or mine knocks it out of the park, it's going to be a photo finish between us, with an outside chance of TAC or Evermind depending on how things go.
I still wanna hear a ruling on lonestar's song. I don't think you should be able to substitute an obscure name for an artist that isn't how they're actually referred to on streaming/social media/online presence.
I went with my translate function...
He's just almost never called that in any music journalism or documentation about him.
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Fuck it, just deduct points then. If it's that fucking important to you.
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Unless lonestar's song bombs or mine knocks it out of the park, it's going to be a photo finish between us, with an outside chance of TAC or Evermind depending on how things go.
I still wanna hear a ruling on lonestar's song. I don't think you should be able to substitute an obscure name for an artist that isn't how they're actually referred to on streaming/social media/online presence.
I went with my translate function...
He's just almost never called that in any music journalism or documentation about him.
(https://media3.giphy.com/media/9o9dh1JRGThC1qxGTJ/giphy.gif)
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https://www.youtube.com/@saltfightseries/videos
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Fuck it, just deduct points then. If it's that fucking important to you.
Do we really care about winning or the exploration of music? RJ, I agree. Fuck it.
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Fuck it, just deduct points then. If it's that fucking important to you.
Do we really care about winning or the exploration of music? RJ, I agree. Fuck it.
If he was just sending great music he already knew why would he need to ask his phone who he was? :p
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Dammit. Skynet will win this roulette then!
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Fuck it, just deduct points then. If it's that fucking important to you.
Do we really care about winning or the exploration of music? RJ, I agree. Fuck it.
If he was just sending great music he already knew why would he need to ask his phone who he was? :p
Pretty sure it was an artist he already knew.
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If we're deducting points from people, I'll take them!!! ;D
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Fuck it, just deduct points then. If it's that fucking important to you.
Do we really care about winning or the exploration of music? RJ, I agree. Fuck it.
If he was just sending great music he already knew why would he need to ask his phone who he was? :p
Pretty sure it was an artist he already knew.
I knew him, how I came by this specific project was I knew of their instrumental jazz project the Kari Band. Under their musicians listing was this project by this name, so I hit it up on spotify and liked it, and the name was Japanese and English enough to screw with people. No subterfuge was intended. Again, if you're that adamant about it, just fucking dock me, I don't care that much.
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Fuck it, just deduct points then. If it's that fucking important to you.
Do we really care about winning or the exploration of music? RJ, I agree. Fuck it.
If he was just sending great music he already knew why would he need to ask his phone who he was? :p
Pretty sure it was an artist he already knew.
I knew him, how I came by this specific project was I knew of their instrumental jazz project the Kari Band. Under their musicians listing was this project by this name, so I hit it up on spotify and liked it, and the name was Japanese and English enough to screw with people. No subterfuge was intended. Again, if you're that adamant about it, just fucking dock me, I don't care that much.
Nice underrated Judas Priest song......sorry.
Hey, don't shoot me, I couldn't give two fucks. I discovered his mate Takayoshi during this roulette so shoot me. I love subterfuge!!
Sometimes not only being the host of a roulette opens up new music. I was always in the mindset that I had to send artists that I knew, but, sometimes, you can look outside the box, especially when Chad knows just about every single clean vocal band there is and when the only music you discover these days is growls, it sometimes forces your hand. It's been cool I must say.
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How about we dock points from everyone above me in the standings?
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I don't think I would get this much adrenaline going wingsuit B.A.S.E. jumping. :biggrin:
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I don't think I would get this much adrenaline going wingsuit B.A.S.E. jumping. :biggrin:
Fucking hell, and I thought I needed to get out more.
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I don't think I would get this much adrenaline going wingsuit B.A.S.E. jumping. :biggrin:
Fucking hell, and I thought I needed to get out more.
You do! :lol
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I don't think I would get this much adrenaline going wingsuit B.A.S.E. jumping. :biggrin:
Fucking hell, and I thought I needed to get out more.
You do! :lol
I know!!! :lol
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Fuck it, just deduct points then. If it's that fucking important to you.
Do we really care about winning or the exploration of music? RJ, I agree. Fuck it.
If he was just sending great music he already knew why would he need to ask his phone who he was? :p
Pretty sure it was an artist he already knew.
I knew him, how I came by this specific project was I knew of their instrumental jazz project the Kari Band. Under their musicians listing was this project by this name, so I hit it up on spotify and liked it, and the name was Japanese and English enough to screw with people. No subterfuge was intended. Again, if you're that adamant about it, just fucking dock me, I don't care that much.
Nice underrated Judas Priest song......sorry.
Hey, don't shoot me, I couldn't give two fucks. I discovered his mate Takayoshi during this roulette so shoot me. I love subterfuge!!
Sometimes not only being the host of a roulette opens up new music. I was always in the mindset that I had to send artists that I knew, but, sometimes, you can look outside the box, especially when Chad knows just about every single clean vocal band there is and when the only music you discover these days is growls, it sometimes forces your hand. It's been cool I must say.
I mean, I definitely know him, I'm a huge Babymetal fan, and am familiar with the Kari Band project as well, so I'm definitely not pulling it out of my ass cause the name is stupid obscure.
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Fuck it, just deduct points then. If it's that fucking important to you.
Do we really care about winning or the exploration of music? RJ, I agree. Fuck it.
If he was just sending great music he already knew why would he need to ask his phone who he was? :p
Pretty sure it was an artist he already knew.
I knew him, how I came by this specific project was I knew of their instrumental jazz project the Kari Band. Under their musicians listing was this project by this name, so I hit it up on spotify and liked it, and the name was Japanese and English enough to screw with people. No subterfuge was intended. Again, if you're that adamant about it, just fucking dock me, I don't care that much.
Nice underrated Judas Priest song......sorry.
Hey, don't shoot me, I couldn't give two fucks. I discovered his mate Takayoshi during this roulette so shoot me. I love subterfuge!!
Sometimes not only being the host of a roulette opens up new music. I was always in the mindset that I had to send artists that I knew, but, sometimes, you can look outside the box, especially when Chad knows just about every single clean vocal band there is and when the only music you discover these days is growls, it sometimes forces your hand. It's been cool I must say.
I mean, I definitely know him, I'm a huge Babymetal fan, and am familiar with the Kari Band project as well, so I'm definitely not pulling it out of my ass cause the name is stupid obscure.
I know. I was trying to defend you. :lol
I don't think you have any case to answer here.
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Neither do I... Just after being called out for using numbers a few rounds ago, and now this, it's getting a little tiring to defend trying to play the game with some cleverness.
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Hey, I'm bringing up the rear with Stadler, so obviously the points don't matter, just like the talent portion of a beauty contest.
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Neither do I... Just after being called out for using numbers a few rounds ago, and now this, it's getting a little tiring to defend trying to play the game with some cleverness.
Thats fair enough too mate.
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:corn :corn :corn :corn :corn
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Hey, I'm bringing up the rear with Stadler, so obviously the points don't matter, just like the talent portion of a beauty contest.
And if I was with you guys nobody would give two shits about what version of his name I used.
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(https://i.imgflip.com/2djs4d.jpg)
Final solved hangman:
Litho (7): Markus Venehsalo - Projekt 13 (3)
wolfking (1): Mercia - Fire in the Sky (5)
lonestar (5): Mikihiro Fujioka of TRICK BOX - Tonton Beat (10)
Indiscipline (9): Dr.Viossy - One Hundred and One Odobenus Rosmarus (8)
Evermind (4): Calum Graham - Phoenix Rising (6)
Kingshmegland (2): Sky Empire - The Emissary (4)
Stadler (3): Living Loud - Every Moment a Lifetime (9)
Puppies (10): The Darkness - Rock and Roll Deserves to Die (2)
TAC (6): Gigafauna - Future Null Infinity (7)
Dr. DTVT (8): Dream the Electric Sleep - Let the Light Flood In (1)
"Mikihiro Fujioka" is the Google Translate result for 藤岡幹大. That's the ruling. if the argument is on the basis of Google search results, I would encourage a grievance be filed with Google. :lol
(https://media.tenor.com/K0oudyqbOCMAAAAM/joker-why-so-serious.gif)
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Hey, I'm bringing up the rear with Stadler, so obviously the points don't matter, just like the talent portion of a beauty contest.
And if I was with you guys nobody would give two shits about what version of his name I used.
That's kind of my point. I don't really care which version of his name was used.
Ultimately I play in and run roulettes for the fun of sharing awesome music.
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"Mikihiro Fujioka" is the Google Translate result for 藤岡幹大. That's the ruling. if the argument is on the basis of Google search results, I would encourage a grievance be filed with Google. :lol
Oi! Your roulette, your rules. Stop passing the buck. This is serious fucking business here! ;D
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Yeah, I know. Chalk this up to the law of unintended consequences.
Listening starts momentarily.
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Yeah, I know. Chalk this up to the law of unintended consequences.
Listening starts momentarily.
I’m surprised it took us to Round 7.
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Yeah, I know. Chalk this up to the law of unintended consequences.
Listening starts momentarily.
I’m surprised it took us to Round 7.
True, but it was brewing before that. :lol
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Are we failing to impress Chad?
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Are we failing to impress Chad?
Kinda... but it's a me thing. The fan was covered in shit all weekend (still is tbh), and I haven't had a chance to start this round, so it's going to be a tad delayed. :-\
In typical Canadian fashion...
Sorry.
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Don't worry and take your time cleaning that fan!
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I had some personal stuff to sort out for the last few days, so personally I don't mind the delay. It's not like the previous rounds were taking forever, I thought the pace was solid so far.
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I am still hoping to be into the last round before the end of the month, so Indi can start his.
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I don't mind the extra time either, life has been throwing me some hard curve balls too lately.
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It’s only been two months, this one is flying by.
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It's travelling in the left lane and it needs to move over. ;D
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It's travelling in the left lane and it needs to move over. ;D
:lol
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It's travelling in the left lane and it needs to move over. ;D
At least it puts its cart away.
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It's travelling in the left lane and it needs to move over. ;D
At least it puts its cart away.
It puts the lotion on itself.
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It's travelling in the left lane and it needs to move over. ;D
At least it puts its cart away.
It puts the lotion on itself.
But does it use a click track?
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You all get ONE guess at your impression, and if ANY of you get it wrong, I ought to dock points from you. I don't know how I could've made these any more obvious.
1. That's some unplugged goodness.
2. That's got to be a PHD in Shreddery
3. Once again, you're pointing me to a band I should've taken notice of before this
4. People go on about "generic" power metal... well this is "generic" prog-metal.
5. You may be able to argue the color of blue, but at least we're in sync on the sound of blue
6. Dat's some groove, letting the guitar do all the talking. It's not often an artist can make fingers and strings talk so much.
7. Simple, straightforward, and it fuckin rawks
8. Like a kamikaze pilot trying to stick the landing
9. A familiar voice, though not one that made my Top 25 list.
10. Good tune, but the lyrics can FOAD
Also, the playlist - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4qciyGIp0GdHbrR0U4VxJp?si=8604cf12c91b4667
And the one song not in Spotify - https://youtu.be/dQARF_E-z2Y?si=JN415O3HsM8_0fqf
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#6?
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I'll go all cocky and guess 7?
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I have no idea. I'd say 7, but Kade is claiming it.
Sky Empire is 4.
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I believe it's 2.
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6
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Well damn, four of us are going after the same two impressions.
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In my defense, mine is an instrumental guitar piece so "letting the guitar do all the talking" isn't a huge leap.
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So is mine, and it's kind of groovy. One of us is probably #2. I heard yours a couple times, but don't quite remember it offhand. Mine has some shred for sure, though it's not quite as full-blown as a couple things that were sent by other people in earlier rounds.
That was always amusing in my roulette, when impressions I thought were too obvious eluded people, and more vague ones were nailed right away.
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There are four instrumentals this round. I guess I pissed enough of you off with my whole 'goldilocks' when it comes to pace and vocals. :lol
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8?
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I have no idea. I'd say 7, but Kade is claiming it.
Sky Empire is 4.
Doesn't mean its mine. :lol
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Without an update, we'll never know..
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Without an update, we'll never know..
Get the sand out of your vagina.
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Without an update, we'll never know..
Get the sand out of your vagina.
Then where would the crabs burrow?
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Without an update, we'll never know..
Without an update, it's mine then!! ;D
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I suppose mine could be 7 or 10, but if I had to pick one, I'd say 10.
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Without an update, we'll never know..
Get the sand out of your vagina.
Then where would the crabs burrow?
In your Anus. Duh.
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You'll get an update when the others chime in.
I'll say this... 5 people are right, 1 person is Tim.
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You'll get an update when the others chime in.
I'll say this... 5 people are right, 1 person is Tim.
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Actually, I'm right but not about MY song. :lol
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Actually, I'm right but not about MY song. :lol
It's amazing how one post can be so right, but yet so wrong.
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Actually, I'm right but not about MY song. :lol
It's amazing how one post can be so right, but yet so wrong.
I have 72k posts just like it! :lol
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3
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Actually, I'm right but not about MY song. :lol
It's amazing how one post can be so right, but yet so wrong.
I have 72k posts just like it! :lol
TAC are you going to be the first six digit poster here?
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1
Although it could also be 6 :lol
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Actually, I'm right but not about MY song. :lol
It's amazing how one post can be so right, but yet so wrong.
I have 72k posts just like it! :lol
TAC are you going to be the first six digit poster here?
We should get him a trophy :neverusethis:
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Actually, I'm right but not about MY song. :lol
Actually, you were right, and it WAS about your song. :rollin :rollin
1. Evermind - Calum Graham / Phoenix Rising... That's some unplugged goodness.
2. Indiscipline - Dr.Viossy / One Hundred and One Odobenus Rosmarus...That's got to be a PHD in Shreddery
3. Dr. DTVT - Dream the Electric Sleep / Let the Light Flood In... Once again, you're pointing me to a band I should've taken notice of before this
4. TAC - Gigafauna / Future Null Infinity... People go on about "generic" power metal... well this is "generic" prog-metal.
5. Stadler - Living Loud / Every Moment a Lifetime... You may be able to argue the color of blue, but at least we're in sync on the sound of blue
6. Litho - Markus Venehsalo / Projekt 13... Dat's some groove, letting the guitar do all the talking. It's not often an artist can make fingers and strings talk so much.
7. Wolfking - Mercia / Fire in the Sky ... Simple, straightforward, and it fuckin rawks
8. lonestar - Mikihiro Fujioka of TRICK BOX / Tonton Beat... Like a kamikaze pilot trying to stick the landing
9. King - Sky Empire / The Emissary... A familiar voice, though not one that made my Top 25 list.
10. Puppies - The Darkness / Rock and Roll Deserves to Die ... Good tune, but the lyrics can FOAD
And yes, #6 could have applied to any one of the four instrumental submissions.
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I have no idea. I'd say 7, but Kade is claiming it.
Sky Empire is 4.
Haha!
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Oh boy.
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Yup! :lol
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Nice. :metal
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It is my intention to get results out tonight (ie, in the next 8 hours). That way, Indi ought to be able to fire up his roulette this week/weekend.
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That way, Indi ought to be able to fire up his roulette this week/weekend.
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That way, Indi ought to be able to fire up his roulette this week/weekend.
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It's going to be so epic.
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Is this the last round?
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Is this the last round?
I thought there was one more?
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Is this the last round?
I was wondering this myself.
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Actually, I'm right but not about MY song. :lol
It's amazing how one post can be so right, but yet so wrong.
I have 72k posts just like it! :lol
TAC are you going to be the first six digit poster here?
We should get him a trophy :neverusethis:
Does it count if over half are "What is *insert pop culture reference after 1988* ?"?
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I was good till about 94-95. ;D
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I was good till about 94-95. ;D
Sorry man, doing you dirty there. Mid 90s it is :tup
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The Rest:
8 rounds - completely open.
Now, as for the matter of scores that are propped up due to the Hangman intangibles (cough … Tim … cough). After Round 8, if the person with the highest Quality score is *NOT* in the Top 3 overall, then I'm going to have a final four style tournament with the Top 3 + the Quality winner. For the last four rounds, this should still give the incentive to A) Send good fucking music, and B) Still send stuff that's a little out of the norm to earn the intangible points.
MAYBE there'll be three bonus 'matches', but not exactly what I'd consider additional rounds.
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There's one more.
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There's one more.
Correct... I interpreted Tim's question to be is the upcoming round the last one - not the one I'm about to announce results for.
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That makes it sound like if hypothetically DTVT sent a 10, and no one else sent better than an 8.5 that there would be another mini-round though, no?
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Hypothetically? Challenge accepted. (Drops $2,500 in Chad’s PayPal)
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The quality leaderboard is looking very interesting.
Lonestar: Mikihiro Fujioka of TRICK BOX / Tonton Beat
Dude… from first to worst quality-wise in one round. This was a bit of a crash. The rhythms are like Ross Geller playing the keyboard - they seem to zig and zag with no clear direction or consistency. The guitar work is ok, but it all just sounds like random noodling. There's a lot of pauses and starts/stops, which I'm not connecting with. And the atmospheric section at the beginning, while nice, just didn't seem to fit.
Scores
Quality: 6
Unpredictability: 5
Anonymity: 2.5
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TAC: Gigafauna / Future Null Infinity
Generic prog-metal is the nicest thing I think I can say about it. The solo section was enjoyable. I'm struggling to pinpoint what it is about this tune I find so mediocre, but I really don't know how to articulate it. It's just not grabbing me. It's like having a snack of saltine crackers. It's fine... it's somewhat satiating me, but there's not a lot of excitement to it.
Scores
Quality: 6.5
Unpredictability: 3.5
Anonymity: 3
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Puppies: The Darkness / Rock and Roll Deserves to Die
Musically and compositionally and vocally it's pretty good. I really like the acoustic intro. Modern rock trying to sound like glam, and they kinda pull it off. But I just can't get past the lyrics - I'm trying to enjoy a tune where someone is screaming at me that Rock and Roll must die?!?!? The outro is pretty sweet as well - but then ruined by shouting "DIE!" 34 fucking times!!! Dude… smdh.
Scores
Quality: 7
Unpredictability: 1
Anonymity: 5
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Litho: Markus Venehsalo / Projekt 13
Dat's some groove, letting the guitar do all the talking. It's not often an artist can make fingers and strings talk so much. However, after just a few listens, that background groove and rhythm guitar started to grind my gears, which rounded this down to the score it got.
Scores
Quality: 7.5
Unpredictability: 1.5
Anonymity: 3.5
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King: Sky Empire / The Emissary
JSS is very much a familiar voice, though not one that made my Top 25 list - he's just never stood out to me. I enjoy a lot of what he fronts, but never just because of his voice. This was very much middle-of-the-road as far as enjoyment goes, but after a few listens, and an absolutely stellar instrumental section, I gained a tiny little bit more appreciation for it.
Scores
Quality: 7.5
Unpredictability: 2
Anonymity: 1
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Dr. DTVT: Dream the Electric Sleep / Let the Light Flood In
I've seen these guys used in roulette's many times, but (like Barock Project), they never did much for me whenever I sampled them. There's a bit of 'wall-of-sound' vibe to it, like none of the parts are allowed to breath or shine - which seems more like a production/mixing problem vs a compositional or performance problem. Still, that held it back from getting that 8/A score.
Scores
Quality: 7.5
Unpredictability: 0.5
Anonymity: 4
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Stadler: Living Loud / Every Moment a Lifetime
As far as blues-rock goes, this is some great stuff. Vocally, it's a little over the top in the blues inflection, but that's not too much of a rub. The music and musicianship more than makes up for it. And see… you didn't try as hard to stump the group, and you end up scoring pretty strongly across the board.
Scores
Quality: 8
Unpredictability: 4.5
Anonymity: 1.5
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Evermind: Calum Graham / Phoenix Rising
That's some unplugged goodness. Very simplistic and stripped down, and easy on the ears. Not much remains memorable about it though. There's no earworm to keep me thinking about this when I'm not listening to it. The part at 2:15 almost sounds like a 'chorus' and is the closest thing I get to that earworm.
Scores
Quality: 8
Unpredictability: 3
Anonymity: 2
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Indiscipline: Dr.Viossy / One Hundred and One Odobenus Rosmarus
Loving this - it gives me some serious Sfogli vibes. Really nice sound all around. This is the kind of shreddery that sounds like it has purpose - and yes, this too is demonstration of how set of hands and strings can say so much. There's not much more to say other than I just wanna sit back in an arm chair like I'm in a Memorex commercial.
Scores
Quality: 8
Unpredictability: 4
Anonymity: 4.5
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Wolfking: Mercia / Fire in the Sky
Sometimes a simple rockin tune is just what scratches my itch. Smooth vocals, nice melodies (musically and lyrically), simple structure. I mean, there's not a lot of complexity to it - hell, it was the shortest song of the round. It was like a nice warm and soft chocolate chip cookie for the ears. Unfortunately for your overall score, you got hooped on the intangibles.
Scores
Quality: 8.5
Unpredictability: 2.5
Anonymity: 0.5
Total Round 7:
Indiscipline - Dr.Viossy / One Hundred and One Odobenus Rosmarus: 4 + 4.5 + 8 = 16.5
Stadler - Living Loud / Every Moment a Lifetime: 4.5 + 1.5 + 8 = 14
lonestar - Mikihiro Fujioka of TRICK BOX / Tonton Beat: 5 + 2.5 + 6 = 13.5
TAC - Gigafauna / Future Null Infinity: 3.5 + 3 + 6.5 = 13
Puppies - The Darkness / Rock and Roll Deserves to Die: 1 + 5 + 7 = 13
Evermind - Calum Graham / Phoenix Rising: 3 + 2 + 8 = 13
Litho - Markus Venehsalo / Projekt 13: 1.5 + 3.5 + 7.5 = 12.5
Dr. DTVT - Dream the Electric Sleep / Let the Light Flood In: 0.5 + 4 + 7.5 = 12
Wolfking - Mercia / Fire in the Sky: 2.5 + 0.5 + 8.5 = 11.5
King - Sky Empire / The Emissary: 2 + 1 + 7.5 = 10.5
Overall Standings:
Litho - 102.5
lonestar - 99.5
Evermind - 98.5
TAC - 98.5
Wolfking - 94
Dr. DTVT - 91.5
Indiscipline - 91.5
Puppies - 85.5
King - 85
Stadler - 77.5
Quality through 7 Rounds - this leaderboard is getting VERY crowded!! 7 people within 1 point!!!
Litho - 56
lonestar - 56
Dr. DTVT - 56
Wolfking - 55.5
King - 55.5
Evermind - 55
Indiscipline - 55
Puppies - 52
TAC - 51
Stadler - 47
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Boo...
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I figured from your response, it was middle of the road.
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My worry was that you might think the song was kind of plodding, which looks like it may be exactly what happened. I wonder if that section at the end was longer or repeated earlier in the song if it would have helped.
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Basically our only chance is if Litho gets 0.5 + 0.5 in the hangman, and even that might be not enough. :lol Well, RJ may have a shot at this still with his Fujihiro Kukuoka bands.
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There's a swing of 9 points in intangibles alone, I don't feel safe at all. :p
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There's a swing of 9 points in intangibles alone, I don't feel safe at all. :p
Yeah, it's early morning and I miscounted. Somehow thought 0.5 + 0.5 = 1 and 5 + 5 = 5.
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Nice. Do check their EP on Spotify. Cool shit.
Although lol, best song of the round yet second last round ranking.
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Sent for round 8 :corn
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Happiness is a warm quality score.
Sending tonight, OPing tonight.
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Happines is a warm quality score.
Sending tonight, OPing tonight.
:corn
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Nice. Do check their EP on Spotify. Cool shit.
Although lol, best song of the round yet second last round ranking.
I think you did that to RJ with that "U" too :lol
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My worry was that you might think the song was kind of plodding, which looks like it may be exactly what happened. I wonder if that section at the end was longer or repeated earlier in the song if it would have helped.
It wasn't that it was what I'd consider a 'plodder', but the repetitive nature of that rhythm guitar wore thin pretty quick - to run the Goldilocks analogy back, it was like a 7-course meal of porridge.
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I went and sent like a gent.
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I'll send something tomorrow morning man, sorry.
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No worries, still waiting on 3 others as well. You know who you are ;)
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Sure do, I'll send this evening.
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You know who you are ;)
We know who they are!
WTF? The last round took 4 fucking weeks, and people are still late for this round??
;D
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WTF? The last round took 4 fucking weeks, and people are still late for this round??
;D
That's why I thought there was no hurry! :lol
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You know who you are ;)
We know who they are!
WTF? The last round took 4 fucking weeks, and people are still late for this round??
;D
What are you, a dog?
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Tim's quality scores in .gif form ...
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Tim's quality scores in .gif form ...
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:rollin
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Sent!
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And then there were two.
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Sigh....it's not that fucking difficult to plan ahead, is it? Fuck I already got half of the IndyCar roulette mapped out.
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One dude has been in bed for the last 8 hours; the other dude had a surprise visit from his boss. I can cut both King's some slack.
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One dude has been in bed for the last 8 hours; the other dude had a surprise visit from his boss. I can cut both King's some slack.
They could merge into one dude who's been in bed with his boss for the last 8 hours.
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I just sent.
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Just WhatsApped you my submission Chad.
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Just WhatsApped you my submission Chad.
Gotcha. Hangman will be released when I get up in about 9 hours.
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I probably won't be guessing much this time around so I don't give away my song.
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Let the chaos begin for the final time.
??: ___t______ - ____ _u_t__
??: Su_____ - T__ __u____ _____s
??: ___t__ ___ ____st____ - ____ __p_s (________ __ ____t)
??: U____ ____s - ______s___su_____
??: ___t_ ________ - _______
??: T__ ____ - ____ __ P____
??: _____s __ S_u____ - P___ ___ ____
??: ______ ____ - _______ __st___
??: ________ - P_up__ _u ____
??: ___ _._._. Su___u - _____ S___
Letters guessed: SUP? <with obligatory upward head nod> T
Dr. DTVT
Evermind
Indiscipline
King
Litho
lonestar
Puppies
Stadler
TAC
Wolfking
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U
Suck it Kade :lol
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S
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P
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S
Bringer of chaos!! Love it.
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U
Suck it Kade :lol
U asshole! :lol
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T.
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T.
Granted.
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I'm not guessing anything until I'm sure it's Litho, RJ or Tim
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You say that after guessing my fucking letter.
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I meant any songs :lol
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I meant any songs :lol
:lol I know.
My T was a fucking dud too!
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I'm not guessing anything until I'm sure it's Litho, RJ or Tim
I have no such qualms, but I also suck at guessing, compared to you.
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Okay I'll do one
Oceans of Slumber - Pray for Fire
Obligatory Litho guess even though it's not him
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Let the chaos begin for the final time.
??: ___t______ - ____ _u_t__
??: Su_____ - T__ __u____ _____s
??: ___t__ ___ ____st____ - ____ __p_s (________ __ ____t)
??: U____ ____s - ______s___su_____
??: ___t_ ________ - _______
??: T__ ____ - ____ __ P____
??: Oceans of Slumber - Pray for Fire (1)
??: ______ ____ - _______ __st___
??: ________ - P_up__ _u ____
??: ___ _._._. Su___u - _____ S___
Letters guessed: SUPT
Dr. DTVT
Evermind
Indiscipline
King
Litho
lonestar
Puppies
Stadler
TAC
Wolfking
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??: ___ _._._. Su___u - _____ S___
Gotta be RJ with his Japanese stuff. Gonna spend 40 minutes on my train commute trying to decipher this :lol
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L
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E
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??: ___ _._._. Su___u - _____ S___
Gotta be RJ with his Japanese stuff. Gonna spend 40 minutes on my train commute trying to decipher this :lol
How in the actual fuq??
??: ___te_____ - L__e _u_te_
??: Su__e_l - T_e __u__e_ _e___s
??: __lt__ ___ __e_st___e - ____ __pes (________ __ _e__t)
??: Ul___ L___s - ___e__s_l_su_e___
??: ___t_ ___e____ - _____le
??: T_e ____ - L__e __ Pe__e
??: Oceans of Slumber - Pray for Fire (1)
??: ______ ___e - _______ __st_e_
??: __l__e__ - Peuple _u ____
RJ (1): __e _._._. Su___u - _e___ S___
Letters guessed: SUPTLE
Dr. DTVT
Evermind
Indiscipline
King
Litho
lonestar
Puppies
Stadler
TAC
Wolfking
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Gotta run an errand. Will be gone for a couple of hours.
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You’d think you could just put peuple in Spotify and find that song fast…
I’m going to work, figure this stuff on your own
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Live in peace. The firm. Stadler
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Rie a.k.a Suzaku - "Seven Seas".
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Rie a.k.a Suzaku - "Seven Seas".
Oh. I tried variations of Sugiru and Sumiku (and Sudoku).
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Live in peace. The firm. Stadler
Or Litho
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Well fuck.
Me and my stupid sense of fair play.
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Evermind just guessing Litho for everything :rollin
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Whitesnake - "Love Hunter".
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Whitesnake - "Love Hunter".
TAC
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Valfreya - "Peuple du nord".
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TAC :lol
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I.
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Live in peace. The firm. Stadler
Or Litho
Litho would send The Firm.
My second guess would be Kingshmegland.
If Stadler didn’t send The Firm then he definitely sent Whitesnake.
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Second guesses are not allowed :P
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I absolutely love that song but I didn't send it.
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Surreal - "The Journey Begins."
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Surreal - "The Journey Begins."
Litho
Also you're probably one of the impossible ones. Well, then you deserve this win. I'm off to the gym and then to run. May check this out from time to time.
Marty Friedman - Miracle
Litho
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RJ's song is actually "Heika Sojo".
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RJ's song is actually "Heika Sojo".
He should get more points in this case.
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Yes. But not too many, hence the need to correct the record. :p
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Surreal - "The Journey Begins."
Litho
Also you're probably one of the impossible ones. Well, then you deserve this win. I'm off to the gym and then to run. May check this out from time to time.
Marty Friedman - Miracle
Litho
Marty could be Kade.
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Well fuck.
Me and my stupid sense of fair play. insistence of repeatedly sending jmetal
Fix'd :biggrin:
___te_____ cannot equal Whitesnake
Updated standings momentarily after I figure out the order of what and who was solved.
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RJ's song is actually "Heika Sojo".
Sense of fair play phantom bonus points:
RJ (because he IM'd me at 4:20am his time to point out I'd reversed the song/artist) - 420
Litho (for the above, and helping RJ with 2 extra points) - 14,000,605
Too bad there aren't any real sense of fair play points. :lol
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You can't give me that many, if I hadn't said something he'd have even more points. I'm a shark after all, I'm not that nice. :p
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??: _i_te_____ - L__e _u_te_
??: Surreal - The Journey Begins (4)
??: _ilt__ ___ __e_st___e - ____ __pes (___i_i__ __ _e__t)
??: Ul_i_ L___s - ___e_is_l_su_e___
??: Marty Friedman - Miracle (5)
Stads (2): The Firm - Live in Peace (2)
??: Oceans of Slumber - Pray for Fire (1)
??: ______ ___e - _______ __st_e_
Timbo (3): Valfreya - Peuple Du Nord (3)
RJ (1): Rie a.k.a. Suzaku - Heika Sojo (6)
Letters guessed: SUPTLEI
Dr. DTVT
Evermind
Indiscipline
King
Litho
lonestar
Puppies
Stadler
TAC
Wolfking
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This might actually take some time to solve now. I can only solve and guess so much without tipping my hand, Tim has been outed and only has reason to go on if he wants to play kingmaker, and Ruslan has said he's sitting on the sidelines. :lol
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Litho is "ilt__ ___ __e_st___e - ____ __pes (___i_i__ __ _e__t)"
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Cade is Marty Freeman
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Litho is "ilt__ ___ __e_st___e - ____ __pes (___i_i__ __ _e__t)"
(https://i.gifer.com/TLFx.gif)
Cade is Marty Freeman
Who's Cade?
Timbo already guessed Kade.
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What chaos I've unleashed!
:burns:
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Well that’s that. No anonymity points this round and I sure ain’t getting any extra quality points this round either. :lol
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lonestar, Puppies, Stadler, and TAC haven't guessed any letters. Might not get any from two of those. Things might be at a stalemate for awhile unless someone not in the roulette throws in a monkey wrench.
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K for kicked to the curb.
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I think Litho might be super sneaky and he sent that non-Whitesnake song which he guessed wrong on purpose
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I think Litho might be super sneaky and he sent that non-Whitesnake song which he guessed wrong on purpose
That is some real sneaky/genius work.
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lonestar, Puppies, Stadler, and TAC haven't guessed any letters. Might not get any from two of those. Things might be at a stalemate for awhile unless someone not in the roulette throws in a monkey wrench.
R
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??: _i_ter__r_ - L__e _u_ter
kingshmeggiepoo (6): Surreal - The Journey Begins (4)
??: _ilt__ ___ _kerst___e - _r__ R_pes (___i_i__ __ _e_rt)
LJS (4): Ulrik L___s - ___e_is_l_sure___
Indi (5): Marty Friedman - Miracle (5)
Stads (2): The Firm - Live in Peace (2)
Doc (7): Oceans of Slumber - Pray for Fire (1)
??: ___r__ K__e - _______ __stre_
Timbo (3): Valfreya - Peuple Du Nord (3)
RJ (1): Rie a.k.a. Suzaku - Heika Sojo (6)
Letters guessed: SUPTLEIKR
Evermind
Puppies
Wolfking
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Litho? "Ulrik L___s - ___e_is_l_sure___"
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Litho? "Ulrik L___s - ___e_is_l_sure___"
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Oceans of Slumber = Indiscipline
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Oceans - Puppies.
Friedman - Indi.
Surreal - king.
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Oceans - Puppies.
Friedman - Indi.
Surreal - king.
I want you
I need you
But there ain't no way I'm ever gonna love you.
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Oceans is Mason
Also...Ruslan, I got Litho for you, you're welcome.
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Oceans is Mason
(https://i.gifer.com/1Jsj.gif)
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Also...Ruslan, I got Litho for you, you're welcome.
(https://imgur.com/WSAjTeQ)(https://imgur.com/WSAjTeQ)(https://i.imgur.com/WSAjTeQ.gif)
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Fake Whitesnake is Kade (2)
Long title is Tim (1)
It's inconvenient to type while running
Thanks RJ
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TAC was already solved for Valfreya.
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Oceans is Mason
(https://i.gifer.com/1Jsj.gif)
Gotta respect Mason for trying to throw us off the scent, but Oceans is just a Mason band to me.
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??: _i_ter__r_ - L__e _u_ter
Since we already had a fake Whitesnake, any chances of that being a fake Love Hunter?
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The fact that he didn't fill it in tells me that's not the right song title either.
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The fact that he didn't fill it in tells me that's not the right song title either.
Thought so, but Chad might be focking with us. Just to be sure.
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When I saw Whitesnake as the guess, I stopped paying attention to the rest of the solve. But it is indeed titled Love Hunter.
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Wolfie (8): _i_ter__r_ - Love Hunter
kingshmeggiepoo (6): Surreal - The Journey Begins (4)
Puppies (9): _ilt__ ___ _kerst___e - _r__ R_pes (___i_i__ __ _e_rt)
LJS (4): Ulrik L___s - ___e_is_l_sure___
Indi (5): Marty Friedman - Miracle (5)
Stads (2): The Firm - Live in Peace (2)
Doc (7): Oceans of Slumber - Pray for Fire (1)
Evermind (10): ___r__ K__e - _______ __stre_
Timbo (3): Valfreya - Peuple Du Nord (3)
RJ (1): Rie a.k.a. Suzaku - Heika Sojo (6)
Letters guessed: SUPTLEIKR
Evermind
Puppies
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The long one is ruslan
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"Love Hunter" is probably a demo from some band Kade was in or saw/knew that isn't on streaming.
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Long one is Puppies
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TAC was already solved for Valfreya.
Apparently it's inconvenient to read while running too! :rollin
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RJ could have sent this.
https://music.apple.com/us/song/love-hunter/1676720226
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Long one is Puppies
And solved. I think this is the first round that the anonymity points were completed before the unpredictability ones. Most of you really dug deep on the latter. Seems every round has 1 person that gets hosed on the letter reveal, and I think that's Tim this round.
I'll re-open the letter guessing if King and Stads aren't going to offer their selections in the next couple of hours.
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RJ could have sent this.
https://music.apple.com/us/song/love-hunter/1676720226
I know Kade's band but I want to find yours first, which proves absolutely impossible. Does this Ulrik guy even exist?
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Kade's is possibly something like "Winter__r_".
Puppies' is probably something like "Akerst___e or "Okerst___e".
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RJ could have sent this.
https://music.apple.com/us/song/love-hunter/1676720226
I know Kade's band but I want to find yours first, which proves absolutely impossible. Does this Ulrik guy even exist?
I don't put it past Litho recording a song himself under a pseudonym, just to fuck with you all.
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There's Ulrik Lyngs but he's an Oxford professor or something.
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There's Ulrik Lyngs but he's an Oxford professor or something.
Who also dropped power-prog?
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Kade's is possibly something like "Winter__r_".
Puppies' is probably something like "Akerst___e or "Okerst___e".
Yours is possibly something "___edisclosure___".
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There's Ulrik Lyngs but he's an Oxford professor or something.
I don't fucking believe it.
Well, if I allowed a song to be guessed without the artist, I'll have to allow the reverse.
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Wolfie (8): _i_ter__r_ - Love Hunter
kingshmeggiepoo (6): Surreal - The Journey Begins (4)
Puppies (9): _ilt__ ___ _kerst___e - _r__ R_pes (___i_i__ __ _e_rt)
LJS (4): Ulrik Lyngs - ___e_is_l_sure___
Indi (5): Marty Friedman - Miracle (5)
Stads (2): The Firm - Live in Peace (2)
Doc (7): Oceans of Slumber - Pray for Fire (1)
Evermind (10): ___r__ K__e - _______ __stre_
Timbo (3): Valfreya - Peuple Du Nord (3)
RJ (1): Rie a.k.a. Suzaku - Heika Sojo (6)
Letters guessed: SUPTLEIKR
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RJ could have sent this.
https://music.apple.com/us/song/love-hunter/1676720226
I don't have apple music, what is it?
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There's Ulrik Lyngs but he's an Oxford professor or something.
I don't fucking believe it.
Well, if I allowed a song to be guessed without the artist, I'll have to allow the reverse.
I still have no idea about the song so far. This is some extra obscure shit. :lol
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RJ could have sent this.
https://music.apple.com/us/song/love-hunter/1676720226
I don't have apple music, what is it?
Dunno, but it's a song called "Love Hunter" with Chinese characters and electric guitar in the audio sample. :p
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Puppies should be something like "Filthy ___ Akerst___e - "Gray Ropes (Chaining My Heart)", but I've looked at tons of variations on that to no avail so far.
Or "Milton".
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Puppies should be something like "Filthy ___ Akerst___e - "Gray Ropes (Chaining My Heart)", but I've looked at tons of variations on that to no avail so far.
I know what it is but I really shouldn't say anything. :lol
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In other news, I found Ulrik Lyngs on Myspace. He has only one song there, "Dona Nobis Pacem" which I think is a Mozart thing.
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RJ could have sent this.
https://music.apple.com/us/song/love-hunter/1676720226
I don't have apple music, what is it?
Dunno, but it's a song called "Love Hunter" with Chinese characters and electric guitar in the audio sample. :p
Ok. Whatever.
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I'll just start throwing out some wacky titles for Litho's track because it's really impossible to find.
Nonedisclosureman
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Fantastic.
Ruslan and Jazzo doing a perfect impression of two guys playing Worms on PS1, both left with just one worm, both with only simple grenades available, both suspended on a tiny speck of pixel terrain on opposite margins of the screen.
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I'll just start throwing out some wacky titles for Litho's track because it's really impossible to find.
Nonedisclosureman
Or how about NonedisclosureNDA :lol
Fantastic.
Ruslan and Jazzo doing a perfect impression of two guys playing Worms on PS1, both left with just one worm, both with only simple grenades available, both suspended on a tiny speck of pixel terrain on opposite margins of the screen.
Yeah. :lol
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Nonedisclosureday
Nonedisclosurevow
Facedisclosureman
Facedisclosureday
I'll go think for 30 minutes and will come up with some final guesses before I go to sleep.
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Fantastic.
Ruslan and Jazzo doing a perfect impression of two guys playing Worms on PS1, both left with just one worm, both with only simple grenades available, both suspended on a tiny speck of pixel terrain on opposite margins of the screen.
:lmao:
I'm in tears reading this.
I'm beginning to wonder if LJS is trolling ME with this submission.
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before I go to sleep.
You ain't going to sleep man
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Fantastic.
Ruslan and Jazzo doing a perfect impression of two guys playing Worms on PS1, both left with just one worm, both with only simple grenades available, both suspended on a tiny speck of pixel terrain on opposite margins of the screen.
:lmao:
I'm in tears reading this.
I'm beginning to wonder if LJS is trolling ME with this submission.
Is it a Dream Theater cover by any chance? The Ulrik guy has a "DT Jam" on their MySpace connections page.
I know you can't answer this. :)
before I go to sleep.
You ain't going to sleep man
Yeah no I've got to work tomorrow. :lol
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Okay I have no idea.
If the letter-guessing cooldown resets, give me W (for What the fuck is Litho's song) when it does. See you in 6 hours.
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Speaking of "W", Kade's band is "Winterborn". Good grief that took way too long.
I'll take an "O" if we're opening up letters again.
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Good grief that took way too long.
No shit.
You'll be facepalming when you'll get Puppies' band.
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I think you have more powerful tools than I, and more savvy with using them.
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And you have such an extensive library that nothing I've got even works to find your song. :lol
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I've missed all the fun again.
Yep, Winterborn it is. Great, underrated album.
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Wilton and Akerstache - "Drag Ropes (Chaining My Heart)".
FUCKING FINALLY!!!
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Wilton & Akerstache - "Drag Ropes (Chaining My Heart)".
FUCKING FINALLY!!!
I almost posted it while in bed as I thought I don't want to take any chances that you guess my song before Puppies while I'm asleep. :lol
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I don't know if I'm really facepalming though. Never heard of it, just not one of the permutations I'd tried yet.
Kade's was hard because it's almost always displayed as "Lovehunter".
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I've missed all the fun again.
Try to guess Litho's song, it's a lot of uh, fun.
I don't know if I'm really facepalming though. Never heard of it, just not one of the permutations I'd tried yet.
I may be misremembering then, thought you liked Storm Corrosion.
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Well damn. I kind of see what you mean. The song title doesn't usually have the parenthetical subtitle. I've heard that album of course, but it's not one I've spun a lot, I found it underwhelming (and mentioned somewhere in the last few months that I probably should revisit it).
I'm a huge Katatonia and Opeth fan, but I can't claim to be a world-renowned expert on them unfortunately, same way Lethean was able to sneak in that Sailors With Wax Wings song into my roulette. If I'd heard it beforehand, I'd forgotten about it.
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I've missed all the fun again.
Try to guess Litho's song, it's a lot of uh, fun.
I don't know if I'm really facepalming though. Never heard of it, just not one of the permutations I'd tried yet.
I may be misremembering then, thought you liked Storm Corrosion.
Is his artist even a real person?
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wolfie (8): Winterborn - Lovehunter (7)
kingshmeggiepoo (6): Surreal - The Journey Begins (4)
Puppies (9): Wilton and Akerstache - Drag Ropes (Chaining My Heart) (8)
LJS (4): Ulrik Lyngs - ___e_is_l_sure___
Indi (5): Marty Friedman - Miracle (5)
Stads (2): The Firm - Live in Peace (2)
Doc (7): Oceans of Slumber - Pray for Fire (1)
Ruslan (10): ___r__ K__e - _______ __stre_
Timbo (3): Valfreya - Peuple Du Nord (3)
RJ (1): Rie a.k.a. Suzaku - Heika Sojo (6)
Kade's was hard because it's almost always displayed as "Lovehunter".
My bad there, Kade even sent it to me as Lovehunter.. I'm assuming because I had to manually type it in, there may have been an autocorrect?? Although, it being two words might have actually sped up solving it!
I've missed all the fun again.
Try to guess Litho's song, it's a lot of uh, fun.
I don't know if I'm really facepalming though. Never heard of it, just not one of the permutations I'd tried yet.
I may be misremembering then, thought you liked Storm Corrosion.
Is his artist even a real person?
I'm now left wondering if it's even real music!
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wolfie (8): Winterborn - Lovehunter (7)
kingshmeggiepoo (6): Surreal - The Journey Begins (4)
Puppies (9): Wilton and Akerstache - Drag Ropes (Chaining My Heart) (8)
LJS (4): Ulrik Lyngs - ___e_is_l_sure___
Indi (5): Marty Friedman - Miracle (5)
Stads (2): The Firm - Live in Peace (2)
Doc (7): Oceans of Slumber - Pray for Fire (1)
Ruslan (10): ___r__ K__e - _______ __stre_
Timbo (3): Valfreya - Peuple Du Nord (3)
RJ (1): Rie a.k.a. Suzaku - Heika Sojo (6)
Kade's was hard because it's almost always displayed as "Lovehunter".
My bad there, Kade even sent it to me as Lovehunter.. I'm assuming because I had to manually type it in, there may have been an autocorrect?? Although, it being two words might have actually sped up solving it!
I've missed all the fun again.
Try to guess Litho's song, it's a lot of uh, fun.
I don't know if I'm really facepalming though. Never heard of it, just not one of the permutations I'd tried yet.
I may be misremembering then, thought you liked Storm Corrosion.
Is his artist even a real person?
I'm now left wondering if it's even real music!
What a shame. ;D
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Kade's was hard because it's almost always displayed as "Lovehunter".
My bad there, Kade even sent it to me as Lovehunter.. I'm assuming because I had to manually type it in, there may have been an autocorrect?? Although, it being two words might have actually sped up solving it!
In this case, I doubt it. But what's done is done.
Edit: Yeah, I for sure could have solved this.
"??: ___te_____ - L__e_u_te_"
I've missed all the fun again.
Try to guess Litho's song, it's a lot of uh, fun.
I don't know if I'm really facepalming though. Never heard of it, just not one of the permutations I'd tried yet.
I may be misremembering then, thought you liked Storm Corrosion.
Is his artist even a real person?
I'm now left wondering if it's even real music!
Come on now, maybe you haven't listened to it yet, but you have the song and my PM about it. :p
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Are we still waiting to see if king, Stadler, or any observers are going to contribute any letters? If not we're probably still at a 0.5 deadlock for awhile, because Ruslan is likely asleep and I might as well be.
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Vane Disclosure Jam
Not sure why it's one word though, it's listed as separate words on the guys last fm. Something seems fishy to me...
https://www.last.fm/music/Ulrik%20Lyngs (https://www.last.fm/music/Ulrik%20Lyngs)
You're welcome again Ruslan
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Vane Disclosure Jam
Not sure why it's one word though, it's listed as separate words on the guys last fm. Something seems fishy to me...
https://www.last.fm/music/Ulrik%20Lyngs (https://www.last.fm/music/Ulrik%20Lyngs)
You're welcome again Ruslan
Well, in this case (and in the case of Puppies' with the additional title in parenthesis), I just copy/pasted into the hangman spreadsheet the way the title and .mp3 were sent to me.
wolfie (8): Winterborn - Lovehunter (7)
kingshmeggiepoo (6): Surreal - The Journey Begins (4)
Puppies (9): Wilton and Akerstache - Drag Ropes (Chaining My Heart) (8)
LJS (4): Ulrik Lyngs - Vanedisclosurejam (9)
Indi (5): Marty Friedman - Miracle (5)
Stads (2): The Firm - Live in Peace (2)
Doc (7): Oceans of Slumber - Pray for Fire (1)
Ruslan (10): ___r__ K__e - _______ __stre_ n (10)
Timbo (3): Valfreya - Peuple Du Nord (3)
RJ (1): Rie a.k.a. Suzaku - Heika Sojo (6)
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Are we still waiting to see if king, Stadler, or any observers are going to contribute any letters? If not we're probably still at a 0.5 deadlock for awhile, because Ruslan is likely asleep and I might as well be.
I picked s letter. I suck at guessing.
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Looks like that wraps it up.
That's just how the file name was listed when I downloaded it a long time ago. Notice "Progjam" is also listed both ways.
So, the story on it is that I used to post at the Jordan Rudess forum, and Ulrik was one of the posters there. Really smart and interesting guy, and apparently Oxford thought so too. He still does some live music with The Karaoke Collective, but doesn't seem to record anymore that I know of. Anyway, there was a series of prog rock/metal jams he did for the JR forum, and I was blown away in particular by that one. As Evermind found, there's also a "DT Jam". He used to have them hosted on Myspace and possibly elsewhere, but since the JR forum and Myspace are long defunct, they're verging on lost media now. But it felt appropriate to spread the love to another DT fan who had an influence on me. If anyone wants to hear the song I can e-mail it to you.
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I've gotta hand it to Ruslan, he's managed to get everyone so myopically focused on taking me down that all he needs to do now is have jingle like his song 0.5 more than mine to go into sudden death, or 1.0 more to outright win. :lol
(https://i.giphy.com/iJ85v1gHAczevpTUzs.webp)
Although, I suppose if the song quality winner isn't in the top 4 we could have another mini-round of drama to come.
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Got a playlist?
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I've gotta hand it to Ruslan, he's managed to get everyone so myopically focused on taking me down that all he needs to do now is have jingle like his song 0.5 more than mine to go into sudden death, or 1.0 more to outright win. :lol
(https://i.giphy.com/iJ85v1gHAczevpTUzs.webp)
Although, I suppose if the song quality winner isn't in the top 4 we could have another mini-round of drama to come.
Or you both could fucking tank the quality, and I scoop out a 10 with Rie's Celestial guitar work and leapfrog both you bitches.
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Got a playlist?
Yup
https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/research/ (https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/research/)
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:biggrin:
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Got a playlist?
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2MixlJY450JOx1mzC93Usp?si=6346be8526974b7b&pt=3e0e432f5af8ac0f5508dd77d4d51618
Sans Puppies' and Litho's. PM them if you want their .mp3.
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Got a playlist?
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2MixlJY450JOx1mzC93Usp?si=6346be8526974b7b&pt=3e0e432f5af8ac0f5508dd77d4d51618
Sans Puppies' and Litho's. PM them if you want their .mp3.
I don't even want my song. :lol
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Got a playlist?
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2MixlJY450JOx1mzC93Usp?si=6346be8526974b7b&pt=3e0e432f5af8ac0f5508dd77d4d51618
Sans Puppies' and Litho's. PM them if you want their .mp3.
I don't even want my song. :lol
That makes 2 of us!
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Mason. Loving your submission.
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Looks like that wraps it up.
That's just how the file name was listed when I downloaded it a long time ago. Notice "Progjam" is also listed both ways.
So, the story on it is that I used to post at the Jordan Rudess forum, and Ulrik was one of the posters there. Really smart and interesting guy, and apparently Oxford thought so too. He still does some live music with The Karaoke Collective, but doesn't seem to record anymore that I know of. Anyway, there was a series of prog rock/metal jams he did for the JR forum, and I was blown away in particular by that one. As Evermind found, there's also a "DT Jam". He used to have them hosted on Myspace and possibly elsewhere, but since the JR forum and Myspace are long defunct, they're verging on lost media now. But it felt appropriate to spread the love to another DT fan who had an influence on me. If anyone wants to hear the song I can e-mail it to you.
So......is this guy an established artist? When I googled him and saw he was an Oxford phycologist, I didn't know what the fuck was up.
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Not per se that know of. It's possible he's done other work I'm not aware of under other names, but as himself, I just know of the hobbyist recordings he was doing back then, and that he does some live stuff on the side more recently with another group, and I can't find much with them either. I wish I knew of more, he was one of the two most interesting players from there. At least, of the people who weren't already known quantities (like Frank Lucas, and JR's keyboard tech Bert Baldwin, for example).
Mason. Loving your submission.
One of my favorites too. Maybe it'll get him to open up a bit more to growls and blasts.
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Not per se that know of. It's possible he's done other work I'm not aware of under other names, but as himself, I just know of the hobbyist recordings he was doing back then, and that he does some live stuff on the side more recently with another group, and I can't find much with them either. I wish I knew of more, he was one of the two most interesting players from there.
Jeez mate, I gotta say, is this tactic really in the spirit of the game? I mean, you gave it to RJ but this seems way more extreme.
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I asked Chad about it before I sent it. Take it up with the host. :lol
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Man, sacrificing quality is way too nice a term, there's some straight up shit in that list.
Oceans is good, though they never solidly clicked with me for some reason. King and Kade's tracks are pleasant enough as well, and of course mine is amazing.
But fucking yikes to a few of those, they'd barely score above a 5,and there's two solid 1's in there for sure.
Not per se that know of. It's possible he's done other work I'm not aware of under other names, but as himself, I just know of the hobbyist recordings he was doing back then, and that he does some live stuff on the side more recently with another group, and I can't find much with them either. I wish I knew of more, he was one of the two most interesting players from there.
Jeez mate, I gotta say, is this tactic really in the spirit of the game? I mean, you gave it to RJ but this seems way more extreme.
Especially considering he TOOK ALL THE FUCKING SPACES OUT OF THE SONG TITLE!!!
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Fortunately for the rest of us, it also might be the single worst roulette submission ever quality-wise.
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Dude, you have zero room to talk. :p
And I doubt you've even heard it.
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Not per se that know of. It's possible he's done other work I'm not aware of under other names, but as himself, I just know of the hobbyist recordings he was doing back then, and that he does some live stuff on the side more recently with another group, and I can't find much with them either. I wish I knew of more, he was one of the two most interesting players from there. At least, of the people who weren't already known quantities (like Frank Lucas, and JR's keyboard tech Bert Baldwin, for example).
Mason. Loving your submission.
One of my favorites too. Maybe it'll get him to open up a bit more to growls and blasts.
I'm not the biggest fan of growls but I definitely like it when it's mixed in with singing. Full on growls throughout the song is not my cup of tea.
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Chad, what madness have you unleashed on this roulette community? :lol
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I'm pretty sure this is his reaction. :lol
(https://i.giphy.com/B6Jr28VwfxUFa.webp[)(https://i.giphy.com/B6Jr28VwfxUFa.webp)
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I asked Chad about it before I sent it. Take it up with the host. :lol
You're lucky the host is the king of cheating I guess allowing this sort of tactic just to secure a win.....
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You guys aren't even going to care in a week when Ruslan has absconded with the win at the last minute. ;)
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Man, sacrificing quality is way too nice a term, there's some straight up shit in that list.
Oh, you don't know the half of it. I was three seconds and an e-mail away from sending myself.
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Dude, you have zero room to talk. :p
And I doubt you've even heard it.
Chad will confirm he sent me that 8 bit pile of weak dick wanna be video game music or whatever the fuck it is.
Man, sacrificing quality is way too nice a term, there's some straight up shit in that list.
Oh, you don't know the half of it. I was three seconds and an e-mail away from sending myself.
Now that would've been impressive. I think only once or twice before has someone sent their own music.
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Dude, you have zero room to talk. :p
And I doubt you've even heard it.
Chad will confirm he sent me that 8 bit pile of weak dick wanna be video game music or whatever the fuck it is.
Chad and weak dick is redundant.
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:corn :corn :corn
Guess I need to check out this train wreck of a playlist, as well as Lizzo's submission.
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Got a playlist?
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2MixlJY450JOx1mzC93Usp?si=6346be8526974b7b&pt=3e0e432f5af8ac0f5508dd77d4d51618 (https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2MixlJY450JOx1mzC93Usp?si=6346be8526974b7b&pt=3e0e432f5af8ac0f5508dd77d4d51618)
Sans Puppies' and Litho's. PM them if you want their .mp3.
I don't even want my song. :lol
I do! Possibly my favorite of the list other than OoS. TASTES!
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Got a playlist?
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2MixlJY450JOx1mzC93Usp?si=6346be8526974b7b&pt=3e0e432f5af8ac0f5508dd77d4d51618 (https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2MixlJY450JOx1mzC93Usp?si=6346be8526974b7b&pt=3e0e432f5af8ac0f5508dd77d4d51618)
Sans Puppies' and Litho's. PM them if you want their .mp3.
I don't even want my song. :lol
I do! Possibly my favorite of the list. TASTES!
:lol
I got fucked by whoever guessed P in the hangman.
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:corn :corn :corn
Guess I need to check out this train wreck of a playlist, as well as Lizzo's submission.
Let me know how long you make it through his, I lasted 2:30
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(https://idsb.tmgrup.com.tr/ly/uploads/images/2020/10/08/63604.jpg)
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Oh and you're one to speak, you've done more crying in this roulette than any of us.
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:corn :corn :corn
Guess I need to check out this train wreck of a playlist, as well as Lizzo's submission.
Let me know how long you make it through his, I lasted 2:30
I have a pretty high tolerance for terrible music. I've spent time cultivating it.
Chad, I'm not sure you envisioned the way this roulette would play out, and how big a deal the anonymity rule would be. Either way, I think participants have played a blinder in working their way to the top, using whatever means necessary (whilst still following the rules). You gotta respect some of the psychological warfare, especially from Evermind and Lizzo.
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Oh it's been fun as fuck...I told him two things that would've made it less....chaotic...would have been to make the song have to be guessed before guessing the sender, and to rank the quality scoring 1-10.
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Lol, Lizzo what the fuck was that? Just listened to your submission. I think it is fair to say you sacrificed quality for anonymity, but fucking hell :lol honestly hope it pays off for you.
Here's my gifpression...
(https://media1.giphy.com/media/TKvKgXs45EyFWqCIy2/giphy.gif)
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Lol, Lizzo what the fuck was that? Just listened to your submission. I think it is fair to say you sacrificed quality for anonymity, but fucking hell :lol honestly hope it pays off for you.
Here's my gifpression...
(https://media1.giphy.com/media/TKvKgXs45EyFWqCIy2/giphy.gif)
There's always Friends In Philadelphia?
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Lol, Lizzo what the fuck was that? Just listened to your submission. I think it is fair to say you sacrificed quality for anonymity, but fucking hell :lol honestly hope it pays off for you.
Here's my gifpression...
(https://media1.giphy.com/media/TKvKgXs45EyFWqCIy2/giphy.gif)
There's always Friends In Philadelphia?
Oh, there's always a relevant It's Always Sunny gif...
(https://media.tenor.com/dQg6H_rh9-IAAAAM/iasip-charlie.gif)
*Lizzo, circa 2024
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Just listened to Wilton & Akerstache. Quite a trip for sure. Kind of the AOR equivalent to Steel's "Heavy Metal Machine" that Mike did with Dan Swano.
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Oh hot damn with these gifs! :lol
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Lol, Lizzo what the fuck was that? Just listened to your submission. I think it is fair to say you sacrificed quality for anonymity, but fucking hell :lol honestly hope it pays off for you.
Here's my gifpression...
(https://media1.giphy.com/media/TKvKgXs45EyFWqCIy2/giphy.gif)
Too funny... I was thinking of doing gifpressions, and this would have been one of them. It was a tossup with this one
(https://media3.giphy.com/media/UuZdikL4neAq5L2CEN/200w.gif?cid=6c09b952yqx7inxniyoxdsl8ao53ejdvagmg1btp2o02s32o&ep=v1_gifs_search&rid=200w.gif&ct=g)
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I'm pretty sure this is his reaction. :lol
(https://i.giphy.com/B6Jr28VwfxUFa.webp[)(https://i.giphy.com/B6Jr28VwfxUFa.webp)
Not exactly. Hindsight being what it is, a stack-rank scoring method would've been better suited (Ariich proved that with math), and likely prevented people from knowingly sacrificing quality for the intangible scores. It is what it is though - I made my bed, I'll lie in it. I am glad to be running this more for fun as opposed to searching for new music/bands.
The chaos has been fun to watch, I just wish more of the music was as fun to listen to :neverusethis:
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I asked Chad about it before I sent it. Take it up with the host. :lol
I have no qualms with the tactic (and would've allow Indi to send himself). There may however be qualms about the quality.
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I thought about sending Wilton & Ackeratache to Shadow Ninja. I just figured I would not waste Chad’s time and try to send things I thought he would like…because he’s my friend and while I am an asshole I’m not that kind of asshole.
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I thought about sending Wilton & Ackeratache to Shadow Ninja. I just figured I would not waste Chad’s time and try to send things I thought he would like…because he’s my friend and while I am an asshole I’m not that kind of asshole.
So why didn't you?? :neverusethis:
Forgive me... I'm in a cheeky mood tonight.
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Brit slang from a Canuck? Brilliant.
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Of course he’s part Brit. They were to chickenshit to kick their spotted dick loving ass out of the continent even after we gave them the playbook.
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:lol
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(https://idsb.tmgrup.com.tr/ly/uploads/images/2020/10/08/63604.jpg)
This picture posted by you mate is hilarious. :lol
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The epitome of salty.
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Vane Disclosure Jam
Not sure why it's one word though, it's listed as separate words on the guys last fm. Something seems fishy to me...
https://www.last.fm/music/Ulrik%20Lyngs (https://www.last.fm/music/Ulrik%20Lyngs)
You're welcome again Ruslan
There's no way I would've guessed that, especially with no spaces. I've no idea how you found it.
Also come on, my song isn't that bad. But I haven't checked out the rest yet.
Also I slept for less than 5 hours. This is going to be a long day. :lol
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Vane Disclosure Jam
Not sure why it's one word though, it's listed as separate words on the guys last fm. Something seems fishy to me...
https://www.last.fm/music/Ulrik%20Lyngs (https://www.last.fm/music/Ulrik%20Lyngs)
You're welcome again Ruslan
There's no way I would've guessed that, especially with no spaces. I've no idea how you found it.
Brilliant move to plug his name into last.fm. Good tag-team effort with you solving the name.
Also I slept for less than 5 hours. This is going to be a long day. :lol
Sure, but 10 points for the intangibles was worth it, amirite?
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I've gotta hand it to Ruslan, he's managed to get everyone so myopically focused on taking me down that all he needs to do now is have jingle like his song 0.5 more than mine to go into sudden death, or 1.0 more to outright win. :lol
That's just the danger being far ahead of the others on the scoreboard. I played Chad's handicap roulette, I would know. :lol
Also, send me your song. I've got to at least check it out.
Sure, but 10 points for the intangibles was worth it, amirite?
Definitely asking the same question myself. :lol
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Just e-mailed it to you.
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Just e-mailed it to you.
I'll listen on my lunch break.
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I thought about sending Wilton & Ackeratache to Shadow Ninja. I just figured I would not waste Chad’s time and try to send things I thought he would like…because he’s my friend and while I am an asshole I’m not that kind of asshole.
Hey, that song is utterly brilliant.
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I thought about sending Wilton & Ackeratache to Shadow Ninja. I just figured I would not waste Chad’s time and try to send things I thought he would like…because he’s my friend and while I am an asshole I’m not that kind of asshole.
Hey, that song is utterly brilliant.
So far, it ain't the worst thing I've heard this round.
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Is the worst thing also in this round or was it Radiohead?
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Is the worst thing also in this round or was it Radiohead?
Yet to be determined.
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Just to put a final bow on the hangman:
wolfie (8): Winterborn - Lovehunter (7)
kingshmeggiepoo (6): Surreal - The Journey Begins (4)
Puppies (9): Wilton and Akerstache - Drag Ropes (Chaining My Heart) (8)
LJS (4): Ulrik Lyngs - Vanedisclosurejam (9)
Indi (5): Marty Friedman - Miracle (5)
Stads (2): The Firm - Live in Peace (2)
Doc (7): Oceans of Slumber - Pray for Fire (1)
Ruslan (10): Chorny Kofe - Nochnoy jastreb
Timbo (3): Valfreya - Peuple Du Nord (3)
RJ (1): Rie a.k.a. Suzaku - Heika Sojo (6)
First impressions coming later.
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I didn’t say I don’t like W&A, I just thought it wouldn’t score high enough to get me the highest quality score. That album is fun in a weird way.
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This is a Tale of Two rounds... It was the best of songs, it was the worst of songs.
(https://media.tenor.com/images/07a8ddd7bf7de5ab9ea7a66ea66ceb2d/tenor.gif)
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Gifpressions it is. Word impressions after this is solved. I'll pre-populate one of them, since he knows it's coming
1. Litho:
(https://i.makeagif.com/media/10-26-2015/QxmrqY.gif) (https://media3.giphy.com/media/UuZdikL4neAq5L2CEN/200w.gif?cid=6c09b952yqx7inxniyoxdsl8ao53ejdvagmg1btp2o02s32o&ep=v1_gifs_search&rid=200w.gif&ct=g) (https://media1.giphy.com/media/TKvKgXs45EyFWqCIy2/giphy.gif) (https://media1.giphy.com/media/QszB0NpN02cDufgP4n/200.gif?cid=790b7611e2xrjz5p3zuwkcptmhgmaqh581k90l8k3cbq19cv&ep=v1_gifs_search&rid=200.gif&ct=g)
2.
(https://31.media.tumblr.com/785e3480f46cb09cd8e519134614ed7d/tumblr_nbkqtuVPxF1tcnz5do1_400.gif)
3.
(https://i.redd.it/k8kr0cu1ku5a1.gif)
4.
(https://media1.tenor.com/m/U3QqFdI8svYAAAAC/pulp-fiction-confused.gif)
5. TAC
(https://i.gifer.com/BkG.gif)
6. Indi
(https://media1.tenor.com/m/Omwbapu7yzcAAAAC/red-wine-wine.gif)
7. Stadler
(https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2F1.bp.blogspot.com%2F-zVOp5DlQ2MQ%2FTzO4rBdXZLI%2FAAAAAAAAAt4%2FqwC2MHP-xKA%2Fs1600%2Fapproval-people-clapping.gif&hash=963020f434a7a02858ca060c40e7637822a640ff)
8. loney
(https://media.tenor.com/dShxgN5-NXIAAAAM/peteweber-bowling.gif)
9. Puppies
(https://s11.gifyu.com/images/SgyB2.gif)
10. Shmeggiepoo
(https://media1.tenor.com/m/C9pfqcUxk_IAAAAd/schmidt-crushed-it-schmidt.gif)
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I’m 2.
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Gonna be bold and say 6. :biggrin:
Hope it's not 9.
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Oh boy. I hope mine is Schmidt, but it's probably Golem :lol
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Wait, we’re naming our gifs?
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Wait, we’re naming our gifs?
I mean, you're not. That was a given.
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7
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Wait, we’re naming our gifs?
I mean, you're not. That was a given.
Yeah, I didn’t think mine was Yoda anyway.
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7 or 8?
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Wait, we’re naming our gifs?
I mean, you're not. That was a given.
Yeah, I didn’t think mine was Yoda anyway.
(https://s11.gifyu.com/images/SgyB2.gif)
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Amazingly, all wrong so far.
Wait, we’re naming our gifs?
I mean, you're not. That was a given.
Yeah, I didn’t think mine was Yoda anyway.
That's cuz it's not Yoda, but in a coincidental twist of irony, it *is* your gifpression.
Oh wait... Chris got his impression now!
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Amazingly, all wrong so far.
Wait, we’re naming our gifs?
I mean, you're not. That was a given.
Yeah, I didn’t think mine was Yoda anyway.
That's cuz it's not Yoda, but in a coincidental twist of irony, it *is* your gifpression.
Oh wait... Chris got his impression now!
:rollin crap!
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10?
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I'm 3 baby! :lol
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10?
Nada
I'm 3 baby! :lol
Well yeah, you could be ... but you're not. I'll grant the mercy rule at three failed attempts. You're the lucky #10.
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(https://i.postimg.cc/RFrwNjyN/noice-brooklyn-ninenine.gif) (https://postimages.org/)
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3?
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3?
You don't know the famous Pete Weber celebration?? Such a classic.
https://youtu.be/gKQOXYB2cd8
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6?
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6?
Indeedy!
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7? Or maybe 2 :lol
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Mine's 7
(By the way, is that Elle MacPherson in No. 3?)
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Mine's 7
(By the way, is that Elle MacPherson in No. 3?)
Yes, and yes... a 58 year old Elle MacPherson (if I'm to believe the article I snatched the gif from)!!!
:drool:
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Am I Elle? What a fucking perfect woman.
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Mine's 7
(By the way, is that Elle MacPherson in No. 3?)
Yes, and yes... a 58 year old Elle MacPherson (if I'm to believe the article I snatched the gif from)!!!
:drool:
I'd take a 58 year old Elle over practically any female half her age.
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Personally, I'd go for a 51 year old Sofia Vergara, it's insane how good she looks for her age.
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Personally, I'd go for a 51 year old Sofia Vergara, it's insane how good she looks for her age.
I'll take her too. Yes, she's incredible.
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Put me on team Sofia as well, she can just sit and read the phone book to me...that accent man...
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Put me on team Sofia as well, she can just sit and read the phone book to me...that accent man...
I disagree. She just has to pose and hold the phone book. The second she opens her mouth....ugh.
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Put me on team Sofia as well, she can just sit and read the phone book to me...that accent man...
I disagree. She just has to pose and hold the phone book. The second she opens her mouth....ugh.
Agree. She's sexy as all fuck but that's one thing Im not that fond of either.
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What the fuck is wrong with you two?
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What the fuck is wrong with you two?
I've been trying to work that out for almost 40 years.
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What the fuck is wrong with you two?
I've been trying to work that out for almost 40 years.
Fair enough, I mean I got flaws aplenty, but not appreciating her voice isn't one of them lol
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Am I Elle? What a fucking perfect woman.
Your submission is. The writeup will explain why
Also, Elle's accent > Sofia's. Not that Kade would really know.... "what accent?" :lol
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What the fuck is wrong with you two?
:lol
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Am I Elle? What a fucking perfect woman.
Your submission is. The writeup will explain why
Also, Elle's accent > Sofia's. Not that Kade would really know.... "what accent?" :lol
Yeah, she sounds perfectly normal to me. ;D
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Any form of life in a spectrum between Elle and Sofia could be barking with a Klingon accent and I wouldn't complain.
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Any form of life in a spectrum between Elle and Sofia could be barking with a Klingon accent and I wouldn't complain.
Yep, this is accurate. :lol
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Any form of life in a spectrum between Elle and Sofia could be barking with a Klingon accent and I wouldn't complain.
I think that goes for all of us,
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Any form of life in a spectrum between Elle and Sofia could be barking with a Klingon accent and I wouldn't complain.
I think that goes for all of us,
Yup, I could kling on that!
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Any form of life in a spectrum between Elle and Sofia could be barking with a Klingon accent and I wouldn't complain.
I think that goes for all of us,
Yup, I could kling on that!
Outstanding!
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Tim's on fire!
Just like his score.
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This round is going to wrap up quicker than expected (maybe by the end of the weekend) because 3 (possibly 4) songs aren't getting any more listens. :-[
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Didn't expect my song to be that bad. :lol
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Didn't expect my song to be that bad. :lol
(https://i.imgur.com/XmbqBzV.gif)
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Didn't expect my song to be that bad. :lol
(https://i.imgur.com/XmbqBzV.gif)
I may end up being very glad the two of you shat the bed so biblically quality wise...
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Didn't expect my song to be that bad. :lol
(https://i.imgur.com/XmbqBzV.gif)
I may end up being very glad the two of you shat the bed so biblically quality wise...
I still don't agree, I do like my track a lot.
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Didn't expect my song to be that bad. :lol
(https://i.imgur.com/XmbqBzV.gif)
I may end up being very glad the two of you shat the bed so biblically quality wise...
I still don't agree, I do like my track a lot.
That makes one of us :lol
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Didn't expect my song to be that bad. :lol
(https://i.imgur.com/XmbqBzV.gif)
I may end up being very glad the two of you shat the bed so biblically quality wise...
I still don't agree, I do like my track a lot.
Yeah, I think both of us have blinders on to a degree, but I do legitimately like mine as well. It's certainly a dip from what I normally send, and I wouldn't expect others to like it as much without the context of experiencing it where and when I did, but while it's certainly low-budget, it's clear-sounding and not wildly different from the sort of soloing you get in a lot of prog rock, power metal, and jazz/fusion.
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If by low budget you mean it was recorded from my 7 year old niece's Frozen keyboard onto a cassette, then I agree.
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Man, you shoulda heard some of the stuff I was sent in my roulette.
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Man, you shoulda heard some of the stuff I was sent in my roulette.
If you're insinuating that your submission is better than King Gizzard, then we are gonna fall out.
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Oh, there's definitely worse production than their lo-fi garage aesthetic.
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Didn't expect my song to be that bad. :lol
(https://i.imgur.com/XmbqBzV.gif)
I may end up being very glad the two of you shat the bed so biblically quality wise...
I still don't agree, I do like my track a lot.
That makes one of us :lol
Oof :rollin
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Damn :lol
Ruslan yours is by far the better if the two. Like way, way, way better.
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Damn :lol
Ruslan yours is by far the better if the two. Like way, way, way better.
easily 100 times better.
But 100*0 is still zero.
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Congrats
ariich Ruslan RJ!
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Congrats ariich Ruslan RJ!
If I hadn't been so honest and pointed out early that my song and artist were mixed up in the hangman this round, that'd definitely be the case.
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Ok, who's making the popcorn...
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(https://i.giphy.com/xDoNbo6EFD3JS.webp)
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(https://i.postimg.cc/rmFXb5kD/3799666.webp) (https://postimages.org/)
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Ok, who's making the popcorn...
(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/79/fe/fe/79fefeabd9375804a1d470052454903c.gif)
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Ok... Before Josh/RJ/Ruslan frantically scroll to the bottom to see results, I'll just let you know I'm gonna be a dick and not post the final scores for a couple of hours, just to torment you fuckers a little more ... but more to force you to read the writeups. I will say this though, I listened and rated these songs without doing any calculations of where the intangibles points were setting up the final scores. I didn't want any knowledge of who was gaining/losing ground (or how much) to influence my listening and rating of the quality of these. I didn't know the final scores until about 15 minutes ago.
Litho: Ulrik Lyngs / Vanedisclosurejam
My written first impression was "22,000 big ones!" (for the Cheers fans out there). This is as big a WTF moment as Stadler sending Radiohead - nah, bigger. Hey, if you really like this, all the power to you. I joked last round that RJ's submission was *like* Ross Gellar on the keys… well this sounds EXACTLY as if Ross Gellar had composed and played this. Was this recorded on Windows 3.1 with a MIDI recorder? And the rest of instruments sound like they came from a 6-year-old's toy bin - right from the start with the "cowbell". This guy could've had a career in recording background music for Commodore 64 games - I swear I'm hearing some of the music from Forbidden Forest (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j86veyiIcS8&t=31s) in here. The ONLY mildly enjoyable quality was the 16 seconds of real piano that poked its head up for 15 seconds like a prairie dog at 2:30, said "fuck this shit!", and quickly disappeared again.
You said in your message to me "It doesn't appear that he records music anymore (at least publicly from what I can tell)", and I can only think ... "Thank fucking Christ". The only reason I listened to this more than twice was to make sure I was being accurate with my writeup, and not too harsh. But honestly man, I think you've taken the crown away from Chris as the worst thing I've ever received in a roulette.
Radiohead had 24 seconds of respectable music; this had 16 seconds, so I can't in good conscience rate this higher than Radiohead.
Scores
Quality: 1
Unpredictability: 4.5
Anonymity: 2
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Evermind:Chorny Kofe / Nochnoy jastreb
Dear lord, what's with the tone of the guitar - especially in the intro. I'm surprised Putin hasn't jailed this guy for the crime that this song is. I kept waiting for something to happen. It didn't. What is this, doom-sludge-post-core-alt-blues? The last time you sent a mixed bag of sounds, it clicked. This time, it crashed. The intro did not set the stage well, even though the guitar playing after it was pretty decent, there was something off in the overall sound - I think he was aiming for something in the melanlncholic range, but it was more like a baby with cholic. Sometimes simple works, but simple+plodder+repetition+mediocre production is not a winning formula here. The 2 instances of what I would call a "chorus" (1:13-1:49 and 3:03-3:34) were the closest thing I came to enjoyment during this. The outro solo could have been enjoyable, but the sludge (I can't think of another word to use) of the background rhythm kills it.
Still, it is 3 times better than Litho's submission.
Scores
Quality: 3
Unpredictability: 5
Anonymity: 5
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TAC: Valfreya / Peuple Du Nord
Why, just why? Have I not been clear about my distaste for non-English vocals? The Celtic vibes were kinda cool (I like plenty of folk-rock/folk-metal tunes), and musically this was fairly enjoyable. I'm quite schizophrenic about this song, but the splash of non-English growls in the end push me to leaning on the 'meh' side of things. For me, this would've worked far better as an instrumental. Yes, it's a 'me' thing, but the lyrics really kill my enjoyment of this.
Scores
Quality: 5.5
Unpredictability: 1.5
Anonymity: 1.5
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Puppies: Wilton and Akerstache / Drag Ropes (Chaining My Heart)
Did they hire Litho's guy as a session recorder for the keyboards :lol !?!? There's quite a bit I want to like here, but the production sounds so fucking anorexic - especially the drums … they sound like they were recorded in a 8x8 tin shed. The production wasn't just thin, it made the song borderline unbearable for the first few listens, and I nearly pulled the plug on this one too. There's certain frequencies where the my ears start to feel like they're pulsating (mrs.jingle can often reach that frequency during a … "discussion" :lol), and this song came right up to the line of settling in at that frequency - hence the gifpression. I like the style of this guys voice (except for that final wail); the composition is pretty good; and the riffs are also quite good, but man alive… the sound (and the keyboards)
I really would/could have liked this song if not for the fact it literally was on the verge of hurting my ears towards the end (right after the instrumental breakdown) - and being the longest song of the round didn't help because of that; if they'd wrapped it up using the instrumental section as an outro, I think I could've listened past the awful sound. Good production could've put this into an 8, but I've heard demos on a cassette that sound better than this. I did kinda get 'used' to it after 3-4 listens, but it could've earned such a better score
Scores
Quality: 6.5
Unpredictability: 4
Anonymity: 4.5
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Dr. DTVT: Oceans of Slumber / Pray for Fire
Starts out fine, but the 'distortion' effect in Beverly's voice was a big meh - the vocals were way better once they dropped that. Your streak of connecting me to bands I've heard of but didn't explore ends here - for when the guitars kicked in at 2:20, I lost the plot. Here's an example of how it would help to read the writeups of others' songs - as I've pointed out a my distaste for blast-beat/machine gun kind of sounds (bass or snare) a couple of times already. So A) the lead up into the growls already had me in a bit of a foul mood, and thus the growls didn't connect; and B) that outro (which at first I thought was the start of the next track!) was starting to produce the best part of the track, until they when all doom-metal at 6:15. But Beverly's vocal performance in that final 2 minutes, with the gradual crescendo, was fantastic. Thankfully, for the final 45 seconds, they pushed that machine-gun bass-drum way back in the mix.
Blasty-blast still no clicky-click with me.
Scores
Quality: 6.5
Unpredictability: 0.5
Anonymity: 3.5
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Indiscipline: Marty Friedman / Miracle
Not what I expected out Marty (I've got a couple of his albums, and I think I would expect some shreddery - which does come up in a limited fashion in the 2nd half solo), but naturally, it's amazingly written and performed. At first, I was channelling my inner Shadow Ninja here, and say that the intro really would've been a great way to segue into something lyrical - but then I realized that (like the previous round), it was the axe that was doing all the talking. I knew this one was going to grow on me with repeated listens - and it did once I got over my expectation of Marty melting my face as he so usually does. Couple of bitching guitar solos (one that is paired magnificently with the keys), and drum work that slaps. I really should have more Marty in my library.
Scores
Quality: 8
Unpredictability: 2.5
Anonymity: 2.5
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Wolfking: Winterborn / Lovehunter
And here's an example where weak production can be overcome with a great tune. Dat opening riff :metal. The production sounds dated, but it's not *bad*. This song follows the K.I.S.S. principle again, and it's working for you. This brings me back to the late 80s when I was discovering some lesser known rock bands, and loving the hell out of it - acts like Damn Yankees, Firehouse, Brighton Rock, Winger, Sven Gali, April Wine, Helix and the like.. This could've been something that was heard on a B&B podcast (fuck I miss him/those). Shitballs man, that solo section fucking ripped - the backing rhythm work was just as good as the solo itself. Gave me quit a bit of nostalgia, back to the days when Elle graced the SI Swimsuit cover three years running, and 15-year old me had virtually every image of her pasted inside my school locker.
Scores
Quality: 8
Unpredictability: 3.5
Anonymity: 4
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Stadler: The Firm / Live in Peace
Solid. Rock solid. Like, adamantium solid. Actually, it's fucking balls - best thing you've sent me in this roulette, maybe in any roulette. Naturally, I know of The Firm … Rodgers voice is so distinct and unique. But why-oh-fucking-why didn't I dig in to their albums during the time of their release?!?!? I cannot fathom a reasonable answer - it defies any common sense (;)), but thank you for getting me to rectify this travesty. What a glorious intro. This is how I likes my ballads… glorious amount of foreplay before getting to the meat of the song. The aural sensations from the bass and the strings gives me tingles. And dat solo… well, even I'm impressed with that kind of cheating. As usual, you got hosed with the intangibility points.
Scores
Quality: 8.5
Unpredictability: 1
Anonymity: 1
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Lonestar: Rie a.k.a. Suzaku / Heika Sojo
I hear an ode to The Vapours right out of the gate (not sure if you remember, I sent Turning Japanese to Obscure in her 2nd roulette). And after that, this song left most everything else in it's wake. Great melodies (and I really like the recurring main melody), rich sound, nice mix of pacing and some extracurricular sounds splashed in there, and a nice frantic ending. There's just not a lot more to say, this works on all levels - and you wisely made a selection that left out the non-English lyrics.
Scores
Quality: 9
Unpredictability: 3
Anonymity: 0.5
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King: Surreal / The Journey Begins
Oohh... That's tasty. You have a knack for hitting that keyboard-led prog sweet-spot of mine. I'll never forget the moment you first tickled me there in Roulette v1 with Presto Ballet. This one is invoking some of those same listening feelz. Nice soaring vocal harmonies that accompany them too. Everything just clicks with this track.
Scores
Quality: 9.5
Unpredictability: 2
Anonymity: 3
Final results in a while. I'm sure three or four people will be whipping out their calculators, and get a pen and paper out while scrolling back and forth from the Round 7 standings :lol :lol
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Congrats RJ!
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Oh my....
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Noice. Check out their 1st album. It doesn't disappoint.
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I am very proud of my 7.8 quality average
(https://i.imgur.com/SYpDTq0.jpg)
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I am very proud of my 7.8 quality average
(https://i.imgur.com/SYpDTq0.jpg)
7.9 when rounded up! Which is basically 8. :lol
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I am very proud of my 7.8 quality average
(https://i.imgur.com/SYpDTq0.jpg)
7.9 when rounded up! Which is basically 8. :lol
And 8 rounds to 10! That’s damn impressive.
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Ok... final scores:
Total Round 8:
Wolfking - Winterborn / Lovehunter: 3.5 + 4 + 8 = 15.5
Puppies - Wilton and Akerstache / Drag Ropes (Chaining My Heart): 4 + 4.5 + 6.5 = 15
King - Surreal / The Journey Begins: 2 + 3 + 9.5 = 14.5
Evermind - Chorny Kofe / Nochnoy jastreb: 5 + 5 + 3 = 13
Indiscipline - Marty Friedman / Miracle: 2.5 + 2.5 + 8 = 13
lonestar - Rie a.k.a. Suzaku / Heika Sojo: 3 + 0.5 + 9 = 12.5
Dr. DTVT - Oceans of Slumber / Pray for Fire: 0.5 + 3.5 + 6.5 = 10.5
Stadler - The Firm / Live in Peace: 1 + 1 + 8.5 = 10.5
TAC - Valfreya / Peuple Du Nord: 1.5 + 1.5 + 5.5 = 8.5
Litho - Ulrik Lyngs / Vanedisclosurejam: 4.5 + 2 + 1 = 7.5
Final Quality
1. lonestar - 65
2. King - 65
2. Wolfking - 63.5
4. Indiscipline - 63
5. Dr. DTVT - 62.5
6. Puppies - 58.5
7. Evermind - 58
8. Litho - 57
9. TAC - 56.5
10. Stadler - 55.5
Final Standings:
1. lonestar - 112
2. Evermind - 111.5
3. Litho - 110
4. Wolfking - 109.5
5. TAC - 107
6. Indiscipline - 104.5
7. Dr. DTVT - 102
8. Puppies - 100.5
9. King - 99.5
10. Stadler - 88
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:metal
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I'm not doing that again.
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Congratulations RJ!
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Congrats RJ!
My fatal mistake was thinking that there was a floor of 5 or so for even stuff you didn't really like, and forgetting that Radiohead had scored 2. And for mentally comparing it to other music I've received and heard in general and stupidly thinking that on a linear scale it shouldn't be able to go that low. D'oh! Also for thinking that even though non-DT fans (and even some fans) complain about some of Rudess' playing and sounds, that here would be a less risky place for a less polished version of it. Big miscalculation. :lol
Oh well, I'd have wondered too if I'd sent a more normal song and had it ferreted out right away and lost due to poor intangibles. It was fun playing anyway, albeit kind of stressful and exhausting. ;D
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Yeah, as I said, perhaps I should've judged mediocre songs a little more harshly. Honestly, I can usually find something to enjoy in pretty much any music to make it 'passable', but you and Evermind put that theory to the test this round!
You can at least wear that 'worst song ever sent to jingle.boy' as a badge of honor, stealing that title from Puppies. :mehlin :rollin
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I wish I'd participated to send you The Han-tyumi and the Murder of the Universe Suite now.
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Yeah, as I said, perhaps I should've judged mediocre songs a little more harshly. Honestly, I can usually find something to enjoy in pretty much any music to make it 'passable', but you and Evermind put that theory to the test this round!
You can at least wear that 'worst song ever sent to jingle.boy' as a badge of honor, stealing that title from Puppies. :mehlin :rollin
Aww man! :lol
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Oh and congrats RJ! :metal
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Stadler: The Firm / Live in Peace
Solid. Rock solid. Like, adamantium solid. Actually, it's fucking balls - best thing you've sent me in this roulette, maybe in any roulette. Naturally, I know of The Firm … Rodgers voice is so distinct and unique. But why-oh-fucking-why didn't I dig in to their albums during the time of their release?!?!? I cannot fathom a reasonable answer - it defies any common sense (;)), but thank you for getting me to rectify this travesty. What a glorious intro. This is how I likes my ballads… glorious amount of foreplay before getting to the meat of the song. The aural sensations from the bass and the strings gives me tingles. And dat solo… well, even I'm impressed with that kind of cheating. As usual, you got hosed with the intangibility points.
Scores
Quality: 8.5
Unpredictability: 1
Anonymity: 1
There's a live version on the b-side of the "Radioactive" single that, IMO, is even better.
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While I got eliminated in the preliminaries (I didn't do my homework to know you hated the band so much :lol), it was fun following.
Congrats Lonestar
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haha nice on RJ.
Check out the full album Chad, it's really enjoyable. :metal
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Chris... did Ariich do that to you, or are you doing just to fuck with all of us that have Avatar's on?
P.S. I didn't read all the posts after SN's Round 4 reveal.
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Chris... did Ariich do that to you, or are you doing just to fuck with all of us that have Avatar's on?
P.S. I didn't read all the posts after SN's Round 4 reveal.
:lol
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Chris... did Ariich do that to you, or are you doing just to fuck with all of us that have Avatar's on?
P.S. I didn't read all the posts after SN's Round 4 reveal.
I'm still confused whr they are all Rich even after reading the posts. :lol
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Chris... did Ariich do that to you, or are you doing just to fuck with all of us that have Avatar's on?
P.S. I didn't read all the posts after SN's Round 4 reveal.
I'm still confused whr they are all Rich even after reading the posts. :lol
The hilarious thing is that I think Crow started this. :lol
why is he called shadow ninja 2.0 when he should be ariich 2.0
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Ah ok......that comment was ages ago lol.
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I ganked Rich's swagger once before in roulettemania, and now I've done it again, as his protege, then everyone else got in on the action.
It's like the Sith. There's only ever two. And they both look the same, for some reason. And now there's half a dozen, I guess?
It's pretty simple.
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Yes, yes, let the graphs flow through you.
You are indeed my heir transparent.