The TAC V.6 Helping Ariich With Diaper Duty Roulette (FINAL RESULTS!)

[LithoJazzoSphere]

I've never ran a roulette so I always wonder how hard it is to rate.

Having rated thousands of albums on Rate Your Music, you'd think it gets easier over time, but not really. 

I've been meaning to do one but just haven't had the time to sit down and come up with a system to rank, score and organize. Seems like a lot of work.

It's worth the payoff though.

Yep. 

[TAC]

OK...

Here is who sent what!!


Twosuitsluke: The Black Mages – Force Your Way
Vmadera: Greg Howe – Lucky 7
Reaper: Animals As Leaders – Gordian Naught
Stadler: Trevor Rabin – Through The Tunnel
Puppies: Equilibrium – Mana
Crow: Two Brothers – Wildly Inappropriate
Tomislav: The Sword – Acheron/Unearthing The Orb
Faizeff: Derek Sherinian – Viking Massacre
Romdrums: Closet Disco Queen – Spartacuisse
Kingshmegland: Earthside – Skyline
Lithijazzosphere: Passport – Jadoo
Ariich: Charlie Griffiths – Tiktaalika
Wolfking: Firewind  – The Fire And The Fury
DragonAttack: Stanley Clarke – School Days
Elite: Dvne – Sunset's Grace
Jingle Boy: Nuclear Power Trio – Grab 'Em By The Pyongyang
BuddyHunter: Porcupine Tree – Orchidia
Lonestar: Senri Kawaguchi – Raging Spur

[TAC]

Lithojazzosphere: Passport   Real Old School, and while the horn is featured, it’s the drums that stand out.

This was nice and chunky.

The best part of this was actually the guitarist.

I feel like I’m on an adventure with Link.

I was expecting the worst considering the genre, but it was actually quite enjoyable.

That was extremely melodic.

This had some great drumming, but I don’t remember anything else standing out.

This is sneaky nice.

What is this, the Banana Splits?

Ooh, I hate the tone on this.

Kingshmegland: Earthside   This is easily the best thing you’ve sent so far.

Wolfking: Firewind  Wow, what a great last section.

A little odd and quirky

Parts of this were kind of haunting.

Vmadera: Greg Howe  That bass solo slaps!

Reaper: Animals As Leaders  This needs some melody in the worst way.

This was heavier than I expected in parts

Drive on, pushed to the limit, my Viper King, we’re flying high!

[ReaperKK]

My guess is going to be this:

I was expecting the worst considering the genre, but it was actually quite enjoyabl

or this:

This needs some melody in the worst way

[lonestar]

The best part of this was actually the guitarist.

That was extremely melodic.

This is sneaky nice.

This is easily the best thing you’ve sent so far.


Let's start with these...

[Lonk]

I feel like I’m on an adventure with Link.

I don't know who's this is, but I'm shocked at the reference 

Anyways, is my the Bass Solo slaps!?

[TAC]

My guess is going to be this:

I was expecting the worst considering the genre, but it was actually quite enjoyabl

or this:

This needs some melody in the worst way

Yes!

I feel like I’m on an adventure with Link.

I don't know who's this is, but I'm shocked at the reference 

Anyways, is my the Bass Solo slaps!?

Yes!!!

The best part of this was actually the guitarist.

That was extremely melodic.

This is sneaky nice.

This is easily the best thing you’ve sent so far.


Let's start with these...

0 for 4, brother!

[LithoJazzoSphere]

Real Old School, and while the horn is featured, it’s the drums that stand out.

This one?

Vmadera: Greg Howe  That bass solo slaps!

Oh no, you're being assimilated!      I just can't get used to the "this slaps" and "this fucks" lingo. 

[TAC]

Real Old School, and while the horn is featured, it’s the drums that stand out.

Yes!

[jingle.boy]

Faizeff: Derek Sherinian – Viking Massacre

Faizoff: Animals As Leaders  This needs some melody in the worst way.

[King Postwhore]

This is easily the best thing you’ve sent so far.

[jingle.boy]

This is easily the best thing you’ve sent so far. - This has to be Joe.  I'll bank on it.

[TAC]

Faizeff: Derek Sherinian – Viking Massacre

Faizoff: Animals As Leaders  This needs some melody in the worst way.

 

That's a great gif!

Fixed! 

This is easily the best thing you’ve sent so far.

This is easily the best thing you’ve sent so far. - This has to be Joe.  I'll bank on it.

Yes!!

[faizoff]

Faizeff: Derek Sherinian – Viking Massacre

Faizoff: Animals As Leaders  This needs some melody in the worst way.

Yeah same reaction I had.

I'm guessing these

Ooh, I hate the tone on this.

A little odd and quirky

This was heavier than I expected in parts

[TAC]

I'm guessing these

Ooh, I hate the tone on this.

A little odd and quirky

This was heavier than I expected in parts

0 for 3.

[jingle.boy]

Wow, what a great last section. - Through the Tunnel

Drive on, pushed to the limit, my Viper King, we’re flying high! - did Grab 'em By The Pyongyang remind you of this tune?

[faizoff]

One of these then?

This was nice and chunky.

This is sneaky nice.

[TAC]

One of these then?

This was nice and chunky.

This is sneaky nice.

Nope. You are now 0-5! 

Wow, what a great last section. - Through the Tunnel

Drive on, pushed to the limit, my Viper King, we’re flying high! - did Grab 'em By The Pyongyang remind you of this tune?

Negative!!

[wolfking]

Either.....

Nice and chunky or

What a great last section.

[TAC]

Either.....

Nice and chunky or

What a great last section.

Yes!

[LithoJazzoSphere]

Real Old School, and while the horn is featured, it’s the drums that stand out.

Yes!

Cool, Curt Cress' drumming is definitely one of the things I really like about that song.  I'd say the keyboards are even more featured than saxophone, but maybe you'll mention that in the writeup (or not). 

[TAC]

Real Old School, and while the horn is featured, it’s the drums that stand out.

Yes!

Cool, Curt Cress' drumming is definitely one of the things I really like about that song.  I'd say the keyboards are even more featured than saxophone, but maybe you'll mention that in the writeup (or not).

 

[faizoff]

Nope. You are now 0-5! 

yeah I don't know then. I am like others surprised that you know what a Link is and were able to reference it.

[wolfking]

Either.....

Nice and chunky or

What a great last section.

Yes!

Some shades of Schenker vibes in there too I feel at times.

[Stadler]

Mine:

I feel like I’m on an adventure with Link.

or

Ooh, I hate the tone on this.

[TAC]

Mine:

I feel like I’m on an adventure with Link.

or

Ooh, I hate the tone on this.

Nope and nope!

[Tomislav95]

This was nice and chunky.
?

Even if it is not, it is

[TAC]

This was nice and chunky.
?

Even if it is not, it is

It is!

[TAC]

Lithojazzosphere: Passport   Real Old School, and while the horn is featured, it’s the drums that stand out.

Tomislav: The Sword  This was nice and chunky.

The best part of this was actually the guitarist.

Puppies: Equilibrium  I feel like I’m on an adventure with Link.

I was expecting the worst considering the genre, but it was actually quite enjoyable.

That was extremely melodic.

This had some great drumming, but I don’t remember anything else standing out.

This is sneaky nice.

What is this, the Banana Splits?

Ooh, I hate the tone on this.

Kingshmegland: Earthside   This is easily the best thing you’ve sent so far.

Wolfking: Firewind  Wow, what a great last section.

A little odd and quirky

Parts of this were kind of haunting.

Vmadera: Greg Howe  That bass solo slaps!

Reaper: Animals As Leaders  This needs some melody in the worst way.

This was heavier than I expected in parts

Drive on, pushed to the limit, my Viper King, we’re flying high!

[King Puppies and the Acid Guppies]

Is mine the adventure with Link?

[TAC]

Is mine the adventure with Link?

Yup. I could've sworn I heard an ocarina!

[LithoJazzoSphere]

Give him a few more years and TAC will be stumping even Luke with his pop culture references. 

[TAC]

***UPDATE for 2023 Round!***

Here is my 2023 New Release Worksheet.
This is everything I have sampled up until I started this roulette.  I stopped checking out anything else at that point.

Anything with an asterisk is something that I have Saved on Spotify and would be considered banned!

Anything without an asterisk is not banned.

Top



CLASSIC
Uriah Heep-Chaos And Color*
Immortalizer-Born For Metal
Storms Within-Minds Of The Wicked*
Screamer-Kingmaker
Outcrysis-s/t
Officer X-Hell Is Coming*
Moonscape-The Continuum Synergy-*


HARSH
Pantheon-Empire In Ruin  (TBA)
Ohrima-Catoblepas*
Reverence Of The Martyr-Blood Horizon*
Esoctrilihum-Funeral
Hax Process-The Caverns Of Duat*
Drakwold-Black Moon Falls
Walg-III
Drowning The Light-Hunter Of The Deep
Leper Colony-s/t*
Sysyphus-Absurd
Oak Pantheon-The Absence
Tribunal-The Weight Of Rememberance

MODERN
Dismal-Via Entis (fem)*
Delalma-s/t (Spanish)
Lattermath-Winter's Painting
Dark Princess-Phoenix (fem)
Vale Of Amonition-Immortalizing The Lugubrious, Or Those Of Evolving Despair
Warg-The Endless Travel
Rain-Radio Silence
Methane-Kill It With Fire*
Leaflet-Something Beyond
Hollow Hour-Till The Gray Skies Are Gone*


INSTRUMENTAL
June 1974-Please Destroy Me*


EPs
Median-Roc*
Obituary-My Will To Live
Born A Ghost-Stairway To An Empty Room




This will be added to Reply #3 on the first page.

[Tomislav95]

I have exactly 1 thing to send and you're gonna hate it. You brought it upon yourself

[LithoJazzoSphere]

Gonna be a trickier round regardless, but I've found a few other '23 potentials already, that might appeal to me more than they would to TAC, but hopefully will stumble upon something even better in the next month.