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Hello and welcome to the third edition of my roulette!
Foreword
I’ve ran two of these before, in 2015 and 2016, and both were a lot of fun for me—and hopefully for the participants too—and I’ve discovered a lot of incredible music thanks to you guys. A lot of people who still frequent GMD board and play roulettes were there for my second one, as we had something close to 18 players, later culled down to 12. Now that three years have passed since that, there are a lot of new faces on DTF and in the roulette crowd as well, and I hope you guys will give this one a shot.
That being said, I’ve learned a few lessons from those two roulettes. Last time especially, I was a little too nice to a lot of songs I didn’t end up quite digging, and ended up not quite using a full scale of scoring—probably being too excited for this thing happening so fast after the first one (for those who don’t remember, in 2014/2015 you had to wait for the best part of the year to get to your turn running one of these). The themed rounds were perhaps a little too specific, too.
Roulette Structure and Explanation
Despite the issues above, I felt that format was good, and I didn’t want to modify it too much. The most important part is that I’ll have to be stricter on the songs this time. I feel like this won’t be that much of a problem on my end, but you should know this beforehand. Because of this, there’s no point to compare your song scores with the first two roulettes. I know there was a running joke that anything that’s equal 7.5 and above was “good”, but truth is, almost all the songs ended up getting up 7.5 and above last time. I’ll work on that this time. Which basically means, as Chad is fond of saying, get your big boy pants on and don't be offended with the scores.
Still, there were some problems with the format too. I remember being a bit too music-fatigued for Rounds 5 and 7 (and with the preliminary rounds in last roulette, that made them 7 and 9 respectfully), as they were open and Round 5 also allowed people to send longer songs. To fix this, I’m going to use an optional theme-system for each round of the main competition except the first two; eliminate the rounds with longer length-limits and introduce the special abilities thing which will give people some options; and the final part of the roulette will be changed to the play-off system, which may not be entirely fair, but at least it’s quite interesting to watch and, hopefully, to host. Here’s how it’s going to work in detail, and if you’re too lazy, you can skip this part to the shorter explanation below that (not recommended):
0. Sign-ups
Everyone is welcome to sign-up and play. That means if we get 20 players in the first round, so be it. I don’t really want to turn anyone away, and I’m always bummed when I’m too late to secure a spot in a roulette I really wanted to play in.
Important: the sign-ups will be open until Saturday evening (February 2nd, let's say 11 P.M. GMT).
1. Culling Rounds
The general idea behind those is that I won’t be able to handle 20 players, give or take, for the whole duration of the roulette—that’s simply too much music for me. I commend people who are doing album roulettes, but I don’t think I can digest such a huge amount of content in a week. Unlike my second roulette, this time everyone starts their roulette journey here. There are two culling rounds, and after the second round, the players with the lowest scores are eliminated until only 12 players remain in the competition.
Twist: several invited players will have immunity from being eliminated at this point. Those are either the people I trust enough to know our musical tastes align well, or the people who I’d like to surprise me with the music they’re into. The way the immunity will work depends on the number of players:
- if there are 15 players or fewer, people who have immunity can’t be eliminated after Round 2; the person next to them on the scoreboard is eliminated instead (the amount of players in Round 3 can’t be higher than 12);
- if there are 16 or more players, people who have immunity can’t be eliminated after Round 2 (see above), unless they are in the bottom 3 of the scoreboard, in which case they’re out anyway, immunity be damned;
The scores received in the Culling Rounds will still be counted towards you final score. The players who have immunity don’t know who else has it, and no one knows the exact number of immunity PMs I sent out. That means it’s in your best interests to impress the hell out of me in the first two rounds, just in case the person below you on the scoreboard is immune to elimination.
2. Main Competition
After the eliminations are done, 12 players remain to compete in the roulette. The main competition features five rounds. The rounds are essentially open with a fixed length-limit. However, there will be optional themes provided for each round. After Round 7, the players with the lowest scores are eliminated until only 8 players remain in the competition. Obviously, immunity for the previous eliminations doesn’t work here.
Themes: You can choose to participate in the theme for each particular round. The highest scoring themed song in each round will get an additional point to its score.
3. Play-offs
This is where you face each other. Each round has a specific format to it, which will be explained in a bit. The previous scores factor into the seeding (the 1st place is matched against the 8th place, and so on). The winner of each match-up proceeds to the next round, unless only one participant remains triumphant.
Here’s the short version of what’s written above, with the length limits and optional themes and scoring for each round:
Sign-ups: free for all, everyone who joins before the deadline is in
Culling Rounds:
Round 1: Open Round (length limit: 10 minutes)
Round 2: Open Round (length limit: 10 minutes)
Elimination point: 12 highest-scored players remain, except that may not be quite the case (read the Twist part in section 1)
Main Competition:
Round 3: Open Round w/ optional theme: songs from 2018 (length limit: 10 minutes)
Round 4: Open Round w/ optional theme: ballads (length limit: 10 minutes)
Round 5: Open Round w/ optional theme: songs from before I was born (anything up to February 1993) (length limit: 10 minutes)
Round 6: Open Round w/ optional theme: songs with lead female vocals (length limit: 10 minutes)
Round 7: Open Round w/ optional theme: songs with substantial amount of growls (length limit: 10 minutes)
Play-offs
Round 8: Greatest Hits Round (read below)
Round 9: EP Round (read below)
Round 10: Album Round (read below)
Round Details and Scoring
Rounds 1 – 7 will be scored out of 10. During Rounds 3 – 7, you will be able to get bonus points if you send the best themed song in each Round (1 point for each best song). The scores reset after Round 7, affecting your seeding in the play-offs, and then reset after each Round (classic play-off system)
Round 8 requires each one of 8 remaining participants to send a number of songs from the same band, essentially making it a Greatest Hits compilation. The idea is shamelessly stolen from Puppies’ roulette, only I don’t want it to be too long, so the requirements for this are as follows: all songs should be by the same band, the minimum length of the compilation is 30 minutes, the length limit is 50 minutes, and the songs should come from at least three different albums.
Round 9, aka EP Round, requires each one of 4 remaining participants to make an EP for me. You have to use at least three different artists, and each one should at least feature one full “song” (intros and outros doesn’t count). The minimum length is 30 minutes, the length limit is 40 minutes, as it seems to be standard now. Each EP will be scored out of 20. The flow matters greatly here and will be scored separately out of 5. Stealing this mechanic from Puppies and adapting it for the elimination system, the best EP name from each pair of contestants will earn you an additional 1 point (could be just how the name rolls off the tongue or if it’s tied to some story—in other words, it’s simply the matter which one I’ll like more).
Round 10, aka the Album Round, requires the two remaining participants each to participate in this Best of 3 competition. You have to send three albums for me, either one at a time, or all three in a bunch, specifying the order. The first albums from both of you will clash against each other, and the one I like better will earn you a point. Then the second albums will do the same. Whoever wins two of these album battles, wins the whole roulette (standard Best of 3 system). The length limit for this round is 80 minutes. The albums will be scored out of 10.
Tastes
Well, a good way to measure my tastes is to look at my recent Top 50 list of DTF discoveries (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=53133.0) (also included in “Relevant links” at the end of my post, as well as my first Top 50). But here’s a quick rundown of my favourite bands as of last few years for you if you don’t want to check the Top 50 lists. Draw your own conclusions:
Progressive metal: Ayreon, Beyond the Bridge, Haken, Leprous, Seventh Wonder
Power metal: Avantasia, Kamelot (up to Silverthorn), Blind Guardian, Helloween, Sonata Arctica (up to The Days of Grays, also Pariah’s Child isn’t that bad too)
Classic metal / hard rock: Rainbow (Dio material and 1995, not big on JLT), Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, Scorpions, Primal Fear
Progressive rock: Porcupine Tree/Steven Wilson, Riverside, IQ, Karmakanic, Phideaux
Older progressive rock: Jethro Tull, Marillion (not a big fan of Rush, Genesis or King Crimson)
Acoustic stuff which could also be progressive rock: Mark Knopfler/Dire Straits, Arstidir, Bjorn Riis, iamthemorning
Growls: Agalloch, Opeth, Insomnium, Ne Obliviscaris, Amorphis
Special Abilities
When you receive your PM from me, you also receive your "set" of special abilities. The "set" will usually consist of one or two of them, and you will probably be able to only use one. I won't disclose the actual things the abilities do, although you're welcome to do it in the thread should you so desire. But here are the names:
Time Shift
Alter Reality
Sympathizer
Raise Hell
Steven Wilson's Wave of Depression
Ragequit Generator
Invincible
You Like it Long
Wordsmith
Fall Apart
Those are meant to be a fun addition to the game (well, except the one that grants immunity, which was already written into these rules, so there's that). They may give you an advantage once during the roulette, but that's it: most of these abilities are only usable once.
Other Rules and Information
- Best method of submission is to either provide a file or a YouTube link for the song; failing that, give me the song’s name and I’ll look it up. Do not use Spotify which requires me to use VPN which in turn screws up my mobile phone traffic usage;
- Anything scoring 7 and higher is banned for the rest of roulette;
- Songs (or albums in case of Round 10) by the same band is allowed, but they have to be different ones; reserving bands for future rounds isn’t allowed;
- Everyone has one or two special abilities described in your PM. I tried to make them fun and not gamebreaking, but we’ll see how it goes;
- The special abilities can overrule the rules written in this thread. If in doubt, ask the questions either in thread or via PM;
- I will confirm your participation (and send out your special abilities) via PM. You might have to wait a day for a PM as I'm not very active here when I'm on my phone;
- I probably forgot a bunch of stuff, so I will be adding it as we go along.
Relevant Links
Roulette v1 (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=43194.0)
Roulette v2 (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=45938.0)
Top 50 Albums v1 - Overall (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=43039.0)
Top 50 Albums v2 – DTF Discoveries (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=53133.0)
I think that's about it? Have fun, and let's make it a fantastic experience!
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Play-offs:
Luoto vs. senecadawg2
TAC vs. Indiscipline
Puppies_On_Acid vs. wolfking
LordCost vs. jingle.boy
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Banned list:
I’m probably missing a lot here. I probably forgot to add a lot of things I discovered during these three years. If you see something I sent in other roulettes missing from the list, good chance it’s banned.
If you send me something that isn’t in the banned list but I have, in fact, heard, I'll ask you to resend.
AC/DC
Above Symmetry
Absolute Priority
Accept
Adrenaline Mob
Aerosmith
After Forever
Agalloch
Aina
Airbag
Alice Cooper
All Seeing Eyes
Allen/Lande
Almanac
Alter Bridge
Amadeus Awad / Amadeus Awad’s Eon
Amaranthe
Amaran’s Plight
Ambeon
Amethystium
Amorphis
Anathema
Anciients
Angel Dust
Angra
Anneke van Giersbergen
Anthriel
Anubis Gate
Apocalyptica
Arena
Arion
Arjen Anthony Lucassen
Ark
Arkona
Armageddon
Árstíðir
Artificial Language
Aspera
Astra
Astral Domine
Avantasia
Avatarium
Avenged Sevenfold
Axel Rudi Pell
Ayreon
Balance of Power
Beardfish
Beautiful Sin
Be’lakor
Bent Knee
Beyond The Bridge
Beyond the Black
Big Big Train
Bjorn Riis
Black Fate
Black Sabbath
Blackfield
Blackmore’s Night
Blind Guardian
Bloodbound
Bob Dylan
Bodies of Water
Borealis
Boston
Brand New
Bruce Dickinson
Burial in the Sky
Burnclear
Cain’s Offering
Caligula’s Horse
Cans
Carach Angren
Casualties of Cool
Chronos Zero
Circle II Circle
Circle of Illusion
Circus Maximus
Cloudscape
Coheed and Cambria
Conception
Consortium Project
Countless Skies
Coverdale/Page
Crystal Eyes
Crystal Viper
D.C. Cooper
Damien Rice
Damnation Angels
Dark Tranquillity
Daughter
Dave Kerzner
David Bowie
David Gilmour
David Gray
Day Six
Dead Lord
Dec Burke
Deep Purple
Delain
Demons and Wizards
Derek Sherinian
Destrage
Devin Townsend / Devin Townsend Project / The Devin Townsend Band
DGM
Diablo Swing Orchestra
Diabulus in Musica
Dimension Act
Dio
Dire Straits
Dog Fashion Disco
Dragonforce
Dream Evil
Dream Theater
Dvne
Dynazty
Echo Us
Echoes
Eden Circus
Edenbridge
Edguy
Eluveitie
Elvenking
Emerson, Lake and Palmer
Enbound
Enchant
Ensiferum
Epica
Epysode
Evergrey
Falls of Rauros
Fanticide
Fates Warning
Firewind
Fish
Flaming Row
Floor Jansen and the Metropole Orchestra
Flying Colors
Forgotten Tales
Frequency Drift
Frost*
Galahad
Gamma Ray
Gary Moore
Genesis
Glass Mind
Gleb Kolyadin
Glen Hansard
Goddess of Fate
Golden Resurrection
Green Carnation
Guilt Machine
Haken
HammerFall
Hardline
Headspace
Hear N’ Aid
Heaven and Hell
Heavenly
Helker
Helloween
Hibria
Holy Shire
IQ
iamthemorning
Ian Anderson
Ice Age
Iced Earth
Ihsahn
In the Silence
InnerShine
InnerWish
Intervals
Insomnium
Iron Maiden
Iron Savior
James LaBrie
Jefferson Airplane
Jethro Tull
Joan Baez
John Illsley
John Petrucci
Jon Lord
Jon Oliva’s Pain
Jordan Rudess
Jørn
Jørn Lande & Trond Holte
Journey
Judas Priest
KISS
Kaledon
Kamelot
Kansas
Karmakanic
Karnya
Katatonia
Keplen Ten
King Crimson
Kingcrow
Kiske / Somerville
Klone
Kompendium
Lacuna Coil
Last Tribe / Free Fall / anything from Magnus Karlsson
Led Zeppelin
Lee Abraham
Leonard Cohen
Leprous
Level 10
Leverage
Liquid Tension Experiment
Lonely Robot
Lord
Lost Horizon
Lost in Thought
Ludovico Einaudi
Lunatic Soul
Lyriel
Magnum
Mandroid Echostar
Marillion
Mark Knopfler
Marketa Irglova
Masterplan
Mastodon
Mattador
Mazzy Star
Mechanical Poet
Megadeth
Metallica
Michael Kiske
Midnight & Jon Oliva
Mind Key
MindMaze
Mind’s Eye
Moonspell
Morifade
Mostly Autumn
Muse
My Soliloquy
Myrath
Myrkur
Mystery
Native Construct
Ne Obliviscaris
Neal Morse
Need
Neil Young
Nevermore
Nightingale
Nightwish
Nocturnal Rites
OSI
Oceansize
October Falls
Odd Dimension
Odyssey
Opeth
Orden Ogan
Orphaned Land
Ostura
Ozzy Osbourne
Pain of Salvation
Pandora's Box
Pantommind
Pathosray
Pendragon
Phantasma
Phideaux
Pink Floyd
Place Vendome
Porcupine Tree
Powerworld
Pretty Maids
Primal Fear
Project Creation
Prospekt
Psycrence
Pure Reason Revolution
Pyramaze
Pyramid Theorem
Queen
Queensryche
RPWL
Rainbow
Rage
ReVamp
Redemption
Ring of Fire
Riverside
Robert Wyatt
Roger Waters
Rolling Stones
Roswell Six
Royal Hunt
Rush
Rustfield
Sabaton
Savatage
Saxon
Scorpions
Secret Sphere
Serenity
Serious Black
Seven Kingdoms
Seventh Wonder
Shadow Circus
Shadow Gallery
Shattered Skies
Shooting Star
Sieges Even
Silent Force
Silent Memorial
Slipknot
Soen
Sonata Arctica
Soulspell
Speaking to Stones
Spock’s Beard
Star One
Steam Powered Giraffe
Steve Hackett
Steven Wilson
Sting
Storm Corrosion
Stormwarrior
Strapping Young Lad
Stratovarius
Stream of Passion
Structural Disorder
Subsignal
Sufjan Stevens
Sunburst
Sun Caged
Susanne Sundfor
Suspyre
Swans
Sylvan
Symphony X
Synaesthesia
System of a Down
Tarja Turunen
Tarot
Telergy
Temperance
Ten
Teramaze
TesseracT
Thank You Scientist
The Answer
The Antlers
The Aristocrats
The Beatles
The Chronicles Project
The Dear Hunter
The Doors
The Faceless
The Flower Kings
The Gathering
The Gentle Storm
The Mayan Factor
The National
The Paralydium Project
The Smiths
The Tallest Man on Earth
The Tea Party
The Unity
The Who
The Wishing Tree
Theocracy
Thought Chamber
Thoughts Factory
Threshold
Thrice
Thunderstone
Tiles
Timo Tolkki’s Avalon
Toehider
Tool
Tori Amos
Trail of Murder
Trans-Siberian Orchestra
Transatlantic
Triosphere
Triumph
Tuomas Holopainen
UFO
Ultar
Unisonic
Van Canto
Van Halen
Vanden Plas
Vandroya
Vanishing Point
Vision Divine
W.A.S.P.
While Heaven Wept
Whitesnake
Wilderun
Wind Rose
Wintersun
Wishbone Ash
Within Temptation
Wolverine
Yanni
Yes
Yngwie Malmsteen
Solstafir
Anabasis
The Michael Schenker Group
Lords of Black
BADBADNOTGOOD
Woods of Ypres
Spandau Ballet
Thumpermonkey
Communic
Rishloo
Goldfrapp
Atlantean Kodex
Scar Symmetry
Oh Hiroshima
Talisman
Damnation's Day
The Ocean
Lost Domain
The Windmill
Fireproven
Cosmo Sheldrake
Eastern High
Starsailor
Phoebe Bridgers
Celesty
Sons of Seasons
Dreyelands
The Protomen
Barren Earth
Waysted
Running Wild
Blessed by a Broken Heart
Skid Row
Cloud Cult
Mike Oldfield
Jinjer
Indica
Ethernity
Soilwork
Eternal Tears of Sorrow
Daydream XI
Equilibrium
Euphoreon
Wormwood
Manfred Mann's Earth Band
Cigarettes After Sex
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I definitely don't have time to read the huge OP right now but I'm very in, ready to be kicked out in the first culling round again :metal
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I’m ready to send harsh noise.
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I'm sending exclusively native construct in rounds 1 thru 7
And my greatest hits album will be, of course, djent
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I'm going on vacation in a couple of weeks so I will sit this one out, but I will be following.
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Sign me up.
Is the sign-up deadline for real? That's almost 5 weeks away.
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Nah, for some reason I thought it's February already. :lol Should be good now.
I'll send your PM tomorrow, already turned off my PC so I can't access the ability list.
Parama and Elite, you should have your PMs in.
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I'm in if you'll have me.
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I won't be able to read the long post until later, but it's been a while and I'd like to give it a go.
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I'm ready to lose to Seneca.
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EDIT: Wait. Just perused ban list. I am fucked. I'm gonna spectate this one. I need time to look into all my roulette findings anyway :lol
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I'm ready to lose to Seneca everybody.
I'm in Ruslan!
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I'm ready to lose to Seneca everybody.
(https://media.tenor.com/images/e75b82c6e75e2f03c97d4c48c54004db/tenor.gif)
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Even though I'm typing this with my make-up still on, I really want to find the time fo this.
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I think I'll play, haven't done one of these on a while (and it's only going to be two rounds for me anyway :P).
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Even though I'm typing this with my make-up still on
Trying to grease the host already?
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:jessica:
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I'm ready to lose to Seneca.
Yeah right lol, I've been listening to nothing but Bob Dylan since the last time I played in a roulette.
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- reserving bands for future rounds isn’t allowed;
This rule is definitely because of me :biggrin:
That said, I'm totally in, if you'll have me. :corn
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EDIT: Wait. Just perused ban list. I am fucked. I'm gonna spectate this one. I need time to look into all my roulette findings anyway :lol
Come on, it's not that bad. Fairly sure Puppies had more bands on his list.
- reserving bands for future rounds isn’t allowed;
This rule is definitely because of me :biggrin:
That said, I'm totally in, if you'll have me. :corn
There's also a special ability that's there because of you. :biggrin:
That's 10 people in already, looks good. :tup I'll send out the PMs this evening.
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I fear that I might end up sending the same stuff I've sent in other roulettes and I don't want to be 'that guy' :lol but since you called me out I'm obliged to. Game on! Ready to get the boot.
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I'll give this a try if you'll have me :P
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I've never done this and after seeing the banned list I have only boring music left to send, but if you will have me, I'm ready to play the first two rounds.
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Added you guys, that makes it 13 people. :tup
I've never done this and after seeing the banned list I have only boring music left to send, but if you will have me, I'm ready to play the first two rounds.
Who knows, maybe you'll do well!
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Yeah, maybe. But if I go out early I can at least say "I told you so!". :biggrin:
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I've never done this and after seeing the banned list I have only boring music left to send, but if you will have me, I'm ready to play the first two rounds.
Glad to have you in one of these. You might just surprise yourself once you really start comparing your library against the banned list (and this goes for Katt too). There's invariably 10 excellent bands/songs in your grasp that aren't banned.
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I don't have time and am kind of over roulettes but fuck it. No thought will be going into this but count me in.
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(https://i.imgflip.com/20ofu3.jpg)
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I've never done this and after seeing the banned list I have only boring music left to send, but if you will have me, I'm ready to play the first two rounds.
Glad to have you in one of these. You might just surprise yourself once you really start comparing your library against the banned list (and this goes for Katt too). There's invariably 10 excellent bands/songs in your grasp that aren't banned.
Yes, it's all stupid banter. When I play, I play to win, so beware. ;)
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I've never done this and after seeing the banned list I have only boring music left to send, but if you will have me, I'm ready to play the first two rounds.
Glad to have you in one of these. You might just surprise yourself once you really start comparing your library against the banned list (and this goes for Katt too). There's invariably 10 excellent bands/songs in your grasp that aren't banned.
And, at least for me, playing in roulettes often makes me rediscover awesome stuff I hadn't listened to in a while, especially when all the obvious choices are already banned.
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Can I send songs in german?
Ok, obviously I can send what I want, but would you listen to them?
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Can I send songs in german?
Ok, obviously I can send what I want, but would you listen to them?
In theory, I'm not opposed to the songs in different languages. Something like this is great:
Árstíðir - Síðasta kveðjan (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0wg0F6sJ0A)
However, if I happen to not like your song, the non-English language may work against it. Overall though, I haven't had enough experience with songs in other languages to really say. It may work, it may not. I definitely would listen to them though.
Working on those PMs now.
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All 14 people signed up so far should have their PMs in. While the signups are still open, you can already submit for the first round if you feel like it. The official start of the Round 1 is on Saturday while we're waiting for other participants.
Ostura and Pyramaze were added to the banned list, thanks Chad.
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I'm gonna send native construct
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I'm gonna send native construct
:facepalm:
Added it to the banned list! One of my favourite bands tbh.
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Just asking (and there is no preferred answer) but "Banned bands" are banned outright, correct? It's not a matter of finding a song you've never heard before?
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Correct.
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I'm really excited about my special ability!
I'll try to send my first song in the next couple days. What's the best way to send files, if we prefer to do so?
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My abilities are dope and my songs shall be of equivalent dopeness.
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Cheffy-poo sends his regrets that he hasn't signed up yet. Count him in.
Seriously... we were just FB'g. He's busy killing animals and making them taste good.
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Are we PMing, or can we email you a file? Is WMA okay for the file type?
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The Hoser is correct, I'm in. Not sure what I got left in my bag of tricks to send ya but I'll do my damnest
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Are we PMing, or can we email you a file? Is WMA okay for the file type?
Either is fine, I think you should have my email address from the last time, but if not let me know. WMA is okay.
The Hoser is correct, I'm in. Not sure what I got left in my bag of tricks to send ya but I'll do my damnest
:tup I'll send you a PM this evening.
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The Hoser is correct, I'm in. Not sure what I got left in my bag of tricks to send ya but I'll do my damnest
(https://i.imgflip.com/1a0zma.jpg)
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First of all this roulette sounds wicked fun. I love crazy stuff like this. Second, I really want to go my (personal) 'tried and true' artists, but I also want to go completely off the walls. Hard deciding where to even start.
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Ok, I need to really look over the banned list and come up with a game plan. :corn
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Are we PMing, or can we email you a file? Is WMA okay for the file type?
Either is fine, I think you should have my email address from the last time, but if not let me know. WMA is okay.
The Hoser is correct, I'm in. Not sure what I got left in my bag of tricks to send ya but I'll do my damnest
:tup I'll send you a PM this evening.
Sounds good. Your banned list is very impressive mate
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Sent. Yep, you better believe it.
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Sent. Had to make a positively difficult decision :P
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Sent.
Now we play the waiting game ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JVNMmsN3Co (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JVNMmsN3Co)
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Sent something cute
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Sent. :corn
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I shall get to it later tonight. Was focused on Stads' and Katt's submissions yesterday.
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i ain't even thinking about this one until friday because it's not like i need to :metal
i might just yolo send some crap and get eliminated, you know, the usual
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Sent something cute
Sent. :corn
Sorry, but you guys need to resend, already familiar with both artists.
The rest of you folks who sent something, you're good.
RJ, your PM is coming in an hour or so.
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Second attempt sent
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I'm in.
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I may join but I'll decide after I finish my concept album for Puppies.
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I'll try to send tonight. Might need to go with something safe to get through the culling..
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Second attempt sent
It's not banned, but see PM.
I'm in.
You sure are! PM incoming.
I may join but I'll decide after I finish my concept album for Puppies.
One of my main expectations was to have you and Katt and Puppies playing in this one, actually. ;) It's up to you to decide though.
There's no rush with submissions so far, take your time, think of your strategy and so on.
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Very much interested to hear what the Ragequit Generator ability does.
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I'm gonna straight up tell you it's pretty much useless :P
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I'm gonna straight up tell you it's pretty much useless :P
See, I was thinking that it would be something like if you get the lowest score in one of the culling rounds, you actually fast-track to the finals. :lol
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I'm gonna straight up tell you it's pretty much useless :P
...if your nickname is Parama.
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It's literally useless though
I'm not gonna elaborate on just how useless it is but you should know I have no intention of using it and it seems more like a hindrance than anything beneficial too, lol
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I'll say this: it was designed as a meme-ability at first, and it may indeed look pretty useless with the description you've got.
you should know I have no intention of using it and it seems more like a hindrance than anything beneficial too, lol
Well, you aren't compelled to use any of your abilities. They're more of an addition to the usual roulette mechanics. It's entirely possible to win only by sending good songs.
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I'll say this: it was designed as a meme-ability at first, and it may indeed look pretty useless with the description you've got.
you should know I have no intention of using it and it seems more like a hindrance than anything beneficial too, lol
Well, you aren't compelled to use any of your abilities. They're more of an addition to the usual roulette mechanics. It's entirely possible to win only by sending good songs.
You know who you're quote-responding to, right?
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Third times a charm.
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Haha, sending good songs in an evermind roulette, that's funny :jamaritard:
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I may join but I'll decide after I finish my concept album for Puppies.
One of my main expectations was to have you and Katt and Puppies playing in this one, actually. ;) It's up to you to decide though.
There's no rush with submissions so far, take your time, think of your strategy and so on.
I'm very flattered! The banned list seems daunting at a quick glance, but hopefully I'll find enough material. Can you erase Katatonia and Wolverine from your memory? :P
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I may join but I'll decide after I finish my concept album for Puppies.
One of my main expectations was to have you and Katt and Puppies playing in this one, actually. ;) It's up to you to decide though.
There's no rush with submissions so far, take your time, think of your strategy and so on.
I'm very flattered! The banned list seems daunting at a quick glance, but hopefully I'll find enough material. Can you erase Katatonia and Wolverine from your memory? :P
More daunting than my banned list?
By the way, resent.
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I may join but I'll decide after I finish my concept album for Puppies.
One of my main expectations was to have you and Katt and Puppies playing in this one, actually. ;) It's up to you to decide though.
There's no rush with submissions so far, take your time, think of your strategy and so on.
I'm very flattered! The banned list seems daunting at a quick glance, but hopefully I'll find enough material. Can you erase Katatonia and Wolverine from your memory? :P
More daunting than my banned list?
I only glanced at his, so I'm not sure. But you didn't have Voyager banned, and I was excited to send them. So that kind of made me sign up right away and then I started to realize my options were somewhat limited. :)
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I may join but I'll decide after I finish my concept album for Puppies.
One of my main expectations was to have you and Katt and Puppies playing in this one, actually. ;) It's up to you to decide though.
There's no rush with submissions so far, take your time, think of your strategy and so on.
I'm very flattered! The banned list seems daunting at a quick glance, but hopefully I'll find enough material. Can you erase Katatonia and Wolverine from your memory? :P
More daunting than my banned list?
I only glanced at his, so I'm not sure. But you didn't have Voyager banned, and I was excited to send them. So that kind of made me sign up right away and then I started to realize my options were somewhat limited. :)
I did this a few times with Beyond the Bridge. :lol
If you guys want, we can do a mini-hangman featuring rejected songs, there are four so far (well, one wasn't technically rejected, but still).
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I'm always wary when I expect the person to have heard an artist before but it isn't banned, so I'm curious to see whether Voyager does well (or was Voyager one of the rejected submissions?)
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I'm always wary when I expect the person to have heard an artist before but it isn't banned, so I'm curious to see whether Voyager does well (or was Voyager one of the rejected submissions?)
It wasn't! Voyager is fair game I think, I don't know them very well, although I know a few songs.
With 10 songs in, I'm about to cautiosly start listening to some of the stuff you guys sent me. Despite the fact the deadline for signing up is Feb 2nd, I want to start listening earlier so I can maintain a good pace. I'm aiming for results to be posted next Thursday at the latest, with a very real possibility of them coming earlier than that.
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And with that - sent. No one will ever be able to guess it in hangman.
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And with that - sent. No one will ever be able to guess it in hangman.
Evermind could.
Wait...
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Everyone will be able to guess mine in hangman
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Sent. Obvious as only Stadler can be.
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Sent. Obvious as only Stadler can be.
You know that Kiss is banned? ;D
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Your ban list mirrors my library. This is gonna be a tough one, I figure I got maybe 30 bands you don't.
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In a dramatic turn of events, I just sent.
This submission is either putting me on your ignore list to kingdom come and back or projecting me to ultimate victory, no middle ground.
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Already have three songs with growls and I haven't even listened to Parama's song yet! :lol
I know the sign-ups are open till tomorrow evening, but at the same time I'm fairly sure everyone who wanted to sign-up are in already, which is why I ask folks who hasn't sent anything yet (I'll send you a reminder in PM) to send me something as soon as possible. I've already started listening to what I have, and I'd love to post first impressions and start the hangman on Sunday morning.
So far, this round is... interesting.
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Sorry buddy, I don't mean to be a hypocrite and keep you waiting, I was planning to send tonight after work since the signups end tomorrow. You'll have mine once I'm back home cause I know roughly what I want to send :)
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Sorry buddy, I don't mean to be a hypocrite and keep you waiting, I was planning to send tonight after work since the signups end tomorrow. You'll have mine once I'm back home cause I know roughly what I want to send :)
As long as you get your song in the next 36 hours, you're good. That was just a friendly reminder in advance.
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Already have three songs with growls and I haven't even listened to Parama's song yet! :lol
Mine has (1) growl tho it barely counts
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Sent some jazz.
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Sent a better headbanger than any of ya'll :2metal:
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I know the sign-ups are open till tomorrow evening, but at the same time I'm fairly sure everyone who wanted to sign-up are in already
Yeah I just don't have it in me to do a roulette right now. I might end up skipping Parama and Sacul as well, not sure yet.
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my roulette is gonna be the EP roulette so if you don't have the energy for this roulette i highly doubt you'll have it for mine :-[
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I know the sign-ups are open till tomorrow evening, but at the same time I'm fairly sure everyone who wanted to sign-up are in already, which is why I ask folks who hasn't sent anything yet (I'll send you a reminder in PM) to send me something as soon as possible.
I am the last minute addition you did not expect. Already sent the PM with the song. Just saw the thread yesterday!
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I know the sign-ups are open till tomorrow evening, but at the same time I'm fairly sure everyone who wanted to sign-up are in already, which is why I ask folks who hasn't sent anything yet (I'll send you a reminder in PM) to send me something as soon as possible.
I am the last minute addition you did not expect. Already sent the PM with the song. Just saw the thread yesterday!
And I'm happy to have you on board!
I know the sign-ups are open till tomorrow evening, but at the same time I'm fairly sure everyone who wanted to sign-up are in already
Yeah I just don't have it in me to do a roulette right now. I might end up skipping Parama and Sacul as well, not sure yet.
Yeah, I was wondering if you were going to join. Fair enough.
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Now that I'm pretty sure everyone who wanted to be in are in, how about I subvert the expectations and fire up the first impressions and hangman today instead of tomorrow?
Surprisingly engaging, even with my recent lack of enthusiasm for this particular kind of music.
This is probably what would’ve happened if Artificial Language decided to create a softer and happier album.
This is exactly the song I expected from Elite. Except his song is also exactly what I expected from him.
Reminds me of The Gift of Music somehow, and I don’t like The Gift of Music.
Jornless Avantasia meets Magnus Karlsson-like songwriting, a curious combination.
Agalloch meets a singer who caught a cold and wants to be anywhere except this studio.
Blind Guardian meets Blind Guardian. Hilarious album artwork too.
I think I have diabetes now, thanks.
The band’s name rivals Giraffes? Giraffes! and I can’t say anything about the music because I haven’t heard a single song by Giraffes? Giraffes!
You definitely would’ve been better off with the rejected song.
Probably the most straightforward song of the round. The vocal effects remind me of latest Dream Theater songs.
Probably one of the most complex songs of the round, as I don’t remember anything from my first listen.
A slower Katatonia-like vibe in the chorus, I like it.
Was this djent? I think it was.
There always was a brilliant song or two in Round 1 in my first two roulettes that applied to my tastes so well it might’ve as well been the definition of them at the time. It’s too early to tell, but I feel like this one might just be that kind of song.
This is exactly why I was so excited that you joined this roulette.
It’s as if the band had a bet with someone to write a song with vocal melodies no one will ever remember.
Things like this will never stop reminding me why the music is the form of art I adore the most.
The link in Roulette Tracker Thread for hangman program doesn't work, so I guess I'll have to run this manually. Have fun!
???: _____ - _______ ______
???: _____ ________ - _____ __ _____'_ _____
???: _______ - _____ ____
???: ____ ____ - ______ __ _______
???: ______ ______ - ____ ____
???: _____ - _____ __________'_ _______
???: _____________ - ___________
???: ________ - _____ _________ ________
???: _____________ - _____
???: ___ _______ ________ _____ - ______ ____
???: __ - ___ ___ ________
???: _______ ______ - _______ ___ __________
???: ___ ______ ______ - ______
???: _______ ___ - __ ____ _______ ___ _____
???: _____ __ _____ - _____ __ ___
???: _____ __ _____ - _ _______ _____ ___ ____
???: _________ - _________
???: _______ ___ ___ - __________
Bonus hangman (rejected songs):
???: ___________ - _____ __ ___________
???: _________ - ____ ___
???: ___ _____ - __________
???: _______ - ________ ________ _________
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S
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Fuck, I pre-typed the updated hangman with D. Now I've got to change it, why would you do this to me, man. :lol Give me a few minutes.
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???: ____s - S____s_ S_____
???: S____ ________ - _____ __ S____'s ____s
???: _______ - ___s_ ____
???: ____ ____ - _____s __ _______
???: S_____ _____s - ____ ___s
???: _____ - _____ __________'s _______
???: _____________ - _____ss___s
???: _____s_s - _____ S________ ____s___
???: _____________ - _____
???: ___ _______ S_______ _____ - __s___ S___
???: __ - ___ ___ ________
???: S______ ______ - _______ ___ _________s
???: ___ ___s__ ______ - ______
???: _______ ___ - __ ____ _______ ___ _____
???: ____s __ _____ - ___s_ __ ___
???: ____s __ ____s - _ _______ _____ ___ ____
???: S__s_____ - _________
???: S______ ___ S__ - _________s
Bonus hangman (rejected songs):
???: ___________ - S____ __ ___________
???: ________s - ____ ___
???: ___ S____ - __________
???: S_s____ - ________ ________ ________s
Guessed letters: S
Kattelox waits 8 because he guessed the wrong letter
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The link in Roulette Tracker Thread for hangman program doesn't work
Sacul mentioned updating it, so I guess he deleted the older version which was linked in the thread.
I'll take L.
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???: ___ls - S____s_ S_____
???: S_e_e L_____e_ - _____ __ S____'s ____s
???: _____e_ - ___s_ __le
???: _e__ ____ - ___e_s __ ______e
???: S____e _____s - E__l E_es
???: __ll_ - _____ E_e_______'s _e__e__
???: _____________ - ____ess___s
???: _____s_s - _____ S___e____ _ll_s___
???: _____e_____e_ - _el__
???: ___ _____el S__e__e_ _____ - _ese__ S___
???: __ - ___ __e __e_____
???: S______ __lle_ - _______ __e ________es
???: ___ ___s__ E__e__ - ______
???: ______e _e_ - __ __l_ _______ __e _____
???: L___s __ _l___ - ___s_ __ ___
???: ____s __ ___es - _ _ee____ _l__e ___ ___e
???: S_ls_____ - _________
???: S__ll__ ___ S__ - ___el____s
Bonus hangman (rejected songs):
???: __ll_______ - S___e __ _e_e______e
???: _____e__s - __e_ E_e
???: ___ S____ - ____e_____
???: S_s___e - __l_____ ________ ___e_e__s
Guessed letters: SLE
Kattelox waits 10 because he guessed the wrong letter
Bolsters waits 30 because he's not playing in the roulette
jingle.boy waits 3 because he's a fine gentleman
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E
I can safely rule out quite a few of the impressions, and will be cautiously optimistic that my track is one of the remaining 'positive' impressions.
If the 'diabetes' comment is because of the cheese, that's Katt's. :rollin
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Updated above, that's about it for the hangman updates for now. Next update will happen in ~8 hours.
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I guess the comment about me isn’t about me :biggrin:
Also: D
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Okay hell, it's not like I can refuse you the D, right? But that's certainly the last update for the next few hours.
???: ___ls - S____s_ S_____
???: Steve Lukather - _____ __ S____'s ____s
???: _____e_ - ___s_ __le
???: _e__ ____ - ___e_s __ ______e
???: S____e _____s - E__l E_es
???: __ll_ - _____ E_e_______'s _e__e__
???: __D__D______D - ____ess___s
???: _____s_s - _____ S___e____ _ll_s___
???: _____e_____e_ - _eld_
???: __e _____el S__e__e_ _____ - Dese__ S___
???: __ - ___ __e __e_____
???: S___d__ __lle_ - _______ __e _______des
???: ___ ___s__ E__e__ - _____d
???: ______e _e_ - __ __l_ _______ __e _____
???: L__ds __ _l___ - ___s_ __ ___
???: ___ds __ ___es - _ _ee____ _l__e ___ ___e
???: Sólstafir - Miðaftann
???: S__ll__ __e S__ - ___el____s
Bonus hangman (rejected songs):
???: __ll______d - S___e __ _e_e______e
???: _____e__s - __e_ E_e
???: D__ S____ - ____e_____
???: S_s___e - __l_____ _______d ___e_e__s
Guessed letters: SLED
Kattelox waits 11 because he guessed the wrong letter
Bolsters waits 45 because he's not playing in the roulette
jingle.boy waits 2 because he's a fine gentleman
Elite waits
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Steve Lukather
Sólstafir - Miðaftann
(Also, at least one E is missing)
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Correct, correct, and fixed.
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jingle.boy waits 2 because he's a fine gentleman
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If the 'diabetes' comment is because of the cheese, that's Katt's. :rollin
WRONG, motherfucker! HAH! :biggrin: Mine is the Blind Guardian one. No ifs ands or buts about it.
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Foals - Spanish Sahara
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Oh and the Luke track is Party in Simon's Pants. Who sent that one, certainly an interesting Luke choice :lol
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Bringing hangman to this page:
???: Foals - Spanish Sahara
???: Steve Lukather - Party in Simon's Pants
Lethean: Voyager - Ghost Mile
???: _e__ ____ - ___e_s __ ______e
???: S____e _____s - Evil Eyes
???: __ll_ - _____ E_e_______'s _e__e__
???: __D__D______D - ____ess___s
???: _____s_s - _____ S___e____ _ll_s___
???: _____e_____e_ - _eld_
???: __e _____el S__e__e_ _____ - Dese__ S___
???: __ - ___ __e __e_____
???: S___d__ __lle_ - _______ __e _______des
???: ___ ___s__ E__e__ - _____d
???: ______e _e_ - __ __l_ _______ __e _____
jingle.boy: Lords of Black - ___s_ __ ___
???: ___ds __ ___es - _ _ee____ _l__e ___ ___e
???: Sólstafir - Miðaftann
???: Swallow the Sun - ___el____s
Bonus hangman (rejected songs):
???: Gallowbraid - S___e __ _e_e______e
???: _____e__s - __e_ E_e
???: Dan Swanö - Uncreation
???: Suspyre - __l_____ _______d ___e_e__s
Guessed letters: SLED
Kattelox waits 11 because he guessed the wrong letter
Bolsters waits 45 because he's not playing in the roulette
jingle.boy waits 2 because he's a fine gentleman
Elite waits
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Looks like Gallowbraid and Suspyre in the rejected songs.
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I see Swallow the Sun, but don't know any of their tunes.
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Lords of Black - J Boy
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Lords of Black - J Boy
YEEEEEEEEEEEAH!
Everything else is also correct.
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T
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Lethean sent Voyager - Ghost Mile. Hope that one scores super high, it is a stunning song imo.
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I see a song called Evil Eyes.
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I see a song called Evil Eyes.
:alwayswatching:
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Damn, I really wanted to send Swallow the Sun. Hopefully the comment about Agalloch singer catching a cold applies to that song and I've dodged a bullet.
:caffeine:
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Did Indiscipline send Steve Lukather? Party In Simon's Pants sounds like a song he would send. :D
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Is one of the rejected songs Uncreation by Dan Swanö?
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give me the I
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T
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A lot of the comments can't apply to my song, but I still don't have an idea which one could be mine.
And I assume we don't spoil the songs we send and leave it up to the others to guess?
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Jingle apparently knows nothing about diabetes. :)
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Lethean sent Voyager - Ghost Mile. Hope that one scores super high, it is a stunning song imo.
Yes yes it is.
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I must be the only person who was completely underwhelmed by that album..
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Jingle apparently knows nothing about diabetes. :)
Copious amounts of cheese can lead to excessive weight gain, and thus type-2 diabetes.
I must be the only person who was completely underwhelmed by that album..
You're not.
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I must be the only person who was completely underwhelmed by that album..
You're not.
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I must be the only person who was completely underwhelmed by that album..
You're not.
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I must be the only person who was completely underwhelmed by that album..
oh absolutely not, it's boring as piss
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The link in Roulette Tracker Thread for hangman program doesn't work
Sacul mentioned updating it, so I guess he deleted the older version which was linked in the thread.
Oops, sorry about that, I'll post an updated version soon :P
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Jingle apparently knows nothing about diabetes. :)
Copious amounts of cheese can lead to excessive weight gain, and thus type-2 diabetes.
Yeah... But that's a stretch. :P
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Surprisingly engaging, even with my recent lack of enthusiasm for this particular kind of music.
This is exactly the song I expected from Elite. Except his song is also exactly what I expected from him.
Reminds me of The Gift of Music somehow, and I don’t like The Gift of Music.
Probably one of the most complex songs of the round, as I don’t remember anything from my first listen.
Was this djent? I think it was.
There always was a brilliant song or two in Round 1 in my first two roulettes that applied to my tastes so well it might’ve as well been the definition of them at the time. It’s too early to tell, but I feel like this one might just be that kind of song.
This is exactly why I was so excited that you joined this roulette.
It’s as if the band had a bet with someone to write a song with vocal melodies no one will ever remember.
Things like this will never stop reminding me why the music is the form of art I adore the most.
narrowed down the list of snippets that could conceivably be mine
so it's probably the djent comment
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The band’s name rivals Giraffes? Giraffes! and I can’t say anything about the music because I haven’t heard a single song by Giraffes? Giraffes!
This is exactly why I was so excited that you joined this roulette.
Things like this will never stop reminding me why the music is the form of art I adore the most.
I think it's very likely my song is the first snippet, although I'd love it to be the other two :lol
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R
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I have no idea what snippet is mine.
O
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This is without a doubt my snippet :(
You definitely would’ve been better off with the rejected song.
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Y'all are crazy. Ghost Mile is easily my second favorite Voyager album. Seeing the title track live was almost a religious experience.
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Y'all are crazy. Ghost Mile is easily my second favorite Voyager album.
So you're saying it's the cream of the crap.
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Nah jingle, they've got some great albums. Ghost Mile just didn't stroke me.
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Did Indiscipline send Steve Lukather? Party In Simon's Pants sounds like a song he would send. :D
That's absolutely a song I would (and should) send!
But I sent diabetes.
H?
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Y'all are crazy. Ghost Mile is easily my second favorite Voyager album.
So you're saying it's the cream of the crap.
I am so triggered right now.
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Y'all are crazy. Ghost Mile is easily my second favorite Voyager album.
So you're saying it's the cream of the crap.
I am so triggered right now.
Go relax to some Type O Negative :biggrin:
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Y'all are crazy. Ghost Mile is easily my second favorite Voyager album.
So you're saying it's the cream of the crap.
I am so triggered right now.
I gotta side with jingle on this one, I just don't get Voyager.
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Y'all are crazy. Ghost Mile is easily my second favorite Voyager album.
So you're saying it's the cream of the crap.
I am so triggered right now.
I gotta side with jingle on this one, I just don't get Voyager.
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:tup
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Parama: The Hirsch Effekt - Cotard
Looking forward to the write-up to this :D
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i mean it's not the first time ev's listened to the hirsch effekt
i sent holon anamnesis in the weekly album thread and he listened to that one :P
plus there's one (1) growl
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Voyager rules.
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Surprisingly engaging, even with my recent lack of enthusiasm for this particular kind of music.
This is exactly the song I expected from Elite. Except his song is also exactly what I expected from him.
Reminds me of The Gift of Music somehow, and I don’t like The Gift of Music.
Probably one of the most complex songs of the round, as I don’t remember anything from my first listen.
Was this djent? I think it was.
There always was a brilliant song or two in Round 1 in my first two roulettes that applied to my tastes so well it might’ve as well been the definition of them at the time. It’s too early to tell, but I feel like this one might just be that kind of song.
This is exactly why I was so excited that you joined this roulette.
It’s as if the band had a bet with someone to write a song with vocal melodies no one will ever remember.
Things like this will never stop reminding me why the music is the form of art I adore the most.
narrowed down the list of snippets that could conceivably be mine
so it's probably the djent comment
It's in there, but it's not the djent comment.
Y'all are crazy. Ghost Mile is easily my second favorite Voyager album.
So you're saying it's the cream of the crap.
:rollin
Update time!
senecadawg2: Foals - Spanish Sahara
???: Steve Lukather - Party in Simon's Pants
Lethean: Voyager - Ghost Mile
???: _er_ ___r - T__ers __ A_ari_e
???: Sa_a_e _ir__s - Evil Eyes
Elite: Jolly - Where Everything's Perfect
Sacul: BADBADNOTGOOD - ____essi__s
???: A_a_asis - H__a_ S__re_a__ Ill_si__
???: Th___er____e_ - _eldt
Stadler: The Michael Schenker Group - Desert Song
???: __ - You Are _reati__
???: Spandau Ballet - Through the Barricades
Parama: The Hirsch Effekt - Cotard
???: Machine Men - N_ _al_ _ith__t the __a_t
jingle.boy: Lords of Black - _h_st __ ___
???: ___ds __ __res - A Meeting Place and Time
???: Sólstafir - Miðaftann
???: Swallow the Sun - _ireli_hts
Bonus hangman (rejected songs):
senecadawg2: Gallowbraid - Stone of Remembrance
???: Anciients - Ibex Eye
???: Dan Swanö - Uncreation
???: Suspyre - _ala_ti_ _a___ard ___e_ents
Guessed letters: DIRT HEALS
Kattelox waits 12 because he guessed the wrong letter
Bolsters waits 60 because he's not playing in the roulette
jingle.boy waits 1 because he's a fine gentleman
Elite waits
TAC waits 3 because that's the standard rule, also I won't give you two letters
Parama waits 23 because he sent The Hirsch Effekt
romdrums waits infinitely because he guessed the same letter as TAC
Lethean waits 2 to counterbalance all the negative Voyager comments
lonestar waits 3
Indiscipline waits 3
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Anciients - Ibex Eye
Elite? :neverusethis:
Stone of Rememberance
The Michael Schenker Group - Desert Song sent by Stadler
Jolly - Where Everything's Perfect sent by Elite
Through the Barricades
A Meeting Place and Time
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Anciients - Ibex Eye
Elite? :neverusethis:
Stone of Rememberance
The Michael Schenker Group - Desert Song sent by Stadler
Jolly - Where Everything's Perfect sent by Elite
Through the Barricades
A Meeting Place and Time
All correct and updated above, except Elite didn't send Ibex Eye.
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Machine Men
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Spandau Ballet
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oh also BADBADNOTGOOD sent by Dacul
seneca might've sent Foals also, that song is kind of amazing
song named You Are Creation?
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seneca might have tried to send Gallowbraid.
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Machine Men
Yes!
Spandau Ballet
Yes!
oh also BADBADNOTGOOD sent by Dacul
seneca might've sent Foals also, that song is kind of amazing
song named You Are Creation?
Yes, yes and no.
seneca might have tried to send Gallowbraid.
He did indeed, and that's an awesome song to be honest.
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22 - You Are Creating
Anabasis sent by TAC
Swallow the Sun song is Firelights
Towers of Avarice?
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Well, that warrants a new post!
senecadawg2: Foals - Spanish Sahara
???: Steve Lukather - Party in Simon's Pants
Lethean: Voyager - Ghost Mile
???: Zero Hour - Towers of Avarice
???: Sa_a_e _ir__s - Evil Eyes
Elite: Jolly - Where Everything's Perfect
Sacul: BADBADNOTGOOD - ____essi__s
TAC: Anabasis - H__a_ S__re_a__ Ill_si__
???: Th___er____e_ - _eldt
Stadler: The Michael Schenker Group - Desert Song
romdrums: 22 - You Are Creating
???: Spandau Ballet - Through the Barricades
Parama: The Hirsch Effekt - Cotard
???: Machine Men - N_ _al_ _ith__t the __a_t
jingle.boy: Lords of Black - _h_st __ ___
???: ___ds __ __res - A Meeting Place and Time
???: Sólstafir - Miðaftann
???: Swallow the Sun - Firelights
Bonus hangman (rejected songs):
senecadawg2: Gallowbraid - Stone of Remembrance
???: Anciients - Ibex Eye
???: Dan Swanö - Uncreation
???: Suspyre - _ala_ti_ _a___ard ___e_ents
Guessed letters: DIRT HEALS
Kattelox waits 12 because he guessed the wrong letter
Bolsters waits 60 because he's not playing in the roulette
jingle.boy waits 1 because he's a fine gentleman
Elite waits
TAC waits 3 because that's the standard rule, also I won't give you two letters
Parama waits 23 because he sent The Hirsch Effekt
romdrums waits infinitely because he guessed the same letter as TAC
Lethean waits 2 to counterbalance all the negative Voyager comments
lonestar waits 3
Indiscipline waits 3
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oh and romdrums sent 22 according to rym
5 of you have rated this album and i've literally never heard of this band what
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Towers of Avarice is by Zero Hour. Cool album :tup
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This is exactly the song I expected from Elite. Except his song is also exactly what I expected from him.
The band’s name rivals Giraffes? Giraffes! and I can’t say anything about the music because I haven’t heard a single song by Giraffes? Giraffes!
Probably one of the most complex songs of the round, as I don’t remember anything from my first listen.
There always was a brilliant song or two in Round 1 in my first two roulettes that applied to my tastes so well it might’ve as well been the definition of them at the time. It’s too early to tell, but I feel like this one might just be that kind of song.
It’s as if the band had a bet with someone to write a song with vocal melodies no one will ever remember.
Things like this will never stop reminding me why the music is the form of art I adore the most.
I hope it's not the one with vocal melodies hard to remember, the rest of the possible ones are not so negative.
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V
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Wow, someone sent Spandau Ballet, that's awesome.
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Wow, someone sent Spandau Ballet, that's awesome.
It is... must've been Alex. Only he's ecentric enough to send them.
And Machine Men is No Talk Without The Giant. Gotta be Kade - since he sent them to me in my 3rd roulette.
I assume my wait is over - so give us N
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senecadawg2: Foals - Spanish Sahara
???: Steve Lukather - Party in Simon's Pants
Lethean: Voyager - Ghost Mile
???: Zero Hour - Towers of Avarice
???: Savage Circus - Evil Eyes
Elite: Jolly - Where Everything's Perfect
Sacul: BADBADNOTGOOD - Confessions
TAC: Anabasis - H__an S__re_a__ Ill_si_n
???: Th___er__n_e_ - Veldt
Stadler: The Michael Schenker Group - Desert Song
romdrums: 22 - You Are Creating
Indiscipline: Spandau Ballet - Through the Barricades
Parama: The Hirsch Effekt - Cotard
wolfking: Machine Men - No Talk Without the Giant
jingle.boy: Lords of Black - Ghost of You
???: ___ds __ __res - A Meeting Place and Time
???: Sólstafir - Miðaftann
???: Swallow the Sun - Firelights
Bonus hangman (rejected songs):
senecadawg2: Gallowbraid - Stone of Remembrance
lonestar: Anciients - Ibex Eye
???: Dan Swanö - Uncreation
???: Suspyre - _ala_ti_ _a___ard __ve_ents
Guessed letters: LAND THRIVES
Kattelox waits 13 because he guessed the wrong letter
Bolsters waits 75 because he's not playing in the roulette
jingle.boy waits 6 because he assumes his wait is over
Elite waits
TAC waits 1
Parama waits 22 because he sent The Hirsch Effekt
romdrums waits infinitely because he guessed the same letter as TAC
Lethean can guess a letter
lonestar waits 1
Indiscipline waits 1
LordCost waits because apparently he likes to wait before joining the roulettes
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Wow, someone sent Spandau Ballet, that's awesome.
That song is a good one, but I wouldn't really call Spandau Ballet awesome.
Also: Savage Circus - Evil Eyes?
And that badbadnotgood song could be Confessions.
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Forgot to mention... Anciients rejection is surely RJ's.
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Kattelox waits 13 because he guessed the wrong letter
Bolsters waits 75 because he's not playing in the roulette
jingle.boy waits 6 because he assumes his wait is over
Elite waits
TAC waits 1
Parama waits 22 because he sent The Hirsch Effekt
romdrums waits infinitely because he guessed the same letter as TAC
Lethean can guess a letter
lonestar waits 1
Indiscipline waits 1
LordCost waits because apparently he likes to wait before joining the roulettes
Is this bizarro hangmanen v 2.0?
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Wow, someone sent Spandau Ballet, that's awesome.
That song is a good one, but I wouldn't really call Spandau Ballet awesome.
Willing to bet that's not what Kade meant either ... just that *sending* Spandau Ballet is awesome.
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Yeah, that makes more sense, so it's probably True.
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Kattelox waits 13 because he guessed the wrong letter
Bolsters waits 75 because he's not playing in the roulette
jingle.boy waits 6 because he assumes his wait is over
Elite waits
TAC waits 1
Parama waits 22 because he sent The Hirsch Effekt
romdrums waits infinitely because he guessed the same letter as TAC
Lethean can guess a letter
lonestar waits 1
Indiscipline waits 1
LordCost waits because apparently he likes to wait before joining the roulettes
Is this bizarro hangmanen v 2.0?
I mean... :lol I actually should run a round of bizarro hangmanen I think, so next round it is.
Some songs are growing on me. Some songs are not.
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Lords Of Black song is Ghost Of You
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Lords Of Black song is Ghost Of You
YEEEEEEEEEEEAH!
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Woods Of Ypres
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Bringing this to the new page:
senecadawg2: Foals - Spanish Sahara
Kwyjibo: Steve Lukather - Party in Simon's Pants
Lethean: Voyager - Ghost Mile
lonestar: Zero Hour - Towers of Avarice
Kattelox: Savage Circus - Evil Eyes
Elite: Jolly - Where Everything's Perfect
Sacul: BADBADNOTGOOD - Confessions
TAC: Anabasis - H__an S__re_a__ Ill_si_n
???: Thumpermonkey - Veldt
Stadler: The Michael Schenker Group - Desert Song
romdrums: 22 - You Are Creating
Indiscipline: Spandau Ballet - Through the Barricades
Parama: The Hirsch Effekt - Cotard
wolfking: Machine Men - No Talk Without the Giant
jingle.boy: Lords of Black - Ghost of You
Puppies_On_Acid: Woods of Ypres - A Meeting Place and Time
???: Sólstafir - Miðaftann
???: Swallow the Sun - Firelights
Not guessed:
Luoto
Tyrias
LordCost
Bonus hangman (rejected songs):
senecadawg2: Gallowbraid - Stone of Remembrance
lonestar: Anciients - Ibex Eye
???: Dan Swanö - Uncreation
???: Suspyre - Galactic Backward Movements
Not guessed:
senecadawg2 (I know)
Puppies_On_Acid
Guessed letters: LAND THRIVES
Kattelox waits 14 because he guessed the wrong letter
Bolsters waits 90 because he's not playing in the roulette
jingle.boy waits 6 because he assumes his wait is over
Elite waits
Parama waits 22 because romdrums sent 22
romdrums waits infinitely because he guessed the same letter as TAC
LordCost waits because apparently he likes to wait before joining the roulettes
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I dont know what this waiting is--i havent played in a roulette in so long! Things have changed :lol
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Suspyre tune is Galactic Backward Movements
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I dont know what this waiting is--i havent played in a roulette in so long! Things have changed :lol
It's the amount of turns you have to wait before guessing another letter in the hangman. It's usually 3 turns right after you guessed a letter, but this roulette is a bit different I suppose.
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Veldt is by Thumpermonkey
Is that ariich?
Is he playing.
BTW, Evermind, can you list who is playing on this pages who is not guessed?
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Veldt is by Thumpermonkey
Is that ariich?
Is he playing.
BTW, Evermind, can you list who is playing on this pages who is not guessed?
Updated! ariich isn't in this roulette.
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Is Zero Hour lonestar's?
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Woods of Ypres could be Puppies.
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Quick google search of Savage Circus highly suggests that is Katt
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Good lord you guys covered a lot in the last few hours. It's obvious I'm the only one working Sundays.
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Quick google search of Savage Circus highly suggests that is Katt
LIFE AND DEATH EMBRACE IN THE MORNING :2metal:
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Whenever I don't know the lyrics to the song I just swap them out with "fuck me sideways" or something similar, which is why my song of the day this Sunday is
GHOOOOST OF YOU
YOU'LL FUCK ME UP IN THE DEAD OF THE NIGHT
YEEEEEEEAH
Also all the guesses are correct. Results are coming on Thursday. However, as I'm running this under my usual "underpromise and overdeliver" working motto, the results may appear earlier. Like, perhaps, on Wednesday or on Tuesday. You never know.
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How Evil Eyes gets received determines whether or not I send the ultracheese next round. Do you like dragons? Of course you do. I got one for you come Thursday. :lol
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I mean I'm literally running a D&D campaign for a year now and the main plot is borrowed from Rise of Tiamat adventure where Tiamat and the chromatic dragons are rising up, I guess I do indeed like dragons quite a bit.
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Oh you're definitely getting dragons then. Steel thy will, warrior of light!
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Kwijibo-Lukather
Luoto-Solstafir
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Kwijibo-Lukather
Luoto-Solstafir
First one is correct, second one is not.
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Thumpermonkey is LordCost
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Okay, here's the full thing:
senecadawg2: Foals - Spanish Sahara
Kwyjibo: Steve Lukather - Party in Simon's Pants
Lethean: Voyager - Ghost Mile
lonestar: Zero Hour - Towers of Avarice
Kattelox: Savage Circus - Evil Eyes
Elite: Jolly - Where Everything's Perfect
Sacul: BADBADNOTGOOD - Confessions
TAC: Anabasis - Human Supremacy Illusion
LordCost: Thumpermonkey - Veldt
Stadler: The Michael Schenker Group - Desert Song
romdrums: 22 - You Are Creating
Indiscipline: Spandau Ballet - Through the Barricades
Parama: The Hirsch Effekt - Cotard
wolfking: Machine Men - No Talk Without the Giant
jingle.boy: Lords of Black - Ghost of You
Puppies_On_Acid: Woods of Ypres - A Meeting Place and Time
Tyrias: Sólstafir - Miðaftann
Luoto: Swallow the Sun - Firelights
Bonus hangman (rejected songs):
senecadawg2: Gallowbraid - Stone of Remembrance
lonestar: Anciients - Ibex Eye
senecadawg2: Dan Swanö - Uncreation
Puppies_On_Acid: Suspyre - Galactic Backward Movements
Guessed letters: LAND THRIVES
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ouch poor seneca :lol
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That’s a riciculously diverse group of songs.
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Lords Of Black song is Ghost Of You
What a fantastic song! Head bang central! :metal
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Oh you're definitely getting dragons then. Steel thy will, warrior of light!
If you're thinking what I'm thinking, they were on my short list to send as well. Funnest live show evah!!!
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Oh you're definitely getting dragons then. Steel thy will, warrior of light!
If you're thinking what I'm thinking, they were on my short list to send as well. Funnest live show evah!!!
If it's Gloryhammer they're all yours... I LOATHE them. :lol
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ouch poor seneca :lol
Don't worry, it's for the best :tup
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i mean i would call spanish sahara the best of those three by far, though i don't know the other two that well (i'm pretty sure i've listened to both albums before but that's about it)
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Spanish Sahara is a pretty cool track, yup
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it got even better after i played life is strange tbh and i already loved it before then
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Oh you're definitely getting dragons then. Steel thy will, warrior of light!
If you're thinking what I'm thinking, they were on my short list to send as well. Funnest live show evah!!!
If it's Gloryhammer they're all yours... I LOATHE them. :lol
Blasphemy!!!!
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Oh you're definitely getting dragons then. Steel thy will, warrior of light!
If you're thinking what I'm thinking, they were on my short list to send as well. Funnest live show evah!!!
If it's Gloryhammer they're all yours... I LOATHE them. :lol
Blasphemy!!!!
Wow, I totally expected Katt to send Gloryhammer from what I know about them. :lol
Been doing some more listening today. Man, this round is all over the place musically, and will probably end up being all over the place scorewise unless some of the songs grow on me. As Tim said, a riciculously diverse group of songs. There are some songs I'm not exactly digging. Some good stuff in there too, at least five artists I will definitely check out further.
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There are some songs I'm not exactly digging.
Pull me under, pull me under, pull me under, I'm not afraid.
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Gloryhammer enrages me.
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Gloryhammer enrages me.
This was the Judas Priest round, so I guess the next one is Gloryhammer round?
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Gloryhammer enrages me.
This was the Judas Priest round, so I guess the next one is Gloryhammer round?
No cause I saw Turdmallet live already :lol
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I'm curious to know why you hate Gloryhammer.
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I'm curious to know why you hate Gloryhammer.
I just really dislike Christopher Bowes' style of taking the piss out of power metal by being completely silly and almost mocking the Rhapsody style of metal because Rhapsody and co. sound sincere. Bowes' bands don't yet they're super popular. Good music in Gloryhammer but it's so tongue in cheek I hate it.
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Oddly enough, that's why I love it, whereas most other power metal is pretty meh for me.
C'mon man....What other show has people dressed as gnomes crowd surfing?
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11 writeups are done, 7 more to do. Let's see if I can do them today.
A fair warning though: you shouldn't be surprised at quite a lot of low scores. There are at least four songs below 5/10.
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The 3/10 Effekt :metal
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Really hope Savage Circus doesn't get a savage review, I hope it's a favorable comparison to BG.
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Round 1 Results:
Tyrias: Sólstafir - Miðaftann
First impression: Things like that will never stop reminding me why the music is the form of art I adore the most.
You’ve made an observation that we’re the most compatible when it comes to ballads, and I have to say, apparently you’re not wrong, because I loved this. The video is also a perfect addition to the song.
I don’t know whether it’s Icelandic language or simply the way they create the music, but so far I’m two out of three on Icelandic groups, and both I’m into are your fault: Árstíðir, and now apparently Sólstafir (the one I’m not into is Sigur Rós, by the way). The language barrier doesn’t bother me here, and the music itself is beautiful, gorgeous. This takes me to another world. This is an absolute bliss of a song. I don’t even have a lot of words, and none are even needed here. This song was leading the pack since the beginning, and I’m not even a little bit tired of it. You’re off to a great start.
9.5/10 (+0.5 from Steven Wilson’s Wave of Depression for the saddest song of the round)
TAC: Anabasis – Human Supremacy Illusion
First impression: There always was a brilliant song or two in Round 1 in my first two roulettes that applied to my tastes so well it might’ve as well been the definition of them at the time. It’s too early to tell, but I feel like this one might just be that kind of song.
After a lot of mediocre songs in this round, it always felt refreshing to return to this song. This, to me, feels like progressive metal done right, and even though there are growls in this song, they’re placed well. The song always keeps moving organically from one section to another, following a chorus full of growls—not a plodding chorus, too, more like a melodic death metal one—with a beautiful quiet middle section which kind of reminds of me Fall into the Light—except the rest of the song is also great. I love the dramatic intro with the haunting keyboards and the subtle flute additions. I love how this song goes all out with growls in the ending. I like how the keyboards accentuate certain moments here and there. My only complaint about this song would be that the singer sounds a little bit thin and mixed too quiet on his clean sections.
This song was one of my favourites after my first listen and didn’t lose its charm throughout the week. This is definitely an album to check out.
9/10
Stadler: The Michael Schenker Group – Desert Song
First impression: This is exactly why I was so excited that you joined this roulette.
This first impression still stands. I always wanted to explore some of the older hard rock and heavy metal groups, but I lacked dedication, and when I saw you playing other roulettes and sending all these old gems I instantly thought “well, damn, when I run my roulette in 2019, I’ve got to have Stadler”. I don’t know what else you’ve got up your sleeve, but this song enough was a good reason for me to think that.
Graham Bonnet does an impressive entrance into the song, one that instantly gets me hooked on his delivery of the words “Arabian sun”. And the rest of the song just goes up from here, from excellent verses to a good enough chorus—although the lyrics here are questionable, but hey, it’s 80s, I can’t complain—to a fantastic instrumental break. Good melodies, great vocal performance, excellent guitar solo, this song has a lot of stuff to like—enough to make it to the Top 3 songs of the round. This is very good.
8.5/10
jingle.boy: Lords of Black – Ghost of You
First impression: Jornless Avantasia meets Magnus Karlsson-like songwriting, a curious combination.
This definitely reminds me of something Magnus would’ve written, like Primal Fear’s One Night in December, with some of the Tobias’ songwriting in it. This was a pretty safe choice, and I’m not going to lie, I like this.
That doesn’t mean the song doesn’t have a few problems that stood out to me during the subsequent listens. This was one of the early favourites, but it lost a bit of its novelty after a few days. First and foremost, this song could’ve easily been a few minutes shorter. In terms of structure, it has a slow building intro—no complaints there—then a verse-prechorus-chorus—again, almost no complaints there, although I would note that the chorus is not as striking as the aforementioned One Night in December. Then we go into the instrumental section and this is where this song goes a bit off the rails for me. Not only it’s pretty long for its lack of great ideas, as far as I’m concerned, but why it’s a full-on double bass onslaught during almost the entirety of it? It doesn’t fit at all.
But nitpicks aside, I really liked it. The singer sounded familiar, and indeed, it’s Ronnie Romero who toured with Rainbow recently, and I will say he’s one of the reasons this song scored this high—this man is a powerhouse. Perhaps I thought the instrumental section was too long simply because I wanted to hear more of his singing.
8/10
Luoto: Swallow the Sun - Firelights
First impression: A slower Katatonia-like vibe in the chorus, I like it.
I’ve heard the band’s name and was always curious about their music, but my aversion for growls stopped me. I can honestly say I was surprised how much I like this. This song has a somehow very pleasant calm and haunting vibe, slowly evolving from steady vocals to raging growls in the chorus. Every instrument can be easily heard, and the eerie atmosphere in the verses serves as a great counterpoint to the plodding doom-infused chorus.
It took me a few listens to watch the video and notice the strings behind the chorus, and that was what brought this song over the 8 points mark—this subtle detail made me appreciate the song even more. I would happily take your recommendations on this band after the roulette, as I think this is going straight to my list of the bands I should check out. Nice start.
8/10
Sacul: BADBADNOTGOOD - Confessions
First impression: The band’s name rivals Giraffes? Giraffes! and I can’t say anything about the music because I haven’t heard a single song by Giraffes? Giraffes!
I mean, screw Giraffes? Giraffes! as this is actually pretty good! I’m not big on the instrumentals this days, but something about this saxophone line sends shivers down my spine—I especially like the warm “verses” with the initial melody. Not as big on the breakdowns between them, I like when this song stays somewhat, for a lack of a better word, intimate. “Confessions” is a very fitting title, and the song’s strong points where saxophone is playing over that simple bass line that greets the listener in the very first seconds of this song.
I wouldn’t have minded a collaboration between something like this band and Leonard Cohen, or, well, someone alive with a deep voice. Are these guys fully instrumental or do some songs have vocals? I don’t think I can sit through a whole album of this, but this tune has some great moments and ideas which definitely put it near the “good” territory.
7/10
Puppies_On_Acid: Woods of Ypres – A Meeting Place and Time
First impression: Agalloch meets a singer who caught a cold and wants to be anywhere except this studio.
Look, I realize it’s probably a quirk of this particular genre, but this singer definitely sounds like he wants to be anywhere except recording this song. I can even picture him bored out of his mind recording the clean vocals. I don’t quite know what he looks like, but I can picture that. It especially shows in the very end, where they get to this, well, climax I suppose, where he goes “This is the end of this well rehearsed story of you and I”, and I almost have chills because of how good that was, except the singer sounds so bored I just sit there in disbelief. Again, I get it, this is probably the standard for the genre, but holy shit, was that a letdown.
Overall though, this song is pretty enjoyable. Sounds like a standard fare in a world of death/black metal (I still can’t tell them apart), solid mix, not that muddy, with enough acoustic arrangements to be interesting and diverse enough. It does feel a bit long, but at the same time I feel it’s somewhat justified—if only the climax was better, this would’ve been in the 8+ territory. I enjoyed this, and while I’m not sure if I will explore this band further, I will remember the name.
7/10
Indiscipline: Spandau Ballet – Through the Barricades
First impression: I think I have diabetes now, thanks.
Well, the good thing is that with a bunch of singers I didn’t like at all in this round, this one is definitely safe. He has a beautiful voice. The song itself is a huge overload of sugar, though. And I’m honestly alright with that.
I like the subtle additions of saxophone here and there in the song, before it finally enters full force in the ending. I like the quiet parts of the song, and I’m not too big on the louder parts, especially the very 80s sounding keyboards. But I guess that’s one of the song charms—and I guess, in a way, that’s what I expected from you.
Why the hell did it have to end with such a quick fadeout, though? I would’ve liked that sax solo go on for a bit longer.
7/10
LordCost: Thumpermonkey - Veldt
First impression: This is exactly the song I expected from Elite. Except his song is also exactly what I expected from him.
While this song wasn’t the quirkiest one in this round, the video definitely was! What’s up with that?
The song itself I found quite interesting. A chilling beginning with barest traces of instrumentation mostly leaning on keyboard effects, good vocal melodies too. This guy has a pleasant voice! It took a perfect amount of time to go into “I can’t believe I’ve become fascinated AGAAAAIN!” transition to a heavier, plodding part with a doom-like feel behind it, a first appearance of electric guitar on this song I think? The keyboards in this section are also more urgent, the drums are upfront, and the vocal melodies are again well thought out. And then again, it takes just a right amount of time to transition back into a quiet ending. I could’ve done without the last minute, but there’s no denying this song is very well structured. It’s not quite the style of music I would seek out on my own—what is this style of music?—and it’s not exactly up my alley, but the songwriting is enough to put it very close to a “good” mark.
7/10
Kattelox: Savage Circus – Evil Eyes
First impression: Blind Guardian meets Blind Guardian. Hilarious album artwork too.
This is so like Blind Guardian it’s not even funny. Good news, you did better than Voyager. Bad news, I definitely like Blind Guardian more. There are some good ideas here, but it feels like I’ve heard it all before—and while it’s not quite an issue when the ideas are implemented in some original way, this definitely sounds like I’ve heard it all. The chorus sounds quite uninspired—something that Blind Guardian usually avoided, save for a few albums—and to be honest, seven minutes of this is a bit too much. Five would’ve been enough.
Perhaps I’m too harsh on this one, because in theory I should like it, but I don’t feel the desire to explore more music from this band judging by this song. This is better than a good chunk of songs in this round, but it’s not even close to the top. I’d put it somewhere between average and good.
6.5/10
romdrums: 22 – You Are Creating
First impression: This is probably what would’ve happened if Artificial Language decided to create a softer and happier album.
I’m not going to lie, this is quite fun. This is probably what I expected Jolly to sound like, except they didn’t. The singer, once again, reminds me of the Artificial Language singer, except he doesn’t go all out here. Curious thing about this song, there are no instrumental sections, not really—it’s really a three and a half minutes of singing. But as the singer is tolerable, this makes it almost fine; except the song feels too busy to me as the result. I feel like this tune actually can use some improvement in adding a short instrumental section.
This song isn’t among my favourites, but it’s a fun little tune that I can get behind.
6.5/10
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wolfking: Machine Men – No Talk Without the Giant
First impression: Probably the most straightforward song of the round. The vocal effects remind me of latest Dream Theater songs.
I sometimes love some generic heavy metal—hell, often—but this sounded about as average as it gets. The instrumental parts were nice enough, I liked the building guitar melody, and the singer was pretty good—but I don’t really like the slight mechanical effect on his voice. Reminds me of James' vocals on Untethered Angel.
This honestly wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t that good either. Very generic and even a bit boring, so good thing it was short enough. You might hit the nail on the head with some of the submissions like this (like Nocturnal Rites in my previous roulette), but this is just too average to make a good impression. Maybe try something that’s a bit out there? Melodic death metal may work.
5.5/10
senecadawg2: Foals – Spanish Sahara
First impression: You definitely would’ve been better off with the rejected song.
Well, good news here is that this song has grown on me a bit since the first listen. However, it’s still nowhere near Stone of Remembrance in terms of how much I like it. I’ve found that this kind of ballads can either resonate with me pretty well or fall a bit flat, and I’m afraid the latter happened here. I don’t exactly like the singer’s voice—sounds a bit thin or even whiny—and I dislike the chirping keyboard (I assume) sounds that begin around 2:20 and continue to evolve and change to even more annoying shapes throughout the whole song, I dislike it a lot. It’s not enough to ruin the song completely, but it’s part of why the ambient atmosphere of this particular track doesn’t appeal to me as much as it should’ve.
Let’s talk about nice things, though. The rest of instrumentation is very good, engaging and works well in the song. The instrumental break is well done, except those stupid chirping sounds everywhere—but I like the guitars. I like how prominent the bass is. The vocal melodies are catchy to the point of also being a bit annoying. I didn’t play Life is Strange, so perhaps I would’ve appreciated this one a bit more if I did. As things stand, this has grown for me from “well, I want to skip this” to “I guess it’s alright” to “okay, this is just a bit better than alright”.
5.5/10
Kwyjibo: Steve Lukather – Party in Simon’s Pants
First impression: Surprisingly engaging, even with my recent lack of enthusiasm for this particular kind of music.
This is probably the first impression that changed the most after a few listens. At first, I found this instrumental piece quite appealing, but its novelty has quickly worn off after a week of extensive listening.
It’s still not that bad, you know—I didn’t want to skip it (mostly), and I remember parts of it, unlike, say, Enigma Machine or Haken’s Nil by Mouth—but it didn’t have enough staying power for me. It’s a fun little piece, but most of the musical nuances are lost on me, and while it has memorable riffs and I like the keyboard part around ~3:15, I’m not sure I want to sit through six minutes of this, and certainly not through a full album. By the way, what’s up with the song name?
I certainly hope I won’t dissuade you from playing roulettes with this writeup. It’s just, well, that’s how it sometimes is. Perhaps you’ll strike gold in Round 2!
5/10
Lethean: Voyager – Ghost Mile
First impression: Was this djent? I think it was.
Man, knowing how much you like Voyager, I was really looking forward to this. I even have one Voyager song saved on plug.dj for further checkout, but I don’t remember anything from it, so this was definitely allowed. And I’ll be honest, not only this feels like djent, it also sounds a bit like a heavier poor man version of Leprous.
I don’t even have much to say about this. The two things I remember the most are the pounding rhythm and the fact that the singer sings “djently” in the beginning of the chorus—which is fair, I guess. The vocal melodies on this song create a space-like feeling, except with the pounding guitars behind them this feeling is dissipated as soon as it’s conjured. In fact, the vocal melodies on this song are complex enough that I can’t quite get them. That’s why I mentioned Leprous before—these guys know how to write a chorus. This chorus feels like a placeholder.
I feel a bit bad about asking you to join and then trashing your song like this, but I can’t help it—this isn’t up my alley. It’s not bad per se, it’s more like “a little worse than average”, I guess. Nothing ear-raping, but nothing memorable.
4.5/10
Elite: Jolly – Where Everything’s Perfect
First impression: Reminds me of The Gift of Music somehow, and I don’t like The Gift of Music.
The problem with happy, upbeat music is that it often falls flat for me. The funny thing here is, it’s not even that happy! It still does remind me of The Gift of Music—I think it’s that guitar riff.
Well, my biggest complaint here is that I’m not quite into the singer’s voice. And excluding the instrumental section, the section with the child, and this heavy section in the end—which was unexpected as hell for me, although it kind of goes well with the song—there’s this one riff constantly going on. That one riff and the singer droning over it. This is what this song is like, in my head. Honestly, I can see how someone might like it, but I wouldn’t even say it reaches an average mark. Close, but not quite.
4/10
lonestar: Zero Hour – Towers of Avarice
First impression: Probably one of the most complex songs of the round, as I don’t remember anything from my first listen.
Honestly, Nelson’s first impression also applies to you, RJ. Perhaps even more. To hear this after knowing you tried to send Ibex Eye was almost painful—mostly to my ears, as this song is basically eight minutes long, non-stop onslaught of heavy riffs with vocal melodies slapped on it. Either almost no effort went into those vocal melodies, or perhaps too much thinking, as I listened to it five or six times and I don’t remember any particular melody from it.
And that’s not to say the band doesn’t have technical chops. The instrumentation behind is impressive—and I really like how the bass can be heard clearly in the mix. The singer also has an impressive voice. But their definition of a progressive metal song is seemingly miles apart from mine. This song made my head hurt. After three listens I was tempted to skip it whenever it came into my rotation. Whenever this came into my rotation paired with another song which is right after this one in this list—which, for some reason, happened twice even though I listened on shuffle—I wanted to weep. Is there a chorus on this song? I have no idea. I’m almost sorry that I didn’t accept Ibex Eye. This was a swing and a miss.
3/10
Parama: The Hirsch Effekt - Cotard
First impression: It’s as if the band had a bet with someone to write a song with vocal melodies no one will ever remember.
Honestly, if I didn’t know how much you like this band, I would’ve thought you sent this just out of spite. I’ll go ahead and say it: this is awful. This should’ve been a soundtrack on the day I saw a local stray cat get brained by a passing car, because I felt awful all day after that, similarly to this song.
And I’m not even kidding. You played a lot of songs in plug.dj while I was there, and there is usually something I enjoy about them. The Warm Glow was pretty great last time, you know. This song has one and a half redeeming qualities: the instrumental work when it gets calm—which is not that often—and the saxophone in the end. The very beginning hurts my ears, and then as if it wasn’t enough, hey, here’s this part again at ~4:30, thanks. The vocal melodies, you can as well read the first impression again. It’s also in German, which, while I thought I don’t have any aversion to songs in different languages, but it manages to make things worse here. Harsh consonants don’t go that well with calmer atmosphere this song tries to maintain in between the bloody murder parts.
The saxophone in the end (or whatever the instrument is) elevates the song to a higher score, and that’s where the vocal melodies also finally get good, but overall my reaction to this song is similar to its ending, which is to scream NICHTS at the top of my lungs. This is Absu/10.
2/10
Scoreboard:
Tyrias: 10 (9.5+0.5)
TAC: 9
Stadler: 8.5
jingle.boy: 8
Luoto: 8
Sacul: 7
Puppies_On_Acid: 7
Indiscipline: 7
LordCost: 7
Kattelox: 6.5
romdrums: 6.5
wolfking: 5.5
senecadawg: 5.5
Kwyjibo: 5
Lethean: 4.5
Elite: 4
lonestar: 3
Parama: 2
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Round 2: Open Round
This is an open round. The length limit is 10 minutes unless you have an ability to ignore it, in which case you're free to use it as you wish.
Please try and send for this round in 48 hours from now on.
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Damn that's an acceptable score :metal . The album it comes from is very varied, goes from jazz to some moody electronic stuff and some post-rock, and it's instrumental, but worth a shot, I love it.
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I was playing it very safe. Next round you'll get something completely over the top, something I actually love. Hope it doesn't get me cut! Will send tonight.
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I'm just gonna send something crap intentionally at this point cause we're still not remotely compatible
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I was playing it very safe. Next round you'll get something completely over the top, something I actually love. Hope it doesn't get me cut! Will send tonight.
:tup I still liked your song. I'm just trying to actually use the scale where 2.5 is bad, 5.0 is average and 7.5 is good. Last time I ran a roulette almost all the songs received 7.5 or more. This time I'm trying to actually adhere to that scale, so 6.5 isn't too shabby, to be honest. Anything higher than 7.5 I loved and will definitely check out.
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I'm just gonna send something crap intentionally at this point cause we're still not remotely compatible
No shit. That was just... not up my alley at all.
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Dude I have the exact same scoring problem which is why I'm being "harsher" in the back half of mine :rollin more incentive to send the BEST you can!
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I'm not at all surprised by that score and perhaps I should have sent something from one of their later albums, but this was the song that got me in to the band even though every album after is better. Better production, more originality, better vocals, better instrumentation. I'll find something to send in the next 12 hours for round 2.
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Lol, well that was fun :lol
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Lol, well that was fun :lol
Some might even say it was Jolly...... I'll see myself out....
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Lol, well that was fun :lol
You're 1.5 points away from the cut-off line, with my current method of scoring I'd say you still have a fair chance to make it through.
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Hey, The Anabasis... what's KNH up to these days? That was his project right? MP Forum folks remember...
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Hey, The Anabasis... what's KNH up to these days? That was his project right? MP Forum folks remember...
I think TAC specified it wasn't Barry's band, but a different project not related to him.
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Hmm that's not good. I don't know Life is Strange. I'll send shortly.
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Hmm that's not good. I don't know Life is Strange. I'll send shortly.
Apparently that was one of the game soundtracks. I'm sure you can bounce back though!
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Okay, glad that you didn't hate it, but sad that you didn't like it more. ;D I just send something I really like, Steve Lukather is one of my favorite guitar players and the album where this tune is from (Candyman) is such a great record, imo. There's some rockers on it, some more rock-fusion instrumentals (but this here is the best them) and some cool ballads.
I certainly hope I won’t dissuade you from playing roulettes with this writeup. It’s just, well, that’s how it sometimes is.
No worries there, this is surely not my last roulette, and I'm not out yet.
By the way, what’s up with the song name?
The drummer on this song is Simon Phillips and in the last minutes of the song he lets loose. And Steve Lukather seems to always make some tongue in cheek jokes with sexual innuendos. I think that's where the song title comes from.
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It's a real good game my dudes
I know what I'm gonna send and I'll send it when I get home. Using my other power this round since I'm definitely out after this round anyways :corn
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Hey, The Anabasis... what's KNH up to these days? That was his project right? MP Forum folks remember...
I think TAC specified it wasn't Barry's band, but a different project not related to him.
Yeah, Barry's band is "The" Anabasis. This song was from Anabasis. I haven't seen him much on FB over the past couple of years either. Not sure if anyone still keeps in touch with him from here.
that's a painful score for the chef. Someone take his knives away from him. :lol
BTW... I'll gladly take 4th place this round. :fistpump:
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I knew I could count on your mellow melodic side!
I will insist with eccentric out of fashion non-metal sugar ingots, in about a couple hours.
On a sidenote, Candyman is a beautiful beautiful album.
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Wanted to send some german "kirmes techno" but then decided to send something else. ;)
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Other comments
I forget which Solstafir song that is I should relisten to it lol
I actually checked out that Anabasis album the other day and it's pretty good yeah
I have the swallow the sun triple album which I found meehhh but haven't checked the new one so
Spanish Sahara deserves better
Jolly also deserves better tho not as much better
Anyways I'm gonna send a prog death epic to yeet myself out of the roulette once I get home :corn
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Round Two sent.
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Sent round two, one of my bigger guns I was saving for later. Kick this one back to me and you'll pay dearly in my resend.
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Sent round two, one of my bigger guns I was saving for later. Kick this one back to me and you'll pay dearly in my resend.
BABYMETAL, amirite?
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I feel a bit bad about asking you to join and then trashing your song like this, but I can’t help it—this isn’t up my alley. It’s not bad per se, it’s more like “a little worse than average”, I guess. Nothing ear-raping, but nothing memorable.
Well you didn't really trash it. Although it seems as though you think I should consider the term djent to be an insult, which I don't. :P I'm not familiar with a lot of djent, but so far for me it varies. Some I like, some I don't.
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Oh yeah that's the one really good solstafir track off otta that's a valid score
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Nice, I'm very happy with that score. I actually haven't really been a fan of Swallow the Sun until their latest album, which that song is taken from. Their previous stuff is a bit hit and miss.
I'm also happy that Sólstafir song got such a high score, great track. Anabasis sounds pretty good as well.
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Wow, 5.5, okay then.
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Wow, 5.5, okay then.
Actually... given the way that Ruslan is using his 10-point scale, I can see where he's coming from. I gave it a 9.1 though, so I do think he's daft.
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Hey, The Anabasis... what's KNH up to these days? That was his project right? MP Forum folks remember...
I think TAC specified it wasn't Barry's band, but a different project not related to him.
Correctumundo!
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Lol, well that was fun :lol
You're 1.5 points away from the cut-off line, with my current method of scoring I'd say you still have a fair chance to make it through.
Oh, that’s not too bad actually. I was almost tempted to send ridiculous avant-garde just to get you to listen to that, but I might try to wow you with one fantastic song.
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Round 2 sent!
Harsh vocals incoming!!
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That Slushii song that Kat sent in my last roulette came on my shuffle earlier today and I was almost tempted to send that to Evermind, but I have no clue if he even likes EDM type stuff.
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That Slushii song that Kat sent in my last roulette came on my shuffle earlier today and I was almost tempted to send that to Evermind, but I have no clue if he even likes EDM type stuff.
Good lord I love that track. Soooooo chill.
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Wow, 5.5, okay then.
This kind of reaction makes me feel bad for wanting to use the full spectrum of scores because really 5.5 is still in the upper half and in my mind it's not that bad. Unless it's Judas Priest.
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Sent round two, one of my bigger guns I was saving for later. Kick this one back to me and you'll pay dearly in my resend.
BABYMETAL, amirite?
For the resend, yes.
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Sent round two, one of my bigger guns I was saving for later. Kick this one back to me and you'll pay dearly in my resend.
BABYMETAL, amirite?
For the resend, yes.
Dear God Ruslan... If you love yourself, you’ll accept his first submission.
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If you send babymetal I could outscore at least one person in round 2 :metardica:
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Sent
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and sent, going out in a blaze of glory (1.5/10 this time)
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and sent, going out in a blaze of glory (1.5/10 this time)
That's ambitious :corn
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and sent, going out in a blaze of glory (1.5/10 this time)
You sent Jon Bon Jovi?
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I sent Judas Priest + Winger
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and sent, going out in a blaze of glory (1.5/10 this time)
You sent Jon Bon Jovi?
I hope he sent Brokencyde
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my secret is that i sent growls
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Brokencyde confirmed
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br00tal crabcore
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(https://66.media.tumblr.com/b0710df7c0bcbb03217d6d73b4fddda8/tumblr_mzf3meFOcJ1rm3e7oo1_400.gif)
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Wow, 5.5, okay then.
This kind of reaction makes me feel bad for wanting to use the full spectrum of scores because really 5.5 is still in the upper half and in my mind it's not that bad. Unless it's Judas Priest.
Yeah I guess. But when other songs are getting 9, 5.5 isn't the most impressive score haha. Onto round 2.
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you're over here complaining about a 5.5 meanwhile i'm over here with my 2 just rockin' out and enjoying life
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Wow, 5.5, okay then.
This kind of reaction makes me feel bad for wanting to use the full spectrum of scores because really 5.5 is still in the upper half and in my mind it's not that bad. Unless it's Judas Priest.
Yeah I guess. But when other songs are getting 9, 5.5 isn't the most impressive score haha. Onto round 2.
I mean, your song wasn't bad but I honestly found it to be pretty average. And since 5 is average on that scale, well.
Hopefully you'll do better in Round 2!
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hopefully i do better in round 2 :tup
but probably not
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Sent.
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Wow, 5.5, okay then.
This kind of reaction makes me feel bad for wanting to use the full spectrum of scores because really 5.5 is still in the upper half and in my mind it's not that bad. Unless it's Judas Priest.
Yeah I guess. But when other songs are getting 9, 5.5 isn't the most impressive score haha. Onto round 2.
I mean, your song wasn't bad but I honestly found it to be pretty average. And since 5 is average on that scale, well.
Hopefully you'll do better in Round 2!
Yeah mate, it's sweet. That's tastes for you. I will try and send in 24 hours.
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So long as the our host remains consistent in delivering a range of scores like this for bad-mediocre-good-great songs, I don't think a 5.5 score is as scary like it can be in roulette's where scores are typically bunched between 7-9, with the odd outlier.
Sending shortly.
(https://media.tenor.com/images/1a5daa0cd3c8726e8d949a7a7016b81e/tenor.gif)
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When I scrolled the list and saw the 7/10 approaching so fast I was prepared to the worst, but in the end I am satisfied with the score.
I watched the video of the song once, I don't remember most of it. I just chose the official video as a link to send you the song. I remember the one of the song Wheezyboy and it was creative and well done, while videos for past songs are amateurish and weird.
The style of music they go for is definitely prog rock/metal, but they do it an unique way with respect to contemporaries in my opinion, or maybe I just don't know similar bands.
Sent a well tested song in roulettes :)
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Oh yes, I had a feeling that first impression was mine, and I'm glad to see I was right. I was actually at the place where the music video starts off last summer and I turned on that song when we drove away from there on the car speakers through fogs, high cliffs and wide plains, and the three other people I was travelling with were like "This is amazing, and it fits so well with the landscape". Love that song, and while the album as a whole is more metal and post-rocky, it still has a similar atmosphere.
Now I'll try not to blow it in the next round :P.
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Sent something tried and true and ultimately super happy.
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you sent Jolly? :neverusethis:
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Alright, I have thirteen songs, and I need five more, preferably in the next 24 hours. I know Kade said he'll be sending soon. Other folks, I'm going to send you a friendly reminder in PM now, and yes, I know it hasn't been even 24 hours since the results were posted, so no pressure. Just keep it in mind and try to send in the next 24-26 hours. Regardless, the listening begins tomorrow during my morning commute. Results next Wednesday.
So far, only one song was rejected and one was very close to be rejected, but hey, I don't want to get BABYMETAL.
I watched the video of the song once, I don't remember most of it. I just chose the official video as a link to send you the song. I remember the one of the song Wheezyboy and it was creative and well done, while videos for past songs are amateurish and weird.
It's a guy walking around with a box in his hands and singing while all the time looking straight at the camera. When it comes to "fascinated AGAIN" he opens the box and some psychedelic imagery follows. Then on the next "fascinated again!" he closes the box and continues to sing and look. It's just weird. :lol
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you sent Jolly? :neverusethis:
I've never listened to Jolly in my life. :millahhhh
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So far, only one song was rejected and one was very close to be rejected, but hey, I don't want to get BABYMETAL.
Hmm maybe I should take advantage of this. Evermind, I'm sending you Katatonia. Better not reject it or you get Babymetal...
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:lol
To be fair, it was a band I've heard one album from once or twice and didn't remember it at all. And the song RJ picked was from their recent album which I haven't heard about at all.
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Sent Tim's favourite band.
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Sent Tim's favourite band.
Thought Winger was banned. :neverusethis:
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I mean, the REAL favourite band ... *giggles*
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Hmmm....
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Not sure whether to be relieved or worried that their first album left no stirring impact on you. :\
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Not sure whether to be relieved or worried that their first album left no stirring impact on you. :\
Under the threat of BABYMETAL, he's relieved.... definitely relieved.
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So far, only one song was rejected and one was very close to be rejected, but hey, I don't want to get BABYMETAL.
Hmm maybe I should take advantage of this. Evermind, I'm sending you Katatonia. Better not reject it or you get Babymetal...
Lethean sent Lethean by Katatonia. :biggrin:
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Lethean sent Katatonia by Lethean
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Lethean sent 4'33 by John Cage so far, but it's alright, there's still time. I need three more songs. Technically only two people haven't sent anything yet, but I also had to reject one of the songs that came in today.
So far the plan is to post first impressions tomorrow and hangman on Saturday.
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Lethean sent Katatonia by Lethean
That's a good idea. I could make my own ode to Katatonia. Of course it would be awful because I'm not a songwriter and can't sing, but those are minor details.
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Lethean sent Native Construct - Mute
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Sent Haken - Cockroach King
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I'm really ready for hangman :corn
Wanna see what crappy songs I'm getting cut in favor of
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I'm really ready for hangman :corn
Wanna see what crappy songs I'm getting cut in favor of
:hat
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Sent.
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Still waiting for one participant, but here are the first impressions before I head out to a local bar. I'll post hangman tomorrow, as I don't see the point to post it now while I can't update it.
I expected something more forceful than this, but I guess they say “fucking” in the chorus, so it counts?
This reminds me of some promo albums I’ve received while writing for LOMM, except better executed—which, to be honest, isn’t a high bar to set. Not sure what I think of this yet.
I’m not convinced by what transpires in the middle of the song, but the ending is ridiculously good, the most memorable thing in this round so far.
Each minute I was expecting clean vocals to appear, and they didn’t! This is… salvageable.
Each minute I was expecting growls to begin, and they did! This was somewhat engaging.
Well, that certainly was a handful.
Each minute I was expecting growls to begin, and they did! This didn’t work at all.
Each minute I was expecting growls to begin, and they didn’t! This is great.
Interesting ballad-like storytelling, and definitely the coolest song title in this batch.
It’s as if someone is singing a lullaby while another guy decided to practice his black metal guitar technique in the background, taking breaks every now and then.
Wait, they had other songs this whole time?
This definitely has potential, although I feel the singer isn’t doing this song justice.
While this is pretty inoffensive, especially compared with some other songs here, I’m not sure it offers anything more than that, at least after one listen.
Man, this might rival Spandau Ballet in how deliberately sweet this is.
My friends on DTF have already told me this is djent, so you’ll have to try again.
This is beautiful. One of two songs this round that sent shivers down my spine on the very first listen. I’m fairly sure you should start planning your strategy for the next five rounds.
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it, I’ve got your strategy here.
A lot of songs in this round have this cheerful, happy vibe I’m not exactly a fan of. Either this one will grow on me, or you’re going to be disappointed in the score.
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I hope mine is the one about how beautiful it is, otherwise... it was nice playing for 2 rounds. :lol
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I see 6 potential comments that could refer to mine, most of them either neutral or negative
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This reminds me of some promo albums I’ve received while writing for LOMM, except better executed—which, to be honest, isn’t a high bar to set. Not sure what I think of this yet.
Each minute I was expecting clean vocals to appear, and they didn’t! This is… salvageable.
Each minute I was expecting growls to begin, and they did! This was somewhat engaging.
Well, that certainly was a handful.
Each minute I was expecting growls to begin, and they did! This didn’t work at all.
0.5/10 :metal
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Okay, mine is the "fucking" one. ;D :metal ;D Although mostly it's "futile" and only once the other f-word. And yes, they have a lot of more forceful songs, but only a few are better than this one.
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I can eliminate a few, but what's left could still be good or bad. Mine needs to do really well and probably someone at the top needs to score poorly in order to stay in.
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Interesting ballad-like storytelling, and definitely the coolest song title in this batch.
Well this could fit...
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Mine could be:
This reminds me of some promo albums I’ve received while writing for LOMM, except better executed—which, to be honest, isn’t a high bar to set. Not sure what I think of this yet.
I’m not convinced by what transpires in the middle of the song, but the ending is ridiculously good, the most memorable thing in this round so far.
Interesting ballad-like storytelling, and definitely the coolest song title in this batch.
It’s as if someone is singing a lullaby while another guy decided to practice his black metal guitar technique in the background, taking breaks every now and then.
Wait, they had other songs this whole time?
This definitely has potential, although I feel the singer isn’t doing this song justice.
While this is pretty inoffensive, especially compared with some other songs here, I’m not sure it offers anything more than that, at least after one listen.
This is beautiful. One of two songs this round that sent shivers down my spine on the very first listen. I’m fairly sure you should start planning your strategy for the next five rounds.
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it, I’ve got your strategy here.
A lot of songs in this round have this cheerful, happy vibe I’m not exactly a fan of. Either this one will grow on me, or you’re going to be disappointed in the score.
If I had to put my money on something, it'd be "If it ain't broke, don't fix it, I've got your strategy here."
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Pretty certain I can safely scratch:
'fucking'
all of the growl comments
handful
singer not doing it justice
other songs this whole time
all comments hinting at metal
ain't broke
Which leaves about 4 or 5 left that could be mine, and I'm hoping :lucien: it ain't the 'gonna be disappointed' comment.
I'm gonna aim for Spandau Ballet, but there's a definite chance I'm gonna be disappointed.
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What's LOMM?
I've also never heard of Spandau Ballet, but I do recognize the song Google chose.
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Lady Obscure Music Magazine
Also, I've got another song and it's rejected again, I'm now realizing my banned list is full of holes.
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:facepalm:
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This definitely has potential, although I feel the singer isn’t doing this song justice.
While this is pretty inoffensive, especially compared with some other songs here, I’m not sure it offers anything more than that, at least after one listen.
This is beautiful. One of two songs this round that sent shivers down my spine on the very first listen. I’m fairly sure you should start planning your strategy for the next five rounds.
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it, I’ve got your strategy here.
These four are the only one's thatcould conceivably apply to my song, and I'm hoping it's one of the bold ones. All in all, I've got a good feeling about making it to the main phase. Though I'm pretty sure I'd fail hard in the last 3 rounds, should I make it.
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Evermind is high if he doesn't like Voyager. :hat
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can't believe me and ev are both high as heck right now
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I'm thinking I am going to be disappointed.
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I've only seen a 2 score once. Parama, Aim lower!! :metal
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i sent a 16-minute death metal song, so you can't tell me i ain't trying
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Alright, so between this and hangman, here are some confirmations and encouraging comments.
I hope mine is the one about how beautiful it is, otherwise... it was nice playing for 2 rounds. :lol
The beautiful one isn't yours, but even still, you are in a fairly good position on the current scoreboard, I think? I decided not to look at the scoreboard until the first elimination point.
This reminds me of some promo albums I’ve received while writing for LOMM, except better executed—which, to be honest, isn’t a high bar to set. Not sure what I think of this yet.
Each minute I was expecting clean vocals to appear, and they didn’t! This is… salvageable.
Each minute I was expecting growls to begin, and they did! This was somewhat engaging.
Well, that certainly was a handful.
Each minute I was expecting growls to begin, and they did! This didn’t work at all.
0.5/10 :metal
One of them is indeed yours.
Interesting ballad-like storytelling, and definitely the coolest song title in this batch.
Well this could fit...
Nope, this one isn't about your song.
Mine could be:
This reminds me of some promo albums I’ve received while writing for LOMM, except better executed—which, to be honest, isn’t a high bar to set. Not sure what I think of this yet.
I’m not convinced by what transpires in the middle of the song, but the ending is ridiculously good, the most memorable thing in this round so far.
Interesting ballad-like storytelling, and definitely the coolest song title in this batch.
It’s as if someone is singing a lullaby while another guy decided to practice his black metal guitar technique in the background, taking breaks every now and then.
Wait, they had other songs this whole time?
This definitely has potential, although I feel the singer isn’t doing this song justice.
While this is pretty inoffensive, especially compared with some other songs here, I’m not sure it offers anything more than that, at least after one listen.
This is beautiful. One of two songs this round that sent shivers down my spine on the very first listen. I’m fairly sure you should start planning your strategy for the next five rounds.
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it, I’ve got your strategy here.
A lot of songs in this round have this cheerful, happy vibe I’m not exactly a fan of. Either this one will grow on me, or you’re going to be disappointed in the score.
If I had to put my money on something, it'd be "If it ain't broke, don't fix it, I've got your strategy here."
Nope, but yours is in your quote.
Pretty certain I can safely scratch:
'fucking'
all of the growl comments
handful
singer not doing it justice
other songs this whole time
all comments hinting at metal
ain't broke
Which leaves about 4 or 5 left that could be mine, and I'm hoping :lucien: it ain't the 'gonna be disappointed' comment.
I'm gonna aim for Spandau Ballet, but there's a definite chance I'm gonna be disappointed.
That's a fair assessment.
This definitely has potential, although I feel the singer isn’t doing this song justice.
While this is pretty inoffensive, especially compared with some other songs here, I’m not sure it offers anything more than that, at least after one listen.
This is beautiful. One of two songs this round that sent shivers down my spine on the very first listen. I’m fairly sure you should start planning your strategy for the next five rounds.
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it, I’ve got your strategy here.
These four are the only one's thatcould conceivably apply to my song, and I'm hoping it's one of the bold ones. All in all, I've got a good feeling about making it to the main phase. Though I'm pretty sure I'd fail hard in the last 3 rounds, should I make it.
One of these four is yours indeed.
I'm thinking I am going to be disappointed.
The disappointed one isn't yours, but that still doesn't mean you're not going to be disappointed, I don't know the scores yet.
I'm off to sleep. I'll put up hangman and bonus hangman tomorrow.
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No! Get back here and give me a passing score damn you!! :lol
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This reminds me of some promo albums I’ve received while writing for LOMM, except better executed—which, to be honest, isn’t a high bar to set. Not sure what I think of this yet.
Each minute I was expecting clean vocals to appear, and they didn’t! This is… salvageable.
Well, that certainly was a handful.
This definitely has potential, although I feel the singer isn’t doing this song justice.
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it, I’ve got your strategy here.
Mine is one of these 5.
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I expected something more forceful than this, but I guess they say “fucking” in the chorus, so it counts?
This reminds me of some promo albums I’ve received while writing for LOMM, except better executed—which, to be honest, isn’t a high bar to set. Not sure what I think of this yet.
I’m not convinced by what transpires in the middle of the song, but the ending is ridiculously good, the most memorable thing in this round so far.
Each minute I was expecting clean vocals to appear, and they didn’t! This is… salvageable.
Each minute I was expecting growls to begin, and they did! This was somewhat engaging.
Well, that certainly was a handful.
Each minute I was expecting growls to begin, and they did! This didn’t work at all.
Each minute I was expecting growls to begin, and they didn’t! This is great.
Interesting ballad-like storytelling, and definitely the coolest song title in this batch.
It’s as if someone is singing a lullaby while another guy decided to practice his black metal guitar technique in the background, taking breaks every now and then.
Wait, they had other songs this whole time?
This definitely has potential, although I feel the singer isn’t doing this song justice.
While this is pretty inoffensive, especially compared with some other songs here, I’m not sure it offers anything more than that, at least after one listen.
Man, this might rival Spandau Ballet in how deliberately sweet this is.
My friends on DTF have already told me this is djent, so you’ll have to try again.
This is beautiful. One of two songs this round that sent shivers down my spine on the very first listen. I’m fairly sure you should start planning your strategy for the next five rounds.
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it, I’ve got your strategy here.
A lot of songs in this round have this cheerful, happy vibe I’m not exactly a fan of. Either this one will grow on me, or you’re going to be disappointed in the score.
I think I've safely eliminated all the ones that don't pertain to mine.... :corn
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Okay here we go, Round 2 hangman. I decided to stick with the usual format for now although there may be some bizarro hangman coming up in the later rounds.
???: __a_ ________ - _____ _________ _ - __a________ __ _______
???: A__a___a_ _____ - ______ __a__ a__ a_ A____ ____
???: A____ - _________ _'__ A____ _____
???: ___ - ________
???: ____ _a_a__ - _____'_ ___ __. _
???: _______ _a__ - B_______
???: _______ - A_ _ ____ ____a __a___?
???: _______ - _a_______
???: B______ - ________
???: A__a__a - A__ ___ ___ ____ B____
???: ________ - __ __a__ a ________
???: _____a__ - _a_______ __________ (__ ____ ______)
???: ________ - _a___ __ ____a_ ___a_
???: A____a___ - _________ __ __________
???: _a_______ - _ A._. ______
???: ______a__ - ___a____
???: _a_____ _a____ - __________
???: ____ - B_____ _____
Bonus hangman (rejected songs):
???: ________a_ ________ - ___ ____ ___ _____ B_ ____
???: ___ - ______ __ ___a____
???: ___A - __a________
Letters guessed: AB
Luoto waits 2,5 because he was bold enough to guess a participant without any letters
jingle.boy waits 5 because there were 5 letters B
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A
Is the first one Parama? :lol
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A
Is the first one Parama? :lol
No, but I made his song's name shorter, not including all the movements. Otherwise it would've been the longest one and you would've been correct. :lol I'll update the A above in a minute.
edit: updated!
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B
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Updated above!
Also, as of now, all songs are in. This round is a weird one, I'm not even sure if it's stronger or weaker than the first one. There are songs I absolutely don't want to return to, and there are songs I'm way too eager to return to. And then there are songs that are just... there. I'll be listening during the whole weekend, so we'll see if my impressions will change in any way.
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Sneaking in a C before I have to wait 120.
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One band name didn't have enough letters, fixed that mistake.
???: _ca_ ________ - _____ P______p_ _ - __a________ __ _______
???: A__a___a_ _____ - ______ __a__ a__ a_ A____ ____
???: Alcest - Souvenirs d'un Autre Monde
???: ___ - _p_c____
???: ____ _a_a__ - _____'_ ___ P_. _
???: _______ _a__ - B_____p_
???: _______ - A_ _ ____ ____a C_a___?
???: _______ - _a_______
???: B______ - ________
???: A__a__a - A__ ___ ___ ____ B____
???: ________ - __ __a__ a ________
???: _____a__ - _a___c___ __________ (__ ____ C_____)
???: C______c - _a___ __ ____a_ __ca_
???: A____a___ - _________ __ P__c_p____
???: _a_____c_ - _ A._. ______
???: ______app - ___a____
???: Pa___c_ _a____ - __________
???: ____ - B_____ _____
Bonus hangman (rejected songs):
???: ____c___a_ ________ - ___ ____ ___ _____ B_ ____
???: ___ - ______ __ ___a____
???: ___A - __a________
Letters guessed: CBAP
Luoto waits 2,4 because he was bold enough to guess a participant without any letters 1,9 because he guessed a song 1,8
jingle.boy waits 5 because the amount of letters B hasn't changed
Bolsters waits 1 because I like to subvert the expectations 0,9
senecadawg2 waits 2 because I mean it's in his nickname
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And that was a crucial fix :)
Alcest - Souvenirs d'un Autre Monde
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P
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Updated above!
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Goldfrapp - Stranger
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Scar Symmetry
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wolfking: Scar Symmetry - Ghost Prototype I - Measurement of Thought
???: A__a___a_ __d__ - ______ __a__ a_d a_ A____ ____
???: Alcest - Souvenirs d'un Autre Monde
???: ___ - _p_c____
???: ____ _a_a__ - _____'_ __d P_. _
???: _______ Da__ - B_____p_
???: _______ - A_ _ ____ ____a C_a___?
???: _______ - _a_d_____
???: B______ - ________
???: A__a__a - A_d ___ ___ ____ B____
???: ________ - __ __a__ a ________
???: _____a__ - _a___c___ ________d_ (__ ____ C_____)
???: C______c - _a___ __ ____a_ D_ca_
???: A____a___ - ________d __ P__c_p____
???: _a_____c_ - _ A._. ______
???: Goldfrapp - Stranger
???: Pa___c_ _a____ - __________
???: ____ - B_____ ____d
Bonus hangman (rejected songs):
???: ____c___a_ D____d__ - ___ ____ ___ ____d B_ ____
???: D__ - ______ __ ___a____
???: ___A - __a_______d
Letters guessed: PD CAB
Luoto waits 1,7 because he was bold enough to guess a participant without any letters and then guessed a song
jingle.boy waits 5 because the amount of letters B hasn't changed
Bolsters waits 0,3 because I like to subvert the expectations and he guessed a song
senecadawg2 waits 2 because I mean it's in his nickname
Indiscipline waits 38 because he is wrong about his first impression
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Scar Symmetry
That's Kade.
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And the song is Ghost Prototype I - Measurement of Thought
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What? Nobody asking for the D? Give it to me.
And I call dibs on the ineffectual vocalist impression.
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Show me the OOOOO
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Alright, that's it, no more new letters for a while.
wolfking: Scar Symmetry - Ghost Prototype I - Measurement of Thought
???: A__a___a_ _od__ - ______ __a__ a_d a_ A____ _o__
???: Alcest - Souvenirs d'un Autre Monde
???: Lör - Spectrum
???: Moon Safari - _o___'_ __d P_. _
???: _______ Da__ - B_o_o_p_
???: _______ - A_ _ ____ _o__a C_a___?
LordCost: Rishloo - Landmines
???: B______ - ___o____
???: A__a__a - A_d ___ ___ __o_ B____
???: ________ - _o __a__ a ________
???: _o___a__ - _a___c___ ________d_ (_o O___ Co____)
???: Co_____c - _a___ o_ ____a_ D_cay
???: A____a_o_ - ______o_d o_ P__c_p__o_
???: _a_____c_ - _ A._. ______
???: Goldfrapp - Stranger
???: Pa___c_ _a__o_ - ______o___
???: _o_o - B_____ _o__d
Bonus hangman (rejected songs):
???: ____c___a_ D__o_d__ - ___ _oo_ __o _o__d B_ ____
???: D__ - __o___ o_ ___a___y
???: VOLA - Smartfriend
Letters guessed: BAD COPY
Luoto waits 1,6 because he was bold enough to guess a participant without any letters and then guessed a song
jingle.boy waits 5 because the amount of letters B hasn't changed
Bolsters waits 0,2 because I like to subvert the expectations and he guessed a song
senecadawg2 waits 2 because I mean it's in his nickname
Indiscipline waits 38 because he is wrong about his first impression
Kattelox waits 6 because there are six O's in his post
Kwyjibo waits 48 because he was 48 seconds too late
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I'd like to have a Y, please.
Edit: ok, 48 seconds too late :o
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I see Lor, and it should be TAC.
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Seeing Moon Safari and Rishloo
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I'd like to have a Y, please.
Edit: ok, 48 seconds too late :o
Nah, I'll give you a Y because I decided to check this thread one last time before heading out. :)
I see Lor, and it should be TAC.
Correct band, not TAC though.
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What motherfucker sent Lor?
I considered using them in this roulette.
Awesome album. Awesome!
The song is Spectrum BTW.
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One of the rejected songs is VOLA-Smartfriend.
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One of the rejected songs is VOLA-Smartfriend.
Correct, and to clarify, VOLA isn't banned, but anything from Applause of a Distant Crowd is. I've been listening to this album in preparation for the upcoming Haken gig.
Also fixed a mistake in one of the rejected songs.
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Rishloo is Landmines. Another great tune. Lordcost!
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What motherfucker sent Lor?
I considered using them in this roulette.
Awesome album. Awesome!
Rishloo is Landmines. Another great tune. Lordcost!
If you knew so many great tunes, why did you send the one you sent? :neverusethis:
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Oh boy!! Did it really suck that bad? :lol
I think it rocks big time! Gee, and I thought you grew up and weren't a pussy anymore! :lol :lol
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Just fucking with you man, I've no solid opinion on most of the songs yet, and if I did, I wouldn't tell you anyway. :lol
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;D
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Hey - Toto's Better World is in this batch. I totally thought about sending that! Did king send it?
EDIT: Wait, no, Kwyjibo did. king isn't even in this roulette :lol
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Thought about sending Toto too, but probably a different tune. Still a cool song. :metal
Could have been Indiscipline sending that one.
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Posting this again with a list who wasn't guessed yet:
wolfking: Scar Symmetry - Ghost Prototype I - Measurement of Thought
???: A__an__an _od__ - ______ __a__ and an A____ _o_n
???: Alcest - Souvenirs d'un Autre Monde
???: Lör - Spectrum
???: Moon Safari - _o___'_ _nd P_. _
???: __n____ Da_n - B_o_o_p_
???: _______ - A_ _ ____ _onna C_an__?
LordCost: Rishloo - Landmines
???: B______ - ___o____
???: A__a__a - And ___ ___ __o_ B___n
???: ________ - _o __a__ a ________
???: _o_n_a_n - Nan__c___ ________d_ (_o O__n Co___n)
???: Co___n_c - _a___ o_ ____a_ D_cay
???: A____a_on - ______o_d o_ P__c_p__on
???: _a_____c_ - _ A._. ____n_
???: Goldfrapp - Stranger
???: Pa___c_ _a__on - ______o___
Indiscipline: Toto - Better World
Bonus hangman (rejected songs):
???: S___c___a_ D_so_d__ - ___ _oo_ __o _o__d B_ __n_
???: DGM - Ghosts of Insanity
???: VOLA - Smartfriend
Participants not guessed in the main hangman:
Parama
Elite
Luoto
Stadler
senecadawg2
jingle.boy
TAC
Tyrias
Puppies_On_Acid
Kattelox
Sacul
Kwyjibo
lonestar
romdrums
Lethean
Letters guessed: BOP CANDY
Letters guessed in the bonus hangman: BANDY COPS
Luoto waits 0,8 because I just rolled a d8 and it was 8
jingle.boy can suddenly guess a letter
Bolsters waits 0,1 because man, you really should've played in this one
senecadawg2 waits 2 because I mean it's still in his nickname
Indiscipline can guess a letter because his song was guessed
Kattelox waits 666 because he kicked Elite out of his roulette
Kwyjibo waits 24 because he didn't send Toto
Hey - Toto's Better World is in this batch. I totally thought about sending that! Did king send it?
EDIT: Wait, no, Kwyjibo did. king isn't even in this roulette :lol
King isn't playing, yeah, but Kwyjibo didn't send Toto either. Also your post reminded me to add the list of players whose songs weren't guessed yet.
Thought about sending Toto too, but probably a different tune. Still a cool song. :metal
Could have been Indiscipline sending that one.
This is, in fact, correct.
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Nice Kwyjibo :tup show me N, I demand the Ns appear
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I sent Lor to Puppies in his last roulette. Did he betray me?
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S
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Nice Kwyjibo :tup show me N, I demand the Ns appear
They just did!
I sent Lor to Puppies in his last roulette. Did he betray me?
He did not, which is why I will only give you S in the bonus hangman. :lol But if you can guess the first rejected song—because I know you like that album a lot—I'll give you the rest of the S (read this out loud).
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Lethean sent Ghosts of Insanity by DGM in the rejected list
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Lethean sent Ghosts of Insanity by DGM in the rejected list.
He did not, correct band and song though.
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Damn. I also see Mountain - Nantucket Sleighride (To Owen Coffin)
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Structural Disorder-The Fool Who Would Be King
Another great album!
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Atlantean Kodex
Allegaeon
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Okay, here's your update and I'm going away for an hour or so:
wolfking: Scar Symmetry - Ghost Prototype I - Measurement of Thought
???: Atlantean Kodex - ______ S_a_s and an A____ _o_n
???: Alcest - Souvenirs d'un Autre Monde
???: Lör - Spectrum
???: Moon Safari - _o___'s _nd P_. _
???: S_n__ss Da_n - B_o_o_ph
???: _______ - A_ _ ____ _onna Chan__?
LordCost: Rishloo - Landmines
???: B______ - ___o___s
???: A__a__a - And ___ _h_ Sho_ B___n
???: _______s - _o __as_ a ________
???: Mountain - Nantucket Sleighride (To Owen Coffin)
???: Communic - Waves of Visual Decay
???: Allegaeon - _h__sho_d o_ P__c_p__on
???: _a_s___c_ - _ A._. ____n_
???: Goldfrapp - Stranger
???: Pa___c_ _a_son - ___h_hos__
Indiscipline: Toto - Better World
Bonus hangman (rejected songs):
???: Structural Disorder - The Fool Who Would Be King
???: DGM - Ghosts of Insanity
???: VOLA - Smartfriend
Participants not guessed in the main hangman:
Parama
Elite
Luoto
Stadler
senecadawg2
jingle.boy
TAC
Tyrias
Puppies_On_Acid
Kattelox
Sacul
Kwyjibo
lonestar
romdrums
Lethean
Letters guessed: BAND PSYCHO
Luoto can guess a letter
jingle.boy suddenly can't guess a letter anymore
Bolsters waits 0,1 because man, you really should've played in this one
senecadawg2 waits 2 because I mean it's still in his nickname
Indiscipline can guess a letter because his song was guessed
Kattelox waits 666 because he kicked Elite out of his roulette
Kwyjibo waits 0,5 because he sent half of Toto and look how that turned out!
TAC waits 8 because this number looks like S
Structural Disorder-The Fool Who Would Be King
Another great album!
Indeed, I actually checked it out because I saw you sending it in a lot of roulettes. Also updated the hangman with S.
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So, I'm I the Top 50 v3? :lol
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Kwyjibo waits 24 because he didn't send Toto
I sent half of Toto in the first round, and look where that got me. :D
I actually thought of sending something with Steve Lukather on it for every round, that is if I survive the first two. But then thought better of it. Could have been awesome guitar overkill. :metal :biggrin:
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Mountain has to be a fogey. Homer/scrabble, or the Italian.
And I'll suddenly guess H
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Communic - Waves Of Visual Decay, cool song, who sent that one?
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Mountain has to be a fogey. Homer/scrabble, or the Italian.
Who the fuck is that? :lol Kwyjibo? If so, nope, that's not him. Alex's song is already guessed.
Communic - Waves Of Visual Decay, cool song, who sent that one?
You are, of course, correct.
And I'll suddenly guess H
I'll H you up, man, I'll H you up.
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Extreme - Am I Ever Gonna Change? by Stadler. If that is wrong, Stadler sent Mountain. If that is wrong, I want E. :biggrin:
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Guess a lot and you're bound to get something right, that's something I can get behind!
wolfking: Scar Symmetry - Ghost Prototype I - Measurement of Thought
???: Atlantean Kodex - ______ S_a_s and an A____ Go_n
???: Alcest - Souvenirs d'un Autre Monde
???: Lör - Spectrum
???: Moon Safari - _o___'s _nd P_. _
Parama: Sunless Dawn - Biomorph
???: Extreme - Am I Ever Gonna Change?
LordCost: Rishloo - Landmines
???: B______ - ___o___s
???: Aquaria - And Let the Show Begin
???: _______s - _o __as_ a ________
Stadler: Mountain - Nantucket Sleighride (To Owen Coffin)
???: Communic - Waves of Visual Decay
???: Allegaeon - _h__sho_d o_ P__c_p__on
???: _a_s___c_ - _ A._. ____ng
Sacul: Goldfrapp - Stranger
???: Patrick Watson - Lighthouse
Indiscipline: Toto - Better World
Bonus hangman (rejected songs):
???: Structural Disorder - The Fool Who Would Be King
???: DGM - Ghosts of Insanity
???: VOLA - Smartfriend
Participants not guessed in the main hangman:
Parama
Elite
Luoto
senecadawg2
jingle.boy
TAC
Tyrias
Puppies_On_Acid
Kattelox
Kwyjibo
lonestar
romdrums
Lethean
Letters guessed: BAN GOD PSYCH
Luoto can guess a letter
jingle.boy suddenly can't guess a letter anymore
Bolsters waits 0,1 because man, you really should've played in this one
senecadawg2 waits 2 because I mean it's still in his nickname
Indiscipline can guess a letter because his song was guessed
Kattelox waits 666 because he kicked Elite out of his roulette
Kwyjibo waits 0,5 because he sent half of Toto and look how that turned out!
TAC waits 8 because this number looks like S
Lethean waits 200 because he failed at both of his guesses
Chad didn't send DGM, Parama didn't send Alcest, but Sacul did indeed send Goldfrapp, yes.
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Mountain has to be a fogey. Homer/scrabble, or the Italian.
Who the fuck is that? :lol Kwyjibo? If so, nope, that's not him.
I read that and thought who is he talking about :facepalm: :facepalm: :facepalm:
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G
Did jingle try to send DGM?
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And did Parama send Alcest?
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Sacul sent Goldfrapp, yes?
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Yes! Updated above.
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Aquaria - And Let the Show Begin
Patrick Watson - Lighthouse
man i missed pretty much all of hangmanen while i was sleeping, nice :corn
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Parama: Sunless Dawn - Biomorph
After the Sun has been swallowed, the next thing was apparently obvious ::)
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:rollin
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Parama: Sunless Dawn - Biomorph
After the Sun has been swallowed, the next thing was apparently obvious ::)
Correct!
I'm also playing the songs I've got in plug.dj right now for the next ~90 minutes or so, so if any of you guys are inclined to join, you're welcome.
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E
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wolfking: Scar Symmetry - Ghost Prototype I - Measurement of Thought
???: Atlantean Kodex - __e__e S_a_s and an A___e Go_n
???: Alcest - Souvenirs d'un Autre Monde
???: Lör - Spectrum
???: Moon Safari - _o_e_'s End P_. _
Parama: Sunless Dawn - Biomorph
Kwyjibo: Extreme - Am I Ever Gonna Change?
LordCost: Rishloo - Landmines
???: Be__e_e - _e_o__es
Kattelox: Aquaria - And Let the Show Begin
???: _e____es - _o E_ase a ___e___e
Stadler: Mountain - Nantucket Sleighride (To Owen Coffin)
???: Communic - Waves of Visual Decay
???: Allegaeon - Threshold of Perception
lonestar: Maestrick - I A.M. Living
Sacul: Goldfrapp - Stranger
???: Patrick Watson - Lighthouse
Indiscipline: Toto - Better World
Bonus hangman (rejected songs):
???: Structural Disorder - The Fool Who Would Be King
???: DGM - Ghosts of Insanity
???: VOLA - Smartfriend
Participants not guessed in the main hangman:
Elite
Luoto
senecadawg2
jingle.boy
TAC
Tyrias
Puppies_On_Acid
romdrums
Lethean
Letters guessed: BANGED PSYCHO
Luoto suddenly can't guess a letter anymore
jingle.boy suddenly can't guess a letter anymore
Bolsters waits 0,1 because man, you really should've played in this one
senecadawg2 waits 2 because I mean it's still in his nickname
Indiscipline can guess a letter because his song was guessed
Kattelox waits 666 because he kicked Elite out of his roulette
Kwyjibo waits 0,5 because he sent half of Toto and look how that turned out!
TAC waits 4, why not
Lethean waits 200 because he failed at both of his guesses
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Threshold of Perception
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Did jingle try to send DGM?
No, he did not.
Aquaria is Katt. No one else would dare send that mountain of cheese.
Extreme is Homer/scrabble - jesus people, just look at his avatar!
Maestric / I A.M. Living. I don't know anyone other than me and RJ that know Maestrick, but can't for the life of me figure why he'd send something from this album, and not the debut.
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Did jingle try to send DGM?
No, he did not.
Aquaria is Katt. No one else would dare send that mountain of cheese.
Extreme is Homer/scrabble - jesus people, just look at his avatar!
Maestric / I A.M. Living. I don't know anyone other than me and RJ that know Maestrick, but can't for the life of me figure why he'd send something from this album, and not the debut.
Because I would've rejected anything from Unpuzzle!, earning myself an unhealthy dose of BABYMETAL.
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Did Lethean send DGM?
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Lethean sent Ghosts of Insanity by DGM in the rejected list.
He did not, correct band and song though.
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I bet Lethean sent DGM
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Apparently not. :lol
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Bringing this to this new page:
wolfking: Scar Symmetry - Ghost Prototype I - Measurement of Thought
???: Atlantean Kodex - __e__e S_a_s and an A___e Go_n
???: Alcest - Souvenirs d'un Autre Monde
???: Lör - Spectrum
???: Moon Safari - _o_e_'s End P_. _
Parama: Sunless Dawn - Biomorph
Kwyjibo: Extreme - Am I Ever Gonna Change?
LordCost: Rishloo - Landmines
???: Be__e_e - _e_o__es
Kattelox: Aquaria - And Let the Show Begin
???: _e____es - To Erase a __fe___e
Stadler: Mountain - Nantucket Sleighride (To Owen Coffin)
???: Communic - Waves of Visual Decay
???: Allegaeon - Threshold of Perception
lonestar: Maestrick - I A.M. Living
Sacul: Goldfrapp - Stranger
???: Patrick Watson - Lighthouse
Indiscipline: Toto - Better World
Bonus hangman (rejected songs):
???: Structural Disorder - The Fool Who Would Be King
Not Lethean: DGM - Ghosts of Insanity
???: VOLA - Smartfriend
Participants not guessed in the main hangman:
Elite
Luoto
senecadawg2
jingle.boy
TAC
Tyrias
Puppies_On_Acid
romdrums
Lethean
Letters guessed: BODY CHANGE FPS
Luoto suddenly can't guess a letter anymore
jingle.boy suddenly can't guess a letter anymore
Bolsters waits 0,1 because man, you really should've played in this one
senecadawg2 waits 2 because I mean it's still in his nickname
Indiscipline can guess a letter because his song was guessed
Kattelox waits 666 because he kicked Elite out of his roulette
Kwyjibo waits 0,5 because he sent half of Toto and look how that turned out!
TAC waits 4, why not
Lethean waits 400 because he wanted the D
Puppies_on_Acid waits for the amount of puppies on acid
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F
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No one's guessed D yet? I'll take it when my 200 turns are up.
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No one's guessed D yet? I'll take it when my 200 turns are up.
I'll elevate it to 400, man.
Letters guessed: BODY CHANGE FPS
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Ugh. Not sure how I missed that. :P
Maybe I should guess that I sent DGM...
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seneca sent Patrick Watson? dunno
To Erase a ???
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Did TAC send Extreme?
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No f’n way!!
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:lol Clearly I'm bad at guessing.
But even though Parama didn't send Alcest I thought it was a decent guess since his concept album title has one of their album titles.
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for the record i do listen to alcest, i have three of their albums :lol
i haven't really listened to them recently tho
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Did jingle send Extreme?
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Did jingle send Extreme?
Nope!
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:'(
I think I need a T to console me.
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:'(
I think I need a T to console me.
I mean Extreme is already guessed in the hangman... so I guess I'll go to sleep and give you a T first thing tomorrow morning.
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I think TAC said he's sending growly stuff, so he's either Allegaeon or Textures - To Erase a Lifetime
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I felt smart when I figured out Textures but that was just guessed. Dammit. I bet Lethean sent that?
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Obviously I didn't send Extreme, but I would be proud to have done so. That is a KILLER song.
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I felt smart when I figured out Textures but that was just guessed. Dammit. I bet Lethean sent that?
You already know what I sent, so you're not allowed to guess. Just like I didn't spill the Aquaria beans. :P
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Quite a couple of nice songs :)
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I felt smart when I figured out Textures but that was just guessed. Dammit. I bet Lethean sent that?
You already know what I sent, so you're not allowed to guess. Just like I didn't spill the Aquaria beans. :P
Dang it.
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Did jingle try to send DGM?
No, he did not.
Aquaria is Katt. No one else would dare send that mountain of cheese.
Extreme is Homer/scrabble - jesus people, just look at his avatar!
Maestric / I A.M. Living. I don't know anyone other than me and RJ that know Maestrick, but can't for the life of me figure why he'd send something from this album, and not the debut.
Because I would've rejected anything from Unpuzzle!, earning myself an unhealthy dose of BABYMETAL.
(https://i.giphy.com/media/fqzxcmlY7opOg/200.gif)
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Plus I'd say of both their albums, that track is my favorite, even though Unpuzzle! is overall a better album. But then again, Ruslan will probably hate it and I'll be sent packing.
If Allegaeon doesn't win this round, there's something seriously wrong with the world.
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This reminds me of some promo albums I’ve received while writing for LOMM, except better executed—which, to be honest, isn’t a high bar to set. Not sure what I think of this yet.
I’m not convinced by what transpires in the middle of the song, but the ending is ridiculously good, the most memorable thing in this round so far.
Well, that certainly was a handful.
Wait, they had other songs this whole time?
This is beautiful. One of two songs this round that sent shivers down my spine on the very first listen. I’m fairly sure you should start planning your strategy for the next five rounds.
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it, I’ve got your strategy here.
I am late to the party, but mine is in one of these. It could be also one of the negative ones but I am positive this round. The one about the great ending and 'If it ain't broke, don't fix it one' are my two bets.
TAC sent Structural Disorder?
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wolfking: Scar Symmetry - Ghost Prototype I - Measurement of Thought
???: Atlantean Kodex - Twelve Stars and an Azure Gown
???: Alcest - Souvenirs d'un Autre Monde
???: Lör - Spectrum
???: Moon Safari - Lo_e_'s End Pt. _
Parama: Sunless Dawn - Biomorph
Kwyjibo: Extreme - Am I Ever Gonna Change?
LordCost: Rishloo - Landmines
???: Believe - Memories
Kattelox: Aquaria - And Let the Show Begin
???: Textures - To Erase a Lifetime
Stadler: Mountain - Nantucket Sleighride (To Owen Coffin)
???: Communic - Waves of Visual Decay
TAC: Allegaeon - Threshold of Perception
lonestar: Maestrick - I A.M. Living
Sacul: Goldfrapp - Stranger
???: Patrick Watson - Lighthouse
Indiscipline: Toto - Better World
Bonus hangman (rejected songs):
???: Structural Disorder - The Fool Who Would Be King
???: DGM - Ghosts of Insanity
???: VOLA - Smartfriend
Participants not guessed in the main hangman:
Elite
Luoto
senecadawg2
jingle.boy
Tyrias
Puppies_On_Acid
romdrums
Lethean
Letters guessed: BANG CHOMPS DEFTLY
Anyone can guess a letter if they so desire
TAC sent Structural Disorder?
He did not.
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Let's see the L
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Elite sent Moon Safari?
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Elite sent Moon Safari?
He didn't, unfortunately.
Look, Rich, I'm not the only one! Here's a slice of conversation we had via PMs:
...I wonder why the hell you'd want me to send Cardiacs or Mr. Bungle, if not to kick me out immediately :lol I have never sent Six Roaming OwlsThe Flaming Lips or Moon Safari in a roulette before, so I don't know where you got that.
...I didn't quite want you to send that, but I thought that might be one of your strategies. And I was honestly pretty sure Moon Safari was your band! Oh well.
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Atlantean Codex: Twelve Stars and an Azure Gown
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Indeed, my man, indeed!
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Believe - Memories
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Lover's End part something. I for part 1?
Did jingle send Moon Safari?
(Eventually I'll get one right)
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Lover's End part something. I for part 1?
Did jingle send Moon Safari?
(Eventually I'll get one right)
Eventually you will.
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Well no one else is guessing. :P
Elite - Alcest?
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Hmm. I don't know any of the remaining songs, so I wouldn't know whose tastes they align with.
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wolfking: Scar Symmetry - Ghost Prototype I - Measurement of Thought
???: Atlantean Kodex - Twelve Stars and an Azure Gown
senecadawg2: Alcest - Souvenirs d'un Autre Monde
???: Lör - Spectrum
jingle.boy: Moon Safari - Lover's End Pt. 1
Parama: Sunless Dawn - Biomorph
Kwyjibo: Extreme - Am I Ever Gonna Change?
LordCost: Rishloo - Landmines
???: Believe - Memories
Kattelox: Aquaria - And Let the Show Begin
???: Textures - To Erase a Lifetime
Stadler: Mountain - Nantucket Sleighride (To Owen Coffin)
???: Communic - Waves of Visual Decay
TAC: Allegaeon - Threshold of Perception
lonestar: Maestrick - I A.M. Living
Sacul: Goldfrapp - Stranger
???: Patrick Watson - Lighthouse
Indiscipline: Toto - Better World
Bonus hangman (rejected songs):
Elite: Structural Disorder - The Fool Who Would Be King
romdrums: DGM - Ghosts of Insanity
Elite: VOLA - Smartfriend
Participants not guessed in the main hangman:
Elite
Luoto
Tyrias
Puppies_On_Acid
romdrums
Lethean
Letters guessed: BANG CHOMPS DEFTLY
Anyone can guess a letter if they so desire
Chad did indeed send Moon Safari, but Elite didn't send Alcest.
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Did I send two banned songs?
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No idea if people already guessed these and were wrong, but:
Alcest = seneca?
Lör = Puppies?
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Did I send two banned songs?
How did you know?
No idea if people already guessed these and were wrong, but:
Alcest = seneca?
Lör = Puppies?
Got one out of two, not bad!
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results when :corn
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Wednesday, most probably.
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two days until i die :metal
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two days until i die :metal
I think I'm right with ya...
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As it seems the guessing has subsided, here's the completed hangman:
wolfking: Scar Symmetry - Ghost Prototype I - Measurement of Thought
Puppies_On_Acid: Atlantean Kodex - Twelve Stars and an Azure Gown
senecadawg2: Alcest - Souvenirs d'un Autre Monde
Elite: Lör - Spectrum
jingle.boy: Moon Safari - Lover's End Pt. 1
Parama: Sunless Dawn - Biomorph
Kwyjibo: Extreme - Am I Ever Gonna Change?
LordCost: Rishloo - Landmines
Lethean: Believe - Memories
Kattelox: Aquaria - And Let the Show Begin
romdrums: Textures - To Erase a Lifetime
Stadler: Mountain - Nantucket Sleighride (To Owen Coffin)
Luoto: Communic - Waves of Visual Decay
TAC: Allegaeon - Threshold of Perception
lonestar: Maestrick - I A.M. Living
Sacul: Goldfrapp - Stranger
Tyrias: Patrick Watson - Lighthouse
Indiscipline: Toto - Better World
Bonus hangman (rejected songs):
Elite: Structural Disorder - The Fool Who Would Be King
romdrums: DGM - Ghosts of Insanity
Elite: VOLA - Smartfriend
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Did Lethean send DGM?
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Did Lethean send DGM?
The Fall and the Flood?
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Did Lethean send DGM?
The Fall and the Flood?
Off the album Serious Black?
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The Grand Conjuration by Scar
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Oh I love that album, Angela's Got Your Back :metal
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two days until i die :metal
...or is it?
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TONIGHT
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Round 2 Results:
Luoto: Communic – Waves of Visual Decay
First impression: Each minute I was expecting growls to begin, and they didn’t! This is great.
Honestly, that was to be expected if anyone actually have heard this song, because this is exactly the kind of dark progressive metal music that was all over my latest Top 50 Albums Thread. Need, Wolverine, Evergrey, Vanden Plas, those kind of bands. This doesn’t invent anything new in the genre. This band simply takes the usual formula for dark progressive metal and gives it a little spin of their own, with the singer that sounds a bit rough, but also belts some unexpected high notes.
Catchy, changing, never overstaying its welcome even though it’s over eight minutes, engaging the listener with both well thought out melodies and fitting riffs, this scratches my itch for the progressive metal I’ve been into lately, and this band goes straight on my check out list. I’m impressed. Why the hell did I even give you immunity? You would’ve nailed this even without it. Welcome to the main part, maybe this time you will get it right.
9/10
LordCost: Rishloo - Landmines
First impression: I’m not convinced by what transpires in the middle of the song, but the ending is ridiculously good, the most memorable thing in this round so far.
One week in, I’m moderately convinced by what transpires in the middle of the song, and yet the ending is still so ridiculously good, the rest of the song just can’t reach it. Instead, it builds the whole thing to this perfect climax.
The beginning here is chilling and beautiful, and then the song goes on an adventure by itself. I feel like it’s balancing right on the edge of madness, with those slight vocal effects and questing vocal passages, swaying from highly intense to calmer sections. I’m still not exactly convinced that was the best way to organize the main bulk of the song, but it works and I grew familiar with all the changes it offers during that short period of time; and when the song hits the calm section which goes into the guitar solo which goes into the ending, I know I’m in for a fucking good time.
I have no idea what this song is about, as the lyrics don’t make any sense (sixteen points to make? mnemonic man?), but once again they make for a perfect singing material, as the singer makes those syllables flow in “I've had enough of idle reverie / I for one can only see / What dreams may come for us / I've had enough of flight and gravity / Spill me out evolved and screaming: I'm not meaningless”. This ending is fantastic. This song is great. Thank you.
9/10
Sacul: Goldfrapp - Stranger
First impression: This is beautiful. One of two songs this round that sent shivers down my spine on the very first listen. I’m fairly sure you should start planning your strategy for the next five rounds.
While this song has lost a bit of its charm over the week, this is still a beautiful, warm and dusky song that still sends shivers down my spine during the wordless part after “I’m drifting deep, deeper in”. I like the soft melancholy of this song, and I like her voice a lot, although she really could’ve enunciate some words better, because sometimes she sounds like she’s trying to sing with her mouth full.
Actually, this reminds me of that album you sent in the weekly album thread, Beth Gibbons and Rustin’ Man. This has a similar warm, autumn-ish atmosphere, and small wonder I enjoyed this. As I said, it lost a bit of staying power as I started to pick on her accent and way of singing, but I was always glad to hear this song come up in the rotation.
8/10
Puppies_On_Acid: Atlantean Kodex – Twelve Stars and an Azure Gown
First impression: Interesting ballad-like storytelling, and definitely the coolest song title in this batch.
This song meets the meaning of “ballad” in its original form, which I have found interesting. Epic, plodding atmosphere, anthemic chorus, and the verses slightly change the pace as the story progresses; this truly feels like an anthem, a hymn, a praising ballad.
High points here are the changing verses—I loved when the song suddenly switched into a high gear, classic heavy metal style—and the transitions between sections. Low points are the spoken word sections, which I didn’t get at all, the vocals which are quite an acquired taste and, I felt, could’ve used more power behind them. And I would say the repetitive chorus is a problem, too. But then again, the chorus is quite good by itself, so while I do think it’s repeated a little too many times in the song as it is (perhaps they should’ve changed it a bit each time?), I found I’ve enjoyed singing along with it.
While nowhere near the two best songs of this round, this song was good, simple as that.
7.5/10
wolfking: Scar Symmetry – Ghost Prototype I – Measurement of Thought
First impression: Each minute I was expecting growls to begin, and they did! This was somewhat engaging.
This is more like it! I stand by my words, this is indeed somewhat engaging, with great guitar tone, nice vocals and catchy songwriting. The growls, when they appear, don’t detract from the song at all, and actually enhance this simple metal song to a somewhat menacing, heavier entity. The instrumental break is cohesive and in line with the rest of this track; short enough to not overstay its welcome, but long enough to evolve on the ideas presented.
One of the things this song could do a bit better is, perhaps, to make the chorus a bit more aggressive. As it stands now, the song is playing it safe until the growls come, then goes adventurous with the guitar solo, and then retreats back into a safe space behind the walls of its chorus. This was an enjoyable listen, though.
7/10
Indiscipline: Toto – Better World
First impression: Wait, they had other songs this whole time?
Well, my experience with Toto is obviously somewhat limited, as I only know one song. The most refreshing thing about the song you sent was the vocals, which were memorable and had a pleasant tone, because that’s honestly more than I can say about half of the songs in this round.
I liked the restrained instrumentation during the vocal performance, tastefully done. I liked the guitar solo between the first vocal section and the last one. What I can’t really comprehend is the need for a two minutes long intro, which, as it gets more progressive, doesn’t fit the rest of the song at all—the song even stops before it leads into the first verse. Neither have I understood the need for the outro, which takes another minute of instrumentation I could’ve lived without, also not quite connected to the main bulk of the song.
This could’ve been a fine song under five minutes, and then it would’ve cracked the “good” barrier, but as it stands, more than a third of this song don’t fit with the rest of it.
6.5/10
Tyrias: Patrick Watson - Lighthouse
First impression: If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it, I’ve got your strategy here.
This is very different from Miðaftann, of course. This song has a floating, dreamy vibe, with just the piano in the background and the lightest touches of instrumentation, and the singer quietly wails over them. I always associate lighthouses with something dramatic, you know, probably because of White Pearls, Black Oceans song by Sonata Arctica, but even then, my recent favourite lighthouse song by iamthemorning is still pretty dramatic. This song isn’t dramatic, although the grand ending with trumpets (are those trumpets?) may suggest so; it’s more like a… very relaxed ballad. While this is nice, I feel that the ending either didn’t had enough buildup, because for me, it comes out of nowhere, and the rest of the song was too dreamlike, lacking real substance.
Well, your strategy still worked, because I enjoyed, but it’s not even close to Miðaftann or even Stranger, the song that robbed you of another 0.5 bonus for your ability.
6.5/10
jingle.boy: Moon Safari – Lover’s End
First impression: Man, this might rival Spandau Ballet in how deliberately sweet this is.
Look, I’ve never said “deliberately sweet” is a bad thing.
Of course, this is not exactly the songs I usually tend to love. Happy songs often don’t quite excite me—though sometimes they do—and while I’m afraid this also falls under the “happy” label in my book, this has this almost wistful quality to you that does have a certain impact on me. The chorus here is a bit annoying, and overall the song balances on a brink of being too sweet, but somehow it manages to balance on it all the way through and land somewhere between average and good.
I won’t go out of the way to listen to this song, and—you would probably think it a blasphemy—I liked the Spandau Ballet song more, but this is decent. Not sure if it puts it in the upper or the lower half of this round.
6.5/10
Lethean: Believe - Memories
First impression: This definitely has potential, although I feel the singer isn’t doing this song justice.
This might be the most frustrating song of this round, because it does a lot of things right: the mournful beginning, good transition into heavy guitars, fantastic usage of strings, and even the verses work alright in context of the song. And that’s where the horrible chorus comes in.
Not only the chorus exposes this nasal whining tone of the singer on “I’m lonely, all in my memories”, it also does it while the strings are playing happily in the background (at least the first few times the chorus appears), and I half expected to see a Russian traditional dance ensemble to spin away happily on scene while this chorus was playing. And the chorus is actually not bad when it’s toned down in the final part of the song, but the way he holds those notes during faster parts is akin to nails on a chalkboard for me.
I feel I shouldn’t be that fixated on a bad chorus, because the rest of the song actually works quite well. In fact, the only thing that doesn’t work is two choruses in the middle of the song. This certainly have enough good aspects to warrant a score above average, but thanks to the chorus, not only does it not qualify as good, is also fails to award you bonus points for your ability.
6/10
TAC: Allegaeon – Threshold of Perception
First impression: Each minute I was expecting clean vocals to appear, and they didn’t! This is… salvageable.
Well, at first I thought you were running away with it, as the beginning of this tune rivaled the Human Supremacy Illusion with its brilliant slow start effortlessly flowing into the ever-going guitar shredding along with female choir (or probably synth effect). Then it turned out that this song is full-growls, no clean vocals.
This song was a huge advantage over the other growl-fronted songs in this round. It’s neither plodding, nor it’s a full blast beat assault. It keeps moving, it keeps the riffs going, chugging at the fast pace, and it also gives the song a little space to breathe with the instrumental interludes before it launches into another growl assault. It also seems like there are two singers here, which is a welcome variety.
So what I dislike here is that I feel that the full-on growling vocal technique all the way through the song makes this song extremely one-dimensional. There are no vocal melodies on this song, not like on some of the Insomnium songs, even with growls, Ephemeral comes to mind. I can’t sing along to this. To draw some comparisons, this is also like a heavy freight train chugging along the tracks at the highest pace. It doesn’t get into a trainwreck, but if you aren’t a particular fan of trains, it’s not that engaging to watch it going forward and forward.
6/10
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Kattelox: Aquaria – And Let the Show Begin
First impression: This reminds me of some promo albums I’ve received while writing for LOMM, except better executed—which, to be honest, isn’t a high bar to set. Not sure what I think of this yet.
So, here’s a little story. When I was writing for Lady Obscure Music Magazine, they used to send out promos via e-mail, and there would be a lot of different albums by basically unknown bands, or well-known in certain circles but not yet popular on metal scene. This is how I discovered Need, Temperance and some other great bands, and this is also how I discovered some of the shittiest power metal I’ve ever encountered. But mostly power metal was average, you know. Elves, dwarves, shadows over Lothadruin, a touch of evil, nasty monsters overcoming the land, with loads of double bass and somewhat weak or average vocals with the guitarist who thought he was the next whoever’s doing great solos in power metal. And fake orchestra in the interludes, because that, apparently, was almost a requirement, can’t go anywhere without fake orchestra.
So what am I telling you this? Because this reminds me of that kind of power metal, and to be honest, I’m a bit over it. I found it funny that you claimed to be over your power metal phase, and then a lot of power metal songs got more than a 9 (including Serious Black, which actually rocks and is a lot of different from this song), and I find it a bit funny that I actually like this song somewhat—in a stupid kind of way, because it brings me back those hilarious memories of all those promo albums I’ve been listening to.
So, I wish the double bass wasn’t as prominent here, and I wish they didn’t rely on these fake orchestral sounds, and I wish for a lot more, but this is just what the genre is; only taken to eleven. I don’t think it’s bad, in fact, I think this is relatively well executed compared to a lot of happy, fantasy-based power metal. It’s happy, it’s over the top, it’s praising light, it does a lot of things right. But I definitely don’t care about this as much as I should. And I guess that’s it.
6/10
Elite: Lör - Spectrum
First impression: none. The song wasn’t in yet during that part.
This kind of viking epic metal can be a little hit or miss with me, and your song came very late because of two songs I had to reject, so that may be the reason, although I managed to squeeze five full listens, but this doesn’t do much for me, I’m afraid. Oh, it has interesting stuff going on, and the growls here are at least totally justified, but it feels quite generic to me.
I would say the little calm sections are where this song shines the brightest, especially the one at 5:30, preparing the listener for the final showdown, except the showdown feels like a Disney-sounding Viking-themed fake orchestral section, and then choir vocals over the blast beats. I don’t know, either I haven’t managed to crack this song in five listens, or this is simply just not for me. It’s not even bad, it’s just very average.
5/10
Stadler: Mountain – Nantucket Sleighride (To Owen Coffin)
First impression: While this is pretty inoffensive, especially compared with some other songs here, I’m not sure it offers anything more than that, at least after one listen.
Rereading my first impression now, well, looks like I was correct. This song goes on for six whole minutes, and I remember how it goes, and I can even hum you the verses and the choruses, but, honestly, whenever it comes up, I’m just sitting there for six minutes, fighting boredom. It’s a good one to fall asleep to during my morning commute, that’s for sure. It’s probably more a knock against my tastes than against the song, because I’m sure there are people who enjoy it, and I can appreciate it for what it is — a well-written song.
But as far as I’m concerned, this song could’ve been missing from my rotation for the last week, and I wouldn’t have felt neither relief nor regret. This is the very definition of an average song for me. You mileage may vary, of course.
5/10
Kwyjibo: Extreme – Am I Ever Gonna Change?
First impression: I expected something more forceful than this, but I guess they say “fucking” in the chorus, so it counts?
With the name like Extreme I expected some extreme metal, man, this left me disappointed. Seriously though, it has left me disappointed, but not because it’s not extreme metal with growls, and not because they only have “fucking” in one chorus. It’s just a very safe and very unexciting song.
I think the problem may simply be with my age, the songs you guys perhaps find exciting and generation-shaping just don’t do anything for me in context of this roulette, and I keep favoring newer prog songs over them—although, in my defense, I really liked that MSG song Stadler sent me, so that may not be the case after all. I also can’t quite articulate what about this (Extreme) song and the Mountain song doesn’t grab me, because, to be honest, it’s pretty much nothing. It’s just so bland for me. In fact, you have been consistent in your performance, because Steve Lukather’s instrumental left me feeling almost exactly the same. Nice, listenable, but pretty average.
5/10
senecadawg2: Alcest - Souvenirs D'Un Autre Monde
First impression: It’s as if someone is singing a lullaby while another guy decided to practice his black metal guitar technique in the background, taking breaks every now and then.
I can definitely see how “post-rock shoegaze” is an apt description to this song. The rhythms are very Agalloch-like, which would’ve been the first thought that popped up in my head, if not for the peculiar juxtaposition between the music in the heavier parts and a mind-numbingly boring, droning vocal track. Once again, I realize that this is an intentional choice for this genre, and this singer at least has nice voice, but the vocal track killed all the excitement I may have had for this song. I guess you can call this vocal delivery soft and dreamy, but there’s something about it that struck a particularly wrong chord with me.
Musically, this is not bad, especially without black metal guitars in the background. The acoustic parts are beautiful. Perhaps what they tried to achieve here is to treat vocals just like another instrument, and as the rest of the music isn’t very flashy, so are the vocals. But hell, each time the vocals just stopped me dead in my tracks. I couldn’t get past them. Never thought I’d say it, but this song would’ve been better with growls. I would say the instrumental parts balance out the droning vocal track a bit in terms of the score, but still, if this is a good representation of what this band sounds like, I’ll pass.
5/10
lonestar: Maestrick – I A.M. Living
First impression: A lot of songs in this round have this cheerful, happy vibe I’m not exactly a fan of. Either this one will grow on me, or you’re going to be disappointed in the score.
It didn’t.
Most of the times, happy prog doesn’t quite do it for me, although there are certain exceptions I’m always glad to find, so I’m sincerely thankful you guys keep trying it out, because perhaps I will find something that suits my tastes in happy progressive music… but it won’t be Maestrick, that’s for sure.
This song, man, it just does nothing for me. The melodies are bland and forgettable, the instrumentation is nice enough, but not enough to save this song. The instrumental break is where it gets somewhat interesting, but that’s it. The only part where I’m at least a bit engaged in the song. I thought perhaps Unpuzzle! was a odd one, because I know some DTFers love that one, but I guess it just isn’t for me.
It’s unfortunate to send you packing your bags, RJ, especially after you sent me a lot of great stuff in the first two roulettes, but if Zero Hour and Maestrick is the best you’ve got left in those deep coffers of yours, perhaps it’s best to let some of the young blood shine. Thanks for participating!
4/10
romdrums: Textures – To Erase a Lifetime
First impression: Each minute I was expecting growls to begin, and they did! This didn’t work at all.
Look, good news for you is that you should rely on your instincts in roulettes more, they’re apparently quite fine-tuned. DGM song would’ve fared way better than this, and I’m not even the biggest fan of DGM, although Ghosts of Insanity rocks indeed. Bad news is that you will probably be out after this fiasco.
This song unfolds like a inevitable trainwreck—you can just guess where the whole situation is going as the train is chugging along the track just a little too fast, and then it goes off the rails, and while you can’t tear your eyes away as it’s too fascinating to watch, you can’t shake the feeling that something terrible has just happened. This song is exactly like that, it started out nice enough, but something underneath the melodies just hinted at the upcoming growls. When they came, I thought, hey, fine, a bit of growls won’t hurt… then the song turned into a cookie-monster fest with headache-inducing guitar rhythms and then a fullblown blast beat massacre with growls all over it.
I don’t know about a lifetime, but I would surely love to erase the last three or four minutes of this song.
3/10
Parama: Sunless Dawn - Biomorph
First impression: Well, that certainly was a handful.
I’m not entirely sure if you did this just out of spite, or you really thought I may enjoy a fifteen minutes long song which has only a few clean vocals overall. You know, sometimes they say that if you don’t have anything positive to say, you should stay silent, so for once, let’s focus on the positive things here.
The intro, aka Biomorph I – Polarity Portrayed, is nice and sets the tone for the rest of the fantastic folk metal song that never comes. The whole suite has a few great guitar solos and instrumental passages. The whole suite is better than The Hirsch Effekt. I found it curious that just as The Hirsch Effekt yells NIIIICHTS NIIIICHTS NIIIICHTS NIIIICHTS, this one ends this brilliant suite with BIOMOOOOORPH BIOMOOOOORPH BIOMOOOOORPH with the ever present blast beats.
The intro was really good though.
3/10
Scoreboard:
Luoto: 17 (immunity)
Tyrias: 16.5
LordCost: 16
TAC: 15 (immunity)
Sacul: 15
jingle.boy: 14.5 (immunity)
Puppies_On_Acid: 14.5
Stadler: 13.5
Indiscipline: 13.5
Kattelox: 12.5
wolfking: 12.5
Lethean: 10.5
senecadawg: 10.5 (immunity)
Kwyjibo: 10
romdrums: 9.5
Elite: 9
lonestar: 7
Parama: 5
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The "I've had enough of idle reverie" line in Landmines gives me chills. Just amazing.
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I don't really understand how you sent some of the stuff you sent me in my last roulette and then turn around and rate the two songs I sent this roulette this low but whatevs man :P
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I spent three months searching out music for your roulette, and I really did a good poker face at how much I liked some of those, to be honest.
The "I've had enough of idle reverie" line in Landmines gives me chills. Just amazing.
No shit, this is a fantastic moment.
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To the eliminated participants: thank you everyone for participating. I'm sad to eliminate you guys, but 18 participants is just a bit too much. I appreciated that you spared the time to play in this!
To everyone who's in:
Round 3: Open Round w/ Optional Theme: Song from 2018
The length limit is 10 minutes unless you have an ability to ignore it, in which case you're free to use it as you wish.
Please try and send for this round in 48 hours from now on.
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At least I got to set the record for lowest average score in a roulette :metal
I dunno why you'd send stuff you don't even like though :P I remember even asking you about that and you were like "no I really do like this stuff train was just joking about me saying I didn't like anything i was sending" or something but you didn't win anyways so ehh I don't really care which it is anyways
I might still send you an EP for the heck of it, I had an idea of one that would average about 2.5/10 per song
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Oh well, it was fun while it lasted. Thanks for having me.
PS: I'm not really convinded that it's an age thing. It's just different tastes.
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The "I've had enough of idle reverie" line in Landmines gives me chills. Just amazing.
+1 I really love that part of the song. I'm struggling with the Rishloo album that it's on, but will always love the end of that song.
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And if you check out Communic, definitely listen not only to Waves but also to Conspiracy in Mind, which imo is even better.
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Holy balls Batman I can't believe I skated through. I'm disappointed you didn't seem to enjoy that so I don't think I'll be lasting very long, but we'll see. I think Aquaria is one of the standout bands in power metal. Very few write with the sophistication they have.
Re: power metal in my roulette, MANY of those bands are bands I've never even heard of. Big surprises there. I guess I've just been hearing a lot of bad power metal over the years.
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Ok... middle of the pack. That's cool, and you're totally fair with your assessment of the song. If I could've, I'd have sent a different song, but their best ones are all over 10 mins.
Remind us again the 'bonus' for matching the theme? 2018 was a 'solid' year for music, but not a lot jumped out at me as God-tier... and considering my AOTY is something you were kinda 'meh' about, and #2 is Mystery I'm already dipping into not-so-God-tier music. So, I might just forego the theme unless it's worth the risk.
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Remind us again the 'bonus' for matching the theme? 2018 was a 'solid' year for music, but not a lot jumped out at me as God-tier... and considering my AOTY is something you were kinda 'meh' about, and #2 is Mystery I'm already dipping into not-so-God-tier music. So, I might just forego the theme unless it's worth the risk.
Bonus is 1 (one) additional point if you send the best song among the themed ones.
And if you check out Communic, definitely listen not only to Waves but also to Conspiracy in Mind, which imo is even better.
I sure will, they're on my radar now.
Holy balls Batman I can't believe I skated through. I'm disappointed you didn't seem to enjoy that so I don't think I'll be lasting very long, but we'll see. I think Aquaria is one of the standout bands in power metal. Very few write with the sophistication they have.
I don't think it was the writing itself, it was the sound that grated on my ears. Happy power metal is something I don't seem to like anymore.
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Say, can I give my immunity idol to RJ?
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71nX0iXiV%2BL._SX355_.jpg)
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:lol
Well to be honest, Zero Hour was a knee jerk send, and Maestrick is your fault for not liking good music. I have other stuff loaded that I was saving for the themed rounds, now I'll just enjoy them in my solitude.
Thanks for having me bro!!
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:lol
Well to be honest, Zero Hour was a knee jerk send, and Maestrick is your fault for not liking good music. I have other stuff loaded that I was saving for the themed rounds, now I'll just enjoy them in my solitude.
Thanks for having me bro!!
Fair enough. Thanks for playing!
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Maybe this time I will get it RIIIIIGHT! I'll probably send tomorrow :)
And if you check out Communic, definitely listen not only to Waves but also to Conspiracy in Mind, which imo is even better.
Waves is their best album for me, followed by Payment of Existence and Conspiracy in third. While it's by no means bad the songwriting and performance on Conspiracy just isn't as mature. It has Silence Surrounds though which is simply superb (I like History Reversed and The Distance too).
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Which song had the first impression that your friends told you it was djent?
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Top half on Ev's roulette? Hell yeah :metal
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The "I've had enough of idle reverie" line in Landmines gives me chills. Just amazing.
+1 I really love that part of the song. I'm struggling with the Rishloo album that it's on, but will always love the end of that song.
Yeah, LordCost sent that to me in my roulette, and let's just say the album didn't have the same effect on me as the song. :lol
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And if you check out Communic, definitely listen not only to Waves but also to Conspiracy in Mind, which imo is even better.
Waves is their best album for me, followed by Payment of Existence and Conspiracy in third. While it's by no means bad the songwriting and performance on Conspiracy just isn't as mature. It has Silence Surrounds though which is simply superb (I like History Reversed and The Distance too).
I think Payment is a big step down from the first two, and Conspiracy is full of energy that Waves sometimes lacks, but that's tastes. ;D So evermind, don't listen to me, listen to him. ;)
Have you heard The Bottom Deep or Where Echoes Gather? Are they any good?
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Well, still in second place, so I'm not complaining too much. I too like Midaftinn slightly more than Lighthouse, though I would probably score it slightly higher than you did.
Now let's see if I have anyting from 2018 that's not banned.
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Reading the other write-ups...
because this is exactly the kind of dark progressive metal music that was all over my latest Top 50 Albums Thread. Need, Wolverine, Evergrey, Vanden Plas, those kind of bands
Fuck me, I am going to BOMB this roulette. I should have done all my research beforehand :lol The only song I know in the ones that scored best (except Toto) is Rishloo's Landmines and I really like that song.
I'm going to have to send stuff I'm not crazy about if I want to advance. So, you're getting some landmines for real :lol
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Wow, I'm really not playing like someone who deserves immunity at this point :lol Gonna have to figure something out in the next couple rounds.
Also, I wouldn't give up on Alcest just yet. They do have a lot of heavier, darker songs than the one I chose, which sounds like what you might have preferred.
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so, I'm out?
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Now let's see if I have anyting from 2018 that's not banned.
Apparently, I don't. Well, it's nice that themes are optional :lol.
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And in a shocking and revolting development, I sent a 2018 song!
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I sent a 2011 song.
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I sent a 2011 song.
(https://i.imgur.com/vEuM55S.jpg)
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The "I've had enough of idle reverie" line in Landmines gives me chills. Just amazing.
+1 I really love that part of the song. I'm struggling with the Rishloo album that it's on, but will always love the end of that song.
Yeah, LordCost sent that to me in my roulette, and let's just say the album didn't have the same effect on me as the song. :lol
Landmines was the first song I liked of the album and that helped me to try again the rest of the album, it was a grower for what I remember. Just A Ride is another fantastic song on par with Landmines, while Dead Rope Machine and Dark Charade follows closely those two in my ranking and they are still excellent.
Those are all the songs that end with a climax, and even if I recognize that they used a lot this trick I don't care because they are all so good.
Feathergun In The Garden Of The Sun and Katsushika are other Rishloo songs I frequently have in rotation from their previous album Feathergun, you can also give a try to them. I thought about changing Rishloo song this time, but it was a good choice in the end to persevere with the good old Landmines.
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Sent for round 3
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Which song had the first impression that your friends told you it was djent?
VOLA - Smartfriend, which was what Elite sent at the time.
so, I'm out?
Unfortunately, yeah.
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that vola song is very djent
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So it was rejected because people told you it was djent? Or Elite could just tell from that comment that it was his and it was going to get a bad score so he swapped it? Hmm...
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i think ev mentioned he'd already listened to that album a decent bit
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That's a good song. :corn
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That's a good song. :corn
Do you have something dark and brooding picked out yet?
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Yeah, "it's djent so try again" was a joke impression, I knew that album because I was spinning it quite a bit in preparation for Bent Knee / VOLA / Haken gig.
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Sent a whole lot of 2018.
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Sent
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That's a good song. :corn
Do you have something dark and brooding picked out yet?
The song I sent is beautiful and makes me cry :corn
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I need one more song. Listening begins today on my commute from work.
This round will probably take a little longer as I have Delain gig on Saturday and then I'm flying to Hamburg for a five-days vacation, from Monday to Friday. We'll probably do first impressions and hangman before that, but results may have to wait before next weekend.
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That's me. Just doing some work here at home and will send something in an hour or two. Not a clue what though.
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All good, man, it wasn't even 48 hours since the results were posted.
Just realized tomorrow is the day Moonglow comes out... there is a certain chance I'll be listening to that instead of the roulette songs. We'll see!
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You aren't allowed to hear Moonglow till you post results :metal
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You aren't allowed to hear Moonglow till you post results :metal
And thus, Katt was instantly eliminated.
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:lol After what I sent I might be cut right away!
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You aren't allowed to hear Moonglow till you post results :metal
You're allowed to fuck right off. :biggrin:
I did listen to the songs today, but as I put the playlist on shuffle, I have no idea which song was which. A lot of variety in this round again.
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Yellow card! Abusive treatment of participants! :lol
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Who's Moonglow?
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Who's Moonglow?
At first I was like :|
But then I :lol
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Just cause I'm eliminated doesn't mean I can't troll. If anything, elimination frees me...
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Isn't Moonglow your nickname for Jackie?
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Real life got a little busy, so I still haven't listened to Moonglow, and I have to leave for Delain concert in a couple of hours, but meanwhile, have some first impressions:
I see, the good old “I passed the elimination point, now it’s time to send whatever I want” strategy.
The acoustic guitar solo was an interesting choice and easily the most memorable part of the song so far.
Holy shit, this album art is spectacular. The design is fabulous. The song isn’t too shabby either.
I wondered when people will start cheating in this roulette.
Good thing this was short, because the vocals grated on me a bit.
You seem to have a knack for picking songs with strong vocals, although I started to wonder if this song will ever end.
It seems like they had this one idea and built the whole song around it.
This has to be the most unexpected choice of vocals in this round, and it works quite well.
I guess I’m not a very open-minded person when it comes to music, but this is a big oof.
This tracks with my previous experience with this band: this is a lot to take in on the first listen. First impression is positive though.
There are a couple of moments which I can only describe as, perhaps, “primal”, especially combined with the lyrics. This is one of my early favourites of the round.
Sounds genuinely fun and yet utterly forgettable at the same time.
Concise and to the point, this is possibly your best song yet.
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I can very easily rule out at least 1/2 of those, and what remains ....
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I figure mine is the longest song so the one about never ending probably applies to me. I mean, I wouldn’t agree but....
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Album art!
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Feel the cold creep inside
I am losing you to your fears
Grown way out of scale
Yes it's true what they say:
I don't love humanity
Not a bit
But I do value empathy
While retaliating iniquities
:metal
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I see, the good old “I passed the elimination point, now it’s time to send whatever I want” strategy.
Definitely mine :lol :metal
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Not so fast Sacul, I may be that one too!
I sent No Light, No Light by Florence + the Machine. A bunch of those could be mine, I just hope he liked it.
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Holy shit, this album art is spectacular. The design is fabulous. The song isn’t too shabby either.
Good thing this was short, because the vocals grated on me a bit.
It seems like they had this one idea and built the whole song around it.
I guess I’m not a very open-minded person when it comes to music, but this is a big oof.
There are a couple of moments which I can only describe as, perhaps, “primal”, especially combined with the lyrics. This is one of my early favourites of the round.
Concise and to the point, this is possibly your best song yet.
Im thinking one of these... If so, 50-66% chance of positive outcome.
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Real life got a little busy, so I still haven't listened to Moonglow, and I have to leave for Delain concert in a couple of hours, but meanwhile, have some first impressions:
I see, the good old “I passed the elimination point, now it’s time to send whatever I want” strategy.
Good thing this was short, because the vocals grated on me a bit.
I guess I’m not a very open-minded person when it comes to music, but this is a big oof.
Sounds genuinely fun and yet utterly forgettable at the same time.
Concise and to the point, this is possibly your best song yet.
Probably one of these.
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Feel the cold creep inside
I am losing you to your fears
Grown way out of scale
Yes it's true what they say:
I don't love humanity
Not a bit
But I do value empathy
While retaliating iniquities
:metal
Did you google the thread title? Because if not, that's impressive as hell.
Hangman is coming up tomorrow. Was a bit busy today with the Delain concert, and will be a bit busy tomorrow with packing my backpack for the upcoming vacation, but I will find the time to fire it up.
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Did you google the thread title? Because if not, that's impressive as hell.
No, just enough repetition to remember the lyrics and the fact it fits the round theme. Great song :)
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It's hangman time! Updates won't happen too often, but they will happen! I also won't update more than 3-4 letters at a time.
???: ________ - _u_______
Kattelox: Florence + The Machine - No Light, No Light
???: ____ ______ - ...__ ___ _______ R___ __ _____
???: _____ - ____r__
???: __r__r____ - ___ ____r__r ______
???: _____ _____r___ - ____ _____
???: __r__r____ - ___ ____r
???: _______u___u - _u___ (_r, '____ __ ___ __R_' __ ___ _____ __ __r___)
???: _________'_ ___ - __ _____ _____
???: ___ ________ - ____ __ ____
???: The Ocean - Permian: The Great Dying
???: _____ __. _____ _______ ___ ___ ______r___r_ - _r_____ R___
???: __ __r______ - _r__
Letters guessed: RU
jingle.boy waits a few days because I guess that's the pace of my updates once tomorrow morning hits
Bolsters bolsters his confidence and only waits 119 instead of 120
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R
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U
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Is one song missing?
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Is one song missing?
Not anymore!
Hangman is updated above.
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T
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S
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Night in the RUTS
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you are the Y in my bed
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???: T___s___ - _u_______
Kattelox: Florence + The Machine - No Light, No Light
???: __s_ D_____ - ...__ t__ ___t___ R___ __ D__t_
???: YYNOT - Etheria
???: __r__r____ - T__ __t_r__r __st__
???: __s__ S___dr___ - ____ _____
???: __r__r____ - T__ T___r
???: mewithoutYou - _u___ (_r, '___y t_ t__ __RD' __ t__ ____s __ __rs_s)
jingle.boy: Damnation's Day - To Begin Again
???: T__ ___d____ - ____ __ ____
???: The Ocean - Permian: The Great Dying
???: S__s_ _t. _y__s _____dy __d t__ ___s__r_t_rs - Dr_____ R___
???: __ __r_s____ - _r__
Letters guessed: RUSTY D
jingle.boy waits a few days because I guess that's the pace of my updates once tomorrow morning hits
Bolsters bolsters his confidence and only waits 118 instead of 120
TAC waits 9 because his nickname anagrams to a cat and everyone knows they have nine lives
RJ waits 7 as this was his final score in the roulette
Kattelox waits 01011001 because you know Y
Parama waits 500 as that's Roman number for D
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YYNOT - Etheria
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mewithoutYou
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oh that's not a good pick for The Ocean imo
The Tower
give me DDDD
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Ask for the D and you shall have it.
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A
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Damnations Day - To Begin Again sent by Chad
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Give me H.
My first impression could be the third to last or fourth to last, and they will be in any case positive, I hope it's one of them
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Damnations Day - To Begin Again sent by Chad
I knew as soon as the D was asked for, mine would be solved.
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E
Ruslan, missing a "t" in one of the band names..
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Damnations Day - To Begin Again sent by Chad
I knew as soon as the D was asked for, mine would be solved.
And it's a belter too. Amazing song.
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E
Ruslan, missing a "t" in one of the band names..
Oh shit, you're right. Fixing it right now.
Also folks, this is the last post for tonight, as I'm turning my laptop off after that and packing it for the upcoming trip. Only have seven hours of sleep left, gotta get some of it because I sure as hell not going to sleep any extra hours in Hamburg, gonna use all that daylight and evening time for exploring.
Also Tim, you can't guess either A or E, it's in the hangman.
???: T___s___ - Hu_______
Kattelox: Florence + The Machine - No Light, No Light
???: __st D_____ - ...__ th_ ___t___ R___ __ D__th
???: YYNOT - Etheria
???: __r__r____ - Th_ __t_r__r _ast__
???: __s__ Sh__dr___ - ____ _____
???: __r__r____ - Th_ T___r
???: mewithoutYou - _u___ (_r, 'H__y t_ th_ __RD' __ th_ ____s __ H_rs_s)
jingle.boy: Damnation's Day - To Begin Again
???: Th_ ___d____ - ____ __ ____
???: The Ocean - Permian: The Great Dying
???: S__sh _t. _y__s _____dy __d th_ ___s__r_t_rs - Dr_____ R___
???: _h H_r_sh___ - _r__
Letters guessed: RUSTY HD
jingle.boy waits a few days because I guess that's the pace of my updates once tomorrow morning hits
Bolsters bolsters his confidence and only waits 117 instead of 120
TAC waits 7 as the clock ticks away
RJ waits 7 as this was his final score in the roulette
Kattelox waits 01011001 because you know Y
Parama waits 500 as that's Roman number for D
LordCost waits 3 or 4, it's positive in any case
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Slash ft. Myles Kennedy and the ???
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Slash ft. Myles Kennedy and the ???
Conspiritors….Stadler.
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Constipators. Got it.
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Lost Domain ... In The Waiting Room of Death
I'll be my annual salary Timothy surely sent that.
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Lost Domain ... In The Waiting Room of Death
I'll be my annual salary Timothy surely sent that.
(https://memegenerator.net/img/instances/53181634.jpg)
:metal :metal :metal
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Lost Domain ... In The Waiting Room of Death
I'll be my annual salary Timothy surely sent that.
Good song, hope it does well :tup
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For the new page:
???: T___s___ - Hu_______
Kattelox: Florence + The Machine - No Light, No Light
TAC: Lost Domain - ...In the Waiting Room of Death
???: YYNOT - Etheria
???: __r__r____ - Th_ __t_r__r _ast__
???: __s__ Sh__dr___ - ____ _____
???: __r__r____ - Th_ T___r
???: mewithoutYou - _u___ (_r, 'H__y t_ th_ __RD' __ th_ ____s __ H_rs_s)
jingle.boy: Damnation's Day - To Begin Again
???: Th_ ___d____ - ____ __ ____
???: The Ocean - Permian: The Great Dying
???: Slash ft. Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators - Dr_____ R___
???: _h H_r_sh___ - _r__
Letters guessed: RUSTY HD
Anyone can guess a letter
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A pls
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Oh Hiroshima
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C
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Updated:
wolfking: Talisman - Humanimal
Kattelox: Florence + The Machine - No Light, No Light
TAC: Lost Domain - ...In the Waiting Room of Death
???: YYNOT - Etheria
???: Fir__r____ - Th_ I_t_r__r Cast__
???: C_s__ Sh__dra__ - C___ A____
???: Fir__r____ - Th_ T___r
???: mewithoutYou - _u_ia (_r, 'H__y t_ th_ __RD' __ th_ ____s _f H_rs_s)
jingle.boy: Damnation's Day - To Begin Again
???: Th_ _i_d_i__ - _a__ __ F___
???: The Ocean - Permian: The Great Dying
Stadler: Slash ft. Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators - Dri_i__ Rai_
???: Oh Hiroshima - Aria
Letters guessed: CATFISH RUDY
Sacul and Kattelox wait for a bit
Parama waits for a while
jingle.boy waits for a long while
I managed to listen to the songs on the plane for a bit, but there's no way I'm writing results while I'm here, which means they'll be posted on Sunday. I apologize for the delay, but the good news it'll be the only delay in this roulette.
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Iiiiiiii
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Talisman / Humanimal.
Kade?
Give us an F
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Correct, updated above.
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So Slash wasn't Stadler?
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So Slash wasn't Stadler?
It was! Paying attention - I suck at it.
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You're on vacation...no worries!
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Let's have an E
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I found the existence of Firebrand - The Tower which I think fits? It looks like two songs from the same artist though :P
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Updated:
wolfking: Talisman - Humanimal
Kattelox: Florence + The Machine - No Light, No Light
TAC: Lost Domain - ...In the Waiting Room of Death
???: YYNOT - Etheria
???: Fireproven - The Interior Castle
???: Cosmo Sheldrake - C__e A____
???: Fireproven - The Tower
???: mewithoutYou - _u_ia (_r, 'H__y t_ the __RD' __ the _e__s _f H_rses)
jingle.boy: Damnation's Day - To Begin Again
???: The _i_d_i__ - Make Me Feel
???: The Ocean - Permian: The Great Dying
Stadler: Slash ft. Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators - Driving Rain
???: Oh Hiroshima - Aria
Letters guessed: CATFISH RUDY E
Sacul and Kattelox wait for a bit
Parama waits for a while
jingle.boy waits for a long while
lonestar waits forever
I found the existence of Firebrand - The Tower which I think fits? It looks like two songs from the same artist though :P
Not Firebrand, but it is The Tower.
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The Interior Castle would fit except I is already guessed
Cosmo Sheldrake
Driving Rain
Make Me Feel (not janelle monae rip)
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The Interior Castle would fit except I is already guessed
Cosmo Sheldrake
Driving Rain
Make Me Feel (not janelle monae rip)
Updating hangman correctly - I suck at it. :lol
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Fireproven
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Julia (or, 'Holy to the LORD' on the Bells of Horses)
Come Along
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Cosmo is Sacul
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YYNOT is puppies?
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YYNOT is puppies?
Why not? :neverusethis:
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Full hangman:
wolfking: Talisman - Humanimal
Kattelox: Florence + The Machine - No Light, No Light
TAC: Lost Domain - ...In the Waiting Room of Death
Puppies_On_Acid: YYNOT - Etheria
Luoto: Fireproven - The Interior Castle
Sacul: Cosmo Sheldrake - Come Along
Luoto: Fireproven - The Tower
senecadawg2: mewithoutYou - Julia (or, 'Holy to the LORD' on the Bells of Horses)
jingle.boy: Damnation's Day - To Begin Again
Indiscipline: The Windmill - Make Me Feel
LordCost: The Ocean - Permian: The Great Dying
Stadler: Slash ft. Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators - Driving Rain
Tyrias: Oh Hiroshima - Aria
Sorry for not keeping up with this, I'm really busy here though. Yesterday had a fantastic experience with Steven Wilson show in the first row, now I'm heading out to Bent Knee / VOLA / Haken in about 30 minutes.
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Is Luoto playing twice?
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That's his special ability, send two songs once in the roulette, highest score counts. Similar to Wild Card ability in Tim's, I think.
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Okay guys, I'm back from my vacation. Spent the whole Friday in the airport as my flight was delayed, and spent Saturday squaring things in real life, but now I'm ready to return to this roulette in full force. I'm already quite familiar with all the songs, so I'll get to writing results in a few hours and so, as I said, you can expect results today. Get your Round 4 songs prepared.
And once again I'll say that there will be no more delays in the future. I needed this vacation to recharge my batteries, so to speak, and now that this is done, I expect everything to run as smoothy as possible.
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Dude... this round has hardly been 'delayed'.
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It was though, it's 12 days instead of the usual 7 days for a round, but I really can't feel bad about it because I had such a blast in Hamburg.
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Did you follow any of the roulettes over the past 6 months?? :lol
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Did you follow any of the roulettes over the past 6 months?? :lol
Yeah no shit!
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Well, I've got to do better than that. :lol
Eight writeups done, four more to go.
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What did you get into in Hamburg?
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Mostly just explored the city, walked by the old neighbourhoods, walked aroudn the Alster, spent a day walking on the Elbe's riverside. Plus Steven Wilson and Haken concerts, of course.
Ten writeups done, two to go.
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Oh yeah i forgot about the concerts. Sounds lovely.
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remember I haven't finished your writeup yet Ev :corn
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I can't lie to you man, your song is actually the worst in this particular round.
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Round 3 Results:
Tyrias: Oh Hiroshima - Aria
First impression: Holy shit, this album art is spectacular. The design is fabulous. The song isn’t too shabby either.
Well, the first impression still stands as mighty as it ever was: this album art is spectacular! This is a great example of an album art that would make me buy the album without even hearing a note from it. But hey, this isn’t going to happen as you actually sent me a song from that album too, and holy shit, man.
My experience with post-rock was limited, but I mostly thought it was that kind of boring, minimalistic music which would not apply to me (see Massive Attack – Heligoland), and instead I’ve got wonderful track I’m still in awe of. I’m a firm believer in the fact that strings make everything better, and they seem to do that in this particular song; and this track made me look differently at all the post-rock being released nowadays. This is beautiful, and this is art, and this is something I’ve been missing and didn’t even know I needed.
9/10
wolfking: Talisman - Humanimal
First impression: I wondered when people will start cheating in this roulette.
Okay, well, first thing is that Jeff Scott Soto is awesome. I haven’t checked anything from Sons of Apollo because MP and Derek’s shenanigans really soured my expectations on that project and I decided that I won’t even touch it, so I didn’t buy their album and didn’t go to the live show they had here in Moscow. I’ve also heard JSS was too restrained on Sons of Apollo, and while I haven’t heard any of their songs, that sounds like a shame. Because I love JSS, and based on, well, Yngwie albums he rocked on which are thirty years old, he’s great. And well, this song is another testament to it, because all things aside, JSS is fantastic on this. He just brings that old spirit of rock to a song, making me headbang and wonder how this is possible.
The song itself is a mixed bag, or well, I thought that on my first listen. On my subsequent listens I thought the song is actually pretty great. It has the JSS advantage, but then it’s a bit generic, but then it’s not a bad thing, you know? This song actually rocks, and even if I feel that it lacks something that would’ve elevated it beyond the “just good” barrier, the way it makes me headbang to this is unhealthy. This is good, very solid, actually this is great. I like it. I’m interested in checking out this band, which I probably should’ve done earlier, too.
8/10
jingle.boy: Damnation’s Day – To Begin Again
First impression: There are a couple of moments which I can only describe as, perhaps, “primal”, especially combined with the lyrics. This is one of my early favourites of the round.
These guys aren’t prone to fooling around, are they? This song quickly goes from the mellow acoustic intro into the fucking fray with the singer screaming at the top of his lungs how he’s feeling alive, and I love this. There is some part of that primal energy in his screams about feeling alive, and it works so well in this song.
This song must be taxing to perform live, but in the studio the singer seems to do a great job; and when this song gets to the instrumental break, there’s that fantastic guitar solo that fits the song so well. All in all, this is an extremely well-constructed track, playing off the strong sides of the singer’s voice, and I’ll be honest, I’m quite interested in the whole album of this kind of stuff right now.
8/10
LordCost: The Ocean – Permian: The Great Dying
First impression: This track with my previous experience with this band: this is a lot to take in on the first listen. First impression is positive though.
This is a weird entry, in a way. I feel like it explores a bit of death metal and then goes into the alternative realm for the rest of it, but while it does that, it manages to maintain memorable and fantastic vocal melodies—and I love how it repeats the ideas and hooks it uses during the short death metal part in the beginning.
I’ve heard of The Ocean before, and I’ve even checked some of their songs from other albums, and good thing that you haven’t sent the song with Jonas Renske on it, because that would’ve been rejected. This song also has this mild Katatonia feel with both vocals and instruments, and this is more than welcome. They seem to know what they’re doing, and their singer has this melancholic tinge to his voice which works just as intended for their music. There’s no denying these guys are experts in their craft. This is good.
7.5/10 + 1 for winning the themed round
TAC: Lost Domain - …In the Waiting Room of Death
First impression: This has to be the most unexpected choice of vocals in this round, and it works quite well.
I’ll be honest, I definitely didn’t expect a female-fronted song from you. Even though you sent me that song for female-themed round (Forgotten Winds? Broken Winds? Broken Hopes? Forgotten Hopes?), this is not something I expected from you. A progressive death metal song with female vocals, this was definitely curious.
The first surprise for me was how well the female vocals work with that kind of music, and the second surprise was how well they fit in this particular song—it’s as if the songwriters made a conscious effort to fit them or something! This song does a great job creating the suspense and the tension, and then slides into a different part altogether, with acoustic guitars, which builds and builds until the growls finish this song off. It is a bit too much for a roulette, but then that’s why this Time Shift ability exists, isn’t it? I liked this.
7.5/10
Indiscipline: The Windmill – Make Me Feel
First impression: You seem to have a knack for picking songs with strong vocals, although I started to wonder if this song will ever end.
Man, I’ll be honest. This is cheesier than Spandau Ballet.
This song reminds me of a Russian chanson musical scene, only the actual Russian chanson artists mostly sing about criminal acts and drinking, and this band is doing what chanson is supposed to be, which is refreshing enough. However it’s so cheesy that I can’t hold the smile off my face. I kinda want to host a drinking game where you drink every time he sings “make me feel” and see everyone destroying their livers and die from alcohol poisoning in nine minutes. Or even earlier.
And the worst thing about this cheesy abomination of a song? I fucking like it! I love the flute, and I like how classy the singer sounds, and I like the overall atmosphere and mood of this tune. The singer is very good, and although his voice makes me imagine him dressed in a cheap suit with a flute of champagne in his hand, his dark hair slicked back, charming the whole bar on a karaoke stage, he does his job here just fine. My main complaint here is the length: this song doesn’t have enough ideas for nine minutes, but even still, I’m not going to lie. I like this one.
7.5/10
Luoto: Fireproven – The Tower
First impression: It seems like they had this one idea and built the whole song around it.
It was tough to pick between this and The Interior Castle, because both songs had their moments, but in the end, this one won by the sheer amount of memorable sections in it; and the constant keyboards running beneath the meat of this song, peaking at the climaxes in the choruses finally tipped the rating scale towards this track. That being said, The Interior Castle is very close to this one in terms of rating, probably only half a point behind it.
I like the contrast between the verses and the chorus, and I like how this song stays quite predictable while still introducing some fantastic elements—the quiet middle section is a great example of this—and I like how they implemented that keyboard part too. My only complaint is that this is a bit too safe and generic, and the chorus sounds like the band decided to have a collective yawn together, it’s so slow and boring. The chorus actually manages to lose most of the momentum the song is building, and while the keyboards save some of it, it’s still noticeable. That being said, I liked this song.
7/10
Sacul: Cosmo Sheldrake – Come Along
First impression: I see, the good old “I passed the elimination point, now it’s time to send whatever I want” strategy.
What the fuck? :lol
Cosmo Sheldrake sounds like a female pop-singer, and that was absolutely what I expected, but instead I’ve got… this? What makes it more hilarious is the orchestral dramatic intro, after which the song quickly devolves into what it is. This is now the song I imagine Roland was singing to the Calla Bryn Sturgis villagers, as the lyrics fit loosely here and hell, why not?
This is weird, and then this is unexpected, and then this is happier than I though, and then this is just outright joyous and not pretending to be anything else. It may be surprising for people playing in this roulette, but I can certainly say I liked it for what it is.
7/10
senecadawg2: mewithoutYou – Julia (or, ‘Holy to the LORD on the Bells of Horses)
First impression: Concise and to the point, this is possibly your best song yet.
This is once again reminds me of Agalloch and your latest entry, Alcest, except this time the vocals are way more tolerable. I don’t know why this band decided it was a good idea to bestow that monster of a name on this song (personally I think just “Julia” would’ve been enough), but the song is, in fact, quite enjoyable. It still suffers a bit from the lack of emotions for me, as the vocals—while not being annoying as they were on that Alcest track—don’t quite do much for me here. It does get a lot better when they put the growls behind the cleans on the last chorus, and it shows a lot of potential this band has, and I wish this was explored further on this song.
I like that they didn’t drag these few ideas they had for this song, and instead made this track quite short and accessible. This definitely makes me feel they’ve got some potential, and I wonder what else they have in their discography.
6.5/10
Stadler: Slash ft. Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators – Driving Rain
First impression: Sounds genuinely fun and yet utterly forgettable at the same time.
This song sounds authentic and genuinely fun. It sounds like Slash and Myles and the Conspirators, whoever they are, are having a blast, a lot of fun in the studio. I imagine them just jamming this song and Myles singing and everyone’s happy and rocking out; this one must be a good one to play live.
At the same time, this sounds like your generic rock song which is played at every bar, at every karaoke club where people are mindlessly butchering it, I dunno. This song sounds like the most generic rock song ever, and it’s not exactly a bad thing—it just makes it a bit boring in comparison to the rest of songs I’ve got here. It’s nice, it’s safe, it’s well-executed, but it’s just that, a generic rock song.
5.5/10
Puppies_On_Acid: YYNOT - Etheria
First impression: Good thing this was short, because the vocals grated on me a bit.
Yeah, this one… well, my first impression still holds. This is a decent rock song with the vocals that are still grating on me. It has a good pace shifting from the heavy and fast to loose and wacky, but I just can’t enjoy it with these female vocals—and not to say they don’t fit, because they kinda do, it’s just I don’t like them.
And because of that, this is a weird one for me: I’m usually a big fan of whatever female vocals you throw at me, but this one was genuinely annoying. What makes it worse is that the actual song is well-written. But hey, I’ve made it clear the vocals are big deal for me, and this song, well, just fails to deliver in that department. The actual song is alright though.
5.5/10
Kattelox: Florence + The Machine – No Light, No Light
First impression: I guess I’m not a very open-minded person when it comes to music, but this is a big oof.
As a person who’s hosting his third roulette right now, I feel I can pinpoint one aspect of these things that profoundly sucks: the moments where you don’t emotionally connect with a song that makes the guy who sent it cry and weep. This is honestly the worst, and I’ve been on both sides of this particular conflict when people slammed down my Mark Knopfler – Dream of the Drowned Submariner song. I feel so bad criticizing this song, but I’ve got to be honest, and I hope you’ll forgive me—this sounds just like a bad, lazy pop song.
I think it’s a good idea to stray from the power metal in order to find something I enjoy, but this is just a whole wrong fucking direction, because this was… well, not great. The quiet part in the beginning was good, and then this has descended in a whole dancing disco pop cheesefest with terrible rhymes—I have this pet peeve about rhymes that use –tion or –cion, so the whole “You want a revelation / Some kind of resolution / And it’s a conversation” thing laid over that disco drums is just, uh, not for me.
I can appreciate the emotional weight this song has for you, but the actual song is… not for me indeed. It’s not terrible, it’s not unlistenable, but it’s definitely not enjoyable in any sense of the word.
4/10
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Scoreboard:
Tyrias: 25.5
LordCost: 24.5
Luoto: 24
TAC: 22.5
jingle.boy: 22.5
Sacul: 22
Indiscipline: 21
wolfking: 20.5
Puppies_On_Acid: 20
Stadler: 19
senecadawg: 17
Kattelox: 16.5
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Round 4: Open Round w/ Optional Theme: Ballads
The length limit is 10 minutes unless you have an ability to ignore it, in which case you're free to use it as you wish.
Please try and send for this round in 48 hours from now on.
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What?! :lol Damn. My favorite power metal ain't working and my favorite pop ain't working and I'm in last place. Time to throw whatever I can at you until something sticks. :biggrin:
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What?! :lol Damn. My favorite power metal ain't working and my favorite pop ain't working and I'm in last place. Time to throw whatever I can at you until something sticks. :biggrin:
I'm so sorry about it though, I tried to get into that song so much.
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Also oh shit, I forgot to award a bonus point for the 2018 theme. I'll get to it right away.
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Well you at least liked that Damnations Day song a lot so there's hope for you yet.
Get ready for electro-rap jazz or whatever wacky shit I can dig up :lol
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No longer in last place!
The gap to 8th place is still a little far, though...
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No longer in last place!
The gap to 8th place is still a little far, though...
There are still four rounds to go before the next elimination point though! I'd say you've got plenty of opportunities to turn the tables so far.
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My train of thought with the double submission was to have songs with slightly different influence bases; The Tower is kind of modern melodeath oriented while The Interior Castle is a 9-minute epic with classic prog metal leanings. I can't really be disappointed in the score, though it's a bit unfortunate the vocal melodies didn't grab you more.
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I'm honestly surprised I'm doing so well in this, I thought I wouldn't even make the qualification honestly :lol.
The whole album is pretty amazing though. Aria is one of the calmer songs, but every song on this one has such a strong atmosphere and huge climaxes.
Also, a little story about the first time I listened to this album is appropriate, I guess: I randomly stumbled upon it on youtube, but only had time for the first song before I had something else to do. So I downloaded it on Spotify to my phone, then proceeded to forget about it. I went hiking with a friend the next days and slept in the mountains, and at one point during the evening I wanted some alone time and decided to listen to some music and just wandered around next to the hut we were staying at. As I was listening to the album, the moon was rising over the horizon (which means over the mountains), and for some reason on this night it appeared absolutely huge. With the music and the atmosphere of the scenery fitting together so perfectly, it made for a really special and memorable moment.
And sent for the next round. According to youtube, I was the first person to ever click on the video of the song I sent.
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Also oh shit, I forgot to award a bonus point for the 2018 theme. I'll get to it right away.
Don't forget! ;D
Sent for Round 4.
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I sent something good. I promise.
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Sent something trite.
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Five songs are in, still need seven more to go. Would be great to get them today so I could start listening on the morning commute tomorrow. Also got one EP in for some reason. :lol
I think this round should be excellent for bizarro hangman.
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I'm pretty sure I sent something....
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I sent something GOOD. :)
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Just need
five four three more songs and we're good to go!
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Also got one EP in for some reason. :lol
i mean i don't have any reason at all to wait, do i? :corn
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Five songs are in, still need seven more to go. Would be great to get them today so I could start listening on the morning commute tomorrow. Also got one EP in for some reason. :lol
I think this round should be excellent for bizarro hangman.
Believe it or not, I'm one of the five.
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Let's see ... My submission inspired a possibly lethal drinking game AND we're gonna get Bizarro Hangman ...
I'd say my work here is focking done.
Sent something Parama is currently hating
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Sent something Parama is currently hating
Which? :corn
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Oh crap. The one you're hating less! ;D
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I still need one more song, but I figured we can start with bizarro hangman today, and if it proves to be too bizarre, as there's simply no way to judge the difficulty of it for me, I'll fire up the usual one tomorrow or the day after.
???: Smith & Wesson's Puzzle - Voyager Didn't Even Get a 5/10
???: Daughters of Oceandaughters - Scrambled Eggs With a Longer Timespan
???: Guru von Accordion - Hear the Heavy Toll
???: Perhaps In a Couple of Days - Press CTRL+S
???: Northern Drunk - Beforeshine
???: Inferny - Inheritance of Adoration Whole Song
TAC: Goodboyeplaces - Pubstool Warrior - Possum of Dismay
Indiscipline: Moonwalker - Sending Judas Priest in Kattelox's Roulette | Starsailor - Way to Fall
???: Naomi Hansard - When You Assume… You Make an Ass of U and Me
???: Weatherfield Caulfield Pokerers - Wedding
???: Aces of Nikita - The Thing You Eat With
Puppies_On Acid: Ostura Budget - Disasterea Saculta | Negură Bunget -
Once again, I've no idea if any of that gets solved. :lol I had fun putting this together though.
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Oh dear :lol
Ostura Budget makes me think of Negura Bunget
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And you are absolutely correct, my friend!
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Give me the D
puppies sent Negura Bunget also
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There's three things I know for sure.
1) I see my submission. :tup
2) The song for the very first item is clearly called "I got it right"
3) The Moonwalker song is "What the hell was I thinking"
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oh yeah Moonwalker is Starsailor - Way to Fall sent by Indiscipline
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oh yeah Moonwalker is Starsailor - Way to Fall sent by Indiscipline
Yep!
There's three things I know for sure.
1) I see my submission. :tup
2) The song for the very first item is clearly called "I got it right"
3) The Moonwalker song is "What the hell was I thinking"
The very first song name was why I decided to host the bizarro hangman this round. It was just too perfect of a fit. :lol
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I don’t even know which one is mine. :lol
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I don’t even know which one is mine. :lol
It is now revealed in the hangman. :biggrin:
???: Smith & Wesson's Puzzle - Voyager Didn't Even Get a 5/10
???: Daughters of Oceandaughters - Scrambled Eggs With a Longer Timespan
???: Guru von Accordion - Hear the Heavy Toll
???: Perhaps In a Couple of Days - Press CTRL+S
???: Northern Drunk - Beforeshine | - Afterglow
???: Inferny - Inheritance of Adoration Whole Song
TAC: Goodboyeplaces - Pubstool Warrior - Possum of Dismay
Indiscipline: Moonwalker - Sending Judas Priest in Kattelox's Roulette | Starsailor - Way to Fall
???: Naomi Hansard - When You Assume… You Make an Ass of U and Me
???: Weatherfield Caulfield Pokerers - Wedding
???: Aces of Nikita - The Thing You Eat With | Kings of Leon - The Face
Puppies_On Acid: Ostura Budget - Disasterea Saculta | Negură Bunget -
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WOW. I have no clue which one is mine. WOW. I don't think that bodes well. :)
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Yours is kind of a stretch to be honest, but there were some that came naturally and then some that I had to strain to think of anything for them.
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???: Smith & Wesson's Puzzle - Voyager Didn't Even Get a 5/10
???: Daughters of Oceandaughters - Scrambled Eggs With a Longer Timespan
???: Guru von Accordion - Hear the Heavy Toll
???: Perhaps In a Couple of Days - Press CTRL+S
???: Northern Drunk - Beforeshine
???: Inferny - Inheritance of Adoration Whole Song
TAC: Goodboyeplaces - Pubstool Warrior - Possum of Dismay
Indiscipline: Moonwalker - Sending Judas Priest in Kattelox's Roulette | Starsailor - Way to Fall
???: Naomi Hansard - When You Assume… You Make an Ass of U and Me
???: Weatherfield Caulfield Pokerers - Wedding
???: Aces of Nikita - The Thing You Eat With
Puppies_On Acid: Ostura Budget - Disasterea Saculta | Negură Bunget -
Beautiful. Just beautiful.
It should stay forever unsolved in all of its enigmatic bizarro glory, like the Sphynx or Jon Anderson's lyrics.
I'm so focking proud of you.
oh yeah Moonwalker is Starsailor - Way to Fall sent by Indiscipline
Like it? *nudge nudge* :corn
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If I'm allowed to give early result spoilers, I like it less than the other two songs you sent but not for a straightforward reason :corn
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is 'Beforeshine' a random song called 'Afterglow'?
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I literally forgot what I sent...
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is 'Beforeshine' a random song called 'Afterglow'?
Yep!
It should stay forever unsolved in all of its enigmatic bizarro glory, like the Sphynx or Jon Anderson's lyrics.
It probably will, too. :lol
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is 'Beforeshine' a random song called 'Afterglow'?
Genesis? Stads? :lol
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No, but good try though! It's kinda difficult to link Northern Drunk with Genesis. :P
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No, but good try though! It's kinda difficult to link Northern Drunk with Genesis. :P
Phil Collins is from Chiswick, which is the start of the North Circular Road, and is also the home of England's oldest brewery, "Fuller's Brewery". Clear as a bell, no?
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No, but good try though! It's kinda difficult to link Northern Drunk with Genesis. :P
Phil Collins is from Chiswick, which is the start of the North Circular Road, and is also the home of England's oldest brewery, "Fuller's Brewery". Clear as a bell, no?
You clearly overestimate me, man. This is a great explanation though.
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Give me the Q
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Good thing I'm out, because I have no idea what's going on. :D
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Give me the Q
We'll get to that tomorrow!
In the meanwhile guys, don't be shy to try and guess what this insanity is all about.
Good thing I'm out, because I have no idea what's going on. :D
Want a solved version in your PM? :)
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I just wait and see what the others guess, it's more fun that way.
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I just wait and see what the others guess, it's more fun that way.
I'm beginning to doubt anything else will be guessed. :lol
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Good thing I'm out, because I have no idea what's going on. :D
Same. Or, well, essentially the same.
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Ohhh I found mine, that only took a couple hours... :facepalm: :lol
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No, but good try though! It's kinda difficult to link Northern Drunk with Genesis. :P
Phil Collins is from Chiswick, which is the start of the North Circular Road, and is also the home of England's oldest brewery, "Fuller's Brewery". Clear as a bell, no?
You clearly overestimate me, man. This is a great explanation though.
Just throwin' out the ol' benefit of the doubt like Tootsie rolls at a summer parade. :)
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Is Kings of Leon up there? I don't know their music enough to go searching thru the discography though.
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I have no fucking idea what is going on.
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Is Kings of Leon up there? I don't know their music enough to go searching thru the discography though.
Yes!
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You sure we can't have 60 minutes for the Greatest Hits round? :corn :biggrin:
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Light of Day, Day of Darkness is banned. :biggrin:
Yeah, I'm pretty sure I won't be able to handle 8 hours of music in a timely manner.
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Light of Day, Day of Darkness is banned. :biggrin:
Yeah, I'm pretty sure I won't be able to handle 8 hours of music in a timely manner.
Fair enough. There's just so many good songs to choose from..... I'll have to narrow it down a bit.
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Yeah, I'm pretty sure I won't be able to handle 8 hours of music in a timely manner.
this is why i'm probably never doing another album roulette
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Okay then, let's do a regular hangman! Same order so it's easier for you to guess stuff.
wolfking: Smith & Wesson's Puzzle - Voyager Didn't Even Get a 5/10 | Solution .45 - Lethean Tears
???: Daughters of Oceandaughters - Scrambled Eggs With a Longer Timespan
???: Guru von Accordion - Hear the Heavy Toll
???: Perhaps In a Couple of Days - Press CTRL+S
???: Northern Drunk - Beforeshine | - Afterglow
???: Inferny - Inheritance of Adoration Whole Song
TAC: Goodboyeplaces - Pubstool Warrior - Possum of Dismay
Indiscipline: Moonwalker - Sending Judas Priest in Kattelox's Roulette | Starsailor - Way to Fall
???: Naomi Hansard - When You Assume… You Make an Ass of U and Me
???: Weatherfield Caulfield Pokerers - Wedding
???: Aces of Nikita - The Thing You Eat With | Kings of Leon - The Face
Puppies_On Acid: Ostura Budget - Disasterea Saculta | Negură Bunget - Cunoasterea Tacuta
wolfking: Solution .45 - Lethean Tears
???: ____ __ _______ - ___t_______
???: ____ ___ _____t__ - ____ __ ____ _t ___
???: ___ __ _____ - ____ __
???: ___t___ ____ - Afterglow
???: _____t_ - ______ __ __t_ ___t _
TAC: D_______d_ - ____ _ - ________ __ D____
Indiscipline: Starsailor - Way to Fall
???: ____ ________ - T____'_ __ __... __t___t ___
???: ______ ___d____ - _______
???: Kings of Leon - The Face
Puppies_of_Acid: Negura Bunget - Cunoasterea Tacuta
???: ___d_ _______ - ___d_ __ t__ ___
Letters guessed: DT
Parama waits D turns
TAC waits T minus 20 hours
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Updated above.
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Solution .45 is Kade.
And I love how you gave Parama the D before he even asked! :lol
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And I love how you gave Parama the D before he even asked! :lol
Isn't that illegal? :lol
I love how lyrics to two of my songs have made the thread title :hat
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And I love how you gave Parama the D before he even asked! :lol
Isn't that illegal? :lol
Now officer, he's over 18 and I had his consent:
Give me the D
Anyone wants to guess the Solution .45 song? Should be obvious with the bizarro and the usual hangman both on the board. :lol
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Lethean Tears :neverusethis:
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:rollin
That's a really funny song title to specifically DTF people and nobody else
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No bizzarro hangman for my song? :'(
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No bizzarro hangman for my song? :'(
Well, you were a bit late for that one, and today I had that day full of work and then it was Steven Wilson concert all of a sudden, so I simply didn't think of anything.
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My songs are always one of the first picked. God damn I'm stale and predictable.
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It has the best song name of the round though, very relevant too.
Also here's the hangman again:
wolfking: Smith & Wesson's Puzzle - Voyager Didn't Even Get a 5/10 | Solution .45 - Lethean Tears
???: Daughters of Oceandaughters - Scrambled Eggs With a Longer Timespan
???: Guru von Accordion - Hear the Heavy Toll
???: Perhaps In a Couple of Days - Press CTRL+S
???: Northern Drunk - Beforeshine | - Afterglow
???: Inferny - Inheritance of Adoration Whole Song
TAC: Goodboyeplaces - Pubstool Warrior - Possum of Dismay
Indiscipline: Moonwalker - Sending Judas Priest in Kattelox's Roulette | Starsailor - Way to Fall
???: Naomi Hansard - When You Assume… You Make an Ass of U and Me
???: Weatherfield Caulfield Pokerers - Wedding
???: Aces of Nikita - The Thing You Eat With | Kings of Leon - The Face
Puppies_On Acid: Ostura Budget - Disasterea Saculta | Negură Bunget - Cunoasterea Tacuta
wolfking: Solution .45 - Lethean Tears
???: _o__ o_ ____o__ - ___t_______
???: ___o _o_ _____t__ - ____ __ ____ _t ___
???: _o_ o_ _____ - ____ __
???: ___t___ ____ - Afterglow
???: _____t_ - ______ o_ __t_ ___t _
TAC: D_______d_ - _oo_ _ - __o__o__ o_ D____
Indiscipline: Starsailor - Way to Fall
???: ____ ________ - T____'_ _o __... __t_o_t _o_
???: __o___ ___d____ - _______
???: Kings of Leon - The Face
Puppies_of_Acid: Negura Bunget - Cunoasterea Tacuta
???: ___d_ _______ - ___d_ o_ t__ ___
Letters guessed: DTO
Parama waits D turns
TAC waits T minus 20 hours
Kattelox waits OO*
*this is a badly drawn infinity symbol. For a well-drawn infinity symbol, don't be lazy like me and use Microsoft's symbol table.
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Lethean Tears :neverusethis:
Would've been better if Lethean himself had sent it.
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Gimme O since ya'll don't wanna guess letters. :)
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Gimme O since ya'll don't wanna guess letters. :)
Updated above. Next update is tomorrow as I'm now seriously off to sleep.
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Show me N
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Between bizarro and normal hangman... Save Me?
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Between bizarro and normal hangman... Save Me?
CAN'T WAKE UP
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Give me an R
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C
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:'( :'( :'(
I did feel obligated to listen to the song though. Seemed pretty good after one listen; not sure how much I like the vocals though.
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Honestly, my submission was not intentional, I'm not following all that closely at the moment to be honest at the moment. This was a crazy crazy coincidence. I didn't even take notice and realised you were booted.
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when is an artist gonna release "parama's corpse"
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Oh, right. Sons of Seasons :P
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wolfking:
Smith & Wesson's Puzzle - Voyager Didn't Even Get a 5/10 | Solution .45 - Lethean Tears
Kattelox: Daughters of Oceandaughters - Scrambled Eggs With a Longer Timespan | Sons of Seasons - Yesteryears
???: Guru von Accordion - Hear the Heavy Toll
jingle.boy: Perhaps In a Couple of Days - Press CTRL+S | Now or Never - Save Me
???: Northern Drunk - Beforeshine | Eastern High - Afterglow
???: Inferny - Inheritance of Adoration Whole Song
TAC: Goodboyeplaces - Pubstool Warrior - Possum of Dismay
Indiscipline: Moonwalker - Sending Judas Priest in Kattelox's Roulette | Starsailor - Way to Fall
???: Naomi Hansard - When You Assume… You Make an Ass of U and Me
???: Weatherfield Caulfield Pokerers - Wedding | - Funeral
???: Aces of Nikita - The Thing You Eat With | Kings of Leon - The Face
Puppies_On Acid: Ostura Budget - Disasterea Saculta | Negură Bunget - Cunoasterea Tacuta
wolfking: Solution .45 - Lethean Tears
Kattelox: Sons of Seasons - Yesteryears
???: __ro _on __r__t_n - __r_ __ ____ _t ___
jingle.boy: Now or Never - Save Me
???: Eastern High - Afterglow
???: ____st_ - ______ of Hate Part _
TAC: Dr_____nds - Roo_ _ - __osso_s o_ D____
Indiscipline: Starsailor - Way to Fall
???: ___n ________ - T__r_'s No __... __t_o_t _o_
???: __o___ _r_d__rs - Funeral
???: Kings of Leon - The Face
Puppies_of_Acid: Negura Bunget - Cunoasterea Tacuta
???: __nd_ __r___s - __nds o_ t__ S__
Letters guessed: STROND
Parama waits CDXCIV turns
TAC waits T minus 8 hours
Kattelox waits OO*
Puppies waits N turns, where N = number of turns Parama waits
jingle.boy waits R = 8.3144598(48)
Bolsters waits 8 because it looks like S
*this is a badly drawn infinity symbol. For a well-drawn infinity symbol, don't be lazy like me and use Microsoft's symbol table.
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Sons of Seasons is Katt; Yesteryears seems to fit the letters revealed
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Now or Never - Save Me
S I guess
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Now Or Never is J-Boy.
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I don't know whether such an act exists, but Bizarro Hangman Logic dictates Northern Drunk to be Eastern High as well as Wedding to be Funeral.
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Indeed, my friends, indeed. Updating it right now.
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Sons of Seasons is Katt; Yesteryears seems to fit the letters revealed
Puppers strongly disliked Bubonic Waltz which I was tempted to send even though Evermind would've probably thought the same things about it, but since it's a ballad round, I think Yesteryears will appeal to Evermind's tastes. I hope. I'm probably completely wrong. :lol
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Did you like the bizarro interpretation though? I spent about 20 seconds to come up with it. :lol
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Did you like the bizarro interpretation though? I spent about 20 seconds to come up with it. :lol
Once I figured out what it was I thought it was very clever :lol
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???: Majesty - ______ of Hate Part 1
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Given that there are two songs unclaimed, and my song hasn't been claimed, I guess one of those is mine, but for the life of me I can't tell (and that is TOTALLY on me, mind you. I'm not ragging on your bizarro system. I think I'm going to be kicking myself for not getting it once it comes out.)
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Given that there are two songs unclaimed, and my song hasn't been claimed, I guess one of those is mine, but for the life of me I can't tell (and that is TOTALLY on me, mind you. I'm not ragging on your bizarro system. I think I'm going to be kicking myself for not getting it once it comes out.)
No, man. It's just your bizarro thing is the most random interpretation of your song title. It doesn't make any sense tbh. I'm not proud of it, but I had to have something for your song.
???: Majesty - ______ of Hate Part 1
"of Hate Part" is correct.
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give me A
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Celesty - Legacy of Hate Part 3
I suppose it could also be part 2.......
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Aww shitties. Who sent Celesty?? They're so awful but the Legacy of Hate songs rule, part 3 especially kicks ass.
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Honestly, my submission was not intentional, I'm not following all that closely at the moment to be honest at the moment. This was a crazy crazy coincidence. I didn't even take notice and realised you were booted.
That's what you say now. But I know that you really sent it in solidarity, and appreciate it. :P
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Here's the updated hangman, I've gotta run now but I'll do some impressions later today or tomorrow. Results probably on Monday.
wolfking: Smith & Wesson's Puzzle - Voyager Didn't Even Get a 5/10 | Solution .45 - Lethean Tears
Kattelox: Daughters of Oceandaughters - Scrambled Eggs With a Longer Timespan | Sons of Seasons - Yesteryears
???: Guru von Accordion - Hear the Heavy Toll
jingle.boy: Perhaps In a Couple of Days - Press CTRL+S | Now or Never - Save Me
???: Northern Drunk - Beforeshine | Eastern High - Afterglow
???: Inferny - Inheritance of Adoration Whole Song | Celesty - Legacy of Hate Part 3
TAC: Goodboyeplaces - Pubstool Warrior - Possum of Dismay
Indiscipline: Moonwalker - Sending Judas Priest in Kattelox's Roulette | Starsailor - Way to Fall
???: Naomi Hansard - When You Assume… You Make an Ass of U and Me
???: Weatherfield Caulfield Pokerers - Wedding | - Funeral
???: Aces of Nikita - The Thing You Eat With | Kings of Leon - The Face
Puppies_On Acid: Ostura Budget - Disasterea Saculta | Negură Bunget - Cunoasterea Tacuta
wolfking: Solution .45 - Lethean Tears
Kattelox: Sons of Seasons - Yesteryears
???: __ro _on __r__t_n - __r_ __ _a__ _t A__
jingle.boy: Now or Never - Save Me
???: Eastern High - Afterglow
???: Celesty - Legacy of Hate Part 3
TAC: Dr____ands - Roo_ _ - __osso_s o_ D__a_
Indiscipline: Starsailor - Way to Fall
???: ___n _a______ - T__r_'s No __... __t_o_t _o_
???: __o___ _r_d__rs - Funeral
???: Kings of Leon - The Face
Puppies_of_Acid: Negura Bunget - Cunoasterea Tacuta
???: __nda __r_a_s - __nds o_ t__ S__
Letters guessed: TSAR ON D
Anyone can guess a letter
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E
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Phoebe Bridgers sent by Seneca
Dreyelands - Room 6 Blossoms of Decay
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L
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I'm loving this more and more. :) :metal
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There's No Me... Without You
Linda Perhacs - Winds of the Sky from Dacul
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Amused how this is arbitrarily the "let's send evermind stuff we sent parama" round as if we have much overlap at all :corn
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I didn’t know anyone else listened to Dreyelands. That album is awesome. Their 2018 EP was pretty decent too. :tup to TAC
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I didn’t know anyone else listened to Dreyelands. That album is awesome. Their 2018 EP was pretty decent too. :tup to TAC
:tup :tup
Yes, that's a great album.
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I didn’t know anyone else listened to Dreyelands. That album is awesome. Their 2018 EP was pretty decent too. :tup to TAC
:tup :tup
Yes, that's a great album.
I too have that album. Haven't listened to it in a while though.
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Full hangman:
wolfking: Smith & Wesson's Puzzle - Voyager Didn't Even Get a 5/10 | Solution .45 - Lethean Tears
Kattelox: Daughters of Oceandaughters - Scrambled Eggs With a Longer Timespan | Sons of Seasons - Yesteryears
Tyrias: Guru von Accordion - Hear the Heavy Toll | Guro Von Germeten - Here We Have It All
jingle.boy: Perhaps In a Couple of Days - Press CTRL+S | Now or Never - Save Me
Luoto: Northern Drunk - Beforeshine | Eastern High - Afterglow
LordCost: Inferny - Inheritance of Adoration Whole Song | Celesty - Legacy of Hate Part 3
TAC: Goodboyeplaces - Pubstool Warrior - Possum of Dismay | Dreyelands - Room 6 - Blossoms of Decay
Indiscipline: Moonwalker - Sending Judas Priest in Kattelox's Roulette | Starsailor - Way to Fall
Stadler: Naomi Hansard - When You Assume… You Make an Ass of U and Me | Glen Campbell - There's No Me... Without You
senecadawg2: Weatherfield Caulfield Pokerers - Wedding | Phoebe Bridgers - Funeral
Kattelox: Aces of Nikita - The Thing You Eat With | Kings of Leon - The Face
Puppies_On Acid: Ostura Budget - Disasterea Saculta | Negură Bunget - Cunoasterea Tacuta
Sacul: Linda Perhacs - Winds of the Sky
And here are some third/fourth impressions:
There’s something about the vocal mix that strikes a wrong chord with me.
There are a few aspects about this song that make it annoying as hell. Well, that’s one way to screw up your good streak in this roulette.
Good thought to go with a non-ballad as a contrast to the optional theme, probably not the best song for the job though.
Good thought to go with a non-ballad as a contrast to the optional theme, this is something I certainly did not expect.
This is quite a simple song, yet it manages to be quite heartbreaking at the same time. And the lyrics too, ow.
This is quite a simple song, but why the hell is it so depressing? I didn’t expect that from you. There’s something in it that just tugs on my heartstrings.
This one kind of feels as unmemorable as Nantucket Sleighride, or maybe just a bit better.
This one kind of feels as unmemorable as Nantucket Sleighride, or perhaps just a bit worse.
Too short, definitely could use a few more minutes of this.
Why this song had to be over five minutes is an absolute mystery to me.
I adore the deep vibe this song projects, this is so rich and marvelous.
This is as exciting as my every day morning commute.
Apparently it’s difficult to not overplay when you’re doing a piano ballad, because there’s just too many songs that do it as far as I’m concerned, and this one isn't an exception.
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Jeesh I’m not sure. Could be a few of those.
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"Apparently it’s difficult to not overplay when you’re doing a piano ballad, because there’s just too many songs that do it as far as I’m concerned, and this one isn't an exception."
motherf-
I'm afraid our tastes are not in alignment, and this gets clearer with each round :lol
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Good thing you sent two songs, though.
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Come on, give me your lowest score. I can take it!! :2metal:
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I know you can! Yesteryears is actually my favourite out of those two. :biggrin:
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:facepalm:
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I take responsability for the heartbreaking/depressing one.
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The non-ballad ones or the "screw up your good streak" are the most probable ones, not too positive this time. I thought an epic thrown in a mix of ballads could be a good idea, and this is the only power metal I can send to you.
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The non-ballad ones or the "screw up your good streak" are the most probable ones, not too positive this time. I thought an epic thrown in a mix of ballads could be a good idea, and this is the only power metal I can send to you.
Is the rest of it just too shitty or this is simply the one you had that wasn't banned? :biggrin:
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The non-ballad ones or the "screw up your good streak" are the most probable ones, not too positive this time. I thought an epic thrown in a mix of ballads could be a good idea, and this is the only power metal I can send to you.
Is the rest of it just too shitty or this is simply the one you had that wasn't banned? :biggrin:
I like Symphony X a lot, and I found randomly on youtube this Celesty band years ago of which I liked some songs of their last two albums. I just never tried other bands of the same genre.
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Nice. :lol
There is some behind the scenes shit concerning the special abilities that is going to go down before the next round, so everyone should keep an eye on your PMs.
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Legacy of Hate 3 popped up on shuffle the other night so I drove around until it finished. Epic track. The growls are ones that I actually like. Heavy af section right there. That band started as a terrible band and got way better with every album. It's a shame they basically stopped after Vendetta which was a pretty good album.
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Legacy of Hate 3 popped up on shuffle the other night so I drove around until it finished. Epic track. The growls are ones that I actually like. Heavy af section right there. That band started as a terrible band and got way better with every album. It's a shame they basically stopped after Vendetta which was a pretty good album.
I hope you and Evermind have the same opinion at least this time!
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Legacy of Hate 3 popped up on shuffle the other night so I drove around until it finished. Epic track. The growls are ones that I actually like. Heavy af section right there. That band started as a terrible band and got way better with every album. It's a shame they basically stopped after Vendetta which was a pretty good album.
I hope you and Evermind have the same opinion at least this time!
Me too, brother :metal
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LordCost sent that to me in my last roulette (which he won!). That song was awesome. But it seemed that whatever else I sampled from them did not hold up.
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LordCost sent that to me in my last roulette (which he won!). That song was awesome. But it seemed that whatever else I sampled from them did not hold up.
I agree, even if the songs in Mortal Mind Creation are still catchy
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I'm about to begin doing the writeups, but I'm honestly not sure if I have enough time to finish them all today. I feel I know all the songs pretty well though. Get ready to send your next thing today or tomorrow.
Also, despite the mixed impressions, this round had a lot of good stuff. It's partly because I'm easily impressed with ballads, and it's partly because you guys sent a lot of great tunes. But there's also a 3.5/10 in this round.
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Okay, results are coming in a few hours. Also 3.5 has turned into a 3 during my last listen.
Here's the scoring:
9 + 1
8.5
8
8
7.5
7
6
6
4.5
4.5
4.5
3
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I got the 3
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I got the 3
No, I did. :biggrin:
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Round 4 Results:
Luoto: Eastern High - Afterglow
First impression: I adore the deep vibe this song projects, this is so rich and marvelous.
This is very different from everything I’ve received in this round, and this is incredible.
When Tobias Sammet used that deep humming sound in The Raven Child—the single from the recent Avantasia album—I really liked it, and wished the song explored more of that deep celtic folky atmosphere. This song is my dreams coming true. This has this deep, earthy vibe; not the type of folk music people usually tend to associate with the chirping lutes and mandolins and dancing, but the type of folk that’s closer to spirits of nature. The buildup and the climax are tremendously well-executed, and while this song stretches the definition of a ballad a bit, staying on a heavier side for a long time, I’m alright with that—I allowed Dead Lord – Bold Move in my previous roulette, and this is definitely closer to being a ballad than that one. I love this. Congratulations on your bonus point.
9/10 + 1 for winning the themed round
Indiscipline: Starsailor – Way to Fall
First impression: This is quite a simple song, but why the hell is it so depressing? I didn’t expect that from you. There’s something in it that just tugs on my heartstrings.
Songs like this are the reason I always wanted to play guitar. Not the ridiculous, technical solos and not the heart-wrenching solos like David Gilmour does—although of course that would’ve been fabulous to be able to do—I didn’t have any illusions about my potential skill, but just these kinds of songs where you don’t do anything ridiculous and yet still manage to bring the tears to your audience’s eyes.
This is really simple. The singer isn’t even all that impressive. There are no flashing instrumental parts or anything, it’s all low-key here, and this shows that sometimes it’s all you need. This song doesn’t need to be difficult, and the singer doesn’t need to hit the ridiculous high notes in order for this to work. There’s something about the timbre of his voice that speaks to my soul, and he is perfect for this song. I don’t know a lot of singers who can deliver this ”I need to be alone while I suffer” line with such emotion and conviction beneath it. Needless to say, I like this a lot.
8.5/10
senecadawg2: Phoebe Bridgers - Funeral
First impression: This is quite a simple song, yet it manages to be quite heartbreaking at the same time. And the lyrics too, ow.
Phoebe is a funny name for me, because, as a non-native English speaker, I had no idea how it’s pronounced, and the first time I encountered it was in The Catcher in the Rye—hence the reference in the bizarro hangman—and the second time I encountered it was on Reddit, where they seem to be fond of a quote from Friends where a character named Phoebe spells out her name letter by letter—which is hilarious, really.
This song is not hilarious. And, seriously, I should’ve expected this from a song named Funeral, of all things, but I’ll be honest, this song caught me off-guard. In fact, it’s such a kick in the feels that you should go fuck yourself, but at the same time, thank you for this. The very opening line, ”I’m singing at a funeral tomorrow for a kid a year older than me”, is incredibly powerful and makes it clear what one should expect from this song. And the atmosphere here, subtly enhanced by those quiet strings in the background sometimes appearing in the forefront, it fits perfectly—I love the short instrumental part after the first chorus, for example.
This is not absolutely outstanding—I have a few gripes with vocal melodies—but it is a good song, and the lyrics also elevate it a notch above being simply “good”. Fantastic choice.
8/10
LordCost: Celesty – Legacy of Hate Part 3
First impression: Good thought to go with a non-ballad as a contrast to the optional theme, this is something I certainly did not expect.
The way I listen to all the songs is that I add them to a playlist on that streaming platform I use, and then I just hit shuffle before heading out to my morning and evening commute, and given the optional theme for this round, I mostly expected to hear ballads. So you can imagine my disbelief when this song, first, went into that fast epic part after the quiet introduction and second, just kept going and going and going. A surprise, to be sure, but a welcome one.
This is that cheesy power metal at its finest, and as I said, while I’m not that big on the genre overall—and Katt already tested it with Aquaria—for some reason, this song resonates with me. Perhaps it’s the structure, or perhaps it’s the inclusion of sections that aren’t often seen in power metal, like the screaming/growling section in the second half of this song, of perhaps this song is just simply well-written, but I like this. It’s not perfect, and the ending surely could’ve used more oomph, but this is good. It’s in the “guilty pleasure” territory, but I like it a lot. Great thinking with using the power metal epic for the contrast with the ballads, too.
8/10
Kattelox: Sons of Seasons - Yesteryears
First impression: Apparently it’s difficult to not overplay when you’re doing a piano ballad, because there’s just too many instances of that as far as I’m concerned.
Misdirection: I’m a fan of it, sometimes. This song is actually quite good. Despite the fact that there’s absolutely a ton of overplaying during the instrumental section, the actual parts where the singer is present are done beautifully. It’s difficult to come up with relatable, strong and powerful vocal melodies that don’t sound forced, drawn-out or boring; this song does it mostly well except one moment in the chorus during the “live here for eternity” moment where it feels a bit forced. However, they compensate it by fantastic verses and the chorus’ climax with “here I rest in peace”.
If we’re talking Kamelot, because why not, this doesn’t quite reach the levels of Abandoned or Song for Jolee or Sailorman’s Hymn, but it’s better than Under Grey Skies or Wander. If only the instrumental section was better.
Also, I’m not doing a writeup for it, but The Face was in 4.5 or 5/10 territory, and the first impression for it was: this one kind of feels as unmemorable as Nantucket Sleighride, or perhaps just a bit worse, so your ability possibly netted you those additional three points.
7.5/10
TAC: Dreyelands – Room 6 – Blossoms of Decay
First impression: Too short, definitely could use a few more minutes of this.
The good news for you are that I will definitely check out this album further, and the bad news are that it’s not quite because of how awesome and strong this song was. This sounds promising, this sounds like there’s a lot of potential, and yet it doesn’t sound like a complete song, more like an interlude, a brief glance at the big picture. The singer sounds fantastic, and the vocal melodies are very well done, but this song just ends without any real payoff. On one hand, as I said, it makes me want to check this album out. On the other hand, it doesn’t have any time to breathe and evolve, and instead of being a masterpiece, this is a good piece of music that doesn’t quite feel like a full-fledged song.
7/10
wolfking: Solution .45 – Lethean Tears
First impression: There’s something about the vocal mix that strikes a wrong chord with me.
The problem with a lot of ballads I know is while they all manage to nail the slow pace and mood pretty well, a lot of them don’t have exciting vocal melodies. Good vocal melodies, as well as the lyrics, can be a dealbreaker for me when it comes to ballads, and this one, well, aside from the hilarious title for the DTF folks, it just doesn’t have neither of these. The melodies are passable, the chorus is predictable and sleep-inducing, the lyrics are abstract. The chorus is also repeated a bit too much for my taste, or perhaps just the plodding inevitability of the melodies chosen for it is grating on me too much.
And there’s that first impression too, which I still find to be true, somehow the vocals sound a bit off. Not off key or anything, just off, maybe overproduced a bit. I’m not sure what exactly about them I dislike, so that’s not going to be helpful, but it’s there. But overall, this isn’t bad or annoying, it’s just pretty average. The guitar solo and the upped intensity in the ending are the highlights here.
6/10
Stadler: Glen Campbell – There’s No Me… Without You
First impression: This one kind of feels as unmemorable as Nantucket Sleighride, or maybe just a bit better.
This was in line with your recent submissions: decent, pleasant, but yet mostly unmemorable. I don’t know what this is about, and it’s probably my tastes as a young person, but your last three entries have been such a stark contrast to that fantastic MSG song, so that I can’t help but wonder what’s going on.
But back to the song, it’s actually a bit better than Driving Rain and Nantucket Sleighride in my book, because there are moments that stand out, especially the instrumental part, which is very well-constructed. I can envision couples dancing to this song, as it’s quite a romantic number, and I like how the song completely abandons the vocal parts from 2:30 and onwards. So yes, while it doesn’t reach the heights of this round, it’s a bit better than your average song, which probably means you’re on a right track.
6/10
jingle.boy: Now or Never – Save Me
First impression: Why this song had to be over five minutes is an absolute mystery to me.
So let me preface this writeup with this: there are some decent moments and ideas on this song, especially in the instrumental department. But I absolutely don’t see the appeal of the whole song here. The good ideas are drowned in the sea of mediocrity. The chorus that’s repeated a lot of times is the epitome of boredom. In fact, it feels like the singer is just belting out the same note over and over. Well, except for the ending, where he changes things up, but at that point it’s been six minutes, it’s too late to try and save this song. The verses aren’t much better here, too.
I just can’t help but wonder why this song is over seven minutes. Seriously, I like the instrumental breaks, and I think if you reduced the amount of vocals here to one verse, one chorus, a longer instrumental break and then the final section with a higher-intensity chorus (think W.A.S.P. – The Idol structure), this might’ve warranted a 6 or even 6.5/10. As of now, it’s not even good enough to be average, sorry Chad.
4.5/10
Puppies_On_Acid: Negura Bunget – Cunoasterea Tacuta
First impression: Good thought to go with a non-ballad as a contrast to the optional theme, probably not the best song for the job though.
This is a nice example of a song that might’ve as well been recorded in someone’s uncle’s garage, because the quality here isn’t exactly top notch. I don’t know why you picked this track from the band’s output, because if that’s the strongest offering they’ve got in their discography, they definitely aren’t for me. This just sounds like a very generic black (death? no idea) metal song. The only truly memorable part is the whistle—or whatever it is—used in the last minute. Otherwise, I don’t remember anything from this song, and I listened to it five times—and it was supposed to stand out from all the ballads I’ve got. And it did stand out, only in “it has heavy riffs and growls” sort of way. And also in the “when will this end already?” sort of way. Needless to say, I wasn’t impressed with this.
4.5/10
Sacul: Linda Perhacs – Winds of the Sky
First impression: This is as exciting as my every day morning commute.
Uh… I’ll take “Come come come come come along now, run away from the humdrum” over this any day of the week. At least that shit was memorable and fun!
This sounds like elevator music, except the elevator is slower than a snail and you have to get to the fourty-seventh floor and it takes hours. There’s nothing wrong with this song, but it’s just absolutely boring. I struggle to find anything interesting about it. It just… exists. Which is good enough, I suppose. It also makes it a huge pain in the ass to do a writeup for it, though, because I don’t even have anything to say about it. Seventh Wonder songs are infinitely more interesting than this. How about that? :lol
And if that’s not enough, it’s also six minutes long. Ow.
4.5/10
Tyrias: Guro Von Germeten – Here We Have It All
First impression: There are a few aspects about this song that make it annoying as hell. Well, that’s one way to screw up your good streak in this roulette.
I’ll be absolutely honest with you here: I don’t remember a single song from any of my roulettes that annoyed me as much as this one. I can’t even say it’s bad, you know? It’s just annoying as hell. So if you love it a lot, you probably should stop reading here, otherwise you’ll probably feel a deep hatred for me down the road.
Where do I start here? Do I start with the laziest vocal melodies that feel like they came from a person who was absent-mindedly humming a non-descript melody while doing the dishes? Do I start with the lyrics that feel like a continuation of The Best of Times, as in carrying further the issue for which PetFish was called PetDick by MP? Because seriously, it’s even worse here as almost every line ends with ay-word, be that “day”, “away”, “today”, “say” or “anyway”. Or perhaps do I start with the Disney-like piano arrangements? Or with her accent which inspired the bizarro hangman? Because I’m fairly sure she sings “heavy toll” in the chorus.
The thing I’m surprised the most by is the accordion. I usually hate the accordion in most of the music—it’s often used in the traditional Russian music and it’s mostly atrocious—but here she does it in quite a tasteful manner, so that’s why this song didn’t absolutely blow. But still, I hope I will never have to listen to this again. I just did it as I was writing this, and the score dropped by half a point because I remembered how annoying this song is.
3/10
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Scoreboard:
Luoto: 34
LordCost: 32.5
Indiscipline: 29.5
TAC: 29.5
Tyrias: 28.5
jingle.boy: 27
Sacul: 26.5
wolfking: 26.5
Stadler: 25
senecadawg: 25
Puppies_On_Acid: 24.5
Kattelox: 24
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Round 5: Open Round w/ Optional Theme: Songs from before I was born (anything up to February 1993)
The length limit is 10 minutes unless you have an ability to ignore it, in which case you're free to use it as you wish.
Please try and send for this round in 48 hours from now on.
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"And there’s that first impression too, which I still find to be true, somehow the vocals sound a bit off. Not off key or anything, just off, maybe overproduced a bit. I’m not sure what exactly about them I dislike, so that’s not going to be helpful, but it’s there."
My first impression of the vocals was pretty much the same as yours. I listened to it a second time and felt the same. It seems like a beautiful song otherwise (and why wouldn't it be, given that great title). :)
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Fair comments on Yesteryears; I don't think there's overplaying during the instrumental but I can see why some would think that. I actually think it's far superior to all the Kamelot songs you listed (but it's not better than EdenEcho), so at least I can't be salty about that since our Kamelot tastes aren't in alignment either :lol
I don't think I'll be making it past the next three rounds so I'm just going to keep sending my favorite stuff and pray you'll like it. I didn't think Kings of Leon would be your thing either but it was worth using my ability on. :corn
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It'll be interesting to hear your thoughts on Garden of Heathens because they play quite a mixed bag of metal, even with some sparingly used growls :) It's that low range gothic vibe in the vocals that is the glue most of the time, along with a dark atmospheric element.
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It'll be interesting to hear your thoughts on Garden of Heathens because they play quite a mixed bag of metal, even with some sparingly used growls :) It's that low range gothic vibe in the vocals that is the glue most of the time, along with a dark atmospheric element.
This is definitely on my short list to check out now! This song was just incredible.
Fair comments on Yesteryears; I don't think there's overplaying during the instrumental but I can see why some would think that. I actually think it's far superior to all the Kamelot songs you listed (but it's not better than EdenEcho), so at least I can't be salty about that since our Kamelot tastes aren't in alignment either :lol
I don't think I'll be making it past the next three rounds so I'm just going to keep sending my favorite stuff and pray you'll like it. I didn't think Kings of Leon would be your thing either but it was worth using my ability on. :corn
Man, Abandoned is among my favourite ballads ever, by any band. It definitely isn't even close for me. :)
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i'm looking at the review i wrote for that negura bunget album and i apparently called that one my favorite on the album, though i don't remember it at all. i was kinda disappointed with that album tbh, feel like i should've liked it a lot more than i do
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i'm looking at the review i wrote for that negura bunget album and i apparently called that one my favorite on the album, though i don't remember it at all. i was kinda disappointed with that album tbh, feel like i should've liked it a lot more than i do
I pretty much expected that score. My roulette strategy these days is to send stuff the host hasn't heard from my favorite albums, regardless if it's in their wheelhouse or not. Sometimes you never know what you may end up liking. I thought it was worth a shot. I probably would have sent Moonsorrow instead, but the length limit makes that impossible.
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Oh my stars and garters, that went way beyond my expectations. Funny thing, I tried to trace back the path you blazed by sending the Glen Hansard song in my roulette, so - in a way - I have you to thank.
Let's see whether I have something published before 1993 now ... :P
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Sent this morning. Something from 1983!!
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Sent some awesome 80's metal! :metal
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I'll definitely not send Linda Perhacs in a roulette again :lol
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I'll definitely not send Linda Perhacs in a roulette again :lol
she's had a pretty bad day, yeah :P
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She's just a poor old lady :P
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Ouch. Hope I can find some time to read the other write ups in the next day or so. Just taking a quick break from house moving shit right now.
Now Or Never has been very hit and miss for me in roulettes. Joe Amore's voice is a bit of an acquaintance red taste. Apparently my tastes in heavy/sombre/melancholic ballads sucks, cuz Kade killed me with one in his roulette.
Will get something to you something e in the next 48 hours
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It's funny how two peoples perception of the same song can be so different, if I didn't know you were talking about the song I sent you, I would never have guessed. Literally none of your comments match up with my perception of the song (Well, maybe the rhymes-comment is fair enough, though it has never bothered me). And it's not just liking vs. not liking it, I just don't really hear any of the stuff you mentioned (like, I'd say Abandoned would probably be more likely to make me think about Disney-like piano than here we have it all, not that it's not a great song).
Well, I'll see how much I'll unintentionally annoy you next round, I guess ::).
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Sent something I don't think people are going to believe came from Kattelox's library.
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It's funny how two peoples perception of the same song can be so different, if I didn't know you were talking about the song I sent you, I would never have guessed. Literally none of your comments match up with my perception of the song (Well, maybe the rhymes-comment is fair enough, though it has never bothered me). And it's not just liking vs. not liking it, I just don't really hear any of the stuff you mentioned (like, I'd say Abandoned would probably be more likely to make me think about Disney-like piano than here we have it all, not that it's not a great song).
Well, I'll see how much I'll unintentionally annoy you next round, I guess ::).
You know it's bad when you play the songs in shuffled rotation and when one song comes up you're like "fuck, not this song again". What can I say, well, you've been sending some great stuff too! I'm sure you'll recover from this one.
Ouch. Hope I can find some time to read the other write ups in the next day or so. Just taking a quick break from house moving shit right now.
Now Or Never has been very hit and miss for me in roulettes. Joe Amore's voice is a bit of an acquaintance red taste. Apparently my tastes in heavy/sombre/melancholic ballads sucks, cuz Kade killed me with one in his roulette.
Will get something to you something e in the next 48 hours
His voice wasn't bad, yeah, but not really my thing. It's better than that Slaughter song you sent me before (even though I think it got a higher score that time), at least.
With three more rounds, pretty much everyone still has a chance to get past the second elimination point though.
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sent
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Indeed you did!
Six songs in, still need six more, would be great to get them in the next 24 hours.
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Sent, ready to my first insufficient score :metal
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Sent my first kiss song.
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Sent judas priest
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Sent my first kiss song.
Pull Me Under? :biggrin:
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Sorrounded ;)
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Kiss - Smoke on the Water
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Lark Toungues.
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Motorbreath
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the hirsch effekt isn't banned so i dare someone to send this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRKB5A39SKY
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The samba bit is gold
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I need one more person to send and we're good to go. Sending a PM right now.
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Let's start with a hangman then, shall we?
???: _a_d_a__ - Da_ __ ____
???: ___ A___a_ ________ _a_d - ____d_ _____
???: _a____ _a___ - D_______a
???: _____ _____ - __a_____ ____
???: _a____d - _____ __ ___ ____
???: _a_d_a__ - A_______ _ _a_'_ _a_
???: ___d ___ - __ a_d ____
???: Running Wild - Riding the Storm
???: _____ _a_ - ___ A_d_____ __ _________
???: _______ _____ - __ Da__ __a___
???: ____d ____ - _____'_ __ ____ ______ __ __
???: _____ ___d_a_ - ____ ____ ____
???: ______d __ a ______ __a__ - ____ __ a_d ____
???: ___ ________ - ___ __a__ __. ____a_ _____
Bonus hangman:
???: ____ - _____
Letters guessed: DA
Parama waits 2
Indiscipline waits 3
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D me up (D me up inside)
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A, por favor
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Updated above!
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Running Wild - Riding the Storm
Your thread title gimmick is good ev
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It is if you don't google it, which was the premise for my previous roulette and also this one.
Also if you didn't google it and got it just from this line, then you deserve it.
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Gimme the J
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T
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It is if you don't google it, which was the premise for my previous roulette and also this one.
Also if you didn't google it and got it just from this line, then you deserve it.
Nah I totally googled it
I haven't for any of the previous ones tho
Give me Q
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It is if you don't google it, which was the premise for my previous roulette and also this one.
Also if you didn't google it and got it just from this line, then you deserve it.
Nah I totally googled it
I haven't for any of the previous ones tho
Give me Q
Well then, you used the thread title in a way you really shouldn't have to. Nice google skills, though.
Katt, no J's in the hangman.
???: _a_d_a__ - Da_ __ ____
???: T__ A___a_ ___t____ _a_d - ____d_ _____
???: _a____ _a_t_ - D_______a
???: _____ _____ - __a____t ____
???: _a__t_d - ____t __ t__ ____
???: _a_d_a__ - A__t____ _ _a_'t _at
???: ___d ___ - __ a_d ____
???: Running Wild - Riding the Storm
???: _t___ _a_ - T__ A_d_____ __ ___t_____
???: _______ _____ - __ Da__ __a___
???: ____d ___t - T____'_ __ ____ ______ __ __
???: _____ ___d_a_ - ____ ____ ____
???: ______d __ a ______ __a_t - ___t __ a_d ____
???: T__ ___t____ - T__ _tat_ __. T___a_ ____t
Bonus hangman:
???: ____ - __t__
Letters guessed: DAJT
Parama can't guess anymore
Indiscipline waits 1
Kattelox waits 2
Sacul waits 3
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N
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Hey, it's your thread title gimmick, don't get mad at me about it :P
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C
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S
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E
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I'll update this on my lunch break, guys.
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Y
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Update for Q (there are none), N, C and S, as I don't want to reveal too many letters at once.
Also it's difficult enough to do on my phone, so I'm dropping the waiting list for now.
???: Ca_d_acs - Da_ _s __n_
???: T__ A___an ___t___s _and - N___d_ ____s
???: _a___n _a_t_ - D_s_____a
???: C____ ____s - __ac__st ____
???: _a_st_d - N___t __ t__ ____
???: Ca_d_acs - An_t__n_ _ Can't _at
???: S__d ___ - __ a_d ____
???: Running Wild - Riding the Storm
???: St___ _a_ - T__ A_d__nc_ _s __st_n_n_
???: C___s_n _____ - _n Da__ __ac_s
???: C___d C__t - T____'s S_ __c_ _n____ _n _s
???: __nn_ ___d_an - S_n_ S_n_ S_n_
???: ___ss_d __ a _____n __a_t - S__t __ and __c_
???: T__ ___t___n - T__ Stat_ _s. T___as ____t
Bonus hangman:
???: S__n - __t_s
Letters guessed: DAJTQNCS
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Cardiacs - Day is Gone and Anything I Can't Eat
Soen - Lotus
The Protomen - The State vs. Thomas Light
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R
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The Allman Brothers Band
In Dark Places
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Updated. The hangman is pretty much a joke now after E, Y and R. :lol
???: Cardiacs - Day is Gone
???: The Allman Brothers Band - N___dy ____s
???: _arren Eart_ - Dys___r_a
???: C_rey ___es - __ac_est ____
???: _aysted - N___t __ t_e ____
???: Cardiacs - Anything I Can't Eat
???: S__d R__ - __ a_d ___e
???: Running Wild - Riding the Storm
???: Ste_e _a_ - T_e A_d_ence _s __sten_n_
???: Cr__s_n ___ry - In Dark Places
???: C___d C__t - T_ere's S_ __c_ Ener_y _n _s
???: _enny ___d_an - S_n_ S_n_ S_n_
???: __essed _y a _r__en _eart - S__t __ and R_c_
???: The Protomen - The State vs. Thomas Light
Bonus hangman:
???: Soen - Lotus
Letters guessed: DAJTQNCSEYR
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Blessed By A Broken Heart.
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Steve Vai
Crimson Glory
There's So Much Energy In Us
Blessed By A Broken Heart.
Shut Up and Rock
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BBaBH is likely Kade
Waysted is Tim
Allman Bros / Nobody Knows is Stads
Protomen is Indi
Barren Earth
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That Steve Vai song is The Audience Is Listening :metal
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Protomen is Indi
I also thought so in my Roulette, but it was Seneca. Thinking the same here.
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Dysphoria
Skid Row
There's So Much Energy In Us
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Skid Row is 18 And Life, one of the best songs they ever did in my humble opinion. So Evermind will probably not like it. ;)
And it could be jingle's song.
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Skid Row is 18 And Life, one of the best songs they ever did in my humble opinion. So Evermind will probably not like it. ;)
And it could be jingle's song.
I'd already shared their best song with Ev in the past - I Remember You. I'll bet this is Shmegland.
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Skid Row is 18 And Life, one of the best songs they ever did in my humble opinion. So Evermind will probably not like it. ;)
And it could be jingle's song.
I'd already shared their best song with Ev in the past - I Remember You. I'll bet this is Shmegland.
That’s right. I remember, you.
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Waiting for first impressions, I'm more curious than rounds before about them :corn
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Had a busy day yesterday, and today I'm going to see Pain of Salvation, so this round will be a little slower than usual—I'm aiming for results on Wednesday. I've heard all of the songs once and plan to do a second listen today before heading out to the gig. I'll do first (or, well, second) impressions tomorrow.
???: Cardiacs - Day is Gone
Stadler: The Allman Brothers Band - Nobody Knows
???: Barren Earth - Dysphoria
???: Corey Giles - Blackest Bile
TAC: Waysted - N___t __ t_e ____
???: Cardiacs - Anything I Can't Eat
???: Skid Row - 18 and Life
???: Running Wild - Riding the Storm
???: Steve Vai - The Audience is Listening
???: Crimson Glory - In Dark Places
???: Cloud Cult - There's So Much Energy in Us
???: Benny Goodman - Sing Sing Sing
wolfking: Blessed by a Broken Heart - Shut Up and Rock
senecadawg2: The Protomen - The State vs. Thomas Light
Bonus hangman:
???: Soen - Lotus
Letters guessed: DAJTQNCSEYR
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The band just came out of the venue and drove away, what the hell :lol There are also only five people at the venue which is new for me, apparently PoS aren't very popular.
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They’re not! ;D
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Corey Giles - Blackest Bile
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Corey Giles - Blackest Bile
That's correct!
They’re not! ;D
That's also correct! :lol
Honestly I have time to do first impressions now but I'm still pretty much feeling the afterglow of the show, so I'm not going to do them now. Tomorrow it is.
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Benny Goodman - Sing Sing Sing. Not sure how that still hadn't been solved but I'm tired of seeing it blank
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Benny Goodman - Sing Sing Sing. Not sure how that still hadn't been solved but I'm tired of seeing it blank
That has to be Indiscipline. is he playing?
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He is, but he didn't send Benny Goodman. I'll post the full hangman along with the impressions in a few hours.
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Cloud Cult
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LordCost: Cardiacs - Day is Gone
Stadler: The Allman Brothers Band - Nobody Knows
Luoto: Barren Earth - Dysphoria
Sacul: Corey Giles - Blackest Bile
TAC: Waysted - Night of the Wolf
LordCost: Cardiacs - Anything I Can't Eat
Indiscipline: Skid Row - 18 and Life
Puppies_On_Acid: Running Wild - Riding the Storm
jingle.boy: Steve Vai - The Audience is Listening
Puppies_On_Acid: Crimson Glory - In Dark Places
Tyrias: Cloud Cult - There's So Much Energy in Us
Kattelox: Benny Goodman - Sing Sing Sing
wolfking: Blessed by a Broken Heart - Shut Up and Rock
senecadawg2: The Protomen - The State vs. Thomas Light
Bonus hangman:
Tyrias: Soen - Lotus
This is exactly the reason I decided to do this round’s theme. This song rocks!
It sounds like this band could’ve really benefitted from having a better singer.
Not exactly what I was expecting, a solid tune. This song is probably a lot of fun in a live setting.
I was looking forward to exploring this band’s work, and this is pretty dull, all things considered.
I’m not exactly a fan of this, but I can’t deny this song is catchy beyond belief. I’ve spent the past few days humming this damn chorus.
I like how you keep sticking to your guns in each round. Unfortunately, this isn’t nearly as good as your previous entry.
So I was fairly sure I’ve heard parts of this song before, and turns out it’s used in a famous Russian intellectual show which I used to watch as a child. This brings back a few memories, I’m not going to lie.
Nope, nope, nope. Fuck this song.
It doesn’t feel like there are enough ideas to warrant the song length, but this is pretty good otherwise.
I watched the video, and then I saw your comment telling me not to watch the video. Oh well.
Sounds like Steven Wilson-lite, not bad.
This was a fun gimmick on a first listen, but I’m two listens in, it’s already irritating, and I’m not looking forward to the subsequent listens at all.
It’s fascinating how the intensity level here is turned from about two or three to a freaking eleven in a couple of seconds. I dig this.
Holy shit, this is powerful. I want to buy the album right now.
As I said, results will probably be up on Wednesday, so this thread will fall into obscurity for the next two or three days. Can't do them earlier as I have to prepare for the D&D session on Tuesday. And I also have to spin some Amorphis tunes too as I'm seeing them on Friday. Busy times!
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You better have at least mildly enjoyed Sing Sing Sing because I was gonna send Herbie Hancock's Dolphin Dance or Bill Watrous's Tiger of San Pedro. Or a few other legendary jazz/big band tunes. :hat
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This is exactly the reason I decided to do this round’s theme. This song rocks!
Not exactly what I was expecting, a solid tune. This song is probably a lot of fun in a live setting.
Hopefully one of these are mine. :)
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LordCost: Cardiacs - Day is Gone
Stadler: The Allman Brothers Band - Nobody Knows
Luoto: Barren Earth - Dysphoria
Sacul: Corey Giles - Blackest Bile
TAC: Waysted - Night of the Wolf
LordCost: Cardiacs - Anything I Can't Eat
Indiscipline: Skid Row - 18 and Life
Puppies_On_Acid: Running Wild - Riding the Storm
jingle.boy: Steve Vai - The Audience is Listening
Puppies_On_Acid: Crimson Glory - In Dark Places
Tyrias: Cloud Cult - There's So Much Energy in Us
Kattelox: Benny Goodman - Sing Sing Sing
wolfking: Blessed by a Broken Heart - Shut Up and Rock
senecadawg2: The Protomen - The State vs. Thomas Light
Bonus hangman:
Tyrias: Soen - Lotus
It sounds like this band could’ve really benefitted from having a better singer.
Not exactly what I was expecting, a solid tune. This song is probably a lot of fun in a live setting.
I’m not exactly a fan of this, but I can’t deny this song is catchy beyond belief. I’ve spent the past few days humming this damn chorus.
Nope, nope, nope. Fuck this song.
I watched the video, and then I saw your comment telling me not to watch the video. Oh well.
This was a fun gimmick on a first listen, but I’m two listens in, it’s already irritating, and I’m not looking forward to the subsequent listens at all.
The one about me telling you not to watch the video is definitely Day Is Gone. Maybe this was the only thing you had to say because you weren't impressed, but at least it's not the "Nope, fuck this song" or other negative ones. The other ones could be for Anything I Can't Eat, I hope it's the 'catchy beyond belief' one.
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I like how you keep sticking to your guns in each round. Unfortunately, this isn’t nearly as good as your previous entry.
Nope, nope, nope. Fuck this song.
It’s fascinating how the intensity level here is turned from about two or three to a freaking eleven in a couple of seconds. I dig this.
Holy shit, this is [/i]powerful. I want to buy the album right now.
Either way, it's all my fault.
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"Catchy" if I'm lucky, "Dull" if I'm not.
Interestingly, the "intensity level from 2 to 11" could technically apply to the tune's first 30 seconds.
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I got a feeling you really don't like the gimmick of the grade school teacher.
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Results in ~22 hours, folks. Sorry for the slight delay.
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No Sorry required. The pace has been great :tup
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Results in ~22 hours, folks. Sorry for the slight delay.
It's alright, Ev. We've all spent a couple of nights in jail.
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Results in ~22 hours, folks. Sorry for the slight delay.
It's alright, Ev. We've all spent a couple of nights in jail.
Smooth talkers can get out before sunrise.
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Results in ~22 hours, folks. Sorry for the slight delay.
It's alright, Ev. We've all spent a couple of nights in jail.
Smooth talkers can get out before sunrise.
Yup, and they walk funny until sunset.
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Results in ~22 hours, folks. Sorry for the slight delay.
It's alright, Ev. We've all spent a couple of nights in jail.
:lol
This round was probably the most consistent one I suppose, except a few duds here and there, so the scores are a bit cluttered compared to the previous rounds, but there's nothing I can really do with that. Here you go:
Round 5 Results:
senecadawg2: The Protomen – The State vs. Thomas Light
First impression: Holy shit, this is powerful. I want to buy the album right now.
Well, as a fan of concept albums, I must admit I’ve never heard of this band. Neither have I heard of the singer, and his vocal delivery on this particular song is nothing short of outstanding. I knew this song was special when he woke me up with his incredible singing during my very first listen on my morning commute.
One problem with this song is that it’s clearly from a concept album, and it kind of lacks structure—but instead it substitutes it with a strong storytelling and soulful delivery. The addition of female vocals in the pivotal parts of the song is indeed brilliant, and I, like you, love the ambiguous ending. And I just can’t avoid mentioning how freaking great the singer is during these last lines. This ending is by far the most memorable thing in this round.
I don’t know anything about this album, but I want to buy it just because how great this one act of the story was. The song isn’t perfect—although it’s probably my favourite from this round—but the storytelling here is exceptional, in my opinion. Therefore, here’s your half a point for your Wordsmith ability.
This album is on my shortlist now, too.
8/10 + 0.5 for the Wordsmith ability
Luoto: Barren Earth: Dysphoria
First impression: I like how you keep sticking to your guns in each round. Unfortunately, this isn’t nearly as good as your previous entry.
Contrary to the first impression, this ended up being a grower. And I mean, it’s still not as good as your previous entry, but it’s still good enough.
See, on my first listen I thought there were too many growl passages, but as I listened to this song again and again, I realized that it’s mostly the chorus, and, well, the first verse. But the nature and the sound of growls here are so overwhelming that it’s easy to make this mistake. I would say, this kind of growls sounds like an equivalent of a chocolate cake sound for me, the one JP has been talking about.
So anyway, as this song continued to unfold for me, I realized the growls were mostly on the chorus—and the chorus here was actually fairly good. As a fan of Insomnium, I can say that one of my favourite things in growly passages is where the singer doesn’t just hit this one note over and over, but where you can actually perceive how he goes from one note to another, and this chorus nails it, especially with the guitar passages beneath it. This took my appreciation of this song up a notch. So did the clean parts, which are not that impressive in the verses—though still fitting, and doing a good job to build up the whole thing to this explosive chorus—but are incredible during this quiet break of which I wish the band explored more.
As the time went on, I liked this song more and more.
8/10
TAC: Waysted – Night of the Wolf
First impression: It’s fascinating how the intensity level here is turned from about two or three to a freaking eleven in a couple of seconds. I dig this.
Well, this is quite good. Nothing in this round was close to fantastic, but I had three songs that fit the theme competing for the bonus point, and it wasn’t easy to decide, but I’m confident now that this one is the one that impressed me the most.
I love the quiet start with the fabulous electric guitar parts, and then the singer just screams his throat out on the title line delivery. The faster parts are all on point, and the guitar solo in the middle is also quite fitting and interesting enough. It also doesn’t linger and gives you just enough taste of all the good parts without overplaying and repeating them too much—I think this unexpected THE NIGHT OF THE WOLF scream only happens like thrice, and I would’ve expected them to abuse the hell out of it, because it’s such a cool part. After three tries, you finally get your bonus point—almost literally tearing it out of Puppies hands, because for the first few listens, Riding the Storm held the crown of the best fogey aka pre-93 song.
8/10 + 1 for winning the themed round
Puppies_On_Acid: Running Wild – Riding the Storm
First impression: This is exactly the reason I decided to do this round’s theme. This song rocks!
Bad news: this one was in the lead for the bonus points, and only during the last few listens did it lose to TAC’s wonderful rocker of a song. Good news: this one is still very good, it still rocks, and it’s much, much better than the Crimson Glory song you sent me.
This reminds of me some modern power metal bands like Powerwolf, which aren’t too big on original compositions, but they just write these catchy, predictable verses and choruses and the people love it. And hell, does it work here. This song is very simple, and it’s very accessible, and I can’t help but headbang and sing along to it. I think the biggest problem here is its length… were it around 4:00 or 4:30, I think this would’ve won over Waystead. As of now though, I honestly enjoyed this a lot, and I will check it out, but sadly, the bonus point goes to another player. Good song though!
7.5/10
wolfking: Blessed by a Broken Heart – Shut Up and Rock
First impression: Not exactly what I was expecting, a solid tune. This song is probably a lot of fun in a live setting.
Okay, first things first, I’ve somehow broken the B key on my laptop and it’s a fucking pain in the ass to type this stupid band’s name each time.
I suppose I was somehow influenced by Born with a Broken Heart song by Primal Fear (stupid B key, I hate everything as I type this, at least it’s not Bridal Bear or something, man), so I believed this was strictly power metal or hard rock, and instead this is a peculiar mix of that with some freaking growls which brings it into a melodic death metal territory I guess? This is way more like Scar Symmetry than Primal Fear, that’s for sure, except the chorus is way more like Primal Fear—also this gimmicky “hey hey hey!” should be extremely fun to sing live. Sometimes I hate those obvious crowd hooks, but I feel like this time it works fine.
I like how this song walks the fine line between generic and innovative, and ends up being interesting enough to hold my attention. This is not great, but this is indeed quite good.
7.5/10
Indiscipline: Skid Row – 18 and Life
First impression: I’m not exactly a fan of this, but I can’t deny this song is catchy beyond belief. I’ve spent the past few days humming this damn chorus.
A few listens after, you know what? I’m quite a fan of this.
I honestly don’t remember much of I Remember You, the song that Chad shared with me three or four years ago, and I will probably revisit it after this one. I found this song quite catchy but nothing special on my first listen, and then it kept growing and growing on me, just because of how simple and yet well-written it is. The small touches like the singer going into the higher register in pivotal moments enhanced this song even further, and soon I found it to be one of my three favourites among the fogey, aka pre-1993, songs, and I realized that I was indeed enjoying it like it’s ’89.
I love how you and a few of the other players are sticking to the themes so far, and because of that I’m discovering some bands I’ve either wasn’t interested enough in, or just simply the bands I’ve never heard of. This isn’t the best of the round, but it was close.
7.5/10
Tyrias: Cloud Cult – There’s So Much Energy in Us
First impression: It sounds like this band could’ve really benefitted from having a better singer.
This is a beautiful progressive rock piece, with a very appropriate and tasteful usage of strings, and for one moment I even thought it was perhaps from pre-1993, but apparently nope, it’s from this decade. It has a great sense of setting the atmosphere, and it has a fabulous payoff with the one-line chorus. It also does a great job utilizing a choir in the middle section, it does a fantastic job with keyboard sounds, and once again those strings, they’re just out of this world.
Which brings me to one very simple question: why couldn’t they find a singer than can do a better job on this song? He doesn’t ruin this song for me per se, but he gets dangerously close to this territory, bringing this one from potential 8.5 or 9 to a mere 7. The instrumentals here are on point, and the singer sounds like he just woke up and had to record his section at 7 A.M. without his usual morning coffee. I can imagine his disheveled hair as he sleepily walks from his bed right to the recording studio in the next room.
Also this song has this rhyme which I still can’t decide if it’s brilliant or if it’s a huge stretch, “and now the crew is cold, and drunk on chemi-cals”. Leaning towards a stretch, though.
7/10
Stadler: The Allman Brothers Band – Nobody Knows
First impression: It doesn’t feel like there are enough ideas to warrant the song length, but this is pretty good otherwise.
The quality of your submissions has dropped since the stellar first round, in my opinion, but you seem to slowly find your ground back again. This is very solid, and in fact, there’s absolutely nothing I dislike in this song—but there are some parts I’m ambivalent about, and the long instrumental section loses me at some point. And the biggest problem of this song is that the payoff doesn’t feel that big for its length, the whopping eleven minutes, no less.
But this is enjoyable, this song has nice groove, fitting vocals, excellent guitar work beneath them and in the solos. Also love the Hammond here and there. Were the song a bit shorter—you mentioned in your PM you thought it was around 8 minutes—I’m pretty sure it would’ve warranted a higher score. Still, you’re on a right track.
6.5/10
Sacul: Giles Corey – Blackest Bile
First impression: Sounds like Steven Wilson-lite, not bad.
First of all, this is indeed quite depressing, but I’ve got to say that Nelson’s song slightly edges this one out in the competition for the additional SW Wave points, because of sheer magnitude that one has.
This is an okay listen, although I would’ve appreciated the vocals to be a bit more upfront in the mix, because the acoustic guitar here is quite loud compared to them, and it gets even more ridiculous when the song gets into the intense more around 3:20. I also would’ve appreciated the vocal melodies to be a bit more well thought-out, I guess—one of the things I really like Steven Wilson’s music for—and perhaps a bit less echo on his voice? This was alright, but nothing special really.
5.5/10
Kattelox: Benny Goodman – Sing Sing Sing
First impression: So I was fairly sure I’ve heard parts of this song before, and turns out it’s used in a famous Russian intellectual show which I used to watch as a child. This brings back a few memories, I’m not going to lie.
In retrospect, I probably shouldn’t have allowed this, because the first minute or so is very familiar to me. Then it gets into a wilder territory, and it’s interesting enough, but I’ll be honest here—it kinda feels like a soundtrack to something. Be that a famous Russian intellectual show or the Benny Hill show or whatever, this piece screams “soundtrack” for me, perhaps because I’ve also heard it elsewhere. I’m definitely familiar with the main theme of this song.
And besides, this is not quite my kind of thing, too. It’s decent, it’s well-written, it’s good enough to be actually used in a couple of TV shows and wherever, but I’ll take a rock song over this anytime. I know, I know, I’m close-minded, but on the scale of how much I enjoyed this overall, this is barely enough to pass the “average” marker.
5.5/10
LordCost: Cardiacs – Day is Gone
First impression: I watched the video, and then I saw your comment telling me not to watch the video. Oh well.
I will tell you this: it was a good idea to send a safer song along with a risky one, because Anything I Can’t Eat was pretty close to The Hirsch Effekt territory, score-wise. This is safer, and this is not too bad, especially if you don’t watch the video, but judging from these two songs, I just don’t know what is it about this band that some of the people on DTF like them so. I guess this is how it feels for the folks who dislike Haken.
The good things here are the intro, the instrumental break and the outro. The bad parts are whenever the singer opens his mouth. So I guess this brings it to average, all in all. It sucks to send your favourite bands just to see them being trashed, but hey, such is the nature of roulettes sometimes.
5/10
jingle.boy: Steve Vai – The Audience is Listening
First impression: This was a fun gimmick on a first listen, but I’m two listens in, it’s already irritating, and I’m not looking forward to the subsequent listens at all.
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This has got to be the most frustrating writeup I’ve had to write during all my three roulettes.
Man, I can see what he was going for here. And I genuinely appreciated the humor on the first listen, especially the moment when he says “turn it down… I mean down like… this?” and cracks the volume is hilarious (the video does it justice). And the part where his grade school teacher tells him he won’t get anywhere with his dreams of being a rock star and all, this was good too, on the first listen at least. And the most frustrating thing is, it’s a good guitar instrumental, and this is coming from a guy who isn’t that fond of guitar instrumentals lately—which makes me wondering why you sent this out of everything you had at your disposal, but still, the guitar instrumental here isn’t the problem. The whole classroom spoken word thing is.
Boy, did all this spoken word parts grate on me on the subsequent listens. I don’t even want to talk about it. This is a good song to listen once, preferably with a video, yeah, and it’s an absolutely terrible song to send in a roulette, as far as I’m concerned. As soon as I’ve heard “now Stevie, now don’t be nervous, honey”, I wanted to skip this. I hoped I just listened to some wrong special edition when I asked you about this on Facebook.
I’m not even sure if you can bounce back from this one, maybe you can, maybe not, but I’ve got to be honest here. This would’ve been a good or at least a serviceable instrumental, but all the spoken bits turn it into something that I don’t want to revisit again ever. This was actively annoying, and unfortunately, the worst song of the round. Can I have more Lords of Black?
3.5/10
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Don't forget there are two more rounds left, and only the Top 8 advances further. However, after that, the previous scores don't matter, it's a simple play-off system. So don't give up, send me your best shots in the next two rounds, and I think everyone, even Katt, still has a chance to make it.
Scoreboard:
Luoto: 42
TAC: 38.5
LordCost: 37.5
Indiscipline: 37
Tyrias: 35.5
wolfking: 34
senecadawg: 33.5
Puppies_On_Acid: 32
Sacul: 32
Stadler: 31.5
jingle.boy: 30.5
Kattelox: 29.5
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Round 6: Open Round w/ optional theme: Songs with lead female vocals
The length limit is 10 minutes unless you have an ability to ignore it, in which case you're free to use it as you wish.
Please try and send for this round in 48 hours from now on.
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Now I got the chorus of 18 and Life playing in my head. :lol
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Nah I got no chance. Sending something in a couple hours tho
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I'm curious what you would have rated the Crimson Glory song. I almost just sent it by itself. Boy am I glad I didn't.
I guess I'm going to have to check out that Waysted track.
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Sent something absolutely beautiful that will lock me into last place for round 7.
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Fair enough, I agree that the vocals are the weakest part of the song, I'd still give it more like an 8, but I can totally see where you're coming from this round.
There's a really cool live recording of an acoustic show of them that I might send with my PM for my next round, where I fond his vocals fit a bit better with the vibe.
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I think the comparison with Haken it's fitting, because I can understand people who does not like Ross Jennings at all, but I would not feel Haken the same band without him. And Cardiacs without Tim Smith as singer would not be the same too.
I have a track with female vocals but it's still a weird band, maybe I will send something different, I'll think now.
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Sent some female vocals. Expecting to get Rule 6'd :metal
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The momentum is gaining! ;D
I do think you'd find that album a hoot. There are times that it feels a little rough around the edges, but overall its a great story and delivery.
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So what you're saying is when I over think things, I suck... and when I just go with my gut because I have no time to really think much about it, I suck worse! :lol
None-the-less, I see where you're coming from, and knew I was fucked as soon as you sent me that FB message.
Well, at least Kwyjibo knows what's what.
Sent. Aiming for a 2 this round!
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Man, that Steve Vai song is awesome.
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I missed the themes earlier. I would've definitely sent Lost Domain here. OK will send in a bit..
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Man, that Steve Vai song is awesome.
:hifive:
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@ Stadler....WAYSTED!!!!
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Man, that Steve Vai song is awesome.
:hifive:
Yes it is, but I can also see Evermind's point, the talking can be annoying sometimes and I wish there was a version without the talking. But then, the talking is kinda part of the song, so I really don't know.
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Agreed. In the context of a roulette, probably not the best choice - and OBVIOUSLY not the right choice for Ev.
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So happy 18 and Life did good, mate!
It is indeed one of the catchiest choruses ever, and - Chad be my witness - a whole generation's manifest in a way.
Sent a very risky girly tune.
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It is indeed one of the catchiest choruses ever, and - Chad be my witness - a whole generation's manifest in a way.
You say true.
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So... roulette strategy.
Best song?
Best performance?
Best overall package?
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Alright, busy day at work, let's answer some of these. Thank you folks for still showing interest in this.
Now I got the chorus of 18 and Life playing in my head. :lol
So happy 18 and Life did good, mate!
It is indeed one of the catchiest choruses ever, and - Chad be my witness - a whole generation's manifest in a way.
It is by far—by a huge margin—the catchiest thing I've got in this roulette so far. Good stuff.
I'm curious what you would have rated the Crimson Glory song. I almost just sent it by itself. Boy am I glad I didn't.
I guess I'm going to have to check out that Waysted track.
I'd say it was around 5.5. Pretty average as far as metal songs go. Also wasn't too impressed with Midnight, expected more from him.
Nah I got no chance. Sending something in a couple hours tho
Watch your opponents shit the bed in the next round, man. This is quite unpredictable so far. The upper ranks are consistent, the lower... aren't. There hasn't been a round where someone didn't send me a steaming turd. I expect this tradition to continue.
Fair enough, I agree that the vocals are the weakest part of the song, I'd still give it more like an 8, but I can totally see where you're coming from this round.
There's a really cool live recording of an acoustic show of them that I might send with my PM for my next round, where I fond his vocals fit a bit better with the vibe.
Please do. Love acoustic shows by any band.
Sent some female vocals. Expecting to get Rule 6'd :metal
This band was actually on my short list to check out, we'll see how it goes!
The momentum is gaining! ;D
I do think you'd find that album a hoot. There are times that it feels a little rough around the edges, but overall its a great story and delivery.
Definitely checking this out. Perhaps even before the roulette is over.
Agreed. In the context of a roulette, probably not the best choice - and OBVIOUSLY not the right choice for Ev.
What gave it away?
So... roulette strategy.
Best song?
Best performance?
Best overall package?
Let's see, and since I don't want to give you a generic answer, I'll go somewhat in depth for each one.
Best song: Sólstafir - Miðaftann
Nothing has managed to beat the emotions and the feelings that this song raised in me so far. This is pure art in a music form. Combined with the video, this is one of my favourite things I've ever discovered through the roulettes. Second place is Oh Hiroshima - Aria, this is the post-rock I never knew but always wanted in my life.
But hey, what about metal?
Best metal song: Communic - Waves of Visual Decay
This is a close call between this and Anabasis - Human Supremacy Illusion, but I'm sure I've enjoyed this one more. Great dark progressive metal.
Best performance: There are a lot of songs that fit here. So I'm going to divide this in two parts:
1) Best vocal performance: Ronnie Romero with Lords of Black - Ghost in You; a singer I don't know with Starsailor - Way to Fall; your own Graham Bonnet with MSG - Desert Song; also see the links below
I don't really follow the whole instrumental picture in the songs usually, so I'll give you the parts that really gave me goosebumps in terms of performance, and songwriting too, and they also have vocals too, so this is just my favourite moments I guess:
2) Rishloo - Landmines (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMle586mIfc&feature=youtu.be&t=280) from 4:40 till the end (this is hands down the best thing ever really)
The Protomen - The State vs. Thomas Light (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJWXbtTBZ2I&feature=youtu.be&t=124) from 2:04 till the end (this is just so freaking incredibly emotional, both vocals and piano)
Golfrapp - Stranger (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Bmr1_19HfI&feature=youtu.be&t=180) from 3:00 till 3:52 (this is mostly vocal but it never fails to give me goosebumps)
Best overall package: (excluding the ones I mentioned already)
1. Anabasis - Human Supremacy Illusion, a perfect prog song, everything's there, growls, cleans, flutes, piano, guitars, fantastic composition.
2. Eastern High - Afterglow, this just tickles my folk and world music fancy, and this is pretty well-written to boot
3) Swallow the Sun - Firelights, I wish I could've given this song a better score. It's a fantastic, well rounded doom metal that manages to naturally unfold, as slowly as it wants to.
I know, I know. My tastes changed a lot since 2016.
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Also folks, a general update about the whole roulette.
I have seven songs right now. There's no big rush since I'm seeing Amorphis live tomorrow, so I won't begin listening until Saturday. After that, apparently I'm flying for a two-week business trip to Kazan (a city in Russia), I guess my bosses just waited for me to start the roulette to spring this on me. :lol Kazan is a pretty well-known city so I have high hopes for our hotel to actually have a Wi-Fi there. If it works out, I will keep the pace of this roulette as steady as I can. If there is no Wi-Fi there, I will have to do the writeups in my hotel room and then search for some place which actually has the Internet connection.
But since this is the case, I absolutely want to receive all the songs on Saturday. As I'm going to listen to them on a plane, I want to be sure I can acquire the access to all of them before Sunday rolls. I mean, this business trip may be important, but so is DTF. So take your time, but be sure to send them in the next, let's say, 36 hours.
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Best song: Sólstafir - Miðaftann
Nothing has managed to beat the emotions and the feelings that this song raised in me so far. This is pure art in a music form. Combined with the video, this is one of my favourite things I've ever discovered through the roulettes. Second place is Oh Hiroshima - Aria, this is the post-rock I never knew but always wanted in my life.
Well, I'd say it was worth playing then ;D.
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Ev listen to Solstafir - Djakninn and tell me how much you hate it
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Best Solstafir album is Kold, by a long shot :metal
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I wouldn't say by a long shot but I'd agree
I find that Solstafir albums as a whole don't tend to be that great though, usually too long with a handful of tracks I'm meh towards
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I've been sending some stuff out of left field trying to get Ev to like it (as evidenced by sending a freaking big band swing song last round which tanked). Well, he sent me a lot of stuff with female vocals in my most recent roulette, so I hope he likes what I sent this round. It's... kinda proggy in a way, but not really. But maybe he'll like it. I hope. Ya'll tank this round please :biggrin:
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I've been sending some stuff out of left field trying to get Ev to like it (as evidenced by sending a freaking big band swing song last round which tanked). Well, he sent me a lot of stuff with female vocals in my most recent roulette, so I hope he likes what I sent this round. It's... kinda proggy in a way, but not really. But maybe he'll like it. I hope. Ya'll tank this round please :biggrin:
:loser: :corn
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Need one more song for the fun to begin.
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Okay, everyone's in but I don't see a point of starting hangman now as I won't be able to update it, so I'll probably do hangman tomorrow. We'll see.
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Okay, everyone's in but I don't see a point of starting hangman now as I won't be able to update it, so I'll probably do hangman tomorrow. We'll see.
Call us when you get there! :D
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Okay, everyone's in but I don't see a point of starting hangman now as I won't be able to update it, so I'll probably do hangman tomorrow. We'll see.
D
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T
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F me up
I appreciate making the title for the 3rd time too :neverusethis:
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Okay, everyone's in but I don't see a point of starting hangman now as I won't be able to update it, so I'll probably do hangman tomorrow. We'll see.
Call us when you get there! :D
You sound like my dad. :biggrin:
Hangman time!
???: ____ __df____ - ___ada__ _t. _
???: ________ - T__ A______ _______
???: ____a__d - ___t_ _f t__ ____ta__
???: _t___a_ T_a__ _f ______ - __d Da__ ______
???: __a_t - _a_t f__ a_ A_____
???: _t_____t_ - T__ ___a_ _a__ __t___t___
???: ______ - ______
???: _t_____t_ - __a__ A____t__t
???: __d__a - _____ _d__
???: A____ a_d ____a _t___ - _’_ __t _____
???: ______ ___t__a_d – T__ ____ _f ______ ______
???: A______a___ - D__a__ a_d ___d___
Bonus hangman:
???: Daughter - Candles
???: _______ - Afterlife
Letters guessed: A DTF
Puppies and Katt need to guess 3 songs or bands
Parama needs to guess 5 songs or bands
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Afterlife
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The
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Daughter - Candles?
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The
This isn't gonna fly here. :lol At least attempt to guess full names!
Daughter - Candles?
Yes!
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Heck yeah :metal
Gimme the A
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Drats :censored
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Eternity?
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Almost, but nope.
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L
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N
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Okay, everyone's in but I don't see a point of starting hangman now as I won't be able to update it, so I'll probably do hangman tomorrow. We'll see.
Call us when you get there! :D
You sound like my dad. :biggrin:
He and I are probably about the same age. My stepson turned 29 on Saturday.
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TAC: Ethernity / Chaos Architect.
Damn fine tune. Almost sent it myself!
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TAC: Ethernity / Chaos Architect.
Damn fine tune. Almost sent it myself!
:metal
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He and I are probably about the same age. My stepson turned 29 on Saturday.
Probably, yeah. He's 51, turning 52 in June.
Sacul: Mike Oldfield - Ommadawn Pt. 1
???: ___l__r_ - T__ A__l___ ______r
???: Enslaved - Roots of the Mountain
???: _t_rnal T_ar_ _f __rr__ - R_d Da_n R___n_
???: __art - _a_t f_r an An___r
???: _t__rn_t_ - T__ ___an Ra__ __t_n_t__n
???: __n__r - ______
TAC: Ethernity - Chaos Architect
???: _nd__a - __r__ _d_n
???: An___ and __l_a _t_n_ - _’_ N_t ___r_
???: L__r_n _r_t__ard – T__ __n_ _f __r_l_ _____r
???: A_r___ra___ - Dr_a__ and _r_d___
Bonus hangman:
???: Daughter - Candles
???: N______ - Afterlife
Letters guessed: DTF LAN R
Puppies, Katt, Sacul, TAC and jingle.boy need to guess 3 songs or bands
Parama needs to guess 4 songs or bands
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Mike Oldfield
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Ommadawn Pt. 1 or 2 (hopefully 1 because that's the better one :V) sent by Dacul
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Ermahgerd Pt. 1
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Enslaved - Roots of the Mountain :metal
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Gimee dat R
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I thought about sending Ommadawn!
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Enslaved - Roots of the Mountain :metal
Puppies sent me Enslaved. Perhaps he used them here as well.
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R updated.
Enslaved - Roots of the Mountain :metal
Puppies sent me Enslaved. Perhaps he used them here as well.
This is an excellent guess and that's all I can say on that matter for now. :biggrin:
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R updated.
Enslaved - Roots of the Mountain :metal
Puppies sent me Enslaved. Perhaps he used them here as well.
This is an excellent guess and that's all I can say on that matter for now. :biggrin:
:neverusethis:
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roots of the mountain - it's great
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Eternal Tears Of Sorrow- Red Dawn Rising
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I want you to give me some E
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I want you to give me some E
You need to guess some stuff before you can perform such a self-destructing action. ;)
Sacul: Mike Oldfield - Ommadawn Pt. 1
???: ___l__r_ - T__ A__l___ ______r
???: Enslaved - Roots of the Mountain
???: Eternal Tears of Sorrow - Red Dawn Rising
Stadler: Heart - Wait for an Answer
jingle.boy: Ethernity - The Human Race Extinction
???: __n__r - ______
TAC: Ethernity - Chaos Architect
???: _nd__a - __r__ _d_n
???: An___ and __l_a _t_n_ - _’_ N_t ___r_
???: L__r_n _r_t__ard – T__ __n_ _f __r_l_ _____r
???: A_r___ra___ - Dr_a__ and _r_d___
Bonus hangman:
???: Daughter - Candles
???: N______ - Afterlife
Letters guessed: DTF LAN R
Puppies, Sacul, jingle.boy need to guess 3 songs or bands
TAC needs to guess 1 song or band
Parama needs to guess 2 songs or bands
Katt needs to guess 1 song or band
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Blast!!
Do I see Heart in there? EDIT: Wait For An Answer!
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Ethernity - The Human Race Extinction
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Yes and yes, updated.
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Stadler had to have sent Heart.
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Ethernity - The Human Race Extinction
Sent by J Boy. We sent the same band.. :lol
Heart-Wait For An Answer....sent by Stads.
EDIT. Ninja'd.
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Dreams and ???
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Dreams and ???
And what? Give it your best guess! :biggrin:
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I guess that it's got a :censored ing E in there but I wouldn't know cause I can't see it! :rollin
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Well alright then, here you go:
Sacul: Mike Oldfield - Ommadawn Pt. 1
wolfking: Soilwork - The Ageless Whisper
???: Enslaved - Roots of the Mountain
???: Eternal Tears of Sorrow - Red Dawn Rising
Stadler: Heart - Wait for an Answer
jingle.boy: Ethernity - The Human Race Extinction
???: Jinjer - Pisces
TAC: Ethernity - Chaos Architect
???: Indica - Eerie Eden
???: Angus and Julia Stone - I’m Not Yours
???: Lauren Pritchard – The Song of Purple Summer
LordCost: Aereogramme - Dreams and Bridges
Bonus hangman:
???: Daughter - Candles
???: Ne_e_e_ - Afterlife
Letters guessed: FAIL TREND
Anyone can guess a letter except Parama
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Aereogramme - Dreams and Bridges sent by LordCost
Give me I
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Jinjer - Pisces
Indica
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Angus and Julia Stone - I'm Not Yours
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wolfking: Soilwork - The Ageless Whisper
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Lauren Pritchard - The Song of Purple Summer
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All correct!
I'll post the impressions today, meanwhile try and guess who sent what.
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As I mentioned in TAC's roulette thread, I'm leaving on vacation on Friday. So I'll send for the next round on Thursday, as I won't have easy access to my music library or much time for about a week and a half after that.
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That works for me. Have a good vacation!
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I'm playing the cards closer to the chest now that we're in the last two rounds before the elimination, so here are some impressions that aren't quite revealing as usual.
Sacul: Mike Oldfield - Ommadawn Pt. 1
wolfking: Soilwork - The Ageless Whisper
senecadawg2: Enslaved - Roots of the Mountain
Luoto: Eternal Tears of Sorrow - Red Dawn Rising
Stadler: Heart - Wait for an Answer
jingle.boy: Ethernity - The Human Race Extinction
Puppies_On_Acid: Jinjer - Pisces
TAC: Ethernity - Chaos Architect
Kattelox: Indica - Eerie Eden
Tyrias: Angus and Julia Stone - I’m Not Yours
Indiscipline: Lauren Pritchard – The Song of Purple Summer
LordCost: Aereogramme - Dreams and Bridges
Bonus hangman:
Tyrias: Daughter - Candles
jingle.boy: Nemesea - Afterlife
FARTING INNOCENCE! I was bloody sure this song had two singers.
Just for fun I didn’t Google any of the growl-lyrics for this round, and this song has “Fuuuuuuck! Men of faith, where were you when your children bled to death?”, which is the situation that deserves that “Fuuuuuuck!” alright.
Except for a few chosen lines, these lyrics are on par for this type of songs, which means they’re astute enough to beat the two examples above, but that’s about it.
This band is like five cheesy succubi (succubuses?)—I saw the album cover—composing music. I can’t believe the album is named the way it’s named, either.
On one hand, the goal of this round’s theme was to get some songs with good female vocals, and this one fits the bill. On the other hand, the vocals are the only thing that deserves the praise here.
Electronic sounding drums, a few moments of clean vocals, a lot of vocal effects and an insane doom-like ending with more electronic sounds. Bring on your predictions on this one, I’m not saying anything else.
I expected death and peril and wisdom beyond mortal minds, but this chorus is pretty much made for some stupid dance moves. This is fun!
Strategy in Evermind’s Roulette 101:
Ballad round: send a female-fronted song
Pre-90s round: send a ballad from 2011
Female-fronted round: send a 19-minutes instrumental from 1975
With this band name, I expected the shittiest production, the bleakest album cover and the trademark vocals like the guy is screaming on top of his lungs, except he’s 65 years old, living in the freezing -45°C in Yakutsk and has asthma. You have disappointed me.
Whenever she goes on about seven million people, I can’t help but laugh because I remember those pretentious spoken word parts in Pain of Salvation’s Be. SIX THOUSANDS AND EIGHTY MILLION PEOPLE. The chorus here is... something.
That’s chaotic alright, like the band members are trying to randomly hit keys and drums and whatnot.
I left this song for the last impression, because not only I don’t have any impression for this one, in fact it’s so bland I don’t even have a stupid joke to offer to go along with it.
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LOL, I see mine
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This band is like five cheesy succubi (succubuses?)—I saw the album cover—composing music. I can’t believe the album is named the way it’s named, either.
I fear this is mine (the album is "Bad Animals", which they are decidedly NOT).
But then I realize that
On one hand, the goal of this round’s theme was to get some songs with good female vocals, and this one fits the bill. On the other hand, the vocals are the only thing that deserves the praise here.
this is most likely mine, since even I feel this way, and that song has one of my favorite vocals of all time.
Strategy in Evermind’s Roulette 101:
Ballad round: send a female-fronted song
Pre-90s round: send a ballad from 2011
Female-fronted round: send a 19-minutes instrumental from 1975
HAHAHAHA, sounds like they might still outscore me, though. :)
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This band is like five cheesy succubi (succubuses?)—I saw the album cover—composing music. I can’t believe the album is named the way it’s named, either.
welp that's me 110%
nice knowing ya'll
the album title is fine btw (https://i.imgur.com/xyAzMZR.gif)
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Who said I dislike cheesy succubi though?
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I'm thinking about my track record in this roulette and let's just say expectations are not so good. :lol
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3,5/10 incoming
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I left this song for the last impression, because not only I don’t have any impression for this one, in fact it’s so bland I don’t even have a stupid joke to offer to go along with it.
Et tu, Evermindus ...
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:corn
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It's probably going to be Saturday afternoon for results, because I'm flying home at Friday night as I have Temperance concert to see on Saturday evening.
I may or may not do something to fill these three two days though, depending on how busy I am. We shall see.
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While I am once again delaying the pace with one and a half weeks instead of one week per round because of my stupid work (which I'm still kinda fond of), and while I once again apologize about it, there's no reason this thread should be staying as dead as it usually is.
I've slapped together a little preview of this round, so to speak. I didn't really mean to, but I had a beer in the fridge after a difficult day and then it just kind of happened. The transitions are lousy, the sound quality is probably awful, but if you're curious about what I have to deal with in every round, you're welcome to have a listen to this Round 6 Preview. It's seven minutes long, and it features 11 songs out of 12 from this round—I couldn't include Stadler's song for reasons, sorry Stads.
I obviously can't upload it to any streaming service as it will be swiftly taken down, so here's a mega.nz link for the file:
Round 6 Preview (https://mega.nz/#!rldXXS7B!RVux2-cp_tiAISnt7tHJmrCRH3p3JV3U_Sexczzt99A)
I know this is a poor substitution for the results, but hopefully it'll keep the discussion alive for two more days.
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Oooh that's cool. Will listen after work :corn
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Sent for round 7.
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the "fun" comment is likely Ethernity - hard to know which one though!
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Except for a few chosen lines, these lyrics are on par for this type of songs, which means they’re astute enough to beat the two examples above, but that’s about it.
I left this song for the last impression, because not only I don’t have any impression for this one, in fact it’s so bland I don’t even have a stupid joke to offer to go along with it.
I think mine is the last one, because this time the first impression are more detailed and I don't see my song in any of the other ones. But seeing a part of the lyrics of the song in the thread title raises my hopes, don't know why. At least you remember something from the song :lol
My female band choice would have been Unexpect, but it would have been too risky for me..
At this point I just want to survive these last two rounds until the greatest list round which I have already prepared, hoping that the band I chose is not banned for real and it was not forgot during the writing of the banned list.
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Alright then, got four hours before I have to leave for Temperance gig, and I still need to eat something in the meantime, but I'm starting to work on results. I will post something in a few hours, be that full results or a part of them.
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Alright folks, here's the penultimate round results before the playoffs kick in. I know it's been, once again, a week and a half since the previous round, but hey, we're almost there. One more round, and then the exciting part begins!
Round 6 Results:
Sacul: Mike Oldfield – Ommadawn Pt. 1
First impression: Strategy in Evermind’s Roulette 101:
Ballad round: send a female-fronted song
Pre-90s round: send a ballad from 2011
Female-fronted round: send a 19-minutes instrumental from 1975
Man, if only you’d sent this in the pre-90s round, that would’ve got you an additional point you might need after the next round. As things stand, though, you don’t get that additional point—but at least you’ve won this particular round. This song is great.
I don’t really like instrumentals that much. They mostly don’t quite manage to grab my attention, and in case of most progressive metal bands, there’s usually quite a lot of flexing technical muscles and noodling along on the guitars and keyboards—it’s been months or maybe even years since I found a progressive metal instrumental that I loved. This isn’t progressive metal, and perhaps that’s the key. This song encompasses everything I love about instrumental music, such as the intro to Shine on You, Crazy Diamond and some of the instrumental parts of Thick as a Brick. This screams brilliance from almost every section—and while there are parts I’m kind of ambivalent on, most of the parts here are spot on. The sections driven by acoustic guitar are by far my favourites, but I suppose just the main recurring melody is so strong—and so simple, really—that it guides the song, and serves as glue between all the different ideas.
I was baffled how your 35-minutes long instrumental managed to beat my Joan Baez song in the DTF Roulette Championship. Well, if it’s the same quality as this one—a 19-minutes long instrumental song that stays interesting, especially for me as I don’t really like instrumentals—that was a well-deserved victory indeed. This is exquisite songwriting.
8.5/10
Puppies_On_Acid: Jinjer - Pisces
First impression: FARTING INNOCENCE! I was bloody sure this song had two singers.
This is such a unique submission for the female-fronted round. First of all, this was my favourite singer in this round, and not only because she’s killing the growl parts—like really, how the hell is she doing this?—but also because her clean vocals are fantastic. Quiet and intense, incredibly fitting to the song, I love everything about this song in terms of vocals. I also like the balance between the clean parts and growls, I feel they’ve got it just right here.
The instrumental work is also on point—and once again, there’s a great balance between calm, dark and somewhat malicious parts and the all-out heavy moments. Everything here is well thought out and well written—it seems to me that a lot of thought went into this song, and the result is fascinating and commendable. This was enjoyable.
8/10 + 1 point for the Ragequit Generator ability + 1 point for winning the themed round
Kattelox: Indica – Eerie Eden
First impression: This band is like five cheesy succubi (succubuses?)—I saw the album cover—composing music. I can’t believe the album is named the way it’s named, either.
This song has a few things working in its favor and also a few things working against it. It does an admirable job building this eerie atmosphere—but unfortunately, it comes with a price. In a lot of cases, you have to divert from the song’s natural flow to create the eeriness, and as far as I’m concerned, here it’s achieved with the vocal melodies during the verses, which are excellent for the mood, but not as great for the general flow of the song. The song also does a good job building the atmosphere with this regal, orchestrated chorus, then going into a quiet section with the wordless singing and then the violin reprise of the chorus melody, and then it just… ends. It just ends without any payoff.
The chorus is easily the best part of the song, and the whole second part with different takes on the chorus melody is also great; the verses could’ve been better, but I see what they were trying to achieve with them. This song could’ve easily been your best if it had a huge chorus in the end to channel all the energy it manages to build during the second part. As it is, it’s up there, but not quite past the “good” mark.
(also, A Way Away is a hilarious album name. Wait for the sequel album, A Float Afloat and the conclusion of the trilogy, A Head Ahead)
7.5/10
jingle.boy: Ethernity – The Human Race Extinction
First impression: Whenever she goes on about seven million people, I can’t help but laugh because I remember those pretentious spoken word parts in Pain of Salvation’s Be. SIX THOUSANDS AND EIGHTY MILLION PEOPLE. Also the chorus is a bit annoying.
Honestly, and this is my general complain about this band, at least as far as I was able to judge their music from those two songs I’ve received, they’re trying a bit too hard to play a thousand notes every few seconds. Whenever this song (and Tim’s song, too, and I’ll include this paragraph in his writeup too) gets busy, it gets busy.
This one is quite a bit better than Chaos Architect, although the beginning was so starkly against all my impressions of the music Chad likes, that I was beginning to think he’s just taking a piss with this submission. However, the song quickly got itself back on the rails, and I will say this—the verses here are fabulous. They’re doing excellent job on ramping up the tension for the chorus, which is, however, a bit of a letdown. It’s catchy and memorable, but I would’ve liked something a bit more intense in terms of the vocal melodies—the part where they sing the title sounds like they’re trying to diffuse the tension instead of releasing the pressure they’ve just built up.
Still, this is better than Chaos Architect, and I see why this song is a title track. I’m not sure I can endure the whole album of this progressive metal chaos—are there ballads on this one? I’d like to hear one—but this was solidly good. I already have your Round 7 song, and I don’t know how the scoreboard looks right now—but it’s better be bloody excellent.
7.5/10
wolfking: Soilwork – The Ageless Whisper
First impression: I expected death and peril and wisdom beyond mortal minds, but this chorus is pretty much made for stupid dance moves. This is fun!
My expectations for this were somewhere in the realm of “hey, this is going to be alternative metal, right?”, so this was a pleasant surprise. I’ve found I was excited for this song to come in the rotation, and honestly this is pretty great in terms how simple and straightforward it is while maintaining the integrity of the song. The chorus is made for live performance, with this rhythmic beat and the guitar playing. Excellent blending of cleans and growls too.
The rest of the song isn’t too shabby, either, but honestly the high points here are the pre-chorus and the chorus, they pretty much make this song, and to be honest, just based on this song, I want to see these guys live. Too bad there will probably be a moshpit. This makes me want to headbang and dance at the same time. This is good.
7.5/10
Luoto: Eternal Tears of Sorrow – Red Dawn Rising
First impression: With this band name, I expected the shittiest production, the bleakest album cover and the trademark vocals like the guy is screaming on top of his lungs, except he’s 65 years old, living in the freezing -45°C in Yakutsk and has asthma. You have disappointed me.
Why the hell the band is called Eternal Tears of Sorrow? This is quite a fun song. Actually kind of reminds me of the band that was opening for Amorphis here a week ago—Animae Silentes, I think it was called. The ever-present keyboards run is nice, and so are the clean verses. I think the growls could use some refining though, they sounded a little rough; and while the chorus is fine, I thought it also could use some improvement—in particular, the growly “red dawn is rising!” and “red dawn is shining!” sounded like they could use just one more syllable to be perfect. I kept singing “red dawn is rising up!” in my head. The ending was also quite unimaginative—it was basically the same chorus, only modulated up a notch.
I definitely enjoyed that one, it was pretty good, but it also could use some improvement. Still intrigued by this band, though.
7/10
senecadawg2: Enslaved – Roots of the Mountain
First impression: Just for fun I didn’t Google any of the growl-lyrics for this round, and this song has “Fuuuuuuck! Men of faith, where were you when your children bled to death?”, which is the situation that deserves that “Fuuuuuuck!” alright.
Well, if I had to describe this in one sentence, it would be something along the lines of “inferior version of The Ocean song I’ve received a few weeks ago”. This has some good ideas, but ultimately fails in their execution, especially where the clean vocals enter the equation. The chorus somehow manages to be worse than the growling verses, and the whole song could use some trimming, in my opinion.
However, it also has some good moments. The quiet part they’re doing in the middle of the song (4:30) followed by the growling almost-spoken word is a great touch, and the breakdown following it is also excellent. The way they arrive to the pompous tremolo-driven ending is admirable, and the clean melody makes its return—which would’ve been fine if only I didn’t dislike it. Still, the structure and the idea here is solid, it’s just the execution that’s lacking. I liked some of this.
6.5/10
TAC: Ethernity – Chaos Architect
First impression: That’s chaotic alright, like the band members are trying to randomly hit keys and drums and whatnot.
Honestly, and this is my general complain about this band, at least as far as I was able to judge their music from those two songs I’ve received, they’re trying a bit too hard to play a thousand notes every few seconds. Whenever this song (and Chad’s song, too, and I’ll include this paragraph in his writeup too) gets busy, it gets busy.
My main gripe with this was the lack of memorable moments. The sound is nice, the song itself seems solid, but it took me about six listens to actually memorize the chorus and recognize the song’s structure. In fact, only in the last two days the song took shape for me, and that affected the score a lot. And once again, the chorus is undermined by all the instrumental stuff going underneath the vocals—and given that it’s not that good of a chorus, that’s one thing the band should’ve probably anticipated. I can’t complain though—for the song named Chaos Architect, this is very fitting. I only wish they managed to organize the chaos a little bit more.
So I’ll be honest, this was serviceable, but I liked the other Ethernity song quite a bit more.
6.5/10
LordCost: Aereogramme – Dreams and Bridges
First impression: Electronic sounding drums, a few moments of clean vocals, a lot of vocal effects and an insane doom-like ending with more electronic sounds. Bring on your predictions on this one, I’m not saying anything else.
Well, after a few listens I realized that the drums stop sounding electronic halfway through the song. There’s somehow this industrial tint to this song, as if the music is coming through a thick veil, which is lifted in the moments when his voice becomes clean—the singer has a beautiful voice, by the way. I realize this is probably an artistic choice to do, and I honestly enjoy some aspects of mood and atmosphere of this song, but the distant, cold verses aren’t quite my cup of tea.
What’s worse though, the song takes a turn in the second half, going into the heavy, doom-influenced ending (which, admittedly, gets some momentum as it evolves), and this part does absolutely nothing for me. Curiously, I’m still probably going to check out this album, because there are some good moments here, and I’m intrigued—but this song in particular was a bit of a mixed bag.
6/10
Stadler: Heart – Wait for an Answer
First impression: On one hand, the goal of this round’s theme was to get some songs with good female vocals, and this one fits the bill. On the other hand, the vocals are the only thing that deserves the praise here.
The first impression is still exactly how I feel about this. I have received Heart in one of my previous roulettes, the song was called Barracuda, and I didn’t really like it, vocals included, I think (it’s been a while). Here, I like the vocals, but the rest of the song is just so unremarkable. The band is just going on autopilot, and there’s absolutely nothing to latch on.
I think the whole problem with a bunch of your songs in this roulette is that most of what you’ve sent after that brilliant MSG song is pretty plodding or, at least, quite mid-tempo. I don’t mind mid-tempo songs, but apparently I mind mid-tempo songs from before 90s, because, once again, while it’s quite inoffensive, it also does pretty much nothing for me. I’ve got to give it to Ann Wilson though, she does a good job here.
5.5/10
Tyrias: Angus and Julia Stone – I’m Not Yours
First impression: Except for a few chosen lines, these lyrics are on par for this type of songs, which means they’re astute enough to beat the two examples above, but that’s about it.
When I see a song called I’m Not Yours, I can only envision two scenarios: either it’s a love song (or, you know, not exactly a love song, but a relationship song), or it’s a power metal epic where a crusader of light struggles against a devil or a demon who is actively trying to lay a claim on the crusader’s soul. This time it’s the former one, and it takes a lot of talent and subtlety to write those.
Unfortunately, this is not exactly subtle. Except for a few good moments in the lyrics (“You’re the only one that wants me around / wants me to die”), this ticks a lot of my personal pet peeves about this kind of songs. The chorus is just one line being repeated into infinity without any kind of melody, the verses have two lines (out of four) that stay the same throughout the song, the vocal melodies are uninspired as hell—in fact, the only good melodies are the ones that begin each verse. The music is also kind of “there”, a basic drum beat and restrained piano playing. The instrumental break is probably my favourite part of the song.
All in all, this is not impressive at all for a breakup song. I’d say it’s pretty average, actually.
5/10
Indiscipline: Lauren Pritchard – The Song of Purple Summer
First impression: I left this song for the last impression, because not only I don’t have any impression for this one, in fact it’s so bland I don’t even have a stupid joke to offer to go along with it.
I looked this song up, and apparently it’s from a Broadway musical, which makes me wonder if I would’ve appreciated this more if I’ve heard the whole thing. As it is, this song is such a bore. The song never goes anywhere, and while it would’ve been fine if the quality it establishes from the first note was great, it’s not, at least not for me. My main gripe with this is that the vocal melodies feel forced and they inhibit this song way too much. As a result, this song sticks out like a sore thumb among the rest of the bunch.
Once again, I think this may work better in context, and if I understand correctly, this is intended to be a closer of the story with a bittersweet ending, and I can see this working with that theme in mind—the lyrics certainly suggest so. Which brings me to another point and your Wordsmith ability: I’m going to say this works just enough to get you this half a point. I like how they paint a picture in the broadest strokes. In fact, the lyrics may be the only thing here I’m not indifferent towards. As a standalone song, this doesn’t work quite well.
4/10 + 0.5 for the Wordsmith ability
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One more round to go. Only the top 8 advances further. A lot of people in the bottom scored well, so I guess the Top 3 are pretty safe right now. Everyone below 42 can still screw up though.
Scoreboard:
Luoto: 49
TAC: 45
LordCost: 43.5
Puppies_On_Acid: 42
wolfking: 41.5
Indiscipline: 41.5
Tyrias: 40.5
Sacul: 40.5
senecadawg: 40
jingle.boy: 38
Kattelox: 37
Stadler: 37
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Round 7: Open Round w/ optional theme: Songs with substantial amount of growls
The length limit is 10 minutes unless you have an ability to ignore it, in which case you're free to use it as you wish.
Please try and send for this round in 48 hours from now on.
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Awesome!!! Glad you liked that song. Make sure you check out their song I Speak Astronomy as well. The rest of the album is pretty decent, but not quite on the same level as those 2 songs.
Also I believe I already sent for the next round....
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Hmmm.... getting really tight near the cutoff line. Really difficult to choose now, given that id like to keep some stronger artists in reserve for the upcoming rounds but obviously wont be around if i dont use one of them :-\
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I'm glad Ommadawn came in first. That song - album - blew my fucking head off in my album roulette and still does. Amazing piece of art!
Eerie Eden did way better than I expected, and your critiques are completely fair. I'm just glad you enjoyed it more than I thought you did. I have one special ability left to use so I need to use it in round 7 'cause I don't think I'll be getting past it. Gonna pick something and send it shortly.
EDIT: I have very slim pickings for this round and unfortunately nothing over 10 minutes so my ability is going to be wasted. But I think I came across an old favorite of mine that Evermind will hopefully like. Sent :)
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About as expected. I quickly came up with that. Had I read the OP more carefully I would’ve savedLost Domain for that round.
No matter. I sent the best song of the next round anyway. ;D
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I admit I deserved that. Let's see whether I can complete the choke job with the growlie round, notoriously my forte :D
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send blackjazz deathtrance
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Yeah it only occurred to me to send you Ommadawn on this round, would have definitely fit better in the previous round :lol. But I'm glad you and Katt liked it, it's such a wonderful album.
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Why the hell the band is called Eternal Tears of Sorrow?
They formed in 1994 as a melodic death metal band with a rawer sound, and later incorporated more power metal elements :) Clean vocals became an essential part of their sound from this album onwards.
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Awesome!!! Glad you liked that song. Make sure you check out their song I Speak Astronomy as well. The rest of the album is pretty decent, but not quite on the same level as those 2 songs.
Also I believe I already sent for the next round....
I will and you did. I already have five songs, keep them coming!
Also, here's me with Temperance folks:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2019/03/becb7db5bab145681a89bd50ed514ddc.jpg)
Fantastic show, I'm sitting here smiling right now for how good it was.
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wait you aren't the guy in your avatar? :neverusethis:
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wait you aren't the guy in your avatar? :neverusethis:
That's him in 20 years.
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I'm close enough, wait for another few decades.
edit: fuck you Tim. :lol
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:lol
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:rollin
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Cool pic. Now which one are you? :lol
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I'm the guy in the middle behind Alessia (the female singer).
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Sent the winner
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No matter. I sent the best song of the next round anyway. ;D
If you went with the theme, I think I know what you sent.
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LordCost: Aereogramme – Dreams and Bridges
First impression: Electronic sounding drums, a few moments of clean vocals, a lot of vocal effects and an insane doom-like ending with more electronic sounds. Bring on your predictions on this one, I’m not saying anything else.
Well, after a few listens I realized that the drums stop sounding electronic halfway through the song. There’s somehow this industrial tint to this song, as if the music is coming through a thick veil, which is lifted in the moments when his voice becomes clean—the singer has a beautiful voice, by the way. I realize this is probably an artistic choice to do, and I honestly enjoy some aspects of mood and atmosphere of this song, but the distant, cold verses aren’t quite my cup of tea.
What’s worse though, the song takes a turn in the second half, going into the heavy, doom-influenced ending (which, admittedly, gets some momentum as it evolves), and this part does absolutely nothing for me. Curiously, I’m still probably going to check out this album, because there are some good moments here, and I’m intrigued—but this song in particular was a bit of a mixed bag.
6/10
I don't think the album from where the song came from is their best, it's also really short, almost an EP. There is an interesting 10-minute song called The Unravelling that it's different from their usual style that makes up much of that album. You can check some songs like Wood and Barriers, just to see how their style is changed during their career.
I excluded that first impression because I read 'a few moments of clean vocals', but it was rather easy to guess it was mine..
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Will send in 24 hours.
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:tup
I have seven songs, would love to get the other five in the next ~30 hours.
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Sent!
No I didn’t :neverusethis:
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Actually, why not, send something, I'll include your song in the writeups. Give it your best shot, could be fun.
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i sent for the EP round like a month ago because why the heck not
i hope my EP's the worst one you get
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I'm the guy in the middle behind Alessia (the female singer).
You look nothing like how I pictured you. I thought you had long hair! :lol
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I'm the guy in the middle behind Alessia (the female singer).
You look nothing like how I pictured you. I thought you had long hair! :lol
I'm balding as fuck we speak, give it three or four years and I'll be sporting a full shaved head I suppose. I kinda tried long hair once or twice and it was just so curly that it looked positively awful. :lol
i sent for the EP round like a month ago because why the heck not
i hope my EP's the worst one you get
Oh that's right, I should probably download this one.
Also I kinda started listening and holy shit, there's some fantastic stuff in there. One particular song is totally in the 9 range.
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You're welcome! :corn
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You're welcome! :corn
It's definitely not mine! :metal
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No matter. I sent the best song of the next round anyway. ;D
If you went with the theme, I think I know what you sent.
Oh hell yes, you know what I sent! :metal
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No matter. I sent the best song of the next round anyway. ;D
If you went with the theme, I think I know what you sent.
Oh hell yes, you know what I sent! :metal
I expect it to win the round.
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You and me both, brother!
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I could have sent some excellent stuff my valonqar Parama has smuggled around my roulette, but it would feel like groping a buddy's girlfriend, so I sent a tune from the ONLY growly album I own (Mike Patton's looney vocal excapades excluded).
I feel dirty.
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I need one more song, but I will probably start listening on my way back from work in an hour or so. Maybe even post some first (really first, this time) impressions later today.
Edit: okay, I actually realized one of the participants also needs to re-send, so I need two songs now. I guess no first impressions today then!
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noooooooôóòõöø
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It's kinda funny, it's the only song I've heard from the band, and I only heard it because of a hilarious Russian misheard lyric video on YouTube. But the misheard lyrics are so good, I ended up watching it like 20 times in the last few years.
When the song started playing in my headphones, I just couldn't take it seriously at all. :lol
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Okay, sorted.
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Yay! I finally recognize one of my lyric lines in the title. :fistpump:
:AwaitsGriefFromTAC:
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Okay, all the songs are in, but today is my D&D day, and as usual, I've set some preparations aside for the last day, so I've got to do that right now while I've still got a few hours before we begin. :lol First impressions tomorrow around this time, hangman Thursday, results Sunday.
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Okay, all the songs are in, but today is my D&D day, and as usual, I've set some preparations aside for the last day, so I've got to do that right now while I've still got a few hours before we begin. :lol First impressions tomorrow around this time, hangman Thursday, results Sunday.
What does this mean?
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Doobies & Dragons.
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Okay, all the songs are in, but today is my D&D day, and as usual, I've set some preparations aside for the last day, so I've got to do that right now while I've still got a few hours before we begin. :lol First impressions tomorrow around this time, hangman Thursday, results Sunday.
What does this mean?
You don't want to know.
Dweebs and Duckings
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Oh....
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Alright folks. A lot of you seemed to aim quite high for this round, this could be one of the strongest rounds overall. Here are the first impressions (some are second, but a lot of them are first):
This is the most vanilla song in this round. I expected more from such a, uh, famous band.
This was quite good… until the vocals kicked in.
I’m fairly sure this is the top contender for this round’s bonus point for now—but the competition is fairly tough up here. You guys sure know some fantastic growly songs.
Eh, the way the lyrics are written here was pretty much the only thing I liked about this.
Uh… my expectations for this were probably a bit too high. Sounds nice enough, I guess.
Alright, after all the super-high-intensity-growl songs this was refreshing, and hey, I was sure this round won’t be a problem for you of all people.
I don’t remember almost anything from this song, except that it had this nice instrumental break somewhere in the middle. I hope it’ll unfold with the subsequent listens.
I feel this song suffers from the abundance of the full-on growly songs in this round—not quite as memorable as some of the other entries on the first listen. Great guitarwork though.
This was pretty much on the level with my expectations, which were moderately high. Saved the best for the last, did you?
I considered turning this song off halfway into it, but there was too many people on the commute to comfortably reach for my phone, and besides, it improved in the second half.
This was on par with my expectations. As far as these kinds of songs go, there are at least three songs in this round that seem to do the same job better.
I kept waiting for the song to take a wrong turn, and it just never happened. This might be up there with the best songs I’ve got in this roulette.
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Gulp.
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I see Native Construct :metardica:
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I see Native Construct :metardica:
There's actually something scarier than Native Construct. :lol
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There ain't a lot of positive in those impressions... I'm thinking mine is one of these:
This is the most vanilla song in this round. I expected more from such a, uh, famous band.
This was quite good… until the vocals kicked in.
Eh, the way the lyrics are written here was pretty much the only thing I liked about this.
Uh… my expectations for this were probably a bit too high. Sounds nice enough, I guess.
I don’t remember almost anything from this song, except that it had this nice instrumental break somewhere in the middle. I hope it’ll unfold with the subsequent listens.
This was pretty much on the level with my expectations, which were moderately high. Saved the best for the last, did you?
I considered turning this song off halfway into it, but there was too many people on the commute to comfortably reach for my phone, and besides, it improved in the second half.
I kept waiting for the song to take a wrong turn, and it just never happened. This might be up there with the best songs I’ve got in this roulette.
Not likely the last one, but technically possible.
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I see Native Construct :metardica:
There's actually something scarier than Native Construct. :lol
Finally, someone scoring lower than me
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Eh, the way the lyrics are written here was pretty much the only thing I liked about this.
Oh oh...and I sent the lyrics.
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Mine's a flop.
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Did you send Behemoth again? :lol
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Did you send Behemoth again? :lol
:lol
(https://i.pinimg.com/236x/c1/19/e8/c119e8ea8ef1948e2b314bea48cdaef8--death-metal-guitar-players.jpg)
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:rollin
:metal :metal :metal
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This was quite good… until the vocals kicked in.
I considered turning this song off halfway into it, but there was too many people on the commute to comfortably reach for my phone, and besides, it improved in the second half.
This was on par with my expectations. As far as these kinds of songs go, there are at least three songs in this round that seem to do the same job better.
Likely one of these.
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Hangman time!
???: ___m____ - T_e ____e__e __ _____
???: E_________m - ___e__e_t
???: ______e_ __ ____m - __te__ee_e_
???: T_e _______e_ E____e ____ - M__t__ __ ____t_
???: _____ - ___ _____ _
???: M_t___e__ - __e T____ M___
???: _____e_m __ - T_e ______ __ t_e T_tte_e_ ___ T___
???: E_____e__ - M______
???: T_e ___m___ ____ - __ ___ _e____e
???: ____e_t ____ - T_______
???: ____e__e - ___ _e ___e _e _e__e _e____
???: _____ ___e__ ___ t_e ___ ___t - __ _e _e_e __m___e_
Letters guessed: EMT
jingle.boy needs to guess 3 bands or songs
Parama needs to guess 3 bands or songs
TAC needs to guess 3 bands or songs
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Parama wants the D.
I'll take an M.
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Today I'm actually in the mood for some piping hot T
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Give me the E for the thread title!!
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M, T, and E are updated above. Go ahead and try to guess something!
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Eh, the way the lyrics are written here was pretty much the only thing I liked about this.
Oh oh...and I sent the lyrics.
Thank you for disputing this!
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Not to contradict you or anything, but this title (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=53350.msg2520696#msg2520696) was from Florence and the Machine - No Light, No Light, and look how that turned out (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=53350.msg2523947#msg2523947). ;)
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No clue on a single one :metal
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Not to contradict you or anything, but this title (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=53350.msg2520696#msg2520696) was from Florence and the Machine - No Light, No Light, and look how that turned out (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=53350.msg2523947#msg2523947). ;)
My heart still hurts from that result. That's a freaking good song!
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Giving it a 4 was the only way to truly exist. :biggrin:
Don't read too much into it. I'm just not very open-minded when it comes to this kind of songs. Want to guess a letter?
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I guess :neverusethis:
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Last update for tonight, heading off to sleep.
???: ___m____ - T_e __i_e__e I_ __I__
???: E__i_i__i_m - ___e_ie_t
???: __i___e_ __ ____m - __te__ee_e_
???: T_e _i__i__e_ E____e ____ - M__t__ __ ____t_
???: ___i_ - ___ _____ I
???: M_t___e__ - __e T____ Mi__
???: _____e_m _I - T_e _i____ __ t_e T_tte_e_ ___ T___
???: E_____e__ - Mi_____
???: T_e ___mi__ _i__ - __ ___ _e__i_e
???: ____e_t ____ - T_____i_
???: ____e__e - ___ _e ___e _e _e__e _e_i__
???: _____ I__e__ ___ t_e ___ __it - I_ _e _e_e __m_i_e_
Letters guessed: TIME
jingle.boy needs to guess 3 bands or songs
Parama needs to guess 3 bands or songs
TAC needs to guess 3 bands or songs
Kattelox needs to guess 3 bands or songs
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The Flaming Lips sent by Dacul
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The Flaming Lips sent by Dacul
The song is Do You Realize
TAC: Euphoreon - Mirrors
wolfking: Children of Bodom - Hatebreeder
Equilibrium
Arsis?
Might as well quote the hangman on the new page...
Last update for tonight, heading off to sleep.
???: ___m____ - T_e __i_e__e I_ __I__
???: E__i_i__i_m - ___e_ie_t
???: __i___e_ __ ____m - __te__ee_e_
???: T_e _i__i__e_ E____e ____ - M__t__ __ ____t_
???: ___i_ - ___ _____ I
???: M_t___e__ - __e T____ Mi__
???: _____e_m _I - T_e _i____ __ t_e T_tte_e_ ___ T___
???: E_____e__ - Mi_____
???: T_e ___mi__ _i__ - __ ___ _e__i_e
???: ____e_t ____ - T_____i_
???: ____e__e - ___ _e ___e _e _e__e _e_i__
???: _____ I__e__ ___ t_e ___ __it - I_ _e _e_e __m_i_e_
Letters guessed: TIME
jingle.boy needs to guess 3 bands or songs
Parama needs to guess 3 bands or songs
TAC needs to guess 3 bands or songs
Kattelox needs to guess 3 bands or songs
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wolfking: Children of Bodom - Hatebreeder
Damn!
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S
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N for Necromancer!
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???: ___m____ - T_e _ni_e_se Is __in_
???: Equilibrium - _n_esie_t
wolfking: Children of Bodom - Hatebreeder
???: T_e _i__in_e_ Es___e ___n - M__t_s __ ___sts
???: __ni_ - ___ _____ I
???: M_t___e__ - _ne T____ Min_
???: _____e_m _I - T_e _i___s __ t_e T_tte_e_ _n_ T__n
TAC: Euphoreon - Mirrors
Sacul: The Flaming Lips - Do You Realize??
???: ____est ____ - T__n__i_
???: __n_e__e - ___ _e ___e _e _e__e _e_in_
???: __s_n Is_e__ _n_ t_e ___ _nit - I_ _e _e_e __m_i_es
Letters guessed: IM SENT
jingle.boy needs to guess 3 bands or songs
Parama needs to guess 2 bands or songs
TAC needs to guess 3 bands or songs
Kattelox needs to guess 3 bands or songs
Bolsters needs to guess 3 bands or songs
Puppies needs to guess 3 bands or songs
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Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - If We Were Vampires
sent by seneca
k give me the R now
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The Dillinger Escape Plan - Mouth of Ghosts
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Dream Theatre
Guns and Roses
Kanye West Project
You didn't say anything about the guesses having to be correct.
P
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Dream Theatre
Guns and Roses
Kanye West Project
You didn't say anything about the guesses having to be correct.
P
I guess that's true! Ironically, there are no Ps left in the hangman.
???: Wormwood - The Universe Is Dying
???: Equilibrium - _n_esie_t
wolfking: Children of Bodom - Hatebreeder
???: The Dillinger Escape Plan - Mouths of Ghosts
???: __ni_ - _o_ _o___ I
Stadler: Motorhead - One Track Mind
jingle.boy: Daydream XI - The Circus of the Tattered and Torn
TAC: Euphoreon - Mirrors
Sacul: The Flaming Lips - Do You Realize??
???: Darkest Hour - Tranquil
???: Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind
senecadawg2: Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - If We Were Vampires
Letters guessed: SOME PRINT
jingle.boy needs to guess 3 bands or songs
Parama needs to guess 7 bands or songs
TAC needs to guess 3 bands or songs
Kattelox needs to guess 3 bands or songs
Bolsters needs to guess 333 bands or songs
Puppies needs to guess 3 bands or songs
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Darkest Hour - Tranquil
Motorhead - One Track Mind send by Stadler
Daydream XI - The Circus of the Tattered and Torn, probably sent by jingle
Converge :lol sent by LordCost?
Wormwood - The Universe is Dying, puppies?
rip whoever sent converge, dunno the song yet tho
now give me O
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I don't have my Excel spreadsheet on my phone, but I think you're correct about everything except LordCost didn't send Converge and Puppies didn't send Wormwood.
Updated above.
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Darkest Hour :metal
Dammit J Boy, I was hoping to use that album in the finals. (if I got there..)
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I actually sent Six Roaming Owls :neverusethis:
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We're floating in space
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All We Love We Leave Behind
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Correct!
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All We Love We Leave Behind
:metal
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Dammit J Boy, I was hoping to use that album in the finals. (if I got there..)
(https://media.giphy.com/media/r0tGmQTClFyms/giphy.gif)
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All We Love We Leave Behind
:metal
I figured I'd go out with a bang :corn.
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Tyrias sent Converge :hat
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Unbesiegt
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Darkest Hour - Tranquil
Motorhead - One Track Mind send by Stadler
Daydream XI - The Circus of the Tattered and Torn, probably sent by jingle
Converge :lol sent by LordCost?
Wormwood - The Universe is Dying, puppies?
rip whoever sent converge, dunno the song yet tho
now give me O
I did not send Converge and I only listened to them once or twice in the past, but you were close. I probably should try again with that band.
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they suck, don't bother
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Alright folks. A lot of you seemed to aim quite high for this round, this could be one of the strongest rounds overall. Here are the first impressions (some are second, but a lot of them are first):
This was quite good… until the vocals kicked in.
Alright, after all the super-high-intensity-growl songs this was refreshing, and hey, I was sure this round won’t be a problem for you of all people.
I considered turning this song off halfway into it, but there was too many people on the commute to comfortably reach for my phone, and besides, it improved in the second half.
I kept waiting for the song to take a wrong turn, and it just never happened. This might be up there with the best songs I’ve got in this roulette.
I don't think you had high expectations from my band, it's not one of the growly songs, and I can exclude the comment about the 'vanilla song from a famous band' which can be Motorhead after the hangman.
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I think I've chastised Stadler for sending One Track Mind before. This is from an album we both love, and personally, I think it's the worst song on the album.
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he sent it to me in one of my roulettes and it was one of the lowest scoring songs in the entire roulette iirc
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I think first off, you either accept Motorhead or you don't.
But from there, they do have a hierarchy of songs just like any other band, and I personally consider this one of their all time worst.
Of course, I am breaking Roulette Etiquette by bashing a song before it is scored, so my apologies Stads, but it's not like we haven't addressed this before. :lol
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hey i already bashed converge you're fine
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I was the secondary judge in a round where Stadler sent that song and I give it the third place. I still remember that song and I liked it, but I agree that could be described as 'vanilla'. By the way, I don't even know precisely what that word means, but I think it can be said for that song.
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I suspect I should thank the people in your commute :laugh:
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Full hangman:
Luoto: Wormwood - The Universe Is Dying
Kattelox: Equilibrium - Unbesiegt
wolfking: Children of Bodom - Hatebreeder
LordCost: The Dillinger Escape Plan - Mouths of Ghosts
Indiscipline: Cynic - How Could I
Stadler: Motorhead - One Track Mind
jingle.boy: Daydream XI - The Circus of the Tattered and Torn
TAC: Euphoreon - Mirrors
Sacul: The Flaming Lips - Do You Realize??
Puppies: Darkest Hour - Tranquil
Tyrias: Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind
senecadawg2: Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - If We Were Vampires
This round is curious, as I'm pretty sure the gap between the upper echelon of songs and the lower one is going to be a bit larger this time. What's good though, I don't remember the current scores and standings at all, so I have no idea what will happen. I've pretty much decided on everything except I still don't know which song wins the round theme—there are two songs which are pretty much equally great, I think I'll listen to them back to back once more and pick one.
I may actually start writing the results today, do a few writeups and take a break, then do a few more and so on. So results are coming either tomorrow or maybe even today.
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Seven writeups done, five to go. Still need to do Darkest Hour, Wormwood, Children of Bodom, Cynic and The Flaming Lips. Gonna take a little break now.
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Since I believe this is my last round I really hope Unbesiegt hit the mark for you. We'll see. Fingers crossed!
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The writeups are done, and now I've got to add the scores to the standings right now and see who's through and who's eliminated, and following that, I have to write the parting messages, ranking the bands you've sent and also adding them to my check-out list. The results will be up in an hour.
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Corn
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Get it!
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Round 7 Results:
jingle.boy: Daydream XI – The Circus of the Tattered and Torn
Grab your chickens and watch me suffer (https://youtu.be/lfX40M_iKpQ?t=570)
First impression: I kept waiting for the song to take a wrong turn, and it just never happened. This might be up there with the best songs I’ve got in this roulette.
I don’t know where to begin with this, because most of coherent thoughts about this song are in the realm of intense adoration and bewilderment that I somehow didn’t know this album existed until you had to shove it down my throat—I remember you recommending it to me back in 2017, and what a fool was I to let the streaming platform I use stop me from delving into this. I don’t know if the album is of a similar quality at all, but this song is a top notch progressive metal number. It’s absolutely freaking fantastic.
I was very skeptical about this when I saw the sheer length of this song, but this doesn’t feel like 15 minutes at all, more like five. And the structure itself is pretty simple—two extremely adventurous verses, two choruses, a few instrumental sections, a spoken word in the end and the big ending wrapping up the story. But everything in this song feels like it took years of writing, because every note is just instinctively correct. I don’t know how they did it, but everything in this song is just right. It’s impressive as hell.
I also assume there is a couple of recurring melodies in this song from the rest of the album, seeing how this song performs as the ending to the whole story—and if so, they’re woven into this song exquisitely well, because they don’t ruin its flow and integrity at all. If I had to guess, it would’ve been the last vocal section that closes the story (because hey, that’s how a lot of concept albums are made), and also perhaps the chorus melody which is also played on guitar several times throughout the song (I would guess it’s featured somewhere in the intro). I obviously don’t know if that’s the case, but you can be sure I’m going to find out pretty soon—this album is now very high on my list to check out.
This song essentially does what The Perfect Element and Beyond the Pale do for Pain of Salvation albums, what Finally Free does for SFAM, what Orvam and Hegaiamas do for Need albums, what Memento Mori does for The Black Halo—you get what I mean. This song is incredible. I don’t know if you’re going to make it, but even if you’re eliminated, you went with the biggest band I can imagine.
9.5/10
Kattelox: Equilibrium - Unbesiegt
Blow that number, okay, bye (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoVkxfnNPbY&feature=youtu.be&t=41)
First impression: This was pretty much on the level with my expectations, which were moderately high. Saved the best for the last, did you?
This was a somewhat safe pick, although I’m not sure you knew that at the moment—and holy shit, does that round brings back some of the memories of my teenage years. My best friend was really into that kind of music, intense instrumental sections and growls—Equilibrium, Children of Bodom, Ensiferum and so on. I didn’t really get into both Equilibrium and Children of Bodom—the growls were too much for me—and with Ensiferum, I’ve never got into them too, until I went to their live gig I think five years ago, which kinda changed my opinion on them. But I distinctly remember liking Mana, a song from this very band, because it had no vocals.
Well guess what, apparently tastes change, and I find myself smiling at the sheer energy and fun this song projects. Unlike a few others in this round, this feels like a celebratory song of sorts, the cheerful keyboards give it this ring of epicness and wackiness, and while the guy is screaming over it all, the song never loses that cheerful sense. I can easily imagine crowds dancing a roundelay to this. This is like folk songs sung at the campfire, death metal version—someone probably sat on the minstrel’s lute and he’s pissed, singing this instead.
You were stumbling like a blind man in this roulette, and I find it ironic that you finally find your ground with this song in the last round before the elimination—but this was pretty great.
8.5/10 + 1 for winning the round theme
TAC: Euphoreon - Mirrors
Euphoreon singer delivers the final line of Mirrors, live, 2019 (https://zippy.gfycat.com/BlindKeyCowrie.webm)
First impression: I’m fairly sure this is the top contender for this round’s bonus point for now—but the competition is fairly tough up here. You guys sure know some fantastic growly songs.
First off, this song, while similar to the Equilibrium one, has a completely different atmosphere. Unbesiegt was exultant, celebrating in its feeling; this one is contemplative and way more serious. The instrumental work here is fantastic, and so is the vocal work; it’s obvious that a lot of time and vocal tracks went into this song. The singer uses a curious approach to his vocals: not only his growls are very clear and easy to understand, but it appears that he’s recording each line or two separately and then mixes them into the song—kinda like Hansi Kursch does his vocals for Blind Guardian. This, in turn, adds a nice touch to the song, giving the listener a feeling that the growls never end, that the singer is always there—where in truth, he’s just launching his next line when the growl from his previous line hasn’t died yet.
This song is like a train on a full speed, it just goes on and on and on, never stopping, never slowing, never changing its pace—and I like it, I like it a lot. I think I like it just a bit less than Unbesiegt, but this is still great. I’m still amazed how good the singer is at enunciating things—I’m way worse with my usual speech patterns—and he’s growling those subtle, intricate lyrics like nobody’s business. On that note, I also liked the lyrics a lot. This is such a well-rounded submission.
8.5/10
Luoto: Wormwood – The Universe is Dying
You die! Blue sea of my waiter! TOOTHY MAW! (https://youtu.be/50XvmBsF8pI?t=175)
First impression: Alright, after all the super-high-intensity-growl songs this was refreshing, and hey, I was sure this round won’t be a problem for you of all people.
Okay, Mr. Expert on the Growly Songs Evermind Will Surely Like, I get it, I get it. You’re fucking good at this. I’m sure you will get past the elimination point, and I’m curious as hell what you’ve got prepared for me, because I think you’re the only one who hasn’t missed the mark even once in this roulette. Each one of your submissions was at least decent, and this one isn’t an exception—in fact, it’s damn good.
This song, once again, capitalizes on the things that make this kind of songs work for me—solid, deep growls, amazing instrumental work including tremolo-guitar-sounds, mixing the heavier moments with the lighter, ambient ones, amazing artwork and freaking solid lead guitar line. There’s nothing that makes me go “wow, this is incredible”, but there’s also nothing to criticize in this song—it simply works, and works well. It may lack an edge to ascend into the “great” territory, but it’s certainly good.
7.5/10
senecadawg2: Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit – If We Were Vampires
It’s knowing that this can’t go on forever
Maybe we’ll get forty years together (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPYZpwSpKmA)
First impression: Uh… my expectations for this were probably a bit too high. Sounds nice enough, I guess.
This is an interesting song. On one hand, it’s nice enough to draw my attention, and it certainly does its job; on the other hand, I don’t feel a connection with it, as I do with some other acoustic-guitar-driven singer-songwriter ballads. It’s pleasant enough, and the vocal melodies are pretty good, but there’s nothing that tugs at my heartstrings in it. The subject is nice, but—and honestly, that’s probably going to come out wrong—if you’re lucky to get forty years together with your beloved, then perhaps you’re in a pretty good place. Of course it would suck to live after one of you have died—that’s why they have that thing in fairytales where a couple lives happily ever after and dies together on the same day—but I don’t know. It’s an interesting point to raise, sure, but I can’t quite relate to it.
There’s not a lot to say about the song itself—it’s a nice guitar ballad that doesn’t quite grab me. The lyrics, however, are worth a few more sentences, especially since you used your Wordsmith ability for them. First off, the lyrics are pretty good for the subject they’re talking about, but it’s the subject itself that instills the doubt in me. Second, and this is totally my pet peeve, he uses the most overused rhyme in every love song ever: together / forever. This is an equivalent of a rhyme “blood (кровь) and love (любовь)” in Russian language, and it irritates me to no end. Whenever you use a together / forever (and, in some cases, never or ever) rhyme, your beautiful lyrics lose their beauty for me. I mean, it’s a legitimate rhyme, but because it’s such an overused one, I can’t really take it seriously anymore.
I guess it would be fair to say I didn’t quite connect with this song as much as you did. It was still a nice song, though.
6.5/10
Puppies_On_Acid: Darkest Hour – Tranquil
LAW! HELLO! THE WHISPER IS BEHIND MYSELF! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_4PStxeWm8&feature=youtu.be&t=176)
First impression: I feel this song suffers from the abundance of the full-on growly songs in this round—not quite as memorable as some of the other entries on the first listen. Great guitarwork though.
This is a straight-forward death metal song without any additional twists like keyboards or layered vocals or anything else—this is pretty much speed death metal stripped down to the bone. Each fully-growled song in this round had its own distinctive feature—Equilibrium had that exultant mood, Euphoreon had the unique vocal performance, Wormwood had the slower pace and ambience, and this one has a superior guitar work. Seriously, while most of the song is your usual growly death metal, or at least it is for me, the guitar work here is excellent. Fabulous riffing during the parts with growls, and the ending takes it to another level entirely with almost no technical playing whatsoever—just some simple tricks to elevate the song.
So yeah, the song itself wasn’t great—nothing too bad, but kind of not that memorable—, but the guitar playing was—and due to the fact that said guitar playing plays (huh) such a huge part in this song, this ended up to be pretty good in the end. Definitely not up to the level of some other entries for this round, but still, this was serviceable.
6.5/10
wolfking: Children of Bodom - Hatebreeder
*instrumental intro* COCK! *instrumental intro continues* (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-InrrfJww9Q)
First impression: This was on par with my expectations. As far as this kind of songs goes, there are at least three songs in this round that seem to do the same job better.
I am kind of familiar with this band—I tried to listen to them when I was 14. And also I was familiar with Silent Night, Bodom Night due to that misheard video, so I had a good idea what to expect from this album. This song met my expectations, and did not exceed them.
I might be wrong, but it feels to me that Children of Bodom—at least during those years—were trying to achieve edgy sound just for the sake of being edgy. This whole song sounds just a bit fake, it reeks just a bit of “trying too hard” attitude, especially in the moments when the singer goes with his “it’s so fucking hard”, suddenly switching from rip-ass screams to Metallica-inspired cleans even with the trademark Hetfield’s “yeah” in the end. The musicianship is there, of course, and there are some good moments too. It may seem I’m too harsh on this song here—I actually liked some of it. It’s just, compared with the other growl-fronted, high-intensity songs in this round, this one feels inadequate.
6/10
Sacul: The Flaming Lips – Do You Realize??
Do you? (https://youtu.be/WCtk3fUoLF4?t=371)
First impression: This is the most vanilla song in this round. I expected more from such a, uh, famous band.
The “uh, famous band” of course is the remark about how this band spawned the whole Six Roaming Owls thing, but honestly, this is the most vanilla ballad ever. It has this airy, dreamy feeling that’s executed well, the elated feeling which I suppose fits the song’s subject—but you know, the moments where you’re fully at peace don’t always make for the best song material, and while this ballad projects this feeling well, in the end it suffers for not being emotional enough. It’s just a very flat, very safe, very uninteresting song.
I know that sucks to hear, especially if you care about this song, or if it speaks to you on another emotional level—but this was just a nice short listen, a nice happy song, without anything else. It’s not very deep, and it fails at one thing the ballad should do—tug on any of your emotions. This song is just… there. There’s nothing else to it.
5.5/10
Indiscipline: Cynic – How Could I
Freedom and reason shine through (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJWmRXEi5xE)
First impression: I considered turning this song off halfway into it, but there was too many people on the commute to comfortably reach for my phone, and besides, it improved in the second half.
Look, if nothing else, I admire that you tried to stick with the themes, and while, clearly, the growls aren’t your strong suit, you actually went with it. I won’t lie—the first half sucks balls. The growls are pretty strong, but the way they’re written into this song, mixed with the clean, detached, robotic vocals… let’s just say this sucks balls, to put it mildly. The first two or three minutes of this song are honestly awful—but then it swiftly transforms into a different beast, letting the instruments guide it, and that’s when it gets good. The vocals are still there for some of that, but now they’re in the background instead of taking that front seat and driving the song; the guitars are driving the song instead, and the result is way better.
My one complaint about this song would be that the instrumental section ends too soon, I would’ve liked another minute or two of that. I mean, my main beef with this is that the growls suck, the clean vocals suck, but you’ve got to focus on the positive things, right? So I really liked the instrumental aspect of this song, and I positively dislike the first half—but huge props to you, and all folks who also did that, for sticking with the theme.
5/10
LordCost: The Dillinger Escape Plan – Mouths of Ghosts
Action without beating anyone, go Frey! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-GbyvP5aFo&feature=youtu.be&t=358)
First impression: I don’t remember almost anything from this song, except that it had this nice instrumental break somewhere in the middle. I hope it’ll unfold with the subsequent listens.
This one was actually quite alike Dreams and Bridges—there are some good moments drowned in mediocrity and sometimes even general unpleasantness of the rest of this song. I feel like this kind of songs is something you like, and there’s obviously nothing wrong with that, but for me it just mostly doesn’t work. The instrumental part is very good here, to be honest, with the ever-present bass line, fantastic frantic keyboards and very good drumming, keeping the tension on the level and never letting go—and honestly this is why this song is not going to get an awful score, the instrumental part pretty much makes this song, taking more than a half of it. It’s really good. The rest of the song, however, isn’t.
The heavier part occupying the last two minutes of this tune is, well, not atrocious, but not something I would willingly listen to. I don’t really like the singer’s voice, I don’t really like the melodies here, and I honestly don’t like anything about this section. It’s like it’s just on a different wavelength with my musical tastes, although I have to admit it does feature a few lines similar to growls in the end. The ending basically killed this song for me. This is something I don’t say very often—this song would’ve been better off as an instrumental.
5/10
Tyrias: Converge – All We Love We Leave Behind
We’re about to align…
DOOR!
LAY LOW! (https://youtu.be/kiALoVqzAVo?t=128)
First impression: This was quite good… until the vocals kicked in.
With all the reputation Converge has on DTF, I expected to be truly atrocious and non-redeemable at all, but hey, this is, in fact, only partially atrocious. The instrumental part is actually pretty good. It’s technical, but it’s still atmospheric—at least during the verses. The vocals are horrible though, it’s like they just found a drunk homeless person around the corner and asked him to sing the lines while he was throwing up. They’re also buried in the mix, as if whoever mixed this thought “fuck, these vocals are bad, better mix them low enough”. The instrumental part also stops being good and descends into a shitshow on the chorus—complete with the grating vocals.
Why would you send this? I’m genuinely curious. I can’t believe that someone who sent me Solstafir and Oh Hiroshima also sends me this, but I guess that’s DTF, I should’ve anticipated how broad your tastes were. This fits the round theme—I guess I was really asking for this—but this doesn’t fit my tastes at all. And what really hurts, the beginning was actually quite promising. I can’t believe this song has 300000 views on YouTube—are they that popular? Because that mostly sounded like shit, the instrumental intro excluded.
4/10
Stadler: Motorhead – One Track Mind
When you contemplate to go to a live concert on a Monday night but the venue is across the town (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhT7y3zwAdY&feature=youtu.be&t=103)
First impression: Eh, the way the lyrics are written here was pretty much the only thing I liked about this.
Not sure if the round theme is to blame, but this was definitely the worst song of the round, and probably your worst submission in the whole roulette. Not only it once again suffers from a plodding pace, but I’m not even sure if the singer here can indeed sing, he sounds more like he has a sore throat and just shouts his raspy vocal lines into the mic. It’s kind of like that Converge song I’ve got, only a bit more low-key and in the spirit of the older heavy metal.
And this is not bad per se, but it’s just too dull to make any lasting impression. And, well, alright, the vocals are pretty bad. The only thing that stood out to me is the lyrics—I liked how they were constructed to feature one, two and three as the song went on. Otherwise, this is something I don’t ever want to return to.
4/10
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Scoreboard:
Luoto: 56.5
TAC: 53.5
LordCost: 48.5
Puppies_On_Acid: 48.5
wolfking: 47.5
jingle.boy: 47.5
Indiscipline: 46.5
senecadawg: 46.5
Kattelox: 46.5
Sacul: 46
Tyrias: 44.5
Stadler: 41
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Stadler, I knew what I was getting into when you signed up, and honestly, I was so glad you did so. Even though none of your submissions lived up to the hype generated by the excellent MSG song you sent me in Round 1, I still enjoyed this glimpse of the past you provided me. I’m kind of a youngster—not what someone would call a millennial, I suppose—but I’m still young compared to a lot of you regular DTF GMD crowd. I don’t know if that’s difference in our age, or if you just enjoy different music than I, but most of your submissions missed the mark—and I’m usually very tolerant towards older stuff, hell, if you asked me my favourite bands I would name Dire Straits, Pink Floyd and Dio-era Rainbow among the newer stuff. Unfortunately, besides MSG, you didn’t do too well here. Here’s your ranking (the bands I’m going to check out are bolded):
1. The Michael Schenker Group – Desert Song
2. The Allman Brothers Band – Nobody Knows
3. Glen Campbell – There’s No Me… Without You
4. Heart – Wait for an Answer
5. Slash ft. Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators – Driving Rain
6. Mountain – Nantucket Sleighride (for Owen Coffin)
7. Motorhead – One Track Mind
Tyrias, you remain a mystery to me. How can you like brilliant stuff like Solstafir and Oh Hiroshima and at the same time send songs like Guro Von Germeten and Converge to me is baffling. I didn’t expect you to participate, but I’m glad you decided to do so—and even though you are eliminated here, it says something about your excellent music tastes that you sent two of my favourite songs from the whole roulette. You really didn’t care about any of my tastes or requirements, and just went with your heart on the most of the submissions—and for that, I salute you. Here’s your ranking (the bands I’m going to check out are bolded):
1. Sólstafir – Miðaftann
2. Oh Hiroshima – Aria
3. Cloud Cult – There’s So Much Energy In Us
4. Patrick Watson – Lighthouse
5. Angus and Julia Stone – I’m Not Yours
6. Converge – All We Love We Leave Behind
7. Guro Von Germeten – Here We Have It All
Sacul, you know you and I are pretty incompatible when it comes to music—except for the chill, quiet songs. I’m surprised you didn’t decide to capitalize on that, or I guess you did, except some of your chill stuff didn’t quite work out. I know we’re not that alike when it comes to music, and I’m surprised you sent me a lot of great stuff this time around, and I’m definitely grateful for that. You do you, and in case you didn’t know that—you rock, man. I may not like everything you threw at me, but it doesn’t cancel the fact that you’re awesome and your tastes are great. Zantera / Sacul music started out as a joke, but you’re doing justice to the whole brand. Here’s your ranking (the bands I’m going to check out are bolded):
1. Mike Oldfield – Ommadawn
2. Goldfrapp – Stranger
3. BADBADNOTGOOD – Confessions
4. Cosmo Sheldrake – Come Along
5. Giles Corey – Blackest Bile
6. The Flaming Lips – Do You Realize??
7. Linda Perhacs – Winds of the Sky
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The Tiebreaker:
Indiscipline, seneca and Katt, you guys have to send me a song. There is no theme. The length limit is 10 minutes. Two of you will continue to the main competition, and one of you will not. Send at your earliest convenience!
Go ahead and send your songs!
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I've been granted the kiss of life and just barely have a shot at making it back. No way! Awesome. I'll send you something this evening. Really happy you liked Unbesiegt - I was scrambling to find something you'd like and remembered that track from years and years ago when I was briefly into that style of music. Heck yeah.
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tbh i don't even like cynic's first album much (production is trash) but traced in air is genuinely great & you'd probably like it more since it's a lot less growly and more melodic in general
also shut up if we were vampires is great :tup
i remember liking that six roaming lips song a decent bit but i don't even remember what it sounds like
also ev you are absolutely a millennial, millennials are all like mid 20's to mid 30's now :lol
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I thought millennial was a term that's applied to folks who were born right around 1999 and 2000 and later—but if that's wrong, I guess okay, I'm a millennial alright.
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Cool. Glad you liked the song.
Have to make a Greatest Hits now. I had considered the same one I used for Puppies, but I ended up blowing his roulette on it. I like it a lot, but we'll see. Will probably spend tomorrow on it.
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1981 to 1996 seems to be the accepted birth range for "millennials" at the moment, so :lol
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1981 to 1996 seems to be the accepted birth range for "millennials" at the moment, so :lol
I mean sure, whatever.
Cool. Glad you liked the song.
Have to make a Greatest Hits now. I had considered the same one I used for Puppies, but I ended up blowing his roulette on it. I like it a lot, but we'll see. Will probably spend tomorrow on it.
You lost that extra point by a narrowest margin. Can't wait to see what you come up with for the Greatest Hits round! You and Luoto, you guys are the most consistent with your submissions so far.
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I'm not that big on Wormwood but I figured you might like them, even though there aren't a lot of clean vocals. There's an Eluveitie-ish track on that record too.
As for the Greatest Hits round, I've had a band in mind for a while :tup
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hmmm, not what I was expecting. I thought your gripes would be with the music, not the words.
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Well man, sorry about that. Just got to be honest about this whole thing.
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No hard feelings. I wouldn't want you to lie about it :lol
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sent
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Glad I'm still in this. I won't be able to send for the greatest hits round until tomorrow evening at the earliest. More than likely Monday sometime.
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Thanks for having me, and for the kind words, I'ill have more interesting things next time for sure :metal
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Stadler, I knew what I was getting into when you signed up, and honestly, I was so glad you did so. Even though none of your submissions lived up to the hype generated by the excellent MSG song you sent me in Round 1, I still enjoyed this glimpse of the past you provided me. I’m kind of a youngster—not what someone would call a millennial, I suppose—but I’m still young compared to a lot of you regular DTF GMD crowd. I don’t know if that’s difference in our age, or if you just enjoy different music than I, but most of your submissions missed the mark—and I’m usually very tolerant towards older stuff, hell, if you asked me my favourite bands I would name Dire Straits, Pink Floyd and Dio-era Rainbow among the newer stuff. Unfortunately, besides MSG, you didn’t do too well here. Here’s your ranking (the bands I’m going to check out are bolded):
1. The Michael Schenker Group – Desert Song
2. The Allman Brothers Band – Nobody Knows
3. Glen Campbell – There’s No Me… Without You
4. Heart – Wait for an Answer
5. Slash ft. Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators – Driving Rain
6. Mountain – Nantucket Sleighride (for Owen Coffin)
7. Motorhead – One Track Mind
Evermind, Stadler is the same age as your father!
In fact, he might even be the same age as mine! ;D
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Well, I accept that outcome with humility. It's always tough to catch on to what it is exactly that one likes about a song, so I certainly tried to capture that magic, just failed. It is what it is though.
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I apologise with my tiebreaker mates for the delay, but I'm literally sending from the bus.
It may not be the song I need, but it's the song I deserve.
Parama, about Cynic's first album, check the 2004 remaster!
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I apologise with my tiebreaker mates for the delay, but I'm literally sending from the bus.
It may not be the song I need, but it's the song I deserve.
Parama, about Cynic's first album, check the 2004 remaster!
You sent before me? WTF is this world coming to?
I'm still waiting to hear back from Evermind before I send mine.
EDIT: Sent something totally rad.
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All three songs are in, going to listen to them now and then a few more times later in the day. Results coming in the evening, the rest of you folks, get your Greatest Hits compilations ready.
Have a hangman btw:
senecadawg2: __________ _____ ___ - _______o_
Indiscipline: M______ M___'_ _____ ____ - ______o__
Kattelox: ____ ___o - _o_o_ _____
Letters guessed: MO
Luoto waits 2
Bolsters waits 3
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Updated above!
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I might be wrong, but it feels to me that Children of Bodom—at least during those years—were trying to achieve edgy sound just for the sake of being edgy. This whole song sounds just a bit fake, it reeks just a bit of “trying too hard” attitude, especially in the moments when the singer goes with his “it’s so fucking hard”, suddenly switching from rip-ass screams to Metallica-inspired cleans even with the trademark Hetfield’s “yeah” in the end. The musicianship is there, of course, and there are some good moments too. It may seem I’m too harsh on this song here—I actually liked some of it. It’s just, compared with the other growl-fronted, high-intensity songs in this round, this one feels inadequate.
6/10
errr.....okay.
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That album has both Downfall and Towards Dead End, which I bet would've scored a point higher. But yeah, saying the song sounds "fake" is kinda funny considering the album is a classic and pioneered an entire style of metal.
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That album has both Downfall and Towards Dead End, which I bet would've scored a point higher. But yeah, saying the song sounds "fake" is kinda funny considering the album is a classic and pioneered an entire style of metal.
Interesting thoughts. I tried to send Bodom Night but was rejected so the title track has always been a top cut from that album.
And yes, Hatebreeder and Reaper are classic albums if you ask me.
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Yeah, I mean... this is probably my prejudice against them—which I didn't quite realize I had—talking. I may try and listen to the whole album to see if it works better for me.
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Yeah, I mean... this is probably my prejudice against them—which I didn't quite realize I had—talking. I may try and listen to the whole album to see if it works better for me.
Why is that?
I'm not worried about the score or anything, they were just comments I really didn't expect I suppose.
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Thankfully I've got a couple of days to figure out a band for greatest hits. I'm literally racking no my brain trying to think of an act I have with more than a few albums that isn't banned. I might have to look back to the days before you were born.
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Yeah, I mean... this is probably my prejudice against them—which I didn't quite realize I had—talking. I may try and listen to the whole album to see if it works better for me.
Why is that?
I'm not worried about the score or anything, they were just comments I really didn't expect I suppose.
That's a good question, and I'm not sure I know the answer.
I think it may have something to do with my original dislike of growls, and I think Children of Bodom was pretty much the first band with harsh vocals I was introduced to, and well, when I say "introduced to", I mean I've listened to a song or two about ten or twelve years ago, don't even remember what songs they were.
I also think it may have something to do with our live concert culture—Children of Bodom are pretty big here, and there is usually that one guy in the crowd that will have that Children of Bodom (or Manowar, they're pretty big too) huge patch on his jacket and he's usually drunk and goes provoking a moshpit on any concert, usually it's a power metal band like Helloween or Avantasia. I know that sounds stupid now that I'm thinking about it. :lol
So I guess what I'm saying is that I already had the image of the band in my head, and this song actually sounded pretty much as I expected it to sound, confirming this not quite favourable impression of the band I had.
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Fair enough. If you've got preconceived ideas going into it though, it's probably going to struggle no matter what. No biggie mate.
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Jeez, 30 minutes of music from the same band across 3 albums. Now that is a challenge.
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Thankfully I've got a couple of days to figure out a band for greatest hits. I'm literally racking no my brain trying to think of an act I have with more than a few albums that isn't banned. I might have to look back to the days before you were born.
You are a lucky fucking DOG!
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Jeez, 30 minutes of music from the same band across 3 albums. Now that is a challenge.
Considering the banned list, no fucking shit. I've probably got a dozen or so non-banned artists I could've considered ... but they've only had 2 albums. :facepalm:
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I think it may have something to do with my original dislike of growls, and I think Children of Bodom was pretty much the first band with harsh vocals I was introduced to, and well, when I say "introduced to", I mean I've listened to a song or two about ten or twelve years ago, don't even remember what songs they were.
So I guess what I'm saying is that I already had the image of the band in my head, and this song actually sounded pretty much as I expected it to sound, confirming this not quite favourable impression of the band I had.
So sending a Growlie Greatest Hits might be risky..?
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I think it may have something to do with my original dislike of growls, and I think Children of Bodom was pretty much the first band with harsh vocals I was introduced to, and well, when I say "introduced to", I mean I've listened to a song or two about ten or twelve years ago, don't even remember what songs they were.
So I guess what I'm saying is that I already had the image of the band in my head, and this song actually sounded pretty much as I expected it to sound, confirming this not quite favourable impression of the band I had.
So sending a Growlie Greatest Hits might be risky..?
I wouldn't say so. I can't think of any bands beyond CoB and Manowar that I have preconceived notions about.
Although if it's 40 minutes of nothing but growls, it may turn out to be a bad idea. I honestly don't know. Depends on the music I guess.
Jeez, 30 minutes of music from the same band across 3 albums. Now that is a challenge.
Considering the banned list, no fucking shit. I've probably got a dozen or so non-banned artists I could've considered ... but they've only had 2 albums. :facepalm:
Well, Puppies' banned list was also pretty huge and everyone managed. I'm sure there is at least one good band you guys can dig for this one.
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Yeah, digging around a bit this morning, and it seems I've got a good number of options.
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All three songs are in, going to listen to them now and then a few more times later in the day. Results coming in the evening, the rest of you folks, get your Greatest Hits compilations ready.
Have a hangman btw:
senecadawg2: __________ _____ ___ - _______o_
Indiscipline: M______ M___'_ _____ ____ - ______o__
Kattelox: ____ ___o - _o_o_ _____
Letters guessed: MO
Luoto waits 2
Bolsters waits 3
Gimme moR! *heavy devy riff*
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senecadawg2: ____r_tt__ ____r ___ - _____t_o_
Indiscipline: M___r__ M___'_ __rt_ ____ - ____t_o__
Kattelox: _r__ ___o - _o_or _____
Letters guessed: MORT
Bolsters waits 1
Kattelox waits 2
TAC waits 3
How's the new Devin btw? Haven't had the time to listen yet.
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How's the new Devin btw? Haven't had the time to listen yet.
I don't know! :neverusethis:
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I think it may have something to do with my original dislike of growls, and I think Children of Bodom was pretty much the first band with harsh vocals I was introduced to, and well, when I say "introduced to", I mean I've listened to a song or two about ten or twelve years ago, don't even remember what songs they were.
So I guess what I'm saying is that I already had the image of the band in my head, and this song actually sounded pretty much as I expected it to sound, confirming this not quite favourable impression of the band I had.
So sending a Growlie Greatest Hits might be risky..?
I wouldn't say so. I can't think of any bands beyond CoB and Manowar that I have preconceived notions about.
Although if it's 40 minutes of nothing but growls, it may turn out to be a bad idea. I honestly don't know. Depends on the music I guess.
Hmm..
I have a Growlie Greatest Hits and a Clean Greatest Hits. The Growlie GH has much better music IMO. I think you'll like both, but I'm not sure the Clean one will stand out in the group..
Can I use my Wild Card?? ;D
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Sent for the Greatest Hits Round!!
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Sent for the Greatest Hits Round!!
As one of your Greatest Hits is literally the same song you sent me in Round 2, I'm afraid you'll have to come up with something else.
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senecadawg2: ___ar_tt__ A___r ___ - A____t_o_
Indiscipline: Ma__r__ Ma__'_ _art_ _a__ - ____t_o__
Kattelox: Ar__ ___o - _o_or _____
Letters guessed: MORTA
Kattelox waits 1
TAC waits 2
Parama waits 3
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Sent for round 8
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Sent for round 8
Yup, you're good. The trick is not to send the song you already sent me in one of the previous rounds like Tim did!
I also know who's going to make it and who isn't, but I'll hold off posting results for another hour or two.
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I'm so fucking stupid! :rollin
Next band incoming shortly Sent!
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well now we know what TAC sent for round 8 :lol
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Nah, he changed the band. :lol It was pretty hilarious though.
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Did Indiscipline send Marky Mark's Party Band? :lol
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It was banned.
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Eagerly awaiting my execution at the hands of the Evermind.
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Ask and you shall receive.
Tiebreaker Results:
Indiscipline: Manfred Mann’s Earth Band – Questions
Easily my favourite song out of three here. Good vocals and great vocal melodies. From the sound of it, I bet it’s somewhere from 80s or even 70s, but as someone in the YouTube comments said, “good music doesn’t have an expiration date”, and I agree. This was a solid tune that grabbed me from the first listen. Nice ballad.
senecadawg2: Cigarettes After Sex – Affection
This reminds me of Goldfrapp – Stranger with its sultry atmosphere—definitely a whiskey and cat music. Not a mindblowing song, but it’s nice and relaxing, a good example of a chill song. I would’ve loved a bit more diverse or memorable vocal melodies, but this is still fine enough for you to make it.
Kattelox: Arch Echo – Color Wheel
Man, do you have giant balls sending me an instrumental in a tiebreaker. This is kind of nice, like, better than Nil by Mouth or Enigma Machine, but also not fantastic like Ommadawn was. As far as the instrumentals go, it’s nice—I especially like the quiet moments with keyboards driving the song forward—but unfortunately it’s not really enough to compete with the other two songs, although it was kind of close between this song and Affection.
Kattelox, on one hand I expected you to send me some great power metal, but I understand your reluctance to go that route after your first two songs didn’t score too well. It was interesting to see you coming up with those different genres from pop to jazz to death metal to instrumental progressive goodness. I guess our tastes are a bit more different than I initially suspected—something that I began noticing while playing in your second roulette. It was quite fun though—I could never guess where your next song would take me. Here’s your ranking (the bands I’m going to check out are bolded):
1. Equilibrium - Unbesiegt
2. Sons of Seasons - Yesteryears
3. Indica – Eerie Eden
4. Savage Circus – Evil Eyes
5. Arch Echo – Color Wheel
6. Aquaria – And Let the Show Begin
7. Benny Goodman – Sing Sing Sing
8. Florence + The Machine – No Light, No Light
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Round 8: Greatest Hits
Round 8 requires each one of 8 remaining participants to send a number of songs from the same band, essentially making it a Greatest Hits compilation. The idea is shamelessly stolen from Puppies’ roulette, only I don’t want it to be too long, so the requirements for this are as follows: all songs should be by the same band, the minimum length of the compilation is 30 minutes, the length limit is 50 minutes, and the songs should come from at least three different albums.
I totally expect this round to take longer than usual, so please try and send for this round in 72 hours from now on.
Just a reminder: from this point onwards, the scores don't matter. It's basically a playoff system now. The match-ups are as follows (the tiebreakers between upper places were decided based on the strength of your latest submission):
Luoto vs. senecadawg2
TAC vs. Indiscipline
Puppies_On_Acid vs. wolfking
LordCost vs. jingle.boy
Let's do this!
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katt's new icon:
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Ooohh..matchups!
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Damn.
Yeah, when I realized the power metal wasn't scoring well, I just did what I did in Pup's roulette, which is the equivalent of playing darts blindfolded. Our tastes are definitely quite a bit different; I was actually hoping the Arch Echo song would be nice enough to get me through to GH which is where I was gonna go nuts. Maybe next time. This was fun! Thanks for letting me play :tup
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You can still send your compilation though! I'm fairly sure Tyrias planned to send his even if he was eliminated. I'll listen either after the roulette, or during the last two rounds if I find the time.
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Well, since Pup's concept album fell through (sorry Pup :lol) I'll try. No promises though :lol
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puppies you never reviewed the bonus album i sent you either :corn
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Saved by the wonderful voice of mister Chris Thompson!
Tim, I have my Andrew Toney jersey ready :corn
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Well, since Pup's concept album fell through (sorry Pup :lol) I'll try. No promises though :lol
I'm still waiting...... :yeahright
puppies you never reviewed the bonus album i sent you either :corn
I just got home from vacation. I'll be getting to it soon hopefully. :soon:
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So I basically have 4 different Greatest Hits albums made up (well technically 5, but someone stole Enslaved out from under me :censored ). Anyways, I'm not sure how to pick. Do I go with the more moody, emotional artist. Or do I go with the melodic, but heavy. Or maybe the more technical and varied. Or should I go with the catchier, more hook oriented band.....? ???
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melodic but heavy
ps PM me what bands you're deciding between, i'll tell you which one i think evermind would like most and since i'm guaranteed to be wrong you can safely pick one of the others
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I like this idea. :lol
You can also consider what Kade would send and go either similar or opposite direction.
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Well, it's a shame I'm out, but like I said, I'll still send you one more submission that I think you would enjoy.
Regarding not being able to figure out my music tastes: My goal when I play in roulettes is usually not to win, but to expose the host to music they probably would not check out on their own. That sometimes goes really well (Oh Hiroshima) and sometimes it doesn't. But I'd rather have you enjoy 2 out of 7 songs that are something you'd probably not check out on your own than send you 7 bands you could find on your own.
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Sent for the Greatest Hits Round!!
As one of your Greatest Hits is literally the same song you sent me in Round 2, I'm afraid you'll have to come up with something else.
Haha good work Chad......oh wait.
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Sent for the Greatest Hits Round!!
As one of your Greatest Hits is literally the same song you sent me in Round 2, I'm afraid you'll have to come up with something else.
Haha good work Chad......oh wait.
(https://media1.tenor.com/images/eeecfa9b00e62530a3a2d42c617bc0e5/tenor.gif?itemid=9751419)
At least Ev caught it!
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Well, it's a shame I'm out, but like I said, I'll still send you one more submission that I think you would enjoy.
Regarding not being able to figure out my music tastes: My goal when I play in roulettes is usually not to win, but to expose the host to music they probably would not check out on their own. That sometimes goes really well (Oh Hiroshima) and sometimes it doesn't. But I'd rather have you enjoy 2 out of 7 songs that are something you'd probably not check out on your own than send you 7 bands you could find on your own.
Same, this was kinda my strategy honestly - test the waters with tried and true stuff but if that doesn't work then it's all wild card entries :hat
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Well, it's a shame I'm out, but like I said, I'll still send you one more submission that I think you would enjoy.
Regarding not being able to figure out my music tastes: My goal when I play in roulettes is usually not to win, but to expose the host to music they probably would not check out on their own. That sometimes goes really well (Oh Hiroshima) and sometimes it doesn't. But I'd rather have you enjoy 2 out of 7 songs that are something you'd probably not check out on your own than send you 7 bands you could find on your own.
That's fair, and can't wait to see what else you've got for me.
Also, I've got three people in. I won't start listening until Wednesday, so it's all good—take your time.
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Sent for the Greatest Hits Round!!
As one of your Greatest Hits is literally the same song you sent me in Round 2, I'm afraid you'll have to come up with something else.
Haha good work Chad......oh wait.
:lol
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Just going thru my choices today. You'll have mine within 24 hours.
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melodic but heavy
ps PM me what bands you're deciding between, i'll tell you which one i think evermind would like most and since i'm guaranteed to be wrong you can safely pick one of the others
I actually decided on the more technical, but varied band. We'll see how this goes....
Just need to make some small edits to make sure it flows well and then I'll upload the file.
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Sent for the Greatest Hits Round!!
As one of your Greatest Hits is literally the same song you sent me in Round 2, I'm afraid you'll have to come up with something else.
Haha good work Chad......oh wait.
(https://media1.tenor.com/images/eeecfa9b00e62530a3a2d42c617bc0e5/tenor.gif?itemid=9751419)
At least Ev caught it!
:rollin
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So I went ahead and sent for the Greatest hits round. Hopefully the link works for you.... :corn
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Just so you guys know, Puppies' PM begins with this:
I'm going to play off of your love for bands like Native Construct and see if this band strikes a chord with you.
This is going to go well, I'm sure.
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Allegaeon? :metal
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:metardica:
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Good thing the band I sent doesn't sound like Native Construct then :corn
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Good thing I don't know what Native Construct sounds like. :biggrin:
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Will send in 24 hours, sorry.
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Yup, I'll be in within 12 hours too. Just making some final decisions on songs.
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You're fine guys. I will start listening Wednesday morning but I probably will have time for only two compilations during my morning commute, and for another two on my way back, and I already have four entries. Take your time.
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Sent one of the five greatest songwriters alive.
TAC's gonna win this match, but I'm gonna look fabolous.
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Sent one of the five greatest songwriters alive.
TAC's gonna win this match, but I'm gonna look fabolous.
Pretty sure Steve Harris is banned.
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Sent one of the five greatest songwriters alive.
TAC's gonna win this match, but I'm gonna look fabolous.
Pretty sure Steve Harris is banned.
Yeah, but Winger isn't.
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Well he did say he was going to look fabulous.
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Sent for next r-... oh :(
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Sent! With 2 hours to spare.
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Good job guys, only need Kade and Nelson and they said they will be sending soon.
Any suggestions on hangman this time around? Only use song names and not the band names? Anything else?
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Any suggestions on hangman this time around? Only use song names and not the band names? Anything else?
How about bands and senders as one category, and songs as another? We would then have to connect songs to bands. Letters guessed simultaneously to both of course.
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Sent one of the five greatest songwriters alive.
TAC's gonna win this match, but I'm gonna look fabolous.
Pretty sure Steve Harris is banned.
West Ham Stevie currently sitting at #8
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Any suggestions on hangman this time around? Only use song names and not the band names? Anything else?
How about bands and senders as one category, and songs as another? We would then have to connect songs to bands. Letters guessed simultaneously to both of course.
Well, if no one will use Google, that might work. Otherwise it's going to be the easiest thing ever.
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Yeah I prefer "only songs and you have to figure out the bands from the songs"
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Sent. After just barely scraping by the two elimination points, I'm happy to be able to send anything at all. Hopefully it's enough to dethrone Luoto :biggrin:
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Alright, just got home not long ago so looking for a band now.
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Think I have a band.
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Well, that was quick.
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Well, that was quick.
Sent 50 minutes of music. :lol So many songs I could have chosen but went with a lot of classics and a couple of later obscurities to finish it off. Even I'm impressed with how quick I got that done. :lol
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Well, that was quick.
Sent 50 minutes of music. :lol So many songs I could have chosen but went with a lot of classics and a couple of later obscurities to finish it off. Even I'm impressed with how quick I got that done. :lol
Sounds like Tim's sex life.
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Well, that was quick.
Sent 50 minutes of music. :lol So many songs I could have chosen but went with a lot of classics and a couple of later obscurities to finish it off. Even I'm impressed with how quick I got that done. :lol
Sounds like Tim's sex life.
Chad, taking up the moniker of Mr. Quotefail :biggrin:
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Damn computer but the /b inside the quote bracket. So yes... I'll take the quotefail idol for the moment.
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Damn computer but the /b inside the quote bracket. So yes... I'll take the quotefail idol for the moment.
Is the idol in any way similar to the anal beads immunity idol by any chance?
Anyway guys, everyone is in. This is going to be the most massive round of the roulette, I think the shortest playlist is 39 minutes, with the longest being over 49 minutes, and a few more floating at the 48 minutes mark. So overall we're looking at about 5+ hours of music. Therefore, this round will take me a little longer to do, but my plan for this is simple:
First, I take time to listen twice to all of your compilations. In the meanwhile, we're going to do a multi-part hangman for the songs. Second, I start to focus on one match-up at a time, devoting most of my listening time to two match-up compilations for a few days. Third, I write and post results for that match-up, and then focus on another one.
There is a lot of variety in what I've got, and I've only listened to four compilations so far. Overall, we're looking at 64 songs, with the shortest compilation sitting at 5 songs, and the longest at 10.
The hangman is coming in a few minutes as I decide how to separate the songs in a few batches.
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Okay guys, before we start guessing I would kindly ask you to avoid using Google this time around—mostly because some of the song names will surely lead you onto the band that was sent, and then it's easy. A lot of the bands submitted—more than half, really—are quite known on DTF in certain circles. So try and guess the band without Googling first, and if that doesn't work and you're frustrated, then perhaps do it.
Also the songs in each part were chosen mostly at random, but then out of the choices I arranged them to resemble concept albums purely by titles. :biggrin:
Let's go!
Hangman:
Participant: Band
???: ???
???: ???
???: ???
???: ???
???: ???
???: ???
???: ???
???: ???
Song titles: Part 1/4
A____a_
_e____e ___e
______e_
____ ___ a _a_
_________ ____e
_a__a__
_e_____a_
____ __e __a__ _____
_______ __e ____ _____
E____e _a___
A _ea_ _____ a_ ______e
A____a
___a___
_ea ____a
____ __ __e ____e__
_____'_ E__
Letters guessed: EA
Parama waits 2
jingle.boy waits 3
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let's go in alphabetical order :metal
A
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Updated!
I'll go with a standard waiting time of 3 for now, although if the amount of people participating won't be big enough, I'll cut it to 1 or 2 I guess.
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I'd like to buy a vowel.... E
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R
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Hangman:
Participant: Band
???: Primordial
Empire Falls
???: ???
???: ???
???: ???
???: ???
???: ???
???: ???
???: ???
Guessed with no band:
Aurora
Song titles: Part 1/4
Arr__a_
_e____e ___e
R_____e_
____ __r a _a_
_________ _r__e
_a__a__
_e____ra_
____ __e __a__ _____
__r____ __e ____ _____
A _ea_ __r__ a_ ___r__e
___ar__
_ea ____a
____ __ __e ____e__
__r__'_ E__
Letters guessed: EAR
Parama waits 1
jingle.boy waits 2
senecadawg2 waits 3
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Aurora
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Yep.
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Primordial - Empire Falls
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Primordial - Empire Falls
Okay well that's impressive as hell and also correct :tup
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Hmm, interesting :corn
Shot in the dark, TAC?
I have no clue TBH but it doesn't sound like what puppies said he sent
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Gimme the K
Okay well that's impressive as hell and also correct :tup
I've checked out that album so I knew they had a song titled that :)
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Hmm, interesting :corn
Shot in the dark, TAC?
I have no clue TBH but it doesn't sound like what puppies said he sent
Nope, not TAC unfortunately
I've checked out that album so I knew they had a song titled that :)
Yeah, still impressive though! Definitely didn't expect someone to figure one of the bands after only three letters, that's pretty amazing to be honest.
Only two K's though, here you go:
Hangman:
???: Primordial
Empire Falls
???: ???
???: ???
???: ???
???: ???
???: ???
???: ???
???: ???
Guessed with no band:
Aurora
Song titles: Part 1/4
Arr__a_
_e____e ___e
R_____e_
K___ __r a _a_
_________ _r__e
_a__a__
_e____ra_
____ __e __a_k _____
__r____ __e ____ _____
A _ea_ __r__ a_ ___r__e
___ar__
_ea ____a
____ __ __e ____e__
__r__'_ E__
Letters guessed: RAKE
jingle.boy waits 1
senecadawg2 waits 2
Luoto waits 3
Better guess now if you can cause I plan to go to sleep in a few minutes after my three hours of sleep last night.
edit: Alright, I'm off.
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Arrival. Cult of Luna?
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King for a Day. Let's see... Primal Fear, Powerworld, and Royal Hunt are banned; Now or Never tanked earlier. So, I'm at a loss as to the band.
I didn't search Google, but I did search Spotify. Methinks it's Katt. Wait... maybe not. :lol
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King for a Day. Let's see... Primal Fear, Powerworld, and Royal Hunt are banned; Now or Never tanked earlier. So, I'm at a loss as to the band.
There's one band I can think of who aren't banned, and they're a lot more popular than any of those.
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I didn't search Google, but I did search Spotify. Methinks it's Katt. Wait... maybe not. :lol
One of these days, Chad! (https://i.imgur.com/xyAzMZR.gif)
:lol
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King for a Day. Let's see... Primal Fear, Powerworld, and Royal Hunt are banned; Now or Never tanked earlier. So, I'm at a loss as to the band.
There's one band I can think of who aren't banned, and they're a lot more popular than any of those.
Yeah, but I'm a Canadian idiot.
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I'll take an M
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R
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Fine, I'll take the D since nobody else wants it
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Arrival and King for a Day are correct, not Cult of Luna though.
R is already guessed. :lol
Hangman:
???: Primordial
Empire Falls
Puppies_On_Acid: The Human Abstract
Mea Culpa
???: ???
???: ???
???: ???
???: ???
???: ???
???: ???
Guessed with no band:
Aurora
Arrival
King for a Day
World's End
Welcome Home
Song titles: Part 1/4
R_____e_
M________ _r_de
_a__a__
_e____rad
____ __e __a_k _____
__r____ __e ____ _____
A Dead __r_d a_ ___r__e
___ar__
__d_ __ __e __d_e__
Letters guessed: MDRAKE
Luoto waits 1
Puppies waits 2
Parama waits 3
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Mea Culpa - by The Human Abstract
this one is Puppies
World's End
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Mea Culpa - by The Human Abstract
this one is Puppies
You sure it isn't Animations or Arena? :corn
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you said you went with the technical, but varied band
arena is banned
nobody ever has heard of animations except you apparently
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you said you went with the technical, but varied band
arena is banned
nobody ever has heard of animations except you apparently
You got me there.
Animations does have 4 albums, but I'd only ever send songs from the first 2 and that would be breaking the rules of the round.... They are actually a very similar band to The Human Abstract.
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The Human Abstract is even named like Native Construct!
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The Human Abstract is even named like Native Construct!
:corn
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Welcome Home
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Ah yes, the Metallica cover
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I know a song called Aurora by Foo Fighters and another one by italian singer Eros Ramazzotti. Has someone sent Foo Fighters?
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No, not Foo Fighters. In fact I don't know which band has this Aurora song. :lol Probably it's from one of the three compilations I haven't listened yet.
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Lets see some Ts
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Hangman:
???: Primordial
Empire Falls
Puppies_On_Acid: The Human Abstract
Mea Culpa
???: ???
???: ???
???: ???
???: ???
???: ???
???: ???
Guessed with no band:
Aurora
Arrival
King for a Day
World's End
Welcome Home
Song titles: Part 1/4
R_____et
M_______t _r_de
_a_ta__
_e____rad
__t_ t_e __a_k ____t
T_r____ t_e ____ ____t
A Dead __r_d at ___r__e
___ar__
__d_ t_ t_e __d_e__
Letters guessed: MT DRAKE
Puppies waits 1
Parama waits 2
jingle.boy waits 3
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H
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Ricochet???
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A Dead World at Sunrise
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Both correct. Will update when I'm back home, gotta run now.
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King For a Day and Ricochet could be Faith No More???
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King For a Day and Ricochet could be Faith No More???
Correctomundo :) My guess would be Indiscipline
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...Coheed and Cambria? :corn
something that looks like Into the Black Night
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Faith No More is Indiscipline.
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Faith No More is Seneca
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Faith No More is LordCost, btw
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Faith No More is Katt. Wait ...maybe not.
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Faith No More is NOT jingle
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I am Groot
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I am correct.
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LordCost is a mike patton stan so I genuinely think it's most likely him but I'm not 100% sure :P
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:lol It is, in fact, LordCost.
Faith No More is Katt. Wait ...maybe not.
This is a joke that keeps on giving, made me chuckle again. :)
...Coheed and Cambria? :corn
something that looks like Into the Black Night
Nope and yes.
???: Primordial
Empire Falls
Gods to the Godless
Puppies_On_Acid: The Human Abstract
Mea Culpa
Antebellum
LordCost: Faith No More
Ricochet
King for a Day
TAC: Silent Voices
World's End
???: ???
???: ???
???: ???
???: ???
Guessed with no band:
Aurora
Arrival
Welcome Home
Into the Black Light
A Dead World at Sunrise
Song titles: Part 1/4
M______ht _r_de
_a_ta__
_e____rad
Thr___h the ____ ___ht
___ar__
Letters guessed: THE MARKD
Song titles: Part 2/4
_____ __ ______
C_a__a____
___c______ __ _a___
__________
_____'_ ___ __c_____a
____ ___ __ _______
___ A__ _____ __a____
_a__ _______
_____ ___a___ ___ _a__ _a____
_a__ __ ________
_______a_c_
_____a
A___a__
_a____a_
____ __ac_ __ ________
Letters guessed: AC
senecadawg2 waits 1
Luoto waits 2
LordCost waits 3
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LordCost is a mike patton stan so I genuinely think it's most likely him but I'm not 100% sure :P
So is Indiscipline.
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Into the Black Night is close but not correct. I can tell you haven't listened to it :lol
A for 2/4
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Into the Black Night is close but not correct. I can tell you haven't listened to it :lol
A for 2/4
Guess why? (see PMs) :biggrin:
Also yeah, I was going off my memory and, well, shit. :lol I'll leave it as it is, it'll add a mystery to your band.
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Into the Black Light, then :P
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It's actually Into the Black Wight, in honor of the upcoming season of GoT
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Into the Black Qight
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It's actually Into the Black Wight, in honor of the upcoming season of GoT
(https://media1.tenor.com/images/8be3114745aaa41d6edd534788d38fe1/tenor.gif?itemid=7227906)
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Is World's End from Silent Voices?
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Is World's End from Silent Voices?
Yes, yes it is. I'll update that tomorrow in the morning.
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Is World's End from Silent Voices?
Yes, yes it is. I'll update that tomorrow in the morning.
Cool. I think that's TAC then... I think he's the only one I'd think might send them (and I seem to recall him having mentioned them in the past). Good band... I was just listening to them a couple weeks back.
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Give me C.
Antebellum by The Human Abstract in part 2?
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Give me C.
Antebellum by The Human Abstract in part 2?
Unless you specify for which part, I'm going to assume it's for the most recent part.
Also correct I think, I forgot to bring my hangman list to work.
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Gods to the Godless in part 1, and that's a Primordial tune.
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Did someone send Bjork?
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E for Evermind.
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B for I'm in a local bar
I'll update in a few hours, maybe.
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P for Priorities.
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P for Goddammit Parama Not Again
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???: Primordial
Empire Falls
Gods to the Godless
Puppies_On_Acid: The Human Abstract
Mea Culpa
Antebellum
LordCost: Faith No More
Ricochet
King for a Day
TAC: Silent Voices
World's End
???: ???
???: ???
???: ???
???: ???
Guessed with no band:
Aurora
Arrival
Welcome Home
Into the Black Light
A Dead World at Sunrise
Song titles: Part 1/4
M______ht _r_de
_a_ta__
_e____rad
Thr___h the ____ ___ht
___ar__
Letters guessed: DARK METH
Song titles: Part 2/4
_e___ __ _e____
C_a__a__e_
P__ce_____ __ _a_e_
________e_
__e_e'_ __e __c_e___a
____ ___ __ ____e_e
___ A__ _____ _ea____
_a_e _____e_
__e_e __ea_e_ _e_ _a_e _a__e_
_a__ __ _______e
____p_ea_c_
__e__a
Ab__a__
_a___ba_
____ P_ace __ _e___b_e
Letters guessed: CABEP
TAC waits 1
Evermind waits 2
jingle.boy waits 3
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S
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I
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T
I had a dream last night that Indiscipline sent Ozzy for this round..
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I am the roulette Freddie Kruger!
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(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/P7Ql6YX8BXc/hqdefault.jpg)
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???: Primordial
Empire Falls
Gods to the Godless
Where Greater Men Have Fallen
Puppies_On_Acid: The Human Abstract
Mea Culpa
Antebellum
LordCost: Faith No More
Ricochet
King for a Day
TAC: Silent Voices
World's End
???: ???
???: ???
???: ???
???: ???
Guessed with no band:
Aurora
Arrival
Welcome Home
Into the Black Light
A Dead World at Sunrise
Fate Divided
Where's the Orchestra?
Stripsearch
Abigail
Song titles: Part 1/4
M______ht _r_de
_a_ta__
_e____rad
Thr___h the ____ ___ht
___ar__
Letters guessed: DARK METH
Song titles: Part 2/4
_ei__ __ Te____
C_a__aste_
P__cessi__ __ _ates
_i__t_i_es
____ __t __ ____e_e
___ A__ _____ _eas__s
_a__ __ S__s_i_e
_ie__a
_a__iba_
T_is P_ace is _e__ib_e
Letters guessed: SPICE TAB
Puppies waits 1
Parama waits 2
TAC waits 3
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Fate Divided?
Where's The Orchestra? :lol
Stripsearch
Edit: Might see Abigail and Hannibal in there too. Someone sent music from the TV series? :neverusethis:
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Primordial - Where Greater Men Have Fallen
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Fate Divided?
Where's The Orchestra? :lol
Stripsearch
Edit: Might see Abigail and Hannibal in there too. Someone sent music from the TV series? :neverusethis:
All correct except Hannibal. :)
Primordial - Where Greater Men Have Fallen
Yes indeed.
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Stripsearch might be Faith No More
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sent an updated EP for the next round :metal
should have a losers' bracket for all the losers who lost to send EPs that suck
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Whoever lost and also dares to send me an EP will go up against you.
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Whoever lost and also dares to send me an EP will go up against you.
Challenge accepted
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hell yeah :metal
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Into the Black Light is Ghost Brigade sent by Luoto
also something looks like Procession of Fates?
This Place is Terrible?
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Procession of Fates might be The Human Abstract?
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Zanzibar?
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All correct!
senecadawg2: Primordial
Empire Falls
Gods to the Godless
Where Greater Men Have Fallen
Puppies_On_Acid: The Human Abstract
Mea Culpa
Antebellum
Procession of Fates
LordCost: Faith No More
Ricochet
King for a Day
Stripsearch
TAC: Silent Voices
World's End
Luoto: Ghost Brigade
Into the Black Light
???: King Diamond
Arrival
Welcome Home
Abigail
Indiscipline: Billy Joel
Where's the Orchestra?
???: ???
Guessed with no band:
Aurora
A Dead World at Sunrise
Fate Divided
This Place is Terrible
Zanzibar
Song titles: Part 1/4
Moo____ht _r_de
_a_ta__
_e____rad
Thro__h the _o__ ___ht
_o_ar__
Letters guessed: O DARK METH
Song titles: Part 2/4
_ei__ __ Te____
C_a__aste_
_i__t_i_es
____ __t __ ____e_e
___ A__ _____ _eas__s
_a__ __ S__s_i_e
_ie__a
Letters guessed: SPICE TAB
Parama waits 1
TAC waits 2
LordCost waits 3
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Arrival
Welcome Home
Abigail
These three song titles and the band hasn't been guessed? You gotta be kidding.
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Stripsearch might be Faith No More
That's a GREAT song.
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Arrival
Welcome Home
Abigail
These three song titles and the band hasn't been guessed? You gotta be kidding.
King Diamond. Is that Indiscipline?
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Arrival
Welcome Home
Abigail
These three song titles and the band hasn't been guessed? You gotta be kidding.
Everyone probably thought King Diamond has to be banned :lol
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Where's The Orchestra is Billy Joel. Is Stadler still playing?
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Where's The Orchestra is Billy Joel. Is Stadler still playing?
Oh, then that's probably Indiscipline.
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Stripsearch might be Faith No More
That's a GREAT song.
I don't know if it's my favourite FNM song, but it's close to it for sure. The rest of the album however is not that special.
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I ask for O in the first part
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Billy Joel is indeed sent by Indiscipline. Hangman updated. Third part coming up tomorrow, and that's also where I pick one matchup and start focusing on it.
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Hemina - Moonlight Bride
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Hemina - Moonlight Bride
Hemina is J Boy
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senecadawg2: Primordial
Empire Falls
Gods to the Godless
Where Greater Men Have Fallen
Puppies_On_Acid: The Human Abstract
Mea Culpa
Antebellum
Procession of Fates
LordCost: Faith No More
Ricochet
King for a Day
Stripsearch
TAC: Silent Voices
World's End
Luoto: Ghost Brigade
Into the Black Light
wolfking: King Diamond
Arrival
Welcome Home
Abigail
Indiscipline: Billy Joel
Where's the Orchestra?
jingle.boy: Hemina
Moonlight Bride
Guessed with no band:
Aurora
A Dead World at Sunrise
Fate Divided
This Place is Terrible
Zanzibar
Song titles: Part 1/4
_a_ta__
_e____rad
Thro__h the _o__ ___ht
_o_ar__
Letters guessed: O DARK METH
Song titles: Part 2/4
_ei__ __ Te____
C_a__aste_
_i__t_i_es
____ __t __ ____e_e
___ A__ _____ _eas__s
_a__ __ S__s_i_e
_ie__a
Letters guessed: SPICE TAB
Parama waits 1
TAC waits 2
LordCost waits 3
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This Place is Terrible
King Diamond
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Song titles: Part 1/4
_a_ta__
Song titles: Part 2/4
_i__t_i_es
Fantasy
Nightlives
both Hemina
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Show me N
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Alright! One (or in a few cases, two) listen in for all the compilations, now I'm going to randomly determine the order and focus on them, one matchup by one. First results will probably be up Thursday? I hope so.
senecadawg2: Primordial
Empire Falls
Gods to the Godless
Where Greater Men Have Fallen
Puppies_On_Acid: The Human Abstract
Mea Culpa
Antebellum
Procession of Fates
Vela, Together We Await the Storm
LordCost: Faith No More
Ricochet
King for a Day
Stripsearch
Land of Sunshine
TAC: Silent Voices
World's End
Luoto: Ghost Brigade
Into the Black Light
wolfking: King Diamond
Arrival
Welcome Home
Abigail
This Place is Terrible
Indiscipline: Billy Joel
Where's the Orchestra?
jingle.boy: Hemina
Moonlight Bride
Fantasy
Nightlives
Guessed with no band:
Aurora
A Dead World at Sunrise
Fate Divided
Zanzibar
Vienna
Reign of Terror
Song titles: Part 1/4
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Letters guessed: O DARK METH
Song titles: Part 2/4
C_a__aste_
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Letters guessed: BE CATNIPS
Song titles: Part 3/4
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Letters guessed: DT
Puppies waits 1
Parama waits 2
Luoto waits 3
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Land of Sunshine
Vienna
Give me D on the new one :metal
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Land of Sunshine we can file under Faith No More.
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The Human Abstract - Vela, Together We Await The Storm
Something that looks like reign of terror
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Yep and yep and yep. Updated.
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E, I, E, I, give me the O for Old McDonald's farm..... :biggrin:
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senecadawg2: Primordial
Empire Falls
Gods to the Godless
Where Greater Men Have Fallen
The Coffin Ships
Puppies_On_Acid: The Human Abstract
Mea Culpa
Antebellum
Procession of Fates
Vela, Together We Await the Storm
LordCost: Faith No More
Ricochet
King for a Day
Stripsearch
Land of Sunshine
TAC: Silent Voices
World's End
Luoto: Ghost Brigade
Into the Black Light
wolfking: King Diamond
Arrival
Welcome Home
Abigail
This Place is Terrible
Indiscipline: Billy Joel
Where's the Orchestra?
Goodnight Saigon
The Entertainer
Leningrad
Vienna
jingle.boy: Hemina
Moonlight Bride
Fantasy
Nightlives
Guessed with no band:
Aurora
A Dead World at Sunrise
Fate Divided
Zanzibar
Reign of Terror
Through the Long Night
Matador
A Storm Inside
Song titles: Part 1/4
_o_ar__
Letters guessed: O DARK METH
Song titles: Part 2/4
C_a__aste_
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Letters guessed: BE CATNIPS
Song titles: Part 3/4
Prelude / ___r_ __o__ ___
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Letters guessed: EDITOR
LordCost waits 1
Puppies waits 2
Parama waits 3
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Primordial - The Coffin Ships
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Through The Long Night
Goodnight Saigon, another Billy Joel tune, and a great one.
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Updated.
Started spinning the two compilations I'm focused on today, I'm fairly this is isn't going to be easy. The two bands are just too different.
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Prelude / ???
A Story Inside
The Entertainer, which I believe is Billy Joel
Matador
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A Story Inside
It's actually A Stork Inside
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A Storm Inside then :P
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:facepalm: Leningrad - Billy Joel
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Vienna is one of the most beautiful songs ever written, and incredibly moving as well.
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Here's your update about the first matchup listening: it's going strong! I recognize all the songs from both submissions now, and I've got some coherent thoughts about both compilations. Both of them aren't great, but both have their moments. I'm leaning slightly towards one of them right now, but I'm still not sure—this is difficult. I think I may post some impressions tomorrow and push the first result to Saturday instead. Or I may just post it tomorrow if I feel confident enough in my judgement. As I said, this round is going to take a bit more time. I'm aiming for this round to be done at the end of next week.
Thank you for being patient, guys. I'll definitely deliver something tomorrow, whether it's the impressions for the first matchup or the actual results.
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Zanzibar is Billy Joel.
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Just came back from work. Part 4 and impressions for some compilations coming later in the evening!
senecadawg2: Primordial
Empire Falls
Gods to the Godless
Where Greater Men Have Fallen
The Coffin Ships
Puppies_On_Acid: The Human Abstract
Mea Culpa
Antebellum
Procession of Fates
Vela, Together We Await the Storm
LordCost: Faith No More
Ricochet
King for a Day
Stripsearch
Land of Sunshine
TAC: Silent Voices
World's End
Fate Divided
Reign of Terror
Avalon
Luoto: Ghost Brigade
Into the Black Light
wolfking: King Diamond
Arrival
Welcome Home
Abigail
This Place is Terrible
Indiscipline: Billy Joel
Where's the Orchestra?
Goodnight Saigon
The Entertainer
Leningrad
Vienna
Zanzibar
Prelude / Angry Young Man
jingle.boy: Hemina
Moonlight Bride
Fantasy
Nightlives
Guessed with no band:
Aurora
A Dead World at Sunrise
Through the Long Night
Matador
A Storm Inside
My Heart is a Tomb
Soulmates
Song titles: Part 1/4
_o_ar__
Letters guessed: O DARK METH
Song titles: Part 2/4
C_a__aster
_r__ __t __ N___ere
__r A__ _r_n_ Reas__s
Letters guessed: PINCER STAB
Song titles: Part 3/4
_a__eine
At t_e _ra_es
T_e _amil_ __ost
T_e Mo_t_ o_ __das
Breathing Li_e in De_i_es
_it_ __at I See
Letters guessed: SMITE ARNOLD
Puppies waits 1
Parama waits 2
jingle.boy waits 3
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Prelude / Angry Young Man, Billy Joel
My Heart is a Tomb
Soulmates
Breathing Fire in ???
Uhh give me the A I guess
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Updated.
So guys, while I was focusing on the two compilations, I also have been sneakily listening to another random two compilations (not to the next matchup, but just to the random two compilations to kinda add the diversity to my everyday listening), and so these impressions apply to half of the entries I've got.
There are four kinds of the impressions:
- The positive side of the whole compilation
- The negative side of the whole compilation
- The thoughts on my (probably) favourite song from your submission
- The thoughts on my (probably) least favourite song from your submission
With that, have those sixteen tidbits mixed between each other:
1. I will say one thing for this compilation: these guys certainly know how to write those kickass guitar riffs because holy shit, almost every song here has a riff that belongs in the riffs’ hall of fame if such thing even exists.
2. The whole compilation suffers from a few songs that are just, well, there. I’m not sure if it will change with more listens, but some of the songs are just either too safe, or too unmemorable to make any lasting impression.
3. The way the quiet, calmer sections—sometimes even acoustic ones, and I know, I can’t believe it either—intertwine with the incredibly good parts that heavily remind me of Haken’s Initiate except heavier, damn, this song is something to live for. Best song from your compilation and also somewhere in the nine-ish spectrum, this is rich and fabulous.
4. Not only I found this song a bit boring, I honestly thought that was a fabulous material for a misheard video—then I searched for the lyrics and they were pretty much what I’ve heard in the song.
5. I think my problem with this is that I’m not into happy music—even if the music only sounds happy while the lyrical message is bitter. Give me minor chords over the major ones most of my days. And this compilation has a lot of happy sounding songs.
6. Not only this uses one of the most boring templates for a song—repeat the same parts over and over with increased intensity—but it also manages to use quite a dull vocal melody which is honestly a bit annoying as far as I’m concerned. This song sticks out like a sore thumb on otherwise quite polished—even though not quite that impressive so far—compilation.
7. This compilation serves as a proof these guys know how to write freaking fantastic melodies, and also freaking fantastic song endings—one buildup and payoff in particular is one of my early favourites in this round. And so the question arises: why do they so rarely employ that particular talent of theirs?
8. This kind of feels like older Helloween with someone like Kiske doing the high vocals, Deris doing the lower, menacing parts, and both Hansen and Weikath are playing dirtier than usual and more riff-oriented.
9. I love a lot of acoustic stuff, and I won’t lie, this compilation has a few songs that tickle that sweet spot.
10. This song is… just there, and then it gets to the chorus which is where I begin to wish it didn’t exist. And it’s also over five damn minutes. If you take into account that a lot of songs from your compilation are at least enough to make an impression—even if it’s not a positive one—I just wish you didn’t include this one.
11. Honestly, I think yours might be the best ending song out of all compilations. It hits just the right amount of sweetness and musicianship to nail the mood it’s going for. I love this.
12. It seems that whenever this band is stuck at some fine points of songwriting, or at least at writing vocal melodies, they scale back to the tried and true tactic of let’s scream something on top of our lungs even if it doesn’t fit the rhythm of the song at all and then just rewrite our rhythms to fit the syllables; we’ll call it a progressive touch and it’ll be just fine.
13. This song represents the aspect of your compilation I’d really love to explore more: I love the slower pace and the wistful mood. This might not even be the best song from your submission, but it’s a beauty and wonder captured in those few minutes. Somehow, this really connected with me.
14. I mean, I knew what to anticipate going into this one, and still I was surprised at how much I didn’t like the vocals mostly. And again, I get why they are like this, but whereas the music and the songwriting is well above the average here, the vocals are something I can’t quite get past, no matter how much I try.
15. This feels like the band was trying to reach out of their comfort zone—if they even have a comfort zone—and it ended up being a tacky wannabe hard rock song which I was ambivalent at first and developed a strong dislike on my subsequent listens.
16. These guys know how to write the rhythm guitar parts. The whole compilation kept me interested as I was following the guitar lines. It’s honestly impressive, as I’m not even a guitar player—well, I dabble in acoustic guitar, but that’s irrelevant here—my attention was constantly on that. Also the vocals were nice for a change.
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6. Not only this uses one of the most boring templates for a song—repeat the same parts over and over with increased intensity—but it also manages to use quite a dull vocal melody which is honestly a bit annoying as far as I’m concerned. This song sticks out like a sore thumb on otherwise quite polished—even though not quite that impressive so far—compilation.
The Entertainer, ladies and gentlemen.
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It is not—this quote isn't from your Greatest Hits.
The Entertainer is actually quite hilarious with Billy's rant about writing a masterpiece but if you want to make a hit you're gonna make it fit and so they've cut it to 3:05. :)
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You are raising my hopes before the beatdown, aren't you? :D
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There were a few there that I'd say are very likely to be from the Piano Man. Possible some could apply to Hemina as well.
While you're at it Ruslan, give us an R in group 2; and an L in group 3.
I see a song titled Avalon - which is Silent Voices. As is Fate Divided and Reign of Terror
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You are raising my hopes before the beatdown, aren't you? :D
Maybe? :biggrin:
There were a few there that I'd say are very likely to be from the Piano Man. Possible some could apply to Hemina as well.
Could be you're right, could be you're wrong.
Updating R and L right now because why not.
Edit: anyway, right now the schedule for results is as follows:
1st matchup: Saturday
2nd matchup: Tuesday
3rd matchup: next week's Wednesday or Thursday
4th matchup: next week's Friday or Sunday
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Lovely torture.
Ev, Jingle, you are the Lord Varys and Petyr Baelish of roulette first impressions.
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At the Graves
The Family Ghost
The Mouth of Judas
With What I See
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Could be you're right, could be you're wrong.
I was only having fun ... wasn't hurting anyone.
@ Indi... I've never read or watched a single word or second of GoT, so that reference was Tim-level over my head.
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I don't think any of those apply to mine. Some negative ones seemed fitting, but not until I read them until the end.
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Right, so I didn't get to post Part 4, but I guess I'll just post the whole thing now. The first matchup results are coming in a few hours by the way.
Luoto: Ghost Bridage
Clawmaster
Into the Black Light
Aurora
Disembodied Voices
My Heart is a Tomb
Anchored
A Storm Inside
TAC: Silent Voices
World's End
Burning Shine
Fate Divided
Reign of Terror
Avalon
LordCost: Faith No More
From Out of Nowhere
Epic
Surprise! You're Dead!
Land of Sunshine
Caffeine
Cuckoo for Caca
Matador
Stripsearch
Ricochet
King for a Day
Puppies_On_Acid: The Human Abstract
A Violent Strike
Procession of Fates
Breathing Life in Devices
Mea Culpa
Complex Terms
The World is a Tomb
Polaris
Antebellum
Vela, Together We Await the Storm
A Dead World at Sunrise
Indiscipline: Billy Joel
The Entertainer
Prelude / Angry Young Man
Vienna
Zanzibar
Through the Long Night
Goodnight Salgon
Where's the Orchestra?
The Downeaster Alexa
Leningrad
jingle.boy: Hemina
Before
Nightlives
With What I See
For All Wrong Reasons
Moonlight Bride
Venus
Fantasy
Soulmates
senecadawg2: Primordial
Empire Falls
Gallows Hymn
Where Greater Men Have Fallen
The Mouth of Judas
Gods to the Godless
The Coffin Ships
wolfking: King Diamond
At the Graves
Sleepless Nights
Welcome Home
Arrival
The Family Ghost
Abigail
Eye of the Witch
From the Other Side
This Place is Terrible
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I kind of hope Indiscipline makes it through with Billy Joel. That's a great group of songs. :tup
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silent voices must have really long songs huh
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I kind of hope Indiscipline makes it through with Billy Joel. That's a great group of songs. :tup
You really should get your priorities straight because the first matchup I'm doing is yours. :P
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I kind of hope Indiscipline makes it through with Billy Joel. That's a great group of songs. :tup
You really should get your priorities straight because the first matchup I'm doing is yours. :P
Touche'
I hope I don't lose to King Diamond. Never did like him or Mercyful Fate very much.
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Puppies_On_Acid: The Human Abstract
Positive: This compilation serves as a proof these guys know how to write freaking fantastic melodies, and also freaking fantastic song endings—one buildup and payoff in particular is one of my early favourites in this round. And so the question arises: why do they so rarely employ that particular talent of theirs?
Negative: It seems that whenever this band is stuck at some fine points of songwriting, or at least at writing vocal melodies, they scale back to the tried and true tactic of let’s scream something on top of our lungs even if it doesn’t fit the rhythm of the song at all and then just rewrite our rhythms to fit the syllables; we’ll call it a progressive touch and it’ll be just fine.
Man, this is seriously impressive in terms of how much of iron and carbon mixed to create those immaculate balls it took you to send this thing. This monstrous thing is unbelievable, and by that I mostly mean I can’t believe you sent this to me. You, of all people, and this, of all the things you could’ve sent.
I will say this: this is unexpected, and this is daring as hell, and this is something I never really thought I would get in a roulette and I appreciate it for that single notion, if nothing else. This is something that really oversteps its bounds where it comes to my familiarity with progressive music, as it’s technical as fuck, proggy as fuck, and the singer also screams his guts out as if he’s pissed. At the same time, some of it is really great, so there’s that.
There is a lot of stuff I don’t connect with in this compilation. Mostly, it’s the growly stuff and the spoken word parts—and whenever they combine the growls and the spoken words it gets really bad—but it’s also the whole technical aspect of their music. The way they’re doing those incredibly technical guitar runs is impressive, but in most cases, it really doesn’t enhance your music. And well, some of the songs sound like the band just didn’t know where to go with what they’ve got.
There’s also a lot of stuff I love. I mean, hell, these guys know how to write great melodies—I only wonder why they don’t use them more often. They also seem to know how to employ the build-ups and the climaxes in their songs. Both Complex Terms and Antebellum have stellar melodies, and A Violent Strike is great in terms of satisfying pay-off. I only wish they’ve used that more frequently.
Overall, this was all over the place, honestly. There was a lot of stuff I liked, and also a lot of stuff I could’ve lived without. With the 50 minutes you had, you’ve got my attention for like 20 minutes of great stuff, and the rest was just there. This band seems to have a lot of ideas, some of them great, some of them quite mediocre, and this compilation does a great job shedding light on both aspects of their music. It’s just all over the place.
Favourite songs: Antebellum, Complex Terms, A Violent Strike
The way the quiet, calmer sections—sometimes even acoustic ones, and I know, I can’t believe it either—intertwine with the incredibly good parts that heavily remind me of Haken’s Initiate except heavier, damn, this song is something to live for. Best song from your compilation and also somewhere in the nine-ish spectrum, this is rich and fabulous.
Honestly, those three are mostly the reason this compilation is going to win. Antebellum and Complex Terms are incredibly melodic and just fantastic, and A Violent Strike has this unbelievable ending which is possibly my favourite thing in this matchup. These three songs are great and are way above the rest of your compilation.
Least favourite song: Breathing Life in Devices
This feels like the band was trying to reach out of their comfort zone—if they even have a comfort zone—and it ended up being a tacky wannabe hard rock song which I was ambivalent at first and developed a strong dislike on my subsequent listens.
I stand by what I thought in my first impression—this song is honestly pretty awful. Good thing you had those other songs to back you up, because this is really like a 4/10 or even worse. I pretty much hated this from the beginning to end.
wolfking: King Diamond
Positive: I will say one thing for this compilation: these guys certainly know how to write those kickass guitar riffs because holy shit, almost every song here has a riff that belongs in the riffs’ hall of fame if such thing even exists.
Negative: I mean, I knew what to anticipate going into this one, and still I was surprised at how much I didn’t like the vocals mostly. And again, I get why they are like this, but whereas the music and the songwriting is well above the average here, the vocals are something I can’t quite get past, no matter how much I try.
I’ll admit, I had high expectations for this one, because that was one band that I constantly saw referenced as one of the classics from that era, and I will say, they certainly deserve that status purely from the songs you sent me—the riffs on those are unbelievable. The guitar work on those songs is just incredible.
That being said, the vocals are also fairly standard for 80s metal—and this is where this band loses me. The way the main singer is screaming is impressive and ridiculous and I kinda wonder how did that translate live in 80s, because that must’ve been hell for anyone attending the concertbut s. It’s sufficient to say I don’t quite like it. I also don’t really like his clean vocals, if you can call that clean—he’s a bit too villainy for my taste.
I found this band to be a curious case because, you know, I’m fine with a lot of older bands and vocals, and even when we’re talking screaming heavy metal, I mean, W.A.S.P is one of the bands you recommended to me and it’s great, but this particular band is just killing me when it comes to the vocals—I don’t think they’re terrible, but I’m pretty sure they’re the reason my enjoyment of all these songs is plummeting down. I guess it’s an acquired taste.
But hey, I will say this again and again if I need to: the guitar work here is on point. Whether I like the vocals or not, the riffs here are just fantastic. The triple strike of Arrival, The Family Ghost and Abigail is really something.
Favourite songs: Arrival, At the Graves
This kind of feels like older Helloween with someone like Kiske doing the high vocals, Deris doing the lower, menacing parts, and both Hansen and Weikath are playing dirtier than usual and more riff-oriented.
Least favourite song: Welcome Home
Not only I found this song a bit boring, I honestly thought that was a fabulous material for a misheard video—then I searched for the lyrics and they were pretty much what I’ve heard in the song.
LET ME TAKE YOU
OUT OF THIS CHAIR
WICKED GRANDMA!
Yeah, this isn't doing it for me.
Conclusion:
Both of these compilations were impressive in their own way, and I liked some of the aspects here and there, but I will say: I liked The Human Abstract songs more than I liked the King Diamond ones. Both of these compilations were far from being great, and I’m fairly sure that both of these are actually in the lower half of the submissions I’ve got this round—but if I had to pick one, and I do, I would pick The Human Abstract. But while we’re at it, Puppies, you’ll have to step up your game next round if you want to have any chance to get to the finals. But hey, welcome to the semi-finals.
Winner: Puppies_On_Acid
wolfking, man, I knew what to expect from you—some hard rock and metal entries you literally think about in a few minutes before sending them. And they worked quite well! And honestly, I wouldn't have it any other way. I'm kinda sad you're out at this point, but at the same time, I'm kinda glad you played in my roulette. Your ranking is coming up soon.
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dammit puppies now we can't face off in the loser's bracket :metal
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dammit puppies now we can't face off in the loser's bracket :metal
oops :facepalm:
This also means I need to figure out what to do for an EP....
Also I hope Primordial does well too. Fantastic band!
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I kind of hope Indiscipline makes it through with Billy Joel. That's a great group of songs. :tup
I kind of don't ;D
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:lol
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Antebellum, Complex Terms and Faust are my favourite The Human Abstract songs, and I am only familiar with Digital Veil. I tried sometimes the first two albums but I did not like them much, and from the review of Evermind it seems there's nothing much special apart A Violent Strike.
Yesterday I relistened the Faith No More compilation and I prefer the second half, I could have done without one of the songs from The Real Thing and put something else (Ashes To Ashes, Evidence, Superhero were the songs I cut at last). But the 10 songs I sent are still enough to let you see if you like the band or not and if you want to check out more.
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Oh well, can't win them all.
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I really enjoyed the guitar work though. I've got a few riffs that are stuck in my head as well as "Abigail, I know you're in control of her brain, Abigail" line which is really catchy too. I think the overall style just wasn't quite my thing, but it certainly was a well-written bunch of songs.
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Antebellum, Complex Terms and Faust are my favourite The Human Abstract songs, and I am only familiar with Digital Veil. I tried sometimes the first two albums but I did not like them much, and from the review of Evermind it seems there's nothing much special apart A Violent Strike.
I almost put Faust on the album instead of Breathing Life in Devices. I was also considering Harbinger and Crossing the Rubicon. I have a feeling any one of those songs would have done better.
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I really enjoyed the guitar work though. I've got a few riffs that are stuck in my head as well as "Abigail, I know you're in control of her brain, Abigail" line which is really catchy too. I think the overall style just wasn't quite my thing, but it certainly was a well-written bunch of songs.
Andy Laroque is an amazing guitarist. He's been right along side KD for his entire KD solo career. Whether or not you like KD vocally, musically, the albums are undeniable. Laroque is by far the most underrated guitarist in metal, and has been for some time.
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I really enjoyed the guitar work though. I've got a few riffs that are stuck in my head as well as "Abigail, I know you're in control of her brain, Abigail" line which is really catchy too. I think the overall style just wasn't quite my thing, but it certainly was a well-written bunch of songs.
Andy Laroque is an amazing guitarist. He's been right along side KD for his entire KD solo career. Whether or not you like KD vocally, musically, the albums are undeniable. Laroque is by far the most underrated guitarist in metal, and has been for some time.
Yes sir.
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Can't really argue with that!
Second batch of impressions and also second batch of results are coming up tomorrow! One matchup is a real pain in the ass because both compilations are extremely good, I think I'll that save one for the last.
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Having finished doing the impressions for the rest of the compilations, I realized they could spoil the last two matchup results, so instead of redoing it, I'll just go with the compilation ranking so far:
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5. The Human Abstract
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7. King Diamond
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The second matchup results are coming in two or three hours.
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Dang, puppies got lucky :corn
Gonna laugh if one of the matchups was #1 and #2
At the same time situations like that are exactly why I'll never ever do tournament style eliminations
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Indiscipline: Billy Joel
Positive: I love a lot of acoustic stuff, and I won’t lie, this compilation has a few songs that tickle that sweet spot.
Negative: I think my problem with this is that I’m not into happy music—even if the music only sounds happy while the lyrical message is bitter. Give me minor chords over the major ones most of my days. And this compilation has a lot of happy sounding songs.
Well, first things first—I enjoyed this to a certain extent. This compilation feels like a gamble. Acoustic stuff could be a hit or miss with me, and this one was certainly more of a miss because of the happy vibe a lot of these songs had, but if that’s one of your favourite songwriters in the world, it makes total sense to send this. But even the upbeat stuff wasn’t unenjoyable.
However, not counting two or three songs I really liked, the rest of this was just passable, or dare I say it, a bit predictable and not at all that interesting. Sometimes it felt like happy Jethro Tull with no flute and no electric guitars, and sometimes it felt like its own thing, yet also not quite engaging.
I don’t know a lot about Billy Joel or his discography, but I assume you aimed for a variety here, trying to showcase his different sides while focusing on his hits—which is a proper and admirable approach to building a greatest hits compilation. But I just can’t help but think that if you included more songs written in minor chords, you might’ve been more successful in this round. I’m still curious about this man’s work—maybe PM me some recommendations that are closer to the three songs I liked?
Favourite songs: Vienna, The Downeaster Alexa, Goodnight Saigon
This song represents the aspect of your compilation I’d really love to explore more: I love the slower pace and the wistful mood. This might not even be the best song from your submission, but it’s a beauty and wonder captured in those few minutes. Somehow, this really connected with me.
Man, Vienna is something—I stand by what I wrote up there, that’s a fantastic song. The Downeaster Alexa (play despacito) is a song I didn’t really expect much of, but I loved the vocal melody here. Simple yet very effective. Goodnight Saigon is a bit on a longer side, but the song is just infectious—I can picture people singing it along. These three songs are really good.
Least favourite song: Zanzibar
This song is… just there, and then it gets to the chorus which is where I begin to wish it didn’t exist. And it’s also over five damn minutes. If you take into account that a lot of songs from your compilation are at least enough to make an impression—even if it’s not a positive one—I just wish you didn’t include this one.
I thought that The Entertainer and Angry Young Man were underwhelming enough for your compilation, and then when I thought it was getting good with Vienna, this song came next. That made it even more painful. And hey, this isn’t a bad song—there are no bad songs on this compilation—it’s just not exactly my thing, and I can’t really stand this chorus.
TAC: Silent Voices
Positive: no impression initially / The strong songs here are really doing a great job elevating this compilation beyond the mediocre level some of the songs establish.
Negative: no impression initially / For the compilation that doesn’t have a lot of songs, having even one song that fails to catch the listener’s interest might be perilous, and you have one and a half, or maybe even two.
This is a solid progressive metal compilation. In fact, I realized I’m familiar with this band—well, I’ve heard of them because I constantly saw one of their albums on sale in Sonata Arctica official shop, small wonder, that—but I’ve never heard anything from them.
This is basically progressive metal by numbers, and a lot of the material here isn’t even that impressive. There’s a lot of middle-of-the-road stuff—safe riffs, safe vocal melodies and safe vocal ranges—then there are some incredibly weird and bad decisions, like distant vocals in the chorus of Fate Divided—and then there are some gems like the awesome Burning Shine, which is definitely in my Top 3 songs of this round. The difference in quality isn’t that obvious, compared to The Human Abstract compilation, but it’s there, and honestly it’s a bit underwhelming jumping from an amazing song to a song that can’t do a proper chorus.
Another problem here is that the songs are a bit too long for their own good—like the band had a few ideas and decided to draw them out to increase the length of their material to fill out the whole album. Fate Divided and World’s End are especially guilty of that, Avalon gets a pass, and I guess it’s telling that my favourite songs here are the two shortest ones. This compilation could’ve been a few minutes shorter and probably more enjoyable that way. Still, this was good enough.
Favourite songs: Burning Shine, Reign of Terror
no impression initially / Sometimes simple is the best—is this the same vocalist that did the first song?—and this is a great example of that. Short, sweet, to the point, just a great rocking number.
Burning Shine is such a highlight of your compilation, I literally couldn’t wait for it to come up again when I was listening to it. I think I even listened to this song like four times in a row once. It’s catchy and it’s that good. Yes, nothing new, yes, simple as they do it, but there’s something there that just made me to go back to it every time. Awesome tune.
Least favourite song: Fate Divided
no impression initially / What the hell were they thinking with this chorus? Not a fan of a spoken word section either, and I usually like those.
Definitely the least impressive song here, and since it takes the whooping nine minutes of the compilation, it could’ve dragged the whole thing even further down, but fortunately the rest of the material was good enough to salvage this.
Conclusion:
I’m afraid this wasn’t too difficult of a decision, because I guess my pre-disposition towards progressive metal is still there, and while I really liked some of Billy Joel’s material, the metal here definitely took over. I have discovered some of the awesome acoustic projects in my previous roulettes, so I don’t think this is it—I just, at the risk of repeating myself, think that a lot of Billy Joel’s songs were just a bit too upbeat for my taste. Silent Voices, on the other hand, had those epic choruses (except one) and dramatic sound, and I just couldn’t resist. Tim, you’re in; Alex, you’re out—but I’m still going to check out Billy Joel further, perhaps with your suggestions, if you’re willing.
Winner: TAC
Indiscipline, it’s truly been an honor to host a roulette with you participating. I’m looking forward to exploring some of the artists you sent me—Starsailor and The Windmill immediately come to mind, and I also think you did the unthinkable: I may actually have to check out Skid Row after that 18 and Life song which is still playing in my head as I’m writing this out! You had some misses, mostly because you tried to stick to the themes I set—for example, I won’t check out Cynic further—but overall I feel like you did a lot better in my roulette than I did in yours, except that Glen Hansard song. I’m not sure I’m going to do a ranking of your songs now, as I still didn’t do one for Kade, but I may revisit that after the roulette is over. Thanks for playing!
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Here's the updated ranking too:
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4. Silent Voices
5. The Human Abstract
6. Billy Joel
7. King Diamond
8.
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Well at the very least one of the rounds has two of the top three for sure now, ouch :lol
Also I think it's a safe bet at this point that #8 is Faith No More, just because I wouldn't expect them to be a top 3 artist for ev here
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I think I'll offer the guy who loses while still being in the Top 3 for this round to compete with your EP, and then we'll see. If he wins, he goes to the Finals, but he has to win all three matchups there to win the whole thing.
I'm still kind of toying with this idea though. All the compilations in the Top 3 are pretty good.
Also I think it's a safe bet at this point that #8 is Faith No More, just because I wouldn't expect them to be a top 3 artist for ev here
I wouldn't say that at all, but think as you wish.
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Hell yeah I'm ready to crush the dreams of whoever didn't make the cut (Last Place in the EP Round)
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I have a bad feeling about what's coming next.
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Well at the very least one of the rounds has two of the top three for sure now, ouch :lol
Also I think it's a safe bet at this point that #8 is Faith No More, just because I wouldn't expect them to be a top 3 artist for ev here
I hoped not to see this partial ranking, I have the same feeling too.
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Hmm... so someone is about to be eliminated with the 3rd best entry.
Have to get started on an EP now.
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Technically the 2nd best could still be eliminated! 1st vs 2nd and 3rd vs 8th!
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Ooh that’s right too.
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Fucking Billy Joel ranks higher than King Diamond? Fuck me. That's tastes for you.
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Hey, you didn't finish dead last at least :metal
I'm technically the last place finisher of the entire roulette thinking about it, hell yeah
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I think Chad should do alright with Hemina.
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I think Chad should do alright with Hemina.
I'd like to think that too, but no chickens will be counted until the hatching. For once, I hope Parama is right. :lol
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I think Ev will like primordial quite a bit unless he really hates the vocals
Dunno Hemina at all so I can't comment there
Ghost Brigade I'm not super familiar with but I'd be surprised if they were 8th place too
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Alright, alright, you guessed correctly, folks. No sense in drawing this out.
jingle.boy: Hemina
Positive: These guys know how to write the rhythm guitar parts. The whole compilation kept me interested as I was following the guitar lines. It’s honestly impressive, as I’m not even a guitar player—well, I dabble in acoustic guitar, but that’s irrelevant here—my attention was constantly on that. Also the vocals were nice for a change.
Negative: The whole compilation suffers from a few songs that are just, well, there. I’m not sure if it will change with more listens, but some of the songs are just either too safe, or too unmemorable to make any lasting impression.
The negative impression definitely didn’t stand the test of time—I think the only song I don’t really remember is Fantasy, and mostly because it’s sandwiched between Venus and Soulmates. This compilation was honestly the biggest grower of them all—I think this was either the first or the second compilation I listened to, and I was quite underwhelmed. In fact, after the first listen, I ranked it below Silent Voices and The Human Abstract. It took me a bit of time to get acquainted with the song structures and melodies, and it turned out this was one of those “better every loop” things.
I really like the light yet punchy production, and the singer here, while he lacks grit in his voice, he’s a perfect fit for the music—also he belts out some fine high notes here and there. The keyboards are very Ayreon-like. There are some good guitar solos included, and once again I’d like to praise the rhythm guitars, I like how well-written these sections are.
The variety here is pretty good, too. You included a few regular tracks, a minor epic, a heavier track and an acoustic one. All together it made for a great compilation. While it might have finished only at the third place in this round, I would say the Top 3 in this round were way better than the rest. So well, thanks for this, I’m going to explore this band further—this was a very good effort.
Favourite songs: Soulmates, Nightlives, Venus, With What I See
Honestly, I think yours might be the best ending song out of all compilations. It hits just the right amount of sweetness and musicianship to nail the mood it’s going for. I love this.
Absolutely the best closer, and honestly, one of the best songs of the round. It doesn’t have anything special or spectacular, it’s just as I said, very sweet and hits that perfect spot between honesty and cheesiness (the lyrics are a bit on a cheesy side—tell that to my wiiiiife!—and the music is on the honest side). Love how the female and male vocals here work together. Love the chorus, love the harmonies there, and I love it’s climactic conclusion. Hell, this is probably the best song of the round, because it goes against the bleak and sad songs I usually prefer. This is touching and uplifting at the same time, and it works wonderfully.
Least favourite song: For All Wrong Reasons
Not only this uses one of the most boring templates for a song—repeat the same parts over and over with increased intensity—but it also manages to use quite a dull vocal melody which is honestly a bit annoying as far as I’m concerned. This song sticks out like a sore thumb on otherwise quite polished—even though not quite that impressive so far—compilation.
I feel that this is intended more as a transitional piece than a real song. I like the buildup, but the melodies, the lyrics and the general slow pace of the vocal passages doesn’t work for me at all, and this is the only song I don’t like on this compilation. I’m not big on Fantasy, and Moonlight Bride is alright, and I love everything else—but this one is a bit of a miss. Good thing the rest of the material is very strong, though.
LordCost: Faith No More
Positive: no impression initially / This compilation takes its sweet time to get good, but as I get past the initial disappointment, there are some good tracks there in the second half.
Negative: no impression initially / As I’m said, I’m probably not a very open-minded guy. After the third track this compilation turned into a “will I want to skip this track or not?”, and I can’t skip tracks because how am I to judge this compilation then?
This compilation was the most frustrating one along with King Diamond, because there is potential there, but the direction they’re taking is just not for me. I liked some of the songs here, I could tolerate some of the other songs, I flat out wanted to skip a few of those. Let’s do this in order, maybe.
The first three songs suffer from the weak vocals, even though it’s not as noticeable on Surprise! You’re Dead!; From Out of Nowhere was just an underwhelming opener, while Epic had me reaching for the skip button, and I don’t think the rapping vocal technique is the main reason here—I equally disliked the rest of the song, too. Some of the instrumental parts were fine, but that’s it.
Land of Sunshine and Caffeine were tolerable—I actually kinda liked Caffeine more than Land—and then you correctly guessed it, came the absolute disaster of a song. And I thought the weirdest song of the round would be from The Human Abstract compilation!
The only saving grace of this compilation is the run of songs from Matador till the end. While I can’t say I like everything on these four songs, at least they feature tolerable vocals and melodies, and while the song structures are still a bit of a mess, they’re doing quite better than Cuckoo for Caca. I may revisit them a bit later, I especially like Matador, King for a Day and Stripsearch.
I mean, this was a gamble, sending this to me. I absolutely support and respect the decisions to send me your favourite artists instead of what you think I may like, and sometimes it leads to some curious discoveries. This time it leads to your elimination, though.
Favourite songs: Matador, King for a Day
Least favourite song: Cuckoo for Caca
Conclusion:
I really tried to like the Faith No More compilation, but as things stood, three listens in I knew it won’t be able to beat Hemina. As I became more familiar with the rest of the material in this round, I realized it won’t be able to beat any compilation at all here. I’m sorry, LordCost, this was a bold move, but it didn’t pay off. Chad, welcome to the semi-finals! As I said, your compilation was pretty great.
Winner: jingle.boy
LordCost, I definitely didn’t know what to expect from you, but it turns out—like most of the notable DTF peers—you have a rich collection of music some of which is quite up my alley—Rishloo, Celesty, The Ocean and Aereogramme are definitely getting a spin from me! I’m also glad you decided to stick to your guns and sent me the stuff like Cardiacs and Faith No More—that made it even more interesting! Thank you for playing and I hope you also had fun sending me all these tunes.
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Here's the updated ranking too:
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3. Hemina
4. Silent Voices
5. The Human Abstract
6. Billy Joel
7. King Diamond
8. Faith No More
I can't believe the two best compilations came from the same matchup, too. :lol The best thing is, Luoto and Nelson, I still don't know which one of you will win. I'll keep listening and either post the results tomorrow or on Sunday—I'll be away on both Friday and Saturday. If you have time, better begin preparing your EPs in any case.
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Repeat after me, "this is why we don't do tournament-style eliminations" :P
I look forward to either Seneca or Luoto crushing my EP though :metal genuinely have no clue what ev will think of it so it's basically a freebie for you
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:fistpump:
I'll give a proper response shortly - I'm about to jump on a call for work in 2 minutes.
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Man, that's rough for Faith No More, great band, although I would have sent a lot of different songs.
Digging the Grave
Evidence
Ashes to Ashes
Gentle Art of Making Enemies
Would have gone for more later-mid stuff.
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Sweet. Im glad youve enjoyed Primordial :)
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Man, that's rough for Faith No More, great band, although I would have sent a lot of different songs.
Digging the Grave
Evidence
Ashes to Ashes
Gentle Art of Making Enemies
Would have gone for more later-mid stuff.
Yeah, obviously it's not my choice to make and tastes are different, but Cuckoo For Caca is a really risky choice.
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Indiscipline, it’s truly been an honor to host a roulette with you participating. I’m looking forward to exploring some of the artists you sent me—Starsailor and The Windmill immediately come to mind, and I also think you did the unthinkable: I may actually have to check out Skid Row after that 18 and Life song which is still playing in my head as I’m writing this out! You had some misses, mostly because you tried to stick to the themes I set—for example, I won’t check out Cynic further—but overall I feel like you did a lot better in my roulette than I did in yours, except that Glen Hansard song. I’m not sure I’m going to do a ranking of your songs now, as I still didn’t do one for Kade, but I may revisit that after the roulette is over. Thanks for playing!
The honour is mine, brat, and it's been all kinds of themed fun. If major chords and happy melodies are a bit of a turn off for you, further exploration of Billy's works might prove a bumpy ride, but there are gems and spots of genius you could like, and muiscianship and lyrics are always overall brilliant, so expect a discography dissection PM in the future*
I'm glad Tim didn't lose to Billy Joel, it would have been scarring :D
*"In the future" being extremely relative, because you know I have a kind of Desmond Hume relation with time**
** Chad, please get this reference, :D
Thanks for having me and good luck everybody!
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Glad to have slipped in there, and not gone against the #1 or #2 guys. Damn, that's rough on #2... but dem's the breaks.
I had a feeling that 'impression' about the last song was for Soulmates. Don't know if they still are a couple, but they were when they sung on that album - which is about a journey from apathy and meaningless, to love and fullness of joy. Check out all three albums, they're top notch (imo).
Got my EP all dolled up and ready for a night on the town. Just don't slut-shame her, ok?
@ Alex... sorry mate, I never watched Lost either.
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Sent.
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The honour is mine, brat, and it's been all kinds of themed fun.
You're welcome, asshole. :neverusethis: I just actually find it funny that "brother" translates to Russian as a "brat".
I had a feeling that 'impression' about the last song was for Soulmates. Don't know if they still are a couple, but they were when they sung on that album - which is about a journey from apathy and meaningless, to love and fullness of joy. Check out all three albums, they're top notch (imo).
I sure will!
I don't think I will be able to post the final results today, guys, and I won't be here the next two days, so the results will be coming up Sunday. However, just because these two compilations are both awesome, as I said, whoever loses the last match will face Parama in the losers bracket, and if you win against Parama, you will have a stab at the final round with severe disadvantage (as in you'll have to win all three album-matches to actually win).
So with that in mind, Tim, Puppies, Nelson and Luoto: please take this short break to prepare and polish your EPs.
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Since I finished 3rd, does that mean I'm going against Tim this round?
#1 vs #5 (Puppies)
#3 (me) vs #4 (Tim)
Or are you sticking with the rankings from the main rounds? In which case, I don't know who's up against who.
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Since I finished 3rd, does that mean I'm going against Tim this round?
#1 vs #5 (Puppies)
#3 (me) vs #4 (Tim)
This is correct, yes. You're against Tim. The battle we all have been waiting for.
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I kinda feel bad and wanna replace my serious attempt EP with a meme paramacore EP now
I've never been a roulette mechanic before!
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I'm really excited about it though, even though it's not a good taste to change the rules this late in the game, I think it's kinda reasonable.
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I mean I don't mind because it forces you to take my EP seriously :corn
But also I feel bad because in my roulette the top 2 would both be getting through easy, since tournament rules are not my preference :P
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So with that in mind, Tim, Puppies, Nelson and Luoto: please take this short break to prepare and polish your EPs.
Are song files the way to go or are you still willing to make streaming playlists, if it doesn't compromise flow?
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One file or a batch of files is preferred, but streaming playlist would be fine if you don't need to edit anything out. That being said, I'll probably attempt to make a streaming playlist on Yandex.Music before trying any other streaming platform.
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One file cut to be exactly 40 minutes down to the millisecond, anything else and you lose instantly :neverusethis:
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One file or a batch of files is preferred, but streaming playlist would be fine if you don't need to edit anything out. That being said, I'll probably attempt to make a streaming playlist on Yandex.Music before trying any other streaming platform.
I'll probably set up EP's for both options, but there will be at least one artist on my preferred version I may not be able to get files for.
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YouTube downloaders are powerful when you rreeeally need a song
Tbh like three songs on the EP I sent are off albums I don't own :lol
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So with that in mind, Tim, Puppies, Nelson and Luoto: please take this short break to prepare and polish your EPs.
You'll have mine within the next 8 or 9 hours.
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One file or a batch of files is preferred, but streaming playlist would be fine if you don't need to edit anything out. That being said, I'll probably attempt to make a streaming playlist on Yandex.Music before trying any other streaming platform.
I don't have all the files I want to send so I'm figuring out Yandex right now. I should have the EP done by the end of the day, hopefully.
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Man, that's rough for Faith No More, great band, although I would have sent a lot of different songs.
Digging the Grave
Evidence
Ashes to Ashes
Gentle Art of Making Enemies
Would have gone for more later-mid stuff.
Yeah, obviously it's not my choice to make and tastes are different, but Cuckoo For Caca is a really risky choice.
For sure it's risky, but it was cool to sent it. Never heard something similar in all these years, still a unique song. It's still a metal track so there were chances that Ev could have enjoyed that, but it's not the style of metal he likes.
I did not have much left to send for EP's and albums, so I don't mind much to go out after this round, I feel I have done my work. It was fun to relisten FNM albums after many years and try to come up with a group of their best songs, possibly showcasing all their styles.
I discovered that King For A Day is still by far my favourite albums by them. It was the first album I ever bought in my life too. I could have chosen even 6 songs from that album, but I imposed myself to choose 3 at max for each album. I would have liked to send the 4 songs wolfking said too, Evidence and Ashes to Ashes didn't make the cut at last.
It's funny you mention Aereogramme that didn't get past the 6 mark, try to start from the songs I told you in this thread to see which album you may try first. :tup
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Well, I've started on the write up for the EP and I'm at two pages so far and not even half way done...... feel free to :\
:biggrin:
By the way, it's going to be pretentious and ridiculous. Just how you like it, judging by the write ups you send me for EP's...
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my EP had no writeup and a meme title
i basically just let ev know what he was in for and nothing else. a lot of really good stuff on it that i dunno if he'll like at all :metal
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I attempted tailoring my EP to his tastes.......we shall see how that goes. :corn
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Well, I've started on the write up for the EP and I'm at two pages so far and not even half way done...... feel free to :\
:biggrin:
By the way, it's going to be pretentious and ridiculous. Just how you like it, judging by the write ups you send me for EP's...
I'm going to need you in my next roulette.
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I'm still working on mine. I think I have the main songs chosen. Just have to order them properly.
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seneca i'm super ready for your next roulette :metal
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I'm going to let you choose the themes ;)
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I'm going to let you choose the themes ;)
That should be interesting
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I'm going to let you choose the themes ;)
Round 1:
Cotard and Agitation
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I'm going to let you choose the themes ;)
Round 1:
Cotard and Agitation
So it's going to be a Hirsch Effekt themed roulette eh?
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Sent! :corn
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Well, I've started on the write up for the EP and I'm at two pages so far and not even half way done...... feel free to :\
:biggrin:
By the way, it's going to be pretentious and ridiculous. Just how you like it, judging by the write ups you send me for EP's...
I mean, I expect no less from you. :biggrin:
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the writeup he sent for his concept album in my roulette was only 2 pages long :getoffmylawn:
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the writeup he sent for his concept album in my roulette was only 2 pages long :getoffmylawn:
I sent the cliff notes version :biggrin:
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Alright, I'm back. I'm fairly sure I know the winner, but I'll take one last listen to both compilations today and then write the results. My plan for the day is also to continue watching True Detective S3 (I'm at the second episode at the moment), so expect results at any time in the next eight hours.
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:corn
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Luoto: Ghost Brigade
This compilation was one my early favourites, and as the listening progressed, this one stayed up there this whole time. This is pretty much the music I associate you with now, a gloomy sound with the growls breaking them. This band, of all the ones you sent me, is quite Opeth/Katatonia-like in a sound department, with a lot of great quiet parts and the trademark wall of sound in the chorus, with the lead guitar in front of it.
Despite my exposure to growls and overall acceptance of that type of music over the years, I would still say this band shines the most during the quiet sections, and the highlights from this compilation for me are mostly the non-growly ones, with one exception of “can you follow your own shadow?” chorus of My Heart is a Tomb. I like the bleak moments here the most: the beginning of Disembodied Voices is probably my favourite moment on this compilation, with the climactic “hope will conquer all” ending. My second favourite thing is how they’re using the lead guitars, there are some fantastic leads here and there, with great melodies.
I would say my least favourite thing about this is that sometimes the non-growly vocal melodies are written in an unexpected way, and whenever that happens, this throws me off. I don’t even know how to say it, and “an unexpected way” doesn’t do it justice. Sometimes they’re just droning, like on Clawmaster, and sometimes they’re a bit too cold and distant, like on Anchored. The growls here are on point, and the good parts with the clean vocals are also on point, and the guitar lines here are fantastic. Overall, this is a really strong compilation, and this band’s music is something I will surely come back to, once the roulette is over.
Favourite songs: Disembodied Voices, Into the Black Wight, My Heart is a Tomb
Least favourite song: Clawmaster
senecadawg2: Primordial
I wonder for how long you’ve been saving this band, because unlike a lot of the music you sent me in this roulette, this is actually fantastic. Not saying you didn’t send anything else that resonated with me: The Protomen song was extremely good, and I also liked Phoebe Bridgers, but this is just on an entirely another level, or at least some of the songs are. I guess you really saved the best stuff for when it counts, like you saved Agalloch for me last time; and the best thing is that this time it actually might get you the victory—if you’re able to pull this off two more times.
This is not too dissimilar from Ghost Brigade on the first glance, but the two compilations are actually quite different, as Primordial has that sound I’ve never encountered before—the music is fairly standard death (black? still don’t know) metal, but the vocals here are unique. And I think it’s the vocals that make this compilation so good. They’re unexpectedly epic and just rough enough to fit the music, and my favourite song here in particular, Gallows Hymn, just feels like the singer is standing on a cliff screaming the lines into the wind. This song is fighting with Soulmates from Hemina for my favourite song of the round. “I never was a religious man, so why should I put my faith in you?” line delivery is just so perfect. I love that song.
And while we’re at it, this compilation is ridiculously strong during the first three songs. The run from Empire Falls to Where Greater Men Have Fallen is incredible, and if this level of quality was upheld during the whole thing, the choice of winner here would’ve been an extremely easy one, but as the quality of the material drops just a bit with The Mouth of Judas and onwards, this wasn’t as easy as I thought. Also, while I like the lyrics on most of the songs, sometimes they definitely push the boundaries of what I would call “acceptable”, for example, the “Ah, the stench of your slaughtered kin / Breathe it / Breathe it deep / The rancid stench” is one line that I could’ve lived without, because ew. Although I suppose if you’re a incestuous necrophile, that’s kinky. What was I talking about?
You weren’t wrong, though. I love this, I love this a lot. I think what really gets to me with this band is the unique vocals they’re doing here. I’m sure now that I said this, you guys will name a lot of bands that are doing the same shit, but the point stands: the way this band creates the atmosphere is unrivaled by any other compilation I was sent this time. It took me two weeks to make a decision, but now I’m sure: this is the best thing that I’ve got in this round.
Favourite songs: Gallows Hymn, Empire Falls, Where Greater Men Have Fallen, Gods to the Godless
Least favourite song: The Mouth of Judas
Conclusion:
Fuck you guys like Tim wants to fuck Bob Dylan, because while I was aware this is a possibility, I really didn’t think that I’ll end up with a matchup where both participants would send a freaking fantastic compilations to me. It’s really unfair to eliminate one of you with what you sent, while other folks were eliminated with Faith No More and King Diamond—which aren’t bad at all, but absolutely didn’t live up to the level of quality these both compilations have reached, but that’s the format I’ve chosen. However, as I said, I’m making an exception here on the fly, because these two compilations are just too good. The person who loses this—and as much as it pains me to say it, it’s you, Luoto, because I enjoyed Primordial way too much—will face Parama in the losers bracket and then will have a stab at the finals, where you will have to win all three rounds of the best of three to win the whole thing.
Honestly, I thought it would’ve been pretty easy for you, Luoto, to get into the next round, but apparently I—once again—underestimated Nelson, who made it to the main competition via his immunity, then barely scraped through the tiebreaker, then proceeded to slaughter his competition in this very round with Primordial. Well done, Seneca. Against all odds, you proceed to the semi-finals, and if you keep the quality of your submissions on this level, I don’t see how anyone will be able to stop you. Also fuck me the Gallows Hymn is so good.
Winner: senecadawg2
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Round 9: EP Round
While the previous round wasn't scored, this one will be.
Round 9, aka EP Round, requires each one of 4 remaining participants to make an EP for me. You have to use at least three different artists, and each one should at least feature one full “song” (intros and outros doesn’t count). The minimum length is 30 minutes, the length limit is 40 minutes, as it seems to be standard now. Each EP will be scored out of 20. The flow matters greatly here and will be scored separately out of 5. Stealing this mechanic from Puppies and adapting it for the elimination system, the best EP name from each pair of contestants will earn you an additional 1 point (could be just how the name rolls off the tongue or if it’s tied to some story—in other words, it’s simply the matter which one I’ll like more).
While this is a daunting task, you had a lot of time to prepare for this: please send your EP in the next 48 hours.
The ranking for the last round is, obviously:
1. Primordial
2. Ghost Brigade
3. Hemina
4. Silent Voices
5. The Human Abstract
6. Billy Joel
7. King Diamond
8. Faith No More
The matchups are:
senecadawg2 vs Puppies_On_Acid
jingle.boy vs TAC
A battle at the gates leading to the Final Round:
Luoto vs the guardian of the gates, Parama
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GUARDIAN OF THE GATES :lol
primordial is a band i wish i liked more than they do, i have one of their albums (the one gallows hymn is on) and it's pretty cool but a lot of their stuff sounds kinda samey to me so i've never gotten another one
not at all surprised you liked them so much though
anyways luoto my EP's totally crap so this is free for you anyways
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GUARDIAN OF THE GATES :lol
Yep :lol
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I cant believe after Enslaved got taken away from me for the Greatest Hits round I didn't think to send Primordial.... :facepalm:
Great band!
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Ruslan, I’ll get it to you tonight!
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While this is a daunting task, you had a lot of time to prepare for this: please send your EP in the next 48 hours.
Unfortunately I haven't been able to find as much time for this as I'd like so far because life happened, but I'll do my best. Since I lost the playoff I'll see if I want to change my strategy a little.
Congrats to Nelson! I knew it's gonna be tight because Primordial are a decent band.
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While this is a daunting task, you had a lot of time to prepare for this: please send your EP in the next 48 hours.
Unfortunately I haven't been able to find as much time for this as I'd like so far because life happened, but I'll do my best. Since I lost the playoff I'll see if I want to change my strategy a little.
Congrats to Nelson! I knew it's gonna be tight because Primordial are a decent band.
I'm so sorry man, Ghost Brigade was extremely good but Primordial were just on another level. Add the fact that you were doing fantastic during the whole roulette, this makes it even more unfair.
Don't rush the EP, if yours isn't in before the deadline, I'll just start listening to the other matchups first. Take your time, you earned it.
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Glad you enjoyed Primordial :tup :tup And while I'm not sure it's my favorite of the tracks on there (indeed I have no idea which is my favorite), Gallows Hymn is wonderful. Ridiculously epic song with ridiculously epic delivery. Sadly, I'm not sure I can top this submission :lol
Congrats to Nelson! I knew it's gonna be tight because Primordial are a decent band.
I hadn't heard of Ghost Brigade until this round, but I've been listening a bit and wow that sounds perfect for Ruslan. What a great choice—I wouldn't have been surprised at all if you'd won with that. I'm glad you're still in it though; it would be unfortunate to get knocked out after earning the top seed.
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Officially sent!
I'm sure J-Boy will be tough competition. He seems to have a good idea of what Evermind likes.
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yeah, cheesy prog/power metal :P
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SENT
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UPDATED MY BANNED LIST
I'm fact I didn't need to, the band was already there :lol Finally it's not my fault that something is banned.
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UPDATED MY BANNED LIST
I'm fact I didn't need to, the band was already there :lol Finally it's not my fault that something is banned.
I still don't see Dark Tranquillity on there..... :yeahright
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what banned band? :corn
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UPDATED MY BANNED LIST
I'm fact I didn't need to, the band was already there :lol Finally it's not my fault that something is banned.
I still don't see Dark Tranquillity on there..... :yeahright
I was sure I added it.
what banned band? :corn
Falls of Rauros
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Resent. Hopefully to better effect.
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You're good, waiting on Luoto now and then the festivities will begin.
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the gatekept hangman
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Sent
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Yeah, but I'm in the beginning of True Detective's S3E4 and I'm off to sleep afterwards, so one more day until the hangman.
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:sadpanda:
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Let's hang some men! Six EP titles and 39 songs total, broken into two parts. I omitted all the punctuation marks and whatnot to try and avoid giving away some of the songs from the very start.
Round 9 Hangman Pt. 1/2
EP titles:
___ _______ ________
_______u_ ________
___ ____d__ __d ___ ______u___
Songs:
______ __ ___ ______ ____ - ___ __d ____ ___ ____ U_
________ - _______ __ D________d __________
__d____d_ - _________
____u_ ______u_ - __u_ __u_____
________ - U___u___d _____
____u_ ____d_ - __d ____
____ ___d__ - _ ____ __ _______
D_________ - ____________
______ ______ - ______ ______ _ __
_________ - _______u_____ __ _ _______ __ _______
_____d __ ____u____ - ___d __ ___d_____
_____ - ____ __u ____
____ ______ - ______ D___ __ ___ __u_ __ ___
____u_ ______u_ - _u___
_u________ - __u_d _ ___ __ __u
D_________ - D____ __u__
D____ ___ ___ _u___ - _________ ____
_________ - _______u_____ __ _ _ ____ __ ______________
_______ ______ - ______ ___u__ ____
Letters guessed: DU
Parama waits 2
Puppies waits 3
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D-man
Dreamgrave - Presentiment? :P
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Curiously no, although I double-checked and it's the exact same amount of letters.
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Yeah, I checked that too :P
Ahh well. No clue on any of the rest except for mine so
On that subject I suspect you'd probably like that dreamgrave album a fair bit though, it's kinda growly but beyond that no heavier than most prog metal
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Maybe, but I'm not checking it before the roulette is over, maybe someone will send it in the finals.
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I hope someone does :metal
Anyways I'm just waiting for someone else to guess a letter cause I got nothing :corn
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U
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pdated above
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I got nothing :facepalm:
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I’m confused. 6 EP titles??
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M
I’m confused. 6 EP titles??
Evermind let me into the semis as a "lucky loser" of sorts, and if I win Parama I'll make it to the finals with a handicap :P
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I’m confused. 6 EP titles??
Evermind let me into the semis as a "lucky loser" of sorts, and if I win Parama I'll make it to the finals with a handicap :P
Yeah, I couldn't bring myself to eliminate the guy who consistently scored well, ended up at the first place, killed it with his compilation and still lost. If Luoto wins against Parama, he'll make it to the finals, but he'll need to win all three final matchups to win the whole roulette.
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Round 9 Hangman Pt. 1/2
Luoto: ???
Omnium Gatherum - Luoto
Omnium Gatherum - __u_ __u_____
EP titles:
___ ___r___ ____m___
_______u_ ____r__r
___ M___d__ __d ___ ______u__r
Songs:
______ __ ___ __r___ R__m - ___ __d ____ _r_ ____ U_
M_______ - _____r_ __ D_m______d _____m_r__
__dr_m_d_ - __r______
___m____ - U___u___d _____
____ur _r__d_ - __d ____
____ __rd__ - _ ____ __ _______
D_________ - _rr_________
______ ______ - ______ ____r_ _ __
__r______ - _______u_____ __ _ _______ __ _______
_____d __ ____ur___ - R__d __ __rd_____
_____ - ____ __u ____
____ ______ - ____r_ D___ __ ___ __u_ __ M__
_ur___m___ - __u_d _ ___ __ __u
D_________ - Dr__m __u__
D____ ___ __r _u___ - ________r ____
__r______ - _______u_____ __ _ _ ____ __ __________m___
___r___ ______ - _m__r_ ___u_r M_r_
Letters guessed: DRUM
Puppies waits 1
Luoto waits 2
jingle.boy waits 3
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Omnium Gatherum
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I was just gonna point out the above but got beaten by seconds :lol
Luoto on both of them?
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I was just gonna point out the above but got beaten by seconds :lol
Luoto on both of them?
Luoto on one of them and Luoto on both of them
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Gimmee an R
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TIL where Luoto's username comes from :lol
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TIL where Luoto's username comes from :lol
Same, only for me it was yesterday when I received his PM. :lol
Lethean, Luoto and I, all with the nicknames from the song titles.
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Lethean, Luoto and I, all with the nicknames from the song titles.
My nickname comes from a song title too. :biggrin:
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Mine remains completely meaningless! :neverusethis:
I'd have changed it years ago but I don't think this site does name changes so w/e
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I've been looking for a chance to send that song in a roulette and this was it :lol
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Mine remains completely meaningless! :neverusethis:
I'd have changed it years ago but I don't think this site does name changes so w/e
I mean it's still better than Train of Naught :lol
Lethean, Luoto and I, all with the nicknames from the song titles.
My nickname comes from a song title too. :biggrin:
In fact I've just realized mine comes from the album name instead, not a song title :facepalm:
I've been looking for a chance to send that song in a roulette and this was it :lol
Yep, I finally get the chance to rank Luoto.
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Andromeda
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I’m confused. 6 EP titles??
Evermind let me into the semis as a "lucky loser" of sorts, and if I win Parama I'll make it to the finals with a handicap :P
Yeah, I couldn't bring myself to eliminate the guy who consistently scored well, ended up at the first place, killed it with his compilation and still lost. If Luoto wins against Parama, he'll make it to the finals, but he'll need to win all three final matchups to win the whole roulette.
OK..I understand now.
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Wolves in the Throne Room
Hey, I'm learning! :lol
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T
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Wolves in the Throne Room
Hey, I'm learning! :lol
This is Puppies and it's a mistake I'd bet :lol
I would never dare send pure black metal like this to Ev but what do I know
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Last update for tonight, folks. Will continue updating tomorrow from work.
Round 9 Hangman Pt. 1/2
Luoto: ???
Omnium Gatherum - Luoto
Omnium Gatherum - __u_ __u_____
TAC: ???
Nailed to Obscurity - Road to Perdition
EP titles:
T__ _t_r___ ____m___
_______u_ ____r__r
T__ M___d__ __d t__ ___t__u__r
Songs:
Wolves in the Throne Room - T__ __d ____ _r_ __t_ U_
M_______ - _____r_ __ D_m______d ____tm_r__
Andromeda - __r______
___m____ - U_t_u___d _____
____ur _r__d_ - __d ____
____ __rd__ - _ ___t t_ _______
D_________ - _rr____t____
______ ______ - ___t__ ____r_ _ __
__r______ - _______u_____ _t _ __tt___ __ _______
T____ - ___t __u ____
____ ___t__ - ____r_ D_t_ __ t__ __u_ __ M__
_ur_t_m___ - __u_d _ ___ t_ __u
D_________ - Dr__m __u__
Death Cab for Cutie - ________r ___t
__r______ - _______u_____ _t _ _ __t_ t_ _______t__m__t
___r___ ______ - _m__r_ ___u_r M_rt
Letters guessed: DT RUM
Luoto waits 1
jingle.boy waits 2
TAC waits 3
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Nailed To Obscurity - Road to Perdition
Death Cab For Cutie
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Nailed to Obscurity is TAC
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Wolves in the Throne Room
Hey, I'm learning! :lol
This is Puppies and it's a mistake I'd bet :lol
I would never dare send pure black metal like this to Ev but what do I know
Not Puppies actually.
Nailed To Obscurity - Road to Perdition
Death Cab For Cutie
Nailed to Obscurity is TAC
Correct and correct.
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Then WITTR is seneca I guess
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Deafheaven - Dream House
Deafheaven - Irresistable
omg who sent the black metal EP, is it actually seneca? Can't be TAC or jingle so :rollin
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Deafheaven - Dream House
Deafheaven - Irresistable
omg who sent the black metal EP, is it actually seneca? Can't be TAC or jingle so :rollin
Luoto.
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Nah, Luoto sent the Omnium songs, those ain't black metal
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Round 9 Hangman Pt. 1/2
Luoto: ???
Omnium Gatherum - Luoto
Omnium Gatherum - __u_ __u_____
TAC: ???
Nailed to Obscurity - Road to Perdition
senecadawg2: ???
Wolves in the Throne Room - T__ __d ____ _r_ __t_ U_
Deafheaven - Dream House
Deafheaven - Irresistible
EP titles:
T__ _t_r___ ____m___
_______u_ ____r__r
T__ M___d__ __d t__ ___t__u__r
Songs:
M_______ - _____r_ __ D_m______d ____tm_r__
Andromeda - __r______
___m____ - U_t_u___d _____
____ur _r__d_ - __d ____
____ __rd__ - _ ___t t_ _______
______ ______ - ___t__ ____r_ _ __
__r______ - _______u_____ _t _ __tt___ __ _______
T____ - ___t __u ____
____ ___t__ - ____r_ D_t_ __ t__ __u_ __ M__
_ur_t_m___ - __u_d _ ___ t_ __u
Death Cab for Cutie - Passenger Seat
__r______ - _______u_____ _t _ _ __t_ t_ _______t__m__t
___r___ ______ - _m__r_ ___u_r M_rt ____ _ ___u_r__ _t
Letters guessed: DT RUM
Luoto waits 1
jingle.boy waits 2
TAC waits 3
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:metal :metal :blush
Is that DCFC song Passenger Seat? I'm glad someone sent them—I've been meaning to send Transatlanticism this whole roulette, but the timing never quite worked out.
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Just realized the song I was trying to solve was my own missing the second half of the title :lol parenthesis rip
Also yeah transatlanticism wouldve been my pick to send too, interesting pick though :corn
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Just realized the song I was trying to solve was my own missing the second half of the title :lol parenthesis rip
Also yeah transatlanticism wouldve been my pick to send too, interesting pick though :corn
Oh shit, I literally overlooked that. Fixing it right now.
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Also it isn't in this hangman batch but I'm expecting Downfall of Gaia to show up on Seneca's EP now.
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Also it isn't in this hangman batch but I'm expecting Downfall of Gaia to show up on Seneca's EP now.
Unfortunately that didn't make it, though it was on the first EP I made, I think right after Transatlanticism in the track list.
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That would've been some great whiplash :lol
Wolves song looks like The Old Ones Are With Us
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Nailed to Obscurity is TAC
ha, I just picked this album up on a whim last weekend. Digging it.
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Nailed to Obscurity is TAC
ha, I just picked this album up on a whim last weekend. Digging it.
:metal
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Round 9 Hangman Pt. 1/2
Luoto: ???
Omnium Gatherum - Luoto
Omnium Gatherum - S_u_ __ur___s
TAC: ???
Nailed to Obscurity - Road to Perdition
senecadawg2: ???
Wolves in the Throne Room - The Old Ones Are With Us
Deafheaven - Dream House
Deafheaven - Irresistible
jingle.boy: ???
Sass Jordan - I Want to Believe
EP titles:
T__ _t_r_a_ ____m___
___s___us __s_r__r
T__ M___d__ __d t__ __st__u_ar
Songs:
M_______ - _a___r_ __ D_m___s__d ____tmar_s
Andromeda - __r_s____
A__ma___ - U_t_u___d _a__s
Olafur Arnalds - Old Skin
______ ____s_ - __st__ ____r_ _ __
__rs_____ - ___s___us__ss _t _ S_tt___ __ S______
T_s_a - __at __u ____
____ __st__ - ____r_ Dat_ __ t__ S_u_ __ Ma_
_ur_t_m__s - __u_d _ ___ t_ __u
Death Cab for Cutie - Passenger Seat
__rs_____ - ___s___us__ss _t _ A _at_ t_ _______t__m__t
_a_r___ _a_a__ - _m__r_ ___u_r Mart ____ S ___u_r_a St
Letters guessed: AT DRUMS
TAC waits 1
Parama waits 2
Puppies waits 3
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AAAAAA
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SSSSSSSS
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AAAAAA
SSSSSSSS
puppies sent this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pn1VGytzXus
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AAAAAA
SSSSSSSS
puppies sent this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pn1VGytzXus
AAAAAAHHHHHH EAR CANCER!!!!! KILLITWITHFIRE :flame: :flame: :flame: :splodetard:
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Updated, I'm on my phone so probably missed a couple of letters too.
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Olafur Arnalds - Old Skin
br00tal :metal
this is real funny to me because i sent that on my first EP to 425, which was the very first EP round in recorded roulette history :lol
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Sass Jordan - I Want To Believe
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Sass Jordan - I Want To Believe
Is Jingle still in this? I'm pretty sure that's some Jinglecore right there.
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That was my first thought as well, but I didn't pay enough attention to know who's in and who's out.
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Toska, that's Parama
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Sass Jordan - I Want To Believe
Is Jingle still in this? I'm pretty sure that's some Jinglecore right there.
He sure is.
Toska, that's Parama
Actually it's not Toska, and it's not Parama either.
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it's Tesla and it's Jingle
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it's Tesla and it's Jingle
That's "What You Give", one of the best ballads ever written. :tup
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This is still going on?! :lol :lol
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it's Tesla and it's Jingle
That's "What You Give", one of the best ballads ever written. :tup
:hifive:
If you ever host a roulette, I'd be all over it like a cougar on a wounded chicken.
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Eurythmics - Would I Lie to You
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it's Tesla and it's Jingle
That's "What You Give", one of the best ballads ever written. :tup
:hifive:
If you ever host a roulette, I'd be all over it like a cougar on a wounded chicken.
I'm permanently thinking about it, but I just don't know where I should find the time for it.
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This is still going on?! :lol :lol
Yeah, I think I screwed up on either compilations time limit or the amount of participants in the previous round, took me a lot of time to finish it. :lol I probaly shouldn't have done it at all but the concept seemed neat. This is turning up to be a Puppies roulette v3 for all my promises though.
That being said, we have a lot of holidays coming up where I'll be able to listen to the stuff, so I promise to wrap this up before May 12th at worst. I'm making good progress on EPs too. I'm pretty sure I'm ready to rank two of them, but I still haven't listened to Luoto's EP somehow. :lol
Round 9 Hangman Pt. 1/2
Luoto: ???
Omnium Gatherum - Luoto
Omnium Gatherum - S_u_ __ur_e_s
TAC: ???
Nailed to Obscurity - Road to Perdition
senecadawg2: ???
Wolves in the Throne Room - The Old Ones Are With Us
Deafheaven - Dream House
Deafheaven - Irresistible
jingle.boy: ???
Tesla - What You Give
Sass Jordan - I Want to Believe
Puppies_On_Acid: ???
Persefone - Consciousness Pt. 1: Sitting in Silence
Persefone - Consciousness Pt. 2: A Path to Enlightenment
EP titles:
T_e Eter_a_ _e__m___
___s___us __ser_er
T_e Me__d__ __d t_e _est__u_ar
Songs:
M_______ - _a__er_ __ D_m___s_ed ____tmares
Andromeda - _er_s___e
A__ma__e - U_t_u__ed _a__s
Olafur Arnalds - Old Skin
_____e E___s_ - __ste_ _e__re _ __
____ __st__ - E___r_ Date __ t_e S_u_ __ Ma_
Eurythmics - Would I Lie to You?
Death Cab for Cutie - Passenger Seat
_a_r_e_ _a_a_e - Em__re ___u_r Mart ____ S ___uer_a St
Letters guessed: EAT DRUMS
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Tesla song is still unsolved in the hangman it looks like
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Consciousness Pt. 1
Consciousness Pt. 2: A Path to Enlightenment
Long shot at the part numbers but we'll see
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Persefone :metal
Rad album right there
Sitting in Silence is Pt. 1
Both sent by Puppies I'd bet
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Damn, I was hoping to send that album in the final round if I made it.
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I played the title track off it on plug the other day and ev said he hated the first third but liked the rest a lot
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Fuck yeah, Omnium Gatherum! :metal
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I played the title track off it on plug the other day and ev said he hated the first third but liked the rest a lot
I almost sent the title track, but decided to play it a bit safe and go with the instrumentals. They are really good instrumentals though :metal
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Yeah they are
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I missed the transition between the parts and thought part 1 was a long instrumental and part 2 was the next song with vocals. :lol
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tbh i consider them just one song (& in the "death metal instrumentals" EP I sent to indiscipline I used a vid that did just that)
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Right, so I'll reveal the first part tomorrow, will also post a second part at that time. Making good progress on this, have three EPs tentatively ranked and three more I need to listen to a bit more. Results are probably coming on next Wednesday.
And I also have six EP stories and concepts you sent me to share with you folks! I'll probably post them two or three at a day, once again, beginning tomorrow. Some of them will have to be an abridged version, or even my own retelling of your tale—there's a lot to chew on in some of your stories! If you didn't send me a story, fear not! I wrote a concept story for each of the EPs that didn't already feature it, and you will most surely like them. They're individually tailored for your specific submissions, style of music and lyrical choices.
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nobody's guessing letters so gimme E
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E is given!
I'm dropping the limit on guessing but be sensible and don't guess another letter after you just guessed one.
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Right, so I'll reveal the first part tomorrow, will also post a second part at that time. Making good progress on this, have three EPs tentatively ranked and three more I need to listen to a bit more. Results are probably coming on next Wednesday.
And I also have six EP stories and concepts you sent me to share with you folks! I'll probably post them two or three at a day, once again, beginning tomorrow. Some of them will have to be an abridged version, or even my own retelling of your tale—there's a lot to chew on in some of your stories! If you didn't send me a story, fear not! I wrote a concept story for each of the EPs that didn't already feature it, and you will most surely like them. They're individually tailored for your specific submissions, style of music and lyrical choices.
Looking forward to that. I didn't write a story, but I did have a concept.
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TAC: Moonloop - Gallery of Diminished Nightmares
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Round 9 Hangman Pt. 1/2
Luoto: ???
Omnium Gatherum - Luoto
Omnium Gatherum - Soul Journeys
TAC: ???
Loch Vostok - Expiry Date of the Soul of Man
Moonloop - Gallery of Diminished Nightmares
Nailed to Obscurity - Road to Perdition
senecadawg2: ???
Wolves in the Throne Room - The Old Ones Are With Us
Deafheaven - Dream House
Deafheaven - Irresistible
jingle.boy: ???
Tesla - What You Give
Eurythmics - Would I Lie to You?
Sass Jordan - I Want to Believe
Puppies_On_Acid: ???
Andromeda - Periscope
Persefone - Consciousness Pt. 1: Sitting in Silence
Persefone - Consciousness Pt. 2: A Path to Enlightenment
EP titles:
T_e Eter_a_ _e__m___
___s___us __ser_er
T_e Me__d__ __d t_e _est__u_ar
Songs:
A__ma__e - U_t_u__ed _a__s
Olafur Arnalds - Old Skin
_____e E___s_ - __ste_ _e__re _ __
Death Cab for Cutie - Passenger Seat
_a_r_e_ _a_a_e - Em__re ___u_r Mart ____ S ___uer_a St
Letters guessed: EAT DRUMS
Looking forward to that. I didn't write a story, but I did have a concept.
Me too, I'm pretty proud of them too. :biggrin:
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Eurythmics is jingle?
Soul Journeys for the other Omnium song
Loch Vostok - Expiry Date of the Soul of Man sent by TAC
Andromeda - Periscope sent by Puppies
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Eurythmics is jingle?
Soul Journeys for the other Omnium song
Loch Vostok - Expiry Date of the Soul of Man sent by TAC
Andromeda - Periscope sent by Puppies
Yep to all.
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TAC has the best songs.
Yep to all.
:metal
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Anomalie - Untouched Walls sent by Seneca
The first EP title is "The Eternal ???" and it's probably seneca's but i could be wrong
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sent by Seneca
I doubt it ;)
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they're black metal and fit right in with his but if you wanna claim that one then sure :corn
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I'll take the F
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I'll take the F
You'll take the full reveal is what you'll take. :biggrin: Although since I'm not revealing titles, here you go with the updated version:
Round 9 Hangman Pt. 1/2
Luoto: ???
Omnium Gatherum - Luoto
Omnium Gatherum - Soul Journeys
Anomalie - Untouched Walls
TAC: ???
Loch Vostok - Expiry Date of the Soul of Man
Moonloop - Gallery of Diminished Nightmares
Nailed to Obscurity - Road to Perdition
senecadawg2: The Eternal _e__m___
Wolves in the Throne Room - The Old Ones Are With Us
Deafheaven - Dream House
Deafheaven - Irresistible
jingle.boy: ???
Tesla - What You Give
Eurythmics - Would I Lie to You?
Sass Jordan - I Want to Believe
Puppies_On_Acid: ???
Andromeda - Periscope
Persefone - Consciousness Pt. 1: Sitting in Silence
Persefone - Consciousness Pt. 2: A Path to Enlightenment
Parama: ???
Olafur Arnalds - Old Skin
Death Cab for Cutie - Passenger Seat
Billie Eilish - Listen Before I Go
Gabriel Kahane - Empire Liquor Mart (9127 S. Figueroa St.)
EP titles:
___s___us __ser_er
T_e Me__d__ __d t_e _est__u_ar
Letters guessed: FATE DRUMS
Part 2 is coming up later this evening.
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Also as promised, I'll begin posting the stories so you could enjoy them and see what I had to deal with. Keep in mind that all the stories here are entirely fictional, and are abridged versions of the ones you sent me, because I can’t just post those huge texts and keep everyone’s attention, so I’m keeping it to three or four paragraphs.
#1
The winters are harsh and cold in the Laulu village, but even then, the fire takes its toll. When the magistrate started to burn, all the water they had, all the snow around wasn’t enough to contain the fire. The village, with its crude, wooden houses, burned to cinders. The small group of people who survived the terrible fire ended up on their own, without shelter and food. They ventured into the forest, devastated and distraught, and before long they’ve wandered far enough they didn’t even know where the way back home was—and can you blame them? They had no home anymore.
It came as a complete surprise to them when at the sunset they found a wide clearing in the forest, completely devoid of snow. In fact, flowers were blooming amidst the clearing, a few wooden shacks were raised here and there, and a fire was burning merrily in the small pit in the middle of this clearing. People were sitting around the fire, laughing and joking, and a small boar was roasting just above the fire. These people welcomed the poor villagers, and shared their food with them, and gave them a place to sleep. As freezing it was in the rest of the forest, here, on that clearing, it was always warm, and only a little chilly at night. The food wasn’t exotic, but it was in abundance. So the winter passed, and so the villagers were incredibly grateful for such an unexpected turn of events.
It was only on the first day of spring they’ve found out the people they stayed with weren’t as peaceful and welcoming as they thought. As the whole gathering sat around a fire with the sun setting far away, illuminating the tree heads with its blood red light, a few of the younger people brought boars and pigs before the elderly people of the clan. One of them began epileptically pound on a drum the folk brought him, while the rest of the elders said a prayer to the ancient gods for sustaining them for yet another winter, and then proceeded to cut the pigs’ throats, slowly and methodically. And all the while the pigs and boars were squealing, shrieking. The sound was carried through the whole forest—helped by the other members of the clan, who joined in, imitating the pigs shrieks. It was then when the villagers realized they’ve landed in a cult.
The sacrifices were held every day, without a fault. Summer came, and the amount of boars and pigs slaughtered increased. Everyone in the forest could hear the shrieks. Some of the villagers also added their voices to the choir of hoarse cries in sacrifice for the bloodthirsty gods. The cult reveled in blood and shrieks of the animals. In fact, the cult was so overzealous in attempt to please the gods, that when the autumn came, it turned out they accidentally murdered all the wild boars and pigs in the forest near the Laulu village. Yet the temptation of spending the next winter in warmth and safety was so great, they could not resist it. They decided to travel even further north, into the neighboring forest, and found more pigs and boars there. And so the slaughter continued, and as the days passed, more and more villagers joined the cult, until there were no villagers anymore—there were only cultists. As the boars and pigs continued to shriek and die, the winter slowly rolled in, and once again, the clearing the cult was staying at was warm and protected from snow.
And so the eternal cycle went on.
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Oh snap, sounds like a pretty bad ass ep :metal
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No shit!
I'm off to see iamthemorning gig, will probably post Part 2 and the second EP story when I get back.
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y'all getting some hangman freebies instead of having to figure out my songs, dang :corn
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Well yeah, I figured that since the only unguessed songs were yours, I'll just reveal them.
Also I think I'll post the stuff tomorrow when I will actually be able to update it. I don't want to deal with hangman while the concert afterglow is still there with me.
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Wild pig and boar sacrifices? :lol
I should’ve had those in my EP
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i'm really curious what nonsense you came up with for my EP considering at least one of the songs is about a real life thing that really happened and several of them feature the death of the protagonist too :lol
they're basically all about either love or death. love you to death, dying death die
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Your protagonist wasn't a wild boar was it? :lol
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i sure hope not
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Round 9 Hangman
Luoto: ???
Omnium Gatherum - Luoto
Omnium Gatherum - Soul Journeys
Anomalie - Untouched Walls
TAC: ???
Loch Vostok - Expiry Date of the Soul of Man
Moonloop - Gallery of Diminished Nightmares
Nailed to Obscurity - Road to Perdition
senecadawg2: The Eternal Becoming
Wolves in the Throne Room - The Old Ones Are With Us
Deafheaven - Dream House
Deafheaven - Irresistible
Panopticon - Into the North Woods
jingle.boy: ???
Tesla - What You Give
Eurythmics - Would I Lie to You?
Sass Jordan - I Want to Believe
Puppies_On_Acid: ???
Andromeda - Periscope
Persefone - Consciousness Pt. 1: Sitting in Silence
Persefone - Consciousness Pt. 2: A Path to Enlightenment
Parama: ???
Olafur Arnalds - Old Skin
Death Cab for Cutie - Passenger Seat
Billie Eilish - Listen Before I Go
Gabriel Kahane - Empire Liquor Mart (9127 S. Figueroa St.)
Part 1:
EP titles:
_o_s__ous O_ser_er
T_e Me_od__ __d t_e _est__u_ar
Letters guessed: O FATE DRUMS
Part 2:
EP titles:
_a_t__a _a___ _____
(T_a____ ______ T___) ________a_a____: ____ ______
_______ __ a ___a_
Songs:
_a_t__o_a - T__o___ t__ ____ o_ t__ ______ _____a_ o_ t__ ____ T_at __ __o_____
______ A______o_ - __tt______t ______
__ _o______ - ___o_ ____ to t__ A_o__
___a - __t__ata
_____ - __t t__ ________ _o
_a_a_ - A____ _a___
In the Woods... - This Dark Dream
____a _o_t__ - _a_____
_a_a__ ____ - ___a___a__ ______t_
_a__ _o __o____o - T___ _oa_ __a__ to ___o_at_o_
_a_t_a_ - _to___oa_
_a___ o_ _a___o_ - __ __a___
To___a - __oo_
___t_ _a__ - __a__ _____t _____
_____a___ - ___a_ ___o_ta_
_at____ _at_o_ - T_a___ _a____
_______a_ ____ __o___t - A_t___ _o_ _____o_
_a__a_ - ___o__ to __
___ - _ _a_t ____ __ _a__ A___o__ _t_ A_____t _____ T___t
Letters guessed: OTA
Luoto waits 1
TAC waits 2
Parama waits 3
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(before you say it's fucked up, that's the actual story I've got in this round)
#2
A Russian scientist Georgiy Belikov, or Jora, as his friends affectionately call him (pronounced like Jorah Mormont), works for the government in a distant dystopian future. He’s the leader of the team of scientists responsible for the invention of a device that is supposed to allow the user to see through the minds of anyone through a psychic link: to read their thoughts, see through their eyes, perhaps even planting thoughts in their mind. The project was meant to prevent murder, thievery and other crimes, by using the device on potential suspects. A lot of people believed this to be a massive invasion of privacy, but as Russian government was never overly concerned about the people’s thoughts, this project was given a green light.
With the project finally finished, Jora decided to take the responsibility and test it himself. He was given the target to test it on, a serial killer Deniska. They turn the device on, and Jora falls into a deep sleep, discovering that the device actually works as intended—only he also discovers that he can’t wake up from that sleep, essentially getting trapped in the machine. He remains there for days and weeks, and the experience begins to get more dreamlike. He reads the killer’s mind and sees through his eyes, and even attempts to communicate with him, to no apparent avail—the conversation with Deniska's consciousness doesn't make much sense to Jora. He witnesses murder after murder, sees how Deniska killed his family in the past, and begins to really see into the mind of what drives Deniska to do what he does.
The process of changing Deniska is proving to be a lesson in futility. There doesn’t seem to be a shred of humanity left in him. Jora is dimly aware of his colleagues desperately trying to free him from the machine, this very real lucid nightmare, when he recognizes someone through the killer’s eyes. Jora looks on in horror and terror as Deniska stalks his daughter. Deniska must have become aware of who was invading his mind and sought to get revenge for Jora’s attempts to turn him. Jora can only look on in absolute anguish as his daughter is brutally murdered. Deniska even takes it further than his other victims and tells Jora through the psychic link that tomorrow they will do this again with another of Jora’s family.
Able to observe and witness the horrors before his eyes, but unable to affect them in any way, forever trapped in the machine, in the serial killer’s mind, Jora succumbs to unending madness and despair.
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That could be mine, maybe.
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O
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T
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Updated above.
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In the Woods... seneca I guess :P His EP is also titled The Eternal Becoming, and story #1 makes sense now :lol
Seeing Panopticon as well
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In the Woods isn't seneca, otherwise you're correct.
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That story is definitely Puppies.
Panopticon - Into the North Woods is sent by Seneca.
In the Woods - This Dark Dream is sent by Puppies.
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That's cause you have some inside knowledge after that plug.dj session :P
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yup
added a few guesses above, but give me the delicious A
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yup
added a few guesses above, but give me the delicious A
Updated above. In the Woods wasn't sent by Puppies.
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evermind is playing some of y'all's crap in plug right now and i'm amazed y'all's balls with some of this stuff that was sent, lol
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Is he making fun of my songs?
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What balls?
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Is he making fun of my songs?
Maybe a bit. :)
I've got nothing for this one, this EP is all over the place, so here's a meta-story I suppose:
#3
There is a competition held in a mysterious kingdom of Dreamtale Fairyland, the nature of which is known only to the participants. But the prizes are grand, and a lot of people line up to join each year only to disappear into the old gothic castle on the hill. The next time the people see these opportunists, they see them hanged from the battlements with the nooses around their necks. Yet there is a group of brave souls that manages to emerge unscathed from the castle each year, only to return there next time to face each other again.
Despite the general mystery around the competition, it is known that each phase of it has an option to only use a certain set of different abilities—to conform to a certain theme, so to say. For example, one phase required to only use recent combat moves, while the other required to use the moves from the last century. When they would reach the final phase, there are no restrictions, however—they can use whatever strengths and cunning they possess. It is wise to attempt to conform to the theme required in each phase, for the participants could earn an additional favour that way, if they’re able to best the other competitors in that phase. It might sound overly complicated—but keep in mind, we just can’t know all the details.
This little story is about one of the brave souls, who didn’t have any impressive abilities—in fact, while his performance was decent, he never managed to garner any favour by conforming to the themes. He was always bested by his cunning opponents, never once succeeded with the themed thing—but when he didn’t even try to conform to it once, he ended up victorious and therefore made it to the final phase. When the final hours of the competition arrived, he found himself facing his arch nemesis. Grinning, his opponent unleashed a mighty roar that shook the walls of the old castle. The images of all the poor souls hanged from the battlements filled the mind’s eye of our hero. He gathered his will and concentration—finally, there were no themes left to follow, no boundaries, no restrictions—he could do whatever he wanted now, give his opponent whatever answer he wanted!
And so, with one hand doing the recent combat moves, the other hand performing the moves from the last century, alternating between roaring and screaming in girlish falsetto, he slowly—very slowly, in a ballad-like march—began approaching his opponent…
Also, we're two (or at best three) days away from results, so I guess I'll reveal the full hangman since no one is guessing anyway and Parama knows half the songs. I'll leave the EP titles for you to guess though.
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:lol
Y'all need to guess some hangmanen letters too wow
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Yeah so I'll just reveal the songs and let you guys guess the titles, so it's a less daunting task for you and easier for me to update too.
Round 9 Hangman
Part 1:
EP titles:
_o_s__ous O_ser_er
T_e Me_od__ __d t_e _est__u_ar
Letters guessed: O FATE DRUMS
Part 2:
EP titles:
_a_t__a _a___ _____
(T_a____ ______ T___) ________a_a____: ____ ______
_______ __ a ___a_
Letters guessed: OTA
Luoto: ???
Omnium Gatherum - Luoto
Kalmah - Heroes to Us
In Mourning - Below Rise to the Above
Omnium Gatherum - Soul Journeys
Anomalie - Untouched Walls
White Ward - Black Silent Piers
TAC: ???
Nahtram - Stormroad
In the Woods... - This Dark Dream
Loch Vostok - Expiry Date of the Soul of Man
Moonloop - Gallery of Diminished Nightmares
Mask of Prospero - This Road Leads to Desolation
Nailed to Obscurity - Road to Perdition
senecadawg2: The Eternal Becoming
Kauan - Aidin Laulu
Wolves in the Throne Room - The Old Ones Are With Us
Deafheaven - Dream House
Deafheaven - Irresistible
Panopticon - Into the North Woods
jingle.boy: ???
Babylon - My Heaven
Tesla - What You Give
Eurythmics - Would I Lie to You?
Universal Mind Project - Anthem for Freedom
Erra - Ultimata
Divine Ascension - Bittersweet Divide
Sass Jordan - I Want to Believe
Puppies_On_Acid: ???
Andromeda - Periscope
Pagan's Mind - Dreamscape Lucidity
To-Mera - Blood
Persefone - Consciousness Pt. 1: Sitting in Silence
Persefone - Consciousness Pt. 2: A Path to Enlightenment
Manticora - Through the Eyes of the Killer: Revival of the Muse that is Violence
Persuader - Judas Immortal
Parama: ???
Patrick Watson - Tracy's Waters
Olafur Arnalds - Old Skin
mum - I Can't Feel My Hand Anymore, It's Alright, Sleep Tight
Death Cab for Cutie - Passenger Seat
Billie Eilish - Listen Before I Go
Ulver - Let the Children Go
Julia Holter - Vasquez
Gabriel Kahane - Empire Liquor Mart (9127 S. Figueroa St.)
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JINGLE is the one who sent that Erra song? Never would've guessed that in a million years omg
Guessing the newest story is jingle's then
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JINGLE is the one who sent that Erra song? Never would've guessed that in a million years omg
Guessing the newest story is jingle's then
I'll guarantee tomorrow's paycheque this is the tale of my submission.
Considering I've got 3.5 songs with female vox and 3 ballads... definitely mine.
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I'm genuinely curious what it is about that erra song you like, haha
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I'm genuinely curious what it is about that erra song you like, haha
I thought the album was pretty enjoyable, and I needed a growlie song from 2018 to fit my EP. That one fit the bill.
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This is for you, the participant who sent me one short sentence of description for each song and called it a concept. :neverusethis:
#4
There are rumours on the street about the new drug, simply named "Storm", which is said to provide a spectacular hallucinatory experience for a few hours. While the rumours are growing, "Storm" isn't very well-known yet, and the prices, while stingy, aren't exorbitant. A young man named Nahtram, living a boring life in a rental apartment on the second floor in suburbs, one day decides to spend his meager personal savings on a dose to forget everything for one evening. He buys a dose from a friend in the business, takes it, and lays down to rest.
He finds himself in a dark forest, and hears a sound of rain in the distance. / Nahtram begins hallucinating. His mind is trying to connect the dark dream with his real feelings, but can't place the sound of rain, so his mind command his body to turn the water on in the shower.
The rain grows heavy, coming from the east, and the dark forest is slowly but surely flooded. There's no way to stay afloat - he begins to drown. He hears sounds of thunder, and gets a sense that his life may be over. / The water from the bathroom begins to flood the apartment, and soon enough, the apartment of Nahtram's neighbors downstairs. They call the landlord and begin to pound on Nahtram's door.
The water suddenly recedes, and the dream reaches a climax of reliving all past nightmares. He sees monsters coming out from the forest, crooked, broken things growling at him, clawing at him. / The neighbors and the landlord open the door. The water leaks out, and they find stoned Nahtram on the bed. Livid, they try to wake him, all the while threatening to sue him and kick him out.
Crushed under the weight of his own nightmares, he is resigned to a sense of desolation. / The neighbors leave, promising to send him a bill for repairs, and the landlord tells Nahtram he'll be doubling his rent.
He awakes to find himself on the road to perdition. But has he truly awaken, or has he died? / With his savings spent, with the newly arrived bills from the neighbors, and with his rent doubled, he might've as well died.
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Eurythmics? What the fucking fuck? haha!
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Give us an E in the titles
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Eurythmics? What the fucking fuck? haha!
:lol
Round 9 Hangman
Part 1:
EP titles:
Conscious Observer (Puppies)
T_e Me_od__ __d t_e _est__u_ar
Letters guessed: O FATE DRUMS
Part 2:
EP titles:
Zantera Sacul Music
(Tra__e_ _____e T___) E_er____a_ar___: ____ __r__e
__e__er __ a _rea_
Letters guessed: OTAER
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Zantera/Sacul Music :lol
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This is for you, the participant who sent me one short sentence of description for each song and called it a concept. :neverusethis:
:lol
It's a concept. I just didn't have time to write a story. It all ties together very nicely.!!
I even gave you an Avantasia inspired title that matches the concept perfectly!!
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This is for you, the participant who sent me one short sentence of description for each song and called it a concept. :neverusethis:
:lol
It's a concept. I just didn't have time to write a story. It all ties together very nicely.!!
I even gave you an Avantasia inspired title that matches the concept perfectly!!
Sounds like the sequel to A.C.T's The Last Epic... :lol
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Conscious Observer which is Puppies
gimme R
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Updated. Slowly moving towards the results...
#5
There once was a young necromancer—or rather a young wizard whose path has taken him onto the dark road of meddling with dead—and everyone knows meddling with dead leads to no good. In fact, it may leave your soul mauled and twisted, and once you’re past the point of no return and redemption… you’re gone for good. As good as dead, as dead as those souls you raise. The line between well-intentioned and twisted is thin and narrow, and everyone who breaks it is going to regret it: but our young wizard knew where the line lies, and endlessly tampered with the restrictions that were put in place.
He proved his name in a spectacular showmanship of necromancy in the battle of Kalmah, breaking the line, stepping all over it while leading the dead corpses against the nations of Arnalds Empire guarding the gates of hell. After the battle ended, the elders approached him, and the deal was made: he was to cease his necromantic activities, and he was to swear to it by his true name. The memories of his necromantic powers left him. Unless he spoke his true name out loud, he couldn’t use his powers; and if he spoke his name out loud, he would instantly die.
The wizard lived his days in peace, and one day he realized he grew old; he was dying. He thought he remembered fractions of the powers he once used to wield, but he also considered the possibility he was delusional. In one particular dream, he saw a reflection of himself, whispering something to him… a single word. He tasted this word on his lips, and the world around him illuminated with a dark grey light. It was then when his ultimate purpose came to him: to eliminate his weakness and to unite the world beneath his black and grey flags.
He started with calling the heroes of ages to his aid: great military leaders, fabled warriors, extremely talented physicians; then he began raising the whole battalions from below, proclaiming himself the emperor. No one was able to stop him, except the mother nature herself—he grew too old, and his body failed him in the end. Little did everyone know that he planned even for that unfortunate turn of events—preparing the spells that would resurrect him in the event of his death.
Soon, the capital of the kingdom fell with its walls untouched—the necromancer simply called the dead buried inside the city; and he began ravaging the shoreline, until only the black silent piers and murders of crows were there to greet the new arrivals in the quay. The power felt too good to ever stop using it, and why stop? The whole country was literally at his feet.
The necromancy is a dangerous magic, and one should use it only if necessary, and be prepared to pay the price. It may feel that the price isn’t coming, ever, but it is always coming, regardless if you know it or not.
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That's Luoto's but the Arnalds empire being namedropped threw me off at first :corn
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Well he's against you so it makes sense I guess :biggrin:
I really hope you don't expect anything serious from your story, or if you do, it's gonna drop tomorrow in any case.
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I wasn't expecting a story period so it's Better Than Nothing TM
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Instead of finishing tweaking Parama's story I began writing results, so there's that. :lol I think I'll be posting them one by one during this day and tomorrow, and finish this round tomorrow evening. As I'm leaving for a board games night later today, Parama's story might have to wait until tomorrow evening also.
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In fact guys, let's begin posting results.
Puppies_On_Acid: Conscious Observer
Andromeda – Periscope: this song is an extremely solid start for your EP. While it doesn’t break any new ground in the genre, it’s simply good progressive metal, with intensity ebbing and flowing between verses and choruses. I like the laid back atmosphere here, especially during the bass-driven verses, and when the song gets more intense it’s never overbearing. It kind of reminds me of Spock’s Beard – Hiding Out in a sense that while it’s nothing really special, it’s a fantastic opener with good melodies. 7.5/10
Pagan’s Mind – Dreamscape Lucidity: this is about what I’ve expected from Pagan’s Mind, which is exactly why I haven’t checked them out yet. Great vocals with a theatrical edge, alright instrumentation, mediocre vocal melodies. The beginning works great with Periscope, but then the song is kind of just there. Nils (this is him, right? I hope so) does a great job on vocals, but the rest doesn’t quite live up to the hype. Also, what’s up with rhyming every line in the chorus with “mystery”? I was expecting at least one “history” there. There are some enjoyable moments here, mostly because of Nils’ vocals and good instrumental sections, but that’s about it. 6/10
To-Mera – Blood: I’m not sure what this song is doing on this EP, to be honest. It’s not exactly disruptive to the flow, and it’s not exactly disruptive to the story, but somehow it just doesn’t quite fit. Maybe it’s because this is the only one female-fronted song here, I don’t know. This song is more about the menacing atmosphere than the intensity, which is a welcome break considering how intense the second half of your EP is, but overall this is even less memorable than Pagan’s Mind. The vocals are kinda nice, though. 5.5/10
Persefone – Consciousness Pt. 1: Sitting in Silence / Pt. 2: A Path to Enlightenment: I thought about it and decided to just merge these two into one for the purposes of scoring, and also because it took me a lot of time to catch where the first part ends and the second one begins. I’m not too drawn to instrumentals lately, as you probably know, so while you might’ve thought you were playing it safe, this wasn’t safe by any means—but this is also the best track on your EP because holy shit, this is fantastic. Everything about this is just great, and I would’ve probably enjoyed this as a standalone song too, which almost never happens with instrumentals for me. From the quiet beginning to the crazy progressive metal sections in the second half, this song just builds and builds and builds. I had this band on my radar after Stillness is Timeless, and I guess I will soon be checking them out. 9/10
Manticora – Through the Eyes of the Killer – Revival of the Muse That Is Violence: this is so intense. :neverusethis: What honestly surprised me about this song is that it doesn’t have growls at all. This is, like, a perfect song to use some growls, considering the subject. If this round wasn’t oversaturated with growls, I might’ve preferred them here to the singer’s voice which is, the best I can describe it, violent and borderline hysterical. It works well in the context of your EP, but I definitely won’t go out of my way to listen to this song, or band, ever again; I thought this was pretty average on quality, although it definitely something I haven’t heard before. Violent progressive metal. 5.5/10
Persuader – Judas Immortal: holy Blind Guardian baby, I swear for a moment I thought this was Hansi. This is on the level with the other “holy Blind Guardian baby” I’ve received back in the very first round from Katt, except this is also more violent—which is expected, given your EP theme. This song switches between great vocal melodies and the ones I’m scratching my head at, and the transitions aren’t smooth either. Honestly, the way it keeps jumping between sections is probably my biggest gripe about this song, because otherwise it’s decent enough. The ending especially comes out of absolutely nowhere. On the bright side, the Spanish acoustic guitar solo in the middle is a nice touch and actually doesn’t break the flow at all. I’m a bit conflicted about this song, but I think I mostly like it. 7/10
Thoughts on the EP: you were the last person I expected not to incorporate any growls in your EP, especially after even Chad included them! I guess you weren’t lying you were catering to my tastes with this one. There are some songs that were more misses than hits, but overall I liked this—and I appreciated you took your time to come up with the story, as fucked up as it is. The flow here is well done, except for To-Mera song which stood out in not-so-positive way. I think the decision to open with Periscope is fantastic—this song is perfect for setting the mood before the EP gets heavier. I could almost see the protagonist working on his project deep in the heart of the government building. I liked this EP.
EP score: (7.5 + 6 + 5.5 + 9 + 5.5 + 7) / 6 = 6.75 * 2 = 13/20
Flow score: 4
Total score: 17 + 1 point for the best title/story = 18
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persefone :metal
that entire album is rad though i'm not 100% sure you'd be into all of it? but you liked the title track when i played it so yeah
i dunno any of the others so no comment on them from the parama gallery :P
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TAC: Dweller in a Dream
Nahtram - Stormroad: once again, it seems like everyone in this round suddenly decided to include an instrumental in your EPs, and you’re not an exception. Once again, I’m usually not a fan of instrumentals as a standalone songs, but this one is honestly pretty great and does a fantastic job as an opener for the whole thing. While it’s mostly going forward on a breakneck pace, there are some quiet moments and enough diversity so it doesn’t get stale or boring for its duration. The structure is pretty simple, but I like how it goes from very intense, to quiet, to epic. This instrumental feels like a standalone song, and I like it a lot. 8/10
In the Woods… - This Dark Dream: this song has two problems for me: one, it’s a bit too heavy for my taste, two, I don’t like the singer. He has this Hetfield-like style of singing except his voice isn’t as attractive as Hetfield’s and, combined with the heaviness this song exudes in the final five minutes (out of seven :lol), it creates this package that isn’t unpleasant per se, but isn’t that great to listen to either. My favourite parts about this song are the quiet section after the very beginning, and the keyboard runs which are kind of nice, although they’re pretty sparse between all those pounding guitars. Otherwise, this song is kind of plodding, and not in a good way. 5.5/10
Loch Vostok – Expiry Date of the Soul of Man: this song, aka an “unbreak my balls song”, on the other hand, gets a big yes for me. This is like a mix of Katatonia with a heavier edge and a bit of The Ocean in the chorus, judging from The Ocean song I’ve got in the third round. I’m honestly surprised you don’t like Katatonia but send this in the roulette, because this is really similar to Katatonia, with its sorrowful atmosphere, somber mood and mournful vocal passages. This song also works well sandwiched between the two heavier songs. Basically everything about this song is appealing to me. This is one of the best songs of the round. 8.5/10
Moonloop – Gallery of Diminished Nightmares: if you were going for contrast to that Loch Vostok song, you achieved it, because fuck this song. It’s eight minutes of technical djent mixed with mediocre growls. This is as if folks from The Human Abstract got drunk, downtuned their guitars and started growling and hitting random strings at random time signatures. I don’t want to say this is outright bad, but hey, this is outright bad. This is honestly probably worse than The Hirsch Effekt. I don’t want to hear this song ever again. Gallery of nightmares indeed. 2.5/10
Mask of Prospero – This Road Leads to Desolation: I played this in plug.dj for Parama, and he was like “did jingle send this?” and then the crazy growl part hit and he was “okay yeah not jingle”. :lol This is an interesting song, mostly because of its unusual structure, but there’s no denying these guys know how to build the epic yet somber mood for their songs. This is plodding in a good way, the guitar tone is great and the solo is very well-written; the ending is also fantastic. I wish this song was eight minutes long instead of that fucking Moonloop song. I’m still not sure what this growl section was about, but it doesn’t ruin the song for me; this is good indeed. 7.5/10
Nailed to Obscurity – Road to Perdition: I feel like some of the songs on your EP suffer from the same problem Iris Divine song suffered in my previous roulette: they’re too heavy for heaviness sake, and there’s just not enough good vocal melodies to salvage them. Those are, namely, In the Woods one and Moonloop one (although the Moonloop song is just awful, I guess); this particular song came close to in on my first listen, but as I kept listening, this one grew on me. It’s more in line with something Luoto would send. I didn’t like the intense sections—and to be honest, there were a lot of them—but I liked the guitar work here, and I liked how they wrapped the whole thing up with a dirty-sounding guitar solo. I don’t think there was enough ideas for eight minutes, but this wasn’t half as bad as Moonloop. 6/10
Thoughts on the EP: I liked the idea of alternating between heavier songs and more sorrowful, slow ones, at least in theory. The problem is the heavier songs didn’t quite grab me as much as the slow ones did. You might’ve been better off sending more stuff like Loch Vostok, but I guess you’re too metal to do that. What’s with the Loch Vostok and your Katatonia dislike though? I’m genuinely curious. The flow here could’ve been improved, too, but it’s serviceable enough. I honestly just wish you scrapped that Moonloop song and added something better. While it’s not my favourite EP in this round, this had enough interesting stuff to keep me listening.
EP score: (8 + 5.5 + 8.5 + 2.5 + 7.5 + 6) / 6 = 6.33 * 2 = 12.66/20
Flow score: 2.5
Total score: 15.16
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worst than the hirsch effekt :metal
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That Nahtram album is the cat's meow. Too bad it was just a little EP itself.
While it’s not my favourite EP in this round, this had enough interesting stuff to keep me listening.
Woohoo! I have hope! Though, I'm not expecting a flow score any better. I'd gladly take a 2.5 on my flow.
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personally i'm hoping the top 2 EPs of the round are me and luoto because it'd be super funny
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I'm really happy Pup sent Persuader 'cause I was very close to sending them too. Judas Immortal is an awesome song, that whole album is really good.
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Well, I can't complain too much about that score. I'm a little surprised that you didn't like the To-Mera song more. Originally I had this song in its place https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgJclKXt7zQ
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Luoto: The Melodic and the Vestibular
Omnium Gatherum - Luoto: there’s nothing like opening your EP with instrumental that is your nickname, I’ll give you that. It’s like the self-titled album, you’re making a statement: this is what I stand for, this is the kind of music I like; and I won’t lie, this made me curious about your EP—although I was already curious, because in this roulette you never failed to send me something I liked. This track sets the mood nicely, and I could’ve easily listened to a few more minutes of this—three and a half minutes seem a bit short for what they were going here. 7.5/10
Kalmah – Heroes to Us: sensible transition, from the epic instrumental intro to a fast and furious song. My main complaint about this is how the whole song is just relentless growls, and this particular style of growls isn’t something I’m too crazy about. On the other hand, the instrumental part is really fun, and overall this is probably a fun song to witness in a live setting. I like the alternating nature of the chorus with the deeper growls adding a layer to it, and the instrumental break is also quite fascinating on this song. I liked some aspects of this track, but there’s definitely a room for improvement in the vocal section—instrumentally, this is quite fine. 6.5/10
In Mourning – Below Rise to the Above: I played this in plug.dj for Parama, and I’ve got to say, the lyric video for this song is pretty hilarious with its editing. The song itself does a good job mixing heavy moments with the slow ones—and I didn’t really doubt it, because I think I’ve already heard In Mourning from you in plug and was impressed by it. I won’t say eight minutes of this exactly fly by, I’m definitely aware of how long this song is, but it doesn’t overstay its welcome. The only thing I’m not fond of is the djenty instrumental break, otherwise this is up my alley. 8/10
Omnium Gatherum – Soul Journeys: it was generous of you to also include a track with vocals from this band, instead of relying only on the instrumental, and I’ve got to say: this band should rely on instrumentals. The growls on this song are there, but all the epicness is created by the instrumental work, that soaring guitar line beneath the vocals is excellent. I wasn’t a big fan of their growling style on the first listen, but it grew on me, and the epic section after a quiet break in the middle is just fantastic. They could’ve just ended the song with that, I didn’t need an intense instrumental section after that. I can definitely get behind this, will be checking out more from this band. 8/10
Anomalie – Untouched Walls: this is the only low point on your otherwise solid EP. The instrumental work here is salvageable, but nothing special, but the actual growls feel strained; and the whole song is just more of the same old heavy riffing mixed with unimpressive guitar line and growls just puked all over it. It’s not bad, but ultimately it’s just very average and not at all that exciting. It speaks volumes that I think the best part of the song is the acoustic outro, honestly. I didn’t connect with this at all. 4.5/10
White Ward – Black Silent Piers: this song is another one that has me conflicted. On one hand, oh hell yes saxophone, on the other hand, this is a bit too heavy for me; but at least the production here is clean. I wish this song used at least a bit of clean vocals, because with all the growls throughout your EP, this is getting a bit tiresome. I wish this song didn’t use blast beats because no song in their right mind should use blast beats; and I wish there were more parts to my liking that just saxophone and acoustic outro, which quickly grows to electric with, you guessed, saxophone. I feel like this song has a huge potential, but ends up not reaching it; in fact I feel like the growls and blast beats actually inhibit the song instead of aiding it. 6/10
Thoughts on the EP: I honestly expected more clean vocals than that, and by “that”, I mean the only clean vocals on In Mourning Track. The “melodic” part of your EP ended up to be fairly insignificant compared to the “vestibular” part, or at least that’s how I felt. With Kalmah and the whole second half being full-growls, I thought this EP could use a bit more balancing on your part. On the other hand, almost all the tracks, Anomalie excluded, featured excellent instrumental work. The flow wasn’t too shabby either, you’ve made it easier by picking the songs that begin and end with acoustic sections. I feel like, while other EPs had higher highs and lower lows, you just made a consistent EP which is pretty solid, but doesn’t have anything that impressed the hell out of me.
EP score: (7.5 + 6.5 + 8 + 8 + 4.5 + 6) / 6 = 6.75 * 2 = 13.5/20
Flow score: 3.5
Total score = 17
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My only disappointment is that I am seemingly never getting a story at this point
Also that anomalie looked out of place on the EP which is why I thought seneca sent it, yeah
Anyways hoping my EP is a 16.5 or lower
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For what it's worth, Evermind - and you know how picky I am about growls - the lone OG song sent in my roulette, Frontiers, has an outstanding combination of those growls and that beautiful soaring lead guitar you mentioned. It's very rare I get chills from something like that, so it's worth checking out, in my opinion.
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My only disappointment is that I am seemingly never getting a story at this point
Also that anomalie looked out of place on the EP which is why I thought seneca sent it, yeah
Anyways hoping my EP is a 16.5 or lower
You are getting it, but I have to actually come home to post it, I was posting from my friend's PC for the last day and now I'm on my phone. We're currently on a five-day holidays so I'm not exactly at home for the most time. I'm basically posting pre-written results I have on my USB stick, and the stories file isn't there.
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The lost story of olde :metal
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That's fair enough. Right now I'm slightly regretting of choosing White Ward to close the EP over another track. I also kept forgetting one particular song exists, which in part plays a role in the lack of clean vocals :lol I'm sure you'll eventually hear of those in plug.dj or something.
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Right, I'm home now, and Parama seems so eager I've just got to share his story first. Enjoy these few paragraphs of random suicide stuff. :biggrin:
#6
Cutie had a difficult childhood. Her mother, Tracy, has died in childbirth, and her father, William, had to raise her alone, struggling between teaching her the ways of the world and earning money being a cabbie. What little money he earned working late hours he brought into the family, providing for Cutie’s education and life. No one knows what had driven William to do what he had done, given that he always seemed cheerful, was always happy to spend time with his daughter, was teaching her to drive, was always ready to jump into the fire for her—but one day, in the late 80s, Cutie returned home from college and found William lying on the floor, shot in the head, a gun and a suicide note simply saying “I’m sorry.” lying next to him.
Patrick had a difficult childhood. The main source of that was his crazy father, Adam, who was a huge part of the skinhead movement in 60s and then, as it lived through its revival in 80s, once again joined the old ways. Being naturally rebellious in his youth, Patrick often stood up against his father, defending his own views, and one day Adam was too drunk to care—coming at his own son with the huge wood-chopping axe in hand. Patrick only survived because his mother, Julie, stabbed his father in the back with a kitchen knife—but not before Adam landed a few axe blows at him. Adam died, and Julie was released on probation as the jury pointed out that the murder happened in self-defense, and Patrick, after several painful surgeries, lost his right hand. The family didn’t live an easy life, spending all their savings to keep afloat, but they lived, and that’s what matters.
They’ve hit it right off the bat in the late 80s, right as the 90s were rapidly approaching, as if they were meant for each other. Their meeting was a pure chance: Cutie worked at her dad’s last working place, driving a cab; and Patrick was being late to his job interview, calling a cab in a desperate attempt to make it. He made it, and they also exchanged numbers and decided to meet in a bar later that night. Did Patrick notice how Cutie’s facial expression went a bit absent and thoughtful a few times during their chat? You can bet he didn’t, so entranced as he was. Little did they both know that this chance meeting was going to change their lives forever.
You may ask, what else Cutie, and William (do you still remember who he was?), didn’t know? For example, she didn’t know that all six persons who were driving the cab she was driving at the time—that was assigned to her when she got the job—committed suicide. She suspected something was wrong with it—the car cassette player began playing whenever you shifted from neutral to the first gear and didn’t stop until the car was stopped, and no matter how she tried, she couldn’t get the actual cassette out of it—she only saw the mysterious ZS music symbol on the little part that stuck out when she pressed “eject”. She suspected something was wrong—but she didn’t realize the little whispers in her head whenever she was at work were not born by her mind—it was the cab that whispered those thoughts to her. The Death Cab.
The whispers weren’t innocent, either. The Death Cab has driven its previous drivers to suicide. True, it was easier with the previous workers, who accepted the job out of necessity, but it wasn’t about to give up on Cutie—but it needed a lever to pull on, and after two years of waiting the opportunity presented itself. Oh, how delighted it was when it realized that this young ginger man in a neatly pressed working shirt and a tie, frantically looking at his watch and running his fingers through her hair, and its driver were flirting. Whenever Cutie was driving anyone at work, the Death Cab kept whispering to her some good old doomsday predictions and general “you’re worthless and this life is shit” thoughts, but now it sensed the real opportunity—and for once it stopped talking whatsoever. Whenever Patrick was in the cab, the cab kept silent.
Cutie’s relationship with Patrick was wonderful for the first year; Patrick was astounded at the chance he had, being sure he would never find a relationship with only one hand; Cutie was astounded, being sure she would never find a relationship with her suicidal tendencies. Yet she found it was easier with Patrick around. They’ve became engaged and started saving for their wedding ceremony and their honeymoon—which led them taking longer working hours, with Patrick working as a lawyer and Cutie working late hours as a cabbie. The longer hours were frustrating—Patrick slowly began drinking more and more. They often worked so late that Cutie drove to Patrick’s working place late at night to pick him up on their way home—and on one occasion, when she picked him up from the corporate party as the firm he was working at was celebrating its 40 years anniversary, the Death Cab finally made its move. As Patrick was relaxing in the passenger seat, looking at the dark silhouettes of the trees passing their car by, the cab spoke to Cutie.
What had it whispered to her? We will never know, but the next day Patrick woke up to a startling hangover, an empty apartment and a single note on the coffee table simply saying “I’m sorry”. Cutie was nowhere to be seen.
From Los Angeles Times, 19th July 1990
Earlier this morning, where the Whittier Boulevard crosses Los Angeles river, the taxi cab was found in the river, with a young girl behind the wheel. The circumstances hint at the fact that the girl consciously directed the cab into the river. The girl was identified as Cutie Lexington, born on March 3rd, 1971. There are no signs of collision with other cars.
What happened to Patrick after that? What was he going through? We also will never know, although there are some establishments that he visited, and certain sites that his browser search history would show us. Still, there is enough evidence to suggest he succumbed to his drinking habits; but we do know the conclusion to his story: later next year, he was found dead in his apartment, with a gunshot wound in his head, and a note, partially soaked with his blood, lying on the floor, saying “I’m sorry”.
From the documents of Latasha Harlins’ case, 21st March, 1991
…while the suspect and his husband claim there were no witnesses, there was a one-handed man caught on tape seconds before the incident took place…
From the notes found in Patrick Green’s House, 24th March, 1991:
After the sun sets / without dreams / we have nothing…
We have each other / In the dead of night… / And life goes on…
When innocence dies… / In her eyes?
Why must she die?
The end begins.
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Don't miss the story (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=53350.msg2548098#msg2548098) on the previous page!
Parama: Zantera Sacul Music
Patrick Watson – Tracy’s Waters: this track does nothing to dissuade me from my previous notions about Patrick Watson’s music: it provides a nice, dreamlike experience, but the vocals aren’t really my cup of tea. The instrumental track with strings and percussion is nice, the vocal performance, and the vocal melodies, too, aren’t just quite up to that level. This is a nice little listen, and I think I liked this just as much as I liked Lighthouse. Different tempo and atmosphere, yes, but the quality is consistent. 6.5/10
Olafur Arnalds – Old Skin: this is beautiful. I don’t know why I haven’t checked out this particular album and artist before. He was on my radar, and I just kept postponing it, but you can be sure that I will check this out after this song, because this is just beautiful. I’m not sure if I even need to describe it further. It’s an amazing combination of keyboard melody, the subtle strings, the vocals and the brilliant vocal melodies. This is something I wanted to find in this roulette. 8.5/10
mum – I Can’t Feel My Hand Anymore, It’s Alright, Sleep Tight: oh yes, instrumentals is the new trend in the EP world, it seems. Is that a fucking accordion too? This is nice, but ultimately this feels like a placeholder between Old Skin and the next track, as I don’t feel any emotional connection to it. It’s a well done instrumental, sure, but unlike some instrumentals in this round, this feels more like a transitional track than a standalone song. Not on the level of Deafheaven transitional track, but still. It works well on your EP, though. 6/10
Death Cab for Cutie – Passenger Seat: this song is remarkable in its simplicity and just open honesty and, I don’t know, open expression of feeling of joy? After all the growls I’ve got in this round, this is refreshing as hell. You know, those moments when you’re simply glad that you exist, that you’re alive and well, and you don’t care about the outside world at all because you’re in a good place, at least for these few minutes or hours. This song aims to evoke this feeling and it does a great job at that. I can certainly think of some moments where I felt like that, and this song almost makes me relive them. I really like this. 8/10
Billie Eilish – Listen Before I Go: oh hey, a suicidal song from a teenager. Without any prejudice though, this is a good song impaired by a few aspects which are, for certain, intentional, but still: the singer sounds like she didn’t eat for three days at least, and the instrumental part is almost non-existent except the somber piano notes. I get that this is intentional, I get it; the protagonist here is leaving a suicide note, feeling down. But I still wish this song was a bit louder and Billie sounded a bit more clear and not starving and murmuring words into the mic—if only because every time this song came up on my commute, I couldn’t hear half of it. 6.5/10
Ulver – Let the Children Go: this is definitely the weirdest song on your EP, with almost no structure at all; but strangely, it works quite well. The mysterious atmosphere and the random vocal passages climaxing at certain moments somehow do a great job of tying the song together here, and while this isn’t something that would do well on its own, in context of the EP this is, in fact, strangely fascinating. 7/10
Julia Holter – Vasquez: you know, if I wanted an ASMR session, I would’ve just find something on YouTube. As I’ve already expressed in the plug.dj session, I’m not a fan of this at all. This feels less like a song and more like a spoken word section which is six minutes long. There is an instrumental track beneath this, which is mostly rhythm, and then there’s just Julia (I assume that’s her on vocals) speaking the words into the mic. I know it’s not only spoken word, she sings some of it (bandiiido), but still, my impression is that this is barely a song. It makes a good sequence with that Ulver song, though, but that’s about it. I don’t like it. 4/10
Gabriel Kahane – Empire Liquor Mart (9127 S. Figueroa St.): I know you said this is your favourite track from your EP, but honestly, this sounds like nine minutes of mostly mediocrity. I’m not a fan of most vocal melodies here, and I’m not a fan of the classical breakdowns with all the strings—they feel forced—and I feel the whole song feels a bit off, to the point that the vocal melodies were created on the spot. The chorus reprise in the end feels like a clumsy attempt to string the song together to me, and not too successful either. Perhaps five listens weren’t enough to actually get into this song, but I guess I don’t see what you see about this particular track. It’s alright, inoffensive, and that’s about it for me. 5.5/10
Thoughts on the EP: I’ve never expected you to actually send something this good. I know it was after the roulette, but hey, most of this is actually good, and the rest is at least tolerable—except Julia Holter, I didn’t like that. I guess our tastes don’t collide in metal, but when it comes to chamber music and acoustic ballads, we’re at least a bit compatible. This was good and the flow was extraordinary, in fact I think the best of the round. I don’t know how it scores against Luoto, but know that I’ve enjoyed this EP way more than a few others in this round. In fact, I’m pretty sure this will end up in a Top 3.
EP score: (6.5 + 8.5 + 6 + 8 + 6.5 + 7 + 4 + 5.5) / 8 = 6.5 * 2 = 13/20
Flow score: 4.5
Total score: 17.5
Luoto, man, you sent me some great stuff. I'm not sure what it is with you and the elimination format, but apparently you're out of luck with this whole thing, first losing to Seneca while sending the second best thing in the round, now losing to Parama—of all people!—with a pretty good EP. Oh well, I'm still going to check out a lot of the stuff you sent me—Eastern High, Ghost Brigade, Swallow the Sun, In Mourning, Communic, Wormwood... you didn't win, but you certainly left an impression on me. I couldn't be more glad you joined this roulette. Thank you for playing!
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Jesus christ @ the story :lol
Also sorry luoto
I should've replaced Olafur Arnalds with the Hirsch Effekt or something
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Jesus christ @ the story :lol
You're welcome! :lol
The idea of The Death Cab still makes me laugh and it was—along with the pig slaughter in Seneca's EP—what actually made me want to write all the six stories, it was just too hilarious to pass up :lol
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Also I like the Gabriel Kahane song bcuz it's got the trinity of catchy, technical, and emotive
That's like. All I need to really get into a song tbh
Also yeah ofc the flow is good who the hell do you think I am
If you wanna check out one more Julia Holter song that definitely isn't spoken word go check out Feel You off the same album
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I mean I'm not against it, I just wasn't impressed with it at all. I'll take that Olafur Arnalds song over that one any day, in fact I'm spinning For Now I Am Winter now and man it's good.
If you wanna check out one more Julia Holter song that definitely isn't spoken word go check out Feel You off the same album
For sure, I'll play this tomorrow I guess.
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Yeah that album is great
I've tried other stuff from him but I've never been as into it
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Yeah, it's very good on my first listen, I'll definitely return to it.
Last two results are coming up this morning. Meanwhile, enjoy that wonderful story for Parama's EP. :biggrin:
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It's nice to see you enjoyed Death Cab. As much as I like Passenger Seat, I don't think it does justice to the album as a whole. Also Ulver is awesome, especially shadows of the sun.
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Ooh, is it my turn to get eliminated with the second highest score of the round? :corn
:splodetard:
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We can only hope!
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Dank meme my duotos
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so i went and checked out that moonloop song and like
did we listen to the same song?
this is what YT pulls up for the name you gave:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mndXacQTWoU
which has like... one djenty heavy bit but is mostly more laid-back and melodic lol
so i went and checked the album on spotify and there are two different versions with two different tracklists... and the same song has two different names across both versions ("zeal" on the other one)
RYM also seems to agree with the spotify version that has it named "zeal" and "gallery of diminished nightmares" seems to not exist but then "nightmare gallery" does actually sound like the song you described
i'm genuinely wondering if what happened here is that you accidentally listened to the wrong song because of how weird it seems to be on spotify
i know for a fact that TAC sends spotify playlists, not files directly, too
so...
bandcamp also agrees that the song you listened to doesn't exist:
https://moonloop.bandcamp.com/album/devocean
edit: what the actual hell
https://www.discogs.com/Moonloop-Devocean/release/10558278
the promo has the track name, but then it's also the 8-minute one instead of the 7 minute one soooo
...i'm completely baffled at what the hell's happening here
btw i like both songs. i'm gonna check out this album.
of course i like the song btw. ev hates it.
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It wouldn't be the first time Spotify fucked up the track names on something.
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In fact, the song in Tim's Spotify playlist was unavailable for me, so I used the one on Yandex.Music instead. I can't check right now—gotta run, in fact I'm already late :lol but I will check it out this evening.
Good thing I have the results pre-written, so I don't have to postpone this yet again.
senecadawg2: The Eternal Becoming
Kauan – Aidin Laulu: this song is a curious mix between elevator music, folk music, Gregorian chanting and progressive rock, with a touch of death metal all over it. The biggest advantage of this song is that for its 12 minutes, it explores a lot, staying interesting all the way, and never grates on me. In fact, I love most of what it has to offer, and even the occasional growl or two fits well here. I’m not sure why you associated this with winter, because this feels more like spring for me, but who am I to question your decisions? The usage of string instruments in this song is also wonderful. This is probably my favourite song of the round, and I had such a high hopes for your EP after this. 9/10
Wolves in the Throne Room – The Old Ones Are With Us: the ambient intro and outro with the campfire cracking in the background and the words spoken over the quiet acoustic guitar is the best this song has to offer, because then this song descends into the death metal pit of death (sounds great, I know). The production here isn’t stellar, and the amount of blast beats, while not staggering, doesn’t do this song justice (read: they use them too often). The vocals are too death metal-ish to my taste, but this is, in fact, still salvageable in comparison to what I’ve heard from this genre, mostly because of the good acoustic sections and instrumental moments where they don’t use blast beats or use them sparingly, not to draw attention to themselves. The grandiloquent keyboard section which ends the song, for example, is pretty good. Yet overall, for almost nine minutes, this song has too many moments I didn’t care about. 5.5/10
Deafheaven – Dream House: I really should’ve accepted Falls of Rauros if that’s what you came up with to replace it. This reminds me of So Hideous – Laurestine album in the sense that it seems they have the same lyrics, which are AAAAAHHHHH AHHHH AHHHHH AAAAAH YAAAAAH YAH YAH YAAAAAAAH AAAAAHHHHH, except So Hideous had better music behind them to back those lyrics up, and I actually liked it enough to even use them in roulette once. This is pretty horrible, to be honest. It’s just seven minutes of continuous onslaught with one little break in the middle, and then two minutes of epic outro with more growls over it. The only saving grace of this song is the guitar line in this section, which is pretty great—but even this is not enough to save this song. This is The Hirsch Effekt level of aggravating. 3/10
Deafheaven – Irresistible: I realize that this was intended as a transition track, and I’m probably biased after Dream House, but this was actually nice for a change. Simple and beautiful instrumental piece, and while I don’t think it’ll work on its own, like that Persefone track Puppies sent me, I think this is solid and it’ll probably boost your aggregate score a bit. 6/10
Panopticon – Into the North Woods: and the pig slaughter continues with this one. I don’t know if you realized this yet, but I’m not a big fan of blast beats at all. This song also has the worst production on your EP, and it doesn’t really benefit from being the last, because by this point I’m already tired of death metal. There is a good guitar line somewhere in theme, buried under the mindless screaming, and when it finally comes to the front of the song in the second half, it’s rewarding, but I don’t think anyone should endure the first half just to get to that. This works well as a closer because of its final section, but it doesn’t work well as a song. 4/10
Thoughts on the EP: that was ballsy, and honestly with Falls of Rauros instead of Deafheaven you might’ve stood a chance against whoever you’re up against, but I’m fairly sure at this point that the straight-forward death metal is not for me. Bands like Kauan and Falls of Rauros are for me, though, mostly because of the amount of warm folk acoustic instrumentation they use; but if you’re going to scream in your mic for ten minutes with the production like it was recorded in the north woods, well, I’ll pass. The flow here works, although I’m really not sure about the seasons theme: I felt like Wolves was more wintery song, Kauan was spring/summer, Panopticon could’ve been autumn I suppose, and Deafheaven was awful. I don’t want to say this whole EP was bad, because I’ll check out Kauan at least, but this was definitely not as enjoyable as some other EPs.
EP score: (9 + 5.5 + 3 + 6 + 4) / 5 = 5.5 * 2 = 11/20
Flow score: 3.5
Total score: 14.5
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jingle.boy: (Trapped Inside This) Evermindavarium: Full Circle
Walls of Babylon – My Heaven: interesting decision to begin your EP with a ballad, and as someone who usually likes ballads, I can get behind this. This particular song is nothing special: it’s actually uplifting, as far as ballads go, which isn’t my usual preference. The chorus here is pretty good, although I feel that vocal melodies overall on this song could use a little improvement. The all-out section at the end is satisfying, although it could’ve used a little more build-up before the transition. This song has good ideas, but could’ve used just a little better execution to bring them to life. Still, this is up my alley. 7/10
Tesla – What You Give: the problem I have with older “ballads” is that I don’t actually classify them as “ballads”, more like just “rock songs”, although it depends on the song I guess. Brothers in Arms? A ballad. Rainbow Eyes? A ballad. Temple of the King? A rock song. This one is also a rock song in my book. Not that it ultimately matters, really, because ballad or rock song, this song isn’t quite for me. The thing about the pre-1993 theme was that whenever you send something from that period of time, you take a risk—I tend to be especially picky about that stuff. This is in line with Stadler’s submissions: nothing actively offensive or unenjoyable, but nothing that stands out to me, either. And this song just keeps going and going and going. It feels like it’s 10 minutes long. 5/10
Eurythmics – Would I Lie to You?: can I have White Rabbit back? Because this is worse than Tesla, and probably in the Bottom 3 songs of this round overall. I mean, I realize it’s just the style of music, and I listened to, like, Boney M when I was 10, but this is not something I’m actively looking for right now. I guess I can see why Tim hates this, and to quote Kade, “what the fucking fuck?” 3.5/10
Universal Mind Project – Anthem for Freedom: and with this one, we’re back on track. The best thing about this song is the variety of vocalists, most of them doing a good job at their parts. The chorus here isn’t very exciting, and I honestly prefer the verses—even with Mark Jansen growling (I seem to remember you saying it’s him). Overall this song reminds me of something I would receive as a promo: well done, but a bit dull and unexciting. Probably won’t go out of my way to check them out, but after Tesla and Eurythmics, this is a god-tier level song. 6.5/10
Erra – Ultimata: uhh… positive things about this song: it’s short (not short enough), the chorus doesn’t have growls. I’m honestly having trouble deciding what kind of growls I dislike more: the pale death metal ones or these. It sounds like the singer is about to burst. No wonder you don’t like growls if this is the kind of growls you’re listening to, man. The worst thing is that even the instrumental track here isn’t good at all, it’s just mostly the rhythm guitars and the drummer pounding cymbals like they’ve cheated on him with his best friend. I’ll be straightforward: I did not like most of this track. 4/10
Divine Ascension – Bittersweet Divide: man, you should’ve lead with this one. Probably also included more tracks from this band. Crossed out Tesla, Eurythmics and Erra. Added something like Lords of Black and Daydream XI, and there you go, a perfect EP. This is pretty good and definitely the best track on your EP. I like the main guitar line (which is also the opening melody and the thing that hold the song together), and finally a catchy chorus which I want to sing along to, especially “what it takes to lay down the life” (or whatever lyrics there are). The ending is a bit weird—I thought I accidentally added the song twice to my playlist—but it works when you get used to it. Let me just reiterate how much I like the main guitar melody again. 8/10
Sass Jordan – I Want to Believe: surprisingly, I kinda liked this one. I mean, from the pre-1993 tracks your EP included, this is definitely the one that stood out to me the most. I’m not sure if it’s the simplicity of it, but sometimes the acoustic guitar and just the singer work well (and sometimes they don’t, like when Nelson sent me David Gray last time). This is by no means on the level of 7.5-good, but I didn’t want to skip this, and actually enjoyed it in places, so there’s that. Although I’ve got to say, none of your pre-1993 tracks hit the mark like Waysted or the band that Puppies sent me in that round (I forgot the name, but the song went something-something-hell yeah, we are riding the storm). But this is nice. 6.5/10
Thoughts on the EP: I respect what you were going for with the theme, and I think it’s quite interesting, but as the result, it screwed up the flow, and it also screwed up your results, because I seriously doubt you would’ve sent me Erra or Eurythmics if it wasn’t for the theme. There were some good songs on this one, especially Divine Ascension was interesting to me; but I’m honestly having trouble viewing this EP as one cohesive unit. It feels like a collection of songs I would’ve thought was unrelated if you didn’t tell me the theme you were going for. But then again, I thought the theme was interesting. Overall, not your best work, and I’m not sure this is going to be enough to beat Tim.
EP score: (7 + 5 + 3.5 + 6.5 + 4 + 8 + 6.5) / 7 = 5.78 * 2 = 11.56/20
Flow score: 1.5 + 1 point for the theme
Total score: 14.06
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The final matchup is TAC against Puppies. I'll post the final round details this evening, but you can also find them in the first post and I've really got to run now. See you in ~12 hours, folks.
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i'm just honored that the hirsch effekt became the standard you judged against for the entire roulette
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Hey, look at that! TAC and I get a rematch of the final round of Indiscipline's Roulette :corn
I need to come up with some albums to throw at you. What's the deadline for submissions?
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Damn that thread title gave me a heart attack this morning. Phew, that was too close for comfort. That Moonloop song almost um...threw me for a loop.
Good luck Pup! I think you got this.
Sending the first album now.
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Not surprised at all. No regrets tho - these are all 4 and 5 star songs in my ears. If What You Give is only a 5/10, it just shows how incompatible tastes can be sometimes. You loved Whisper a Prayer For the Dying, but that one is just 'meh to you.
:dunno:
I knew the flow sucked, but forgot that was 20% of the score when I committed to the theme. Doesn't matter tho, as that part of the score was even with Tim.
TASTES!!!!
P.s. Annie Lennox is a top 10 female vocalist of all time.
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I am literally listening to Annie Lennox right now over my work intercom.
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I knew the flow sucked, but forgot that was 20% of the score when I committed to the theme. Doesn't matter tho, as that part of the score was even with Tim.
Two old guys struggling with flow! :D
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If What You Give is only a 5/10, it just shows how incompatible tastes can be sometimes.
It's just that the young ones don't listen to decent music anymore.
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3.5 for Would I Lie To You is wY too generous.
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3.5 for Would I Lie To You is wY too generous.
C'mon man... you've got an amazing vocalist, awesome horn melody (though, I'm a sucka for brass elements), and a really cool riff. Just don't watch the video. EVER. :lol
Just goes to show how much influence music from our younger years influences and sticks with us. I'm sure any of us could fire off something first heard as a young teenager that we absolutely adore - and most everyone else would want to throw up in our ears. :D
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Blondie :metal
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Blondie :metal
Power Station :fingerdance:
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so i went and checked out that moonloop song and like
did we listen to the same song?
this is what YT pulls up for the name you gave:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mndXacQTWoU
So I wanted to check this to verify if I indeed listened to the right song, aaaaand it's unavailable. :lol I guess I'll just leave it be cause Tim is in the finals anyway.
Hey, look at that! TAC and I get a rematch of the final round of Indiscipline's Roulette :corn
I need to come up with some albums to throw at you. What's the deadline for submissions?
There's no real deadline as I'm seeing Avantasia tomorrow, I won't be available tomorrow at all; but I'd be glad to have at least one album in 24 hours, especially since Tim has already sent his first submission.
3.5 for Would I Lie To You is wY too generous.
:lol
Not surprised at all. No regrets tho - these are all 4 and 5 star songs in my ears. If What You Give is only a 5/10, it just shows how incompatible tastes can be sometimes. You loved Whisper a Prayer For the Dying, but that one is just 'meh to you.
:dunno:
That's fair. I indeed loved Whisper a Prayer for the Dying—in fact I bought the whole album because of that song, and I indeed didn't like What You Give much. I don't know, the 90s music is finicky for me, I guess. Still, you did good, and definitely sent me a few bands I'm going to explore once this is all over.
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3.5 for Would I Lie To You is wY too generous.
C'mon man... you've got an amazing vocalist, awesome horn melody (though, I'm a sucka for brass elements), and a really cool riff. Just don't watch the video. EVER. :lol
Just goes to show how much influence music from our younger years influences and sticks with us. I'm sure any of us could fire off something first heard as a young teenager that we absolutely adore - and most everyone else would want to throw up in our ears. :D
Yeah, I know the song well though and like a lot around that era, just couldn't stand anything from that band honestly.
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It was fun playing! Obviously i chose the wrong songs here at the end, but im happy to have made it so far. You always run a tight ship. :heart
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Sent the first album for the final round. :metal
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TAC, they have medications for that problem these days.
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TAC, they have medications for that problem these days.
:rollin
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:lol
Here's a quick hangman before I head out to spend five hours in the line for Avantasia gig:
???: ___ ________ - __ ___ ___ __ _ _______
???: __________ - __________
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Z
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Nope :)
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Q
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???: ___ ________ - Q_ ___ ___ Q_ _ _qq____
???: _qq__q__q_ - __________
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I
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Well, there it is
Puppies: Moonsorrow - Verisäkeet
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Yep :lol
TAC: ___ ___i____ - O_ ___ ___ o_ _ _oo____
Puppies: Moonsorrow - Verisäkeet
Letters guessed: ZQOI
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The Reticent - On the Eve of a Goodbye
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Moonsorrow huh..
I may steer clear of harsh vocals in the finals. I never seem to pick the right ones.
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you say, sending The Reticent
would not know how moonsorrow pans out for Puppies, it's heavier than primordial for sure & almost entirely harsh vocals I think? where as primordial is mostly cleans with an edge to them sometimes. folky black-ish metal stuff all the same
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Primordial won me over because of how epic the vocals were.
I haven't listened to anything yet, just got back from the Avantasia show. I'll start listening tomorrow, first results on Tuesday I think.
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First round is closer than I thought it would be. Last listen to both of the albums, and then I'll do the results, should be up in about four hours.
Get your next albums ready.
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Get your next albums ready.
Sent!!!!!
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Puppies_On_Acid: Moonsorrow - Verisäkeet
I expected this to be a badly produced black metal, like I usually do, but instead this is a pretty fun record with a different folk themes under the guitar lines and relentless growls. This reminds of me a more laid back Ensiferum, except it's not really laid back for too often, is it? I distinctintly remember the moments where blast beats kick in, and sometimes the singer is just mindlessly screaming things, but whenever the music is back up by a folk melody, preferably played on string instruments, I enjoy it. Needless to say, my favourite moments are actually acoustic ones, but there is a lot of good heavier stuff too—Haaska is probably my favourite in that regard with that angry screaming chorus.
What I didn't enjoy is that the album blurs together for me. Probably four listens isn't enough—especially since I fell asleep during my second listen on Monday morning commute—but the fact is there are only five songs, and four of them have at least few different sections. In the middle of Pimea I feel I'm already tired of the record a bit, and that's only 35 minutes in. The acoustic sections draw my attention back, but it's difficult to stay alert until the very end of Jotunheim, when acoustic Kaiku finally kicks in. I guess some transitions could also be better, and I wish they added more cleans to the music—perhaps I'm just oversaturated with growls because of this roulette, but I think some songs needed some more cleans to go along with acoustic sections, perhaps.
All in all, surprisingly, I liked it. This album does an admirable job of creating the epic atmosphere laced with folk melodies and pours a heavy dose of growls all over it, and it keeps doing that for the whole 70 minutes (well, maybe excluding the last track). I never wanted to skip any of it, and while my attention may have wandered in the second half a few times, this was enjoyable enough that I may return to this album in the future.
7/10
TAC: The Reticent - On the Eve of a Goodbye
I expected this to be polished prog metal concept album—speaking of which, I remember you said you were saving Daydream XI for this round too, do you just plan send concept albums until you win?—but this is, in fact, a bit raw and yet very technical in places, and these growls are even more aggressive than on Moonsorrow. This album keeps a good balance between cleans and growls, in my opinion, showcasing it early with The Girl Broken. I'm a bit disappointed this isn't a full-cleans concept album like Mercy Falls or The Old Man and the Spirit, but this still kept my curiosity peaked—although, like with Moonsorrow, I fell asleep during my third listen on my Monday evening commute. I really should just sleep more, guys.
Once again, I feel the album reaches its peaks with quiet and atmospheric sections, and I like the singer (is there one or more?) when he's not trying to be technical or cookie monster, but when he's singing emotionally, whether in the beginning of the album ("and I dutifully wait" on The Hypocrite, I think?) or in the grand climax ("you don't have to do this" on The Decision). But I mostly—mostly—like the contrast between softer and heavier sections, although I must say, sometimes it's a bit overdone (The Postscript is a song I outright dislike). I like sudden appearances of instruments like a freaking saxophone on The Confrontation, too. There's a lot I like, actually. I think the whole ending from 2 Hours Left to the end is pretty brilliant.
What can I say, man, I'm a sucker for concept albums. Even with one song and a few other sections I don't like, this was more interesting than Moonsorrow. This is ambitious and mostly well done, and I will definitely return to this album in the future, I think it will happen pretty soon too. I don't think I can take too much of prog metal like that—it's definitely too heavy in some places for my tastes—but when they go emotional, or when they strike that perfect balance between cleans and growls, this is when this album shines. In fact after four listens I'm surprised how much I like it, and I think it may grow on me even more.
8/10 (closer to 7.75, but eh, let's call it an eight)
TAC 1 : 0 Puppies
Send your second albums!
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Nice. That's a great album. I'm glad you liked it. I sent it to Puppies in his roulette too.
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I've been spinning that Reticent album recently and it's not that heavy, even at its loudest moments, imo :P I dig the heavier/more jagged stuff in the back half though
Corn
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If I had to lose with Moonsorrow, I'm glad it was against The Reticent. That's a nearly 10/10 album for me.
Your assessment is pretty fair concerning Verisakeet. I was afraid the score may suffer because of how long it is. It definitely took me way more than 4 listens to consider it my second favorite album of all time.
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What's #1?
Or is that a spoiler for the next round
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What's #1?
Or is that a spoiler for the next round
Number 1 is Marillion - Marbles. Marillion is on his banned list unfortunately. :yeahright
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By the way I sent.
Congrats on winning Evermind's Roulette TAC! :corn
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Huh, that's interesting :corn
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By the way I sent.
Congrats on winning Evermind's Roulette TAC! :corn
I don't think so. I expect to be tortured the shit out of. :lol
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Oh, and Evermind, get a good night's sleep before the next round! :lol
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I'm fairly sure I already know the winner after one listen, but meanwhile, here's what was sent. Results likely tomorrow or maybe even later today.
TAC: Farmakon - A Warm Glimpse
Puppies: Jeff Buckley - Grace
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Congrats TAC! :corn
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Congrats Pup! :corn
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The confidence our finalists exude is overwhelming. :neverusethis:
Clearly, my submissions would've kicked both your asses. Damn Eurythmics!!! Should've gone with Bonnie Tyler. :lol
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Yeah I sampled that Farmakon album and I actually kinda dig it so I'm pretty sure that means ev hates it
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Yeah I sampled that Farmakon album and I actually kinda dig it so I'm pretty sure that means ev hates it
You, my friend, are correct.
I'm going with the shorter writeups to keep the pace here, and I'm skipping the fourth listen for these two, but I'm entirely sure which album is the winner here, and I know it's not going to change with one more listen.
TAC: Farmakon - A Warm Glimpse
This album feels like a shallow copy of The Reticent in a sense they're also trying to be technical prog, they're also alternating cleans with growls, except the emotional bits aren't there, and the transitions honestly feel like the songwriters were going "oh hey, let's fuck with the listeners and go into a complete different direction without any build-up" for 90% of the time. I can't even count the amount of times I was like "the hell?" during this record. The problem with the clean vocals here is that I also don't quite like them, and therefore the only parts I'm enjoying are the climactic heavier moments and the guitar solos when they give them time to breathe and not simply doing a groovy lick or two with the cymbals beneath it. Flowgrasp is a good example of a good guitar solo in the song, and Pearl of My Suffering is a good example of a heavier moments working on that record, but beyond that, I'm thoroughly unimpressed. To be honest, I've listened to this for exactly two and a half times (third time was going over my favourites from the record), and I already know this album doesn't hold a candle to the other one in this round.
I feel like this one have some potential to grow, considering some good sections here and there, but I doubt I will return to it in the future—my impression from the first two listens is not that positive.
4.5/10
Puppies_On_Acid: Jeff Buckley - Grace
I only knew Hallelujah from this album before you sent it to me, and I have exactly one question: why the hell is Hallelujah, of all songs, is the hit here? Because as much as I'm used to it, and kinda like it (at least the verses), this album easily has three or four songs I like more. This is becoming a trend, but my favourite moments on this album are the quiet ones—and thankfully, there's a lot of them indeed. I don't like the ending of Mojo Pin, or the rocking Eternal Life, but when we're talking the title track (which should've been a damn hit instead of Hallelujah), or Lilac Wine, or Last Goodbye, or Lover..., I'm all over this record, mostly. I think this is a good example of a subtle rock record that has excellent songwriting for most of the time, laid back yet intense when needed. In fact, the run from the second to the seventh track is pretty phenomenal, I think.
This album also feels to me like it's got more to offer than I was able to get from it after three listens, but unlike Farmakon, this one is actually the one I will return to. This has a lot of acoustic stuff that's up my alley, and unlike some of the older stuff Chad and Stadler sent me, I feel a connection there. This might be something I didn't know I was looking for. It is very good in some places, mediocre here and there, but overall it amounts to good in my book. I'm looking forward to explore this album further once this is over. And actually yes, I think this is better than Moonsorrow, too.
7.5/10
TAC 1 : 1 Puppies
Alright folks, I thought TAC would have this in the bag after The Reticent but I guess not. Bring on your last albums and let's finish this.
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Ok. I’ll send something tonight.
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It'd better be something like The Reticent and not like Farmakon. :biggrin:
The Reticent is awesome though. I keep returning to it.
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Didn't see that coming.
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"Let's finish this!"
https://youtu.be/DKykO19I6Rg
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Woohoo! I didn't get swept!
I'll look at my options and send something within the next few hours.
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OK, so I sent. I really wanted to send Vektor - Terminal Redux, but wasn't sure Evermind would like it. So I sent something else. We will see if I made the right choice soon enough.... :|
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He wouldn't, I guarantee you
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He wouldn't, I guarantee you
Which is a bummer, because it's the best thrash metal album (even though it's more progressive/technical thrash metal) ever made.
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Fortunately "the best thrash metal album" isn't a very high bar :neverusethis:
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:tdwn :loser:
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Sent as well..
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Tim, you need to resend, Structural Disorder is on the banned list.
Puppies, I sent you a PM you might want to read before committing to the band/album you sent.
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Puppies, I sent you a PM you might want to read before committing to the band/album you sent.
Hmm. Let me see what else I have...
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i'm real curious now :lol
structural disorder would've been a good pick tho
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Resent. :corn
I hope TAC tries to send the first album I tried to send. It's something he would send :biggrin:
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Puppies, I sent you a PM you might want to read before committing to the band/album you sent.
Hmm. Let me see what else I have...
:omg:
What is this???
How come I didn't get a PM like this after I sent in Round 2? :lol
I am so dead here, aren't I? :lol
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Nah, he just sent something I've already got in my previous roulette. I've never heard of Farmakon before so you were fine.
Also, you have to resend again. :P
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what did TAC send this time :corn
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Lor - In Forgotten Sleep
I mean it wasn't in the banned list so that's mostly my fault, but I've listened to that album after Elite sent a song from it in Round 2.
Puppies is in btw, he sent a band I've never heard of.
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who did puppies send the first time :metal
also TAC try sending The Reticent, I bet Ev would love them
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Not telling until both picks are locked in because Puppies' first pick is technically not banned and therefore allowed, he just decided to change them after my PM.
I'm spinning the hell out of that The Reticent album btw, I feel like I undergraded it with 8/10 too.
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I've never heard of Farmakon before so you were fine.
Apparently not. :lol
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:rollin
Well I didn't know they were gonna be that shitty outside of my listening range!
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I'm spinning the hell out of that The Reticent album btw, I feel like I undergraded it with 8/10 too.
Yeah, it's a great album.
OK, resent AGAIN!!
There are growls, so I'm worried, but I have to hit on them with Ruslan at some point. He listed so many growlie albums in his last Top 50, but I just can't seem to hit the mark.
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And the albums are locked in. I'll try my best to churn out results by Sunday but it's possible we're looking at Tuesday for that instead, cause I don't want to rush the last round and I'd like to get more familiar with these two albums as this last match will decide the winner.
Puppies tried to send Heart of Cygnus - Over Mountain, Under Hill (or was it Under Mountain, Over Hill?)
The actual albums are:
TAC: Dark the Suns - Life Eternal
Puppies: Comedy of Errors - Fanfare & Fantasy
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Puppies tried to send Heart of Cygnus - Over Mountain, Under Hill (or was it Under Mountain, Over Hill?)
Wow! I'm surprised to see that.
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what if it only takes you one listen to figure out the winner :corn
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what if it only takes you one listen to figure out the winner :corn
Even so, Evermind will drag out my agony as long as he can.
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Puppies tried to send Heart of Cygnus - Over Mountain, Under Hill (or was it Under Mountain, Over Hill?)
Wow! I'm surprised to see that.
It was one of my favorite albums of 2009. It's a great album. Very reminiscent of Rush and Triumph.
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Puppies tried to send Heart of Cygnus - Over Mountain, Under Hill (or was it Under Mountain, Over Hill?)
Wow! I'm surprised to see that.
It was one of my favorite albums of 2009. It's a great album. Very reminiscent of Rush and Triumph.
I've sent Lost At Sea before, but my go to HOC roulette track is Sailing North.
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Puppies tried to send Heart of Cygnus - Over Mountain, Under Hill (or was it Under Mountain, Over Hill?)
Wow! I'm surprised to see that.
It was one of my favorite albums of 2009. It's a great album. Very reminiscent of Rush and Triumph.
I've sent Lost At Sea before, but my go to HOC roulette track is Sailing North.
The Voyage of Jonas album is also great! :metal
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Yes it is. :metal
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Jeff Buckley’s Grace is fantastic.
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Jeff Buckley’s Grace is fantastic.
Indeed it is! :tup
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Alright, I definitely won't post the results today. Both albums are pretty damn good. I've no idea who's going to win yet as they're going for a different atmosphere but both are very well executed. I'm going to take a few more days to dwell on this.
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:metal :metal :metal
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Puppies tried to send Heart of Cygnus - Over Mountain, Under Hill (or was it Under Mountain, Over Hill?)
Wow! I'm surprised to see that.
It was one of my favorite albums of 2009. It's a great album. Very reminiscent of Rush and Triumph.
I've sent Lost At Sea before, but my go to HOC roulette track is Sailing North.
The Voyage of Jonas album is also great! :metal
This compelled me to drop the needle on OM/UH this (listening right now), as I don't recall it being all that great (I gave it a 3* rating initially). Will report back later on whether it leaves a different impression.
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I definitely prefer The Voyage Of Jonah.
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Production quality aside, OM/UH was a very nice listen. Love that Revelations cover.
Think I'll spin VoJ now.
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VoJ was just as enjoyable. Man he sounds a lot like Ted Leonard.
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Who's Ted Leonard?
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Who's Ted Leonard?
(https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.quickmeme.com%2Fimg%2F24%2F24600be88df83258c037d13be1590a3564e722d35c4f660f4346d177aacef907.jpg&hash=8200dfe51287b5a6f14205e25249965194793c15)
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Who's Ted Leonard?
For you, nevermind. :biggrin: You'd likely hate anything he sings on, and I don't want to have to karate chop you in the nuts the first time we meet.
And yeah... what Gregg said.
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TAC doesn't know what Google is and can't Google Google to find out what Google is
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:getoffmylawn:
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I'm at work right now, but I'm fairly sure I know the winner. I'll do one last listen on my evening commute and post the results in ~9-10 hours.
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Congrats Pup!!
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Congrats Pup!!
Yay! :neverusethis:
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Well here we finally go:
Final Round Results:
TAC: Dark the Suns - Life Eternal
This album has left a very strong first impression on me, and after five listens, it's still pretty strong, but the novelty has kind of worn off by now. It feels like a lesser Amorphis at parts with maybe a little touch of Insomnium too, especially when they do whispering vocals. A lot of songs have the same structure and the same monotone growls—which are indeed easy on the ears though. The instrumental melodies are strong throughout the album. I like how the keys are prominent in almost every song, and I love several guitar solos on this album—the one in Sleepless Angels is probably the highlight of the record for me. Another positive thing for an album which, in my opinion, is a bit repetitive, is that it's fairly short and doesn't overstay its welcome at all: the longest song is under 6 minutes and there are only 10 songs overall.
I really enjoyed some of the vocal variations—the whispers I mentioned before and also the female vocals in Walking with an Angel and Don't Fear the Sleep; but then they kind of sucked in The Dead End. Overall, this record is fairly good and easy to listen to, with the bonus of good keyboard/guitar melodies, it almost feels like this is going to be a symphonic metal at times and the strings will kick in when the growls kick in instead. I didn't mind this at all, in fact I quite liked it, I think this is a fine album, but in the end it lacked something to make it a bit more special, and unfortunately for you, in the end this was the decisive factor for me in this round.
7.5/10 (closer to 7.25 but whatever)
Puppies: Comedy of Errors - Fanfare and Fantasy
Absolutely didn't know what to expect from the band called Comedy of Errors, turns out it's a fairly enjoyable neo progressive rock in the vein of Marillion and Galahad. This album is a big longer than Life Eternal, but thankfully there's more variety to spice the listen up. While I was saying growls don't matter much to me now, I can't help but think this record benefitted a lot from having clean vocals—probably because I'm just a bit too jaded with all the growls I received in this roulette. This roulette overall had a disappointing lack of progressive rock, especially in the later rounds.
Best thing about the clean vocals here is that I could sing along with them, mostly because a lot of the melodies are predictable and at least somewhat catchy ("there's got to be a reason... FOR THE CAUSE!" takes the cake). There also were a lot of great melodic moments like the main guitar melody/piano run in Fanfare for the Broken Hearted which made that song a bit more special. That one, The Cause, Something She Said and The Answer are my favourite pieces on the record, and all these four songs are still fresh to my ears, and as they alone amount to 36 minutes of music, this album hasn't bored me yet after all the extensive listening. Of course, there are duds: I don't really care about Time's Motet and Galliard with its traditional music melodies, and I'm not sure I'm fully on board with Going for a Song yet, although this may change with some further listens.
While I think Tim's album is way more straightforward and punchy, this one ended up to be more enjoyable in the long term. And hey, I guess I missed some prog rock in my life. I don't think this will end up being as good as The Reticent, but I think it's close. Closer than Life Eternal, at least.
8/10 (closer to 7.75 but whatever)
Congrats Pup!!
Winner: Puppies_On_Acid
Tim: I swear this is in no way connected to your roulette. :lol
Thank you everyone for sticking with this thread for this long (definitely took me longer than I thought it would to finish this). I will be checking out a lot of bands you guys sent me after a few weeks, and I may create a separate thread for that so I don't end up constantly bumping this thread. Now I'm just glad I'm finally finished this so I can listen to some other music too (Winter Ethereal here I come). This roulette took far more time to do than I expected for some reason.
Thank you everyone for playing!
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Tim: I swear this is in no way connected to your roulette. :lol
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Oh sure! :lol
No worries!
I was really struggling for this final round. Even though I was in second place for most of the roulette, I never really felt comfortable with my choices.
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I mean if you didn't get blocked and sent The Circus of the Tattered and Torn and On the Eve of a Goodbye, you probably would've won 2:0 easily.
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I was really concerned about sending any harsh vocals. You highlighted them quite a bit in your recent Top 50, but I never really clicked with you on any.
I'd never heard of Comedy Of Errors, but I struggled to find clean vocals that combined music that stood out. I was banking on Structural Disorder getting through. That's a great album. Same with Lor. The Dark The Sun album is awesome, and I thought it had a chance, but as soon as I checked out Comedy Of errors, I knew I was dead.
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congrats pupdog!!
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Woohoo! I finally won one of these!
That was a fun roulette. Thanks for having me Evermind. Glad I didn't ragequit when I had Enslaved stolen out from under me :biggrin:
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Woohoo! I finally won one of these!
That was a fun roulette. Thanks for having me Evermind. Glad I didn't ragequit when I had Enslaved stolen out from under me :biggrin:
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Tim: I swear this is in no way connected to your roulette. :lol
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