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Hello all! It’s been about a year since I ran my v2, and I’ve been feeling like another roulette for a good few weeks now, so with my current work schedule allowing me more time to listen to music than I’ve had in the past, there was every reason to take the plunge again and none not to.
This roulette will be shorter than the typical DTF roulette. I’ve found, when doing an 8 or 9 round roulette, that I start to get fatigued in the later rounds. As a result, the rounds start to take longer and longer, which causes frustration and tension. So, to avoid that unpleasantness, I’m just going to shorten things up in this and most likely all roulettes I run in the future.
The format will be straightforward: three open rounds and an EP round (standard EP rules: 40 minutes, substantial material from at least 3 artists). I don’t think I’m going to do any gimmicks or anything in this one. I tried some experiments last time, which mostly did not really work, so I figure it’s best to just keep it simple this time around.
There will be no limitations on song length. If you want to send that 20-minute epic, send that 20-minute epic. I love ‘em, so the more the merrier. Just with the caveat that obviously a long, complex song might not fully sink in as quickly as a shorter one, and I’m not going to allocate extra listens to a song on account of length.
As for participants: Last time I had 18, which I think might be the most a roulette has ever had. Honestly, I had a blast with such a huge field, and would be happy to have just as many again. So there will be no cap on the number of participants, but I will cut the field for the EP round so as to keep that manageable. I don’t know exactly how many will make the EP round—I’ll make that determination once I know the number of total participants—but I don’t really envision it being more than 6.
I've gone ahead and listed everybody who has already said they wanted in. Let me know if I missed you.
I prefer Spotify links for submissions, but I’m happy to accept YouTube links as well if necessary.
Tastes:
First off, here are the links to the previous three roulettes I’ve either run or been a judge in:
Roulette v1 (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=43715.0)
2016 Roulette Championship (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=45409)
Roulette v2 (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=52833)
I will warn you in advance that the only one of these I would actually suggest using as a guide to my current tastes is the v2. My preferences have changed a lot since the other two, and looking back at those, there is a lot that I would score differently if it was in front of me today.
The v2 roulette is probably a better guide to my tastes than any writeup I could give, so I’ll keep the rest of this brief.
Right now, I am probably more receptive than I have ever been to two genres: Modern prog metal and neo-prog rock. This might make this roulette a little more promising of an opportunity to people whose tastes have jarred with mine in the past—and on the other hand might make things less favorable to others I’ve gelled with better before.
I am also more receptive than I have ever been to growled vocals. I am still not a person who likes growls, per se, but I am more likely than I’ve ever been before to either let them go right by me or enjoy them in limited capacity, so long as I like the music.
What I look for in music is melody and emotion. I like grandiose music, and I like music that takes itself seriously, to the point where music with a strong comedic element is at a significant disadvantage with me.
In terms of mood, music that is very depressing or bleak will tend to be hit-or-miss at best. I can appreciate it, but it’s not my preferred mode. Here I’m thinking particularly of artists like Steven Wilson, who, to me, frequently convey a mood of hopelessness or despair. Typically I will only listen to music with this emotional quality in small doses.
Lyrics can matter to me. I don’t look up the lyrics to every roulette song, but I make no promises that I won’t look them up in a particular case, and of course I might just hear them and react. In terms of lyrics, it will be to a song’s disadvantage if the lyrics come across as unserious—party-type lyrics, needlessly sexual lyrics, and comedy lyrics would fall into this camp. Word salad Jon-Anderson-type lyrics are no problem so long as they’re played straight. I also very much do not like lyrics that are nihilistic or morbid, so I would suggest caution there as well.
I think that’s about all I want to say off the top, but I’m happy to answer any questions about tastes in-thread.
Rounds:
Round 1: Open
Round 2: Open
Round 3: Open
Round 4: EP Round
Participants:
Evermind
Cyril
Puppies_On_Acid
Sacul
Kattelox
TAC
jingle.boy
Stadler
romdrums
Elite
Tomislav95
Nekov
Lethean
Banned Artists:
Here is where I’m going to be more restrictive than last time around. I’m primarily interested in hearing new artists that I have not heard before, rather than giving second and third listens to artists that I’m on the fence about or are on my list to check out from previous roulettes.
Therefore, in addition to the artists in my library, every artist that I awarded at least a 7.5 out of 10 in my v2 or the Championship, or at least an 8 out of 10 in my v1 (I was a more generous scorer in that roulette), is banned entirely. This allows a genuine second chance for poorer scoring artists, while ensuring that people mostly have to send stuff I haven’t heard before.
For purposes of convenience, I’m linking to my master spreadsheet of roulette submissions. To find out if an artist is banned, just do a ctrl-F search of the spreadsheet. If the cell is color-coded green, the artist is eligible for resubmission. If it’s white, they’re banned.
Banned from roulette spreadsheet (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Y3tyCrXZIUfNN9D9HxQaxQNrOz6vGkdf/view?usp=sharing)
Here’s the list of artists in my library. These are artists from whom I own at least one album. By no means should you take their presence on this list to indicate that they are favorites, just that they are banned. I’ve bolded ones that I would consider favorites.
Amorphis
Anathema
Anderson/Stolt
Avantasia (all banned, but favorite status mainly applies to the last three albums)
Ayreon
Beach House
Beyond the Bridge
Black Sabbath
Blaze Bayley
Bon Iver
Bruce Dickinson
Bruce Hornsby and the Range
Coheed and Cambria
Coldplay
David Maxim Micic
The Dear Hunter
Death Cab for Cutie
Dio
Dire Straits
Dream the Electric Sheep
Dream Theater
Epica
Florence + The Machine
The Flower Kings
Flying Colors
The Gentle Storm
God is an Astronaut
Green Carnation
Haken
Headspace
iamthemorning
Imagine Dragons
Iron Maiden
IQ
John Petrucci & Jordan Rudess (solo material from either of these individually is not banned)
Journey
Judas Priest
Kamelot
King Crimson
Led Zeppelin
Liquid Tension Experiment
Lorde
Markéta Irglová
Meat Loaf
Megadeth
Metallica
Neal Morse
The Neal Morse Band
Nightwish
Opeth
Pink Floyd
Porcupine Tree
Pure Reason Revolution
Queensrÿche
Radiohead
Redemption
Rush
Seventh Wonder
Sigur Rós
Spock’s Beard
Steve Harris
Steven Wilson
Sufjan Stevens
Sunburst
Susanne Sundfør
Symphony X
Taylor Swift
Tesseract
Thank You Scientist
Thrice
Transatlantic
Tuomas Holopainen
Vanden Plas
Voices from the Fuselage
The Who
Yes
Let's get rocking!
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I won't be at DTF at all for the next week (and also the weekend after that) due to travelling, but I'm in, expect something soon from me, probably tomorrow. Got some ideas already.
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I'm going to send exclusively songs under 3 minutes, including for my EP
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I'll play, if you'll have me.
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Happy to, Stads! Looking forward to hear some more classics that I've missed.
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I'm in.
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Awesome. Gotta have my defending champion!
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I made it to EP round last time, so I suppose I should have a go again!
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….Sent!
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Sent.
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I'm in, will send soon :metal
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I've never heard anyone refer to Friday as "soon".
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Sent
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sent first three rounds 'cause i'm like that
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You didn't send your EP, slacker?
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i'm putting it together tonight, i'll send it later
i know you asked this in jest but you should've expected this response
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:lol
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so i spent a few hours making an EP and even tho all the songs on it are great the overall product is eeehhhhHHH and i don't think 425 will like it much either, meh :lol
if i even get to the EP round maybe i'll make something else, if not it'll just be what i send after i get cut as a bonus, dunno
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so i spent a few hours making an EP and even tho all the songs on it are great the overall product is eeehhhhHHH and i don't think 425 will like it much either, meh :lol
if i even get to the EP round maybe i'll make something else, if not it'll just be what i send after i get cut as a bonus, dunno
My EP is going to be WILD!
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okay reordered literally every song except the last one on my EP and now it's good & SENT :metardica:
here's the new order compared to the original order, for what it doesn't matter:
4312657
I won't win with this EP but I do enjoy it more than most EPs I've made. it's not the super flawless fantastic EP I sent last roulette though, which is nigh-unbeatable from my point of view. the only EP I've ever made that I like more is the one I made for home's first roulette, I think, and even then it's super close
puppies your challenge is to make an EP heavier than mine; 6 out of the 7 songs on mine have growls
also on the subject of shorter roulettes I kinda have in mind what I want to do for my next roulette and the intent of it is gonna be to run 8 rounds with 8 players as fast as i can, with ranked rounds and a matrix of optional themes & probably really crappy writeups compared to my usual but i'm already generally the exception to the rule anyways when it comes to writeups so w/e y'all can deal
excited for this one to be over in like a month though
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I have three playlists of 'Top 111 Songs' - one is what I genuinely believe to be the top rock songs of all time; one is my list of personal favorites of all time, and one is my personal favorites from 2000 forward. Think I'll just pick the highest ranking band/song that isn't banned from each, and go with that as my round 1-3 submissions.
Sending shortly.
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I've never heard anyone refer to Friday as "soon".
Indeed, that's why I just sent. Will prob keep going with pop and electronic stuff for the rest of the roulette.
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I'll be honest I don't think I'll have time to send a song until Sunday what with the banned list etc. ProgPower is taking over my life atm.
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Sent!
I'll be honest I don't think I'll have time to send a song until Sunday what with the banned list etc. ProgPower is taking over my life atm.
Yeah, I wonder how the ProgPower folks are going to manage it. I don't think I'll have any time to send anything next week during that Ayreon shows thing. Hopefully it's going great for you guys, I wish to visit ProgPower one day. Given how it's only like five festivals left, I'd better hurry up.
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Don't worry about it, Katt, take your time. I'll make Monday the informal deadline for people to sign up and submit round 1. Don't want to take anyone away from ProgPower, or lose out on any festivalgoers who want to play.
Participant count is currently at 10, which is a fine number, but I'd be more than happy to add to that!
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By the way, 425 has just confirmed that I cockblocked myself by playing stuff from Arch/Matheos - Winter Ethereal in plug. :facepalm:
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By the way, 425 has just confirmed that I cockblocked myself by playing stuff from Arch/Matheos - Winter Ethereal in plug. :facepalm:
:rollin :rollin
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Evermind's run of spectacular luck in my roulettes continues... :lol
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gonna take the lack of response to my PMs to mean that 425 is fine with everything i sent :corn
anyways 9/9 is when the celeste chapter 9 DLC releases so y'all won't see me for a while but it's okay because i already sent everything for this one anyways
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Fuck it, I'm in! :metal
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gonna take the lack of response to my PMs to mean that 425 is fine with everything i sent :corn
Yeah, sorry, forgot to send over a reply. Your entries are all good.
Great to have you, Tomislav! Looking forward to seeing what you have to send.
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Thanks for the invite 425. I was going to skip this since I didn't know if I would have enough material, but given it is a short one I might as well give it a try.
Will send you something soon
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I understand that. That's why I rarely play in roulettes: I don't have nearly as much material as others on this forum, plus almost everything I have, I got from DTF... mostly from frequent roulette players. But I'm glad you're giving it a go, because I was really into a lot of what you sent. In particular, I'm spending some time right now going into all the various projects you sent me in the John Mitchell EP, which was a really cool theme.
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:smiley: :smiley: :smiley:
Sent
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The Light and Shade of Grey is banned, I checked :P
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Sarah McLachlan is too! Darn, I was gonna send Angel
guess i gotta send Georgia - Move Systems, Pt. 2 now
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Owls aren't banned. Send those instead of more Move Systems, please.
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i'll make the bones of your body break
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The thing is I so don't like it, but it's so catchy that you can still get it easily stuck in my head even when I haven't heard it in like 11 months. :lol
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I just sent to ariich but since we haven't actually started yet I hope it's cool that I wait till tonight or early tomorrow still. I wanna do this one properly
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Tomorrow is completely fine by me! I would like to have all the submissions by then, though, so for the few others who haven't sent, please try to do that by then.
Also, still happily accepting fresh blood until, let's say, 6 PM Eastern Time on the 9th!
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I'm in and will start thinking about what to send. :)
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Awesome!
I've had a couple of people try to submit stuff that is banned via the spreadsheet, so I wanted to make a general announcement to make sure that I've been clear about the banned list:
All the artists listed in the OP are banned.
All the artists listed in this spreadsheet (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Y3tyCrXZIUfNN9D9HxQaxQNrOz6vGkdf/view) are also banned, except for the ones highlighted in green. The ones highlighted in green are legal, but obviously the particular songs listed are banned.
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Also just in case you're wondering, Arch / Matheos is banned.
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Also just in case you're wondering, Arch / Matheos is banned.
A stunning Twist Of Fate..
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Also just in case you're wondering, Arch / Matheos is banned.
A stunning Twist Of Fate..
:lol
I wanted to send something from Arch in ariich's roulette and it's all banned too. No luck anywhere.
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They'll not be banned in my next roulette whenever it happens :metardica:
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is Fates Warning - The Light and Shade of Things banned?
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Not yet.
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Not yet.
Changed my round 1 entry :metardica:
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T
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A
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i'd like to guess a Fates Warning - The Light and Shade of Things
if that's already taken then I'll have a Sarah McLachlan - Angel instead
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How about a John Cage - 4'33"
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i'd like to guess a Fates Warning - The Light and Shade of Things
if that's already taken then I'll have a Sarah McLachlan - Angel instead
So nice of you to spot Evermind 8.5 points.
Evermind: Fates Warning - The Light and Shade of Things
Snippet: This feels lively than the other stuff I'm familiar with from this artist (possibly because it's live), and I'm impressed by the quality of the live vocal performance.
This was indeed a bit of a risky choice, given that Fates Warning has not done much for me in the past. But as the snippet says, this time just feels different. Other songs I've heard from them have this very cold and almost sterile feel to them. I don't know if it's the live performance, or something else, but that is not the case here.
This song is a warm, powerful prog metal piece. The quiet early section is a solid build up, but the latter half is the real highlight. Here is where the best riffs and melodies come in. And it's where Ray Alder really shines. This is really good for a live performance. A lot of these parts just sound difficult to do with any sort of power, and he hits almost all of them.
Alright, I'm sold. I have to give Fates Warning another look.
Score: 8.5 out of 10
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8.5 points is more than i'm going to get this entire roulette :corn
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I was ahead of the game it looks like :lol
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Just sent something that makes me cry.
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Just sent something that makes me cry.
I hope what I sent makes 425 cry (in pain :neverusethis:)
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Just sent something that makes me cry.
I hope what I sent makes 425 cry (in pain :neverusethis:)
Did you send Caligula's Horse?
(When they played Graves the other night I welled up during the soft part - Jim's voice and the light show put it over the top.)
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I tried to send Graves because I didn't read the roulette instructions. :)
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Would that be called a grave mistake
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:lol
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Just sent something that makes me cry.
I hope what I sent makes 425 cry (in pain :neverusethis:)
Can't even get through one round without someone sending harsh noise.
Everybody is in except Elite, who may have forgotten about this since he signed up 5 days ago. I'll title-shame if he doesn't happen to see this in the next couple of hours. ;)
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(https://media.giphy.com/media/Ob7p7lDT99cd2/giphy.gif)
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Title-shaming activated... :biggrin:
While we're waiting, some random pointless facts about the submissions:
The longest submission is 10:27. The shortest is 3:54. The average length is around 6:10.
The oldest submission is from 1973. There are three submissions from 2019, and seven of the submissions are from the 2010s.
Of the 12 submissions so far, I had only heard of six of the artists prior to receiving the submissions.
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I think my song is right around that average, nice
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The oldest submission is from 1973.
Stadler!
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I think my song is right around that average, nice
Same
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Not the first time someone's told me I'm their longest.
:eyebrows:
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Not the first time someone's told me I'm their longest.
:eyebrows:
K-Lox doesn't count.
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Not the first time someone's told me I'm their longest.
:eyebrows:
K-Lox doesn't count.
It's not my fault that I'm pretty.
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It’s a curse innit? :lol
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The oldest submission is from 1973.
Stadler!
Nope, not this time. 1984, I believe.
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Not the first time someone's told me I'm their longest.
:eyebrows:
K-Lox doesn't count.
Does Mrs TAC?
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I still haven't received Elite's song yet, but I'm starting listening tonight anyway. Hopefully everything is good with him and he gets back to me soon. I'll give it another day before I do the hangman.
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elite sent john cage okay hangmanen time
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Elite just got back from school camp. He will send soon.
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Elite just got back from school camp. He will send soon.
Elite sent Campfire Song by Spongebob Squarepants
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I did have my guitar with me.
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yeah did you shred? :2metal:
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Elite just got back from school camp. He will send soon.
Elite sent Campfire Song by Spongebob Squarepants
Campfire Song Song*
Respect a music legend, dammit
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yeah did you shred? :2metal:
11-12 year olds are easily impressed
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Tomi post results :getoffmylawn:
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I can't, I'm shitposting in other threads
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Alright, Elite is in, so it's that time!
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I can't, I'm shitposting in other threads
That's my man! Priorities!!! :)
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K for Kazoo
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I for I'm awaiting last place
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S
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L for Late
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L for Lacul
FTFY. :tup
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Random guesses with no letters:
The Ocean - Hadopelagic II: Let Them Believe
Soen - Lotus
Lotus - Soen
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T
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F for Forgot what I submitted.
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F for Forgot what I submitted.
That's my line!
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W for Waiting on updates
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Y for You guys should have been on it when I first posted instead of waiting until I had to be out of the house for several hours! :lol
???: The Ocean - Hadopelagic II: Let Them Believe
???: T__ ____i___s - ___l___
???: T__ W_its - I ____ T__t I ___’t F_ll I_ L___ Wit_ ___
???: _____f_il - Sk_li___ _s____
???: _____ F__s__ - S__ __ll
???: Soen - Lotus
???: ____k - ____
???: ____ki__ ___it - W___ Isis St__ts T_ ___
???: ___il - __t __ ____
???: L___s _f _l__k - ___st __ ___
???: _i___s ___i__s - _l___ __ ___ ___i__
???: ____ ____l_ - __t __s___si_l_
???: _____sis - T___i__l
K I S L T F W
Cyril waits 3
jingle waits 2
TAC waits 1
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N for no excuses
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Tom Waits
Neurosis? :lol
Or maybe Cynthesis
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When Isis Starts to ??? Cry(?)
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E
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Tom Waits
That's Katt fo sho
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Tom Waits
That's Katt fo sho
Guilty as charged, Closing Time turns me into a damn baby
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I hope that I don't fall in love with you by Tom Waits.
I like the alternate version better, it's slower and matches the mood of the song better.
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I hope that I don't fall in love with you by Tom Waits.
I like the alternate version better, it's slower and matches the mood of the song better.
I found the sheet music to Martha and Ol' 55 today and I'm going to play/sing them tonight and cry while I drink my whiskey. Screw you for showing me the most beautiful/emotionally painful album I've heard in many years :rollin
but seriously this is one of the best albums I have ever heard
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But did you hear alternate version (its on Early years compilation).
That's a great album, yeah, I listened it a lot during one of my rough periods.
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When Isis Starts to ??? Cry(?)
Breaking Orbit
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M
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Tom Waits is, of course, Katt. Breaking Orbit is right. No Cynthesis or Neurosis.
???: The Ocean - Hadopelagic II: Let Them Believe
???: The Cardigans - E__l__e
Kattelox: Tom Waits - I Hope That I Don’t Fall In Love With You
Cyril: Amendfoil - Skyline Escape
???: Agent Fresco - See Hell
???: Soen - Lotus
???: ____k - ____
???: Breaking Orbit - When Isis Starts to Cry
???: ___il - _et __ ____
???: L___s _f _l__k - ___st __ ___
???: _i___s M__im_s - _l___ __ t_e Em_i_e
???: _ee_ ____l_ - __t _es__nsi_le
???: _n___sis - Terminal
K I S L T F W N E M
Lethean waits 3
romdrums waits 2
Katt waits 1
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Agent Fresco-See Hell
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Yep.
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Amendfoil-Skyline Escape
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Amendfoil-Skyline Escape
Probably Parama :jamaritard:
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Agent Fresco-See Hell
This is elite
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The Cardigans (Ruba?)
Terminal
Also dammit parama stole my entry again
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Agent Fresco-See Hell
This is elite
It's not Elite. All other guesses are correct.
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Lords of Black - Ghost Of You
I'm gonna say Puppies, since he rated this song the highest of anyone that I gave it to in a roulette.
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Lords of Black - Ghost Of You
I'm gonna say Puppies, since he rated this song the highest of anyone that I gave it to in a roulette.
That's such an awesome song, but sadly I did not send it :emo:
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D
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Finally someone is asking for the D!
???: The Ocean - Hadopelagic II: Let Them Believe
???: The Cardigans - E__l_de
Kattelox: Tom Waits - I Hope That I Don’t Fall In Love With You
Cyril: Amendfoil - Skyline Escape
???: Agent Fresco - See Hell
???: Soen - Lotus
???: ____k - ____
???: Breaking Orbit - When Isis Starts to Cry
???: ___il - _et __ ____
???: Lords of Black - Ghost of You
???: _i___s M__im_s - _l___ __ t_e Em_i_e
???: Dee_ ____l_ - __t _es__nsi_le
???: _n___sis - Terminal
K I S L T F W N E M D
TAC waits 3
Lethean waits 2
romdrums waits 1
Oh, and I said all other guesses were correct before, but I just realized Cyril guessed Ruba for The Cardigans, and that's a no seeing as Ruba isn't in this roulette.
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Deep Purple
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Deep Purple
Stadler!
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Agent Fresco-See Hell
This is elite
Not this time. BUT WHO WAS IT THEN!?
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oh duh
Anabasis sent by TAC lol
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Circus Maximus - Glory of the Empire
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425 i'm curious what your fave songs off the new taylor swift album are, also
here's mine, post yours then read them after:
cruel summer, the archer, soon you'll get better
i randomly listened to the transitions of the V1 version of my EP and holy crap every single one of them except the one single one that made it to the V2 was totally bloody awful geez that would've been my absolute worst EP ever. now it's still the worst but it flows better
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Deep Purple
Not Responsible
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Circus Maximus - Glory of the Empire
Jingle maybe?
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Circus Maximus - Glory of the Empire
Jingle maybe?
(https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/048/783/a_winner_is_you20110724-22047-1nd3wif.jpg?1311564834)
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???: The Ocean - Hadopelagic II: Let Them Believe
???: The Cardigans - E__l_de
Kattelox: Tom Waits - I Hope That I Don’t Fall In Love With You
Cyril: Amendfoil - Skyline Escape
???: Agent Fresco - See Hell
???: Soen - Lotus
???: ____k - ____
???: Breaking Orbit - When Isis Starts to Cry
???: ___il - _et __ ____
???: Lords of Black - Ghost of You
jingle.boy: Circus Maximus - Glory of the Empire
Stadler: Deep Purple - Not Responsible
TAC: Anabasis - Terminal
K I S L T F W N E M D
TAC waits 3
Lethean waits 2
romdrums waits 1
425 i'm curious what your fave songs off the new taylor swift album are, also
Gotta be honest, I've only listened to it once, so I don't really have favorites yet.
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Give us an A
Romdrums for Lords of Black?
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One A. And it was not romdrums.
???: The Ocean - Hadopelagic II: Let Them Believe
???: The Cardigans - E__l_de
Kattelox: Tom Waits - I Hope That I Don’t Fall In Love With You
Cyril: Amendfoil - Skyline Escape
???: Agent Fresco - See Hell
???: Soen - Lotus
???: ____k - ___a
???: Breaking Orbit - When Isis Starts to Cry
???: ___il - _et __ ____
???: Lords of Black - Ghost of You
jingle.boy: Circus Maximus - Glory of the Empire
Stadler: Deep Purple - Not Responsible
TAC: Anabasis - Terminal
K I S L T F W N E M D A
jingle waits 3
TAC waits 2
Lethean waits 1
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Cardigans is Explode
R matey
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J
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B
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425 i'm curious what your fave songs off the new taylor swift album are, also
Gotta be honest, I've only listened to it once, so I don't really have favorites yet.
*price is right failure music*
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???: The Ocean - Hadopelagic II: Let Them Believe
???: The Cardigans - Explode
Kattelox: Tom Waits - I Hope That I Don’t Fall In Love With You
Cyril: Amendfoil - Skyline Escape
???: Agent Fresco - See Hell
???: Soen - Lotus
???: Bjørk - J__a
???: Breaking Orbit - When Isis Starts to Cry
???: Cyril - _et __ _i__
???: Lords of Black - Ghost of You
jingle.boy: Circus Maximus - Glory of the Empire
Stadler: Deep Purple - Not Responsible
TAC: Anabasis - Terminal
K I S L T F W N E M D A R J B
Puppies waits 3
romdrums waits 2
Katt waits 1
*price is right failure music*
I just haven't really been in the mood to listen to a lot of pop music lately. I'll make it back around at some point.
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Bjork
Cyril :neverusethis:
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Actually yes though!
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Can't believe someone sent me in a roulette
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Evermind send Lords of Black
Elite sent The Ocean
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Wow Elite that must have been expensive shipping
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Wow Elite that must have been expensive shipping
That's why it took so long to get to 425.
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Shoulda seen the look on the face of the deliveryman. Weird that I didn't even have to sign for it.
Elite: The Ocean - Hadopelagic II: Let Them Believe
???: The Cardigans - Explode
Kattelox: Tom Waits - I Hope That I Don’t Fall In Love With You
Cyril: Amendfoil - Skyline Escape
???: Agent Fresco - See Hell
???: Soen - Lotus
???: Bjørk - J__a
???: Breaking Orbit - When Isis Starts to Cry
???: Cyril - _et __ _i__
Evermind: Lords of Black - Ghost of You
jingle.boy: Circus Maximus - Glory of the Empire
Stadler: Deep Purple - Not Responsible
TAC: Anabasis - Terminal
K I S L T F W N E M D A R J B
Puppies waits 3
romdrums waits 2
Katt waits 1
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I'll take Q
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H
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O for oh my god how is this not solved
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Elite: The Ocean - Hadopelagic II: Let Them Believe
???: The Cardigans - Explode
Kattelox: Tom Waits - I Hope That I Don’t Fall In Love With You
Cyril: Amendfoil - Skyline Escape
???: Agent Fresco - See Hell
???: Soen - Lotus
???: Bjørk - Jo_a
???: Breaking Orbit - When Isis Starts to Cry
???: Cyril - _et __ Hi_h
Evermind: Lords of Black - Ghost of You
jingle.boy: Circus Maximus - Glory of the Empire
Stadler: Deep Purple - Not Responsible
TAC: Anabasis - Terminal
K I S L T F W N E M D A R J B Q H O
Katt waits 3
Lethean waits 2
Cyril waits 1
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Joga
Get Up High
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Elite: The Ocean - Hadopelagic II: Let Them Believe
Sacul: The Cardigans - Explode
Kattelox: Tom Waits - I Hope That I Don’t Fall In Love With You
Cyril: Amendfoil - Skyline Escape
???: Agent Fresco - See Hell
???: Soen - Lotus
???: Bjørk - Joga
Puppies_On_Acid: Breaking Orbit - When Isis Starts to Cry
???: Cyril - Get Up High
Evermind: Lords of Black - Ghost of You
jingle.boy: Circus Maximus - Glory of the Empire
Stadler: Deep Purple - Not Responsible
TAC: Anabasis - Terminal
Perfect. Who sent 'em?
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Cardigans: Dacul
Agent Fresco: romdrums
Soen: Nekov
Bjork: Tomi
Breaking Orbit: Puppies
Me: Lethean
I just remember puppies was the one who sent me breaking orbit before right
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Yeah, I'm pretty sure I'm the only one around these parts that listens to Breaking Orbit :dunno:
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You're right about Cardigans and Breaking Orbit.
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Agent Fresco: Lethean
Soen: romdrums
Bjork: Nekov
Me: Tomi
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Glory of the Empire is such an awesome song! Great pick Chad! :tup
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Glory of the Empire is such an awesome song! Great pick Chad! :tup
I hope 425 agrees!!!
Gladiator is a Top 10 all-time flick.
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Agent Fresco: Lethean
Soen: romdrums
Bjork: Nekov
Me: Tomi
Agent Fresco is Leth. The rest, no.
Elite: The Ocean - Hadopelagic II: Let Them Believe
Sacul: The Cardigans - Explode
Kattelox: Tom Waits - I Hope That I Don’t Fall In Love With You
Cyril: Amendfoil - Skyline Escape
Lethean: Agent Fresco - See Hell
???: Soen - Lotus
???: Bjørk - Joga
Puppies_On_Acid: Breaking Orbit - When Isis Starts to Cry
???: Cyril - Get Up High
Evermind: Lords of Black - Ghost of You
jingle.boy: Circus Maximus - Glory of the Empire
Stadler: Deep Purple - Not Responsible
TAC: Anabasis - Terminal
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well by process of elimination then
Bjork: romdrums
Soen: Tomi
Me: Nekov
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well by process of elimination then
Bjork: romdrums
Soen: Tomi
Me: Nekov
I can confirm that I did, in fact, send you
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next round i'm gonna have to send Nekov
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You could send me. It’s a song by Deftones.
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if i sent you 425 wouldn't even be able to listen until 2 rounds later
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I managed to send the ocean, so surely it should be doable.
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Completed hangman:
Elite: The Ocean - Hadopelagic II: Let Them Believe
Sacul: The Cardigans - Explode
Kattelox: Tom Waits - I Hope That I Don’t Fall In Love With You
Cyril: Amendfoil - Skyline Escape
Lethean: Agent Fresco - See Hell
Tomislav95: Soen - Lotus
romdrums: Bjørk - Joga
Puppies_On_Acid: Breaking Orbit - When Isis Starts to Cry
Nekov: Cyril - Get Up High
Evermind: Lords of Black - Ghost of You
jingle.boy: Circus Maximus - Glory of the Empire
Stadler: Deep Purple - Not Responsible
TAC: Anabasis - Terminal
I'll try to have some impressions up later tonight.
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Alright, let's go ahead and toss some impressions out there. I figure I'll do these in two batches just to space things out a little.
My goal in writing these has been to try to be more specific. A common complaint I see about roulette impressions is that they're too vague to where they could be talking about half the songs in the round. I obviously don't want to give everything away, but I've been trying to write these so that on at least some of them you can probably be 75% sure it's yours if you think about it enough. Of course, the impressions aren't set in stone in terms of what the final score is going to be—my view of the song might change as I listen to it more.
Really liking how many layers there are to the melodies on this one. I’m only worried that the song might overstay its welcome by just a little bit.
I don’t know. This is a good song for this style, and I enjoy some of the guitar work, but as many times as I give songs like this a try, they don’t really ever seem to click hard with me. I think this just isn’t the type of thing I look for in music.
My first thought on this one is that the guitar sound is pretty poor relative what I feel like the music needs to have. But once I sort of got past that, I think this one has some promise to be a grower.
So, right now, I’m in this position: I really like the vocals on this song, but much of the instrumentation is just not doing anything for me. I think with a different arrangement I would be more inclined to fall for this one.
I really love the build-up on this one. I love a long intro like this that slowly increases in intensity. And the later part of this song just feels huge, with big riffs and an awesome anthemic chorus. I’d call this an early round favorite.
The adjective that comes to mind for this one is “smooth.” From the subtle guitar work to the vocal melodies to the singer’s emotional delivery, the whole thing just feels so smooth. I’m into it.
One of those songs that feels like it covers a lot more ground than it has any business doing considering its runtime. I’m really enamored of that sort of thing when done well, and this one shows a lot of promise.
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well, i see a few that could be mine or vaguely applied to mine, so i have no clue :metal
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Naturally, it would be easy to assume that Glory of the Empire is the long intro, slow build, and anthemic chorus (though there really is no chorus in GotE). Regardless, I'll just hold on to that hope for as long as I can.
What we do echoes in eternity :metal :metal
If need be, I'll let Evermind have that impression.
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I don’t know. This is a good song for this style, and I enjoy some of the guitar work, but as many times as I give songs like this a try, they don’t really ever seem to click hard with me. I think this just isn’t the type of thing I look for in music.
I fear this is mine.
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Here are the other six impressions:
This is an artist that I’ve heard of, and kind of been led to think would not really be my thing. Which is why I’m a bit surprised by the fact that I really like this right off the bat.
This song feels like it might be a major grower, and I’m hoping that there’s enough time for it to grow in the space of this roulette round. What I know right now is that I’m really impressed with the keyboards, especially how they are used both for atmosphere and for lead parts.
There's definitely a lot going on in this particular song, to the point where it might feel a little chaotic if it wasn't for the fact that so much of it is so good. It also helps that everything is anchored by a strong chorus.
I don’t know what I think about this one yet, to be honest. I definitely see a lot of merit in it right off the bat, but I’m not sure how much I enjoy the vocal style, which is of a very particular type that I’m not used to listening to.
This song is solid all the way through its (significant) runtime, and has a certain charm, but it doesn’t really have any standout moments (at least as best as I can tell so far). Right now I view this as something that’s interesting and quirky, but not particularly excellent.
I’d definitely characterize this song as something that feels comfortable to me. The vocals are nice, but I worry about the song being a bit too repetitive.
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I really love the build-up on this one. I love a long intro like this that slowly increases in intensity. And the later part of this song just feels huge, with big riffs and an awesome anthemic chorus. I’d call this an early round favorite.
Maybe..hopefully..
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I have no idea which one's mine but you're probably getting more like it anyway :corn
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Here are the other six impressions:
This is an artist that I’ve heard of, and kind of been led to think would not really be my thing. Which is why I’m a bit surprised by the fact that I really like this right off the bat.
Fairly certain this one is mine.
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Here are the other six impressions:
This is an artist that I’ve heard of, and kind of been led to think would not really be my thing. Which is why I’m a bit surprised by the fact that I really like this right off the bat.
Fairly certain this one is mine.
Actually this could be mine too tbh
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Here are the other six impressions:
This is an artist that I’ve heard of, and kind of been led to think would not really be my thing. Which is why I’m a bit surprised by the fact that I really like this right off the bat.
Fairly certain this one is mine.
Actually this could be mine too tbh
Good point.
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So, right now, I’m in this position: I really like the vocals on this song, but much of the instrumentation is just not doing anything for me. I think with a different arrangement I would be more inclined to fall for this one.
The adjective that comes to mind for this one is “smooth.” From the subtle guitar work to the vocal melodies to the singer’s emotional delivery, the whole thing just feels so smooth. I’m into it.
I’d definitely characterize this song as something that feels comfortable to me. The vocals are nice, but I worry about the song being a bit too repetitive.
Any of these, likely the first or third one, hopefully the second one.
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Really not sure what mine is, other than it not being one of the long ones.
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Results should be coming tonight (Eastern). I guess this is the time when the new tradition is that one would normally post the rankings of each song, but I obviously can't do that for round 1. Is there anything else that hosts are doing these days before posting results?
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You could post the writeups and then the results :neverusethis:
Already picking out round 2 submission so I hope my first one didn't tank.
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Yep, I'm hoping for results soon because I'm leaving for yet another trip at Thursday and won't be able to send anything until Monday. Give me my 4/10.
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the 4/10 is my birthright, tbh
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Count me in the 4/10 expectation group
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the 4/10 is my birthright, tbh
We need to do a shitty fantasy sword and sorcery novel or something with this.
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"And thus, my child, I give you what I knew you always deserved. The 4/10", King 425 said with a proud fatherly smile on his face.
There was a sudden commotion in a crowd gathered to witness such an important event for the kingdom.
"No!", someone shouted. The crowd gasped as a person walked towards the king in hushed silence. His stride was purposeful and his gaze unwavering.
"You might've known me as Parama, the disowned heir of the King.", he said, addressing the crowd. "Now I'm reborn as Cyril, and by the effect of Hirsch, our Holy Guide, I'm here to claim my birthright! You thought you've got rid of me for good, 425? The hell you did. The 4/10 is mine by right, as it always was!"
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:lol :lol :lol :lol / :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol
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and then a dragon crashes the gates to a gnarly power metal riff
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i scare them off by playing brutal tech death using only a mandolin
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The question is whether I should give the 4/10 to Cyril, or Cyril, or both.
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Yes.
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and then a dragon crashes the gates to a gnarly power metal riff
And roasts Elite in a magnificent ball of fire. All is right in the world again.
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Results should be coming tonight (Eastern). I guess this is the time when the new tradition is that one would normally post the rankings of each song, but I obviously can't do that for round 1. Is there anything else that hosts are doing these days before posting results?
:corn
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:crypt:
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We'll see. I'm working on them now, but I find that I'm being pretty long-winded right now, so they're taking longer than expected and I may have to finish up in the morning.
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as long as i'm assigned the correct score in the end it's all good :tup
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Cyril: Georgia - Move Systems
it's move systems
4/10
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:2metal:
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and then a dragon crashes the gates to a gnarly power metal riff
And roasts Elite in a magnificent ball of fire. All is right in the world again.
But I have The Ocean to protect me.
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If it does any good protecting. I have a feeling 425 might not like it because of the vocals :lol
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and then a dragon crashes the gates to a gnarly power metal riff
And roasts Elite in a magnificent ball of fire. All is right in the world again.
But I have The Ocean to protect me.
Ah good point :lolpalm:
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GIVE RESULTS NOW
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Easy there, killer. :chill
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Easy there, killer. :chill
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I was hoping to wake up to resultz. I only hope my current disappointment is not intensified when results do come out.
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Here they are! A little on the long side, which is why they took a little while longer than I thought. Overall, the round was quite strong, one of those with a lot of songs in the "very good" range. No standout great song, but a lot that I liked pretty well plus a trio that I liked a whole lot. Looking forward to round 2!
TAC: Anabasis - Terminal
Impression: I really love the build-up on this one. I love a long intro like this that slowly increases in intensity. And the later part of this song just feels huge, with big riffs and an awesome anthemic chorus. I’d call this an early round favorite.
I have to say, given our shared status of having Iron Maiden and Dream Theater as the huge formative bands in our lives, it’s always been interesting to me how our tastes seem to very often just miss the mark for each other. That has certainly often been the case with your submissions in my previous roulettes.
And I have to say, I was apprehensive this time when I saw that you had submitted a song from a new band that had only released their debut this year. Usually, when you’ve done that in the past, it really just hasn’t worked for me at all.
Well, not today. This is really, really awesome. These guys are hugely talented just from a sheer songwriting perspective. This one begins with just a masterful buildup before launching into a fantastic melodic piece with some wonderful riffing, great guitarwork, and a chorus that just grabs hold of me and doesn’t let go. The vocal interplay between the clean and harsh parts on the chorus is superb, already one of my favorite uses of harsh vocals.
This type of song is what I listen to prog metal for. I’m definitely going to buy these guys’ album, because they are super talented and I really want to see them find the success they deserve.
Score: 9.0 out of 10.
Tomislav95: Soen - Lotus
Impression: The adjective that comes to mind for this one is “smooth.” From the subtle guitar work to the vocal melodies to the singer’s emotional delivery, the whole thing just feels so smooth. I’m into it.
I think I’ve said it as best as I can already in the impression. This song is so smooth, and I love it. There’s a ton of emotion in this one, carried out through precise and beautifully executed guitar and vocal work.
This is one of those songs that doesn’t try to reinvent the wheel or do anything too far out of the ordinary, but does an expected thing unexpectedly well. Every note is in the right place, and the experience is excellent all the way through. A very well-crafted piece of music.
Score: 9.0 out of 10.
jingle.boy: Circus Maximus - Glory of the Empire
Impression: This song feels like it might be a major grower, and I’m hoping that there’s enough time for it to grow in the space of this roulette round. What I know right now is that I’m really impressed with the keyboards, especially how they are used both for atmosphere and for lead parts.
So, yes, this song did in fact turn out to be a grower. There was really so much going into this epic that it did take me a few listens to get a feel for the overall structure and sense of progression. Which is often a very good thing for my esteem of the song.
First, the individual elements that I caught onto pretty early: As the impression says, I’m really impressed by the keyboards on this one. A lot of prog metal bands, it seems primarily use keyboards as more of an atmospheric element, to create a sort of virtual string section that compliments the guitar leads, but doesn’t really ever come to the fore. And that’s fine as far as it goes, but I love when that’s combined with some great lead work on the keys, like Dream Theater has always had, and Circus Maximus does a great job featuring some lead keyboards here, in addition to the type of atmospheric stuff I mentioned.
I also am quite impressed by the singer. He can do the acrobatics and the high notes when the song calls for it, but spends much of his time singing pretty straightforwardly and focused on conveying the emotions of the song. A good combination, well-executed.
As a whole piece, this song does have a really excellent buildup to an emotional climax. The decision to do a song about the Spartacus story/Gladiator was a good one, I really like the lyrics a lot. Structurally, I feel like the song is always going somewhere, but has no trouble taking the time it needs to get there. That’s always nice in a short epic like this. In the end, this is the type of thing that’s right up my alley, and it’s quite well executed, so, yeah, it’s one of the top three of the round.
Score: 9.0 out of 10.
Elite: The Ocean - Hadopelagic II: Let Them Believe
Impression: This is an artist that I’ve heard of, and kind of been led to think would not really be my thing. Which is why I’m a bit surprised by the fact that I really like this right off the bat.
Surprised no one guessed this impression. I guess the background behind this is that I’ve heard of this group before as a prog metal band that people loved, but mainly loved for their ability to create atmosphere using harsher, heavier music. That sounded to me very much like black metal or something, maybe, and definitely music where the emphasis would be on creating some sort of mood, with melody taking a back seat.
That is definitely not what I found to be the case here. This song certainly does have a strong sense of atmosphere, but more importantly, it is melodically quite interesting. The heavy-soft dynamic works really well on this one, and I find myself enjoying both the smooth guitar and string parts and the more bombastic sections. I’d definitely say that this is an instance of harsh vocals used to good effect to emphasize and highlight intense parts of the music, especially in compliment with clean vocals and performed by a vocalist who can “slide” between the two (which is a technique I like, in preference to the one where it’s more like an on-off switch).
Definitely looking forward to hearing more from these guys, especially if, as I hear, they are an album-centric band who tends to try to create a certain kind of flow.
Score: 8.5 of 10.
Evermind: Lords of Black - Ghost of You
Impression: Really liking how many layers there are to the melodies on this one. I’m only worried that the song might overstay its welcome by just a little bit.
As I always emphasize in roulette writeups, intros, etc., melody is really important to me. This song is right up my alley, then, because there are a lot of melodies, often layered on top of one another in the form of twin guitar parts, parts where there’s something going on with the guitars and something else with the bass and vocals, etc., as well as parts where everything comes together to emphasize one big melody.
This song is one big, awesome anthem with some nice buildups and payoffs, and a memorable, powerful chorus. I do still think that it feels maybe just a little bit longer than it needs to be, although that impression lessened as I got more and more into the awesome instrumental section. Overall, I really enjoy this song, and rate it as one of the stronger ones in the round.
Score: 8.5 out of 10.
Cyril: Amendfoil - Skyline Escape
Impression: One of those songs that feels like it covers a lot more ground than it has any business doing considering its runtime. I’m really enamored of that sort of thing when done well, and this one shows a lot of promise.
Yeah, what the impression says. There are a lot of moving parts here, and they really run the gamut from some quieter, sinister sections, to some really heavy stuff with harsh vocals. And they really make it work well here. The heavy riffing feels relentless at the right times, but it’s well-complimented by the more melodic parts.
And of course the vocalist is the lynchpin, who makes the heavy stuff and the quiet stuff work equally well. He has that quality of being able to go from clean to harsh vocals as though moving along a continuum, rather than like an on-off switch. And that’s a big part of what makes this song so successful, in my opinion. The transitions from one vocal style to another, one level of intensity to another, one section to another, within a relatively short piece of music, are really well-done. None of the individual sections may be a total mindblower, but that’s not necessarily needed when the whole is well done like this.
Score: 8.5 out of 10.
Sacul: The Cardigans - Explode
Impression: I’d definitely characterize this song as something that feels comfortable to me. The vocals are nice, but I worry about the song being a bit too repetitive.
This song was one of the growers of the round. At first, as the impression suggests, it was something I found comfortable, but not really much more than that, the sort of thing that might end up as something like a casual 7/10. On repeated listens, I’ve really come to be more intrigued not just by the lovely chorus, but by those nice twisting verses, which I think compliment the more straightforward style of the chorus very well.
The singer is really excellent, her performance is emotionally evocative, and the tone of her voice feels like it was made to going along with the style of electronic instrumentation they’re using here. I think the instrumentation, while generally understated, is pretty strong, and it sort of adds to what I’ve been describing as the twisty feeling that’s present on the verses.
Overall, this is a pretty enjoyable piece with some hidden depth. I definitely liked it a lot.
Score: 8.0 out of 10.
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romdrums: Bjørk - Joga
Impression: So, right now, I’m in this position: I really like the vocals on this song, but much of the instrumentation is just not doing anything for me. I think with a different arrangement I would be more inclined to fall for this one.
I have to say, I find some of the vocal parts on this song absolutely captivating. The opening verse is my favorite part of the whole thing. Her delivery is so powerful, the melody is beautiful and unique, it’s a really fantastic verse. And I’d say the quality of the vocal melody and performance does not dip much for the rest of the song.
When I said that the instrumentation wasn’t doing anything, that was… actually only partly true. The violins are lovely and compliment the vocals very well. It’s the vocals plus the violins that really make this a powerful and potentially quite moving song.
But then there are the electronics.
I’m not against electronic instrumentation as such, at all. I think it can often be used very well, to very powerful effect. But this is not one of those times, in my opinion. In my opinion, the electronic elements actually actively harm this song. There are times when the busy programmed drums and keyboard sounds come in and actually, from my point of view, totally kill the momentum of a vocal line.
If this song was just the vocals and strings, it could be one of the highest-ranking songs of the round. As is, it kind of ends up more in that middle ground.
Score: 8.0 out of 10.
Lethean: Agent Fresco - See Hell
Impression: There's definitely a lot going on in this particular song, to the point where it might feel a little chaotic if it wasn't for the fact that so much of it is so good. It also helps that everything is anchored by a strong chorus.
For me, the strength of this song lies in the vocal performance. The singer does a lot of pretty impressive acrobatics and hits some melodies that I find pretty interesting, including that aforementioned chorus.
The instrumentation, on the other hand, has more or less failed to grow on me on repeated listens. I think everything is strong enough, there are some interesting riffs at times, but some of the time it just kind of feels like it’s just there. There’s not a lot that jumps out to me from that element of the song.
The vocal melodies and the performance are strong enough to keep me interested all the way through, and to make me esteem this as a pretty good song. But the overall package is maybe not something I was as enthusiastic about as I was when I gave my first impression. For better or for worse, this is going to fit solidly in that good-but-not-great range.
Score: 8.0 out of 10.
Nekov: Cyril - Get Up High
Impression: This song is solid all the way through, and has a certain charm, but it doesn’t really have any standout moments (at least as best as I can tell so far). Right now I view this as something that’s interesting and quirky, but not particularly excellent.[/i]
I’m pretty much standing by this impression, but a shade more positive. There’s actually a lot of similarity between this and Puppies’ Breaking Orbit song, in terms of how I’ve wound up approaching them: Both are songs that really have two distinctive sections with a pretty sharp transition in the middle, and my first impression of both was that they were solid but not with much that I was grabbing onto.
As things have developed, this one has come off better than the Breaking Orbit. The first section, which I found pretty unremarkable at first, has grown on me some. I still don’t find it outstanding, but I’m enjoying the melodies, I’m enjoying the sense of forward momentum, I’m engaged in it.
And then that second half comes in. I’m still not exactly sure what I think of it, but it’s certainly attention-grabbing. The first half is, more or less, within the expectations of a modern prog song, but the instrumental break is something different that I find fairly cool. It’s not blowing me away, but it’s a fun section that changes the mood of the song up nicely and gives the final return to the vocal section a bit of a different attitude, which I like.
Summing up my view on this song, this isn’t something that has grabbed my attention hard and made me want to rush out to buy this album, but it’s piqued my interest partly by doing a familiar style in somewhat of a different and quirky way, and sounding pretty confident about it. I like it and I’ll be interested to hear more.
Score: 8.0 out of 10.
Kattelox: Tom Waits - I Hope That I Don’t Fall in Love With You
Impression: I don’t know what I think about this one yet, to be honest. I definitely see a lot of merit in it right off the bat, but I’m not sure how much I enjoy the vocal style, which is of a very particular type that I’m not used to listening to.
There are a couple of things about a song like this. The main one is that the spotlight is almost entirely on the vocals. Sure, we can talk about the acoustic guitar and keyboards, but they’re primarily there to support the vocals. And the thing about the vocals here is that the style is very much a sort of storyteller-style of singing. The style is that he’s relating a story to you. This places a lot of emphasis on the lyrics, in a way that even some other vocal-centric songs in this round aren’t doing.
So. How I feel about this is firstly more than usually dependent on how I like the vocals. I’ve come to enjoy the melodies in this song. They’re memorable and they definitely convey the emotional tone of the song quite well. I’m not over the moon about his voice itself. I can see how it fits this sort of music, and I don’t mind it, but it’s not a selling point, either.
Then there’s the question of the lyrics, which, again, are more to the fore here than on any of the other songs. I have to say, there is a problem here in that I don’t really connect with the lyrics. For the most part I don’t find them objectionable (I’m not a huge fan of the “tomcat feelings” line, but it’s not on its own a dealbreaker), but it’s just not the sort of theme that resonates with me. And when they’re so central to the song, so much at the fore, that becomes a limiting factor.
I think this is an interesting artist and I can see why someone would really like this song. But as for myself, the connection is just not as strong as it could be.
Score: 7.5 out of 10.
Puppies_On_Acid: Breaking Orbit - When Isis Starts to Cry
Impression: My first thought on this one is that the guitar sounds pretty thin relative what I feel like the music is trying to have. But once I sort of got past that, I think this one has some promise to be a grower.
Yeah, so the thing with the guitar sound loomed pretty large in my first impression. I still think I would prefer this song with something of a thicker guitar sound, but it’s something I’m more or less over by now. So moving past that…
This song really has two very distinct sections. It does feel somewhat disjointed as a result of that, which is not necessarily something that’s a dealbreaker for me, but it is pretty noticeable. The second part of the song is, I think, the stronger, by a significant margin. The building “I can hear the sound” refrain is pretty strong, and I’d say that the build-up is well-executed. However, it feels like it’s sort of trying to pay off something that was never really established in the first half. Every time I listen to this one, I’m really trying to seek for something to grasp onto in the first half, and I’m just not finding all that much, truth be told.
At the end of the day, this one is something that feels like it should be up my alley stylistically, but there’s just not that much for me to grab onto as particularly strong, outside of the “I can hear the sound” refrain. Unfortunately, that means it’s a bit of miss, which you and I were prone to a bit in my v2, as well. Here’s hoping for better luck next time.
Score: 7.0 out of 10.
Stadler: Deep Purple - Not Responsible
Impression: I don’t know. This is a good song for this style, and I enjoy some of the guitar work, but as many times as I give songs like this a try, they don’t really ever seem to click hard with me. I think this just isn’t the type of thing I look for in music.
These sort of writeups are the hardest for me to write, both in terms of actually phrasing my thoughts, and in terms of how I feel about writing them. I think part of what people look for in these roulettes is the joy of connecting with other people over the shared enjoyment of a piece of music, and I think it’s disappointing when that connection just does not happen.
This song has a lot of things about it that I see as good. I think it’s a well-written song, musically. The introduction is quite good, though I have to say that my own feeling when it transitions from that intro riff into the bluesy verse is disappointment. Blackmore’s guitar work in the second half of the song is excellent, and my enjoyment of that is responsible for most of the points still earned here.
But yeah, this is not really my sort of thing. It’s not a complete miss, in the way that, say, a lo-fi black metal song might be. It’s something I enjoy at a certain level. But it’s not the kind of music I’ve really found myself capable of getting passionate about. That’s typically the case with this sort of bluesy style of hard rock. The lyrics sort of contribute to that as well, to be honest. Just doesn’t connect with me on a deep level.
The end result is that I have to say: There’s not really anything I can point to that I’d consider objectively wrong with this song, and a number of things I can point to that are good, but, at the end of the day, the score’s not gonna be so great because it just doesn’t resonate with me. I suppose it might be frustrating how the classics approach is hit-or-miss with me, but I’m optimistic you’ll send me another hit at some point soon.
Score: 7.0 out of 10.
Standings:
jingle.boy - 9.0
Tomislav95 - 9.0
TAC - 9.0
Cyril - 8.5
Elite - 8.5
Evermind - 8.5
Lethean - 8.0
Nekov - 8.0
romdrums - 8.0
Sacul - 8.0
Kattelox - 7.5
Puppies_On_Acid - 7.0
Stadler - 7.0
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Well shit! 7.5 ain't bad but look at all those 8s. I'm sticking to my strategy until it's clear it's not working though. But with Soen coming in at the top I'm clearly not going to do that well this time :lol
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Round two sent.
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:fistpump: I'll gladly take the top spot - albeit alphabetically. :lol Also nice to see Lords of Black up towards the top.
Incoming PM for our host.
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No, you know what? Screw the plan! You're getting an earful of adventure, mofo. Sent!
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I asked for a 4/10 and I got a 4th out of 13.
Cool!
Granted there's a whole 2 points between first and last right now so anything could happen still :lol
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I should have expected something like that sending
parama Cyril :lol
Already sent round 2
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I can officially say I've outscored myself.
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I'll take it!
Yeah 425, it's a 2019 album. In fact it was the first 2019 album I bought.
If you are just kind of getting into harsh vocals, there are some spread across this, but they are couched very nicely. They are never overbearing.
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When's the next song due?
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Yeah alright. Why the hell I didn't think about sending Soen - Lotus? I like it more than Lords of Black. :lol
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my entire EP is just Soen - Lotus 7 times
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That's a fair assessment, I think you'll dig that Cardigans record, it's so nice and fun.
Shockingly, I've just sent for next round.
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That's a fair assessment, I think you'll dig that Cardigans record, it's so nice and fun.
Shockingly, I've just sent for next round.
:o :o :o :omg: :omg: :omg:
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It's nice not to suck for a change :)
Will probably send in 2 hours.
EDIT: Sent.
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I'll sent in ~21 hours as after that I'm leaving for another city. I'll think on my track at work and send after that.
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Resent, after making a rookie mistake.
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Sent for round 2 :corn
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I haven't sent for round 2 recently.
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Resent, after making a rookie mistake.
You send another Deep Purple song?
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He sent Move Systems
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Granted there's a whole 2 points between first and last right now so anything could happen still :lol
Yeah, my scores often tend to bunch up in the 7-9 range. I suppose I could try a different system someday to get them to spread out more, but I'm reluctant to go to a ranking system because I'm worried about the spread being bigger than the difference between how well I like the songs.
I guess there's a sort of logic to roulette songs typically being something that I find at least pretty good: People are obviously trying to send good songs, so even the songs from artists or albums that I'm going to be less inclined to like are usually the strongest songs from those artists or albums.
I'll take it!
Yeah 425, it's a 2019 album. In fact it was the first 2019 album I bought.
If you are just kind of getting into harsh vocals, there are some spread across this, but they are couched very nicely. They are never overbearing.
I wouldn't necessarily say I'm just getting into harsh vocals, but I'd say I'm getting more comfortable with them, especially when they're not overbearing, like on that song (and actually a couple of others this round). Really looking forward to getting into that album.
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If you are just kind of getting into harsh vocals, there are some spread across this, but they are couched very nicely. They are never overbearing.
I wouldn't necessarily say I'm just getting into harsh vocals, but I'd say I'm getting more comfortable with them, especially when they're not overbearing, like on that song (and actually a couple of others this round). Really looking forward to getting into that album.
Yeah, that's what I meant. I've been way more open to them over the last year or two. It's really about slowly building a tolerance.
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Sending nothing but harsh vocals w/ blastbeats from now on so you better get used to it
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Granted there's a whole 2 points between first and last right now so anything could happen still :lol
Yeah, my scores often tend to bunch up in the 7-9 range. I suppose I could try a different system someday to get them to spread out more, but I'm reluctant to go to a ranking system because I'm worried about the spread being bigger than the difference between how well I like the songs.
I guess there's a sort of logic to roulette songs typically being something that I find at least pretty good: People are obviously trying to send good songs, so even the songs from artists or albums that I'm going to be less inclined to like are usually the strongest songs from those artists or albums.
I think the ranking/rating system in my latest roulette worked well. At least, it would if Cyril didn't crush everyone else in almost every round :lol
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Resent, after making a rookie mistake.
You send another Deep Purple song?
Haha, close. But my first send was actually the first song I sent in the LAST roulette (and the worst part? I checked it first!).
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Wow! That did a lot better than I had thought. If you like the particular sound on that track, I can definitely recommend the album it comes from (Pelagial), because it's awesome. Their latest album I found very good as well, I actually almost sent you a track from that one. Their earlier albums are a bit different, in the sense that they're more metal-oriented (at least, that's what I think), but there's a lot of good stuff on those too.
Will think on round 2 and send within 24 hours from now. Just got home and am really tired, so bed comes first.
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Resent, after making a rookie mistake.
You send another Deep Purple song?
Haha, close. But my first send was actually the first song I sent in the LAST roulette (and the worst part? I checked it first!).
Hey, at least it was a song I liked a lot!
Wow! That did a lot better than I had thought. If you like the particular sound on that track, I can definitely recommend the album it comes from (Pelagial), because it's awesome. Their latest album I found very good as well, I actually almost sent you a track from that one. Their earlier albums are a bit different, in the sense that they're more metal-oriented (at least, that's what I think), but there's a lot of good stuff on those too.
Definitely looking forward to checking out those albums. No worries on needing to take a little bit of time before sending. I'm in no particular rush, but if folks are going to want to hold me to a one-week-per-round pace, they'll probably need to send a little quicker in the future, because it usually takes me about a week from the point where I've received all the songs.
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Don't know who is awake and in what part of the world, but I figure since it's already been pretty late in coming, I'll toss up the hangman now:
???: ________ __ - _____ __ ____
???: _______ - _____ ___ ____ _____
???: ______ - ___
???: _______ - _________
???: ___ _____________ - ___________
???: ______ ______ - ____ ___ ______ ____
???: __________ ____ - ___ ___
???: _________ - ___ ____ ____
???: ________ _____ - ______ __ ___ ________ ______
???: __________ - ____ ___ ____ __ ___ _______
???: ____________ - __ _____ ___ ______ __ _
???: ___ - ______ __ ________
???: ____ ____ ______ __ _______ _____
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hell yes I'll take the D
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Giving Cyril the D! Not too many of them in this one, unfortunately.
???: D__d____ __ - _____ __ ____
???: _______ - _____ ___ ____ _____
???: ______ - ___
???: _______ - _________
???: ___ _____________ - ___________
???: ______ ______ - ____ ___ ______ ____
???: __________ ____ - ___ ___
???: _________ - ___ ____ ____
???: ________ _____ - ______ __ ___ ________ D_____
???: __________ - ____ ___ ____ __ ___ _______
???: ____________ - __ _____ ___ ____d_ __ _
???: D__ - ______ __ ________
???: ____ ____ ______ __ _______ _____
Cyril waits 3.
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C
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A
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Daydream XI sent by jingle
Dio
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Daydream XI yes, not sent by jingle. And not Dio.
???: Daydream XI - _a_c_ __ ____
???: _______ - _____ ___ ____ _____
???: _aa___ - __a
???: _a_____ - __a_a____
???: ___ C____________ - C_a________
???: ______ ______ - ____ ___ _a____ ____
???: __________ ____ - ___ ___
???: A_c______ - ___ _a__ ____
???: ________ ___c_ - ______ __ ___ _a______ D_a___
???: _a_a_a___c - ____ ___ ____ __ ___ _ac____
???: _a__________ - __ _____ ___ C___d_ __ _
???: D__ - ______ __ ___a____
???: _a__ _a__ ______ __ A______ _____
D C A
romdrums waits 3.
Lethean waits 2
Cyril waits 1
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Ancestors - The Warm Glow
Karmakanic - Who's the Boss in the Factory?
last one could be Talk Talk but I dunno where the divide between artist and song is. Dacul if it's Talk Talk tho
The Contortionist - Clairvoyant? but it's missing an A
DGM
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Yeah these are all right, including Talk Talk. And yeah if something looks like something except missing a letter, it's probably because I forgot to type the letter.
???: Daydream XI - _a_c_ __ ____
???: _______ - _____ ___ ____ _____
???: _aa___ - __a
???: _a_____ - __a_a____
???: The Contortionist - Clairvoyant
???: ______ ______ - ____ ___ _a____ ____
???: __________ ____ - ___ ___
???: Ancestors - The Warm Glow
???: ________ ___c_ - ______ __ ___ _a______ D_a___
???: Karmakanic - Who’s the Boss in the Factory?
???: _a__________ - __ _____ ___ C___d_ __ _
???: DGM - ______ __ ___a____
Sacul: Talk Talk - ______ __ A______ _____
D C A
romdrums waits 3.
Lethean waits 2
Cyril waits 1
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B
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???: Daydream XI - _a_c_ __ ____
???: _______ - _____ ___ ____ _____
???: _aa___ - __a
???: _a__b__ - __a_a____
???: The Contortionist - Clairvoyant
???: B_____ ______ - ____ ___ _a____ ____
???: __________ ____ - ___ ___
???: Ancestors - The Warm Glow
???: ________ ___c_ - ______ __ ___ _a______ D_a___
???: Karmakanic - Who’s the Boss in the Factory?
???: _a_b________ - __ _____ ___ C___d_ __ _
???: DGM - ______ __ ___a____
Sacul: Talk Talk - ______ __ A______ _____
D C A B
Puppies waits 3.
romdrums waits 2
Lethean waits 1
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E
we have the first 5 letters of the alphabet now! wow
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Could DGM be Ghosts of Insanity?
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It could be, and is!
???: Daydream XI - _a_c_ _e ___e
???: _______ - _____ __e ____ _____
???: _aa___ - _ea
???: _a__b__ - __a_a__e_
???: The Contortionist - Clairvoyant
???: B____e E_____ - __e_ __e _a____ __e_
???: _e___e____ ____ - _e_ ___
???: Ancestors - The Warm Glow
???: ________ ___ce - ______ __ __e _a_____e D_a___
???: Karmakanic - Who’s the Boss in the Factory?
???: _a_be__e____ - _e _____ __e C___d_ __ _
???: DGM - Ghosts of Insanity
Sacul: Talk Talk - ______ __ A____e_ _____
ABCDE
Cyril waits 3.
Puppies waits 2
romdrums waits 1
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DGM is jingle then
Give me F
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M
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R for FM Radio
DGM has a bunch of albums who the hell keeps sending Ghosts of Insanity in every roulette? It's definitely either Chad or Lethean. :lol
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R for FM Radio
DGM has a bunch of albums who the hell keeps sending Ghosts of Insanity in every roulette? It's definitely either Chad or Lethean. :lol
Then it must be Lethean
Daydream XI is surely TAC
I'll wager Karmakanic is either King or Evermind.
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DGM is neither Chad nor Lethean! But Daydream XI is indeed TAC, and Karmakanic is Ev.
TAC: Daydream XI - _a_c_ Me R__e
???: _r__m__ - F____ __e ____ F____
???: _aa___ - _ea
???: Ra__b__ - __ar_a_er
???: The Contortionist - Clairvoyant
???: B____e E_____ - __e_ __e _ar___ __er
???: _er__e____ ____ - _e_ ___
???: Ancestors - The Warm Glow
???: ________ F_rce - F_____ _f __e _a_____e D_a___
Evermind: Karmakanic - Who’s the Boss in the Factory?
???: Ma_be__e____ - _e F__m_ __e C___d_ __ _
???: DGM - Ghosts of Insanity
Sacul: Talk Talk - ______ __ A____er __r__
ABCDEF M R
Kattelox waits 3.
TAC waits 2
Elite waits 1
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Rainbow - Stargazer
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Shining Force
Maybeshewill
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Rainbow is Stadler
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G
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Rainbow is in fact Stadler. Not Shining Force.
TAC: Daydream XI - _a_c_ Me R__e
???: _r__m__ - F_g__ __e G___ F_g__
???: _aa___ - _ea
Stadler: Rainbow - Stargazer
???: The Contortionist - Clairvoyant
???: B____e E_____ - __e_ __e _ar___ __er
???: _er__e____ ____ - _e_ ___
???: Ancestors - The Warm Glow
???: _____g__ F_rce - F__g__ _f __e _a_____e D_ag__
Evermind: Karmakanic - Who’s the Boss in the Factory?
???: Maybeshewill - _e F__m_ __e C___d_ __ _
???: DGM - Ghosts of Insanity
Sacul: Talk Talk - _____g __ A____er __r__
ABCDEFG M R
Puppies waits 3.
Kattelox waits 2
TAC waits 1
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Twilight Force then :P
And one of the song titles looks like Fight the Good Fight
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Perihelion Ship - New Sun (or New Sun?)
Sea
Watch Me Rise
Flight of the ??? Dragon
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Living in Another World
Fight the Good Fight is Triumph? By jingle?
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Twilight Force has to be Kattelox.
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Twilight Force has to be Kattelox.
:neverusethis:
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Perihelion Ship - New Sun (or New Sun?)
which one of you asshats sent this?
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Billie Eilish
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Bill's Eyelash is when the party's over and is that Cyril?
maybeshewill is He Films The Clouds Pt. 2
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DGM has to be Puppies then.
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DGM is Lethean btw he sent me the same song in my last roulette
Maybeshewill is Tomi
Ancestors is Elite
The Contortionist is romdrums
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DGM has to be Puppies then.
Negative Ghostrider
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DGM was going to be Lethean in a future round, but I guess not anymore. :P
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Could Tomi have sent DGM? He gave it a middle-of-the-road score in his roulette.
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DGM is Lethean btw he sent me the same song in my last roulette
Maybeshewill is Tomi
Ancestors is Elite
The Contortionist is romdrums
Our host already deconfirmed Lethean :loser:
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just wait for me to be wrong about all four of my guesses it'll be super funny
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I'd love to be able to say 0/4, but alas you are correct about Tomi and Elite.
Twilight Force is, indeed, obviously Katt, and Billie Eilish is indeed Cyril and Triumph, jingle. DGM isn't Puppies or Lethean.
Sea is not a correct song name.
Oh, and to be clear, the Perihelion Ship song is New Sun? The one with the question mark. I just didn't include it prior to it being guessed because I leave out all punctuation in the hangman. Curious as to why Elite isn't thrilled about it having been sent!
TAC: Daydream XI - Watch Me Rise
jingle.boy: Triumph - Fight the Good Fight
???: _aa___ - _ea
Stadler: Rainbow - Stargazer
???: The Contortionist - Clairvoyant
Cyril: Billie Eilish - when the party’s over
???: Perihelion Ship - New Sun?
Elite: Ancestors - The Warm Glow
Kattelox: Twilight Force - Flight of the _a_____e Dragon
Evermind: Karmakanic - Who’s the Boss in the Factory?
Tomislav95: Maybeshewill - He Films the Clouds Pt. 2
???: DGM - Ghosts of Insanity
Sacul: Talk Talk - Living in Another World
ABCDEFG M R
Puppies waits 3.
Kattelox waits 2
TAC waits 1
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the unguessed on is Puppies
romdrums sent Perihelion Ship
Nekov sent DGM
Lethean sent The Contortonist I guess?
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Why the hell would Nekov send DGM. That seems completely out of character.
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Seems out of character probably because it didn't happen.
1/4 for Cyril. The unguessed one is indeed Puppies. Reshuffle the other three and...?
Oh, and there are no L's in what's left.
TAC: Daydream XI - Watch Me Rise
jingle.boy: Triumph - Fight the Good Fight
Puppies_On_Acid: _aa___ - _ea
Stadler: Rainbow - Stargazer
???: The Contortionist - Clairvoyant
Cyril: Billie Eilish - when the party’s over
???: Perihelion Ship - New Sun?
Elite: Ancestors - The Warm Glow
Kattelox: Twilight Force - Flight of the _a_____e Dragon
Evermind: Karmakanic - Who’s the Boss in the Factory?
Tomislav95: Maybeshewill - He Films the Clouds Pt. 2
???: DGM - Ghosts of Insanity
Sacul: Talk Talk - Living in Another World
ABCDEFG L M R
Lethean waits 3.
Puppies waits 2
Kattelox waits 1
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BEHOLD! Rolf's customary ancestral flight of the _a_____e dragon!
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Romdrums sent DGM?
Lethean sent Perihelion Ship
Nekov sent The Contortionist
/thread
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Why the hell would Nekov send DGM. That seems completely out of character.
I don-t think I even know what DGM is :lol
Romdrums sent DGM?
Lethean sent Perihelion Ship
Nekov sent The Contortionist
/thread
At least 1 of those is right
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All three are correct! I'm lifting the guessing limits since nobody's said a letter in a while. Anybody know what kind of dragon is flying and what in the world Puppies sent?
TAC: Daydream XI - Watch Me Rise
jingle.boy: Triumph - Fight the Good Fight
Puppies_On_Acid: _aa___ - _ea
Stadler: Rainbow - Stargazer
Nekov: The Contortionist - Clairvoyant
Cyril: Billie Eilish - when the party’s over
Lethean: Perihelion Ship - New Sun?
Elite: Ancestors - The Warm Glow
Kattelox: Twilight Force - Flight of the _a_____e Dragon
Evermind: Karmakanic - Who’s the Boss in the Factory?
Tomislav95: Maybeshewill - He Films the Clouds Pt. 2
romdrums: DGM - Ghosts of Insanity
Sacul: Talk Talk - Living in Another World
ABCDEFG L M R
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A sapphire dragon apparently
Give me T
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S for sapphire dragons :2metal:
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R for 425 missing the R in the first place.
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Q
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Z
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:facepalm: How could I miss that R!
Here are all those letters that
TAC: Daydream XI - Watch Me Rise
jingle.boy: Triumph - Fight the Good Fight
Puppies_On_Acid: _aat_s - Tea
Stadler: Rainbow - Stargazer
Nekov: The Contortionist - Clairvoyant
Cyril: Billie Eilish - when the party’s over
Lethean: Perihelion Ship - New Sun?
Elite: Ancestors - The Warm Glow
Kattelox: Twilight Force - Flight of the Sapphire Dragon
Evermind: Karmakanic - Who’s the Boss in the Factory?
Tomislav95: Maybeshewill - He Films the Clouds Pt. 2
romdrums: DGM - Ghosts of Insanity
Sacul: Talk Talk - Living in Another World
ABCDEFG L M QRST Z
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And of course the only thing that's not guessed is a Finnish word :P
Paatos
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And of course the only thing that's not guessed is a Finnish word :P
Paatos
Well, this hangman is finnished now.
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And of course the only thing that's not guessed is a Finnish word :P
Paatos
Well, this hangman is finnished now.
:icy:
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Completed hangman:
TAC: Daydream XI - Watch Me Rise
jingle.boy: Triumph - Fight the Good Fight
Puppies_On_Acid: Paatos - Tea
Stadler: Rainbow - Stargazer
Nekov: The Contortionist - Clairvoyant
Cyril: Billie Eilish - when the party’s over
Lethean: Perihelion Ship - New Sun?
Elite: Ancestors - The Warm Glow
Kattelox: Twilight Force - Flight of the Sapphire Dragon
Evermind: Karmakanic - Who’s the Boss in the Factory?
Tomislav95: Maybeshewill - He Films the Clouds Pt. 2
romdrums: DGM - Ghosts of Insanity
Sacul: Talk Talk - Living in Another World
I'll start posting up some impressions later today. This round is looking pretty strong so far...
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You're welcome.
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The Light and Shade of Things?
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The Light and Shade of Things?
You jest, but wolfking literally tried sending me this in the first round of my roulette and it made me laugh out loud :lol
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The Light and Shade of Things?
You jest, but wolfking literally tried sending me this in the first round of my roulette and it made me laugh out loud :lol
Well, it's your own dumbass fault for not listing FW on the banned list. :loser:
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The Light and Shade of Things?
You jest, but wolfking literally tried sending me this in the first round of my roulette and it made me laugh out loud :lol
Well, it's your own dumbass fault for not listing FW on the banned list. :loser:
Hey fartknocker, I put them in right after that! :lol
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Okay, changing my submission to Sarah Mclachlan - Angel then
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Man, listening to my song again and I feel so confident about it (I mostly love this whole album) that the royal 4/10 will probably be mine this time.
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I can see that I've now burned you so many times that your automatic inclination is to completely mistrust me. :lol
Here are six impressions. I will give seven more at a later time:
This song has such gravitas. There’s just this sense of authority on this song, where it feels like excellence just comes to it automatically.
I like how this song has a subtle complexity that sort of unfolds slowly over its runtime. It doesn’t end how I expect based on the start, but the transform is so fluid that I don’t even notice it’s happening.
I have to say, this song might be edging toward the danger zone in terms of lyrical content, and I’m not loving the vocals on first listen. But I find do the music itself quite strong overall.
In this style of music, it’s really important to me to feel like the artist has something distinct to say that isn’t sort of the same generic thing that everyone else in the genre is doing. Despite some surface similarities to other artists I’ve heard, this song definitely passes that test.
This is a style that has typically not done much for me in the past, with some exceptions. This may end up being somewhat of an exception, in part because of its pretty liberal willingness to blend in elements of styles of music.
There’s a level on which I respect the sheer boldness of this band for making this (and this participant for sending it). There’s also a level on which I respect how well-done this actually is. Then there’s a level on which I’m not sure to what extent this is something I like.
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i could see like half of those potentially being mine, but also none of them being mine
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One of them is yours :P
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fourth one i guess, dunno
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I'm certain I can rule out a few of them as mine.
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I said in my write-up that it would be hit or miss, so I guess some of those could apply to the Ancestors track.
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Alright, here's the second set. I was thinking results would be tomorrow, but I think I might need a little more time with some of these, so I'm going to say at some point over the weekend. But tomorrow I will do the pre-result rankings so that there's at least something.
This is definitely a solid track that stylistically ought to be right down my alley, but I worry that in terms of songwriting quality, it might be just solid and nothing more.
Huh, this one was definitely a surprise. A style of music that rarely captures my attention, with some real substance and great melodies that, for whatever reason, do appeal to me.
This song seems to be trying a lot of different things stylistically, and I’ll be trying to see if on further listens it manages to come together and sound like a coherent thing, or too disjointed.
I really like the riffs here, but the vocals are kind of not doing a lot for me, which can be an obstacle for me to getting into something.
I definitely did not expect to like this one very much at all, but I actually think I might be into it. A big risk that I think will at least turn out to be a decent success.
I like the energy level right out of the gates, and the keyboard work on this song a lot. It’s kind of similar in my head to another song this round, but I think I like it better out of the two.
I really don’t know yet. This style of music is a huge risk with me, in part because it just naturally lends itself to a mood that I’m usually very much not interested in. On the one hand, there are definitely some melodies on here that I’m interested in, but there are going to be some obstacles to my enjoy this one, too.
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Mine better be one of the good ones
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I saw mine in the first batch. Tough round....
But I think I sent a good one for Round 3.
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For some reason I think you'll hate Maybeshewill, I have to admit it was a ballsy move to send it :lol it's kind of weird but still pretty simple song. But who knows... many of those could me mine.
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Yeah, I'm ready to move onto the next round. I feel based on what Impression is mine that I might have sucked it this round. Much more confident for Round 3.
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He's flown far away over mountains and seas, to lands and kingdoms far beyoooooond :2metal:
(hope Twilight Force served me well this round)
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Hey, sorry, I had a work situation come up over the weekend that has required my full attention. I'll get results out maybe tonight, but failing that tomorrow morning.
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Just busting; I just wanted to post a funny picture. Though I may send Round Three today or tomorrow because I'm traveling the rest of the week...
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Though I may send Round Three today or tomorrow because I'm traveling the rest of the week...
Thank you. That's how it should be.
And don't apologize for your picture.
I think 425 just turned to 426 since the last round. ;D
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I'm working on the writeups as we speak. Here are the pre-result rankings, although I'll give advance warning that some of these are very close and might change in the process of me listening to the songs one more time to write about them.
Cyril:
1. Billie Eilish - when the party’s over
2. Amendfoil - Skyline Escape
Elite:
1. The Ocean - Hadopelagic II: Let Them Believe
2. Ancestors - The Warm Glow
Evermind:
1. Karmakanic - Who’s the Boss in the Factory
2. Lords of Black - Ghosts of You
jingle.boy:
1. Circus Maximus - Glory of the Empire
2. Triumph - Fight the Good Fight
Kattelox:
1. Twilight Force - Flight of the Sapphire Dragon
2. Tom Waits - I Hope That I Don’t Fall In Love With You
Lethean:
1. Perihelion Ship - New Sun?
2. Agent Fresco - See Hell
Nekov:
1. The Contortionist - Clairvoyant
2. Cyril - Get Up High
Puppies_On_Acid:
1. Paatos - Tea
2. Breaking Orbit - When Isis Starts to Cry
romdrums:
1. Bjørk - Joga
2. DGM - Ghosts of Insanity
Sacul:
1. Talk Talk - Living in Another World
2. The Cardigans - Explode
Stadler:
1. Rainbow - Stargazer
2. Deep Purple - Not Responsible
TAC:
1. Anabasis - Terminal
2. Daydream XI - Watch Me Rise
Tomislav95:
1. Soen - Lotus
2. Maybeshewill - He Films the Clouds Pt. 2
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Can you bold the current round's songs? :corn
I mean anyways I'm getting at least an 8.5 from the looks of it
I relistened to the EP I made for this roulette and it's probably like? my 4th favorite EP of all the ones I've done?
1. home's EP from like 2016
2. Elite's V3 EP I won the roulette with
3. 425 EP from last roulette
4. This one
5. Uhh I dunno either the one from Puppies' first roulette or Tomi's first roulette those are both still pretty good
so sorry but every song on my new EP is actually move systems & it's not as good as my last one
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Cyril:
1. Billie Eilish - when the party’s over >= 8.5
2. Amendfoil - Skyline Escape - 8.5
Elite:
1. The Ocean - Hadopelagic II: Let Them Believe - 8.5
2. Ancestors - The Warm Glow <= 8.5
Evermind:
1. Karmakanic - Who’s the Boss in the Factory >= 8.5
2. Lords of Black - Ghosts of You - 8.5
jingle.boy:
1. Circus Maximus - Glory of the Empire - 9
2. Triumph - Fight the Good Fight >= 9
Kattelox:
1. Twilight Force - Flight of the Sapphire Dragon >= 7.5
2. Tom Waits - I Hope That I Don’t Fall In Love With You - 7.5
Lethean:
1. Perihelion Ship - New Sun? >= 8
2. Agent Fresco - See Hell - 8
Nekov:
1. The Contortionist - Clairvoyant >= 8
2. Cyril - Get Up High - 8
Puppies_On_Acid:
1. Paatos - Tea >= 7
2. Breaking Orbit - When Isis Starts to Cry - 7
romdrums:
1. Bjørk - Joga - 8
2. DGM - Ghosts of Insanity <= 8
Sacul:
1. Talk Talk - Living in Another World >= 8
2. The Cardigans - Explode - 8
Stadler:
1. Rainbow - Stargazer >= 7
2. Deep Purple - Not Responsible - 7
TAC:
1. Anabasis - Terminal - 9
2. Daydream XI - Watch Me Rise - <= 9
Tomislav95:
1. Soen - Lotus - 9
2. Maybeshewill - He Films the Clouds Pt. 2 <= 9
based on this I predict that everyone got 8.5 except romdrums, who got 8
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OK, everyone send Cyril your Round 3 songs now!
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based on this I predict that everyone got 8.5 except romdrums, who got 8
Basically. Look, I could protest that it's a strong round, but my reputation is pretty much set in stone by now, isn't it?
Stadler: Rainbow - Stargazer
Impression: This song has such gravitas. There’s just this sense of authority on this song, where it feels like excellence just comes to it automatically.
I feel like people are going to accuse you of cheating on this one. It’s just one of those classics that I’ve somehow missed through the years, despite being quite familiar with a lot of RJD’s other classic albums.
Big mistake by me, I guess!
There are certain songs, most of them certified classics, where I just get a certain kind of feeling from them, which I’ve tried to capture in the word “gravitas.” If I could put it into a longer statement, I’d put it this way: It’s like the song comes right into the room and insists upon its own greatness, without having to trumpet it. These songs just announce themselves with such authority, and make it seem effortless. It almost feels like the band just sat down and rattled off a great song like it was nothing, like the song wrote itself, because everything is in just the right place.
Well, this is one of those songs. I don’t think there’s much I can say about it that hasn’t already been said, so I’ll just say that this is obviously one of the great singers and one of the great guitarists in rock both at the top of their game, backed with a strong rhythm section, performing a song that is both elegantly composed and full of rock-and-roll energy.
Score: 9.5 out of 10
Evermind: Karmakanic - Who’s the Boss in the Factory
Impression: I have to say, this song might be edging toward the danger zone in terms of lyrical content, and I’m not loving the vocals on first listen. But I find do the music itself quite strong overall.
You have no idea how close you came to Roger Waters - It’s a Miracling yourself again. And I will still say that I do not like the lyrics of this song. Without getting into P/R territory, I’ll just say that this sort of heavy-handed political commentary, from this sort of worldview, is probably something to be wary of sending me.
The saving grace here for you is that this song is very strong musically. The instrumental parts are excellent. There’s a lot going on that’s going to take more listens for me to sort of break down to the point where I’d be able to speak intelligently on it, but I’ll just generally say that the sense of melody and structure is really strong here, and the work being done by the keyboard player in particular is quite memorable indeed. Musically speaking, it’s definitely the kind of prog composition that I like a whole lot.
The factor that helps ultimately overcome the lyrics thing is the fact that I came around on the vocals, too. Now, I wouldn’t say that I rate this way up there in terms of vocal performance, but there’s something about the melodies and even the unconventional vocal style that complements the music pretty well. Also, the song is primarily instrumental, anyway, so its weaker foot is definitely not the foot that it’s putting forward.
Score: 9.0 out of 10.
Tomislav95: Maybeshewill - He Films the Clouds Pt. 2
Impression: This is a style that has typically not done much for me in the past, with some exceptions. This may end up being somewhat of an exception, in part because of its pretty liberal willingness to blend in elements of styles of music.
Sending post rock to me is really dangerous. I like it very occasionally and in very small doses, but usually I just don’t find it all that interesting. The buildups are typically too slow and repetitive for me, and it doesn’t help that the songs are often instrumental.
This particular risk paid off, precisely because, as I said, it’s not just straightforward post rock. There are, as you pointed out in your PM, some interesting beats (plus some distorted guitar!), that I think do make the admittedly somewhat repetitive beginning part more engaging.
But where things really get good is at about the midway point, where things take a sharp turn and we move away from the post rock instrumental segment of the song to the really enchanting piano piece section of the song. Because I find this vocal part truly wonderful. This is just such an uplifting-sounding section, performed so well by first a single singer and then a chorus. And then the piano and guitar outro is also a very well-done section.
This song is not flawless. I do find the first section a bit too repetitive for my taste. But the vocal section is so, so, so strong—my favorite single section of any song this round—that it still winds up one of the top performers of the round.
Score: 9.0 out of 10.
Puppies_On_Acid: Paatos - Téa
Impression: I like how this song has a subtle complexity that sort of unfolds slowly over its runtime. It doesn’t end how I expect based on the start, but the transform is so fluid that I don’t even notice it’s happening.
What the impression says. This is a song that feels like it’s going to be simple, and then it is so very much not that, in a way I haven’t really heard in anything else. It kind of fascinates me in that regard. What seems like it’s more or less just a straightforward ballad-type song reliant on a strong atmosphere and vocal performance really has a lot more going on under the surface, most of which I do not feel at all qualified to even try writing about.
What I will say is that I am a fan of the atmosphere and vocal performance, and I am also very much a fan of the drum work that seems to fluidly shift around to create a number of different vibes on this one. And of the wonderful melodic keyboard playing that comes in, especially in the second half of the song.
Definitely interested in hearing more from this artist. They have an interesting and different sound that I found pretty fascinating.
Score: 8.5 out of 10.
Cyril: Billie Eilish - when the party’s over
Impression: In this style of music, it’s really important to me to feel like the artist has something distinct to say that isn’t sort of the same generic thing that everyone else in the genre is doing. Despite some surface similarities to other artists I’ve heard, this song definitely passes that test.
Yeah, so the impression was my way of slightly disguising the following statement: She reminds me of Lorde, but she doesn’t sound like a copy, so that’s a win where I’m concerned.
To say a little more: I like pop singers who feel like they have a distinct message, where I get the sense that I’m really hearing the genuine thoughts and feelings of the singer and not something that’s sort of mass produced and labeled “for anyone with vocal talent and the right image.” I get that feeling very strongly with her on this song.
Besides that personal element, this is just a wonderfully well-done song. I love this sort of minimalist synth sound. It really complements her voice quite well. And her vocal performance here is masterful, really demonstrating a lot of range and emotion. There’s sort of a feeling about this song that reminds me of a gothic cathedral. I don’t know exactly what gives me that sense, but I like it.
Will definitely have to hear more from her.
Score: 8.5 out of 10.
Sacul: Talk Talk - Living in Another World
Impression: I definitely did not expect to like this one very much at all, but I actually think I might be into it. A big risk that I think will at least turn out to be a decent success.
I don’t know how to describe this style of music, but it’s not really a style of music that I would have said I was very interested in at all.
This song has changed that. It’s going to be hard for me to describe, but there’s just something about it that I really like a lot, and that has opened my mind to the potential of hearing more like this. Or maybe more than one something. I really like the passion of the singer. I feel like this type of music can often have a song who sounds sort of robotic and cold, but this guy really belts it out and conveys some real passion. I’m also a fan of the work being done by the rhythm section here, which is not something I tend to notice very often, but here stands out for sure. And the harmonica… works? Really well?
I like this song quite well. Good job turning me around on a style of music I wouldn’t have otherwise given another look!
Score: 8.5 out of 10.
Lethean: Perihelion Ship - New Sun?
Impression: This song seems to be trying a lot of different things stylistically, and I’ll be trying to see if on further listens it manages to come together and sound like a coherent thing, or too disjointed.
So one consideration when deciding what to send me is that you have to weigh the following competing considerations: (1) sending an epic is likely to make the slowest roulette host on DTF even slower, and (2) a prog epic of a certain quality is probably the safest submission there is, actually.
I don’t know exactly what it is about a good epic, but I’m just wild about songs that take their time and work things out over 10 or 15 minutes, so long as they make the most of that time. By that I mean, compelling melodies, multiple sections that flow well from one to the other with sense of progression, and finally a strong conclusion that brings the song to a strong sense of completion.
Well, this one definitely meets the mark on two out of three of those. There’s a lot of good melodic guitar work in the first half of its runtime. In doing a quick internet search on this artist, I saw some Opeth comparisons, and while I don’t think this sounds, like, a ton like Opeth, I do think that the riffing in the first half is somewhat reminiscent of a happier version of the type of riffing that Opeth is doing on a song like Blackwater Park. Which is a good thing. I also think that the turn to a quieter section, and transition back out of it that takes place in the second half of the song is pretty strong. Some more nice guitarwork, and a good spot use of growling. I will say that the vocal performance on this song is generally pretty unremarkable, but the melodies are strong enough that the middling quality of the performance itself doesn’t really detract.
The miss in this particular epic is not the melody or the flow, but the conclusion. There’s a lot of good buildup in the second half of this track, and the first growled part is a solid payoff… but from there it sort of seems to just keep building up until it more or less just cuts off with no real outro, no grand finale to speak of. It makes the thing feel somewhat unfulfilling in the end, and I wish there was something better at the end to tie the whole thing together.
Still, a strong epic that definitely makes me want to hear more from the artist. And maybe I’ll warm up to the finale a little bit on future listens.
Score: 8.5 out of 10.
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jingle.boy: Triumph - Fight the Good Fight
Impression: Huh, this one was definitely a surprise. A style of music that rarely captures my attention, with some real substance and great melodies that, for whatever reason, do appeal to me.
So, as various members keep discovering with Deep Purple submissions, the 70s/80s style of hard rock is very much hit-or-miss with me, but usually miss. And in spite of your comparison of Triumph to Rush, I found on first blush with this one that I was worried it would be another typical song of that style that just wouldn’t connect at all.
That was not the case. This is a really strong song that connects with me to a much greater degree than even other strong representatives of this style. Part of that may in fact be as simple as the fact that I like the lyrics and connect with their message pretty strong. But to chalk it up to that would be to sell short the other strengths of this song, in particular the guitarwork, the transitions between heavy and soft sections, and the excellent melodic chorus.
I’m not going to proclaim this song a new top favorite, but it’s a very strong song that I enjoy quite a bit.
Score: 8.0 out of 10.
TAC: Daydream XI - Watch Me Rise
Impression: I like the energy level right out of the gates, and the keyboard work on this song a lot. It’s kind of similar in my head to another song this round, but I think I like it better out of the two.
Just to get it out of the way: The song that feels similar to this one for me is the DGM song. They both kind of got filed early on as “melodic prog-power,” and it wound up being inevitable that I made comparisons between them. Fortunately for you, Daydream XI came off favorably in that comparison. I think this song does a pretty good job of maintaining a strong melodic sense even while going through some pretty fast power metal sections, which is an important obstacle for any sort of power metal to overcome with me.
In particular, I am a fan of the keyboard work on here. As I mentioned in my Circus Maximus writeup last time, I like when there is some substantive lead keyboard work, and the keyboard leads in this song are pretty solid. Overall, the instrumental sections here are pretty strong, which is another point of contrast to the DGM song.
I don’t quite know what impression convinced you that I didn’t like this song, but that’s not the case. True, this isn’t going to land nearly as high as your last song, which was wonderful, but I do enjoy this one and am definitely interested in hearing more from the artist.
Score: 8.0 out of 10.
Kattelox: Twilight Force - Flight of the Sapphire Dragon
Impression: There’s a level on which I respect the sheer boldness of this band for making this (and this participant for sending it). There’s also a level on which I respect how well-done this actually is. Then there’s a level on which I’m not sure to what extent this is something I like.
Truth be told, I’m surprised you didn’t immediately recognize this impression as yours. Because this song is very much one very particular thing pushed to the maximum degree… and that particular thing was something I’d already sort of meh’d last time when you send Rhapsody of Fire.
This song just maxes out on happy symphonic metal, with a heavy emphasis on the “symphonic” part and the “metal” part in small letters. With also fantasy lyrics about dragons and magic and destiny. Now, the thing about this, is that I think it does this very well. The melodies are quite strong, the symphonic parts are pretty well-composed, the song moves from one part to another like it’s telling a story…
The question is, is this for me? Because part of why I find this such a bold submission is that I think this would very much not for a lot of people. And that’s how I felt about it the first couple of times I heard it. After letting it settle in, to the point where I’m not jarred by the style, I really am starting to warm up to it. This is still probably not the kind of thing I would listen to all the time, but I’m now starting to get interested in hearing what a whole album of this would look like. That’s because these guys did this thing right, and produced a compelling song in a style where I think it can be difficult to do that and easy to phone it in and just write some fluff.
To be more specific, and not just sort of make general comments, what is holding me back in my enthusiasm for this one? When it comes to symphonic metal, I can be a bit fussy about the balance between low end and high end. To me, the style works best when the symphonics are complemented by a nice, thick guitar sound in the low end—the ideal example might be Nightwish’s Imaginaerum album. The guitar is a little light on this one, which gives it sort of an airy feel that’s a fluffier than I would like. The other thing is that I’m generally a little bit jaded about fantasy lyrics, and the lyrics here are, as best as I can tell, well onto the cheesy side. It helps that the vocal melodies are very strong, though.
I have to admit, this is the song I had the most trouble evaluating this round. After taking some time with it, my overall verdict is: I'm on the verge of being sold on this. Not quite there, maybe. But you can at the very least count me interested.
Score: 8.0 out of 10.
Nekov: The Contortionist - Clairvoyant
Impression: I really like the riffs here, but the vocals are kind of not doing a lot for me, which can be an obstacle for me to getting into something.
To more or less recapitulate the impression: I am quite impressed by a lot of the guitarwork on this song. There’s some nice riffing that manages to be pretty rhythmically interesting while maintaining a sense of melody. There’s sort of a djenty element at play here that avoids a lot of the traps that djent can easily fall into, and it’s nicely blended with elements of more traditional prog metal that keep it well away from the monotony of djent proper.
So, I really like the guitars and would like to hear more of this guitarist. The other side of the coin is the vocal parts, which, unfortunately, I really just find pretty uninspiring here. There really aren’t any particularly strong vocal melodies, and the use of several different vocal styles here doesn’t really seem to add anything? I mean, I like a blend of styles when it’s done well, but here it’s sort of three different styles, none of which stand out as being particularly strong, and no particularly strong clarity as to why the style keeps switching?
I don’t know, I don’t hate the vocals, they’re generally pretty inoffensive, but what typically gives a song staying power to me is strong melodies that I catch onto and remember. Those don’t have to be vocal melodies, of course, but as much as I like the guitarwork here, it doesn’t really feel like it’s written to be the memorable melodic lead of the song. So this winds up as a song that I like listening to, and that makes me at least interested in hearing more from the guitarist, but it doesn’t break through mainly because of a just-there vocal performance.
Score: 7.5 out of 10.
Elite: Ancestors - The Warm Glow
Impression: I really don’t know yet. This style of music is a huge risk with me, in part because it just naturally lends itself to a mood that I’m usually very much not interested in. On the one hand, there are definitely some melodies on here that I’m interested in, but there are going to be some obstacles to my enjoy this one, too.
Yeah, so you knew this was a risky send, I knew this was a risky listen, we both knew to not know what to expect, going in.
Doom metal is not a genre that, on paper, seems very compatible with me at all. I don’t like depressing music, I’m still sort of one-foot-in-one-foot-out on harsh vocals, I don’t have any particular love for atmospheric music, etc. I want to put that out there first so that I can be clear on how I genuinely liked this more than I sort of expected to. It was more melodic than I thought it was going to be, and a lot of the melodies stuck with me pretty well. I also like the way the first half of the song seems in a way to keep building bigger and bigger like a huge wave (if that description makes any sense). Although I will say that some of the more chaotic elements of that buildup were not my favorite.
One thing that did not help you here was that I could make out enough of the lyrics to get uneasy with them, and look up the rest. Not a fan of the violent imagery here, and wish that this song had different lyrics so that I could listen to it without those images in my head.
On the whole, I found this song really interesting and well-done. I enjoyed listening to it, especially when I was not thinking about the lyrics. I don’t think, however, that I would want to listen to it very much, or seek out a lot more music in this style.
Score: 7.0 out of 10.
romdrums: DGM - Ghosts of Insanity
Impression: This is definitely a solid track that stylistically ought to be right down my alley, but I worry that in terms of songwriting quality, it might be just solid and nothing more.
There are features of this song that I definitely like. Generally, I enjoy this sort of melodic approach to prog metal, especially when it doesn’t just sit in a single tempo or on a single riff. There are some solid melodies, particularly on the chorus. I could see myself liking this artist.
But overall, this song just hasn’t really grown into anything that I find to be more than solid when I listen to it. The chorus is good, but it feels like it comes up one too many times, and there’s not really enough that I’m really grabbing onto in the other parts of the song.
This is the kind of song that I feel like I would be much happier with if I was hearing it in a context where it was the 4th or 5th best track on an album. But taken on its own, there’s not enough that stands out.
Score: 7.0 out of 10.
Standings:
Tomislav95 - 18.0
Evermind - 17.5
Cyril - 17.0
jingle.boy - 17.0
TAC - 17.0
Lethean - 16.5
Sacul - 16.5
Stadler - 16.5
Elite - 15.5
Kattelox - 15.5
Nekov - 15.5
Puppies_On_Acid - 15.5
romdrums - 15.0
I guess Round 3 is actually the last round before the EP, so at some point soon I'm going to have to let you all know about a plan for eliminations. I'm sort of toying on the outside of my mind with the idea of taking EPs from everyone while finding a way to stagger it out so that the results at least come out in a steady stream, but I'm not sure if I'm actually going to be able to do that.
What I will say is that at the very least the top 6 will be safe. Since there's only a 1.5 point gap between last place and #6, this is still very much in play for everyone.
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3 points between first and last :metal
hopefully i can get another 8.5 and hold my spot near the top, i kinda doubt you'll utterly hate what i've sent this round but
also a lot of the billie eilish album is uhh. very weird and not lorde-ish but i only like the more low key songs on it almost exclusively lol
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The song I initially sent you before quickly changing to Sapphire Dragon was the 10 minute epic from that same album, and it features Fabio Lione from Rhapsody. I was hoping the sophistication of the orchestral side of the band and the sheer musical talent would be appealing to you despite the lyrical themes, so I think to some extent I at least succeeded there. Although the epic still might've been a better pick.
EDIT: Sent something... wicked.
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I totally forgot about your aversion to political lyrics. :lol Should've probably sent Send a Message from the Heart in that case, but anyway, glad that worked out for me.
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Can't believe I got beat by Maybeshewill.... oh well.
I'll find something to send soon. :natalieportman:
aww, M83 is banned :sadpanda:
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So one consideration when deciding what to send me is that you have to weigh the following competing considerations: (1) sending an epic is likely to make the slowest roulette host on DTF even slower, and (2) a prog epic of a certain quality is probably the safest submission there is, actually.
:lol I'm not in a hurry. Sends Light of Day, Day of Darkness
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aww, M83 is banned :sadpanda:
my fault :corn
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aww, M83 is banned :sadpanda:
my fault :corn
I was about to send something from Saturdays=Youth.
Aaaaaannnnd sent something that will probably get me eliminated :bosky:
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It's a shame you couldn't enjoy the vocals because that whole album is really good, just not your cup of tea apparently. SEnt for round 3 already.
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Sent for Round Three.
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Can't believe I got beat by Maybeshewill.... oh well.
I'll find something to send soon. :natalieportman:
aww, M83 is banned :sadpanda:
maybeshewill is good, bro. I would've sent To The Skies From A Hillside but can't knock him for sending TFTC either.
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1. home's EP from like 2016
2. Elite's V3 EP I won the roulette with
3. 425 EP from last roulette
4. This one
5. Uhh I dunno either the one from Puppies' first roulette or Tomi's first roulette those are both still pretty good
I burned this one to a CD when I got it and still listen to it from time to time! :)
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TAC: Daydream XI - Watch Me Rise
Impression: I like the energy level right out of the gates, and the keyboard work on this song a lot. It’s kind of similar in my head to another song this round, but I think I like it better out of the two.
Just to get it out of the way: The song that feels similar to this one for me is the DGM song. They both kind of got filed early on as “melodic prog-power,” and it wound up being inevitable that I made comparisons between them. Fortunately for you, Daydream XI came off favorably in that comparison. I think this song does a pretty good job of maintaining a strong melodic sense even while going through some pretty fast power metal sections, which is an important obstacle for any sort of power metal to overcome with me.
In particular, I am a fan of the keyboard work on here. As I mentioned in my Circus Maximus writeup last time, I like when there is some substantive lead keyboard work, and the keyboard leads in this song are pretty solid. Overall, the instrumental sections here are pretty strong, which is another point of contrast to the DGM song.
I don’t quite know what impression convinced you that I didn’t like this song, but that’s not the case. True, this isn’t going to land nearly as high as your last song, which was wonderful, but I do enjoy this one and am definitely interested in hearing more from the artist.
It was this one:
I have to say, this song might be edging toward the danger zone in terms of lyrical content, and I’m not loving the vocals on first listen. But I find do the music itself quite strong overall.
There's a line in the chorus that says, "Get down on your knees, and watch me rise.". I thought you might've been referring to that line when you mentioned lyrical content. Plus, the vocals are a real strong point, so if you don't like Russ Allen or Dio, you may not like him.
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I guess Round 3 is actually the last round before the EP, so at some point soon I'm going to have to let you all know about a plan for eliminations. I'm sort of toying on the outside of my mind with the idea of taking EPs from everyone while finding a way to stagger it out so that the results at least come out in a steady stream, but I'm not sure if I'm actually going to be able to do that.
Dude, they're two week rounds as it is! :lol
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First round was a neat 1 week! But I'm leaning heavily toward not doing that, anyway.
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Great! Yeah I wasn't much into that kind of music until I listened to that Talk Talk record, it's really a beautiful and fun one. And I agree, the harmonica is wonderful (that same guy played on the last SW album). Have fun digging into it :D
Will send for next round soon.
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Forgot to send yesterday, you'll get my song in a few hours.
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I am already dying for results pls
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Sent! Went for a somewhat risky song this time, hopefully it pays off.
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Dacul send already we need more hang
I think my song this round is longer than my last two songs combined, or it's at least close
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Also waiting on Elite and Tomi though.
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Yeah Dacul and Elite are always being waited on no shock there :neverusethis:
Results were only yesterday anyways I'm just eager to get this thing moving cause I also get to start my roulette when this goes to the final round :corn
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Also waiting on Elite and Tomi though.
Sorry, I've been moving these days so I wasn't on my laptop. Sending today.
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Sent
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:crypt:
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RIP 425, his brains were blown everywhere by my awesome song
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Well, he did admit he is the slowest host ever :lol
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Still waiting on Elite to send in terms of hangman, but I've started listening to the other songs.
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Uhhh... it's been 6 days since you posted results. I had a boss once who would ALWAYS start meetings on time regardless of who was/wasn't there, because he refused to give more respect to the people that were late than those that showed up on time.
Let's go. I mean, c'mon. Rich... maybe you should take a break from roulette's, as you have a recurring pattern of not being attentive - which isn't fair to the host, or the other players.
Just saying (cuz I know other people are thinkin it as well).
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Screw him. Let’s start hangman without him.
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Let's gooooo
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Forgot to send yesterday, you'll get my song in a few hours.
And to think I felt bad about this :lol
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Uhhh... it's been 6 days since you posted results. I had a boss once who would ALWAYS start meetings on time regardless of who was/wasn't there, because he refused to give more respect to the people that were late than those that showed up on time.
Let's go. I mean, c'mon. Rich... maybe you should take a break from roulette's, as you have a recurring pattern of not being attentive - which isn't fair to the host, or the other players.
Just saying (cuz I know other people are thinkin it as well).
I think this is fair. I'm going to proceed as normal (which I had already started to do in terms of listening), and if I get a song from Elite, I'll give it as many listens as I have time to, and if not, not. Targeting Wednesday or Thursday for results.
Here's the hangman:
???: ________ - _________ __ ________
???: ___________ - _____ ____
???: ________ - _____
???: _________ - ____
???: _____ _______ - ______ _____
???: ___ _______ - ____
???: _________ - _______ ____
???: _________ - _______ ____
???: ___ _______ - ______
???: ______ - __ ___ ______
???: _______ _______ _____ - ___ _ ____ ____
???: ______ - ________ ____ ____
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Show me the N, you will
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Elite got killed by an angry dragon, give me the H
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???: ________ - _______n_ __ ___n____
???: ___n_______ - _____ _n__
???: ________ - H____
???: ______h___ - __n_
???: _____ _______ - ______ _____
???: _h_ _n_____ - ____
???: _________ - _______ ____
???: ___h_____ - _______ ____
???: _h_ _n_____ - ______
???: _h__hn - _n _h_ _h____
???: ___h___ __h_n___ _____ - ___ _ __n_ ____
???: _____n - ________ __n_ ____
N H
Cyril waits 3
Katt waits 2
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On the Shores by Ihsahn
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I already forgot what I sent :lol
Give me an A
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Two songs from The Antlers
Wake and Palace if I can take wild shots in the dark, based on how long the names are
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Can confirm Palace is there, I sent it.
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On the Shores by Ihsahn
425, if whoever sent it didn't tell you to check out the live version from ProgPower, make sure you do. :)
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I already forgot what I sent :lol
I think you might not be alone there!
???: ___a_a__ - _______n_ __ __an____
???: __an___a___ - _____ _n__
???: _a______ - H_a__
???: ______h___ - __n_
???: _a___ _______ - _a__a_ __a__
???: The Antlers - Wake
???: _a___a___ - _a_____ ____
???: _a_h___a_ - ____a__ ____
???: The Antlers - Palace
???: Ihsahn - On the Shores
???: ___ha__ __h_n___ _____ - ___ _ _an_ ____
???: _____n - ______a_ __n_ ____
N H A
Nekov waits 3
Cyril waits 2
Katt waits 1
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E
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Did Tomi send The Antlers?
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T
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Did Tomi send The Antlers?
Evermind sent Palace like he said but the other could be Tomi yeah
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Did Tomi send The Antlers?
Evermind sent Palace like he said but the other could be Tomi yeah
I'm stupid :facepalm:
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C
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Let's go. I mean, c'mon. Rich... maybe you should take a break from roulette's, as you have a recurring pattern of not being attentive - which isn't fair to the host, or the other players.
Just saying (cuz I know other people are thinkin it as well).
:(
Screw him. Let’s start hangman without him.
And you should!
I think this is fair. I'm going to proceed as normal (which I had already started to do in terms of listening), and if I get a song from Elite, I'll give it as many listens as I have time to, and if not, not. Targeting Wednesday or Thursday for results.
Kick me out next time I'm late. Seriously. That'll show me!
I mean, I know it's unfair to the other players, and I am sorry if it's me that's holding up the roulette. In the last couple of months I wasn't very attentive to DTF (which is a shame, because I discover lots of new music here!), and I hoped playing in roulettes would make me come back more often and then that sort-of happens but I literally forget about the roulettes. I sent a song in Kattelox's roulette this morning, which is as close to 'ASAP' I could get after last round, since I was at ProgPower over the weekend, but never sent something in this one. Sorry.
Seriously, kick me next time I'm late.
Elite got killed by an angry dragon
Wrong roulette.
I'm stupid
Ok.
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:lol
Late or not I love Elite participating in my roulettes. Found some fucking great tunes thanks to him. :corn
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I already started the dragon summoning ritual, pretty sure it'll be the right roulette soon enough
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Did Tomi send The Antlers?
Evermind sent Palace like he said but the other could be Tomi yeah
The other one is not Tomi...
I mean, I know it's unfair to the other players, and I am sorry if it's me that's holding up the roulette. In the last couple of months I wasn't very attentive to DTF (which is a shame, because I discover lots of new music here!), and I hoped playing in roulettes would make me come back more often and then that sort-of happens but I literally forget about the roulettes. I sent a song in Kattelox's roulette this morning, which is as close to 'ASAP' I could get after last round, since I was at ProgPower over the weekend, but never sent something in this one. Sorry.
Seriously, kick me next time I'm late.
I have to concur with Katt that I really enjoy having you. I've gotten a lot of submissions from you that I really liked. And I understand and relate to your experience with timing, as I think people here well know. It can be easy for me to do exactly what you're describing, and I don't hold it against you that it happens. At the same time, as I think you and I are both agreeing here, the timing on these things can be a significant matter to hosts and participants, and I get that as well. I appreciate you being understanding about that too, and I hope that this whole thing hasn't been and won't be a cause for any serious consternation for anybody. It is, after all, meant to be a fun game.
???: Te_a_a_e - _e_____n_ __ __an_e__
???: E_anc__at__ - ____t _n__
???: _a_____e - Hea_t
???: _e____he__ - __ne
???: _a___ __tec__ - _at_a_ __a__
???: The Antlers - Wake
???: _a___a_e_ - Ta__e__ T_ee
???: _ath___a_ - E_e_a__ C_t_
Evermind: The Antlers - Palace
???: Ihsahn - On the Shores
???: __chae_ _chen_e_ _____ - __t _ _ant ___e
???: ___t_n - ___e__a_ __n_ T__e
N H A E T C
Lethean waits 3
TAC waits 2
romdrums waits 1
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Teramaze
Emancipater ?
Heart
Tallest Tree
Michael Schenker Group sent by Stads
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???: Teramaze - _e_____n_ __ __an_e__
???: Emancipator - ____t _n__
???: _a_____e - Heart
???: _e____he__ - __ne
???: _a___ __tec__ - _at_a_ __a__
???: The Antlers - Wake
???: _a___a_e_ - Tallest Tree
???: _ath___a_ - E_e_a__ C_t_
Evermind: The Antlers - Palace
???: Ihsahn - On the Shores
Stadler: Michael Schenker Group - __t _ _ant ___e
???: ___t_n - ___e__a_ __n_ T__e
N H A E T C
Lethean waits 3
TAC waits 2
romdrums waits 1
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Michael Schenker Group sent by Stads
But I Want More
Interesting choice.
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Yknow what give me the R
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Pathosray / Emerald City.... TAC
Teramaze is Delusions of Grandeur. GREAT FUCKIN TUNE! Puppies if I had to guess (and if it is ... you're welcome!)
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Those songs are right, but not the senders!
???: Teramaze - Delusions of Grandeur
???: Emancipator - __r_t _n__
???: _ar____e - Heart
???: _er___her_ - __ne
???: _a___ __tec__ - _at_a_ __ar_
???: The Antlers - Wake
???: _ar__a_er - Tallest Tree
???: Pathosray - Emerald City
Evermind: The Antlers - Palace
???: Ihsahn - On the Shores
Stadler: Michael Schenker Group - But I Want More
???: ___t_n - ___er_a_ __n_ T__e
N H A E T C R
Cyril waits 3
Lethean waits 2
TAC waits 1
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Did Kattelox send Pathosray?
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Did Kattelox send Pathosray?
Can confirm - good guess, how'd you know?
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Did Kattelox send Pathosray?
Can confirm - good guess, how'd you know?
Easy.
Say it with me.
Katt-o-lox
Path-os-ray
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Did Kattelox send Pathosray?
Can confirm - good guess, how'd you know?
Easy.
Say it with me.
Katt-o-lox
Path-os-ray
Awe-some-taste
Yeah, it matches up all right! :lol
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Puppies sent Ih-sAhn?
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Those people did send those things!
???: Teramaze - Delusions of Grandeur
???: Emancipator - __r_t _n__
???: _ar____e - Heart
???: _er___her_ - __ne
???: _a___ __tec__ - _at_a_ __ar_
???: The Antlers - Wake
???: _ar__a_er - Tallest Tree
Kattelox: Pathosray - Emerald City
Evermind: The Antlers - Palace
Puppies_On_Acid: Ihsahn - On the Shores
Stadler: Michael Schenker Group - But I Want More
???: ___t_n - __re__a_ __n_ T__e
N H A E T C R
Cyril waits 3
Lethean waits 2
TAC waits 1
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Darkwater...is that J-Boy?
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Oh lol
Periphery
Dunno the song tho, is there a song called Dune or something on the new one
Edit: just checked, its not off the new one and it's called Lune
Romdrums?
Emancipator is Dacul
Antlers 2 is Nekov? I'd guess Elite but I don't think he sent yet
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Did Kattelox send Pathosray?
Can confirm - good guess, how'd you know?
'Cuz I'm just that good. at guessing 1 out of every 100 roulette submissions
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Did Kattelox send Pathosray?
Can confirm - good guess, how'd you know?
'Cuz I'm just that good. at guessing 1 out of every 100 roulette submissions
:lol :lol
I bet Lethean sent Darkwater if jingles didn't.
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That Darkwater album is really good.
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Katt guess a goddamn letter
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Use your manners, Ed boy
Give me an O for con hater
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Antlers 2 is Nekov? I'd guess Elite but I don't think he sent yet
Not my cup of tea
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Two bands wiped from my EP this round dammit! >:(
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Two bands wiped from my EP this round dammit! >:(
Wow, that is bad luck :corn :loser:
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my EP is all still in order, as far as i know
nothing sent here looks like any of my bands
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S
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my EP is all still in order, as far as i know
nothing sent here looks like any of my bands
I totally forgot the EP round was next. I guess I should throw something together. :lol
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Two bands wiped from my EP this round dammit! >:(
Wow, that is bad luck :corn :loser:
One I can live without, but the other was essential.
It's coming together though.
Unless I tank this round... :lol
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Did Kattelox send Pathosray?
Can confirm - good guess, how'd you know?
'Cuz I'm just that good. at guessing 1 out of every 100 roulette submissions
:lol :lol
I bet Lethean sent Darkwater if jingles didn't.
Nailed it.
Oh lol
Periphery
Dunno the song tho, is there a song called Dune or something on the new one
Edit: just checked, its not off the new one and it's called Lune
Romdrums?
Emancipator is Dacul
Antlers 2 is Nekov? I'd guess Elite but I don't think he sent yet
Periphery is romdrums, but you're wrong on Emancipator and Antlers. Elite has sent, but is not included in the hangman because he sent after it started.
???: Teramaze - Delusions of Grandeur
???: Emancipator - __rst Sno_
???: _ar_s__e - Heart
romdrums: Periphery - Lune
???: _a___ __tec__ - Sat_a_ __ar_
???: The Antlers - Wake
Lethean: Darkwater - Tallest Tree
Kattelox: Pathosray - Emerald City
Evermind: The Antlers - Palace
Puppies_On_Acid: Ihsahn - On the Shores
Stadler: Michael Schenker Group - But I Want More
???: _oston - _ore__a_ _on_ T__e
N H A E T C R O S
romdrums waits 3
Katt waits 2
Cyril waits 1
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Boston-Foreplay/Long Time
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Masse Atteckk
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Elite has sent, but is not included in the hangman because he sent after it started.
So just add him to the bottom of the list as sent, or, list him with the letters showing that have been called.
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Masse Atteckk
Angalll
Elite has sent, but is not included in the hangman because he sent after it started.
So just add him to the bottom of the list as sent, or, list him with the letters showing that have been called.
He asked me not to do that right now, and gave a good reason. I'll figure out a way to reveal his song, probably in the next day or so.
Boston is right, of course.
???: Teramaze - Delusions of Grandeur
???: Emancipator - __rst Sno_
???: _ar_s__e - Heart
romdrums: Periphery - Lune
???: _a___ __tec__ - Sat_a_ __ar_
???: The Antlers - Wake
Lethean: Darkwater - Tallest Tree
Kattelox: Pathosray - Emerald City
Evermind: The Antlers - Palace
Puppies_On_Acid: Ihsahn - On the Shores
Stadler: Michael Schenker Group - But I Want More
???: Boston - Foreplay/Long Time
N H A E T C R O S
romdrums waits 3
Katt waits 2
Cyril waits 1
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Boston is right, of course.
Wait, did Stadler send two songs this round?
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First Snow
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Boston is right, of course.
Wait, did Stadler send two songs this round?
I was thinking the same thing :lol
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Nevermind..
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Interesting, Jakub Zytecki - Satya's Diary
I have no Idea who would send that......besides me. Nekov? :dunno:
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Boston is right, of course.
Wait, did Stadler send two songs this round?
:metal :metal :metal
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Interesting, Jakub Zytecki - Satya's Diary
I have no Idea who would send that......besides me. Nekov? :dunno:
Indeed!
???: Teramaze - Delusions of Grandeur
???: Emancipator - First Snow
???: _ar_s__e - Heart
romdrums: Periphery - Lune
Nekov: Jakub Zytecki - Satya’s Diary
???: The Antlers - Wake
Lethean: Darkwater - Tallest Tree
Kattelox: Pathosray - Emerald City
Evermind: The Antlers - Palace
Puppies_On_Acid: Ihsahn - On the Shores
Stadler: Michael Schenker Group - But I Want More
Stadler (but really ??? still): Boston - Foreplay/Long Time
N H A E T C R O S
romdrums waits 3
Katt waits 2
Cyril waits 1
Remaining candidates for senders: Cyril, jingle.boy, Sacul, TAC, Tomislav
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First Snow
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Yeah, sorry, forgot to edit that one in.
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jingle sent the Boston song, obviously
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Yep, the second Stadler was hiding in pretty plain sight.
???: Teramaze - Delusions of Grandeur
???: Emancipator - First Snow
???: _ar_s__e - Heart
romdrums: Periphery - Lune
Nekov: Jakub Zytecki - Satya’s Diary
???: The Antlers - Wake
Lethean: Darkwater - Tallest Tree
Kattelox: Pathosray - Emerald City
Evermind: The Antlers - Palace
Puppies_On_Acid: Ihsahn - On the Shores
Stadler: Michael Schenker Group - But I Want More
jingle.boy: Boston - Foreplay/Long Time
N H A E T C R O S
romdrums waits 3
Katt waits 2
Cyril waits 1
Remaining candidates for senders: Cyril, Sacul, TAC, Tomislav
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Tim... did you send Teramaze?
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Tim... did you send Teramaze?
I did!
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Sacul sent The Antlers, Tomi sent Emancipator and Cyril sent the un-guessed one
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Yep :metal
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Uhhh... No? I mean, Tomi did send Emancipator, but...
TAC: Teramaze - Delusions of Grandeur
Tomislav95: Emancipator - First Snow
???: _ar_s__e - Heart
romdrums: Periphery - Lune
Nekov: Jakub Zytecki - Satya’s Diary
???: The Antlers - Wake
Lethean: Darkwater - Tallest Tree
Kattelox: Pathosray - Emerald City
Evermind: The Antlers - Palace
Puppies_On_Acid: Ihsahn - On the Shores
Stadler: Michael Schenker Group - But I Want More
jingle.boy: Boston - Foreplay/Long Time
N H A E T C R O S
romdrums waits 3
Katt waits 2
Cyril waits 1
Remaining candidates for senders: Cyril, Sacul
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Cyril sent The Antlers
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Guessed letters spell HATE SCORN :2metal:
Show me D
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Cyril sent The Antlers
Yes, despite his guessing it for virtually every other participant, he sure did! :lol
TAC: Teramaze - Delusions of Grandeur
Tomislav95: Emancipator - First Snow
???: _ar_s_de - Heart
romdrums: Periphery - Lune
Nekov: Jakub Zytecki - Satya’s Diary
???: The Antlers - Wake
Lethean: Darkwater - Tallest Tree
Kattelox: Pathosray - Emerald City
Evermind: The Antlers - Palace
Puppies_On_Acid: Ihsahn - On the Shores
Stadler: Michael Schenker Group - But I Want More
jingle.boy: Boston - Foreplay/Long Time
H A T E S C O R N D
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I want to say Darkside but there's no D at the start
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There's no D at the start because I'm bad at this. Darkside is right. Here's the completed hangman:
TAC: Teramaze - Delusions of Grandeur
Tomislav95: Emancipator - First Snow
Sacul: DARKSIDE - Heart
romdrums: Periphery - Lune
Nekov: Jakub Zytecki - Satya’s Diary
Cyril: The Antlers - Wake
Lethean: Darkwater - Tallest Tree
Kattelox: Pathosray - Emerald City
Evermind: The Antlers - Palace
Puppies_On_Acid: Ihsahn - On the Shores
Stadler: Michael Schenker Group - But I Want More
jingle.boy: Boston - Foreplay/Long Time
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Last place hell yeah
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time for loss-pressions
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Here are six impressions. I'll put up 7 more in a few hours. Results will be either tonight or tomorrow morning, just depending on how long it takes me to get through them.
There’s a lot of stuff going on here, and while I like the core melodic concepts, I don’t care for a lot of the extraneous stuff that’s been added in.
There is a lot of interesting stuff going on here musically… but I think the vocal performance here is bad in several places, actually.
Wow, what a memorable voice. This song is an immediate favorite—I mean, it struck me within the first minute.
I am not particularly a fan of the style of growling used on this one. There’s a lot of other stuff going on here, though, so we’ll see how well that catches me.
I really like a lot of the vocal melodies here. I don’t think the singer’s style is the style best-suited to them, but he does at least a decent job.
This song is kind of quirky in a way I’m not sure I’ll be able to get fully into. At least it has one particular groove that I like.
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I really hope mine is about the memorable voice although the vocals don't even start until after the minute mark
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I can't really see mine being any of these except 3 or 5
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Here are six impressions. I'll put up 7 more in a few hours. Results will be either tonight or tomorrow morning, just depending on how long it takes me to get through them.
There’s a lot of stuff going on here, and while I like the core melodic concepts, I don’t care for a lot of the extraneous stuff that’s been added in.
There is a lot of interesting stuff going on here musically… but I think the vocal performance here is bad in several places, actually.
Wow, what a memorable voice. This song is an immediate favorite—I mean, it struck me within the first minute.
I am not particularly a fan of the style of growling used on this one. There’s a lot of other stuff going on here, though, so we’ll see how well that catches me.
I really like a lot of the vocal melodies here. I don’t think the singer’s style is the style best-suited to them, but he does at least a decent job.
This song is kind of quirky in a way I’m not sure I’ll be able to get fully into. At least it has one particular groove that I like.
I almost never have a firm feeling about these things, but here, I'm having a gut moment that this is mine.
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Brad Delp is god-tier vocals, so I hope it's not impression #2 above.
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Brad Delp is god-tier vocals, so I hope it's not impression #2 above.
Nah, Boston is #3.
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Yeah Boston could very easily be #3
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Brad Delp is god-tier vocals, so I hope it's not impression #2 above.
Nah, Boston is #3.
I'd like to believe that, but .... TASTES!!!! Plus, vocals don't come in until after Foreplay. :lol
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:neverusethis:
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If you're doing it right, nothing comes before foreplay :neverusethis:
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If you're doing it right, nothing comes before foreplay :neverusethis:
:neverusethis:
Brad Delp is god-tier vocals.
Agreed!
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Here's another set of impressions. I'll post the rankings in a bit, but the results are going to have to wait until tomorrow morning.
This is a really well-structured song that I enjoy listening to, but does not resonate with me as well as I could see it doing with others.
Of a few songs in this vein this round, I think this one may be the strongest, due to the excellent guitar work in the instrumental section.
I am not crazy about the first vocal part, but this one seems to get better and better as it goes along—and the rest of the vocals are much improved.
At first, I wasn’t particularly impressed by the singer (who plays a pretty central role in this one), but as the song went along, I came to really like his performance due to its emotional power.
This is probably not quite as strong as another fairly stylistically similar song from this round, but I do enjoy it quite a bit, particularly the middle section.
I’m interested by some of the complexity of this song, though I think it’s overall again something that’s not quite my style. Strong finale, though.
I really had no idea what to expect here… I definitely like what I’m hearing, though, particularly those melodies that really convey a strong sense of rising (I don’t know how to describe it better).
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hmm, yeah, not really sure this time
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Safe to say mine didn't do so hot I guess
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This is a really well-structured song that I enjoy listening to, but does not resonate with me as well as I could see it doing with others.
I’m interested by some of the complexity of this song, though I think it’s overall again something that’s not quite my style. Strong finale, though.
And these are the kinds of impressions I'm worried about. :-\
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Brad Delp, c'mon.
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This is a really well-structured song that I enjoy listening to, but does not resonate with me as well as I could see it doing with others.
I’m interested by some of the complexity of this song, though I think it’s overall again something that’s not quite my style. Strong finale, though.
And these are the kinds of impressions I'm worried about. :-\
Tell me about it.
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Here are these things, a little late. Working on the writeups now...
Cyril:
1. The Antlers - Wake
2. Billie Eilish - when the party’s over
3. Amendfoil - Skyline Escape
Elite:
1. The Ocean - Hadopelagic II: Let Them Believe
2. PreHistoric Animals - Burn the ground
3. Ancestors - The Warm Glow
Evermind:
1. The Antlers - Palace
2. Karmakanic - Who’s the Boss in the Factory
3. Lords of Black - Ghosts of You
jingle.boy:
1. Circus Maximus - Glory of the Empire
2. Triumph - Fight the Good Fight
3. Boston - Foreplay/Long Time
Kattelox:
1. Pathosray - Emerald City
2. Twilight Force - Flight of the Sapphire Dragon
3. Tom Waits - I Hope That I Don’t Fall In Love With You
Lethean:
1. Darkwater - Tallest Tree
2. Perihelion Ship - New Sun?
3. Agent Fresco - See Hell
Nekov:
1. Jakub Zytecki - Satya's Diary
2. The Contortionist - Clairvoyant
3. Cyril - Get Up High
Puppies_On_Acid:
1. Paatos - Tea
2. Breaking Orbit - When Isis Starts to Cry
3. Ihsahn - On the Shores
romdrums:
1. Periphery - Lune
2. Bjørk - Joga
3. DGM - Ghosts of Insanity
Sacul:
1. Talk Talk - Living in Another World
2. The Cardigans - Explode
3. DARKSIDE - Heart
Stadler:
1. Rainbow - Stargazer
2. Michael Schenker Group - But I Want More
3. Deep Purple - Not Responsible
TAC:
1. Anabasis - Terminal
2. Teramaze - Delusions of Grandeur
3. Daydream XI - Watch Me Rise
Tomislav95:
1. Soen - Lotus
2. Maybeshewill - He Films the Clouds Pt. 2
3. Emancipator - First Snow
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Kattelox:
1. Pathosray - Emerald City
2. Twilight Force - Flight of the Sapphire Dragon
3. Tom Waits - I Hope That I Don’t Fall In Love With You
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hell yeah :2metal:
have a suspicion i'm making it to the final round and thus subjecting 425 to my EP he'll hate
bet i still got 8.5 this round though
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Kattelox:
1. Pathosray - Emerald City
2. Twilight Force - Flight of the Sapphire Dragon
3. Tom Waits - I Hope That I Don’t Fall In Love With You
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Fuck you!!!! ;D
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:rollin
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Well crap :lol
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jingle.boy:
1. Circus Maximus - Glory of the Empire
2. Triumph - Fight the Good Fight
3. Boston - Foreplay/Long Time
And there you have it.
TASTESTM!!!
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Triumph over Foreplay/Long Time? Foreplay/Long Time in third?! 425 is clearly 420 :lol
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jingle.boy:
1. Circus Maximus - Glory of the Empire
2. Triumph - Fight the Good Fight
3. Boston - Foreplay/Long Time
And there you have it.
TASTESTM!!!
I should keep my mouth shut, because I agree with mine fully, but this is... well... hmm. I guess I too am a bigger fan of Delp/Boston than others.
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Yeah, that list is clearly upside down.
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Well then, seems I'm going uphill in this one. I'm obviously going to torpedo myself with the EP :lol
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Cyril:
1. The Antlers - Wake
2. Billie Eilish - when the party’s over
3. Amendfoil - Skyline Escape
Evermind:
1. The Antlers - Palace
2. Karmakanic - Who’s the Boss in the Factory
3. Lords of Black - Ghosts of You
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Don't ever let anyone tell you you deserve that (good score)
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That Antlers album is so good. Tomi sent it to me in my first roulette. Not stellar from start to finish imo but has some wonderful music on there. Dig it.
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Okay, here are results for the final pre-EP round! I would say that overall this was probably the weakest round of the three, but it also had my two favorite songs of the whole roulette so far. I think the average score is lower this round than on either of the previous two, and it has the lowest score of the roulette, but it also has the highest. A round of contrasts. Here are the results.
Evermind: The Antlers - Palace
Impression: Wow, what a memorable voice. This song is an immediate favorite—I mean, it struck me within the first minute.
Okay, so I wasn’t staring at the timestamp when I said “the first minute,” so it was really maybe the first 90 seconds, but I think the point is clear. What actually first struck me is the main chord progression, which is mesmerizing in itself, and then when the vocals came in, it went to the next level. The female vocalist has a distinct and memorable voice, and the melodies are so emotionally powerful. The instrumentation is a wonderful compliment. I absolutely love the way the brass is used on this piece, both under the vocals and as a lead instrument on its own.
This is a song where every element is in just the right place to create a powerful emotional effect. For example, I feel like the tempo is perfect, not even a bit too fast or too slow, but just right in the perfect place. This song really impressed from the start and continues to impress me a ton. Despite my reputation as a generous scorer, I’ve only given a handful of perfect scores before. I’m very cautious to only give that high an honor to songs that deserve it. Well…
Score: 10 out of 10.
Cyril: The Antlers - Wake
Impression: At first, I wasn’t particularly impressed by the singer (who plays a pretty central role in this one), but as the song went along, I came to really like his performance due to its emotional power.
I think the main factor that led to this impression was the presence of Palace in this round, and the fact that on my first listen, by sheer randomness, this song came on right after it. I was so impressed by the female vocalist on that song, that there was a bit of disappointment right off the bat on hearing that she was not back on this one.
But this singer won me over, not with technical excellence, but with an understated emotional performance on some truly powerful melodies and lyrics. And, though this is one of those songs that’s structured around the vocal part, the instrumentation is really excellent, in the first half providing a great counterpart that feels to me like it’s sort of guiding the vocals along their rather mesmerizing progression… and then in the second half taking things up to the next level. Seriously, the second half of this song is so poignant, so well executed, that I won’t try to go into any further detail.
Either this song or Palace would have sent The Antlers to the top of my list. The combination of the two is almost too much for one round.
Score: 9.5 out of 10.
TAC: Teramaze - Delusions of Grandeur
Impression: Of a few songs in this vein this round, I think this one may be the strongest, due to the excellent guitar work in the instrumental section.
Of the three epic prog metal songs of this round (this one, Darkwater, Pathosray), this one started out in front, and never really relinquished its lead. I don’t make any secret of the fact that I’m a big fan of dynamics and anthemic choruses, and this one definitely has those features. It also brings to the table a couple of strong instrumental sections, the last of which is particularly strong.
This song fires on all cylinders and delivers a lot of great instrumental work and some powerful melodies. Definitely one of the most enjoyable entries of the round.
Score: 8.5 out of 10.
Lethean: Darkwater - Tallest Tree
Impression: This is probably not quite as strong as another fairly stylistically similar song from this round, but I do enjoy it quite a bit, particularly the middle section.
The Teramaze song and this one (and to a lesser extent the Pathosray song) were sort of paired together for me as the prog metal epics of the round. This one was probably the biggest grower out of that set, in the sense that it definitely started out as the lowest of the three, and now is up there in a very similar range as the Teramaze song, to the point where I don’t know which one I like better.
What I particularly enjoy here is the buildup in intensity over the course of the song, which I think is done pretty subtly in this case (i.e., it’s not an obvious case of starting really quiet and building to some huge climax), but is definitely still present. Even within the verse-chorus element of the structure, it feels like each successive chorus is bigger than the previous one, which is pretty cool. This is a really solid progressive metal epic that will definitely have me checking out the album.
Score: 8.5 out of 10.
jingle.boy: Boston - Foreplay/Long Time
Impression: This is a really well-structured song that I enjoy listening to, but does not resonate with me as well as I could see it doing with others.
A tough score and writeup to do, because I am very aware of the legendary status of this song and album. I really have nothing to criticize here, and probably nothing to praise that hasn’t been said a thousand times before, so I’ll just try to give a best attempt at describing my own overall reaction to this song to at least explain my ultimately scoring decision.
This is one of those songs that I enjoy all the way through primarily because of an overall impression I get that it is a very skilled composition. This isn’t the same thing as what I wrote about in the Stargazer writeup, where I get a sense of a song insisting on its greatness, but it’s sort of a similar thing on not quite as high a level.
This feeling doesn’t necessarily entail a strong emotional connection to the song or the notion that it’s something that resonates with me on a deep level. But it does entail an enjoyment that I can’t resist. And in this case, that feeling has grown on every additional listen, as I discover more and more nuances in the songwriting. It’s grown since I posted those rankings an hour ago, to where I’d say those are now wrong and the Boston song beats the Triumph. Maybe if I listened to it five more times it’d beat Circus Maximus, too, although that one is just more my kind of music. (And for the record, this was written before people started reacting to that ranking in the thread.) But this is just a song that feels good to listen to. It’ll definitely have me checking to see if the rest of the album lives up to the reputation.
Score: 8.5 out of 10.
Kattelox: Pathosray - Emerald City
Impression: I am not crazy about the first vocal part, but this one seems to get better and better as it goes along—and the rest of the vocals are much improved.
I don’t know, is that a different vocalist on the first part than the later ones? Because the style there is so different than the rest of the vocals. I don’t know, the main thing is that I was worried when I heard that style of singing, because it really wasn’t working for me on this track. But fortunately that didn’t wind up being a decisive factor, especially because the other vocal style predominates.
Instrumentally, I really like this song a lot. There’s so much going on that it really feels longer than 7:20, in a good way—almost has that mini-epic feel that I’ve tried to identify with themed rounds in past roulettes. There’s a good progression between the sections, particularly in the transition from the guitar solo in the instrumental section into the “king of the universe” part.
This is a very good song. I am looking forward to giving more time to it, and hearing more from the band.
Score: 8.5 out of 10.
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Elite: PreHistoric Animals - Burn the Ground
Impression: I really had no idea what to expect here… I definitely like what I’m hearing, though, particularly those melodies that really convey a strong sense of rising (I don’t know how to describe it better).
This is a song where I’m probably not going to be able to go into much detail for the writeup. It’s just, in my opinion, a really strong prog song. I’m a particular fan of the vocal element here. The melodies, both verse and chorus, are really catchy, and convey this sense of an almost constant buildup that runs through the whole song. There’s also some strong instrumental work, particularly from the rhythm section.
Stylistically, the result is almost a hybrid between prog and modern alternative rock, which I think is pretty cool. This is just a very solid piece.
Score: 8.0 out of 10.
romdrums: Periphery - Lune
Impression: I really like a lot of the vocal melodies here. I don’t think the singer’s style is the style best-suited to them, but he does at least a decent job.
Periphery, I understand, is a pretty big name in prog metal these days, but I have to admit to having never heard any of their songs. I understand from your PM (and from knowing that they’re associated pretty heavily with djent) that this isn’t really their usual style. But however accustomed they are to doing music like this, this is a pretty strong effort.
I really like songs like this, where there is a strong emphasis on slower-developing emotional melodies with plenty of dynamic range between heavier and softer parts. This one is generally a pretty well-executed example of the style. One particular highlight is the pairing of the heavier guitar riffs with the “woah oh oh” parts late in the song. I can see this being a strong album closer.
The one noteworthy downside here is mentioned in the impression. The singer’s tendency toward a core-type style of vocals is not, I think, the best style for this type of emotional song, and I think it would be better if he had adopted a different style. But it never detracts too heavily, and the overall song is still pretty strong.
Score: 8.0 out of 10.
Stadler: Michael Schenker Group - But I Want More
Impression: I’m interested by some of the complexity of this song, though I think it’s overall again something that’s not quite my style. Strong finale, though.
Once again we have something in a style that I’ve sort of expressed a lukewarm general attitude toward, but have had some stuff succeed in: 70s/80s hard rock. So, is this another success story, or do we have something that’s going to fall into that lower echelon again? In this case, it’s probably somewhere in the middle.
I definitely like this song more than most songs in this style, mainly because I like that there’s a lot going on here that still comes together pretty well. There’s a lot of tempo shifts, shifts in mood, etc., all run through by enjoyable guitar work.
The limiting factor here is that I don’t connect particularly strongly to the vocal performance. I’m not crazy about the singing style here, and the vocal melodies don’t particularly stand out to me. The instrumentals are quite good and this song is strong enough to make me at least interested in hearing more from the band, but it’s not going to reach the upper tiers of the round.
Score: 7.5 out of 10.
Nekov: Jakub Zytecki - Satya’s Diary
Impression: I am not particularly a fan of the style of growling used on this one. There’s a lot of other stuff going on here, though, so we’ll see how well that catches me.
The overriding feature of this song, for me, is actually not (contrary to the impression) the relatively brief growling part. That’s what stuck out to me on first listen, but, well, it’s a first impression and those sometimes change. The overriding feature is the attempt to combine technical parts with more melodic ones. I’m certainly impressed by a lot of the technical guitar work on this one, but technicality is not something I primarily come to music looking for.
Fortunately, this song has some of what I do look for. There are some interesting vocal parts on this one, and a really good melodic guitar solo. The final two and a half minutes are particularly strong. Once the song switches over to the piano-driven quiet part and the subsequent buildup into the finale, it goes from something that I think is a bit uncertain of what its exact identity is, into a pretty impressive emotional work.
To address the vocal issue: I’ve indicated both before and during the roulette that I’m much more likely to be well-disposed to harsh vocals than in the past, and that is true. However, that does not mean that I think it is usually the right vocal style to use, or that I will like all styles of growling. In this case, I’m just not crazy about the way this guy’s growls sound. They sound a little… phlegmatic? Anyway, it’s a short section that I don’t like, which obviously is an obstacle to my enjoyment of the whole song, but not a totally insurmountable one.
Overall, this song feels like it’s trying to be a lot of different things, and it does each of those things pretty well. While it never really feels cohesive, and spends more time than I’d prefer on the parts that I’m less interested in, the really strong finale brings it up somewhat in my estimate, and makes me at least interested in hearing what else this artist can do.
Score: 7.5 out of 10.
Puppies_On_Acid: Ihsahn - On the Shores
Impression: There is a lot of interesting stuff going on here musically… but I think the vocal performance here is bad in several places, actually.
Just going to paste what I said in my writeup for Nekov’s here by means of introducing this topic: I’ve indicated both before and during the roulette that I’m much more likely to be well-disposed to harsh vocals than in the past, and that is true. However, that does not mean that I think it is usually the right vocal style to use, or that I will like all styles of growling.
I’ll try to describe this as best as I can. The type of growls I think are best are typically those that sound thick and menacing, not thin and agonized. That doesn’t really capture it, but it’s an attempt. Anyway, the growls on this song are of a type that I really don’t like. There are points where it actually just sounds to me like he lost his voice partway through the take but decided to leave it on the record anyway. Especially the part at 4:45.
I’m not going to belabor it, but I wanted to try to explain my point of view, since the vocals are a major factor in the scoring for this song.
Musically, there’s a lot here that I find pretty interesting. As I’ve said before, I like longer songs that flow between a lot of different sections, and this achieves that pretty well, musically. I like the symphonic elements, and the big, epic sound of a lot of the riffs. The saxophone is an interesting touch, as well. This is a song that I could see myself getting very much into if I liked the vocals even somewhat better. So the result is not going to be a bad score (no surprise huh), but on the overall scale of this roulette, where I haven’t outright disliked anything, it will unfortunately be at the bottom tier.
Score: 7.0 out of 10.
Sacul: DARKSIDE - Heart
Impression: This song is kind of quirky in a way I’m not sure I’ll be able to get fully into. At least it has one particular groove that I like.
This song is very… bouncy. And that gives it this very quirky vibe, like a sort of hipster coffee shop type thing. There’s a certain kind of hipster-coffee-shop-adjacent sound that I can enjoy, but when we go into the full thing, that’s a little harder for me.
The struggle here is that there are a number of elements here that I like. The softer guitar part in the middle is a pretty nice section, and the guitar groove that follows it is the one referred to in the impression, and I really do like it pretty well. Overall, the parts where the guitar takes the lead are the best parts of the song, in part because I’m not crazy about the vocal performance as a whole, it’s a little too consistently high-pitched for me.
Overall, this has some stuff that I like when I listen to it, but is just not something that I really see myself coming back to.
Score: 7.0 out of 10.
Tomislav95: Emancipator - First Snow
Impression: There’s a lot of stuff going on here, and while I like the core melodic concepts, I don’t care for a lot of the extraneous stuff that’s been added in.
Very risky sending me two songs in this sort of instrumental atmosphere-focused style in a row. Of course, it did pay off last time, but, yeah, what I said about not liking a lot of these type of songs very well still applies.
In the better ones of these songs, what typically happens is that there are a couple of themes that I find pretty nice, and that makes the listening experience pretty decent. That’s the case here; the main themes are pretty good, especially the second one. But two solid themes in a song like this is not really enough to rise into the upper echelons of a round for me. It’s also necessary to have something else going on. In the case of the Maybeshewill song, it was a really excellent vocal section that boosted that one up.
In this case, we have a lot of samples, none of which really adds anything for me, and some of which are a little on the annoying side, I must say. Overall, I think the song would definitely be better without them. But even then, it just wouldn’t be a favorite for me, unfortunately. I hope I made clear enough earlier that this style of music is a big risk, and you’re not too surprised by the outcome.
Score: 6.5 out of 10.
Standings:
Evermind - 27.5
Cyril - 26.5
jingle.boy - 25.5
TAC - 25.5
Lethean - 25.0
Tomislav95 - 24.5
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Kattelox - 24.0
Stadler - 24.0
Elite - 23.5
Sacul - 23.5
Nekov - 23.0
romdrums - 23.0
Puppies_On_Acid - 22.5
Evermind steps out to a commanding lead in hopes of finally winning a 425 roulette, but it will end in tragedy when I meh Beyond the Bridge and Cyril unexpectedly gets a perfect score on the EP I'll hate!
Okay, so as much as a part of me would like to try to run a 13 EP round, my rational side says that's insane don't try that you're already slow as hell. So I'm not going to try that.
I said previously that the top six would be safe. I think six is a good number of EP's to work with, and there's a nice even cutoff after #6 (and then a tie at #7), so I am going to stick with that. Evermind, Cyril, Chad, Tim, Lethean, Tomi, you're in! Send me your EPs as soon as you have them ready. The standard rules for EPs apply: 40 minute maximum, substantial use of at least 3 different artists. The scores will be out of 20 points.
As for everyone else, thank you so much for playing. Even in a short roulette where you ended up on the losing end, I think I've gotten stuff from all of you that I'll be interested to check out in the future, so that is much appreciated. And if any of you has prepared or want to prepare an EP that you want me to hear, please send it to me! I want to hear them! After I have delivered results on the final round, I will do a writeup on any EPs sent in by eliminated participants.
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Damn... so close. I was really hoping you'd dig that first vocal part - that's no lie one of the coolest metal vocal sections I've ever heard in my life. Glad you enjoyed the rest though! I'm making an EP for you anyway. :corn
Also, yeah, one guy - his name is Marco Sandron and he's a vocal monster.
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Huh, it's kind of cool that the same guy is able to do both those styles. I don't know, it just didn't connect with me. Didn't feel quite right for the song. :-\
Looking forward to hearing your EP!
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Dammit Ev :getoffmylawn:
Nah but Palace is great too, Wake is honestly more of an album song than anything and at the end of a very emotionally wrought album in context it destroys me
You've had my EP for like a month now but I'm just go ahead and say it:
Sent.
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Wow, a 10/10! I don't remember if I've ever got a 10/10 before since I didn't play in Scar's roulette.
Evermind steps out to a commanding lead in hopes of finally winning a 425 roulette, but it will end in tragedy when I meh Beyond the Bridge and Cyril unexpectedly gets a perfect score on the EP I'll hate!
I have no doubts I'll blow my lead. :lol
I also didn't work on my EP at all so far, have exactly zero songs ready. I'll try to get it to you on Sunday.
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I'm out of both active roulettes now. Someone start a damn roulette so I can play again! :lol
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You had me worried with those impressions.
You'll have my EP tomorrow, maybe Saturday. I've had my strategy right from the outset, just got to get my time and running order lined up.
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I'm out of both active roulettes now. Someone start a damn roulette so I can play again! :lol
Serves you right Mr. “Please Join My Roulette So I Can Eliminate More People” Man.
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I'm out of both active roulettes now. Someone start a damn roulette so I can play again! :lol
Serves you right Mr. “Please Join My Roulette So I Can Eliminate More People” Man.
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I'm out of both active roulettes now. Someone start a damn roulette so I can play again! :lol
Serves you right Mr. “Please Join My Roulette So I Can Eliminate More People” Man.
Everyone knew what they were signing up for. You can only blame yourselves. Send better shit and you won't have to worry about that, hot shot! :biggrin: :corn
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Yeah I'm next in line I think and my roulette thread will go up over the weekend if so
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I feel empty.
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The Great 0.5 Point Divide
Happens when there's only 3 rounds I guess :lol
425, I don't know if you've decided to indulge yourself in my EP yet but I hope if you've done so you regret letting me survive this long.
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jingle.boy:
1. Circus Maximus - Glory of the Empire
2. Triumph - Fight the Good Fight
3. Boston - Foreplay/Long Time
And there you have it.
TASTESTM!!!
Those are all epic, legendary songs, so trying to rate them in order would be extremely difficult for most people.
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There are a few really ironic posts in this thread based on the pre-results and it's very :corn
Kattelox:
1. Pathosray - Emerald City
2. Twilight Force - Flight of the Sapphire Dragon
3. Tom Waits - I Hope That I Don’t Fall In Love With You
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Fuck you!!!! ;D
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I'm out of both active roulettes now. Someone start a damn roulette so I can play again! :lol
Serves you right Mr. “Please Join My Roulette So I Can Eliminate More People” Man.
Everyone knew what they were signing up for. You can only blame yourselves. Send better shit and you won't have to worry about that, hot shot! :biggrin: :corn
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Kattelox: Pathosray - Emerald City
This is a very good song. I am looking forward to giving more time to it, and hearing more from the band.
I originally built my EP around a Pathosray song.
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:lol
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I checked out The Antlers..
...I'm in the wrong roulette. :lol
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I'm in the wrong roulette.
425, this is my official EP title now.
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I'm in the wrong roulette.
425, this is my official EP title now.
Too late!
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What's the minimum EP length allowed?
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:'( :'( :'( :'(
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EP sent!!!
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I sent my EP:
- 4' 33", by John Cage
- Two Minutes Of Silence, by John Lennon
- One Minute Of Silence, by Soundgarden
- The ten minute song between "Something In The Way" and "Endless, Nameless" on Nevermind, by Nirvana
- Songs 10 through 68 from Undertow, by Tool
- "Our Song", by Roger Waters/Ron Geesin (from the "Music From The Body" soundtrack)
19 minutes and 57 seconds of some of the most meaningful and moving music I've ever sent in a roulette. I hope you like it.
:) :) :)
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I sent my EP:
- 4' 33", by John Cage
- Two Minutes Of Silence, by John Lennon
- One Minute Of Silence, by Soundgarden
- The ten minute song between "Something In The Way" and "Endless, Nameless" on Nevermind, by Nirvana
- Songs 10 through 68 from Undertow, by Tool
- "Our Song", by Roger Waters/Ron Geesin (from the "Music From The Body" soundtrack)
19 minutes and 57 seconds of some of the most meaningful and moving music I've ever sent in a roulette. I hope you like it.
:) :) :)
Hello darkness my old friend.
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Aahw, that's a shame. Glad you liked the last song a bit though! :)
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What's the minimum EP length allowed?
Have not really thought about a minimum, because I figured most people would be striving against a maximum and not really worrying about the reverse.
Um, no minimum, but I can almost guarantee it will hurt your score if yours is like, massively shorter than everyone else's. So I wouldn't recommend going below, say, 25 minutes? But I'm not going to enforce anything.
I sent my EP:
- 4' 33", by John Cage
- Two Minutes Of Silence, by John Lennon
- One Minute Of Silence, by Soundgarden
- The ten minute song between "Something In The Way" and "Endless, Nameless" on Nevermind, by Nirvana
- Songs 10 through 68 from Undertow, by Tool
- "Our Song", by Roger Waters/Ron Geesin (from the "Music From The Body" soundtrack)
19 minutes and 57 seconds of some of the most meaningful and moving music I've ever sent in a roulette. I hope you like it.
:) :) :)
As a fan of Coheed and Cambria's A Lot of Nothing I-XI, I'm really looking forward to digging into this one!
I checked out The Antlers..
...I'm in the wrong roulette. :lol
I embrace multitudes. The Anabasis track is my 4th favorite song of the roulette after the two The Antlers songs and Stargazer.
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relistened to Palace since I haven't in a while, never got this album because the rest of the album never really lived up to the standard this song set
there's, uh, no female vocalist on this track though, the frontman just sings like that :lol
or at the very least there doesn't seem to be any female vocalist credited on the album
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Familiars_(album)#Personnel
i was weirded out when reading that comment 'cause i was like "wait i don't remember a female vocalist on that song"
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That's 425 for you.
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Oh god I did it again
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Well damn, had a bit more hopes for this one but I understand your reservations about the singer. It was fun to play, thanks for having me!
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I can't decide if I should make an epic EP or attempt to do a quiet emotional one. :lol Cyril is probably going for emotional so I guess I should do epic instead.
Oh by the way, I probably won't send today. Got a lot of ideas and I've actually put together two EPs which I'm going to listen to tomorrow and decide on which one I want to send. Also might tweak them a bit. So I will send tomorrow most likely.
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Let’s go Saculmind!!!
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Overthinking: the key to Roulette failure.
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I mean I already failed two times in 425's, might as well fail the third time too. :biggrin: I don't want to half-ass it though, and right now both EPs are definitely half-assed.
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I can't decide if I should make an epic EP or attempt to do a quiet emotional one. :lol Cyril is probably going for emotional so I guess I should do epic instead.
i mean, in a way. but it's not really either of those
it's a "bad idea" EP
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Let’s go Saculmind!!!
Not just Saculmind. I have three EPs, I'm missing three EPs: Ev's, Lethean's and Tomislav's. Two of those people have already told me to expect them on Monday, and that's okay with me. PMing the third person now to see if we can get them all in within the next 24 hours.
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Hey, sent you a PM with my bands while I'm thinking on the EP name. If they all are available I'm almost all set, just need to come up with a name, proof-read my post and write some explanations on the EP structure.
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And sent! Can't wait to lose in 425's roulette once again!
Chad, you'll probably enjoy some parts of my EP.
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Great, 5/6 now received! And the listening process is underway. Hangman will begin once I get that last EP.
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I'm gonna enjoy your suffering.
Here's my predictions (minor spoilers I guess)
Track 1: You'll like small parts of this but dislike most of it
Track 2: You'll like the first half but not the second half
Track 3: You'll like all of this one
Track 4: I dunno, could go any way
Track 5: You'll like everything except one part of this
Track 6: You'll like some of this but other parts not at all
Track 7: This will be your favorite on the EP
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What slacker are we waiting for?
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I'm gonna enjoy your suffering.
Here's my predictions (minor spoilers I guess)
Track 1: You'll like small parts of this but dislike most of it
Track 2: You'll like the first half but not the second half
Track 3: You'll like all of this one
Track 4: I dunno, could go any way
Track 5: You'll like everything except one part of this
Track 6: You'll like some of this but other parts not at all
Track 7: This will be your favorite on the EP
Thanks for doing the writeup for me. 4/10.
What slacker are we waiting for?
Lethean.
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:2metal:
My birthright :heart
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Lethean doesn't know what to send as Katatonia is banned :neverusethis:
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Tanatokia - Netheal
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Lethean doesn't know what to send as Katatonia is banned :neverusethis:
Truth. :)
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Jatatonia - Jethean
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Okay, everybody's in and everything's rolling along on my end, so it's time to play hangman!
There are a total of 45 songs this round, so I've randomized the order and divided them into three hangman tables of 15 songs each. When we're close to having everything solved on one, I'll post the next one, and so on.
Here's the first hangman:
???: ____ - ______ ____ ___
???: ______ - _______ ___ _____
???: _____ _______ - ________ ____
???: ________ - ___________ ________ _______
???: _____ - __ __ __
???: ____ __ _______ - ___ _____ ______
???: __________ - ___ ______ ________
???: ____ ___ _______ - ___ ___ ____ __
???: _____ ________ - __________
???: ___ ______ - _________
???: ______ _________ ________ - ___ __ _______
???: ____ __ ___ ____ - ___ _________
???: ___ _______ ____ - _______
???: ______ _______ - _____
???: _____ ___ ______ - ___ ____ _ _____ ___
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no i don't wanna think of you anymore
tonight... the D
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T
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Good night, tonight, goodbye...
???: ___t - __tt__ D___ ___
???: D_____ - ___t___ t__ _t___
???: __t__ _______ - ________ ____
???: ___t____ - __________d ____t___ _______
???: ___d_ - __ __ __
???: ___t __ T_____t - ___ T____ ______
???: T_________ - T__ ____t_ D_______
???: __t_ __t ____d__ - _t_ __t ___t __
???: ___t__ ________ - D____tt__t_
???: T__ ______ - D______d_
???: ______ _________ ________ - __t __ _______
???: ___t __ t__ ____ - T__ ________t
???: T__ _______ T___ - ___d___
???: ____t_ ___t___ - _____
???: _____ ___ ______ - ___ T__t _ ____d ___
D T
TAC waits 3
Cyril waits 2
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I probably know more than I think I do but currently I don't see anything haha
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You're missing Sarah McLachlan - Angel
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ooh, I see Fates Warning - The Light and Shade of Things?
looks like only two of my songs are in this set, also. hmm :corn
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U
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???: ___t - __tt__ D___ ___
???: D_____ - ___t___ t__ _t___
???: __t__ _______ - _____u__ ____
???: ___tu_u_ - __________d ____t___ _______
???: ___d_ - __ __ __
???: ___t __ T__u__t - ___ T____ ______
???: T_________ - T__ ____t_ D_______
???: __t_ __t ____d__ - _t_ __t _u_t __
???: ___t__ ________ - D____tt__t_
???: T__ ______ - D______d_
???: ____u_ _________ ________ - __t __ _____u_
???: ___t __ t__ ____ - T__ ________t
???: T__ _______ T___ - ___d___
???: ____t_ ___t___ - _____
???: _____ ___ ______ - ___ T__t _ __u_d __u
D T U
Evermind waits 3
TAC waits 2
Cyril waits 1
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Arcturus - Shipwrecked Frontier Pioneer
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Damn, you're good at this.
???: ___t - __tt__ D___ ___
???: D_____ - ___t___ t__ _t___
???: __t__ _______ - _____u__ ____
???: Arcturus - Shipwrecked Frontier Pioneer
???: ___d_ - __ __ __
???: ___t __ T__u__t - ___ T____ ______
???: T_________ - T__ ____t_ D_______
???: __t_ __t ____d__ - _t_ __t _u_t __
???: ___t__ ________ - D____tt__t_
???: T__ ______ - D______d_
???: ____u_ _________ ________ - __t __ _____u_
???: ___t __ t__ ____ - T__ ________t
???: T__ _______ T___ - ___d___
???: ____t_ ___t___ - _____
???: _____ ___ ______ - ___ T__t _ __u_d __u
D T U
Evermind waits 3
TAC waits 2
Cyril waits 1
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Lost in Thought - New Times Awaken by Chad aka jingle.boy
Also very tempted to guess Sonata Arctica - Caleb by Lethean but I don't know, the previous song from Unia didn't fare too well
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I'd say I was of two minds on the other Unia song. I felt like it had a lot of promise but never quite fulfilled it. We'll see how Caleb does.
???: ___t - __tt__ D___ ___
???: D_____ - ___t___ t__ _t___
???: __t__ _______ - _____u__ ____
???: Arcturus - Shipwrecked Frontier Pioneer
???: ___d_ - __ __ __
jingle.boy: Lost In Thought - New Times Awaken
???: T_________ - T__ ____t_ D_______
???: __t_ __t ____d__ - _t_ __t _u_t __
???: ___t__ ________ - D____tt__t_
???: T__ ______ - D______d_
???: ____u_ _________ ________ - __t __ _____u_
???: ___t __ t__ ____ - T__ ________t
???: T__ _______ T___ - ___d___
Lethean: Sonata Arctica - Caleb
???: _____ ___ ______ - ___ T__t _ __u_d __u
D T U
Evermind waits 3
TAC waits 2
Cyril waits 1
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I like Caleb way more actually, so Lethean may be onto something.
East of the Wall - The Apologist by Cyril
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c'mon someone else guess a letter so i can kill evermind :lol
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Let's Eat Grandma - It's Not Just Me
wtf :lol
Carly Rae Jepsen - Now That I Found You
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???: ___t - __tt__ D___ ___
???: D_____ - ___t___ t__ _t___
???: __t__ _______ - _____u__ ____
???: Arcturus - Shipwrecked Frontier Pioneer
???: ___d_ - __ __ __
jingle.boy: Lost In Thought - New Times Awaken
???: T_________ - T__ ____t_ D_______
???: Let’s Eat Grandma - It’s Not Just Me
???: ___t__ ________ - D____tt__t_
???: T__ ______ - D______d_
???: ____u_ _________ ________ - __t __ _____u_
Cyril: East of the Wall - The Apologist
???: T__ _______ T___ - ___d___
Lethean: Sonata Arctica - Caleb
???: Carly Rae Jepsen - Now That I Found You
D T U
Evermind waits 3
TAC waits 2
Cyril waits 1
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Lost in Thought - New Times Awaken by Chad aka jingle.boy
That's a negative, Ghost Rider
jingle.boy: Lost In Thought - New Times Awaken
(https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSfW7JWW-HrhOsSvLR2AXUrDdZXtrW8Nfq0gJUtLigtTcdjxmRF)
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Carly Rae is Tomi most likely
Let's Eat Grandma is too I think
synthpop EP from the looks of it :corn
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That's a negative, Ghost Rider
Well you sent them before, so that made sense to me.
Let's say it's Tim then.
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jingly, give us a letter!
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Magnus Karlsson's Freefall - Not My Saviour
This is certainly Chad, I mean come on
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someone stop this man :getoffmylawn:
Arcturus is Lethean btw
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Arcturus is Lethean?
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Triosphere - The Heart's Dominion, let's say also by Chad
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go to bed already
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Arcturus is Lethean?
GTFO. Huh. Learn something new every day.
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It depends.
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go to bed already
That's actually a fairly good idea, I'm out
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tonight, goodnight, I'm burning Star IV
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That's a negative, Ghost Rider
Well you sent them before, so that made sense to me.
Indeed I have. If I had used them, it would've been a tune from their debut. I thought the sophmore release was a step below their 1st album. It was a good guess... the impressive fail was by our host.
Clearly, you are correct on your other two song identifications. How the fuck do you get these? I mean, I couldn't even figure it out, AND I KNOW WHAT I SENT!!!
Give us an M.
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Only one of my songs is in this batch, I think.
E
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Lost in Thought - New Times Awaken by Chad aka jingle.boy
That's a negative, Ghost Rider
jingle.boy: Lost In Thought - New Times Awaken
(https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSfW7JWW-HrhOsSvLR2AXUrDdZXtrW8Nfq0gJUtLigtTcdjxmRF)
Yikes, I got that mixed up with another one. Goes to show I'm not quite familiar with all these songs yet, I guess. It is in fact Tim.
???: M_mt - __tt_e D___ __e
???: De____ - ___t___ t_e _t__m
???: _ete_ _______ - _____u__ ____
Lethean: Arcturus - Shipwrecked Frontier Pioneer
???: ___de - M_ __ M_
TAC: Lost In Thought - New Times Awaken
jingle.boy: Triosphere - The Heart's Dominion
Tomislav95: Let’s Eat Grandma - It’s Not Just Me
???: ___t__ ___e__e_ - D__ett__te
???: T_e E___e_ - De__e__d_
jingle.boy: Magnus Karlsson's Freefall - Not My Saviour
Cyril: East of the Wall - The Apologist
???: T_e _______ T_ee - ___d_e_
Lethean: Sonata Arctica - Caleb
Tomislav95: Carly Rae Jepsen - Now That I Found You
D T U M E
TAC waits 3
jingle waits 2
Evermind waits 1
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MGMT-Little Dark Age
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MGMT-Little Dark Age
again Tomi
I think I want I
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Excellent guess, and excellent letter choice, as it turns out.
Tomislav95: MGMT - Little Dark Age
???: De__i_ - ___t___ t_e _t__m
???: _ete_ ____ie_ - _____u__ _i__
Lethean: Arcturus - Shipwrecked Frontier Pioneer
???: ___de - M_ __ M_
TAC: Lost In Thought - New Times Awaken
jingle.boy: Triosphere - The Heart's Dominion
Tomislav95: Let’s Eat Grandma - It’s Not Just Me
???: ___t__ ___e__e_ - Di_ett__te
???: T_e E___e_ - De__e__d_
jingle.boy: Magnus Karlsson's Freefall - Not My Saviour
Cyril: East of the Wall - The Apologist
???: T_e _i__i__ T_ee - ___die_
Lethean: Sonata Arctica - Caleb
Tomislav95: Carly Rae Jepsen - Now That I Found You
D T U M E I
Cyril waits 3
Tim waits 2
Chad waits 1
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Peter Gabriel
The Wishing Tree
the one artist looks like Lorde but i'm 90% sure it isn't
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Right, in checking Lorde on Spotify, I see that that is 425's avatar. So yeah, not Lorde.
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Oh, I know what it is..
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lorde is bolded on the banned list yeah :lol
TAC send whatever that is, apparently
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Slade-My Oh My
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Tomislav95: MGMT - Little Dark Age
???: De__i_ - ___t___ t_e _t__m
???: Peter Gabriel - _____u__ _i__
Lethean: Arcturus - Shipwrecked Frontier Pioneer
???: Slade - My Oh My
TAC: Lost In Thought - New Times Awaken
jingle.boy: Triosphere - The Heart's Dominion
Tomislav95: Let’s Eat Grandma - It’s Not Just Me
???: ___t__ ___e__e_ - Di_ett__te
???: T_e E___e_ - De__e__d_
jingle.boy: Magnus Karlsson's Freefall - Not My Saviour
Cyril: East of the Wall - The Apologist
???: The Wishing Tree - ___die_
Lethean: Sonata Arctica - Caleb
Tomislav95: Carly Rae Jepsen - Now That I Found You
D T U M E I
Cyril waits 3
Tim waits 2
Chad waits 1
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soldier
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The Eagles?
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that one's desperado
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Alice Cooper's Desperado is much better!
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Tomislav95: MGMT - Little Dark Age
???: De__i_ - ___t___ t_e _t__m
???: Peter Gabriel - _____u__ _i__
Lethean: Arcturus - Shipwrecked Frontier Pioneer
???: Slade - My Oh My
TAC: Lost In Thought - New Times Awaken
jingle.boy: Triosphere - The Heart's Dominion
Tomislav95: Let’s Eat Grandma - It’s Not Just Me
???: ___t__ ___e__e_ - Di_ett__te
???: The Eagles - Desperado
jingle.boy: Magnus Karlsson's Freefall - Not My Saviour
Cyril: East of the Wall - The Apologist
???: The Wishing Tree - Soldier
Lethean: Sonata Arctica - Caleb
Tomislav95: Carly Rae Jepsen - Now That I Found You
D T U M E I
Cyril waits 3
Tim waits 2
Chad waits 1
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that one's desperado
I thought Stadler was eliminated??
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Arcturus is Lethean?
GTFO. Huh. Learn something new every day.
? Stadler have you even heard of Arcturus? :)
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the wishing tree - jingly?
Peter Gabriel, The Eagles - maybe evermind?
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the wishing tree - jingly?
Evermind
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if you say so, cap'n
can't figure out what the first one is supposed to be. ??? the Storm but i have no clue what the first word could be
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Wishing Tree is in fact Evermind.
Tomislav95: MGMT - Little Dark Age
???: De__in - __nt___ the Storm
???: Peter Gabriel - _____u__ _i__
Lethean: Arcturus - Shipwrecked Frontier Pioneer
???: Slade - My Oh My
TAC: Lost In Thought - New Times Awaken
jingle.boy: Triosphere - The Heart's Dominion
Tomislav95: Let’s Eat Grandma - It’s Not Just Me
???: ___t__ ___e__e_ - Di_ett_nte
???: The Eagles - Desperado
jingle.boy: Magnus Karlsson's Freefall - Not My Saviour
Cyril: East of the Wall - The Apologist
Evermind: The Wishing Tree - Soldier
Lethean: Sonata Arctica - Caleb
Tomislav95: Carly Rae Jepsen - Now That I Found You
D T U M E I N
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Delain-Control The Storm
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is there a secret 7th EP mixed in here? :lol
i've pretty much pegged all the EPs as:
Tomi - Synthpop
jingle - Power/prog metal
Lethean - Prog metal
TAC - random stuff he found on spotify
Evermind - dunno yet except that it's feels-y
Me - bad ideas the motion picture
Peter Gabriel and The Eagles don't really fit into any of these though. and Slade as well doesn't fit either.
I mean it's totally possible I'm wrong about one EP though.
Delain is probably jingle, anyways
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TAC - random stuff he found on spotify
:lol
Nope. Everything on my EP had already been Saved in my Spotify Account. Nothing on my EP is random. :P :P
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Delain is not jingle. I'd say some of those descriptions are right, and some of them are maybe not quite on the mark... My advice would be not to be quick to pigeonhole an EP into a single genre.
Tomislav95: MGMT - Little Dark Age
???: Delain - Control The Storm
???: Peter Gabriel - _____u__ _i__
Lethean: Arcturus - Shipwrecked Frontier Pioneer
???: Slade - My Oh My
TAC: Lost In Thought - New Times Awaken
jingle.boy: Triosphere - The Heart's Dominion
Tomislav95: Let’s Eat Grandma - It’s Not Just Me
???: ___t__ ___e__e_ - Di_ett_nte
???: The Eagles - Desperado
jingle.boy: Magnus Karlsson's Freefall - Not My Saviour
Cyril: East of the Wall - The Apologist
Evermind: The Wishing Tree - Soldier
Lethean: Sonata Arctica - Caleb
Tomislav95: Carly Rae Jepsen - Now That I Found You
D T U M E I N
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jingle sent peter gabriel, tac sent eagles and slade because he's old
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delain is lethean
peter gabriel is tomi
slade is jingle
the eagles is tac
am i right on even one of these? no
edit: damn katt beat me to half of these guessed
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if lethean sent delain i'll eat my boots
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evermind sent delain?
i'm placing a lot of trust in TAC and Tomi not having sent Delain but it doesn't seem like either of their thing
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I have never heard a single Delain song, and I would never send the Eagles as I am not a fan. I have one song in this round and it's already been guessed.
Oh, but I LOVE Slade!
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Peter Gabriel and Slade are both jingle, and Delain is Evermind. TAC is not Eagles, in fact he sort of insulted that Eagles song like half a page ago so... :lol
Tomislav95: MGMT - Little Dark Age
Evermind: Delain - Control The Storm
jingle.boy: Peter Gabriel - _____u__ _i__
Lethean: Arcturus - Shipwrecked Frontier Pioneer
jingle.boy: Slade - My Oh My
TAC: Lost In Thought - New Times Awaken
jingle.boy: Triosphere - The Heart's Dominion
Tomislav95: Let’s Eat Grandma - It’s Not Just Me
???: ___t__ ___e__e_ - Di_ett_nte
???: The Eagles - Desperado
jingle.boy: Magnus Karlsson's Freefall - Not My Saviour
Cyril: East of the Wall - The Apologist
Evermind: The Wishing Tree - Soldier
Lethean: Sonata Arctica - Caleb
Tomislav95: Carly Rae Jepsen - Now That I Found You
D T U M E I N
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TAC is not Eagles, in fact he sort of insulted that Eagles song like half a page ago so... :lol
It wasn't so much insulting it, but to say that Alice Cooper's Desperado is a gazillion times better!
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hmm. well I already guessed Ev for the eagles
jingle for that one too maybe? dunnoooo
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Yes, jingle sent Eagles. Anybody gonna solve these last two? I'm not going to make people wait if anyone wants to throw out a letter.
Tomislav95: MGMT - Little Dark Age
Evermind: Delain - Control The Storm
jingle.boy: Peter Gabriel - _____u__ _i__
Lethean: Arcturus - Shipwrecked Frontier Pioneer
jingle.boy: Slade - My Oh My
TAC: Lost In Thought - New Times Awaken
jingle.boy: Triosphere - The Heart's Dominion
Tomislav95: Let’s Eat Grandma - It’s Not Just Me
???: ___t__ ___e__e_ - Di_ett_nte
jingle.boy: The Eagles - Desperado
jingle.boy: Magnus Karlsson's Freefall - Not My Saviour
Cyril: East of the Wall - The Apologist
Evermind: The Wishing Tree - Soldier
Lethean: Sonata Arctica - Caleb
Tomislav95: Carly Rae Jepsen - Now That I Found You
D T U M E I N
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A and L
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the last one is me and the entire song name is solved by the two letters TAC just guessed :corn
no clue what the pete gebe song name is though
update: it is Solsbury Hill
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Tomislav95: MGMT - Little Dark Age
Evermind: Delain - Control The Storm
jingle.boy: Peter Gabriel - Solsbury Hill
Lethean: Arcturus - Shipwrecked Frontier Pioneer
jingle.boy: Slade - My Oh My
TAC: Lost In Thought - New Times Awaken
jingle.boy: Triosphere - The Heart's Dominion
Tomislav95: Let’s Eat Grandma - It’s Not Just Me
???: A_t__ ___e__e_ - Dilettante
jingle.boy: The Eagles - Desperado
jingle.boy: Magnus Karlsson's Freefall - Not My Saviour
Cyril: East of the Wall - The Apologist
Evermind: The Wishing Tree - Soldier
Lethean: Sonata Arctica - Caleb
Tomislav95: Carly Rae Jepsen - Now That I Found You
D T U M E I N
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okay i refuse to solve my own song this time but you can go look at ariich's thread to figure it out
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Actor Observer
Which I also have in my Spotify account and I listed them as possibilities for your roulette until I saw they were banned.
So...not random!! :P :P
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i have no clue how you've listened to them but nice
they are very banned tho, my #2 album of last year :lol
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i have no clue how you've listened to them but nice
I follow a few new album tickers and I spend about 3 hours every Friday afternoon going through them. Things that I like I Save on Spotify. Actor Observer is one of those albums. Honestly I've heard it all the way through once. It's there if I ever want to go back, but I didn't delete it so there's that.
I listened to some of it the other night thinking you might like it. Then I saw it was banned.
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well, you were right :lol
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:tup
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if lethean sent delain i'll eat my boots
Your boots are safe. :)
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Five Chad's songs in the first batch, wow
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Alright, first hangman is complete!
Tomislav95: MGMT - Little Dark Age
Evermind: Delain - Control The Storm
jingle.boy: Peter Gabriel - Solsbury Hill
Lethean: Arcturus - Shipwrecked Frontier Pioneer
jingle.boy: Slade - My Oh My
TAC: Lost In Thought - New Times Awaken
jingle.boy: Triosphere - The Heart's Dominion
Tomislav95: Let’s Eat Grandma - It’s Not Just Me
Cyril: Actor | Observer - Dilettante
jingle.boy: The Eagles - Desperado
jingle.boy: Magnus Karlsson's Freefall - Not My Saviour
Cyril: East of the Wall - The Apologist
Evermind: The Wishing Tree - Soldier
Lethean: Sonata Arctica - Caleb
Tomislav95: Carly Rae Jepsen - Now That I Found You
Here's the second one:
???: ______ __________ - ___ ___ _ __
???: ___ ______ - ________ ____
???: ________ - ____ __ _______
???: _____ ___ ______ - _ _____ ____ ____ ____ __ _____
???: ______ _____ - ___________
???: ___ _________ _________ - ______ __ ______ _____
???: ___ ______ - _______ ____ _________
???: ________ - _________
???: ____ - __ ___ _______
???: ______ - _______ __ _______
???: _______ ___ ____ - _____
???: ___ ______ - ____ __ __ __ _____
???: ________ - ___________
???: ____ ____ - ______
???: _____ ___ ______ - _______
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U
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???: ______ __________ - ___ ___ _ __
???: ___ ______ - ________ ____
???: ________ - ____ __ _______
???: _____ ___ ______ - _ _____ _u__ ____ ____ __ _____
???: ______ _____ - _________u_
???: ___ _____u___ _________ - ______ __ ______ _____
???: ___ ______ - _______ ____ _________
???: ____u___ - _________
???: ____ - __ ___ _______
???: ______ - _______ __ _______
???: _______ ___ ____ - _____
???: ___ ______ - _u__ __ __ __ _____
???: ________ - __u____u___
???: ____ ____ - ______
???: _____ ___ ______ - _______
U
Evermind waits 3.
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V
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Can I just say, Chad is like Reese's: Killin' it! (Not sorry).
Desperado is probably my favorite non-Joe Walsh Eagles tune, My Oh My is an underrated tune from an underrated album from an underrated band (though they're silly, which doesn't help), and Solsbury Hill is one of my favorite songs of all time.
Nicely done.
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Would you believe: There are no V's. Triple checked with ctrl-F search and there's not a one.
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Carly Rae Jepsen - I Didn't Just Come Here to Dance by Tomi
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Can I just say, Chad is like Reese's: Killin' it! (Not sorry).
Desperado is probably my favorite non-Joe Walsh Eagles tune, My Oh My is an underrated tune from an underrated album from an underrated band (though they're silly, which doesn't help), and Solsbury Hill is one of my favorite songs of all time.
Nicely done.
(https://media.giphy.com/media/VGHtpsS3UJNRK/giphy.gif)
And that's why all 3 are in my Top 111 favorites playlist - Desperado and Solsbury Hill are in the GOAT list; My Oh My in my 'personal' favorites playlist.
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Carly Rae Jepsen - I Didn't Just Come Here to Dance by Tomi
the last song in hangmanen also looks like another Carly Rae Jepsen sent by Tomi
give me the T
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Yep, two Carly Rae Jepsens.
???: __t___ T___t_t___ - ___ ___ _ __
???: ___ ______ - ________ ____
???: ________ - ____ T__ _t_____
Tomislav95: Carly Rae Jepsen - I Didn’t Just Come Here to Dance
???: ___tt_ _____ - _________u_
???: T__ ____tu___ _________ - ____t_ __ ______ ____t
???: ___ ______ - _______ __t_ ______t__
???: ____u___ - _________
???: ___t - __ ___ _______
???: ______ - ___t___ __ ___t___
???: ___t__t T__ ____ - _____
???: ___ ______ - _u__ __ T_ __ ____t
???: ________ - __u____u___
???: T___ ____ - ___t__
Tomislav95: Carly Rae Jepsen - ___t___
U V T
Cyril waits 3.
Chad waits 2.
Ev waits 1.
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MGMT again
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M
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Why should I have to wait when I didn't get a hit!?!?!?
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Tomislav95: Let’s Eat Grandma - It’s Not Just Me
:o
:(
:huh:
:omg:
<if there was a puke emoji>
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Why should I have to wait when I didn't get a hit!?!?!?
In normal hangman I'm pretty sure it still counts as your turn whether you get a hit or not! And you would also get a hangman part on the gallows to go with it.
???: __t___ T_m_t_t___ - ___ ___ _ _m
???: ___ M_____ - ________ ___m
???: ________ - ____ T__ _t__m__
Tomislav95: Carly Rae Jepsen - I Didn’t Just Come Here to Dance
???: ___tt_ M____ - _____m___um
???: T__ ____tu___ __m______ - ____t_ __ __m___ ____t
???: ___ M_____ - _______ __t_ ______t__
???: __mmu___ - M________
???: MGMT - M_ ___ M______
???: ______ - M__t___ __ ___t___
???: ___t__t T__ ____ - _____
???: ___ M_____ - _u__ M_ T_ M_ __m_t
???: ________ - __u____u___
???: T___ _m__ - ___t__
Tomislav95: Carly Rae Jepsen - _m_t___
U V T M
Katt waits 3.
Cyril waits 2.
Chad waits 1.
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MGMT is of course Tomi
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A
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C
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R
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crj is emotion
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???: __t___ T_m_tat___ - ___ ___ _ Am
???: Ra_ M_rr__ - _____ca_ __rm
???: _____a__ - ____ T__ _t__m__
Tomislav95: Carly Rae Jepsen - I Didn’t Just Come Here to Dance
???: _r_tt_ Ma___ - _a___m___um
???: T__ _ractur__ __m______ - ____t_ __ __m__r _r__t
???: Ra_ M_rr__ - _a_c___ __t_ C_aract_r
???: C_mmu__c - M____a___
Tomislav95: MGMT - M_ A__ M_c_a__
???: ___a__ - Ma_t_r_ __ ___t___
???: _r_t__t T__ __r_ - _____
???: Ra_ M_rr__ - _u__ M_ T_ M_ __m_t
???: _____a__ - Rau___au___
???: T_r_ Am__ - ___t__
Tomislav95: Carly Rae Jepsen - Emotion
U V T M A C R
Cyril waits 3.
Lethean waits 2.
TAC waits 1.
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Communic
Rae Morris 3x sent by Tomi
Tori Amos sent by Tomi (Winter?)
Within Temptation sent by Ev
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lethean sent communic - moondance
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Tori Amos is Winter, but not sent by Tomi. Lethean did not send Communic. Evermind did send Within Temptation, as one could probably tell just from the fact that so many letters were filled in for so long and nobody got it. :P
Evermind: Within Temptation - ___ ___ _ Am
Tomislav95: Rae Morris - _____ca_ __rm
???: _____a__ - ____ T__ _t__m__
Tomislav95: Carly Rae Jepsen - I Didn’t Just Come Here to Dance
???: _r_tt_ Ma___ - _a___m___um
???: T__ _ractur__ __m______ - ____t_ __ __m__r _r__t
Tomislav95: Rae Morris - _a_c___ __t_ C_aract_r
???: Communic - Moondance
Tomislav95: MGMT - M_ A__ M_c_a__
???: ___a__ - Ma_t_r_ __ ___t___
???: _r_t__t T__ __r_ - _____
Tomislav95: Rae Morris - _u__ M_ T_ M_ __m_t
???: _____a__ - Rau___au___
???: Tori Amos - Winter
Tomislav95: Carly Rae Jepsen - Emotion
U V T M A C R
Cyril waits 3.
Lethean waits 2.
TAC waits 1.
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Tori Amos is Ev?
I think I only have one song this time, hmm
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See Who I Am.
H
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Yep, Tori Amos is Ev. And the third hangman is definitely Cyril-heavy.
Evermind: Within Temptation - See Who I Am
Tomislav95: Rae Morris - _h___ca_ __rm
???: _____a__ - ____ T__ _t__m__
Tomislav95: Carly Rae Jepsen - I Didn’t Just Come Here to Dance
???: _r_tt_ Ma___ - _a___m___um
???: Th_ _ractur__ __m______ - ___ht_ __ __m__r _r__t
Tomislav95: Rae Morris - _a_c___ __th Charact_r
???: Communic - Moondance
Tomislav95: MGMT - M_ A__ M_cha__
???: ___a__ - Ma_t_r_ __ ___t___
???: _r_t__t Th_ H_r_ - _____
Tomislav95: Rae Morris - _u_h M_ T_ M_ __m_t
???: _____a__ - Rau___au___
Evermind: Tori Amos - Winter
Tomislav95: Carly Rae Jepsen - Emotion
U V T M A C R H
Chad waits 3.
Cyril waits 2.
Lethean waits 1.
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Yep, Tori Amos is Ev. And the third hangman is definitely Cyril-heavy.
:hat
The Fractured ??? sent by TAC
Pretty Maids? Jingle?
Masters of ???
Push Me to My Limit
Me and Michael
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Protest the Hero
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the fractured dimension - nights of somber frost
dancing with character
skies
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Not sure who sent Communic, maybe TAC
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delain - masters of destiny
great song
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Delain is Evermind again
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So this pretty much confirms I have a symphonic metal with some female-fronted ballads thrown in. The last song on my EP is a bit different from the others, it's not in this selection though. :biggrin:
delain - masters of destiny
great song
This was the first song I've decided on for my EP and which actually shaped the whole thing. So far it's like this:
Delain - Masters of Destiny
Within Temptation - See Who I Am
Tori Amos - Winter
*a song that didn't appear in hangman yet*
Delain - Control the Storm
The Wishing Tree - Soldier
*a song that didn't appear in hangman yet*
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1. *hangman 3*
2. *hangman 3*
3. *hangman 3*
4. East of the Weast
5. *hangman 3*
6. TACtor Observer
7. It's in this hangman
In case you're wondering.
Are we guessing song orders again like last time or not oops I just ruined a bit of it if so
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i'm glad you sent masters of destiny because i almost sent it earlier
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Are we guessing song orders again like last time or not oops I just ruined a bit of it if so
I hope not because last time it was kinda dull.
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Yeah it didn't work out very well
Also noticed evermind sent presumably an all female-vocals EP after sending a male vocalist who got confused for femake by the host
Hmm.
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Yeah it didn't work out very well
Also noticed evermind sent presumably an all female-vocals EP after sending a male vocalist who got confused for femake by the host
Hmm.
It's actually funny, my EP is divided in three parts and so is the story. First part (the first three songs) are all female vocals, second part (the next three songs) are both female and male vocals, third part (last song) is fully male vocals. Hopefully not too confusing for 425. :lol
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My EP has no real story but it does have a like 8/10 flow so there's that
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Are we guessing song orders again like last time or not oops I just ruined a bit of it if so
I hope not because last time it was kinda dull.
Yeah, I figured we'd chalk that up as a failed experiment and not one to repeat.
All guesses are right.
Evermind: Within Temptation - See Who I Am
Tomislav95: Rae Morris - _h___ca_ __rm
???: _____a__ - ____ T__ _t__m__
Tomislav95: Carly Rae Jepsen - I Didn’t Just Come Here to Dance
jingle.boy: Pretty Maids - _a___m___um
TAC: The Fractured Dimension - Nights of Somber Frost
Tomislav95: Rae Morris - Dancing With Character
TAC: Communic - Moondance
Tomislav95: MGMT - Me and Michael
Evermind: Delain - Masters of Destiny
???: Protest the Hero - Skies
Tomislav95: Rae Morris - Push Me to My Limit
???: _____a__ - Rau___au___
Evermind: Tori Amos - Winter
Tomislav95: Carly Rae Jepsen - Emotion
U V T M A C R H
Chad waits 3.
Cyril waits 2.
Lethean waits 1.
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pandemonium
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Do most people confuse "EP" with "Mini concept album"? Or am I the one confused?
I just sent 7 awesome fucking tunes.
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Nah, both approaches are fine. I just like creating stories I guess. I don't see why it can't be both, 7 awesome fucking tunes superficially connected with a silly story which doesn't do anything to enhance the package but also provides fun for the participant.
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I think I've only created a story for an EP once (puppies' second roulette) I usually just like sending Tunes
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Nah, both approaches are fine. I just like creating stories I guess. I don't see why it can't be both, 7 awesome fucking tunes superficially connected with a silly story which doesn't do anything to enhance the package but also provides fun for the participant.
Oh, I don't disagree at all. Just wanted to make sure I wasn't the only one NOT doing that.
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I can't guess a letter yet, but give me the E
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I
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O (lord)
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Do most people confuse "EP" with "Mini concept album"? Or am I the one confused?
I just sent 7 awesome fucking tunes.
I tend to lean to a mini concept album. I think those are fun to put together. I don't look at flow as how a song seques into another, but how one song to the next supports a somewhat loose narrative or concept.
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Unfortunately I think 425 is weighing song-to-song transitions into the scoring factor :P
I do weigh that in as well, I love me a good-flowing album or EP. Most of my favorite albums are ones that have bangin' tunes on top of a good album vision.
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I don't not look at song to song transitions. I think in that regard, mine flows fairly well. But I mean I didn't do any file editing to fuse the songs together.
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Amusingly when I made an album for puppies I didn't do any transitions and it worked fine
I did for this one cause I needed to and I did for ariich because there were some really cool ones that helped the flow a lot too
Anyways dying for a hangmang update here :corn
Curious about this _____a__ artist with two songs
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Tomislav95: Let’s Eat Grandma - It’s Not Just Me
:o
:(
:huh:
:omg:
<if there was a puke emoji>
:puke:
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I'll stop making people wait since we're so close, and I'll give Cyril his E.
Unfortunately I think 425 is weighing song-to-song transitions into the scoring factor :P
So, I don't specifically list song-to-song transitions as a factor in the score. In fact, I don't have any sort of formula for EP scores: I score each EP out of 20 based on how much I enjoy the overall thing. I do list an individual score for each song because those just naturally sort of rise out of the experience, but the EP score doesn't come out of some sort of formula of the average of the song scores plus some flow factor or anything like that. It's just straight-up, how well did I like this on a scale of 20.
As for how important song-to-song transitions tend to be for me, I'd say they're one factor but not typically a decisive factor, especially if they're at least decently logical. An EP with all songs that I really love, where the transitions are just decent, will absolutely beat an EP where the songs are some hit, some miss, but the transitions are excellent.
Evermind: Within Temptation - See Who I Am
Tomislav95: Rae Morris - _h__ica_ __rm
???: ___e_a__ - ____ Ti_ _t__me_
Tomislav95: Carly Rae Jepsen - I Didn’t Just Come Here to Dance
jingle.boy: Pretty Maids - Pandemonium
TAC: The Fractured Dimension - Nights of Somber Frost
Tomislav95: Rae Morris - Dancing With Character
TAC: Communic - Moondance
Tomislav95: MGMT - Me and Michael
Evermind: Delain - Masters of Destiny
???: Protest the Hero - Skies
Tomislav95: Rae Morris - Push Me to My Limit
???: ___e_a__ - Rau_e_au_e_
Evermind: Tori Amos - Winter
Tomislav95: Carly Rae Jepsen - Emotion
U V T M A C R H I E
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D
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fair enough then :P
i also sent 7 killer tunes that flow well so i'm expecting at best 4/10
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Evermind: Within Temptation - See Who I Am
Tomislav95: Rae Morris - _h__ica_ __rm
???: ___e_a_d - ____ Ti_ _t__me_
Tomislav95: Carly Rae Jepsen - I Didn’t Just Come Here to Dance
jingle.boy: Pretty Maids - Pandemonium
TAC: The Fractured Dimension - Nights of Somber Frost
Tomislav95: Rae Morris - Dancing With Character
TAC: Communic - Moondance
Tomislav95: MGMT - Me and Michael
Evermind: Delain - Masters of Destiny
???: Protest the Hero - Skies
Tomislav95: Rae Morris - Push Me to My Limit
???: ___e_a_d - Raudedaude_
Evermind: Tori Amos - Winter
Tomislav95: Carly Rae Jepsen - Emotion
U V T M A C R H I E D
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Solefald-Raudedauden & Song Till Stormen
Physical Form
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OH Solefald is Lethean for sure, both of them
also obviously i sent PtH since I said I sent one song here and there's exactly one left :P
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OK, let's go, next hangman!
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yeah give me the D 3
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Alright, y'all got it!
I'll go ahead and start the next hangman, especially since I've started one in the afternoon and one in the morning, so it makes sense to start one at night and sort of balance out when they begin. Though I'm not sure how many updates I can promise to give tonight.
Evermind: Within Temptation - See Who I Am
Tomislav95: Rae Morris - Physical Form
Lethean: Solefald - Song Til Stormen
Tomislav95: Carly Rae Jepsen - I Didn’t Just Come Here to Dance
jingle.boy: Pretty Maids - Pandemonium
TAC: The Fractured Dimension - Nights of Somber Frost
Tomislav95: Rae Morris - Dancing With Character
TAC: Communic - Moondance
Tomislav95: MGMT - Me and Michael
Evermind: Delain - Masters of Destiny
Cyril: Protest the Hero - Skies
Tomislav95: Rae Morris - Push Me to My Limit
Lethean: Solefald - Raudedauden
Evermind: Tori Amos - Winter
Tomislav95: Carly Rae Jepsen - Emotion
???: ____ ___ - ______ __ D_______
???: _________ - _____ D_________
???: ___ _________ - _______ ___________
???: _____ _____ - _______
???: _ ________ - ___ ____d__ __ ____
???: ________ - ___ _______
???: _____ - __d___ D__ ______
???: _______ - ______ __d__ ____
???: ____ ___ ____d__ - ___ ____
???: __d___ - __ ____ _____ ____
???: ___ ______ - _____________
???: D______ - __ D_______ D___
???: D_____ __d _____d_ - __dd___ __ ___ _____
???: ____ ___ _____ - _______ __ D___ _____ __ D_
???: _________ - ______
D
Cyril waits 3.
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Let's Eat Grandma sent by Tomi a second time
No third MGMT song it looks like! Tomi sent a lot of songs for 40 minutes, dang.
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Tomi sent a lot of songs for 40 minutes, dang.
I mean, he sent 10, which if I recall correctly is how many were on your synthpop EP.
???: ____ ___ - ______ __ D_______
???: _________ - _____ D_________
???: ___ _________ - _______ ___________
???: _____ _____ - _______
???: _ ________ - ___ ____d__ __ ____
???: ________ - ___ _______
???: _____ - __d___ D__ ______
???: _______ - ______ __d__ ____
Tomislav95: Let’s Eat Grandma - ___ ____
???: __d___ - __ ____ _____ ____
???: ___ ______ - _____________
???: D______ - __ D_______ D___
???: D_____ __d _____d_ - __dd___ __ ___ _____
???: ____ ___ _____ - _______ __ D___ _____ __ D_
???: _________ - ______
D
Cyril waits 3.
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yeah but two of mine were interludes!
also if he sent 10 i guess that means that was his last one, hmm :corn
Anyways I don't see anything else yet so just waiting on more letters
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x
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I did not send Xanthochroid, puppies.
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True, two of yours were interludes, and one of yours was Move Systems. I wonder if he sent a Move Systems...
There is one X, actually!
???: ____ ___ - ______ __ D_______
???: _________ - _____ D_________
???: ___ _________ - _______ ___________
???: _____ _____ - _______
???: _ ________ - ___ ____d__ __ ____
???: ________ - ___ _______
???: _____ - __d___ D__ ______
???: _______ - ______ __d__ ____
Tomislav95: Let’s Eat Grandma - ___ ____
???: __d___ - __ ____ _____ ____
???: ___ _____x - _____________
???: D______ - __ D_______ D___
???: D_____ __d _____d_ - __dd___ __ ___ _____
???: ____ ___ _____ - _______ __ D___ _____ __ D_
???: _________ - ______
D X
Puppies waits 3.
Cyril waits 2.
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A Novelist by Cyril
Y
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A Novelist by Cyril
good ol' song #1 on my EP!
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???: ____ ___ - ______ __ D_______
???: _________ - _____ D_________
???: ___ ________y - _______ __________y
???: _____ _____ - _______
Cyril: A Novelist - ___ ____d__ __ ____
???: ________ - ___ ______y
???: _____ - __d___ D_y _____y
???: ___y___ - ______ __d__ ___y
Tomislav95: Let’s Eat Grandma - ___ ____
???: __d___ - __ ____ _____ ____
???: ___ _____x - _____________
???: D______ - __ D_y_____ D___
???: D_____ __d _____d_ - __dd___ __ ___ _____
???: ____ ___ _____ - _______ __ D___ _____ __ D_
???: _________ - ______
D X Y
Evermind waits 3.
Puppies waits 2.
Cyril waits 1.
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I
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???: ____ ___ - ______ __ D_______
???: _________ - _____ D_________
???: ___ ___i____y - ____i__ ______i_i_y
???: _____ _____ - ___i___
Cyril: A Novelist - _i_ _i__d__ I_ ____
???: ________ - ___ ______y
???: _____ - __d___ D_y _____y
???: I__y_i_ - ______ __d__ ___y
Tomislav95: Let’s Eat Grandma - ___ _i__
???: _id___ - __ ____ _____ ____
???: I__ _____x - _________i____
???: D______ - __ D_y_i___ Di__
???: D_____ __d _i___d_ - _idd___ __ ___ _____
???: ____ ___ _____ - _______ __ D___ _____ __ D_
???: _________ - __i___
D X Y I
Katt waits 3.
Evermind waits 2.
Puppies waits 1.
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I'm really tempted to say Defecto - When Daylight Dies (actually wanted to guess this before I went with Y) but it has two letters in place of "When"
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I'm very glad that none of you trust me to make a competent hangman, because that is entirely correct. I'm gonna blame the sender, though, because I copy-pasted the titles of his from his PM, and his PM says "As Daylight Dies."
???: ____ ___ - ______ __ D_______
???: _________ - _____ D_________
???: ___ ___i____y - ____i__ ______i_i_y
???: _____ _____ - ___i___
Cyril: A Novelist - _i_ _i__d__ I_ ____
???: ________ - ___ ______y
???: _____ - __d___ D_y _____y
???: I__y_i_ - ______ __d__ ___y
Tomislav95: Let’s Eat Grandma - ___ _i__
???: _id___ - __ ____ _____ ____
???: I__ _____x - _________i____
???: Defecto - When Daylight Dies
???: D_____ __d _i___d_ - _idd___ __ ___ _____
???: ____ ___ _____ - _______ __ D___ _____ __ D_
???: _________ - __i___
D X Y I
Katt waits 3.
Evermind waits 2.
Puppies waits 1.
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Illyria - Autumn Fades Away
I promise I did not send this. That's super :corn :corn :corn though, mmmhm.
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???: ____ ___ - ______ __ D_______
???: _________ - _____ D_________
???: ___ ___i____y - ____i__ ______i_i_y
???: _____ _____ - ___i___
Cyril: A Novelist - _i_ _i__d__ I_ ____
???: ________ - ___ ______y
???: _____ - __d___ D_y _____y
???: Illyria - Autumn Fades Away
Tomislav95: Let’s Eat Grandma - ___ _i__
???: _id___ - __ ____ _____ ____
???: I__ _____x - _________i____
???: Defecto - When Daylight Dies
???: D_____ __d _i___d_ - _idd___ __ ___ _____
???: ____ ___ _____ - _______ __ D___ _____ __ D_
???: _________ - __i___
D X Y I
Katt waits 3.
Evermind waits 2.
Puppies waits 1.
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oh yeah give me the R why the heck not
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Cyril: A Novelist - _i_ _i__d__ I_ ____
His Kingdom Is Vast
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Indeed it is quite vast.
???: ___r ___ - _____r __ D_r_____
???: _________ - ____r Dr________
???: ___ _r_i_r_ry - ____i__ _r____i_i_y
???: _____ _____ - ___i__r
Cyril: A Novelist - His Kingdom is Vast
???: _r___r__ - ___ ___r__y
???: _____ - __d_r_ D_y _____y
???: Illyria - Autumn Fades Away
Tomislav95: Let’s Eat Grandma - ___ _i__
???: _id___ - __ ____ _____ R___
???: I__ __r__x - _________i___r
???: Defecto - When Daylight Dies
???: D_____ __d _i__rd_ - _idd__r __ ___ _r___
???: ____ ___ _r___ - _______ __ D___ _____ __ D_
???: __r_____r - __i___
D X Y I R
Cyril waits 3.
Katt waits 2.
Evermind waits 1.
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The Arbitrary - Glacial Tranquillity
My song is missing an I
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Illyria - Autumn Fades Away
I promise I did not send this. That's super :corn :corn :corn though, mmmhm.
Wow. It’s weird that someone just randomly sent one of my Top 5 Songs Of The Year.
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I didn't know you'd even listened to that album :P
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My song is missing an I
what no it's not neither in this nor in any previous post
???: ___r ___ - _____r __ D_r_____
???: _________ - ____r Dr________
???: The Arbitrary - Glacial Tranquility
???: _____ _____ - ___i__r
Cyril: A Novelist - His Kingdom is Vast
???: _r___r__ - ___ ___r__y
???: _____ - __d_r_ D_y _____y
???: Illyria - Autumn Fades Away
Tomislav95: Let’s Eat Grandma - ___ _i__
???: _id___ - __ ____ _____ R___
???: I__ __r__x - _________i___r
???: Defecto - When Daylight Dies
???: D_____ __d _i__rd_ - _idd__r __ ___ _r___
???: ____ ___ _r___ - _______ __ D___ _____ __ D_
???: __r_____r - __i___
D X Y I R
Cyril waits 3.
Katt waits 2.
Evermind waits 1.
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TAC c'mon guess a letter
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I didn't know you'd even listened to that album :P
That album is excellent.
T
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???: _t_r ___ - ___t_r __ D_r_____
???: ____t____ - __t_r Dr________
???: The Arbitrary - Glacial Tranquility
???: _____ _____ - ___i__r
Cyril: A Novelist - His Kingdom is Vast
???: _r_t_r__ - T__ ___r__y
???: T____ - __d_r_ D_y _____y
???: Illyria - Autumn Fades Away
Tomislav95: Let’s Eat Grandma - __t _i__
???: _id___ - T_ ____ ___t_ R___
???: I__ __rt_x - _________i___r
???: Defecto - When Daylight Dies
???: D_____ __d _i__rd_ - _idd__r __ T__ _r___
???: ____ T__ Tr___ - T_____t __ D__t T____ __ D_
???: __r_____r - __i___
D X Y I R T
TAC waits 3.
Cyril waits 2.
Katt waits 1.
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flaskeskipper by ics vortex sent by lethean
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I didn't know you'd even listened to that album :P
That album is excellent.
It is quite good yeah. Was considering sending it to ariich round 7 until I noticed persefone
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Also another Arcturus song
Okay okay okay, how the hell was this not banned? Star One - Master of Darkness? I thought all Arjen's stuff is banned with how 425 proofread all my writeups for Ayreon Discography Thread.
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Arcturus is Leth
Star One is jingly
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arcturus is the journey
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Okay okay okay, how the hell was this not banned? Star One - Master of Darkness? I thought all Arjen's stuff is banned with how 425 proofread all my writeups for Ayreon Discography Thread.
No, only Ayreon and The Gentle Storm are banned. I consider the other projects different artists, and I'd not heard any of their songs more than one time, three years ago.
jingle.boy: Star One - Master of Darkness
???: ____t____ - __t_r Dr________
???: The Arbitrary - Glacial Tranquility
???: _____ _____ - ___i__r
Cyril: A Novelist - His Kingdom is Vast
Lethean: Arcturus - The Journey
???: T____ - __d_r_ D_y _____y
???: Illyria - Autumn Fades Away
Tomislav95: Let’s Eat Grandma - __t _i__
???: _id___ - T_ ____ ___t_ R___
Lethean: ICS Vortex - Flaskeskipper
???: Defecto - When Daylight Dies
???: D_____ __d _i__rd_ - _idd__r __ T__ _r___
???: ____ T__ Tr___ - T_____t __ D__t T____ __ D_
???: __r_____r - __i___
D X Y I R T
TAC waits 3.
Cyril waits 2.
Katt waits 1.
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Damn I coulda sent guilt machine?
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Damn I coulda sent guilt machine?
Do it. So when 425 says it's not as good as Ayreon we can both laugh at them :biggrin:
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Also TAC sent Illyria as he himself said :P
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Okay okay okay, how the hell was this not banned? Star One - Master of Darkness? I thought all Arjen's stuff is banned with how 425 proofread all my writeups for Ayreon Discography Thread.
:footloose:
They wasn't on the banned list. :biggrin:
(https://i.imgflip.com/13l8j0.jpg)
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Jingle, bless us with another letter
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Parama
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Parama
:neverusethis:
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rest in parama, peace
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N
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Okay okay okay, how the hell was this not banned? Star One - Master of Darkness? I thought all Arjen's stuff is banned with how 425 proofread all my writeups for Ayreon Discography Thread.
:footloose:
They wasn't on the banned list. :biggrin:
(https://i.imgflip.com/13l8j0.jpg)
I mean, yeah, this is the right idea. Yeah, anyone could've sent Guilt Machine. They're not on the banned list and they're not on the spreadsheet.
jingle.boy: Star One - Master of Darkness
???: P__nt____ - _nt_r Dr______p_
???: The Arbitrary - Glacial Tranquility
???: _____ P____ - ___i__r
Cyril: A Novelist - His Kingdom is Vast
Lethean: Arcturus - The Journey
???: T____ - __d_rn D_y _____y
TAC: Illyria - Autumn Fades Away
Tomislav95: Let’s Eat Grandma - __t Pi__
???: _id___ - T_ _n__ ___t_ R___
Lethean: ICS Vortex - Flaskeskipper
???: Defecto - When Daylight Dies
???: D___n_ _nd _i__rd_ - _idd__r _n T__ _r__n
???: ___n T__ Tr___ - T_n___t __ D_nt T__n_ __ D_
???: __r_n___r - __i___
D X Y I R T Parama N
TAC waits 3.
jingle waits 2.
Cyril waits 1.
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Demons & Wizards-Fiddler On the Green
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Sure enough.
jingle.boy: Star One - Master of Darkness
???: P__nt____ - _nt_r Dr______p_
???: The Arbitrary - Glacial Tranquility
???: _____ P____ - ___i__r
Cyril: A Novelist - His Kingdom is Vast
Lethean: Arcturus - The Journey
???: T____ - __d_rn D_y _____y
TAC: Illyria - Autumn Fades Away
Tomislav95: Let’s Eat Grandma - __t Pi__
???: _id___ - T_ _n__ ___t_ R___
Lethean: ICS Vortex - Flaskeskipper
???: Defecto - When Daylight Dies
???: Demons & Wizards - Fiddler on the Green
???: ___n T__ Tr___ - T_n___t __ D_nt T__n_ __ D_
???: __r_n___r - __i___
D X Y I R T Parama N
TAC waits 3.
jingle waits 2.
Cyril waits 1.
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cyril - even the trees - tonight we don't think, we do
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Tesla - Modern Day Cowboy sent by jingly
that was in guitar hero once, i know that song, wow
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jingle.boy: Star One - Master of Darkness
???: P__nt____ - _nt_r Dr______p_
???: The Arbitrary - Glacial Tranquility
???: _____ P____ - ___i__r
Cyril: A Novelist - His Kingdom is Vast
Lethean: Arcturus - The Journey
jingle.boy: Tesla - Modern Day Cowboy
TAC: Illyria - Autumn Fades Away
Tomislav95: Let’s Eat Grandma - __t Pi__
???: _id___ - T_ _n__ ___t_ R___
Lethean: ICS Vortex - Flaskeskipper
???: Defecto - When Daylight Dies
???: Demons & Wizards - Fiddler on the Green
Cyril: Even the Trees - Tonight We Don’t Think, We Do
???: __r_n___r - __i___
D X Y I R T Parama N
TAC waits 3.
jingle waits 2.
Cyril waits 1.
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everyone's asleep so why not give me the C
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I think I can make that happen.
jingle.boy: Star One - Master of Darkness
???: P__nt____ - _nt_r Dr____c_p_
???: The Arbitrary - Glacial Tranquility
???: ___c_ P____ - ___i__r
Cyril: A Novelist - His Kingdom is Vast
Lethean: Arcturus - The Journey
jingle.boy: Tesla - Modern Day Cowboy
TAC: Illyria - Autumn Fades Away
Tomislav95: Let’s Eat Grandma - __t Pi__
???: _id___ - T_ _n__ ___t_ R___
Lethean: ICS Vortex - Flaskeskipper
???: Defecto - When Daylight Dies
???: Demons & Wizards - Fiddler on the Green
Cyril: Even the Trees - Tonight We Don’t Think, We Do
???: __r_n___r - __ic__
D X Y I R T P N C
Cyril waits 3.
TAC waits 2.
jingle waits 1.
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Phantasma - Enter Dreamscape
Evermind?
Defecto is TAC?
Demons & Wizards -> jingle?
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Demons & Wizards -> jingle?
It's gotta be jingle.
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Doesn't gotta be jingle.
jingle.boy: Star One - Master of Darkness
Evermind: Phantasma - Enter Dreamscape
???: The Arbitrary - Glacial Tranquility
???: ___c_ P____ - ___i__r
Cyril: A Novelist - His Kingdom is Vast
Lethean: Arcturus - The Journey
jingle.boy: Tesla - Modern Day Cowboy
TAC: Illyria - Autumn Fades Away
Tomislav95: Let’s Eat Grandma - __t Pi__
???: _id___ - T_ _n__ ___t_ R___
Lethean: ICS Vortex - Flaskeskipper
TAC: Defecto - When Daylight Dies
???: Demons & Wizards - Fiddler on the Green
Cyril: Even the Trees - Tonight We Don’t Think, We Do
???: __r_n___r - __ic__
D X Y I R T P N C
Cyril waits 3.
TAC waits 2.
jingle waits 1.
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Black Peaks
Eidola
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I'll give D&W to Lethean ?
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It wasn't me (but I did consider it).
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It wasn't me (but I did consider it).
Evermind then.
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Yep :tup
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Surprised it took y'all that many guesses on that one!
I'm gonna go ahead and drop the waiting period on guessing letters.
jingle.boy: Star One - Master of Darkness
Evermind: Phantasma - Enter Dreamscape
???: The Arbitrary - Glacial Tranquility
???: Black Peaks - ___i__r
Cyril: A Novelist - His Kingdom is Vast
Lethean: Arcturus - The Journey
jingle.boy: Tesla - Modern Day Cowboy
TAC: Illyria - Autumn Fades Away
Tomislav95: Let’s Eat Grandma - __t Pi__
???: Eidola - T_ _n__ ___t_ R___
Lethean: ICS Vortex - Flaskeskipper
TAC: Defecto - When Daylight Dies
Evermind: Demons & Wizards - Fiddler on the Green
Cyril: Even the Trees - Tonight We Don’t Think, We Do
???: __r_n___r - __ic__
D X Y I R T P N C
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Jingle is on fire. I'm not the hugest Tesla fan, but that's a tune right there. :)
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give me 425 A's
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I can give you 5 A's and no more.
jingle.boy: Star One - Master of Darkness
Evermind: Phantasma - Enter Dreamscape
???: The Arbitrary - Glacial Tranquility
???: Black Peaks - _a_i__r
Cyril: A Novelist - His Kingdom is Vast
Lethean: Arcturus - The Journey
jingle.boy: Tesla - Modern Day Cowboy
TAC: Illyria - Autumn Fades Away
Tomislav95: Let’s Eat Grandma - __t Pi__
???: Eidola - T_ _n__ __at_ R_a_
Lethean: ICS Vortex - Flaskeskipper
TAC: Defecto - When Daylight Dies
Evermind: Demons & Wizards - Fiddler on the Green
Cyril: Even the Trees - Tonight We Don’t Think, We Do
???: __r_na_ar - __ic__
D X Y I R T P N C A
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Borknagar sent by Lethean
those were enough A's
The Arbitrary might be TAC? i doubt it's Ev, jingle, or Tomi at the very least, so either TAC or Leth.
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Glad you were okay with me giving you 420 fewer A's than you requested.
Yep, The Arbitrary is TAC.
jingle.boy: Star One - Master of Darkness
Evermind: Phantasma - Enter Dreamscape
TAC: The Arbitrary - Glacial Tranquility
???: Black Peaks - _a_i__r
Cyril: A Novelist - His Kingdom is Vast
Lethean: Arcturus - The Journey
jingle.boy: Tesla - Modern Day Cowboy
TAC: Illyria - Autumn Fades Away
Tomislav95: Let’s Eat Grandma - __t Pi__
???: Eidola - T_ _n__ __at_ R_a_
Lethean: ICS Vortex - Flaskeskipper
TAC: Defecto - When Daylight Dies
Evermind: Demons & Wizards - Fiddler on the Green
Cyril: Even the Trees - Tonight We Don’t Think, We Do
Lethean: Borknagar - __ic__
D X Y I R T P N C A
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Hint... all of mine have been solved.
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damn, i was sure you sent black peaks
btw here's what my EP looks like so far from the guessed stuff
1. A Novelist
2. ???
3. ???
4. East of the Wall
5. Even the Trees
6. Actor Observer
7. Protest the Hero
i wonder if you all can figure out my last two songs!
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Cyril definitely sent Black Peaks
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eidola sounds cyrillic
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... okay so I guess that part is solved :lol
Only a little more to go to finish the puzzle. Oh, and I figure I should give an update on the overall progress of the round: I'm 2/3 of the way through a fourth listen to the EPs, and I should finish that fourth listen today. The fifth listen will be the writeup listen. Saturdays are always very busy for me, so that process isn't going to start until Sunday, and I'll try to get through as much of it as possible on Sunday. Results might come Sunday night, or it might take until Monday, just depending on how long it takes me and how busy I end up being with other things. Between now and then, we can solve this puzzle, and then I'll drop some impressions and maybe find a way to slowly reveal overall song rankings (I think, just from where things stand right now, simply dropping the full list of song rankings might reveal too much too easily).
jingle.boy: Star One - Master of Darkness
Evermind: Phantasma - Enter Dreamscape
TAC: The Arbitrary - Glacial Tranquility
Cyril: Black Peaks - _a_i__r
Cyril: A Novelist - His Kingdom is Vast
Lethean: Arcturus - The Journey
jingle.boy: Tesla - Modern Day Cowboy
TAC: Illyria - Autumn Fades Away
Tomislav95: Let’s Eat Grandma - __t Pi__
Cyril: Eidola - T_ _n__ __at_ R_a_
Lethean: ICS Vortex - Flaskeskipper
TAC: Defecto - When Daylight Dies
Evermind: Demons & Wizards - Fiddler on the Green
Cyril: Even the Trees - Tonight We Don’t Think, We Do
Lethean: Borknagar - __ic__
D X Y I R T P N C A
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Saviour
Hot Pink
To Know What's Real
Voices
ok hangman for EP titles now :neverusethis:
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Let's Eat Grandma - Hot Pink
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"let's eat grandma" sounds like an actual family guy plotline that probably exists, to be fair
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Only some of the EPs have titles, but we can do that if you want?
jingle.boy: Star One - Master of Darkness
Evermind: Phantasma - Enter Dreamscape
TAC: The Arbitrary - Glacial Tranquility
Cyril: Black Peaks - Saviour
Cyril: A Novelist - His Kingdom is Vast
Lethean: Arcturus - The Journey
jingle.boy: Tesla - Modern Day Cowboy
TAC: Illyria - Autumn Fades Away
Tomislav95: Let’s Eat Grandma - Hot Pink
Cyril: Eidola - To Know What's Real
Lethean: ICS Vortex - Flaskeskipper
TAC: Defecto - When Daylight Dies
Evermind: Demons & Wizards - Fiddler on the Green
Cyril: Even the Trees - Tonight We Don’t Think, We Do
Lethean: Borknagar - Voices
Here are the EP tracklists:
Cyril:
A Novelist - His Kingdom is Vast
Black Peaks - Saviour
Eidola - To Know What’s Real
East of the Wall - The Apologist
Even the Trees - Tonight We Don’t Think, We Do
Actor | Observer - Dilettante
Protest the Hero - Skies
Evermind:
Delain - Masters of Destiny
Within Temptation - See Who I Am
Tori Amos - Winter
Phantasma - Enter Dreamscape
Delain - Control the Storm
The Wishing Tree - Soldier
Demons & Wizards - Fiddler on the Green
jingle.boy:
Magnus Karlsson's FreeFall - Not My Saviour
Tesla - Modern Day Cowboy
Pretty Maids - Pandemonium
The Eagles - Desperado
Star One - Master of Darkness
Slade - My Oh My
Peter Gabriel - Solsbury Hill
Triosphere - The Heart's Dominion
Lethean:
Solefald - Song Til Stormen
Sonata Arctica - Caleb
Arcturus - Shipwrecked Frontier Pioneer
Arcturus - The Journey
Solefald - Raudedauden
ICS Vortex - Flaskeskipper
Borknagar - Voices
TAC:
The Fractured Dimension - Nights of Somber Frost
Illyria - Autumn Fades Away
Defecto - When Daylight Dies
Communic - Moondance
The Arbitrary - Glacial Tranquility
Lost In Thought - New Times Awaken
Tomislav95:
Rae Morris - Push Me to My Limit
Rae Morris - Physical Form
Let’s Eat Grandma - Hot Pink
Let’s Eat Grandma - It’s Not Just Me
Carly Rae Jepsen - Emotion
Carly Rae Jepsen - I Didn’t Just Come Here to Dance
MGMT - Little Dark Age
MGMT - Me and Michael
Carly Rae Jepsen - Now That I Found You
Rae Morris - Dancing With Character
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i'm kidding anyways
https://mega.nz/#!aMUjjKgD!NSmhIgQxRheFpB0MW9G7z-YqN87vdirzSFwIZNHhC-0
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https://open.spotify.com/playlist/27ljdcq2VYyDOJksv2aJvg?si=cjVe7BS7SLmpkHTqgD9kGg
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i'm also gonna avoid listening to EPs for now 'cause i don't wanna steal stuff from people for my roulette :P
also i don't think anyone else in this roulette still, 425 included, will like my EP anyways
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i'm also gonna avoid listening to EPs for now 'cause i don't wanna steal stuff from people for my roulette :P
also i don't think anyone else in this roulette still, 425 included, will like my EP anyways
:iagree:
:neverusethis:
Surely you can have a go at mine - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4GjO1BIRIoTJHzhbha7ccl?si=tTL1jmLHQGOI987pcUHWiQ
I too guarantee you won't like it.
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The Wishing Tree isn't on Spotify so I had to send files, oh well.
I'm definitely checking out Tim's EP and also Cyril's as I'm playing in his roulette. And Lethean's I guess. In fact I think I'll check all of them.
I think we should definitely do titles and if some EPs don't have them, just assign some titles to them.
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I think we should definitely do titles and if some EPs don't have them, just assign some titles to them.
Cyril: Off the Deep End
TAC: Winter's Night
Jingle: 425 EP
halfway there!
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By the way I just realized, if 425 doesn't like Charlotte's voice (the main singer of Delain and one of the singers on Phantasma), I'm probably screwed. :lol
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By the way I just realized, if 425 doesn't like Charlotte's voice (the main singer of Delain and one of the singers on Phantasma), I'm probably screwed. :lol
voice of an angel
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By the way I just realized, if 425 doesn't like Charlotte's voice (the main singer of Delain and one of the singers on Phantasma), I'm probably screwed. :lol
voice of an angel
You’ve heard Ruslan speak?
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I have, actually
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Alright, so results will definitely be a tomorrow thing, but I'll drop some impressions that people can try to guess.
As for the pre-result song rankings, I'd prefer not to do a full song ranking for each contestant before dropping the results, because I think it will reveal too much and make the actual posting of results anti-climactic. So, instead, here's my idea: Each contestant can ask for me to reveal where 1/3 of songs on their EP sit in the overall rankings of what they've sent. This means 3 songs for jingle and Tomislav, and 2 songs for everyone else. Pick whichever songs you want me to reveal, and I'll post the ranking of the first three songs plus those 2 or 3. Or don't pick anything and let the full thing be a surprise. Up to you! :)
Here are those impressions:
This EP contains several songs from a style that is definitely hit-or-miss with me, but in this case it turned out to be a hit on every occasion.
On first listen, I really just found nothing that caught me interest for most of this EP's runtime. A lot of it has since grown on me, some songs to a pretty significant degree.
I enjoy this EP fairly well most of the way through (with the exception of one song that is a pretty strong miss), but the opening and closing are well above the rest and sort of buoy the whole thing up.
This is a hit all the way through. The right EP at the right time. Excellent songs and a pretty strong sense of cohesion.
I'd say this EP has the strongest use of harsh vocals, on the whole. I'd definitely say they contribute positively to the atmosphere pretty much everywhere they're used on this EP. In particular, on the centerpiece track, which is the strongest part of a strong EP.
Hmm. There are a few songs on here that I just really have a hard time getting into stylistically. Then there's one that I sort of expected not to like, but wound up loving. Right now my listening experience to this is definitely one of ups and downs. Hard to sort out exactly how I feel about it as a whole.
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Skies
The Apologist
:corn
also when you say "centerpiece" do you mean literally the center song on the EP or
guessing i'm #6 here though since you probably expected not to like East of the Wall given your past experience :P
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The only one I know is not mine is this one, because I only used harsh vocals in one brief spot.
I'd say this EP has the strongest use of harsh vocals, on the whole. I'd definitely say they contribute positively to the atmosphere pretty much everywhere they're used on this EP. In particular, on the centerpiece track, which is the strongest part of a strong EP.
All of the impressions are fairly positive. Don't think I can 1 point jump Cyril AND 2 point jump Evermind.
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yeah i think me and leth are the only two with significant uses of harsh vocals
for real i think that one's likely mine, but i could also see it being #6. if that one isn't mine then it's #6, basically, only two that fit :P
evermind is #3 so congrats evermind!
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also when you say "centerpiece" do you mean literally the center song on the EP or
Up to you to interpret.
1. The Antlers - Wake
2. Billie Eilish - when the party’s over
3. Protest the Hero - Skies
4. East of the Wall - The Apologist
5. Amendfoil - Skyline Escape
I think. Several of these are really close together, as seems to always be the case when you play in my roulettes.
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Congrats Cyril!
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OK, I'll bite.
When Daylight Dies and Moondance
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1. Anabasis - Terminal
2. Communic - Moondance
3. Teramaze - Delusions of Grandeur
4. Defecto - When Daylight Dies
5. Daydream XI - Watch Me Rise
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well those are the two best songs on my EP so i'm satisfied with those 8.5's :lol
ftr;
1. The Apologist
2. Skies
3. Dilettante
4. Saviour
5. His Kingdom is Vast
6. Tonight We Don't Think, We Do
7. To Know What's Real
they're all very good though.
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Interesting. When Daylight Dies was a late addition replacing Pathosray at the last minute. I felt it actually helped the narrative better, but I feel it's not as strong of a song than what it replaced. I probably had the least confidence in Moondance, so that's I pleasant surprise.
Still don't think it's enough to upset the leaders.
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Out of curiosity, what was the Pathosray song? I'd be interested to hear what the previous version of the EP was like, especially if you think that one song is overall stronger while the other is a better fit for the concept.
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It's like you guys didn't play in the first two roulettes, there's no way I'm winning this :lol Pretty sure Tomi is #4 though.
Let's confirm if my impression is #3 (I would guess The Wishing Tree is a miss then?) I suppose:
Masters of Destiny
Fiddler on the Green
Out of curiosity, what was the Pathosray song? I'd be interested to hear what the previous version of the EP was like, especially if you think that one song is overall stronger while the other is a better fit for the concept.
Probably Scent of Snow.
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1. The Antlers - Palace
2. Demons & Wizards - Fiddler on the Green
3. Karmakanic - Who’s the Boss in the Factory
4. Delain - Masters of Destiny
5. Lords of Black - Ghosts of You
Pretty sure Tomi is #4 though.
Glad to finally see someone take a guess at the (admittedly deliberately vague) #4.
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congrats evermind!
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Yeah, I was pretty sure Fiddler would do well with you, such an epic song :metal
Hopefully the rest of the EP did well enough for me to stay in the lead.
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also yeah pretty certain yours is #3 after that, since those two are either 8.5-9.0 or 9.0-10.0 (but most likely 9.0-9.5) :lol
would not be surprised if Tomi's is #4 either, i know from experience that that style of synthpop is something 425 loves (see: my last EP & all the highest scoring songs being the bouncy bright synthpop)
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Could also be #1 with symphonic metal being hit or miss style.
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fair. i'm also really interested to see how 425 likes Lethean's because that one sure seems like a weird one to me :corn
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Gimme Solsbury Hill and Desperado. That'll confirm whether impression #1 is mine or not.
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yeah i think me and leth are the only two with significant uses of harsh vocals
for real i think that one's likely mine, but i could also see it being #6. if that one isn't mine then it's #6, basically, only two that fit :P
evermind is #3 so congrats evermind!
I don't know that mine has a significant use of harsh vocals. One song does, one song has a tiny bit, and that's it.
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Gimme Solsbury Hill and Desperado. That'll confirm whether impression #1 is mine or not.
1. The Eagles - Desperado
2. Circus Maximus - Glory of the Empire
3. Boston - Foreplay/Long Time
4. Peter Gabriel - Solsbury Hill
5. Triumph - Fight the Good Fight
yeah i think me and leth are the only two with significant uses of harsh vocals
for real i think that one's likely mine, but i could also see it being #6. if that one isn't mine then it's #6, basically, only two that fit :P
evermind is #3 so congrats evermind!
I don't know that mine has a significant use of harsh vocals. One song does, one song has a tiny bit, and that's it.
Keep in mind that my bar for "significant" is much lower than a lot of yours. And that impression does not say what amount of harsh vocals is on the EP in question. It's written so that it could potentially be about any EP that has any harsh vocals.
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Gimme Solsbury Hill and Desperado. That'll confirm whether impression #1 is mine or not.
1. The Eagles - Desperado
2. Circus Maximus - Glory of the Empire
3. Boston - Foreplay/Long Time
4. Peter Gabriel - Solsbury Hill
5. Triumph - Fight the Good Fight
I just re-read your initial post, and realized I get to ask about 3. Throw in Master of Darkness while you're at it.
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1. The Eagles - Desperado
2. Circus Maximus - Glory of the Empire
3. Star One - Master of Darkness
4. Boston - Foreplay/Long Time
5. Peter Gabriel - Solsbury Hill
6. Triumph - Fight the Good Fight
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Congrats Jingle!
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Congrats Jingle!
It's I might have jumped up a spot or two, but I don't see making up 2 points - I think that was what the scoring was at.
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The EP round is out of 20, not 10, so anything could happen!
Anyways corn corn corn
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Everyone has pretty much guessed everyone as the winner.
Who's impression #4?
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425 is.
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Everyone has pretty much guessed everyone as the winner.
Who's impression #4?
You mean you don't know?
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Everyone has pretty much guessed everyone as the winner.
Who's impression #4?
You mean you don't know?
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Out of curiosity, what was the Pathosray song? I'd be interested to hear what the previous version of the EP was like, especially if you think that one song is overall stronger while the other is a better fit for the concept.
It was indeed Scent Of Snow. While it's ultimate replacement was When Daylight Dies, I had to slightly alter my narrative. I like where When Daylight Dies in this narrative, but I also liked what I was working on previously.
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Who's impression #4?
Is this the winner?
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I mean, it's easily the most positive impression. Just pointing that out whenever people guess someone as being one of the other impressions and also the winner.
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Yeah but there are points from previous rounds too
the "best EP" doesn't necessarily win the roulette
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Well, it ain't mine. I don't think there's any meaningful cohesion or flow at all. I'm content with the first one being mine.
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Results time.
This was a strong set of EPs. There were things I liked about all of them, even Cyril's. Two definitely stood out above the rest as being truly excellent, and the senders of those two will also end up placing first and second in the roulette as a whole.
I won't do the thing where I try to build anticipation because, let's be honest, y'all have already scrolled down. EPs in reverse order, winner at the bottom.
Lethean
Solefald - Song Til Stormen
Sonata Arctica - Caleb
Arcturus - Shipwrecked Frontier Pioneer
Arcturus - The Journey
Solefald - Raudedauden
ICS Vortex - Flaskeskipper
Borknagar - Voices
Impression: Hmm. There are a few songs on here that I just really have a hard time getting into stylistically. Then there's one that I sort of expected not to like, but wound up loving. Right now my listening experience to this is definitely one of ups and downs. Hard to sort out exactly how I feel about it as a whole.
This EP definitely features an interesting combination of some different styles, some of which is definitely well in my wheelhouse, other of which is sort of pushing the boundaries in Cyril-like fashion. Overall, I found this EP to be a hit-and-miss affair. There are some songs here that I really enjoyed quite a bit, and others that rather missed the mark. Let’s talk about the hits first, then the misses, and then I’ll try to sum up.
The Sonata Arctica song is probably both the outlier stylistically and the song most likely to be in my wheelhouse. And yes, this is definitely a hit. I don’t know exactly what struck me wrong about the other song I got from this album last time, but this one really works for me. This is just a really strong melodic metal track. There are some twists and turns even within a quasi-verse-chorus structure, and there’s a real sense of progression and storytelling in the melodies. I really like the bridge at around the 4-minute mark. A strong track that’s convinced me to give this album a closer look. And while it’s a bit of stylistic outlier, I’d say it transitions pretty well out of the Solefald song.
Song Til Stormen is another one of the hits on this EP. I really like the vocal style used at the very beginning of this song (and elsewhere through its runtime). It made a pretty strong impression on me and set a nice atmosphere. The song as a whole was a pretty enjoyable opening track. Flaskeskipper is also a hit with me, I liked the sense of build-up on this track, which felt like a nice transition in context from the part of the EP I didn’t really care for as much to the strong conclusion.
The really big hit here, however, was the closer, Voices, which is the song I referred to as not expecting to like, but wound up loving. I admit, my initial judgment was prejudice based on seeing the album art with one of those illegible black metal band logos, but the actual music here was wonderful. There is such a strong sense of sorrow conveyed in the dirge like riffing and mournful performance of the singer. I like how the song alternates between these tighter, staccato parts that build up tension, and these huge, sweeping sections. Really powerful stuff. This is a very beautiful song, and I hope that there is more music like this to be found in this band’s discography.
Shipwrecked Frontier Pioneer was certainly interesting, and I liked a lot of what felt like was being set up in the first few minutes of the song. I was somewhat less keen on the middle section, due in part to the creepy male vocals, though there’s some solid piano work there. And the finale doesn’t really pay off a lot of what I had enjoyed in the first few minutes. I liked this song on the whole, but it kind of falls into a middle ground where it isn’t a hit or a miss.
The misses are the next two tracks. The Journey just really didn’t do much for me in terms of the atmospheric stuff it was trying to set up. The creepy vocals were present again. It’s not a bad song, and I even understand how it fits into the overall progression of the EP, but it’s not something I was really excited about. I wasn’t big on the harsh vocal style used on Raudedauden, and there wasn’t really much that appealed to me on this one in terms of riffs or melodies. I hope that Solefald’s music in general tends more toward the side that I liked on Song Til Stormen rather than this track.
The full experience of the EP, for me, is one where I enjoy the first couple of tracks very much, and then my enjoyment declines over the course of the next few tracks, only to perk back up with Flaskeskipper before finishing on what I’d call the definite strongest song of the EP, and one of the strongest songs of the whole round. The overall experience is still pretty good, with some moments of real excellence, but it’s not as strong as some of the other EPs where my enjoyment level is more consistent all the way through.
1. Borknagar - Voices (9.0/10)
2. Sonata Arctica - Caleb (8.5/10)
3. Solefald - Song Til Stormen (8.0/10)
4. ICS Vortex - Flaskeskipper (8.0/10)
5. Arcturus - Shipwrecked Frontier Pioneer (7.5/10)
6. Arcturus - The Journey (6.5/10)
7. Solefald - Raudedauden (6.5/10)
Score: 15.5 out of 20.
Cyril: Off the Deep End
A Novelist - His Kingdom is Vast
Black Peaks - Saviour
Eidola - To Know What’s Real
East of the Wall - The Apologist
Even the Trees - Tonight We Don’t Think, We Do
Actor | Observer - Dilettante
Protest the Hero - Skies
Impression: On first listen, I really just found nothing that caught me interest for most of this EP's runtime. A lot of it has since grown on me, some songs to a pretty significant degree.
I think you’ve known pretty clearly all along that this was a risky submission, and why it was. Even though I’m more growl-friendly than I have been in the past, I don’t think I will ever like them in too-large doses. Similarly, the really heavy, rhythmic-focused music that features at times on this EP is probably never something I’m going to want to listen to large quantities of. I say this now just to establish the baseline that I think you and I were both aware of going in: On stylistic grounds, this was always very unlikely to be a roulette winner, barring me having some huge revelatory change in my tastes. That’s not to denigrate what has gone into this EP, it’s just acknowledging that there is a clear stylistic gap.
Again, barring the unlikely big revelatory change, which in fact did not happen, the question with this EP was whether it would bomb or whether I would find some stuff on here that I do enjoy, maybe in a limited dose, but still. And on the first listen, things looked like they were going in the bomb direction, because I found a lot of this pretty impenetrable on first go. But fortunately, this EP did settle in pretty well on subsequent listens, and actually grew to the point where I find it to a fairly enjoyable listen on the whole. I would call it a success on the whole if the goal was, as you suggested in your first PM, to push the boundaries of my tastes and get me to enjoy stuff that’s sort of been on the periphery of what I’ve been willing to go for in the past.
In talking about specific tracks, let’s consult the predictions:
Here's my predictions (minor spoilers I guess)
Track 1: You'll like small parts of this but dislike most of it
Track 2: You'll like the first half but not the second half
Track 3: You'll like all of this one
Track 4: I dunno, could go any way
Track 5: You'll like everything except one part of this
Track 6: You'll like some of this but other parts not at all
Track 7: This will be your favorite on the EP
This is… not a bad prediction. I definitely agree with your assessment of Skies as one of the strongest tracks on the EP, and I’d definitely characterize it as my favorite. I thought there was a nice tempering of the chaotic, harsh sound by some strong melodies, and found it to be a really enjoyable storytelling track. That final vocal part, from “The wreckage was never” found to the end, is truly excellent, and I’d say really shows the potential of this style of music in combining harsh elements with melody.
The Eidola track probably is my other favorite. It’s not quite as relentless as the others, and it has a memorable chorus. And Even The Trees does come in third. I even don’t mind the harsh part that you thought I might not like. I think it works well as a climactic moment in the context of the whole. The Actor | Observer song has an absolutely killer chorus, but the harsh verses, as you likely expected, don’t really do it for me. On the whole, I’d call it more of a hit than a miss, though, because that chorus is so strong.
His Kingdom Is Vast, on the other hand, did end up as my least favorite. There is some stuff on there that I find interesting, and I wouldn’t say I dislike it, but it is just somewhat too in-your-face with the growls on the heavier parts.
I understand completely why you put The Apologist in the place where you did on this EP. It fits well in this position and contributes the up-and-down flow of the EP. On the other hand, I feel like there is so much in play on this track that it’s overall probably better suited to be sent in a non-EP round. I found that even five listens was really just not enough for me to get a handle on it when I’m also focusing on six other tracks and how they fit together. I will probably take some time to listen to this song on its own after the roulette, not only because I know you hold it in such high regard, but because there’s definitely stuff I’m interested in and want to figure out (I am still not a fan of the style of harsh vocals this group uses, but I definitely liked some of the softer parts on this one).
This EP, as a whole, is really well-together. You did an excellent job with the transitions, to the point where this almost feels like a cohesive album at times despite the clear stylistic differences between some of the tracks. The full listening experience is, unfortunately, a little bit tiring for me because I’m not accustomed to something this relentlessly intense, but there are a lot of moments that shine, and the full experience is made enjoyable despite being tiring by how well put-together it is.
If your goal was to win the roulette with this, then yes, it falls short. But if your goal was to make a well-structured EP and get me to enjoy some music in this style, then I’d call that a success. I think this EP did about as well as any EP in this style likely could have done.
1. Protest the Hero - Skies (8.5/10)
2. Eidola - To Know What’s Real (8.5/10)
3. Even The Trees - Tonight We Don’t Think, We Do (8.0/10)
4. East of the Wall - The Apologist (8.0/10)
5. Actor | Observer - Dilettante (7.5/10)
6. Black Peaks - Saviour (7.0/10)
7. A Novelist - His Kingdom is Vast (6.5/10)
Score: 15.5 out of 20.
Tomislav95
Rae Morris - Push Me to My Limit
Rae Morris - Physical Form
Let’s Eat Grandma - Hot Pink
Let’s Eat Grandma - It’s Not Just Me
Carly Rae Jepsen - Emotion
Carly Rae Jepsen - I Didn’t Just Come Here to Dance
MGMT - Little Dark Age
MGMT - Me and Michael
Carly Rae Jepsen - Now That I Found You
Rae Morris - Dancing With Character
Impression: I enjoy this EP fairly well most of the way through (with the exception of one song that is a pretty strong miss), but the opening and closing are well above the rest and sort of buoy the whole thing up.
Okay, I was trying to figure out a way to say what I had to say without giving it away too much. At first, I thought about saying that one particular artist is the one who buoys the whole thing up, but that would narrow it down too much to the few EPs that used multiple songs from the same artist. And “opening two and last one songs” would also be too obvious. So I settled for excluding Physical Form from the literal meaning of the impression while still conveying more or less what I felt most important to say about this EP, which is:
Rae Morris is really, really good.
I absolutely love her voice. She’s got the sort of distinctive tone, range (including solid low-end) and power that I love in a singer on this type of pop music. And the songs are wonderful. The vocal melodies are just dripping with emotion. The performances are wonderful. These songs just immediately caught on with me and only grew more in my esteem the more I listened to them. Physical Form was, as it turns out, in fact my least favorite of the three, and yet it’s still an excellent, memorable song. Push Me to My Limit is dripping with emotion, a fantastic EP opener, but not as good an opener as the fantastic and incredibly emotional Dancing With Character is a closer. That song just stays with me. One of the best of the roulette.
On the other end, we have Move Systems II: Hot Pink. Okay, I actually think I like this one better than Move Systems, but Hot Pink does do most of the things that bother me in some synthpop. The vocals are pretty annoying at, the melodies, outside of the intro, are… not particularly good, the stop-and-start stuff just does not appeal to me. Fortunately, the other song from this artist is markedly better in my estimation. Not a favorite, but a solid pop song for sure, one that I can sing along with and enjoy pretty well. So maybe Hot Pink is an outlier, but it is a definite black spot on the EP.
There is not anything on the EP from the other artists that I enjoy nearly as much as I enjoy the Rae Morris material, but that is a pretty high bar. Fortunately, the non-Hot Pink songs are much more toward the better end of the spectrum, even including the aforementioned It’s Not Just Me.
MGMT was my second-favorite artist here. There was this interesting approach to the vocal melodies on both sides, especially Little Dark Age, that I found really appealing. That song in particular had a cool vibe that was sort of both laid-back and ominous-sounding at the same time? Definitely interested in hearing more from this artist.
The expectations that some of the hype I’ve seen online set for Carly Rae Jepsen put her, I think, at an initial disadvantage, but not a serious one. None of these songs is transcendently great in the way that the reputation might have suggested they’d be, but all are more than solid pop songs, the way that a lot of the songs on an album like Taylor Swift’s 1989 are. So in the end, CRJ is a hit, even if she’s very much in the shadow of Rae Morris on this one.
As a whole, this EP is enjoyable most of the way through, with Hot Pink being the exception. I would say that most of the songs in the middle rate as solid pop songs. With the exception of Little Dark Age, nothing in there really wows me. It’s all good and reliable without necessarily going up to that next level. Rae Morris does go to the next level, and, so, like I already says, her three songs really buoy the EP up markedly higher.
1. Rae Morris - Dancing With Character (9.0/10)
2. Rae Morris - Push Me to My Limit (9.0/10)
3. Rae Morris - Physical Form (9.0/10)
4. MGMT - Little Dark Age (8.5/10)
5. Carly Rae Jepsen - Emotion (8.0/10)
6. Carly Rae Jepsen - Now That I Found You (7.5/10)
7. Carly Rae Jepsen - I Didn’t Just Come Here to Dance (7.5/10)
8. MGMT - Me and Michael (7.5/10)
9. Let’s Eat Grandma - It’s Not Just Me (7.5/10)
10. Let’s Eat Grandma - Hot Pink (4.5/10)
Score: 16.5 out of 20.
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**Note: This is the second part of results. The first part is on the previous page. Too many characters for one post, and unfortunately my two posts got split between the two pages.**
TAC: Winter’s Night
The Fractured Dimension - Nights of Somber Frost
Illyria - Autumn Fades Away
Defecto - When Daylight Dies
Communic - Moondance
The Arbitrary - Glacial Tranquility
Lost In Thought - New Times Awaken
This concept may not be anything too fancy, but I think it worked out really well as an organizing principle for this EP, creating a sense of thematic flow. I actually made an EP based on a similar concept of going from evening to morning in Train of Naught’s roulette, which is the only roulette I ever won, so that’s a pretty cool coincidence.
Structuring the EP around two instrumentals was perhaps a bit of an unknowing risk. Instrumentals can very much be a hit-or-miss thing with me. Often I find them uninteresting, or only interesting in album context. Here it certainly helps that we have something like an album context, but I think I would like both of these instrumentals on their own. There’s enough varied material to make them pretty interesting all the way through. Neither would rank among my favorites on the EP, but both hold their own, and, I think, enhance the cohesion of the theme by providing an introduction in one case and a transition in the other.
Seeing as I commented on the harsh vocals in the impression, and you immediately identified that impression as not yours because of that, I suppose I should give something of an explanation. First of all, I went that route in part because I was having a hard time thinking of something to say that wouldn’t completely give it away. The dominant thing that made an impression on me was the theme, but I couldn’t think of a way to say much about that without it being clear that it was about either yours or Evermind’s, since you’re the only ones who had strong themes.
Secondly, I really did sort of make a categorization in my mind early on between the growl ones and non-growl ones, in which yours, Leth’s and Cyril’s went together in the “growl” category, and I did like the use of growls best on yours. Maybe BECAUSE there were so few of them, in part, but nonetheless, I did. I was thinking, of course, of the end of the Illyria song, which I think is a fantastic use of growls. It’s quite unexpected, and it’s a bit of a sharp left turn after the calm acoustic sound of the rest of the song, but I think it’s very well-executed. I find both sides of this song pretty enjoyable, and I think they did a really good job of uniting them in a single composition. And I think it works fantastically in the overall concept.
My favorite song on here, though, both from the standpoint of concept and of overall quality, was the centerpiece, Moondance, which I actually considered under the heading of harsh vocals, for the backing vocals in the verses. I thought their subtle use here was really smart. Maybe it wasn’t harsh enough to fall under the heading of growls, but that’s how it struck me on my first several listens. Either way, I really like this song. It’s got a strong sense of atmosphere that accords well with the theme and is strong on its own, a strong main theme and a really killer chorus. And that part transitioning between the verse and the chorus, with the double bass and eerie backing vocals, is fantastic.
The Defecto and Lost in Thought songs are both strong as well. I very much like the intensity of When Daylight Dies. It provides the kind of desperate feeling that the EP concept needs at that point. Meanwhile, the Lost in Thought song provides a strong finale with a nice buildup. The last minute and a half of the song in particular is excellent, with the building vocal part and subsequent guitar solo. I like how uplifting the finale ultimately is. After all the nighttime and wintry stuff of the early EP, it’s a nice contrast. I’d call it the second strongest song on the EP for sure.
On the whole, this EP is steadily strong all the way through. It also sets out with a concept and definitely succeeds at bringing that concept to life, which is a nice bonus. I enjoy all six songs, which is not nothing in these sorts of rounds, and there’s one that I liked quite a bit (Moondance). The limiting factor is ultimately that most of the songs (Moondance and New Times Awaken being the exceptions) are in the enjoyable-but-not-next-level-enjoyable range. There’s nothing I can really say against them, because I like them. But there are a couple of EPs this round where I just like the songs more.
1. Communic - Moondance (8.5/10)
2. Lost in Thought - New Times Awaken (8.5/10)
3. Illyria - Autumn Fades Away (8.0/10)
4. Defecto - When Daylight Dies (8.0/10)
5. The Arbitrary - Glacial Tranquility (7.5/10)
6. The Fractured Dimension - Nights of Somber Frost (7.5/10)
Score: 16.5 out of 20.
jingle.boy
Magnus Karlsson's FreeFall - Not My Saviour
Tesla - Modern Day Cowboy
Pretty Maids - Pandemonium
The Eagles - Desperado
Star One - Master of Darkness
Slade - My Oh My
Peter Gabriel - Solsbury Hill
Triosphere - The Heart's Dominion
Impression: This EP contains several songs from a style that is definitely hit-or-miss with me, but in this case it turned out to be a hit on every occasion.
Interesting that you correctly guessed the impression, but didn’t ask for any of the songs I was referring to in the description, which were the songs that had more of that 70s/80s rock sound. I was most especially referring to the Tesla and Slade songs, both of which made a very positive impression on me. Modern Day Cowboy is the type of song that one might expect me to not like: Its sound definitely belongs to a particular era, and the lyrics are rather on the cheesy side. But it somehow works for me on this track. The songwriting is just so strong on this one, and somehow the lyrics are actually appealing to me. I love the unapologetic swagger, and I think there’s just such a nice progressive buildup on each verse-prechorus-chorus cycle. I am continually surprised by how much I like this song.
With My Oh My, it’s stylistically the type of song that I could end up seeing as sort of a generic power ballad, except that, again, the songwriting is just so, so, so, so strong that it demands respect. Especially when it turns from a quieter love song into a huge anthemic piece calling more broadly for human unity. I’m again continually surprised by how much I enjoy this track. What a good song.
Solsbury Hill is one of my least favorite tracks here, and yet I would still classify it as very strong. Gabriel’s vocal performance is really strong, and the melodies just flow so nicely. I do think the muppet noises at the end are a little strange, but not really something that detracts in a major way.
The four more modern metal songs are no exception to the strength in songwriting I find all over this EP. The first two Not My Saviour and Pandemonium, are both rather straightforward prog-power-ish songs, but both are operating at a really high level in terms of songwriting quality, such that even though neither is really doing anything I haven’t heard before stylistically, I enjoy them quite a bit just because they are that good in terms of riffs, melodies, and overall construction. Not really a fan of the samples on Pandemonium, but I can get past it.
The Star One track is wonderful, and I think I actually like it more than I like most songs from Ayreon. This really confirms me in my preference, which I’ve sort of held ever since I first heard the two Universal Migrator albums, for Arjen’s metal side over his calm/folk side. The songwriting here is more focused than on a lot of the Ayreon stuff, and it’s really pretty cool how much story and how many different singers are fit into a pretty compact song with a more traditional structure. Russell Allen as Darth Vader is also a pretty ingenious casting choice. I also think Arjen benefits here from being able to crib large portions of the lyrics from The Empire Strikes Back. All this tells me that I am way overdue for checking out Star One. Evermind will probably be mad that I hadn’t before and then praised this to the heavens on your EP, but before he gets too mad, he should scroll down.
The Triosphere song was a really nice surprise, and it’s probably my second favorite song of this very, very strong EP. I’m very hesitant to name the gender of vocalists now, but I’m pretty… sure the singer here is a woman, right? She sounds like if Floor Jansen leaned a little further in the rock direction and used more grit in her voice, which is awesome. This is another very well-written metal song, with a nice combination of good heavy riffs and symphonic touches. The chorus here is just fantastic, the way the lines are absolutely belted out. This is just a very good song, and I’m looking forward to hearing more from this band and especially this singer.
The other highlight of the EP is Desperado. Which, maybe the chagrin of the other participants, I was passingly familiar with prior to the roulette, just from it being a very well-known song. But I hadn’t given it a devoted listen, so I chose to allow. And the more focus I’ve given it, the more I’ve been rewarded. This is a really wonderful song, with a ton of emotion and a great sense of melody. The type of song where every piece feels like it’s in the right place, down the way the strings sit right in with the drum hits and Henley’s vocals on that last chorus. This one really strikes an emotional chord with me in addition to being a very well-written song.
I feel like a broken record in this writeup talking about the quality of songwriting, but that’s what stands out to me most on this EP. As you said in the thread, this is not an EP about a theme or concept, and there’s not an emphasis at all on having the perfect flow. It doesn’t matter. The flow makes good enough sense to make the thing into a cohesive listening experience, so that, while my attention is not drawn to that aspect of the EP, I’m not distracted by anything that’s at all jarring.
What’s here is good songs, and that’s where I think your approach of sending songs only off your top 111 lists may have paid off particularly well. If I had listened to the EP first and learned about that approach after, I would not have been surprised at all to hear that this was how you had selected the songs, because every one of them is just operating at a very high level in terms of the sheer quality of songwriting. Across a number of different styles, I find myself thrilling every time to how well each song is constructed.
1. The Eagles - Desperado (9.5/10)
2. Triosphere - The Heart’s Dominion (9.0)
3. Slade - My Oh My (9.0/10)
4. Star One - Master of Darkness (9.0/10)
5. Pretty Maids - Pandemonium (8.5/10)
6. Tesla - Modern Day Cowboy (8.5/10)
7. Magnus Karlsson's FreeFall - Not My Saviour (8.5/10)
8. Peter Gabriel - Solsbury Hill (8.5/10)
Score: 18.5 out of 20.
Evermind: Wrath or Destiny
Delain - Masters of Destiny
Within Temptation - See Who I Am
Tori Amos - Winter
Phantasma - Enter Dreamscape
Delain - Control the Storm
The Wishing Tree - Soldier
Demons & Wizards - Fiddler on the Green
Impression: This is a hit all the way through. The right EP at the right time. Excellent songs and a pretty strong sense of cohesion.
Yep. This is it.
You always send such good EPs. Every one of them is clearly the product of careful thought. Last time you sent a wonderful EP that probably would have scored more wonderfully with someone else—it just didn’t hit me quite right on the emotional level.
This time, no such problem. Going the symphonic metal route was really smart. It’s a genre that I should listen to a ton on paper. Nightwish is a top 5 band for me. But for whatever reason, I’ve never really gotten into many of the genre’s other bands. Some of them have reputations for being generic that have scared me off, but it’s really no excuse. And now I do have no excuse at all, because of this wonderful EP.
Delain, as you said, would be the key here, especially their vocalist, who sings on three of the songs. She’s excellent, you had nothing to worry about. She covers all the bases on the very first song, showing that she’s capable of the soft stuff in the intro, and then bringing this amazing feeling of barely controlled wildness on the song’s spectacularly massive chorus (with a huge assist from the symphonic elements). Control the Storm also has a fantastic and massive chorus propelled by… well, if you want to object to Chad sending Arjen, I’ll say that sending me a Marco Hietala guest spot is almost as much of a cheat. Both Masters of Destiny and Control the Storm are absolutely highlights on an EP full of highlights.
Within Temptation and Phantasma may be a little bit behind Delain, but if so it’s just one step. See Who I Am is an excellent song, with a substantive symphonic element and strong vocal performance. And Enter Dreamscape has a very good chorus with a beautifully fragile-sounding vocal performance
All three quieter songs towering highlights. Winter is absolutely captivating. A beautiful, emotional vocal performance with tons of character. This is one of those songs that just grabbed me from the first listen and never stopped impressing me. This simple, beautiful song is a brilliant centerpiece for an EP where a lot of the tracks are complex and bombastic. I love this song.
Fiddler on the Green, as you already know, was a big hit with me. One of those fantastic songs that transitions seamlesly from a soft acoustic piece into a bombastic epic metal finale, powered by a tremendous, massive, emotional, dominant vocal performance from Hansi Kürsch. Also cheating, if you want to go down that road. ;)
Soldier is the surprise hit on this EP. You suggested that if there was one song that I’d call a miss, it would be this one. Nope. This rates very, very highly with me. I love the lyrics on this one. They make up for the Karmakanic lyrics of round 2. And the singer’s straightforward, honest performance is excellent. This is just a beautiful little piece that I love everything about. And it fits perfectly into this part of your concept. It feels just right coming after the bombast of Control the Storm and going into the acoustic beginning of the epic finale.
Speaking of the concept, I think it was very well executed, as usual. As interesting as your highly detailed story was last time, I think it works well here that the story writeup didn’t detail the connections to each song in minute detail, but instead gave an overview that I could sort of imaginatively connect to each song as I listened. The way you used the different male/female vocal dynamics to tie in with the twins of the story was a smart idea. And story aside, the cohesion and flow on this EP are really strong. The opener and closer are so strong that I don’t blame you for thinking that your impression was the one about the strong opener and closer buoying up the rest. But no, the rest is deserving of that opener and closer. A great group of songs, a great concept, a great EP.
1. Tori Amos - Winter (9.5/10)
2. Demons & Wizards - Fiddler on the Green (9.0/10)
3. The Wishing Tree - Soldier (9.0/10)
4. Delain - Masters of Destiny (9.0/10)
5. Delain - Control the Storm (8.5/10)
6. Within Temptation - See Who I Am (8.5/10)
7. Phantasma - Enter Dreamscape (8.0/10)
Score: 18.5 out of 20.
Final Standings:
Evermind - 46.0
jingle.boy - 44.0
Cyril - 42.0
TAC - 42.0
Tomislav95 - 41.0
Lethean - 40.5
At long last, congratulations to Evermind, winner of a 425 roulette! Your submissions were all on a very high level of quality, maybe even higher than what you have delivered in the past, making this a very well-earned win, especially in the face of some really tough competition. Thank you to all 13 contestants! This roulette was probably the most enjoyable one I've run, and it's in no small part thanks to y'all. I'm also looking forward to digging into the new artists you've sent me. Congrats again to Evermind and thanks again to all!
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Congrats Ruslan! And Chad for the silver medal.
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Congrats Ruslan. I'm happy with 2nd place.
Glad all hose track resonated so well with ya. :tup. This was a nice quick fun one. Well done.
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Glad all hoser tracks resonated so well with ya.
:lol
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honestly i'm more than satisfied with that :corn
congrats evermind!
also, i'm in the weirdo "50 posts per page" club so they aren't split across pages for me :corn
anyways yeah don't go listen to that A Novelist record, but do listen to this Actor Observer song, which has no harsh vocals:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6JAjxjyN18
you'll probably also like that Eidola album (Degeneraterra is the best but To Speak, To Listen is good too, they do have growls on other tracks though
And I'd recommend you actually checkout Scurrilous from Protest first since it's probably their least growly release (Kezia is still my favorite but there's a clear stylistic gap between it and their later albums too, though I'd still say check it out. Volition is good but Skies is the best song by miles.)
dunno so much that you'd like Black Peaks or Even the Trees in full album form; maybe at least this Even the Trees track? again no growls
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaMIaooS0O0
and i know for sure you wouldn't like the full East of the Wall album either, pretty much every track has significant usage of growls and is a fair bit heavier, but. the instrumentals maybe? :P
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W47joNWr4iM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z166lYXzQIQ
these two run into each other on the album and they're both short but excellent instrumental jams.
their latest two albums definitely tone down the growls a bit too, though neither of them are anywhere close to as good as The Apologist either.
anyways I'll take scoring just below 8/10 overall in an EP full of heavier stuff with prominent growls :metal
though to me it's anything but "relentless" but TASTES haha
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also eeww yeah hot pink is pretty bad, even for me :lol
i can see why you compare it to move systems though
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Thanks for having me 425. :)
I'm glad you enjoyed some of the songs in the EP. Stick with Arcturus a little, if you can. I liked the creepy vocals, as you put it, but they and the whole band had to grow on me. It may never really be your thing, but I dunno. I kind of had the same reaction at first.
Glad you liked Caleb so much - I was tempted to send it the first time around but wasn't quite sure about how you'd like it. And Voices is quite special. Well, it was just released in September so I suppose it could "wear off," but I don't think it will. Great great song. Borknagar has a lot of harsh vocals, but some really good stuff.
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About time! :) Very happy with this result. I agree sending a song with Marco was absolutely cheating, but he also appears on a few more Delain songs, so it's not a one-off occurence.
The fact that you liked The Wishing Tree shows that sometimes overthinking in roulettes is good. That was the last day addition to my EP.
If you like Arjen's heavy stuff, I have no idea how you haven't checked out Star One yet.
Very fun roulette indeed, I liked the short format. I think if I ever decide to run another one of these, I may go with something similar. Thank you for having me!
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Congrats Evermind :)
This was a fun one! I feel like I could have won if there weren't 2 or so duds but I'll learn from it :tup
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Glad all hose track resonated so well with ya. :tup. This was a nice quick fun one. Well done.
Good to hear it was fun to play in. I enjoyed hosting it.
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anyways I'll take scoring just below 8/10 overall in an EP full of heavier stuff with prominent growls :metal
though to me it's anything but "relentless" but TASTES haha
Thanks for the detailed guide; I will definitely use this in figuring out where to find more of what I liked best from your EP. Definitely going to check at least the Eidola and PTH albums.
also eeww yeah hot pink is pretty bad, even for me :lol
i can see why you compare it to move systems though
Part of the comparison was just leaning into the meme, but there are real similarities.
I'm glad you enjoyed some of the songs in the EP. Stick with Arcturus a little, if you can. I liked the creepy vocals, as you put it, but they and the whole band had to grow on me. It may never really be your thing, but I dunno. I kind of had the same reaction at first.
Glad you liked Caleb so much - I was tempted to send it the first time around but wasn't quite sure about how you'd like it. And Voices is quite special. Well, it was just released in September so I suppose it could "wear off," but I don't think it will. Great great song. Borknagar has a lot of harsh vocals, but some really good stuff.
Arcturus has me interested, even though it didn't exactly click, so I will probably try to check out an album at some point. I will definitely give that Borknagar album a go even if the harsh vocals might ultimately be a turnoff. Voices is just too strong for me to leave that stone unturned. And Unia is for sure getting another good look.
About time! :) Very happy with this result. I agree sending a song with Marco was absolutely cheating, but he also appears on a few more Delain songs, so it's not a one-off occurence.
The fact that you liked The Wishing Tree shows that sometimes overthinking in roulettes is good. That was the last day addition to my EP.
If you like Arjen's heavy stuff, I have no idea how you haven't checked out Star One yet.
Very fun roulette indeed, I liked the short format. I think if I ever decide to run another one of these, I may go with something similar. Thank you for having me!
Ha, I don't actually consider sending Marco to be cheating in any serious sense. Cool to hear that he has a number of guest spots with Delain; I really like him as a vocalist and they have definitely piqued my interest as a band.The Wishing Tree was a good addition. That song really connected with me for whatever reason.
Honestly, I have no good excuse for neglecting Star One. To be honest, given how much I like Nightwish, I have no good excuse for neglecting Delain or Within Temptation, either (best I can do is "I tried Epica and didn't really get into them so I sort of ignored non-Nightwish female-fronted symphonic metal after that"). It's ultimately one of those "so much music, so little time" things. Definitely going to remedy all three of those soon, though.
I definitely enjoyed the short format from a host perspective. It never wound up feeling overwhelming or like there was too much to take in. Plus it arguably makes things more competitive since each round counts for more.
This was a fun one! I feel like I could have won if there weren't 2 or so duds but I'll learn from it :tup
Meanwhile this is the downside of the short format: A couple of duds can kill you because there's so little room to make up for them. But I'm glad you enjoyed it regardless!
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also go check out guilt machine too while you're at it with checking out arjen side-projects you haven't heard
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Definitely keep meaning to check out Guilt Machine. I have heard that album once, during the listening sessions Evermind ran (I'm pretty sure I missed one or both of the Star One ones, though), and it made a pretty strong positive impression.