Author Topic: Forum Game: Guess the album cover (Read 356804 times)

wolfking · « **Reply #2555 on:** October 13, 2012, 07:22:33 AM »

E4: Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors

wolfking · « **Reply #2556 on:** October 13, 2012, 07:25:48 AM »

B5: Disillusion - Back to Times of Splendor

yorost · « **Reply #2557 on:** October 13, 2012, 11:49:15 AM »

All correct and updated.

There are 3 albums on here that are in the jazz family. I do love how blues influenced rock guitarists early on. I listen to a lot of jazz fusion, too, even solo albums from members of the big 3 70's fusion acts.

There's a US #1 on here, used to be a band but collapsed into a solo act about 40 years ago. My favourite guitarist debuted on the album.

Speaking of which, advanced search might help you find a list of my top artists.

Know any artists that go by two initials?

yorost · « **Reply #2558 on:** October 13, 2012, 10:39:15 PM »

Hints have been added for each album.

Big Hath · « **Reply #2559 on:** October 13, 2012, 11:28:38 PM »

C3 - Santana - Santana III

Big Hath · « **Reply #2560 on:** October 13, 2012, 11:36:57 PM »

D2 - Stanley Clarke - Journey To Love

wolfking · « **Reply #2561 on:** October 14, 2012, 03:42:25 AM »

D5: Solefald - In Harmonia Universali

wolfking · « **Reply #2562 on:** October 14, 2012, 03:45:24 AM »

C4: Albert King - Born Under A Bad Sign

yorost · « **Reply #2563 on:** October 14, 2012, 06:26:10 AM »

Yup to these, 10 to go.

wolfking · « **Reply #2564 on:** October 15, 2012, 03:20:31 AM »

E5: After Forever - Invisible Circles

wolfking · « **Reply #2565 on:** October 15, 2012, 03:21:44 AM »

A1: Journey - Self Titled

yorost · « **Reply #2566 on:** October 15, 2012, 10:01:33 AM »

Yes, and I expanded all of the hints.

wolfking · « **Reply #2567 on:** October 16, 2012, 04:22:55 AM »

Quote from: yorost on October 12, 2012, 08:51:31 AM

A1: Journey - Journey (wolfking)
A2: Sung almost entirely in Gaelic by Swiss folk metal band. There is a post about this band in LadyObscure's minis section.
A3: Twisted Into Form - Then Comes Affliction to Awaken the Dreamer (jingle.boy)
A4: Van Halen - Balance (fadetoblackdude7)
A5: Megadeth - Youthanasia (Ruba)

B1: Norwegian metal band, in the Arcturus family, whose music is heavily integrated with classical. There is a post about this band in LadyObscure's minis section.
B2: Album is named after Yggdrasil's well of the past and was released this year. Long time Century Media band from Norway.
B3: T. Rex - Electric Warrior (Zydar)
B4: Ved Buens Ende - Written in Waters (wolfking)
B5: Disillusion - Back to Times of Splendor (wolfking)

C1: In the Woods... - Omnio (wolfking)
C2: Early album from a New Jersey mathcore band.
C3: Santana - III (Big Hath)
C4: Albert King - Born Under a Bad Sign (wolfking)
C5: Know anybody that played "Agony" to a particular Dream Theater member? He's one of my favourite artists and this is his band. You can find a review of one of this band's albums at LadyObscure.

D1: First album by a three piece post metal group. Backwards album is... US Squares - Exit.
D2: Stanley Clarke - Journey to Love (Big Hath)
D3: Jazz pianist from Japan that graduated from Berkeley. Know for zany stage presence, she's possibly my favourite artist.
D4: 00010.10100. (That's a puzzle for the artist's name as well as a hint at the album title.)
D5: Solefald - In Harmonia Universali (wolfking)

E1: Hardline - Double Eclipse (jingle.boy)
E2: Ansur - Warring Factions (jingle.boy)
E3: Psychotic Waltz - Into the Everflow/Bleeding (Cyclopssss)
E4: Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors (wolfking)
E5: After Forever - Invisible Circles (wolfking)

C2: The Dillinger Escape Plan - Calculating Infinity

wolfking · « **Reply #2568 on:** October 16, 2012, 04:39:30 AM »

C5: Deadsoul Tribe - The Dead Word

wolfking · « **Reply #2569 on:** October 16, 2012, 04:43:15 AM »

A2: Eluvetitie - Evocation 1 - The Arcane Dominion

wolfking · « **Reply #2570 on:** October 16, 2012, 04:45:17 AM »

B2: Borknager - Urd

jingle.boy · « **Reply #2571 on:** October 16, 2012, 05:22:31 AM »

Damn you went deep into the vault with a lot of these.

wolfking · « **Reply #2572 on:** October 16, 2012, 07:06:57 AM »

D3: Hiromi Uehara - Spiral.

Did you seriously expect anyone to know that one?

Cyclopssss · « **Reply #2573 on:** October 16, 2012, 07:11:43 AM »

Damn, Wolfie, you'e on fire!

wolfking · « **Reply #2574 on:** October 16, 2012, 07:20:11 AM »

B1: Winds - The Imaginary Direction of Time

wolfking · « **Reply #2575 on:** October 16, 2012, 07:22:43 AM »

D1: Russian Circles - Enter

wolfking · « **Reply #2576 on:** October 16, 2012, 07:28:10 AM »

I have no idea on the last one, and have no idea what that could be a puzzle for. The only thing I can think of is someone related to Ayreon.

yorost · « **Reply #2577 on:** October 16, 2012, 07:36:40 AM »

Quote from: wolfking on October 16, 2012, 07:06:57 AM

D3: Hiromi Uehara - Spiral.

Did you seriously expect anyone to know that one?

Shit, sorry for putting the album on there. I don't know who plays this game, but I know at least a few other prominent posters are familiar with her albums. Her videos have gone around this site and fiveeights over the years and a few of us pick up her albums on release. There's usually a small thread when she releases a new album, and it isn't always created by me. I also dropped a few hints early search for my top artists in case people didn't know her, she'll be mentioned every time.

Quote from: jingle.boy on October 16, 2012, 05:22:31 AM

Damn you went deep into the vault with a lot of these.

I didn't mean to make it this hard, most of these are albums I really love. I haven't really built my library from recommendations on this site, so I'm a little out of touch for how well known anything is. I tried to pick bands artists I know have been talked about or are prominent in their scene. I feel bad some of these were hard, I thought more would be pretty easy.

In fact, I thought the last one would be too easy. The album had it's own thread when it was released and still gets mentioned. A quick search of the album title brought up 8 or 9 different posters mentioning the album. I dropped an earlier hint that one of these albums was by an artist that goes by two initials. That's binary for the initials.

Scorpion · « **Reply #2578 on:** October 16, 2012, 07:36:41 AM »

Something in binary code, possibly?

Elite · « **Reply #2579 on:** October 16, 2012, 07:39:13 AM »

BT - This Binary Universe

shit, I should have known.

wolfking · « **Reply #2580 on:** October 16, 2012, 07:43:43 AM »

Damn, just discovered it was B and T but had no clue what that meant in terms of bands, nice work Elite.

wolfking · « **Reply #2581 on:** October 16, 2012, 07:45:18 AM »

Quote from: yorost on October 16, 2012, 07:36:40 AM

Quote from: wolfking on October 16, 2012, 07:06:57 AM
D3: Hiromi Uehara - Spiral.

Did you seriously expect anyone to know that one?

Shit, sorry for putting the album on there. I don't know who plays this game, but I know at least a few other prominent posters are familiar with her albums. Her videos have gone around this site and fiveeights over the years and a few of us pick up her albums on release. There's usually a small thread when she releases a new album, and it isn't always created by me. I also dropped a few hints early search for my top artists in case people didn't know her, she'll be mentioned every time.

Quote from: jingle.boy on October 16, 2012, 05:22:31 AM
Damn you went deep into the vault with a lot of these.
I didn't mean to make it this hard, most of these are albums I really love. I haven't really built my library from recommendations on this site, so I'm a little out of touch for how well known anything is. I tried to pick bands artists I know have been talked about or are prominent in their scene. I feel bad some of these were hard, I thought more would be pretty easy.

In fact, I thought the last one would be too easy. The album had it's own thread when it was released and still gets mentioned. A quick search of the album title brought up 8 or 9 different posters mentioning the album. I dropped an earlier hint that one of these albums was by an artist that goes by two initials. That's binary for the initials.

Wasn't having a go mate, it's all good, just never heard of her. Challenging game, well done.

Elite · « **Reply #2582 on:** October 16, 2012, 07:46:54 AM »

Is someone else up for this? I'd like to try and make one if that's okay.

wolfking · « **Reply #2583 on:** October 16, 2012, 07:47:27 AM »

Quote from: Elite on October 16, 2012, 07:46:54 AM

Is someone else up for this? I'd like to try and make one if that's okay.

GOGOGO!!

jingle.boy · « **Reply #2584 on:** October 16, 2012, 07:48:23 AM »

I guess it's pretty easy to get far off the path of what's known/not known around here. There's so much awesome music out there - and with the deep libraries that most of us have, it can be hard to know what's going to be easy/hard to get. I'm sure I wouldn't have to get too far into my library to find shit no one has ever heard of... Rockhead and Shadow's Mignon did it pretty easily on my two creations.

In this case, I haven't even heard of most of those bands - I didn't check out a lot of your posts at LO back in April/May, since I was holding off on discovering anything new because I was holding my Roulette around that time.

Do one Rich.

Elite · « **Reply #2585 on:** October 16, 2012, 07:50:09 AM »

Quote from: wolfking on October 16, 2012, 07:47:27 AM

Quote from: Elite on October 16, 2012, 07:46:54 AM
Is someone else up for this? I'd like to try and make one if that's okay.

GOGOGO!!

Give me an hour or so

jingle.boy · « **Reply #2586 on:** October 16, 2012, 07:51:27 AM »

Quote from: Elite on October 16, 2012, 07:50:09 AM

Quote from: wolfking on October 16, 2012, 07:47:27 AM
Quote from: Elite on October 16, 2012, 07:46:54 AM
Is someone else up for this? I'd like to try and make one if that's okay.

GOGOGO!!

Give me an hour or so

perfect... Kade will be asleep.

yorost · « **Reply #2587 on:** October 16, 2012, 08:01:44 AM »

Quote from: jingle.boy on October 16, 2012, 07:48:23 AM

In this case, I haven't even heard of most of those bands - I didn't check out a lot of your posts at LO back in April/May, since I was holding off on discovering anything new because I was holding my Roulette around that time.

What's funny is that you would expect Hardline to be one of the toughest on a prog rock/metal forum.

That was an easy addition, though, I figured you or wolfking would get it quickly. Ah well, I'll try to make a better one if I do this again. Thanks to everyone for letting me try!

Elite · « **Reply #2588 on:** October 16, 2012, 08:35:29 AM »

Here we go! Good luck people.

A1:
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B1:
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C1:
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D1: Faith no More - Angel Dust (BlobvanDam)
D2:
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E1:
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BlobVanDam · « **Reply #2589 on:** October 16, 2012, 08:37:44 AM »

D1 - Faith No More - Angel Dust

News: Track-by-track video for Paralyzed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fd5TbGbalPs&feature=youtu.be

Author Topic: Forum Game: Guess the album cover (Read 356804 times)