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theseoafs' song roulette v. unbelievable.
« on: July 05, 2012, 02:50:38 PM »
Hello! Per the advice of jingle.boy (who must know what he's talking about because his postcount is twice mine), I should go ahead and start my roulette because antigoon is slow. Well, ladies, there's nobody quicker than me. ;)

THE FORMAT

My song roulette will be pretty standard. Seven participants, seven rounds, no elimination. As for scoring, the round's best song will get 7 points, and the worst will get 1 point. Participants who fail to meet the deadline will get 0 points, so we can get my roulette out of the way and let somebody on the waiting list have their turn. At the end of the seventh round, the person with the most points will be the winner, and I will change my avatar, signature, and personal text to "(winner's name) is the best person" (which would create a paradox and destroy the universe should H win).  Keep in mind that all deadlines will be 24-48 hours after the previous round's results were posted, so please do not participate if you're not willing or able to check in at least once a day for the next couple weeks.

THE SONGS

In general, there will be no time limit to the submitted songs, and there will be no global restrictions on genre or artist.  The rounds will have themes, but they won't be too restrictive; my goal here is to discover great music that I probably wouldn't hear otherwise, and participants who are able to provide that for me will be rewarded.  As usual, all songs should be sent by PM; I prefer Spotify links but Grooveshark and Youtube are OK too.

To the detriment of my participants, I don't have a last.fm. Looking over my iTunes library, most of the artists are pretty well-known rock and metal bands. As a general rule, we can assume that if it's a radio rock classic, I'm familiar with it and I have some familiarity with most of the bands that are talked about on DTF all day long, so stay away from those. Generally, the obscurer the band is, the better. However, I'm also not going to provide a list of artists I'm familiar or semi-familiar with because I don't want my participants to approach this saying "well, he likes bands X and Y, so I think he'll like Z"; simply send me something you enjoy and I'll rate it honestly.

I recognize that this approach can be confusing. To that end, I will allow people to submit more than one song per round. If I'm familiar with the first song, I'll default to the second listed, and I'll default to the third listed if I know the second song, etc. You can also re-submit non-ranked songs. Say you send me songs A, B, and C for round 3, and I rank song B; this means I was familiar with song A, and that you can re-submit song C during rounds 4 and beyond. You can also PM me at any time to ask me about my familiarity with a band's catalog, and I'll get back to you as soon as possible, but I can't guarantee that this will be before the deadline. Be prepared to use brute force if your library isn't full of indie darlings with 10 fans, because if you fail to provide me with a song I've not heard before the deadline, you will get 0 points for the round.



Alllllllright! The first 7 people to post here will be the roulette's participants, whose names shall be engraved in stone here:

1. Elite
2. Nekov
3. jingle.boy
4. lonestar
5. kingshmegland
6. MasterShakezula
7. WindMaster

The first round's deadline will be but 24 hours from now, so get registered and get your submissions in. There is no theme for this round. GOOOOOOOOO

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ROUND 1: OPEN
Deadline: July 6, 2012 @ 3:49 PM Central time (24 hrs from now)
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Re: theseoafs' song roulette v. Hey cutie ;)
« Reply #1 on: July 05, 2012, 02:52:07 PM »
fuck it, I'm the first
BRING IT
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Re: theseoafs' song roulette v. Hey cutie ;)
« Reply #2 on: July 05, 2012, 02:52:36 PM »
I'm in
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Re: theseoafs' song roulette v. Hey cutie ;)
« Reply #3 on: July 05, 2012, 02:55:50 PM »
fuck it, I'm the first
BRING IT

And crap, I just read I can't be away for the weekend. I'll be gone from tomorrow morning until Monday, so I'll be able to send you round 1, but not round 2 until Monday. Is this a problem? After this weekend I'll be home for the next couple of weeks..
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Re: theseoafs' song roulette v. Hey cutie ;)
« Reply #4 on: July 05, 2012, 02:58:19 PM »
fuck it, I'm the first
BRING IT

And crap, I just read I can't be away for the weekend. I'll be gone from tomorrow morning until Monday, so I'll be able to send you round 1, but not round 2 until Monday. Is this a problem? After this weekend I'll be home for the next couple of weeks..

That's fine.

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Re: theseoafs' song roulette v. Hey cutie ;)
« Reply #5 on: July 05, 2012, 03:07:39 PM »
:tup

So, I'll send you something for round 2 within the next 12 hours. After that, it will be on monday.
Can I get an e-mail address to send the stuff to?

EDIT: Got it, thanks :)
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« Reply #6 on: July 05, 2012, 03:10:11 PM »
Can I get an e-mail address to send the stuff to?

Yep, PM sent.

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Re: theseoafs' song roulette v. Hey cutie ;)
« Reply #7 on: July 05, 2012, 03:12:09 PM »
Gotta see if I can actually *beat* Nekov (finished 1 point behind him in RJs).  Count me in... even though I know absolutely nothing about you musically.

This ought to be fun! 

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Re: theseoafs' song roulette v. Hey cutie ;)
« Reply #8 on: July 05, 2012, 03:12:41 PM »
Add me.

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Re: theseoafs' song roulette v. Hey cutie ;)
« Reply #9 on: July 05, 2012, 03:19:10 PM »
Count me in!
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Re: theseoafs' song roulette v. Hey cutie ;)
« Reply #10 on: July 05, 2012, 03:21:02 PM »
And sent before the pool is full. :hat

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« Reply #11 on: July 05, 2012, 03:32:45 PM »
Shaping up to be one hell of a pool, by the way. :hat  Two spots left. Get them while they're hot.

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« Reply #12 on: July 05, 2012, 03:38:03 PM »
I'd like a spot.

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« Reply #13 on: July 05, 2012, 03:39:13 PM »
I'd like a spot.

Hell no.

Just kidding. The spot is yours. One left.

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Re: theseoafs' song roulette v. Hey cutie ;)
« Reply #14 on: July 05, 2012, 04:49:13 PM »
Hhhhmmmm, I'm thinking of sending something "space-y".

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« Reply #15 on: July 05, 2012, 05:08:19 PM »
I picked something well off-kilter.  If I get a score above 3 for it, I'm calling it a success. 

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« Reply #16 on: July 05, 2012, 06:00:27 PM »
Hhhhmmmm, I'm thinking of sending something "space-y".

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« Reply #17 on: July 05, 2012, 06:18:33 PM »
I'M TAKING THAT SPOT K?
I only listen to electro-post dubprog.  You've probably never heard of it.

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« Reply #18 on: July 05, 2012, 06:18:59 PM »
OK

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« Reply #19 on: July 05, 2012, 06:27:32 PM »
Alright, ladies, you've got roughly 20 hours to deliver the proverbial goods. Remember, you can submit 1 nude pic of yourself with each nomination to get up to 1 bonus point per round.

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« Reply #20 on: July 05, 2012, 06:28:24 PM »
Sent, minus nude pic.
I only listen to electro-post dubprog.  You've probably never heard of it.

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« Reply #21 on: July 05, 2012, 06:41:44 PM »
Sent, minus nude pic.

bummer :(

Anyway, jingle messaged me asking me a couple demographic questions. It would probably be unfair to share that information with him and not with you, so:

What time zone are you in?
Central time zone. (I'll include a reminder that I'm in central wherever relevant as well.)
How old are you?
I'm 19, beginning my second year of college. However, one could say that I am pretty culturally out of touch. :lol I grew up listening to roughly the same music my father grew up listening to, which should say a lot.
Growls? Screams?
I do not enjoy growls. I will listen to your song if it there's growling in it, but don't be surprised if you get a 1. :lol However, I find that screams can be utilized very cleverly.

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Re: theseoafs' song roulette v. no more spots sry bb :(
« Reply #22 on: July 05, 2012, 07:56:15 PM »
Sent'd.

You're all playing for 2nd place bitches!

:flame:  :king:
:flame:  :lonestar:
:flame:  :theotherrich:
:flame:  :maradona:
:flame:  :huffandpuff:
:flame:  :cup:
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« Reply #23 on: July 05, 2012, 08:10:27 PM »
If you notice there's only one person with his face there.  The eventual winner. :biggrin:


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« Reply #24 on: July 05, 2012, 08:17:33 PM »
Ironically, I'm still waiting on the 2 people that were quickest to sign up for the roulette.

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« Reply #25 on: July 05, 2012, 08:28:16 PM »
Nekov better be busy writing his results.
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« Reply #26 on: July 05, 2012, 09:00:56 PM »
Just got home. Sent
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Re: theseoafs' song roulette v. no more spots sry bb :(
« Reply #27 on: July 06, 2012, 12:15:55 AM »
Hey, my timezone is different! :P
Anyway, sending shortly. I just said the same thing in Nekov's roulette; I'm leaving in two hours and I'll be back Monday afternoon, so that's when I can check the results and sen you the next song.

EDIT: Sent! And I sent you two songs, just in case you know the first one, since I won't be able to send anything else for the next 2-3 days.
« Last Edit: July 06, 2012, 12:27:37 AM by Elite »
Hey dude slow the fuck down so we can finish together at the same time.  :biggrin:
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« Reply #28 on: July 06, 2012, 12:33:36 AM »
Excellent! That's all 7. With that, I'll break the proverbial silence and reveal to Shake that he can effectively consider his experiment a success. ;)

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« Reply #29 on: July 06, 2012, 12:35:58 AM »
Does that mean mine is worse? :lol
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« Reply #30 on: July 06, 2012, 12:37:23 AM »
Does that mean mine is worse? :lol

I just started listening to yours, so we'll see.

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« Reply #31 on: July 06, 2012, 01:41:48 AM »
Ranking time! Let me start by saying that I was very, very impressed with the quality of the songs submitted.  Each song that was submitted could, in some universe, be a song that I could just throw on because I was in the mood for it.  However, one person had to be the best person.

7th place
Nominator: WindMaster
Artist: Eumeria
Song: Legion

I don't know, I have trouble writing about this one.  The unfortunate thing is here that I don't really think there's anything wrong with this song; however, there's also nothing that immediately grabbed me either, which is essential for roulettes such as mine.  It sort of sounds just like any other "epic" symphonic technical metal I've heard, which isn't a good thing. Sorry man, but you get 1 point.

6th place
Nominator: Elite
Artist: Thrice
Song: Daedalus

Again, nothing wrong with this tune.  It was perfectly pleasant; I particularly enjoyed how the composition itself isn't all too complex, but the talented musicians and vocalist really sell the song. Love the emotion here, and the syncopated groove at 3:30 or so was a highlight.  However, 5 songs were better.  Elite, you are an unfortunate victim of circumstance, and for that reason you get but 2 points.

5th place
Nominator: Nekov
Artist: Freakeys
Song: One Cup, One Lighter, One Jack

Now this is what I'm talking about: a technical metal piece that doesn't drift into a sea of cliche!  The melodies were catchy, the composition was clever, the production was great and the musicians were immensely talented.  Of particular note was the bass solo at 3:00 or so, which was tasty as fuck.  For general tastiness, you get 3 points.

4th place
Nominator: lonestarbaconandporn.com
Artist: The Deadstation
Song: Hundred Foot Drop/Subsistence Defined

Here's where we start to get really good. In a shallow way, I guess you could compare this song to the 7th place Eumeria song, being that they belong to the same "loud, epic, and technical" metal subgenre.  However, while I found Legion a bit cliche and obvious, Subsistence Defined is creative and moving. It starts with an ambient drone giving rise to a pulsing synthesizer; we're then cast into the bombastic main section with little to no warning. That introduction is intense, man. Listen to it loudly. I'm pretty sure I audibly said "holy fuck" when those guitars kicked in. :lol  Also, the vocalist is incredible. Jesus, man.

The thing about this tune is that it doesn't deliver consistently. Some of the riffs held my attention more than others, and it's really quite a long piece. Unfortunately, being generally awesome but not awesome for every single second wasn't enough to make it during this particular round. :lol A commendable 4 points.

3rd place
Nominator: MasterShakezula
Artist: CAN
Song: Vitamin C

I hesitated putting this one so high, but the fact of the matter is I had more fun listening to this song than any of the others, and that's what counts, isn't it?  Wikipedia tells me this is a single from a Krautrock band, "Krautrock" being a subgenre I have absolutely no familiar with whatsoever.  I generally like alternative music, and this song was carried mainly by an awesome groove (let that be a lesson to you, gentlemen: grooviness is a good thing).  The composition was creative, the lyrics were interesting (to say the least :lol ), and the song generally brought a smile to my face.  Loved it.  For Master Shake, a better-than-expected 5 points.

2nd place
Nominator: jingle.boy
Artist: Dec Burke
Song: Small Hours

An immensely likeable song in the tradition of classic prog.  It's just a fantastic little tune, and I sense some real musical joy in the choruses, something which I don't hear enough of in modern music.  Speaking of the choruses, they're this song's real draw.  Dec offers an extremely catchy melody, and you get a multi-part harmony free of charge; the instrumentation and arrangement are really lovely here.  Not much more to say about it, I suppose. A well-deserved 6 points.

1st place
Nominator: kingshmegland
Artist: I Mother Earth
Song: God Rocket (Into the Heart of Las Vegas)

I would make love to this song if I could. A masterpiece of ambient rock. It is perfect. Keep it up, your highness. 7 points but only because that's the maximum.



1. kingshmegland - 7
2. jingle.boy - 6
3. MasterShakezula - 5
4. lonestar - 4
5. Nekov - 3
6. Elite - 2
7. WindMaster - 1

The theme of the next round is "Night and Day". If you're wondering what that means, well, it doesn't mean very much at all. :lol I told you my themes would not be very restrictive; it's just something to get you thinking. Good luck, everybody. See you Monday.

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Deadline: Monday, July 9 @ 9 PM Central time (or whenever Elite gets in his nomination)
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« Reply #32 on: July 06, 2012, 02:23:27 AM »
Will definitely be following, even though nothing of what I could find of these songs immediately grabbed me. I'm keeping my hopes up, though. Like your writeups, btw.  :tup
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« Reply #33 on: July 06, 2012, 04:24:38 AM »
Wow, that was fast. I'll take some time during the weekend and I'll send something your way.
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« Reply #34 on: July 06, 2012, 06:55:53 AM »
BOO YAH!!!!! :metal
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