Warning: this is an incoherent post.
First of all - and I know this is not going to be read by everybody who has played in this roulette, since it did get out of hand slightly and took longer than intended - I want to thank everybody in here for playing. It was a fun way of doing a roulette with elimination, but for the coming year, I'm not going to do something as intensive as a roulette. I barely have enough time to post on the forums, let alone listen to whole batches of new music and write stuff about them. Prioritising gets in the way and there's unfortunately for my free time a lot of stuff I (have to) do. With the launch of my band's first demo looking around the corner, writing my bachelor thesis for my musicology studies and being a full time member in the university's council, as well as having friends to tend to, I simply don't have the time for this. Add to that that I have basically NO free time starting tomorrow morning (well, I'm going to ProgPower this weekend all right..
), that means I MUST churn out the results now, or else they'll be here next Tuesday at the earliest.
I would like to have both of you win, since both of you sent me awesome music throughout, a lot of which I
will delve into further, but since jingly especially is so adamant about making choices and standing up for it, I'm going for the sole winner here. I'm not going to make this a long-ass story with huge write-ups, but just be honest about this. Last week was so ridiculously busy that I didn't listen to your songs as often as I probably should, but I'm sticking with my gut here and the listens I did get in (I admit, only 2) were good enough for me to give an impression, and hopefully an honest decision. So, here were the songs sent:
Chad sent me:
Amaran's Plight - Coming of Age
Echoes - Rude Awakening
Soul Secret - Aftermath
And Joe sent me:
Mystery - Pride
Echolyn - The End if Beautiful
Darwin's Radio - Breathe It In
I got a round full of progressive metal goodness and I enjoyed every single song here a lot. I'm not going to do a detailed review of every song, like I did in previous rounds, but I'm just going to rank the songs individually. While the Mystery, Echolyn and Echoes songs were more than alright, it's the remaining three songs that completely blew my mind. That Darwin's Radio track is insane (how is that band completely unknown everywhere?) and the Amaran's Plight and Soul Secret track were absolutely amazing, especially the latter. I'd rank them like this:
6. Echoes - Rude Awakening
5. Echolyn - The End Is Beautiful
4. Mystery - Pride
3. Amaran's Plight - Coming of Age
2. Darwin's Radio - Breath It In
1. Soul Secret - Aftermath
Now, you can do all kinds of weird things with this ranking, but overall, the Soul Secret song was the one I enjoyed most of all. Hell, you could add points for every track, where the 6th place would net 1 point, 5th place two etc. and that would mean jingle.boy has 11 points and kingshmegland has 10, but since I didn't work with points for the entire roulette, I'm going with my gut feeling (backed up with a sloppy display of point-giving) and say jingle.boy won my roulette. You sent the best batch of songs in this round and you sent me amazing stuff throughout. I thank you, very much. And I thank the runner-up too, because he wouldn't be here if he didn't give me some amazing stuff as well.
I'm a bit sorry for announcing the final results in such a random way, especially since I made notice of actually writing down stuff about the tracks in previous rounds. It's partly me being tired, it's partly me being glad it's over and I can put an end to this, knowing I've been completely spoiled with cool music and hoping everybody has enjoyed the ride. It'll be a while before I'll start a roulette again, because it is actually pretty time-consuming, even me typing out this incoherent story now.
To finish this post; I want to thank everybody for playing once more and as something from me to, I'm going to give you some music you have never heard before. My band is releasing a demo next Friday; check the Musicians section in due time. It's about the best I can do to people with such superior music libraries
Once more, thanks a lot for playing, thanks for the friendly competition, thanks for all the music sent and:
Congratulations jingle.boyRegards,
Richard / Elite
Topic: Elite's Roulette v. 2 - We're done; final results. (Read 21610 times)
