Kattelox's Album Roulette - Party Time! Excellent! v. FIN

[jingle.boy]

Hard to say if VD was Lethean double-dipping on the Italian Power Metal, or Puppies riding his coat-tails.  If I had sent them, it likely would've been Destination Set to Nowhere.  Surprised it's something from the Luppi era, and not Lione - given Kattoe's mad love comments about Rhapsody in Puppies' roulette.

[The Walrus]

I'll update shortly but I threw Lethean a bone with that one. The Dream Maker is easily my favorite VD song from what I know but anything with Fabio on it is banned because I like everything with Fabio singing.

That said, it is power metal, and I did beg not to get power metal, but we'll see where it ranks among these others...

[Sacul]

I sent Darude - Sandstorm (The Remixes)

[The Walrus]

Screw the gallows for wrong guesses

(?) Matthew Good - Avalanche
(Parama) East of the Wall - The Apologist
(ariich) Frost* - Milliontown
(?) The Alan Parsons Project - Eye in the Sky
(Evermind) iamthemorning - Lighthouse
(Lethean) Vision Divine - Stream of Consciousness
(?) Moon Safari - Live in Mexico
(?) Bonobo - Migration
(Stadler) Jethro Tull - Songs From The Wood
(Sacul) Kashiwa Daisuke - Program Music II

Guessed letters: D I C T A R O N

[Train of Naught]

Bonobo by home (I know it was already guessed but maybe you missed it)
Alan Parsons by jingly.boi
Matthew Good could be a Stadler artist but I'm not sure

[Sacul]

Moon Safari by Puppers

[Evermind]

This is almost the same situation we had in Championship roulette by the way, only now it's Stadler competing against Sacul's Kashiwa Daisuke with the fogey song (I sent Joan Baez in Championship roulette and lost) 

[jingle.boy]

Bonobo by home (I know it was already guessed but maybe you missed it)
Alan Parsons by jingly.boi
Matthew Good could be a Stadler artist but I'm not sure

At least 2 of these are wrong.

[Elite]

Matthew Good by jingle then?

[The Walrus]

Nope. The home - Bonobo guess was correct though, I did miss that.

(?) Matthew Good - Avalanche
(Parama) East of the Wall - The Apologist
(ariich) Frost* - Milliontown
(?) The Alan Parsons Project - Eye in the Sky
(Evermind) iamthemorning - Lighthouse
(Lethean) Vision Divine - Stream of Consciousness
(?) Moon Safari - Live in Mexico
(home) Bonobo - Migration
(Stadler) Jethro Tull - Songs From The Wood
(Sacul) Kashiwa Daisuke - Program Music II

I will say, so far, one of the players who's been in the middle of the pack may have finally earned their top score...

Also if this ends in a tie - which it might, I really should have chosen a more thorough scoring method but whatever - then I'll award bonus points to everybody. Half wishing/not wishing for this though.

[Elite]

FFS - jingle sent Moon Safari

[The Walrus]

FFS - jingle sent Moon Safari

Ding ding ding!

[Stadler]

Nope. The home - Bonobo guess was correct though, I did miss that.

(?) Matthew Good - Avalanche
(Parama) East of the Wall - The Apologist
(ariich) Frost* - Milliontown
(?) The Alan Parsons Project - Eye in the Sky
(Evermind) iamthemorning - Lighthouse
(Lethean) Vision Divine - Stream of Consciousness
(?) Moon Safari - Live in Mexico
(home) Bonobo - Migration
(Stadler) Jethro Tull - Songs From The Wood
(Sacul) Kashiwa Daisuke - Program Music II

I will say, so far, one of the players who's been in the middle of the pack may have finally earned their top score...

Also if this ends in a tie - which it might, I really should have chosen a more thorough scoring method but whatever - then I'll award bonus points to everybody. Half wishing/not wishing for this though.

Give me extra points for my alternate submission.   

(For the record, I didn't submit "alternate submissions".   I have been promising/threatening to send Kattoelox a Kiss album, and was I not tied for first, he would have gotten "Music From... The Elder" instead.)

[King Puppies and the Acid Guppies]

Frost* - Milliontown

This was one of several albums I considered sending for this final round. Glad someone sent it. It's a fantastic album. 

[The Walrus]

Stadler, if anything, I'll take away points for even thinking of sending me a KISS album. 

No, but really, I like to listen to anything and everything people recommend me (Sacul, bless his heart, gave me a big list of artists to check out post-roulette). I'll listen to that one particular KISS album hopefully soon.

EDIT: Listening to the Guardians of the Galaxy playlist on Spotify and boy are there some sick tunes in there. Genuinely surprised Stadler didn't send ELO, or Sweet.

[jingle.boy]

Frost* - Milliontown

This was one of several albums I considered sending for this final round. Glad someone sent it. It's a fantastic album. 

Personally, I think the title track is a lot to digest.  That notwithstanding, I had considered it as well.

[Lethean]

Hard to say if VD was Lethean double-dipping on the Italian Power Metal, or Puppies riding his coat-tails.  If I had sent them, it likely would've been Destination Set to Nowhere.  Surprised it's something from the Luppi era, and not Lione - given Kattoe's mad love comments about Rhapsody in Puppies' roulette.

It's not so much double dipping, as it was me finding out kinda by accident that he wasn't really familiar with Luppi, so I figured I may as well send that.  I didn't think he would listen to it otherwise.

[The Walrus]

Hard to say if VD was Lethean double-dipping on the Italian Power Metal, or Puppies riding his coat-tails.  If I had sent them, it likely would've been Destination Set to Nowhere.  Surprised it's something from the Luppi era, and not Lione - given Kattoe's mad love comments about Rhapsody in Puppies' roulette.

It's not so much double dipping, as it was me finding out kinda by accident that he wasn't really familiar with Luppi, so I figured I may as well send that.  I didn't think he would listen to it otherwise.

Well, you're not wrong, I did go 16 years without exploring them

I've heard every album at least once, and most twice, so far. I'll share the first impressions I wrote down either tonight or tomorrow, but someone has impressed me big time for their final submission, and I didn't really expect to enjoy it as much as I did.

I've already decided who the ultimate winner is... but that's a secret for now. Here's the full list since I forgot to finish it:

(Puppies_On_Acid) Matthew Good - Avalanche
(Parama) East of the Wall - The Apologist
(ariich) Frost* - Milliontown
(Tomislav95) The Alan Parsons Project - Eye in the Sky
(Evermind) iamthemorning - Lighthouse
(Lethean) Vision Divine - Stream of Consciousness
(jingle.boy) Moon Safari - Live in Mexico
(home) Bonobo - Migration
(Stadler) Jethro Tull - Songs From The Wood
(Sacul) Kashiwa Daisuke - Program Music II

[Stadler]

but someone has impressed me big time for their final submission, and I didn't really expect to enjoy it as much as I did.

So you DID listen to "Music from... The Elder"!!!  Noice! 

[Crow]

it's clearly not me but it could be kashi dashi

[Evermind]

Yup, not me either.

[The Walrus]

jk everyone gets a 2

[Sacul]

jk everyone gets a 2

[King Puppies and the Acid Guppies]

jk everyone gets a 2

I knew it! 

[King Puppies and the Acid Guppies]

I'll share the first impressions I wrote down either tonight or tomorrow, but someone has impressed me big time for their final submission, and I didn't really expect to enjoy it as much as I did.

I'm guessing this is either Frost* or iamthemorning.

[The Walrus]

Find out tomorrow! wait... no.  Next week.   

[King Puppies and the Acid Guppies]

Find out tomorrow!

Snippets when? 

[Crow]

I'll share the first impressions I wrote down either tonight or tomorrow, but someone has impressed me big time for their final submission, and I didn't really expect to enjoy it as much as I did.

I'm guessing this is either Frost* or iamthemorning.

tbh i think it's not iamthemorning, considering it's another in the "chill atmospheric stuff" category that's gotten almost all of the 10's in this roulette 

[King Puppies and the Acid Guppies]

I'll share the first impressions I wrote down either tonight or tomorrow, but someone has impressed me big time for their final submission, and I didn't really expect to enjoy it as much as I did.

I'm guessing this is either Frost* or iamthemorning.

tbh i think it's not iamthemorning, considering it's another in the "chill atmospheric stuff" category that's gotten almost all of the 10's in this roulette 

Oh, good point. Then just Frost* then 

[The Walrus]

Find out tomorrow!

Snippets when? 

Tomorrow, as I'm currently stuffing food into my face for the first time in 30 hours 

[King Puppies and the Acid Guppies]

Find out tomorrow!

Snippets when? 

Tomorrow, as I'm currently stuffing food into my face for the first time in 30 hours 

Ah yes, one of my favorite pastimes, stuffing my face full of food. 

[The Walrus]

I'm going to try to get the results up by tomorrow night instead of Monday, since I've been able to squeeze a lot more listens in than I expected. I have an idea for the final scoring though...

Would anyone be opposed to an exciting scoring for this last round? The #1 spot is a 10 to me already (I know what it is), so they'll get 10. But #2 would get 9, and #3 would get 8... #10 would get 1 point. This would make the results far more interesting instead of knowing one of two or three people.

Or we'll just go as normal... oh, and snippets:

[Evermind]

If that version of scoring gives me the win, I'm all for it. Otherwise I would say leave it as it is.

[The Walrus]

 

I feel like I should have done that scoring system the whole time since I hate giving numbers like that to the albums when it'd be easier to just rank from most favorite to least. Next time...

[Elite]

Lots of roulette hosts struggle to find a scoring system that actually works.