Lethean's Laid Back Roulette (Final round results!!!)

[Lethean]

I'm back!

Good to see The Road of Bones not doing too well, now I can just stop caring about my overall score and send all kinds of stuff in the second half of this roulette.

Not so fast.  IQ did well - better than half the songs in a round where I enjoyed pretty much every song.  Sometimes I still think I should've given it a 4 (sometimes I think that about Stadler's song too).  We're still in the early stages, and anything can happen.  I thought jingle was going to be one of the front runners until he decided to start on his path of self destruction.

I coulda been a contender!

Meh... whatevs.  It's not often I get to expose people to the glorious music of the 70s and 80s.  In hindsight, The Rain Song or No Quarter might've been better Zeppelin choices.

The titles sound very familiar, so I've probably heard those two and you would have had to resend.
 

[Lethean]

You got it sideways. ∞ rounds.

Sure, we can do that. Whoever's on the wait list might not appreciate it so much.   

[TAC]

The Rain Song blows. But No Quarter is amazing.



I'm feeling an old song coming for the next round.

[Lethean]

BTW, now that I'm hosting a roulette and have 5 more songs that are near and dear to your heart to score, Stadler, do you want to share your opinion about Grace Under Pressure again? I bet on the 2112th listen, it finally clicked for you, didn't it?

p/g is a wasted opportunity for one of my favorite bands, and a low point in the catalogue.

*Sighs* 

[TAC]

p/g is a wasted opportunity for one of my favorite bands, and a low point in the catalogue.

Stadler, I'm sure you've waxed poetically on this claim before. Perhaps someone can link me to this discussion.

Or Stadler, perhaps you could run through Grace Under Pressure compared to the whole Signals through Presto era. Seriously.

[Lethean]

I can save you the trouble.  He's wrong.

[The Walrus]

Stadler's wrong about P/g but not as wrong as Lethean is about Africa. 

[jingle.boy]

Stadler's wrong about P/g but not as wrong as Lethean is about Africa. 

Or Tim regarding Winger.

[Stadler]

p/g is a wasted opportunity for one of my favorite bands, and a low point in the catalogue.

Stadler, I'm sure you've waxed poetically on this claim before. Perhaps someone can link me to this discussion.

Or Stadler, perhaps you could run through Grace Under Pressure compared to the whole Signals through Presto era. Seriously.

it's in the "Dirk, Lexst, Pratt" whatever-the-f*** that thread is called (their names are Geddy, Alex and Neil!) about four times.

I got into Rush with Power Windows.   Marathon and Manhatten Project; woof!    Saw them live and LOVED it.    So I went back and got Moving Pictures.  Loved it then, love it now, still think Tom Sawyer is one of the greatest songs of all time ever by any band.    Signals next.  Blown away.  Subdivisions.   That drum fill (you know the one I mean; it ends the intro to Subdivisions and segues into the first verse.   The Analog Kid (I've written about that before; the boy lying in the grass with one blade stuck between his teeth is me as a kid).    New World Man!   LOSING IT!   Fucking RUSH, man!!   Then...

p/g.  Wow.  That sound you hear is the air coming out of the balloon.  WTF.   When did Andy Summers join Rush?   Who sabotaged Neil's drums/forced him at gun point to use those stop-sign thingies that Bill Bruford was using?   That fill on Red Sector A just before the "I hear the sound of gunfire at the prison gates..." section sounds like it was sampled from an Atari game. Or that stupid song by Naked Eyes.  It was pretty decent live, too, so what happened??

Really liked Hold Your Fire (the melodies rule, and that bass line on "Prime Mover"!!).   Presto is a top five Rush album for me.  I LOVE that record.  Even the songs that others despise, like "Superconductor".    Excellent stuff.   "...Pressure" is like a pothole on Interstate Rush to me.

[The Walrus]

Well, you're right about Power Windows, so your head is at least mostly screwed on right

[Lethean]

Still doesn't make him any less wrong about Grace Under Pressure.

[King Puppies and the Acid Guppies]

Puppies, Elite and Parama don't seem so confident about me liking whole albums; how's the album Anesthesia is on?

I just noticed you asked me this question a couple days ago.

The album on a whole has 2 songs that I don't really care for. Fortunately they are both short and don't really ruin the flow of the album too much. The rest of the album is pretty much on the same level as Anesthesia, just not quite as perfect.

[King Puppies and the Acid Guppies]

Puppies, Elite and Parama don't seem so confident about me liking whole albums; how's the album Anesthesia is on?

I just noticed you asked me this question a couple days ago.

The album on a whole has 2 songs that I don't really care for. Fortunately they are both short and don't really ruin the flow of the album too much. The rest of the album is pretty much on the same level as Anesthesia, just not quite as perfect.

If you wanted to dive deeper in to Type O Negative I would actually start with the October Rust album. It's a little more varied and a little more consistent as a whole. Then I would go on to Life Is Killing Me. After that I would try World Coming Down, which is a quite a bit more challenging and a lot more depressing, but really really good still. Their other albums are not quite as good, with Bloody Kisses and Dead Again being the best of the rest. They both still have some really good tracks, but aren't as consistent.

Edit: Whoops, thought I hit modify, apparently I quoted myself instead....

[Lethean]

Thanks! I will definitely be checking them out at some point, and now it sounds like I have a good place to start.

Scoring is probably going to be too stressful while on vacation.  Maybe I should give everyone a participation trophy this round... (I know Stadler will be a big fan of that idea).

[The Walrus]

I disagree if only because I feel like mine would actually be one of the best received (at least I think) for a change 

[Lethean]

Oh, do you really think so?

[The Walrus]

I can dream... 

[The Walrus]

 

[Train of Naught]

No matter what the score I won't really have regrets tbh, I was 100% sure that I was going to send The Cave at some point regardless because it's an ok song

[King Puppies and the Acid Guppies]

[Lethean]

Results not till Sunday night at the earliest, but probably not until Monday.

Some snippets for now - not necessarily well thought out snippets that will appear in the write up.

1. Lethean is getting tired of harsh vocals

2. My favorite Arcturus singer is cold.

3. Probably the best song I have heard from this band, although I don't like all of it

4. Didn't like the vocals at first, still not my favorite, but can't get this song out of my head

5. Beautiful

6. Wow, this is a pleasant surprise

7. This track is probably not going to be ranked as high as it deserves

8. When I have this song in my head, it's with someone else's voice

9.  It's probably just me, but sometimes this song seems so serious that it makes me want to laugh

10. After the second or third listen, I was afraid I'd heard this song before.  I can't be sure though.

[King Puppies and the Acid Guppies]

I suppose mine could be any of them but the first 2...

[jingle.boy]

I suppose mine could be any of them but the first 2...

Ditto.  Pretty sure I can scratch off 9 and 10 as well.

My gut says Innuendo is getting the #3 treatment.

[TAC]

I'm definitely 7, as usual.

[The Walrus]

#2 is probably me since Vulture Industries sounds so much like Arcturus (which makes sense because I think they started off as a tribute to them). Not sure what the 'cold' means though - could be how dark the lyrics are?

[Lethean]

It's an extremely complex clue that can only be solved by accessing a website no one is supposed to know about and by using several different cyphers.

[King Puppies and the Acid Guppies]

It's an extremely complex clue that can only be solved by accessing a website no one is supposed to know about and by using several different cyphers.

Is one of the cyphers on the back of the Declaration of Independence?

[Lethean]

It's an extremely complex clue that can only be solved by accessing a website no one is supposed to know about and by using several different cyphers.

Is one of the cyphers on the back of the Declaration of Independence?

Oh, it would never be as simple as that. 

[The Walrus]

It's an extremely complex clue that can only be solved by accessing a website no one is supposed to know about and by using several different cyphers.

 

[Stadler]

5. Beautiful

I am hoping and praying, with the power of every fibre in my being, that this is mine.   Because that's how I feel about that track.

Yes.  Fibre.  Like Brett. 

[Crow]

 

[Sacul]

[Lethean]

Hope that popcorn is tasty. Help yourselves to seconds...

[The Walrus]

Supplies are running low. Katt has resorted to eating his own hands. We need results STAT!

[Lethean]

You shouldn't have posted about Threshold then.. 

On a plane, so no results for quite some time.  Hopefully before I go to bed, but that could be another 7 hours or so.