Hello, DTF! I am back on the forum, and, in a matter of days, back in the roulette game with my second roulette (though I was also a judge on the most recent Roulette Championship).
As a few of you know, I left the forum for a while about a year and a half ago, for two reasons: 1) My life has been very busy for about the past two years now; and 2) Likely partially as a result of that, my interest in music was waning.
In recent months, however, I’ve had a lot more free time, and I have gotten back into listening to music more often—particularly focusing on my long-time favorites. As a result, I decided to return to DTF, and decided it was time to run another roulette in hopes of discovering some new favorites.
The structure of this roulette is going to be fairly conventional, for the most part, with a small twist that comes out of my primary reason for doing this: I have long known that I am the type of person who goes for depth rather than breadth in my music listening. My pattern has always been to discover a small number of artists that really click with me, and delve deep into their discographies, rather than listening to a lot of different bands. My music library is probably significantly smaller than most DTF users’, and definitely contains fewer unique artists. I don’t think there’s anything inherently right or wrong about my pattern, but I figure the best approach to the roulette is to try to encourage participants to get me to fall in love with an artist.
To that end, as advertised in the initial thread title, I am going for an absolute bare-bones banned list, with only 18 artists banned outright. These 18 artists represent those whose discographies I have explored most deeply. The majority of them are my absolute favorite artists. Most of them I have heard all the studio albums from. They are selected because I know for sure I have heard all I need to hear with these artists—if not because I know all their albums, then either because I plan to get them all in due time, or because I know that I’m not going to like the remaining ones.
In addition to this list of wholly banned artists, of course, I have banned a list of albums and songs. For the artists on this list, you are free to submit anything that is not specifically banned. In fact, you are encouraged to do so, especially if there is an artist on that list that you believe I have not given a sufficient look at—they’re on that list because I have not been convinced to check out any of their music besides what I’ve already heard.
Also, all the submissions from my v1 and the Roulette Championship are, of course, banned. The full list of those is in my second post.
Tastes:I dunno, figure it out yourselves.
In brief: I like a lot of melody, I like the grandiose and the serious. I like this no matter what genre it is in, though my favorite genre is prog metal.
I do not, as a general rule, like music that is crude or humorous. I do not like dissonance (think the end of Misunderstood). I have a hard time liking music that is relentlessly bleak in mood (think Porcupine Tree), though bleak is not the same as sad (bleak conveys a sense that life is perpetually unhappy, whereas sadness can be temporary).
I do not like Bent Knee. It’s not banned but send it at your own peril.
I have mixed feelings about growls. I don’t have a particular aversion to them if they’re used sparingly and appropriately. If a song is all or mostly growling, there’s a solid chance I will think it is excessive and dislike that. But then again I think “Heir Apparent” is a masterpiece. So there is no solid rule here.
How can you find out more about my tastes? Good question! This is the other mildly experimental twist I am trying here. Once per round (defined as between score releases, so either before or after submitting your song—and in the first round any time between now and the score release), each participant will have the opportunity to do three things:
- Ask me (by posting it in the thread) about an artist that is wholly banned. I will DM you a couple of paragraphs saying what I like/dislike about that artist, along with a list of favorite songs. This might help you figure out what I might like in another artist.
- Ask me (by posting it in the thread) about an artist that is partially banned. I will DM you a few words saying what my impression has been of that artist, along with favorite songs if applicable. This might help you figure out whether to send another song from that artist.
- Guess (by posting it in the thread) one of the ten artists that yield bonus points (as described below). As they are guessed, their names will be revealed publicly.
Oh, and here are links to
my first roulette and
the Roulette Championship. Reading through these might also help.
Rules:- There are eight rounds. With the exception of the EP round, each round will be scored out of 10. Each entry will receive a whole-number score—no half-points.
- I’m going to try to be a meaner scorer than I was the last two times.
- I prefer submissions to come through DTF PM and in the form of either YouTube or Spotify links. If that is not an option, we can work something else out, but that is a strong preference.
- I will initially accept as many people as want to join. After the third round, I am going to cut the bottom three scores. I will also cut the bottom three after the fourth, fifth and seventh rounds, which will leave a top six standing for the final EP round.
- No hard length limit, but try to keep it reasonable. Except in the epic round. Then be unreasonable.
- There is one and only one option for bonus points, and it comes on an idea I half came up with on my own, half stole from jingle.boy: I have a (secret) list of ten artists that I feel like I should give more attention to. Either I’ve heard 1-3 of their albums and am still unconvinced, or I’ve not listened to them much at all. If you submit one of these artists and score a 9, you receive a bonus point. If you score a perfect 10, you receive two bonus points.
- Artists submitted during the roulette will be banned if either: 1) A song from them scores an 8 or higher; or 2) They receive scores totaling 14 or higher. I’ll also reserve the right to ban an artist that doesn’t fit either of these conditions at my discretion.
Bonus Artists:Round Themes:ROUND 1: Open (
Results)
ROUND 2: Open (
Results)
ROUND 3: Open (
Results)
ROUND 4: Live Performance (
Results)
ROUND 5: Mini Epic (
Results)
ROUND 6: Epic (
Results)
ROUND 7: Open (
Results)
ROUND 8: EP Round
Participants:Still In:- Parama
- Nekov
- Evermind
- Elite
- Lethean
- Indiscipline
- romdrums
Eliminated:- Train of Naught
- Aefenwelg
- lonestar
- Stadler
- Sacul
- Puppies_On_Acid
- kingshmegland
- OpenYourEyes311
- TAC
- ShadowNinja 2.0
- Kattelox
Thanks for playing! I’m hoping this will be a good time for everyone involved!
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