The $5.98 TAC EP Roulette V.4 Final Results

[Crow]

Parama

[Stadler]

That was incredibly powerful.  I can't say I know exactly how you're feeling, but I think I have a much better understanding now.

Always here for you, bro. 

[Lethean]

That was incredibly powerful.  I can't say I know exactly how you're feeling, but I think I have a much better understanding now.

Exactly this.

[faizoff]

Katt, so sorry to hear about your sister's loss. I can't wait to dive into your EP, I'm going to read your writeup and get the tissues ready.

[TAC]

First Listen Impressions:

"Thank you for sharing that with me. Musically it is what it is, but this was a special listen."

"Real interesting and gripping story, with a neat twist at the end."

"I liked the story, and I can appreciate the inspiration for it, but I have to be honest. I was a bit disppointed by the songs."

"I'm not sure I have ever been more moved by music as I was while listening to this."

"There's more fish in the sea!"

"Holy shit, I think you just blew my tympanic membrane."

"Really different, but pleasurable. I didn't expect that."

"This was simply incredible. A great bunch of songs, but also so supportive of the narrative. Really thought out, and it presents well."

"I really think your story and concept is excellent, and while I'm not sure you have the strongest batch of songs, they are still great vehicles for your vision."

"What an absolutely killer playlist of tunes."

"Fucking brilliant. I don't know else what to say."

"I liked how the story evolved and I loved the ending. I was reading along listening and I found it quite clever. Quite a journey."

"Really interesting story with the songs to support it. Songs are technical as hell. My ears are tired."

"I was laughing my ass off at that story. And not that you've sent bad music, because you haven't, but this is easily the best and most interesting music you've sent."

[The Walrus]

"Thank you for sharing that with me. Musically it is what it is, but this was a special listen."

"I'm not sure I have ever been more moved by music as I was while listening to this."

one of these I think

[Crow]

probably the second-to-last

[TAC]

A little obvious!!

[Crow]

TAC can you do like one masterpost of all the albums & songs? i wanna see how that all compares

[TAC]

Compares how? Like with scores?

[Crow]

more just like the variety of stuff sent

feels like there was a lot of variety in this round

[Lethean]

probably the second-to-last

The second to last is kinda how I felt about yours too.  I really thought the music was awesome but had trouble with the amount of harsh vocals.

[TAC]

more just like the variety of stuff sent

feels like there was a lot of variety in this round

OK.. Give me a second!

[Lethean]

Mine is probably this:

"There's more fish in the sea!"

But I can hope for this:

"I was laughing my ass off at that story. And not that you've sent bad music, because you haven't, but this is easily the best and most interesting music you've sent."

[TAC]

You guys are 3 for 3.

[The Walrus]

I think the fish one is Sacul's.

[TAC]

TAC can you do like one masterpost of all the albums & songs? i wanna see how that all compares

Here ya go...

ARIICH-The Liberator

1. The Human Abstract - Elegiac
2. Scar Symmetry - Mind Machine
3. One I Cinema - Insidious
4. Myrath - I Want to Die
5. Scar Symmetry - Oscillation Point
6. One I Cinema - The Mirror
7. Tremonti - Make It Hurt
8. Myrath - Get Your Freedom Back
9. Disillusion - The Liberation**
10. Tremonti - Providence
11. The Human Abstract - Antebellum

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BUDDY HUNTER-Mars For The Rich

1: Vektor - Black Future
2: King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Planet B
3: King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Mars For The Rich
4: King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Parihelion
5: Celldweller - Good L_ck (Yo_'re F_cked)
6: Dethklok - Laser Cannon Deth Sentence **
7: Dethklok - Rejoin
8: Vektor - Collapse
9: King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Hell


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PUPPIES-The Man From Earth



1. Between the Buried and Me - Goodbye to Everything                 
2. Wretched - Beyond the Gate                                                     
3. Candlemass - Black Stone Wielder                                             
4. Skull Fist - Sign of the Warrior                                                 
5. Between the Buried and Me - Parallax                                       
6. Spirit Adrift - Angel and Abyss **                                                 
7. Inglorious - High Flying Gypsy                                                 
8. Tiluland - Arctic Twilight                                                           
9. SIG:AR:TYR - Helluland                                                           
10. Angra - Winds of Destination                                                 
11. Running Wild - Riding the Storm                                             
12. Candlemass - Through the Infinitive Halls of Death                   
13. Slice the Cake - Ghengis Tron, Come Home, We Miss You!       
14. Darkest Hour - Tranquil                                                       
15. Vektor - Tetrastructural Minds                                             
16. Between the Buried and Me - Goodbye to Everything Reprise
17. Persuader - Twisted Eyes                                                   
18. Polyphia - Paradise                                                           
19. Between the Buried and Me - Life In Velvet


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EVERMIND-Dirge For A Forgotten Soul

1.  Árstíðir – Ages
2. Árstíðir – Cannon
3. Árstíðir – Passion
4. Ólafur Arnalds – Old Skin
5. Ólafur Arnalds – A Stutter
6. Ólafur Arnalds – This Place Was a Shelter
7. Árstíðir – Shades**

8. Adam Hurst – Alone
9. Mark Knopfler – When You Leave
10. Leonard Cohen – Traveling Light
11. Adam Hurst – Lament
12. Leonard Cohen – You Want It Darker
13. Mark Knopfler – Wherever I Go
14. Adam Hurst – From Nowhere


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JINGLEBOY-A-TACalypse-Prophecy Of The Damned


1:1 Amadeus Awad’s Eon / The Book of Gates
1:2 Danger Angel / All The King’s Horses (extended cut)
1:3 Sixx:A.M. / Prayers for the Damned**
1:4 Section A / The Seventh Sign (extended cut)
2:1 Shadow Circus / The Horsemen Ride
2:2 Pagan’s Mind / In Brilliant White Light (extended cut)
2:3 Orden Ogan / F.E.V.E.R.
2:4 Kepler Ten / Red Skies Rise (extended cut)
2:5 Animations / Demons of War
2:6 Ostura / Darker Shade of Black (extended cut)
2:7 Walls of Babylon / Starving Soul
2:8 Vanish / The Pale King (extended cut)
2:9 Damnations Day / Invisible, The Dead
3:1 Odin / Judgement Day (extended cut)
3:2 Lord / The End of Days
3:3 Serious Black / Setting Fire to the Earth (extended cut)
3:4 Ten / The Elysian Fields (extended cut)
4:1 Prospekt / In the Shadows of the Earth
4:2 Damnations Day / To Begin Again
4:3 Sixx:A.M. / Rise of the Melancholy Empire (extended cut)


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CYRIL-Vessel


1. Dissona - Fire-Bellied
2. Serdce - Last Faith
3. Cryptodira - The Gods of Epicurus
4. Irreversible Mechanism - Abolution
5. The Faceless - Autotheist **
6. Serdce - Omens
7. Exist - If or When
8. Sacrificed Alliance - Nocturne
9. Tetrafusion - Perfect Silence


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LETHEAN

Ayreon - Age of Shadows
Swallow the Sun - The Justice of Suffering
Pantheon I - Ascending
October Tide - Losing Tomorrow
Ayreon - Waking Dreams
The Ocean - Devonian: Nascent
Diabolical Masquerade - Not of Flesh, Not of Blood
Diabolical Masquerade - Intact with a Human Psyche
Diabolical Masquerade - Keeping Faith
Long Distance Calling - The Nearing Grave

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STADLER-Episode IX: The Rise Of Stadler

1. The Royal Guardsmen-Snoopy vs The Red Baron
2. The Replacements-Black Diamond
3. Marillion-Script For A Jester's Tear
4. Alter Bridge-Clear Horizon
5. Genesis-Evidence Of Autumn
6. Billy Joel-Vienna
7. Peter Gabriel-Solsbury Hill
8. Oasis-The Girl In The Dirty Shirt
9. Kris Kristofferson-Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down
10. Joe Cocker-You Are So Beautiful
11. Flying Colors-Better Than Walking Away
12. Train-Drops Of Jupiter
13. Elton John-High Flying Bird
14. Billy Joel-An Innocent Man
15. Jellyfish-The King Is Half Undressed**
16. Brett Eldridge-Wanna Be That Song
17. Soundgarden-My Wave
18. Tim McGraw-Humble And Kind

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FAIZOFF-Shepherd

1.    White Lion – Warsong
2.    Sabaton – Primo Victoria
3.    Sepultura – Territory
4.    Derek Sherinian – God of War
5.    Orphaned Land – The Simple Man
6.    Primus – Too Many Puppies
7.    Saigon Kick – Fields of Rape ...y
8.    Dixie Chicks – Travelin’ Soldier
9.    Billy Joel – Goodnight Saigon  **


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WOLFKING-Crown Of Thorns

1.   Evergrey – The Awakening
2.   Evergrey – King of Errors
3.   U.D.O. – Holy
4.   Dream Evil – Evilution
5.   Evergrey – A Touch of Blessing
6.   Lord – Reborn**
7.   Firewind – Back to the Throne
8.   Eluveitie - King
9.   Sepultura – Arise
10.   Mors Principium Est – Monster in Me
11.   Trivium – Betrayer
12.   Trivium – Sever the Hand
13.   Mors Principium Est – The Awakening
14.   Mors Principium Est – Departure
15.   In Flames – Artefacts of the the Black Rain
16.   Solution .45 – Heavy Lies the Crown


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KATTELOX-Alone In A Storm

1. Enya - If I Could Be Where You Are
2. Florence + the Machine - Third Eye
3. Randy Newman - I Think It's Going To Rain Today
4. Kacey Musgrave - Rainbow
5. Explosions In The Sky - The Only Moment We Were Alone
6. Leonard Cohen - Come Healing
7. Florence + the Machine - Shake It Out
8. Florence + the Machine - All This And Heaven Too
9. Enya - I Could Never Say Goodbye **
10. Enya - Sancta Maria

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SACUL- us, then i

1. Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man-Funny Time Of Year..y
2. Converge-Jane Doe
3. Spritualized-Broken Heart
4. Jeff Buckley-Forget Her**
5. Dredg-Sorry But It's Over
6. Talk Talk-Living In Another World
7. The Stooges-Dirt
8. Jeff Buckley-Lover, You Should've Come Over
9. The Stooges-1970
10. Dredg-The Canyon Behind Her
11. The Angelic Process-Burning In The Undertow
12. Nils Frahm-Unter
13. Weyes Blood-Something To Believe
14. Weyes Blood-Movies


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ELITE


1. Caligula's Horse - The City Has no Empathy (Your Sentimental Lie)
2. Semistereo - The Search **
3. Shining - The Madness and the Damage Done 
4. Ihsahn - Mass Darkness 
5. Voyager - White Shadow 
6. Agent Fresco - See Hell 
7. Ulver - Operator
8. Mr. Bungle - The Air-Conditioned Nightmare 
9. Agent Fresco - Angst
10. Strapping Young Lad - Velvet Kevorkian 
11. Strapping Young Lad - All Hail the New Flesh
12. The Ocean - Hadopelagic I: Omen of the Deep not scored
13. The Ocean - Hadopelagic II: Let Them Believe 

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RONDRUMS-Search For Home

1. sleepmakeswaves-Our Days Were Polar 
2. sleepmakeswaves-Worlds Away
3. Klone-The Drifter** 
4. Toundra-Voland
5. Tides From Nebula-Dopamine
6. God Is An Astronaut-Vetus Memoria
7. pg.lost-Off The Beaten Path 
8. Toundra-Kingston Falls 
9. Tides From Nebula-Traversing
10. sleepmakeswaves-Midnight Sun
11. sleepmakeswaves-Something Like Avalanches
12. Tides From Nebula-Home

[TAC]

I think the fish one is Sacul's.

Ya think?

[Lethean]

Favorites and least favorites?

[Crow]

Favorites and least favorites?

yeah this yeehaawww

[Sacul]

Damn Katt . I'll go through your EP soon. Like Stads, can't say I know your pain but hope it helps me understand it a bit more.

I think the fish one is Sacul's.

Ya think?

I think I didn't put it clear enough, but only the first songs are really about her, rest are about me feeling very insecure about myself and shit

[jingle.boy]

"Thank you for sharing that with me. Musically it is what it is, but this was a special listen."

"I'm not sure I have ever been more moved by music as I was while listening to this."

one of these I think

Yours is the latter. I think Stads is the former.  "Fucking brilliant" is Evermind's.

I forgot to mention, I'd also listened to Puppies'. Still gotta get to faizoff, Rich & Lethean

[wolfking]

I have a funny feeling mine could be the 3rd one.  Hopefully I'm wrong.

[King Puppies and the Acid Guppies]

"Thank you for sharing that with me. Musically it is what it is, but this was a special listen."

"I'm not sure I have ever been more moved by music as I was while listening to this."

one of these I think

I forgot to mention, I'd also listened to Puppies'.

[TAC]

I think the fish one is Sacul's.

Ya think?

I think I didn't put it clear enough, but only the first songs are really about her, rest are about me feeling very insecure about myself and shit

No, I got that!

[TAC]

Favorites and least favorites?

Ariich
Best: Disillusion - The Liberation
Worst: Myrath - I Want to Die

Buddy
Best: Vektor - Black Future
Worst: Celldweller - Good L_ck (Yo_'re F_cked)

Puppies
Best: Wretched - Beyond the Gate
Worst: Polyphia - Paradise

Evermind
Best: Mark Knopfler – Wherever I Go
Worst: Ólafur Arnalds – Old Skin

Jingle Boy
Best: Lord -The End of Days
Worst:Odin -Judgement Day

Cyril
Best: Serdce - Last Faith
Worst: Irreversible Mechanism - Abolution

Lethean
Best: The Ocean - Devonian: Nascent
Worst: Swallow the Sun - The Justice of Suffering

Stadler
Best: The Replacements-Black Diamond
Worst: Train-Drops Of Jupiter

Faizoff
Best: Sabaton – Primo Victoria
Worst: Primus – Too Many Puppies

Wolfking
Best: Lord – Reborn
Worst: Sepultura – Arise

Kattelox
Best: Enya - I Could Never Say Goodbye
Worst: Florence + the Machine - Shake It Out

Sacul
Best: The Stooges-1970
Worst: Converge-Jane Doe

Elite
Best: Ihsahn - Mass Darkness
Worst: Agent Fresco-Angst

Romdrums
Best: Tides From Nebula-Dopamine
Worst: pg.lost-Off The Beaten Path

[The Walrus]

My double points song is best 

[Lethean]

My double points song is best 

Mine isn't, which means I haven't gotten one right the entire roulette.   But this time I'm glad about it.  I picked Age of Shadows because it had the smallest Jonas part, just in case.

[TAC]

Well, in these lists, sometimes a few songs get the same score, high or low, and I just pick one for the Best/Worst post.

[The Walrus]

Yeah I'm curious if you actually disliked Shake It Out or not, although I can think of a few reasons why you wouldn't like it, but I am hoping for the best.

I predict Puppies, Ariich, Jingle, Cyril, and Evermind will get the bonus points.

[jingle.boy]

You're daft man.  It's brutally obvious YOU are getting points. I suspect Evermind's is the 2nd one that's the no-brainer.

[The Walrus]

I dunno. Everybody else had these gnarly big scope concepts with a shitload of effort put into them, mine's emotional sure but I can't imagine at least you and Evermind not getting them.

[Lethean]

Kattelox, I totally think you're getting a bonus point.  And deserve to.

I think Evermind should too. 

The rest is hard to say.

[Lethean]

Well, in these lists, sometimes a few songs get the same score, high or low, and I just pick one for the Best/Worst post.

It's fine by me if more than one song is tied for the top spot.

[ariich]

Well, in these lists, sometimes a few songs get the same score, high or low, and I just pick one for the Best/Worst post.

This. And also, especially in this round the double-points song will only make a very small difference because we have so many songs!

Also:

Wolfking
Worst: Sepultura – Arise

Definitely not surprising. That was a bold choice, my man.

And yeah Katt, yours may not have a "plot" as such but the emotional resonance and narrative are really powerful and I'm pretty sure you're getting a bonus point. And even in the incredibly unlikely event that you weren't already getting one, you definitely will be now that we're all pressuring Tim.