The $5.98 TAC EP Roulette V.4 Final Results

[Evermind]

Everyone who kept it under 60 minutes should get a bonus point.

[Crow]

nobody should get a bonus point

[TAC]

Everybody should get a trophy Bonus Point.

[The Walrus]

I should get a bonus point for sending the heaviest EP.

[Crow]

I should get a bonus point for sending the heaviest EP.

i'd say "don't steal my bonus point" but like, puppies' will probably be heavier

[jingle.boy]

I didn't cram 10 pounds of shit into a 5 pound bag like ya'll did so that's your own fault. My EP is only 44 minutes, just 4 over the limit for the normal rounds

5lbs of shit in a 5lb bag is still 5lbs of shit.   

I accept your future apology for this comment after you see my EP and writeup. 

Inasmuch as I'll accept yours.   

[The Walrus]

I should get a bonus point for sending the heaviest EP.

i'd say "don't steal my bonus point" but like, puppies' will probably be heavier

The closest thing to 'heavy' on my EP is a post-rock song. Other than that, there is no rock or metal whatsoever on my EP, hell there's virtually not even any guitar outside of that one song.

[Crow]

the sarcasm meter didn't go off on your post, my bad

all 9 tracks on my concept album are metal. i think only one of them doesn't have growls of any sort.

[The Walrus]

METUL

[Crow]

:3metal:

[ariich]

My EP is 59 minutes, and I really stretched myself and sent 6 different artists this time.

[Crow]

Looking forward to hearing about your 6 characters

[ariich]

Nah didn't do that this time. Just one main protagonist, plus a narrator for the prologue and epilogue. It's definitely a more coherent story as a result.

[Lethean]

I sent 7 artists this time.  This is my second concept album.  How do those who have been doing this for a while approach them?  Do you come up with a story first and then find songs to fit?  Do you have a list of songs first?

[TAC]

Just waiting on Sacul-who I know is almost done
Romdrums-who I haven’t heard from
Elite-who is recovering from surgery.

Hopefully by Friday guys?

[Crow]

I sent 7 artists this time.  This is my second concept album.  How do those who have been doing this for a while approach them?  Do you come up with a story first and then find songs to fit?  Do you have a list of songs first?

Usually I pick two or three songs I wanna use that go together, come up with a general story path, then pick songs that could fit it to flesh out the narrative, and I write up the full concept once I'm done

I went into puppies' concept album round with an idea of what I wanted to do but this is what I did for TAC's and ariich's concept albums

[jingle.boy]

I sent 7 artists this time.  This is my second concept album.  How do those who have been doing this for a while approach them?  Do you come up with a story first and then find songs to fit?  Do you have a list of songs first?

pfft... lightweight.  18 artists; 20 songs.  Even the shortened version is 10 artists; 12 songs.

Usually I pick two or three songs I wanna use that go together, come up with a general story path, then pick songs that could fit it to flesh out the narrative, and I write up the full concept once I'm done

I went into puppies' concept album round with an idea of what I wanted to do but this is what I did for TAC's and ariich's concept albums

I approach things the same way.  I couldn't re-use the idea I had for Puppers, cuz most of those artists were banned.

[The Walrus]

I wish I could say I had a plan for concept albums, but I to this day never finished the concept album I was gonna send Puppies after his last roulette. Concept albums always happen at the END of a roulette, and by that point I've usually exhausted my most favorite and beloved artists which wipes out a good chunk of potential 'concept album' material. So my routine has always been 'find artists that haven't been used or aren't banned -> pick a bunch of favorites and potential concept-fodder songs -> whittle it down -> shoehorn a concept out of that' 

[Stadler]

So, the vast majority of my posts here have been light and jokey (not that I lie, it's just that for me roulettes are about the fun not the actual scores and what not) except... I wasn't friggin' around with the Bradley Cooper references.  No, it's not about him, but I had a really lame one that wasn't even a concept as much as a conceit, and I decided that I needed to do better.  So I plotted out an arc in the shower (that part was real) and as I did it, the songs just materialized.  It was really that easy. I agonized about maybe two songs in the whole roulette; the rest suggested themselves (I did have a couple moments where I picked from two obvious choices).   

I went with the adage "write about what you know" and I can only beg TACs indulgence in the reading.  But this was BY FAR the easiest round in the roulette in terms of construction.   

[The Walrus]

So I plotted out an arc in the shower (that part was real)

[jingle.boy]

I went with the adage "write about what you know" and I can only beg TACs indulgence in the reading.  But this was BY FAR the easiest round in the roulette in terms of construction.

Politics.  You wrote about politics.

That or guns.

[TAC]

Guns are icky.

[TAC]

Actually Stadler’s EP is titled..

Rudy: Never Heard Of Him.

[jingle.boy]

Rudy: Never Heard Of Him.

hmph.  Figured that would be a concept title YOU would use.

[faizoff]

This is a depiction of how my concept EP turned out

[Crow]

My EP is about how Jeffery Epstein didn't kill himself

[TAC]

Rudy: Never Heard Of Him.

hmph.  Figured that would be a concept title YOU would use.

 
I see what you did there.

[Stadler]

This is a depiction of how my concept EP turned out

NAILED IT!

[Crow]

kids: "omg it's elsa"

[Lethean]

This is a depiction of how my concept EP turned out

NAILED IT!

I'm afraid mine is like that too.  I dunno.

[Buddyhunter1]

Mine's the right and I'm embracing it.

[Crow]

My story came out pretty much how I wanted it too though I tried to avoid overdetailing it for old man TAC

Of course, the story is, ahem, "whack", so it doesn't really matter

[The Walrus]

kids: "omg it's elsa"

 

[wolfking]

This is a depiction of how my concept EP turned out

 

[Stadler]

I went with the adage "write about what you know" and I can only beg TACs indulgence in the reading.  But this was BY FAR the easiest round in the roulette in terms of construction.

Politics.  You wrote about politics.

That or guns.

Har har.  Low hanging fruit.  I don't need to dig down into my FUCKING SOUL to write about that.  My penis, on the other hand...