Let's help Indi make a special music gift! v. 2000

[wolfking]

Death - Flesh and the Power it Holds, Scavenger of Human Sorrow.
Edguy - Walk on Fighting, Vain Glory Opera, Out of Control
Primal Fear - Chainbreaker, Running in the Dust, Battalions of Hate
Arch Enemy - Beast of Man, Bridge of Destiny
Soilwork - Entering the Angel Diabolique, Sadistic Lullabye, In a Close Encounter

[wolfking]

Virgin Steele - Whisper of Death, Through Blood and Fire
Grave Digger - Knights of the Cross
Threshold - Freaks, The Latent Gene
Axel Rudi Pell - Carousel
UDO - No Limits, With a Vengeance

[TAC]

I was working today so I missed the 1998 bus. I almost sent a list before I left. Sure enough, as soon as I get to work, 1998 is up.

[TAC]

Motorhead-Better Off Dead
Borknagar-The Black Token
Bruce Dickinson-Book Of Thel
Iron Maiden-Sign Of The Cross

[wolfking]

Iron Maiden-Sign Of The Cross

Errrr.......

[wolfking]

I'll go When Two Worlds Collide or The Educated Fool.

[King Puppies and the Acid Guppies]

Iron Maiden-Sign Of The Cross

Errrr.......

He's about 3 years too late...

[Evermind]

Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell

[TAC]

Iron Maiden-Sign Of The Cross

Errrr.......

He's about 3 years too late...

 

Dammit!

The Educated Fool.

[ariich]

Dammit I come back in for the 1998 and some people have made like 20 suggestions again.

I feel like this would be a bit more fun if there was a max number of suggestions per person, particularly if you're doing this which does sound like a cool idea:

2. Tally the standings for contributors making the final cuts. I'm giving a prize at the end of this journey.

But with unlimited suggestions per person, that'll only encourage people to suggest EVERYTHING even more.

[ariich]

Anyway, some suggestions from me this time from what's left that hasn't been suggested already. Hard rock and metal only.

Blind Guardian - Into the Storm
Freak Kitchen - Mr Kashchei & The 13 Prostitutes
Marilyn Manson - Mechanical Animals; Rock is Dead
Shadow Gallery - I Believe
The Offspring - Pay the Man


Seconding other people's suggestions:
Anathema - Fragile Dreams
Blind Guardian - Blood Tears; Mirror Mirror
Bruce Dickinson - Chemical Wedding; Book of Thel
Devin Townsend - Bad Devil
Halloween - Midnight Sun
King's X - Groove Machine
Opeth - Demon Of The Fall
System of a Down - Spiders
Threshold - The Latent Gene

[Indiscipline]

102 songs for 57 acts. You guys and gals rock!

Thank you again and welcome to the newcomers.

Dammit I come back in for the 1998 and some people have made like 20 suggestions again.

I feel like this would be a bit more fun if there was a max number of suggestions per person, particularly if you're doing this which does sound like a cool idea:

2. Tally the standings for contributors making the final cuts. I'm giving a prize at the end of this journey.

But with unlimited suggestions per person, that'll only encourage people to suggest EVERYTHING even more.

As always you are the voice of reason, but I really don't have it in me to regulate help. 

Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell

The masterstroke. 

[wolfking]

Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell

 

[jingle.boy]

Iron Maiden-Sign Of The Cross

Errrr.......

He's about 3 years too late...

 

Dammit!

The Educated Fool.

Is that your song suggestion, or what you are? 

[Indiscipline]

Ok, while gathering 1997's final cut contributors I noticed something got lost from paper to bbcode:

Mew - Coffee Breaks gets subbed by Ben Folds Five - Song for the Dumped due to lyrics' value (he wouldn't care for both musical contents anyway)


Final Cuts Submittors Standings (1997):

wolfking: 12
MrBoom: 11 1/2
TAC: 10 1/2
Soundscape: 5
king: 4
Elite: 2
Anguyen: 1
faizoff: 1
Puppies: 1
romdrums: 1

[wolfking]

Korn- Got the Life
Pearl Jam - Do the Evolution, Brain of J
Joe Satriani - Up in the Sky, Crystal Planet, Ceremony
Stabbing Westward - Save Yourself
The Offspring - Have You Ever, Staring At the Sun

[wolfking]

Ok, while gathering 1997's final cut contributors I noticed something got lost from paper to bbcode:

Mew - Coffee Breaks gets subbed by Ben Folds Five - Song for the Dumped due to lyrics' value (he wouldn't care for both musical contents anyway)


Final Cuts Submittors Standings (1997):

wolfking: 12
MrBoom: 11 1/2
TAC: 10 1/2
Soundscape: 5
king: 4
Elite: 2
Anguyen: 1
faizoff: 1
Puppies: 1
romdrums: 1

What do I win?

[Indiscipline]

Ok, while gathering 1997's final cut contributors I noticed something got lost from paper to bbcode:

Mew - Coffee Breaks gets subbed by Ben Folds Five - Song for the Dumped due to lyrics' value (he wouldn't care for both musical contents anyway)


Final Cuts Submittors Standings (1997):

wolfking: 12
MrBoom: 11 1/2
TAC: 10 1/2
Soundscape: 5
king: 4
Elite: 2
Anguyen: 1
faizoff: 1
Puppies: 1
romdrums: 1

What do I win?

Still nothing. You gotta stay on top when 2020 is wrapped up.

Then I'll send you a gift, and my bro's next child will be named Kade 

[wolfking]

Ok, while gathering 1997's final cut contributors I noticed something got lost from paper to bbcode:

Mew - Coffee Breaks gets subbed by Ben Folds Five - Song for the Dumped due to lyrics' value (he wouldn't care for both musical contents anyway)


Final Cuts Submittors Standings (1997):

wolfking: 12
MrBoom: 11 1/2
TAC: 10 1/2
Soundscape: 5
king: 4
Elite: 2
Anguyen: 1
faizoff: 1
Puppies: 1
romdrums: 1

What do I win?

Still nothing. You gotta stay on top when 2020 is wrapped up.

Then I'll send you a gift, and my bro's next child will be named Kade 

Holy shit, nah don't fucking do that mate.  Don't ruin his life like that, trust me lol.

[ariich]

Dammit I come back in for the 1998 and some people have made like 20 suggestions again.

I feel like this would be a bit more fun if there was a max number of suggestions per person, particularly if you're doing this which does sound like a cool idea:

2. Tally the standings for contributors making the final cuts. I'm giving a prize at the end of this journey.

But with unlimited suggestions per person, that'll only encourage people to suggest EVERYTHING even more.

As always you are the voice of reason, but I really don't have it in me to regulate help. 

That's fair.

In that case, can I make a plea for kindness and ask people to voluntarily try and keep to like 6 or 7 suggestions, at least initially, to give the rest of us a chance?

[The Walrus]

Yeah I've already given up seeing people already in the double digits. No hope for me, clearly my tastes will not work here lol

[wolfking]

Maybe each person is only allowed to suggest a certain number of songs?  May take a little longer but will make it fair across the board.

[ariich]

Maybe each person is only allowed to suggest a certain number of songs?  May take a little longer but will make it fair across the board.

That was my suggestion but I completely appreciate Indi doesn't want to have to police it. But it would be really cool if people could limit themselves voluntarily for, say, the first 24 hours of each year, just to give others a chance to post their top suggestions. And then after that a free-for-all.

By doing that, Alex will still get a shitload of suggestions in that first day, and then some extra top-up ones after, which wouldn't really be any different to how these first two years have gone. So I don't think it would hold anything up.

[wolfking]

I'm sure everyone can take it upon themselves to post like 10 initially and then fill in the gaps once everyone has had a crack.

[Indiscipline]

Maybe each person is only allowed to suggest a certain number of songs?  May take a little longer but will make it fair across the board.

That was my suggestion but I completely appreciate Indi doesn't want to have to police it. But it would be really cool if people could limit themselves voluntarily for, say, the first 24 hours of each year, just to give others a chance to post their top suggestions. And then after that a free-for-all.

By doing that, Alex will still get a shitload of suggestions in that first day, and then some extra top-up ones after, which wouldn't really be any different to how these first two years have gone. So I don't think it would hold anything up.

I'm open to anything; if you guys wish to police yourself, go ahead. I just can't do it because: A) who the heck regulates his own request for help and the kindness of buddies? B) Don't want to treat this as a competition if not as a gimmicky unconsequential consequence.

Dammit I come back in for the 1998 and some people have made like 20 suggestions again.

I feel like this would be a bit more fun if there was a max number of suggestions per person, particularly if you're doing this which does sound like a cool idea:

2. Tally the standings for contributors making the final cuts. I'm giving a prize at the end of this journey.

But with unlimited suggestions per person, that'll only encourage people to suggest EVERYTHING even more.

As always you are the voice of reason, but I really don't have it in me to regulate help. 

That's fair.

In that case, can I make a plea for kindness and ask people to voluntarily try and keep to like 6 or 7 suggestions, at least initially, to give the rest of us a chance?

Totally fair! But I can't stress enough the fact this is a collaborative effort first and a facultative silly competition as a byproduct.

Yeah I've already given up seeing people already in the double digits. No hope for me, clearly my tastes will not work here lol

And that's what I was afraid of. Please, bud, don't stop on account of that. The help in itself is what's really invaluable for me; the silly standings are there as funny stimulus, if they're somehow offputting, then they're out of the picture.

Ok, while gathering 1997's final cut contributors I noticed something got lost from paper to bbcode:

Mew - Coffee Breaks gets subbed by Ben Folds Five - Song for the Dumped due to lyrics' value (he wouldn't care for both musical contents anyway)


Final Cuts Submittors Standings (1997):

wolfking: 12
MrBoom: 11 1/2
TAC: 10 1/2
Soundscape: 5
king: 4
Elite: 2
Anguyen: 1
faizoff: 1
Puppies: 1
romdrums: 1

What do I win?

Still nothing. You gotta stay on top when 2020 is wrapped up.

Then I'll send you a gift, and my bro's next child will be named Kade 

Holy shit, nah don't fucking do that mate.  Don't ruin his life like that, trust me lol.

Hey, he'd be my bro's son and my nephew. Can't get worse than that!

Let's begin the reductio ad unum for 1998, which apparently means listening to a whole Iced Earth album for starters. 

[TAC]

Yeah I've already given up seeing people already in the double digits. No hope for me, clearly my tastes will not work here lol

You can suggest songs for his sister. 

[Indiscipline]

This is the 1998 crop so far, in user friendly package:

Iced Earth: Burning Times, Disciples of the Lie, My Own Savior, Birth of the Wicked, Melancholy
Blind Guardian: Mirror Mirror, Blood Tears, Nightfall, Into the Storm
Rhapsody: Emerald Sword
LTE: Paradigm Shift, Universal Mind
Arena: Enemy Without
Opeth: Demon of the Fall, April Ethereal
Anathema: Fragile Dreams
Gorguts: Obscura
System of a Down: Spiders, Sugar
Death: Spirit Crusher, Flesh and the Power It Holds, Scavenger of Human Sorrow
Shadow Gallery: New World Order, Hope for Us, Stiletto in the Sand, War for Sale, I Believe
Bruce Dickinson: Chemical Wedding, Book of Thel
Ayreon: Across the Rainbow's Bridge, The Castle Hall
Devin Townsend: Bad Devil
Phantom's Opera: Heartache
Spock's Beard: June, Harm's Way
Trans Siberian Orchestra: Appalachian Snowfall
Von Groove: All for Rock'n'Roll
Stabbing Westward: Save Yourself
Korn: Freak on a Leash, Got the Life
King's X: Groove Machine
Halloween: Midnight Sun, Hey Lord
Hammerfall: Heeding the Call, Dreamland
Soilwork: Steelbath Suicide, Entering the Angel Diabolique, Sadistic Lullabye, In a Close Encounter
Amon Amarth: Ride for Vengeance
Edguy: Vain Glory Opera, Walk on Fighting, Out of Control
Arch Enemy: Tears of the Dead, Beast of Man, Bridge of Destiny
Fear Factory: Shock
Iron Maiden: The Clansman, When Two Worlds Collide, The Educated Fool, To Tame a Land
Meshuggah: New Millennium Cyanide Christ, Corridor of Chameleons
Metallica: Whiskey in the Jar
Moster Magnet: Power Trip, Space Lord
Nightwish: Gethsemane
Symphony X: Smoke and Mirrors, Church of the Machine, Through the Looking Glass
Theron: The Rise of Sodom and Gomorrah
Angra: Rainy Nights
Borknagar: Oceans Rise, The Black Token
Eldritch: Bleed Mask Bleed
Katatonia: Instrumental
Labyrinth: The Night of Dreams
Threshold: Freaks, Angels, Voyager II, Sunrise on Mars, The Latent Gene
Enchant: King
Van Halen: Fire in the Hole
The Mayfield Four: Don't Walk Away
Pain of Salvation: Handful of Nothing
Chroma Key: Colorblind
Primal Fear: Chainbreaker, Running in the Dust, Battalions of Hate
Virgin Steele: Whisper of Death, Through Blood and Fire
Grave Digger: Knights of the Cross
Axel Rudi Pell: Carousel
UDO: No Limits, With a Vengeance
Motorhead: Better off Dead
Freak Kitchen - Mr Kashchei and the 13 Prostitutes
Marylin Manson: Mechanical Animals, Rock Is Dead
The Offspring: Pay the Man, have You Ever, Staring at the Sun
Pearl Jam: Do the Evolution, Brain of J
Joe Satriani: Up in the Sky, Crystal Planet, Ceremony
Slayer - Bitter Peace & Point.
Anthrax - Killing Box, Born Again Idiot
Uriah Heep - Everything in Life

[The Walrus]

That IE song should be My Own Savior. 

[faizoff]

Slayer - Bitter Peace & Point.

[Indiscipline]

That IE song should be My Own Savior. 

Spotify has it as My Savior, but I'm gonna trust you, especially because it's the song winning the Iced Earth mini tournament.

Iced Earth: My Own Savior. Kicks more ass.

Slayer - Bitter Peace & Point.

Updating!

[The Walrus]

It's definitely MOS, I noticed that last night and thought it was weird they screwed it up. The hook is fierce on that one.

[Indiscipline]

Iced Earth: My Own Savior. Kicks more ass.
Blind Guardian: Into the Storm. Must follow the will of the world.
Rhapsody: Emerald Sword. He really enjoyed Cadash and Golden Axe.
LTE: Paradigm Shift. I already know his preference.
Arena: Enemy Without. Overruled. Ironically, if we have a slim Arena chance, it's with The Hanging Tree.
Opeth: April Ethereal (over Demon of the Fall). That was a focking earful.
Anathema: Fragile Dreams. Will need to fight for its place.
Obscura - Obscura: Can't find it anywhere. Help!
System of a Down: Sugar (over Spiders), but I only need a small excuse to dump it.
Death: Spirit Crusher. Ha was a fan, plus they win my prize for Most Amazing Band with Vocals I Can't Stand.
Shadow Gallery: Stiletto in the Sand. Perfect introduction.
Bruce Dickinson: Chemical Wedding (over Book of Thel), the phaaaaaaaantom of the opera is here, inside your mind.
Ayreon: Across the Rainbow Bridge (over The Castle Hall), I dig it, not sure big bro would.

[faizoff]

Anthrax - Killing Box, Born Again Idiot

[TAC]

Anthrax - Killing Box, Born Again Idiot

Great call, though I would go with Catharsis

[faizoff]

Anthrax - Killing Box, Born Again Idiot

Great call, though I would go with Catharsis

Ton of great songs on that album. I had lost track of the band for a while and somehow missed this album for a long time. It was a great discovery and a great listen.