ariich's DARK TO LIGHT roulette (v8) - Post-roulette updates (ongoing)

[wolfking]

Extra points to Tom for his creativeness. 

[ariich]

Extra points to Tom for his creativeness. 

He's going to need them.

When I mistakenly thought his EP wasn't long enough, he did send two more tracks, which I had to treat as "bonus tracks" because he would have ended up with too many artists if I'd included them. They were:

Steel Panther - She's On The Rag
Incinerating Prophecies - Bloody Pussy

[ariich]

Incidentally, two other updates.

Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1YBgQQDw6cG486lpjsNQvx?si=e0e4776965714699
Nearly 12 hours of music. I've included the individual tracks where people had edited an mp3 for their submission.



Stats!

                         R1       R2       R3       R4       R5       R6    R7(EPs)
Number of tracks:
Average                 3.4      3.9      3.5      3.3      4.0      4.0        6.5
Most                      6        6        5        5        6        6         10
Fewest                    1        2        1        1        2        1          4
Total tracks             81       93       84       79       95       96        150

Submission length:
Average               17:27    17:33    18:19    17:14    17:41    17:50      30:34
Longest               19:51    19:47    20:07    20:07    20:01    19:58      35:01
Shortest              11:57    11:52    14:41    08:22    12:14    12:54      21:08
Total length        6:58:47  7:01:11  7:19:37  6:53:41  7:04:34  7:07:49   11:42:58
Ave. track length     05:10    04:32    05:14    05:14    04:28    04:27      04:41

Previous experience:
Number of artists        24       24       24       23       24       24         93
Artists I've heard        4        6        4        1        4        4         21
Artists I've rated        2        3        4        1        3        2         10

[ReaperKK]

Gonna spend the day spinning the playlist

[LithoJazzoSphere]

Scorpions - Litho?

I love them, but they're not generally the sort of thing I'd send in a roulette. 

[nick_z]

Nearly 12 hours of music.

This is nuts 

Top and bottom tracks should definitely be later today.

Nice! 

[LithoJazzoSphere]

I'm trying to figure out the appropriate level of panic to have if he doesn't pick the tracks either I would pick or that I think he'll pick. 

[faizoff]

Good god 12 hours of music for one round sounds insane.

[LithoJazzoSphere]

It's less than half the music for two rounds combined though. 

[ariich]

I'm trying to figure out the appropriate level of panic to have if he doesn't pick the tracks either I would pick or that I think he'll pick. 

Let's find out, shall we!

[ariich]

EP tops and bottoms
This excludes intro/interlude/outro tracks.

Buddy
Favourite: Sungazer - The Dark
Least favourite: The Comet Is Coming - Angel Of Darkness

Crow
Favourite: Orville Peck - Kalahari Down
Least favourite: My Morning Jacket - One Big Holiday

Evermind
Favourite: Kalandra - Borders
Least favourite: The Gathering - Monsters

faizoff
Favourite: Deadmau5 - Strobe
Least favourite: Soulfly - Flyhigh

Glasser
Favourite: Dolly Parton - PMS Blues (live)
Least favourite: S.O.D. - Premenstrual Princess Blues

HOF
Favourite: Field Music - Disappointed
Least favourite: McStine & Minnemann - The Flame

jingle
Favourite: Magnus Karlsson’s Free Fall - Not My Saviour
Least favourite: Poison - Theatre of the Soul

King
Favourite: Magic Pie - Trick of the Trade
Least favourite: Xerosync - Now I See You

Litho
Favourite: Sarah Jarosz - Run Away
Least favourite: Sybreed - Ego Bypass Generator

lonestar
Favourite: Li-sa-X Band - Looking Up To You
Least favourite: Mary’s Blood - Unravel

luke
Favourite: Andrew W.K. - Babalon
Least favourite: Pizza Death - Pizza Death

Luoto
Favourite: Kamara - Pohjola (Osa 2): Ajattomuuden kaiku
Least favourite: Swallow the Sun - These Low Lands

nick_z
Favourite: Bat For Lashes - Moon And Moon
Least favourite: Madder Morten - Rust Cleansing

Puppies
Favourite: Archivist - Tying Up Loose Ends in the Cold Void of Space
Least favourite: Esoteric - Beneath This Face

Reaper
Favourite: Spencer Elliott - The Tournament
Least favourite: Kaki King - Joi

romdrums
Favourite: Simon Phillips - Undeviginti
Least favourite: Derek Sherinian - Dragonfly

Sacul
Favourite: Sleep - Dragonaut
Least favourite: Boris - Farewell

seneca
Favourite: Leonard Cohen - Steer Your Way
Least favourite: Leonard Cohen - Suzanne

soupy
Favourite: Visions of Atlantis - Legion of the Seas
Least favourite: Pearl Jam - Among the Waves

Stadler
Favourite: Scorpions - We’ll Burn the Sky
Least favourite: Fish - View From the Hill

TAC
Favourite: Horizon Ignited - Eventide Of Abysmal Grief
Least favourite: Moonloop - Oceans

Vmadera
Favourite: Blacktop Mojo - It Won't Last
Least favourite: The Stone Roses - Tears

wolfking
Favourite: Septicflesh - A Desert Throne
Least favourite: Obscura - Solaris

[Buddyhunter1]

Not surprising

[Evermind]

Evermind
Favourite: Kalandra - Borders

Yeah that tracks. As I told you (and Litho in his roulette) this track was the inspiration for the EP.

seneca
Favourite: Leonard Cohen - Steer Your Way

Yeah that also tracks.

[lonestar]

Seriously, unravel was your least favorite? I fucking love that song.

[LithoJazzoSphere]

Hmm, that was unexpected, but I don't mind it.  I don't know what no one figuring out it belonged to my EP means though.  It's probably confusing to follow if you don't have the notes I gave to ariich, and even then it's still unconventional. 

[twosuitsluke]

Of course you like the little harp interludes more than Pizza Death 

[LithoJazzoSphere]

Ouch, "Dragonfly" is my favorite track on that album.  Poor rom.  Although it's entirely possible it's also his least favorite too.   

[soupytwist]

soupy
Favourite: Alestorm : Shit Boat (obviously).
Least favourite: Pearl Jam - Among the Waves

Edited for you as you made a mistake.

I'm pretty happy with 'Among the Waves' being least favorite as you know that was a panic story piece replacement song and it doesn't really fit the EP thematically.

[Sacul]

Sacul
Favourite: Sleep - Dragonaut
Least favourite: Boris - Farewell

Damn, you got that exactly the other way around

[LithoJazzoSphere]

"Dragonaut" is the best Sleep song, so he most certainly got that right.   

[Buddyhunter1]

I am hoping that the The Comet Is Coming tracks aren't significantly more disliked than the others, but we'll see...

My ranking would probably be

Blood Of The Past
Cytherean
Angel Of Darkness
Dalatecht
Threshold
The Dark

I like all of them though, and I (seemingly correctly) assumed The Dark would be your jam.

[TAC]

Not surprised to see Oceans last. I agonized over it but I just couldn’t find another song that fit thematically.

[Sacul]

"Dragonaut" is the best Sleep song, so he most certainly got that right.   

It's great, but Dopesmoker is just on another level imo.

[nick_z]

Of course you like the little harp interludes more than Pizza Death 

Gotta tell you, the fact you included harp interludes cracked me up 

nick_z
Favourite: Bat For Lashes - Moon And Moon
Least favourite: Madder Morten - Rust Cleansing

Not shocked by your least favorite, maybe a bit surprised by the favorite (although I do find it to be a gorgeous, hauntingly beautiful song)

[LithoJazzoSphere]

"Two Planets" is my favorite song of her's. 

[Stadler]

Does "Bat For Lashes" have a meaning, or is it just a nonsense term?

(As an aside, "band names" are a tricky business.  I'm not a fan of band names that mean nothing, except... when they're really cool, which makes no sense.)

[faizoff]

faizoff
Favourite: Deadmau5 - Strobe
Least favourite: Soulfly - Flyhigh

I sent the radio edit for Strobe the full 14 min version has a great long build up which IMO gives the full effect of that end section.


I did think the last song would fit in with the EP and I still think it kinda does but yes it does stick out a little bit.

[nick_z]

Does "Bat For Lashes" have a meaning, or is it just a nonsense term?

(As an aside, "band names" are a tricky business.  I'm not a fan of band names that mean nothing, except... when they're really cool, which makes no sense.)

I believe I remember reading an interview of hers where she said it doesn't really mean anything, but I'm not 100% sure...by the way, I'm kinda with you on nonsense band names...

[LithoJazzoSphere]

"She has said the name Bat for Lashes "doesn't really mean anything [...] It conjured up Halloween-y images, and it sounded metal and feminine.”[13]"

Which is funny because she's not metal at all. 

[nick_z]

"She has said the name Bat for Lashes "doesn't really mean anything [...] It conjured up Halloween-y images, and it sounded metal and feminine.”[13]"

Which is funny because she's not metal at all.

Well, I guess I got that one right 

By the way, yes, Two Planets is a great tune as well.

[twosuitsluke]

Of course you like the little harp interludes more than Pizza Death 

Gotta tell you, the fact you included harp interludes cracked me up 

Had too keep up with Glasser’s level of ridiculousness now didn’t I.

[HOF]

HOF
Favourite: Field Music - Disappointed
Least favourite: McStine & Minnemann - The Flame

Hey, I agree with both of these (moreso on The Flame).

[Crow]

pretty much exactly what i expected given the first impression, yeah 

[ariich]

Of course you like the little harp interludes more than Pizza Death 

No, the tops and bottoms exclude intros, interludes and outros as the post says at the top.

Although there are a couple of songs this round that I do like less than the harps interludes.

soupy
Favourite: Alestorm : Shit Boat (obviously).
Least favourite: Pearl Jam - Among the Waves

Edited for you as you made a mistake.

I mean, it has the best title of any song this round so I guess yeah.

Of course you like the little harp interludes more than Pizza Death 

Gotta tell you, the fact you included harp interludes cracked me up 

Had too keep up with Glasser’s level of ridiculousness now didn’t I.

Not even close.

[senecadawg2]

Favourite: Leonard Cohen - Steer Your Way
Least favourite: Leonard Cohen - Suzanne

I love this