News: Track-by-track video for Untethered Angel:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Co1_h0GtAw

Heyyyyyyyy all, welcome to my first roulette in fucking ages. My taste has gone through some insane changes since my last one, not even sure I liked growl vocals back then lol, and Japan was still just a cuisine to me. But that’s the beauty of music, it changes as I change, as long as I’m willing to just hit play. I can’t even begin to count the amount of amazing discoveries I’ve had by just taking a chance on a link some rando on the internet posted or some dude in a concert line mentioned. The beauty of a roulette though, is you chumps get to do all the work for me. So I’m gonna be doing some weird things on this one...

Format- We'll go with 12 entrants, unlike Rich, I don’t have a job where I can spin music, most of my listening is done during commutes and workouts, so I want a playlist that will fit that time span, around an hour or so. There will be themes, but they’ll be rather broad. We’ll go with 8 rounds, and I’d like to keep songs under 8 minutes unless specified please (I won’t be a dick about it if you all don’t push it). And please keep all submissions to Spotify, as I said listening will be done during commutes and workouts so it’ll be tricky to switch outlets.

Scoring- This will be the fun part, for me at least lol...I want to do ranked scoring. 12 points for the best song to 1 point for the worst each round. I think this will provide a way for anyone to work their way back into the top (unless their songs just consistently suck balls of course), and will provide endless entertainment for me watching your angst and anxiety as the scores come out and you realize you went from second place to ninth...

Tastes- Yeah, this is where things get interesting…I’m all over the board…anything from brutal metal to smooth jazz. If I hit play and like it, I’ll dig further. I was initally raised on a steady diet of 70s prog and the classic rock radio staples. As I grew I added the neo-prog giants to the list. Found DT in ‘92 and until I found you losers that was how it remained. Once I found DTF, and all the bands that came with the deal, especially through my work with Lady Obscure, my tastes and library exploded. Now pretty much all metal has some appeal one way or another. Love the heavy stuff, dig djent, appreciate the cores, sludge, stoner, all has appeal, even bits and pieces of power. Still dig some good prog, but it’s hit or miss these days. Vocals can make or break a song, and it’s pretty obvious I have zero issues with female leads and am totally good with growls. I definitely dig me some instrumentals, and that format can be very, very applicable to the round themes as well. Starting to appreciate other genres too, love the limited jazz I’ve come across, tons of indigenous stuff appeals, even have enjoyed a good deal of the jpop and kpop that has come across my path, so I’m very curious to see what else is out there. I’m all about how music makes me feel, where it takes me. I’ve taken a page out of Crow’s playbook and put together a playlist of stuff I’ve been diggin on lately...

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2wq0WPVDlXuecmSL9IS5aw?si=9cdf5487d0a74e52

Mostly, I want you all to challenge yourselves, take chances, step outside your usual stuff. 8 rounds of all power/prog metal will make for a very boring roulette.

 

--- Send me...

Rd 1- A quick introduction (5 minutes or less, get me exited that you’re in my roulette)

Rd 2- A Song Outside of Your Comfort Zone (be honest please, send me your guilty pleasures)

Rd 3- An Angry Song

Rd 4- A Jazzy Song

Rd 5- A Poppy Song

Rd 6- A Song of Hope

Rd 7- Open Round...Make it Count (10 minutes here folks)

Rd 8- Two sequential songs, that is two songs that are next to each other on an album (20 minutes)


We'll let this all marinate with you guys for a week or so, that'll let the players get in, and let the format and themes marinate a bit.





Standings-

1- twosuitesluke- 60pts

2- ariich- 52pts

3- crow- 48pts

4- litho- 44pts

5- vmadera00- 40pts

5- Evermind- 40pts

7- reaperKK- 36pts

8- sacul- 32pts

9- HOF- 31pts

10- jingle- 30pts

11- TAC- 29pts

12- King- 28pts

12- Stads- 28pts

14- Puppies- 27pts

Banned during roulette...

RD1-

Public Broadcasting Service
AERIS
Reliqa
Serena Ryder
Vektor
Dim Gray
My Chemical Romance
Ad Infinitum
Bend Sinister
The Paper Chase
Slade
Diablo Swing Orchestra
Boris
Haywyre

I’m in if you’ll have me.

Absolutely still in! 

Definitely still in.

In, and sent!

Quote from: lonestar on July 03, 2023, 08:17:21 AM

Quote from: twosuitsluke on July 03, 2023, 08:10:55 AM

I’m in if you’ll have me.

You're in...don't fuck it up.

Great, can't wait to see more of Tim having a go at Luke for being late!

I seriously considered late penalties

Quote from: lonestar on July 03, 2023, 08:17:21 AM

Quote from: twosuitsluke on July 03, 2023, 08:10:55 AM

I’m in if you’ll have me.

You're in...don't fuck it up.

Great, can't wait to see more of Tim having a go at Luke for being late!

If we weren’t both such roulette whores I might be able to catch a break.

Never mind 

 


Ok Tim's out...


Vmadera, you're in if you're still interested, I can do 13... just confirm please.

Is Tim a scorned girlfriend of your RJ?

Well that was fun!!

For sure still in!

I know the answer is yes for Japanese, but are you accepting other languages, I might have some Spanish and French stuff to send.

Round 2 is going to be interesting.  I'm not even sure what my comfort zone is and isn't.      I guess technically speaking it's my favorite niche subgenres contrasted with round 10 genres in my own roulette, but amped up to spend way too much time pondering it over the next couple weeks.   

Are we gonna do this the whole roulette? 

 

I know the answer is yes for Japanese, but are you accepting other languages, I might have some Spanish and French stuff to send.

Absolutely, I definitely dig all languages.

Round 2 is going to be interesting.  I'm not even sure what my comfort zone is and isn't.      I guess technically speaking it's my favorite niche subgenres in my OP contrasted with round 10 genres in my own roulette, but I'm amped up to spend way too much time pondering it over the next couple weeks.   

I know what’s outside of your comfort zone

In fairness I have exactly the same problem. I don't really have a comfort zone as such, other than stuff at various extremes which I don't know that I'd want to send in a roulette. And I definitely don't have any guilty pleasures - no way I'm feeling guilt over what music I like!

I mean, for clarification, for me Atarrashi GAKKO! would definitely fall under this round's parameters. They're definitely out of my usual wheelhouse, and while I'm too old for the guilt shit, they surely qualify as a guilty pleasure to me.