Jamesman Roulette 3.0 - Post-roulette: And now I go exploring...

[LithoJazzoSphere]

I am stealing everything Tim does in roulettes.

I don't think you have enough of a mean streak to pull this off. 

[King Puppies and the Acid Guppies]

I am stealing everything Tim does in roulettes.

I don't think you have enough of a mean streak to pull this off. 

[King Postwhore]

I am stealing everything Tim does in roulettes.

I don't think you have enough of a mean streak to pull this off. 

OH SNAP!

[TAC]

[King Postwhore]

Shut up you old bully.

[Stadler]

Is mine the "cold" one?

[TAC]

Is mine the "cold" one?

Yours is the "old" one.

[King Postwhore]

Is mine the "cold" one?

Yours is the "old" one.

By a gray hair. 

[Stadler]

Is mine the "cold" one?

Yours is the "old" one.

By a gray hair. 

You're both right!!!! 

[King Postwhore]

I know.  LOL

[Lonk]

13   ??:   I definitely prefer the singer's other bands more, but this is still good.

Give me my 6  lol

[Jamesman42]

Let's get this done today, results hopefully tomorrow (slow start to this roulette and a wacky week as well).


1   reaperkk   We still vibing in this roulette. I dig it.
2   Puppies   This is some metal shit! Wasn't expecting those harsh vocals at first though.
3   faizon   This is prog metal through the eyes of a madman.
4   ??:   This is a cool song. Some might even say cold. That said, the keyboards are great here.
5   lonestar   These girls have fun with this music, it's so evident. Wild stuff.
6   jingle.god   The energy here is good, the typical prog metal but it satisfies, and the instrumental in the middle is delicious.
7   Ariich   Thank you for keeping a song as metal as this under 5 minutes. It'll be a grower.
8   LithoJazzoCube   Smooth and effortless vocals, didn't expect that instrument in the second half, though maybe I should based on your username.
9   Stadler   Short and sweet, beautiful guitar tones as you would come to expect.
10   TAC   If you stay in this space this time, you're going to get higher scores, at least I would think.
11   ??:   I want more stuff like this to balance out the metal (I love metal, but not just metal).
12   ??:   I got a song by them in the last roulette, and it was a surprising grower in that round. I think I really like their sound.
13   vmads   I definitely prefer the singer's other bands more, but this is still good.
14   Sacul   Haunting with beautiful female vocals, gets me lost in it.
15   King DolphinsWhore   Great atmosphere, this band can do a lot of styles!

[Stadler]

4 or 11 for me?

[Jamesman42]

4 or 11 for me?

No, one more chance.

[Stadler]

4 or 11 for me?

No, one more chance.

That's good, though, because the others I can live with.  9?

[Jamesman42]

Ding ding ding!

[Jamesman42]

Probably 7 or 13. Although I'm not sure 5:00 technically counts as "under" 5 minutes.

I'm doing my write-up for this and listening to it, and the progress bar lists the song as 4:59, so that's what happened.

[Jamesman42]

Here are my first impressions! Write-ups are almost done, and I think the scoring will be more pleasing than the stacker. The lowest score is a 7.8 and the highest is an 8.8. The mean of the scores is 8.306. Write-ups by tomorrow night is the goal.

St. Germain – Forget Me Not   ReaperKK   We still vibing in this roulette. I dig it.

Enslaved – Building With Fire   King Puppies   This is some metal shit! Wasn't expecting those harsh vocals at first though.

Between the Buried and Me – The Coma Machine   faizoff   This is prog metal through the eyes of a madman.

Lonely Robot – The Boy in the Radio   romdrums   This is a cool song. Some might even say cold. That said, the keyboards are great here.

Gacharic Spin – Music Battler   lonestar   These girls have fun with this music, it's so evident. Wild stuff.

The Paralydium Project – Bringer of Life   jingle.boy   The energy here is good, the typical prog metal but it satisfies, and the instrumental in the middle is delicious.

Soilwork – Death in General   Ariich   Thank you for keeping a song as metal as this under 5 minutes. It'll be a grower.

Above the Earth – All Our Dreams   LithoJazzoSphere   Smooth and effortless vocals, didn't expect that instrument in the second half, though maybe I should based on your username.

David Gilmour - And Then...   Stadler   Short and sweet, beautiful guitar tones as you would come to expect.

Dead Lord – The Bold Move   TAC   If you stay in this space this time, you're going to get higher scores, at least I would think.

Eidola – Humble Ledger   Tomislav95   I want more stuff like this to balance out the metal (I love metal, but not just metal).

Leprous – Third Law   twosuitsluke   I got a song by them in the last roulette, and it was a surprising grower in that round. I think I really like their sound.

Puscifer – The Remedy   vmadera00   I definitely prefer the singer's other bands more, but this is still good.

Chelsea Wolfe – After the Fall   Sacul   Haunting with beautiful female vocals, gets me lost in it.

Riverside – Caterpillar and the Barbed Wire   King Postwhore   Great atmosphere, this band can do a lot of styles!

[hefdaddy42]

bosk is my dad btw

Excuse me?

[TAC]

bosk is my dad btw

Excuse me?

[King Postwhore]

bosk is my dad btw

Excuse me?

This is such a betrayal.

[Jamesman42]

bosk is my dad btw

Excuse me?

Having two dads is great

[TAC]

bosk is my dad btw

Excuse me?

Having two dads is great

Not that there's anything wrong with that...

[King Postwhore]

bosk is my dad btw

Excuse me?

Having two dads is great

There was a sitcom in the 80's about this. Lol

[Jamesman42]

Round 1 Results!

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Lonely Robot – The Boy in the Radio   romdrums   8.8   

Gorgeous song, the restrained verses have great atmosphere while the chorus is nice. I get the Frost* vibes and, funnily enough, I like this more than the actual Frost* stuff sent in my last roulette. I really enjoyed everything about this.

Riverside – Caterpillar and the Barbed Wire   King Postwhore   8.8   

Ok, Riverside has been sent 3 times now and it's been gas every single time. This is very different than the other two tracks previously sent, and this one might be the best one yet, but maybe not. Still, I enjoyed the slow build of the song, it just hit all the right spots.

Dead Lord – The Bold Move   TAC   8.6   

You need to send more rocking stuff to me. It doesn't have to be this exact style, but I feel you might have a good reservoir of stuff in this realm. The emotion drips from those vocals, and the guitars and the band let that feeling flow. Then it rocks, and it rocks on. Even the ending, as simple as it is, finalizes the song nicely.

Eidola – Humble Ledger   Tomislav95   8.5   

I enjoyed how this song started slow and ramped up a bit. Its spot in the playlist was also great - there is a ton of metal right before it, which is good, but I like rock just as much (and maybe even more than metal). The guitar part at about 2:40 is smooth. I get some slight Thrice vibes as well, which will earn it some points.

Puscifer – The Remedy   vmadera00   8.5   

Geez, the tone of each instrument in that intro is the stuff. The good stuff. This song was stuck in my head a lot. Maynard is obviously just an amazing vocalist. I wasn't a fan of the cursing, I usually dislike that but it grew on me because the message of the song almost necessitated it.

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Soilwork – Death in General   Ariich   8.4   

I really like intros like the one in this song. It lingers and builds into the main thing very well. The vocals have an emotion behind them that elevate this song. The chorus is really something else (I typed that in a good tone). I was keen on the harsh vocals at first, but they grew on me through the week.

Above the Earth – All Our Dreams   LithoJazzoSphere   8.4   

The vocals and music work surprisingly well. This is metal and...pop? But it's really good. The violin comes in so smoothly in the middle, followed by some beautiful soaring vocals. The song is straightforward enough, like a pop song, but with a good instrumental middle. Solid song.

Leprous – Third Law   twosuitsluke   8.4   

In theory, I shouldn't like Leprous as much as I do here and from the last roulette. But yeah, Leprous has a certain sound that I can only describe as "Cenobite metal". It's otherwordly in a way that feels hopeless and ruthless. It intrigues me, and it still is musically great to listen to.

St. Germain – Forget Me Not   ReaperKK   8.2   

This is some good stuff, especially under an influence. The artist description describes this music as house and jazz. I can't say that I know what that would sound like, but if this is it, yeah, I will take it. This also was a nice contrast to the metal, letting the playlist catch a breath.

Gacharic Spin – Music Battler   lonestar   8.2   

This song has a killer intro. I like the slapping bass, the keyboard sounds are on point as well. This was the first song on the playlist, and I like that the intro just said "we are here to fucking rock." I like j metal, dude. I don't know if it will ever crack the top of a list or score the highest, I think it has a ceiling on my end, but I enjoy everything you send.

Enslaved – Building With Fire   King Puppies   8.1   

This song is good, but I wish it didn't veer into the heavier metal parts. I don't know, it's a long song (in terms of my guidelines) and the harsh stuff goes on for too long for me to score it higher. But the parts around those harsh parts range from great to beautiful (especially at 5:30ish).

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David Gilmour - And Then...   Stadler   8   

I like the guitar over that ambience. It's some soulful stuff. It's a good song that does its thing, but it's not anything more than that to me.

Chelsea Wolfe – After the Fall   Sacul   8   

I always appreciate something different. It will always be hard for songs like this to get higher scores, though not impossible. It's got great atmosphere, and the dark music underneath is cool. And Chelsea is obviously talented and conveys the emotions well.

The Paralydium Project – Bringer of Life   jingle.boy   7.9   

The song is good, kind of standard metal but it checks the boxes above average. The music around 5:00 is the highlight. It seems the song could use something else to make it stick out more from the mold.

Between the Buried and Me – The Coma Machine   faizoff   7.8   

What a schizophrenic song. I think that is BTBAM in general, it's all over the place. I think this song is good, but this stuff sometimes feels like it is too out there for me. I appreciate the ideas, I don't dislike it, I just don't fully connect to it. I am giving a few extra decimal points (above a 7.5) for some really cool parts toward the end right before it goes back to the piano refrain.

Overall impressions: Every song was at least good and scored above a 7.5. Good start to the roulette. I enjoyed this playlist.

Also, I had never shared the playlist, whoops: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1hEJSwRdriwzfJ0y8ORm7A?si=d73b913358464cfd

Standings

romdrums   8.8
King Postwhore   8.8
TAC   8.6
Tomislav95   8.5
vmadera00   8.5
Ariich   8.4
LithoJazzoSphere   8.4
twosuitsluke   8.4
ReaperKK   8.2
lonestar   8.2
King Puppies   8.1
Stadler   8
Sacul   8
jingle.boy   7.9
faizoff   7.8

Round 2 is open, send a song from 2016!

[lonestar]

Aaaaand sent..

[LithoJazzoSphere]

A decent enough start.  That version is a reworked arrangement of the song from their 2012 self-titled debut EP.  The violin is a big part of what makes it stand out to me, but if you're curious about a slightly heavier arrangement of it check out that earlier one, which instead has a cool solo from Nolly of Periphery, plus a few blast beats. 

[LithoJazzoSphere]

Sent for round 2.  Technically speaking this will probably be the roulette debut for this artist. 

[King Postwhore]

Nice!!!  I love that Riverside album.

[Lonk]

Solid score 

[jingle.boy]

So, I'm just going to give him grief here cuz he's my bestie... but fuck Joe - Riverside got a 9/10 in the 2015 round in his last roulette (ie, #2 song).  Big fucking shocker it would score well again.  I mean, I know you didn't play in his first one and all, and James explicitly stated re-sending artists was ok, but geez!

I'm just going to pre-shame anyone who sends Periphery or Oceans of Slumber this round.   

Step it up people... send James new music he hasn't been exposed to - that's the point of a roulette!!!

[ariich]

I mean, Lune is completely different to anything else on that Periphery album so it would be a high risk strategy!

[King Postwhore]

Chad, I didn't look at his last roulette before I sent my favorite song from 2015. Just got lucky.

[TAC]

So, I'm just going to give him grief here cuz he's my bestie... but fuck Joe - Riverside got a 9/10 in the 2015 round in his last roulette (ie, #2 song).  Big fucking shocker it would score well again.  I mean, I know you didn't play in his first one and all, and James explicitly stated re-sending artists was ok, but geez!

I'm just going to pre-shame anyone who sends Periphery or Oceans of Slumber this round.   

Step it up people... send James new music he hasn't been exposed to - that's the point of a roulette!!!

I considered an Oceans Of Slumber song for this round, but then I noticed it received a 9 last time, and I didn't want to be that guy.

[jingle.boy]

Apparently Joe didn't mind!