Big Hath's Roulette The 1st - Final Results!

[Big Hath]

Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to Big Hath's inaugural song roulette.  I'll get the first round started soon after Ħ completes his game.  In the meantime, I want to get confirmations from everyone that expressed interest in joining my roulette.

If you are listed here, please confirm with a post below that you are still participating (jingle, since we conversed not long ago, I assume you are confirmed):

- Scorpion - confirmed
- MoraWintersoul - confirmed
- LieLowTheWantedMan - confirmed
- Onno - confirmed
- Lolzeez - confirmed
- Elite - confirmed
- jingle.boy - confirmed
- Dark Castle
- kari



As this is my first roulette I want to keep things fairly simple.  I want to discover some great music, make this easy for the participants, and have a bit of fun in the process.  The categories are broad enough to capture a wide variety of music in each round and not make an participants have to sweat too much:

Round 1: The Best of the Best (send your best song you think I will like)
Round 2: Guitar (a song that contains a particularly strong guitar performance)
Round 3: Male Vocal (a song that contains a particularly strong male vocal performance - song can include female vocals)
Round 4: Bass
Round 5: Keys
Round 6: Drums
Round 7: Riff (a song with a most awesome riff)
Round 8: Female Vocal (song can include male vocals)
Round 9: The Best of the Best 2 (now that you have gotten to know my tastes, it's time to blow me away)

Each round I will rank the songs 1 to 9 and points will be determined by the rank.  #1 gets 9 points, #2 gets 8 points, etc.  Ranking will be determined on how much I like the song, not how much you capture the theme of the round.  Round 9 will be worth double points.

For the riff round, here are a few songs that really get me going - "Crazy Train", "Book of Thel", pretty much anything from Pornograffitti, "Evolution" (Symphony X), the chorus riff from "Fallen" (Symphony X), and the chorus riff from "Sentenced" (Circle II Circle).  Listen to those and you'll get the idea.  Grooving, powerful riffs and off-the-rails awesomeness that just barely holds together due to all the speed and pyrotechnics.


Here is my last.fm: https://www.last.fm/user/bighath


And here are the banned bands:

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ACDC
Aeon Zen
Affector
Agalloch
Al Di Meola
Alcest
Amorphis
Anathema
Anthrax
Avantasia
Ayreon
Beastie Boys
Between The buried and Me
Beyond the Bridge
Big Big Train
Bill Evans
Black Sabbath
Boston
Brian Bromberg
Bruce Dickinson
Cannonball Adderley
Charles Mingus
Chase
Chicago
Chick Corea
Circle II Circle
Circus Maximus
Dan Swano (Nightingale, Odyssey, Edge of Sanity, Witherscape, solo)
Dave Matthews Band
Dave Weckl
Deep Purple
Def Leppard
Devin Townsend
Dexter Gordon
Dimension Act
Dio
Dire Straits
Disperse
Dixie Dregs
Dream Theater
Eumeria
Extreme
Fair to Midland
Fates Warning
Flaming Row
Frameshift
Frost*
Genesis
Green Carnation
Guns 'n' Roses
Haken
Hank Mobley
Headspace
Herbie Hancock
Horace Silver
Iced Earth
Iron Maiden
Jaco Pastorius
Jimmy Smith
John Coltrane
Jolly
Journey
Karnivool
Katatonia
Kevin Gilbert
King Crimson
Lacuna Coil
Led Zeppelin
Leprous
Luna Mortis
Magnitude 9
Marcus Miller
Marillion
Mastodon
Maudlin of the Well
Metallica
Miles Davis
Montrose
Myrath
Neal Morse
Nevermore
Obsidian Kingdom
Oliver Nelson
Opeth
OSI
Ozzy Osborne
Pain of Salvation
Pantera
Phil Collins
Pink Floyd
Poncho Sanchez
Porcupine Tree
Primus
Pyramid Theorem
Queen
Queensryche
Redemption
Riverside
Roswell Six
Rush
Santana
Savatage
Sepultura
Seventh Wonder
Slayer
Sonny Clark
Sonny Rollins
Soul Secret
Soundgarden
Speaking to Stones
Spock's Beard
Star One
Steely Dan
Steven Wilson
Stevie Wonder
Stuart Hamm
Symphony X
TesseracT
The Dave Brubeck Quartet
The Deadstation
The Dear Hunter
The Doobie Brothers
The Ocean
The Police
The Rippingtons
The Who
Thelonious Monk
Theocracy
Threshold
Thrice
Tool
Toto
Tower of Power
Transatlantic
U2
Van Halen
Victor Wooten
Voivod
Weather Report
Wes Montgomery
Within Temptation
Work of Art
Yes

newly banned bands:

Shadow Gallery
Gentle Giant
Enochian Theory
Branford Marsalis Quartet
Return To Forever
Magnus Karlsson
Protest the Hero
Wintersun
Wolverine
Accept
Ours
Flying Colors
Thought Chamber
Stick Men
Trioscapes
Sieges Even
Rage Against The Machine
Beardfish
Levin Minnemann Rudess
Erik Norlander
Apocalyptica
Ice Age
Animals as Leaders
Oceansize
Sigur Rós
Melvins
Triumph
Firewind
Rainbow

[Dark Castle]

I'd be up for it.
If you'll have me

[MoraWintersoul]

Yay I'm in this one too I like your themes, sir.

[Onno]

I'd forgetten I signed up for your roulette, but heck yeah I'm in! 

[Elite]

So, when can we send the first stuff?

[Big Hath]

So, when can we send the first stuff?

let's wait until Ħ is done with his roulette.  Plus I need to figure out who that last contestant will be.  Dark Castle, you are in the pot along with anyone else that is interested.

[jingle.boy]

Damn right I'm in!

And DAYUM!!!  You're list of banned bands is a who's who of my best shit!!



Guess I'm gonna have to dig a little deeper.

[Big Hath]

And DAYUM!!!  You're list of banned bands is a who's who of my best shit!!

I learned it by watching YOU, alright!

[Anguyen92]

Question?  Is it a standard in roulette where we can't pick two songs from the same band in a single game?

[jingle.boy]

For what it's worth, I really dig the themes too... and the fact you're disclosing them ahead of time.

[Scorpion]

CONFIRMED.

Will send shortly.

[jingle.boy]

I'll get the first round started soon after Ħ completes his game. 

Scrop... pay attention!

[Elite]

Here's my first submission:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kvJ1aceD6s

No spotify link, unfortunately, the band isn't that well known.

[MoraWintersoul]

For what it's worth, I really dig the themes too... and the fact you're disclosing them ahead of time.

I did that too

[jingle.boy]

For what it's worth, I really dig the themes too... and the fact you're disclosing them ahead of time.

I did that too

As did I.

[?]

For what it's worth, I really dig the themes too... and the fact you're disclosing them ahead of time.

I did that too

As did I.

And so will I

[Lolzeez]

For what it's worth, I really dig the themes too... and the fact you're disclosing them ahead of time.

I did that too

As did I.

And so will I

I wont.

Also,yes. I'm in.

[Big Hath]

And DAYUM!!!  You're list of banned bands is a who's who of my best shit!!

I learned it by watching YOU, alright!

for those that aren't familiar, here is the 1987 anti-drug PSA I was quoting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-Elr5K2Vuo

[Big Hath]

Question?  Is it a standard in roulette where we can't pick two songs from the same band in a single game?

yeah, I suppose so.  I'll make a new list of bands that I liked in the OP.  However, if there is a song I didn't particularly care for, you're free to send another one from that band in a later round at your own risk.

are you interested in joining?

[kári]

I wanna be in! Am I too late?

I'll send you some awesome non metal stuffz 'cause you need some broader tastes fast!

[Big Hath]

Here's my first submission:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kvJ1aceD6s

No spotify link, unfortunately, the band isn't that well known.

ok, that's it.  Roulette is over.  Nothing will ever be as awesome as this.

[Big Hath]

kari, you will be in the pot of potential participants to be selected at random.

[kári]

Alright! Fingers crossed.

[LieLowTheWantedMan]

In if that's fine.

[Anguyen92]

Question?  Is it a standard in roulette where we can't pick two songs from the same band in a single game?

yeah, I suppose so.  I'll make a new list of bands that I liked in the OP.  However, if there is a song I didn't particularly care for, you're free to send another one from that band in a later round at your own risk.

are you interested in joining?

Hmmm, I'll pass for now.  I'll wait until I read more of these past games from the archives and we'll see.

[Onno]

Sent.

[jingle.boy]

And DAYUM!!!  You're list of banned bands is a who's who of my best shit!!

I learned it by watching YOU, alright!

for those that aren't familiar, here is the 1987 anti-drug PSA I was quoting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-Elr5K2Vuo

  OMG, I'd totally forgotten about that PSA.  Too funny.

[kári]

Sooo... When is the draw?

[Big Hath]

Was hoping to do it right as H was wrapping his up, but he has slowed it down some. I'll go ahead and do it this weekend.

[Big Hath]

ok, so we had two people interested in the final slot.  I'm feeling generous and I bet I get awesome music from both of you, so you are both in the roulette.

kari and Dark Castle, welcome aboard!


Ħ has just started his final round, so we will be underway shortly.

[Lucien]

EDIT: lolirrelevant

Sorry about that.

[kári]

Nice!

[jingle.boy]

*hopesH'sfinalroundisfasterthanthesemi-final*

[kári]

Hey all,

I'm leaving for a 10-day vacation to Portugal tomorrow, and I don't think I'll have a lot of time to be on the internet there... So sadly I'm going to have to decline to cancel my participation. (Unless the roulette doesn't start until next Sunday the 15th of course... )
Big Hath, you'll find a worthy replacement for sure, I'm really sorry!!

[Big Hath]

d'oh!

ok, sorry you couldn't make it.  If you really want to play, you could send me your first 2 or 3 rounds worth of music now, but i completely understand if you would rather sit it out.  Let me know.


message to everyone else, I'm still primed to get this started.  Hope you are all ready to rock-and-roll as soon as we get the green light!