Puppies_On_Acid's Gentlemen's Roulette! Epilogue

[Puppies_On_Acid]

 

Welcome to my first roulette.

I would first like to say, I have no idea what I'm doing and have no clue how this will work out , so let's do this! Everyone is welcome to sign up! There may or may not be Hangmanenenenen and/or album cover guessing games throughout the roulette. Stay tuned.

If you are already signed up you can start sending your songs if you want.

Rules:

1.   10 12 13 12 participants
2.   10 Rounds
3.   Songs rated on a 1-10 scale. And I will use the full scale. If your submission really sucks, you may find yourself getting somewhere in the 1-4 range. I may use half points if necessary.
4.   Submissions – Please PM submissions. I would very much prefer if songs that are submitted are available on Google play music (since I have a subscription to that and use it the most) or files
      (320kbps mp3 or FLAC). I will also accept Spotify or YouTube links as a last resort, but this is not preferred, and I may just conjure up those songs sent by those mediums another way... I
      listen to most of my music while I am driving for work through Google play music and would prefer to put all submissions in a playlist on my Google Music App.
5.   There will be 2 elimination rounds, one at the halfway point and one before the final round.
6.   Artists will be banned once submitted for the rest of the roulette
7.   Up to 2 people can send the same artist in any given round. Has to be different songs, for obvious reasons (first come first serve)
8.   When sending a song please let me know if there is a specific version I should be listening to (e.g. Live, demo, alternate take, remixed, remastered, etc. etc.)
9.   I reserve the right to reject any submission as I'm sure I have forgotten something that should be on my banned list. Therefor, my banned list may change. Be aware of that. I tried to make it as
      thorough as possible, but things get missed.
10.   I may change up the themes on some of the rounds based on feedback of the participants. If everybody hates a particular theme it can be changed, I'm flexible.
11.   Anything that could be considered popular classic rock is straight up banned. I've heard it all, trust me.
12.   Have fun

If you have any questions on the rules or need any clarification or if I just plain forgot something, don't hesitate to ask or let me know.

Participants: (so far)

1. Parama
2. Train of Naught
3. jingle.boy
4. Elite
5. Kattoelox
6. Home
7. Tomislav95
8. Soupytwist
9. TwoSuitsLuke
10. Sacul
11. Evermind
12. TAC

Music Tastes:

        My tastes range pretty much the full gamut of music. I'm mostly in to Prog and Metal or some mixture of the two and all their various sub-genre's. I also really like a lot of Alternative Rock, Electronic music, Classic Rock, Ambient, Post-rock, Indie Rock, Classical, Dream Pop, Synth Pop, Jazz, Blues, Downtempo, Funk, and the list goes on. Mostly what I don't like is Country music, especially Modern Country (although some older classic Country I'm OK with) and about 99.9% of Radio Pop (Top 40 crap). Basically, you take your life in to your own hands if you decide to send me Country or Radio Pop. A lot of Hip-Hop is hit or miss with me, but I do enjoy a lot of it, just be careful if you go down that route. I also recommend you check out my last.fm profile to get a better idea of what I have been in to recently, it's linked in my sig.

       Some things I have been looking for: Epic black/folk/Viking metal similar to Moonsorrow, Havukruunu or Finsterforst. Folky atmospheric metal similar to Agalloch. Bands with really slick guitar work similar to Dire Straits, Dave Matthews Band, or John Butler. Prog metal that isn't all about being super technical all the time. You may be at a disadvantage if you try to find something that fits these because I am looking for very specific things.

The Rounds
(subject to change)
(all themed rounds are open to interpretation by each participant)

Round 1 – Open (15-minute limit)
Round 2 – Female Vocalists (there can be male vocalists, but it has to be a lead female vocalist) (15-minute limit)
Round 3 – Instrumental (Spoken Word is OK) (15-minute limit)
Round 4 – Non-Metal/Rock (10-minute limit)
Round 5 – Open (15-minute limit)

   Cut-off Point (bottom 3 are cut)

Round 6 – Epic (Technically no limit, but be reasonable)
Round 7 – It's all about SPEED! (10-minute limit)
Round 8 – How heavy can you go! (20-minute limit)
Round 9 – EP Round

   Cut-Off Point (Bottom 3 are cut)

Final Round – Album Round (Technically no time limit but keep it reasonable. I don't really want any 5-hour long albums...)

EP round rules
- Minimum of 3 songs
- Minimum of 30 minutes. Maximum of 40 minutes
- It is an open round, so no theme, but I would recommend coming up with some kind of theme (lyrical content, style, genre, etc.) for your EP, this could help with flow/cohesiveness
- The EP must contain at least 3 different artists and can not contain more that 2 songs per artist
- each EP will be scored on a 20 point scale
- flow/cohesiveness will be taken in to account and can net you up to an additional 5 points
- The EP containing my favorite song will get 1 additional point
- I may or may not give an additional half point for creativeness of your EP's title

Scores:

Parama - 6, 9, 7.5, 8, 8.5, 9.5, 9, 9.5, 21.7, 16.8 (105.5)
Evermind - 7.5, 7, 8, 7.5, 9.5, 7.5, 7.5, 8.5, 23, 18 (104)
Tomislav - 7, 9.5, 8.5, 9, 7, 9.5, 7.5, 9, 19, 16.9 (102.9)
TAC - 8, 8, 8.5, 6.5, 6.5, 9.5, 9.5, 9, 19.9, 17 (102.4)
Train of Naught - 9.5, 7.5, 9, 9, 5.5, 8, 9, 5, 19.9, 13.5 (95.9)
Jingle.boy - 9, 4, 8, 8, 9, 9, 8, 7.5, 20.7, 11.3 (94.5)
Kattoelox - 5.5, 6.5, 8, 10, 9, 9, 6.5, 7, 20.3 (81.8)
Home - 7.5, 7, 7, 7, 7.5, 8.5, 3, 8.5, 17.9 (73.9)
Soupytwist - 8, 10, 7, 8.5, 4, 7.5, 8.5, 5.5 (59)
TwoSuitsLuke - 6, 9, 5.5, 7.5, 7.5 (35.5)
Sacul - 7, 8, 7, 7, 5 (34)
Elite - 6, 7, 6, 5, 9.5 (33.5)

Round Results:

Round 1

Round 2

Round 3

Round 4

Round 5

Round 6

Round 7

Round 8

EP Round

[Puppies_On_Acid]

Banned list:

Don't forget to look at my ratings page on RYM before submitting. Any band I have rated is banned.
** = One of my favorite bands
* = I really like this band

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3
65daysofstatic
Abandon
Abigail Williams
**Absu
*A.C.T
Aeon of Horus
Aesop Rock
Aeternam
*AFI
After Forever
**Agalloch (and all related bands & projects)
Ahab
Airbag
Akord
*Alcest (and all related bands & projects)
The Algorithm
Alice in Chains
Alien Ant Farm
Alkaloid
All Shall Perish
Allegaeon
Altar of Plagues
Alter Bridge
Amesoeurs
Amorphis
Amplifier
An Endless Sporadic
**Anathema (and all related bands & projects)
And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead
Anekdoten
Anglagard
*Angra
Anneke van Giersbergen (and all related bands & projects)
Ansur
Anubis Gate
Arcadea
Arcane (and all related bands & projects)
Arch Echo
Architects
Archive
Archspire
Arcturus
*Arena
Ares Kingdom
Arkaik
Arkona
Arsis
Artificial Brain
Astronoid
At the Drive In (and all related bands & projects)
At the Gates
Atheist
The Atlas Moth
Atma Weapon
Au champ des morts
Au-Dessus
*Augury
Avenged Sevenfold
Axon-Neuron
*Ayreon (and all related bands & projects)
Bal-Sagoth
Barock Project
Bathory
Battle of Mice
The Beatles (and all related bands & projects)
Behemoth
Bent Knee
**Between the Buried and Me (and all related bands & projects)
Big Big Train
Billy Joel
The Black Dahlia Murder
The Black Heart Procession
Black Map
Black Sabbath (and all related bands & projects)
*Blind Guardian
Blue Oyster Cult
*Blut Aus Nord
Boards of Canada
Bodies of Water
Bone Thugs N Harmony
Bonobo
Boris
Borknagar
Boston
Burning Brides
Burst
Burzum (and all related bands & projects)
Caina
Caligula's Horse
Candlemass (and all related bands & projects)
Carach Angren
The Cars
Cellador
Charred Walls of the Damned
Chevelle
Chthe'ilist
Ciconia
Circus Maximus
*Cloudkicker
Cobalt
**Coheed and Cambria (and all related bands & projects)
ColdWorld
Collapse Under the Empire
Colliding Parallels
Cønstantine
Converge
Cormorant
The Cranberries (and all related bands & projects)
Crib45
Crimson Glory
Cult of Luna
The Cure
Dan Swano (and all related bands & projects)
Dark Suns
Dark Tranquillity
Darkest Hour
Darkher
The Darkness
Darkspace
Daughter
*Dave Matthews (and all related bands & projects)
*David Bowie
Days Before Tomorrow
**The Dear Hunter
Death
*Deathspell Omega
Death Cab for Cutie
The Decemberists
Decrepit Birth
Deerhoof
Defecto
Deftones
*Depeche Mode
Der Weg einer Freiheit
Devil Doll
Devil Sold His Soul
**Devin Townsend (and all related bands & projects)
Diablo Swing Orchestra
Different Light
*Dire Straits
Dishwalla
Disillusion
Disperse
Do Make Say Think
Doomshine
DragonForce
Dreadnought
**Dream Theater (and all related bands & projects)
Dredg
Drudkh
Dub Trio
Duran Duran
Duskmourn
Dvne
Ea
Echolyn
Eisley
Ekos
Elton John
Eminem
Emmy the Great
Empty Tremor
The End
Enisum
Ensiferum
**Enslaved (and all related bands & projects)
Envy
Ephemeral Sun
Epica
Equilibrium
Ereb Altor
Eric Johnson
Estradasphere
Evergrey
Evoken
The Expendables
*The Faceless
*The Fall of Troy (and all related bands & projects)
Fallujah
**Fates Warning (and all related bands & projects)
Fen
The Fiery Furnaces
Fleshgod Apocalypse
The Fog in the Shell
*Foo Fighters (and all related bands & projects)
Foreigner
A Forest of Stars
Frequency Drift
Frogg Cafe
From a Second Story Window
Frost
Fuath
The Gathering
Gazpacho
Genesis (and all related bands & projects)
Gentle Giant
Gentle Knife
Gifts from Enola
Gigan
God is an Astronaut
*Godspeed You! Black Emperor (and all related bands & projects)
Gojira
Good Tiger
Goonies Never Say Die
Gorguts
Gorillaz
Gorod
Grails
The Great Old Ones
Green Carnation
Grizzly Bear
Gungfly
*Haken
Hammers of Misfortune
Harakiri for the Sky
Havukruunu
Headspace
Heart of Cygnus
Hed Planet Earth
Heidevolk
Heretoir
The Hirsch Effekt
Hope for the Dying
Höstsonaten
Hourglass
*The Human Abstract
Hyperion
IAMX
Iamthemorning
Iced Earth
Ihsahn
Ikuinen Kaamos
Imperium Dekadenz
In Mourning
In Vain
**Incubus
Inferi
Inglorious
Insomnium
Inter Arma
Into Eternity
Into the Great Divide
Intronaut
*Iron Maiden
Isis
iwrestledabearonce
Janelle Monae
Japanese Breakfast
*Jeff Buckley
Jimi Hendrix
Jimmy Eat World
Joe Satriani
John Butler (and all related bands & projects)
**Journey
The Joy Formidable
*Judas Priest
Julie Christmas (and all related bands & projects)
Junius
Justin Timberlake
Kalisia
Karibow
Karmakanic
Karnivool
Katatonia
Kate Bush
Kauan
Keep of Kalessin
King Crimson (and all related bands & projects)
Kings X (and all related bands & projects)
Kiss Kiss
Klimt 1918
Kvelertak
KXM
Lantlos
Laster
*Led Zeppelin
Leprous
Lifehouse
The Living End
Long Distance Calling
Lost Horizon
Ludicra
**Lykathea Aflame
M83
Machines Dream
Maladie
Mandroid Echostar
Manticora
**Marillion (and all related bands & projects)
**The Mars Volta
*Mastodon
Matthew Good/Matthew Good Band
maudlin of the Well (and all Toby Driver related bands & projects)
Mechina
Megadeth
Melechesh
Meshuggah
Messa
*Metallica
*Mew
MGMT
Mice on Stilts
*Michael Jackson
Mike Oldfield
Mike Patton (and all related bands & projects)
*Minus the Bear
Mogwai
Mono
Monolithe
**Moonsorrow
Moroghor
Mos Def
Mostly Autumn
Mouth of the Architect
*Mudvayne
Muse
Mystic Prophecy
Ne Obliviscaris
Neal Morse
Need
*Negura Bunget (and all related bands & projects)
Neurosis (and all related bands & projects)
Nevermore
The Night Flight Orchestra
Nightwish (and all related bands & projects)
*Nile
Nine Inch Nails
Nirvana
Nokturnal Mortum
Nova Collective
Novembre
nullingroots
The Number Twelve Looks Like You
O'Brother
Oasis
Oathbreaker
Obscura
Obscure Sphinx
Obsidian Kingdom
The Ocean
Oceans of Slumber
*Oceansize
Odd Logic
The Ongoing Concept
oOoOO
**Opeth
Oranssi Pazuzu
Origin
Orphaned Land
OSI
Ozric Tentacles
*Pain of Salvation
Pallbearer
Paysage d'Hiver
Pearl Jam
Pelican
Pendragon
Perfect Beings
*A Perfect Circle
Perihelion Ship
Periphery
Persefone
The Pineapple Thief
**Pink Floyd (and all related bands & projects)
Poem
The Police
**Porcupine Tree (and all related bands & projects)
Portal
Primordial
*Prince
Progenie Terrestre Pura
Protest the Hero
Pure Reason Revolution
Pyramid Theorem
Queen
Queensryche
Quo Vadis
The Red Chord
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Redemption
Revocation
Rhapsody (of Fire)
Rings of Saturn
Riverside
Rudra
***Rush (and all related bands & projects)
Sabaton
Saga
Savatage
Scale the Summit
Schammasch
Scorpions
Scott Walker
Sear Bliss
Secret Chiefs 3 (and all related bands & projects)
Seven Impale
Shade Empire
**Shadow Gallery
Shaolin Death Squad
The Sheepdogs
**Sieges Even
Sig:Ar:Tyr
Sigur Ros (and all related bands & projects)
Sikth
*Silversun Pickups
Simple Minds
Sinistro
Slice the Cake
Slowdive
**Smashing Pumpkins (and all related bands & projects)
Snow Patrol
Soen
Solar Fields
Solitude Aeturnus
Solstafir
Spinal Tap
Spiral Key
Spock's Beard (and all related bands & projects)
Stellastarr*
Steve Vai
Strawberry Girls
Styx
Subsignal
Subterranean Masquerade
Suffocation
Sufjan Stevens
Suidakra
Sum 41
Summoning
Sun of the Sleepless
Sunn O)))
Supertramp
Sylosis
*Symphony X
*System of a Down
The Tea Party
*Tears for Fears
Tenacious D
Thank You Scientist
Therion
The Thirteenth Sun
Thrawsunblat
Threshold
Tiles
Toehider
*Tomorrow's Bad Seeds
Tonikom
The Tony Danza Tap Dance Extravaganza
Tony Patterson
**Tool (and all related bands & projects)
Tori Amos
Transatlantic
Tree of Life
Triptykon
Triumph
Trna
**Type O Negative
Typhoon
Tyr
Ulver
Uneven Structure
Unexpect
Univers Zero
Unleashed
Utopianisti
*Vanden Plas
Vangough
Van Halen
*Vektor
Vertical Horizon
Visions of Atlantis
Von Hertzen Brothers
Voyager
W.A.S.P.
Wallachia
Warbringer
Wardruna
Watchtower
Wayfarer
Weezer
Weird Al
White Ward
Widek
Wildernessking
Wilderun
Windir
Winterhorde
Wintersun
*With Passion (and all related bands & projects)
Witherscape
Witherfall
Wode
*Woe of Tyrants
Wolves in the Throne Room
Woods of Ypres
Wretched
Xandria
Xanthochroid
*Yes (and all related bands & projects)
Yndi Halda
Yngwie Malmsteen
Yūgen
Zero Hour (and all related bands & projects)
Classic Rock
Any other band that I have rated on RateYourMusic. Please have a look at my ratings page before sending.

[Puppies_On_Acid]

Banned During Roulette:

Rivers of Nihil
Teramaze
dEUS
CastleWay
Gallowbraid
Massive Attack
Nothing More
Schizoid Lloyd
Exist
Bjorn Riis
Turisas
Sons of Seasons

First Aid Kit
Goldfrapp
Portishead
Esben and the Witch
Saltillo
Bare Infinity
Rolo Tomassi
Avatarium
Golden Caves
Eefje de Visser
Enya
Roswell Six

Three Trapped Tigers
Russian Circles
Beyond the Bridge
The Minerva Conduct
Bittencourt Project
Dimension Act
Kashiwa Daisuke
El Drugstore
Caspian
GoGo Penguin
Hope of the States
Baroness

Tycho
Giles Corey
White Moth Black Butterfly
Beach House
Spirit of the West
Julia Holter
Árstíðir
Capdown
Elliott Smith
clipping.
Michael Kiske
Traudes

Avantasia
Vanaheim
Slushii
Epysode
Black Crown Initiate
Igorrr
Thy Catafalque
Agent Fresco
Glass Mind
Hacride
Burial
Phosphorescent

[Tomislav95]

Count me in

[Crow]

banned list: a long list + an additional few hundred bands not listed probably, excellent 
i'm ready for that sweet 2/10

[Puppies_On_Acid]

Count me in

Awesome! Good to have you.

2-4 more spots to fill

banned list: a long list + an additional few hundred bands not listed probably, excellent 
i'm ready for that sweet 2/10

Something like that 

[Train of Naught]

Damn, that's a pretty good banned list. Do we start sending as soon as everyone is in? I'm gonna work on my playlist today so if you say we can send anytime I'll probably do it today so I don't forget later.

Reminder, you probably can't count on me for sending good classic prog rock

[home]

Let's do this 

[jingle.boy]

Sure, count me in.  Your banned list seems at least mildly compatible with my tastes.  Plus, you're gonna need some solid / traditional prog, power, and metal (and sometimes a combo of all three) to balance out your submissions.

[twosuitsluke]

I'll join if you'll have me dude?

[Luoto]

I'm in if there's still room.

[The Walrus]

Glad I was already on the list - can't wait to get started.

[Puppies_On_Acid]

I was going to leave sign ups open until Sunday, but I don't think a preliminary round would be exactly fair for those of you that had already signed up in the tracker thread. I think I'll go ahead and start this as soon as there are 10, which I'm only waiting on soupytwist to confirm. You can go ahead and send now if you would like.

[Luoto]

I actually didn't realize only three rounds are open when I signed up (was in a hurry), and I'm not really ok with that because they limit me too much.

[soupytwist]

8. Soupytwist (tentative)

I'm happy to do this - but I'm kind off restricted to sending my submissions via Spotify links.  If that is going to be a problem for you, or I'm taking the place of someone better suited then I'll sit this one out.    Your call.

[Train of Naught]

I also just now let him know that I'm restricted to Youtube/Spotify links, I mean I can also convert them to mp3 and send that but it's essentially the same thing, I don't have google play so dunno how it works exactly.

Anyway, just sent some good mu5ic

[Crow]

i'll send some crap in the evening i need a little bit of time to pick out some songs for the themed rounds

[jingle.boy]

Given the list of participants, I think ...



But here goes nuthin!

[Evermind]

I would've joined but apparently I missed this. Well, I'm gonna root for Chad then.

[The Walrus]

Working on drafting my own thread at the moment so I'll send a song tonight. 

[Evermind]

Working on drafting my own thread at the moment so I'll send a song tonight. 

Seeing how I miss some of the roulettes because of my time zone and work, can I sign up for yours in advance? But only if it's not a straight up "one round - one elimination" roulette.

[Train of Naught]

I would've joined but apparently I missed this. Well, I'm gonna root for Chad then.

Can't you just take Luoto's place? Pretty sure he just dropped out because of the theme restrictions

[Evermind]

I would've joined but apparently I missed this. Well, I'm gonna root for Chad then.

Can't you just take Luoto's place? Pretty sure he just dropped out because of the theme restrictions

I missed that! Hey, in that case I'd like to join. I don't have any vacations planned so I won't drop out midway like I did in Sacul's.

[jingle.boy]

I would've joined but apparently I missed this. Well, I'm gonna root for Chad then.

Yay.

I missed that! Hey, in that case I'd like to join. I don't have any vacations planned so I won't drop out midway like I did in Sacul's.

I take that back.

[Evermind]

[The Walrus]

Working on drafting my own thread at the moment so I'll send a song tonight. 

Seeing how I miss some of the roulettes because of my time zone and work, can I sign up for yours in advance? But only if it's not a straight up "one round - one elimination" roulette.

Sure  Mine is an album format, so be prepared.

[Lethean]

Working on drafting my own thread at the moment so I'll send a song tonight. 

Seeing how I miss some of the roulettes because of my time zone and work, can I sign up for yours in advance? But only if it's not a straight up "one round - one elimination" roulette.

Sure  Mine is an album format, so be prepared.

Every round will be a whole album?  That should be interesting. Better you than me - if I were to try to listen to 80-100 new albums in 2-2.5  months it really wouldn't go so well. Assuming it's 8 to 10 rounds and 10 participants.

[Luoto]

Can't you just take Luoto's place? Pretty sure he just dropped out because of the theme restrictions

I missed that! Hey, in that case I'd like to join. I don't have any vacations planned so I won't drop out midway like I did in Sacul's.

I haven't dropped out yet, I'm at least trying to negotiate the format first

[Evermind]

Well, in that case I'm rooting for Chad!

[jingle.boy]

Well, in that case I'm rooting for Chad!

Yay me!

[Sacul]

Damn too late for this . Sure there's no room for a few more of us? Maybe an elimination or something between those that didn't sign up beforehand

[Puppies_On_Acid]

Well, I guess I jumped the gun on this a little bit. I didn't think I would get this much interest. So I'm going to expand the participants list to 12 to include Evermind and Sacul.

8. Soupytwist (tentative)

I'm happy to do this - but I'm kind off restricted to sending my submissions via Spotify links.  If that is going to be a problem for you, or I'm taking the place of someone better suited then I'll sit this one out.    Your call.

Don't worry about only sending Spotify links. I can always find other ways of getting the songs on to my Google Play playlists. So you are in!

For those of you that can send mp3's instead of Spotify/Youtube that would be preferred but not necessary.

Can't you just take Luoto's place? Pretty sure he just dropped out because of the theme restrictions

I missed that! Hey, in that case I'd like to join. I don't have any vacations planned so I won't drop out midway like I did in Sacul's.

I haven't dropped out yet, I'm at least trying to negotiate the format first

Don't forget that themed rounds are negotiable. I want to make this as fun for everyone as possible. If there is a particular theme that most of you have an issue with just let me know and we can discuss changing the theme or just making the round open.

[jingle.boy]

My vote is that the themes are perfectly fine just the way they are.

[The Walrus]

I think they're fine, personally.

I'll send mine after I sleep off this headache. I have some pretty interesting ideas that I hope you haven't heard before.

[TAC]

Apparently missed this one too..