IndyCar Wacky Cruise of Placid Procrastination - Back to Biz(arro)ness.

[wolfking]

I'm I'm little annoyed at myself.  Not that I could have done anything about it but while lyrically my songs fits the bill and yes you are right about the theme in relation to the music when looking at the song in isolation.  Look at the song in context of the whole album, then there's reprises aplenty.  Bah!

[lonestar]

OK... No female orcs... Noted.


Courtney has some amazing all clean songs too, Secret Garden is especially delightful.

[ariich]

Ah FFS now I'm trying to overtake Puppies with Moon Safari, I'm probably screwed.

[Sacul]

Hell yeah, from #1 to middle of the ranks (so far) . Yeah I really did struggle with the theme here, ngl, but I already got stuff that fits the rest better.

[Crow]

that's promising 
excited to get overtaken by one of the few people who can top a 6. i don't remember how many overtake points jazzo has 
edit: i checked and yeah wow tac and evermind both definitely tried to overtake 1st too, welp this is a goofy roulette
i think i should've waited a lot longer to send in my overtake but w/e i'm not really strategizing here just here to send good music

[Indiscipline]

PART TWO:

IX – TAC p3 vs Luke p2: No Overtake (best singer breaks tie. Yes, CLAUDIO!)

Reliqa – EOD: 5.
Raw Score: 2. Another hard to digest dish of djent, but compensated by really interesting progression turns and pretty good – if not arousing – vocals. Firts half would be a 1, second half a 3.
Theme Score: 3. The tune just switches from petrol to hybrid. Had the switch been from turbocharged petrol to grandad hybrid, it would have been a 4.

Coheed and Cambria – Window of the Waking Mind: 5.
Raw Score: 3. I had bad experiences with C&C and I patiently waited for the other shoe to drop off this one. Nada: I really like it and Claudio even managed to be pretty pleasant all the way.
Theme Score: 2. Now, I am sure this must be some kind of momentous turning point in the whole story's economy, but it doesn't feel so powerful in a de-contextualised status.


X – ariich p17 vs Puppies p12: Successful Overtake.

Toehider – Toad Hirer: 8
Raw Score: 5 (elevated 4). Let's put it this way: whoever can successfully transition from Sails of Charon's verse to Mr Mistoffeles' chorus is a bona fide genius and has read my personal secret diary of forbidden utopias. 
Theme Score: 3. Extremely conflicted, and brilliantly, but still articulated in a coherent evolution somehow depowering the strife. The final twist is a hoot though.

Moon Safari – Between the Devil and me: 6
Raw Score: 5 (elevated 4). As if I called a sophisticated rock custom shop and ordered my ideal cocktail of updated Toto, Styx, and three piece Genesis, mixed and produced this millennium.
Theme Score: 1. It never focking turns on itself in any way, shape, or form.


New Marching Order:

1 – Crow
2 – Luke
3 – TAC
4 – Stadler
5 – Evermind
6 – Jazzo
7 – wolfking
8 – Lonk
9 – jingle
10 – Sacul
11 – Elite
12 – ariich
13 – romdrums
14 – lonestar
15 - Buddy
16 – King
17 – Puppies


XI – Stadler p4 vs TAC p3: Successful Overtake.

Jethro Tull – Watching Me Watching You: 6.
Raw Score: 2. Impishly jumpy and anxious, still not my best Tull. Fun fact: I had my first wife (Academy of Arts graduate) airbrush a garage wall with this album's cover replica. That's worthy both 1000 plus and 1000 minus points. 
Theme Score: 4. Lyrically beyond perfect. It doesn't only loop, but it Eschers itself ad infinitum.

Reliqa – EOD: 5.
Raw Score: 2. Another hard to digest dish of djent, but compensated by really interesting progression turns and pretty good – if not arousing – vocals. Firts half would be a 1, second half a 3.
Theme Score: 3. The tune just switches from petrol to hybrid. Had the switch been from turbocharged petrol to grandad hybrid, it would have been a 4.


New Marching Order:

1 – Crow
2 – Luke
3 – Stadler
4 – TAC
5 – Evermind
6 – Jazzo
7 – wolfking
8 – Lonk
9 – jingle
10 – Sacul
11 – Elite
12 – ariich
13 – romdrums
14 – lonestar
15 - Buddy
16 – King
17 – Puppies


XII – romdrums p13 vs Sacul p10: Successful Overtake.

Disillusion – Nine Days: 5.
Raw Score: 1. I am sure I would love almost everything on this tune's sheet music, while the diabolical way everything is actually combined in the final aural result is almost unlistenable due to its intensity, and I believe it's by design.
Theme Score: 4. Inner conflict may be too reductive a term; inner quiet deflagration comes to mind and still feels inadequate.

Arco Iris – Obertura: 4
Raw Score: 3. There's enough King Crimson in this jam to make it absolutely enjoyable to these ears, and I'm sure it would increase its beauty - as it often happens – in its right context of overture piece. On its own it can't go orgasmic.
Theme Score: 1. And it pains me, because I enjoyed spotting the very clever justapoxition of 7 different moods related to the iris' 7 colours, but unfortunately that was not the theme.


New Marching Order:

1 – Crow
2 – Luke
3 – Stadler
4 – TAC
5 – Evermind
6 – Jazzo
7 – wolfking
8 – Lonk
9 – jingle
10 – romdrums
11 – Elite
12 – ariich
13 – Sacul
14 – lonestar
15 - Buddy
16 – King
17 – Puppies


XIII – King p16 vs lonestar p14: Successful Overtake.

Southern Empire – Face the Dawn: 6.
Raw Score: 3. Joyful, melodic, surprising. Three words I would never associate to (and still my most fervent prayer for) this genre in this day and age, but here we are. A sure 4 if a bit less diluted.
Theme Score: 3. Let's just say at the mid point I thought Spotify switched to a Dregs playlist.

Spiritbox – Sun Killer: 5
Raw Score: 2. Although a bit too djenty for my palate, gorgeous voice and vocal lines. Although they somehow manage to make me wierdly horny, female orcs are not only horrid per orc-se, but also an insult to feminine grace.
Theme Score: 3. It really turns on itself, and on myself as well.


New Marching Order:

1 – Crow
2 – Luke
3 – Stadler
4 – TAC
5 – Evermind
6 – Jazzo
7 – wolfking
8 – Lonk
9 – jingle
10 – romdrums
11 – Elite
12 – ariich
13 – Sacul
14 – King
15 - Buddy
16 – lonestar
17 – Puppies


XIV – Jazzo p6 vs Crow p1: Successful Overtake.

Brad Paisley – Time Warp: 7
Raw Score: 3. Paisley's gifts are self evident, yet I need to add there must be a reserved place in some heaven for axemen sounding so powerful and assertive whilst eschewing the easy crutch of high gain.
Theme Score: 4. Listen to it and take note of the sections: it does a perfectly symmetrical (and smooth) loop.

Hakushi Hasegawa – Only You: 6.
Raw Score: 3. I believed only Yoko Kanno was able to effectively marry grace and chaos, masquerading complexity with a Mozartian faux semplicity. I wasn't wrong, but this artist came dangerously close to the mark.
Theme Score: 3. It doesn't loop overall, but every measure is a little funny loop in itself, and it even manages to literally crash falling down in the middle of the loop.


New Marching Order:

1 – Jazzo
2 – Luke
3 – Stadler
4 – TAC
5 – Evermind
6 – Crow
7 – wolfking
8 – Lonk
9 – jingle
10 – romdrums
11 – Elite
12 – ariich
13 – Sacul
14 – King
15 - Buddy
16 – lonestar
17 – Puppies


XV – Elite p11 vs Lonk p8: No Overtake.

Ulver – This Is Not Sound: 5
Raw Score: 1. I will never know whether I am too lowbrow a listener or this is simply a crock of pretentious noises, but I do know I hadn't a good time with this tune. I believe you could actually die if listening to this while on drugs.
Theme Score: 4. Simply put, when you go from hideous post-modern racket to focking Johann Sebastian Bach, you have definitley turned.

Volbeat – Becoming: 6.
Raw Score: 5 (elevated 4). Right metal in right doses, riffing with hair on its chest, an energising earworm of a chorus sounding epic and honest despite nodding to Europe, Avenged Sevenfold, and ... yes, Lady Gaga. What's not to like?
Theme Score: 1. It refuses to turn.


XVI – wolfking p7 vs TAC p4: Successful Overtake (best singer breaks tie).

WASP – The Great Misconceptions of Me: 5.
Raw Score: 3 (demoted 4). When not playing poor man's Alice but daring to slam his balls on the table, Blackie is capable of some of the most astounding and intense emotional singing among his era's peers.
Theme Score: 2. Musically, nada. Lyrically, I'd say we're hearing a man quite torn by inner conflict.

Reliqa – EOD: 5.
Raw Score: 2. Another hard to digest dish of djent, but compensated by really interesting progression turns and pretty good – if not arousing – vocals. Firts half would be a 1, second half a 3.
Theme Score: 3. The tune just switches from petrol to hybrid. Had the switch been from turbocharged petrol to grandad hybrid, it would have been a 4.


New Marching Order:

1 – Jazzo
2 – Luke
3 – Stadler
4 – wolfking
5 – Evermind
6 – Crow
7 – TAC
8 – Lonk
9 – jingle
10 – romdrums
11 – Elite
12 – ariich
13 – Sacul
14 – King
15 - Buddy
16 – lonestar
17 – Puppies


That's it. I really feel for the people who got royally screwed over.

You all can send your submissions and insults for Round 4. Just remember the theme: a song that make me feel dirty. Or dirtier than usual, that is.

[lonestar]

Wtf Joe... I thought we were friends... 

[twosuitsluke]

Wow, how the fuck did I manage to hold on?! Luckily Claudio's vocals won a tie breaker, who had that on their Indy500 Bingo Card?

Now for something down and dirty.

[lonestar]

Also, time to embrace the freedom of being at the bottom... Sending something seriously out of character 

[Crow]

yeah that's a lil annoying that it's a swap rather than just, like, an overtake but ehh

[lonestar]

Aaaaaand sent...our host is going to need a shower and a confessional after my track...

[King Postwhore]

Wtf Joe... I thought we were friends... 

Took a chance. Lol

[lonestar]

Wtf Joe... I thought we were friends... 

Took a chance. Lol

Emotional damage man.....

[TAC]

Bounced around like a bimbo..

[King Postwhore]

Wtf Joe... I thought we were friends... 

Took a chance. Lol

Emotional damage man.....

I only had 3 points so my range was small. I had to take you because it was 3 moves and I was second to last

[lonestar]

Wtf Joe... I thought we were friends... 

Took a chance. Lol

Emotional damage man.....

I only had 3 points so my range was small. I had to take you because it was 3 moves and I was second to last

*gives Joe silent treatment*

[Crow]

alright, i feel like this next round is gonna be chaos so i've got my bad idea in, now to watch things unfold

also, i will grace y'all with a song that i would never in a million years send to indi but has been making me feel dirty as of late, if you want a sample of where my music headspace has been post-my own roulette last year (and why i will probably never run another roulette here again, good lord )

[King Postwhore]

Wtf Joe... I thought we were friends... 

Took a chance. Lol

Emotional damage man.....

I only had 3 points so my range was small. I had to take you because it was 3 moves and I was second to last

*gives Joe silent treatment*

[Sacul]

alright, i feel like this next round is gonna be chaos so i've got my bad idea in, now to watch things unfold

also, i will grace y'all with a song that i would never in a million years send to indi but has been making me feel dirty as of late, if you want a sample of where my music headspace has been post-my own roulette last year (and why i will probably never run another roulette here again, good lord )

That's a weird-ass album, but great band. You've just gonna invite only us weirdos for your next roulette

[Puppies_On_Acid]

What happened........

[Evermind]

That's the second time I screwed Lucas up, only this time I didn't even target him, I targeted Tim

I'll send today, not sure if after work or some time during the work day.

[LithoJazzoSphere]

Brad Paisley – Time Warp: 7
Raw Score: 3. Paisley's gifts are self evident, yet I need to add there must be a reserved place in some heaven for axemen sounding so powerful and assertive whilst eschewing the easy crutch of high gain.
Theme Score: 4. Listen to it and take note of the sections: it does a perfectly symmetrical (and smooth) loop.

You might potentially enjoy the studio version even more than the live one then, since the tone is a bit cleaner.  The more rock flavor of the live version felt safer though, plus the extended drum solo is just too much fun. 

And this was indirect rather than direct like intended, but BTW Luke,

[Crow]

That's a weird-ass album, but great band. You've just gonna invite only us weirdos for your next roulette

was really disappointed that somewhere in the ballpark of 35-40 minutes of this 96 minute album was taken up by underwhelming ambient when they have the potential to make stuff like this (and there's other tunes on the album nearly as cool, too, so...)

[Elite]

At least I got a good theme score though

[ariich]

Nice!

His full length albums are all great. As I said in my accompanying PM, his EPs are rather less consistent, but the good ones (like this) are among his best stuff.

I'm coming for you, Luke!

[twosuitsluke]

And this was indirect rather than direct like intended, but BTW Luke,

To be honest, those apples taste pretty good. In another Turning of The Wheel I could've easily ended this round in 6th.

Nice!

His full length albums are all great. As I said in my accompanying PM, his EPs are rather less consistent, but the good ones (like this) are among his best stuff.

I'm coming for you, Luke!

I'm not even in first! That new Toehider song really is great, but I hasn't even considered it for this roulette.

[ariich]

Nice!

His full length albums are all great. As I said in my accompanying PM, his EPs are rather less consistent, but the good ones (like this) are among his best stuff.

I'm coming for you, Luke!

I'm not even in first!

It's nothing personal, you're just the number of spots ahead of me that matches the overtake points I'll have for this round.

[wolfking]

Nice, sorry Tim but Blackie FTW!

[wolfking]

Nice!

His full length albums are all great. As I said in my accompanying PM, his EPs are rather less consistent, but the good ones (like this) are among his best stuff.

I'm coming for you, Luke!

I'm not even in first!

It's nothing personal, you're just the number of spots ahead of me that matches the overtake points I'll have for this round.

Yep.  I didn't even know who I was targeting, just told Ale I was using the whole 3 points!

[jingle.boy]

I'm far more satisfied sending perfect quality song, and a dud on the theme (clearly I misunderstood the intent of the theme, as I thought there was sufficient variation in my submission that it 'turned' to some degree).  C'est la vie.

Pretty sure I know what I'm submitting this round.  Will have a listen around for a bit today, and send later tonight.

Nice, sorry Tim but Blackie FTW!

25-years ago Blackie FTW. 

[twosuitsluke]

Nice!

His full length albums are all great. As I said in my accompanying PM, his EPs are rather less consistent, but the good ones (like this) are among his best stuff.

I'm coming for you, Luke!

I'm not even in first!

It's nothing personal, you're just the number of spots ahead of me that matches the overtake points I'll have for this round.

You've got 9 overtake points though haven't you?

[ariich]

10 I think.

[Indiscipline]

After Round 3:

Marching Order:

1 – Jazzo
2 – Luke
3 – Stadler
4 – wolfking
5 – Evermind
6 – Crow
7 – TAC
8 – Lonk
9 – jingle
10 – romdrums
11 – Elite
12 – ariich
13 – Sacul
14 – King
15 - Buddy
16 – lonestar
17 – Puppies

Overtake Points:

10 ariich
6 Evermind
5 Luke
4 romdrums, TAC
3 Buddy, Crow, Elite, King, Jazzo, jingle, lonestar, Lonk, Puppies, Sacul, Stadler, wolfking

[ariich]

Thanks Ale.

My best every bizarro.

Now to ruin it by sending something terrible.

[twosuitsluke]

God damn it!

So, just so I'm straight, I have 5 overtake points, but I can only use 1, as I'm in 2nd?

So if by a cruel twist of fate Ariich gets his overtake shot before mine (and overtakes) then I would be in 12th position but only be able to aim for 11th position on my overtake opportunity?

So my best case scenario would be for me to hope I get my overtake shot in first, and move outta 2nd. Or if I am gonna get overtaken, hope it's by someone other than Ariich so I don't fall as far.