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| Rec Roulette Round 2: Per Aspera Ad Gaudium
Four participants with four lists of recs going.. Each will act as judge of his own list and dictate what genre/theme/mood/concept/ides goes for each round, and the other three will rec.. How we compute scores will be determined at a later date amid bloodshed and squabbles.. It will messy and long and beautiful!! Participants are bgillesp, butcherboy, Frippertronics and yours truly. | | 1 |  | Weyes Blood
Front Row Seat To Earth
Submit MELANCHOLIC albums that inspire HAPPINESS.
bgillesp - 4.4
butcherboy - 3.4
Frippertronics - 3.1 | | 2 |  | Richard Strauss
Metamorphosen
Frippertronics
Crafty move, suggesting a classical piece. Of course, a dramatic piece like this one will sit well with anyone. However, and it does feel odd to criticise a classical work, but hey, it's all just music, I did find this composition to be not as memorable or even to have a particular distinct characteristic about it that would tell me all I need to know about Richard Strauss as a composer. It's a great composition and it is a great definition of "Melancholia that inspires happiness", but it is also a tad shapeless one at that. I feel weird that I just said that... 4.0/5
BEST MOMENT: 14th minute, till about 16th | | 3 |  | Typhoon (USA-OR)
White Lighter
bgillesp
This album has some truly dense instrumentation and the overwhelming nature of the songwriting and the musical progression present on nearly each track almost forces you to like it. But even in that airtight streak of bliss I found my gripes. The vocals did pretty much nothing for me, but they are utmost fitting (Possible Deaths), any bigger range would be an overkill. The sickeningly whimsical songwriting sometimes seems like it's about to become insufferable, but then it always becomes somewhat Lo-Fi, distorted and thematically upfront and aggressive (The Lake). So pretty much everything that seems like it's about to become the album's tombstone, turns into its pride. It's over the top, overproduced and bloated...but it works like nothing else does. Bloody hell! 4.3/5
BEST SONG: 100 Years | | 4 |  | Tom Waits
Real Gone
butcherboy
One thing's for sure, butcherboy is going to murder me for this. This sounds like a bunch of stuff that didn't make the final cut of a demo recording. And it's odd that I don't even have a whole lot to say about this. It's ugly and extremely difficult to sit through. And the moments that are listenable are either stretched out to excruciating lengths (Sins of My Father), disappoingly enough never elevate into anything worthwhile (Dead and Lovely or How's It Gonna End) or are drowned in a muddy, subpar production (Hoist That Rag). But on the other hand, the album does contain songs like Trampled Rose, Green Grass, Make It Rain and Day After Tomorrow, which, while not necessarily my favourite Waits songs, still quite decent additions to his catalogue. However, those fine moments in total make about five songs out of fifteen. That's a poor, poor result. Sorry. 2.2/5
BEST SONG: Green Grass | |
Papa Universe
08.06.17 | I don't know if we'll need overall points summary, but I did it anyway:
bgillesp: 12,2
UniqueUniverse: 11,4
butcherboy: 11,2
Frippertronics: 10,9 | Frippertronics
08.06.17 | but how does melancholy inspire happiness?? details, unique, details! | Frippertronics
08.06.17 | but i'm just gonna wing it and go with an album that never fails to make me miserable yet picks me up every time
Ichiko Aoba - 0 | Papa Universe
08.06.17 | A calm, quiet, desperately sounding fatigued record that for whatever reason makes you personally feel joyous and full of life. | Frippertronics
08.06.17 | oh, okay, that makes more sense | Papa Universe
08.06.17 | It won't let me add that album here. | Frippertronics
08.06.17 | well, that's a bummer
in that case, i'll have to think of something else | Papa Universe
08.06.17 | It's probably because of the zero, the system sees it a -blank-. | Frippertronics
08.06.17 | must be because of behind the scenes tinkering, since it worked in the past | Papa Universe
08.06.17 | I'm doing this from my phone, so it might not respond because of that. Wait a couple of hours and I'll get to a computer. | Frippertronics
08.06.17 | I tried it on my laptop and no dice. Site's eternally kaput, who woulda thunk? | Frippertronics
08.06.17 | gonna pull a curveball on ya then
Richard Strauss - Metamorphosen
this one in particular https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWZsUULwzHw | bgillesp
08.06.17 | Typhoon (USA-or)- white lighter
I think it's melancholic as its a death focused album for much of it but I don't pay too much attention to lyrics. Jammed this on my drive home yesterday | butcherboy
08.06.17 | tindersticks - 1st.. | Papa Universe
08.06.17 | If you mean their self-titled album, I've heard that. | butcherboy
08.06.17 | then Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped | Papa Universe
08.06.17 | heard that too.
man, i should start rating the shit i hear | butcherboy
08.06.17 | tom waits- real gone.. | Papa Universe
08.06.17 | Will have it up sometime tomorrow. | Papa Universe
08.07.17 | Results are in. This one has one of the major disappointments in this tourney so far. | butcherboy
08.07.17 | I think this is it.. I think I'm finally ready to break up.. | Papa Universe
08.07.17 | Oh don't act like it's all my fault, you are not exactly tiramissu either. | butcherboy
08.07.17 | Hoist That Rag is top 15 songs from him.. how dare you, good sir? | Papa Universe
08.07.17 | I think this might make the situation even worse, but I rated the album and its overall rating dropped lower... | butcherboy
08.07.17 | vendetta!
also, is it too late to change my rec? I'd like to nominate The Cure - Kiss Me Kiss Me.. hahahahaha | Papa Universe
08.07.17 | Wait for further rounds...and I've heard it. | Papa Universe
08.07.17 | So my personal scoring of other humans in the Roulette as of right now:
bgillesp - 8.7
Frippertronics - 7.1
butcherboy - 5.6 | Frippertronics
08.07.17 | knew my change-up would pay off | bgillesp
08.07.17 | Seems like I am very good at giving recs to you Unique despite our wildly different tastes in certain types of music |
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