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| Rec Roulette Round 4 - Waves of Change
bgillesp, butcherboy, Frippertronics and I | | 1 |  | Ulver
The Assassination of Julius Caesar
Submit
THREE SONGS total
One song from a band that used to sound a certain way, but eventually changed their sound to either just as good a quality or even better, which will be the other song. And the third track is what you think they might sound like next or what would suit them to sound like next. Remember, kids, All of these styles and songs must be good in your view. If this is too confusing, I'll be happy to explain it further in the comment section.
If you won't be able to submit anything worthwhile and we will have to come to a compromise, 0.5 points will be stricken from each of your submissions.
Your points so far:
butcherboy - 9.5
bgillesp - 12,9
Frippertronics - 10,3 | | 2 |  | In Flames
The Jester Race
bgillesp - ORIGINAL
Moonshield
The simpleton that I am, I failed at apprreciating this piece of work. I don't know why, but the overly fantasy-inspired music, the growly vocals and the messy production drowning half of the actually decent songwriting just did not sit well with me. I guess I'm just not into In Flames. Their side project Passenger though... 3.4/5 | | 3 |  | In Flames
A Sense of Purpose
bgillesp - NEW
Sleepless Again
I don't see that much of a change in the brand of Metal they're delivering, except the prodcution is a little clearer and therefore not as heavy or dismal and the songwriting definitely went for more of a melodic and simple form, which does not payoff in the longrun and ends up being somewhat forgettable. Yeah, I'm not feeling this one either. I can't even imagine how much you probably hate me right now for liking Battles more than anything else tehy released. 3.0/5
CHANGE SUCCESS: 0.3 | | 4 |  | Opeth
Heritage
bgillesp - FUTURE
The Devil's Orchard
An interesting track full of nice instrumental work. I can't quite see, how will they transition from something like Sleepless Again to this, but of they do, it might be for their own good, at least in my eyes. 3.8/5
CHANGE DESIRABILITY: 0.9 | | 5 |  | Mark Lanegan
Scraps at Midnight
butcherboy - ORIGINAL
Hotel
Butcherboy finally hit a goldmine, cause I already liked Mark Langean to begin with. It only took to find some songs I happen to have skipped and the deal was sealed. It's a fantasque and wonderfully grim atmospheric track. 4.2/5 | | 6 |  | Mark Lanegan
Field Songs
bitcherboy - NEW
Kimiko's Dream House
Not a whole lot has changed, except for maybe the mood. It's definitely softer and more uplifting in its spirit, the sognwriting turned a bit more blissful too. I guess he's a happier lad now. 3.7/5
CHANGE SUCCESS: 0.5 | | 7 |  | Grinderman
Grinderman
butcherboy - FUTURE
Chain of Flowers
Seeing how pleasant and easier on the ears Mark's newer self is, I can absoluetly see him turning up with a record like this at some point. It's also softer and somewhat melodramatic, but overall spirit-raising and full of sophistication. I can see Mark turning this way, but I'd personally prefer he stayed the way he was. 3.9/5
CHANGE DESIRABILITY: 0.3 | | 8 |  | David Sylvian
Secrets of the Beehive
Frippertronics - ORIGINAL
Maria
A pleasant, relaxing and dreamy endeavour that kind of goes nowhere, but you don't exactly expect it to. It's a somewhat meditational song, but one with some interesting instrumetnal additions at the background that are interesting to observe upon further listens. 3.8/5 | | 9 |  | David Sylvian
Blemish
Frippertronics - NEW
A Fire in the Forest
So what exactly is different? I mean, it is still pleasant to listen to, but it is in no way actually different. He didn't progress, his music didn't mature and neither his vocal nor musical style hasn't radically turned around. I can't tell what has changed from this track. Sure, he incorporates his vocals in a little more, they have a sharper paste, and the music is a bit more electronic, but that's about it. It doesn't reflect any new mood, atmosphere or thematic shift. The track is fine in in of itself, though. 3.4/5
CHANGE SUCCESS: 0.1 | | 10 |  | John Zorn
Kristallnacht
Frippertronics - FUTURE
Never Again
Wh...why though? You want a perfectly okay ambient-esque artist to turn into an obscure noise-stricken collection of unintelligible, barely listenable rattle? Never Again indeed. 1.8/5
CHANGE DESIRABILITY: -0.7 | | 11 | | Opeth
Heritage
bgillesp's score
3.4+3.0+0.3+3.8+0.9=
11.4 | | 12 | | Mark Lanegan
Scraps at Midnight
butcherboy's score
4.2+3.7+0.5+3.9+0.3=
12.6 | | 13 | | David Sylvian
Secrets of the Beehive
Frippertronics' score
3.8+3.4+0.1+1.8-0.7=
8.4 | |
Papa Universe
08.14.17 | This is a replacement of another thing I did, which was about rip-offs being better than the originals, yeesh... | bgillesp
08.14.17 | So all of them should sound good or no? | Papa Universe
08.14.17 | "Remember, kids, All of these styles and songs must be good in your view."
Interpret that... | bgillesp
08.15.17 | In Flames:
Original Style- Melodeath; Song- Moonshield
New Style- Mainstream Metal; Song- Sleepless Again
Hopeful Future Style- New School Prog Rock; Song- Opeth: The Devil's Orchard | bgillesp
08.15.17 | I think this works | butcherboy
08.15.17 | hmm | butcherboy
08.15.17 | can i rec lanegan here.. have you listened to him much? | Papa Universe
08.15.17 | I have, but sporatically, so nearly no full albums. So you might just very well stumble upon some songs that I skipped. | butcherboy
08.15.17 | Alright, then let's try this..
Song 1 - Kimiko's Dream House off Field Songs
Song 2 - Come to Me off Bubblegum
Song 3 to aspire to instead of the shite synth he's doing now - Tindersticks - Sometimes It Hurts | Papa Universe
08.15.17 | Change Come to Me and Sometimes It Hurts and then we'll talk. | butcherboy
08.15.17 | hmm.. alright, give me a bit | butcherboy
08.15.17 | Song 2 - Wish You Well off Here Comes that Weird Chill
Song 3 - Tindersticks - Dying Slowly off Can Our Love.... | Papa Universe
08.15.17 | keep searching, you'll find it eventually. | Papa Universe
08.15.17 | (that means I've heard them both) | butcherboy
08.15.17 | alright, I've got this..
Song 2 - UNKLE feat. Mark Lanegan - Another Night Out (hope that counts, it's very much Lanegan's style)
Song 3 - Grinderman - Chain of Flowers, a b-side from their self-titled.. | Papa Universe
08.15.17 | I need a song directly from Lanegan though. | butcherboy
08.15.17 | alright then, let's walk this one backwards
Song 1 - Lanegan - Shooting Gallery off Whiskey for the Holy Ghost
Song 2 - Kimiko's Dream House
Song 3 - Grinderman
come on, say yes! | Papa Universe
08.15.17 | guess what | butcherboy
08.15.17 | yes!! great | Papa Universe
08.15.17 | Holy Ghost is the only album I've heard in full. | Papa Universe
08.15.17 | (and Bubblegum)
I didn't hear the Winding Sheet or I'll Take Care of You though | butcherboy
08.15.17 | Song 1 - Lanegan - Hotel off Scraps at Midnight
if you don't take it, I quit this tourney, your friendship, this chair and everything else.. | butcherboy
08.15.17 | if not, then Shiloh Town off I'll take care of you.. | Papa Universe
08.15.17 | Oh, it's on Scraps at Midnight you say? | butcherboy
08.15.17 | mhm | Papa Universe
08.15.17 | It's actually fine, I'm just messin with ya. | butcherboy
08.15.17 | twat.. if i come in last after all this shite, i'm going to shove an eggplant up a white supremacist's ass and then stand there and watch him question everything.. | Papa Universe
08.15.17 | That's a...very specific thing to do... | butcherboy
08.15.17 | it's something i've been thinking about doing for a while.. i have a supremacist and an eggplant all picked out, but I suddenly realized that i feel queasy about touching a neo-nazi's ass. | Papa Universe
08.15.17 | Well, who am I to judge, I used to be into adding water into people's gravy at restaurants... after they left. | Papa Universe
08.15.17 | Point is, everyone's got their own thing. | butcherboy
08.15.17 | i don't know.. i just think touching a neo-nazi's ass is outside of mein kampfort zone.. | Papa Universe
08.15.17 | That's how fetishes work, amte. | butcherboy
08.15.17 | i just don't want him to look me in the eyes after and think: Shit, i've just met my Mr. Reich.. | Papa Universe
08.15.17 | I'm starting off your recs now. | bgillesp
08.15.17 | I'll lose this. I gave a prog rec. Don't worry butch | Frippertronics
08.18.17 | gonna wing it
ORIGINAL - David Sylvian - Maria (Secrets of the Beehive)
NEW - David Sylvian - A Fire in the Forest (Blemish)
FUTURE - John Zorn - Never Again (Kristallnacht) (in the context of what Sylvian has done and is still doing, this isn't that far off from what he did in the past)
Probably gonna lose this one badly but it works thematically imo | Papa Universe
08.18.17 | Your new scores:
bgillesp: 24,3
butcherboy: 22,1
Frippertronics: 18,7 | butcherboy
08.18.17 | did i win? goddamn, it feels good! hahahaha
We are Number Two!! | bgillesp
08.18.17 | How in the world do you think Battles, one of the worst albums of 2016, is better than classic In Flames, one of the greatest melodeath bands of all time? I have no faith in your judging ability anymore. No wonder I won your contest. | Papa Universe
08.18.17 | Well tough titties, I guess. | Frippertronics
08.18.17 | Well considering you don't know Sylvian, my choices make sense when you pay attention to his thematic progression from album to album. His most recent album from 2009 is definitely similar in ways to the choice I made for the FUTURE album. You are very very wrong about A Fire in the Forest though. | Papa Universe
08.18.17 | Well, the idea was to submit songs that sound different, but make overall sense in a one-follows-other kind of musical progression sense. | Frippertronics
08.18.17 | And they do sound different and I explained why I chose what I did beforhand even though it'd make zero sense to one unfamiliar with the artist. | Papa Universe
08.18.17 | Well nevertheless I am tempted to listen to Sylvian now and hopefully hear the shift that you hear. You lost now, don't worry about it, better luck next time. That's all I can really say to you now. | Frippertronics
08.18.17 | Yeah no prob, this round wasn't exactly my forte to begin with. |
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