New Music Game Season #2

The Sandbox Games
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Alive with the glory of love was my submission. Its essentially his grandparents love story from the Holocaust. I always like those points of views where its like life is going on even during these times of atrocity.

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Okay ill be busy tomorrow so to make sure I won’t miss it, here’s round 3.

Round 3: Submit a song without a 4/4 time signature

This means any time signature that is not 4/4. I’ll also accept songs in 4/4 that add beats in different spots when it’ll make you screw up if you try to count along in 4/4.

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Seems yankeetripper and I have some similar taste.

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good 4 u was a fun song but didn’t really feel “off” in the way I was looking for.

All You Need Is Hate was a contender.

If I had read Last Caress’ lyrics I might’ve voted for it. I didn’t fully catch it on a listen

In the end I thoroughly enjoyed Alive with the Glory of Love because it easily fit the theme and I’d still jam to it.

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:popcorn:

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Have no training in musical theory but want to guess at signatures. Don’t read until voting.

Bloodmeat: 7/4 mostly? Starting with 8/4. (Listening to it some more I think they transition between 8/4 and 7/4 more frequently than I realized.)
Death Valley Queen: 6/4
Heaven: 3/4
Nothing Else Matters: 6/4
Solsbury Hill: Dafuq? Like 7/something?
Take Five: Must be 5/something because the title primed me for it. My brain wants it to be 6/something and then gets slapped down every time.
The Becoming: 14/something?
The Eleven: I assume 11/something, my brain’s broken and I need to do work

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My thoughts on all the songs - spoiled in case you haven’t voted yet.

Bloodmeat - new to me, liked the song
Death Valley Queen - not new to me, like it quite a bit, Drunken Lullabies is in the top 10 of albums I have listened straight through the most.
Heaven - I submitted, and I do like this one
Nothing Else Matters - new to me, obviously heard of Metallica but haven’t listened to much of their songs and never heard this song before. Really enjoyed it. It got my vote.
Solsbury Hill - not new to me. The best use of this song is in this video - The Shining Recut - YouTube
Take Five - New to me, did not enjoy it.
The Becoming - Not new to me, though it has been a long time since I listened to this song. Not a huge fan, though I liked a fair number of other NIN songs.
The Eleven - Another “I’ve heard of this band but not this song”. I did not enjoy this song, and yes I listed to the entire 11 minutes.

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Guess I’ll also give my review (after you’ve voted):

Bloodmeat: My submission. Think it’s good for its genre and pretty enjoyable although not what I usually listen to.
Death Valley Queen: Have been to Flogging Molly concerts, enough said. More of a younger-me, but I like the nostalgia still.
Heaven: New, pretty good. Not a new favorite.
Nothing Else Matters: New, considering this for my vote still. Not my favorite but enjoyable.
Solsbury Hill: New, not horrible, yet not a fan.
Take Five: New, I like deep cuts. This has my vote today. Might swap it to Metallica.
The Becoming: New song to me. Not a fan despite technical skill.
The Eleven: New, definitely fits the theme, I just don’t like it.

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I think I’ve narrowed it down to 3 songs. I only knew two other songs that were submitted, but they both made my final 3 list. Kind of a meh week overall.

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Haven’t listened yet, but that could be because 4/4 is just the most naturally appealing.

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My thoughts

Bloodsport - Interesting but just nto a genre that I care for that much.
Flogging Molly - I like this song. I could see me exploring this band much further - strong contender
Nas - A genre I typically do not like. But the chorus has me hooked and and I find myself humming along to the rest of it. Another strong contender.
Metallica - I’m familiar with some Metallica but not this song, which seems very different from much of their catalog that I am familar with. I like this song quite a bit, another strong contender.
Peter Gabriel - Solsbury Hill is my favortie Gabriel song and I almost submitted it myself. If t here weren’t newer to me songs that I like I might vote for this one.
Dave Brubeck - This a song my wife’s boss put on our iPod years ago so it comes up from time to time. It’s a decent enough song, just not a genre I like very much.
NIN - Was kind of expecting March of the Pigs to be the NIN submission if they showed up. The Becoming just isn’t one of my more liked NIN songs.
Grateful Dead - Yeah blame me for The Eleven, which was named for it’s 11/8 time signature. I just love this late 60s jam song from the Dead which completely went out of their set rotation after 1970 until they played it at one of their final 2 shows ever performing under the Grateful Dead name. But even among Dead Heads you’ll probably find folks who love or hate this song. My wife who I originally met at a GD concert is not a fan.

2 songs I considered submitting that I’m a bit surprised weren’t submitted at all were Golden Brown by The Stranglers and Schism by Tool.

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I don’t know how to blur but I can hide, so I’ll do that here.

I submitted Flogging Molly and they are one of my favorite bands of all time. The song I submitted is definitely not one of my favorites by any means, but I was struggling with the time signature category. They are absolutely worth looking into more. Their early 2000’s albums Swagger, Drunken Lullabies, and Within a Mile of Home are awesome.

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Click on the “gear” and you can Hide Details, Blur Text, Build Poll.

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wrap spoiler tags around what you want “blurred” . . . like on the old A.O.

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Without $s: [spoiler] [/spoiler]

Jeez, everything is giving HTML-style formatting. Tell me ‽ doesn’t.

Without ‽s: [‽spoiler‽] [‽/spoiler‽]

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Bump for votes! Voting til Wednesday mid-late morning

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Was deciding between Nas, Take Five and Nothing Else Matters. Ended up choosing the one that was new to me.

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Did not like this week’s selections at all. Let’s not try this category again please.

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Okay, so seems like this week is a dud.

I’ll pick a category that sounds fun to me, and it was just submitted as an idea from another player.

For this week -

Round 4 - Submit a song with at least 6 consecutive “Na” lyrics.

The Na’s can be anywhere in the song but they have to be consecutive and there has to be at least 6. A quick look seemed to suggest there are a ton of songs out there where this happens.