Song Contest 99 (Entries up, votes due 10/3!)

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So, as far as what to do for the hundredth song contest, I'm not so sure about the original idea I had anymore. For one, only a few people said they planned on entering their all-time favorite songs. I'm not sure how many people actually wanted to do that. And then, of those people, I'm not sure how many would even be prevented from entering because their favorite artist wasn't eligible to enter.

Then meanwhile I'd be opening up the possibility of people entering artists who otherwise wouldn't be eligible just because they felt like it, and not necessarily because they wanted to enter their favorite song.

And then I'd have to come up with some workaround for the issue of how the 100th contest would affect eligibility.

And all just because it's the 100th contest. Which, you know, it's cool and all but I don't know that it needs to be marked with anything crazy. Instead I had another idea for how to kind of mark the occasion without doing something weird with the rules that would affect the contest in unknown ways.

That said, I do think I'll institute the BotB rules as far as banning goes. As in, if somebody gets banned in this contest then they would still be able to enter into #100, and then for #101 I would ban anybody who didn't vote in #99 or #100.

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I have entered a music.

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Liking this farao album. Agree with the choice to submit Hunter.

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I'm sad the original post is gone

What original post?

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between the buried and me have made two good albums

Blasphemer! They're all good.

Still not fully there on the last one, but it's not bad by any stretch.

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I'm gonna be submitting some rawr metal eventually...prolly not for a couple contests at least though. Bc idc what y'all think.

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Voted.

RANKINGS

Central African Republic - King Crimson - Starless: Man, Davsto is showing me so many bands that I've always meant to check out but never did. Not what I was expecting at all, I thought they'd be like...almost metal, or something. Through the first half of the song I'd say this is a little slippery. As in, hard to keep my attention. Sax solo is kinda cool. Mid 7/10. Dude wasn't the strongest singer was he? Oh well. Old metal precursors like this tended to focus much more on the music anyway. Feel different about the first half of the song this time. Reminds me of Prince's West. It's a slow jam you can paint yourself into. High 7/10.

Uzbekistan - Da$h - Asteroids: This is a pretty awesome track. That bassy noise. A couple things here reminding me of Tyler. Guitar sample is a little unsettling, in a weird way. This is like, basement weed-smoking music is what this is. Huh. Low 7/10. Yeah definitely some Tyler in here. Don't know who influenced who, but I'd be amazed if one of them didn't influence the other. Anyway, I'm not super gripped by this song, but it does unsettle me a little and I do really appreciate the complexities of it. Deserves points. High 7/10.

CIV - ukiakikiikkikikii - ashokikikehaosihdh: Pretty good! Like the breakdown. Even though they introduce it by saying the word "breakdown." It's not

that

interesting, but it's interesting enough. Mid 7/10. Heh. There's a section where it sounds like they're screaming back and forth "Potato!" to each other. Why can't American screamo get in on that action. I like the guitar solo. These lyrics, though. Maybe they're more eloquent in Japanese, but the English translation makes them seem so dumb. Anyway, this is still decent. Mid 7/10.

Bhutan - Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - Timorous Me: Photo was misleading. Expected punk. Dude has a good voice though. And the music is kinda thin, but still enjoyable. I like this enough. Mid 7/10. It's aight. Mid 7/10.

Spain - Mr. Twin Sister - Blush: This is cool. They're "taking their time," as they say. I like the subtlety in the atmosphere of this one too, the way they slather on reverb to certain guitar chords and then mix it with what sounds like super washed out vocal samplings. I like. Mid 7/10. Sooooo chill. It's a good song. I like it. I don't love it. Mid 7/10.

Iceland - Shining - Healter Skelter: Excited for this one, tbh, because of the name of the album. This is like metalcore, but with saxophone replacing lead guitar. And while it's rhythmically interesting, I feel like they're just kinda wailing and not doing anything all that impressive with it. Sonically it's OK, but I feel like they're executing somewhat poorly on a good idea I guess? Low 7/10. I think what's holding me back on this track is that I feel like I could learn this saxophone part, and I don't know shit about saxophone. So basically I just feel like they built this song around a novelty that generally just makes sense as a novelty and not as something I'd want to continue listening to. At least it's somewhat creative. Low 7/10.

Mali - Watsky - Tiny Glowing Screens, Part 3: Music is good. Rapping is OK but he's kinda just hitting every beat for the most part...gets a little repetitive. Maybe Kendrick has spoiled me lol. Eh, I kinda liked it. Low 7/10. I'm starting to notice a trend with white rappers not named Marshall. It's like, they just rap along with the beat and don't branch out much. I know that's a broad brush, but...eh. Anyway, I feel about the same about this. Low 7/10.

Finland - Mamamoo - Piano Man: Already by far the best thing Finland's submitted. It's a little overproduced, perhaps, but hey it's K-Pop. They've done far worse than this. I mean...this doesn't really grab me or anything. But it's nice to listen to at least. High 6/10. Eh, it's catchy. I'll bump it up a little. Low 7/10.

Chad - Sea of Treachery - Back to the Surface: P standard -core. Singing part is just passable. Breakdown is fairly uninteresting. Yeah, this ain't great. Low 6/10. It's OK. I like it more because of personal bias. So, High 6/10.

Canada - Jin - Kagerou Daze: Well, it's much better than I was expecting. It's nothing all that special, but it's competent and nice to listen to at least. Yeah. Mid 6/10. Like. High 6/10.

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@tool go check out blackjazz deathtrance or omen, the former especially is... something

Yeah I could check out some more of them. It wasn't my favorite entry but it was one of the more interesting ones.

I don't think they're remotely similar to be honest, both came from diff environment and content completely different. I don't think one influenced the other at all. I see where you drew the comparison though. If you want, peep Da$h's sixth mixtape V.I.C.E.S., nothing at all like

Bastard

(Or get Caveman Files, his 4th one which is what this track is off.

Will do, thanks for the suggestion. It was the weirdness of the track, the modulated deep voice and to a lesser extent Da$h's flow that reminded me of Tyler -- but if I'm wrong I'm wrong, and you'd know better than me.

Tyler is straightedge and earlier content was goofy abstract juvenile shit rapping about kidnapping women and cutting them up.

Yeah, I've barely listened to him since Goblin tbh. He's straightedge? I didn't know anybody was straightedge anymore, much less a member of OF.