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Post Post #125 (ISO) » Mon Apr 25, 2016 12:21 pm

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Congrats Cephrir! parama's happiness was totes dependent on your win =p


@Tammy- I didn't expect 12 pts from you after I picked a pretty bad choice of AP song as you stated ~ I thought I'd have last place but nope! Also, 2 songs you submitted in previous contests were by groups I considered as well.
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Post Post #126 (ISO) » Mon Apr 25, 2016 12:25 pm

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Best I've ever done in a song contest, yay! Glad people liked it. If you're looking for more from The Dear Hunter, I recommend...

Jesus, basically everything. They're one of my favorite bands and I love almost everything they do.

Since they won't be eligible for anything but BotBs in the future, I feel compelled to give a short list of individual songs to check out that'll give a good sampling:

-Act I: 1878
-Act II: The Lake and the River
-Act III: In Cauda Venenum
-Act IV: A Night on the Town
-Orange: But There's Wolves?
-Blue: Tripping in Triplets
-Indigo: Mandala
-Violet: Too Late
-Migrant: Shame

If you liked the song I entered in this contest, I'd recommend just listening all the way through Act II. Act I is similar to that but shorter and more raw; Act III is more experimental and playful and Act IV introduces more poppiness and ballads into the mix.

They also did a project called The Color Spectrum where they did a four-song EP for every color in the visible spectrum plus black and white -- so nine total. The sound of each EP reflects the "mood" of that color. Violet is the most like their stuff off the Act albums, Indigo is probably the most experimental of them. Others incorporated influences of classic rock, electronica, folk, indie, latin, etc.

And then there's Migrant, the only album they've done that wasn't themed in any way. It's probably my least favorite, but still worth checking out.
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Post Post #127 (ISO) » Mon Apr 25, 2016 12:26 pm

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In post 124, SnowStorm wrote:Btw, I was checking the song list and noticed a couple of errors in the last contest. Greece's entry is listed twice and my name and country are switched.


Oh no! You mean the wiki page with the song list?
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Post Post #128 (ISO) » Mon Apr 25, 2016 12:34 pm

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Nvm I found what you were talking about and fixed it. Thanks for letting me know!
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Post Post #129 (ISO) » Mon Apr 25, 2016 12:43 pm

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David maxim micic's eco is a great release and bilo3.0 is pretty swag too, though it's more djent prog metal stuff than atmospheric stuff
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Post Post #130 (ISO) » Mon Apr 25, 2016 12:45 pm

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I might be more interested in that, actually. I'm still not totally clear on how to define djent, but I know people call Animals as Leaders djent and I basically love them, so.
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Post Post #131 (ISO) » Mon Apr 25, 2016 12:47 pm

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In post 128, toolenduso wrote:Nvm I found what you were talking about and fixed it. Thanks for letting me know!

Thank you for fixing it, and for hosting the SC!
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Post Post #132 (ISO) » Mon Apr 25, 2016 12:52 pm

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animals as leaders kinda blows tho, just pointless technical showboating that bores me to tears :P

cafo is like the only aal song that's any good and it isn't great or anything either
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Post Post #133 (ISO) » Mon Apr 25, 2016 1:26 pm

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In post 132, Parama wrote:animals as leaders kinda blows tho, just pointless technical showboating that bores me to tears :P

cafo is like the only aal song that's any good and it isn't great or anything either


but didn't you say you hadn't listened to their latest album? because that's the main one I like and also you blow
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Post Post #134 (ISO) » Mon Apr 25, 2016 1:26 pm

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jk parama
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Post Post #135 (ISO) » Mon Apr 25, 2016 1:39 pm

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i've heard physical education off it, the only part of which i liked was the more atmospheric break in the middle, but i did not like it very much overall
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Post Post #136 (ISO) » Mon Apr 25, 2016 3:49 pm

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2 people gave mine 12s, wow :D

There were a lot of songs that I liked in this contest.

Out of curiosity, if there's a tie, what determines which song is placed higher?
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Post Post #137 (ISO) » Mon Apr 25, 2016 4:23 pm

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It's whichever song had more 12s. If they had the same number of 12s, it goes to 10s, then 8s and so on.
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Post Post #138 (ISO) » Mon Apr 25, 2016 5:48 pm

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Hey also the short deadlines worked out well didn't they!
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Post Post #139 (ISO) » Mon Apr 25, 2016 6:26 pm

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like whoa, we have almost a full contest of entrants and only one person didn't vote, it's like whooaaa
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Post Post #140 (ISO) » Mon Apr 25, 2016 11:37 pm

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In post 123, Quilford wrote:Heh, lots of ballots with India and Sri Lanka in the top 2. Interesting.

This was a pleasant surprise . I expected my song to do well, but wasn't expecting it to get many 12s. Also, glad to see Jaga Jazzist won. Everyone who liked em should check out the album A Livingroom Hush.
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Post Post #141 (ISO) » Tue Apr 26, 2016 1:38 am

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Grats to Portugal! Good shit.

I wasn't sure how my song was gonna do this time around. A low left-side is pretty solid for me. :)
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Post Post #143 (ISO) » Tue Apr 26, 2016 5:09 am

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Post Post #144 (ISO) » Tue Apr 26, 2016 7:02 pm

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Surprise top 10, I'm happy with. I used to like Animals As Leaders, before I thought metal sucked.

@tool: I'm not surprised deer hunter did good, they are perennial pitchfork favs.
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Post Post #145 (ISO) » Wed Apr 27, 2016 4:39 am

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deerhunter and the dear hunter are two different bands tho
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Post Post #146 (ISO) » Sat Apr 30, 2016 4:54 am

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Congratulations Ceph!
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Post Post #147 (ISO) » Sat Apr 30, 2016 4:57 am

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In post 125, notachipmunk wrote:
@Tammy- I didn't expect 12 pts from you after I picked a pretty bad choice of AP song as you stated ~ I thought I'd have last place but nope! Also, 2 songs you submitted in previous contests were by groups I considered as well.


Oh I hadn't heard the song you submitted before. I'm just kinda hit or miss on their songs. There are some that I love, like the two I mentioned I had thought of submitting, but then some are the throaty screaming without a purpose, which is one of the annoyances I have with some industrial/edm music. But, I loved the song you submitted.
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