Song Contest 111 (RESULTS POSTED!)

[drealmerz7]

I want to know where he got the enormous kickball they're laying on

[Song Contest]

Yeah that was a weird carpet.

Did not go well with the forest green couch.

[Song Contest]

Wales

DeasVail

12 - Ecuador
10 - Iceland
8 - Burkina Faso
7 - Greece
6 - Mexico
5 - Western Sahara
4 - North Korea
3 - Central African Republic
2 - Sweden
1 - USA

Slovenia

JurgenVW

12 - Sweden
10 - India
8 - Mexico
7 - Gabon
6 - Latvia
5 - Central African Republic
4 - North Korea
3 - Vietnam
2 - Venezuela
1 - Chad

USA

pickemgenius

12 - North Korea
10 - Chad
8 - Sweden
7 - Slovenia
6 - Vietnam
5 - Burkina Faso
4 - Iceland
3 - Mexico
2 - Bhutan
1 - Greece

Ecuador

Save the dragons

12 - Latvia
10 - Venezuela
8 - Chad
7 - Gabon
6 - North Korea
5 - Vietnam
4 - USA
3 - Sweden
2 - Greece
1 - Slovenia

Iceland

Parama

12 - India
10 - Sweden
8 - Chad
7 - North Korea
6 - Burkina Faso
5 - Vietnam
4 - USA
3 - Wales
2 - Slovenia
1 - Western Sahara

Current Scores:

35 Sweden
33 North Korea
27 Chad
22 India
19 Vietnam
19 Burkina Faso
18 Latvia
17 Mexico
14 Iceland
14 Gabon
12 Venezuela
12 Ecuador
10 Slovenia
10 Greece
9 USA
8 Central African Republic
6 Western Sahara
3 Wales
2 Bhutan

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Mexico

randomidget

12 - Slovenia
10 - Gabon
8 - Ecuador
7 - North Korea
6 - Central African Republic
5 - Chad
4 - Vietnam
3 - Latvia
2 - Bhutan
1 - Venezuela

Central African Republic

Davsto

12 - India
10 - North Korea
8 - Iceland
7 - Venezuela
6 - Mexico
5 - Sweden
4 - Latvia
3 - Greece
2 - Ecuador
1 - Wales

Bhutan

Panzerjager

12 - Vietnam
10 - Ecuador
8 - Greece
7 - Wales
6 - Gabon
5 - Chad
4 - USA
3 - India
2 - Burkina Faso
1 - North Korea

Western Sahara

Bicephalous Bob

12 - Burkina Faso
10 - Bhutan
8 - Sweden
7 - Vietnam
6 - Greece
5 - India
4 - Wales
3 - USA
2 - Mexico
1 - North Korea

Greece

Tammy

12 - Iceland
10 - Ecuador
8 - Wales
7 - India
6 - Latvia
5 - Venezuela
4 - Mexico
3 - Vietnam
2 - Central African Republic
1 - Gabon

Current Scores:

52 North Korea
49 India
48 Sweden
45 Vietnam
42 Ecuador
37 Chad
34 Iceland
33 Burkina Faso
31 Gabon
31 Latvia
29 Mexico
27 Greece
25 Venezuela
23 Wales
22 Slovenia
16 USA
16 Central African Republic
14 Bhutan
6 Western Sahara

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Chad

TheWayItEnds

12 - USA
10 - Iceland
8 - Vietnam
7 - Slovenia
6 - Latvia
5 - Mexico
4 - Sweden
3 - North Korea
2 - Ecuador
1 - Wales

Vietnam

Errantparabola

12 - India
10 - Venezuela
8 - North Korea
7 - Western Sahara
6 - Iceland
5 - Ecuador
4 - USA
3 - Mexico
2 - Central African Republic
1 - Wales

Burkina Faso

SnowStorm

12 - Vietnam
10 - Wales
8 - India
7 - Iceland
6 - Ecuador
5 - Greece
4 - Western Sahara
3 - Venezuela
2 - Mexico
1 - North Korea

Latvia

notachipmunk

12 - Gabon
10 - North Korea
8 - Mexico
7 - Sweden
6 - Greece
5 - Vietnam
4 - Chad
3 - Bhutan
2 - India
1 - Burkina Faso

Sweden

drealmerz7

12 - Mexico
10 - India
8 - Burkina Faso
7 - Latvia
6 - Iceland
5 - Ecuador
4 - Greece
3 - Venezuela
2 - Vietnam
1 - Slovenia

Current Scores:

81 India
74 North Korea
72 Vietnam
63 Iceland
60 Ecuador
59 Sweden
59 Mexico
44 Latvia
43 Gabon
42 Greece
42 Burkina Faso
41 Venezuela
41 Chad
35 Wales
32 USA
30 Slovenia
18 Central African Republic
17 Western Sahara
17 Bhutan

[Song Contest]

drum rollllllllllllllllllllll

[Song Contest]

India

Pala

12 - Burkina Faso
10 - Western Sahara
8 - Greece
7 - Vietnam
6 - Bhutan
5 - Chad
4 - Iceland
3 - Ecuador
2 - Mexico
1 - Sweden

Venezuela

Creature

12 - Latvia
10 - Iceland
8 - Burkina Faso
7 - Vietnam
6 - USA
5 - Chad
4 - Sweden
3 - Mexico
2 - Bhutan
1 - Gabon

North Korea

toolenduso

12 - Vietnam
10 - Bhutan
8 - Burkina Faso
7 - Ecuador
6 - Wales
5 - USA
4 - Greece
3 - Iceland
2 - Chad
1 - Mexico

Final Scores:

98 Vietnam

81 India

80 Iceland

74 North Korea
70 Burkina Faso

70 Ecuador
65 Mexico
64 Sweden
56 Latvia
54 Greece

53 Chad
43 USA
41 Venezuela
41 Wales
35 Bhutan
30 Slovenia
27 Western Sahara
24 Gabon
18 Central African Republic

Congratulations to Errantparabola!

Vijarada (Gabon) failed to vote. They take a 20-point penalty, will be banned from entering the next contest and they have to organize ice breakers for the next company retreat.

[drealmerz7]

congrats, EP!!!

thanks, SC!

[toolenduso]

Congrats Errant! I feel like it isn't often that my top pick actually wins.

[Parama]

vietnam as a winner is fine tbh, it's among the better rap entries the contest has seen at least from my perspective.
would've preferred india obviously but ohwell
correctly guessed that i would top 5, at least

[toolenduso]

OK I've been waiting for this moment so I could tell you guys.

The last four regular contests (not BOTB6), I've been submitting music from myself and my family. Did pretty well in the rankings, all things considered. Here's the info:

SC108: The Brotherhood of Dae Han - For the Glory of Olde Virginia

My cousin was the rhythm guitarist of this band and helped out a lot with the recording, which they did at home and it turned out pretty amazing considering that. This was by far the most successful of the family bands, I believe they played local stages at Warped twice and did a good amount of touring and stuff. Never got signed, but the album they put out (this was the title track) was pretty damn good. I might be fudging this but I feel like The BoD was active around the 2009-12 years and they were in Fort Collins, Colorado. The lead guitarist went on to play for Tickle Me Pink.

SC109: The Scourge of Carpathia - Release the Hostage

My brother's band! Based in Reno, Nevada and (I believe) active around the 2006-11 years. My brother was the drummer. They recorded this one in-studio in the Bay Area. These guys toured around the country and shared the stage with some decently big acts (main one I remember is Bedlight for Blue Eyes). This band was the foundation of a hardcore scene in my tiny northern Nevada hometown that saw me and a lot of other kids put together some honestly pretty bad stuff. But hey, it was fun.

SC110: She's So Provocative - Force, Balance, Push

My college band, active around 2011-12 and based in Reno. I was the singer. All our stuff was recorded at houses owned by people in other bands in the area. This one was a one-shot but it might be my favorite of the songs we did. The dude in the photo was our bassist. Looking back, I really wish I would've realized at the time that my natural singing range was

not

the range I was using for SSP's music. I do way better at lower octaves, but I grew up on mostly male emo-hardcore-ska-pop punk singers who sang high, so that's what I tried to do. Oh well.

SC111: Justin Greenhouse - Losing Myself

This is the music my cousin (same one who played for The Brotherhood of Dae Han) has been making by himself for a while, and again he recorded it himself. I have no idea how he achieves this level of recording quality without going into a studio. And on top of that, the songs are

good.

He's just very talented. And yeah he did everything on this song -- writing, vocals, instruments, electronics, the works. The project is a concept album, still not finished, and I don't know the story very well except that it's about zombies. I believe this is supposed to be the closing track.

Anyhoo. If anybody wants to hear more from any of these bands, PM me and I can send files or upload more stuff on Clyp or something. Obviously it's hard to come by on the Internet, since none of this music ever got professionally published.

And now I will get back to entering music people actually know!

[Creature]

they have to organize ice breakers for the next company retreat.

What does that mean?

[drealmerz7]

you decide on games like "suck/blow" to be played among coworkers at an informal get-together

[SnowStorm]

Congrats Vietnam! Nice top 3. Also nice being in the top 5, didn't expect that.

OK I've been waiting for this moment so I could tell you guys. ...

I was afraid, but I had to check at least my comments for your band. I was relieved to see I didn't write anything mean about the vocals.

[Tammy]

Congrats EP!

I made top ten yay!

[Vijarada]

sorry for not voting like an absolute scrub

[Davsto]

bim bim bim-bi-bim

[Errantparabola]

Thanks everyone— time to retire Vietnam as well!
Also that’s incredibly cool @toolenduso. Is there a source of music that runs in your family? Like aunts/uncles/parents/grandparents?

[toolenduso]

I was afraid, but I had to check at least my comments for your band. I was relieved to see I didn't write anything mean about the vocals.

I'm in under no illusions about my singing back then haha

Also that’s incredibly cool @toolenduso. Is there a source of music that runs in your family? Like aunts/uncles/parents/grandparents?

Not really. I mean one of my uncles was in a rock band in high school but I didn't even know that until I'd already been doing music stuff for a while.

If anything, it probably came from my cousin. He was a big influence on my brother and my brother was a big influence on me.

[Song Contest]

SC112 is open!

[Randomnamechange]

congrats EP!
really happy with how i did in this one

[Randomnamechange]

also my top 2 came in the bottom 4:/