Themed Mixtape Game

And the winner is... @HamburgerBoy with Moral Decay - This God!

This is quite an extraordinary victory for HBB. Not only did he win with a song from an obscure demo, he did so with an outstanding average score of 9.00! And underproduced songs don't usually do well in this game.

  1. @HamburgerBoy with Moral Decay - This God: 9.00
  2. @Slayed Necros with Merciless - Dying World: 8.25
  3. @Phylactery with The Chasm - A Portal to Nowhere: 7.56
  4. @Satanstoenail with Sadus - Throwing Away the Day: 7.50
  5. @CASSETTEISGOD with The Lord Weird Slough Feg - 20th Century Wretch: 7.44
  6. @RadicalThrasher with Aftermath - Being: 7.44
  7. @no country for old wainds with Torchure - Resort to Mortality: 7.44
  8. @EspaDa with Shining - Neka morgondagen: 7.31
  9. @Sirjack with Burial - Abhorrence Within: 7.19
  10. @Serjeant Grumbles with Mourning Beloveth - Nothing Has a Centre: 6.79
  11. @arg with Type O Negative - Anesthesia: 6.69

Phylactery said:
While [me and no country] agree on a lot of things, our ratings aren't always that similar. He probably doesn't like the Torchure song as much as I do from this list.
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The irony.
 
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This round probably had one of the tightest distributions as well, the arg pick just barely below the second lowest.

I'll have my theme in a bit (working right now). I'm considering going back on my earlier desire to make this a 'reward' theme in contrast to 'punishment'. I'm now thinking about musical irony as a theme since some people judge songs not according to just lyrics but also how they work full-picture with the music. That might be too abstract and difficult though, people tell me if you hate it.

(Musical irony for the purposes of this would be any song with lyrical content seemingly contradictory of the music, e.g. an epic song about something trivial, a sad song that sounds happy (bittersweetness would broadly probably work), etc).

EDIT: And I'm glad people liked the Moral Decay song, I was expecting it to do better than some of the other demo stuff I've submitted but not that well. The whole demo is pretty awesome, though that particular song is the highlight imo.
 
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Musical irony > Reward imo. I'm not sure the latter would be a good theme at all. It's abstract but also oddly specific and I can't think of much that fits off the top of my head.
 
RadicalThrasher said:
Come on @HamburgerBoy give us a good theme to work with
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HamburgerBoy said:
This round probably had one of the tightest distributions as well, the arg pick just barely below the second lowest.

I'll have my theme in a bit (working right now). I'm considering going back on my earlier desire to make this a 'reward' theme in contrast to 'punishment'. I'm now thinking about musical irony as a theme since some people judge songs not according to just lyrics but also how they work full-picture with the music. That might be too abstract and difficult though, people tell me if you hate it.

(Musical irony for the purposes of this would be any song with lyrical content seemingly contradictory of the music, e.g. an epic song about something trivial, a sad song that sounds happy (bittersweetness would broadly probably work), etc).
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Vegard Pompey said:
Musical irony > Reward imo. I'm not sure the latter would be a good theme at all. It's abstract but also oddly specific and I can't think of much that fits off the top of my head.
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Technically, "reinforcement" would be the more accurate description, I should have said that instead. It would be the other side of operant conditioning. Anything that concerns a person doing something, and then as a result some other action is taken to incentivize the person doing it again, would count.

no country for old wainds said:
e.g. ur favourite song on the black album
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I mostly love My Friend of Misery for the instrumental bridge tbh, but a lot of post-80s Metallica would probably work actually
 
I think "Musical Irony" is a bit too difficult considering we are limited to metal. Most metal bands, at least the ones I give a shit about, don't stray too far from their original sound.
 
OK I can't think of anything else and I need to go to bed. Going with MUSICAL IRONY regardless, sorry to those that hate it, but on the bright side I bet many players won't judge too harshly this round. And to reiterate the definition:

Musical irony for the purposes of this would be any song with lyrical content seemingly contradictory of the music, e.g. an epic song about something trivial, a sad song that sounds happy (bittersweetness would broadly probably work), etc.
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Other examples to maybe make things easier are

*Serious-sounding songs that are actually absurd
*Sci-fi-themed songs that sound primitive
*Ugly-sounding songs describing something beautiful
*Slow songs about life moving too quickly
Etcetc, if you can think of any band you enjoy and think of a song they have that makes you think "Huh, what a weird subject/song for them", then it might qualify, really shouldn't be that hard of a theme imo

EDIT: But I will add a caveat that ironic covers aren't allowed (e.g. death metal Britney Spears), and I'm not looking for joke songs like those from Anal Cunt's Tunnel of Love, since the irony is in the band performing and not internal to the song.
 
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I tried finding an image of three men on their knees with a dominatrix standing over them but couldn't find anything suitable
 
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