Nur Ein XIX Round Four- "Crush Season"

[starfinger]

I'm very surprised! I loved all the songs.
(For what it's worth I forced my family members to listen to Glennny and Moss Palace, and they liked 'em too!)

-craig

[starfinger]

Everybody is awesome! (Balance Lost is consistently my favorite, but I'm a super fan)
Sorry I haven't been doing reviews.

I stumbled on this:
The Starfinger opening notes reminded me of Loverboy-Turn Me loose. So I had to go hear it again. Accidentally, the 2 songs were playing simultaneously. It was kind of an awesome mash-up. Same key, both at 121bpm as I clock them. Is it the isolated bass sample from Loverboy? The Starfinger line gets way cooler as it progresses. Anyway, I thought someone might enjoy that.

Cheers!

-glennny

that is awesome. i just played the two songs simultaneously, but I did not get as lucky as you apparently did with the relative timings!
That is me playing the bass guitar (on my song, I mean).

craig

[glennny]

Congrats on the win Starfinger! Awesome bass playing! Awesome production! Awesome sauce!

[sailingmagpie]

Balance Lost should get special immunity for singlehandedly increasing Nur Ein engagement by 500%!

[Aciniform Artifice]

Cybronica is fantastic this week

Eliminations this round:
Cybronica

Oh.

[Cybronica]

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Cybronica is fantastic this week

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Eliminations this round:
Cybronica
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Oh.


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Sigh, it is the way of things! But I did really appreciate your review- I definitely enjoyed writing and recording last week’s song, and I appreciate you noticed what I was trying to do with it, and appreciated my dedication to the challenge. It was hard not to make it sound like a circus haha.

I know I have a polarizing sound, and some folks just don’t like it. I like it though, and I think it really was the production levels that knocked me out this time around. I’m actually pretty proud of what I did this year just working on my phone’s GarageBand app. I just got my new computer this week, and they were able to save all my data off the old one, so I’m taking that as a win! I’ll definitely be shadowing, because I need to finish out this concept album lol.

Congrats to everyone who made it through to the next round! I know I’ve been unusually quiet this year- I just haven’t had the time to dedicate to writing reviews (huge props to everyone that has been writing them). I have been listening a bunch and really enjoying what everyone been making every week!

[furrypedro]

I have a hypothetical question for the judges.

What if, say, I had got 2 points from Judge 1 resulting in a 3-way tie. In that instance, I would beat Starfinger in a tiebreaker, Starfinger beats Moss Palace, and Moss Palace beats me. How would the tie then be broken? Would it be based on how many top marks each artist got?

It's all academic since there is no immunity this round, but I'm just curious how that situation would be worked out.

[Lunkhead]

I am not a judge but IIRC the tie-breaking method is based on counting how many judges ranked one artist over the other(s). So if you'd gotten one more point from judge 1 and it had been a three-way tie, then you would have only scored higher than us and Starfinger with one judge, whereas us and Starfinger would have scored higher than you (and each other) with two judges each. So I think you still would have come out in third place. There is probably no specific plan for what would happen then to break the remaining tie between us and Starfinger. Per past tournaments, most likely a novel tie breaking method would have been improvised.

[Aciniform Artifice]

I'd imagine that after eliminating the hypothetical 3rd place contestant and therefore breaking the 3-way tie, you'd be left with a simple 2-way tie which would then follow the same tiebreaker scenario that actually played out in this round.

[Pigfarmer Jr]

I doubt this would happen, and would probably cause more trouble rather than less, but it would be kind of appropriate to have the judges vote on who hit the challenge the best.

[Niveous]

In the hypothetical tiebreaker.
Judge 1 would give their vote to Starfinger (10-9-2)
Judge 2 would give their vote to Starfinger (10-5-9)
Judge 3 would give their vote to Balance Lost (9-4-10)
Judge 4 would give their vote to Moss Palace (6-10-9)
Judge 5 would give their vote to Moss Palace (3-10-8)

With 2 votes each, Starfinger and Moss Palace would be tied and Balance Lost would secure third place.

This would trigger a second tiebreak, the one that actually happened. In other words, we would look again at the one dissenting judge resulting in Judge 3's vote going to Starfinger (9-4).

[furrypedro]

Thnak you for your answer.

Do you think you could find another method of scoring where Balance Lost would win? For example, by alphabetical order or by how many dirty swears were used in the song.
Asking for a friend

Kind regards
Pete

[Siebass]

Thnak you for your answer.

Do you think you could find another method of scoring where Balance Lost would win? For example, by alphabetical order or by how many dirty swears were used in the song.
Asking for a friend

Kind regards
Pete

Tie breaker method is based on number of dry-fire ejac jokes per song, BL clear winner!

Thanks for the warning on not listening to that with the kiddos around, I enjoyed your track a lot this week.

I'm not sure if I'll have time to get my vocals done what with work travel this week, but FWIW my favs this round aligned perfectly with the judges:

BL with the rap diss track (I may be profoundly average, but still somehow hanging on in my mediocrity, heh Other than week one, I've been almost exactly in the middle of the rankings each week. For the BL song, lots of really colorful disses in here, with self-deprecating hook very catchy and worked for me, it sounds like you had a lot of fun making this).

Moss Palace again (super smooth vocals and really clean production, attention to details in arrangement; your songs are a constant reminder that I need to learn how to sing better) and

Starfinger (that bass line was sick, great dirty funk, you've got your own sound defined and do a great job leaning into it. I enjoyed rhyming hub caps with mud flaps as well)

[Siebass]

Forgot to say also that Cybronica I really especially enjoyed your vocal take this week, with a lot of grit; I thought they were really good. That and your lyrics also stuck out to me as very strong. I would also agree that perhaps the production was lacking a bit; mainly to my ear though I thought mostly just the mix levels could use some more balancing between the vocals and the instruments. For taste comments, the drum and synth samples were not my favs, but that also could just be me, as I find everyone likes/dislikes different samples.

This was a strong round for songs!

[WreckdoMelle]

Not a judge and not overtly looking for the meeting of the challenge, just some reviews to help you pass your Sunday as you might be wrapping up your submissions or just generally lazing about, perhaps.

Balance Lost - The background music is charming, and the occasional sound effects are top notch. Hook is okay. I'm not big on diss tracks though, and rap/spoken word needs a li'l more flow for my ear than I'm hearing here. The ending is really funny.

Berkeley Social Scene - Line cliche strong open, sounding pretty. Atmospheric and lovely chorus. Sublime guitar scream in the solo.

Cavedwellers - Immediately bumpin' and catchy in the verse.

Cybronica - This is awesome! Your voice is great and the presentation is bold and brash. The instrumentation is spare but this song sounds huge nonetheless.

The Friends - Sounds feel-good upon opener. Aw, nevermind I feel for this person. The music is good, complimentary to the topic.

Glennny - Strong bumpin' opener. Sick guitar licks between chorus and next verse. I'm not certain what's happening here thematically but it sounds sad.

MechaKarp - The harmonized vox sound cool. Feel-good sound. Sweet autotune breakdown. Now I see the lyrics, my goodness man!

Moss Palace - Strong line cliche opener. Slinky and mysterious, yet a sense of discomfort. Really fantastic breakdown.

Spintown - Nicely done pianos, great dynamics and mood shifting. Unstoppable force - did Song Fight too? "Glimpse of her skin" is kinda yucky if one's not up on video game parlance. e-girl is kinda weird too tho. Well, sounded pretty good

Starfinger - Love the grandiose style here, commitment and followthrough! The bass is so good and stinky. There are a lot of electronic sounds and effects I really appreciate but am unable to talk about - I like them though. This one's pretty baller.

Frankie Big Face - Nice layering in of different instrumentation and the line cliche applications are exceptionally pretty in the verse. Unstoppable force - did Song Fight too? I like how the phrase is sung in the turnaround.

Brown Word and the Big Whine - Let's get that line cliche outta the way immediately, whew! Once I had the line cliche the rest followed and then there was a protracted twiddling of knobs and a rando weird sample for good measure with ample doses of Valhalla Supermassive at the end. I am satisfied with the outcome, it might be one of my BWATBW favorites.

The Ujn Corporation - Epic synth opener, clearing the line cliche with ease. Sound is as dark and persisting, brooding, as the subject matter. I like the vocal overdubs.

[Spintown]

Glimpse of her skin" is kinda yucky if one's not up on video game parlance. e-girl is kinda weird too tho.

True in both cases, but the word e-girl is thrown around A LOT by 12 year olds in Minecraft. Thanks for the reviews, hope to see you next round.