New Forum Game: MP3 Dartboard King of the Hill

[DackAttac]

OK, new game. We're gonna try something new here.

EDIT:

OK, attention here. Here are the rules as they've been decided.

THE RULES

The first player to go picks the criterion for the match. (e.g., Song is available in a Rock Band title, song is a cover, etc.)
• The first player goes by hitting shuffle on their MP3 player and posting the first randomly generated ten songs, then marks each song that meets the criterion with boldface.
• That player adds up the boldfaced songs (those that met the criterion); that's their Song Tally. So long as it was more than zero, that player is currently King of the Hill. The Song Tally becomes the record to beat.
• If the first player gets a zero for the Song Tally, no one is King of the Hill, the first player to get a one or more for the Song Tally becomes King of the Hill. No points are scored yet.

Then each subsequent turn, each following player repeats the process: Ten randomly generated songs, tally up the ones that meet the criterion.
• If their Song Tally is higher than the current King's, they get a point and become the new King of the Hill.
• If their Song Tally is lower than the current King's, the King gets a point.
• If their Song Tally is the same as the current King's, the current King remains King but the player gets a point.

The King of the Hill can attempt to further increase his Song Tally by taking a turn during his "reign".
• The new Song Tally becomes the record to beat, whether it was high or lower.
If it's higher, he gets a point. (But nothing for tying it, and certainly not for being lower.)

Rounds are played to 15 points. If a player aces their round (gets all 10 out of 10), they get 8 points and the round is over.

You hit shuffle on your MP3s and post the first ten songs that come up*. Boldface (or otherwise highlight, whatever you wanna do) every song that is available (or confirmed for the next week) in Rock Band [BUT THAT MIGHT NOT BE THE CRITERION ANYMORE; CHECK THE MOST RECENT POST]. Live or alternate versions count so long as it's by the same artist (or the same "made famous by" artist in the case of WaveGroup covers). Tally those boldfaced songs up.

If you top the previous best, the point is yours, and you're the new king of the hill.
If you come in under the previous best, the king of the hill gets the point for your post.
If you tie, you get the point, but the king remains king.
If somehow every single goddamn song that comes up is in Rock Band, the round's over, you get half of what we're playing to.

This first round, first to 25 points wins. (Meaning a perfect score will get you 13 points.)

(This will be something of a practice run. Maybe it will be a colossal disaster, maybe it'll be fun. Maybe we'll have to retool the rules. Maybe we'll need a better name because the one I came up with is kinda s***ty. We'll see how it goes.)

*(Feel free to exclude anything that's not eligible or halfway reasonable for inclusion in Rock Band; i.e., spoken word comedy, 8-bit video game soundtracks, etc., but please be consistent about it. You still have to include Muse, Led Zep and Rolling Stones, though. )

OK, I'll go first. (Doesn't count for a point, but I will be King if the next post doesn't dethrone me.)

1. "Crossroads" - The Offspring
2. "The World Won't Stop Without You" - Bad Religion
3. "Hailie's Song" - Eminem
4. "Auf Wiedersehen" - Cheap Trick
5. "Levon" - Elton John
6. "Wait for Love" - Josh Ritter
7. "I'm Looking Through You" - The Beatles
8. "Delirium of Disorder" - Bad Religion
9. "Outlaw Pete" - Bruce Springsteen
10. "In a Little While" - U2

Current King (& Number to Beat): Dack (1)

Scoreboard
Dack - 0

[FlyGuyLXI]

I'll play along, but I'm probably not going to get anything.

1. "Blue Rondo à la Turk" - The Dave Brubeck Quartet
2. "Passion" - Yoshida Brothers
3. "Parkside Shuffle" - Down to the Bone
4. "Pink Stones" - Memory Tapes
5. "Hope" - Boris
6. "Pulsars" - Re-Drum
7. "I Would Rather Hide" - Joseph Arthur
8. "Standing" - VNV Nation
9. "New Direction (Intro)" - Sugar Ray
10. "Fishboy" - Stephanie Hatfield and Hot Mess

Yep

Current King (& Number to Beat): Dack (1)

Scoreboard
Dack - 1

[GreatJedi7]

1. "*fin" - Anberlin
2. "Circle the Sky" - MyChildren MyBride
3. "Virus Alert" - "Weird Al" Yankovic
4. "Still Alive" - GLaDOS
5. "Hide" - RED
6. "Taco Grande" - "Weird Al" Yankovic
7. "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" - The Beatles
8. "For A Pessimist, I'm Pretty Optimistic" - Paramore
9. "She Said She Said" - The Beatles
10. "Constance" - The Devil Wears Prada

If I'm understanding the rules correctly, Dack, you've been dethroned.

Current King (& Number to Beat): GreatJedi7 (3)

Scoreboard
Dack - 1
GreatJedi7 - 1

[DackAttac]

You get one point for that; we're tied.

FlyGuy's self-predicted and fulfilled goose egg got me thinking, though, if that rule should stay constant. Maybe the criteria for this round will be Rock Band content, but the next round might be something else... decade, song length, song title (Contains person/character's name, ten characters or less, song following (i.e., notable enough that it has a Wikipedia page, is not in the artist's top ten at last.fm, etc.), artist name (starts with a vowel, is a solo artist, etc.) Maybe the winner picks the category but the actual stipulation is chosen at random? Just a thought.

But hey, since I'm not king anymore, I guess I'll do one more before I go to bed.

(Oh yeah, forgot to mention, since it's an automatic point, you can't do a round if you're already king.)

1. "Come On, Get In" - KT Tunstall
2. "Living Life" - Eels
3. "Neutroniks" - k-os
4. "Sucker Punch" - Jonathan Coulton
5. "Junk" - Paul McCartney
6. "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" - Blue Öyster Cult
7. "Finally" - The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
8. "Alone + Easy Target" - Foo Fighters
9. "November Has Come" - Gorillaz
10. "Burnout" - Green Day

Darn, so close.

Current King (& Number to Beat): GreatJedi7 (3)

Scoreboard
GreatJedi7 - 2
Dack - 1

[CJHobbes]

I suppose I'll give it a go as well.

1. "Mass Destruction" - Lotus Juice
2. "Coming Back to Life" - Pink Floyd
3. "In the First Place" - Hoku
4. "Judgement Day" - Van Halen
5. "Broken" - The Birthday Massacre
6. "Eat the Rich" - Aerosmith
7. "Take Her Out" - Alice in Chains
8. "Uwasareru Mono" - Iuchi Maiko
9. "Lunchbox" - Marilyn Manson
10. "Afterlife" - Avenged Sevenfold

Hey, I got one at the end. But not even close enough to unseat GreatJedi.

Current King (& Number to Beat): GreatJedi7 (2)

Scoreboard
GreatJedi7 - 2
Dack - 2

I edited the score since SheSaid mentioned her namesake's song isn't in TB:RB, which leaves Jedi at 2 instead of 3.

[GNFfhqwhgads]

http://yfrog.com/nu17297245p


1. Green Grass and High Tides - The Outlaws
2. Tuff Enuff - The Fabulous Thunderbirds
3. Revolution - The Beatles
4. Viva la Vida (Live) - Coldplay
5. And I Love Her - The Beatles
6. Thank You Very Much - Kaiser Chiefs
7. It's a Hard Life - Queen
8. I Want You to Want Me (Live) - Cheap Trick
9. Tell Me Why - The Beatles
10. (We Are) The Road Crew - Motörhead

That's five.

Scoreboard
GreatJedi7 - 2
Dack - 2
GNFfhqwhgads - 1

[DackAttac]

My username is, much to my dismay, NOT on TB:RB.

I edited the score since SheSaid mentioned his namesake's song isn't in TB:RB, which leaves Jedi at 2 instead of 3.

Ah, good catch, you two. Although GreatJedi7 did get that third point back. (1st from dethroning me, 2nd from SheSaid's post, 3rd from CJ's.)

Also, CJ, just so you know, SheSaidSheSaid is a "her", not a "his".

So the standings before this round I'm about to do are:

King: GNFfhqwhgads (5 songs)

Scoreboard:
GreatJedi7 - 3
Dack - 2
GNFfhqwhgads - 2

1. "Angry White Boy Polka" - Weird Al
2. "Cheer Up" - Reel Big Fish
3. "Places" - Fountains of Wayne
4. "Butterfly" - Weezer
5. "Don't Ask Me Why" - Billy Joel
6. "Night Driver" - Tom Petty
7. "Code Monkey" - Jonathan Coulton
8. "Dancing in the Street" - Martha Reeves & the Vandellas
9. "Hate to See You Like This" - Fountains of Wayne
10. "Commandante" - k-os

King: GNFfhqwhgads (5 songs)

Scoreboard:
GreatJedi7 - 3
GNFfhqwhgads - 2
Dack - 2

[GreatJedi7]

My username is, much to my dismay, NOT on TB:RB.

I thought Revolver was Full Album DLC?

[GNFfhqwhgads]

I thought Revolver was Full Album DLC?

Nope. Harmonix debated that or Rubber Soul, and went with Rubber Soul.

[dog037]

1. "Anna Molly" - Incubus
2. "Run" - Vampire Weekend
3. "Narcolepsy" - Third Eye Blind
4. "Little Miss Strange" - The Jimi Hendrix Experience
5. "Maps" - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
6. "St. Jimmy" - Green Day
7. "November Rain" - Guns N' Roses
8. "Kielbasa" - Tenacious D
9. "Breakpoint" - Megadeth
10. "Gigantic" - Pixies