Note: in SpinTunes, judges opinions mean next to nothing in the last round, unless there's a tie for first place. But if this round had been earlier, I think it's safe to say that we'd have at least discussed DQ for a number of them. I try to communicate that thought process in this review. FINAL R...

To see the results with formatting, https://spintunescontest.blogspot.com/2020/03/spintunes-16-round-4-results.html Temnere wins the coveted no-prize, and also earns a spot as a judge in our next contest, where he can give as well as he received. And this, Ladies and Gentlebeings, is why you shadow....

Since we have five judges on the roster this round, my rankings have not been recorded and will not be used. Joe Travis* Micah Mary Ann Russ Total Moving Forward: Jerkatorium 6 1 3 4 3 17 Steve Stearns 2 3 2 7 10 24 Ross Durand 4 2 1 13 6 26 Nick Work 3 7 5 9 11 35 Glen Raphael 5 13 18 3 2 41 “Bucke...

Here's a breakdown of the scoring. Joe Dave* Micah Mary Ann Russ Total Steve Stearns 2 1 8 6 4 21 Ominous Ride 5 3 4 3 10 25 Ross Durand 6 6 17 1 1 31 Glen Raphael 1 14 18 2 3 38 Jerkatorium 13 2 14 4 7 40 Nick Work 3 25 2 8 5 43 Temnere 8 4 1 7 24 44 The Quantifiers 20 26 5 5 2 58 Vowl Sounds 18 9 ...

ST16R1 Review Russ Rogers' Reviews Jocko Homomorphism - John Goodman's Crowbar A Gary Numan/Cars Vibe. Big Lebowski Theme. I bet there will be a LOT of those. Begins with what sounds like 30 seconds of Metal Machine Music. I've never seen Big Lebowski. That's on me. I own Metal Machine Music on viny...

(pasted from the SpinTunes blog. You can visit there for links) https://spintunescontest.blogspot.com The first round deadline has passed, and I can reveal that of the bands that signed up, 27 made the deadline and are now considered "SpinTuners". Doing the math, I see that seven of these ...

I've had a couple of questions about last minute fixes or tweaks. We really want the best album we can have, and have no desire to preserve what you might think are "mistakes" for posterity. So I'll be happy to post any remixes and fixes you like AFTER the judging. Basically, the Saturday ...

Right now we've got 29 people signed up (quite a few of them are SongFighters), and room for more. The first challenge goes up at midnight tonight. As Jerkatorium mentioned, we've got room for some judges, too. I'm on here now, so give me a holler if you'd like to pontificate. With Jerkatorium compe...

To see this with formatting: http://music.cratchit.org/2018/12/spintunes-15-round-3-concerning-choices.html I haven't been commenting so much on SpinTunes 15 here, as I've had my hands full on the SpinTunes blog itself. That's where you'll find my reviews, including this one for Round 3. Now, I was ...

Chumpy and Ryan's reviews are in their podcast: https://twojerksonevote.com/

https://spintunescontest.blogspot.com/2018/12/st15r3-rankings-joe-lamb.html So - I was harsh this round. And it wasn't that easy because tribute/sound-alike/ in-the-style-of was always gonna be difficult to balance. Some of the tracks below are listed purely for the fact that the 'original' artist ...

https://spintunescontest.blogspot.com/2018/12/st15r3-reviews-edric-haleen.html Hello again, Participants! You've all written and submitted another song -- congrats! (Everyone still having fun?) THE LOW-HANGING FRUIT: I knew I'd be writing my reviews somewhat differently this round. With the challen...

https://spintunescontest.blogspot.com/2018/12/st15r3-reviews-micah-sommersmith.html The following is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the position of SpinTunes 15 Judge: PREAMBLE This was a very difficult round to evaluate. It seems to me the judges were tasked with ranking ...

https://spintunescontest.blogspot.com/2018/12/st15r3-reviews-travis-langworthy.html Even though I don’t run this thing anymore, I do keep an eye/ear on it. Since I didn’t judge the past rounds here’s what I thought of them. Round 1: Hated the challenge, and the songs were meh overall. In my opinion...

https://spintunescontest.blogspot.com/2018/12/st15r3-reviews-dave-leigh.html This round you'll note we've got a special Guest Judge... Travis Langworthy, who started SpinTunes and kept it running for years. Glad to have him here to opine this round, and you can read his reviews about five minutes a...

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https://spintunescontest.blogspot.com/2018/12/spintunes-15-round-4-challenge.html This is simple enough ;) It Grows On You: Write a cumulative song, in which the verses repeat but with additional material each time through, resulting in longer and longer verses. [/i] An easy example would be The Tw...

https://spintunescontest.blogspot.com/2018/12/st15r3-results.html And our SpinTunes #15 finalists are... Artist/song Dave* Travis Joe Edric Ryan Chumpy Micah TOTAL Mandibles 3 1 2 7 1 2 1 14 Faster Jackalope 1 2 3 5 2 1 6 19 Zoe Gray 6 5 6 2 4 6 7 30 Third Cat 7 9 7 6 3 3 2 30 Vom Vorton 5 6 1 8 5 ...

SpinTunes #15 Round 3 Challenge It's been a while since we've had a purely technical challenge. The drought ends here: Rubber Band: To reach the final round, we're asking our competitors to stretch themselves. Write a pastiche (a song in the style) of a band or artist whose style is appreciably diff...

ST15R1 Reviews: Dave Leigh First, a quick note. As mentioned in the last post, the regular Judges for this competition are Micah Sommersmith, Ryan and Chumpy of Jerkatorium, Edric Haleen, and Joe Lamb. And this is a first... all of them are former champions (of SpinTunes or Song Fu)! Each and every ...

Chumpy and Ryan's reviews will be on their podcast at https://twojerksonevote.com/, as usual. If it's not there by the time this is posted, it will be soon.

If no-one minds too much - a few thoughts on this round. For songs about gratitude, there were so few obvious up-beat tracks it was puzzling. A HUGE majority either played it safe or just seemed to lacked imagination. A word on vocals... We need to HEAR them. I get that a lot of people might see the...