furrypedro wrote:I may also be enlisting guests that I have Nur Eined with before in order to circumvent said logistical nightmares. I presume this won't disqualify me and if it does I will throw down

As long as they live in Japan, yes.

HA! I fooled you! I paid attention to the lyrics this time... kind of. I didn't really consider it one sentence if you delivered your lines broken at natural places that any song would have done before, which is basically almost all of you . For example, a lot of you started musical phrases with &qu...

furrypedro wrote:God dammit. I'm in Japan right now so getting a song in is hard enough.

This struggle might make your song the best. You can do it!!!

(Tastefully consider my anime theme song challenge before proposing it to strangers after sake bombs)

It's looking like we won't be able to have round 2 podcast out until this weekend/Monday. Busy schedules!

As contestants and the primary listeners, does having the podcast lag significantly affect your enjoyment?

Conversely, I immediately thought of interjections when we brought up the challenge, so long as the interjections don't take a life of their own. Knowing how well I pay attention to lyrics, if you are solely relying on the lyrics to make this obvious then you might be out of luck.

Yeah, I figure you get enough of my opinions and rankings, and there's something to be said about anonymous judging and maintaining the enigma.

You can grab the latest episode at http://podcast.songlander.com iTunes will take a while to update, but you can subscribe either there (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-new-ugly/id1229599483?mt=2) or from the RSS feed (http://podcast.songlander.com/feed.xml) in your podcast app. I tried to g...

I'm mastering it right now. Should be soon.

You can find the podcast on iTunes, so any podcast app will allow you to subscribe and automatically get updates, if you're into that. I like podcasts.

Haven't looked yet - been preoccupied with other things. I got it to happen by visiting in Safari and then clicking on the latest contest immediately (before the initial load finishes?).

I see it. Seems to be a timing issue with the Javascript when you click too quickly. I'll try to poke into it. I think Sam wrote that page in particular if I recall.

Yes. In fact, it's encouraged. In years past, people had a lot more time...

This round was really hard to rank. If you were in the top, you were just as enjoyed as all the top. And if you weren't in the top, you were no less enjoyed than anyone in the lower-half. 73 Keep It Beautiful - Nice. For a bit of an elevator genre, it still stands out. As always, performed deft-full...

These are excellent. I am so happy.

I just started listening and I immediately wanted to make my own Nur Ein review podcast, just to invalidate your opening line "the only podcast where you'll hear Nur Ein reviews". :P It's almost as much work as recording a short song. Go for it. :P Is Skyping in some contestants something...

And HTTPS should be resolved. All good to go.

I put up the songs. Still working on HTTPS issue, but if you use Sam's workaround it'll be fine.

I thought it would be fun to try making a podcast around Nur Ein. I'm going to try to get more in-sync with the rounds.

Clearly if I can review songs with my friend a few beers in, your criticism is welcome.

http://podcast.songlander.com

I don't have them - Niv does. But if Niv uses the workaround to upload them to the site, I will prioritize getting them listenable. I'm presuming he might not have time at work so it all might just work itself out by the time he does...

For some background, the site is hosted at dreamhost and they support free Let's Encrypt certificates automatically, but it's a new feature and they're occasionally running into bugs. I put in a support ticket and it'll hopefully be worked out by EOD- otherwise I might have to pull HTTPS from the co...

I'm not here to make friends. I'm here to be America's Next Top Model. These reviews are in mixed up order. You'll never know how I voted. 73 Keep it Beautiful - Great pop track by one of the masters. I feel it's a little cliche, but you added in some unique elements here and there - some chord cho...

Speaking as a judge, I will be more than ecstatic to hear a tasteful instrumental or vocal counter-melody used to accentuate your song.

I know this voice.

Dang, this is going to be fun.