FAN Idol IX: Thread 2: Round 46: Finale Winner Revealed!!!

[King Boo]

I don't know if anything I said sparked the talk about choosing what you like - I don't think so, but I don't know for sure.

Anyway, as I said, I like and stand by everything I've ever chosen in both seasons I've played. It's a representation of who you are, in a sense (not to get all heavy about it haha). But there's a level of strategy to advance, and IMO, the key is finding stuff you think will do well from the stuff you like.

I don't know, maybe I'm being redundant, but I just want this to be fun, you know? I don't look down my nose on anyone's choices or style of playing, and I'd hope I get the same courtesy.

Lastly, whenever Peg says he loves a particular choice in a round, I'm dying to know what it is. I always get curious with stuff like that haha.

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One Judge's Rankings are in for Round 34: One More Time: The Double Dip.

I'm going to reveal Round 35's theme now. As always, contestants can decide to wait until the current Round is over before sending in their songs or they can decide to get a jump on it. Round 34's winner can send in an additional song but at least three different categories must be represented for this Round if they do so.

So, Summer's coming to an end. Everyone's coming back from summer camp, that first time summer job is winding down, time to go back-to-school shopping and get a new pair of Vans. Oh man, my butt's going to look good in this dress (wait, what?). Take good notes because this is quite a detailed Round.

Don't forget your trapper keeper, cause it's time for...



Round 35: Rock and Roll High School, The School of Rock

Pick 3 songs that fulfill one of the eight categories listed below that are thematically linked to a school subject. You must represent at least two subjects.

The categories (with examples of what sorts of songs would fulfill it) are:

Art (Songs that contain a color or colors in its title or lyrics or famous artists, art movements, and artwork)

Foreign Languages (Songs that have a title written, or lyrics spoken, in a Non-English Language; there must be at least a chorus in another language to fulfill the lyrics aspect)

Geography (Songs that have a title or lyrics that reference a specific continent, country, or city or a natural formation like a mountain, ocean, desert, etc.)

History (Songs that refer to a historical event (such as a War), person, location, and so forth, including time periods)

Literature (Songs that refer to characters and events from books, plays, poems, comic book, film, legends, or folklore)

Mathematics (Songs that contain a number in their title or lyrics; Songs that mention a shape in their title of lyrics)

Physical Education (Songs that refer to a sport, a sports team, a sports figure, or a sporting moment, including fight songs, team songs, songs for a league, etc.)

Science (Songs that refer to a variety of things related to various branches of science including planets and animals, planets and other celestial bodies including the Sun and the Moon, Parts of the Human Body, weather phenomenon like rain and snow, and so forth).

As always, please label how the song fulfills the category. This is intentionally very broad, so let me know if you come up with songs that fulfill any of these categories in ways that I haven't listed.

[King Boo]

YESSSSSSSS!!!!! I LOVED this one last season!!!!

[Gus Richlen: Ruffian]

Min already sent and awaiting approval.

[Waffel113]

Working on my rankings right now and oh boy am I very very disappointed in one of these picks so far.

[suave]

Whoever picked the Based God has my respect for life.

[Waffel113]

I was more surprised somebody has actually used Lil B in the past.

[pegasuswarrior]

Not that anyone cares, but I just smashed my computer (OK, maybe not, but in my head I smashed it) after realizing one of my picks for the next round is nullified by the fact that someone used this gosh-forsaken artist already. Would've been one of my favorite picks of this whole game, and the PERFECT round to unleash it. Also, it would be "pulling a Dashboard Confessional," so to speak, because it's an artist not usually in my own mark-out factory. (Long story short, I'm having a hard time with the fact that I really wanted to share this song with people. It freaking RULES!)

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{Spoiler}One judge would've had it last.

Well, thanks for letting me rant. So disappointed. The song will be around for many seasons later, so maybe then. But I really wanted to use it for this round's theme. #AntiClimactic

(Not a cry for sympathy. Just a rant. Ha.)

[Waffel113]

It happens Peg. Definitely something I ran into when I was still in the game.

Actually I didn't know you had a degree in Music Education before Tyger brought it up on the last page.

[pegasuswarrior]

Aug 2, 2014 21:33:24 GMT -5 Waffel113 said:

It happens Peg. Definitely something I ran into when I was still in the game.

Actually I didn't know you had a degree in Music Education before Tyger brought it up on the last page.

That's Widow's Peak.

And thanks for the comment. It happens and it's part of the game, but I have a good feeling none of the judges and a great many of the players have never heard this song I'm thinking of. It's not the best song ever made or anything, but it means something to me because--like I said--it would be a near the top of the list of this season's favorite songs that I've picked. I usually look at the song choices moreso than my own and love to love others' stuff. (It's why we should all play.) I just kinda had a genuine mark-out moment for myself for a change, Barry Horowitz WCW-style, so I had to whine a bit. Ha.

As for the music education thing, nah, I don't think anyone on here knows jack about me away from the forums. But let's just say I do get some personal irony out of what's not known about me amid forum life. ("Forum Life" should totally be some banned guy's ab tattoo.)

[Waffel113]

It is? Damn, what three months out of school can do to a guy's reading comprehension.

Rankings in, and really I at least liked everything outside my Bottom 3. Fantastic work you guys.

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Aug 2, 2014 21:26:38 GMT -5 pegasuswarrior said:

Not that anyone cares, but I just smashed my computer (OK, maybe not, but in my head I smashed it) after realizing one of my picks for the next round is nullified by the fact that someone used this gosh-forsaken artist already. Would've been one of my favorite picks of this whole game, and the PERFECT round to unleash it. Also, it would be "pulling a Dashboard Confessional," so to speak, because it's an artist not usually in my own mark-out factory. (Long story short, I'm having a hard time with the fact that I really wanted to share this song with people. It freaking RULES!)

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{Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}One judge would've had it last.

Well, thanks for letting me rant. So disappointed. The song will be around for many seasons later, so maybe then. But I really wanted to use it for this round's theme. #AntiClimactic

(Not a cry for sympathy. Just a rant. Ha.)

Well, provided you last long enough, you might get a chance to use it. Historically, the last few Rounds (and we're getting there sooner than people, myself included, realize) have had double dip qualities at times.

Four judges have their rankings in. We already have 2 out of 6 sets of songs for Round 35: Rock and Roll High School, the School of Rock, with another contestant sending in a song as well. Moving along at a good pace.

I figure I should address judging a bit more. Judges may not "award" players for picking certain genres or artists but I feel that there is a balance. Often enough, I'll see one judge score an artist at one end of the scoring spectrum and then another judging scoring the same artist at the other end. While a consensus does arise at times, I think it should be noted that many of the Rounds have been razor thin in terms of scores. If there was one contestant who dominated the game, that would be one thing but no one really has. Some people, like Murder/Suave or Gretchen/Roxie have gone on good streaks but I don't think we have a favorite to win right now. I do think that every contestant left deserves to be here and, while judging does play a huge role in things, the players have all played solid enough that they are the ones ultimately determining who continues forward.

The judges have done a great job keeping pace, especially since most of them are new to judging. I sympathize with Square's and others complaints but I think we have a great group of judges here. Time will tell if they let a good song fall through the cracks but, with as many Rounds as there are, that's bound to happen. Just the nature of the game. They've kept it going and they've worked marvelously. Being a judge can be very hard but, looking at the panel, fw91 and Longhorn/Canctus have been consistent throughout, always being there and helping to keep some sort of steadiness to what's been going on. Waffle, Moonie, Z-A, Rad have all come in and done a heck of a job, especially the eliminated contestants. It takes a big person to get eliminated and then come back and judge, doing so without a bias.

[RadcapRadsley]

Just listened to this rounds songs and 10 of the 18 songs were B+ player level or better

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Waiting on the other judges to score the Round. Please give them the necessary time.

We have 4 out of 6 sets of songs in for Round 35: Rock and Roll High School, The School of Rock.

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Four Judges with their rankings in for Round 34.

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(Dip Dip Dip)



Wink Tyger: (looking into the television camera)... and three, two, one (obnoxious game show host voice) Weeeellllcccooommmmeee Back!!! How are you all do in tv land? Sitting back on the ol' couch, got a soda in hand, some nachos? Hope you're having a great night, watching on the Ffffrrreakkkiinnnn AWESOME NETWORK!!!! I'm your host, Wink Tyger, and you all know the contestants, don't you? Lemme introduce you to them one more time!!!

*Points to contestants, some off them clearly bored and upset, others, like Orangeutang, more upbeat and cheerful*

When this dog demon isn't prowling the roadways of feudal Japan hunting monsters and kidnapping... I mean aiding damsels in distress, he can be found letting loose the tastiest and heaviest metal rifts this side of Bill Steer as part of a fiendish collective of orphaned Swedish necromancers/death metal rockers, Uppoffring!!! Cower in fear for Gus Richlen, Inuyasha Mark!!!


Next, we have a real throwback. A true visionary, kicked out of Juillard for embracing his wild side. This artist traveled the jungles of the Amazon, braved the Serengeti, and communed with the great apes of Sumatra, all in an effort to rediscover his musical muse. Listen to the sounds of your ancestors with the Orangeutang!!!


Pegasus Warrior began to yawn and nod off. Get to the point, you bum, he thought and, after one particularly glowing encomium about suave's amorous conquests among the Eastern Bloc during his Cold War spy days, an appropriately cheesy sequence of knife puns about Gretchen Weiners and an evocation of Apollo, the Golden Music God of the Greeks for Pegasus's benefit, the Host finally got back on track.

Wink Tyger: And, yes, thankfully that's over with. The execs at the Freakin' Awesome Network consulted with their brain trust and Retro said that it would be a good idea if I was a game show host for this Round. Quiet You (pointing to suave), don't laugh when I say I'm a game show host. With that said, back to the task at hand.

The Double Dip is a staple of the FAN Idol Season. It allows the contestants to break that most sacred of rules, enabling them to pick new songs from previously selected artists. At this stage of the competition, the contestants were also tasked with choosing a new song from an artist first used in FAN Idol this Season. To complicate things even more, the contestants were finally allowed to choose either a new artist altogether for this Season or to double dip one already selected. Many pm's were sent, rules had to be reexplained, contestants went slightly mad, but, in the end, a fine selection of songs were made, altogether worthy of the veritable bounty of the sea of musicians picked earlier this Season.

With only six competitors left, this Round is of utmost importance. Winning it will allow the victor to choose a fourth song for Round 35: Rock and Roll High School: The School of Rock, provided that at least three school subjects are represented for that most unpredictable of Rounds. The winner will have a golden opportunity to firmly plant him or herself in the running for FAN Idol for Season IX, while those contestants hovering near the bottom will have some ground to make up. Each Round, of course, allows for such a comeback however and the only guarantees in this game are fantastic, out of the box thinking and moments of high drama.

So, with that in mind, let's go to the scores.

In Sixth place, receiving a total of 111 points, is a contestant that may yet live to recall the glory days of future rounds that lie ahead...

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Knailsic Loves to Boogie!!! who challenged us to think with Kendrik Lamar's poignant Swimming Pools (Drank) (30 pts, 13th), pulled at our heartstrings with another song about a man lamenting to his mama that he shot a man down with Turned Me Cold by Lil B (15 pts, 15th), and wrapped around us with 8 arms strong, with the legendary Syd Barrett's only single as a solo artist, Octopus (66 pts, 2nd)!!!

With 126 points and in fifth place is a contestant that does not have to do a double take. No doubt about it, this contestant is in the final six and likely here to stay for Rounds to come...

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suave!!! who moved us with the anti-war anthem Hero of War by melodic hardcore band Rise Against (45 pts, T-10th), went back to the well for the electronic synthpop magic of Scottish electronic band Chvrches and their Recover (25 pts, 14th) and presented us with the wholesome, baked goodness of ska and soul bros. The Pietasters and their defiant Stay Out All Night (56 pts, 6th)!!!

Sitting pretty at 143 points and in 4th place, just two shy of a tie for 3rd, is a contestant that dug deep into their musical arsenal and came up with guns blazing...

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Gus Richlen, Inuyasha Mark!!! who channeled his retrospective side with The Byrds cover of the Bob Dylan's My Back Pages (49 pts, T-9th), regaled us with his hiking a hundred highways with Johnny Cash's cover of Frank Sinatra's Love's Been Good to Me (49 pts, 9th), and made our choices doubly tough this round with the incomparable soul man Solomon Burke's The Judgement (45 pts, T-10th)!!!

Taking the Bronze with 145 points is a contestant that showed they had a lot left to offer this competition, reminding us again what a force they can be...

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Orangeutan!!! who kept it in the family with the Sierota siblings' band, Echosmith, and their Cool Kids (57 pts, 5th), threw down the gauntlet with Pop God Elton John's immortal (and nonsensical) Bennie and the Jets (54 pts, 7th), and gave us a big old peck on the cheek with the lippy Paul Stanley and his Tonight You Belong to Me (34 pts, 12th)!!!

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Gretchen Weiners.
Pegasus Warrior

Please Step Forward.

The two of you are the highest scoring contestants for Round 34: One More Time: The Double Dip. This may be the most strategy oriented Round in the entire Season. While it hasn't always been part of FAN/Wrestlecrap Idol, the Double Dip Round has become a signaling point to announce that the competition has reached a very important juncture. With only six contestants left, the Rounds will get harder and harder, the contestants more desperate and resourceful, and the level of play will crescendo. The Double Dip is a good barometer of a contestant's ability to not only pick great music but to pick great music that can win over the judges. Since so much is available to a contestant, it takes a truly great grasp of strategy to stand out and shine. Winning this will allow the victorious contestant the ability to pick another song for Round 35, which will be a great advantage due to that Round's wide open perimeters.

So, with a dazzling score of 176 points, the winner of Round 34: One More Time: The Double Dip is...

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Pegasus Warrior!!! who knows exactly where he is in this competition, employing Canadian indie rock band maestros Hot Hot Heat's Middle of Nowhere, as heard on the WB show One Tree Hill (67 pts, 1st), bringing forth the eclectic stylings of the oft-poetic anti-folk musician Regina Spekter and her You've Got Time (T-10th), and filling his sails with the calm, fortuitous breeze of the legendary Red Hot Chili Peppers's Zephyr Song (64 pts, 3rd)!!! Congratulations!!!

With 154 big time points, sewing up second place, is Gretchen Weiners!!! who wandered about for a fair bit until she got her bearings with English Blues Rock Supergroup Blind Faith's Can't Find My Way Home (62 pts, 4th), the dark, Country-tinged drug influenced Dead Flowers by the incomparable Rolling Stones (52 pts, 8th), and she gave them all a battle with Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band's Her Strut (40 pts, 11th)!!!

Judges' Rankings:

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1. Pegasus Warrior (67+45+64= 176 pts)
Middle of Nowhere- Hot Hot Heat
Fw-9, LM-13, R-14, W-17, ZA-14= 67 (1st)

You’ve Got Time- Regina Spektor
Fw-3, LM-3, R-5, W-18, ZA-16= 45 (T-10th)

The Zephyr Song- Red Hot Chili Peppers
Fw-15, LM-18, R-1, W-12, ZA-18= 64 (3rd)

2. Gretchen Weiners (62+52+40= 154pts)
Can’t Find My Way Home- Blind Faith
Fw-12, LM-12, R-18, W-14, ZA-6= 62 (4th)

Dead Flowers- The Rolling Stones
Fw-5, LM-14, R-9, W-16, ZA-8= 52 (8th)

Her Strut- Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band
Fw-11, LM-10, R-7, W-7, ZA-5= 40 (11th)

3. Orangeutang (57+54+34= 145pts)
Cool Kids- Echosmith
Fw-10, LM-9, R-17, W-8, ZA-13= 57 (5th)

Bennie and the Jets- Elton John
Fw-8, LM-16, R-4, W-9, ZA-17= 54 (7th)

Tonight You Belong to Me- Paul Stanley
Fw-7, LM-11, R-3, W-4, ZA-9= 34 (12th)

4. Gus Richlen, Inuyasha Mark (49+49+45= 143pts)
My Back Pages- The Byrds
Fw-16, LM-8, R-12, W-1, ZA-12= 49 (T-9th)

Love’s Been Good to me- Johnny Cash
Fw-6, LM-7, R-11, W-15, ZA-10= 49 (T-9th)

The Judgement- Solomon Burke
Fw-14, LM-6, R-16, W-5, ZA-4= 45 (T-10th)

5. Murder Killingfield (45+25+56= 126pts)
Hero of War- Rise Against
Fw-18, LM-4, R-6, W-10, ZA-7= 45 (T-10)

Recover- Chvrches
Fw-2, LM-5, R-13, W-3, ZA-2= 25 (14th)

Out All Night- The Pietasters
Fw-17, LM-15, R-2, W-11, ZA-11= 56 (6th)

6. Knailsic Loves to Boogie (30+15+66= 111pts)
Swimming Pools (Drank)- Kendrik Lamar
Fw-4, LM-2, R-8, W-13, ZA-3= 30 (13th)

Turned Me Cold- Lil B
Fw-1, LM-1, R-10, W-2, ZA-1= 15 (15th)

Octopus- Syd Barrett
Fw-13, LM-17, R-15, W-6, ZA-15= 66 (2nd)

Rankings by Song:

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1. Middle of Nowhere- Hot Hot Heat (Pegasus Warrior)
Fw-9, LM-13, R-14, W-17, ZA-14= 67

2. Octopus- Syd Barrett (Knailsic Loves to Boogie)
Fw-13, LM-17, R-15, W-6, ZA-15= 66

3. The Zephyr Song- Red Hot Chili Peppers (Pegasus Warrior)
Fw-15, LM-18, R-1, W-12, ZA-18= 64

4. Can’t Find My Way Home- Blind Faith (Gretchen Weiners)
Fw-12, LM-12, R-18, W-14, ZA-6= 62

5. Cool Kids- Echosmith (Orangeutang)
Fw-10, LM-9, R-17, W-8, ZA-13= 57

6. Out All Night- The Pietasters (suave)
Fw-17, LM-15, R-2, W-11, ZA-11= 56

7. Bennie and the Jets- Elton John (Orangeutang)
Fw-8, LM-16, R-4, W-9, ZA-17= 54

8. Dead Flowers- The Rolling Stones (Gretchen Weiners)
Fw-5, LM-14, R-9, W-16, ZA-8= 52

T-9. My Back Pages- The Byrds (Gus Richlen, Inuyasha Mark)
Fw-16, LM-8, R-12, W-1, ZA-12= 49

T-9. Love’s Been Good to me- Johnny Cash (Gus Richlen, Inuyasha Mark)
Fw-6, LM-7, R-11, W-15, ZA-10= 49

T-10. You’ve Got Time- Regina Spektor (Pegasus Warrior)
Fw-3, LM-3, R-5, W-18, ZA-16= 45

T-10. Hero of War- Rise Against (suave)
Fw-18, LM-4, R-6, W-10, ZA-7= 45

T-10. The Judgement- Solomon Burke (Gus Richlen, Inuyasha Mark)
Fw-14, LM-6, R-16, W-5, ZA-4= 45

11. Her Strut- Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band (Gretchen Weiners)
Fw-11, LM-10, R-7, W-7, ZA-5= 40

12. Tonight You Belong to Me- Paul Stanley (Orangeutan)
Fw-7, LM-11, R-3, W-4, ZA-9= 34

13. Swimming Pools (Drank)- Kendrik Lamar (Knailsic Loves to Boogie)
Fw-4, LM-2, R-8, W-13, ZA-3= 30

14. Recover- Chvrches (suave)
Fw-2, LM-5, R-13, W-3, ZA-2= 25

15. Turned Me Cold- Lil B (Knailsic Loves to Boogie)
Fw-1, LM-1, R-10, W-2, ZA-1= 15

[Knailsic From Now On]

So the judges are not Based, well I'd still like to thank Based God anyway

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4 out of 6 sets of songs are in for Round 35: Rock and Roll High School: The School of Rock. Round 34's winner can decide to choose another song; otherwise 4 out of 6 sets are in.

[pegasuswarrior]

I liked so many of those songs. Good round. Special nod to Murder Killingfield. You tipped your hat to Roxie and Blind Faith, and now I tip my hat to you. I almost decided to drive four hours to see Chvrches (before they get a second album and get out of the smaller venues), so naturally I popped hard for "Recover." I understand the band can be an acquired taste for many, but know that that song got a huge reaction outta me. Well done.

[King Boo]

Aug 5, 2014 10:09:07 GMT -5 pegasuswarrior said:

I liked so many of those songs. Good round. Special nod to Murder Killingfield. You tipped your hat to Roxie and Blind Faith, and now I tip my hat to you. I almost decided to drive four hours to see Chvrches (before they get a second album and get out of the smaller venues), so naturally I popped hard for "Recover." I understand the band can be an acquired taste for many, but know that that song got a huge reaction outta me. Well done.

Aww, I don't know when this was, but thank you!