RotM #7 - Voting (Short month = short voting period)

Antique_Guitars

Howdy fretboarders!

Welcome to the voting thread for Riff of the Month #7

Voting closes on the 28th of February at 11.50 pm.

Feel free to vote and comment in this thread.

Same deal as the main Fretboard Challenge, vote for your top 3 entries!

1st choice gets 5 points

2nd choice gets 3 points

3rd choice gets 1 point

You can find all the entries on this playlist

JudasVigilante

Here's my votes for rotm 7.

1st (5pts) @Paul_Blackskin - love the heavy riffing, monster tone etc. Really rockin, dark, effort.

2nd (3pts) @Kin - Love the timing and just general oddity of this. Like how the guitars build over the course. Nicely done.

3rd (1pts) @Downsideup11 - This totally reminds of an experimental track I recorded about 15 yrs ago. I recorded it on cassette 4 track and lost the tape a few later. Just love it for the general weirdness, FX, brave effort. 

Can I just comment if I may that this month was far harder to choose who to vote for than last month. There were another 3 or 4 I was torn between that I could have voted for. Special mention to for @DesVesgas just for the title of his riff (which was rockin) Hit The Deck It's The Falcon Punch. If that was a song on Itunes, I'd buy it!

Well that's it, a very high standard this month, well done to everyone. There wasn't a riff I didn't like. All amazing. Not just saying that either.

paul_backskin

My name gone done been spelt wrong in the file!

Anyhow... Tough choices. But im leaning towards the tracks the riffs that are far away from my sound...

1) Steamabacus - Droplets ... Very nice, would go great over a relaxed EDM style track

2) Che - Tiki Fiyah ... Funky as hell. Great playing and backing track.

3) Sam Zadgan - ROTM ... Chilled. Sounds like an intro that would fit a calexico track.

Fretwired

My votes

@Antique_Guitars .. 5 points

@SteamAbacus .. 3 points

@Hobbio .. 1 point

Some great entries ...

RocknRollDave

@Bucket, @Paul...and @Che, 1st, 2nd and 3rd respectively for me.

daveww

Special mentions to @Ché , @Bucket , @Horse , @Axeweildingbastard , @Hobbio , @SteamAbacus , @Antique_Guitars and @Fretwired

These are my top list and I've no idea how I'm going to choose a top 3.  Will have another listen and do my best.

Well done to everyone who entered.  Enjoyed listening to all of them.

kin

1st @Bucket 2nd @Bingefeller 3rd @samzadgan

I decided to get my vote in tonight, I must have changed my mind about which riffs would get the points about ten times today and I really need to get some work done tomorrow instead.

So, if your not in my top three now, you probably were at some point during the day, really difficult choice to pick just three.

bingefeller

Glad someone mentioned my name in this thread so I got a notification as I didn't realise voting started today.

1: @SamZadgan - very nice.  Reminds me of Eno / Fripp.  

2: @Paul_Blackskin - love it.   

3:  @SteamAbacus - like the exotic feel on this.  

horse

Another tricky month to choose, but think these were my faves:

1) @Bucket - fantastic speedy funky hendrix vibe, great tone and influence, but brought something new & fresh to it

2) @che - at least 2 great riffs in there, and maybe one of the best sounding recordings we've heard so far in ROTM? 

3) @desvegas - I'm always a sucker for those kind of muted harmonics. Great urgent bluesy feel

hobbio

Holy shit this is tough! I had about 7 that could have filled the 3 spaces, so in the end I went for the ones that had my head nodding the most!

1 - @Paul_Backskin - 5 points

2 - @Bucket - 3 points

3 - @AndyJP - 1 point

Really high standard for all entries, we've got some proper riffmeisters around these parts!

DulcetJones

1.  lloyds - This Charming Riff - 5 points

2.  DesVegas - Hit the Deck it's the Falcon Punch - 3 points

3.  Paul_Blackskin - RPTM PB - 1 point

TTony

Firstly I was kicking myself for not having managed to get something recorded and submitted this month.

But then I listened to the playlist and decided that it really wouldn't have made a lot of difference to the voting if I had.  This "competition" is getting better and better with an ever-widening range of musical styles covered and (to my ears) quality improving every month.

There's stuff on the playlist that I'd like to listen to more of - ie the rest of the track, or the rest of the album - and there's other stuff on here that isn't for me, but the riff still appeals as a great riff.  Given the name of this compo, I've tried to vote on the basis of the riff itself rather than whether or not I'd like to hear the rest of the track/album ...

1st place  @spark240

2nd place  @Bucket

3rd place  @DesVegas

4th place (yes, I know there's no vote for 4th) to Ché.  I thought the first 20-odd secs was a great riff, which was slightly diluted by the rest of the track that sounded more like a verse backing to me rather than a pure this-is-the-focus riff.  That's something that applied to some of the other tracks too (that's my critique anyways).

I have to make honourable mentions for the Antique_Guitars piece, SteamAbacus (as usual), Daveww & Horse (ditto!), Andy JP (for being so different) and lloyds.

steamabacus

Tough one to choose. Loads of great entries this month but in the end my 'gut feelings' have picked out ...

3rd (1 point)   @Hobbio - Saturday Slice

2nd (3 points) @Ché - Tiki Fiyah

1st (5 points)  @Bingefeller - Feburiffage

DesVegas

@horse @dulcetjones @ttony Thank you for all my points so far chaps. I'm looking forward to going through the riffs this evening and giving out points to my top three.

It might be worth mentioning i am going to be voting very politically this month and i my votes can be easily bought .. PM me ok. ta

daveww

Here's my votes folks!

1st @Ché Tiki Fiya
2nd @Hobbio Saturday Slice
3rd @Horse Blues Minor

Great stuff everybody! Very difficult to pick these out and prioritise..

spark240

DesVegas said:

@horse @dulcetjones @ttony Thank you for all my points so far chaps. I'm looking forward to going through the riffs this evening and giving out points to my top three.

It might be worth mentioning i am going to be voting very politically this month and i my votes can be easily bought .. PM me ok. ta

How much for a 5 pointer ?

spark240

Ok....so my votes are--

1st place -  @PVO_Dave - this is right up my street, I could listen to a whole track based around the riff.

2nd place  - @Antique_guitars - great catchy riff, I was hooked after 15 seconds, it must be good ;-)

3rd place -  @Bucket - nice sound, good riff, well payed.

I really liked Che, but I just felt it became a bit more than a riff...great idea though.

Well done everyone .

DesVegas

Alrighty, I've had a listen to all the tracks/riffs... i have my favourites.. so lets start with the bidding.

@spark240 i'll take an ehx mini spark boost for 5 of my points

spark240

DesVegas said:

Alrighty, I've had a listen to all the tracks/riffs... i have my favourites.. so lets start with the bidding.

@spark240 i'll take an ehx mini spark boost for 5 of my points

Well ...its uncanny...almost like you know I have one of those going spare 1

DesVegas

@spark240 haha!! looks like you'll need to get it to me by lunchtime tomorrow for 5 big ones

downsideup11

Well done everyone - another diverse batch of riffs.  My votes;

• 1st place (5 pts) Hobbio - Saturday Slice. Perhaps it's more on the way to being a fully realized song than an actual riff but I love it - want to hear what happens after 55 seconds!
  
• 2nd place (3 pts) Axewieldingbastard - Voice 084. Strangely evocative and hypnotic - like it a lot.  The length of the piece certainly helps in this regard - wish it was longer.....
  
• 3rd place (1 pt) Daveww - Riff #7. Short, repetitive, simple and catchy - everything a great riff should be.