(04-26-2014, 12:15 AM)NOVA-5 Wrote: Was thinking on the Highwayman myself & was going to post Adam & The Ants - Stand And Deliver
to keep in with that vibe but thought I best not & changed my mind.
Well, I shot Sterlin a PM outlining some rule formalizations to make this all less random & more game like...we'll see how it goes after he takes a look. The Adam & The Ants tune, as fine as it is, seems out of left field since it's not about vibe, but simply nothing more than linking words in the song titles from post post
OK. First off, many moons ago, "Thumb War" was a thread that Zapp created after he & I were randomly messing around in Joe's "Epic Tunes" thread for a while. The rules were pretty fast & loose:
1- "Post a song title from an artist that shares one or more words with the song title above you"
2- "If you can't think of a song from another artist that shares one or more words with the song above you, it's cool to post a different song from the same artist"
Since then, Sterlin's resurrected the game a couple times & I always get a kick out of it...problem is, it's never really been a forum game.
I'd like to try & change that to make it more like a Jenga game by formalizing a few things & giving it consequences.
So. Just for the official record, it works like this:
The idea is to start with a single song.
For this example, I'll use:
It's important to keep in mind that even though it doesn't matter which specific word you choose to focus on in the song title when making your post, it can only be a word somewhere in the song title itself...you cannot substitute a word from the Artist or Band name.
Remember: Song titles only!
Also, no using articles for tune linking like 'a' 'is' 'and' & 'the' etc.
For this example, the 1st song in the new stack needs to be any song from any artist that includes "Misty" "Mountain" or "Hop"
The second song needs to have either "Gun" or "Song" in the title, like:
The next poster would be required to post 4 separate songs from any artist, the next would need 5 separate songs from any artist...and so on & so on & so on.
It will obviously get harder & harder as the stack grows from post to post, so when there's a song somewhere in the list above you that you can't link a word in the title with, you "crash the stack" Jenga-style and are required to start over with any single song specifically from the artist that stumped you, no matter where they appeared in the post above you & everyone begins again.
It's also considered a stack crasher if you miscount the list & fail to add the next tier, in which case, the next poster can pick any one song from any artist in that stack.
Get it?
Any suggestions on how to improve these new rules are more than welcome. PM me with 'em if ya got 'em