Topic: LISTEN OR DIE!! (Forced Listening, mkII) (Read 76507 times)

KharBevNor · « **Reply #150 on:** 20 Dec 2006, 04:11 »

Graham Parker - Discovering Japan

The intro riffs set off a huge alarm in my head. The alarm is in rainbow amiga colours and it's marked '80's'. I have the brief, disconcerting feeling that I should be in a Foreigner video. Having made this promise, this song delivers on it. It's a cheesy slice of 80's rock. Good stuff, to be honest, if a bit soft. Makes me want to wear my sunglasses at night. I'll give this a solid but unremarkable 7/10.

Now, lets get on to some seriously good stuff. I'm afraid you're going to have to watch this song with the video, otherwise you might not 'get' it. Easily one of the cleverest covers of all time. So simple, and so powerful. And yes, that is Marc Almond.

Coil - Tainted Love

Der Golem · « **Reply #151 on:** 20 Dec 2006, 05:43 »

This is good. Great atmosphere, only thing that I found wrong with it was the sound at the 2 minute mark. Everything else, the bell melody, gloomy vocals and occasional "duh-duh" contributed nicely to the most entertaining version of this song I have heard. 8.5/10

Gonna try and upload some of my own musics, Kuraka - Alfernes Natt. Not fully mastered though, drums and vocals overpower trumpet and keyboard, but good enough. http://download.yousendit.com/93FBEC2D017F5929

Storm Rider · « **Reply #152 on:** 20 Dec 2006, 09:29 »

Rizzo, for clarification, Angra is power metal.

Rizzo · « **Reply #153 on:** 20 Dec 2006, 14:21 »

Ah very good. I enjoyed. Went hunting for some Mercyful Fate at the record store today to no avail. Rather sad.

Scytale · « **Reply #154 on:** 20 Dec 2006, 14:43 »

Kuraka - Alfernes Natt

I like it, you definately captured that Polka feeling. The rawness of the unmastered version really adds to it I think. I don't know it sounds pretty good to my ears, maybe and this is just a suggestion, but you could stick a guitar into the background and play some tremello riffs ala finntroll to give it a bit more "bite" I guess, I don't know if the "polka metal" sound is /what you're after though. 7/10

Carpathian Forest - Cold Murderous Music Featuring as Nattefrost calls it in the linear notes the "Insane Tenor Saxaphone"

edit:forgot to give a score

Der Golem · « **Reply #155 on:** 20 Dec 2006, 18:44 »

The music is amazingly cool, a black metal take on jazz, and it works. Great atmosphere, the sax soloing is very laid back and depressed. The vocals sound very bleak and whatnot, but when you hear the lyrics they are way too silly, even hilarius. "Try to stick your pencils, up your nose
And smashing it into a table" That would be my only fault with it, a more serius approach would have suited it better. Still a 9/10 for amazing music.

Postins something in a minute

KharBevNor · « **Reply #156 on:** 20 Dec 2006, 23:05 »

Carpathian Forest aren't a very serious band a lot of the time, but they are grimmer than your mum with a strap-on, and they do normally manage to cut something fucking dark under their non-serious/humorous angle of attack. If you thought that track was a bit silly, you might try 'Cold Comfort', which is a track by them in a similiar vein (Jazz, piano, black metal atmospherics) but played completely straight. It's a brilliant track. Also, try and track down one of their more obscure releases 'In These Trees Are My Gallows': 'Last Sigh of Nostalgia Rehearsal' doesn't have quite the same instrumentation, but you could cut the atmosphere with a broadsword, if you know what I mean.

Ernest · « **Reply #157 on:** 21 Dec 2006, 03:14 »

Hmmm. . . I guess Der Golem isn't actually "postins something in a minute." I'll move things along.

Time to drop some Jethro Tull.

Jethro Tull- My God
http://www.sendspace.com/file/gw33a1

Hunter · « **Reply #158 on:** 21 Dec 2006, 06:43 »

Jethro Tull- My God

Ok So this is some pretty good stuff. This is an example to your kids about a rock n roll flute solo.It starts out with just guitar and is added with a drums then piano and finally the flute with a chorus to back it up. The intro Guitar is great and it is as if some one is creeping along in the shadows. The guitar riffs just get better and better. The vocals sound like the jester in the Hunch Back of No Tra Dam (or how ever you spell it). I only take points of for the chorus.

9/10

Frank Zappa -Bobby Brown Goes Down

http://download.yousendit.com/2EF8C28C5E88A726

Der Golem · « **Reply #159 on:** 21 Dec 2006, 07:23 »

Crap, I really did upload a track earlier, could have sworn I posted it. Sorry for delaying. Anyways, @ Khar, I don't really mind the sillyness of the lyrics per se, and the vocal delivery is really good, it just makes the song something entirely else than it would have been with actually depressing lyrics. Would have been awesome for sulking, now it is awesome for smiling at instead.

KharBevNor · « **Reply #160 on:** 21 Dec 2006, 08:05 »

Yeah, I grin at lyrics too, but even in them there's that little vicious undercurrent.

"This is how things go.
People don't care"

Or however it is.

Der Golem · « **Reply #161 on:** 21 Dec 2006, 09:13 »

Meant to put this in the above post, but Mr. Flaming, what is up with the direct quote? A typo in a message that was supposed to be edited out in about sixty seconds is not something you should have to be a dick about.

@ Khar: True that, but lines like "Try to stick your pencils up your nose and smashing it into a table" outweigh them. Will be the band out though, definately something that interested me.

For the song up for reviewing; I accidentally downloaded it because I knew the song simply as Bobby Brown and thought this was another song featuring the same character. Alas, I already knew the song, but will still review it, because, well, it is going to be a while until someone who doesn't already know this one comes along this thread. The song itself is kinda bland, despite Zappa's efforts to use varied instrumentation. It doesn't really have any drive in a lot of parts. But, the music itself isn't the main focus. It's all lyrics here. The story of a sexual deviant called Bobby Brown. I can see why someone might like this, but the humor doesn't hit home with me, and the vocal delivery is actually kind of annoying. 4/10 as I don't enjoy it, but I suppose it isn't without merit.

The song I meant to upload earlier; Andreas Oberg - My kind of bebop
http://download.yousendit.com/67C7AACA66C7ED1C

Scytale · « **Reply #162 on:** 21 Dec 2006, 11:39 »

As far as Carpathian Forest go once Nordavind left the lyrics got a lot sillier. I find amongst Nattefrost's lyrics there's the occansional genious moment burried beneath the silliness.

I own one of their early EP's "Through Chasm, Caves and Titan Woods" and I can confirm everything Khar said re the atmosphere. They do an absolutely chilling version of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven"

KharBevNor · « **Reply #163 on:** 21 Dec 2006, 22:18 »

Ooh, I've not heard that, fancy an mp3 swap? Must be one of the few things by them I don't own.

Carpathian Forest are just a brilliantly eclectic band who aren't too po-faced to not go absolutely fucking nuts, but still retain some serious black metal pretensions. I mean, they're the only even somewhat traditional BM band I can even imagine covering The Cure seriously. That said, there are some fucking wierd black metal covers floating around that seem to have been undertaken with complete sincerity. Tulus' version of Bowies 'Space Oddity' comes to mind.

Ernest · « **Reply #164 on:** 23 Dec 2006, 02:08 »

Andreas Oberg- My Kind of Bebop- GOOD/10

I hear some folks badmouthing Bad Religion on this board. I have the feeling that most of it is based on listening to The Process of Belief or anything without Brett Gurewitz. Here's the eponymous song off their best album (IMO), Generator.

Bad Religion- Generator
http://www.sendspace.com/file/fi2fub

Rizzo · « **Reply #165 on:** 23 Dec 2006, 06:10 »

Urgh, wma...

I don't understand why everyone bashes Process... it's a good album! Not their best certainly but it's still bloody good.

Ernest · « **Reply #166 on:** 23 Dec 2006, 06:13 »

A few songs maybe. But it's pretty boring. Empire was a much better album.

Der Golem · « **Reply #167 on:** 23 Dec 2006, 08:09 »

This was for the most part a pretty dire listening expiriance. I do enjoy a few bands influenced by these guys, for example Innvortis, by which I uploaded a song earlier in this thread, but it seems that they already took everything good about this and made it better. The vocals are feeble, the singer sounds like he is really uncertain about what he is saying. And around the one minute mark we get a single scream, followed immediately by some pussy "oh yeah"s which totally kills off the power of the scream. This repeats itself later on in the song. The music playing under this is run of the mill mid-tempo punk for the most part, with a single interesting moment though, the part after the chorus is really wierd and pretty cool. Then we get some not so special soloing. 5/10 for being almost completely mediocre.

A funk cover of Apach by The Incredible Bongo Band; http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=8B1C9A13002E21CF

Ernest · « **Reply #168 on:** 23 Dec 2006, 09:28 »

Get yourself an avatar before you go around reviewing other peoples' musics.

Der Golem · « **Reply #169 on:** 23 Dec 2006, 09:39 »

Easier for you to accept unfavorable critiques of your musics now that there is a picture of Dolph Lundgren next to my name?

Ernest · « **Reply #170 on:** 23 Dec 2006, 09:43 »

It makes you more personable. You bastard.

Rizzo · « **Reply #171 on:** 23 Dec 2006, 11:38 »

Stop being such a fucking twat. Jesus Christ... we don't all have to agree with you. He has every right not to like it, if you're not a fan of melodic punk then Bad Religion is probably not for you...
Christ man, think before you post.

CaptainLorax · « **Reply #172 on:** 23 Dec 2006, 11:51 »

funk cover - apach - incredible bong band 8/10
great bongo work. I like the part when it was exclusively bongos. The organ wasn't annoying at all and all the music notes were well written. Everything was solid and quite enjoyable. I give it an 8 because I dont listen to any music like that. It's missing innovative extra sounds/morphing and it was sorta dancey (its also been past 20 minutes since I listened to the song)? Again, there was great note combinations and the bongos kicked ass.

review any of these Grifters songs (there are 2 different versions of many of their songs and the singles version is usually better) (the.

grifters- a day in the park (compilation) - make it happen.mp3 (also called felt-tipped over)
http://www.sendspace.com/file/7lkjkc
http://fs06n2.sendspace.com/dl/9352e20ba21c424566e8e1c20e4f8fca/458ccfd8/7lkjkc/15%20a%20day%20in%20the%20park%20(compilation)%20-%20make%20it%20happen.mp3
_{forgive me I never used sendspace before}

grifters - 1995 eureka ep\5- founder's day parade.mp3
grifters- holmes 7 inch single - 01 - holmes.mp3
grifters- queen of the table waters 7 inch single - 02 - return to cinder.mp3
grifters- slip knot 7 inch single - 02 - subterranean death ride blues.mp3
grifters- bronze cast 7 inch single - 01 - bronze cast.mp3

Ernest · « **Reply #173 on:** 23 Dec 2006, 23:56 »

Quote from: Rizzo on 23 Dec 2006, 11:38

Stop being such a fucking twat. Jesus Christ... we don't all have to agree with you. He has every right not to like it, if you're not a fan of melodic punk then Bad Religion is probably not for you...
Christ man, think before you post.

Jesus Rizzo, please shut the fuck up. You must be the most emotionally stunted person in existence if you couldn't see that I was joking. Der Golem picked up on it. Think before you post.

Ernest · « **Reply #174 on:** 24 Dec 2006, 09:49 »

Grifters- Make It Happen

I'm liking this so far. Nice and slow with the semi-clean guitar. However, the song doesn't really change that much. There's a semi-interesting lead part, but it gets kinda monotonous. Ok, toward the end it gets pretty interesting. A damn cool drum breakdown part with a nice guitar lick. 7/10

Bear vs Shark- Catamaran
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsWpQc4SUr0

KharBevNor · « **Reply #175 on:** 24 Dec 2006, 09:58 »

Fuck you I had my track review written and literally one minute left on the upload of the next track I wanted to submit. Suppose I'll have to listen to even more shit now.

Ernest · « **Reply #176 on:** 24 Dec 2006, 10:07 »

Wait, so you were reviewing what I reviewed but I posted mine before you posted yours?

Hunter · « **Reply #177 on:** 24 Dec 2006, 10:40 »

Bear vs Shark- Catamaran

It was great except for the vocals. They felt sloppy and out of place

7/10
Boy Kill Boy On&On

http://download.yousendit.com/7F41067A5570EDA1

Rizzo · « **Reply #178 on:** 24 Dec 2006, 10:43 »

Quote from: Flaming Ostrich on 23 Dec 2006, 23:56

Jesus Rizzo, please shut the fuck up. You must be the most emotionally stunted person in existence if you couldn't see that I was joking. Der Golem picked up on it. Think before you post.

Excuse me for being unable to pick up the sarcasm in your text...

I'd post an "Internet; Serious business" gif if I could be fucked but lets be honest here, it's not worth the effort.
I'll just stop responding now, you grate my nerves in all the wrong ways.

Ernest · « **Reply #179 on:** 24 Dec 2006, 10:45 »

How about we agree not to get our panties all in a bunch over each others' posts, eh?

Rizzo · « **Reply #180 on:** 24 Dec 2006, 11:53 »

Oh flamey, you make my heart melt, take me now...

CaptainLorax · « **Reply #181 on:** 24 Dec 2006, 21:23 »

KharBevNor, I still would like to know what review you would have given that song. Grifters has quite a catalog. This is indeed one of their slower more memorizing songs. The vocals are trippy.

KharBevNor · « **Reply #182 on:** 24 Dec 2006, 21:28 »

I was drunk when I wrote this so apologies for the lack of legibility.

grifters - make it happen

starts slurred boring singing over some ok guitar, meh, guitar slows down and sounds quite cool actually, singer sounds like he's trying to copy john lennon but not fucking being very good, layers of music now seem out of synch with each other, another cool bit, drumming is quite nice. Everything still just sounds off. Random fuzz. meh. If you are gonna solo solo right. Slows right down again. just drums, I do not dig this vocalist. Where is this shit even going? is this a song? what the hell. Okay this bit is all right, there is some good feeling here, this band is basically seemingly just a band with good ideas who cannot write songs at all and that is okay, though still kinda shitty. I don't like the singer and nothing else meshes. Guitar i sokay. I skipped a bit. Nice again but its totally going nowhere. 5.5 no lets be generous 6/10.

Ernest · « **Reply #183 on:** 24 Dec 2006, 22:32 »

Quote from: Rizzo on 24 Dec 2006, 11:53

Oh flamey, you make my heart melt, take me now...

I'll take that as a "yes" to my suggestion. I don't even care if it was actually a "fuck you."

CaptainLorax · « **Reply #184 on:** 25 Dec 2006, 02:10 »

Boy Kill Boy - On and On 6/10
This is exactly the kind of music I dislike. It sounds like indie music. But still unoriginal. The pounding riffs with no funk.The voice that sounds like million others. Im on their myspace right now listening to another track "shoot me down" which is much better. sorry dude, the wrong person reviewed this tune.

I would love to write a ten page paper on why I hate voices like Panic at the Disco or.... I dont even know the names of the bands, I don't keep track. Theres so many. Their voice is theatrical or 'slick'. Putting on a show. I dont know, its just so hatable. The emo or toughness in their voice that isn't accompinied by tough music (more complex or rustic sounds as one example). I dont know I dont know. I need to actually listen to one of those singers again. And meditate on why their music sucks. I dont have the time right now

My last try with the Grifters:
Grifters - Holmes
http://www.sendspace.com/file/ccjc4e

what I get from their music: it isn't clean but thats a good thing. Perfection in imperfection. Grit Funk. Keppin it real. As cool as they come. More creative than your normal garage band. No simplicity and no childish-emotional singing. (I like more adult emo)

I WOULDN'T TRUST ANYONE WHO ISN'T JUST A LITTLE BIT CRAZY

Ernest · « **Reply #185 on:** 25 Dec 2006, 04:36 »

Grifters- Holmes

I like this quite a bit actually. 8/10

I'm gonna try Clann Zu again.

Clann Zu- Words For Snow= http://www.sendspace.com/file/vhs7yf

Clann Zu- One Bedroom Apartment= http://www.sendspace.com/file/r5ls2k

Words For Snow is the shorter song. One Bedroom Apartment is a long ballad. Review either one.

Hunter · « **Reply #186 on:** 25 Dec 2006, 10:24 »

Quote from: CaptainLorax on 25 Dec 2006, 02:10

sorry dude, the wrong person reviewed this tune

See, i dont try to go for that. I just pick a song and see what other people think about it. Its just silly to try an get a perfect 10/10 when opinions differ from one person to the next. Silly Reviewers, 10s are for Khar's music! (kidding of course)

moley · « **Reply #187 on:** 25 Dec 2006, 16:37 »

Clann Zu- Words For Snow

ok typing as a listen to this the second time through.

a nice slow opening, suggests that something bigger will come, a simple riff added and then it begins to go downhill. the vocalist just doesn't do anything for me, he sounds like he's not even bothering to begin to try. And then you have that whiney violin over the top taking the focus off of everything else. Usually II love the sound of violins but not in this track. The drums begin and the melody is brought faster in an attempt to bring strong emotion, a quick pause in the music in another attempt to bring out emotion but it really just doesn't deliver. Then suddenly the vocalist is pissed off at everyone and wants to get the fuck out of wherever it is he is. I don't blame him.

4/10, there's some tasty music in there, but it just isn't put together in any way that conveys a message, story or really anything.

The Bastard Fairies - Apple Pie
http://download.yousendit.com/2EEC50670D67C399

(check out their website and myspace for a tasty new look on how music should be delivered, thebastardfaires.com and myspace.com/thebastardfairies)

Ernest · « **Reply #188 on:** 26 Dec 2006, 00:13 »

Hey, Moley, I bear no resentment for that review. You hear that, Rizzo? I bear no resentment toward this guy!

amok · « **Reply #189 on:** 26 Dec 2006, 02:05 »

Quote from: moley on 25 Dec 2006, 16:37

The Bastard Fairies - Apple Pie
http://download.yousendit.com/2EEC50670D67C399

I'm not sure what it is about this song that I like. In fact I'm not sure why I like it at all. But there's something about the simple, sing-along rhymes and merry jingles in the background that really kinda works. The singing really suits the music and the song as a whole is simple but effective. And really catchy. 8/10

Thievery Corporation - Lebanese Blonde

moley · « **Reply #190 on:** 26 Dec 2006, 03:39 »

Thievery Corporation - Lebanese Blonde

I like this, simple and nice. It's not about to win any awards for being the most superfantastic song in the world, but it's a really peaceful and relaxing track that would make great background music whilst doing almost anything.

8/10

http://www.yousendit.com/download/OTTxET0cUTl5TA%3D%3D

Rizzo · « **Reply #191 on:** 26 Dec 2006, 04:46 »

Quote from: Flaming Ostrich on 26 Dec 2006, 00:13

Hey, Moley, I bear no resentment for that review. You hear that, Rizzo? I bear no resentment toward this guy!

Talk dirty to me.

Ernest · « **Reply #192 on:** 26 Dec 2006, 06:16 »

Quote from: Rizzo on 26 Dec 2006, 04:46

To talk me dirty.

Rizzo · « **Reply #193 on:** 26 Dec 2006, 13:52 »

Eh?

Anyway, Mourningtide.
Pretty sweet intro. I like it. Seems to take all the good bits of Pantera and combine them with a house party.
It's like... redneck party metal. I dig. More than a few nods to hairmetal of old. The vocals are pretty average but the rest of it is fun. The breakdown is pretty silly.
7/10
Nick Cave-Supernaturally

salada · « **Reply #194 on:** 26 Dec 2006, 22:26 »

So, Nick Cave. I have this thing where I didn't like him for aaaaages. That has sort of passed now, but I still don't listen to him very much.

This is pretty rockin'. A lot less moody than the Nick Cave I'm used to, but still obviously Nick Cave. Lyrics are kinda interesting, alternately picturesque / cryptic sort of stuff I've come to expect from him, with the usual moping over a girl, but in a not-very mopey way.

Hmm. The "Hey! Ho!" backing vocals are getting a bit annoying now.

I give it 6/10, factoring in my Nick Cave ex-dislike/current-indifference. I know he's a musical genius and everything, but I just don't care for him, really.

Anyway, this thread needs more hip-hop. So here's some vintage Kool Keith: the title track from his 1996 Sex Style LP. This may be, uh, unsettling if you haven't heard any of his stuff before. And even so, this album is a little more upfront with its imagery than most of his others efforts.

Kool Keith -- Sex Style

Ernest · « **Reply #195 on:** 28 Dec 2006, 10:57 »

Kool Keith- Sex Style: 8/10

Oh sheeeeeeit! I love this music. And it's all about sex, which makes me laugh. This gets a good score just for kicking out the yucks.

Fugazi- By You
http://www.sendspace.com/file/bggam4

KharBevNor · « **Reply #196 on:** 30 Dec 2006, 01:02 »

Fugazi - By You

The intro was great, but everything kind of goes to pot when it gets loud. All sorts of sloppy-sounding disharmonies, awful drum sound and a vocalist way too down in the mix. Reasonably cool riff around the 2:20 mark. Another decent, but awfully cliched bit, coming up to the 3:00. Drops to quiteness again quite jarringly. Then up again. Ooh, a solo? Well, kinda. Sounds like a cat attacking the high end of a fretboard. Especially when everything else drops out. Man, skipped the last thirty seconds of that. 6/10

Now, I'm not really sure what I want to post for my song. I think, after some consideration, I'll post a track by the most obscure band that I genuinely love, the masterful Ewigkeit.

Ewigkeit - The Thought Police

I chose this track because on this CD the intros to the songs (and bits of connecting sound and whatnot) are on the ends of the previous tracks, and the intro to 'The Thought Police' is just a siren going 'woop' once. That means, by the way, that the strange bit at the end is actually the intro to 'How to Conquer The World (Live at the Bohemian Grove)' The song actually ends about 4:03.

Ernest · « **Reply #197 on:** 30 Dec 2006, 01:46 »

I've come to expect you not to like Fugazi, but how could you call a part of that song cliched? I'm genuinely curious, not out to start another shitslinging match.

KharBevNor · « **Reply #198 on:** 30 Dec 2006, 01:51 »

I meant that one riff. It is cliche because it could have come straight from any mid seventies Black Sabbath album. Wierd that such a stoner-ish thing would pop up in the middle of a functionally straight-edge band really.

Ernest · « **Reply #199 on:** 30 Dec 2006, 01:53 »

I was actually thinking the same thing when listening to it. Some of the songs made me wish I still smoked pot.

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