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Forced Listening Thread V: Planet of the Bikini Vampire Babes
ImRonBurgundy?:
A Forest of Stars- "Female"
Oh, man, I get another marathon track? Well, so far this is pretty cool. Sounds like the overture to some deeply unsettling film, such as maybe M or No Country for Old Men. And then the guitars came in and cheesed it all up. Their vocalist is certainly... interesting. I'm going to be honest, here at 3:38 I'm not feeling this, so I'm going to skip ahead a bit. Ah, here we are. 4:18. Something slightly different. And back down to just a cello(?) for a second, which is nice, and then boom, back to the roaring hobo, as I've come to refer to him. Skipping ahead again. Ah, back to the ambience of the first movement, without all the power chords and yelping. 7:42. Great, they're back. And that ambient part wasn't even as good as the first one. The vocals sound like the part in Don Hertzfeldt's Intermission in the Third Dimension short when they start tripping out on the 3D glasses, which at least provides some momentary amusement. 10:05. The guitars are beginning to sound like they're saying "Repeat. Repeat." over and over again. Nothing else of note. It's over. Besides the very first part, I wasn't into it. 2/10
Because I got another >10 minute song, I'm subjecting you guys to Jimmy Eat World.
Jimmy Eat World- "Robot Factory"
KvP:
Back when American Idiot came out, my dad won free tickets to see Green Day in Denver from a radio station, and he gave them to me. A free show is a free show, and I attended. Jimmy Eat World opened for them. We were pretty far back, but they didn't seem to have much stage presence. Still, I vaguely remember having a record of theirs in high school, and remember them having some kind of cred stretching back to before they struck it sorta-big as a pop rock act.
This sounds a lot like that, which isn't bad. It's fairly straight-ahead rock music, and I like it. I'd give it 6.5 out of 10, that .5 getting removed to the words "ticked off" in the lyrics. I don't know why, exactly, but that annoys me.
Speaking of things I liked when I was younger, how about Ours? It's the baby of Jimmy Gnecco, an overwrought, gothier version of Jeff Buckley from New Jersey. I think he sung for Queen for a little while. He's got good pipes, but all in all, I liked the music a bit more when I was depressed all the fucking time. Still, a guilty pleasure of mine. Their third album is coming out sometime this year, under the probably half-hearted production of Rick Rubin.
Ours - Fallen Souls
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Calaveth:
The opening drums sounded so promising, and the guitars throughout the song are quite nice, I just can't get past that I think I would have liked the song better if the singer hadn't been there, especially when the howling start around the three minute mark. Goodness. Still, I give it a passing grade, if only just. 5/10.
Here's kebert xela - Great Divide Everpassing, as far as I know still unsigned.
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Dimmukane:
A band named after a family guy reference isn't destined to go very far.
Calaveth:
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I agree (though I didn't catch the reference), but listen to the music. It's not bad.
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