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La Creme:
Reviews anyone?
AHHHH god. The agony. I'm listening to ELP and my mom just started singing "Take a Pebble". She has decent musical taste, but goddam, does she HAVE to sing?
P.S. I'll check out "Elegy". Goddam. Just started today, but this is clearly the world's greatest forum ever.
worsebrains:
ok, this is my first time posting so be gentle with me.
The Bad Plus - Iron Man
this is quite possibly the best cover i've heard this month. the intro sounds like what "Flight of the Bumblebee" would sound like if that guy from "Shine" played it in the middle of a meth binge. it was interesting but i kept wondering where it was going. then, Da Dum Da Da Dum, the frantic piano glides behind the forceful chords in an atonal scurry (is that the word i want? atonal? it's like a twelve tone stravinsky kind of thing). i like the Bad Plus' sense of pacing, especially the little breaks they kept taking.
overall, it's refreshing to hear someone take a song as old as this (it's going on 40) and pack it full of new ideas. i'll probably get stoned by the smug crowd for this but i would recommend the cardigans' cover. it's not as adventurous but more chill.
8/10
i choose
artist: John Coltrane
song: Venus
album: Interstellar Space
La Creme:
Just cause the Cardigans suck major ass doesn't mean the Bad Plus can't cover them proper style. Is this your first time hearing them? Aren't they just the best thing in power-jazz ever? My dad thinks they're the "Jimi Hendrix experience" of jazz. As in, their ability to make that much noise (and GOOD noise) with just three people is awesome. If you liked them, definately get all their stuff. It's all as good or better. I love the part where they make Iron Man happy in the middle. Like, where it switches to that major key. Rock and Jazz have a child and its name is The Bad Plus.
P.s. I will try to find your coltrane song, but i think i just have the classics: A Love Supreme, Blue Train, and Giant Steps (Syeeda's Song Flute is likely my favorite jazz tune. I figured out that entire fucking sax solo on the bonus track version on guitar. I always lose little bits though. Coltrane is the man. The Fucking Man.)
P.S.S. I'm not exactly the oldest of members either, so hey, we're all good here.
a pack of wolves:
--- Quote from: KharBevNor ---Annoying drumming most of the way through. Guitar was okay though, if a bit uninteresting. What I could hear of the very faint singing...okay, but a bit waily and weak for my tastes. Kinda got a bit faster and more rocking towards the end, but didn't deliver anything like what it's title promised. Also, it carried on that out-of-synch math thing which I loathe all the way through.
4/10
--- End quote ---
What do you mean it didn't do what the title promised? It's math as hell! I was kind of hoping someone else but you would review it, what with your aversion to all things mathy, but it didn't fare too well when someone else had a go anyway... Ah well, I think I'm yet to submit something which gets a genuinely good review.
Robbo:
I had a listen as well and I wasn't impressed. It felt like half the song was missing. There was the softer and build bits, but it didnt reach any high point or conclusion. Just didnt actually seem mathy to me... hmmmm.
Hey, none of my stuff has been that well recived either really. Oh well, keep throwing stuff out there.
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