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The Forced Listening Thread
Psiogen:
Heh. I like "Winning" but most people seem to hate it. It's from their 1977 'sellout' album The Missing Piece.
"Knots" is a classic, though. I think of it as the psychologically disturbed answer to "Good Vibrations".
KharBevNor:
Damn, too slow again.
My review:
The track starts off with a rather nice vocal part, before lapsing off into a subtly annoying keyboard section, then returning to the signing before adding drums and keys, in a sort of avant-garde fashion. The breaks here seem somehow too jarry for my taste though, feeling more like several tracks have been molded together than an unexpected but somehow natural progression. Still, it's not too bad. The vocal harmony parts are definitely it's best feature. However, avant-garde isn't something I'm too big a fan of, with a few notable exceptions (Sigh, Crotchduster, Maudlin of the Well/Kayo Dot) and as I can honestly say I'll NEVER listen to it again, I'll give it a
5.9/10
Now I'll have to find that other song. Be thankful though, by the time I come to choose my song on that one my mood will have changed, and you'll be saved having to review a Deathgrind/Jazz/Power Ballad/Rap-Rock/Synth song about the joys of sodomy (Crotchduster-Let me Into Starfish Land)
blindsuperhero:
Ani Difranco - Trickle Down
This track has a nice ambient guitar backing, with some slighty distorted vocals over the top, however after a while the tremelo effect on the guitar begins to get a bit annoying, as do the vocals. The song just consists of a bunch of verses so it's also quite repetitive, and while it has an interesting ambience, overall it's just not all that great. 7/10
Next: Thursday - Jet Black New Year
Malphas:
Well, I dunno what to say about this. I'm gonna start a new grading system for this, because I feel bad giving peoples' favorite songs scores like 3/10 or around there. I score that low, because I don't give anything above a 5 unless I like it. Now onto the song:
Thursday - Jet Black New Year
Well, after the first time through, I decided I didn't really like it. Then again, I have weird tastes. The song sounds like some sort pop punk/emo hybrid, which really isn't my genre of expertise. I'm not to fond of the kinda whiney/screamy vocal style that's starting to become popular. However, this track wasn't exactly terrrible. It has a sort of catchy style that will probably launch the band into semi-popularity. Now for a new grading system I'll be using for this thread, and I hope other people use it too.
1. Did you like the song?
2. Was this particular song good for its respective genre?
3. Musicianship
4. Lyrics
5. Uniqueness?
Each category gets a score out of 20 points. Add them up to get a score out of 100. Here's my grades for this song:
1. (05/20) I didn't really like this song very much.
2. (17/20) Not really my genre, so I guess it was okay.
3. (13/20) The musicianship was fairly simple, but it wasn't exactly bad.
4. (05/20) The lyrics weren't really clever at all.
5. (05/20) I hear this sort of stuff on MTV all the time.
TOTAL: 45/100
My song: Nokturnal Mortum - Kuyaviya
blindsuperhero:
Pop punk? Eh? I would say some sort of metalcore/emo hybrid, this was recorded after the band kinda went mad from touring so much, one member describing it as the sound of a fight between the band members, except fighting with their instruments, which is why it's such a crazy mix of styles, you have the deftones-like intro and guitar riff, but a minute into the song you have the most emo vocal harmonies you've ever heard (if you listen to the song you'll know exactly which bit). As for uniqueness, I haven't really heard anything like this, but I suppose it depends on in how much detail you listen to it. I like the new scoring system, but I don't know if I'll use it, I quite like to be arbitrary sometimes.
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