Topic: The Forced Listening Thread (Read 318386 times)

Kai · « **Reply #500 on:** 15 Sep 2005, 19:44 »

I'd do Skyclad but I already know they rock your face off.

Highlander · « **Reply #501 on:** 19 Sep 2005, 13:51 »

Well, I guess I should do this, if only to keep this thread alive.

Skyclad - Penny dreadful. Well, it starts kinda suddenly not intro, unless you count hitting the symbals 4 times. The folk elements don't really work here, in my opinion, and the metal is not particularly interesting. The lyrics however are pretty cool, and the singer gets his job dona just fine. Sounds kinda like black album era James Hetfield. But he still has his own thing going on. Thank god this song is only 3 minutes because the music changes very little, the same basic beat, or slight variations of it keep going through the entire song. But the song is so upbeat I can't hate it, so I'm rating it a 6. My dissapointment may also have been in part because Skyclad had kinda hyped up here.

From the oh-so artsy land of ice and snow; Mugison - Murr Murr. I'll link to it shortly, gotta rip and upload.

KharBevNor · « **Reply #502 on:** 19 Sep 2005, 13:58 »

Nobody gets it.

How can the music not change much? Listen to ze fiddles man! Plus the lyrics are worth 10 on their own. Easy.

"DJ's, VJ's, pimps and trollops,
Never mind music: THIS IS BOLLOCKS!"

Highlander · « **Reply #503 on:** 19 Sep 2005, 14:08 »

I'm sorry khar. The fiddles are pretty cool, but they are just too out of place there. And the lyrics are, as previusly stated, pretty darn awesome.

KharBevNor · « **Reply #504 on:** 19 Sep 2005, 14:09 »

I probably forget how long it took me to get into them.

Ah well :/

Highlander · « **Reply #505 on:** 19 Sep 2005, 14:46 »

I'll give it a few more listens, maybe it'll click eventually.

Also, we have a link Mugison - Murr Murr

La Creme · « **Reply #506 on:** 19 Sep 2005, 17:49 »

Mugison - Murr Murr

Ok, so pretty much this was 100% kickass. Simple, slapped steelstring guitar lick layered and mixed with some clever effects formed pretty much the entire instrument section. Then again, you could definately say that the singer uses his voice as an instrument. Heavily rhythmic, very raw and clanky. I guess this is what Funk-Country sounds like. 10/10. My ass is blown out.

The Sugarplastic - Liar Over Winchester

Basically, the best thing that can be firmly categorized as "indie" in ever.

sjbrot · « **Reply #507 on:** 19 Sep 2005, 18:36 »

The Sugarplastic - Liar Over Winchester

It starts off with a regular indie feeling and get's into some twee moments during the harmonizing vocals at the end. The "oom" chanting is cool. It builds up nicely. Not a bad song at all.

Ghetto Pony - The Prince Song
http://s57.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0UWHHIYPSKYOM2BQZRP2O6XTM7

EDIT: 7.9/10

Whoops.

La Creme · « **Reply #508 on:** 19 Sep 2005, 18:59 »

RATINGS!

Highlander · « **Reply #509 on:** 20 Sep 2005, 08:14 »

Quote from: La Creme

Mugison - Murr Murr

Ok, so pretty much this was 100% kickass. 10/10. My ass is blown out.

You have no idea how happy this makes me. So many people just don't get it.

La Creme · « **Reply #510 on:** 20 Sep 2005, 17:37 »

Well they can eat death. It's kind of like if Beck got injected with high levels of funk and jammed in Georgia whilst on PCP. SOOOOOOOOOOO GOOOOOOOOOOD.

KharBevNor · « **Reply #511 on:** 21 Sep 2005, 00:03 »

Damn, I really want to set one of the new Ewigkeit songs, but they've done that annoying trick where the intros are on the end of the previous tracks, and thus I will have to go at them with audacity and whatnot. EFFORT!!

southern_dan · « **Reply #512 on:** 21 Sep 2005, 01:32 »

Ghetto Pony - The Prince Song - 7/10

good song over all i belive the vocals are fantastic along with alot of the backing tune.. the contining playing of the trumpet "not sure if thats what it is" get on my nerve it doesnt seem to go anywere and just isnt a good thing....... dam sorry need sleep..

http://s35.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3PB0U5QHO2E1U07HRT7UZ6C8R2">Sarah Blasko - Remorse

Sythe · « **Reply #513 on:** 24 Sep 2005, 06:01 »

Remorse: A little light for my taste, but still very cool. The flow is its best asset, I'd say. I listened to it for 30 minutes, without even noticing that the song ended. Probably would have more to say if Latin didn't eat my brains like a psycho zombiebitch.

http://s48.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0AJAUTDSTVSML1W00VIFUFKRXB">Pants Pants Pants - Sensible Gangsta

KaosPilot · « **Reply #514 on:** 24 Sep 2005, 07:32 »

Sup'? I'm new here..and fancy giving this a shot.

Pants Pants - Sensible Gangster

This is pretty cool, I like the little looped keyboard (?) noise in the chorus thingy. Laidbacked and chilled...at first I couldn't tell if they were taking the mick or not...but either way this is a pretty quality tune and I give it a 7.5/10, because I like it enough but I wasn't exactly blown away in my seat by it.

My song - Biffy Clyro - Stress on the Sky.

http://s53.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3H1KYMKC5WYY02E7YH1V1BYDP8

Praeserpium Machinarum · « **Reply #515 on:** 13 Oct 2005, 11:23 »

arise thou slumbering beast of the intarwebs!

Since the old one is expired, I will supply a new one. I have had this song in my head the whole fricking day because it's so fucking good:

Animal Collective - Slippi

La Creme · « **Reply #516 on:** 13 Oct 2005, 11:50 »

NECROMANCY!!

Animal Collective - Slippi

Noisy, sort of rough, but pretty good. Super-echoey vocals, blasted fuzzy guitars. Later in the song it calmed down a bit and had lots of clappings and such, but other than that, it was annoyingly full, and had too much going on, but it wasn't too terrible. 5/10.

Song up in 5 minutes.

SpacemanSpiff · « **Reply #517 on:** 13 Oct 2005, 11:53 »

Okay, I'll try this:
At first listen: I thought "What kind of hippie-crap is that?" and I'm still not quite fond of the vocals (which were the reason i classified it as hippie-crap in the first place, for whatever reason). But the percussion already makes up for it, as do the dissonant guitars. And I like how the dynamics pick up towards the end only to plunge into percussion and strange chanting.
This one's definitely a grower but a surprisingly good one at that.

I will post a link here as soon as my upload's done.

Edit: Damn you, LaCreme. It's your turn though.

La Creme · « **Reply #518 on:** 13 Oct 2005, 11:53 »

General Patton Vs. The X-ecutioners - Battle Damage Assessment and Repair/White Flag Surrender/"Wake Me Up In Heaven"

SpacemanSpiff · « **Reply #519 on:** 13 Oct 2005, 12:06 »

Hopefully someone wasn't faster than me again...

General Patton Vs. The X-ecutioners - Battle Damage Assessment and Repair/White Flag Surrender/"Wake Me Up In Heaven

Starting off with a sample/scratch-fest, I figured I was set for a good song. However, I didn't like beatbox/singing part at 1:00/1:30 as much (though it did remind me of Björk's last album, where Patton did some of that stuf as well), and the "Wake Me Up In Heaven" part has a drum sample I didn't find particulary interesting.
I would summarize it as Intro/Outtro: Extremely cool, the middle part somewhat loses it though. That excludes the part around 2:20 to 2:30, which is really cool.

6.5/10.

North of America - Fuck (Repeating)

Praeserpium Machinarum · « **Reply #520 on:** 21 Oct 2005, 15:52 »

Daddy is not angry, Daddy is disappointed

anyway Spiff your link is expired, pump it up again mate!

SpacemanSpiff · « **Reply #521 on:** 22 Oct 2005, 12:57 »

Uploading, and this time it's on a server where the link can't expire. Stay tuned.

North of America - Fuck (Repeating)

No download limit, no expiration date.

salada · « **Reply #522 on:** 23 Oct 2005, 06:45 »

i haven't had a go at this thread in ages.

north of america -- fuck (repeating)

i have to say, this didn't melt my face off half as much as the title may have lead me to believe it may have.

time signature and the guitars at the start were cool though. i just kinda wished they'd cranked it up another notch. but then, i have been listening to lightening bolt all afternoon, so i can't really say i've come to this with a clean slate.

so, uh, 7.2 out of 10. yeah.

Slow Funeral -- The Rain Wall

don't be put off by the emo-esque name. Slow Funeral is a side-project of The Enemy, one of the djs / producers for drum and bass trio Evol Intent. This is more downtempo-ish than his work with EI if you're familiar with it, but still awesome. i think so, anyway.

...ok go!

McTaggart · « **Reply #523 on:** 23 Oct 2005, 07:23 »

Slow Funeral - The Rain Wall.

It starts off all symphonic, then gets into some nice glitchy clicks and things just when it starts to get a bit boring. Picks it up pretty well I think. The sounds work well together. The quick tempo of the sample bits (I don't know the terminology for this) over the smooth strings does something great. IT does well sounding like the title, always a plus with me.

Seven to eight out of ten.

The Kill Devil Hills - Drinking Too Much

El Opium · « **Reply #524 on:** 23 Oct 2005, 12:48 »

The Kill Devil Hills-Drinking Too Much
First thing about this that struck me was how easy it was to compare this band's sound to a large number of others past and present. I can't really fault the delivery but there simply isn't anything new about this, it's a rainy day folk-rock song with pedal steel and harmonica on it about drinking too much. How many times has that been done before? 5/10

My Choice:
Urdog-Zombie Cloud

La Creme · « **Reply #525 on:** 23 Oct 2005, 14:46 »

Urdog - Zombie Cloud

Started out with a little but of tasty organ and stuttery distorted guitar. Gradually grew together with drums. Singing comes in, not very gloriously. The rhythm section was really weakly recorded, so the higher up vocals kind of didn't work. Little but of toy piano action later on, which was pretty good. The song was a little bit droney and simplistic, but the main problem with it was the utterly horrible recording quality. Sorry. 4/10.

Click one of the cuts of 'Velouria'.

The Bad Plus - Velouria (Pixies cover)

salada · « **Reply #526 on:** 24 Oct 2005, 15:32 »

cool. especially because of all the wacky freeform drumming in the middle, just before it got going on the piano properly.

and it rocked the fuck out after it got going. piano mashes n drums n shit. pity about the lame-o streaming quality, but that's not your fault.

i'd only heard one other song by these bad plus guys on a compilation i'll have to check them out some more. this beats the pants off the pixies original, but then i never did like them that much. missed out on a lot of music during my formative years, which might explain my retarded taste in music now.

eight and half out of ten.

patricider -- suite 101

this one is, uh, kinda short.

thrashbluegrass · « **Reply #527 on:** 24 Oct 2005, 16:35 »

First of all, I'm glad to see this thread revived - and thanks to Khar for beginning it in the first place.

Now, on with the show...

First off, I really wanted this to be longer - it's kind of like watching Vincent Price in House on Haunted Hill; you love it, but they stopped filming for lack of money, and patched together what they had into something that left you flabberghasted as to how they could've squandered the potential...

Not that this song is necessarily bad, I just wanted more of it. It sounds more like an intro, which it may very well be - without hearing the next song on the album, I don't know. However, for 20 seconds of hard-driving electronic music, I like it. 6.5/10, with points lost only for brevity (please note that patricider is now on my list of bands to seek out more of, so thanks for posting it

And now for my song:

Citygoats - The Hit

Myspace link; apologies in advance.

ivvon · « **Reply #528 on:** 25 Oct 2005, 14:12 »

patricider - suite 101

is that someone shooting or can you actually get that kind of soud out of a musical instrument? anyway. short, intense and yet they manage to cram in a healthy dose of sinustone in the end.

7/10

SMK - hit me hard

La Creme · « **Reply #529 on:** 25 Oct 2005, 15:14 »

Either of you gonna fix your shit? Or is this a dead end?

Because if it is, I call next song! YARR!

thrashbluegrass · « **Reply #530 on:** 25 Oct 2005, 15:35 »

Quote from: La Creme

Either of you gonna fix your shit? Or is this a dead end?

Because if it is, I call next song! YARR!

My link works; as I noted just below it, it's a link to the band's myspace page where you can listen to the song I asked to be reviewed.

[edited to snip snark; my apologies]

EDIT: ivvon, you need to read both the rules that were hashed out on the first page of this forum, as well as the posts that have been made between the time you read and the time you want to post in reply.

ivvon · « **Reply #531 on:** 26 Oct 2005, 13:24 »

well... i read the first two pages, thougt that it seemed like fun and wanted to participate. i confess i did not read the nine pages in between. i thought i had got the hang of it. i simpli ignored the time rule and went for the last unresponded song which i could find... hope the thread survives this terrible act of anarchy.

thrashbluegrass · « **Reply #532 on:** 26 Oct 2005, 14:12 »

Here's a thought:

The last unreviewed song is the one I posted, not the one to which I replied. The fact that nigh on 24 hours passed between my review and yours pretty much means that you haven't damn been paying attention. It wasn't an act of anarchy, it was an act of idiocy. Not trying to be snide, just having a bad day and letting it get the best of me.

Now, all that being said, you can review the song I posted, and then post your song to be reviewed, and actually put a link to it this time. And, hallelujah, this crisis will be averted.

JLM · « **Reply #533 on:** 26 Oct 2005, 14:27 »

Not if I get to it first:

Citygoats - The Hit:

Seems to have that 4 on the Floor rock beat that seems to be all the rage among bands like !!! and Franz Ferdinand nowadays. Singer's warbling isn't too annoying. They remind me of the Jesus Lizard in a weird way. A bit more hard-rockin' than my tastes normally go, but catchy and I didn't find myself getting annoyed as it went on. The ending of the song wasn't really that interesting, and I feel they could've played a bit longer, rather than sort of breaking down into a traditional Helmet-style rock out. Not bad, but didn't necessarily win me over, either.

Rating: 7 out of 10

Edit: Nagisa Ni Te - Anxiety

thrashbluegrass · « **Reply #534 on:** 26 Oct 2005, 15:54 »

Thank you! I was quickly wearying of this impasse.

Quote from: JLM

Not if I get to it first:
A bit more hard-rockin' than my tastes normally go

Bullshit! There's no such thing as rocking too hard!! :p

La Creme · « **Reply #535 on:** 27 Oct 2005, 18:27 »

Nagisa Ni Te - Anxiety

J-poppy sounding ditty with a nice simple rhythm and standard (but not cliche) guitar lick. The singing was so-so, made up for being not so great by being pretty cute and having a nursery rhymey melodious ring to it. The fuzzed out guitar solo-ish lick bit with the alternate drumming was a good touch.

All in all, cute song, and very listenable: 6.5/10

I haven't done this sort of thing in a while, so:
Liquid Tension Experiment - When The Water Breaks

17 minutes. If you feel you can handle long songs, it is very very worth it. There are a couple chunks of unbeatable genius in there. And some kickin' solos.

El Opium · « **Reply #536 on:** 28 Oct 2005, 09:55 »

Liquid Tension Experiment-When The Water Breaks
There were things I liked about this song and things that I didn't. The thing I consistently loved was the drumming. I have no musical training, but I could tell that this is the good stuff. The bit I didn't like was the guitar playing because I'm simply not a fan of guitar solos and virtousic guitar playing in general.
5/10 for me, but feel free to diregard if you like this sort of thing.

Please take note that this song is totally not suitable for noise-haters or those who dislike evil sounding music.
Swans-New Mind (live)

KharBevNor · « **Reply #537 on:** 29 Oct 2005, 21:39 »

Swans - New Mind (Live)

Starts off with some repetitive sludge guitars and vocals that sound a good bit like old Christian Death, reverbed to all hell. Rather nice ambience, and the guitars manage to become hypnotic before they become boring. Drums seem to build intensity a few times, but keep you tantalised. About halfway through, the proper increase comes as the guitars speed and the vocals spin away into the darkness, becoming pretty anguished at times. Keeps building into a reverbed out, echoing end and the crowds cheers. Nice and all, but it didn't really feel like it went anywhere much. This sort of feeling is my biggest barrier to enjoying noise and drone I suppose. Plus of course raw black metal already set my evil switch way beyond the scope of most bands.

7/10

Now, speaking of black metal, I've avoided posting it pretty much, but there is no denying, you people need the good shit. And by good, I mean some epic 'marching tune of the armies of hell through endless fucking blizzards cold enough to freeze the blood of men'.

Who else could it be but the mighty Immortal?

Immortal - Damned in Black

Storm Rider · « **Reply #538 on:** 29 Oct 2005, 21:56 »

Goddammit, I would do that but my parents are in the room watching a movie, which would do nothing more than heighten their disapproval of my musical tastes.

*hopes nobody takes it before they go to bed*

La Creme · « **Reply #539 on:** 30 Oct 2005, 10:10 »

Immortal - Damned In Black

I don't know if this is the formula for all Black Metal, but its quite awesome. Classic chugga-chugga cheap-distortioned guitars, drilling, stabbing bass, poundy marching drums, and hell of gravelly vocals singing about ghosts and damned souls and such. Heavy shit. The little detuned Spanishy guitar thing at about 4 minutes is basically awesome.

Black metal truly ist kreig.

9/10. Solid fucking tune.

Mine:
Tin Hat Trio - Fountain Of Youth

Valrus · « **Reply #540 on:** 30 Oct 2005, 11:08 »

Tin Hat Trio - Fountain of Youth: Splendidly hot. Bouncy, clunky and lively from the very first sound. Lovely violin melody with all kinds of clonking and zanging in the background that totally evokes the band's name. And the polyrhythmic stuff at the end is totally ace. A little bit Middle Eastern, a little bit ragtime or something, and a lot awesome. 9/10.

Ok, for your consideration, I'm starting with probably one of the most obscure pieces in my collection that I actually really like: Shostakovich's prelude and fugue in D flat major. Just a four minute piano piece, nothing terribly intimidating. The prelude lasts until about 2:40, and then the fugue (and the real fun) begins.

Edit: Also, Storm Rider, there's these things called headphones.

Edit, again: There's also this thing called a working link. This post now has one.

Kai · « **Reply #541 on:** 30 Oct 2005, 13:05 »

Linketh Worketh Nay.

El Opium · « **Reply #542 on:** 31 Oct 2005, 20:52 »

Shostakovich's prelude and fugue in D flat major.
-The start of the piece doesn't catch me immedietly and a few of the notes passingly remind me of "We wish you a merry christmas", though I have no idea wether this is just some passing fancy of mine or not. As promised the piece does pick up in the second half and become a bit more animated and I found myself likeing the performance a bit more, but then it ended abruptly. Overall though classical piano pieces really aern't my thing and this just doesn't move me in any big way.
5/10

My pick:
Legendary Pink Dots-Belladona

Hat · « **Reply #543 on:** 01 Nov 2005, 00:40 »

Legendary Pink Dots-Belladona: Kinda cool and etherial, but the vocal style does nothing for me. The lyrics are a bit silly, and the half-sung, half-spoken vocals kind of bore me, and remind me a little too much of Pulp. The main guitar part reminds me a bit of a harpsichord, which is definatly cool, and the other instrumentation fits in very well, but if all their songs are in a simlar style, I couldn't see myself getting into them. If this is just one type of style they play though, I could enjoy them greatly. I gave it another listen, and decided its only worth a six by itself. I might go look up some more of their stuff though, and see what I think

6/10

My pick: TISM - TISM - Thunderbirds are coming out

JLM · « **Reply #544 on:** 03 Nov 2005, 18:42 »

Tism - Thunderbirds are coming out:

Huh. Combining rockabilly with big-beat style electronica. Wouldn't have thought of that, but it seems to be working for them. Has a bit of a "Cowboy Bebop" feel to it, but the vocalist, while not quite as annoying as Steve Conti, sounds like he's trying to riff off Elvis a bit too much. I'd be curious to hear the rest of the album, but I get the impression from them that they're the type of group that'd be really annoying if you saw them live.

5.7 out of 10.

Drum & Bass on my mind. One of my favorite tunes off the Secret Data EP, Seba - The Wasp

salada · « **Reply #545 on:** 04 Nov 2005, 07:18 »

moody, tech-ish stuff. nice bass, but i'm not really a fan of the vocal samples in this. also, MORE GLITCHY DRUMS PLEASE!

so i reckon about 8 out of 10. a nice refresher, since i've been into a lot of heavy (and silly) stuff recently, neglecting my techstep duties

also, to the previous guy: +10 points for posting TISM. i forgot about those guys.

anyway. i went through about 5 songs before i could choose one i was really happy with and wanted other people to hear (of course, i'll probably just post the other ones later). but here it is:

lo-bat -- white russian

if you want to hear what a couple of old grey gameboys would sound like if they were loaded up with sequencer cartridges, networked to each other with multiplayer cables,pushed to their musical limits and then fed into a mixer would sound like, here is a good place to start.

lo-fi crunchy micromusic FTW!

IronOxide · « **Reply #546 on:** 05 Nov 2005, 05:04 »

I like this. As far as novelty music goes, this is pretty much the top. It's fun to listen to, and that 's what the purpose of music is. I should shout it from a mountaintop that SOMBODY HAS FOUND TECHNO THAT ISN'T FATBOY SLIM THAT I LIKE! I commend it highly, and it is pretty much a winner. I give it a I can't find my gameboy out of 7.38

My song is my favoite prepared piano piece that i've ever heard.

3 Dances for Prepared Piano by John Cage

Kai · « **Reply #547 on:** 05 Nov 2005, 06:43 »

I'd love to do this one but I already love John Cage and someone else ought to have their ears opened by him.

Valrus · « **Reply #548 on:** 05 Nov 2005, 07:27 »

Similar with me: I'm familiar with some of Cage's prepared piano work, so I'll back off this one too. Sounds much more lively than the Sonatas and Interludes, that's for sure!

Also, note to any potential listeners: yes, that is a piano. To the best of my knowledge, no other instruments are used in this track.

KharBevNor · « **Reply #549 on:** 05 Nov 2005, 09:22 »

John Cage - 3 Dances for Prepared Piano

The opening was a bit awkward in my opinion, but it sunk into a groove quite quickly. Didn't like some of the repeating phrases with chords and whatnot in this first section though. The middle section was pretty nice though, I must say. The whole song sounded somewhat tinny and technp-ey, probably because of the altered strings messing with the reverberations and whatnot. The third section again opened somewhat dodgily but got better. I wasn't so keen on a lot of the up-and-down kind of stuff, I would have prefferred something more sustained. But there you go.

7.5/10. I didn't find it amazingly enjoyable but I appreciate the innovation.

Now, let's get neo-folky.

Current 93 - Black Flowers Please

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