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Title: The Forced Listening Thread
Post by: KharBevNor on 09 Feb 2005, 13:26
An idea stolen from another forum.

Basically the idea is this: At the end of this post I will put a song. the next person after me will listen to this song via the magic of p2p technology, legal download, mp3 shopping, whatever floats your boat, and give it a rating out of 10. Having given this rating, they will suggest a track of their own. The next person who wants to take part in the game will listen to their suggestion, review, and suggest their own, and so forth. The purpose is to help people discover new bands by forcing your musical taste brutally on to others and then having indignant arguments when they give your favourite song ever 2/10.

Don't suggest a track without reviewing the last track suggested.

My first track is:

Sigh-Requiem - Nostalgia
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Post by: blindsuperhero on 09 Feb 2005, 13:29
Aren't you meant to give a choice of, say, 5 songs? That's how we ran it on this other forum I was on. Anyway, I call this one if I can find it
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Post by: KharBevNor on 09 Feb 2005, 13:37
Well, we could. I've seen versions where you suggested three as well. I prefer the one choice thing though tbh. Gives people less of a chance to keep within their comfort zones.
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Post by: blindsuperhero on 09 Feb 2005, 14:10
Okay, here we go

Sigh - Requiem Nostalgia

This song starts out with a synthesised orchestra, playing a rather uninteresting slow tempo kind of thing. It sounds not entirely unlike a low-budget movie soundtrack. This goes on for a one and a half minutes without really doing much, then it pauses for a second, and the band comes in, sounding mostly the same as the introduction except with a troll-like creature communicating in what I take to be a language too primitive to be recognised by human ears over the top. Present at various parts through the rest of the song are some strange squelching noises which are kin of at odds with the overall orchestral procession of doom ambiance. The song appears to have three main parts, one with troll-noises, another with flutes and jack-in-the-box type sounds, and one with an operatic singer a la Rammstein. After the first flute/jack-in-the-box section, the troll vocals and the squelching noises interact to create an effect similar to when Ford and Arthur first get picked up by the Heart of Gold in the BBC radio play; think "Ford, you're turning into a penguin. Stop it!". Anyway, more of the same, then what might pass as a guitar breakdown, it involves guitars playing a 5-note riff, about 15 times. Then comes the guitar solo, which is just your typical rock 'n' roll guitar solo, completely changing the mood of the song to one of commercial radio airtime. Anyway, that stops, more troll/squelching etc., then it all stops, with the last 30 seconds being occupied by more jack-in-the-box noises over someone playing a classical piano piece that I recognise but can't quite put my finger on the name of. Maybe Strauss.
Overall, well, it was kinda strange, but at times I feel it was unremarkable, and at others I feel it was trying too hard. It was kinda like Rammstein, but not. 3/10

Okay, my selection: Miles Davis - Buzzard Song (from Porgy & Bess)
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Post by: KharBevNor on 09 Feb 2005, 14:44
Ooh.

OOH.

*scowls*

I call your song. I sincerely hope I don't like it.

If I do...you can't run forever, luke!


(Also, I seriously have to question where the HELL you got Rammstein from at all. And it's the Minute Waltz.)
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Post by: blindsuperhero on 09 Feb 2005, 14:57
Just the strings and opera vocals, really. I know it wasn't that much like Rammstein, but then it wasn't much like anything else I'd heard
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Post by: Johnny C on 09 Feb 2005, 15:13
Zing!

The last forum I saw this on was not a good one for it. Nothing but terrible black metal (and I do not mean "black metal is terrible," I mean "I enjoy some but this was all poor"). And ska. I suggested Interpol's "PDA" and everyone was all "WHAT IS THIS CRAZINESS." So considering QC's general musical tolerance this ought to be interesting.
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Post by: SkepticSight on 09 Feb 2005, 15:17
Alright lets go with something here then.

Artist: Daphne Loves Derby
Title: Midnight Highway
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Post by: blindsuperhero on 09 Feb 2005, 15:18
Hey! Hey! One at a time please children. And anyway, to suggest a song you have to review a song first.
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Post by: SkepticSight on 09 Feb 2005, 15:21
fine fine.

That means that it's your turn.
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Post by: blindsuperhero on 09 Feb 2005, 15:25
I suggested Miles Davis - Buzzard Song, Khar called it. Although if he doesn't post his review within [pre-designated time limit] then it's open for anyone. The time limit was an hour on the last one of these I did, but I think it'd be a little unfair to enforce it this time round.
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Post by: Malphas on 09 Feb 2005, 15:39
Ugh, how the hell do you give Sigh a 3?  3!??!  Yeah it's friggin weird as hell, but at least it's interesting.  I would've given it at least a 9.  But anyways, sorry Khar, i'm gonna beat you to the punch.

Alright, so I downloaded the Buzzard song, and no more than 2 seconds into it,  it screams "Jazz".  Now I may be a bit biased on this one, because I hate jazz.  It all sounds the same for me, that is, droning and uninteresting.  I'd never be able to distinguish one artist from another, and this song is no exception.  However, Jazz is a fairly difficult genre to play, so I'm gonna give them an A for effort, but a 0 for me liking the song.  So, the average is a 5/10.  

My song is Mercyful Fate - A Dangerous Meeting
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Post by: blindsuperhero on 09 Feb 2005, 15:46
I want my money back!

Seriously!
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Post by: KharBevNor on 09 Feb 2005, 16:11
Heh, I couldn't find a good download on the damned thing anywhere.

I'll opt out on Mercyful Fate. I have too much love for King Diamond. Besides, doing it for a song/band you know is sort of cheating.
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Post by: Hector Gilbert on 09 Feb 2005, 16:42
Quote from: Malphas
My song is Mercyful Fate - A Dangerous Meeting


I call this one.  In fact, I've just heard it for the first time...  I'm downloading all of Don't Break The Oath now.

I'll hear it a couple more times before passing judgement on it.
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Post by: Malphas on 10 Feb 2005, 21:12
zOmg, no more calling songs.  This thread will go way too slow.
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Post by: Hector Gilbert on 11 Feb 2005, 12:17
I agree that this thread should be sped up a little, even though I've been the slowcoach here!  Anyway...

The verses don't have all that much going for them I have to admit, just a rather standard riff and King Diamond's crazy "acquired taste" vocals.  This sound seems rather dated in comparison to other metal classics of 1984 such as the songs on Metallica's Ride The Lightning and Celtic Frost's Morbid Tales.  However after a few listens this has grown on me a bit, the solos are lovely and there's a great tempo change at around 3:38 or so.  The lyrics surprised/impressed me a bit considering the OTT vocals (the latter of which reminded me at times of some of the prog-operas I've sat through).  Six out of ten!

Throbbing Gristle - "Very Friendly"
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Post by: Keith Decent on 11 Feb 2005, 12:41
Throbbing Gristle - "Very Friendly"

I'll take this one....

be right back

EDIT: I can't seem to find it, I'll hold off for another one. Don't want to hold anything up.  Someone else take this one.
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Post by: KharBevNor on 11 Feb 2005, 17:36
Throbbing Gristle-Very Friendly

An interesting song. I'm not personally a fan of slow industrial much, but this was okay. It created a good atmosphere and kept providing constant development and variation that kept my interest pretty well. Good sampling and what-not. Too slow for my liking though, as said before: the beginning section was far too much drawn out, and built up in such a way that I kept expecting an increase of speed and brutality that was unfortunately never delivered. The ending also came ona  bit arbitrarily: the song felt like it had little actual structure, seeming to morph somewhat into an amorphous blob of sound. Whilst this may be the things very genius to some, I cannot say it really grabs me.

What can I say? I'm a Ministry fan.

And now for my choice:

Skyclad-The Disenchanted Forest
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Post by: blindsuperhero on 11 Feb 2005, 17:41
Marks out of 10?
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Post by: KharBevNor on 11 Feb 2005, 17:51
grrr.

6.35/10
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Post by: Keith Decent on 11 Feb 2005, 19:18
Skyclad-The Disenchanted Forest

this one i did find, I'll do it
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Post by: Keith Decent on 11 Feb 2005, 19:29
Skyclad - The disenchanted forest

The first few bars or so of this track, bird sounds, ye olde guitar, and Gaelic chanting had me wondering what I had gotten myself into.  It's kind of nuts, a mix of heavy metal and irish folk music.  It made me laugh on more than one occasion, whether or not that was the intent.  It's definitely an original song, with a pulsating rhythm.  The lyrics match the music exactly, which may or may not be a good thing.  It's a tight song, and defintely far outside my normal comfort zone.  The solo is definitely cool.

The breakdown reminded me bigtime of old school Nintendo music, in it's adventurousness and hyperactive melodies.  It must have been taken right out of a video game circa 1993.  I felt like I was in a boss fight halfway through the song.  

Throughout most of it, especially the last couple of minutes, I felt someone was screaming excerpts from Lord of the Rings at me, with all of the lyrics about the thirsty earth and battlefields and whatnot.

All in all, it was a trip of a song. It definitely brought me to another place, with the story telling lyrics and inventive mixture of genres.  I'm just not sure it was someplace I wanted to go.  It didn't sit right with my tastes, but it wasn't totally without merit. However, I don't think I'll ever listen to it again.

I'll have to give it a 6/10.  However, that's just because we're supposed to be personal about it. It could've been under 7 minutes, though.

My suggestion is...

World/Inferno Friendship Society - "All The World is a Stage (Dive)"

whoever gets this one is in for it. Best, band, ever.
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Post by: ev0lve on 11 Feb 2005, 20:11
I registered just to do this.
Haha.
Ok, so "All The World Is A Stage (Dive)"

this reminds me a bit of the fiery furnaces. it's almost carnival music. with a hint of jello biafra-esque punk. it starts off nicely, like something you could listen to with your grandmother in the room. then he starts singing. i have this thing for bad singing voices, so i kinda like it. i think i might love this band. i need more.
around a minute, 28 sec he makes the most awesome little noise.
just for that, it gets a 9/10.

my suggestion:
ohGr: Pore
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Post by: KharBevNor on 11 Feb 2005, 20:24
Heh. That comfort zone thing has always been Skyclad's main problem. They're massive in Eastern Europe and the Balkans (and when I say massive I don't mean underground massive, I mean outselling Iron Maiden), but in english-speaking countries there always seems something against them.

In my opinion, it's musical genius. Pure and simple. Fusing two such disparate genres as thrash metal and traditional British folk music together into such an astoundingly slick mix (Finntroll is the only other folk metal band that manages to make the genre sound so natural) is good enough, but compounded on that you have Martin Walkyier, a man who writes probably the best lyrics this side of anything. Skyclad are pure style. And they make you want to dance, headbang and air-guitar at the same time. What could be better?

Anyway, World/Inferno Friendship Society-All the World is a Stage (Dive)

Hrmmm.This song sounded like a cross between Johnny Cash and a blues orchestra. In a bad way, if that's possible. I dunno, I didn't really like this song at all. Their technical skills must be commended, but the overall tone irked me, and the constant changes of tempo didn't give me any chance to sink down into it. The singer didn't drop a single word either, which is pretty good of him.

I've still got to give it a 5.5/10. Sorry.

Edit: Damn, too slow.
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Post by: blindsuperhero on 11 Feb 2005, 20:27
Well I just downloaded this so I may as well say what I thought

World Inferno Friendship Society - All The World is a Stage (Dive)

Reminded me very much of 'Monkeys' by the Mad Caddies except without the virtuoso jazz trumpet playing, although with better lyrics, and it's maybe slightly more original. I don't think the singer's voice is bad at all, in fact I think it's quite good, and it's overall a very fun energetic song, although slightly lacking the awesome-factor of the Caddies' trumpet-trombone-banjo combination. So, a good song, only let down by the fact I've heard a similar song that is more awesome. 8/10

And I don't even get to suggest a song, surely the only reason for doing this...
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Post by: KharBevNor on 11 Feb 2005, 20:39
ohGr-Pore

OOooh. Electrogasmic. I'm crap at genres for electronic music. My senses tell me Acid or Gabber but I really do have no idea. My opinion in this song distilled:
Frantic 'the machine is breaking down' electrobeats-Good
Tongue-twister singing-Bad

7.25/10

Now, for a track by my favourite band to be formed in the naughties.

3 Inches of Blood-Deadly Sinners.

WARNING: Unless you constantly make a \m/ metal salute to your speakers during pretty much all of this song, Satan WILL kill a kitten.
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Post by: blindsuperhero on 11 Feb 2005, 20:47
3 Inches Of Blood - Deadly Sinners

Okay, this song starts off with some serious riffology, that whole 80's speed metal thing (or something), then we get some silly high-pitched vocals singing silly things about blood and "enemies of metal" (I think), more riffin' and high-pitchin', a bit of soloin', then more of the same, then "take one last look before you die...die..die...die", then back into the same stuff again. Yep, that's about it. Overall, firstly I thought people had stopped making music like this ages ago, and it was very repetitive and didn't go anywhere for the duration of the song, not to mention it's a genre of music I have no love for whatsoever, but on the other hand, there is something kinda cool about this style, my favourite german punk-rock band, Wizo, play some stuff like this except better, so I did enjoy it on a certain level. So minus several million for originality, but 11/10 for ROCK! Overall, 4.5/10.

My suggestion: Leonard Cohen - Famous Blue Raincoat
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Post by: blindsuperhero on 11 Feb 2005, 20:59
yep
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Post by: KharBevNor on 11 Feb 2005, 21:06
Heh, people did stop making stuff like that.

Then 3IoB came along and started rocking it old school. crazy scream vocals, and songs about pirates, orcs, barbarian warriors and all that good stuff.

I'll leave off this for a bit, I feel like I'm hogging it somehow.
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Post by: Tago Mago on 11 Feb 2005, 22:35
Does it count as forced listening if I've already heard it before? I feel like I may be cheating here. At any rate, Famous Blue Raincoat is a beautiful song. Leonard Cohen's lyrics are always so romantic and full of fear and longing. I wish I could write that well. Though, to be honest, I didn't like Beautiful Losers very much at all.

9/10.

My choice: Brian Eno - I'll Come Running
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Post by: Malphas on 11 Feb 2005, 22:59
Brian Eno - I'll come running

Uh...I really have no idea what to say to this.  Within the first 5 seconds or so it immediately said "The Beatles".  You can really tell who infleuenced this guy, even in his vocal style.  I haven't really taken a look at the lyrics, but apparently, he feels the need to tie someone's shoe in a hurry.  

This -really- is not my style of music, I've never been a big fan of the Beatles, nor anyone who sounds like them, so my rating is fairly biased.

3/10

My suggestion is:  Dream Evil - No Way

If you have trouble finding this, just lemme know, I'll send it to you on MSN or AIM or something.
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Post by: Keith Decent on 12 Feb 2005, 00:22
Reply to the World/Inferno stuff...

If you want to know more, you can always check their website, worldinferno.com

The singer, Jack Terricloth, is actually a very good singer, this song doesn't showcase his talents very well.  If you want more steady rhythms and cathier songwriting, get their song "tattos fade," or "secret Service."  If you want even crazier, then get "I Wouldn't want to live in a world without grudges," or "Great Pumpkin."

These guys have a great follwing here in NYC, cause their live show is a blast, and their annual halloween show, called Hallowmas, is amazing.

I can only describe one small portion of the night, at the end, where Jack led everyone out of the club (by everyone i mean upwards of 150 people plus about 30 members of a marching band) and in a parade down the street in Brooklyn at 2 am singing the chorus of Great Pumpkin.  amazing.

Sorry, but I think that alot of people could really like them.

ps this thread is great, I was excited to be a part, as I'm always looking for new music.
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Post by: Praeserpium Machinarum on 12 Feb 2005, 02:54
I`ll give a go but that dream evil stuff pretty darn hard to find..
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Post by: Malphas on 12 Feb 2005, 13:52
Not hard to find now:

Click here to get it

Only one person get this, because it's hosted on my webspace, which has severe bandwidth limits.  :(
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Post by: mAlice aforeThought on 12 Feb 2005, 14:17
i was goïng to get it, but a password request popped up!
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Post by: Malphas on 12 Feb 2005, 15:25
Sorry about that, I forgot to make it public.  Try now.
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Post by: DeathrockZombie on 12 Feb 2005, 16:35
Bauhaus - In the Night
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Post by: KharBevNor on 12 Feb 2005, 17:26
Quote from: DeathrockZombie
Bauhaus - In the Night


Despite the greatness of the track you have proposed, I must point out the rules.
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Post by: mAlice aforeThought on 12 Feb 2005, 21:13
malphas:  downloading now.  i'll have a full report, um, whenever.
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Post by: Johnny C on 12 Feb 2005, 21:24
Quote from: Malphas
Brian Eno - I'll come running
3/10

You hurt me.
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Post by: mAlice aforeThought on 13 Feb 2005, 02:25
in response to Dream Evil : no way

first, it's growing on me.  first time i listened to it, i was all bleh about it.  second time, i liked it a little better.  now i'm listening to it for the third time, and, well, it's not at all bad.  not really my thing, but certainly not bad, either.
my main problem was the vocals.  they seem very basick metal--which is to be expected, but i've never really gotten along with that vocal style (i'd been hoping forsomething more growly).  i loved the drums, and the rhythm overall was much fun.  the lyrics seemed kind ov pointless (making musick about making musick has always struck me as tailchasing), but i'm a total rhythmwhore, so whenever i started getting bleh about the lyrics or the voice, my attention would snap back to the drums, and i'd be a happy kitty again.
overall:  6/10

may i suggest:  the Vinegar Works : pink [demo] (http://home.earthlink.net/~nova_sol/the%20vinegar%20works%20~%20pink%20-%20demo.mp3), or if suggesting our own work is a Very Bad Thing to Do, then i recommend Chemlab : pink, ov which mine is a cover.
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Post by: Praeserpium Machinarum on 13 Feb 2005, 03:06
hell I don`t care, but I am to be brutally honest...

The Vinegar Works-pink

It start a bit slow, but then comes this bouncing sound and a voice begin to say ner-intelligible words over it. It streaks me as weird, and a bit directionless, but then again I am probably not the right audience for this sort of music, too dronelike for my taste. 3/10

I suggest Beck new single Hell Yes, which should be reasonably easy to find.
Title: BOBO
Post by: Psiogen on 13 Feb 2005, 17:21
Beck - "Hell Yes"

Um..decent, I guess. Bouncy start/stop groove, but the song is pretty much hookless. There're all sorts of samples and things thrown in but nothing really happens, and it gets old fast.

4.5/10

Suggesto:
Gentle Giant - "Knots"
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Post by: ev0lve on 13 Feb 2005, 21:38
Gentle Giant - Knots

this is like they might be giants meets a barbershop quartet. the first time i heard Gentle Giant i was searching for the Santana song "Winning" and i got their track called "Winning" instead. it was awful. this is about "Knots", though, which i actually find enjoyable. it took me a while to even hear real words, there's a "row row row your boat" aspect to it. and oh my god was
that a xylophone? <3

8.5/10

and it's staying on my playlist. (:

gogogadget:

Ani Difranco - Trickle Down
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Post by: Psiogen on 13 Feb 2005, 21:46
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".
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Post by: KharBevNor on 13 Feb 2005, 21:50
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)
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Post by: blindsuperhero on 14 Feb 2005, 16:26
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
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Post by: Malphas on 14 Feb 2005, 23:39
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
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Post by: blindsuperhero on 15 Feb 2005, 00:38
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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Post by: Malphas on 15 Feb 2005, 01:15
Well, with this you can just look at the first category to see if the person was "right" to review it.  IF you know they didn't like it, then don't get bummed when it winds up with a low score.  I have a feeling that my song is gonna get a REALLY low score unless Khar reviews it.
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Post by: KharBevNor on 15 Feb 2005, 06:17
Nah, that would be cheating. You get either the bitter indignation of someone giving NM a 1 or, if they actually like it, the sick pleasure of imparting certain facts...

Also, your rating system is subtle genius sir!
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Post by: shumacher on 15 Feb 2005, 21:16
Quote from: Malphas

My song:  Nokturnal Mortum - Kuyaviya


Wow, intense.
I'm not sure where to put this track, really. It comes in a little like a frenetic take on Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells (http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?playlistId=644497&selectedItemId=644473).  About two minutes in, we get some over the top vocals. I can't quite make out the words, as they seem a little soft against the music. Like listening to a bone-thugs album, I could see this getting old, but it's not like anything I've heard. I know I'm not doing this track justice, but I have no idea where to put it or how to best describe it. I feel like I've been asked to describe a spiral staircase without using my hands. I'll just speak to how I liked it. I give it a 4/10.

My song?
Artist: Brad Track: Buttercup Album: Shame (http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?playlistId=923944&selectedItemId=925675)
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Post by: KharBevNor on 16 Feb 2005, 18:35
Dammit, I can never find any of these tracks anywhere on DC. I should have reviewed Nokturnal Mortum. At least I would have given it the score it deserves.
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Post by: Malphas on 17 Feb 2005, 00:26
Yeah, I haven't been able to find that one either.  Nokturnal Morutm had more hits on google than that band did.
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Post by: KharBevNor on 17 Feb 2005, 06:32
I've managed to find one hit on DC++, but nothing with open slots.

Still, wait and see.

Dammit, I want to force you p0s0rz to listen to some real mens (and womens!) music!!
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Post by: shumacher on 17 Feb 2005, 15:38
KarBevNor, Malphas, I've sent you, or at least tried to send you PMs.
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Post by: Malphas on 17 Feb 2005, 19:17
Thanks for sending me the song shumacher!  Time to get this thread going again.

Brad - Buttercup

1. (10/20) Eh, it was alright.  I didn't particularly like the singer, but the rest was alright.  It was a nice "chillin'" song.
2. (15/20) I suppose it was good for its genre.  Wasn't really my thing, but it wasn't bad.
3. (7/20) It wasn't particularly impressive, because it was a slow paced song.
4. (8/20) Eh, they were alright.
5. (5/20) I hear stuff like this all the time, so I can't give it many unique points.

TOTAL:  45/100

My song:  Xasthur - Soul Abduction Ceremony

This is quite possibly one of the most frightening songs ever written.
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Post by: Hector Gilbert on 17 Feb 2005, 21:03
Now this is a bizarre song.  The "wall of noise" guitar lines make it immediately recognisable as black metal, but the whole thing seems slowed down to give a kind of grand-scale effect as well as being touched up more than usual (the arrangements are much more detailed to what I'd expect from say early Bathory or the three black albums of Darkthrone).  There's quite a bit of repetition as I would expect, but the relatively elaborate delivery doesn't sit with me so well as a bit of harsh feedback on its own would have - at times it even borders on the pompous, affected rather than affecting.  Still, the noisy guitar "tune" has stayed in my head and there are a few notable points of transition in the song which are genuinely dramatic and allow me to genuinely enjoy the song.  It has grown on me a bit like Burzum's Filosofem, an atmospheric album which this reminded me of to some extent.  7/10

Love the transition at 6:00!

Celtic Frost - "Jewel Throne"
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Post by: KharBevNor on 19 Feb 2005, 07:51
Ok, Sorry, but I'm gonna cheat and grab this :p

Celtic Frost-Jewel Throne

A somewhat hard track to give a genre to, in some ways. It's proto-black metal, with a slight doomy edge, that would come out a lot more on their later albums, breaking down into total thrash at some points.

I'm gonna nick Malphas' system:

1. (18/20) This song rocks!
2. (19/20) This song helped forge it's genre.
3. (16/20) Not the best, most definitely not the worst.
4. (15/20) Pretty good. A few understandable grammar flaws.
5. (19/20) The 'To Mega Therion' album was only ever copied.

so that's 87/100. Pretty much what it deserves!

Now.

Crotchduster-Let Me Into Starfish Land
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Post by: Psiogen on 19 Feb 2005, 23:23
Crotchduster-Let Me Into Starfish Land

...
That was very odd. Cool keyboardy intro, and then a shitload of different sections and genre switchups, mostly different styles of metal, but also bits of pop and funk. And lots of very very very crude humor. Kinda like a cross between Anal Cunt and Mr. Bungle. I didn't really find it funny, but the music was pretty nicely fucked. Not something that would probably keep me coming back, though.

1. (08/20) Not my thing.
2. (13/20) If novelty-metal is a genre, then I guess it's pretty good.
3. (18/20) They obviously know what they're doing.
4. (02/20) Sorry, the humor didn't work for me.
5. (12/20) It has its precedents, but I haven't heard anything quite like it before.

TOTAL: 53/100

Magma - "Ork Alarm"
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Post by: KharBevNor on 20 Feb 2005, 20:31
Crotchduster definitely has to be experienced on an album level. I agree it's not for everyone. I personally love their slick combination of sub-Beavis and Butthead maturity and skilled multi-instrumentalism. Also, one of the members of the band is a dog. That just rocks.
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Post by: Malphas on 25 Feb 2005, 13:54
Alright, new rule.  You need to give a link to the FULL song when you reply.  I tried to find that magma song, but that was nearly impossible without having to pay.  Best I managed to find was a short 30 second excerpt from the song.  I sorta liked it from what I heard, but I can't give a good review of it.  I'll rereview this song if I can get a full version, until then, the score will be miserably low.

1. (10/20)  I might like this song if I had the full thing, but I can't really tell.
2. (05/20)  I had no idea what this was supposed to be.  Some guy talking in some other language, and this weird ass honking noise.
3. (03/20)  Did not sound impressive at all, then again, i'd need the full thing.
4. (02/20)  Honking doesn't really count as lyrics.
5. (10/20)  Yet again, i might score this higher if i had the whole thing.

TOTAL:  30/100

My song:  Sargeist - Sargeist

Lyrics
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Post by: blindsuperhero on 25 Feb 2005, 14:13
Sargeist - Sargeist

The first 2 minutes of this song consist of the drummer playing the kick drum repeatedly quite quickly, rolling on the snare and hitting a bunch of cymbals, while the guitars play a slow and quite funny sounding line over the top, we also have some goblin-like vocals like the song I reviewed a while back, which all combines to lend the song a quite of surreal feel.
this is enhanced when the song changes into a more straight-ahead section, the drummer plays a normal beat and the whole thing sounds distinctly like a computer game soundtrack, an old computer game soundtrack that it, like on a Game Boy or something. Then the fast drum bit comes back in unnannounced, which actually caused me to laugh out loud. It's quite a jolty change from one section to the other.
Anywya, these two sections alternate a bit, then we get another section, slower again, yet it still shares the kind of ridiculous sound of the other sections, harmonically speaking this song is quite comical, I don't know what mode it's in but whichever it is, it's one not particular well suited to serious music. Then it's back to the drummy drummy bit for the last minute or so.
Overall, I presume this song is intended to be angry and scary or whatever, but it just sounds quite silly. 3/10, with possible bonus points if it does get used in a computer game soundtrack.

My choice: Billy Bragg (w/ Johnny Marr) - Walk Away Renée
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Post by: Psiogen on 25 Feb 2005, 23:49
I didn't think that Magma song would be so hard to find! I was able to find it in p2p-land myself. Anyway, here it is if you want to write a real review.
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Post by: KharBevNor on 26 Feb 2005, 04:35
Quote from: Malphas
Alright, new rule.  You need to give a link to the FULL song when you reply.


That penalises people who have no webspace, and limits the track choices you can make.

How about giving three options, if it's entirely necessary?
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Post by: ekemeister on 26 Feb 2005, 11:36
Billy Bragg (w/ Johnny Marr) - Walk Away Renée

This was an interesting listen because although I didn't particularly like the song, it got me interested in this band.  It started out rather hopeful, with basically a single acoustic guitar.... Then the dude starts talking. I wouldn't have minded it if I enjoyed the story he was telling. The guitar was pretty, but nothing I haven't heard before. But like I said, it got me more interested in the musicians somehow.
6/10

My song:
From Black to Blue
Band: Yo La Tengo
Album: And then nothing turned itself inside out

...mind if I put down two? This one's optional, no need to review it. Just another good song from a good band.

The Ballad of Red Buckets
Band: Yo La Tengo
Album: Electr-O-Pura
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Post by: Alyonva on 28 Feb 2005, 09:26
I'm not usually a huge Yo La Tengo fan - I guess I shouldn't start this out that way because I still don't really like From Black to Blue. I think it relies too heavily on styled production methods (which are not that great) and is left, musically, with a sort of hack-job melody that feels to me as if very few choices were made in the writing of the song and it was done just for the sake of being done. This sounds like another cinematic piece of music which seems to be a growing trend (pop music leaning more towards atmospheric music) which is something which I take a stance on being somewhere between indifference and mild annoyance. This is not a bad song, it is will put together and carries a good deal of professionalism... I just find it to be boring and uninspired.

290,000/780,000

My contribution is:

Artist: Los Craneos
Song: Kacharpari
Album: Flute Music of the Andes

(wait for the drum solo)

You can find it here. (http://webpages.charter.net/bluenoise/Kacharpari.mp3)
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Post by: Praeserpium Machinarum on 04 Mar 2005, 05:47
I have to admit I don't listen that much to (peruvian?) flute music, but I think its good, I guess I have a little weakness for pan flute. If I should take a guess, its pretty generic, but I am not sure. Another positive thing is that though it is pan flute, its not George-Zamfir-pan-flutesque. In other words its cool pan flute:)

7/10

My suggestion:

Skambankt-Me Sa Nei!

http://www.skambankt.com

then click on "Lydklipp" and download it.
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Post by: negative creep on 04 Mar 2005, 10:09
Quote from: Praeserpium Machinarum
Skambankt-Me Sa Nei!



i just downloaded it and i kind of like it although i don't understand a word. but it's a nice song and i'll give it 7.5/10

my suggestion: "blanket" by jonas
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Post by: Praeserpium Machinarum on 04 Mar 2005, 10:42
They are singing in a norwegian dialect called jærsk, and I am as clueless as you, besides something about loving explosions ;)  You might or might not know the lead singer Terje Vinterstø, who is also a member of a pretty famous band in Scandinavia called Kaizers Orchestra.
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Post by: jal-vani on 04 Mar 2005, 11:12
Quote from: negative creep
my suggestion: "blanket" by jonas


i can't find this song anywhere. any help? email? AIM?
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Post by: Psiogen on 04 Mar 2005, 21:29
I guess no one's ever gonna review my pick... *sob sob*
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Post by: Johnny C on 04 Mar 2005, 22:32
Okay, so the track sounded kind of similar to what would happen if you plugged an NES into a speaker and broadcast an RPG's soundtrack while backing it up with a string section.

1) (10/20) It got kinda dull near the middle, but otherwise good.
2) (17/20) Uh... I think I can venture a "Yes."
3) (15/20) Weird guitar solo. Awesome strings.
4) (05/20) I could not hear him anyway, except his crazy laugh.
5) (19/20) I have never heard anything like this in my life.

So this track gets 66/100 from me.

I suggest "Someone Else's Arms" by Mae (http://www.purevolume.com/mae). Thank goodness for purevolume.
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Post by: Praeserpium Machinarum on 06 Mar 2005, 01:04
I instantly thought Jimmy Eat World when I heard the start, that is not automatically bad(I like some of Futures) but it was noted. Overall it is in the genre as Jimmy Eat World, a sort of emo powerpop, and it is an okay track, but a bit generic..

5/10

My suggestion:

Kashmir-Surfing the Warm Industry

you can find it here: http://www.kashmir.dk/disco.php?id=2
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Post by: KharBevNor on 19 Mar 2005, 18:08
A bit generic, imo. Vocals and lyrics were ok0ish, 'wooOooOOoOOOOoOoooOOo' space rock synths in the background didn't really fit so well. Sounded quite emo when it speeded up, which is just a sound I don't like, but the distorted guitar section was cool, and the song got quite some better after that. Though the chorus was a down-side. The singer thankfully fails at trying to sound like Tom Yorke (If he'd succeeded it would have been much much worse).

6.2/10

Three suggestions. This week, it's when underground metal and electronica COLLIDE!

Ewigkeit-Strange Volk
...And Oceans-Of Devilish Tongues
Contrastic-Liars Are Winners
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Post by: ev0lve on 21 Mar 2005, 20:19
I was able to find ...And Oceans - Of Devilish Tongues
So I'll do that.
Hah, so.. it starts off like it's going to be worth listening to. Then this bad-sounding guitar starts up and then some SCREAMINGRAWRRAWRDISTORTEDVOICE lyrics start and it just goes to hell. I can be ok with this type of music. I can love this kind of music. This is just not doing it for me. At 2:47, this little technoy beat starts that I dig. Then some hot drums. Just for about 30 seconds, though. Then comes the growling. Wtf. Then, just when you think it's over... No! More! And it sounds exactly the same as before. I had to google the lyrics. There was no way I was understanding a word of that. Relatively hard to find, but once I found them I wasn't surprised really. Typical angsty shit.
"Forever people suffer in silence
Always and forever drifting to dark waters"
yeah yeah. ok.
thankfully War Pigs came on after this was over. god bless winamp.
god, i'm being mean today :)

3/10

Andrew Bird - Nervous Tic Motion of the Head to the Left

http://viix.org/xv/music/Nervous_Tic.mp3
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Post by: KharBevNor on 21 Mar 2005, 23:49
A.M.G.O.D. (Allotropic Metamorphic Genesis of Dimorphism) is not an angsty album. You people seemingly just can't do post-black.
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Post by: Psiogen on 22 Mar 2005, 11:27
Quote from: ev0lve
Andrew Bird - Nervous Tic Motion of the Head to the Left


This seems like a fairly typical sort of delicate art-pop....not a bad thing in my book. Nothing new here, but it's melodic and the production is full of cute little touches. The lyrics are standard obscure indie fare in the REM tradition—it's possible that they mean something, but I don't really care. They don't detract from the music, at least. Mr. Bird sounds distinctly like Isaac Brock in spots, but that's neither here nor there.

If there's one real complaint I could level at this (and the genre in general), it's that it meanders somewhat; he's clearly not too concerned with keeping up any particular sense of momentum. Still, it's a fine listen.

7/10

NEXT:
Rotary Connection - "I Am the Black Gold of the Sun" (http://sylvanmigdal.com/stuff/Rotary_Connection-I_Am_the_Black_Gold_of_the_Sun.mp3)
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Post by: KharBevNor on 01 Apr 2005, 09:46
Rotary Connection - "I Am the Black Gold of the Sun"

Let's just come straight out here and say that I did not like this song at all. I can give it a 4/10, because these people can onviously sing, play instruments etc. Despite not liking the genre/style, I would say this song's problem was that it had far too much the air of background music. It just sort of sat there in the background not doing very much at all really.

This week is the many voices of Dan Swano week! You can choose between:

Dan Swano-Creating Illusions (Proggy Death Metal)
Edge of Sanity-Sacrificed (Goth Rock)
Nightingale-Forever and Ever (Prog Rock)
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Post by: ev0lve on 01 Apr 2005, 11:36
you can use yousendit.com to allow us access to your mp3s of these without having your own webspace.
this would be remarkably helpful.
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Post by: KharBevNor on 01 Apr 2005, 11:39
Or I could use dropload.com. Someone has to claim them first and choose one though, I'm not just going to email them to everyone on the board at random.
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Post by: ev0lve on 01 Apr 2005, 11:49
Um. You can post a link.
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Post by: KharBevNor on 01 Apr 2005, 12:02
do those actually work as regular download links?
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Post by: ev0lve on 01 Apr 2005, 12:05
Yep.
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Post by: KharBevNor on 01 Apr 2005, 12:50
Cool, I just assumed they worked like dropload.

Now I can send awesome obscure stuff.

http://s29.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=28HW08K2C0RRS1I584A6J0E0BK


This is Ewigkeit - Ea 2000:Out For the Count
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Post by: Areckahn on 01 Apr 2005, 12:52
Quote from: YouSentIt

File Transfer: Invalid Link
Unfortunately, the link you have clicked is not available.

Reasons for this may include:
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Use only the link that was generated by YouSendIt and mailed to the recipient. All other links will not be recognized. Please check to make sure that your email client did not break the link up over multiple lines. You may need to reconstruct the link manually by cutting and pasting all components into your web browser's address bar.
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Post by: KharBevNor on 01 Apr 2005, 12:54
http://s29.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=28HW08K2C0RRS1I584A6J0E0BK?

I thought this might not work.
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Post by: Areckahn on 01 Apr 2005, 12:56
That one seems to work, though, I cant see the difference.
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Post by: KharBevNor on 01 Apr 2005, 12:58
Odd.
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Post by: Praeserpium Machinarum on 01 Apr 2005, 23:21
I got it to work..

Ewigkeit - Ea 2000:Out For the Count

First of all the recording sounds a bit odd, hollow might be a good name for it. The drums are as far as I can hear from a drummachine, sounds very artificial, and the "vocals" are horrible in my opinion. Though perhaps that's the idea? The guitar works is fine enough,  but overall, our tastes clashes again KharBevNor, I just can't stand this song.

3/10

my suggestion:
Under Byen-Legesag

http://s37.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2F2EIEWXNPS8Z2B39SR410PDYF
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Post by: KharBevNor on 02 Apr 2005, 02:54
It's probably not so awesome unless you really like the original version by Burzum. I actually cracked up when he went "Oh Varg, you're really scaring me now!". As for the quality, it's a one-man project run from a home studio, so...yeah.
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Post by: yipjumpmusic on 05 Apr 2005, 23:13
8/10 I will decide on..so hard for me to be decisive in things like this.  First vocals sounded odd mixed with the music being either right or left speaker, but then I realized that was just since I had headphones on.  It went somewhere but too often I am wishing a song would go somewhere more than it does, but then I learn to live with it later and love the song, think that may be the same with this one.  I judge music a lot on whether I would buy the cd and if there was a cd full of songs of the same quality of this and it was not a million dollars, I think I would buy it.

Here for you next person.  Band-Pornopop Song-Centre (since some people like to put band first, others the song)

http://s31.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2VEOXI2ZE0D1F1NBFDDR30YLT4
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Post by: a pack of wolves on 06 Apr 2005, 08:41
At first the music reminded me a little of something from 'Good Morning Spider' by Sparklehorse, but without so much charm. My main problem was that I just didn't find the vocals to have that much feeling to them, and I really disliked the drum sound. It does however get a few points for the nicely sinister background noises that show up about three minutes in, I might have liked it more if they'd been used throughout. So I'll go for 4/10

My suggestion: Wolves! (of Greece) - For The Greater Good (http://www.gringorecords.com/mp3s/Wolves_Of_Greece_-_For_The_Greater_Good.mp3)
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Post by: Praeserpium Machinarum on 06 Apr 2005, 11:53
yipjumpmusic:
Under Byen is a danish band and has made two albums called Kyst and Det er Mig der Holder Træerne Sammen, they are available in Europe as far as I know, the second one anyway. They are truly fantastic and every song on Det er Mig der Holder Træerne Sammen, where Legesag comes from, is amazing ;)
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Post by: KharBevNor on 06 Apr 2005, 15:07
My impressions were that this was a pretty good song that was trying its best to get me to dislike it. The playing ranged from being good to being just annoying, especially the bits where a sort of half-riff would just repeat over and over. The vocals were annoying all the time however, so there's some consistency. Ending was too abrupt, intro was a bit odd. Fairly decent musicicanship, I'll give that 4/10.

Now, one of the few tracks that is, imo, literally perfect:

http://s43.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=17WK5R9YI1EA435JYB2NIKQIZS

Ancient Rites-(Ode to) Ancient Europa
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Post by: yipjumpmusic on 06 Apr 2005, 16:27
Thanks for the info but ug, imports and our crappy US dollar
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Post by: KharBevNor on 12 Apr 2005, 10:32
*bump*

If the download doesn't work anymore PM me.
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Post by: Praeserpium Machinarum on 12 Apr 2005, 12:01
I would give it a go but you deserve someone who's not biased :)
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Post by: KharBevNor on 12 Apr 2005, 21:30
It is impossible to be biased against Ancient Rites! All those biased against Ancient Rites shall be slain by the mighty warriors of Europa!
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Post by: Praeserpium Machinarum on 13 Apr 2005, 04:05
fine, I'll do it with the risk of being slain by the mighty warriors of Europa

Ancient Rites-(Ode to) Ancient Europa

They don't mean this seriously right? Because it sounds like they are doing a good job at a parody of dead metal. This, I am sure, is an acquired taste, but despite the novelty factor and the pretty good musicianship, the insane drums(which I think is a drum machine, again), this is just wasted on me. I think odd, when you think awesome ;)

two suggestions, the first one is a wma file, and the other one mp3 in case you dont have Window Media Player(unlikely but still)

Jomi Massage - Just keep going straight
http://s51.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1O9QN2PE9TBCE2BS70P4OGCYN0

Zombina and the Skeletons-Deadalive
http://s51.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0KT9GA318SQYB21XP3ROO6MDE8
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Post by: KharBevNor on 13 Apr 2005, 05:15
Yeah. Ancient Rites have a great drum machine. He's about six feet tall and called Walter...

Could you not even find space or scope to comment on the actual music at all? The terseness and generic nature of your response makes me kind of doubt you even listened to it at all...
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Post by: Praeserpium Machinarum on 13 Apr 2005, 05:39
I told you I was biased, but I did listen to it, I just didn't think there was much to say...
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Post by: bainidhe_dub on 13 Apr 2005, 08:54
Zombina and the Skeletons - Deadalive

Having just listened to that, I can't decide yet if I liked it. It sounded like punk or something, but it also sounds like something out of Grease.
While listening: It starts out with a sort of spooky buzz, promising something interesting. The drums seem a bit at odds with it, but then the vocals pop in and kill it. Nasal, repetetive, can't understand a word. And again, Grease comes to mind- people going ooOOOooo in the back, a fast drum or something keeping up..

in an attempt to be fair, i'll use Malphas' system.
1) Opinion (07/20) maybe it'll grow on me.. maybe.
2) Genre (10/20) i don't even know what to call it.
3) Instruments (08/20) there's skill i suppose, but it's repetitive
4) Lyrics (03/20) what the hell
5) Unique (15/20) never heard anything like this (but that was a good thing)

so Deadalive gets a 43/100.

I suggest:
Band- Skindred. Song- Nobody. Album- Babylon
http://s38.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1A2LRXMUL4O2D0OAY5WWB1FQBL
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Post by: Mockery on 13 Apr 2005, 09:05
I call!

Gimme a minute here...

Edit: Okay, gimme a minute more, I'll have to get iTunes player
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Post by: Mockery on 13 Apr 2005, 09:28
Right, I've heard this song many times in a slightly different version, I think.
I believe it's on the soundtrack of Need For Speed: Underground - 2

That aside, here goes:

1) Opinion (12/20) not especially brilliant, but it's punchy
2) Genre  (14/20) I like this sort of genre generally
3) Instruments (13/20) Fairly standard, I like to have meaty guitar sounds
4) Lyrics (08/20) Not terribly imaginative, quite repetitive
5) Unique (09/20) Fair bit like it out there, i think

So, 56/100 for Skindred - Nobody

And now for something completely different, hope you like it!

2NU - Ponderous (http://s8.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0VJVND4ZYFFKT0JD4R0IN6VO7Q)

Wow, blackmadness, yousendit is a great site!
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Post by: Two_Tone on 13 Apr 2005, 14:54
The Tossers-Purgatory
Great Pouges-esque Irish rock from Chicago.
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Post by: Hoborg on 13 Apr 2005, 15:04
2NU - Ponderous

This song sounds like some guy having a lot of fun with a casio keyboard. I got nothing against casio keyboards, the SK1 was the shit, and Wesley Willis was friggin' brilliant. In this song he uses it in a very gimmicky way along with beat-poetry, so blatantly gimmicky that it is clearly some sort of joke. But thats about as far as the novelty of it goes, there is nothing really that interesting about it aside from the ironic gimmicky style. The lyrics sound like something you come up with while high that you think is really brilliant but then look at later and realise is pretty stupid, which adds to the style of it I guess but dosen't do much for bringing the song past a one-time novelty. Worth a listen, but I have no real desire to listen to it again.

6/10
Next song:
Black Moth Super Rainbow - I Think It Is Beautiful That You Are 256 Colors Too (http://s18.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3GK5470VNSZLA37UKAD8PQHHON)
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Post by: mechorg on 13 Apr 2005, 15:56
I'm listening to it right now, I'll give you a report in a few. :)

Okay now:
This reminds me of a crazy morph of Polyphonic Spree and Boards of Canada...  sorry, thats the first thing that popped into my head.  I kinda dig it, because I like the whole simplified electronic sounds.  It puts you in a happy mood, but some of the electronic trills get a little too poppy.  If you're the type that likes to sulk, you'd probably just hate this song.  This would be great for the credits to George Lucas' THX-1138 film.
If fit really well into my playlist of The Notwist, Bonobo and Mum.  Now its saved on my hard drive, thanks. :)
My Score: 7/10


Next:
The Stranglers - Golden Brown
(I really like that upload link, I'll have to figure out how to do that.)
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Post by: Hoborg on 13 Apr 2005, 18:02
just go to www.yousendit.com , type in any email address, and upload the file. Wait a while and itll give you a link where anyone can download that file. I hadnt used it before till now, it is really damn cool.

BTW, there are a few more BMSR songs on their website (http://www.blackmothsuperrainbow.com). I think "start a people" is a really amazing album. Its bright and nostalgic but sometimes with kind of dark undertones, it is a lot like BoC.
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Post by: Psiogen on 13 Apr 2005, 18:15
Quote from: mechorg
Next:
The Stranglers - Golden Brown


Interesting. I've only heard one song of theirs before, and this is pretty different. Closer to prog rock than new wave—I dunno what time signature all those baroque synths are in, but it's not a normal one. Very pretty song, with a cool jazzy vibe. I like it.

1) Opinion (15/20) A catchy, likeable, laid-back pop song.
2) Genre (12/20) Uh...pop-prog? Yeah, I can dig that.
3) Instruments (15/20) Nice playing all around.
4) Lyrics (10/20) Even the lyrics sound proggy. Could be Peter Hammill or something. Nothing wrong with 'em, but I don't find them inspiring either. Also, the title phrase makes me think of gravy, which isn't really a good thing.
5) Unique (08/20) It definitely resembles a lot of prog, but it doesn't sound quite like anyone in particular.

60/100


NEXT SONG: Keith Tippett—"This is What Happens" (http://webcomics.org/stuff/Keith_Tippett-This_Is_What_Happens.mp3)
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Post by: a pack of wolves on 13 Apr 2005, 19:40
Keith Tippett—"This is What Happens"

The first thing that really hit me about this was how amazing the percussion is. I'm a sucker for good drumming, and this has it in spades giving the track one hell of a backbone and pushing it along with an insistent rhythm. Not that this is the only good side, the other instruments give it a great, well sway might be a good word which rather makes me wish I could dance well in order to do it justice. And just when you think you know where it's going it shuts itself down and restarts with some repetitive piano and saxophone squawks to finish, and I do like a song to throw me a curveball. I'll have to look into this group some more.
9/10

Next: Rites of Spring - "For Want Of" (http://www.thelovesong.org/mainpage/band%20mp3s/RITES%20OF%20SPRING.mp3)
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Post by: Mockery on 13 Apr 2005, 21:19
Rites of Spring - For Want Of:

I've listened to it three times now, and every time it seems so much like the rest of my collection, or what I hear on JJJ* that i don't notice every time it finishes and I forget it. I guess that means it's good, for me. Singer sounds a little interesting, but I can't place who the three or so people are who i think he sounds like a combination of. It may be a little that the vocals sometimes sound a little too intense for the relatively light-sounding instrumentals

I'll give this song a 75% rating: It doesn't stand out as being totally awesome, but there's nothing wrong with it either, and i think i'll be liking it.

Next up: Palladium, a group from Brisbane, Oz.
Their song, Good Girl (http://s10.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3UYNUC78X6J3S1VS000PFU6I0O)
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Post by: Patatat on 13 Apr 2005, 22:07
Palladium-Good Girl



My Review:
They seem like a mainstream 90's band, that didn't quite make it. It got my feet tappin' ,but its nothing that I would listen to regular. If it was on the radio, I might stop to listen to it. Then again, its really not my thing. So thats probablly why I wasn't all hop-skotch crazy for it. I can see why you like it though, its not bad. Just not my thing.
8/10

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My song.

M83-Run into Flowers
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Post by: a pack of wolves on 14 Apr 2005, 05:49
Quote from: Mockery
Singer sounds a little interesting, but I can't place who the three or so people are who i think he sounds like a combination of.


If you're familiar with Fugazi then he might be reminding you of them, since Rites of Spring was Guy Picciotto's old band but like Ian Mackaye he changed his vocal style quite a lot from his earlier work.
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Post by: mechorg on 14 Apr 2005, 15:33
Quote from: Patatat

My song.

M83-Run into Flowers


Okay, I really can't wait to see them at Coachella this year now.  My previous exposure to M83 was just enough to get me interested but not enough to search any more of their music out.  I think I'll have to work on that.
This song is a good and loud song of grandeur for a finale.  Some of the cymbal loops get a little obnoxious being louder than the rest of the song.  It took a little knob adjusting to get it sounding good to my ears.  I love the strings and wide open chords!  It gives you the affect of cranking up the amp on a keyboard and pounding a major chord that stands for 4 minutes.  Its these wonderful chords and progressions that make me love M83 so much.

My Score:  8/10
(I'm a harsh critic, but its a good score for me.)


Next:
Boy Robot - Don't Panic It's Organic (http://s33.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0N8RW3HHV21XA3I43UUN8DAH9H)
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Post by: KharBevNor on 14 Apr 2005, 22:06
Well, there really was no danger of me panicking here. Good grief. Boredom. The song scarcely bloody changes all the way though. One beat, no lyrics, no impact, no variation, no fun. Nice lift music though.

Sorry If I'm terse and harsh, but I really can't think of anything more to say.

1/10

Jeeves! Bring forth the Celtic Battle Metal!

Waylander - Born to the Fight (http://s21.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3GS59R7ANG0UY3EOKR37SQFTFP)
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Post by: Crowebert on 14 Apr 2005, 22:33
Wow. That is very interesting. I can't say that I've heard much metal like that... Pennywhistle and electric guitars. Huh. Reminds me of a minimalist Edenbridge.

Neat track the first time, but I don't think it has much staying power. 2/10.

Next:
The Jimmy Swift Band - Now They Will Know We Were Here. (http://thejimmyswiftband.com/)
(I apologize in advance for the flash interface. Midway down the page on the right side. Go to the bottom of the list for the version from the debut album; it's shorter than the live version.)
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Post by: Signum_Tenebrae on 15 Apr 2005, 12:56
Quote from: Crowebert
The Jimmy Swift Band - Now They Will Know We Were Here. (http://thejimmyswiftband.com/)


It wasn't bad, but it didn't really catch my attention.  (which is exactly why I normally don't listen to stuff like this)

The song starts with a sort of catchy bass line.  One thing i noticed pretty quickly, or rather, didn't notice, was the lack of vocals (until the end, that is.)

The whole song sounded kind of progressive / experimental.  Something like Gordian Knot or Aghora (not AS progressive as these bands but similar.)  There was also a bit of electronics used in this song.

I wish I had more to say about it, but that's about it.  I'd give it probably a 5/10.


My song is Craft - Hidden Under The Skin

http://www.moribundcult.com/mp3/dead44.mp3

if you don't like any kind of metal you probably will very much hate this, haha.  Hellrockin' Darkthrone-style black metal
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Post by: Robbo on 15 Apr 2005, 13:14
Quote
My song is Craft - Hidden Under The Skin


Hmmm, never been one to go into the areas of less know Black Metal bands. I did not like the THUNK THUNK drumming to start, but onces the rest kicks off it's good.

I love the riff from about a minute in though. And when it comes back at about 3:15...ok so it's sort of like current Satyricon which might not be seen as great to most BM fans but I liked it.

Everything sounded good and Black Metal, certainly can't complain about the Darkthrone likness. Didnt catch me too much as being anything that different or great to start with. But then I got into the BM and it improved a bit. I probably need to hear more of the band.

7/10 for being solid, decent with some cool parts and having promise for the rest of the band.

My song Snowsleep - The Temple of Loneliness. For something a bit different.

http://files.mp3.com.au/download.asp?id=47677&Type=MP3&ReferURL=

EDIT: Right Click and Save As. Dont worry about what it says for the name, should give you the mp3 track.
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Post by: blindsuperhero on 15 Apr 2005, 17:49
Snowsleep - The Temple of Loneliness

Fairly dull ambient 80's synth style start
Doesn't seem to change much later on
Is almost 7 minutes long
Very, very boring. And also unoriginal. The word "sleep" is in this case highly appropriate. 2/10

Anyway, here I am to save this thread from the overwhelming quantities of crap metal that I'm sure it has been...overwhelmed...by, with what is possibly the anti-metal: ska.

My choice - Streetlight Manifesto - Everything Went Numb (http://www.personal.leeds.ac.uk/~mat4cft/01%20-%20Everything%20Went%20Numb.mp3)
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Post by: KharBevNor on 15 Apr 2005, 18:24
Hmm. That was actually better than a lot of Ska I've heard. This was something to do with the vocalist not being too annoying. The quality of the brass section was varying. Sometimes it was quite good. Sometimes, annoying. Seemed somewhat without variation of riffage or whatever it is anyway. Not really too offensive. I still don't get why people dance to this stuff in such a retarded manner though.

6/10. Probably the best Ska song I've ever heard, actually.

Now, THIS I can perfectly understand dancing in a retarded manner to. I do it often myself:

Finntroll - Forsvinn Du Som Lyser (http://s13.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0CS1LF8Z3GEC5071WFXRW9NFBF)

HUMPAA!!
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Post by: Mockery on 15 Apr 2005, 21:29
Finntroll - Forsvinn Du Som Lyser

Heheheheeeee! Funny, funny!

From the point of view of an uneducated Australian"
Vocals sound like Rammstein
(bear in mind i have no idea what the words are, they could equally be saying either "hug each other and dance around" or "slay kittens and bathe in their blood" for all I know)
Instruments sound like the village fair in some remote european village about 100-odd years ago
I swear I heard someone calling out "Yeee-haw!" in the background a few times

Death Country/Folk/Western?

This is probably the most bizarre song I've ever listened to (but if u check my earlier post of 2NU, you might disagree)
It's catchy and slightly infectious, but didn't make me dance. I wiggled my head a little, and broke out in a silly grin of bemusement, but I don't think I'll be hanging onto this track for star quality or anything.

3.5/10


This next track comes from a little-known Perth band called Halogen, from their album 'Save The Ones You Love'.
Happy Listening...

Halogen - On A Bridge (http://s11.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=20Q4RBP6NGKDR0WK93XYENZ4Y8) (5.8MB wma)
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Post by: KharBevNor on 15 Apr 2005, 21:34
It's Acoustic Troll Metal to be precise. Basically metal vocalled Humpaa (Finnish Polka).

As for the lyrics...guess two was more accurate:

Begone You Who Shine


A scream now echoes, the midnight roars
Black evil, paints the sky
Broken itself loose, left its shackles
Soon revenged old evil deeds

The earth shakes where the roar is heard
All over murder and evil is done
Mud drowns forest and mountain
Black may now be the colour of the sky

Raven and crow their food now get
They follow the path where death goes
The sun is covered, not shines anymore
Enveloped now by blood and mud
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Post by: Robbo on 16 Apr 2005, 03:08
Quote from: blindsuperhero
Is almost 7 minutes long


And? I have tracks that are 70 minutes long.

Anyway, Halogen - On A Bridge.

Hmm, the Female vox are ok if very singer/songwriter-ish. The backing just builds then goes nowhere and you get the boring snare/symbol work of doom. Then guitars come back in with some generic dirty playing and the vocals take a dive. And that same plucking continues through the song. Then the vocals returng to being ok. Is the distorted guitar ment to be impressive? And of course the vocals suck again the more the band play.

3/10. Playing is fine but never does anything a 3month starter couldn't. At attempt at atmosphere is ruined due to bad direction changes and the vocals headding the wrong way. Nice and simple background stuff, but has been done better, either with more skill or far more atmosphere.

Next up Naked City - Thrash Jazz Assassin from the Torture Garden album.

http://www.robbo.oeck.net/Stuff/Naked_City_-_Thrash_Jazz_Assassin.mp3
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Post by: Mikendher on 17 Apr 2005, 06:57
Review of Next up Naked City - Thrash Jazz Assassin from the Torture Garden album.

Well, there's some guitar skill there, I'll give them that much. Though it seems to be wasted on a collection of terrible sound that do not sound good together. At one point this very harsh sound comes in that almost sounds like a person whining with distortion (imagine how much that would suck in real life). I guess the title fits the song then. However, since it's not my kind of music in general, I'll be a tiny bit lenient with a 4/10

My song is Elliott Smith - Can't Make A Sound
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Post by: KharBevNor on 17 Apr 2005, 07:01
Download link please?
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Post by: Mikendher on 17 Apr 2005, 07:39
http://66.30.2.26/website/transfer/Elliott%20Smith%20-%20Can't%20Make%20A%20Sound.mp3
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Post by: KharBevNor on 17 Apr 2005, 09:21
First impression: Sounds a bit like Simon and Garfunkle. But, er, more boring. Kicks up a bit toward the end, but still somewhat...I don't know, drab possibly. Not too keen on the vocals, but still, not a bad song though, really. Just not my cup of tea. I think it probably deserves about a 5.5/10.

You know what you guys need? A good dose of Dan Swano.

Edge of Sanity - Blood-Coloured (http://s5.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3ETUS0930SX7S04SM5E88VRWMI)

Everyone's favourite overly long-haired, silver-tongued progster shows us that, yes, clean vox and Melodic Death Metal were built for one another.

Yes, he has a band playing with him, but ignore them. They are an extraneous entity.
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Post by: Mockery on 17 Apr 2005, 09:33
This song is completely awesome.
I was just like, wow. Cool.

Apart from that, I think somebody else should review it, I like it too much to be objective.
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Post by: Robbo on 17 Apr 2005, 09:35
Hey, review it. It's about time people actually started liking this stuff.
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Post by: Mockery on 17 Apr 2005, 09:50
Re: My last post...

I was referring to the Elliot Smith Track.

On the Edge of Sanity, I have no comment.
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Post by: Robbo on 18 Apr 2005, 04:29
Man, you people suck. Listen, it's not gonna kill you.
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Post by: Psiogen on 18 Apr 2005, 05:37
As someone who isn't a connoisseur of the genre, I'm kinda at a loss... It has a good solid riff, I guess. I appreciate the clean vocals (and depreciate the non-clean vocals.) I enjoy it, but it's not really the kind of thing that gets under my skin. That's not the song's fault—I'd probably feel the same way about most any death metal track you came up with. Some genres have values that overlap strongly with my own. Metal doesn't.

5.5/10

Next: XTC - Young Cleopatra (Demo)
I'm sure these guys are well known around here, but this is a relatively obscure song from a fan-club-only cassette (different from the version that was finally released on CD recently.)
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Post by: Robbo on 18 Apr 2005, 05:51
Quote from: Psiogen
Next: XTC - Young Cleopatra (Demo)


Certainly sounds like it's off a fan club tape. And like some bouncy MTV pop band a well. Vocals sound like something from an old two tone band. Simple playing that doesn't go anywhere and doesn't any sort of feeling or atmosphere. Even the lack of production can't hide there's nothing to it. Some of the electronic sounds must be coming from a childs first mini keyboard. No good points.

1/10 because it's not that long.

Now for: Ayreon - Day Twelve: Trauma

Something from the Metal Opera that is The Human Equation. You get a cookie for knowing all the five vocalists on this one. And the star prise if you know what parts they're playing.

As for background, the album is someone trapped in a coma, with various vocalists playing the parts of his emotions in his inner struggle. Fear the opera goodness, fear it. Just so you have no reason to say you dont understand.
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Post by: Psiogen on 18 Apr 2005, 05:57
Har har.
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Post by: Mockery on 18 Apr 2005, 06:50
Ayreon - Day Twelve: Trauma

Well, for a 15MB download, it wasn't actually a complete waste of traffic usage. Although it's not my usual niche, I'm impressed by this song. It has quite good vocals, powerful atmosphere in places and it's actually intelligible.

I'll say 7/10.

I meant no offense by not reviewing the Edge of Sanity track, I just somehow found myself unable to comment. Too long without sleep i suppose. Now I hear it again, the music is pretty solid, but I don't find it anything amazing, and I'm a bit turned off by the whole 'metal voice becos it's metal' thang.

Another comment: this seems to be a fairly binary thread, alternating between metal fans who find the other stuff too light, and fans of the lighter stuff, who are a bit scared by the metal. I think if you're going to dish out a low score because a track resembles nothing else in your collection, perhaps you should leave it for someone who might appreciate it a bit more...
I'm not saying everyone's doing it, but i think it's happened a couple of times, so don't go jumping down my throat (I am a tiger after all)


For my next trick, I mean track:
A Melbourne band, fairly new
67 Special - Hey There Bomb (http://s17.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1VD9MKQK5TIAE1PAC8IUG15XNQ) (5.3MB wma)
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Post by: Robbo on 18 Apr 2005, 06:55
Oh, and if you want to know the vocalists on the track:

Eric Clayton (Saviour Machine) as Reason
Mikael Åkerfeldt (Opeth) as Fear
Devon Graves (Dead Soul Tribe, Aslan) as Agony
Irene Jansen (Karma) as Passion
Magnus Ekwall (The Quill) as Pride

Mikael as always brings the greatness in both clean and Death vox.

As for Metal fans finding stuff to light comment, I disagree, it's more a case of them showing no of the instrument focused playing that Metal is about in large.

And this is a forced listening thread, to be listening to stuff you dont know and normally wouldn't. It even workds sometimes. But yes, doing a mass of reviews and calling things total shit is bit a pointless.
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Post by: Robbo on 18 Apr 2005, 07:27
Quote from: Mockery

I meant no offense by not reviewing the Edge of Sanity track, I just somehow found myself unable to comment. Too long without sleep i suppose. Now I hear it again, the music is pretty solid, but I don't find it anything amazing, and I'm a bit turned off by the whole 'metal voice becos it's metal' thang.


Didnt notice this last part before. But the Death vocals, they need to be there. Because it's Death Metal and one of the key points that draws Death apart from Thrash and other things is the vocals. Without it, it's not Death. They're a well practiced art and in some cases should just be looked at as an insturment (see Lord Worm and people like him). Also, I invite you to do a two hour show with those vocals for 15 years or so and still be able to speak.

But certainly, there's no set clean vocal style for Metal, some people and great clean vocals, some point. Some people some much, much better doing extreme vox. For Dan, his Death vox is solid and mid range, though not amazingly deep or distorted as great Death vocals are, but his clean vocals are amazin buy any standards.
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Post by: KharBevNor on 18 Apr 2005, 09:08
The intro got me into a good mood. The guitars are nice and rockish. The vocalist not quite my thing, but not appaling either. Not very sure about the keyboards, but the bits where it starts rocking harder are pretty damn nice actually. Bit repetitive but it doesn't really show up.

7.8/10. Nice track.

Now, let's just have a nice, safe, all-female band.

Matriarch - Black Apples (http://s12.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=37NX32E55AJ1Z260WDADAFD7IM)
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Post by: Signum_Tenebrae on 18 Apr 2005, 10:47
Quote from: KharBevNor

Now, let's just have a nice, safe, all-female band.

Matriarch - Black Apples (http://s12.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=37NX32E55AJ1Z260WDADAFD7IM)


First thing that struck me about this track is. . goddamn that's a girl doing the death growls?  People say Angela Gossow has brutal vocals for a chick. . they should hear this girl!  The keyboards strike me as kind of pointless around 1:00 into it. . they don't really "fit" very well.  The high pitch girl singing vocals are not too bad, though I usually stay away from that kind of stuff aside from the occasional female vocalist in doom metal.  The spoken word parts, why do they have a british accent? This band is from Puerto Rico, right?  haha, she kind of sounds like Sarah from COF.   Things start to get better at around 4:40, the guitars + the mid-range vocals carry a kind of groove to them.  This part has decent keyboards, they actually fit.  

All in all, I think this band has potential, though they have some work to do.  I give this song a 5/10.

My song:

Leviathan - Fucking Your Ghost In Chains Of Ice
http://www.moribundcult.com/mp3/dead43.mp3

Very bizarre black metal off of Leviathan's most depressing release, The Tenth Sublevel of Suicide.
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Post by: Hoborg on 18 Apr 2005, 16:51
This is the most tolerable black metal I have ever listened to. I'd even say it's good! I am kind of biased against the genre, the double-bass-drum-blasting/constant noise/repetitiveness of black metal has never been my thing. (I only ever liked black metal because they dress up rediculously and look hilarious.) This has some melodic elements and rhythm changes, and a nice slow, dark part toward the end. They have kind of a unique growl too. Not bad at all, I wanted to listen to it again after it was done (and did, despite the shitty mp3 quality). Still, I got bored during the machine-gun-drum bits.

Next -

Themselves - Good People Check (http://s37.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0JSAGJQQKGKBS330RC9LAYTOO7)
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Post by: Praeserpium Machinarum on 25 Apr 2005, 08:10
Themselves - Good People Check

I have heard a little about Doseone and his work with cLOUDDEAD, but never actually heard it. I like it, it may be rap, but it is lightyears from 50 Cent and others. The beat(or beats) are emotive and created a special mood, it is a little difficult to hear what they rap about, and it doesn't become easier from the two rappers raps at the same time mostly. But I am pretty certain it's not about bitches and PARTY;), very much enjoyed, and the ending was priceless with someone whistling a bit from the theme of the Good, the Bad and the Ugly(isn't that the one?)

8/10


Figurines - Rivalry
http://s16.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2UE5WLO11QK2R0O0LADBE1K0CM
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Post by: loyalpeon on 25 Apr 2005, 14:58
7/10

Very good song, all in all. Towards the end on the vocal part it was become a slight bit repetive and i had a nagging little fear that it would continue in similar vein, but nope. I liked the melow end, particularly the 'waaaing' that finishs it off - a classy way to go out. Apart from that, pleasant vocal and though instrumentally it wasn't inovative or anything, it was good enough for what it is. Like I said, very good.


Up Next:

Andrew Bird - Fake Palindromes
http://s23.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0QEV8DL4016YU2ZHUXVOHYMMZT
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Post by: Robbo on 26 Apr 2005, 09:29
Andrew Bird - Fake Palindromes

Starts off almost folk like before it actually picks up. The instrument section is pretty decent but the vocals are horrible generic indie stuff and all the good instrument stuff falls away as soon as he start singing as well. Then he stops singing and it picks up again for a few seconds when it's good again before he starts again. I guess he thinks the lyrics are cool or something, when they're not. The off kilter indie folk instrumental stuff is good. Everything where he sings is really bad and it ruins the song.

3/10

Ulver - Kledt I Nattens Farger

http://www.robbo.oeck.net/Stuff/Ulver_-_Kledt_I_Nattens_Farger.mp3
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Post by: MilkmanDan on 26 Apr 2005, 12:01
I must admit, this review is going to be very similer to the previous one.
Again, a quite nice, but not hugely exciting guitar part is totally destroyed by terrible vocals. Then the vocals end, and you get more quite nice guitar. Seriously though, these guys were horrible. (It was guys, right? I only listened to it about 5 minutes ago, and I've already forgotten. Doubtless it will come back to me in a therepy session 30 years from now, as my mind finally comes to terms with the horror. I'm exagerating.) Droning, tuneless, off-time dirgery. Plus i have no idea what they are on about, as I don't speak whatever. So, pretty similar to the Palindrome one, but the palindrome guitar bit > this guitar bit, and the Palindrome vocal bit >> this one.

3/10

My song! Venetian Snares - Hajnal (http://s48.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0RWCDNRK3I9VY2I9JOTN0HWP5I), from the album 'Rossz Csillag Allat Született'.
It is nearly 8 minutes long, please don't panic. 8 minutes is NOT a long song. I don't want you skipping ahead either, dammit. Just sit back and enjoy it (Or hate it, if you're that way inclined).
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Post by: loyalpeon on 26 Apr 2005, 12:55
damn, robbo, that's harsh hehe - I love that song... but no hard feelings :)

ok, as to the song at hand:

Venetian Snares - Hajnal

Ok - so it starts of with a string arangement, an enjoyable one too, with very good varienty. Then it slowly builds up, a few instruments poking their head out into the dominant strings, and then transitions into a piano driven segment before the strings pick up again. Kinda makes me think of a duel.

Then it gets very interesting, with some heavy drumming and some erratic sound effects joyning the frey, though the highlight is still a lone violin that's stugling to be heard.

An AFX-like explosion of sound of wildly erratic drumming and sounds takes over towards the end, with orchestral bits fading into the background, then the noise ceases abrubtly and allows a mellow finale of cello and violin.

ok, so i might be off on some of the precise instruments used, but the point remains this: I loved it. Great progression of sound, culminating in a overwhelming noise-driven crescendo...  

Thank you milkman - i do believe I shall try some more of what these guys (girls?) have to offer later tonight.

Verdict - personally i'd say around 8/9 out of 10 (probably more around the 9, but I'll have to give it another few listens)

...

As for the next track try:

65 days of static - aren't we all running?
(twiddling fingers waiting for it to upload - if anyone gets in before me I'll be pissed hehe - ahh... there we go)
http://s39.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2AGIW623VD2NE01C18QE9QI3KW

.loyal.
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Post by: Robbo on 26 Apr 2005, 13:02
MilkmanDan really doesn't like real Folk it seems.
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Post by: happybirthdaygelatin on 26 Apr 2005, 13:05
Venetian Snares - Hajnal - 8 or a 9.  Though not the songs fault.  If I wasn't at work and in a more relaxing sitting (spliffed maybe even) this would easily have a 10.  

65 days of Static.  They tend to blend using noise and glitchyness very well together.  I like it though it gets a bet repetitive there was enough variation going on that it wasn't annoyingly so.

I'll go with an 8 out of 10.

Minibosses - Megaman 2 (http://www.hour13.com/mirrors/minibosses/(Minibosses)%20-%20Mega%20Man%202.mp3)
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Post by: loyalpeon on 26 Apr 2005, 13:17
Quote from: Robbo
MilkmanDan really doesn't like real Folk it seems.


now now - let's not allow this civilised forced listening thread into a uncivilised COMMUNIST FORCED LABOUR CAMP FOR PEOPLE WITH DIVERGENT VIEWS TO THOSE OF THE ALMIGHTY SECRETARY OF THE PARTY. That would be bad for all those involved. Especially the children, with their soft bones and crushable skulls. They wouldn't survive more than 5 minutes in a well disciplined gulag. But that's ok, cause the provisions are a little on the low side and there's only so much rat one cat eat in a day.

But I digress.
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Post by: Robbo on 26 Apr 2005, 13:20
Touche it seems. But yes fair enough point. That's what I get for playing a nice non Metal track.
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Post by: MilkmanDan on 26 Apr 2005, 13:26
Quote from: Robbo
MilkmanDan really doesn't like real Folk it seems.

I guess not. The only folk I have ever enjoyed is The John Butler Trio. And they are doubtless alt-folk or nu-folk or glitch-folk or some stupid sub-genre like that. How do you like my 'real' breakcore?

65daysofstatic get 11, and it's not even their best song. <3 65DOS.
I'm glad you like Hajnal, It's probobly my favourite song of the year so far. I've been listening to it all the damn time since I bought the album a few months back. If you want to check out more Venetian Snares (it's he. Singular. He learnt the violin and trumpet for that album, and plays the piano. But mainly he's a laptop kid) I would get 'Rossz Csillag Allat Született', as it's all quite Hajnal like. His earlier releases replace all the violins/piano/melody with more drums and static noises. It's alot harder, faster and more unpleasant. Unpleasant in a good way, mind.
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Post by: Robbo on 26 Apr 2005, 13:31
Well, fair enough then.
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Post by: happybirthdaygelatin on 26 Apr 2005, 13:35
Minibosses anybody? (http://www.hour13.com/mirrors/minibosses/(Minibosses)%20-%20Castlevania%203.mp3)  That's the theme from Castlevania 3.
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Post by: loyalpeon on 26 Apr 2005, 13:59
Quote from: MilkmanDan
65daysofstatic get 11, and it's not even their best song. <3 65DOS.


hehe - yeah, 65dos are brilliant, aren't they :)
ok - i'll gonna grab a few more tracks off rossz - i really like the mix between the violin and the noise segment.

As for minibosses:

Well the main riff is really sweet, and there is a slight variation in it everytime it resurfaces which is good. Also, the song avoids too much unecessary repetition. My only problem with it is that the slow parts is between the aforementioned riff are a little bland for my taste. The sound it kinda fades into towards the end doesn't really live up to the beginning, not bad, just nothing as good.

Still, solid stuff. 6/7 or so out of 10

Up next -

Sonic Youth - Unmade Bed
http://s31.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=05IG7TSIA55UA0DH331IQONSHN

.loyal.
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Post by: KharBevNor on 15 May 2005, 16:33
Sonic Youth - Unmade Bed

soft, sort of poppy intro. Singer sounds somewhat bored, and keeps low, but still manages to crack up. The bits where the drums go a bit faster provide some welcome musical variation. At about 1:30 they decide to involve some guitar, and it gets a bit better. at about 2:30 they discover that it makes a squealing noise if you rub the pick up and down the string, and exploit said noise. That's about all that happens in this song, apart from dullness.

Can't be arsed to check the lyrics, as I'm nigh on certain that it's about exactly what it says it is. 2/10

Therion - To Mega Therion (http://s31.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2MR6LBJC2LQP23P4I8XI2W09Q7)
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Post by: sketchyjoe on 16 May 2005, 07:53
Therion - To Mega Therion.

The two words that immediately come to mind when you listen to this track are Rock and Opera. After the intro there's a short string part that leads into more operatic vocals over a riff that sounds like a stampede of horses. This song has pomp. It's the sort of song that if you read the premise of on paper you would think was the most stupid idea in the history of the world but listening to it it just works. At about 0:46 some shouting dude comes in for a short section and his voice is a bit annoying switching between shouty and crooning which could sound cool but ends up just pissing you off. Then there's a big instrumental with a lone voice coming in at one section. This sounds like the soundtrack to a some sort of biblical battle sequence. My first thought would be to compare it with Meatloaf with his a similarly operatic hard-rocking style. After the mammoth instrumental it goes back to the bit at the start again then another huge instro. I enjoyed this song. Once I'd sussed the style of song it was nothing if not predictable but still enjoyabkle even if it did drag on a bit long. 8/10

Johnny Cash - I've Been Everywhere (http://s12.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0PMPY45TSY12O292E6BSN7NRDC)

At the forum I do this we call dibs an then you have 1 hour to review the song before your dibs are forfeited.
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Post by: Signum_Tenebrae on 16 May 2005, 08:45
I've always thought Johnny Cash was pretty cool.

Musically, it's nothing splendid and certainly not profound, but who cares?

What can you say about Johnny Cash?  7/10 since he does have cooler songs.

----

Here's mine.  I figured I'd post one that'd get quite a reaction.

Slave Whipping Blasphemy - Abraham Lincoln, I Fucking Hate You

http://www.soundclick.com/bands/4/slavewhippingblasphemymusic.htm

(second song down)

SWB is incredible!  True slave whipping black metal at its finest!  This is actually a couple of friends of mine.  It's their "side project" band.  Here are the lyrics, make sure to read along to the song.

Piss on Abe!
Desecrate his grave
While he DIES!!!

Abraham Lincoln
loved niggers so...
he wanted their cocks
in his asshole!

Abraham Lincoln,
you stupid asshole

Hail to John Wilkes Booth
for shooting
his niggèr-loving
FACE!!!

(not equal)


EDIT:  Had to change something in the lyrics since the autofilter got it.  Also had to change the link.
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Post by: sketchyjoe on 16 May 2005, 09:13
1. A review is supposed to give you some idea of what the song is like.
2. That SWB song is retarded.
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Post by: a pack of wolves on 16 May 2005, 09:27
Musically, this song's uninspired. You could easily go and find hundreds of bands peddling death/black metal, play them next to these guys and you wouldn't be able to tell the difference. Since this is (presumably) a comedy band I'm guessing they didn't spend much time on it. The vocals were alright though. As for the lyrics... eh. Not funny, not shocking, all been done a thousand times before and it was tiresome then. So, 2/10 and it's just the vocals raising it above a 1.

Executive Distraction Tasks - Purposely Falling Out of Shoes (http://www.executivedistractiontasks.co.uk/3.mp3)
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Post by: Signum_Tenebrae on 16 May 2005, 09:31
Quote from: a pack of wolves
all been done a thousand times before


SWB is the only true slave whipping black metal band!

Hail Slave Whipping Blasphemy!
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Post by: Praeserpium Machinarum on 17 May 2005, 05:30
Executive Distraction Tasks - Purposely Falling Out of Shoes

I don't know what to say actually, it's comic in a stereotypical screamo way, but doesn't have anything going for them other than that. I wouldn't even call this music, what is the point?
the music(what there is) is okay I guess, but the "vocal" begs to be laughed at and loathed.

I give it 1/10, and I think I am being nice.

Entakt - Vi Ville Synge Verden en Opsang(a danish demo band)

http://s50.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2PL9GUV9XYETG203IQLJF6YIRC
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Post by: a pack of wolves on 17 May 2005, 06:08
Entakt - Vi Ville Synge Verden en Opsang

They've created some nicely chilling passages here, but for me it falls down with the more overblown parts where the guitars swell up. It's electronic pop, but on the dark side except for those sections which call Muse to my mind. However, they might work better if I understood the language since the right lyrics on a track like this would change it significantly.
5/10

I was wondering what people would make of EDT. In answer to the question, I guess the point is that if you like music at the more extreme end of the spectrum (in this case technical grind) then your reaction is probably pretty different to what it would be if you don't.

V For Vendetta - Math Rock Is Not A Four Letter Word. It's Two Four Letter Words (http://s35.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1A9F76CUPQWLZ0D2ODMFE2P53A)
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Post by: Robbo on 17 May 2005, 06:28
Well, I liked the EDT track at least. It was some good great and I did like the nice mixed up tech bits. How anyone could think it was screamo is beyond me. Vocals are good harsh grind screams, not the best but they work.

I hate the "I wouldn't call this music" reaction...I'm sorry but no amount of simple distortion and tuning will ever stop something like that from being music. All it takes is some training of your ear. EDIT: To hear under the distortion ground growls that is is just words and music still. Think of as learning the basics of another language or something. Not that anyone really has any reason to, just so they can say they "trained their ear" but still dont like it.
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Post by: Praeserpium Machinarum on 18 May 2005, 09:31
it was more the screaming rather than the music, namely that it was so short and seemed to be expedition out into playing(I assume) complex guitar and screaming out of key, it may be snobbish of me but I don't consider that music.
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Post by: Robbo on 18 May 2005, 09:39
It was Grindcore....having a long Grindcore song would go against the very ideas of the genre and would be pointless.

Like I said, distortion and heaviness doesn't stop anything from being music. Still playing instruments and using vocals. Yes I personally see it as snobbish and it's views like that which draw such reactions from Extreme music fans. If a Grindcore band go up and played Flight of the Bumblebee in their usual style, it would be music wouldnt it?

And screaming out of key? Sounds fine to me...but then I EDIT: had to make and effort to train me ear for things other than just clean sung and spoekn word. Because a lot of what I listen to is filled with growls, screams and various other distorted vocals.
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Post by: MilkmanDan on 18 May 2005, 10:22
Dear Robbo,
Is there any chance you could stop being a smug prick for like 5 minutes? I'm just wondering if it is actually possible. Try not whining about how indie kids are pathetic pop-loving sheep who are too 'lazy' to like your music for maybe 3 posts in row. Seriously, give it a shot. While you're at it, how's about not acting like you're a victim of some great 'indie conspiracy' because you like metal. No-one cares. Get over it.

Thanks,
MilkmanDan
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Post by: Robbo on 18 May 2005, 10:44
Sorry, I'll go and edit my posts, the deal the rest of your comments.

It's not an issue with people not liking what I like
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Post by: Schmung on 18 May 2005, 11:08
oh boy, I'm so gonna pounce into this thread soon. It's just too good to miss.
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Post by: MilkmanDan on 18 May 2005, 11:10
Dear Robbo,
Thanks alot!

From,
MilkmanDan
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Post by: KharBevNor on 18 May 2005, 11:11
There is still other snobbery at large here...
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Post by: Schmung on 18 May 2005, 11:14
Well, it's not like this forum is lacking musical snobbery in the first place is it, this thread just gives it somewhere to live.
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Post by: Robbo on 18 May 2005, 11:22
Right, that's seems to be my crappy choice of words removed when commenting on ear training to listen to non-standard vocals. Though you dont look to happy with that start as you're still writing like a letter.

I've said Indie kids like their pop, yes. Mainly because of comments from here, that say things like seeing such and such bands live turn that person into a big fuzzy ball of pop goodness or whatever.

And it's more like mainstream conspiracy. About stereotype of Metal and such things just being complete noise. So I challenge such things, just not in the best way mostly. But this is the internet and it's rarely used as a fine tool.

I've heard a lot of Indie because one of my best friends is VP and Treasurer of my Uni's Indie Socity. So he plays me a lot of stuff and I have views on it. And I express them on here at times. Like I said, just not the in the best way all the time.
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Post by: MilkmanDan on 18 May 2005, 11:51
No, I was actually sincere the second time. I just did the letter thing because I was on a roll. Or something. Yeah.
Now then, back on topic, anyone?
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Post by: a pack of wolves on 18 May 2005, 17:32
Quote from: a pack of wolves
V For Vendetta - Math Rock Is Not A Four Letter Word. It's Two Four Letter Words (http://s35.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1A9F76CUPQWLZ0D2ODMFE2P53A)


And the topic in question would be someone listening to this and reviewing it. Go on, it's not uber-tech grind like last time.
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Post by: KharBevNor on 18 May 2005, 18:26
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

Now let's mix it up with some old-school gloom and doom.

Amorphis - Black Winter Day (http://s33.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0OQ4QGPZRUBZI1D09Z6IFM89E9)

People just simply don't MAKE shit like 'Tales From the Thousand Lakes' nowadays.
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Post by: La Creme on 18 May 2005, 18:36
V For Vendetta - Math Rock Is Not A Four Letter Word. It's Two Four Letter Words

I'm not big on math-rock. But it's liveable. The drums and bass were just too danged subdued the whole way through til the end. And the little speedup at the end was kinda unnecesary; the vocal interludes were equally unnecesary. But anyways. On the plus, they guitar riff was ok, and the band played pretty tight. It made me think of Pinback, only with less peddle-age and more notes. But all things considered:

6.5 / 10

My Song: Paradigm Shift
by Liquid Tension Experiment

I reccomend this one to anyone who likes prog. They push prog to some ca-razy extremes. Tony Levin, John Petrucci, Jordan Rudess, and Mike Portnoy. It's pretty much just Dream Theatre rocking a hell of a lot more.

<Edit> Sorry Khar, didn't see the postalone.
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Post by: KharBevNor on 18 May 2005, 18:41
Eh, just review mine and your recommendation can stand. I won't put up any objections to the hard-rocking prog goodness of LTE.
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Post by: La Creme on 18 May 2005, 18:58
OK Khar. Yours is not half bad. And I am picky as shit about my metal.

The Downs: The drums. Boring. Sorry. And, unfortunately, I'm not much of a fan of deep bellowing as "singing". But hey, whatever floats your metal-canoe (or longship, because vicking are the kings of the long hair and the rock). There was also not nearly enough lead stuff. That guitar player gave me the impression that he could have whipped out some seriously wonderful solo-age, but he didn't. The synth was also a little lacking (but that's my pickiest thing in metal as an ELP whore).

The ups: For definately, that chorus rocked. Well, they only sang it once, so its not really a chorus. The part where he sings at a normal people octave. The intro was sorta like a Helloweeny thing. I liked that. The guitar riff that played at the begining and a couple other times throughout was catchy. Not incredible, but went with the music, so whatev.

All things considered: 7.5 / 10

And because I feel entitled to one song per review I do:

Iron Man
by The Bad Plus

This cover will blow your mind, whoever. The Bad Plus are certainly the best thing in power-jazz. Ever. I'm seeing them at the begining of June, and every time I think about it, my knobbly bits tingle. The Plus also do clever little covers of "Velouria" and "Smells Like Teen Spirit", which i found out is the name of a deoderant. Smells like brand name deoderant. That song would've been a billion times better if it had been called "Smells Like Old Spice Classic".
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Post by: KharBevNor on 18 May 2005, 19:06
'Tales From the Thousand Lakes' is closer to their first album, which was pure doom. Closer to your taste might be the album directly after that, 'Elegy'. All the later albums get progressively more progressive, but Elegy, I feel, probably has the perfect mix: doom metal roars contrast against lengthy passages of really quite accomplished clean singing, mixed up with acoustic guitars and synths and wrapped round minute long solos.

Imo, however, Tales... is still a great album. If for nothing but the insanely out-of-place, growlarific cover of 'Light my Fire' at the end.
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Post by: La Creme on 18 May 2005, 19:33
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.
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Post by: worsebrains on 18 May 2005, 21:15
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
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Post by: La Creme on 18 May 2005, 22:31
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.
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Post by: a pack of wolves on 19 May 2005, 04:56
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


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.
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Post by: Robbo on 19 May 2005, 05:26
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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Post by: KharBevNor on 19 May 2005, 09:22
Quote from: a pack of wolves

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.


What with all the 'two four letter words' thing I was expecting if not the removal of my face, then at least a light scrape to the nose.

Also, can people PLEASE include the song? http://www.yousendit.com/, it's not too hard.
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Post by: La Creme on 19 May 2005, 20:52
Well this ceratinly died...

Anyone gonna review Paradigm Shift? Helluva song...

Anyways, these are loads of fun, so c'mon alls-ya and let's get this train wreck a rollin'.

If nobody wants to do Paradigm Shift, I propose another tune for the indy fans in the.. audience? Ensemble? Room? Whatever...

Life of Leisure
by Steadman (I know most of their stuff is only meh... but this song is pretty bitchin')
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Post by: MilkmanDan on 20 May 2005, 01:01
La Creme: You are about 7,000,000,000 times more likely to have people listen to your songs if you go to http://www.yousendit.com, and 'send' an MP3 (not any wierd formats) of the song to yourself or some madeup email address. Then get the long ass URL and post it hear. Voila, anyone can listen to it, for free.
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Post by: Robbo on 20 May 2005, 01:03
Meh, just to there's not a thread hanging, I'll review the LTE song. Even though I'm a massive prog fan anyway.

Because no one else did...next time it WILL be Three Minute Warning or an expended live Dream Threater jam/solo session.

Liquid Tension Experiment - Paradigm Shift

I lthink this was great start to LTE one, with the quick flying start before it starts to get all funky. The 2 minute mark just sounds lovely where it all slows down and the slow squeeling guitar is great as as it builds and shifts over the the keyboards as well. The bass has funky hum to it which just adds to the song. LTE has their own sound and it's not Dream Theater, which makes the project worth it and the experimental/recorded in one take jam route makes it all the better. About 5:15 sees a nice slow bass line and slow guitar coming in over it later. And the guitar just climbs to another beautiful emoted solo that picks up into a fast shread for a few moments. The milddle eastern sort of style tone over another keyboard solo at about 7:20 is a good mix as well. Before shifting back to that original slow ish paced jam section that links the whole song up. Into another build up before racing ahead just like the opening.

Not even my fav LTE song, but it's great. 9/10
Maybe slightly pointless, but now the thread isn't gonna get tangled.

Quote from: La Creme
Life of Leisure by Steadman


If that still stands from La Creme, get on it people.
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Post by: La Creme on 22 May 2005, 11:47
I'm just posting this to get this thread back to the top of the list. Because these are loads of fun. And I'm sorry. I can't figure out how to do that friggin' send site thing.
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Post by: a pack of wolves on 22 May 2005, 12:08
It's really easy. Go to www.yousendit.com and enter an email address, your own or a made up one would probably work fine as well, then browse for the file you'd like to send on your computer. Then when it says the file has been sent follow the link to the page where it says the file can be downloaded from and cut and paste the address to here. It'll stay up for a few days and allow a small number of downloads. If you still can't work it, then only submit songs that can be downloaded from band websites or places like epitonic and provide a link.

I just searched soulseek for Steadman and only got about five files, none of which were that song and people can't review it if they can't get a copy.
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Post by: Titan on 23 May 2005, 06:40
I'd really like this to progress again so seeing as no one seems to be able to get a hold of the song I'll put one up to get this rolling again.

I thought I'd subject some people to an old classic - metal style.

Here's "Jekyll & Hyde" as told by Iced Earth.

http://s48.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1M2N9BUB49YVU1KQIZ5599CY54
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Post by: Praeserpium Machinarum on 23 May 2005, 08:10
Iced Earth - Jekyll & Hyde

Now I must admit I do not like symphonic metal ala Within Temptation, which I think this sounds a bit like. And sadly this confirms why I don't like it. The vocals tries to be dramatic but fails and thus sound a bit ridiculous. I think the drums sound weird(like in nearly every metal song I have heard), hollow in a way, which is not good. The guitars seems to be recycled riffs from the 80's(which makes sense if it is from the 80's), overall I think this track is boring and melodramatic, but alas I have never been into metal.

3/10

Low - Dinosaur Act(from Things We Lost in the Fire)
http://s20.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2HNF5SCN9603T0OHWA1G4YYMNU
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Post by: negative creep on 23 May 2005, 08:38
low - dinosaur act

i've never heard of thet band before, but this song kind of touched me. i like the singers voice.and i like the entire song in an emotional and irrational way.

8/10


my song: union youth - sweet song (http://www.roadrunnerrecords.de/shared/downloads/UnionYouth/UnionYouth-SweetSong.mp3)

not my favourite song by union youth, but the only one available for download.
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Post by: Titan on 23 May 2005, 09:06
I would argue that the vocalist gets across the torment within the Jekyll's soul with great accuracy, though admittedly I haven't had much luck in convincing people of this. Anyway,

Union Youth - Sweet Song

It's a pretty repetitive song, but I know many good songs that are. However, it sounds as if half way through (possibly in order to detract from the repetitiveness) someone tried to wash their mouth out with soap and an electric screw driver. I also think that the guitars aren't played very well (but maybe I'm just not a fan of the style).I think the singer is about average, I would guess he isn't great at keeping a note.

4/10

http://s48.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3A5DGUJ3VQN3O2VI2VPSD3RFNT

Queensryche - Queen of the Reich
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Post by: La Creme on 23 May 2005, 17:46
Queensryche - Queen of the Reich

Opens with a boring, repetitive guitar riff, shortly followed by an unnecessary DOUBLE metal scream. Singing is echoey, and too quiet, and so stereo-typically hair-metally that i was, by the end of the song, on the verge of going online, finding a picture of a mullet, printing it, and lighting it on fire. The only redeaming feature was the harmonics on the geeee-tar in the middle. But I'm just a sucker for harmonized guitar, so yeah.

Sorry mang, hair metal is just not my burger.
2.5 / 10

For a change of pace from the usual endless torrent of metal and indy-pop placed on this site:
Alcoholic
by Fishbone
http://s19.yousendit.com/d.aspxid=2CBDO7QAXP09M3013PMR9O6MDC

Why is A.d.d. ska so damned fun? Because it taps into each and every one of our inner-ridalin childs. And it makes you burn the spahgetti...
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Post by: cpt_pickard on 23 May 2005, 18:50
It appears that your link has expired :-( I didn't manage to find it on P2P either. (This particular song).
You might perhaps wish to renew the link...?
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Post by: La Creme on 23 May 2005, 19:23
http://s7.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0KUL0UW9DYZ9R3SIAH7QR2FAPM

This time, the link should work. If not, it's likely because my computer is a peice of shit. Remember when Dell used to make white computers? That's what mine is. Running '98. Fuck this computer.
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Post by: cpt_pickard on 23 May 2005, 20:11
Alcoholic by Fishbone

OK. Nice one. No virtuosity or Caruso level singing but that's not the intent. As I understand it, this is meant to be fun, which it is. The lyrics are somewhat cool and the whole style of playing well coresponds to a bit ironic and non-serious approach in this song. Better playing or singing would actually ruin the effect, imho.

So treated "objectively" it's a well done song of its nature.

As for me, songs of this nature don't work for me that much. I am little bit more into "virstuoso playing".

So 7.5/10 it is if I ignore my own taste, 6/10 if I deduct something for "not my type of music".

My song would be:

O.S.I. - When You're Ready

If all searching fails, try this:

http://pickard.no-ip.com/ready.mp3
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Post by: Titan on 24 May 2005, 17:55
O.S.I. - When You're Ready

When it first started I was reminded of "Broken" - Seether ft Amy Lee. I actually thought this was a nice start, very promising. From there it gradually progressed until they added whirly sort of sounds, etc that actually ruined my enjoyment of the song - I can think of at least one song off the top of my head that I actually gave up listening to because they ended with a similar effect that gave me a headache. However, I can see the appeal in the song, it's pretty unique to me so I'm gonna give it:

7/10, which took me quite a few listens to finally decide upon.

Anyway, a british band next, I enjoyed this song and a few others they came up with.

InMe - Faster The Chase

http://s21.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2JLBEAKUDL9MS0QI406RVWAZM0
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Post by: Robbo on 25 May 2005, 08:41
InMe - Faster The Chase

Possibly promising distortion intro that instantly slows down into mid-paced "rock" and that horrible voice from the InMe singer. Repeated punchy guitars that dont really do anything and generic drums backing it up. Slows into a spoken part about 1:45 before the same music comes back again. With more badly done screams. Some simple riff towards the end of the song, but it's burried under the vocals too much to really tell.

I see they haven't improved at all since that first single on MTV. 2/10

And moving away from traditional western music, well sort of away from it. Next is: Karl Sanders - Of The Sleep Of Ishtar.

Dial-up warning: It's over 13 meg.

Clicky
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Post by: IronOxide on 28 May 2005, 16:23
On Karl Sander's - Of the Sleep of Ishtar.

Really good instrumental work, it feels very interestingly Tribal. It seems like the kind of music that one listens to while doing work or other stuff. The mix of intruments makes a really unique and interesitng sound, and it's sort of soloistic feel. I will say that my iPod Shuffle now has 9:35 more time on it. I thank you.

Next up I place:

Asian Kung Fu Generation - Loop and Loop

If you can, find it yourself because I don't want to have to search their website to try to find it (It's in Japanese)
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Post by: Robbo on 28 May 2005, 16:47
My god, someone actually liking a track from outside their normal sphere, the system works, it works!

And by the way, the whole album, "Saurian Meditation" is along the same lines and all, so you should like the whole thing.
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Post by: KharBevNor on 28 May 2005, 19:48
Asian Kung-Fu Generation - Loop and Loop (sample)

Nowhere could I find a complete version of this song. From what I heard, pretty generic j-rock, tbh. if it was in an anime, it would be the scene where the boy and the girl are walking through the city. Possibly with crazy antics. Actually reminded me a bit of The Pillows.

4.5/10


Korpiklaani - Wooden Pints[url] (http://s30.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=15OGM9S2Q3CGE03I0434S6XP95)
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Post by: banev on 29 May 2005, 04:53
Korpiklaani, ok. Some kind of a stupid version of Finntroll. I cannot hear any guitars, just synthetic sounding crap in the background. Maybe they don´t like playing metal? They should stop it and form a pure folk band, for the song itself sounds nice although it gets boring after 2 minutes. 6/10

Now something very delightful for tue rockers:

Chefdenker - Über alles wächst Gras (http://chefdenker.de/mikrowelle/downloads/Chefdenker-ueber_alles_waechst_gras.mp3)
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Post by: KharBevNor on 29 May 2005, 06:17
Sorry, sorry, did you just diss fucking Korpiklaani for not being metal enough? Did you call them a Finntroll rip-off when they've been around for four years longer and Finntroll had to get the guy from Korpiklaani in to do all their jolking on Jaktens Tid? Also, did you go on about synthetic sounding crap and no guitars for a band that has three guitarists and no keyboards? And finally, did you try and imply that I am not a 'true rocker'?

Ignorance, stupidity or bad taste I can tolerate. Not all three at once.
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Post by: Titan on 29 May 2005, 07:21
Lmao! Little tip, Banev, if you're gonna throw around words like stupid and crap do a little background research first - helped me avoid this sort of situation in the past.
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Post by: a pack of wolves on 29 May 2005, 08:02
Calm down guys, they were just giving their opinion of what it sounded like to them. No need to get all upset, if you can't take the reviews then don't post the tracks. Anyway...

Chefdenker - Über alles wächst Gras

This sort of reminds me of something you'd have found on an Epitaph sampler back in the 90s. Unfortunately, it sounds like one of the bands you always skipped over to get to the Poison Idea track. It's not bad, but it's just rocky punk that pulls the same guitar tricks we've all heard before. Good drinking music I suppose, but nothing that hasn't been done before and a lot better.
5/10

And now, some good indie for late nights:
The Flaming Stars - You Don't Always Want What You Get (http://s37.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=191L04E599P4O39XIDYMXWZKHB)
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Post by: KharBevNor on 29 May 2005, 08:46
Heh, I have a total urge to call your track stupid and crap now rather than doing a proper review.

It wasn't too appaling though. A refreshing lack of extreme genericity, though I still maintain pretty much all indie would be better if the singers actually sung up. Some real nice guitar in the middle, actually, though a pretty pedestrian song structure. tres rock and roll. I liked it.

7/10

Now lets have some ROCK:

Cattle Decapitation - Pedeadstrians (http://s28.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=19PICAVV4K9QY0PERUVXMZI0G4)
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Post by: Revenge_Therapist on 29 May 2005, 09:39
Well it's metal. Very fucking metal to be exact. Pretty standard fare for the genre. I prefer bands more along the lines of KEehaul, and Mastadon who play around at te fringe though. Nothing really stands out to me here. So I would say
5/10.
My Choice is Sweep The Leg Johnny- The Fine Wrinkles We Have All of Them.
http://s51.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3H11CG3GPJQ602VQ0TREVAU9H4
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Post by: a pack of wolves on 29 May 2005, 11:02
Powering drums, stabbing guitars, bass that anchors the whole endeavour and keeps it rolling on like the unstoppable juggernaut and of course that attacking saxophone. Yep, it's Sweep The Leg Johnny. Swagger, sex, darkness, this is punk rock the way it's meant to sound: fucking hard and inventive as hell.
10/10

Okay, enough of all this rock business. Time for the greatest guitarist France ever produced:

Django Reinhardt - Mystery Pacific (http://s28.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=19BLOUZG790991MUN4BHH1MC73)
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Post by: banev on 29 May 2005, 13:13
@KharBev: your questions 1, 2 & 4 have to be answered by using a "no", question 3 deserves a "yes".
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Post by: KharBevNor on 29 May 2005, 13:46
Django Reinhardt - Mystery Pacific

I have to say that normally I am a fan of guitar music. But however skillfull this piece was, it's veering between dischordant semi-shredding and 1920's dance music was almost unlistenable to me. Pretty much truly revolting musically, but I have to credit the pretty immense amounts of skill being shown off. So, although I HATED this track, 4/10

For some reason, when you said skillfull guitar, I was expecting some John Williams type beautiful classical stuff. So, I feel I must deliver beauty:

Cruachan - Ride On (http://s22.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=35VYU8IQAHT0H1BL9KVQM2Y8SO)

Enjoy.
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Post by: blindsuperhero on 29 May 2005, 13:57
I don't suppose anyone would know if that's Stéphane Grappelli playing the violin on that track? It probably is. Anyway, he's fantastic.
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Post by: a pack of wolves on 29 May 2005, 16:07
I think it's him, but unfortunately I downloaded that track so I have no liner notes to help me. It's apparently from the album 'Art of Django' if that's any help. I've got 'Golden Hour of Stephane Grappelli' on now, that man really was one hell of a player. But he was always at his best with Django.
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Post by: La Creme on 29 May 2005, 22:56
Not to Khar: While Django may be a tad discordant in his playing, you gotsta consider the fact that he did all that semi-virtuoso gypsy guitaring with two usable fingers on his left hand. That's why you hear so little chord work.

Ride On - Cruachan
Cute little flute intro. Makes me think of hobbits. I like hobbits. Singer sounds like a country singer. I don't like country singers. Evokes images of ugly Texan bitches in cowboy hats stabbing Bilbo. Guy singer starts singing. Sounds like even sexier version of the singer from the Pogues. Hobbits are saved from country singer by sexy Brittish knight. Ups and downs continue through the distorted guitar coming ine, which rocked like fuck, to downs like the sexy Pogues man bellowing very poorly (can one who is not Waits or Beefheart bellow correctly?).
Ups and downs, and every which ways. Decent stuff, but lacking in a consistant pattern of ass kickery.
7/10.

My song:
Saddam A Go Go - GWAR
http://s19.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3FHCNIC0PWTTR2I42E9W4KVJXM
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Post by: banev on 30 May 2005, 01:21
Ha ha, great. That, in fact, IS the singer of the Pogues itself, mighty Shane MacGowan. He produced the great Cruachan-album "Folk-Lore" and sings on two of the tracks; the other one is a fantastic version of the old classic "Spancil Hill". The bellowing is done by their usual singer, though.

Gwar - Saddam A Go Go

OMG, the horn-section sounds brilliant! The rest of the song is okay, but I think I know why they are more known for their live-shows than for their recordings. On stage they rock heavily, but listening to them on my stereo doesn´t make much sense, I think. Maybe it´s too groovy for me, don´t know. 6/10

Turbostaat - Peterantjesiensoehn (http://www.turbostaat.de/mp3/Turbostaat-peterantjesiensoehn.mp3)

If you like it, their albums are downloadable at www.turbostaat.de (128k)
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Post by: a pack of wolves on 30 May 2005, 01:45
Turbostaat - Peterantjesiensoehn

It's hard to think of anything to say about this song. It's staggeringly unremarkable. The music is pedestrian, but not woeful. The singing is competent, but not engaging at all. It just plods along, finishes and that's it. It's just yet another dull rock song in a world full of them.
2/10

Bilge Pump - Fags of Spain (http://s51.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=07K66CMRWAT0H0OR2RDIVGRMKR)
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Post by: banev on 30 May 2005, 04:30
No, no, it´s not a dull rock song. It´s as emotional as hell. Unfortunately the sound quality of the file on their website is very bad, so that may cause the "just pods along"-effect. And Turbostaat-songs are definitely growers.

Well, enough whining.

Bilge Pump - Fags Of Spain

I listened to it three times, but nothing happened to me. I like the weirdness of this, but it definitely lacks something, a melody, a catchy riff, something like that. Sorry. 3/10

Amanda Woodward - La decadence de la decadence (http://www.sans-vie.com/AMANDA%20WOODWARD%20-%20La%20decadence.mp3)
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Post by: a pack of wolves on 30 May 2005, 09:49
No, I have no problem with bad production. I'm sorry but the song was just incredibly uninteresting, and it won't be growing on me.

Amanda Woodward - La decadence de la decadence

Seriously, what's up with the French and screamo/emo? Anomie, Daitro and these guys... they've been regularly hitting us with some of the best bands in this style for a while now. Perhaps the French language just lends itself particularly well to that kind of desperation, or maybe you just get fucked over a lot living in France. Who knows. Anyway, Amanda Woodward do everything you'd want a band with that mid-90s influence to do, and unlike a lot of others they sound like they fucking mean it dammit.
8/10

Crain - Proposed Production (http://s32.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1OYIR40MVLFNX1TRIS9POLYRPT)
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Post by: KharBevNor on 30 May 2005, 10:34
Crain - Proposed Production

Pretty cool cool keyboard and drum intro. Vocals are weak and waive off into whininess, though a nice headbanging rhythm is maintained. Not a big fan of the rhythms they go into in the break-downy kind of section. Kind of expected a kick-ass bridge or something but none forthcoming. Not a bad song, but really let down by those vocals imo. Ima give it a 6/10

Now, time to turn down the temperature...OF YOUR SOOOULLL.

*ahem*

Carpathian Forest - Cold Comfort (http://s31.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1KIAOBGIUBYRK24MCSO9DQ0K68)
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Post by: La Creme on 30 May 2005, 11:50
Carpathian Forest - Cold Comfort

Ok. Opens up with wind blowing and some wicked horns through a DigiDelay pedal. Very nice. Corny semi-acoustic guitar comes in with utterly boring one note piano melody. Singing style aims for creepy ancient Norse demon-god. Bites ass. More like not-so creepy suck-ass demi-god. Continues on exactly the same for the whole time.

Despite the fact that it was overly trancey, it was pretty good, so: 6/10

My Song:
Tom Waits - God's Away on Business
http://s36.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3NI2M6IXVJXK92XD2RDVEBPL9S
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Post by: KharBevNor on 30 May 2005, 12:49
Tom Waits - Gods Away on Business

Wierd start with a kind of jazzy thing. Not too big a fan of it at first, then it kinda stared reminding me of Danny Elfman. Bit so  bad. The guys voice was wierd and somehow awesome. He sounded like a sort of a cross between the cookie monster and Abbath Doom Occulta. The sort of violin thing later on was pretty cooler, and the saxy thing. Liked this quite a bit actually. 8/10

No lets get techno-metal-cyber-thrashy :O

Contrastic - Liars Are Winners (http://s31.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3V4I7JNOLOP0W0O0K3JW5ZV2GG)
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Post by: kikanjuuneko on 30 May 2005, 13:22
Contrastic - 'Liars Are Winners'

What the heck is that noise in the beginning? Either way, the song isn't bad, it's fast, and I like fast. The yelled vocals are a bit on the weird side, though. The growls are pretty good. And I certainly like that video game lead (or whatever one could call it) before the bass break. And then back to the fast.

Not bad at all.

6/10

Darkest Hour - Sound the Surrender (http://www.purevolume.com/darkesthour)
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Post by: a pack of wolves on 30 May 2005, 15:36
If you liked that track Khar then you should check out 'Blood Money' the album it's from, or at least the song 'Misery's The River of The World'. You'd probably enjoy it.
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Post by: La Creme on 30 May 2005, 16:22
I think that "God's Away On Business" is the epitome of Tom Waits' 90's stuff. That or "Lowside of the Road".

Darkest Hour - Sound The Surrender

Like all hardcore, it sucked. I am still yet to be introduced to a decent hardcore band. They have power, they have talent, and they can't put them together for shit. The drums were overdone, the lyrics were all in unintelligable screaming, and the bass sucked ass. Like all the hardcore I've heard, the only good part was the guitar playing, and that was overdone, except that little bit of harmonized soloey stuff startinf around 2:15.
2/10.

Time for some zombie/surf/psycobilly/punk
The Ghastly Ones - Ghastly Stomp
http://s36.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2VTT5K6NQHH6K0RTP4V4JHZICZ
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Post by: a pack of wolves on 30 May 2005, 16:34
Just out of interest, what hardcore have you heard? My curiosity is always piqued when it comes to the 'core.
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Post by: La Creme on 30 May 2005, 16:39
The Warriors, Lamb of God, Killswitch Engage, all the stuff that is hard as hell to avoid because all the lame ass "scene" LA kids listen to it, like Hawthorne Heights and other such crap.

Most of it is all from this one guy Nash. He is big, and strong as fuck so when he says "here listen to this" I obey. It always tends to suck. I only remember a bands name every once in a while when it gets really ridiculously bad and I need to know the name for bashing times like these.
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Post by: a pack of wolves on 30 May 2005, 16:43
Ah, right. Yeah, I'd probably slag off hardcore too if that's what I'd heard. Give the Minutemen a shot. Now that's some classy hardcore.
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Post by: KharBevNor on 30 May 2005, 17:00
Time to monopolise this thread a bit more!

The Ghastly Ones - The Ghastly Stomp

...Oh fuck YES! I love Psychobilly, and this was some totally rad psychobilly, the echoey drums worked with the sound effects to give it an excellent sort of haunted house feel, and the guitars were just great. Like rocking out in a 1940's horror movie or something. *dumps on main playlist* solid 9/10.

Now, for something totally random:

Halo of Flies - The Thrill of the Hunted (http://s33.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1RYVBW4C250LS0FP1MZOHZ45BD)
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Post by: La Creme on 30 May 2005, 19:21
Halo of Flies - The Thrill of the Hunted

Whatever the hell this is supposed to be, it is fucked. The thing at the begi;ning and a few more times throughout the "song" sounds like the love child of a minage-et-trois between a whale, a wolf, and Bobby Jr. (Eels reference = very yes). Trancey crap. This must have ventured forth from the very taint of Satan. Horrid.
1/10 (unless 0/10 is allowed).

Ghost Of Stephen Foster
by Squirrel Nut Zippers
http://s12.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0IAK9IFZKMJVW2Q1UFGBGB0SGV

P.s. Khar, did you make that crap? I thought you'd be some sort of kickass thrash master. Harumph.
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Post by: kikanjuuneko on 30 May 2005, 21:16
Quote from: La Creme
The Warriors, Lamb of God, Killswitch Engage, all the stuff that is hard as hell to avoid because all the lame ass "scene" LA kids listen to it, like Hawthorne Heights and other such crap.

Most of it is all from this one guy Nash. He is big, and strong as fuck so when he says "here listen to this" I obey. It always tends to suck. I only remember a bands name every once in a while when it gets really ridiculously bad and I need to know the name for bashing times like these.

The Warriors = hardcore
Lamb of God != hardcore
Killswitch Engage != hardcore
Hawthorne Heights != hardcore. Hell, Hawthorne Heights isn't even qualifiable for a -core suffix.

Champion = hardcore
Give Up the Ghost = hardcore
Where Eagles Dare = hardcore

Let's get our definitions straight, people.
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Post by: a pack of wolves on 31 May 2005, 01:37
It's not his fault. He's got some beefy guy telling him lies.
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Post by: KharBevNor on 31 May 2005, 04:16
Quote from: La Creme

P.s. Khar, did you make that crap? I thought you'd be some sort of kickass thrash master. Harumph.


Heh, I like making wierd and somewhat unlistenable techno music. I have actually recieved positive reviews of some of it before by some wild chance. Thank goodness I didn't send you 'Pain' or 'His Hair Was of a Lustrous Black'. You'd have been racking out negative scores based on the above opinion.

Yeah, I also make noise music, play in a crossover thrash band and have an on and off black metal project with some other guy. But I've only been learning guitar for six months so I'm not too blistering. I can rack out a mean version of 'Deathcrush' though.
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Post by: KharBevNor on 31 May 2005, 07:32
*Monopolises thread some more*

Squirrel Nut Zippers - Ghost of Stephen Foster

Liked the violin intro a tonne. Really nice. The jazzy kind of swing bit at first threw me, but then I kinda got into the swing of it. Really cool polka-sort of styley bits. Nice vocals and lyrics as well. Actually, a real cool song. 8.5/10

Now I'll stop mucking around. This song is Viking metal. Pure and simple. Everyone's still trying to top it, and never quite succeeding.

Bathory - one Rode to Asa Bay (http://s26.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=25YTS7KH948MF3C9GKB6FGEZQT)
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Post by: kikanjuuneko on 31 May 2005, 09:21
Quote from: a pack of wolves
It's not his fault. He's got some beefy guy telling him lies.

Not that they're bad bands. All of the except fucking Hawthorne Heights are awesome.
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Post by: KharBevNor on 31 May 2005, 13:58
Quote from: La Creme
Sounds like even sexier version of the singer from the Pogues.


Lol, I just noticed this bit.

It IS the singer from the pogues. He's just older. Men of the British isles mature like fine wines. Probably something to do with the rain.
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Post by: Revenge_Therapist on 31 May 2005, 17:48
Bathory - one Rode to Asa Bay
I dunno it started out all right, but his voice was just so...Wingeresque. That and at 9 minutes that needed way more meat. Sorry man, I try and have an open mind. Don;t you have any Keelhaul hiding on your comp.


http://www.fourthrotor.com/music/mp3s/Seize/The_Anti_Building.mp3
The Fourth Rotor-The Anti Building
Pitcture Figazi and Shellac in a belnder. Put it all in the hadns of very very rad kids, and here you go.
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Post by: KharBevNor on 31 May 2005, 20:30
Score out of 10? Actually don't bother. You'd just depress me more. Weren't you immediately taken in by the atmosphere of that intro? Then laid low by that incredibly heavy drumming? Is there absolutely no chance that Quorthon's raw, heartfelt vocals carried you into another time and place? Not the tiniest possibility that you set entranced as the soaring atmospheric keyboard and slow, majestic guitar evoked the old pagan majesty? Not even the bit with the church bells? Like fuck. I bet you didn't even read the lyrics. Two lines, well, fine.

This is the part where I would rant on literally forever about the rank, seething injustice of one of the greatest musical innovators of our generation (if pretty much defining and perfecting two whole genres of music counts over NME coverage anymore) being allowed to go un-noticed and die alone whilst self-indulgent, scrofulent little shit-bags like Kurt Cobain and Elliot Smith are idolised after their selfish little deaths. But scarce few ever have or ever will care.

Oh, and fuck Keelhaul. :)
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Post by: mechorg on 31 May 2005, 20:32
The Fourth Rotor-The Anti Building
The base line was catching me the beginning, but it wasn't worth spanning as a solo for the majority of it.  The guitars came in far too late because the added vocals didn't improve the solo base at all.  The lyrics to me were kinda childish and lame.  Also, the studders were getting pretty annoying especially when everyone was off time at the end.
If the song were about half the length with the guitar in for more to cover up the vocals, I might have enjoyed it a bit more.
Not bad, not wonderful... nothing catchy.
5.5/10

Next:
Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees (http://s9.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2ZU3CWC0WMISW2Z6AA74VOZNQL)
But hold on all you haters.  This isn't Radiohead and for the life of me I can't remember the name of the band.  This is a live cover (so pardon the crappy sound quality) in a bit of a different style.  I'm interested in what some other opinions are on this (lovers and haters of Radiohead a like).
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Post by: La Creme on 31 May 2005, 21:04
Fake Plastic Trees - {unnamed band}

As an avid fan of The Bends and OK, Computer (not really much else of their stuff), I must confess that this song was pretty decent. I love the original, and I don't usually consider Radiohead to be a very coverable band (although I once joined in on a great jam of My Iron Lung). I think I may only have liked this because I was in a really relaxed mood and this was perfect for me. On second listening now, it sounds like the Ginger Baker Trio. Exactly like them... maybe it is them? I lurv the horns.

For pure relaxation value and decent groove-jazz-jam guitar playing: 7/10.

Time for some Skazz:
Skavoovie And The Epitones - Blood Red Sky
http://s33.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0DVATGKGUL3K02MW724LVFO0OT

Enjoy!
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Post by: IronOxide on 01 Jun 2005, 13:20
Skavoovie And The Epitones - Blood Red Sky

This song is prehaps the most fun song about murder. I'm not sure if I'm just a whore for a band with a horn section, but I liked this. His voice is pefect for delivering the lyrics. On the down side, their organ sounds a bit too much like they jacked it out of a baseball park.

I next present to you a man who does all of his relentlessly silly stuff himself. (By this i mean he does all of the instruments and the voice himself.

Dog Traders - Belgium
http://www.toothpastefordinner.com/dogtraders-belgium.mp3
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Post by: La Creme on 01 Jun 2005, 16:33
Quote
His voice is pefect for delivering the lyrics.


You really think so? Most people HATE the singer and it's the only reason they dislike the band. I'm fine with him, but most skazz lovers (like moi) who listen to them think that "Ripe" (the album with that song) is their best because of it's lack of singing.

Dog Traders - Belgium

The synth at the begining made me tres happy. I've been longing for some good synthage since my brother gave away his entire Belle And Sebastian collection in an attempt to "court" a girl. Anyhow. his voice was OK. It seems like guys who do the Jon Brion multi-instrumentalist thing always have almost the same voice. Even E is close to them. The distorted guitars were unnecessary times a lot. It would've sounded a hell of a lot better if it was all done in acoustic with the synth and a bowed upright bass.

All in all: 7/10

World Rock time:
Mad Man's Dead by Mano Negra
http://s32.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2VUGXOZE57ESH2JHAN7SB4DNUI
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Post by: KharBevNor on 01 Jun 2005, 18:20
Not too bad a track. Okish sort of intro, and then the repetitivey kinda bit...I don't know, it was pretty cool but didn't exactly grab me. Not bad at all though, tbh.

6.9/10

Right, prepare for menace from Hells own eternal rave:

Aborym - Chernobyl Generation (http://s29.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2WXLUMT126BLK0CE654UNC6M1O)

(this only really works properly if you listen to Automatik Rave'olution Satan first. Ah well. Listen to the whole thing, it's got a pretty cool build and some nice sampling)
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Post by: mechorg on 01 Jun 2005, 18:35
Aborym - Chernobyl Generation

So far I dig the electro sound.  I listen to a lot of EBM/electro and this fits the bill.  Almost like Velvet Acid Christ, but the vocals seemed more horrid and no cheesy movie samples.  Yeah, repetitive electro and drum beats, but the vocals just ruin it.  With the clean and crisp electronics and drum machine, the blood gurgling voice is just ... eh.  Not much else I can say.  Simple catchy electro music... terrible vocals..  Oh!  There's the cheesy movie sample!
My Score:  4/10

Next:
I'll give you a choice here.  I'm stretching to the odd spectrum of music here.  Think "small Japanese guy with a mic and multi-track recorder"...
Dokaka - Iron Maiden's "The Trooper" (http://s32.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3OA3B0T4QX68537YEUE9VHR9I1)
Dokaka - Metallica "Creeping Death" (http://s10.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0CUO4H83NMBNW0OR231W0AHC18)

If you'd be interested in hearing more, let me know.  I also have Nirvana, Steely Dan, and King Crimson covers. :)
This is kinda for Khar so he can see what I think of when I hear most metal.
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Post by: Bazz on 01 Jun 2005, 18:40
Hah! I know Dokaka and I like the Metallica cover, but I like the Smells Like Teen Spirit one better. Not much to say about it. Except for mentioning I've been to Japan and I can recommend everyone a visit. 8/10

Next:

Jeugd Van Tegenwoordig - Watskeburt

*edit* HOLY SHIT! Let's resize that one for a second O_O

*edit edit* http://s20.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3QAJDRR7KTBNQ09U9Y4UIH25R
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Post by: KharBevNor on 01 Jun 2005, 18:43
Read the rules and RESIZE YOUR FUCKING AVATAR.


Edit: ta.
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Post by: Bazz on 01 Jun 2005, 18:44
Quote from: KharBevNor
Read the rules and RESIZE YOUR FUCKING AVATAR.


Dude, working on it. Chill.
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Post by: Bazz on 01 Jun 2005, 18:50
Quote from: KharBevNor
Read the rules and RESIZE YOUR FUCKING AVATAR.


Edit: ta.


Ta indeed. Angry at me for stealing away Dokaka? ;)
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Post by: KharBevNor on 01 Jun 2005, 19:08
I was just going to post my review and track anyway, as you've a) not reviewed it properly and b) haven't given a link to your own track. But then some gimp set me a link that crashed my firefox whilst I was uploading, so fuck that. Also, use http://www.yousendit.com to upload your file. Email it to yourself then post the download link here.

Lol, that stuff was fucking hilarious btw.
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Post by: Jeridus on 01 Jun 2005, 19:14
So what? do we review mechorg's track or Bazz's? wtf
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Post by: mechorg on 01 Jun 2005, 19:16
Do whatever.  I don't care. :P

The Dokaka was just for fun anyway.
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Post by: Jeridus on 01 Jun 2005, 19:18
hahaha... gotcha... well, methinks I'm gonna review yours 'nyway
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Post by: La Creme on 01 Jun 2005, 19:53
Jeugd Van Tegenwoordig - Watskeburt

Yiddish rap? German? Can't hardly tell. Made me laugh for maybe the first 30 seconds, then I realized they were serious, and it just started sucking. Plus it was long as hell which is unnecessary.
Horrid: 1/10.

As this post has gotten slightly confusing I'm not posting a song til things work themeselves out and each person <cough cough> POSTS ONE SONG AT A TIME PER REVIEW AND ONE SONG ONLY. Pants.
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Post by: Bazz on 01 Jun 2005, 20:27
Quote from: La Creme
Jeugd Van Tegenwoordig - Watskeburt

Yiddish rap? German? Can't hardly tell. Made me laugh for maybe the first 30 seconds, then I realized they were serious, and it just started sucking. Plus it was long as hell which is unnecessary.
Horrid: 1/10.


Dutch :) And nooo man, they're far from serious. They even made up some words to fit the rhyme. :D I agree on the long part. This song is fun for a few days but it loses it's magic fast.
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Post by: mechorg on 01 Jun 2005, 20:43
Quote from: La Creme

As this post has gotten slightly confusing I'm not posting a song til things work themeselves out and each person <cough cough> POSTS ONE SONG AT A TIME PER REVIEW AND ONE SONG ONLY. Pants.


If you are hinting at me, c'mon and deal with it.  Its not like the two songs I posted were very different from each other and I made it simple.  The confusion came when the newcomer didn't really form an actual review before he posted his own song for others.

If this is your first 'review' of a song, make sure you read the first page of the thread and stick with the formula.  Thank you.

As it now looks, La Creme is up to enlighten us with a new song for someone else to review.  Let's have it. :)
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Post by: La Creme on 01 Jun 2005, 21:00
JOY! Ok... let's see.

Maybe a little bit of Indy semi-instrumental goodness. This song has the most incredibley clever change of time signatures ever. For major kudos and appreciates, say the time at which it occurs in your review (no, i don't mean the little seperate thing at the end...)
I give you:

The Harvesman (Daddy Longlegs)
by The Sugarplastic
http://s30.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3L4WFJ5ELK29N36ODQNT54QSC3
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Post by: mechorg on 01 Jun 2005, 21:25
The Harvesman (Daddy Longlegs)
by The Sugarplastic

Now this band knows all about the build up.  Great riffs, great mixes with the instrumentation and bringing it into the song.  The only problem I have is it didn't really go anywhere.  I was anxiously awaiting a sudden tempo change and a flurry of notes all around... but nothing.  Just some kinda hush then... "And now for something completely different."

The vocals worked, and the crescendo worked and I was digging it.  Just a build up to no where.  I still enjoyed it.
My Score:  8.3/10

Next:
Califone - 2 sisters drunk on each other (http://s49.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0DFLW2DYBEX1J1OFGF0P3Z6QS1)
Back onto more of an ernest shot at this.  (Sorry folks, don't go into this with any preconcieved notions about the title.)

Time for bed for me.
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Post by: La Creme on 01 Jun 2005, 21:37
Actually the track does go somewhere... somewhere being this jewel of a rock song:

Jesus Is His Name by The Sugarplastic
http://s14.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=28RRT5SPKY8N335657VOH245A7

Not to be reviewed. Just for fun. Go review mechorg's, suckas.
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Post by: KharBevNor on 02 Jun 2005, 05:59
Wierd sort of electronic jazz intro, with kinda amateurish sounding beats. Not that I should complain about that. Singing is ok, at least he can hold good harmony and melody. I dunno what I'd call this tbh. Sounds like electronically made Jazz. Or at least processed. There are some pretty cool licks and so forth in the middle, and a nice little outro with...well, I dunno what it was actually. Lyrics didn't really 'a jump out upon me. I kinda have trouble picking out those sort of muted vocals actually.

6.5/10

Now, my favouritest band ever, again, but I last picked them four pages/months ago, and this is a different era:

Skyclad - Womb of the Worm (http://s31.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3PCZMX9TYGKYA2KDW5OYVHG0DV)
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Post by: IronOxide on 02 Jun 2005, 15:55
What have I to say on Skyclad's Womb of the Worm?

The beginning is strange, and then the guitars come in powerfully. The guitar is cool and fun to listen to, and then the vocals. Oh the vocals. They are uninspired and they don't even sound good. (At least to me, I'm not a metal fan) The song then offers little development or change that you expect in a seven minute song.

As someone who doesn't like metal I give it a 3/10.

I next present you to my favorite instrumentalists ever.

The Yoshida Brothers - Madrugada

http://s40.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=18ZGO7ZP7XK3X0UZGSXS4F9SA5
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Post by: KharBevNor on 02 Jun 2005, 15:59
Listennn toooo the lyyrrriiiiicsssss *cries*

Womb Of The Worm

Black hat stranger - affluent as effluent
Hides behind his mirror shades and crocodile smile
Preying on the weak, the vulnerable and innocent
All things pure and virginal he will defile.

Shepherd of a flock of black sheep - he knows his charges well
Their thirst for life is drowning down in his snow filled hell...

They never die - in "the Womb of the Worm" they lie
They never die - in "the Womb of the Worm" they lie.

Slaves to the only god they know,
Drawn by the song of the cosmic diva
The lord of the flies is a dandy beau
King of the hill in the new Bohemia
Where does he come from, their redeemer
Where does he dwell? (they never learn)
What is the prize for the true believer?
Rotting away in the "Womb of the Worm"?

Death is the hand of a handsome stranger - (he speaks, heads turn)
Babes unaware of impending danger - quickening dead in the "Womb of the Worm"

They never die - in "the Womb of the Worm" they lie
They never die - in "the Womb of the Worm" they lie.

At the gravesides of sad lonely children
Reason sits with a tear in her eye
Killed in their prime - tell me why were they taken?
It's not them but "the Worm" that should die.
"Stabat Mater Dolorosa" - a grieving mother's sad refrain
Chasing dragons in the subway, to kill the time and ease the pain.

Words of "the Worm":
"Don't be afraid - just take my hand
'cause life's too short to be a bore
Try it once, you'll understand
Why they keep coming back for more."
Form an orderly line outside death's door
If you want to taste his sweet amnesia
He's never short of clientele
Though most of them die from a fatal seizure
Another mother cries to a chat-show host
(she speaks - my stomach churns)
I hear how a young kid - now a young ghost
Died a sickening death in "the Womb of the Worm."

They never die - in "the Womb of the Worm" they lie
They never die - in "the Womb of the Worm" they lie.



I mean, come on, they cap pretty much every other band in the universe on the head for lyrics.

And I love his vocals so much -_-
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Post by: a pack of wolves on 02 Jun 2005, 16:05
Sorry Khar, but those kind of lyrics are one of the reasons I can never get into a lot of metal. Give me a nice song about a French cultural theorist any day.
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Post by: KharBevNor on 02 Jun 2005, 16:09
But it's a tortuously clever song about people who sell drugs to children! Can you not even appreciate the word-play, the internal rhymes, the cadences and alliterations? This is clever bloody stuff, and relevant too.
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Post by: IronOxide on 02 Jun 2005, 16:20
I think that word play should be just that, play. If you want to play with words, don't make it about killing little kids.

It's just not my style.

I did like the guitar, though, it was just too overpowered by backup guitar and the vocals. The chords shouldn't be louder than the melody, in my book at least.

I hope that I'm not coming off as a asshole, it's hard to sound nice about this on the internet.

EDIT: A minor spelling error, I'm like that.
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Post by: blindsuperhero on 02 Jun 2005, 16:24
Quote from: KharBevNor
But it's a tortuously clever song about people who sell drugs to children! Can you not even appreciate the word-play, the internal rhymes, the cadences and alliterations? This is clever bloody stuff, and relevant too.


It doesn't seem at all great to me. If you want to read and example of how word-play, internal rhymes, blah is done properly I suggest reading The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot
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Post by: KharBevNor on 02 Jun 2005, 16:26
Quote from: ironoxide887
I think that word play should be just that, play. If you want to play with words, don't make it about killing little kids.


It's not exactly about killing little kids.

What you're saying is you would like the whole world sugar coated? Ah well. I'll wait for a bit before posting another of their songs, next time from the era when they got really heavy on the fiddle.

Absolutely nothing beats a guitar vs fiddle duelling solo.

And duh, I'm an english student, I've read shiteloads of Elliot. He's ok.

I prefer Walkyier, tbh. Not on the page maybe, but definitely when it's sung. It just comes so alive.
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Post by: La Creme on 02 Jun 2005, 16:37
I really think this was very VERY good metal. Heavy, lyrical, had some major chords (fuck metal bands that don't have the occasional harmonious major tone, like most hardcore bands, though they're not metal). I liked it a lot and will be checking out much more of Skyclad's stuff.

Madrugada - Yoshida Brothers

Though this was trying a bit too hard to be funky, it was still pretty awesome. I liked the use of that traditional-asian instrument sounding thing in place of a guitar or sax. Very chill. The drumming was really sterotypical and boring for a funk, unfortunately. The part that starts just before the 3-minute mark, where most of the instruments drop out was pretty nice. The instrument wasn't too fit for improv-soloing, but that's ok because it was a decent solo.
Meh. 7/10

Now, a fusion explolsion of awesome straight from the bad-ass bronx:
Break You Ankle Punk
by Mephiskapheles
http://s30.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3B5J21B8V3WPL2YR20JA1JTS1S

(The singer isn't great, but he's very Bronx, and he keeps up their Satanic-Ska image very well. He looks like a crack-head-Ethiopian on a pen-knife killing spree. And he screams like crazy on some of the tracks...)
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Post by: KharBevNor on 02 Jun 2005, 16:58
Quote from: La Creme
I really think this was very VERY good metal. Heavy, lyrical, had some major chords (fuck metal bands that don't have the occasional harmonious major tone, like most hardcore bands, though they're not metal). I liked it a lot and will be checking out much more of Skyclad's stuff.


Skyclad are very upbeat, musically. If you want some serious guitar goodness, check out their first album, 'Wayward Sons of Mother Earth'. The kind of thrash you'd expect from what basically started out as the British Thrash supergroup: ex members of Sabbat, Satan and Pariah = goodness.

Later on they get more folky, with the fiddle and all, then achieve a more even metal/folk split by the last album they did with Walkyier, Folkemon, though their later albums draw a much heavier influence from NWOBHM and earlier proto-metal/hard rock stuff. A Semblance of Normality is more heavy folk rock, but still okay, though the lyrics aren't as good.

*downloads your track*
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Post by: KharBevNor on 02 Jun 2005, 18:12
Hmmm, didn't quite know what to make of this one. Kind of twinkly little intro, then a horn section. I don't really like ska, but this wasn't too infernally annoying. The groove did not make me want to move I must say. What was this a fusion of exactly, apart from ska-punk? Actually, I did kind of hear some record scratches in the background?

Er, 4/10. tbh. Not my cup of tea and whatnot.

Now, this is a long one, but very awesome. One of the bands that it makes me sad went crap:

Cradle of Filth - Queen of Winter, Throned (http://s27.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0T2USN04NWL4W33IAWRM9HM4X4)

Cradle of Filth at their best, epic, cold, and just the right side of cheesy, inventing every cliche.
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Post by: La Creme on 02 Jun 2005, 18:45
That one isn't very mixed. I've no idea where you got punk from that one. Not to opunk to me. The sax solo is very "free jazz" (a la Ornette Coleman), so it's got a little of that. And yes, the scratching should be louder. The video version's much better. It's got more organ and stuff.
Their top fusiony songs are definately "Foursome" (a ska-jazz take on Miles Davis' 'Four', but alterred and with a brilliant sax solo) and "Bad Toupee" or "Sate" (metal-jazz-ska-punk). Also "Scram" has a little bit of everything too, plus a great horn-and-distorted-guitar fanfare.
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Post by: KharBevNor on 02 Jun 2005, 19:44
The vocals sounded pretty punk. And the way he kept going 'Ska meets bronx', or whatever it was. I presumed that had something to do with NY Hardcore? I dunno...
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Post by: La Creme on 02 Jun 2005, 21:30
Nothing to do with NY Hardcore. Mephiskapheles are just bad motherfuckers. They would whip the ass of nearly anyone with their combined demonicosity and kick-ass drummer and sax player. The guitarist leaves a lot to be desired, I will admit. And the singer isn't that great when he's not yelling or "rapping" (a la Neville Staple). Ska means the Bronx is just him "representin'" I guess. He's black, so I suppose he can get away with that sort of thing. Even though he's not rapping.
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Post by: KharBevNor on 03 Jun 2005, 15:46
I see...

Still, I just don't like Ska. :P Something about it. That was good though, I can tell. Just...it was ska.
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Post by: IronOxide on 04 Jun 2005, 18:10
Cradle of Filth - Queen of Winter, Throned

It starts off with some pretty cool guitar, and that guy's voice almost made me wet myself. I am also against talking during a song instead of singing. At 5:40 left (iTunes displays it like that and I'm kinda too lazy to convert it) the womans voice becomes more pornounced for a bt making it very eerie. This is very, very stereotypical metal. Again at about 3:60 left there is a cool use of eerie voices, this time in harmony. That is where this song, I feel shines. But unfortunately it if filled with time like 2:57 until the end where they just talk. It sounds so unpleasant. At 2:29 to the finish you hear a few notes from their bass (vocal type). It however loses all dignity when it soon falls to orgasm sounds and screaming. Oh the screaming. I think that this song would be much more bearable if the guy with the really deep voice shot their screamer and dragged his corpse around until he made no more sound.

I am giving this song a 2/10, sorry.

I next choose Ban the Tube Top (http://s48.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1888VE19FR66F0X99O4LO1DD01 ) by Reel Big Fish

I'm in a ska-tastic mood.
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Post by: a pack of wolves on 04 Jun 2005, 20:34
Reel Big Fish - Ban The Tube Top

Now this takes me back, to those late-90s days when ska and ska-punk was everywhere and my friends and I would get drunk and skank to the Mad Caddies. I've no idea if this track comes from that period (I was never a RBF fan back then), but it sure sounds like it. We've got simple, catchy horn parts, a frequently-occurring chorus that sticks in your head pretty well, pretty silly lyrics... in other words, this is a bit of fluff. But that's what this kind of music is meant to be, and it does its job pretty well. The only problem is, I feel like I know this song despite the fact that I've never heard it before in my life. It's efficient, but it doesn't seem to differentiate itself from the mass of bands from back when this music seemed ubiquitous, unlike say the Dance Hall Crashers (who I still spin to this day).
5/10

Second String Bluegrass Band - Paint The Town (http://s21.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=04U1F0YZCI6W313CJNQCRFQVGR)
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Post by: KharBevNor on 05 Jun 2005, 02:36
Quote from: ironoxide887
I think that this song would be much more bearable if the guy with the really deep voice shot their screamer and dragged his corpse around until he made no more sound.


Same guy. Dani Filth's vocal register used to rock pretty hard, now CoF are just really dull.
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Post by: IronOxide on 05 Jun 2005, 06:06
Why would someone ignore such a kick-ass lower register for that? I remain baffled by the human race.
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Post by: Revenge_Therapist on 05 Jun 2005, 13:15
Second String Bluegrass Band - Paint The Town
Interesting little bluegrass ditty. I mean it is a genere that you always know what you're in for. The guitar on this was better than most that I've heard. However most of that is due to the hippies adopting it into their world.
My track is

Small Brown Bike-Jailbreak
Thin Lizzy Cover=teh awesome.
http://s44.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1I0702F4JUB460TC8IS9H1SIJU
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Post by: KharBevNor on 05 Jun 2005, 21:45
Quote from: ironoxide887
Why would someone ignore such a kick-ass lower register for that? I remain baffled by the human race.


INHUMAN HOWLS FROM THE WINTERFORESTS!


That is all the explanation you get, sir. To me, it makes perfect sense.
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Post by: Merkava on 08 Jun 2005, 18:55
OMG THRED REVIVEL OMGZ!

Jailbreak -by- Small Brown Bike

Overall, I enjoyed it, but there were a few things I have to pick with the actual song. This may be the recording, but the drums have no real power. As a percussionist myself, it kind of hurt to hear such weakly-played drums, especially when played with the particularly strong riff. In the beginning, the tempo seemed kind of awkward, but it comes together later on, especially when the lead singer comes in and the interplay really begins. Though the lead singer had no range or variety in his voice, this is punk. I may be expecting too much. ;D

Good song. I'd give it a 8/10, as most of my complaints are nit-picks.

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And now...

A cover of Weezer's "Only in Dreams" by one of my favorite bands, Mock Orange.

http://www.mockorange.net/mp3s/Only_In_Dreams.mp3
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Post by: La Creme on 08 Jun 2005, 22:34
Mock Orange - Only In Dreams
They made the beat a little more interesting, which was nice. The singer wasn't that good.. at all. Sorry. The guitar held pretty faithful to Weezer. Around 3:20 they do the build-up/bridge thing but they kinda ruin it by not coming down. Which pissed me off. But his little "only in dreams" yell after that was very Rivers.
Decent song, and the cover stayed pretty faithful, if boring, so...: 6/10

I posted them on another board, so I back up my love for them here:

Mr. Torture by Helloween
http://s10.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0UUKT2JX9W80N3AZW0QDLEEAJD
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Post by: KharBevNor on 09 Jun 2005, 03:45
Helloweeeen! Great fast semi-classical intro, then breaking into the kind of verse/chorus vocals that they helped make cliche. Cool lyrics and great singing. "He's been banned in twenty countries, Though he does it for money..." and what a goddamn solo! 9/10

Orange Goblin - Magic Carpet (http://s49.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=327Q8EOWD6WML0GAD0P1XYIVTQ)
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Post by: Merkava on 09 Jun 2005, 15:27
Quote from: La Creme
Mock Orange - Only In Dreams
They made the beat a little more interesting, which was nice. The singer wasn't that good.. at all. Sorry. The guitar held pretty faithful to Weezer. Around 3:20 they do the build-up/bridge thing but they kinda ruin it by not coming down. Which pissed me off. But his little "only in dreams" yell after that was very Rivers.
Decent song, and the cover stayed pretty faithful, if boring, so...: 6/10



Heh, the best thing about Mock Orange is that they have a new sound and lead singer (who was already in the band, since all of the band members are childhood friends). Now, they do this really crazy mix of Pavement/Built to Spill/Modest Mouse. Here's an example of their new sound just for fun.

http://www.mockorange.net/mp3s/Stuck_In.mp3

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Now for the review.


Orange Goblin - Magic Carpet

I really, really enjoyed this song. The beginning  was great, where it had that really nice funky bass, but got better after the seamless transition into high-energy hard rock with the nimbly-played riffs, the simple yet effective drumming, and the lead singer's harsh snarl. I actually feel like listening to it again.

10/10

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How about some nice experimental/hard-rock instrumental music from the more-than-excellent RPG Shadow Hearts: Covenant?

http://anubis.bluelaguna.net/sh2ost//02%20-%20~ICARO%20AGAIN%20~%20Advertise%20II.mp3
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Post by: Patatat on 09 Jun 2005, 17:59
My Reve

Music from games, usually means annoying and repeatative with usually little to none lyrical talent.

However, this one surprised me it was not repeatative at all. It was very short, so that may be the reason. I liked the soft stuff, and the harder stuff. The instrumentals were very good. Also, the touch of the lady singing softly in an eery sort of way just fit into it. It was rather short, but that is a good thing. As I could see it getting to be the same thing over and over again very fast.

I give it a 6.5 out of 10.

What you have to endure with muahaha.
Sorry I can't figure out how to use one of those MP3 sites.

Elliot Smith-Ballad of Big Nothing
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Post by: La Creme on 09 Jun 2005, 19:54
It's easy... just go to www.yousendit.com.

1) Put in an email adress. It doesn't matter what, just make sure it's either yours or bullshit that won't be some random person's.

2) Browse your computer for the file you want to give to people.

3) Once it's sent, copy the link that appears on the screen (not in the url bar...) and paste it here.
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Post by: a pack of wolves on 09 Jun 2005, 20:37
And if you can't do that, then just limit yourself to tracks you can find on band and label websites or places like www.epitonic.com
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Post by: Merkava on 10 Jun 2005, 17:15
Yousendit takes FOREVER with me for some reason. If it works for you, good. If it doesn't, follow wolve's advice.

Review, since I have Either/Or. ;P

Ballad of Big Nothing - Elliott Smith

As with most of this guy's songs, it's carried along mostly by an acoustic guitar. Though his voice is pretty weak, I won't hold it against him; that's kind of his trademark. The drumming was actually pretty nice, as it kept the beat and did some improv on the side, which is hard to do in this kind of tempo without sounding hokey, but he pulled it off to good effect. It's a classic song from a classic album.

9/10

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Now, sorry about ANOTHER Mock Orange song, but this is the newer, more  heartland/indie rock sound they displayed on "Mind is Not Brain" compared to the Weezer cover.

http://www.mockorange.net/mp3s/Payroll.mp3
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Post by: Psiogen on 10 Jun 2005, 21:15
Mock Orange - "Payroll"

Simple, standard-issue indie-pop done right. Solid riff, nice little instrumental touches. The whole thing is catchy and keeps to a solid bounce despite the lazy tempo. A keeper. 8/10

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Curved Air - "Metamorphosis"
WARNING: this track is a dweebgasmic 10 minute prog epic from around 1975.
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Post by: Kai on 10 Jun 2005, 22:59
Fucking A! 70's prog! woo!

Curved Air - Metamorphisis

Alright, starts out with some piano melody thing. THen starts with a drumroll and some other instrument I can't determine. sounds like there's an organ in there too. soon enough comes in the guitar and the music starts up, with sort of a transylvanian feeling. I'm reminded of Zappa's Transylvanian Boogie song, which may help the song. Soon, some annoying British kids come in singing. or are they women? I'm not sure. Either way it kinda bugs me. Then it all later stops except for the piano. Later some lady starts singing something. She's kinda annoying too. Then the crazy organ music kicks in the song starts being awesome again. soon enough the militaristic snare drumroll starts and the tempo and mood changes. Then the kids or women start to sing again and I hate it. Seriously, fire those bastards. I'm not even listening to the lyrics, because this is Prog, and all prog lyrics are just made to make the singer look smart and sophisticated. Soon enough they stop and the piano goes into this sorta Old Western Bar Piano Honky Tonk mode. Then it ends. Not bad, just fire the women singer ladies. 7/10

EDIT: WIll have song up in a minute, however, someone can go ahead and post another song if I don't get it up before you.
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Post by: Kai on 10 Jun 2005, 23:04
The Residents - Constantinople

http://s37.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1OYNKW5IQOMRN3CDJE2KPI0W4S
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Post by: Merkava on 11 Jun 2005, 09:21
The link doesn't work.
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Post by: Kai on 11 Jun 2005, 09:47
The Residents - Constantinople (http://s39.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3QAOSOJKV92ON2L4KREBR9UYBG)
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Post by: Merkava on 11 Jun 2005, 11:01
There we go.

Review:

Constantinople - The Residents

If it were up to me, WTF would be my review. But the rules say I have to give an idea of what the song is like. You start with a rather boring bassline and some clicks and beeps, then you get some lo-fi vocals. It goes on like that for a bit, then some 40's style background vocals and some other instruments jump into the mix. It was interesting, but I still don't see why experimental music like this is so well-liked. There's really nothing to it.

5/10

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Teh song:

http://www.transformonline.com/music/radio/files/The%20Author%20Surrenders.mp3
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Post by: Peter Linfield on 11 Jun 2005, 12:29
Kimone - The Author Surrenders [7/10]
Not a bad song at all. Pretty alternative and mellow, which is something I enjoy. I really like some of the instrumental work, but the vocals irked me a bit at times. It didn't seem entirely memorable, but a very listenable song none-the-less.

Next song: Dredg - Sorry But It's Over
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Post by: seven on 11 Jun 2005, 14:59
Could you provide a link or something, Peter?  This song has proven to be mildly difficult to find...
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Post by: Psiogen on 11 Jun 2005, 15:22
Quote from: Kai
Then the kids or women start to sing again and I hate it. Seriously, fire those bastards.


Uh...there's just one singer. Her name is Sonja Kristina, and she rules.

(http://sylvanmigdal.com/i/sonja_a.jpg)
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Post by: La Creme on 11 Jun 2005, 16:18
NEW RULE: You must supply a link to your song within one hour of posting your review or any other person may post a song of their own.

You have one hour starting now, Peter...
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Post by: KharBevNor on 11 Jun 2005, 16:20
Sounds reasonable to me.

I DO already have a song uploaded, of course...
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Post by: La Creme on 11 Jun 2005, 16:23
Word.
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Post by: KharBevNor on 11 Jun 2005, 18:11
Right, I've given it almost two.

Agalloch - ...And the Great Cold Death of the Earth (http://s11.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2VWTDE6640M0V0MQE3PI6Z1DYK)
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Post by: La Creme on 12 Jun 2005, 00:14
Agalloch - ...And The Great Cold Death Of The Earth

Slow metal bores me. But this wasn't terrible. Overly standard chord structure without much variation. Acoustic under electric sound is good. Lyrics are subdued, and not that good anyways. Around 2:30 there's a little arpegiated acoustic soloey thing. That was pleasent.
All this said: 5/10, not my thing, but not horrible.

Some glam-period experimental semi-hard-rock (really, it's just the shit):
801 - East Of Asteroid
http://s15.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1BUR4PL1EP1SS3ALE3FC5LKSZT
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Post by: salada on 12 Jun 2005, 03:13
801 - east of asteroid

didn't seem too experimental to me. but then, i'm not really into rocky stuff much. liked the drums (especially towards the end), but that always seems to be my favourite thing about most things. and instrumentals are always nice. (edit: everyone else seems to be doing out of 10 things, so i give this 6. yeah.)

venetian snares -- nineteen (http://s36.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0HQ8K260GCQWR1V0J71WIDMXN7)

this has been my favourite song for the past week or so. i imagine not that many people here will like this, but then again, this is the forced listening thread.
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Post by: Robbo on 12 Jun 2005, 03:19
I was about to say that song wasn't Metal, before you edited. But oh well. But that Yousendit link still isn't valid. You missed the last two letters.
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Post by: salada on 12 Jun 2005, 03:53
yeh, i got all confused by the bit about metal in la creme's post. all the way through i was thinking "this isn't very metal...". only after posting did i realise my mistake. i stand by the drums being the best bit though.

and the link should be fixed now, i hope.
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Post by: Robbo on 12 Jun 2005, 04:08
Venetian Snares - Nineteen

Something like 80's video game noises to start, before shifting into computer sound sampled hip hop/dj breaks style beats. Does lots of "funky" stuff over a simple slow tone background. Hey, this actually sounds interesting rather than general sampled beat stuff. Yeah, it could have been done with just Fruity Loops, but I actually own albums that where made only with Fruity Loops, so it doesn't matter. I dunno if it's standard for this...act...but it's not all one tone "thunk thunk thunk, sample 1, sample 2, sample 1, sample 2" stuff.

I think it struck a little bit of a chord with my liking for Experimental Electronica. It is, in it self, musically limited as to how good I can see it being.....but it's better than standing Hip Hop, DJ breaks stuff, whatever. Yeah, dunno why I called it Hip Hop stuff to start with, just started off sounding like that. I presume there's a proper term form the DJ mixing/sample/scratching thing.

Gets a 5 for being interesting, doing in a way that doesn't suck ass and actually being a song. It's something I could sit around and listen to if my friends did, but not something that I would actively listen to or hold an interest in.

Next: Dream Theater - The Dance of Eternity
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Post by: salada on 12 Jun 2005, 05:05
i'm not sure if i just miss the point with metal. are they trying to be silly? because if they are, i don't mind this. but if these guys are serious... honky tonk? maracas? (metal-liking housemate walks in to borrow a dvd. "hmm. sounds like video-game metal."). i mean, i like silly things. a lot. and if this is silly, then it's not too bad. especially considering i don't like metal that much.

so...

6, maybe 7 if they're taking the piss.
2, maybe 3 if they're for serious.

krzysztof penderecki -- threnody for the victims of hiroshima for 52 stringed instruments (http://s28.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3RPIVRS0I5HHO0F011S1LB1MTP)

this is quite long, sorry. but i think it's a beautiful piece. not the best rip though, sorry. listen to it on good headphones if you can.
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Post by: Robbo on 12 Jun 2005, 05:41
Yes, yes you did miss the point by miles. Though it is from a concept album, so not completely fair to say that. Half of which is set in 1928, hence the 1920's style effects and paino solo. Though there's no maracas anywhere in that song.. it's either keyboard work it just something on the (huge) drumkit. It's prog and it's very serious, it's a great technical piece. What did you think of the bass solo and etc?

And besides, Metal is a massive gener...there's not just the one point to it. Though nothing in that sounds like it comes from a video game, unless you mean the actually fact it just has keyboards.
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Post by: salada on 12 Jun 2005, 06:03
ok, so on re-listening, i can see a lot of the technical stuff is probably going over my head. bass solo was nice. maracas thing was probably just drumkit though, you're right. still, i don't really like prog anything, so this was never going to get too far...
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Post by: La Creme on 12 Jun 2005, 18:39
Your link isn't working...
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Post by: salada on 12 Jun 2005, 18:47
really? it worked for me just now... odd.


(edit: hopefully everything should be working. complete link, right format, all that: here (http://s7.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=04O3IWWT13QV2RK74DXFEIDLC).)
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Post by: La Creme on 13 Jun 2005, 18:58
BACK TO TOPPED!
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Post by: La Creme on 13 Jun 2005, 21:51
Long Song Name - Long Artist Name
(salada's song...)

Stringtastic cacophny! Threnody is a kick-ass word too. Creepy, eerie, and very loose and dischordant. Succesfully cacophnous. You caght me in a mood for it to, and this drove me completely bug-fucking crazy. Congradulations. Your crazy 52-string-dischordant-nightmare has driven me completely insane. w00t.
6/10 for pure chaotic joy. It would have been low as shit if I wasn't stark-raving mad today.

My song:
Goodbye Sober Day - Mr. Bungle*

http://s33.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2PYN3DOT7RLB02WVV375MW6T1O

*(I'd like a non-bungle fan to rate it, just for the pure "their mind getting exploded" factor. If worse comes to worst, already fan of bungle can review and pass on. May this glorious thread never die!)
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Post by: Harper_Knight on 13 Jun 2005, 23:17
Goodbye Sober Day - Mr. Bungle

....I'm not sure...exactly what that is. It's definately not like anything i've ever heard before, and certianly not like what i usually listen to, but its good. some really wierd noises in there.
my mind most definately has exploded. i must find more of this 'mister bungle'
back on topic...its good..did i say that before? if you like funny sounding music that has...interesting lyrics and some strange style changes, it seems to me, you'll like this. chaotic is a good word too.
a...8.5/10?

my song:
Me Without You - Paper Hanger

http://s29.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0DHTUO5Y5SLV632NITCEMKQSW0
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Post by: Praeserpium Machinarum on 14 Jun 2005, 03:05
Me without You - Paper Hanger

the first thing I thought when I heard the opening, was very american in the vein of mainstream guitarrock ala Jimmy Eat World(and thats not neccesarily a bad thing). But fortunately it gets almost claustrophobic when the singer kicks in with a pained(filtered?) voice. The guitars contributes to this, but then in the chorus, they just sound really dull. The singer/singers go a bit screamy in the end, which I just don't like. The lyrics are okay I suppose, its a little difficult to hear, but difinitely a tad melodramatic.
Overall there are some parts of the song I like, but both chorus and the end are less than great in my book.
It gets a 7/10 from me..

Einstürzende Neubauten - Halber Mensch
http://s37.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=229QSX9P8NBY03TWULOFYHWDEP
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Post by: La Creme on 15 Jun 2005, 22:24
Einstürzende Neubauten - Halber Mensch

The robotic sounding thing really seemed like it was going to be an intro, but then it just kept going and going and going... This little ditty was like a gigantic mixer-weilding army of angry Germanic robots (don't know what country, but sounded very German). The little drop-out around 3:30 except for the angry man voice was nifty. Too bad I couldn't understand a word of this... I can respect the fun of making a song entirely of vocals and the use of crazy effects, as I do it all the friggity time.
6/10

I think this next song puts up competition as one of the greatest songs of all time, or at least the greatest Prog peice in existence:

"Trilogy" by ELP (that's Emerson, Lake, and Palmer, for those of you who don't abrv. much...)

http://s32.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1GIVN6RVRY6LP28TML7LMVJL1T
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Post by: Praeserpium Machinarum on 16 Jun 2005, 01:37
yeah it's german and I have no idea what they are saying either, except that Halber Mensch means half-human and their name means falling/crashing new buildings. But ya they are awesome, the lead singer, Blixa Bargeld, played guitar in Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds for quite a while. They also use all these weird self-made instruments, drills, broken glass and various pipes etc. Very experimental bunch of germans, going on their 25 year as a band, legends well in my head anyway..
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Post by: IronOxide on 16 Jun 2005, 12:36
Emerson, Lake, and Palmer's Trilogy

It starts with some pretty cool quiet piano stuff, do de do, as soon as it gets a bit overdone you're hit with a giant wall of WHAT THE FUCK. There's all of these snth things going on, which really provides good contrast, but I think it gets old rather quickly. Some singing, more stuff. Then you have a different synth sound come out entirely. Then it keeps going. IT KEEPS GOING AND GOING it's like the Energizer Bunny on LSD. It keeps pretty bouncy to the end where it concludes in that classic way that we've all heard but not too recently.

I give it a 6.5/10 it's somthing, but a bit too weird for my taste.

Mine? She is a jazz piece by the unbeatable Yoko Kanno entitled "Too Good, Too Bad"

http://s45.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2DUGVU943FKHW1JN40JDNEDIAQ
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Post by: Merkava on 16 Jun 2005, 13:59
"Too Good, Too Bad" - Yoko Kanno

Yoko Kanno = teh sex. The instruments sound crisp, clean and professional. The most tasteful-sounding trumpet I've heard in a while. The drumming keeps a nice marching beat and has some occasional rolls to keep things interesting. The saxaphone bobs and weaves and flutters through the mix and flies through all sorts of octives. This is why the Cowboy Bebop soundtrack > all anime OSTs. XP

10/10

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I should have my song up momentarily.

EDIT:

Here it is!

http://s41.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0DH0Z28R2RF483AI8ETG4QSIZQ
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Post by: Robbo on 16 Jun 2005, 14:58
Modest Mouse - Doin' the Cockroach

Slow build acoustic start then some horrible vocals, over soft tones that spike a tad with shouts. Picks up with the chours, but it's just the same only faster, little strum along guitar and drums that swich between two basic patterns. Breaks down a bit after that, vocals improve a little, but picks back up into the same bland tones and bad shouting. Picks along into a riff then shifts to start stop patterns and the drums/bass follow suit. Few twangy tones at the end to makes something differnet.

Perfect paint by numbers blandness. Musically fine but it's then it's nothing that'll push most peoples limits at all. 2/10 for having basic music ideas and not messing them up.

*Shrugs* what you get for a blind download.

Next: Control Denied - What If...
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Post by: IronOxide on 17 Jun 2005, 18:23
What if... - Control Denied

It starts off with some strange synth and a couple painfully distorted chords. The singing then begins and I'm not really feeling it. They're kind yelling/talking instead of singing. This is called into question when they use what appears to be vocal harmony. Can spoken harmony hapen? It just did. You have a prett cool guitar feature, then a drum feature, then another guitar feature. That's some damn good guitar playing. Then the vocals come back in just when it had my intrest again.

Overall it felt kind of like I've been there before, though I haven't. How bizzare. I give this a medicore 5/10

My next song is Banana Pancakes by Jack Johnson.

 Here Ya Go (http://s51.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1LV4DF3BSHJNJ1NICTLPRKFO7Q)

EDIT- I wanted to get the link working.
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Post by: JLM on 17 Jun 2005, 19:32
Banana Pancakes: Starts off with a few simple acoustic riffs, and then mellow voice kicking in.  I'm listening to this and trying to get a full feel for the originality of the music, but I just keep going back to G-Love and the Special Sauce as the track goes on.  There's a sort of layered laziness, both in the track and in the lyrics.  A definite Sunday Morning track. Song comes to a complete halt at the end, which I wasn't expecting.  Was expecting more of a fade out.  Different.

Not really my thing, and not terribly original, but not bad overall.  5/10

My track:

The One A.M. Radio - Witness (http://s47.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2STFU5E8EM11L2GZU7REMS9HPA)
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Post by: Merkava on 17 Jun 2005, 21:54
Someone just hated on Modest Mouse. My world. She is shattered. ;D

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Witness - The One A.M. Radio

Nice and relaxed, like a soulful electronica song should be. It starts with just the lead singer's soft voice and a drum pattern, but then stuff is added on as the song continues. Analog synth meledies and evangelical female background vocals settle into the mix to make a nice mesh of sound. I liked how the drum had a little rythm variety near the end in case you drifted away from the song as it droned throughout. Really nice song.

9/10

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Built to Spill - You Were Right

http://s47.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=36YU681FFRSEW0AG8EOKJOM91B
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Post by: Kai on 17 Jun 2005, 21:59
Someone just hated on Modest Mouse. My world is rebuilt. woo!
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Post by: Robbo on 18 Jun 2005, 01:15
Quote from: ironoxide887
What if... - Control Denied

It starts off with some strange synth and a couple painfully distorted chords.


Synth? Dude, that's the BASS. Some people, really :P. And I couldn't call the vocals screaming as everything is clear. And Kai, no problem, heh.
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Post by: Praeserpium Machinarum on 18 Jun 2005, 01:45
Built to Spill - You Were Right

I have heard Built to Spill a couple of times, and heard about the premise for this song, namely that it consists of quotes from all sorts of people fx. Led Zeppelin. Well the intro proves that Doug Martsch(presumably) can play guitar, and he continues that all the way through. It's basically guitarrock at it's finest, and I don't really have anything bad to say about this song.

a 9/10 from me..

McLusky - Light Sabre Cocksucking Blues

http://s40.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0TF1A13ZL0O3G01Q74XK6ZGYR1
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Post by: kikanjuuneko on 18 Jun 2005, 05:46
McLusky - Lightsaber Cocksucking Blues

Mmm... hilarious song title. Weird funny sounds in the beginning, then gets into a decent groove, which I can appreciate. Ditto for the hand clapping. The vocals are a bit low, if you ask me, and sound a bit annoying. And besides that, the song seems a bit samey, even if it is less than two minutes. Could used just a little variation.
5/10; which doesn't mean the song is bad (that's what the scores below 5 are), but it's just not my bag, baby.

HORSE the Band - Cutsman (http://www.purevolume.com/horsetheband)
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Post by: normz on 18 Jun 2005, 05:54
Quote from: Harper_Knight

 i must find more of this 'mister bungle'




awww we just witnessed a mike patton conversion *wipes tear away* bless your sweet sweet soul harper knight
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Post by: IronOxide on 18 Jun 2005, 09:12
Quote from: Robbo
Quote from: ironoxide887
What if... - Control Denied

It starts off with some strange synth and a couple painfully distorted chords.


Synth? Dude, that's the BASS. Some people, really :P. And I couldn't call the vocals screaming as everything is clear. And Kai, no problem, heh.


I'm sorry about the bass thing, it was very distorted. I do believe I said yelling/talking, that's just how his voice sounds to me.
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Post by: Robbo on 18 Jun 2005, 09:15
It wasn't relly a serious comment man. But "very distorted"? Sounds percet and clear to me, with a lovely tone to pick it out from the guitars to me. *shrug*
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Post by: Revenge_Therapist on 18 Jun 2005, 12:04
Quote from: kikanjuuneko


HORSE the Band - Cutsman (http://www.purevolume.com/horsetheband)

This is a younger band right? They have a lot of potential, but they need to work around trying to jam as much sound into one song as possible. I don;t mind eclectic tastes, however your songs shouldn't sound like someone flipping radio stations. These guys have talent though I'll give them that.

Against Me! Rice and Bread
http://s6.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1HUX0H5TUCRNL3SSM9WBRR1T40
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Post by: La Creme on 18 Jun 2005, 17:11
Against Me! - Rice and Bread

Slightly annoying, but on the whole quite decent. It was kinda a combination of semi-forced punk and The Flaming Sideburns. Good crashy, well-distorted guitars. Bass was boring. The drummer was trying too damned hard to drum a failry simple beat. Against Me! still remain neutral in my book. Nothing extraordinary, nothing to bitch about.
6/10

It's been since my first post that I did an LTE song, so without further adieu (fuck spelling that word...):
"Universal Mind" by Liguid Tension Experiment

http://s14.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2ZSQPR14JGXTW3VXYB8Y5PW39W

<WARNING> Has the best ending ever.

P.S. To newly christened Bungle/Patton fan: you are entering a world of the most fucked-up incredible music ever. Patton is the fucking man.
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Post by: Merkava on 18 Jun 2005, 17:42
Quote from: Robbo
It wasn't relly a serious comment man. But "very distorted"? Sounds percet and clear to me, with a lovely tone to pick it out from the guitars to me. *shrug*


Dude, you said that Doin the Cockroach started with acoustic picking. I wouldn't be talking. ;D

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Against Me! - Rice and Bread

Wow. I wasn't expecting much for 1:42 song, but I got something really full. It felt longer than it was, in a good way, mainly because it takes about as many turns as a Built to Spill song, except with faster transition. I love the singer; he has a sing/speak style comparable to Travis Morrison that flows with each part of the song. The breakdown into pretty indie rock guitar was really nice, and felt pretty epic, like this kind of breakdown should sound like. I could listen to this thing over and over.

9/10

I want the CD now. XP

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Here's the intro to Chrono Cross, one of the best RPG's ever coupled with one of the best OST's ever. It's called "Time's Scar" and is composed by Yasunori Mitsuda.

http://s45.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0KTZUWHPE0LKK1UB0L4P9RDS0Q

EDIT: woops, someone got to it earlier. Sorry about that.
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Post by: Robbo on 18 Jun 2005, 18:28
Quote from: Merkava

Dude, you said that Doin the Cockroach started with acoustic picking. I wouldn't be talking. ;D


So it's a simple notes set that has a slight acoustic tone. Really think it was worth my edit for that, nah. But so nice of you to wait and try to be funny about it. Go review the LTE track :P
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Post by: mechorg on 19 Jun 2005, 12:07
LTE - "Universal Mind"
Okay, this is my definition of Prog and it doesn't suprise me it comes from you. :P  I like the long epic songs and I do like this one.  The talent of the lead guitarist is amazing.  There are parts where the piano doesn't quite seem like it fits with the arrangement.  I really like the segment from 4:30 and on and all the parts of the ensamble seem to fit very well.  The guitar solo sometimes felt like a cheesy 80s "look at me wail away and scrunch my fingers on the little strings in front of the video camera for all you people at home to see how amazing I am".  Also, the piano sometimes felt a little John Tesh-y.  That may have been too harsh.  I wouldn't call this the best ending... but eh.. it was funny to say the least.

Overall my official score is:
7.5/10

I'd listen to it again and maybe look for some more LTE, but probably won't work its way into my regular listening schedule.  Who knows.

Next:
DJ Food - The Aging Young Rebel (http://s38.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3BQR3Q4NWRJPZ3KA3HD1CDY3V8)
For those that know your 1940s beat-niks... yes this is Ken Nordine.
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Post by: JLM on 19 Jun 2005, 12:26
Quote from: mechorg


Next:
DJ Food - The Aging Young Rebel (http://s38.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3BQR3Q4NWRJPZ3KA3HD1CDY3V8)
For those that know your 1940s beat-niks... yes this is Ken Nordine.


I recuse myself from reviewing this because I already own the CD and love this track.  I just wanted to commend you on an excellent choice.  Is this the Kaleidoscope version or the (Gentle Cruelty) mix that was on the Xen Cuts compilation?
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Post by: mechorg on 19 Jun 2005, 12:33
The Kaleidoscope version. :)
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Post by: KharBevNor on 19 Jun 2005, 12:52
The intro was pretty 20's-German-Expressionist-Gasmic, which is nice. The talked vocals are cool and the background playing is quite nice, but it was pretty long and unvaried. Pretty boring, tbh. Worked ok for storytelling I suppose...meh.

6.5/10

Count Nosferatu Kommando - Political Police (http://s14.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2DW0XM6DIZ47V35BT2HZZH7T3Y)
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Post by: Merkava on 20 Jun 2005, 13:11
Quote from: Robbo
Quote from: Merkava

Dude, you said that Doin the Cockroach started with acoustic picking. I wouldn't be talking. ;D


So it's a simple notes set that has a slight acoustic tone. Really think it was worth my edit for that, nah. But so nice of you to wait and try to be funny about it.


Not trying to be funny, just pointing it out with a wink in a non-serious tone.

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Political Police - Count Nosferatu Kommando

Ewwwwwww. It sounded promising in the beginning, but the annoying growling mixed with the cheesey synth and disco beat drumming kind of ruin the mood. It's as if they're trying too hard to be scary. It ends up sounding hokey to me. I'll give props for the cool guitar and drum mix, and the ability to a post-punk amount of time changes.

4/10

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From Death Cab for Cutie's debut album, which is tied with We Have the Facts for my favorite Death Cab album. This is Fake Frowns; please prepare for a LoFi sound.

http://s50.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2ZAOH5M8Y5I8R219ZX6TOCEW5N
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Post by: Not An Addict on 20 Jun 2005, 22:15
Death Cab for Cutie - "Fake Frowns"

Actually, I was pleasantly suprised by this one. It reminds me of Coldplay for some reason (I know, I'm sorry). The melody is a bit thin, but the rhythm is tight, especially towards the end. Fairly hummable, but also a bit bland. 7 out of 10.

Next up: "6 Underground" by the Sneaker Pimps.
http://s47.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=18F1RKRWQMD0R3BJZ8ENAMSP8Q (http://s47.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=18F1RKRWQMD0R3BJZ8ENAMSP8Q)
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Post by: Praeserpium Machinarum on 21 Jun 2005, 08:04
Sneaker Pimps - 6 underground(Nellee Hooper edit)

I remember Sneaker Pimps being mentioned with Portishead and Massive Attack as trip-hop, and it sounds very trip-hoppy. I like the vocalist, while she is not amazing, she fits the track very much. The music sounds a bit like Massive Attack, no wonder, but not really as interesting as their beats. They used a sample I have heard before(the "one-two"), which I found curious. Overall I like the song, I think its good but not fantastic.

8/10

Cat Power - Werewolf

http://s14.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=19DX14D1WEKKI2HDH4T7YDXLTW
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Post by: KharBevNor on 21 Jun 2005, 17:18
Cat Power - Werewolf

I'll swear the intro was nicked straight from Tenacious D apart from the violin :p. Not bad though. Pretty good vocals, but I don't like how they were mixed in. The violin is very nice, but violin tends to be. A tad repetitive and monotonous, but in quite a nice way, with a nice little development towards the end.

All in all, really actually quite good. 7.9/10. Could have done with some more robust/natural vocals.

Now prepare to rock.

Ewigkeit - Strange Volk (http://s18.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1CAS8FKJQDECJ1EPG1OVPVEDW1)
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Post by: Praeserpium Machinarum on 02 Jul 2005, 15:01
bumping this one because I like this thread, and Khar, your link doesn't work.
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Post by: KharBevNor on 02 Jul 2005, 15:37
That's because it's out of date. I'll re-upload it in a sec.
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Post by: KharBevNor on 02 Jul 2005, 16:10
Ewigkeit - Strange Volk (http://s10.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1WX7J6SECB54P1N2PBKRJERG8F)
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Post by: Praeserpium Machinarum on 03 Jul 2005, 08:03
Ewigkeit - Strange Volk

deja vú...I think I have heard it before, probably slacked it off, but for some reason I am in the mood for obscure instrumental metal today. I especially like the samples(the beginning for instance), they fit like a glove, but the riff gets a bit tedious half-way through.
Overall I like it actually, I'll give a 7/10...scary I think I have taken a step towards the dark side ;)


Nouvelle Vague - Too Drunk to Fuck(Dead Kennedys cover) (http://s24.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1CJBEWKW5CGVC2WN8UM7OMZEL4)
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Post by: La Creme on 03 Jul 2005, 11:16
Nouvelle Vague - Too Drunk To Fuck

Unfortunately, it was a really bad recording. This song was AWESOME. I've heard the original a couple of times before, but I think I liked this better. Clever semi-jazzy guitar work. The bass and drums were sorta quiet (I have terrible speakers) but they held a good rhythm. Singer was very into it and that helped the song a lot.
8/10

Now for some absolutely unsurpassed musical saw playing (I mean, he's playing fucking chords... on a fucking saw...), here's David Weiss with a cover of Simon and Garfunkel's "Scarborough Fair".

http://s50.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2OLKJD7QPV3TA1S2Q9E5Y07GNP
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Post by: lastclearchance on 03 Jul 2005, 11:36
Quote from: La Creme
Now for some absolutely unsurpassed musical saw playing (I mean, he's playing fucking chords... on a fucking saw...), here's David Weiss with a cover of Simon and Garfunkel's "Scarborough Fair".


Okay.  David Weiss covering "Scarborough Fair."  So: I obviously know the original song...and even though I was born in 1984 and only first saw The Graduate last year, the song is inextricably linked with the film for me.  The guitar work was certainly spot-on, but nothing improving on the original.  The saw playing was ridiculous.  The thing about a song like this is, it's technically well done, but I would always choose the original over this, because the eerie whine of the saw loses its novelty.  It's similar to hearing a really excellent funny song.  Overwhelmingly, no matter how good the song is, it gets tiresome when the joke gets old.  And here I imagine it's the same--as soon as I get over the fact that the saw-playing is blowing my mind, it's going to be a spot-on cover of "Scarborough Fair" with a weird ghostly sound instead of Simon and Garfunkel singing.  Which will always be less preferablt to the original.  

But it is really cool.  6/10
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Post by: La Creme on 03 Jul 2005, 11:49
Fair enough. That is, if you post a song and a yousendit link. = P
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Post by: lastclearchance on 03 Jul 2005, 12:48
Well, I'm not home so I can't upload what I want to right now so let's go with Jens Lekman's "You Are the Light" (http://www.scjag.com/mp3/sc/youarethelight.mp3)
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Post by: Psiogen on 07 Jul 2005, 06:07
Incidentally, I just finally figured out what was driving me mad about the verse riff to that Mock Orange song—it's very reminiscent of the one from Squeeze's "Up the Junction". Oh well. It's still a good song.
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Post by: Se7en on 07 Jul 2005, 08:58
Quote from: lastclearchance
Well, I'm not home so I can't upload what I want to right now so let's go with Jens Lekman's "You Are the Light" (http://www.scjag.com/mp3/sc/youarethelight.mp3)


Il take that one. Im listening right now.
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Post by: Se7en on 07 Jul 2005, 09:28
I wasnt too impressed on the first listening. My first reaction was. "what is this? emo lyrics in an upbeat song?" the vocals just somehow werent what i expected. As the song progressed, i got into the mood of it a bit more, and realised its actaully quite a beautiful song. Its a bit reminicent of lounge singers, its got a nice classic feel to it really. Some of the lyrics still feel very out of place, though i suspect the incongruity might be intentional? things like "i painted a dirty word on your old mans mercedes benz because you told me to do it" doesnt really fit.

Im a fan of horn sections and happy music, but im not a fan of vapid love songs. I'm not sure what the writer intended to do with the lyrics, but since im saving the file to my hard drive, i think it deserves 6/10.


Anyway, heres mine. Ive hosted the file to make it easy. Its a local band called fineapple. I went to school with the drummer. The songs called "handyman". Their live shows are mad. The last one i went to, some kid got naked and started breakdancing.
http://www.peterbarnard.com/misc/handyman.mp3
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Post by: KharBevNor on 28 Jul 2005, 20:29
*resurrects the thread*

Fineapple - Handyman

Quite cool lyrics, and decent singing and playing and so forth, but I've got to say the music itself just did absolutely nothing for me whatsoever.I really can't think of anything else to say about it. Wouldn't ever listen to it again. Wouldn't go see 'em. But they obviously have some reasonable talent. 3.9/10

Now, one of my fave songs ever. One of the ones I just played twenty times through upon first hearing:

Inkubus Sukkubus - Vampire Punk Rockers From Hell (http://s66.yousendit.com/d.php?id=1V9032VP31J481R0HQFKJGHOG8)

It's probably marginally the best of what Inkysuk fans call the 'Vampyre' songs, and one of their best songs overall. It's also Inkysuk's homage to 25 years of punk rock, and includes an awesome darkened version of the Wytches Chant (Nemesis! Hecate! Lilith! Kali!) under the end.
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Post by: Kai on 28 Jul 2005, 20:40
The link doesn't work. :(
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Post by: KharBevNor on 28 Jul 2005, 21:37
Curioiser and curioser.

I'll upload again.
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Post by: KharBevNor on 28 Jul 2005, 22:23
http://s50.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3RBDNNJFIOEPH311OIVOS3Z4QU

try that.
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Post by: Kai on 28 Jul 2005, 22:44
Inkubus Sukkubus - Vampire Punk Rockers From Hell


With a song called Vampire Punk Rockers From Hell, I was sort of expecting one of those shitty songs written by nerdy kids in their parent's basement between DnD sessions and soda runs. It's absolutely nothing of the sort. at all. It's a catchy little tune, with a pretty awesome singer. Nothing exceptionally talented musically, but it all works together. Must check out more Inkubus Sukkubus.

Score: 9.5/10.


Now, onto the pure, condensed musical awesome that is Mr. Bungle's Goodbye Sober Day:

http://s40.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2SPX5ZHU3TUOD103AW7PGHMXC1
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Post by: KharBevNor on 28 Jul 2005, 22:53
Inkysuk have been together a good 15 years now. They write effortlessly perfect and uplifting pagan/goth rock about vampires, witches, elves, fairies, goblins, gypsies, ancient gods, prolific sex with most of the above, doomed love, anti-christianity, wiccanism, magick and suicide. Easily the best goth band still operating in the world today, which of course means that any over-eyeshadowed individual picked at random from the street has a 90% chance of never having heard of them.

I'd review Mr. Bungle, but I'm not such a big fan, and I'm sure you want to open some ears.
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Post by: Praeserpium Machinarum on 29 Jul 2005, 01:41
We have had Goodbye Sober Day before, how about another of their songs, since most of us can agree that is indeed an awesome song..
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Post by: Kai on 29 Jul 2005, 17:09
alright then, Mr. Bungle's Ars Moriendi:


http://s41.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0QWVM8P85B3FX389WV6XIWDZSA
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Post by: IronOxide on 29 Jul 2005, 18:21
Mr. Bungle's Ars Moriendi:

It's an interesting fusion of instruments that makes it very interesting to listen to. They mix sounds so completely that it is slightly disorienting. They are very talented intrumentalists. At 1:52 in they start yelling, which kind of ruins it for me. It returns to (normal?) after a little bit an it's like the beginning. It's a very interesting mixture of sounds that fuses future and past very closely together. I'm not sure how I feel about this. It's interesting to hear once, but I'm not sure how I could take it after that one time I give it a definitive WTF out of 10.

The next is Rude and Reckless (http://s48.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3O9WROYA8O9HK3J9GHZMT2C83A) by The Slackers.

EDIT: After all practical use of this link is gone, I will now fix it!
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Post by: La Creme on 29 Jul 2005, 19:08
Dude, I totally was gonna put Ars Moriendi as my next bungle song. Now I'm just gonna have to put "Merry Go Bye Bye" for my next one and get one reveiwer very VERY pissed off.

Anyways, I really like the Inkubus Sukkubas song and I vote Khar for Prime-Minister of Da Flow for thread revival.
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Post by: KharBevNor on 29 Jul 2005, 19:19
I'm honoured.

The Slackers - Rude and Reckless

I felt that the little bit at the start of the intro could probably have been dispensed with. The opening singing is ok, what genre is this anyway? Jazz, reggae? It's quite relaxed and inoffensive. Really not my thing, and I doubt it will drop into my playlists, but it's really not that bad. I imagine it's pretty good within it's genre. A bit monotonous would be my only other real criticism, but...hmmm, let's see. 6.9. Highest I can give it for not really liking the style.

Now, warning. The following track may contain large quantities of Dan Swano being effortlessly awesome.

Edge of Sanity - Blood Coloured (http://s57.yousendit.com/d.php?id=31PH501SF0KKS1XWNCDGSPSE80)

One vocalist, and I think he's playing lead guitar on this track too. It sounds his style more than Dread Axellsons.
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Post by: Kai on 29 Jul 2005, 19:21
Link Doesn't work. and as far as I can tell that Slackers song is reggae. Not a bad song, but someone already reviewed it, so.
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Post by: KharBevNor on 29 Jul 2005, 19:25
What the fuck is it with my tracks? Hang on...
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Post by: KharBevNor on 29 Jul 2005, 19:32
http://s48.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=34M9IBHSDVWOR1VNIB6GIE3K5V

?
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Post by: Kai on 29 Jul 2005, 19:54
Edge of Sanity - Blood Colored


Starts off with some heavy drum beat and then in comes the GEETAR with a bitchin guitar riff thing. Then comes in the vocals. Some guy singing until a little bit where he kinda partially growls but not really. Can't say anythign about the lyrics, since I an't really understand all of them, but that's beside the point, as I'm assuming the main focus is the awesome guitar work. Not a bad song, actually.

Score: 7/10


now, for my pick; Praxis - Armed (TSA Agent #5)

http://s43.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=029K33Q07P7OI035NHHR40EMUM

Prepare for extreme amounts of Buckethead being weird while playing CIrcus tunes and shit. and Bill Laswell doing whatever it is he does. Course, I would have uploaded Praxis' amazing little prog half-metal Inferno/Heatseeker/Exploded Heart, but it's nine minutes long.
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Post by: KharBevNor on 29 Jul 2005, 20:03
They're quite good lyrics actually.

Quote
I hear the sound of darkness
moving closer to my ears.
All alone and wounded I lie here
resembling all the years.
This war is over for mankind.
The X-machines will end us all.
Technology is fatal.
We will see the future, and then we fall...

Thunder and Lightning.
The rain is whipping my naked skin.
Screaming. Dying in sin...
Blood coloured!
The X-Machines just wiped away all life,
The blood-coloured sky
Is the only thing that will live
when I die.

All dead, all gone, all hope is lost.
They came from nowhere to end our race.
I see the center of the world,
it's now a desert that no wind will embrace.
Dark formations, shadows laugh.
I lie here waiting for the end.
I know they will send the last ones down
to make sure that we all descend.

Nightmares come true.
Why can't I put myself away?
Dying inside.
Am I already dead?
Blood coloured!
The X-Machines just wiped away all life,
The blood-coloured sky
Is the only thing that will live
when I die.

Women and children
screaming in pain.
Darkness our witness,
we die in the blood-filled rain

I hear the sound of darkness,
 moving closer to my ears.
All alone and wounded I lie here
resembling all the years.
This war is over for mankind.
The X-machines will end us all.
Technology is fatal.
We will see the future
and then we fall.

Thunder and Lightning.
The rain is whipping my naked skin.
Screaming. Dying in sin.
Blood coloured!
The X-Machines just wiped away all life,
The blood-coloured sky
Is the only thing that will live
when I die.


I forget most people can't comprehend growls.
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Post by: salada on 29 Jul 2005, 20:45
Praxis - Armed (TSA Agent #5)

kooky sounding little thing that didn't seem to really go anywhere. not to say i didn't like it -- weird little christmas carol thing in the middle mixed with what sounds like air raid sirens, heh. i imagine it'd make more sense in an album context? i'll give it seven points.



epsilon -- blood (http://s22.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1M1JTTBLEVBNZ0W8KLU3UCLXTV)

this is the forced listening thread, after all. this guy is an insane 19 year old from newcastle (australia), of all places. listening to his stuff for more than 5 minutes gives you bad headaches.
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Post by: La Creme on 29 Jul 2005, 20:53
Praxis - Armed (Tsa Agent #5)

I could swear to god my friend Oliver's played this for me before. Praxis rocking goodness. Lots of funny noises and Buckethead rocking like a motherfucker. Killer stuff.
9/10.

Now, for some super-doooper experimental jazz with the kickasssist guitaring in long time. I give you John McLaughlin's "Extrapolation".

http://s22.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3P24SHO1TUSHQ0Y9IWS4SMG8Z2

By the way, Khar, I finally got your album to work and I really likes it. If you're ever vacationing in the lame-as-fuck-all city of Los Angeles, we must jam.

Actually, that invitation is extended to anyone who decides to come to LA. Jam like motherfuckers.

*EDIT* FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK.

I am reveiwing the next song assholes. I love you all, I'm sorry... pant.
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Post by: KharBevNor on 29 Jul 2005, 21:23
I'll take you up on that.

I'm actually starting working on guitar based stuff now, to add to the mix.
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Post by: La Creme on 29 Jul 2005, 21:33
Epsilon - Blood

Actually quite good. Wildly rhythmic, got some great layering of soundums. Yes, it is a little annoying, but for headache induction, all you's gottsta play someone is Tom Waits' "Russian Dance" over and over and over.

Anyways, my song is the one above...
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Post by: Kai on 29 Jul 2005, 22:15
I'd definatly take ye up on a "jam session lolz" if I ever happen to be in the area. a family friend of mine lives somewhere near LA, so not only do I have an excuse to go out, I have places to stay! woo!

anyways: John Mc. Laughlin - Extrapolation

Starts off with the farely common little bass/drum beat thing, at least for Jazz, and soon enough the guitar and what sounds like a saxophone come in and play some kinda... Speghetti Western Riffs written by Stevie Ray Vaughn while he was tired. or something. then some guitar noodling, which is always awesome. Then some Saxophone noodling. Then both. Either way, Experimental Jazz is OKAY in my book.

Score: 8/10

Now, for my song, I give you: The Mothers of Invention - Who are the Brain Police?

http://s38.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0XHEE8T36J0B51L47BO62VJKUP
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Post by: KharBevNor on 29 Jul 2005, 22:23
Yo, post a song! I know what I'm setting next.
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Post by: Kai on 29 Jul 2005, 22:27
THere. Sorry, You send it was taking forever.
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Post by: KharBevNor on 29 Jul 2005, 22:48
My review for Zappa:

Whoever the Brain Police are, they certainly want to know where Mr. Zappa and his friends got their drugs. This song is pretty damn psychedelic, in a really bad trip way. Great vocals, and use of heavy, fuzzy distortion, the central section with the whispering voices over and over is cool. The silly vocals and the playground-rhyme kind of sections remind me a lot of really early Pink Floyd of the 'See Emily Play' era. Fine shit. Real fine. 9/10, methinks.

Blood Brothers:

A hit and miss band for me. I liked Burn Piano Island, Burn, but this one seems almost...too conventional? I dunno. Parts overdose too much on the high vocals without introducing any partiuclarly rocking riffs and harmonies as well...hmmmn. I have to award it a mere 6/10. Needs more bulimic rainbows.

Now, you know what this thread hasn't had for far too long? Good, un-reconstructed, face-removing heavy FUCKING metal. Enter, the drunken bastards of Thrash. They come from Germany, and they drink beer. They are called Tankard, and they're doing yo momma right now

Tankard - 666 Packs (http://s37.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3FYQB9CA4O6KU396IBIY1YPLDK)

Now, the lyrics really are important for this one. You should be able to hear them, but just in case:

We have a deal with Satan
A contract signed in Hell
We sacrifice a virgin
He makes our record sell

SATAN! - To Antichrist we pray
EVIL! - To hit the charts one day

666 Packs - Seven days of death and pain
Satan - Thirteen hours blood will rain
666 Packs - Nine black bats will eat your brain
Satan - Good with numbers? Join our cult!

We have the baddest evil
Come buy our merchandise
A plastic skull, a T-Shirt
That says "I shit on Christ!"

SATAN! - is thrashing to the beat
EVIL! - on seven days of week

On stage we slaughter poultry
In songs we slaughter man
Black masses, guts and torture
We do the worst we can

SATAN! EVIL! - on blood and gore we feast
SATAN! - I am your Judas Priest
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Post by: Kai on 29 Jul 2005, 22:51
I am pretty 100% sure Zappa did not do drugs. Unless you count cigarettes and coffee. I can't say the same for his cohorts, although I heard he did kick some guys out for drug use.
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Post by: KharBevNor on 29 Jul 2005, 22:55
Quote from: Kai
I am pretty 100% sure Zappa did not do drugs. Unless you count cigarettes and coffee. I can't say the same for his cohorts, although I heard he did kick some guys out for drug use.


I know, Zappa was just wierd. I was speaking...not sarcastically or ironically...but in some way...blah.

@Awkward Silence: The song is called '666 Packs'. Does this indicate the level of seriousness one should be taking it's lyrics at? (or, omg it's a parody you twunt)
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Post by: Kai on 29 Jul 2005, 22:57
The lyrics remind me of some song the Three Businessmen did, except with Mobsters instead of Satan.
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Post by: KharBevNor on 29 Jul 2005, 22:58
wewt! Soz, sarcasm hard to detect online and so forth.

Tankard are like, my second favourite thrash band ever. Only the mighty Sabbat top them out.
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Post by: La Creme on 29 Jul 2005, 23:33
I have a confession.

I am currently listening to that "Blood" song for something like the 25th time straight.

It's really fucking good.
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Post by: Praeserpium Machinarum on 30 Jul 2005, 00:50
Tankard - 666 Pack

Finally! Some metal I know is a joke, sorry. Unfortunately it was a bad recording, but what I could hear sounded like stereotypical metal, though there is a nice solo thing and they do vary it in the last half. I like the singer for his accent, especially when he tries to say "cult", he pronounces it "kalt" instead which means cold. However it is difficult to hear what he says at times, so at first I thought Khar's lyrics were wrong. Overall a nice parody, mainly because they can play their instruments pretty well.

I give it 5/10 for novelty..

Now onto my favourite band Under Byen remixing/covering Rammstein!
For some weird reason it says Flaming Lips in WMP, but it is not as you can clearly hear
Rammstein - Ohne Dich(Under Byen Remix)

http://s50.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2V9V5LIXKOPFI3CKW5Z9AHFD2U
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Post by: La Creme on 30 Jul 2005, 15:32
Yeah, that Flaming Lips thing kinda tripped me out .

Rammstein - Ohne Dich (Under Byen Remix)

I was impressed by this. I thought it was going to be a high-speed dance remix of a generic metal song, but it was gorgiousness and gorgeousity made flesh. Great cascading piano riff. The lyrics were kinda dubbed out and not really understandable but it fit with what they were doing.
Alltogether, a solid 8/10.

Now, experience the awesome of Michael Romeo rocking like a mother fucker for 5 minutes. Symphony X's "On The Breath of Poseidon".

http://s25.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1AY5CHTLVDD9X30MAOCA8Y8TN7
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Post by: Praeserpium Machinarum on 30 Jul 2005, 16:39
It is sort of his thing, you see, he does it all the time on Det er Mig Der Holder Træerne Sammen, variating it of course, but still and gosh I am glad someone finally saw the genius that is Under Byen.
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Post by: La Creme on 31 Jul 2005, 10:57
No no, it wasn't musical genius, but it was well put together and awesomely executed. It just should have been a wee bit more exciting and it may have gotten close to a 10. But whateva.
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Post by: KharBevNor on 04 Aug 2005, 23:28
It makes me kinda sad that I've seen this exact thread taken up with ten times the enthusiasm on fucking gaming forums.

Symphony X - On the Breath of Poseidon

Classy prog guitar intro leads into one of those rocking woodle-oodle-oo bits* as keys and drums join in, then continues on in the same sort of fashion, slowing down at about two minutes to a more atmospheric and powerful section as the vocals join in. Then cut down for a crowd roar to just guitar again for some pretty cool solo action. The only real problem with this song is it doesn't exactly go anywhere, but it's still pretty good for all of that. 8.5/10


Now, now, if this were on some shitty compilation CD, the CD would have to be called 'progsters go metal then go goth, because they can, cos they've got great voices and they can play the keyboard and program a drum machine, yo'. This is what happens when Dan Swano listens to too much Sisters of Mercy:

Edge of Sanity - Sacrificed (http://s42.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=14C3STW685EEK1RYAMEQ8QCP8X)

The best bit is the mental images in my mind. Especially the one of Dread motherfucking Axellson plucking gently at his base and swaying a bit whilst chanting 'Down down deeper down down deeper down'.

(Yes, I know I just set EoS, but I bloody well forgot, ok?)

*I'm not so hot on music theory
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Post by: Sythe on 05 Aug 2005, 20:39
Sorry, Khar, been on my 56k recently. I'll bring some stuffs once I get back to my gaming rig.

Ed: Eh, screw it. I went ahead and dled it anyway. I'm about two minutes in. At first I didn't like it, but now I'm kinda liking it.
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Post by: KharBevNor on 08 Aug 2005, 19:40
Review anyone? New track?
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Post by: La Creme on 09 Aug 2005, 20:31
Edge Of Sanity - Sacrificed

Fun generic rock and roll. Heavy, but not overly so. This band seems to know their limitations and they're smart enough not to push themselves past it. Catchy guitar riff, boring rhythm section. The lyrics were pretty good, but the singer delivered them in a thoroughly lame manner. Too much goddam echo!
Whatevs, for pure rockin' rollin' fun: 6/10.

Now, the unmatched (except perhaps by the Bad Plus) power jazz might of Brian Haas, Reed Mathis, and Jason Smart.

Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey - Thelonious Monk Is My Grandmother

http://s14.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1HPX9I9TYQJ021XKW6FXAETNGB


PS. The bass in the song is that high pitched echoey thing in the begining. The bass line is basically the lead line.
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Post by: neomang5 on 10 Aug 2005, 12:47
Hmmm...
Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey - Thelonious Monk Is My Grandmother
Awesome name to start with. Im not typically a fan of the whole electronic sounding music but i actually liked this song. It has a nice flow to it, and for some reason, the tune just got caught in my head, and wouldnt leave until i heard it again. A good kind of relaxing song which reminded me of primus, except with a bit more of a jazzy progression. I liked how they even changed the background style in from time to time, from lighter, to heavier, and back again. Good song

7.5/10

Ok, so now my recommendation
Bulldog Mansion - Happy Birthday to Me (http://s40.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=18JMQEUDRBZ3M12YWBQCF2C46Y)
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It sounds like Primus because 1/3rd of their songs are co-written by Les Claypool, and he is listed as one of their top three major influences.
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Post by: Sydney on 10 Aug 2005, 16:48
Bulldog Mansion - Happy Birthday to Me

I don't really like this. It's nicely up-beat and has a funky,punchy bass but the tone isn't really smooth enough. The guitar could do something a bit more intresting. The vocals arn't particularly clear because they are in some crazy moon language :p and while they have got some nice changes in tone, i think they should be a bit more dramatic and need some stronger chorus. The changes in dynamics are cliched and i could swear i have heard three or four almost identical songs with diffrent lyrics before. It's kinda poppy and fun. It's got an organ! Is it Korean?

4.5/10

My Recomendation is...
Red Hot Roxy - Rocket (http://www.redhotroxymusic.com/rhr_rocket.mp3)

I don't think it's possible to actually buy anything from this band tho. makes me sad :(
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Quote from: Sydney
My Recomendation is...
Red Hot Roxy - Rocket (http://www.redhotroxymusic.com/rhr_rocket.mp3)

I don't think it's possible to actually buy anything from this band tho. makes me sad :(


hmm. not really my cup of tea at all, sorry. sounds kind of generic. same old tonal range, same old chords, same old verse/chorus/verse/chorus, fairly nondescript lyrics... (i realise though, that once you get into a genre of music you appreciate the subtleties and differences within and between artists, subgenres, etc)

i hate doing this, since you seem to quite like this band. i give this song 1 out of 5. well maybe 1.5, since it isn't really bad or anything. i just don't like it.

anyhow, moving on...

atari teenage riot: digital hardcore (http://s11.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0XPRMGMIP4FAU1BOU12YIL7DYW)

various friends have been insisting i check these guys out for ages. i finally did, and holy shit. utter fucking chaos. awesome. odds are it isn't your cup of tea either, but hey.

(edit'd for url fixing)

(...and again! should work now.)
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oooh, I want to play! but I can't get the link to work. :-(

it's probably just as well, since I haven't picked a song myself yet.
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Post by: salada on 14 Aug 2005, 00:16
odd. it worked this afternoon, but now it doesnt.

at any rate, i fixed and tested it just now, and it's going again.
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Post by: La Creme on 14 Aug 2005, 09:50
Last time you said something wouldn't be my cup of tea, it was that blood song which i listened to for about a week straight.

DL'in.
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it's expired!!! expired?!! fix iiit!!
Hey, if you don't like them, that's ok, you were nice about it :p
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woo!
this got bumped back up again. i like this thread. anyway, here it is again...

atari teenage riot: digital hardcore (http://s19.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=31Z18LXRLH43A0QMH1WM0S65W9)

off you go then.
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Post by: La Creme on 22 Aug 2005, 15:46
Atari Teenage Riot - Digital Hardcore

This song fit its name almost too well. Very loud, very hard, but also quite well organized and put together. Some good noise in there, some only decent. The first minute had some very rockin' moments. The second half of the song was a nice slice of organized chaos. The singing left a lot to be desired. Meh.
For good organization and rockin' moments 7/10.

Now for some different style of Bungle. All the Mr. Bungle that's been put up on this thread has been off the most easy-to-swallow album, "California". This is off of "Disco Volante". In layman's terms that means brainfuck-time.

Mr. Bungle - Merry Go Bye-Bye
(Just listen to the first song, it's two songs on one track...)

http://s30.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=18HLJPO8W9C3W282GYF4SCTEBE

PS. Khar, you might actually dig this one...
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Post by: KharBevNor on 22 Aug 2005, 16:23
Mr. Bungle - Merry Go Bye-Bye

Starts off with a sort of old fashioned rock bit, with some cheesy backing vocals and keys, that was reasonably cool. Cuts hard into a thrash squeal, then some noise, then another rip of thrash, which was pretty cool. Then some more noise stuff over a metal build-up, which went into a strange guitar part, and more odd noise stuff. Like every other Mr. Bungle track I've heard,it was cool, I guess, but not gripping me. the death metal bit it then came on with the video games noises was pretty cool. But it was 4 minutes in now, and kinda lacking in awesome tbh. Then faded out to another soft rock bit that sounded like late Floyd to a certain extent, and then turned into Meatloaf in a pretty well done transmission. Vocals started repeating from the opening section. And that was the first track I think, so I'll stop there.

It's okay. original certainly...I dunno...it just felt like a chore to listen to really, which I suppose in a way it was always going to be...but I felt no hook, ya know? ...6.8/10 I'd say.


I suspect the reason I can't really like Mr. Bungle is because I heard them after I became a rabid fan of Crotchduster, and Slippery Jim, Fornicus and Cain push a brand of rabid, hyper-offensive insanity that, in my mind, rapes Mr. Bungle in the ears. I think they're superior because, even though I hate some of the musical styles they use, I can't stop fucking laughing. I think I may have already posted Let Me Into Starfish Land so:

Crotchduster - Stars Ingenious Cooter [Live] (http://s22.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=20MGBTTN1O9053RYKIHKVCZZOI)

"Fuck the motherfucking shit up!"
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Heh. Yeah... the laughing. Shit, I can't stop either. Holy fuck. Heh.
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Sarcasm?
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Nope. This is some high-class funny shit.

I swear on my... nipples... or maybe just the left one...
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Post by: KharBevNor on 22 Aug 2005, 18:04
get the whole album. The bit where they answer their hate-mail is fucking gold.
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Heh. Hatemail answering is always funny. No, but the best is seriously the best is Strong Bad's spring cleaning, where it doesn't even have to be hateful for him to dis it.

Anyways, on topic, this song was teh rawkzorz. And it was very very funny. I especially liked the part where THE ENTIRE SONG! So... yes. 9/10 (just because I can't stand growled lyrics...)

Tom Waits - In The Colosseum

No further explanation is necessary.

http://s36.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3LQ60DUKOSHRA3A1KYULUS6IX5
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"Hail Crotchduster!  You guys rule except I don't like the parts of your songs that aren't metal.  I'm in a band too!  We're called Hellspawn Warhammers of the Nordic Wind!!  We play pulvarizing war metal mixed with barbaric hate!"
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Crotchduster is awesomely awesome.



MAMMAL SAUCE
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"I went back stage to try and get you to sign my CD, but you were too busy doing coke out of a hookers butt to see me. Except for Cain, who bit me. Your band stinks"
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Post by: La Creme on 22 Aug 2005, 18:36
heh
thas goot
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9/10 (just because I can't stand growled lyrics...)

Tom Waits - In The Colosseum
No further explanation is necessary.
http://s36.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3LQ60DUKOSHRA3A1KYULUS6IX5


uhrrr.. i just won't review that. but if you don't like growled lyrics... wtf?
I can hear the phlem gurgling in his throat *cringe*
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Post by: La Creme on 23 Aug 2005, 10:57
TOM WAITS NOT GROWLS HE CROONS FUCK YOU RAAARGHHH.

Ok, y'know what? He's my exeption. And I meant like, not understandable metal growls.
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Post by: Kai on 23 Aug 2005, 13:42
Because Tom Waits is badass. I'd review it but I already know he's badass and it would make it completely and utterly worthless.
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Post by: IronOxide on 27 Aug 2005, 18:51
Fine, I'll touch it.

A pretty cool percussion thing at the beginning, which I can appreciate. This guy seems to have somthing against women, but I'll dismiss that. He's much more talking than singing, and it is very repetitive. It's much more of a story-type song than a musicaly focused song.

I give this a this music is for crazy people out of ten.

Up next is the best damn a capella band ever, period. There name is The Buffalo Chips (because they're from Buffalo) and the song is called You can Call Me Al (http://s30.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3R171AQC3G41K1MFCH3G8LR4FW)
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Post by: salada on 29 Aug 2005, 04:17
i should declare my bias first. i don't like paul simon. at all. if this means i hate music (or life), then meh, i guess i hate music (or life).

that said... there's some seriously impressive vocal percussion going on here. the drums especially, if that is actually someone's mouth. 11 out of 10 for crispness. bass is good, too.

so i'll give this bk-bk-tss out of 10.

anyway. i wasn't going to post in this thread, but then this song came up on shuffle on my ipod and i remembered how much i liked it. so i thought someone else should hear it.

amon tobin -- the clean-up (http://s24.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2N2J8S4ZV6CT33DK6Q48YNDWTD)

this is from the soundtrack amon tobin did for the latest splinter cell game. usually i'd be all like "game music nurr wtf this sucks" but the developers pretty much gave him complete creative license to do whatever he wanted. the soundtrack's pretty moody and atmospheric (this is one of the faster/louder tracks), and there's some great drumwork in the second half.
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Amon Tobin - The Clean Up
Starts off nice and atmospheric. I was pretty much expecting it to continue like this when a sort of a beat kind of emerges and then opens up completely. Cut up drums = win. Some nice samples in there, like the slightly arabian sounding flute thing. This track build up some real tension at the start and then keeps it nearly all the way through. It's pretty good. I give it a Sam Fisher out of ten.

Four Tet - Slow Jam (http://s18.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1F0CMAP76J1I71OFXARL3V4XD8)
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Four Tet - Slow Jam

I like the background beat and the guitar. Then when the song just changes in the middle it gets really interesting. I'll give it a 8 out of ten.

The Omega Effect - Starshine
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The Omega Effect - Starshine

The plodding bass and simple guitar riffs ended up being a bit boring at first, but eventually, I found them creeping into my skull and I was tapping my feet half-way through the song. His voice wasn't anything special, but I still enjoyed it. All in all, it was well put together, and a bit catchy. 6/10.

Now fo' mine!

Please Inform the captain this is a Hijack - Your good thing is about to come to an end
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It doesn't seem to work for me.
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Hmm, I just checked it and it works fine for me. Perhaps you need Quicktime?
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I'm probably a computer idiot. I haven't found a way to get passed 403 errors. -__-;
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Post by: tetsuotheironboy on 30 Aug 2005, 14:48
Please Inform the captain this is a Hijack - Your good thing is about to come to an end
 
Amusing sample-based intro degenerates into underwhelming screamo and doesn't go anywhere from there. The impotent vocals and non-existent production values conspire to produce a shockingly poor overall sound, like at the drive-in performing from the inside of a biscuit tin. The guitarist is clearly making an effort to do something a little bit different from the standard screamo style but not necessarily succeeding. I give it 3/10 for the intro alone.

PS.
I don't like screamo, pretty much the entire genre doesn't sit well with me, anyone who reads this and shares my opinion fair enough you'll probably agree with me on the song. Anyone who reads this and does like the genre please don't flame me, i'm not an expert and i don't claim to be.



My suggestion, Sage Francis - Escape Artist. In my opinion one of the highlights from his latest album 'A Healthy Distrust'.
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Post a link next time!!! Go to www.yousendit.com, send it to yourself, then post the link here! It's not that hard!


When friends of mine who play instruments are at the level where they're about to start learning to improvise, I play them this song. I'm pretty sure it is the best formula-based soloing ever. John McLaughlin on guitar.

Miles Davis - Orange

http://s22.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=02T7UB1TNPSLE3SKOU6SPYW0II
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oops, i saw something about filesharing programs earlier in the post and assumed that was the preferred method. Anywho, my mistake so heres the link..


Sage Francis - Escape Artist can be found at..

http://s24.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3TPCY2FFMPSVS0BWEMR7G3S6LB
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No biggy.
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Post by: e-z0r on 01 Sep 2005, 18:48
Sage Francis - Escape Artist

   Rather different from what I expected from the name. The name sounds like country-music. I'm not a great follower of hip-hop or rap music, even though I enjoy any kind of music. I do have a friend who is a beginning hip-hop artist, releasing minor self-produced instrumental hip-hop albums. I get a bit from there. Point is that I don't have so much to compare to, so take this with a grain of salt. I'm also a cripple when it comes to terms, but try to bear with me.

   The beat, that is the background music is rather simple, repetetive and uninteresting. Luckily, it follows a rhythm. Rhythm is good.

   Vocal artistry. From the more interesting and experimental beginning, where the vocals are looking for their own style and flair, the singing quickly turns into repetetive and unoriginal, which, unfortunately, also make them uninteresting. Even though I haven't been following the music style, even I've "heard this before", sort of. Unfortunately it leaves me cold.

    The composition of the track is sort of, well, boring. There are no major changes 'cept from when the intro ends and the song begins. From that point on, it's just.. blah.

    Conclusion: While this song does entertain me on the merit that it has rhythm and I like rhythm, the song doesn't really hit any groove. I find very little beauty in it, I'm not awed by the skill of any of the performers, whether DJ or singer, it doesn't carry a message that touches me at all, or if it does, it doesn't bring it close enough for me to see it. It doesn't put me in any sort of mood with it's atmosphere, and even with the rhythm it simply isn't powerful enough to do anything to me. So, while there is promise, unfortunately to this song I give a rating of:

   3/10.

    For the next song,
    Blake - Evil Remains Evil
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Post by: IronOxide on 01 Sep 2005, 19:00
I'll take this one, just put it up on http://www.yousendit.com
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Post by: e-z0r on 01 Sep 2005, 19:17
Ah, 'scuse me.

http://s40.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1CSP24NXFHI22084WY1C4WRKFK

:)
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Post by: e-z0r on 02 Sep 2005, 12:36
So... Guy just calls it and then doesn't continue the chain at all?
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Post by: KharBevNor on 02 Sep 2005, 12:43
Right, I'm doing it. I'll do the review in about ten minutes-quarter of an hour, I'm uploading a long track.
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Right, I'm doing it. I'll do the review in about ten minutes-quarter of an hour, I'm uploading a long track.


I'd better like it cos I'm calling it.

I'll get something up in a sec for whoever's after me.
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Post by: KharBevNor on 02 Sep 2005, 13:18
Blake - Evil Remains Evil

The song started so quietly I wasn't even sure it was on over the rattle of my keys, then suddenly jumped up. Pretty decent hard rock song. Reminds me of The 69 Eyes' latest. The vocalist was pretty good, I like the style, but there was some odd vocal twinges that gave me the feeling it may almost be parody. I also caught lines that sounded like he was reciting names of rock and metal albums. Checked up online and all was explained to me, including the 69 Eyes similiarity. Bloody Finns. This ruled out parody, because I've NEVER heard a 100% serious finnish artist, except possibly Trio Niskalaukaus, and even then maybe I don't get the joke. We're talking about a country in which Lordi charts ffs. Anyway, this left me with no real idea as to what the track sounds like, so I listened again. I'll say again, good, although it is REALLY similiar to Devils. Which detracts. A bit. I fucking love the 69 Eyes. A solid 7.5.

Now, lets get all dramatic. And who better to turn to but Anna-Varney Cantonadea and the voices in her head?

Sopor Aeternus & the Ensemble of Shadows - There Was a Country By the Sea (http://s27.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2E668R5263T140P2SJD0ZMTXLZ)

"There was a country by the sea,
but I cannot say for certain,
Whether it was part of some lonesome isle,
Or merely a coastal region..."
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Post by: e-z0r on 02 Sep 2005, 13:46
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Blake - Evil Remains Evil

The song started so quietly I wasn't even sure it was on over the rattle of my keys, then suddenly jumped up. Pretty decent hard rock song. Reminds me of The 69 Eyes' latest. The vocalist was pretty good, I like the style, but there was some odd vocal twinges that gave me the feeling it may almost be parody. I also caught lines that sounded like he was reciting names of rock and metal albums. Checked up online and all was explained to me, including the 69 Eyes similiarity. Bloody Finns. This ruled out parody, because I've NEVER heard a 100% serious finnish artist, except possibly Trio Niskalaukaus, and even then maybe I don't get the joke. We're talking about a country in which Lordi charts ffs. Anyway, this left me with no real idea as to what the track sounds like, so I listened again. I'll say again, good, although it is REALLY similiar to Devils. Which detracts. A bit. I fucking love the 69 Eyes. A solid 7.5.


Oh JESUS.. Comparing this to the bloody 69 eyes? Good lord do the 69 eyes SUCK. The singing is plain god awful, and they play in playback :DD Saw the huge tsunami benefit concert where they played, drummer was doing completely different things than the audio track that came out when they had a long cut to the drummer.

Anyways, finns do a lot of serious music. Perhaps you just haven't heard any :)
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Post by: KharBevNor on 02 Sep 2005, 14:04
My favourite Finnish bands are Finntroll, Korpiklaani, Ensiferum, Children of Bodom, (old) 69 Eyes (Savage Garden to Blessed Be), ...And Oceans, Impaled Nazarene, Lordi, Nightwish, Eläkeläiset, To Seperate the Flesh From the Bones, (old-mid) Amorphis, Darkwoods My Betrothed, Wintersun, Trio Niskalaukaus, Goathemy, Behexen, Turisas, Horna and Omnium Gatherum*. Okay, on reflection, Trio Niskalaukaus, Amorphis**, Horna, Behexen and ...And Oceans are pretty serious. Nightwish try and come off as being, but they will never live down Elvenpath, especially not the way they're going. Darkwoods My Betrothed are probably trying to be as well but...oh come on.

And seriously, listen to the song 'Devils' by 69 Eyes, if it ain't already plastered over the radio over there. Very similiar, the guitar lines if nothing else.

*I'm aware some of this is pop in Finland. All I can say is, I wish my country had your country's musical taste. Also, Humppa.

**Apart from that Doors cover. LIGHT MYYY FIIIIIRE.

Edit'd because they're not 'Behexem'
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Post by: e-z0r on 02 Sep 2005, 14:14
Unfortunately, as far as I know, Ensiferum is also serious. :)

Anyway, if that is your list of favourite finnish bands, you indeed do know a lot of them and I take back my words about that. Definately not my choices for good finnish bands though, not by a long shot. Though I do like ...And Oceans' Tears Have No Name and half of the "The Symmetry Of I The Circle Of O", the weird atmospheric half, that is.

Devils used to run on the radio a whole lot, of course it's old now so not anymore. And sure, I do like the riffs and composition of the song, especially it's beginning, but unfortunately the vocals spoil it. And that playback thing is pretty bad in my eyes. I'm not sure whether they always do it but still. Gnaws at me. If they had instrumental versions of their songs, I might listen. :)
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Fragile Lives - Song of Faith (http://s51.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=365WFN38N2JFC1FAAENV26MOY7)

17mb song, Khar? Damn you.
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Post by: e-z0r on 02 Sep 2005, 14:23
Quote from: öde
Fragile Lives - Song of Faith (http://s51.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=365WFN38N2JFC1FAAENV26MOY7)

17mb song, Khar? Damn you.


Was that your review of the song then?

Geez. I rather liked the song Khar posted. Not that I could really concentrate on the lyrics though.

Next time I'm on the line I'll make someone listen to Dream Theater's A Change of Seasons or something. To get something a bit bigger and longer into the game :)
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Post by: KharBevNor on 02 Sep 2005, 14:28
No reviewy, no posty! If you're on 56k, I'll put up a shorter Sopor Aeternus track when I get back from my bath.

Quote from: e-z0r
Unfortunately, as far as I know, Ensiferum is also serious. :)


Ah, but Ensiferum fall down at the hurdle that heavy metal is an almost entirely unserious genre. Taking yourself seriously just makes you more funny, and much better for escapism. You absolutely cannot be a fan of power or a lot of folk metal if you are incapable of lightening the fuck up. This is why Rhapsody videos are so incredibly funny.
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Quote from: öde
Fragile Lives - Song of Faith (http://s51.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=365WFN38N2JFC1FAAENV26MOY7)

17mb song, Khar? Damn you.


Was that your review of the song then?

Geez. I rather liked the song Khar posted. Not that I could really concentrate on the lyrics though.

Next time I'm on the line I'll make someone listen to Dream Theater's A Change of Seasons or something. To get something a bit bigger and longer into the game :)


I'll skip that since I already love Dream Theater. And I posted that when I was downloading it, took me a whole four minutes :O

I enjoyed it, although I haven't heard anything like it recently. It had a nice use of orchestral instruments but it felt a bit stretched out and I thought some bits were repeated too much. The vocals kept it together pretty well, kept me hooked on, although I wouldn't have minded if it had kept up the stronger singing. I liked it but I prefer things with a faster tempo during the climax and some stronger instruments to accentuate it.
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Post by: La Creme on 02 Sep 2005, 15:24
oh god im lost. What song is the current one that needs rating?
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Post by: öde on 02 Sep 2005, 15:35
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oh god im lost. What song is the current one that needs rating?


Fragile Lives - Song Of Faith (http://s51.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=365WFN38N2JFC1FAAENV26MOY7)
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Post by: IronOxide on 02 Sep 2005, 16:45
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So... Guy just calls it and then doesn't continue the chain at all?


Sorry, I had it all ready and then my computer crashed.
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Post by: e-z0r on 02 Sep 2005, 17:13
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Quote from: e-z0r
So... Guy just calls it and then doesn't continue the chain at all?


Sorry, I had it all ready and then my computer crashed.


Oh, don't worry. :)

You should listen to it anyway. You might like it.
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Post by: La Creme on 03 Sep 2005, 01:18
Fragile Lives - Song Of Faith

Opens with some good, precise,  drumming and guitar. Divulges into same good background with goddamn fucking screaming. Switches into an alternate rhythmic scheme. A bit later it goes into so actual singing (albeit BAD). New guitar and drums come in, some multi-guitar layering, actual singing comes back in. Around 3:40, it launches into a great driving line... ok shit the screaming came back and totally killed the moment. Shite.

This song gets a 6/10 for powerful, precise, and good hard playing with a very tight rhythmic union in the band. The singing (both types) left a lot to be desired.


Looks like it's time for The Sugarplastic again!!!

The Sugarplastic - Auld Lang Syne In 6/8 Time (Train Ride Out Of Town)*

http://s22.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1SZ8H0SHIZZ8A0CDLYK0WYCWUJ


*Not actually "Auld Lang Syne" or even anything like it for that matter. Just a name.
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Post by: e-z0r on 03 Sep 2005, 14:36
I'll take it. Downloading it right now.
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Post by: e-z0r on 03 Sep 2005, 14:53
The Sugarplastic - Auld Lang Syne In 6/8 Time (Train Ride Out Of Town)

   This is thoroughly an interesting song. While it doesn't have much to do with Auld Lang Syne, it does have similarities in the feel of the song to how a version of Auld Lang Syne might be recorded and made sound good. :) Did that make sense? I guess not.

   While beautiful and interesting, the song is far too short, considering the 2 minutes 20 includes both an intro and an outro in addition to the main portion of the song. The outro also feels sort of patch-on and doesn't really defend it's place in the song, even if it is kinda nice. Reminds me of Final Fantasy VII. :)

   Definately a "song for a mood". A beautiful song that I'd love to listen to again(or more, I should say. I think I listened to it five times now), despite the fact that sadly it lacks a certain wholeness, and that it's far too short. However, I wouldn't put it into my regular listening category. But for certain moods, nice.

   I give it a 5/10 for some good sides and some unfortunate bad sides.

   Next, Diablo - Read My Scars . I'm uploading it now. I'll edit this message for the link when the upload is done.

 EDIT: Link: Diablo - Read My Scars (http://s20.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3OF7KPO10PCZB1JTUPHKDQ2T40)
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Post by: thrashbluegrass on 03 Sep 2005, 17:07
Diablo - Read My Scars

I'm not a big metal fan (although I was, due to my brothers, forced to listen to Pantera over and over and...), but I found this rather listenable.

Pretty standard metal intro turning into a nice bridge.

Good vocals, liked the use of keyboard - not played all the way through, just when it adds something. Also enjoyed the keyboard/guitar solo portion towards the end; which kind of surprises me, because that's exactly why I'm not a big metal fan (more into hardcore when it comes to rock).

All told, a solid and listenable metal song. I wouldn't complain if someone dropped Diablo on the stereo. 7.5/10

And now mine:

Bleach - Revenge of the Canary Empire

It's in Japanese (I saw these girls many years ago in Okinawa - and they rocked my face off), so don't expect to decipher the lyrics.

EDIT #2: No! Really! THIS is the working URL: http://s16.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1VDU5RY2ED3LU3GWYZEY4MY247
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Post by: Kai on 03 Sep 2005, 20:02
Quote from: La Creme

*Not actually "Auld Lang Syne" or even anything like it for that matter. Just a name.


Quote from: e-z0r
While it doesn't have much to do with Auld Lang Syne,



Uh. yeah.
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Post by: e-z0r on 03 Sep 2005, 20:25
Quote from: Kai
Quote from: La Creme

*Not actually "Auld Lang Syne" or even anything like it for that matter. Just a name.


Quote from: e-z0r
While it doesn't have much to do with Auld Lang Syne,



Uh. yeah.


What's your point? That I'm stupid because I said it after he did? That I said it as if it was a derogatory comment on the name of the song?

The reason I typed that beginning half of the sentence (you deleted more than half of it), is that I wanted to let the poster know that I agreed with him, that the song didn't have much to do with Auld Lang Syne, but - and so on.
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Post by: Kai on 03 Sep 2005, 20:26
My misunderstanding; I read it as if you didn't read the entire post and repeating things in itself bugs me. Apologies.


EDIT: Also, the mods tend to not like the quoting the post above you.
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Post by: e-z0r on 03 Sep 2005, 20:40
I can see why it might seem like that.

I need to learn how to express myself properly, I think.

Repeating things bugs me also, though not as much as not reading posts completely does. So I'd probably have been irritated at me too, if I were you. :D I seem to be on a complicated way of typing things today. It's almost 7 AM, too.

I'll stop with needless quoting, then.
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Post by: Kai on 04 Sep 2005, 06:50
Moving on...



Bleach - Revenge of the Canary Empire.

What. The. Fuck. Crazy Japanese girls playing the Pixies on speed and several household cleaners (bleach, possibly?) Totally kickass. Gets a nice "Holy Shit! Don Knotts is in my living room!" out of ten.


Keeping with the theme of awesome, I'm going to upload The Residents' Olive and Grey.

http://s37.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2K34GPWRIOY1P0PYRQLZCWLO1B
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Post by: KharBevNor on 04 Sep 2005, 07:00
The Residents - Olive and Grey

Starts out with bass and a creepy arabian-sounding violin and brass, speeding up into some psychedelic electronics that back the vocals. I like The Resident's grrwry vocalist quite a bit, not entirely surely about the discordant keys that come in more towards the songs end, but it gets more fitting to the song as it goes along. Cool eerie (guitar?) line under the intro. Good track, great creepiness. 8.5/10.


Now, we can't back down from these standards, so prepare to face the definitive pinnacle of space rock. This is your brain on drugs, and on fire, fighting laser-breathing dragons in hyperspace.

Star One - Hawkwind Medley (http://s24.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0ULEJCO5ZACMR2YYM04QYU1VQL)

(Master of the Universe/Silver Machine/Psychedelic Warlords/Brainstorm/Assault and Battery/The War I Survived/Space is Deep/Spirit of the Age/Lost Chronicles)
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Post by: salada on 04 Sep 2005, 09:16
ok, seriously. everyone forget why you came into this thread for a second, go back one page, and download that bleach song. seriously. it's the rockin-est thing i've heard in a while. easily.

unfortunately for khar, this means that his outer-space prog metal comes off second-best. not a poor second by any means, though. just that unless these star one fellows are actually screaming japanese girl punk rockers in disguise, they start with an inherent handicap (that of not being screaming japanese girl punk rockers). sorry. i am sleep deprived.

this is my brain on drugs and fire, yes. pretty cool. like the sound effects and general blips and bleeps here and there. i'll give this a solid 7.5 out of 10, and i'm not really the proggiest guy out there. they manage to keep the pace over the course of 10 minutes (granted though, this is a medley). standout would be psychedelic warlords (i think -- "all we do is get screwed up by other peoples' rules", or similar). and the transitions between songs are very good. i think i might appreciate them more if i knew the first thing about playing guitar.

ok.

so this is sort of a departure from my normal fare. i nabbed a "sleepytime gorilla museum" album off my housemate's ipod, based on the name alone. turns out to be some sort of wacky experimental metal stuff. i couldn't classify it any more than that, cos i don't know how to. but i'm enjoying this. a lot.

sleepytime gorilla museum -- the creature (http://s18.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0PNWMELUK8EG503Q44IVB0551)

(this is unfortunately in apple's AAC / M4A format. if you have itunes, you should be fine. if you need me to though, i guess i can convert it to MP3 for you...)
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Post by: e-z0r on 04 Sep 2005, 10:53
I'll take this. D/Ling now.
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Post by: La Creme on 04 Sep 2005, 11:13
SLEEPYTIME GORILLA MUSEUM ARE ACE!!!!!!


Kai, if you haven't heard 'em yet, DL the track. You'll like it. Other Bungleites too.
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Post by: e-z0r on 04 Sep 2005, 11:16
Sleepytime gorilla museum - The Creature

   Very intimidating. Very... Darn, my poor language skills defeat me! I'm a Finn. I'm trying to find the word. Hmm. Overwhelming was not the word, but it is a word that I stumbled upon just now and felt it fit as well. So we have intimidating and overwhelming. I'll continue with intriguing and mystic. Also atmospheric. (EDIT: Thesaurus told me: Catching, gripping, captivating. Fits, yeah)

   I like the composition, though I don't agree with some specific sounds. The bass and drums are doing an incredible job, as does the overlying guitar, which reminds me somehow of atonal classical music (that I hate, though).

   The singing, or voice acting works very well, fitting the theme nigh-perfectly. Good. The lyrics are quite important to the success of this song, and they do well. They made me think, and really listen.

   Not a catchy tune to listen to when you feel like tapping the table and wagging your leg, that's for sure, though. Once more music for a mood, I feel. Music to create a mood also. Very good at what it does anyway. I'll give it a 8/10.

Next up something that many will have heard. It would be fun if this were picked up by someone who hadn't heard it yet. :)

Al DiMeola, John McLaughlin and Paco De Lucia - Mediterranean Sundance

I'll update with the link when it's ready uploading. EDIT: http://s25.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=05G0RUO67RXAQ2DWFT9MTEOQNS
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Post by: thrashbluegrass on 04 Sep 2005, 11:31
Quote from: salada
ok, seriously. everyone forget why you came into this thread for a second, go back one page, and download that bleach song. seriously. it's the rockin-est thing i've heard in a while. easily.


Glad it's been so well-recieved. Also, got the name wrong, the title of the song is "Canary Empire Strikes Back." Also the name of the album.

And if you think they rock in song, you should see their live performances. Guys with inferiority complexes may as well sell their instruments and cut off their balls, because there's no way they could rock harder than these three tiny Japanese ladies. You can get one of their albums from Australian Cattle God (http://www.australiancattlegod.com/index.htm) under the name Bleach03 (Christian rock band of the same name attempted to sue them while they were on the Samurai Girls '03 tour, thus the different name). I think CD Universe also has the "Three Girls From Okinawa" album.

I also believe that they're doing the Samurai Gir's '06 tour, so I'd keep an eye out for that.
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Post by: La Creme on 04 Sep 2005, 11:40
Ok, that song is amazing. I am going to review it because I want the thread to keep going as strong as it has recently. But I would also like to take this time to point out how amazing the GSM song is. The lyrics are entirely composed of Edward Gory couplets. It is one of the best songs I've heard in a while. Epic, with subtle bits, great musicians, great singer, I give it a 10/10.
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Post by: La Creme on 04 Sep 2005, 12:08
Al DiMeola, John McLaughlin and Paco De Lucia - Mediterranean Sundance

Some of the best guitar trio work out there. Al DiMeola brings the gypsy, Johnny boy the rockage, and Paco De Lucia his unique crazy brand of latin guitar that blows my mind every goddam time. The song starts out with blazing fast lines then goes into a more layed back latin section. Many other great riffs and ideas are pulled off throughout the course of the masterpeice. Highlights include the clearly John McLaughlin hurricane of notes around 4:30, another by another guitarist just before th 7:00 mark, the theme around 8:00, and of course, the tight, well played endage.
10/10. Best guitar trio evar.

Now, a song to out length others previously posted in this thread. An epic show of musicianship and songwriting from two cultures: 70's jazz fusion, and Indian Folk. The 18 blazing minutes of Shakti and John McLaughlin's "Joy".

http://s55.yousendit.com/d.php?id=327AOWJEA0ISK1Y2A9ZYMTDOGS

PS: Hmmm, it seems as though there is a guest appearance on this song. Is that Ravi Shankar's son I hear a' fiddlin' away?
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Post by: salada on 05 Sep 2005, 05:13
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Post by: La Creme on 05 Sep 2005, 12:56
New song!

Colonel Claypool's Bucket Of Bernie Brains - Buckethead

Self-explanitory.

http://s41.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=18ZCSAW6YUBE925PNGZYC8A6FQ
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Post by: thrashbluegrass on 05 Sep 2005, 14:34
Colonel Claypool's Bucket Of Bernie Brains - Buckethead

Full disclosure: I'm a fan of most of Claypool's work, so I'm kind of biased.

That said...

Very nice. The song is generally pretty mellow, but with a number of changeups, which seem to flow organically; like moving along some sort of great annelid, wherin each segment was subtly different, yet contributed to a seamless whole. 8.5/10.

Now:

Zen Guerilla - Saucerships to Ragtime (http://s45.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2TL2LM6WJMC580KPNVX0RVXVDP)
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Post by: KharBevNor on 05 Sep 2005, 15:57
Zen Guerilla - Saucerships to Ragtrime

A pretty cool little instrumental: nice riffage, and cool effects. In my opinion however, it felt a little like a part of a song that had been underdeveloped. Just a couple of riffs and parts slapped together into an instrumental with a short solo. It wasn't that bad, but I'm not sure it would have that much repeat listening value for me. Pretty rocking though, and I'm probably being a bit hypocritical as I've made songs kinda like this myself. Say 7/10.

Now, for one of my favourite covers ever.

Agalloch - Kneel to the Cross [Sol Invictus cover] (http://s22.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=15WW3YEOKJU571I7BLBIVTMEBI)
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Post by: thrashbluegrass on 06 Sep 2005, 15:38
Okay, since no one else wants to, and I just don't want to see this thread die:

Agalloch - Kneel to the Cross [Sol Invictus cover]

I am struck by two things in this song:

1) How much these boys love church
2) When did Gollum begin doing backup vocals?

Seriously, though...

The intro does a good job of setting the mood; chanting over an orchestral drone leading to a decent semi-acoustic ballad. And without the guitar heroics that generally turn me off of metal and all of its children. Vocals are pretty damn good. All in all, a very tighly-composed bit of song. Not entirely my cup of tea, mind you, but a worthy candidate for presenting as representative of a well-done metal ballad. 8/10

And now for mine...

Warlock Pinchers - Introducing Ourselves (http://s48.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0Q9HTHGJHZ3AA1331TRJI9BKTY)

And before someone says that it's stale, realize that this was off the last of their three albums - released in 1991. They'd billed themselves as "the world's only satanic metal kung fu rap band" since '87.
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Post by: Kai on 06 Sep 2005, 17:44
This has nothing to do with the thread (Although I'll do the song in a minute) ThrashBluegrass is officially my favorite new members. I hope that doesn't scare anyone away though, because all the ones I've declared that in the past have run away.
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Post by: e-z0r on 06 Sep 2005, 19:39
Warlock Pinchers - Introducing Ourselves

Kai, I'd like to disagree with you. Clearly this man is a devious monster!

It's five AM where I live, and I downloaded this song. And I'm easily scareable. The intro made my skin crawl. Nasty. :)

Alright, maybe it's not his fault. Maybe he's not a devious monster. But my skin did crawl.

Anyway, rapping to a metal background is surprisingly effective. I was very pleasantly surprised, even though the style of the rapping or the metal is hardly original, together they pose a novel combo to me at least. And it sounds good!

I like the sounds, the metal's coming in nice and raw, almost doom-metal-esque to a point. No blazing solos here, but the style doesn't fit it anyway. Composition is good. The song has a good arch from beginning to middle to end, with different, yet interlocking parts. No time to get bored here, but you also won't fall off the wagon.

Somehow it doesn't hit any nerve with me, though, making it a good song, but one that I won't listen to again after the few times I did writing this "review". So:

Very good, though I doubt I'll listen to it after this. 7/10

Next up: Gary Moore & B.B. King - Thrill Is Gone (http://s20.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=26FMAL3QITZ6X0KABHK770CZA2)

EDIT: Updated with the link.

p.s. If anyone feels like I'm taking too much part in this thread, just say so. :) It just moves that bit slow, and it's really interesting.
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Post by: thrashbluegrass on 06 Sep 2005, 20:08
Quote from: kai
ThrashBluegrass is officially my favorite new members


Quote from: e-z0r
Clearly this man is a devious monster!


Gentlemen, you're both right!

And I'll refrain from reviewing e-z0r's song, as I too don't want to monopolize the thread.
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Post by: beckrokk on 06 Sep 2005, 21:43
Gary Moore & B.B. King - Thrill Is Gone

Wonderfully crisp live recording, and this particular rendition is very well done. Both Moore and King at the top of their game. 9/10


Exotic Talk by RJD2 (http://s47.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2YUDTSEY5KJ7Q2V5K6GZ6ZRMWA)
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Post by: Merkava on 07 Sep 2005, 13:23
RJD2 - Exotic Talk

This is an interesting one. It starts off with a decent riff with the drums actually doing something other than hitting the cymbal, which happens a lot more frequently than it should. After bringing in some distant, synthetic vocals, it breaks down into a bare, more...jazzy thing. It brings back that first riff and continues the exchange until an...interesting synth solo at the end. It does a good job of having a robot voice without making it /too/ cheesey, though it does look like a pile of nachos after it's finished. It was alright, but nothing I'd really want to listen to again. The disgusting sound quality attributes to this. 7/10


Get ready for some punage.

I Would Hurt a Fly by Built to Spill (http://s42.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=243SX6488E76E1PPNAYHSQCDTD)
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Post by: Highlander on 07 Sep 2005, 13:32
Pretty good song. Never heard a Built to spill song before. It starts with some slow but cool sounding drums and a guitar and bass joins, each of the instruments complimenting each other quite nicely. Except maybe the blueasy guitar which doesnt seem at home there. The vocals are also pretty awesome, and the lyrics sound cool. The song is a bit drawn out and could well have been a full minute shorter. But the song is still very good. Definately staying on my regular playing list. 7.5/10.

Anubis - Suiciety. Go to http://www.thenevolution.com/downloads.html and the song is there at the bottom. Icelandic heavy metal owns all.
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Post by: beckrokk on 07 Sep 2005, 16:22
Quote from: Merkava
RJD2 - Exotic Talk

It was alright, but nothing I'd really want to listen to again. The disgusting sound quality attributes to this. 7/10


Sound quality is my fault. I'm not 100% sure how to get great quality from a rip without it being a huge file. :/
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Post by: KharBevNor on 07 Sep 2005, 16:48
You want to go for mp3s at 128 or 192, if you're a real audio quality lose...buff.

Anubis - Suiciety

There are many things I expect to get from the Forced Listening thread. Grade A Edge of Sanity worshipping MDM is not one of them. A really quite fine track. I can find only a couple of faults with it. One is orginality, the other is they went for the old acoustic breakdown instead of the ball-breaking solo. Still, not bad at all. I must inform my MDM fiend friend of this immediately. Muahahahahaha.

And now, I'm going to have to be a little oik, and set one of my own tracks from my newly crystallised project Death Throes. Don't worry, you won't like it.

Death Throes - Intro/The Descent of Man (http://     http://s5.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=04NAOEKOK2UVC1EG8KCUS0FLZK

)

And I'll need to post the lyrics, as most of the verses are pretty indecipherable. Good luck following them with these actually.

The Descent of Man

Vapid in your chairs you sit
Transfixed by cathode rays
Airwaves clogged with filth and shit
Anything that pays
You'll lounge there till you're dust and ash
Minds all clogged with petty trash
A 'Culture' smeared in your face
By (an) electronic master race.

[chorus]
The descent of man
From free will to sedation
The descent of man
To mass-media predation
The descent of man
To despair from elation
The descent of man
The masters of creation!?

The pinnacle of evolution?
What a fucking joke!
We can't create a single thing
but fire, death and smoke,
Holocausts of ashes
Marking the graven tombs
How many great men and women
Never made it past the womb?

[chorus]

Spirits crushed by structures of order and control
Philosophical dictatorships
Have colonised your soul
Telling who to love and hate
Telling when life to create
You'll never sigh and breathe free air
And guess what my friend?

No one fucking cares.

[chorus]
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Post by: La Creme on 07 Sep 2005, 20:07
Death Throes - Intro/The Descent Of Man

Ok, first, I'd like to say that this is totally fucked up and to probably 99.9% of the population of the world it would be almost entirely unlistenable. Congradulations. You have created a monster to surpass Halo Of Flies.

Now, I'd like to point out what an amazing brand of electric music this is. It's harsh, it's jarring, it's full of crackly noise, shitty quality recording, and more fuzz than an amateur highschool grunge band could muster if they got their hands off their cocks for 5 minutes. The lyrics are totally great too. Sung in a (hate to say it to you Khar, but this really is true) very Mike Patton (a la Disco Volante) manner. For what, just over half a year of guitar playing (?) you're doing pretty damn good.

8/10. And that's saying something for a highschooler (I'm in highschool too... um wait shit I just realized that the British system is totally different; highschooler now says teenager. psshooowww). I don't know many this creative and I'm pissed you don't live in LA because I would totally make a noise-thrash-jazz-core record with you. Wicked stuff. Keep it up.

I'm gonna try this again.

Shakti w/John McLaughlin - Joy (http://s22.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0522029XQZHM82N2B0I2LNRTFM)


*EDIT* Also, how many drugs? Jesus...
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Post by: La Creme on 07 Sep 2005, 20:51
Anyone gonna tackle the 18-minute McLaughlin jam-fest of awesome, or should I post another reasonably lengthed song in its stead?
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Post by: e-z0r on 07 Sep 2005, 21:57
I listened to it. I can review it later when I get back from school, if no-one else does it by that time.

EDIT: By the way, Khar, do you list Merzbow as your influences? 'Cause they have very similar music to yours.
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Post by: KharBevNor on 08 Sep 2005, 00:03
@La Creme: Aww Shucks. I dunno, I consider the guitar somewhat cheating because at points up to three guitar lines are digitally mixed, but yeah, I did put some real time and effort into riffology and whatnot on this track.

@e-zor: Death Throes influences: Aborym, Anaal Nathrakh, Early Burzum, Contrastic, The Count Nosferatu Kommando, Discordance Axis, Merzbow, old Overlord, Whitehouse.
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Post by: e-z0r on 08 Sep 2005, 08:51
Shakti & John McLaughlin - Joy

I notice that I do NOT have the stamina to concentrate on these long songs while I have other entertainment at hand, like the internet.

I find myself surfing the web while listening, and then doing a half-assed job. I don't even notice the music but for like once every couple minutes.

So what shall I say? Incredible guitar playing, complemented by beautiful work by the other instruments, percussion, violin(?). Listening to it a third time around now, and paying more attention to the percussion. They definately don't steal the show, but the work they're doing in the background is pretty awesome.

In some places the music reaches speed and intensity I've never heard before. Unfortunately the sounds aren't all to my liking. At some points it's a hectic mess off sound with not enough for the listener to grip, imo. I rather would like to hear more of the guitar & violin-combo's ability to create deeper, more emotional tunes. (For example, my favourite parts of Mediterranean Sundance were the ones where one of the side channel guitars plays rhythm for the song with the more resonant, deeper tones.)

Still, this is awesome work. For pure talent alone, I would give it a 10/10. However, it still doesn't go that high in my book. It won't become a staple of my listening library. I'll drop it to a 9/10, as something I'll go to when I need to listen to some blazingly fast guitar or percussionwork.

Next up, Testament - True Believer (http://s29.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=049QETEW5J6X02SYR82ONVI7EP)
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Post by: La Creme on 08 Sep 2005, 18:51
@e-z0r: Yes, it's violin. In fact, it's Ravi Shankar's son. Also, there's a less-muddy but not-quite-so-intense studio recording of it somewhere. But apparently this one has way better solos and the other one is like, 6 minutes long, so it's not even really worth it.

@Khar: As long as you don't plan to play it live/play it live like that, you can have as many guitar tracks as you want and it's not cheating. And bass tracks. I wrote a song with 6 bass tracks once. Essentially it was a 6-part harmony, but still...
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Post by: e-z0r on 08 Sep 2005, 21:18
Or you play it live with that many guitar players. :)

Imagine the coolness factor of putting SIX bass-players on the floor :D
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Post by: Praeserpium Machinarum on 09 Sep 2005, 08:04
Testament - True Believer

God, this is either horribly generic or really old, I am guessing on the latter. Well what can I say, today it sounds ridiculous, but I imagine back then it was kind of controversial, it is the lyrics I am talking about and they are quite frankly horrid. However the music is good, as well as the production, they are definitely skilled musicians, even those lyrics can not ruin that.

I will give it a 7 for the music but a -1 for the lyrics ergo 6/10


Moving on to the pride of Norway, Kaizer's Orchestra with Kontroll på Kontinentet from their debut Ompa Til Du Dör(Ompa till you die)

Kaizer's Orchestra - Kontroll på Kontinentet (http://s28.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3DVMGP6SGZYKD3TSBQA7M68XMA)
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Post by: e-z0r on 09 Sep 2005, 10:45
Testament itself is old, one of the first bay area thrash bands. Along with Metallica, it's one of the only bay area thrash bands that I've listened to, and out of the pair, by far the best, although it's a long time since I've last listened to old Metallica. The new really can't be called thrash.

This song, however, is from their 1999 record "The Gathering". I'm not sure about the age of the lyrics, though.

I can heartily recommend the "The Gathering" record to anyone with a heart for powerful thrash metal, or in general for fast, powerful and pounding music.

Anyway, I think if I write anymore it'll go overboard, so, on with the thread!
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Post by: KharBevNor on 09 Sep 2005, 16:59
FUCKINGN THRASH

Sabbt are thgeunbg mes fuckiung thrash beand EFVER
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Post by: Merkava on 09 Sep 2005, 19:19
Quote from: Highlander
Pretty good song. Never heard a Built to spill song before. It starts with some slow but cool sounding drums and a guitar and bass joins, each of the instruments complimenting each other quite nicely. Except maybe the blueasy guitar which doesnt seem at home there. The vocals are also pretty awesome, and the lyrics sound cool. The song is a bit drawn out and could well have been a full minute shorter. But the song is still very good. Definately staying on my regular playing list. 7.5/10.


All of the songs on that album, Perfect From Now On are pretty long and in that darker type of style. If you ever wanted to check out more BtS, their other albums have shorter tracks that are more densley-arranged. Keep it Like a Secret is a must.

Sorry for the off-topicness.
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Post by: Kai on 09 Sep 2005, 21:20
Quote from: KharBevNor
FUCKINGN THRASH

Sabbt are thgeunbg mes fuckiung thrash beand EFVER



I NEED DRINK
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Post by: Praeserpium Machinarum on 10 Sep 2005, 10:29
quit your babble and review mine, they "rip off" Tom Waits and Nick Cave so they can't be that bad ing?
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Post by: La Creme on 10 Sep 2005, 12:11
Kaizer's Orchestra - Kontroll på Kontinentet

I was totally blown away by this. When you said "rip off Tom Waits" I totally thought you were gonna mean some guy trying to do the voice. The music wasn't that big of a rip of Waits, his stuff is never really this driving and heavy. The singer was great, and I'd really have had a lot more fun with this if I could understand the lyrics, but whatever. Really good stuff.

9/10. A little to heavy for this style of music. Do they do any polka? Or even better, polka-metal. Cause they could totally be the pimp-masters of that genre that doesn't even really exist.

Ummm, I'm reloading a lot of music onto this computer, so there isn't a big selection. Guess I'll go with Small Tribe - All The Things (http://s37.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0XQIQOKZHBAVU2UA7AOYL7FSQR). Fun song, very simple. Don't come to this one expecting the usual snobbish instrumental perfection characteristic of most of what I post. This ones all about lyrics, harmonies and songwriting ability. Great stuff though. Give it a checkout.
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Post by: KharBevNor on 10 Sep 2005, 12:43
Starts off with a sparse, old-fashioned sort of guitar intro, with bass joining in just before the bass joins in. The singing is at first subdued and melodious, but not warbly. When the song picks up with the full intro of all the band I think it possibly becomes a bit under-dubbed for my tastes. A section where the instruments drop out almosty entirely really showcases the singers talent. He has a very pleasant voice. It's not entirely my thing, but more to do with lack of interesting lyrical content than music. I'd give it a 6.5

Polka metal?

Dude, you've been missing out.

Finntroll - Fiskarenes Fiende (Fishermans Fiend) (http://s48.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2L87OERXQ6C9W0EDP1T4QW8Q2O)

One of their slower tracks. At first I was going to pick Elitryes because it's just so bazouki-to-the-walls humppametall, but I eventually went for this, one of my personal favourites. Fucking hard to choose though, they're brilliant. They're also the only metal band I can think of to use a saw, a kazoo or sticks as instruments. And did I mention they yodel? And that all their songs are about Trolls and Goblins beating the shit out of people, eating them, then getting high on magic mushrooms and dancing round camp-fires? They're still definitely my number three or four favourite band in the world.
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Post by: La Creme on 10 Sep 2005, 13:13
Quote from: KharBevNor
with bass joining in just before the bass joins in


??

Yeah, I've been meaning to check out Finntroll for a while. I ran into their stuff first in... April? Something like that. I enjoyed what previews I heard. I'll DL the track, but if someone else was planning to reveiw it, go straight ahead. It'll be a while til I get a listen. CHORE TIME!fUN@
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Post by: Highlander on 10 Sep 2005, 13:54
I'm speechless Khar. It is a lot jollyer than I imagined it would be, but it's also absolutely brilliant! I actually burst out laughing at the first listen. I have already reccomended this to several of my friends. Anyway, the song starts off pretty much like any ordinary metal song, power chords, a bassline and a drum beat. However, as soon as the vocalist starts his growling a polka-ish beat joins in and the song becomes fucking hilarius! After this however not much happens in the song, it keeps going like that, traditional metal and an out of place polka beat underneath it all. Quite amusing, and I will continue to listen to it, perhaps even find some more Finntroll tracks. I won't rate the song however, I have no idea how high to rate it. Perhaps the novelty wears off after a while.

Anyway, more Icelandic music. Hera - Itchy Palms http://s4.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=20MPLJPD21ZQG199CSAGSA5PVH
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Post by: KharBevNor on 10 Sep 2005, 14:10
Not after you hear their acoustic EP.

And then of course there's Korpiklaani. They're more absurd than even Finntroll. Bloody brilliance.

I've been reflecting, and I think metal is definitely the broadest and most utterly fucking bizarre genre ever. Just so fusable, and fused, and the number of novelty bands easily outstrips even punk. It's the fucking range though. Jazz is a challenger, but I don't think even Jazz shelters stuff as far apart as, say, Avantasia and Crotchduster, or Saxon and Alchemist, or Theartre of Tragedy and Tankard. It's great.
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Post by: La Creme on 10 Sep 2005, 14:19
The problem is that things are thrown into the metal genre way to easily. Almost all distorted, heavy music is classified as metal, shile a good portion of that music really isn't metal at all.

But yes, metal is an amazing genre. I think all genres have a potential for great things but the ones that have truly met their potential are Jazz, Metal, and Avant-Garde.
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Post by: Kai on 10 Sep 2005, 14:27
Combine all three, and you get musical ROCKET SAUCE



Also, Korpiklaani = for the win.
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Post by: La Creme on 10 Sep 2005, 14:31
Rocket rocket all of my rocket sauce!
All of my fucking rocket sauce, all of my rocket sauce!
*harmonies* ROCKET ROCKET ALL OF MY ROCKET SAUCE!
*ice cream truck* Dude, Jack, that's the ice-cream song...
I KNOW KYLE! I KNOW!

Yeah, thank god they DO get combined now and again.

PS. I forgot classical. Classical met it's potential a looooong time ago.
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Post by: Praeserpium Machinarum on 10 Sep 2005, 14:32
Quote
The singer was great, and I'd really have had a lot more fun with this if I could understand the lyrics, but whatever


Well that's one of the many nifty things about them, they make up a story to each album and then every song is a part of that story, however even I have difficulty desciping it since norwegian is only kind of like danish. All sorts of odd words I don't understand, I imagine for you it would be like talking to a brit or an irishman.


Quote
9/10. A little to heavy for this style of music. Do they do any polka? Or even better, polka-metal. Cause they could totally be the pimp-masters of that genre that doesn't even really exist.


That depends on what you mean by polka, they have a thing for Ennio Morricone guitar and oil barrels, but I don't think they've ever been full-blown polka or even metal. They do however have a song called Min Kvite Russer, which I think translates into My White Russian, but I am not sure, it's in norwegian afterall. On their latest, Maestro, they have become a bit more refined though, which is fine after two albums filled with ompa!
All their records, Ompa Til Du Dör, Evig Pint and Maestro are great, I think you can get them on their website.
Title: The Forced Listening Thread
Post by: KharBevNor on 10 Sep 2005, 14:43
Quote from: La Creme

PS. I forgot classical. Classical met it's potential a looooong time ago.


Dude, metal IS classical music. That's what distinguishes it from rock and roll. It's more your late German and Russian than your pussy Italian shit, but Apocalyptica weren't fucking around when they called Grieg's 'Hall of the Mountain King' the original black metal masterpiece. Indeed, stuff like Apocalyptica, and all those 'bring an orchestra' tours only really work because metal is stripped down, ballsed up Wagner. That's also why folk works so well with metal, because classical started off by combining folk music with some fucking musical theory.

Which reminds me. Some fuckers need to get their guitars and electric cellos out and do a whole album of proper full metal classical stuff. Therions cover of O Fortuna from the Carmina Burana barely hints at how fucking awesome that could be*. 'A Night on the Bare Mountain' has been waiting since the day of it's composition for the invention of the whammy bar. People do it, but it's almost always either a) O Fortune or b) Sabre Dance.

*My version would have Ronny James Dio doing the vocals rather than a choir though.
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Post by: e-z0r on 10 Sep 2005, 16:56
I think I am in love with you, Khar.

EDIT: Also with Kaizer's Orchestra.
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Post by: KharBevNor on 11 Sep 2005, 16:19
Hera - Itchy Palms

A vocal-centred song, with a powerful female voice backed by piano and guitar. She has a very good singing voice, by which I mean she definitively stands up as an instrument in her own right, and that really elevates this song from potential failure. It starts off as sort of cliche lyrics, but the fully developed concept as actually quite unusual, and tastefully treated, if it's about what I think it is. I'll have to give that an 8/10 actually, rather nice.

Seems about time to try and make someone see the light again, anyway.

Skyclad - Penny Dreadful [Full Shilling Mix] (http://s41.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=26U65RV4I2NJB3AK6WENSMX0XN)

As a piece of trivia that may interest British listeners, this song is mainly about Kerrang!
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Post by: KharBevNor on 15 Sep 2005, 14:22
*bump*

Do I need to re-upload?
Title: The Forced Listening Thread
Post by: Highlander on 15 Sep 2005, 19:01
Ill take this tomorrow if no-one else beats me to it. It kinda surprises me that so few people post here, it is one of the most interesting threads on the forum.
Title: The Forced Listening Thread
Post by: Kai on 15 Sep 2005, 19:44
I'd do Skyclad but I already know they rock your face off.
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Post by: Highlander 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.
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Post by: KharBevNor 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!"
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Post by: Highlander 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.
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Post by: KharBevNor on 19 Sep 2005, 14:09
I probably forget how long it took me to get into them.

Ah well :/
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Post by: Highlander 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 (http://s16.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=16VOZBHFVG3NB27GB7JKGHDOPG)
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Post by: La Creme 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 (http://s22.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=01SY48Q6O9ZU333OLLKCUJ3WPE)

Basically, the best thing that can be firmly categorized as "indie" in ever.
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Post by: sjbrot 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.
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Post by: La Creme on 19 Sep 2005, 18:59
RATINGS!
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Post by: Highlander 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.
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Post by: La Creme 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.
Title: The Forced Listening Thread
Post by: KharBevNor 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!!
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Post by: southern_dan 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..


Sarah Blasko - Remorse
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Post by: Sythe 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.

Pants Pants Pants - Sensible Gangsta
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Post by: KaosPilot 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
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Post by: Praeserpium Machinarum 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 (http://s49.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=15P9NQKQJZ9C92D21VEDYVERTE)
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Post by: La Creme 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.
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Post by: SpacemanSpiff 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.
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Post by: La Creme 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" (http://s54.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3H9P8A9XMUQTS1BKQ7TIB8KA9W)
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Post by: SpacemanSpiff 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) (http://s58.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3PT4PNA6ZNDEL3UGJD9MDVZWSG)
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Post by: Praeserpium Machinarum on 21 Oct 2005, 15:52
Daddy is not angry, Daddy is disappointed ;)

anyway Spiff your link is expired, pump it up again mate!
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Post by: SpacemanSpiff 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) (http://martin.splitmonkeys.de/.fl/North%20of%20America%20-%20Fuck%20(Repeating).mp3)

No download limit, no expiration date.
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Post by: salada 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 (http://www.enemydj.net/slowfuneral/mp3s/slow%20funeral%20-%2001%20-%20the%20rain%20wall.mp3)

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!
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Post by: McTaggart 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 (http://www.thekilldevilhills.com/audio/06_drinkingtoomuch.mp3)
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Post by: El Opium 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 (http://www.secreteye.org/se/mp3/urdog_zombie_cloud.mp3)
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Post by: La Creme 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'. (http://www.radioblogclub.com/search/0/bad_plus)

The Bad Plus - Velouria (Pixies cover)
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Post by: salada 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 (http://s7.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0VVIUTGET05EO19045OZTTLJZB)

this one is, uh, kinda short.
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Post by: thrashbluegrass 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 (http://www.myspace.com/citygoats)

Myspace link; apologies in advance.
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Post by: ivvon 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
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Post by: La Creme 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!
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Post by: thrashbluegrass 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.
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Post by: ivvon 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.
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Post by: thrashbluegrass 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.
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Post by: JLM 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 (http://s62.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1QGL3US31UO431U9LARGPHP7I4)
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Post by: thrashbluegrass 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
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Post by: La Creme 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 (http://s7.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=30O7QZ6T4ES9T07Q8F5MWYY5GB)

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.
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Post by: El Opium 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) (http://s36.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1OAF1DFM7060J20ZCT6BT56TYC)
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Post by: KharBevNor 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 (http://s37.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0YYH4ZA994A5F1YDA6LHTL8FRK)
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Post by: Storm Rider 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*
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Post by: La Creme 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 (http://s38.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0UT4NW5JAF8VE3SOIFMVOXMTTV)
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Post by: Valrus 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 (http://thevalrus.kicks-ass.net/sharing/DFlatMajor.m4a). 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.
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Post by: Kai on 30 Oct 2005, 13:05
Linketh Worketh Nay.
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Post by: El Opium 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 (http://s51.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2UWHRGCL0AV8J2YJE8C68U4N8U)
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Post by: Hat 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 (http://s17.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1RIPVI2R30NC60O11Z2UJ3JLTD)
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Post by: JLM 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 (http://s39.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2JWD10KT0QDRX254FGGRSZLR0Q)
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Post by: salada 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 :P

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 (http://s6.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3PJJ0R318HN8Q2C7BM279W1MF9)

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!
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Post by: IronOxide 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 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prepared_Piano) piece that i've ever heard.

3 Dances for Prepared Piano by John Cage (http://s47.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0XUR45RNS1AA61JHDB2EDSFON1)
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Post by: Kai 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.
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Post by: Valrus 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.
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Post by: KharBevNor 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 (http://s52.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0GR1239J0FO5O0CERHODA6AXDR)
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Post by: TheLoweringTide on 05 Nov 2005, 10:49
Well, I guess I'll give this thread a go...

Current 93 - Black Flowers Please

The girl definitely has a nice voice.  Starts out slow and somber.  Lyrics are pretty much dripping with gothitude.  There's nothing here to complain about, but it doesn't blow me away either.

Then it turns into a completely different song as the male vocalist joins in a sort of sing-song nursery rhyme pattern.  I love what they do with the harmonies - how it grows increasingly dissonant, then comes together to mesh perfectly.

Then it turns into a third song entirely.  The guy sing-talks some more gothy lyrics accompanied by Santa Claus (I'm sorry, I have a hard time taking jinglebells seriously).  The guitar is a pretty elementary chord progression, but I can't get over the prominance of the chorus effect.

Overall it's a pretty decent song from a genre I'd never heard before.

I'd give it a 7/10.

And now I present one of my favorite post-rock collectives: Set Fire to Flames - "Steal Compass / Drive North / Disappear" (http://s43.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=07R084DQ28MHK1FVM7GMPQIUAI)
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Post by: La Creme on 05 Nov 2005, 12:01
Set Fire To Flames - Steal Compass / Drive North / Disappear

Well, one thing I can say straight out is: This song has a great name and fits its title well. Post-rock that pleases. Good gradual build. Scratch that, terrific gradual build. The guitar lick that gets added around 2 minutes is super-kickass. Obligatory post-rock strings are pretty good in this song. Near the end, a staticy major scale undertone gets added, and it was great.

Damn fine post-rock. This band needs to change their fucking name. 8.5/10.

The Siren Six - If You're Not Now (You Never Were) (http://s41.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0K2JGGMSFJ9TL3JWA2LS3J959Z)

Delicious ska with an indie-ish vibe (not so much on this song, but ou can still hear it).
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Post by: KharBevNor on 06 Nov 2005, 13:41
Siren Six - If You're Not Now

I should point out I don't like Ska.

Wierdly, the drum intro to this is almost exactly identical to 'Soulless' by Grave. Which kinda threw me. Thankfully, the 'indie vibe' seems to suppress the the trumpets most of the time. I get quite a strong whiff of the Beatles at points. Song is pretty slow most of the time. Some nice guitar work and little in the way of spastic brass crap, which is nice. Sounds a bit like something you might get played during the happy ending of a feel-good film. Feels generic and does absolutely nothing for me. Not annoying though, and competently done, so I'll say 5.5/10.

Now, this track was annoying, as the way the albums set out is the intro for each track is the last 15 seconds or so of the track before. So I hacked it together in Audacity. Also, I'm worried that people not conversant with conspiracy theories may not get the awesomeness of this track. Basically, Bohemian Grove is this wierd-ass private club where conspiracy theorists believe the New World Order gather to worship Satan. In fact, it's more like a giant frat party, but Ewigkeit's latest album takes as it's supposition the idea that every conspiracy theory ever is true, trying to paint the paranoid mind of a conspiracy theorist in a characteristically cheeky fashion. As for the genre? Satanic gospel music. Oh yeah

Ewigkeit - How To Conquer the World (Live at the Bohemian Grove) (http://s39.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2K3J9M98MAYK91YVXWXTG0QQ5T)
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Post by: La Creme on 06 Nov 2005, 19:14
Ewigkeit - How To Conquer The World

Wow. Khar, you're endless barrage of interresting metal never ceases, does it? Heavy, driving organ and guitar unison crushing over echoey vocals and a good thumpin' rhythm section with some sort of loud speaker action going on in the background. The singing is what I liked the most in this song. It was, all things considered, Heavy Metal singing, but the singer's voice was really not of that style, which worked marvels for the effect of the song.
[EDIT!] By the way, 9/10.

Eels - Jehovah's Witness (http://s65.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1J54Q3WYH42QJ07LRS94XBM5WI)
Keeping up the 'satanic gospel' thing, this song is about how much Jehovah's Witnesses suck. Also, it is basically the most fuzzed-out awesomeness ever and basically it crushes face. And they* call the Eels indie....



*people who are wrong
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Post by: El Opium on 06 Nov 2005, 21:21
Eels-Jehovah's Witness
This song gave me the impression I was listening to it on a nearly busted old radio that was about to blow, everything is distorted and fuzzed to heck. For me the effect was ruined somewhat by the obviously digital sound of the recording. This song would be really awesome if it was just some guys in a barn with a four-track and their amps on eleven, but thats just my preference as most people feel reciprocally about lo-fi. I certainly cannot dispute that this song does indeed rock, the guitar is so fuzzy it took me three listens to find the drum track and the banjo(?) makes a nice a accompaniment to the guitar. Is there any bass guitar on this track? I'm probably going to have to listen a couple more times.
8/10

The only way I could continue the satanic gospel theme would be to post some late-period swans and I used some early Swans for the post before my last, so instead I'm continueing with the fuzz theme. It's Post-Punk time:  Wire-Strange (http://s23.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2T1S9XA6GMUET2FBSCDBNR2JUY)
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Post by: TheLoweringTide on 07 Nov 2005, 06:56
Wire - Strange

Hrm.  This one isn't doing a whole lot for me.  The fuzzed out bass is good, but not good enough to carry the entire song.  It just repeats the same pattern over and over again, so it ends up sounding pretty stagnant.  The vocals don't really help there either.  I think my biggest problem with this song is just that it sounds so much like it's about to start totally rocking out, but then it never does.  The vocalist remains emotionally subdued, the drums keep on keeping the time but don't stand out, and the bass keeps playing that same progression.  I guess that's kind of post-punk's thing, but it still just feels like unused potential.  5/10.

For my next contestant, I submit the delicious, delicious Polysics - Black Out Fall Out (http://s38.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2FUL9SYN6VBA72D6B0B68IBISG).
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Post by: Kai on 07 Nov 2005, 15:14
Quote from: El Opium
EThis song would be really awesome if it was just some guys in a barn with a four-track and their amps on eleven,



(http://members.lycos.nl/grolschtoko/marsh11-1.jpg)


These go to eleven!
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Post by: La Creme on 12 Nov 2005, 13:20
Can you repost your link?
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Post by: TheLoweringTide on 16 Nov 2005, 02:17
Yessir. (http://s48.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3JQAS8UC9F69C1I99TKB3WTLIK)
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Post by: Tomservo on 16 Nov 2005, 12:00
This song made me happy.  This song was very unpredicatable.  The guitars at the beginning of the song, album title (Polysics or Die!!!!), and the song title had me expecting some angry punk music, but then video game style synth cuts in and a Japanese chick starts singing, which made me think it would be some PuffiAmiYumi style inane asian pop music, but then another music style was suggested by a distinctively American vocalist. Overall the song just gave seemed a good mix of styles, and the total opposite of what I expected.
It was like the musical equivalent of eating a whole pack of sweetarts at once.
8/10

My Suggestion is: Family of god - Under the Neon
(I hope people can find this becuase I don't know how to upload a track to that yousendit site)
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Post by: Kai on 16 Nov 2005, 14:27
Um, they have directions on the site. So basically, get it up before I post something.
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Post by: Tomservo on 16 Nov 2005, 16:43
http://s55.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0JVA8KZHCAC4K0JO6F3H50CWKF Here it is
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Post by: La Creme on 16 Nov 2005, 16:45
NO! You just send the song, no email adress required and then post the link it puts up. Just do it and you'll see what we are talk about!
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Post by: Tomservo on 16 Nov 2005, 16:49
Sorry about that.
http://s55.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0JVA8KZHCAC4K0JO6F3H50CWKF
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Post by: Kai on 16 Nov 2005, 17:47
Family of God - Under the Neon

Starts off with some electronic intro thing, and then it goes into lyrics with electronics, then back to some more electronics. basically, nothing really groundbreaking or interesting about this song for me. At all. I mean, it wasn't grating to my ears, it just failed to engage me at all. 4/10. 3/10 for it being in WMA format though.



The Ruts - Babylon's Burning
http://s37.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1JY1ZEHLTNTES3H8ORF4EMCYCK
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Post by: La Creme on 16 Nov 2005, 17:57
The Ruts - Babylon's Burning

Un-fa, damn fine punk. Busy drums, well distorted guitar, good lyrics, an unfortunate slight lack of bass. Good skills at playing a standard punk structure, but making it all hell of intressting. I guess that's what seperates all good punk from bad punk though...
Solid track. Not much to say I guess. 7/10.


I made more electronica! It is muy muy psycedelic.

Projection Sinister - And What Lies Beyond The Jungle...? (http://s37.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2KG8JQHF9ZR2833LNFQUH3NDKK)

WARNING: Extreme high pitched squeeking in the intro, so dont crank it too much.
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Post by: KharBevNor on 19 Nov 2005, 05:00
Projection Sinister - And What Lies Beyond the Jungle...

Opens with a progressively louder piano type piece under some ear-splitting power electronics screaming. Then moves into some psychedelic stuff, then some rapid dischordant chinese jangles, and on into a heavier, old-school sounding techno section. Lots of sudden changes of loop and whatnot. Makes the song sound a bit unstructured imo, like switching channels. No denying the merit of the individual sections. A quite nice 8-bit style thing at about 2:30, then some really trancy stuff, again the cut and paste, then a bit that kind of reminds me of :wumpscut: with the beeping. Track then fades out a bit before coming back for a sort of reprise section. Ends with the same bongo-type loop from the beginning and some jungle noises.

7/10. Not bad, but imo didn't fit together too well. The seperate parts felt very disunited.

Anyway, now seems a precipitous time for posting ones one music! I will give unto thee something chilled, laid-back, simple. Probably the most laid-back track on my imminent first album. For any HoF afficionados that may be lurking out there (ha!) this is actually a chill remix of 'Vinland', which was going to be on a now scrapped concept album about the Graenlandinga Saga along with it's more upbeat version:

Halo of Flies - Stormclouds and Skrealings (http://s52.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1M014U3KZPMLV2WILX6J3239NU)
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Post by: Kai on 19 Nov 2005, 06:55
Halo of Flies - Stormclouds and Skrealings

Remix of Vinland, huh? Vinland was pretty bitchin. The weird tinny noises were badass. of course, this one replaces those with a sortov... synthy bass beat, which still sounds awesome. It seems like it's been slowed down a bit, too, but I don't know what I'm talking about. Snazzy stuff. 8/10

Time for some Gothy goodness from Colorado.
The Swayback - Concrete Blocks
http://s52.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=33V0YI5V2M2T93D6UY6L996M0C
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Post by: Snail of Doom on 19 Nov 2005, 18:56
Hey, first post. Go me!

Anyways: The Swayback - Concrete Blocks

Hmmm. Interesting. Not as big fan of the vocal style, though the singer is quite good. I like the verse riff a lot

The song overall just seems to simple. Maybe it's just me.

I like the drum part, reminiscent of several Interpol patterns, along with some nice quick little fills.

7/10

My song: Flogging Molly - Black Friday Rule.
Irish folk meets... the entire rock genre.
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Post by: KharBevNor on 19 Nov 2005, 19:01
Sig images are for NEIN.

And link to the song.
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Post by: Snail of Doom on 19 Nov 2005, 19:07
Sorry, not quite in my right mind.

I changed the sig. Could I have the person who wants to review my song IM me for it? I'm online right now. If not, I'll host it on my server.

EDIT: Went ahead and hosted it, sorry for being a n00b.
http://jacksonart.clickopolis.net/08%20Black%20Friday%20Rule.mp3
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Post by: stevethepirate on 19 Nov 2005, 20:19
For some reason all that link does is give me a blank screen and my internet program says that something is loading. Give a better link or... Desert Sessions - Bring it back gentle. The first title is the band.
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Post by: Snail of Doom on 19 Nov 2005, 20:27
Hmmm... It works just fine for me. What web browser are you using?
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Post by: IronOxide on 20 Nov 2005, 09:04
I would have done it, but I love Flogging Molly far too much, and I'm too familiar with their work.
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Post by: Kai on 20 Nov 2005, 17:36
Quote from: Snail of Doom


I like the drum part, reminiscent of several Interpol patterns, along with some nice quick little fills.



Except for one thing, Interpol... They kinda suck. The Swayback rawk out.
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Post by: Snail of Doom on 20 Nov 2005, 19:08
Quote from: Kai
Quote from: Snail of Doom


I like the drum part, reminiscent of several Interpol patterns, along with some nice quick little fills.



Except for one thing, Interpol... They kinda suck. The Swayback rawk out.


Meh. I like Interpol, but whatever.
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Post by: stevethepirate on 20 Nov 2005, 19:23
I'm using internet explorer, what version, I don't know, but my brother could have been tying up our connection over the wiresless netwrok we have with his laptop.
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Post by: Snail of Doom on 20 Nov 2005, 19:57
Quote from: stevethepirate
I'm using internet explorer, what version, I don't know, but my brother could have been tying up our connection over the wiresless netwrok we have with his laptop.


Hmm, IE is notoriously ill-tempered. IM me for the song
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Post by: a pack of wolves on 20 Nov 2005, 20:05
Flogging Molly - Black Friday Rule

My god this is bad. And seven whole minutes long... Jesus. At a guess, I'd say these guys are Americans who're obsessed with being Irish and probably hang around with those other tiresome peddlers of oirishness the Dropkick Murphys. Anyway, this is basically rubbish Irish folk played by a cackhanded pub rock band. Avoid like the plague.

2/10

Ebola - Avenging The Dead (http://s60.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2Y8T7KS4BHT3R2SXZAZ6S5RUDH)
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Post by: Snail of Doom on 20 Nov 2005, 23:33
Wow, that was...harsh. (FYI they are, in fact, irish)

Anyways

Ebola - Avenging the Dead
First off: Definetly not my type of music. Very loud and blaring. The jazzy section was quite nice, but is this song's only redeeming quality in my eyes. I like music where I can understand what is being sung. Meh

Not horible, but not very good either. 5/10


My song: Cake - Comfort Eagle (http://jacksonart.clickopolis.net/07%20Comfort%20Eagle.mp3)
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Post by: TheLoweringTide on 21 Nov 2005, 01:56
I've noticed that a lot of people really like Cake.  I've always been kind of curious as to why this was.  I listened to this song.  I still don't get it.

So it's a guy talking over music.  The lyrics are sort of a bland sociopolitical statement about something maybe?  Shit, I don't know.

4/10 I guess.

If you haven't been ignoring my posts on this board, you've probably heard me gushing about The Avett Brothers at some point; they're the source of my username/avatar, and I think they're just about the greatest band making music today.  Not to skew your opinion or anything :P

The Avett Brothers - Please Pardon Yourself (http://s45.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0T8EFEFM9GBVR29U8903QH402F)

(P.S. If you enjoy this at all and want to hear more, IM or PM me...I'm always happy to share the love.)
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Post by: SpacemanSpiff on 21 Nov 2005, 06:46
The Avett Brothers - Please Pardon Yourself

Um. Okay. This is country. Now, I have to say that I'm not an expert on country. I assume for, country, it's not bad, but I find that it lacks dynamic. And the line "I'ld give up the drinking anyhow" (or something) sure doesn't help with the prejudices here.
I would love to say more about this, but to me, it sounds very much like every other country song I've heard (which I assume is wrong if I knew the genre any better), and at that a country song which doesn't pick up speed at some point or loses it or introduces at least a completely different part to make the song more interesting. It doesn't mean anything to me, sorry.

3/10

edit: I also gave Ebola a listening, and I have to say, I like it. So ... thanks for introducing me to that band.

xbxrx - Beat Rolls On (http://www.polyvinylrecords.com/media/prc-094-10.mp3)
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Post by: a pack of wolves on 21 Nov 2005, 08:15
xbxrx - Beat Rolls On

Well, this is a bit good really isn't it? It kicks off by rocking damn hard and culminates in some good old fast-paced screeching. It's much more controlled than the other xbxrx stuff I've heard but that's no bad thing, and there's still a good spasmodic feel to it. I'm imagining them really attacking their instruments and falling over a lot while playing it, and that's always something I like in a band.

8/10

La Quiete - La Maestra Non Sa Che lllich Mi Ha Parlato Del Programma Occulto (http://s40.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0NL8CUQR16AV009XEH7IOVIOFP)
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Post by: Snail of Doom on 21 Nov 2005, 13:37
La Quiete - La Maestra Non Sa Che lllich Mi Ha Parlato Del Programma Occulto

I actually liked this one okay, still not into the screaming much. I like the changing tempos and such. Gives this song a nice feel. This'd be fun to mosh to. Rocks hard, but isn't to blaring 99% of the time. Can't tell what the name means, but it's long so it's cool :P

All-in-all, not half bad. 7/10

My song: Sheboygan - Why Do I Wanna Do...? (http://jacksonart.clickopolis.net/01%20Why%20Do%20I%20Wanna%20Do.mp3)

(Ignore the little popping sounds, it's not the best recording)
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Post by: La Creme on 21 Nov 2005, 18:41
Sheboygan - Why Do I Wanna Do...?

Basically, this is what Weezer should still be sounding like. That being said, I am not too big on this sound. Very 90's soft verse, heavy chorus, bridge with harmonies. Actually, speaking of the harmonies, they were definately the best feature of this song; Half barber-shop, half Elvis Costello, all well placed.

Anyways, 6/10.


TIME FOR CHAOS!
Behold... The Arctopus - Alcoholocaust (http://s5.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2BI1QDM23I46024SW58RFLC7Y7)
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Post by: SpacemanSpiff on 22 Nov 2005, 03:21
Behold ... The Arctopus - Alcoholocaust

First of all - bonus points for the title. Definitely.
Not that it's needed here. This stuff is damn good. It sounds like a slightly more straight version of The Flying Luttenbachers. Also, the guitars are, by comparison, less dischordal. But the whole deal rocks and is still damn complex. And there are no annoying vocals to ruin the whole thing, which is another bonus.
Plain awesome, me likes.

9/10

31 Knots - Welcome to Stop (http://www.polyvinylrecords.com/media/prc-093-01.mp3)
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Post by: Malphas on 22 Nov 2005, 23:08
31 Knots - Welcome to Stop

Every once in a while, you'll hear or see something that just irritates teh living crap out of you, and you have no idea why.  Everyone has their little irrational hatreds, and for me, it's Lenny Kravitz, Staind and this little song right here.  As I listen to a song, I sort of try and predict how a song will flow next in my head, like imagining how I would write that instrument's next riff if I were in the band.  Each note in this song seems to do something not even in the same realm of what I think it should do.  As an example, say you were to see a sequence of numbers, say 1 3 5 7 11, what would be the next number?  I would think it would be 13, but this band would say -582.17582.   Now imagine that with notes, and you get this song.  

I'm sorry to rag on your song so badly, but I tried to put into words an irrational hatred that I can't even begin to think of why it is.  I'm giving this a 1/10, but only because I don't give out 0's.  

I was going to do a song by Mictlantecuhtli by the name of Eternal, but that isn't a song that invites the sort of unintentional trolling that I just did.  Instead, i'm going to put up a song that I absolutely love, but that I think you will absolutely hate.  

Mortifera - Le Revenant
Title: The Forced Listening Thread
Post by: KharBevNor on 22 Nov 2005, 23:41
I think you pretty much just summed up everything I don't like about Mathcore, actually.

Pity about the change, Mictlantecuhtli are on my 'to listen' list, which is now, well, really long.
Title: The Forced Listening Thread
Post by: Malphas on 23 Nov 2005, 01:00
Whenever someone decides to listen to Mortifera and gives it a 0, i'll post some Mictlantecuhtli so you can hear it.  I've only listened to one CD but it's good enough to put them on my favorite bands list.
Title: The Forced Listening Thread
Post by: Kai on 23 Nov 2005, 16:35
Woah! It's that guy with the black metal avatar! I haven't seen him forever.
Title: The Forced Listening Thread
Post by: Malphas on 23 Nov 2005, 21:05
I just never post.  I have 220 posts and i've been here for like a year.
Title: The Forced Listening Thread
Post by: El Opium on 23 Nov 2005, 21:06
I tried clicking Malphas link and it asked me for a password for some reason. Upload the song to yousendit perhaps?
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Post by: Malphas on 23 Nov 2005, 21:18
Sorry about that.  Try clicking the link again, it should be fixed now.
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Post by: El Opium on 23 Nov 2005, 22:21
Mortifera-Le Revenant
No drawn out intros here, this song goes straight into a bleak black metal riff for maximum impact. I think the vocals are in French but since it sounds like the singer is being strangled, so I can't tell; not that this is a bad thing, in this case I think it's more about the feeling conveyed by the sound of the vocals than what they say. I especially liked the instrumental break a couple of minutes in that is followed by a massive guitar explosion. Overall I can say that I really enjoyed this track and it may propel me to dabble further in black metal, though I should probably start with the fundamentals given my limited knowledge of the genre. 8/10

My pick:
 The Fire Show-Conception Blues (http://resplendentmusic.com/mp3/06-ConceptionBlues.mp3)
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Post by: Malphas on 23 Nov 2005, 23:40
Wow, i didn't think anyone would give that song a decent score.  Anyways,

The Fire Show - Conception Blues

Let it be known that I'm a picky asshole about my music, and I wouldn't give a score above a 6 unless I would actually regularly listen to the song.  Now then, onto this song.  As a bassist, I really dig the prominent bass sound throughout the whole song.  The guitars have a strange sound to them at certain points that I think is kinda cool.  But the vocalist/lyrics is what really kills this for me.  I really really don't like that style of vocals so i can't give this higher than a 6.

6/10

This song is an instrumental!  :D
Mictlantecuhtli - Eternal
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Post by: Signum_Tenebrae on 24 Nov 2005, 03:36
Well I might be a little biased on this one, seeing since A) I'm friends with Malphas and B) I am a Mictlantecuhtli fan.  But I'm going to review it anyway, because, well I'm bored.

Mictlantecuhtli, an American band with a dose of Aztec flavor, comes from the Dissection school of melodic black/death metal.  Since this is not a "real" song for them as much as an instrumental interlude, the influence isn't as clear as it would be on another tracks.  The harmonizing guitars and bass dance together to form an uplifting moving melody.  That being said, this isn't much more than just that, an instrumental interlude, so I'm going to give it a 7/10.  There are much better tracks on the album.

My song is Velvet Cacoon - Genevieve. (http://www.velvetcacoon.com/mp3/06-genevieve_(original_version).mp3)
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Post by: SpacemanSpiff on 24 Nov 2005, 03:38
Mictlantecuhtli - Eternal

First of all: What's with those damn Aztecs giving their Gods hard to spell names? Fuck, man.
Anyway: I like instrumentals a lot, so this song certainly gets a bonus right from the start. The guitar work is pretty nifty too, even if I'm not really a solo-person, and I like it how gradually builds up towards the end. However, secretly I had hoped for a sudden guitar attack so that at the end, the song would crush me.  That didn't happen, sadly enough. Apart from that, the fact that the song is now stuck in my head is definitely a good sign.

6/10

Because I want to see how you like it, I will now add a mean bastard of black metal, hardcore and math. But I decided to pick one of the more ... er ... straight songs or something.

Ion Dissoance - The Bud Dwyer Effect (http://martin.splitmonkeys.de/.fl/Ion%20Dissonance%20-%20The%20Bud%20Dwyer%20Effect.mp3)

Khar, I especially want to know what you think about that song.
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Post by: KharBevNor on 24 Nov 2005, 07:34
Velvet Cacoon - Genevieve

Begins with totally distorted guitars and then is joined by slow drums, giving me a very Xasthur vibe. Vocals are the merest diseased whisper. The main riff repeats slowly, building up a sort of hypnotic atmosphere, then changing to reveal more clean tones over distant, oceanic growls and rasps. Drumming starts to build up into a slow, helicopter-like beat around the two minute mark. More repeating vocals around the three minute mark. The song seems to just move along (or possibly crawl wretchedly) without any real effort, which in my mind distracts from the effect somewhat. I'm more a fan of tremolo'd guitars and anguished screams. Still, a pretty solid depressive BM effort. 7.5/10.

Ion Dissonance - The Bud Dwyer Effect

Begins with very distorted guitar over screaming and out-of-synch drum beats. At around 20 seconds they just start playing scales really fast. Really, all I hear here is pretty standard mathcore stuff. Some guy screams, the drummer plays out-of-synch, out-of-tempo beats which provide no basis for movement or do anything to jab me. The guitarist(s) play really fast shred riffs which don't sound particularly good. No solos. Everyone frequently stops for no apparent reason. I found myself skipping towards the end. The whole song just did nothing whatsover for me, and I wouldn't be able to distinguish it from, well, The Dillinger Escape Plan or w/e in a lineup. Still, decent instrumental skill I suppose. 3/10

My choice takes the tempo down a bit I'm afraid, with some nice neo-folk/folk noir/post-industrial/apocalyptic cabaret/stop renaming your genre every album. Don't listen if you're particularly Christian.

Sol Invictus - God Told Me To[url] (http://s53.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2WOKSE8B037JG342P8MJMT0D0R)
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Post by: TheLoweringTide on 25 Nov 2005, 09:18
Sol Invictus - God Told Me To

The intro is a bit too long for my tastes, especially since I can't for the life of me figure out what the voice is saying.

Once the actual song starts, it gets much better.  It's like it takes the orchestral elements of metal and cuts out all the raw anger (which is, in my book, an improvement).  My only complaint would be the male vocalist, who occasionally sounds a bit flat against the melodic precision of the instruments and the girl's voice.

[Edit]Oh, right a score...7/10

Since my last selection received an offhand dismissal of its entire genre, I'll once again tempt fate by submitting something from that other hated (http://www.nataliedee.com/072205/taste-in-music.jpg) genre, hip-hop:

Aesop Rock - Daylight (http://s45.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1QAEOXE44JPH72KBC554WL66CU)
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Post by: Luke C on 25 Nov 2005, 11:00
Aesop Rock - Daylight

Overall not my taste but pretty good listening. Rap music with and almost Blues-y style to it. The slower bits with spoekn lyrics as opposed to rapped lyrics are better as the music takes a more atmospheric and clam nature to it.

Score: 6/10

The Ballad of the Powerful Man - Mr. Charming

Mainly because they were on when I saw this thread!
Listen here:
http://www.myspace.com/mrcharming
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Post by: Praeserpium Machinarum on 27 Nov 2005, 04:29
I can't get this to work, it says "unable to reach host" when it tries to upload the songs. Could you upload it using yousendit.com instead?

And since I have already uploaded it, someone can review this in the meantime Kate Bush - December Will Be Magic Again (http://s53.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1RGOGKZUBBTXW018F7KJON6OK4)

Demented elf singing goodness :)
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Post by: La Creme on 27 Nov 2005, 12:17
Mr. Charming - The Ballad of the Powerful Man

Starts up with some rough funk stuff. A bit in switches to some distorted guitar and double time drums. Eventually settles into a thing with the funk beat and lyrics sung in way too much of a RHCP fashion. Next up came a part with a bunch of ambient guitar and wah stuff which was pretty cool. Then the verse came back again. Another different verse with some different lyrics stylings, then back to the doubletime drums and distortiony stuff. A little quiet funk bit with synthed out bass turning into a distorted bit at the end brought the song home.

So-so. It's very formulaic, basically a rougher RHCP sort of thing. Not too bad though. 5.5/10.


Too much 80's right here!

Madness - Michael Cane (http://s20.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3L46IIONX97HA2W3LMIPWDUPZR)
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Post by: Tomservo on 27 Nov 2005, 12:50
This song had a good chorus and some nice harmonies, but it gets a few points of for synthesized "ahh" noises used.  It started off a liitle weak, but got alot better.  After a few listens I really started to love the chorus and I also noticed they use a really wide variety of instruments in the song(piano, xylophone,synth,drums,guitar,bass,vocals,saxophone, violin). I also now know who Michael Caine is. 7/10

Radio #1 - Air
http://s64.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3BF7VCFVZRW97018TVXG9JY0HF[/url]
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Post by: La Creme on 27 Nov 2005, 14:14
OK seriously, ARTIST - SONG NAME.

Seriously.

I am already a sometimes fan of Air, and this song was pretty enjoyable. My overall complaint with this band is that they don't utilize off beats, off rhythms, and other things that are off. They nestle right into a musical comfort zone that doesn't allow for many truly strange and beautiful moments. The song started out with some synthy stuff and an abysmally boring beat that continued through the rest of the song. The synth gradually turned into a choir-like bellish sound with lots of people singing about Radio Number 1. Fun stuff, but not very intressting.

I give it 5/10. There is better Air.


MORE CHAOS!

Fishbone - Last Dayz, Critical Times (http://s36.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2LZYYHXM1WUBF3GXT4F2KBE9SZ)
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Post by: salada on 27 Nov 2005, 16:06
i don't really like horn sections (irrational dislike. i think i was beaten with a pile of ska albums as a kid or something) but thankfully they disappear after the first 30 seconds, so that's good. but this is cool. all over the place. oh wait, horns again. at least they've got some rockin guitars over the top so i don't notice them quite so much.

so overall i'd give this 7 out of 10. but only cos i have this thing with horns in rock.

anyways, here's something i should have put up earlier.

this piece is off an album merzbow did with a german electro-pop-ish-type group called ladybird. it's called "balance" and is very strange indeed. the left channel of the recording is merzbow doing a lot of noise pieces, or one very long one, i've never really been able to tell. the right channel is this german pop group doing in this case, a cover of kraftwerk's "computerlove" in german. kind of like a split album where you have to listen to both discs at once (or as the title kind of suggests, you can adjust the balance on your stereo and do it one artist at a time, but where's the fun in that?)

ladybird & merzbow — netlove (http://s23.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0X7AA2N2F4B5M28LBVFT6W4AQM)
ok go!
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Post by: El Opium on 27 Nov 2005, 17:46
Merzbow & Ladybird-Netlove
I found this song best listened to as a playful experiment. The two channels don't really synch up but the listener is tricked into thinking they do. At times interference between the two songs makes it seem as if Merzbow's noise has a rhythm and at other times it seem's as if Ladybird's Kraftwerk cover is falling apart. At other points the sounds complement eachother making it seem as if a synth and a dial-up modem are somehow singing in harmony. More interesting for the way it messes with you than for it's listenability, though I never said that I liked easy music. 7/10

I used a Swans track some posts ago but this one was recorded about a decade later when they were doing different things and features the talents of their gospel trained female vocalist Jarboe.
 Swans-Volcano (http://s7.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=19A5X5CDEKZI5100UI7RUFUF45)
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Post by: Mr. Oysterhead on 27 Nov 2005, 18:43
I like the intro, with the like 'off tempo' thing. The whole screaming's not really my bag, but I like the way the song plays and the melody. I'll give it a 5/10.

Primus - The Pressman off the Suck On This album. (http://s61.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1IBKO5L951MYD1MJ4ZA25UTJHY)
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Post by: Storm Rider on 27 Nov 2005, 20:44
Primus - The Pressman

I'm actually only a borderline Primus fan at this point (I don't actually own any of their albums, and not all of it is my bag), so I had never heard this song. It starts off like pretty much every other Primus song I know of, with a seriously smooth bassline. Claypool's vocals are less nasally here than usual, which is perfectly fine with me. I still have a really difficult time understanding the lyrics, but no big deal. Some pretty heavy guitar comes in, and it definitely gets rocking. Also, for a live performance, the sound quality is fucking great. It drags a little in the middle, but a damn solid song and another reminder for me to get off my ass and get some more Primus, dammit. 8/10.

Joe Satriani - Ceremony (http://s18.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=21WJTVSJR26ZR1AXI0RAUCQEK0)

My primary response when anyone calls Satch a wanker.
Title: The Forced Listening Thread
Post by: Kai on 28 Nov 2005, 14:50
Who says that a little wankery is bad, guitar or otherwise?




When I say otherwise, I mean accordian wankery. Fucking polkians. What did you think I meant?
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Post by: La Creme on 28 Nov 2005, 17:51
Joe Satriani - Ceremony

First off, this was seriously not wanky enough! Satriani is all about virtuosity, mad chops, fucking speeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed! This was weak shit. This is not what he is like. From now on when people are saying to you "Satriani is wanker", you are saying "Fuck yeah, he wanks so hard, your mothers fucking brain melts out of her anus hole and you cry like a ninny. You are whore!"

Gad.

4/10


Talking Heads - Don't Worry About The Government (http://s33.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3SFFUQBZJZBT81R3B352IG916O)

Best song EVER. Not really. But good.
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Post by: Kai on 28 Nov 2005, 19:06
I love that song enough that it's actually on my list of band names, but I could do that with a few Talking Heads Songs. I mean, if Radiohead can do it, so can fucking I.
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Post by: KharBevNor on 28 Nov 2005, 19:59
Talking Heads - Don't Worry About the Government

Starts off with a little twiddling sort of thing, then a sort of...I dunno, comic sounding vocalist pops in. I dunno, not too keen on him. The song keeps sort of 'nice' and airy. Lots of false build ups. and little 'doo doo doo doo' keyboard bits. I take it the lyrics are ironic? I really do not like the bits where he goes 'loved ones, loved ones' etc. His vocals get pretty damn annoying, pitch perfect he ain't. And then the song ends. How nice. Picture postcard nice. 2/10 nice. *yawn*

Danger, danger, you are about to experience racing, intense, fucking passionate, incredible music you will hate.


Wyrd - Huldrafolk (http://s38.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2NHFRERGMANPZ09G33Z3PSN0RW)

Just listen to the landscapes it makes, the images it conjours, please. I tried to do this in talking to Salada about the mix I sent him, it's impossible to describe, but just...feeeeeel it!

I mean, gods. That opening. It does not get better than that.
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Post by: Praeserpium Machinarum on 29 Nov 2005, 10:51
Wyrd - Huldrafolk

You are right about the intro, well apart from the thunder which I found terribly cliche. Then the tempo picks up and it turns into a flailing badly produced metal monster. I really dislike that, it's only when the breaks come it becomes tolerable again. I think the bagground sample sounds phony, it does nothing for me, and I find the bashing away to be quite soulless. It lacks purpose and drive, it just goes on and on. Simply put it bores me.
Granted I don't normally like metal but this is just bad in my opinion.
I will give it 4/10

Let's see what you all think of Kate Bush - December Will Be Magic Again (http://s53.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1RGOGKZUBBTXW018F7KJON6OK4)
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Post by: KharBevNor on 29 Nov 2005, 14:59
I'm sorry, but you can't call that souless and undriven. You just can't. I put up with a lot of shit-awful opinions on music around here, but you just can't. Fucking. Say. That. Soul-less? Can't you hear them fucking pouring out everything they have?
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Post by: Storm Rider on 29 Nov 2005, 22:03
Quote from: La Creme
Joe Satriani - Ceremony

First off, this was seriously not wanky enough! Satriani is all about virtuosity, mad chops, fucking speeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed! This was weak shit. This is not what he is like. From now on when people are saying to you "Satriani is wanker", you are saying "Fuck yeah, he wanks so hard, your mothers fucking brain melts out of her anus hole and you cry like a ninny. You are whore!"

Gad.

4/10


There's no way his music should be like. That's just simplifying it. Sure, he can wank with the best of them, but when he wants to, he can be a pretty kickass songwriter too. And the solo in that song is fucking FAST, just the whole song isn't.
Title: The Forced Listening Thread
Post by: El Opium on 29 Nov 2005, 23:05
Woah people! This thread is for listening not for bitching. Nothing I've posted here has gotten better than a six and I've not said a thing. Now back to the music:

Kate Bush-December Will be Magic Again:
Starts off with a pretty good piano intro. Can't decide if I like the vocals or not as they're pierceingly high at points. I've heard some helium voiced singers in my life but Kate Bush takes the cake here. The lyrics seem to be christmas/winter themed which doesn't really do anything for me. Even though it's only a five minute song I found it kind of dragged towards the end. and I was left feeling bored. Not to be negative but to me it was a 3/10

Now to teach you all a lesson in music you will hate here is part of one my favorite anti-roommate weapons and yes, I do genuinely like this stuff. Not suitable for fans of music but do listen anyway as I want to hear your reaction.
Gang  Wizard-Live at longhaul infoshop track 2 (http://s25.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=161JAAD9JSCK03CXLWW19FUF25)
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Post by: KharBevNor on 29 Nov 2005, 23:42
I'm not complaining about the score, I was expecting less. I'm complaining about the specific criticism, because it's simply wrong.
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Post by: TheLoweringTide on 30 Nov 2005, 04:50
Gang Wizard-Live at longhaul infoshop track 2

Well first of all, it's a crap recording.  Like, played through a telephone bad.  At least I hope that's the issue and the actual performance isn't so lo-fi (not a good thing in this instance).  From what I can hear, it sounds like a band playing very slow noise music with some actual rhythm.  It seems like something I could potentially enjoy, but then I could be completely wrong because I couldn't really, you know, hear it.  1/10 for the recording, uh...I don't know, let's give the music a Q/17.

Shalabi Effect - Mr. Titz (The Revelator) (http://s39.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2PT7JM3YSN9IO3U9BP4XF0KIWH)
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Post by: salada on 30 Nov 2005, 06:04
the only thing better than tabla is tabla and breakbeats. i just wish this was longer. has a sort of talvin singh feel to it (full disclosire: i have only ever heard about 1 and a half talvin singh records, so i could be out here). let's say, 8 and a half out of 10. more points if it went and got really mental, or was another few minutes longer.

anyway, i briefly entertained this idea that since this is the FORCED listening thread, i could put up some horrible, overproduced pop trash (i am home with my family for a week or so. since i installed limewire on the computer after my sister's nagging, her music collection has worsened considerably. so pop trash is in abundance here) and just force someone to listen to it. but that would be cruel.

instead you get (come onnnn, upload faster before someone steals my spot!) evol intent — street knowledge (http://s17.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2VDVEPGOS2KSH1SYC41RPDFUVS). tremendously silly glitchy drum and bass. EI are known for their love of gangsta / wu-tang samples, but this is just silly (they are actually a very serious dnb production crew with some very serious tracks. this is not one of them. i hope). look out for the g-funk keyboard action in the middle there :P

(edit'd to fix bbcode asplosion)
Title: The Forced Listening Thread
Post by: La Creme on 30 Nov 2005, 20:02
Evol Intent - Street Knowledge

Synthed-out rapping, slightly-off electricy beats, and tasty synthy lines. This was friggin' awesome. Salada, you can continue to be probably the winner of Forced Listening. This isn't forced listening, this shit is incredible. Eventually, the rapping all but dissappears and is replaced by upbeat electric drummy shit and synth beeps and boops. AWESOME.


"You know Lucifer?"
"Nah..."
"You about to meet him motherfucker!"
*gunshots*

^^Just for that, 9/10.



Relaxating time: Mephiskapheles - Demon Weed (http://s52.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1U3JGRDLHRW1G3IYVQ6J8PY08H)
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Post by: La Creme on 03 Dec 2005, 14:09
DEMON WEED GODDAMIT!
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Post by: Mr. Oysterhead on 03 Dec 2005, 14:34
Mephiskapheles - Demon Weed

I like the little bouncy keys thing. He's right, it is pretty relaxing, having a faint pseudo-reggae thing going on. I don't like the vocals much, they sound kind of irritating to me, but maybe that's because I'm so used to Les Claypool's vocals. I like the horn flourishes that are scattered throughout the song. It's overall a good listen, I don't mind it. 7/10

Oysterhead - The Army's On Ecstasy (http://s57.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=07O6SFT85YUEG2W5BEV2SIBUYF)
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Post by: KharBevNor on 04 Dec 2005, 17:16
Oysterhead - The Army's on Ecstacy

Starts off with a sort of funky vibe, which pretty much continues all the way through. Starts with sort of novelty vocals, but then goes into vocals that I recognise as being Les Claypool, which explains the the funky bassitude. As normal with Les, this is pretty much all about funky bass and awesome lyrics. Whilst normally not a fan of funky things, I am quite partial to a bit of Primus, and this reminds me a lot of a more laid-back Primus with a dash of proggy guitar and effects into the mix. Quite pleasant indeed. Sounds like Primus mashed up with Pink Floyd. I'll give 'er 8/10.

Now, please kick away your chairs, ladies and gentlemen, for stillness is not an option

Neuroticfish - The Bomb (http://s52.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3QFB4IH8IL2BQ1WCCFSTUNQD88)

FOUR TO THE FUCKING FLOOR!
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Post by: HeroX on 04 Dec 2005, 17:52
SUPER catchy. made me dance around my room, no joke. vocals were a let down, but i guess it kind of goes with he genre. 8/10 for the simple dance factor.

...as the poets affirm - a lie told before breakfast (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=1DB3NUJP)[/url]
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Post by: Kai on 04 Dec 2005, 18:43
Woo Oysterhead! Basically, Trey (from Phish) and Les and Stewart Copeland (Who really doesn't sound much like Stewart Copeland).
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Post by: Storm Rider on 04 Dec 2005, 19:17
...As the Poets Affirm - A Lie Told Before Breakfast

I was surprised, I actually kind of enjoyed this. It had a nice beat to it, I found myself bobbing a little in time. Very tasteful use of the violins. It kind of meanders a bit in places, but overall I liked it. I'm giving it a solid 7/10.

Because you crazy indie kids are so obsessive over the soft/loud/soft/loud thing, Iron Maiden - Paschendale (http://s12.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3GAQIL5VC843L1Z7N3TMTVGC39).

These guys were in their forties when they wrote this, and they still rock your fucking face off.
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Post by: HeroX on 04 Dec 2005, 21:22
Iron Maiden - Paschendale

ahhh iron maiden. solid song, but i'd expect nothing less from these guys. something about rock solo's just makes me sit back and enjoy (i'm a guitar addict). this song dilevered, as i assumed it would. great tune, but i have to say not my favourite maiden song. 9/10

if you enjoyed as the poets affirm, they have more songs on their website: http://www.asthepoetsaffirm.com/. good band from my home town.

on the iron maiden note, here's another local band that are hugely influenced by iron maiden. The Fully Down - No Fate...But What We Make For Ourselves (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=5M71PBQB)
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Post by: Catatonik on 04 Dec 2005, 23:59
The Fully Down - No Fate...But What We Make For Ourselves:

Well, the guitar work struck me as very Maiden inspired indeed, even with a few moments of Gothenburg, the vocals though, are reminiscent of so many nu-metal/emo style bands that they threw me off. The drumming is tight though and keeps the song together with style. I can't say I'd make the effort to search them out further, but I won't call them terrible.
6/10


The Smalls - Toughest Times (http://s23.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2302OYFZO5NDC3AW45XQKST1AB)[/url]
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Post by: Storm Rider on 05 Dec 2005, 21:47
The Smalls - Toughest Times

There was actually some pretty quality beats and riffs here, but not a whole lot else. The singer bugged me a bit. It's not like he was off key or anything, but something about his voice threw me off. Not to mention he was repeating one lyric a LOT. I did like the part where the bass and guitar switched off, though. Solid, but nothing I'd make a point of exploring further. 6.5/10.

It's time for some in your face thrash metal complete with a wanktastic solo from a former Satriani student. And it's not Metallica.

Testament - Into The Pit (http://s32.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0MZ3E9MR6DP8X015BCA281WMF8)
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Post by: Mr. Oysterhead on 06 Dec 2005, 13:02
Testament - Into the Pit

Very catchy, rocking, definintely some major head banging shit. I always thought metal was pretty shitty, but I had only listened to the stereo typical power chord, screaming about death, type. But I must say, this is pretty awesome and so full of energy. I must admit, the solo melted my face off, but what else could I expect from a Satriani student? I'll give it a 9/10 just to be a dick. Well, I see your Alex Skolnick and I raise you one Larry LaLonde.

Because I couldn't choose, these are three of his most 'best' solos according to the public. (These are also Primus' three most popular songs, probably why the public believe them to be his best solos.)

Primus - My Name Is Mud (http://s54.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3E2KGIDQJ138M2R345M411D5D0)

Primus - Wynona's Big Brown Beaver (http://s54.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1S739KQNDIOYS2K9TU2CYZ5KPR)

Primus - Jerry Was A Race Car Driver (http://s54.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1G0CVD2BYWI773W36OD7WQVZN4)

You may recognize the last one from Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2. So pick whichever you like, they're all delicious.
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Post by: SpacemanSpiff on 06 Dec 2005, 13:41
First of all: You shouldn't put m4p files online. They're protected for a reason, so unless I feel like cracking them (which I don't) I can't listen to the songs.

Primus - Wynona's Big Brown Beaver
What can I say? Primus sucks. It even says so on their website.
No, seriously now.
I like the first part of the song, where the bass is more prominent. Also, I'm a sucker for stuff that's borderline dischordal. The solos that follow are great, but I would have preffered some awesome bass solos as well or at least some spazzing out on behalf of bass and drums while the guitar player wanks away. That way, parts of it seem almost ... straight. Which I don't like. Nevertheless, they're fucking Primus, so they still rock my butt off. So...
7/10

And now for some Nintendocore (that one ranks way up on my list of stupid genre names).
HORSE the Band - Cutsman
As remote-linking is not allowed, just copy and paste that into your adress field: http://72.232.8.106/download.php?band_id=4705&song_id=9805&mode=song_hifi
Note: Do not click the link. That won't work.
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Post by: Mr. Oysterhead on 06 Dec 2005, 14:48
Sorry. I didn't feel like going through the process of listening to them while recording them and then saving them as mp3s, but I'll do that next time.
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Post by: Valrus on 06 Dec 2005, 14:55
Quote from: SpacemanSpiff
And now for some Nintendocore (that one ranks way up on my list of stupid genre names).
HORSE the Band - Cutsman (http://72.232.8.106/download.php?band_id=4705&song_id=9805&mode=song_hifi)


linky no worky
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Post by: Kai on 06 Dec 2005, 19:09
Quote from: SpacemanSpiff

The solos that follow are great, but I would have preffered some awesome bass solos as well or at least some spazzing out on behalf of bass and drums while the guitar player wanks away. That way, parts of it seem almost ... straight. Which I don't like.



They're pretty muhc like this in any latter day concert like crazy; They tend to jam alot more than they did sya, in 92. Allthough they have abig bass/drum/spazzout in Jellkit, which is such an awesome song that it actually hurts.
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Post by: Tabilus on 07 Dec 2005, 06:57
Quote from: SpacemanSpiff
F7/10

And now for some Nintendocore (that one ranks way up on my list of stupid genre names).
HORSE the Band - Cutsman


I just d-loaded the song. Pretty friggin' awesome.

Girl In A Coma - Their Cell (http://www.myspace.com/girlsinacoma)
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Post by: Mr. Oysterhead on 07 Dec 2005, 13:23
Quote from: Kai
Quote from: SpacemanSpiff

The solos that follow are great, but I would have preffered some awesome bass solos as well or at least some spazzing out on behalf of bass and drums while the guitar player wanks away. That way, parts of it seem almost ... straight. Which I don't like.



They're pretty muhc like this in any latter day concert like crazy; They tend to jam alot more than they did sya, in 92. Allthough they have abig bass/drum/spazzout in Jellkit, which is such an awesome song that it actually hurts.


It sounds like Les is molesting his bass guitar so much that it does actually hurt.
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Post by: La Creme on 07 Dec 2005, 22:17
Girl In A Coma - Their Cell

Starts out with a catchy little indie/garagey guitar lick that continues for while then drops into some more chordy stuff with vocals. Stuff stays pretty much the same until some distortion gets added. The singer sounds so familiar, it is not even funny. The part where it changes up just after the 3:00 mark was pretty cool. Otherwise, this song was fun and catchy, but lacked in creativity. Very together band.

I guess it was good enough to merit a 7/10.


Dalek will now proceed to skullfuck anything bad you've ever had to say about rap.

Dalek - Culture For Dollars (http://s65.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3LBJI66SGD7OM19N6OQ560SEQM)
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Post by: sjbrot on 08 Dec 2005, 23:00
Dalek - Culture for Dollars

This one has a slow build that risks getting tedious at the start, but maybe I'm just impatient. At first, it really seems like something along the same lines as Grayskul, except with much better production and better rhymes. Then, he starts spitting the title lines, and it's easier to get into. All in all, fairly solid.

8/10

Two drummers, countless synths and bass players, a vocoder; Who else except the mighty Shout Out Out Out Out?

Shout Out Out Out Out - Nobody Calls Me Unless They Want Something (http://s26.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0F6C1F43JLL6G2U679AJR5UMCN)
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Post by: Catatonik on 10 Dec 2005, 09:19
Shout Out Out Out:

Interesting, I can say this is the first time I've heard these guys. It's got a very electronic/almost abusrdly eighties electric pop sound ti it, and the vocal distortions are delightfully warped. The switch up at the 2:30 mark was cool, and the overall effect had me nodding along. Trippy stuff, I'd like to find more I admit.

8/10

K'naan - If Rap Gets Jealous  (http://s25.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=236Z3NW4L5CJ21ERMSZC8CU6CJ//url)
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Post by: KharBevNor on 10 Dec 2005, 18:19
K'naan - If Rap Gets Jealous

Begins with a sort of chilled out vibe and some beepy stuff. Sampled? Then a sort of nasally guy starts rapping in a talky sort of way. If there's any other way to rap...oh, you know what I mean. He often seems to drop off the beat. Then he gets more singy. He's singing about how he's still alive. Or something, I can't make out a lot of it. Then he gets more talky and whatnot at the end. Okay I suppose. But...just doesn't do a thing for me. I feel bad giving it 1/10, but to be frank, I'm going to delete it right now to save space on my D Drive. I mean, fair enough, it's obviously got some effort into it, but at the end, the backing music is totally anathemic to my musical tastes, I don't have any connection with what he's saying, and well, just don't like it. I need the music to convey emotion with the voice, rap just bores me really.

Now, it's a thin and hard to define thing though, because this is one of my favourite songs ever:

Laibach - Tanz Mit Laibach (http://s38.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1X4OR17WY1BHT2KXF75KUOJO77)
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Post by: sjbrot on 10 Dec 2005, 22:50
Well, Catatonik, Shout Out Out Out Out are from Edmonton, which is right around your neck of the woods.
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Post by: ExiledSmarmy on 12 Dec 2005, 11:08
Laibach - Tanz Mit Laibach

When I started listening it sounded kinda formulaic, and I felt myself heading down that same electronic trail that so many Germans have led me down before.  Luckily, albeit about 2.5 minutes into the sound, things begin to pick up.  One of the better chorus sections that I have heard in awhile punctuate a steadily addictive song.  Be patient and maybe (just maybe) Laibach will love you back.  Rating 5.5/10

Now since I am new to the boards and feeling all lucky about finding QC I thought I should balance out my Karma and suggest a song about a poor unlucky man.

Driveway - Unlucky Man (Prepare for Death by Pedal Steel)

YouSendIt is having some trouble so I will email anyone who want to review it the song.  Or you can hear a low quality version of it on http://thebanddriveway.com/
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Post by: La Creme on 12 Dec 2005, 18:41
yousendit is working fine. They just reformated. I give yous one hour.
Title: Curse upon Blackbeards......well......beard
Post by: ExiledSmarmy on 12 Dec 2005, 23:06
http://s54.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3DKJZ3K4EO7NC064B56UQ3CX73

curses, i missed my 1hr deadline
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Post by: Storm Rider on 13 Dec 2005, 21:52
Driveway - Unlucky Man (Prepare for Death by Pedal Steel)

I should preface this by saying I strongly dislike country music, because my mother listens to more crappy country than I can stand. This isn't absolutely terrible, but it's just not something I'm into at all. I don't do twangy banjo riffs. While not unlistenable, the song is just plain boring. Not to mention that the singer sounds like the hick version of Chris Martin. 4/10, and that's being pretty generous.

I'm putting this here for Kai, but anyone can of course download and review it.

Alex Skolnick Trio - Electric Eye (http://s15.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0R65FJNJBV85Z2O3E0FOYGGV4P)
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Post by: Kai on 14 Dec 2005, 14:50
Thank you! TO THE MAX


Alex Skolnick Trio - Electric Eye
This is a cover of Judas Priest, right? I mean, I think it is. It's just been taken and turned into a bitchin jazz/bluesish instrumental guitar thing. I mean, this is how covers should be done. But yeah, I think I'm gonna look for this cd. 9/10

Next song is so simply amazing and awesome. So awesome your head will explode.

Captain Beefheart - Moonlight on Vermont
http://s54.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1T7GBO0WTR1UY28B9DFMNFV2UH
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Post by: Kai on 16 Dec 2005, 20:38
....Bump.


Come on guys, it's Captain Beefheart.
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Post by: Storm Rider on 16 Dec 2005, 21:51
I would do this, but I already know Beefheart is great.
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Post by: El Opium on 17 Dec 2005, 00:32
Same here, Beefheart gets 11/10.
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Post by: Praeserpium Machinarum on 17 Dec 2005, 02:52
Captain Beefheart - Moonlight on Vermont

I have heard much talk about this guy who is apparently pretty awesome.
So naturally I was kind of excited when the download was done.
What the fuck? That is the best way to describe my reaction when the first oddly broken and skew tones blares out, and Beefheart's vocals tumbles in with a bluesy hoarse quality to it.
It seems so spontaneous and chaotic, as if they had just made it up on the spot, though that is not the case as far as I can remember.
The lyrics sound pretty dadaistic which goes well with the music, and overall it is certainly exciting.
But I have no idea how to rate this to be honest, I mean it sounds like the work of a madmen, but as they say the line between madness and genius is thin.
-/10, it could be anything from 1 to 10, I really do not have a clue.

Next up is the best band in the world according to me, namely Under Byen!

Under Byen - Fugle og Ild (http://s44.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=12G9S2NP8H2BR0AK0NPM2ZKRMN)
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Post by: McTaggart on 17 Dec 2005, 06:38
Under Byen - Fugle og ild

Very spacious production (that's a good thing), probably due in part to the  fact that it sounds like it was recorded inside a bass drum. Right at the start of the track it's kind of odd that the vocals aren't in english, but that goes away when the track gets settled in. Also I hear strings, strings are awesome. The drumming seems sort of like an almost dancable IDM track which is just another kind of awesome.

8/10

Ugly Duckling - Pass It On
I have no idea how many time I've played this today. I've gotta make up a hiphop with kids mixtape some time.

Also, thankyou Kai for posting the Beefheart. It's enlightened me as to just how little blues I've got. After christmas I can stop watching my money and buy this album.
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Post by: Kai on 17 Dec 2005, 18:31
Praeserpium Machinarum: If it's too "What the FUCK" for ye, three of his albums, Safe as Milk, Unconditionally Guaranteed, and Bluejeans and Moonbeams are more regular blues records. Safe as Milk is crazier than the other two, and the other two (Unconditionally and Moonbeams) are usually ignored when talking about Beefheart. Milk is crazy awesome though.
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Post by: Catatonik on 18 Dec 2005, 11:23
Ugly Duckling - Pass it On: Kind of catchy, upbeat and the horn section is pretty damn cool.The actual lyrical bits, are kind of amusing, but pretty standard fair. STill, A TGribe Called Quest springs to mind when I listen to this, and that's a good thing. 7/10 I'll look more up :)

Deep Puddle Dynamics - Where the Wild Things Are (http://s6.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=124UXZMJBL2ZE27TMLUTZGJR7Z)
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Post by: surefunk on 18 Dec 2005, 18:09
deep puddle dynamics- where the wild things are
curious choice.  i think i'd give it a 5 or 6 out of 10.  the problem with deep puddle, to me, was that too many of the songs felt like all four of them forcing their own style onto a track, instead of really doing something together, and i think "where the wild things are" is one that really suffers.  although... it's definitely stuck with me, if only in the number of times my bar order has been "a liter of knob creek and a bottle of ether."  gotta love slug.

for my pick, i'll stay in the anticon(ish) area:

21st century pop song- hymie's basement
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Post by: surefunk on 18 Dec 2005, 18:18
whoops.  color me slow.  i just caught on to the "forced listening" aspect of this.  guess i wasn't supposed to jump on a song i already knew to review.  my bad.  
let me put this back in play, so others can be forced:

deep puddle dynamics - where the wild things are

didn't mean to subvert the structure.
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Post by: KharBevNor on 26 Dec 2005, 16:53
Your review's fine. The links expired anyway, so I'm going to kick-start the thread with a seasonal number: The heavenly(?) sound of The Arkham Carolers with Dance the Cultists (http://s37.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1ZOHWDWJ7HO933CPD9DFNMYNL8).

This particularly goes out to anyone who knows the works of HP Lovecraft.
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Post by: La Creme on 27 Dec 2005, 11:00
The Arkham Carolers - Dance The Cultists

As a Lovecraft fan, I caught some of this, but seriously, Arkham Carolers? This was just fucking ridiculous. Seriously Khar where do you find this stuff/shit? Since it's just a version of one of the worst fucking songs ever from a musical standpoint, I can't give it to much but for outrageous novelty value it gets 5/10.

It's about time for:
Tomahawk - Rape This Day (http://s23.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1H1QEQ47GIJQI2KG52YTARPGMY)
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Post by: Der Golem on 27 Dec 2005, 15:25
I wish I didn't already know this song so I could download it and get totally blown away.
Title: I'd like to
Post by: watch305 on 01 Jan 2006, 15:53
take this opportunity to post some of my newest poetry, for your pleasure. "o my dear, how sweet it is to love, to cherish and to caress. how pleasing are the pains of lust and worship, how youthful are the motions of effection, like spring-tides, or singing birds on sunday mornings. My angel is my meditation, my medication, my cure. And while I'm overflowed with sensuous love, all else is nothing."
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Post by: Kai on 01 Jan 2006, 21:51
Quote from: Der Golem
I wish I didn't already know this song so I could download it and get totally blown away.
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Post by: Storm Rider on 05 Jan 2006, 00:08
Anybody? The link will expire sometime tomorrow.

*shameless bump*
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Post by: thesonglessbird on 05 Jan 2006, 00:17
Unearthly Trance - Permanent Ice (http://www.myspace.com/utny)

Go on, you know you want to. Its the first track on their music player thing.
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Post by: Storm Rider on 05 Jan 2006, 00:21
^666th post! RAR SATAN!
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Post by: KharBevNor on 05 Jan 2006, 01:00
Tomahawk - Rape This Day

Opens with crackling synths that segue into a palm-muted guitar part with some sort of Trent-Reznor-esque vocals underneath, then it picks up into a pretty decent rock song before slowing down and building up again with another palm-mute section and back into a rock bit. Not bad, not amazing. 6/10.

Now, for one of the most madly excessive cover versions in history. The original is just over 2 minutes long with simple guitar and violin parts. This version is great though, despite losing much of the emotion and rawness of the original, as long as you can avoid laughing at how the singer pronounces 'Coca Cola':

Gae Bolg - Death of the West [Sol Invictus Cover]  (http://s54.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=34XHRLBTG04WB2ULR0OOCJ2R31)
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Post by: Der Golem on 05 Jan 2006, 08:57
Starts with an organ and some brass, which provides a nice atmosphere. Vocals and drums join in, but dont really sound like they belong there. Actually the vocals are just god-awful. But the music than fades and a different, much more coherent and much better, part begins. The vocals are out of place again, but not really annoying like the intro was. Parts of the song I like, but other parts completely ruined it. I'm pretty sure I'd like the Sol Invictus version though.
5.5/10 I guess. But who knows, it might grow on me.

Momentum - As leaves fall from the tree of lies (http://s6.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0BKDEE4YWVDE829L6PHX7ADPUL) Totally awesome Icelandic tech/death/thrash metal.
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Post by: Luke C on 05 Jan 2006, 10:42
Momentum - As leaves fall from the tree of lies

Sounds like a cool cross between Slayer and another band whos name I cant remember. A bit too much screaming for my liking tho. Some nice quitar and double bass tho. But seriously the screaming just ends up killing it. The bits with no lyrics are good.

Instruments: 8/10
Vocals: 2/10

Overall: 5/10

Next up: Broadway's Not Ready (formerly known as (The) Chucky No Stars) - Divide Devoid Divine (http://www.purevolume.com/brodwaysnotready)

Awesome Pop Punk band. Souns about 10 times better live but still awesome.
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Post by: Storm Rider on 17 Jan 2006, 19:35
I refuse to let this thread die.

But the last link has long past expired, so I'm going to kick this back up with Evergrey - The Great Deceiver (http://s32.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3IO38K3PIV13C3P6LS7P4BTQSV)
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Post by: Felix on 17 Jan 2006, 21:26
Evergrey - The Great Deceiver


Great music! I wasn't expecting metal to burst into my headphones though. Vocals remind me of Rob Zombie, don't take offense. Specials back vocals too. The riffs are nice, but I saw the breakdown coming twenty miles ahead, it was too obvious.

AWESOME SOLOS! This my friends, is a great (european?) metal. The drummer's double-kick is rad too.

Vocals : 7/10
Music : 9/10  (-1 for Evanescence's Bring me to life-like breakdowns)




Here's mine : hope you don't mind non-english songs

Jean Leloup - La Pluie (http://s44.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1PGVR2XK9FF160RS41OB1S7Z7D)[/url]
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Post by: Waffles on 17 Jan 2006, 22:53
Jean Leloup - La Pluie

I dig the french... omg how would i categorize this... indie/funk?

About two thirds of the way through the first listen I was totally ready to turn it off and never listen to it again... I just finished the second and am strangely hypnotized. I love the nonsense bits (dont hurt me! i dont know french!) '"laleelala'leela eat that bear express' (i mock because i'm ignorant!)

Now, seriously to the review. Its got some serious groove to it, and i had google translate the page - i think its kinda sad... and from the vocal bridge just after halfway through the song and near the end, with its own emotion... I dunno. It seems dancable, its nice and funky... i love the prominent base and the wahwah pedal... its... so funky! ANYways

Its so wierd... and french... and funk... and... ahh... so wierd! but wierd in a good way.
5.5/10 For accessibility
It hit me as cool but kinda repetitive... and... i dunno, this is just how I saw it.
6.5/10 For musical value
Somehow I think I love this song... i don't know... it just gets better as I listen to it more... I think i'm being assimilated into the <whatever the french version of borg would be>
8/10 For pure enjoyment value

Overall I'd say 7 out of 10.

Sit Down with Silly Wizard, and help yourself to a Ramblin Rover
Silly Wizard - Ramblin Rover (http://ftp://alex.thinsoft.com/pub/alex/Silly_Wizard_-_The_Ramblin_Rover.mp3)
<go kinda easy on this link ppl, i know you probably will but still i add this... dont relink or anything please>

Oh, and heres some shameless self promotion in the meantime <this is among the least soulful renditions of this i've made (old recording too) Stone Bridge (http://ftp://alex.thinsoft.com/pub/alex/Music/StH_-_Stone_Bridge.mp3) and Stone Bridge with Beats (http://ftp://alex.thinsoft.com/pub/alex/Music/Stone_Bridge_All_E.mp3)
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Post by: Storm Rider on 17 Jan 2006, 23:15
Quote from: Felix

AWESOME SOLOS! This my friends, is a great (european?) metal. The drummer's double-kick is rad too.


Swedish, actually.
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Post by: Storm Rider on 24 Jan 2006, 19:51
I know this is a double post, but nobody else appeared to be interested in the last submission.

Silly Wizard - The Rambling Rover

OK, I didn't understand the point of this. It's comedy music without any form of instruments whatsoever. If it were gutbustingly hilarious, I would have forgiven the shortcoming, but though the rhymes were somewhat clever, I didn't find myself chuckling at it. 2/10 for the crazy thich Irish accents.


Warning: the following link leads to a pure gem of utter metal greatness. The poster is not responsible for any headbanging-related injuries sustained during listening.

Iced Earth - Stormrider (Days of Purgatory Version) (http://s6.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0ZZMAHQBQG42C2LPIE5QWNSQTM)
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Post by: onewheelwizzard on 25 Jan 2006, 01:01
Iced Earth - Stormrider

Simply put, if you like metal, you'll like this.  It's really well-done in just about every respect ... the band is nice and tight, everyone seems in touch with each other, and the musical ability being demonstrated is not to be sneezed at.  That said, you have to already like metal to like it.  Personally, the vocals aren't really my thing, and while the drumming is awesome, the guitar seems sorta ho-hum ... the solo sounded like the guy could've done better but didn't really feel like it.  Maybe I didn't listen closely enough, but I barely heard the bass at all.

I can see why this song would be awesome for any metalhead, but the vocals and uninteresting bass (or rather, it seemed, the lack of any at all) turned me off.  I'm an aspiring bass player myself, though, and I'm always really picky about vocalists, so I probably could've predicted that this would be what I'd have a problem with before I even listened to the song.

I posted this on yousendit for a friend a couple days back, I'm not sure how long it'll stay up.

Jack Rose - Sunflower River Blues"

This is one of the greatest bits of acoustic guitar work I've ever heard.  Plenty of his stuff is more rambling and Eastern-influenced and a lot harder to get into for someone who's been raised with Western musical styles, but this song in particular is just a sublime little piece of 6-string wizardry (He plays rhythm, melody, and harmony at the same time) and ... OK, I'll just let it speak for itself.
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Post by: Storm Rider on 26 Jan 2006, 17:02
Man, you need to appreciate the finer things in life, like badass guitar riffs and lyrics about disillusioned crusaders who go on killing sprees.
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Post by: Praeserpium Machinarum on 27 Jan 2006, 05:52
Jack Rose - Sunflower River Blues

I will be the first to admit that I know next to nothing about music theory.
So all I tell you is that it sound pretty odd and thereby awesome, quite complex and interesting. It starts with with some strumming(?) and then it settles into a groove of sorts I suppose. Not much variation but then again it's short. The brevity actually acts to it's advantage since I think it would become tiring, not because it's bad but because there is just so much going on. Finally I am a bit awed at how much sound he can get out of one guitar.

8/10

And now my favourite screamo/hardcore band:
The Blood Brothers - Six Nightmares at the Pinball Masquerade (http://s53.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3LYONXMU22N3U0HEQC9FN5EUGI)

I suggest jumping around screaming like a lunatic to this song :)
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Post by: AdamIsConceited on 27 Jan 2006, 06:19
The Blood Brothers are amazing.
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Post by: Luke C on 27 Jan 2006, 10:16
Quote from: Storm Rider
I refuse to let this thread die.

But the last link has long past expired, so I'm going to kick this back up with Evergrey - The Great Deceiver (http://s32.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3IO38K3PIV13C3P6LS7P4BTQSV)


*cough* cop out of the rules *cough*
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Post by: Storm Rider on 27 Jan 2006, 11:19
If you want to repost your link, then feel free.
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Post by: KharBevNor on 30 Jan 2006, 15:15
Starts with screwed up mathcore type stuff and characteristic Blood Brothers dual screaming, building up more with spastic guitars and WHOAH OH OH. Gets slightly more of a cohesive feel, then drops off totally into a slow section, which then builds up again, before more dumb spastic stuff. Continues in much the same vein. Urgh. So far, I've only heard one good Blood Brothers song (Burn Piano Island, Burn) and that was nothing really to go crazy about. I really can't stand all that goddamn mathcore bollocks. I'll give this a generous (for me) 4/10.

Now, badassery time. I present maybe the greatest hope for modern European metal, finally taking the whole melting-pot in the right direction with this anthemic melodic/symphonic industrial-tinged deathblackthrash skull-stomper:

Cryptic Wintermoon - Bonegrinder 1916 (http://s5.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=31N65TZ04JXQ73S1Q05KNF2K74)

I would have put up Supersatan, nigh on maybe the most fucking bad-ass song of all time, but I think I've set it before.
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Post by: La Creme on 30 Jan 2006, 16:12
Cryptic Wintermoon - Bonegrinder 1916

Heavy. Mother. Fucking. Shit.

Starts up with some silly old-timey musicings, which slowly crunch into heavy ass guitars and solid metal drums with some greatly-sung (looked 'em up) pretty decent lyrics. This is good hard Death Metal that doesn't need to show off and be fast for you to realize how much face it melts. The background synth adds a good touch too. Darn fine ending too. Goes into the next song perfectly I'm sure.

8/10. Rawk.



Estradasphere - The Dapper Bandits (http://s37.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0SSNDEVHLZW2S18DK1UEXLZWR3)

Good stuff.
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Post by: Kai on 30 Jan 2006, 20:42
That Wintermoon track is so awesome it hurts.
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Post by: Der Golem on 31 Jan 2006, 11:09
Estradasphere - The Dapper Bandits

Some excellent avant-garde, bordering on more genres than I care to count. Reminded me of Mr. Bungle, only without all the Mike Patton. Won't go into a step by step breakdown of the song, way too much going on.  It has no (or next to no) vocals, only a little spoken word part. The narrative was also interesting to listen to. Anyways, I liked it alot and have aldready gone and checked out a few other tracks by the band, and must say I'm impressed. 9/10

Downy - Mokuren (http://s24.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0OJP5QC27JAUJ2L0980UVCWVVU)

And yes, that Wintermoon track is amazingly badass too.
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Post by: surgerydrugsnrocknroll on 31 Jan 2006, 11:59
Downy - Mokuren
starts off with an almost hip-hop drumbeat and bass, soon adds piano and soft vocals. continues around the same throughout the song.
not bad, but definatly not my thing.
7/10

Demons & Wizards - Crimson King (http://s25.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=33879ZUUCW00M1JXSFSMHGQJGJ)
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Post by: Kai on 31 Jan 2006, 16:11
This song (Demons and Wizards) kicks my ass 3 times over. Now i just wihs somebody would post a song I haven't heard by a band I don't listen to.
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Post by: onewheelwizzard on 31 Jan 2006, 18:54
Demons and Wizards - Crimson King

Yeah, my ass got kicked too.  I ... wow.  I'm going to have to listen to this band more.  I hope their other stuff holds up to the standard this sets.  9.5, say I!

You know, I really want for this to be familiar to people, but it might not be.  If it's not I'll post something a little farther off the beaten path.

Dead Meadow - Eyeless Gaze All Eye/Don't Tell The Riverman
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Post by: Kai on 31 Jan 2006, 19:28
Oh, it totally lives up to that song. Also check out Blind Guardian, since they might as well be almost the same band.
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Post by: Storm Rider on 31 Jan 2006, 21:47
Demons and Wizards is awesome. Iced Earth + Blind Guardian = METAL.

EDIT: What I'm wondering is why they named an album after King Crimson, because they are very... not metal. They're amazing, but not metal.
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Post by: Felix on 07 Feb 2006, 18:32
Quote from: Kai
Now i just wihs somebody would post a song I haven't heard by a band I don't listen to.


Ever tried Anonymus? There, then. (http://s48.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1E6ESMHDH8PN71WKHUS5E7MLVL)
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Post by: sandocho on 07 Feb 2006, 19:39
Kai probably wants to answer that one, but I call the next spot in the game please.
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Post by: onewheelwizzard on 07 Feb 2006, 19:50
Nobody responded to the Dead Meadow.  Dammit.

I don't think it's against the rules to post the song again if nobody said anything about it.  Responses are encouraged.

Dead Meadow - Eyeless Gaze All Eye/Don't Tell The Riverman
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Post by: Kai on 07 Feb 2006, 20:10
Dead Meadow - Eyeless Gaze All Eye/DOn't Tell the Riverman


It's like, this sort of darkish, bluesy riffed something or other. There's one band they remind bme of but I can't remember. Pretty slow, and not much really happens, until a bit later into the song it moves more into this sort of ambient stuff, which I actually like a fair bit. Basically, it's alright, and I might check them out a bit more. 7/10.

Now, for mine, we're going to go into the really awesome Sopor Aeternus (An the Ensemble of Shadows). Prepare to be goth'd out.

Sopor Aeternus and the Ensemble of Shadows - In an Hour Darkly

http://s37.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1Y5LRLPDBB4XO2MFOHF9PIZ4EJ
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Post by: sandocho on 07 Feb 2006, 21:09
Sopor Aeternus and the Ensemble of Shadows - In an Hour Darkly

Starts up with some pleasant plucking at the beginning.  The bells give it a nice Gothic-European feeling, and then some pounding bass and succulent percussion kicks in--soon after it goes totally Gothic on me. I can't understand the lyrics, but he has a cool voice, though it can be some-what irritatingly over-calm.

However, when it gets faster in the middle and add some more techno-ish synth thumps, hand claps, etc., it gets annoying--seems unfit for the incredibly bleak lyrics.  It gets slower near the end, though. I'll give it a 6/10.

Reverend Glasseye and His Wooden Legs - God Help You Dumb Boy (http://s53.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1KNS59QRW78BK3HDTD2FYQOS7H)
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Post by: surgerydrugsnrocknroll on 07 Feb 2006, 22:15
Reverend Glasseye and His Wooden Legs - God Help You Dumb Boy

begins with good acoustic strumming and drums,
kindof a western sound, very good, reminds me of 'these poor bastards', or at times of the violent femmes.
then a spanish sounding horn comes in, fitting quite well...
quite good, imo.
8/10

Desperados - The Dawn of Dying (http://s18.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2QZD0RX779DT028L7UF73IEQYN)
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Post by: Storm Rider on 12 Feb 2006, 22:13
Desperados - The Dawn of Dying

Well, this certainly wasn't what I was expecting. After hearing the gunshot and horse noises, I was assuming something very different than what I got. I'm not sure what to call this. Cowboy metal? Sorta Pantera-esque, some nice lead guitar work at the beginning, I was sorta meh on the main riff, and the vocals were not among the best I've heard, but far from the worst. Overall, I'll give it a solid 8/10. A pleasant surprise.

Because I just bought Exodus's latest album, I'm binging on them right now. Thus, I shall post Exodus - Deathamphetamine (http://s29.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0DEPXXFXXC1VD2EV0NYBWCKZGR)
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Post by: Kai on 13 Feb 2006, 14:45
God Damn, I wish I could review this. Too bad I already know Exodus are x-treemz.
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Post by: Storm Rider on 15 Feb 2006, 19:26
Nobody? It's because of the title, isn't it?
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Post by: Houdinimachine on 15 Feb 2006, 19:52
I'll do it. Give me a sec.
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Post by: Houdinimachine on 15 Feb 2006, 20:10
Exodus - Deathamphetamine

This is going to be interesting because this sounds like heavy metal and TOOL is about as heavy as I get. Hmm nice driving beat at the beginning. Very hot guitar work. Oh... enter the screaming. I am a firm believer that all metal would be twenty times better with a good singer. The music itself is freaking awesome. I know this is nerdy of me, but I want to play it on Guitar Hero. The drumming is a bit overzealous, but at least it doesn't drown out the increasingly kick ass guitar solos.

I'd give it a 7/10. I love the music, but the screaming... just not my thing.

Ok Arctic Monkeys - Perhaps Vampires Is a Bit Strong But...
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Post by: surgerydrugsnrocknroll on 15 Feb 2006, 20:30
[edit, added the name of the song i was reviewing]
Arctic Monkeys - Perhaps Vampires Is a Bit Strong But...
hmm... this one starts off kindof  jazzy, but then some pretty rocking guitar comes in.
vocals are decent, but not really my fav. i really like the first half of this song, but after that it just seems drawn out.

id give it about a 7

Edguy - Judas At The Opera (http://s7.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0J365QNSS202935SK815EO2KHL)
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Post by: Storm Rider on 15 Feb 2006, 22:13
Oh man, I love Edguy, so I can't do this one.
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Post by: Bastardous Bassist on 15 Feb 2006, 22:35
Same here.  I actually got into Edguy from Tobias Sammet's "Avantasia" (one and two, haven't listened to two much).
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Post by: Praeserpium Machinarum on 16 Feb 2006, 04:25
Edguy - Judas at The Opera

What a mouthful. Despite of the length it is fun and varied, if a bit cheesy.
It kicks off straight away and settles into the groove, then break at "solar system" and then there is a section which sounds a bit like Queen(voice effects and such).
Competently executed and well arranged as far as I can tell. I like the lyrics "it's pink and it's clear, he is the queer, he likes it into his rear!", pretension with a sense of humour.
The singer is also quite good, very fitting for the genre even if he kind of aping old school style. Which may be the point.

All in all fun track 8/10

Now for a danish demo band called Brudevalsen(literally The Bride Waltz, it's the dance at weddings) with a cover of Tom Waits Brudevalsen - Dirt in the Ground (http://s53.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1CLBP5I3TIOUB3B39Y56K14C78)
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Post by: KharBevNor on 16 Feb 2006, 18:02
Brudevalsen - Dirt in the Ground

This was damn close to a melodic death metal Tom Waits cover, may just be the Swedish attempt to emulate Mr. Wait's voice combined with the distorted guitar, but this sounded, to me, a LOT like Edge of Sanity: that old school Swedish sound. Plus the lyrical matter isn't a million miles of something Dan Swano could have written. The Opeth-like telephone vocals only increased this vibe. No idea what the rest of their stuff sounds like, of course. I gotta say, I enjoyed the hell out of this, though it did drag a little in the middle. Sweet track.

8.5/10

Gentlemen, I present the cultural crossover genre that should have ruled the 90's. Reggae Metal.

Skindred - Nobody (http://s39.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1O7BIGIV1RTML2T0O7O54OTBAL)

Also, incidentally, Skindred are one of the best live bands in the world. Their recorded tracks really do not do justice to how fun and insane they are in action. Their frontman is just fucking incredible.
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Post by: zak924 on 16 Feb 2006, 18:17
skindred- Nobody


i realy dont know what to say about this track, since i dont realy know alot about metal the only thing i could compare it to is Korn. its got some heavy bass and obviously some agressive vocals. being that im not to fond of metal, its pretty good so i give it a 4.9/10



now to take it on a softer level
 The Cribs-you are always the one

yeah, the vocals blow. he sounds like the singer from simpleplanXP
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Post by: Kai on 16 Feb 2006, 18:20
You kinda have to like, post the track.


EDIT: That Skindred track wins and comparing it to KoRn is basically suicide worthy.
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Post by: Bastardous Bassist on 16 Feb 2006, 18:36
Quote from: zak924
the only thing i could compare it to is Korn.


Holy crap, he has a point!  It's what Korn would be if they were...you know...actually good.
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Post by: KharBevNor on 16 Feb 2006, 18:41
Also, if they were fronted by a big insane Welsh-Jamaican instead of Jonathan 'boo hoo hoo' Davis.
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Post by: Bastardous Bassist on 16 Feb 2006, 18:45
Well, I'd say that's part of the whole "good" part, personally.
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Post by: zak924 on 16 Feb 2006, 20:11
yeah, i realised i hade to make a link as soon as i loged off, oh well here instead ill just link a bunch of songs by the subways on purevolume cause im a lazy tramp:)

http://www.purevolume.com/thesubways
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Post by: Neverwhxre on 17 Feb 2006, 17:33
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I love this thread

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On Skindred.
I've seen them live. Comparable to Korn, they rock harder, they flow better and they have a much better audience enthusiasm. I don't necessarily like them but the music is good. I like reggae to an extent but I hate anything remotely similar to Korn or Metallica. So, Skindred gets an 8/10 for the lead singers enthusiasm and rhythm, but for the guitar-ness... 2/10.

8/10 + 2/10 = 10/10 / 2 = 5/10 for Skindred.
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Post by: Storm Rider on 17 Feb 2006, 23:13
You realize that Korn and Metallica aren't metal, right? Or at least, Metallica hasn't been metal for the past 15 years...

But you need to put up your own song anyway, so the chain can continue.
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Post by: Neverwhxre on 20 Feb 2006, 07:51
Zak924 posted the new song, and I didn't state that they were metal.

If I have to do a new song lets go with.

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Patrick Wolf - Boy Like Me
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Post by: Kai on 20 Feb 2006, 09:06
I'm really too lazy to go to a myspace page. Seriously, fuck Myspace.

EDIT: That avatar wins.
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Post by: Praeserpium Machinarum on 20 Feb 2006, 12:47
I am just going to do Zak's since that was what I could find

The Subways - Rock'n'Roll Queen

I think the NME hype over this little band went over my head. But then again NME is hardly the gospel. Nevertheless this is a rapid rocker, where there isn't really much going on. Two lines of lyrics and straight into the chorus repeated twice, and to make it worse he screams the second chorus. He sounds like Nicholls from The Vines in his obnoxious moments, and they don't have the melody to make up for it. My brother calls me a lyricsfascist, so I will just gracefully skip the lyrics, suffice to say they are a bit banal. Overall I was bored with this track, which is not good when it is less than 3 minutes long. The singer's voice annoys me as well so it gets 5/10.

Now one of the best goddamn rockbands in Denmark:
Kitty Wu - Rule No. 9 (http://s5.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2BI9H212JGAMI14EYNSEY9CWOJ)
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Post by: Neverwhxre on 21 Feb 2006, 08:49
I got it.
Listening now.
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Post by: Neverwhxre on 21 Feb 2006, 09:08
Wow.

I'm seriously impressed with this song. His voice is somber and melodramatic in the deeper tones of the song but when it comes to the chorus or what I would assume to be the chorus he picks up a whine/strain that is quite nice. The guitar/drumming is nothing overdramatic and it works for this song. There's a keyboard(i do believe) in the chorus that adds a pleasant to it. The backup vocals are faint and support the lead immensely if you happen to catch it. This is my third time through this song now. I've not really picked up on the lyrics yet, but I like it without knowing. There really is no room for improvement in this song.

10/10.




Next : Coheed and Cambria - The Crowing
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Post by: Praeserpium Machinarum on 21 Feb 2006, 10:09
yeah they are pretty good, just pm me if you want more tracks :)
A friendly advice, though, you need to upload that Coheed song by using http://www.yousendit.com or at least by providing a link :)
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Post by: Neverwhxre on 21 Feb 2006, 14:15
Oh.. well I don't have internet access at home and I have no link to any song I'd offer.. so you go ahead and offer another song for me. :P
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Post by: Bastardous Bassist on 21 Feb 2006, 19:23
Too late.  I managed to find it and am listening to it now.
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Post by: Bastardous Bassist on 21 Feb 2006, 19:48
Okay, absolutely hate the singers tone (which is what I remember from the only other Coheed song I've ever heard), and he seriously needs to learn how to breath.  I could hear him take a really quick and shallow breath before each line.  Actually, now that I think about it, he kind of sounds like Geddy Lee, but much more abrasive.  I guess it's what I'd get if I crossed Geddy Lee with an eight-year-old girl...  Now that I've got my main complaint out of the way, let's get into the meat of this.

The song as a whole is really well-done.  I love the main riff at the beginning, though I could live without the little tail they put on the end of it.  I also really like how the drums and bass change to keep it interesting.  The vocal melodies are pretty good, but really repetetive.  It's awesome how that chorus-type-thing ("You are my favorite") goes back into the verse the first time, when everyone drops except the guitar and then they all do hits.

The bridge starts out a little too proggy for me (and I'm a huge fan of prog, but not unison sections that don't really seem to add too much), but goes into a really cool high-energy section before getting soft.  It starts off the build in a satisfying manner, but I'm not a fan of the guitar lead figures (in all sections of the song, actually), and it continues to build subtly enough.

Really like the layering of vocals in the ending section and how so many things are intertwining and fitting together, even if I do believe they're rather poorly excuted.  The pitch isn't really that bad, but the tone is just annoying.

I'd have to say a really well-constructed song despite the things I don't like about he composition.  Sorry to keep going on about the singer (especially as I am such a poor singer personally), but he really just ensures that I'm never going to buy the band's CDs.  If they put somebody behind the mic who didn't make me want to strangle an ostrich, then I'd deffinitely pick up some of their music.

7/10.  As vitally important as the vocals are to me, the song is really good.

Brave - I Believe (http://s39.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0F4C8GP0ESQ2X04GSEV6PUEBMU)
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Post by: Kai on 21 Feb 2006, 20:22
Geddy Lee crossed with an 8 year old girl is a pretty accurate representation.
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Post by: Storm Rider on 21 Feb 2006, 21:54
Too bad he can't play bass like Geddy Lee. And that I really don't like Coheed and Cambria because it has all the pretentiousness without any of the talent.

But that's just me.

Kai, do you listen to Nevermore? Because I'm listening to the Brave song right now, and if you've never heard of them, I'm totally fucking posting a track.
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Post by: Neverwhxre on 22 Feb 2006, 08:08
I'm on it.


Female Vocalist.
That's cool. I think her voice is kind of plain though. The back up vocals are also female and add a nice undertone with higher notes at certain parts. The singers range is quite nice. She doesn't squeak at all and when she reaches for those ceiling notes it actually sounds good. Most of the song sounds the same to me. It's a good sound, but it's monotonous.

I really like the introduction to this even the affect on the guitar. The guitar work in most of this song is fairly simple and repetitive. I could do without the effects pedal on the solo or really the solo in general. Mostly this song reminds me of a Fantasy-sounded Avril Lavigne. It's composure is well put together but the guitar is monotone, the lyrics get repetitive and if I hadn't been listening for the drum and bass in this song, I wouldn't have heard it. It's something I'd pass by on the radio.

4/10 for the decent composure.


I have no ability to post this song so if someone else wants to offer something go ahead.

Metric - Wet Blanket
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Post by: Evilpopsicleguy on 22 Feb 2006, 17:21
hm...I think I like it!

I' really no good at describing (or critiquing) music this way, but imagine The New Pornographers, but less electronic and more Rock. The cynical touch of the Female lead's voice fits in just right, and the overall flow of the song just sounds good. if anything, the gap in the middle is just short of being too long.

I give it a 9/10

I think I'll Mix it up and give you THREE choices (but really, I suggest you listen to both songs).

Next:
Day In Day Out - by Catch 22
-or-
If and when we rise again - by Streetlight Manifesto
-or-
Better place, Better Time - by Streetlight Manifesto
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Post by: surgerydrugsnrocknroll on 22 Feb 2006, 17:24
evilpopsicleguy- you forgot to give people a link to where they can download the songs.
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Post by: Evilpopsicleguy on 22 Feb 2006, 18:34
Quote from: surgerydrugsnrocknroll
evilpopsicleguy- you forgot to give people a link to where they can download the songs.


uh, yeah, I'm not sure if any of them are available online...So I'm kinda depending on someone with limewire here. but in the mean time, I'll try to find the songs and/or upload them somewhere.
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Post by: Kai on 22 Feb 2006, 18:36
OKAY. IT'S BEEN POSTED ON THIS PAGE, LIKE, 3 TIMES. www.yousendit.com



Also, I don't listen to Nevermore, although they sound pretty awesome.
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Post by: Storm Rider on 22 Feb 2006, 19:05
Then this will be fixed.

Nevermore  - Narcosynthesis (http://s9.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0UZ8XM5RE61W81L2A0IQ59ID3E)

I don't even know WHAT to call these guys. They're like prog/thrash/power, but mostly they're just really good.
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Post by: Bastardous Bassist on 22 Feb 2006, 19:10
Now I remember where I've heard Nevermore before, the drummer in my band in high school was always trying to get me to listen to them, and he played some for me in his car.  Oddly enough, he hasn't given me any yet.

I know at one point, there's a lead-in to one section that's just double strokes on the ride.  I only remember this fact because he and I make fun of it so much, because it's just such a simple concept that it would have been rediculously hard to think of.
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Post by: Kai on 22 Feb 2006, 19:47
Oh man. I love that track, and I'd totally review it, but I don't have time to do it right now because I'm working on an essay. Someone else do it. It still totally gets a 10, however.
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Post by: casull on 27 Feb 2006, 00:55
Nevermore - Narcosynthesis

The worst thing I can say about this is that the tone, especially of the rhythm guitar, is pretty generic. Could easily be a hundred bands. The singer's voice is pretty cool, not a wailer or a screamer, he's actually singing, fairly low.
It's something I would listen to when I wanted background noise, not music to concentrate on. The lead guitar was quite good without being amazing, as was the drumming.

I will add that my headphones only work in one ear, and it's 3am so I can't use my speakers... so if there's amazingness happening in the right channel, ignore me.

I will also add that the more of a band's music I hear, the more I appreciate them. I can hate a single track, but then like it once i've heard a dozen others and gotten a feel for their style.

EDIT: It's the next morning, and I decided to give it one more shot... I like it a lot more after a few listens. The vocal harmonies are really nifty.

8/10


ok, mine... I feel out of my depth here, because a lot of my favorite music is pretty mainstream. I'm really not sure how well-known dream evil is, because I found this song on a WoW vid, in which it was extremely appropriate. Anyway: rawr, dragon metal.

Dream Evil - The Chosen Ones
http://s37.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1Y81JM38JID2T1SR60XM3UIBAF

if that doesn't work, I'll try fixing it tomorrow.

Bonus points: here's the offending video. I wouldn't bother if you don't play   warcraft, but it's a pretty cool vid/music sync. http://www.warcraftmovies.com/movieview.php?id=9619
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Post by: onewheelwizzard on 13 Mar 2006, 14:05
The yousendit file expired, and I'm not downloading a 116MB file to listen to that song.  Sorry.  Repost it and I'll listen to it.

Kai said that he didn't know who Kyuss was on another thread, so I decided to post the song that prompted the thought.  This is a cover of Black Sabbath's "Into The Void," from a 6-track split CD Kyuss did with their successors Queens of the Stone Age.  See what you think.

Kyuss - Into The Void

(And if you like it, here's a Kyuss original, from the same CD.  I don't think I'm breaking any rules by making more music avaliable.  Review one or the other or both, whatever.)

Kyuss - Fatso Forgetso
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Post by: Kai on 13 Mar 2006, 14:57
Kyuss - Into the Void

Yeah, firstoff, if you read the other thread: totally one of my favorite Sabbath tracks ever. This cover seems to lose some of the... aesthetic feeling? I don't know. It's certainly faster and more upbeat and... sludgier, if that's a word. Until it breaks into the little bass/bongo latin-esque thing that's so awesome it hurts. And a totally different solo, which is fancy. Good cover? Yeah. Do I like it better? Myself, I still have some fond feelings for Ozzy and the Oh-Lawd-Yeah's original version. Will I check out Kyuss? probably. 9/10


Storm Rider said I should totally upload some Praxis a while ago and I missed the post and totally forgot to do it, so... here.
Praxis - Crash Victim/Black Science Navigator
http://s41.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2F15DKZ9V3YBX2ELT6GLDHVC4C
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Post by: Storm Rider on 13 Mar 2006, 16:19
Praxis - Crash Victim/Black Science Navigator

OK, first off, this song fucking GROOVES. Great riff, I like the drumming as well. Nice little keyboard interlude, but I had trouble hearing the bass. Still, fucking solid and I'll definitely be checking it out in the future. 8.5-9/10

I think it's time for some Steve Vai, but I really hope I haven't put this song up already.

Steve Vai - For the Love of God (http://s26.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0UDB3FV7U5Q5K2WVPYRFOIBVU4)
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Post by: Bastardous Bassist on 13 Mar 2006, 16:53
Damnit, I love that song, so I can't review.  Oh well.
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Post by: Kai on 13 Mar 2006, 17:29
Yeah, I'm left out too.
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Post by: Misereatur on 14 Mar 2006, 05:22
So its mine then.
Review will be up in a couple of minutes, just need to pick a song.
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Post by: Misereatur on 14 Mar 2006, 05:51
Steve Vai - For The Love Of God

I allway heard my guitarist friends talk about him in awe, but I never actually checked his stuff out.
Anyway, atarts off with a good guitar melody and simple back up by the rythem section. His improv's are really good, and the "lets shred the fuck out of my guitar" part is done very good.
I never was a fan of guitarists solo works, mainly because they could get very very masturbatory (or maybe this is what guitarists think when they listen to Jaco). But Steve Vai does it without being cocky and without over shreding.
8/10, and if I was a guitar player I'd probably give this a 20/10.

Now for my song:
Miranda Sex Garden - A Fairytale About Slavery (http://s15.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0DSA84E71ZGTY1ZKPK3VQESS4C)
One of my favorite songs ever.
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Post by: Praeserpium Machinarum on 14 Mar 2006, 10:23
Miranda Sex Garden - A Fairytale about Slavery

First of all their bandname is really misleading, I though it was something like Jack off Jill or the like. Having said I really like it, it starts out with this renaissance fair/sea shanty flute(?) melody. That is then mixed with a sort of funeral march percussion and a female singer's gorgeous voice. For some reason I don't mind the repeated lyrics, mainly I think on the strength of her voice and the beautiful arrangement. Later on violins and rock guitar enter. It becomes predominant about halfway through, and it picks up in urgence. The end is a bit odd with the silence and music box playing, but all in all a really beautiful track, and a cool idea to mix rock and medieval music.

It gets a 9/10 since the ending is a bit unnecessary.

Now we are heading into art-rock territory with Jomi Massage.

Jomi Massage - Opposite of Nothing (http://s24.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0N8Q7YAJ0HF8Q1Y90EA7U8Z2G8)
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Joni Massage - Opposite of Nothing

Starts of with some pretty distonal slides. Then the drums and piano kick in, and things turns pretty awesome. I really like the lead singer's voice. She reminds me of someone, but I can't really remember who.
Anyway, I like the guitar that joins in a bit later. Quite simple, fo sho, but it sounds good. The distonal bits come in again after some time, meh.
After that, the song gets a bit harder, with a bit more guitar and some voices in the background. I really like the ending, too. The piano bit reminds me of the Tintin theme. :/

Even though I have a tendency to dislike art-rock, this one's pretty darn good. + Bonus points for Tintin association. 8/10

Next song, Sterling - På Vej (http://s59.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2533JA1GSW3A81AH8XYJ2D51D6)
Or, P Vej, according to yousendit.com. :(
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Post by: amok on 15 Mar 2006, 11:47
Sterling - På Vej

Your link was a bit screwed up but I got it ;)

The intro is really cool, the jingle bells at the start remind me a bit of a Mew song. I'm not entirely sure what he's actually saying but the vocal melodies are great; the music in the first coupla minutes, while subtle enough to let the singer guy do his thing and make him the focus of the song, is interesting in its own right. Very upbeat and catchy. The instrumental bit in the second half is groovy, nice crescendo. Still sounds like Mew btw (that's a good thing). I endorse this band and would definitely listen again / get an album.

Good song structure, good music, good singing. My only complaint is that I want to know what the guy said, what language was that? :) 9/10

Leiahdorus - Freeways (http://s30.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3159K2VLS6VSA2Q2FKPYRCIYPW)
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Post by: Bastardous Bassist on 15 Mar 2006, 11:52
Just a sec while I download and review.
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Post by: Bastardous Bassist on 15 Mar 2006, 12:13
Okay, here with:
Leiahdorus - Freeways

It's nice.  However, I don't like the way the singer attacks each line he sings.  I also don't like the extra effects on the on the voice.  The melody is pretty wandering and indistinct.  I mean, the only reason he seems to be singing is to deliver the lyrics, and I don't ever listen to lyrics.  That said, the song construction is okay.  It starts softer and gets bigger at points, but on the other hand there just seems to be discreet dynamic levels, and there's no in-between, no build.  The ending also seems to just fizzle.  It's rather indicative of the rest of the tune.  It's arbitrary and indistinct.  I don't think I'd ever actually listen to it, but it's reasonable background music.
6/10

Here's mine:
Chris Potter - Megalopolis (http://s43.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=15FG0UE7ZQH283Q5S1PUIGA4EA)
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what language was that?


Danish. And yeah, I guess they're kinda Mew-ish.

They've got some more songs on Myspace (http://www.myspace.com/sterlingdk), if you want to check them out.
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Post by: Praeserpium Machinarum on 15 Mar 2006, 12:15
Laffy: Jomi Massage aka Signe Høirup Wille-Jørgensen is also in Speaker Bite Me and was in Murmur. She has also appeared on Bows' albums and with DR's Big Band.
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Post by: amok on 15 Mar 2006, 12:16
Quote from: Laffy

Danish. And yeah, I guess they're kinda Mew-ish.

They've got some more songs on Myspace (http://www.myspace.com/sterlingdk), if you want to check them out.


sweet, thanks :D
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Post by: Mr. Oysterhead on 15 Mar 2006, 12:27
Quote from: Bastardous Bassist
Okay, here with:
Leiahdorus - Freeways

It's nice.  However, I don't like the way the singer attacks each line he sings.  I also don't like the extra effects on the on the voice.  The melody is pretty wandering and indistinct.  I mean, the only reason he seems to be singing is to deliver the lyrics, and I don't ever listen to lyrics.  That said, the song construction is okay.  It starts softer and gets bigger at points, but on the other hand there just seems to be discreet dynamic levels, and there's no in-between, no build.  The ending also seems to just fizzle.  It's rather indicative of the rest of the tune.  It's arbitrary and indistinct.  I don't think I'd ever actually listen to it, but it's reasonable background music.
6/10

Here's mine:
Chris Potter - Megalopolis (http://s43.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=15FG0UE7ZQH283Q5S1PUIGA4EA)


Downloading now, will edit in review..

Chris Potter - Megalopolis

I think this is a nice, good jazz song. It's something you would bop your head or dance to, and it's just got a pretty upbeat vibe. I would definintely be interested in the whole cd. Seems like it's easy to get into, for the casual jazz listener or the hardcore listener. It's not outstandingly impressive, but it's not bad. I'll give it 8/10.

Now, this may be one of the greatest songs ever. Seriously. Slint - Good Morning, Captain (http://s53.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1E740U8EZXJTL3G19TDMNETML8)
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Slint - Good Morning, Captain

Opens with some sort of chorused out keys, or something, I dunno, then a guy comes in with very soft, spoken vocals, which I can not hear a word of, and there is also guitar. This goes on for about three minutes, then everything but the guitar drops out. Then the guitar gets louder and more distorted for a bit, then quiet, then back to the old...this is 7 minutes long!? 2/10.

Leftöver Crack - Atheist Anthem (http://s54.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0ZTFXLX0EPKU939SG22W76V9VA)
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Post by: Der Golem on 16 Mar 2006, 16:06
Leftover Crack - Athiest Anthem

This track rocks. Hard. It's not exactly the most original thing I've heard, distorted guitar, fast drums and some screamed vocals. But I happen to enjoy that formula, and this is pretty catchy, especially the chorus. And I love the vocals. Bit short though, just over two minutes. I'll be sure to check these guys out. 7.5/10


Darkest Hour - Vertunis, Aequitas (http://s39.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0H1I65ATPDLLK2UOF24IKWPNPA) It's a 13 minute long metal instrumental, consider yourself warned.
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Darkest Hour - Vertunis, Aequitas

The first 4 minutes are just an onslaught of metal.  The only problem I can come up with is that the intensity and theme basically stays the same the whole time, and it reaches two identical climaxes instead of building up to one real one.  Then a little guitar picking comes in on its own, is joined by a well-orchestrated second guitar, and the metal starts back up again.  Then it dies off again and ... piano?  What?  The drums come back in, along with the light guitar picking.  Then the metal comes back and two guitars play off each other for a while.  Things get softer for a bit and then ... SOLO!  (Took them long enough.)  The solo doesn't impress me too much ... it's pretty standard as far as metal solos go (not that I'm the biggest authority on that).  Then the piano comes back and is all slow and dirgeful.  ... and that's the whole last minute.

The riffs are good, the solo's OK at best, but what I really like is the rhythm section.  I could really hear the bass, and it was laying down some pretty good stuff.  The drum fills were good too.

8.5/10!

Kyuss - Supa Scoopa and Mighty Scoop

Very few songs I've ever heard approach the heavy groove of this track's second half.  The last 2 1/2 minutes are ridiculous.
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Post by: Storm Rider on 16 Mar 2006, 19:51
OK, I really like this song, but I can't figure out why. There's nothing particularly sophisticated going on with any single instrument, and the guy's voice is far from my favorites. But I can't stop listening to this. Wtf.
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Post by: amok on 17 Mar 2006, 00:54
Hahaha, you've summed up my initial reaction to that Kyuss tune perfectly. When I got into them a few years ago I had no idea why.

Fuzzy guitar, horribly snarled vocals, aimless wandering solo... why is this the greatest rock song ever written?

Gotta love Kyuss. :)
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Kyuss - Supa Scoopa and Mighty Scoop

Very few songs I've ever heard approach the heavy groove of this track's second half.  The last 2 1/2 minutes are ridiculous.


Hmm... in a nutshell, it gets worse the more I think about it, but just listening to this track without trying to deconstruct it is very fun.

The singer's voice is, ah, pleasantly destroyed. The whole song, though, reminds me of some of the worse jam sessions I've been at: most people playing the same thing over and over again with someone occasionally trying and failing to do an interesting solo. The bass groove is fun throughout, though, and when this song is most enjoyable is when you quit trying to compare it to rock or metal and just enjoy that funky groove.
P.S. Their guitarist needs to learn music theory, IMHO.

6/10

Stabbing Westward - What do I have to do?
http://s41.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2RY8WKHJ832F21S1MKPPWCX06T
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Stabbing Westward:

The intro could've done with being either about 45 seconds shorter or a tad more interesting IMO. Reminded me a bit of VAST except their timing is usually better...

The rest of the song is pretty standard Stabbing Westward fare, interchangeable but catchy riffs. The last minute is probably my favourite bit of this song, awesome climax at the end. However, the vocals are kinda spoiled for me by the fact that I've heard the self-titled album and I know this guy can sing really well, so why is he doing this annoying whispering thing throughout? It fits the tone of the song I guess but gets a bit monotonous by the second verse.

Not their best work but neither is it their most annoying by far, 7/10. :)

Uploading now...

Qntal - El Sendero Hacia Monserrat (Stella Splendens v. 2) (http://s48.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3QV7FREI5T0KB1D2SPBOV7T4AK)
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Post by: Nemba on 17 Mar 2006, 01:40
Quote from: Storm Rider
OK, I really like this song, but I can't figure out why. There's nothing particularly sophisticated going on with any single instrument, and the guy's voice is far from my favorites. But I can't stop listening to this. Wtf.
This is how "normal" people listen to music. 'Hey, that sounds cool'. Now you know how it feels for a non-musician or non-music-geek.

Quote from: amok
Qntal - El Sendero Hacia Monserrat (Stella Splendens v. 2)


I like how even through the drums are often quite oppressive and have a very tribal-esque rhythm, the song is very nice and relaxing, and I also think that especially the texture that manages to be smooth even with some dissonance and some distorted instruments. Very nice to listen to in the dark after a hard day.

The Caitlin Smith Group - Old School (http://s23.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2AG44FRAH8XTS317AS0V8XGRJL)
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Qntal - El Sendero Hacia Monserrat (Stella Splendens v. 2)

I wonder what language this is in.  I don't really care, though.  The vocals are really nice and do a very nice job as another instrument.  It drags on a bit, though.  But when the only problem I have with music is that it lasts too long, I don't really think I have a problem with it at all.  I mean, I listen to bands that make albums that are just one track, so I can't complain about something 7 minutes long.

It's not intense listening at all, but it's good if you don't want intense listening.  There's not much going on, really, but what there is is ear-pleasing.

I like it.  8/10.

Ramona Cordova - Giver's Reply

Believe it or not, this is a guy singing.  I'm not sure why the name suggests otherwise.  This is the only music I've ever heard that seemed indescribably familiar the first time I heard it.  The weird thing is, this has happened to most of the people I've shown it to.  It's minimalist as hell, but it's absolutely beautiful.
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Ramona Cordova - Giver's Reply


Pretty simple but not too badly so, it still works well. Some of it sounds just slightly grating to my used-to-chill ears (really only the part where the drums are loudest), but the melody is nice and while not classically good there's a very likeable quality about the guy's voice. He sounds like as if he wasn't singing something somewhat sad he'd really be enjoying himself singing it, which I always like.

7.5/10

Jaga Jazzist - Kitty Wu (http://s32.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=05IMBWF7331051YWXA3ZYLVBBU)
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Jaga Jazzist - Kitty Wu

Ah man, I love JJ and this song's no exception. Simultaneously eclectic and really laid back, it's interesting without being too annoying and jerky. Very uplifting, summery music. Not quite up there with Animal Chin IMO but still a funky tune. Gotta love the warm synths. 9/10

Uploading my next now...

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I wonder what language this is in.


Probably a form of one that no one's spoken for centuries :) Qntal mostly play old medieval folk songs. Not sure if there's more than a couple in modern tongues.

Anyway, on with the thread (which is awesome by the way)

Epsilon Minus - The Road To Hell (Feat. Eric Ohler of Null Device) (http://s52.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0RS3URD1KZB7W30Y7EE9KFE2HQ)
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The Fall Of Troy - Ghostship Part IV

INSANITY!  And it never grooves.  In fact, it seems the goal of this track (and possibly the band) is to be as crazy as possible.  Well, the bridge starts out groovy, but then the lead guitar comes in and kills that.  I think it's just a little too fast.  It kind of seems like they're struggling a little bit to play it right and stick everything in there.  The screaming is okay, but it's not really a style I like, and the singing is...well, it would have been better had he kept screaming, in my opinion.  Overall, it's not my taste in the least, but I think if they slowed it down just a few bpm, it would be immesuarably better.
4/10

The Bad Plus - Smells Like Teen Spirit (http://s57.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1NI6G947BNREL123NNGPSIU2GD)
Yup, it's a Nirvana cover, but it's a little odd.
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The Bad Plus - Smells Like Teen Spirit

A bit odd? Way to understate the wierdness of it. Anyway, I happen to like The Bad Plus (they played in my town just last week but i couldn't go) but had never heard this song. It starts out with a slow, sombre piano, joined soon by drums and bass. It sounds almost nothing like the original, except for the piano which carries the vocal line. Anyway, I'm gonne give it a 8/10, I really like it.

Stjörnukisi - Flottur Sófi (http://s38.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0EWU2C6CGV03F2DNP2D4DI5M1P) Translates to "Starcat - Nice Couch"
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Stjörnukisi - Flottur Sófi (http://s38.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0EWU2C6CGV03F2DNP2D4DI5M1P) Translates to "Starcat - Nice Couch"

I'm not too sure which genres they're trying to mix here, but it works decently. The opening with the effected piano sounds like it's going to be something disco-ey or poppy. It isn't at all, but you don't feel as if you've been cheated, which I guess is good. The vocalist's voice is lovely, if perhaps a bit too soft. If it weren't for the varied instruments it would get a bit monotonous after a while, and while it's not too bad, I'd like to have heard a little more variation in the guitar and the overall rhythms though. The occasional fitting dissonant chord does catch your attention back when it fades.

6.5/10

The The - Heartland (http://s28.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0XCW6OJEILEEI1WA8JNYX3ZO1T)
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The The- Heartland

the guitar and the drums have this weird cold sound to them, and given the apparent subject matter of the song, that might have been intentional.  i'm not a big fan of the legion of female backup singers they've got here.  it all sounds a wee bit overproduced, but i'm a fan of sparser arrangements anyway.  i suppose it's good for what it is, but i'm not really a big fan of the sound. 4/10

okay, here's mine.

Nuclear Rabbit- Champion of the World (http://s8.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3OMWFLGGQT45C0EY5F2IL9FQSO)
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Post by: Nemba on 18 Mar 2006, 02:38
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The The- Heartland

the guitar and the drums have this weird cold sound to them, and given the apparent subject matter of the song, that might have been intentional.
T'was. And while that doesn't make for particularly fantastic music it makes for fairly strong political commentary, which, while it was made in the mid-80s Thatcherian era, are still somewhat applicable (again) today.
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Nuclear Rabbit- Champion of the World (http://s8.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3OMWFLGGQT45C0EY5F2IL9FQSO)


Pretty cool, this wouldn't be my usual style of music at all, and the vocals annoyed me a bit. The little bass solo at the start reminded me of Suicidal Tendencies which is a good thing. In fact the bass is pretty awesome throughout.

I can see myself enjoying this a lot more if I was blind drunk and in the mood to break stuff. Sober, it gets 6-7/10 :)

Mr Scruff - Shrimp (http://s56.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0D280EOZ7L75017EU6A9KV6D0E)

Go go go.
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Post by: ImRonBurgundy? on 18 Mar 2006, 07:29
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Pretty cool, this wouldn't be my usual style of music at all, and the vocals annoyed me a bit. The little bass solo at the start reminded me of Suicidal Tendencies which is a good thing. In fact the bass is pretty awesome throughout.

I can see myself enjoying this a lot more if I was blind drunk and in the mood to break stuff. Sober, it gets 6-7/10 :)


aww... no mention of the absolutely hilarious lyrics?

"I circumcised myself with my bare hands!  GRIZZLY ADAMS, MOTHER-BITCHES!"
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Post by: Laffy on 20 Mar 2006, 07:53
Quote from: amok


Mr Scruff - Shrimp (http://s56.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0D280EOZ7L75017EU6A9KV6D0E)

Go go go.


I dig the trumpets, but I saw Shaft yesterday, so I guess I'm kinda biased.
It's quite funk-ay, but even though they try to spice it up with a bit of variation, it gets boring after a while. It's more like background music than anything.

But, it works. As background music, anyway. 6/10

Kliché - Patrulje (http://s24.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=11GV0LZ2FEW013MZTJEQMR3TBP)
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Kliché - Patrulje (http://s24.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=11GV0LZ2FEW013MZTJEQMR3TBP)


3/10 - Cliche indeed.  It's your less than average new wave music... nothing special in the synth department.  I'm not particularly fond of the vocals either... they sound like a bad version of Alphaville.  The drums, however, were consistently on beat, if not particularly exciting and that gives this song it's three out of ten rating.

And now, something mellower...
Island View Drive - Underneath the Moon (http://s64.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=04NXZCDV7NVIX3KT297SHEFLHM)
Enjoy!

--Nick
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Island View Drive - Underneath The Moon

Starts off with very sharp drums and a sort of reggae style synth line or possibly very distorted guitar. Adds into it with pop-punkish vocals, that are an immediate turn-off. Seems to be a love song? Yeah. Quite repetetive, but not I suppose in any way offensive auditally, except maybe the vocals at points. Doesn't really seem to start or lead anywhere though. I'll give it 5/10.

Now, let's go somewhere very strange.

Acid Bath - Scream of the Butterfly (http://s54.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=28XK5IL00I08J0QN8W8TPFN6GT)

This track is not going to sound like you'd expect, btw. It's not even really metal, more one of their ballads.
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Double-post, sorry.
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Acid Bath - Scream of the Butterfly

I really like this track.  The guitar sound is appropriately spacey (unless that's a bass, it could be either), there's a second guitar in there that does some cool stuff, and the drummer does a good job.  The lyrics are awesome, too.  This would convince me to get more Acid Bath music if I didn't already have a lot more music I want to listen to than I actually can.

Buffalo - The Prophet

Mid-70's metal from Australia.  The album this track is from, Volcano Rock, is basically a bit like the album Black Sabbath would've made between their self-titled and Paranoid, which means in my opinion that it's the album that anything after Vol. 4 should've been.  And the song's about Moses!
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Post by: CoheedCambria2 on 21 Mar 2006, 18:05
Buffalo - The Prophet:


So this song starts off with a guitar riff, sounds pretty cool but not for me personally. It has a rather slow beat, that is about the same for the whole song. I'm not sure if you can call this metal, well not like modern day metal anyways which would make sense why it's from the mid 70's. The solo is pretty good since it fits in with the song well but like i said not for me. The vocals are pretty good, even though being that I'm not very religious doesn't interest me at all. It seems like the song just drags on for quite some time with different guitar riffs that all seem to sound about the same even though I realize they aren't. I would give this song a 6.5/10 overall. (I'm trying not to be biased)

So for my song I am going to choose...Strung Out - "Ultimate Devotion"
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Post by: Kai on 21 Mar 2006, 18:07
OKAY. PEOPLE. YOU NEED TO PROVIDE A LINK TO THE SONG. WE ARE NOT GOING TO LOAD UP A PROGRAM SO THAT WE CAN DOWNLOAD YOUR SHITTY SONGS.
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http://www.yousendit.com

Jeez.
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Ahhh sorry guys

Strung Out - Ultimate Devotion (http://s9.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2LG1VQ0IG66Y62YRPHF3JMSSDH)
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Post by: Jedit on 22 Mar 2006, 10:39
Strung Out - Ultimate Devotion

Short and to the point, this one.  Feels like the band want to be The Offspring or Syndrome of a Down - they have the same frenetic shouldn't-you-really-be-carrying-a-skateboard? vibe to them.  On the other foot, they also reminded me of the Supersuckers, whose hilarious "I Want The Drugs" should be forcefed to every American teenager with a guitar and a garage.  All in all, neither offensively bad nor a work of genius.  5/10.

OK, let's drag something obscure but interesting out of my collection.  

The Deep Listening Band - Suiren (http://www.epitonic.com/files/reg/songs/mp3/Pauline_Oliveros_Stuart_Dempster_And_Panaiotis-Suiren.mp3)

EDIT: Hmm, the link isn't quite direct.  Trust the site, though; the downloads are legal and free, and I've never had any spam from them in the several years since I found them.
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Post by: ImRonBurgundy? on 23 Mar 2006, 10:35
The Deep Listening Band- Suiren

this has an ambient, cinematic feel to it.  it sounds like something you might hear in a movie over an establishing shot of a desert or a barren battlefield.  or perhaps over a muffled flashback of the protagonist's family being killed and their mud hut being torched by the king's enforcers or something.  in all, nice background music, but nothing i'd ever see myself actively listening to.

Polysics- For Young Electric Pop (http://)

argh.  yousendit isn't working right now.  i'll upload it later.
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Post by: Jedit on 23 Mar 2006, 12:46
Quote from: ImRonBurgundy?
The Deep Listening Band- Suiren

this has an ambient, cinematic feel to it.  it sounds like something you might hear in a movie over an establishing shot of a desert or a barren battlefield.  or perhaps over a muffled flashback of the protagonist's family being killed and their mud hut being torched by the king's enforcers or something.  in all, nice background music, but nothing i'd ever see myself actively listening to.


Interesting review.  I like it mainly because it is great background music, but it's also got a high level of subtlety to it.  It's also entirely acoustic; the ambient effects were achieved by recording in a gigantic underground water cistern that functions as a perfect echo chamber and whispering gallery.

Score out of 10, BTW?
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Post by: casull on 24 Mar 2006, 10:35
Quote from: ImRonBurgundy?
The Deep Listening Band- Suiren

this has an ambient, cinematic feel to it.  it sounds like something you might hear in a movie over an establishing shot of a desert or a barren battlefield.  or perhaps over a muffled flashback of the protagonist's family being killed and their mud hut being torched by the king's enforcers or something.  in all, nice background music, but nothing i'd ever see myself actively listening to.

Polysics- For Young Electric Pop (http://)

argh.  yousendit isn't working right now.  i'll upload it later.


I spent 20 minutes trying to find a copy and couldn't, so I'm just going to substitute a picture I saw for actually listening to the song.
Crazy japanese hair and spacesuits - 10/10

Ok, mine. Sonata Arctica. I Want Out (Helloween Cover) (http://s45.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=33SGYXUK3EIE13UBJVPJ9P6KVD)
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Post by: ImRonBurgundy? on 24 Mar 2006, 12:25
Quote from: Jedit
Score out of 10, BTW?


whoa.  i totally forgot.  five.

ALSO, FINALLY IT WORKED: Polysics- For Young Electric Pop (http://s25.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=11ZWJSZ31C3R02INLYCJCYR6NG)
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Post by: Der Golem on 24 Mar 2006, 12:29
Sonata Actica - I Want Out.

Wow that is one catchy opening riff. Actually, the entire song is pretty catchy, hooky riffs, simple drums, power metal falsetto vocals and even the solo is pretty straightforward. An excellent power metal tune, 8.5/10.

Edit: And I guess you should just download the song above me.
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Post by: Praeserpium Machinarum on 24 Mar 2006, 13:31
The Polysics - For Young Electric Pop

I have heard Domo Arigato Mr. Roboto so I was prepared for their spazzy madness. It's a fun and bouncy track, exactly what I would expect of japanese synthpunkers(or something). What appeals to me is that it is not random, it's just overflowing with wacky ideas. The chorus is somewhat disturbing with what I hear as "fuck gigantic fuck!" which may just be really accented. You could think that such a packed track would be tiring but as it ticks in at 2:50 it never does. Though an album this full would be a bit too much.

8/10 for spazzy fun :)

Under Byen - Af Samme Stof som Stof (http://s9.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2ANTZPHELOR7D1364D8TAAK8LN)
This is the lead single off their third album Samme Stof som Stof(which can be translated as Same Matter as Matter)
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Post by: Tinjessla on 24 Mar 2006, 14:43
Oh wow, i love this track!

Unsuprisingly, there's comparisons to Bjork there and unsuprisingly, that's why i love this song. Her voice is quite haunting. Very atmospheric too, helped by the fact that i can't understand what she's saying :p. I would say the whole 'creepy tinkle piano' bit near the end is a little cliche, but it's actually a fitting end to the track in general.

8/10 for ethereal beauty.


 Four Tet - Spirit Fingers (http://s65.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1V7T6X1VNQTCV0NU01YSWAVPB8)

From the album 'Rounds'.
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Post by: amok on 25 Mar 2006, 04:36
Conjure One - Manic Star (http://s50.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=03GI6IE6G9YV60EGMVZ7541AXQ) (Might as well leave this uploaded now that it's on the internet. Free song!)
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Post by: Storm Rider on 25 Mar 2006, 10:23
Just pointing this out: if you're familiar with a song, you shouldn't be reviewing it. The entire point of this thread is to expose people to new music.
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Post by: Jedit on 25 Mar 2006, 12:10
Conjure One - Manic Star

It appears that an announcement has been kept from us all.  Enigma and Evervescence have bred, and given to the world a bouncing baby band called Conjure One.

Unlike their progenitors, however, Conjure One have written more than one song.  They're also neither overwrought, pretentious nor French, all of which are points in their favour.  Points against: they're not particularly original.

Overall, it's competent but workmanlike.  6/10.

Dave Randall - Take It Easy, But Take It (http://s37.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1WKLVEWN00VC903OGW5K01CQY1)

(EDIT: Just in case anyone thinks I'm Francophobic, shouts go out to Plastic Bertrand - shamelessly ripped off by the Damned as they were - and Jean Michel Jarre.)
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Post by: Laffy on 26 Mar 2006, 11:05
Dave Randall - Take It Easy, But Take It.

I like this song. Even though it's very slow and relaxed, it manages to stay relatively interesting all the way through.
Reminds me of some of the songs from Whiskey For The Holy Ghost. There's not even that much to say about it.
It's a really simple song, but it's great, anyway. 8/10

And now for something completely different;

VETO - You Are A Knife (http://s53.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1ATOV7UOW0G7T1VIRAMV7O8ANL)
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Post by: jcknbl on 28 Mar 2006, 00:54
VETO- You Are a Knife

Starts out with syntheseized beeps that will loop throughout almost the entire song (with some variation I guess). Then a little beat comes followed by another set of syth'd beeps. At about 1:15 some guitar comes in. The lyrics, seem pretty mediocre to me. I almost want to ask if some of this stuff is sampled 'cause all of this sounds so familiar. It isn't exactly terrible but it also isn't something I'm gonna be listening to again. Also, either they ripped off the Killers or the Killers ripped them off (or they both were derivative from the same bands). Either ways the comparison isn't good if you don't like the Killers. 4.5/10


Man Man- Engwish Bwudd (http://s45.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3QN0Y9PF4133U12F90D4MLSWD3)
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Post by: Praeserpium Machinarum on 28 Mar 2006, 12:57
That's a big file...
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Post by: jcknbl on 28 Mar 2006, 13:13
Thats, I think, cause I cut it from the album as an exact audio copy. I'll try to get a smaller one up.

EDIT:

Here we go

http://s45.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=26I1JHTZ8114I3RF6VEOVHJ22K
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Post by: Praeserpium Machinarum on 28 Mar 2006, 23:07
Man Man - Engwish Bwudd

Very inspired madness, it has some piratey elements and cabaret/theatrical elements that make delicious rum.
It starts with some falsetto voices speaking gibberish and then the whole piratey thing gets going with wordless shouting and barbershop quartet backing. There is some slight Waits inspiration about the whole rickety arrangement and the total disregard for singing in key. The chorus if you can call it that is a mix of the falsetto voices saying "I smell the blood of an englishman" and one of the singers saying gibberish.
I might be biased because I have an effinity for insane sea shanties but this song is really good. They are like the freak twin of The Decemberists or some sort.

9/10

The recording is a bit bad, but then again nothing can stop Lorenzo Woodrose and co. from rocking out. He is probably also the only one who would call his sideproject Spids Nøgenhat meaning Pointy Nakedhat.
Baby Woodrose - Caught in a Whirl (http://s37.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=14DEVA7RY7WHF2Y0T3WO7MCRJS)
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Post by: Jedit on 29 Mar 2006, 05:17
Baby Woodrose - Caught in a Whirl

This is seriously reminding me of something, but I'll be hedgehogged if I know what.

As advertised, the recording was a bit on the lo-fi side so I can't attest to anything in the way of musical quality.  Lyrically and tunewise it's short and to the point, with a little bit of ambient style at the start before it starts to rock out... oh, I'll just go and listen to it again, shall I?  :)

Rating: 7/10

I found this little curiosity on an album of unsigned bands last year.  I don't expect you to rate it highly - it's not the usual kind of stuff you lot seem to like - but it's not bad and I'm sure that 99% of you won't have heard it.

Sonicultra - Shutdown (http://s39.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=33SQJ3B5636C91MISOUZTIWR5C)
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Post by: onewheelwizzard on 29 Mar 2006, 20:36
Sonicultra - Shutdown

I ... what?  I have no idea what this is.  It's sorta pop, sorta techno, sorta [insert some distinct genre of techno that I can't differentiate from the others], sorta [insert another of same] ... and there's a reasonable bit of rock in there, I guess.  It's constructed in a pretty straightforward fashion, not a whole lot of interesting stuff going on.  The vocals are bland, in my opinion, but they're not poorly-done.  I want to dislike it but it's not that bad.  I'll give it a 5/10 because I don't know what else would be appropriate.

OK, I really hope a lot of people look at what I'm posting and think "Well, why's that up here, everyone knows those guys!" but I'm pretty sure that only a few people will.  It's a shame that so few people know these guys, considering how important they were in music history (they basically invented psychedelic rock, inspiring Pink Floyd among others).

13th Floor Elevators - Roller Coaster
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Post by: DannoHung on 29 Mar 2006, 21:29
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13th Floor Elevators - Roller Coaster


Nice kickin line on it, ricka gicka kicka... the vocalist's lines shouldn't be so muted... can't really hear the tone of his voice.

Woah, tempo shift.  Caterwaulin'  YEAH!  Funky synth sounds... awesome, good, excellent.  

Dragging a little in the middle, the guitar's doing something different, but the recording's kinda crappy so I can't hear it very well.

The end's coming to a nice finish, I can finally hear what that guitar in the background is doing...

I liked it.  The recording was bad though... so unless that's the intended aucoustic characteristics... 8/10.

DJ Format & Abdominal - The Hit Song (http://rpi.edu/~nugend/hit.mp3)
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Post by: onewheelwizzard on 29 Mar 2006, 21:34
That's not a synth, it's a jug.

See? http://youtube.com/watch?v=cYh5oMDlWwQ&search=13th%20floor
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Post by: DannoHung on 29 Mar 2006, 21:50
Woah... I had no idea you could play a jug like that!

Awesome!
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Post by: KharBevNor on 30 Mar 2006, 05:01
Dj. Format - The Hit Song Feat. Abdominal

Starts off with a chilled sort of jazz vibe, then goes on to a sort of ...I dunno the word...peaceful sort of rap thing. The jazz vibe continues on as the instrumental. The song seems to be very self-reflexive, though I can actually make out the words in this song. There's some pretty clever wordplay, and it made me smile on one or two occasions (More hits than Jimmy dropped at Woodstock!) and so forth on that bit. This might well actually be the best rap song I've ever heard. I'm still not sure I would really choose to listen to it over other things, but it was amusing, not annoying, and only a bit boring. So I'm gonna give this an extremely good (for me on rap) 6/10. I'm sure any indie hip-hop fans here would probably be LOVING it.

Now let's get all German and dark and dancy.

E Nomine - Mitternacht [Extended Version] (http://s40.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1L6P4S7S2BJYJ2KDN5YY838Y2G)
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Post by: books_out_loud on 30 Mar 2006, 17:09
E Nomine - Mitternacht [Extended Version]

bum bum bum bum-ba-dum bum bum bum.......
opens up with some techno-dancey type stuff. pretty standard. techno-dancey stuff continues for a bit, and then there's some laughter. around a minute and a half there's some german guy who sounds like he's having phone sex with the listener. then he gets a bit louder, and more rhythmic, and is joined by a chorus of other rather excited germans. it just sort of follows a standard song format after that. verse, chorus, verse, chorus, breakdown, verse chorus. nothing terribly impressive, and nothing you havn't heard before. fans of industrial type music would enjoy this.

5/10

http://s52.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0YU33CN5FWJ541OI6U8CB0UF6B
carissa's wierd - so you wanna be a superhero.mp3
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Post by: KharBevNor on 30 Mar 2006, 17:15
The other ones are singing in Latin.
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Post by: books_out_loud on 30 Mar 2006, 17:58
ahhh, my mistake.
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Post by: Bastardous Bassist on 30 Mar 2006, 18:02
carissa's wierd - so you wanna be a superhero

So, it starts out all wandering with distinct melody, but a bunch of stuff going on.  The acoustic guitar sounds really poor, though.  It sounds sloppy (not just rhythmically, it's also not consistent in volume and attack).  It also sounds like trying to play metal rhythm guitar on an acoustic.  Probably because it's only using power chords, which leads to a boring an anemic sound.  I like that other guitar bit (the one with a bunch of delay on it), but I don't want to hear it the entire song.  It builds a little bit, but only in volume.  Nothing changes harmonically, melodically or rhythmically, except it sped up a little.  Judging by the quality of the acoustic guitar player, I don't think that was intentional.  The vocal melody isn't too bad, but the singer doesn't know how to sing softly, so her voice just sounds weak and unsupported.  The entire track just sounds kind of flaccid and uninteresting.  Plus, they really shouldn't have ended it that way.  It just kind of fizzles.
3/10 - For excessive underproduction and lack of variety.

I was going to post some Webern, but the pianist on the recording I have isn't very good.  So, then I was going to put up some Michael Daugherty, but the piece I want to put up is a verly large file (high quality rip), and I don't have the CD with me because I dropped it off at my college radio station to get uploaded so I can play it on air.  Alas, I'm stuck with John Adams (sorry it's so large, the other one was larger):
John Adams - Lollapalooza (http://s53.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1ZIGCOMNU5IBL1K3BEOZM9PYOL)
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Post by: jcknbl on 30 Mar 2006, 21:11
If you open a high quality rip in Audacity you can convert it to a shitty mp3 format which will be about 1/10 the original size.
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Post by: Bastardous Bassist on 30 Mar 2006, 21:12
Sounds like I'd have to download something extra, and take some extra time, too.
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Post by: Omnicide on 03 Apr 2006, 16:08
John Adams- Lollapalooza

Not bad. Starts with a Gil Evans feel to it but gives way to the sort of music they play from speakers in the lines at theme parks. Skillfully composed, intense when it can be- the middle brass and vstrings section is a killer. 6/10

The Birthday Party- Blast Off!
http://beta.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=415DA042642BC220

A note- you'll probably hate this the first time you hear it. Insane 80's doom punk, all bass drums, trombones and Nick Cave turning into the anti-christ.
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Post by: Kai on 03 Apr 2006, 16:11
YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO PROVIDE A LINK TO IT. WWW.YOUSENDIT.COM. GO.
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Post by: Praeserpium Machinarum on 06 Apr 2006, 10:27
The Birthday Party - Blast Off!(2:18)

I am actually vaguely familiar with The Birthday Party, seeing as how I love late Nick Cave and I wanted to see what he did early on.
It is as you said, beginning with Nick Cave yelling "blast off!", razorsharp guitar and groovy drums. Nick is being his former manic self, which might come as a shock if you have only heard stuff like No More Shall We Part. It is not quite the blast off! he is talking about but nice enough. Though it is not the best Birthday Party song I have heard, Deep in The Woods and Six Strings that Drew Blood are better in my opinion.

But nevertheless it is pretty good 7/10

Now danish indiepop goodness!

Moon Gringo - You Want Buzz Aldrin (http://s12.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0QQOZGO7GADA306EU7F6OYK6O4)
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Post by: amok on 07 Apr 2006, 14:12
Moon Gringo - You Want Buzz Aldrin

I like the string intro, and the vocals are nice and chilled out when they kick in. Good interaction between the male/female vocals (although I do prefer the latter).

Not entirely sure what the lyrics are all about but once it picks up, it's very catchy and upbeat while still having a kinda mellow feel to it. Pretty damn cool, especially the way it kinda builds up and gets more energetic throughout. 8/10

And since I'm feeling moody, here's:

Porcupine Tree - Heart Attack In A Layby (http://s39.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1L1AUYVPTKE0N1CKGVW0DHGHJS)
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Post by: jcknbl on 07 Apr 2006, 15:07
Porcupine Tree- Heart Attack in a Layby

God this is a depressing song. Slow acoustic guitar playing melody throughout with lots of choir style vocals overdubbing eaching other (entering a little before midway). The lyrics could be more subtle "I've got this feeling inside/don't feel so good." But for the most part they're introspective in a good way. 7 out of 10


And now for something completely different

Tullycraft-Out Days in Kansas

http://s42.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1ADYV5QYP531K171G5MK2DKDJW
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Post by: Jedit on 08 Apr 2006, 11:52
Tullycraft - Our Days In Kansas

This song might not have been too bad, if it weren't for the annoying rhythmic breaks in the first half of the song and incredibly irritating backing vocals in the second.  Apart from that, it's completely pedestrian; not really one to broaden anyone's horizons.  2/10


Laika - Prairie Dog (http://s38.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3PHKRH1283XET23EAUW6WSPAG2)
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Post by: Bastardous Bassist on 08 Apr 2006, 12:19
Laika - Prairie Dog

It's a pretty cool tune.  7/4 is a cool time signature if done well, and it's done reasonably well (the best way to do it would be in a way that I didn't even notice it was in an odd time).  I'm always a sucker for vibes, too.  I'm not a huge fan of the same lyrics being repeated over and over again (towards the middle of the song), but it does add stuff in over time, and I really don't mind her voice.  Plus it's an actual melody.  I do think it is maybe 30 seconds to a minute too long.  They don't really do anything more with the last bit of the song.  Sure, they add more things, but it doesn't really add to the song.  Not a huge fan of that really electronic-sounding keyboard bit that's added in the middle.  The rhythms just seem really arbitrary.

Overall, 7/10, because I like it more than I don't.
Niacin - Spring Rounds (http://s38.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=02H3LYIMJT4BE3FU7LYUMOTR6Z)
It's a cover.  5 points if you can figure who wrote the original, without doing a search.  I'll let you know after someone reviews it.
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Post by: Jedit on 08 Apr 2006, 13:04
Quote from: Bastardous Bassist
Laika - Prairie Dog

It's a pretty cool tune.  7/4 is a cool time signature if done well,


Goddamn sonofabitch motherfucker - why is it that everyone can pick out 7/4 time except me?  <seethes>

Anyway, glad you liked it.
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Post by: Bastardous Bassist on 08 Apr 2006, 13:06
Well, I'm quite adept at counting, actually.  I just noticed it was wierd and figured "7/4 is probably about right," so I started counting to seven, and it fit.  There's no accent on beat one, too, which is cool.
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Post by: Kai on 08 Apr 2006, 13:13
He plays bass. in a Jazz band. He is thusly required to be able to count time like a mother.
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Post by: jcknbl on 08 Apr 2006, 14:23
Quote
This song might not have been too bad, if it weren't for the annoying rhythmic breaks in the first half of the song and incredibly irritating backing vocals in the second. Apart from that, it's completely pedestrian; not really one to broaden anyone's horizons. 2/10


This review actually describes every single Tullycraft song:-)

Anyways: Niacin-Spring Rounds


Starts out with some organs and (I think a piano) which play variations of the same melody back and forth throughout the song with increasing urgency torwards the end. I wish it did more but I don't really have anything bad to say about it. On the otherhand I was sick of it after two listens- so I'm not sure what score to give it. 4.5 out of 10 I guess.


Lighting Bolt-2Morro Morro Land

Play loudly.

http://s50.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0ENY2CHIO82VA03FEQFE5EYC1Z
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Post by: KharBevNor on 08 Apr 2006, 15:22
Lightning Bolt - 2Morro Morro Land

This songs kinda charming really. It kinda reminds me of some people who've never heard any heavy music trying to be heavy. Repetitive, dischordant (I'm sure deliberately but it doesn't work) riffs, muffled vocals passed through several effects pedals, pedestrian drums. When the guitars are on their own I die a little inside, though the bass-work isn't too bad. Unbelievably tame though. It sounds a bit like a bad pub band who drunk too much and pressed the wrong buttons on their amps. 2/10 for the bass I suppose.

It seems I must still educated the world in THE HEAVY. I shall do it in a fun way.

The Count Nosferatu Kommando - Jim Beamed Ahnenherbe TV (http://s37.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0868V6OEJPTT62S0UI6B9D32KW)

Play it so the windows crack.
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Post by: Kai on 08 Apr 2006, 15:29
THE COUNT WILL ROCK YOU TO THE X-TREEM
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Post by: Bastardous Bassist on 08 Apr 2006, 16:08
Quote from: Kai
He plays bass. in a Jazz band. He is thusly required to be able to count time like a mother.


Oh hellz yes.  My teacher frequently makes me count out loud, during a solo, when I'm playing (or trying to play) all sorts of crazy rhythms.

Quote from: jcknbl
Anyways: Niacin-Spring Rounds

Starts out with some organs and (I think a piano) which play variations of the same melody back and forth throughout the song with increasing urgency torwards the end. I wish it did more but I don't really have anything bad to say about it. On the otherhand I was sick of it after two listens- so I'm not sure what score to give it. 4.5 out of 10 I guess.


I think I love the song just out of the novelty effect.  I'm going to review a song just so I can post the original.  I'll edit as soon as I listen to the heavy education.  And I will definitely play it so the windows crack.

The Count Nosferatu Kommando - Jim Beamed Ahnenherbe TV

Oh hell yes (wrote this when the song first started).  I'm not too familiar with this genre of music, so I don't know what to call it, but it's almost as if Rammstein discovered how to play a new song, and got a lot heavier (just for clarification, I like Rammstein, but all their songs pretty much sound the same).  Would this be called industrial?  Anyways, it certainly rocks my face.  Heavy and pounding and full of energy!  Just the way I like my music.  I'm not a fan of the bridge at the very beginning (it reminds me a whole bunch of some parts of my friend's technical death metal band's songs), but then when the guitars come in, it does start rocking.  They keys parts are killer, too.  I'm going to go with 8/10, because I like it and it's fun, but it's not some of the most amazing music I've ever heard.

I'll edit further when the song uploads, which might be in a bit, because I might have to leave before it uploads.
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Post by: Kai on 08 Apr 2006, 18:00
Yeah, the whole point of the Count isn't to dazzle you with their technical virtuosity but to, to quote THE D, "Rock the fucking house and kick some ass".
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Post by: Bastardous Bassist on 08 Apr 2006, 19:10
I'm not looking for technical virtuosity, pretty much ever.  I'm just talking about a song/piece that has more than what you're going to pick up on the first listen.  Anyways, finally I have what I wanted to put up and the answer to who originally wrote "Spring Rounds"

Igor Stravinsky - Rondes printanire (Spring Rounds) From "Le Sacre du Printemps" (The Rite of Spring)  Zubin Mehta conducting the New York Philharmonic (http://s37.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0ZD83SY7AKIR908H7JXN1QE531)
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Post by: Kai on 08 Apr 2006, 19:47
I'm not saying you do look for that, I'm just really talking about how much fun they are to everyone else who didn't review it.
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Post by: Bastardous Bassist on 08 Apr 2006, 19:49
Ah.  Indeed.  They are certainly fun, and I highly recommend everyone downloading that song.  It'll rock your face off, severely.
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Post by: Storm Rider on 08 Apr 2006, 23:17
Stravinsky - Spring Rounds

Very slow, very simplistic. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, but there's nothign about it that particularly grabbed me. Obviously, it builds a lot later. The accent work is nice, but what does loud discordant brass have to do with spring? I dunno, I just wasn't sold on this one. 5/10

Ayreon - Evil Devolution (http://s23.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2OUTKK98PA4L630NJUCJRT3X56)
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Post by: Bastardous Bassist on 08 Apr 2006, 23:28
Well, you see, it's one movement in a larger ballet about a tribal ritual where a virgin is sacrificed by dancing herself to death.  I've seen the score to the movement that represents her dancing herself to death, and it's scary.  Pretty much every measure is a different time signature (not that scary to the musicians, but I feel sorry for the dancers).
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Post by: Jedit on 09 Apr 2006, 02:27
Quote from: Bastardous Bassist
Well, you see, it's one movement in a larger ballet about a tribal ritual where a virgin is sacrificed by dancing herself to death.


Pretty emo for an early 20th century composer, wouldn't you say? :)

I actually knew that your thing was Stravinsky, but as I know this only because a drama about the first performance of The Rite of Spring was aired on UK TV the other week, I elected not to wave my indiewilly around.
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Post by: Rizzo on 09 Apr 2006, 03:41
Ok, Ayreon-Evil Devolution
Weird bubbling start and strange dude talking over the top. Kicks in with odd harpy sounding keys.
Ballady vocals. I've pretty much decided I'm not going to like it at this point.
Oh, change of plan, I really like the layered vocal chorus.
Verses don't cut it for me... I'm really hoping this is going to get really heavy soon.
AH YES. GUITARS. Half way and we have guitars. I like their choice of guitar tone. It's cool.
Still seems a bit too poppy and positive for my liking.
Seems like they're just having a big spazzed out jam. Very odd.
I give it a 6/10. It's good but it's not something I'd get into. Bit too proggy (am I right?).

Right, a goth classic, The Cruxshadows.
The Cruxshadows-Here comes the rain again (http://s28.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0HGWBDUJ4HA350438CBIJBPXQN)
Enjoy.
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Post by: Kai on 09 Apr 2006, 04:25
I fucking love the Cruxshadows and so I totally can't do it.



Also, yeah, Ayreon are ultra-nerdy prog.
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Post by: Bastardous Bassist on 09 Apr 2006, 10:08
Quote from: Jedit
Pretty emo for an early 20th century composer, wouldn't you say? :)


Or just plain badass.

Quote from: Jedit
I actually knew that your thing was Stravinsky, but as I know this only because a drama about the first performance of The Rite of Spring was aired on UK TV the other week, I elected not to wave my indiewilly around.


To quote an exchange between Stavinsky and Serge Diaghilev about the "Augurs of Spring" (where there are two chords played against each other to achieve massive dissonance):
"How much longer will it go on like that?"
"To the end, my dear."
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Post by: KharBevNor on 09 Apr 2006, 14:06
Quote from: Bastardous Bassist
Would this be called industrial?


Industrial Black Metal.

CHAOS! CHAOS! CHAOS! CHAOS!
CHAOS! CHAOS! CHAOS! CHAOS!
CHAOS! CHAOS! CHAOS! CHAOS!
CHAOS! CHAOS! CHAOS! CHAOOOOOOS!
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Post by: supatyouKERI on 09 Apr 2006, 15:50
The Cruxshadows - Here Comes the Rain Again

I'm not big on goth, I like what I've heard of it, but I've never gone out of my way to listen to any of it before. I love the monotone vocals at the begining. The singer's got a great voice. Clever lyrics, if a little repetitive, and the music fits the lyrics well.
Overall a good song, 9/10.
I suck at reviews.

Say Anything -- Spider Song (http://s53.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3NJ7SGXYR354Q3TMZ555NSRUIF)
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Post by: Jedit on 10 Apr 2006, 15:29
Quote from: supatyouKERI
The Cruxshadows - Here Comes the Rain Again

I'm not big on goth, I like what I've heard of it, but I've never gone out of my way to listen to any of it before. I love the monotone vocals at the begining. The singer's got a great voice. Clever lyrics, if a little repetitive, and the music fits the lyrics well.


I take it you know that this is a cover of a Eurythmics song?
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Post by: supatyouKERI on 10 Apr 2006, 15:37
Quote from: Jedit
Quote from: supatyouKERI
The Cruxshadows - Here Comes the Rain Again

I'm not big on goth, I like what I've heard of it, but I've never gone out of my way to listen to any of it before. I love the monotone vocals at the begining. The singer's got a great voice. Clever lyrics, if a little repetitive, and the music fits the lyrics well.


I take it you know that this is a cover of a Eurythmics song?
no. :-|
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Post by: Omnicide on 10 Apr 2006, 17:20
Quote from: supatyouKERI
Say Anything -- Spider Song


Not for me mate. Typically herky-jerky powerchord-indie with pop-punk ambitions. The singer's voice couldn't be less unique or distinctive and neither could the music. Sorry, does nothing for me. 2/10

Captain Beefheart-- Big Eyed Beans From Venus
http://beta.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=57818EEC07D89A31

Best for the unacquainted, or if you think Beefheart's unlistenable crap. Oh, and the guitar work's sensational. If that's your thing. Which is nice.
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Post by: Kai on 10 Apr 2006, 17:52
Too bad. Beefheart is my hero.
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Post by: minkles on 12 Apr 2006, 15:15
Quote from: Omnicide
Captain Beefheart-- Big Eyed Beans From Venus

Best for the unacquainted, or if you think Beefheart's unlistenable crap. Oh, and the guitar work's sensational. If that's your thing. Which is nice.


You were right about the guitar work.  I'm loving this.  It's interesting.  8.5/10

Akron/Family- Running, Returning (http://s58.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=17TZNBLK2CJQQ1EV13FMBA0G9Z)
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Post by: KharBevNor on 12 Apr 2006, 20:51
Akron/Family - Running, Returning

Opens with acoustic guitar and something I can't quite identify...vocal percussion? Electronics? I dunno. Sounds quite good. The vocals aren't really my thing,  too weak and whiny. Piano joins in in the background, then the guitar moves into more country-style fingerpicking territory, with more strange electronic or unusual instrument effects. Then the sound gets a bit more of a Saddle Creek echo as the singer warbles in an intensely un-endearing fashion, before some pretty nice fast-strumming guitar or banjo parts. leading off into a fade-out ending. Despite the singer doing his best to ruin this, and the dischord between vocal and instrumental segments, this wasn't that bad a track. I'll give it 6.5/10.

And now for something INTENSE.

Current 93 - Horsey [Live at the Union Chapel] (http://s52.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=099GTJ298MXCV1D1PO9YOGZZHH)

This song includes one of my favourite moments in all music. I'm sure you'll guess what it is, but in case you don't, then if I just say,

'BROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWN'

then it will become clear.

And for goodness sake listen to the lyrics.
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Post by: Rizzo on 13 Apr 2006, 21:46
Sorry Khar, your link keeps timing out... I really wanted to hear some Current too, never heard 'em before.

So in lieu of Khar's track, which may work later, I give you Miss Murder, the first single from the new AFI album.
Miss Murder-AFI (http://beta.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=19DCA2271B9A95D8)
Remember, these guys may be the coolest thing on myspace since sliced bread but they're also one of the most progressive rock bands in the mainstream. (They're not punk anymore.)
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Post by: pip_helix on 13 Apr 2006, 22:10
afi - miss murder

i got bored with this song. it's something i'd expect to hear on the local alternative station, and all the trendy scenester high school kids would gobble it up. sorta bland and generic. but it's good to hear that they've given up on singing like angsty little girls. 1.5/10

isobel campbell and mark lanegan - deus ibi est (http://beta.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=FF3BF1256F98B356)
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Post by: Rizzo on 13 Apr 2006, 22:34
Slow guitars and spoken word...
I quite like the girl's vocals but really, deep spoken word over slow guitars really doesn't cut it for me.
Quite possibly the most boring track since Mr Kitschock by Brothomstates.
Unimpressed by both the guitars and vocal style. I think the lack of other instruments really kills it for me. I really like the lyrics, some of them are seriously cool, lines like;
Impending storm rise up rise up
Oh demons I shall shame you!
Look down the barrel of my gun and one by one I'll name you
I give it a 4/10 because the lyrics add 3 points and the chorus adds 1.
(Not slagging cause you slagged AFI, I just wanted to see what sort of music you're into).
In AFI's defense though, that song is quite a lot more complex than you give it credit for, give it another couple of listens. Enough of that though.

Ramallah are Rob Lind's (of Blood For Blood) new band. He plays all the instruments apart from drums. Despite being one of the godfathers of NY hardcore, he's taken a different direction from traditional hardcore with Ramallah.
Ramallah-Days Of Revenge (http://s29.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=36M353HCGJ7D038CPDFIJHSPEE)
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Post by: KharBevNor on 14 Apr 2006, 06:56
lol, the Current track is kinda semi-spoken word, but not really. It can be hard to tell when Dave Tibets talking and when he's not because of his wierd, empassioned style. And it definitely doesn't have just guitar.
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Post by: casull on 15 Apr 2006, 08:35
Quote from: Rizzo

Ramallah are Rob Lind's (of Blood For Blood) new band. He plays all the instruments apart from drums. Despite being one of the godfathers of NY hardcore, he's taken a different direction from traditional hardcore with Ramallah.
Ramallah-Days Of Revenge (http://s29.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=36M353HCGJ7D038CPDFIJHSPEE)


Not exactly my kind of music, but pretty good stuff. Some sections were pretty interesting musically, some not. The singer sounded vaguely like Zack De La Rocha at times. Maybe that's just my imagination since the subject was kind of similar.
6/10

Mine now: Stan Rogers - Barrett's Privateers
Stan Rogers is a bit of a Canadian folk hero: an amazing dude who really popularized the traditional newfie accapella singing. He was in a plane crash in '83. He kept going back in to bring people out of the flaming plane 'til he didn't come out. :( I've heard his brother live, he's one of the backup singers here.
Anyway, this song is the purely form of the ballad I've ever heard.

http://s48.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0CUMEMQP4TARY1812RE3AD4QTU
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Post by: Omnicide on 15 Apr 2006, 09:21
Quote from: casull


Mine now: Stan Rogers - Barrett's Privateers


It's certainly an apt title - I can picture a crew of Irish pirates shouting it, swigging on rum. Old Stan's got a great voice, like a lighter, more melodic Beefheart. . The lyrics are a great performance- old timey, but it dodges the kind of hokey nostalgia and faux-fock it could have turned into. As the song goes, you'll wish you were in Sherbrooke too. Excellent. 8.5/10


Right-ho:

Gil Scot-Heron: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised.

http://s61.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1FHFQH2KCWD2W28NGXXDOVMNBA


Yes- this song IS where the catchphrase comes from. It's a brilliant, early 70's soul/funk assault on mainstream culture and the patronising nature of white america. Gil's songs are usually either funky piano ballads or beasts of this kind: Street poetry (which, amazingly, aren't  pretentious Ginsberg rip-offs), great bass riffs, flutes and, arguably- the birth of rap and hip-hop.
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Post by: Jedit on 15 Apr 2006, 15:43
Quote from: Omnicide
Gil Scot-Heron: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised.

http://s61.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1FHFQH2KCWD2W28NGXXDOVMNBA

Yes- this song IS where the catchphrase comes from. It's a brilliant, early 70's soul/funk assault on mainstream culture and the patronising nature of white america.


Dude, you're not the one who's supposed to be reviewing it.

That said, I'm pretty much with you except on the whole "assault on mainstream culture and the patronising nature of white america" thing.  It's just another song in the "free your mind and your ass will follow" vein and as such it's been sampled to hell and gone.  Taken on its own merits as a song, though, it's competently performed and written and I wouldn't be insulted to have it on my hard drive.  7.5/10.

I must be insane to put this one up, but I'm feeling horribly nostalgic tonight: a remix of Ben Daglish's classic theme to The Last Ninja (http://download.yousendit.com/A0FD7AF024D55EB8).

Stop me, before I kill again.
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Post by: casull on 16 Apr 2006, 20:12
Ah, well, it's hard to rate it, I'll give you that. It should be noted that I have not heard the original, and was too lazy to seek it out for comparison purposes. I would have to say, judging purely how much I enjoyed listening to it, 9/10.

Here's mine:
Muse - Can't take my eyes off you

Despite the fact that Muse's sole unique feature is matt bellamy's high, tight vibrato and a slightly overdriven vocal channel, I'm a bit of a fan. This is one of their lesser-known tunes.

http://s41.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0SW27WA32UPQO20IAGJT4Z8Y8I
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Post by: Rubby on 16 Apr 2006, 20:52
Quote from: Rizzo

So in lieu of Khar's track, which may work later, I give you Miss Murder, the first single from the new AFI album.

Where did you get this?
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Post by: Rizzo on 16 Apr 2006, 21:08
FROM YOUR MUM!


It's availible as a download through their website, through KROQ radio. I'd give you the link but it's expired.
Have a browse on their website or on KROQ's website.

I'd review muse but they're one of my favourite bands.
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Post by: KharBevNor on 16 Apr 2006, 21:36
I call muse, dammit. I need to put up a sodding track.
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Post by: Rizzo on 16 Apr 2006, 22:47
Hurry the fuck up then, I want to listen to some gangsta beats from you.
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Post by: Jedit on 17 Apr 2006, 02:25
Quote from: casull
Ah, well, it's hard to rate it, I'll give you that. It should be noted that I have not heard the original, and was too lazy to seek it out for comparison purposes.


The original is basically the same tune, but done on a C64 SID chip so there are fewer overlaying voices.  If you've heard any SID music, you should be able to guess roughly how it sounds.  (EDIT: Which you probably haven't, seeing as how when this track was written you were busy gestating.  Man, I feel old.)

Nice rating, though. :)
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Post by: Rizzo on 20 Apr 2006, 02:49
Right, cause all of you are useless, I'm reviewing Muse.
Come back in a few minutes.

AMAZING NINJA EDITING:
My god... this like a Hawaian love song... I'm finding it seriously weird.
The lead guitar adds some interest but it's still a very odd song compared to their other work. I definately recommend Muse but songs like Hyper Music, Bliss, Sing For Absolution, Plug In Baby(... basically all of Origin Of Symmetry and Absolution) are much better.
So in conclusion, get Absolution, Origin Of Symmetry and Showbiz before whatever crazy album this came from.
6/10.

I can't decide whether to upload crust/d-beat or industrial...
I'll go with Rock.
Down In The Park (featuring Marilyn Manson)-Nine Inch Nails (http://s60.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2AS80TI808ENC05CVG7PXZQZ5W)
Nine Inch Nails covering Gary Numan's classic track with Manson on vocals. Bloody good song I think.
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Post by: onewheelwizzard on 22 Apr 2006, 16:10
Down In The Park (featuring Marilyn Manson)-Nine Inch Nails

The intro drags on a bit before the drums come in.  Once the instrumentals come in, it falls into the groove it wants to be in.  Manson's vocals are pretty awesome.  I can see myself listening to this again for the size of the sound.  The drums are particularly large-sounding.  Overall, I think it works and while the industrial-y sound of it isn't something I'd listen to on a regular basis, I'd put it on a mix CD.
7.2/10!

Hope this doesn't kill the thread ...

Acid Mothers Temple and the Melting Parasio U.F.O. - Poppy Rock

Yeah, it's 10 minutes long, and I could've uploaded an hour-long track instead.  Try it anyway.  (Hint: if being really stoned while listening to this is an option, do so.)
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Post by: Coonstar on 22 Apr 2006, 16:34
Oh man. This is my first post ever on this topic and I feel underqualified as a music critic, but oh man. This song is whack. I normally listen to pretty short songs, but this- even in its 10 minute + glory, I really like. It's all insanely lively right from the very beginning. It kind of gets repetitive, as the same vocal samples and stuff drift in and out with a whole bunch of these space-like squeals. I feel like the goodness of this could infact be condensed into a shorter song format, but I still like it. A lot.

8/10

Now, it's time for some questionable music. The Bondage Fairies are my band of the week. It's only two minutes long, you know you want to review it.

Bondage Fairies - Levenus Supremus
http://s42.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=082KF9PVZRBKI3KMO8YOUSNM83
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Post by: E. Spaceman on 22 Apr 2006, 16:55
Fuck, I'd just finished listening to the Acid Mothers track buit yu beat me to it.

Levenus Supremus: Some Nintendo-esque bleeps and bloops in the beginning made me feel scared this was going to be some awful comedy band. Then it turned all electronic-punk like Le Tigre but poppier and more bleepy bloopy with some sample of screams that sounds right out of a SNES game. Incredibly bouncy song with lyrics that belong in a Rocky Horror show. I could probably enjoy listening to this band but not all the time or it would burn out.

8/10

I'll upload mine in a sec but I didn't want to get beaten again
Anyway That You Want Me - Evie Sands (http://beta.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=100CB7E35E80975D) This is an old song.
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Post by: KharBevNor on 22 Apr 2006, 17:21
Evie Sands - Any Way That You Want Me

Starts of very, very mellow, with vocals the central focus, building up to a very big old-school sixties pop/rock sound. With a pretty nice range of backing instruments. Well written, good singing and nice instrumentation. Not much to make it stand out, but there were some nice little touches that I did rather like, so I'll give this a 6.75.

Now, grab a pint and a fag, and get ready for a good old fashioned sing-along. This is the kind of thing I like to think of when someone says punK:

Cock Sparrer - Lies (http://download.yousendit.com/E59EBF4B74CE5DB2)
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Post by: Rizzo on 23 Apr 2006, 03:50
This is interesting...
Somewhat slower than I was expecting. I like the vocals, very very English.
I like it. Somewhat punkrock but more interesting than a lot of punk.
8/10 very fun and a cool solo.

I'm putting up two by the same band. Right click, save target as, direct link to their site.
Hybrid has the coolest sample ever at the start.
Machinae Supremacy-Hybrid (http://www.machinaesupremacy.com/music/machinae_supremacy-hybrid.mp3)
Attack Music has the second coolest sample ever.
Machinae Supremacy-Attack Music (http://www.machinaesupremacy.com/music/machinae_supremacy-attack_music.mp3)
Get them. Review them both. Enjoy.
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Post by: Alegis on 24 Apr 2006, 08:56
Oh nice topic, I'll participate ^^
Not the best in reviewing songs, but one can always practice like this. A nib like me probably won't satisfy the review you wished for at all.

Attack Music :
Don't really like it too much, voice doesn't fit the music IMO which I don't really like in the first place. 'dull' : (   4/10

Hybrid :
Like the tune of this one more, the "video game" eske improvisation is more succesful than Attack Music. Good parts are the guitar as it fits more the oldskool games. Lack of voice helps xD 7/10 Pleasant to listen to



I'll also give 2 suggestions from same band :

(perhaps not the best to link, though good ones, and had em on ftp)

The Smiths - Handsome devil
direct download link - save as (http://users.skynet.be/alegis/handsomedevil.mp3)

The Smiths - Rusholme Ruffians
direct download link - save as (http://users.skynet.be/alegis/The%20Smiths%20-%20Rusholme%20Ruffians.mp3)



Which reminds me, yousendit expires over 3 days or limited download. Try orbitfiles
http://www.orbitfiles.com/
Make 1gb account, upload the songs, and click the sharing icon afterwards ("SHARE IT" (http://www.orbitfiles.com/img/ico_share.gif) ) and the other icon for download link (http://www.orbitfiles.com/img/ico_download.gif)
for example, Billy Idol - You spin me right round
http://www.orbitfiles.com/download/id15970876
(those who don't like good ol' 80ies beware)
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Post by: jcknbl on 24 Apr 2006, 15:28
Ok, now we have to find someone who hasn't heard the Smiths in order for this thread to continue...

:-)
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Post by: minkles on 24 Apr 2006, 15:31
Quote from: jcknbl
Ok, now we have to find someone who hasn't heard the Smiths in order for this thread to continue...

:-)


I've never heard The Smiths.  Seriously.  I'll do this one today, when I get the time.  Don't post another.
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Post by: Alegis on 24 Apr 2006, 16:38
Quote from: jcknbl
Ok, now we have to find someone who hasn't heard the Smiths in order for this thread to continue...

:-)


I did a search !
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Post by: jcknbl on 24 Apr 2006, 18:05
Huh?
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Post by: El Opium on 24 Apr 2006, 18:53
Someone 'could' listen to Billy Idol.
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Post by: minkles on 24 Apr 2006, 19:14
Here goes:

The Smiths- Handsome Devil- 6/10-  It is somewhat catchy at first, and I do like the guitar.  However, it becomes repeditive very quickly, and the vocals are monotone and rather boring.

The Smiths- Rusholme Ruffians- 7.5/10- I like it.  Upbeat and fun.  However, I still don't like Morrissey's voice, and it doesn't have much of a discernable melody.


Now, listen to The National- Karen (http://s59.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=25OI8TS2VVY2O21MYP3U9N4U4B)
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Post by: jcknbl on 24 Apr 2006, 22:27
The National- Karen

I really want to like this because I have a thing for low, untrained vocals. And in general the vocals are pretty good, he sounds like a Paul Simon who went through puberty but never learned to sing.  Unfortunately there isn't much in the way of instrumentation to stand on. I mean if you thought the Smiths were repetitive I can't imagine what you must think of this. 8 for the vocals, 2 for the band. That averages to a 5.

The Black Keys- Midnight In Her Eyes

http://s52.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=13F431JJCB2L438GW3QFWGFRIA
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Post by: Storm Rider on 24 Apr 2006, 23:07
OK, I downloaded the Black Keys track already, but I can't seem to get yousendit.com to work. It keeps asking me for a recipient email address, which is not how it used to work.
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Post by: Rizzo on 25 Apr 2006, 00:06
Quote from: Storm Rider
recipient email address

Lol n00b. Just put your own email.

Quote from: Alegis
Attack Music :
Hybrid :

But the samples man, what did you think of the samples?
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Post by: Alegis on 25 Apr 2006, 08:23
Quote from: Rizzo
But the samples man, what did you think of the samples?

I'm such a nib I'm not even entirely sure what you're speaking of, if it's the repeated digital sounds ; Hybrid's one is pretty nice. Reminds me of Sega somehow.  The repeated tune of Attack Music doesn't fit harmonically, and a guitar that doesn't impress/convince me.

"Welcome to Rivendel" is pretty funny/nice out of context like this as it reminds me more of Agent Smith than Elrond. Doesn't have anything to do with rest of song though xD

Quote from: El Opium
Someone 'could' listen to Billy Idol.

Don't even think it's Billy but Dead or Alive. Which you'll probably think to be worse. Not entirely sure, once again.
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Post by: lightsabermario on 25 Apr 2006, 14:42
Midnight in her Eyes is pretty good.  It sounds great to listen to, and the guitar sounds great, although I wish he'd do a little more with it.  The vocals are excellent.  Sounds like the stuff i grew up listening to.

Now try this on for size: Scourge of 1691 by goat.
http://www.powergoat.com/page2.html
Warning: This is very long (13 minutes) and very intense.  But if you're an adrenaline junkie like me, pump it up.
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Post by: Rizzo on 26 Apr 2006, 00:14
Quote from: Alegis
"Welcome to Rivendel" is pretty funny/nice out of context like this as it reminds me more of Agent Smith than Elrond. Doesn't have anything to do with rest of song though xD

I meant the Hugo Weaving and Futurama samples. I reckon, while they're totally out of context, they're still two of the best samples of ever.
"In actual news, the human race was doomed to extinction today as the robot revolt turned violent".
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Post by: KharBevNor on 04 May 2006, 09:10
Goat - Scourge of 1691

The title of this is mega-krieg, so I figured I may like it, and, upon beginning to listen, I am starting to give a guarded yes. The dark piano sound at the beginning is a bit off, but it soon goes into very Rhapsody-esque guitars which very much encapsulate the computer game feel. I recognise a good few parts of this...good old Transylvania. The only problems really are some of the levels of various synths and the quality of some of the drum sounds. The cymbals and hi-hats sound pretty lame at a few points, but otherwise the actual quality is very nice. Apart from this, there are a few transitions between elements of the medley that could have been done better, imo. My favoured approach is when the guy doing the medley sits down to some serious songwriting and actually creates bits that mold the tracks together in such a way that there may even be two songs going on at once. This track had more of a disjointed feel in some of its loud/soft transitions. Also, I'm pretty sure those sound effect samples were a bad idea. There were some very nice, particularly guitar sections, however the slight weakness in the putting together broke out some nice rock-outs.

Could be improved, but all said, pretty damn fun. Methinks I will download this guys stuff. Quite inspires me to continue with my half-hearted attempts to do something awesome with the music to Shadowgate and Raptor: Call of the Shadows.

8/10

Now, shameless self-promotion time again, as I can't really think of anything else to put. This is from a demo a few people here have...a remixed version appears on The Blasted Heath. A bit more beefed up than my usual post-industrial wankery.

Halo of Flies - St. Anthony's Fire (http://s38.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=158EBB9PAWGNL072YD4V4G4K5T)
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Post by: timehat on 04 May 2006, 14:47
Halo of Flies - St. Anthony's Fire

My biggest problem with this piece overall is the production. The harp-like instrument sounds exactly like the Plucked! VST in Fruity Loops without any effects or anything. I find the sound to be rather irritating. Secondly, when the distorted bass comes in the first time, it is FAR too loud. Musically, there are some enjoyable moments with cool riffage from the bass and noodly little harp lead lines keeping things interesting. I would enjoy it more if the non-linear quality of some of the lead lines was carried over into the rest of the piece, but overall, there is a very repetitive looping feel to a lot of it. Dynamically, it is somewhat unique that the drums play a very low-key supporting role for the majority of the time. The reason this is interesting is because electronic music producers are usually obsessed with percussion and therefore it is sometimes overly bombastic or the only worthwhile part of the music; not so here.

Rating - 6/10

To be reviewed, I choose Gal Costa - Nao Identificado (http://beta.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=19F92C427661BFB6)
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Post by: E. Spaceman on 04 May 2006, 15:14
Thread etiquette reccomends you put a link to the track you want to be reviewed.
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Post by: KharBevNor on 04 May 2006, 16:09
Quote from: timehat
Halo of Flies - St. Anthony's Fire
The harp-like instrument sounds exactly like the Plucked! VST in Fruity Loops without any effects or anything.


Exactly what it is actually...

I think that was before I knew about the mixer...unfortunately, I'm pretty sure I've lost the fl files for all that stuff, so re-working is kinda out :/
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Post by: timehat on 04 May 2006, 16:24
That totally sucks. When I switched from FL4 to 5 a lot of my files got fucked up and I don't have exported copies of a lot of them. I guess I need to get ahold of FL4 again and see if they load properly, because there was some material in there that I really liked.
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Post by: Tropylium on 05 May 2006, 03:16
Quote from: timehat
Gal Costa - Nao Identificado


Begins with discordant crashing noises; followes with some sort of waltz/latino song. (Disclaimer: this description might not be entirely accurate, since I know neither genre well.) Generally romantic and harmonic feeling, even tho there's some weird organ effects around the middle. Ends with more discordand crashing, but this time it seems to be some sort of a segway cut off. Well, the beginning might be that too, but the violin line seems more cut-off in the end.
I could probably make more of this if I knew the lyrics, but they're in some Romance language (out of which I speak none).

Generally, the idea appears pretty ballsy, humorous even; I could even imagine this being a "surprize" piece amidst an otherwise industrial album - or maybe this is just from a waltz/latino album which for some reason integrates some avant-gardish undertones. It's not exactly my cup of tea, but I can't find anything wrong in it.

I give 7.2/10.

To review: Mike Oldfield - Embers (http://www.groove.nl/sfx/2/28876-3.m3u)
(almost the complete track. All sounds have been produced using guitars)
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Post by: Jedit on 05 May 2006, 04:56
Error 403: Forbidden.
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Post by: Tropylium on 05 May 2006, 05:03
Damn. OK, try via this link: http://www.groove.nl/sound.php?letter=o
(it's from the album "Guitars")
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Post by: timehat on 05 May 2006, 17:07
That Gal Costa album is from '68. It would probably be classified as Tropicalia which is basically Brazilian psych-pop, the most well known band of that genre being Os Mutantes.

Mike Oldfield: Embers

The fact that you said that all the sounds were produced using guitars implied that some sort of trickery would be occuring, and such is evidently true within the first few seconds of the piece: sustained flute sounds, little squirty synth noises, etc. This all rests side-by side with some tasteful classical guitar melodies. The track has a nice feel to it, (reminds me of Camel somewhat) but doesn't seem to go anywhere (just a sample?). I think this would work really well as a segue between two more active pieces.
This being said, I'll rate what is here: 6.5/10

I choose Antonio Carlos Jobim - Triste (http://beta.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=A544A78D1B99E572)
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Post by: amok on 06 May 2006, 08:56
Quote from: timehat
I choose Antonio Carlos Jobim - Triste (http://beta.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=A544A78D1B99E572)


This is really funky. Very laid back, the piano and sax play off each other well, and the backing acoustic guitar is upbeat and catchy without intruding on the solo parts of the song. This sounds exactly like the kind of thing you'd expect to hear in a nice bar or coffee shop, it's busy enough to hold your attention but never overly so. Could do with being a bit longer and it's not my usual style but otherwise I got nothin' bad to say about this piece. 9/10

Greenhaus - Human Nature (http://s55.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3RBKUOZLY3CGY3NA9UH5J6OF3M)
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Post by: Praeserpium Machinarum on 06 May 2006, 09:41
Piv! It doesn't work :(
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Post by: amok on 06 May 2006, 09:45
How so? :O loads for me
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Post by: Praeserpium Machinarum on 06 May 2006, 09:57
It stops halfthrough the download and now I can't even press the link. It may be my computer that is fucked though...
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Post by: amok on 06 May 2006, 10:03
yup, seems to be working fine for me I'm afraid... I'll try re-uploading it.
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Post by: ImRonBurgundy? on 06 May 2006, 16:14
Quote from: amok
Greenhaus - Human Nature (http://s55.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3RBKUOZLY3CGY3NA9UH5J6OF3M)


i dunno, i'm not too excited about this.  the melody's pretty generic, the production is overly slick, and overall it sounds kind of like Evanescence lite. 4/10

Leatherface- "Shipyards" (http://s56.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=19PUXBW48VUEZ2NG32DPPUCJ7F)
i think there's something very beautiful in the juxtaposition of the gritty punk rock singing voice with the piano ballad music here.
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Post by: timehat on 06 May 2006, 17:52
Leatherface - Shipyards

The aforementioned juxtaposition comes across as a bad joke. Sung in a stylistically appropriate voice, this song would be merely bland and tired. The vocals take the proceedings from boring to painful.

3/10

Thought Industry - Tall Ships on the Rocks (http://beta.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=DE3288292FA2E8BE)
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Post by: onewheelwizzard on 06 May 2006, 19:02
Thought Industry - Tall Ships on the Rocks

I liked the way this sounded as it started up, seemed like the right kind of friendly, slightly-psychedelic pop.  The vocals aren't my absolute favorite, but they're well delivered and they don't kill the song by any means.  In fact, it kept up and overall the song is very pleasant to listen to.  I quite liked it.  8.7/10  (and I'm going to try to find more by these guys.  Thread success!)

Bigelf - Sunshine Suicide
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Post by: Schmendrick on 06 May 2006, 22:45
Craig Cardiff... in general
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Post by: ImRonBurgundy? on 06 May 2006, 22:48
Bigelf- "Sunshine Suicide"

this is actually pretty rad.  not what i usually listen to at all, but the guitar notes and the melodies are extremely sweet. 8.5/10

since them playing a piano song is apparently a "bad joke" and "painful":
Leatherface- "Springtime" (http://beta.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=AE06160D7685A0EE)
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Post by: timehat on 06 May 2006, 23:44
Quote from: onewheelwizzard
Thought Industry - Tall Ships on the Rocks

I liked the way this sounded as it started up, seemed like the right kind of friendly, slightly-psychedelic pop.  The vocals aren't my absolute favorite, but they're well delivered and they don't kill the song by any means.  In fact, it kept up and overall the song is very pleasant to listen to.  I quite liked it.  8.7/10  (and I'm going to try to find more by these guys.  Thread success!)

Bigelf - Sunshine Suicide


I am very happy to hear that you enjoyed it. They are certainly one of my favorite bands. Their discography is incredibly varied though, so only the later stuff sounds like what I posted.
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Post by: Praeserpium Machinarum on 07 May 2006, 00:15
Leatherface - Springtime

Starts out with a guitar hiss before launching into an intro with drums and quite metallic guitars. Then the vocals kicks in and they are nice enough, he sounds like an old punk who has drunk so much that it has caused errosion on his vocal cords. He is not a good singer by any means but it fits. I don't really pay much mind to the lyrics, but I figure they deal in a bittersweet way with spring. The chorus halfway through is pretty good, raucous. It ends in a similar fashion as it started which adds a nice sense of cohesion.

Overall I like it, it is good punk and far from what passes as punk these days, 7/10

Now danish electronica:
Sorten Muld - Vølven (http://beta.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=25EF18E031D8B075)

Vølven is a female seer from norse mythology, and in difference to the other songs on the album (III), this is an original. The lyrics essentially picture the Vølven resurrect and tell about her impressions of our time.
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Post by: Symptom on 07 May 2006, 13:10
Sorten Muld - Vølven

Well, something I never really listened to before, electronic music. So I'm afraid this will be short and clumsy, I got nothing to relate to.
Plus, I can't understand a word, so beyond what you told us of it, I got no clue what she is talking about.

The whole song has a very solid mood to it. It is very calm and relaxing, even if it has a pretty high tempo. The singer's voice is quite charming and the non-sense she's mentioning fits pretty well. The song evolves a bit, but not much change occurs.. If I liked electronic music, I'd probably like music like that. The fact that the rythm doesn't move much just puts me off too much.

I'd give it a 6/10.



With a Dream and a Gun, by Decadence. (http://s44.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2ZC6Q5PWTP86C2R69PCXWSGYBL)
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Post by: amok on 07 May 2006, 19:45
Quote from: Symptom
With a Dream and a Gun, by Decadence. (http://s44.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2ZC6Q5PWTP86C2R69PCXWSGYBL)


Fantastic start to this song, very folksy in feel and the little string hits really complement the singer. Smooth acoustic melodies and every instrument plays its part without overwhelming the others. The random piano & spoken word from around 3:00 onwards really suit the mood of the song and the progression in the second half is well-executed. I would definitely listen to this band more and recommend that others download the tune. :) 9.5/10

Empire State Human - Eastern Lights (http://download.yousendit.com/359AFD1E7A02D6BF) (warning: this song is electronic in nature)
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Post by: Misereatur on 08 May 2006, 03:01
Quote from: amok
Empire State Human - Eastern Lights (http://download.yousendit.com/359AFD1E7A02D6BF) (warning: this song is electronic in nature)

Electronic it is. I did'nt like the start, sounds like one of the example files in AudioMulch (basic drum machine and melody). Gets better when the vocals kicks in. And the chorus is pretty good. But it changes very little and sounds too cheesy to me.
6.5/10 Just because I liked the chorus.

My song:
Rashanim - Chorek (http://download.yousendit.com/34FD0897270BB23A)
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Post by: Jedit on 09 May 2006, 16:50
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Rashanim - Chorek (http://download.yousendit.com/34FD0897270BB23A)


Guitar-driven instrumental somewhere in between modern jazz, Guns 'n' Roses and Dick Dale's surf guitar.  Interesting, but perhaps not the kind of thing I'd choose to listen to.  It feels a bit improvised and random in places.  I'll give it 6/10 anyway, though, because it doesn't suck.

I'm a little short of inspiration, so here's one picked pretty much at random:

John Matthias - Smalltown, Shining (http://download.yousendit.com/8F4F1D96120FC261)
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Post by: nuisance on 10 May 2006, 17:12
Quote from: Jedit

John Matthias - Smalltown, Shining (http://download.yousendit.com/8F4F1D96120FC261)

Nice song, starts off sorta like Neil Young or something, that slow doof doof dap plodding beat and the clean guitar.  Kinda gruff vocals, half-spoken almost.. or at least often sticking around one note.  Wasn't sure I'd get into it and then the strings came in, really loud and swamping everything and a bit dischordant?  I dunno, I have a bad ear.  Sounded cool anyway, thought it added a nice edge to thetune.  It's not something I'd listen to heaps, but it's piqued my interest in an artist I'd never heard of.  Right back atcha: 6/10

Right then:

Koushik - Be With (http://beta.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=7F394BD81A0BD325)  

(resisted uploading one of my fave R&B hits in favour of something a little more "serious" :))
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Post by: Rizzo on 11 May 2006, 02:04
Koushik-Be With

Ok sounds like it's gonna be some interesting sampled music. Argh! The vocals... they make me want to book myself into a rest home for some peace and quiet. How can anyone sing that tranquilly? This is so airy and hideous. There is nothing about this song that says "Listen again".
My god that was twee. Seriously uninteresting music imo. I couldn't bring myself to get into it. It was just ugh. For a little bit I expected something similar to the Avalanches but it just went downhill once the vocals kicked in.

Salome-Killing Miranda (http://s44.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2JE2R5NCDY3BA0E0KLEBDKEOMO)
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Post by: nuisance on 11 May 2006, 03:52
Ouch! Well, that was my favourite album of last year, but never mind...
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Post by: Praeserpium Machinarum on 11 May 2006, 09:52
Killing Miranda - Salome

Killing Miranda are goth and pretty good at that. I really like the catchy guitar but the vocals and verses are less interesting. It starts with drums and then that the guitar enters and continues like a bit, maybe a bit too long. But then you discover that it is actually better than the quiet verses. His voice is fitting for the style, it has that monotone quality similar to post-punk bands like Joy Division. I don't like it much when it is distorted but when it does convey emotion e.g. at "Salome", it is fine. The lyrics fit as well "tonight, tonight the baptist dies" and "I have waited cold milennia to die for her", but again not that interesting in my opinion.
I like the ending as well, the wows and so on.
 
Good guitar + fine vocals + bad verses + trite lyrics = 7/10

Next: Morphine - Honey White (http://s38.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1QP0PE67CQ3FK0LF17ZLQW11MJ)
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Post by: Ghostwriter on 11 May 2006, 10:09
Morphine - Honey White

This song sounds like a jazz and indie song gone to the dark side.  The horns and bassline sound really brooding, strange, and cool.  The vocals fit the great vibe, but don't really hit me in a profound way.  They're not bad though, and maybe something I'd grow to like.  The horn intro hits you in the face, and it sounds really awesome.  The lyrics are rather vague.

Overall, it has a really great jazz/blues/indie vibe and some kickass horn lines.  Unfortunately, it seems like it would get old really fast.  For that reason, 6.5/10.

Onward!

Halou - Milkdrunk (http://download.yousendit.com/ECEE81A1774DD4AD)
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Post by: ImRonBurgundy? on 11 May 2006, 11:22
Halou- Milkdrunk

well, the melodies are definitely pretty, and makes good background music, but it's really nothing i would go out of my way to listen to.  6/10

this is a video, because you really need to have the full audiovisual experience for this band:
Hurra Torpedo- "Total Eclipse of the Heart" (Live) (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4462791062611472906&q=hurra+torpedo)
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Post by: Ghostwriter on 11 May 2006, 12:58
Holy shit, what?  1/10 (or 10/10, depending on your personal...interpretation.  My score was probably heavily skewed by the bare man-ass.)

Next of all:

The Cinematic Orchestra - Channel 1 Suite (http://download.yousendit.com/C12D4C822606F53D)
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Post by: nuisance on 12 May 2006, 08:33
The Cinematic Orchestra - Channel 1 Suite

Not bad, an instrumental loungey / jazzy programmed track.  Really nice rhythm programming.. the beat drops just when you expect it to, but does something a little different.  They certainly live up to their name, too, the horn stabs, moody bass and plucked out guitar part are very like the way eg. Portishead trawls through the back catalogue of a certain flavour of film music.  Also like Portishead it's deceptively dark, even though it could be easily dismissed as cafe wallpaper... I dunno, I think it's pretty cool.  Makes me wonder if I gave up on the Ninja Tune label too early...  6/10

Fennesz feat. David Sylvian - Transit (http://download.yousendit.com/DC57F4AA5F8B7C7A)
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Fennesz feat. David Sylvian - Transit

This is a rather pretty track.  There's no real rhythm; it just sort of drags on, supported by the lazy and mellow vocals, and occasionally puncuated by strange but beautiful synths.  Sounds very much like something from a jazzy film soundtrack, or something you'd listen to during a walk in the rain.  The wavery, baritone vocals are high in the mix, and that's a little obtrusive.  Strange, but attractive.  6.5/10

Onward to...

Godflesh - Frail (http://download.yousendit.com/D3F9FAEC5057745A)
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Post by: karl gambolputty... on 13 May 2006, 15:08
Godflesh - Frail

Not bad.  Pretty heavy riff, reminds me of the Melvins, with a less growly singer.  Gets a bit monotonous, the last half is pretty much the first half played over, but I didn't really mind listening to it again.  6/10 for you!

and now for something completely different:

The Delgados - Thirteen Gliding Principles
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Post by: Praeserpium Machinarum on 21 May 2006, 23:49
In the interest of getting this moved along, I will review this, even though I have heard all of Delgados albums. Luckily I can't remember this one:

The Delgados - Thirteen Gliding Principles

It starts with some acoustic guitar fading in and a hum from a cello I suppose, then the ping pong vocals between the female singer(Emma) and the male(Alun) begin. The lyrics seems to be describing a relationship or domestic situation, but ends on a weird note before the chorus as Alun, who is mixed lower, sing "Jesus wept". The chorus, where they sing in unison, is rocked up with strings and electric guitar, which gives it quite a punch. This is repeated twice and then they rock like hell in the last part of the song, dual guitars, strings, flutes and the whole thing. In the end they sing some more and that's it.

Good song. Better than most of those before my favourite album Hate.

8/10

Next: Salida! this is a danish demo band with the "screamer" from Brudevalsen, who I have babbled of occasionally. This is their attempt at merging reggae guitar with hard rock!

Salida - Amends (http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=B6C0390A1D9D4771)

their website in case you like it (http://www.salida.dk/)
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Post by: casull on 23 May 2006, 00:08
Salida - Amends

It's a pretty simple idea, combining that rythm with harder rock, and they make it work. It doesn't sound like a demo, just... spare. It could be a better 4-5 minute song than 7, though, they're not working with much as far as changes, and it fades out after repeating the same 10-second phrase for about 15 times. 7/10

Kanno Yoko - Inner Universe

Hate me if you will, but I'm uploading it in 320k, it deserves it. All I'll say is: Imagine techno without a sample you've ever heard before.

http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=E6C4C7613E5ECFC5
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Post by: Rizzo on 23 May 2006, 01:34
Her name is Yoko Kanno. She's Japanese and last name comes first.

I can attest to the extreme goodness of this track. Composed by Yoko Kanno and sung by Origa (Russian/Japanese singer). It's from the soundtrack to Ghost in the shell: Stand Alone Complex.
The lyrics are rubbish but that's to be expected. The composition on the otherhand is absolutely brilliant.
Ummm. I guess I should post a track since I kind of reviewed it.

Right, Razed In Black-Blush. (http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=E7AAA1CA50DE9F53)
Hawaiian EBM. If you like techno/trance/goth then you'll probably like this.

http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=E7AAA1CA50DE9F53
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Post by: casull on 23 May 2006, 06:13
But I'm american. ;)

I know who she is, and where the track is from. I think I'll just post my tracks  nameless from now on. It seems like having any preconceptions about what you'll be hearing would be detrimental.

No, I'm just grumpy because everything I listen to is to mainstream to come as a surprise to someone here.

If you know more about the singer, though, I'd be interested... that's the one thing I don't know about that song.
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Post by: Jedit on 23 May 2006, 10:48
Quote from: casull
I think I'll just post my tracks  nameless from now on. It seems like having any preconceptions about what you'll be hearing would be detrimental.


On the other foot, not giving people the information they need to expand their horizons based on your suggestions kind of defeats the object of this thread.
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Post by: casull on 27 May 2006, 23:43
mmm... true, though nothing I post is likely to be new to anyone here. :(
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Post by: Rizzo on 27 May 2006, 23:56
Quote from: casull
But I'm american. ;)

Yeah and the way you've written it is the Japanese way. I'm just showing you the European way (we're not all yanks you Americentric bastard :D:D:D just YANKing your chain).

Anyway, seriously, everyone download Casull's track, it's excellent. Then download and review mine, it's also excellent.
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Post by: brew on 28 May 2006, 01:02
Quote from: Rizzo
Right, Razed In Black-Blush. (http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=E7AAA1CA50DE9F53)
Hawaiian EBM. If you like techno/trance/goth then you'll probably like this.


I don't listen to much of this style at all, but it sounds pretty formulaic to my ears.  It's got the basic chord progression, the use of phasing in most of the parts, something that sounds sort of like a fuzzed guitar playing power chords, and synth timbres reminiscent of the mid-90s.  The singing sounds like it could have come from bad post-punk.  I could see it in a video game.  3/10.


Edgard Varese - Poeme Electronique (http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=1917F2E930B476F3)
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Post by: jcknbl on 28 May 2006, 01:51
Edgard Varese - Poeme Electronique

Ambient and electronic- very interesting though. Uses a tremendous variety of noises- mostly clicks and beeps (not exactly standard fair back then though). My only complaint is that it seems to ramble. There is no theme or concept that it keeps coming back to. There's nothing that keeps it unified as one song- at least as far as I can tell. I'll definitely keep listening though- 7.5 with a significant possibility of going higher.



And here I was all excited to post some Noise Rock and I get beat on the experimental scale...but you can dance to this song.

(the quality is noticably diminished on the mp3, it was this or a huge file. I think this is good enough though.) Black Dice- Motorcycle (http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=D36867A0357C82FF)
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Post by: Rizzo on 28 May 2006, 02:11
Quote from: brew
I don't listen to much of this style at all, but it sounds pretty formulaic to my ears.  It's got the basic chord progression, the use of phasing in most of the parts, something that sounds sort of like a fuzzed guitar playing power chords, and synth timbres reminiscent of the mid-90s.  The singing sounds like it could have come from bad post-punk.  I could see it in a video game.  3/10.

Yeah, EBM is exactly known for it's inovaton now days I guess.

Black Dice-Motorcycle
An interesting beginning. Guitars sound almost as though they're underwater. Vocals are kinda odd. I'm liking it so far, don't let me down.
Ok, 3 minutes into the song and it hasn't really changed. I can imagine listening to this on a Disney ride. The song is hella fun but not particularly varied. At about 4.30 the song totally changes as a huge pounding bass kicks in. Still pretty monotonous but kinda cool.
Some really cool effects and loops but not a whole lot of variation.
7/10

Szerencsétlen-Venetian Snares (http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=EDF10364735EF3D9)

http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=EDF10364735EF3D9

Canadian glitchcore.
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Post by: nuisance on 28 May 2006, 02:14
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mmm... true, though nothing I post is likely to be new to anyone here. :(

I've only heard maybe 3 or 4 of the artists posted in this whole thread, so don't be so sure.
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Post by: onewheelwizzard on 29 May 2006, 12:31
Venetian Snares - Szerencsetlen

This is ODD.  I think I like it.  Maybe.  I can't tell.  Classical-music randomness and (presumably) sampling over glitched-out breakbeats?  OK, this is what I'll say.

A long, long time ago I found a CD with a cracked jewel case for a dollar in aa startup comic/music shop.  It looked techno-esque so i got it for my friend, who was into that sort of stuff.  It was called "Tipper/Sound Off," I think, and it was a long string of stuff that sounded exactly like this.  I always put on a playlist of it when I'm playing very fast-paced computer games.  I like it.  This is now on the playlist.

8/10 (though I really have no way to judge this in any sort of fashion that could indicate its worth to anyone else.)

Masters of Reality - John Brown

A live recording from the "Flak'n'Flight" live album done with members of QOTSA.  A beautiful guitar-duet intro takes up the first third, and it just gets better from there.
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Post by: Jedit on 31 May 2006, 14:45
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Masters of Reality - John Brown


Kind of a steel country/metal sound to it.  As advertised, some excellent guitar work throughout, but there's nothing to back them up and they can't carry a piece of this length.  I wouldn't kick it out of bed for eating crackers, but it's nowhere near the level of Maggot Brain or Arriving Somewhere But Not Here (to pull two songs of similar composition out of the hat).  6.5/10

I promised to put some Mouse on Mars in the FLT elsewhere, so here it is:  Mouse on Mars - Bib (http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=34023A16455EC1A5)
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Post by: Houdinimachine on 31 May 2006, 17:14
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Mouse on Mars - Bib



Well, I half expected a dancing Christopher Walken to show up on my screen while listening to this. I'm pretty much electronica retarded so bear with me here. I really like the synthesized voices in this track. The beat is excellent. Is this trance? I want to play Amplitude to this song. Hmm, I really enjoyed it though. I'm going to steal it for one of my videos for school. 8/10

Here's mine.

Yonder Mountain String Band - Think for Yourself (Beatles cover) (http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=0B24CB7A7BFFC56A)
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Post by: nuisance on 31 May 2006, 17:30
It's definitely not trance.  Trance has a kick on every beat - doof doof doof doof - and typically bass notes in between - doof wow doof wow etc. - and is very sparkly and shiny.  And it's dance music.  Bib definitely doesn't fit any of that.  

At the time the album it's from was released some friends tried to convince me it was a new form of jungle (what became drum n bass) and, rhythmically, that's the genre it has most in common with.  However, again, it's not dance music.
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Post by: amok on 31 May 2006, 17:33
Quote from: Houdinimachine
Yonder Mountain String Band - Think for Yourself (Beatles cover) (http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=0B24CB7A7BFFC56A)


This is kinda funky, my only complaint really is that it's not different enough from the Beatles - I tend to prefer covers that reinvent the song in the style of the band covering it (unless this band usually sounds almost exactly like the Beatles anyway in which case, fair enough). It's funky, upbeat, and happy, but I'm not a huge Beatles fan and it doesn't seem to do anything new. Still, I'd listen to it again. 7/10 or something :)

Anathema - A Fine Day To Exit (http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=BBCB61D41D206A93)
Title: Anathema - A Fine Day To Exit
Post by: rr112233 on 01 Jun 2006, 13:51
Anathema - A Fine Day To Exit

-Very weak music.  I forgot it was playing.
-Not really my genre.
-The voice-like thing is pretty annoying.
-Very repetative.
-Singing is not great.
-Some cool effects.
-Picks up slowly a little before 3:00, then drops it about a minute later.
-The part where it picks up doesn't really pick up much.
-Near the end is strong, then drops out.

This seems like easy listening to me.  Not really my style.  193/530 (around 3.641509/10).

Choose one (Artist - Song):
System of a Down - Vicinity of Obscenity (very odd but awesome)
Hammerfall - Blood Bound (like a 1000x better Iron Maiden)
My Chemical Romance - You Know What They Do To Guys Like Us In Prison (energetic, yet whiny...cool combination somehow)

Yeah, System of a Down and My Chemical Romance are pretty well-known, but I really like them.  I don't know how well-known Hammerfall is.  I just found it like yesterday.
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Post by: Kai on 01 Jun 2006, 13:54
HEY

NEW GUY

NOTICE HOW EVERY OTHER POST HAS LIKE, A LINK TO THE SONG?

www.yousendit.com


PLEASE


GODDAMN I AM TIRED OF SAYING THIS
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Post by: E. Spaceman on 01 Jun 2006, 14:29
My Chemical Romance - You Know What They Do To Guys Like Us In Prison

Quick review: This is My Chemical Romance

More in-depth review: It starts with some bad guitar wankery and the singer telling you to "get down get down " in a whiny voice. Then there is a kind of barroom shuffle music part about a gun fight or some shit. Music throughout this part remains standard emo fare, guitars go a-chuggachugga with some random random wankery. The singer gets more desperate and tries to scream,  highlight comes at 2:28 when he attempts to roar about it " going to go down on your PERMANENT RRRREAWWWCORD" which makes him sound like an emo Tony the Tiger.and it ends with him screaming like he just saw a really big spider. Overall, a compelling argument for eugenics.

1/10 The 1 comes from the previously mentioned "roar", which at least made me laugh.

I'll post mine in a second, just waiting for Yousendit to finish.


Here it is

Echo and the Bunnymen - The Back of Love (http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=6AB27B866DB5613C)
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Post by: rr112233 on 01 Jun 2006, 15:09
Quote from: Kai
HEY

NEW GUY

NOTICE HOW EVERY OTHER POST HAS LIKE, A LINK TO THE SONG?

www.yousendit.com


PLEASE


GODDAMN I AM TIRED OF SAYING THIS

Yeah, I would, but I figured I gave enough options that at least one person would have one of them/be able to find at least one of them easily enough.  Also, when a post starts getting left behind, yousendit is not going to work by then.  I can use it if it's really necessary, but I figured it was justified enough to not have one in that case.  Also, I think you could use some sleep or something...

Echo & The Bunnymen - The Back of Love
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Heh, to me this is much whinier than the My Chemical Romance song.  But that aside, this song is hilariously messed up.  The voice is very whiney, the tune is very odd and slightly disturbing.  The weird background noise that occurs at around 2:45 is very amusing.  Excellent.  The actual vocal tune sounds like a 5-year-old screaming.  Awesome.

Very cool song, but it is mildly annoying (actually, just about everything in it is annoying), and it seems like they tried a bit too hard.  I really can't decide if this is a good song or not, but it gave me a headache...   go with one point under average, for the headache.  4/10.

Next person has a choice of:
System of a Down - Vicinity of Obscenity (http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=71D9410438A3F6FA) (very odd but awesome)
Hammerfall - Blood Bound (http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=6F091E123CA3FB43) (like a 1000x better version of Iron Maiden)
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Post by: Kai on 01 Jun 2006, 15:13
Okay, firstoff: don't assume. It's not justified.


Second: Sleep would be nice.

Third: Did...did you jsut say Echo and the Bunnymen were trying to hard? and whinier than MCR?

Were you dropped on your head as a child? Honestly.
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Post by: Storm Rider on 01 Jun 2006, 15:33
Not to mention calling Hammerfall better than Iron Maiden.
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Post by: rr112233 on 01 Jun 2006, 17:26
Hey, don't yell at me.  At least I don't like Panic! At The Disco.  Oh yeah, and sorry about the Hammerfall thing.  I was just kind of caught up in "I haven't heard this before.  And it's pretty good." moment.  And yes, that song was whinier than MCR.  I mean, once you see the MCR band members, I guess you disprove that, but pretending they didn't try to look all gothic and whatever, yes, that song was whinier and much more boring (although more unique) than MCR.

And I put the remaining two songs on yousendit.  So...yeah.  Anyone that wants to, feel free to review it.

And this thread is amazing.  I'm finding tons of excellent music.  Most of it is pretty excellent.  The most recent one I discovered and liked was Cynic.  Seriously, how did I not know about Cynic before now?!?

And (yeah, sorry about starting all these paragraphs with "and") Crotchduster is interesting to say the least.

I sure hope I wasn't dropped on my head as a kid. :|  I need to investigate this.
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Post by: Rizzo on 01 Jun 2006, 17:42
Blood bound-Hammerfall

Naaaaah. Iron Maiden did it better. This was just weak. They played well definately but I don't think I'd bother to get any more. Just get Maiden instead.


Tragedy-To The Dogs (http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=1E1AFF70102A2324)
I'm not sure whether I've put this track up before... They rule though, US sludgepunk/crust.
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Post by: Kai on 01 Jun 2006, 17:49
Hey Storm.


Guess what.

He mentioned Crotchduster.

You know what that means?




DIRTY ASIANS WHO LOVE JEWISH DILDOS IS ON IN 37 SECONDS! TURN IT ON!
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Post by: rr112233 on 01 Jun 2006, 17:53
Quote from: Kai
Hey Storm.


Guess what.

He mentioned Crotchduster.

You know what that means?




DIRTY ASIANS WHO LOVE JEWISH DILDOS IS ON IN 37 SECONDS! TURN IT ON!

I still think you could use some sleep... :P
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Post by: onewheelwizzard on 01 Jun 2006, 18:04
Tragedy - To The Dogs

I guess this is punk.  I'm not a punk authority, though.  It sounds a bit more mainstream than I was expecting, though.  I actually COULD see the video for this song making it to MTV.

The instrumentals are well-done, and I love that they put something approximating a solo in at one point, but the vocals are really turning me off.    I think it's a good song in that it does exactly what it's intending to do, but I wouldn't listen to it in my spare time.  The vocals are far too angry, and I generally dislike explicitly angry vocals.

Om - Annapurna

This is just Sleep's drummer and bassist picking back up where they left off back in the mid-90's.  I can't tell if they're taking the Sabbath worship away from what it once was or just farther to the extreme.  I do know, however, that you're gonna need a dictionary if you want to interpret the lyrics ... Al Cisernos can be a very cryptic and verbose guy.
Also, this is Om's shortest song to date.
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Post by: Storm Rider on 01 Jun 2006, 18:26
GODDAMMIT KAI

I SWEAR TO GOD I'LL KILL YOU

ENGARDE

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/68/STAmokTime.jpg)
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Post by: Kai on 01 Jun 2006, 18:29
omg best image ever
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Post by: Rizzo on 01 Jun 2006, 19:01
Kai, Stormrider, stop your bickering and listen to Tragedy.
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Post by: nuisance on 01 Jun 2006, 19:16
Om - Annapurna

This is crazy... I guess the artist name and title suggest Buddhism all the way,  and despite the totally rock aesthetic, the music does have a trancey aspect, particularly the repetition and the fact it goes on for just under 12 minutes. :)

I think it might be awesome... rhythm is my friend and the hugeness of both bass and beats is pretty incredible.  I like how the beats gradually get more and more furious, but the development is at such a glacial pace it doesn't seem like just a cliched rock out.  To me, anyway.  Don't like the singer's voice so much, but it's very appropriate.

OK, here we go:

Los Sampler's - La Vida Es Llena De Cables (son disco duro) (http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=A26538EB49B02B8E)

It's... a fictitious Cuban 8-bit sampler orchestra performing a futuristic take on son (traditional Cuban melancholic song style).  In English the title would be "Life Is Full Of Cables".  Sorry if that's too much info, I think some is helpful.
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Post by: Kai on 01 Jun 2006, 19:16
TRAGEDY WAS ALREADY LISTENED TO


GAWD
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Post by: Rizzo on 01 Jun 2006, 19:18
BY YOU? IF NOT THEN GET, TIS GOOD. ELSE, LOLDONGZLOL.
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Post by: quietnow on 01 Jun 2006, 19:23
om - annapurna

comes on really intriguing, like a gothy drug trip, and i'm thinking it's going to be awesome deathrock... then gets boring and repetetive for a bit.  about halfway into the song it breaks down.  it's eleven minutes long for no reason and ends on another repetetive note, but i'm sure the page was taken from the likes of pil and bauhaus.  i would listen to this again... if i was high.

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woven hand - my russia (http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=E470B7D11883302E) / your russia (http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=FD0831622F9E4BDE)

david eugene edwards <3
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Post by: Jedit on 02 Jun 2006, 02:17
Quote from: Kai
TRAGEDY WAS ALREADY LISTENED TO


GAWD


Quote from: Rizzo
BY YOU? IF NOT THEN GET, TIS GOOD. ELSE, LOLDONGZLOL.


OK, guys - put the CAPS LOCK keys down and back away slowly...
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Post by: timehat on 02 Jun 2006, 02:48
Los Sampler's - La Vida es Llena de Cables

I thought this was really cool. Starts out with a very familiar Latin tango-type sound, played on an acoustic guitar. Seconds in, the file appears to be broken, but such is the glitch-like nature of this piece. As the track continues, the electronic manipulation becomes more and more apparent, guiding the song through various sections. It ends with what I would consider an "instrumental development" utilizing continuing layers of electronic noise and heavier glitching of the ryhthm that actually starts to break meter slightly at this point. Breaks down to a very filtered approximation of the bassline which remains constant throughout the song's entirety. 8/10

Voivod - Missing Sequences (http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=7A5344AA42A43BE6)
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Post by: E. Spaceman on 02 Jun 2006, 12:25
Voivod - Missing Sequences

Starts with some good spacey guitar playing (almost early MBV) and vocals before turning into a more straight forward metal playing although vocals continue to be different to the typical. In some parts it breaks down to an almost start/stop dynamic before returning to the main theme. The solo is somewhat lacking, but is followed by a better section with a more driving rythm before again turning start/stop. At about 4:10 it sounds like the band cuts loose and playful before returning to the main riff/vocal. Very good overall. 8.5/10


Stars - Your Ex Lover is Dead (http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=48D135894C4E2016)
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Post by: rr112233 on 02 Jun 2006, 16:29
Stars - Your Ex-Lover Is Dead

Has a very love-song-like tune.  But the lyrics and name suggest otherwise.  Pretty cool sound to it, but it's not a song that I'd really love.  I like the beginning thing: "When you have nothing left to burn, you have to set yourself on fire."  It kicks it off and sets the story of the song, pretty much.  The song slowly builds up, and ends with a louder version of the beginning.  Not bad.  7.5/10

System of a Down - Vicinity of Obscenity (http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=71D9410438A3F6FA) (very odd but awesome)
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Post by: Manta Ray on 02 Jun 2006, 17:08
System of a Down used to be a good band. This is a good song. It's catchy and fun to listen to, but I can't say that before listening to it I didn't know exactly how it was going to sound. SOAD are basically reliving their first two albums in a much cruder manner, with less and less subtlety.
However, despite my bias against SOAD, I can't deny that this is an alright song. I just wouldn't recommend it to anyone, so I'm going to give it a 6.

As for the next song, let me think...

Oh yes, Common People by Pulp. I doubt it's already been reviewed, but don't blame me if it has, this thread is 19 pages long...
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Post by: jcknbl on 02 Jun 2006, 18:39
Do you want to, like, post an mp3?
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Post by: Houdinimachine on 02 Jun 2006, 19:11
That's ok, I'll let the noobie off the hook.

Pulp - Common People

I had heard the Shatner version before so I had some idea going in what to expect. While I think I like Shatner's version more, this is really good mellow stuff with lots of British sass. 9/10

Here's mine...

Blue October - Into the Ocean (http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=077B746904C4FC33)
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Post by: Manta Ray on 03 Jun 2006, 02:29
Hey, I didn't realise that posting an mp3 was the expected thing to do, like I said, I only read the first page which didn't seem to give any indication of doing so.

Edit:
Blue October - Into the Ocean

This is a really nice and soothing piece of music. The vocals are easy to listen to, there is a really good drum sound and the instruments are well played. I like this a lot. It's quite poppy but with a hint of edginess. It's like the postal service but with strings.
8/10

Next song:
Chet Baker - My Funny Valentine (http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=67B96BEC7058F12F)
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Post by: E. Spaceman on 03 Jun 2006, 14:38
It says "File Not Found", any chance of you tryng again?
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Post by: Manta Ray on 03 Jun 2006, 18:05
sorry about that... hold on, i'll do it now

Edit:
The above link is also fixed
Chet Baker - My Funny Valentine (http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=67B96BEC7058F12F)
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Post by: KharBevNor on 10 Jun 2006, 05:45
Files expired, so I'll kickstart the thread again. Kind of a payback for the song of mine that got skipped a few pages back. Or something.

The Coffinshakers - Halloween (Remix) (http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=85C6660217CF0EF5)
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Post by: E. Spaceman on 19 Jun 2006, 07:02
Sorry Khar, could you post it again?
or should I just post one myself?
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Post by: KharBevNor on 19 Jun 2006, 07:40
No, I tell you what.

For all being annoying you have to listen to Strawberry Switchblade - Since Yesterday. And watch the video too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7QPBzAJ_io

Gods I love the 80's.
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Post by: E. Spaceman on 19 Jun 2006, 11:18
Strawberry Switchblade - Since Yesterday

It starts with fanfare like synth-trumpets, so it can only be great. Bouncy synth rhythm with twinkly synth instruments. The vocals are saccharine sweet and the "laaalalalalaaaaaaaa" chorus is disturbingly addictive. The only downside is that it's a tad repetitive.

I'd say a 8.5/10, but having a name like Strawberry Switchblade gives it at least an extra .8.



The Video: Siouxsie and clone take acid in an abandoned Sesame Street set sing sweetly and dance dorkily. 10/10

And Now:
Neko Case - Hold On, Hold On (http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=8B0B83B14C235609)
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Post by: KharBevNor on 19 Jun 2006, 13:10
Quote from: E. Spaceman

The Video: Siouxsie and clone take acid in an abandoned Sesame Street set sing sweetly and dance dorkily. 10/10


I think when Rose McDowell just starts swinging her arms a bit and bopping very slightly from side to side, that is just the cutest.

Having heard almost the entire body of her musical work, I'm suprised she could find the happiness in her wee black heart to manage even that.
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Post by: E. Spaceman on 19 Jun 2006, 13:17
Quote from: wikipedia
Rose has also worked with neofolk band Death In June and experimental band Current 93, and has featured on tracks by Psychic TV (on the 1985 single "Godstar"), experimental groups Nurse With Wound and Coil ("Christmas Is Now Drawing Near" on the album Moon's Milk (In Four Phases))


Death in June, Current 93 and Coil? wow.
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Post by: KharBevNor on 19 Jun 2006, 13:31
Yup. I'm only missing a few Sorrows releases, some solo demos, The Poems only album, and the album she did with Bjork and Bjorks sister.
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Post by: Praeserpium Machinarum on 22 Jun 2006, 10:02
Come on someone review that Neko Case track!
I can't because I already know and love her :)
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Post by: amok on 22 Jun 2006, 15:42
Neko Case - Hold On, Hold On

9.8/10. I can't put why I love this track so much into words, I'm just gay for anything with a decent female vocalist in and that really hit the spot. A+ will listen to again, repeatedly. :)

Apoptygma Berzerk - Eclipse (http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=EA1DA15B558F5EF2) [SYNTHPOP WARNING]
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Post by: amok on 02 Jul 2006, 08:08
Revivin' dis.

That last link is probably expired by now so here's another fun tune.

808 State - Cubik (http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=6C0CF59039D0FF6E)
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Post by: La Creme on 02 Jul 2006, 09:02
808 State - Cubik

Fun, clanky techno. Makes me think of a big ass robot in the jungle, just going nuts. The beat was pretty annoying, but the (I'm guessing intentionally) horrid guitar lines and silly synth stuff was all pretty rad. This song had a lot of gaps and places where alternate melody lines and shit could've been filled in, and it was a bit over-simplistic, but it was fun and glitchy and I liked it.

6/10


Whaaaat, MBV play surf now? Crank this one.

The Mermen - Blue Xoam (http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=2D16FF0909535F9D)
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Post by: La Creme on 03 Jul 2006, 13:51
Come on nerds.
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Post by: Praeserpium Machinarum on 03 Jul 2006, 13:56
Only if you say please.
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Post by: La Creme on 03 Jul 2006, 14:01
Please come on nerds.

Here's another one if you poonfaces don't wanna do that last one. But it is a surprise.

LINK (http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=49751ABB7BD5DE25)
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Post by: Der Golem on 03 Jul 2006, 18:14
Downloaded both, but I'm going to do the A.D. Tarantule One cause I like it better.

A.D. Tarantula - The Century Trilogy

Excellent track. The opening riff is very catchy and quite rocking, but still kinda odd or skewed sounding. After that part the song goes into a whole other direction, had a nice orchestral part with a similiar feel to the Godfather theme I guess, but again more skewed, like there was something wrong with it. The track rocks out briefly again and then another classical sounding part comes in and finishes the whole thing. 8/10

The Corrs - Erin Shore (http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=2A74202F6CB36BD9)
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Post by: amok on 04 Jul 2006, 10:51
Quote
The Corrs - Erin Shore


I like this, the only issue I'd have with it is that it's maybe a bit too repetitive. I mean, the bits that repeat are good, but for an instrumental it doesn't really go anywhere. Then again I'm not overly familiar with Irish folky instrumentals so I can't really compare it to similar tunes or anything. It's definitely enjoyable. 7/10

The KLF - What Time Is Love (LP Mix) (http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=78E447D87DBD0660)

Strange 90's techno/pop ftw.
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Post by: KharBevNor on 04 Jul 2006, 16:13
Downloading. Is their name an Illuminatus! reference?

EDIT: They were once called 'The Justified Ancients of Mu-Mu' according to Wikipedia, so that's probably a yes. Kick out the JAMs!
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Post by: Jedit on 05 Jul 2006, 01:41
Quote from: amok
The KLF - What Time Is Love (LP Mix) (http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=78E447D87DBD0660)

Strange 90's techno/pop ftw.


Typical - I came in to make a review, and it's something I already have.

It also says a lot about the average age on these forums that there's someone who hasn't heard this one, because the KLF achieved near-total media saturation with it.
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Post by: KharBevNor on 05 Jul 2006, 07:30
Well, I've never willingly listened to any music radio in my life apart from the odd spurt of classic FM whilst studying, so it's unsurprising.

The KLF - What Time Is Love (LP Mix)

Starts off very low and eerie, with some jazzy sort of vocal things, and then some guy starts singing about the Justified Ancients of Mu-Mu. Then it samples MC5 and turns into total dark techno track. Then rapping starts, which is a shame, because it brings the track down in my view. The sireny techno bits are pretty sweet and whatnot, but the rapper annoys me. Some nice variation and fake crowd moments and whatnot as it goes on though. But that rapper should just shut up.

I'll give it 6/10.

Now for some awesome extreme old-school apocalyptic folk.

Changes - Fire of Life (Unreleased Version) (http://
http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=D15567EA795ACABB)
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Post by: Jedit on 05 Jul 2006, 13:10
Quote from: KharBevNor
The KLF - What Time Is Love (LP Mix)

Starts off very low and eerie, with some jazzy sort of vocal things, and then some guy starts singing about the Justified Ancients of Mu-Mu. Then it samples MC5 and turns into total dark techno track. Then rapping starts, which is a shame, because it brings the track down in my view. The sireny techno bits are pretty sweet and whatnot, but the rapper annoys me. Some nice variation and fake crowd moments and whatnot as it goes on though. But that rapper should just shut up.

I'll give it 6/10.


Ah, well - maybe you'd like this (http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=EAA1792658B8BEFC) a bit more - same band, but more of the jazzy stuff and no rap.

Meanwhile, back at the review:

Changes - Fire of Life (unreleased version)

And I can see why it wasn't released.  The rhythm keeps dropping in and out, the tune is boring and the singer is a perfect example of the old joke about how to tell the difference between a folk singer and the audience - the singer is the guy who only has a finger in one ear.  Someone needs to beat this droning bastard to death with his own guitar, before he performs again.  1/10, and that's for not being chart crap.

While I go to give my ears an enema, please ponder on this:

Beth Gibbons and Rustin Man - Resolve (http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=FE06581555AD8C35)
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Post by: La Creme on 05 Jul 2006, 13:16
Changes - Fire For Life

So goddam jangly. So goddam jangly. So goddam jangly. So goddam jangly. So goddam jangly. So goddam jangly. So goddam jangly. So goddam jangly. So goddam jangly. So goddam jangly.

Now that I've done that:
This song was pretty simple. Two steelstring guitars and throaty, dramatic vocals. Very dischordant and ambiguous in time. The end of this one was really really good: it shifts into this alternate chord pattern and eventually rises into a jangly cacophony and ends. Fun stuff.

7/10



MORE REVIEWING:

Gibbons, Beth & Rustin Man - Resolve

MORE FOLK. Good simple guitar line and high, airy vocals. Pretty stereotypical, straightforward one-acoustic-guitar-folk (except, you know, there's a bass {?} too). Decent lyrics.

5/10, just for lack of originality, and cause I'm not in the goddam mood.




Somethin easy, classic, and damn sure good.

The Flaming Lips - In The Morning Of The Magicians (http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=95F8BFCD6EDCC814)
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Post by: El Opium on 05 Jul 2006, 22:07
The Flaming Lips-In the Morning of the Magicians
-How can I not like this track? I've got several Flaming Lips albums, but I've not heard this one before. Overall the track has quite a loungey vibe to it, and Wayne Coyne's vocals sound softer than usual to the point were they make me think of jelly...sssmmooth jelly. 8/10

P.S. Prepare to die:  Skullflower-White Fang (http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=C1CAEA4D52BCDABB)

P.P.S-Song re-uploaded in fair-trade, shade-grown MP3 format.
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Post by: Rizzo on 05 Jul 2006, 23:26
Quote from: El Opium
Sorry about the WMA, if any would care to direct me to a free program that will make delicous fat-free MP3s at a fraction of the cost then I am listening.

www.apple.com/itunes
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Post by: E. Spaceman on 05 Jul 2006, 23:35
The best CD ripping software.

http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/
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Post by: Jedit on 06 Jul 2006, 02:45
Quote from: El Opium
P.S.S-Sorry about the WMA, if any would care to direct me to a free program that will make delicous fat-free MP3s at a fraction of the cost then I am listening.


http://www.dbpoweramp.com/dmc.htm will do that, and will turn your WMAs into MP3s while it's at it.

(BTW, it's PPS, not PSS - Post Post Scriptum.)
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Post by: El Opium on 10 Jul 2006, 21:56
You don't want to try the Skullflower?...Yes, I know it smells funny...please?...Well, I suppose we shall have to move on to the next course then.

Smegma-Thru the Warty Evening (http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=DE676ADD09C58693)
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Post by: Kai on 10 Jul 2006, 22:21
Okay, guys, one of you has to take it. Smegma are one of my favorite bands ever and you need to do it. ANY OF YOU
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Post by: Praeserpium Machinarum on 11 Jul 2006, 06:08
I was actually going to do Skullflower but I forgot, Skullflower is pop-rock compared to this one.

Smegma - Thru The Warty Evening

Pure madness. All sorts of weird drone-like noodling in the bagground while the lead singer recitates, shall we say, unorthodox poetry. Music'n'poetry(while totally unlike say Soul Coughing) from the abyss of psychedelica is what this song(or should I say piece) sounds like to me. It is quite improvisational as far as I can tell and while not lacking cohesion, it lacks normal song structure. The bass pounds monotonously with drums joining in, the clanky guitar screeches and squeals never really playing any melody. The vocals are unremarkably spoken word-like, though they have some manical glee(specifically around "her slimy diatribe" and "riding with one hand then let one go". For me this is the kind of stuff that has novelty and indeed entertainment but not something I would listen to incessantly.
However I enjoyed the experience so it gets a 7/10.

Now as promised the Bark Psychosis track. This is from their debut Hex which was released in 1994.

Bark Psychosis - Pendulum Man (http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=617944227F1B5137)
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Post by: KharBevNor on 11 Jul 2006, 09:31
Bark Psychosis - Pendulum Man

Very subdued, post-rock sort of opening, one note sort of oscillating in its own chorus effect for a bit, then slowly swelling synth strings as we get in around the one minute mark. The guitar line slowly changing as the sound slowly builds up. Very, very nice so far. Then another little swell of sound on the keys, and the guitar, if that's what it is, changing to become like a clock tick-tocking. Complexity and layers slowly building up...and so it goes on really. Very peaceful, very ambient. I quite like it. 8/10

Now, I tried to post this before, but it didn't work. Here's hoping it will this time. This track is just beautiful:

Current  93 - Horsey [Live at the Union Chapel] (http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=420115137B8F381D)

Please listen to the whole thing without skipping.
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Post by: Der Golem on 12 Jul 2006, 18:09
Okay.

To whomever may read this;

Download that song. Listen. Be completely blown away. Repeat.

I have nothing else to say about it, 9.5/10.

I'll upload something in a bit.
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Post by: KharBevNor on 12 Jul 2006, 18:16
I know. It is so intense.

"She's reading a book...
She finished it years ago.
She's tearing up paper: she's tearing up life!
But she only starts thinking,
When her blood. Is. BROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWNNNN!"
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Post by: Der Golem on 12 Jul 2006, 18:40
Yeah, I thought his voice was too fragile/weak and stuff at the beginning, but when he got all shouty, shivers down my spine dude.

King's X - Dogman (http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=E05404394D08A4C8)
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Post by: KharBevNor on 12 Jul 2006, 18:42
And that's live too. He screams non stop for about 30 seconds, straight out the blue. Just...incredible.

And yeah, Tibets voice can seem too weak, but it is very definitely something you grow to love.
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Post by: Leon on 13 Jul 2006, 03:54
Current 93 - Hosey

It starts out with some Spoken word, and the ominous "Dum Dum Dum" of a bass. Losts of stuff about suffering, grey shaded worlds, etc. The lead has an english accent, and the style is not offputting, but it's not catchy either. some chords come in, and he repeats a chorus, but that doesn't make any sense if this is supposed to be spoken word, and because he's not really singing. He just started Howling, and some sweet flute music broke in, sounds native american. He's talking about Christ's Black blood, and confessionals. This isn't very musically complex, and I could probably play all the parts myself including the flute and the bass... at the same damn time. The flute is the best thing about this, through the whole thing there isn't singing, he's kind of talking in a lilting, excited, half sane ramble. Some synth just came in, and the flute left :(. It's really long. Finished, it's morbid, and hard to follow, but it's not horrible and he gets points for being different.

6/10.

NOW FOR SOME FUCKING AWESOME DRAGONFORCE!

Two songs, you can pick one, or both.

Dragonforce - Cry of the Brave
http://a2.11mbit.in/p0nJhi563rNOl8e73vwxKqEF7d12P0noCia67z0OGHegg4axyMsklde7/Pr6yi1Pv

Video - Through the Fire and Flames
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuX2QaEG_8s&search=dragonforce
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Post by: Misereatur on 13 Jul 2006, 05:17
Dragonforce - Through the Fire and Flames

Dragonforce are probably one of the most ridiculous bands in heavy metal today. Not funny ridiculous like Manowar, but just sad.
The song starts of with an Atari like intro that is played fast. Too fast. Baisically, the whole song is just "woo! look at us! we have great hair and we play really really fast! vvvvrrrrroooooommmmm". Seriously, stop it. They are obviously very talented musicians, but they are also useless because they showcase their talents in such a masturbatory way.

3/10

Forgotten Silence - As Suwais (http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=C368107118B0A866)
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Post by: Der Golem on 13 Jul 2006, 12:16
That is pretty amazing. Starts out with a sweet acoustic riff, soon joined by another guitar and then drums. A woman starts to sing and the guitars change slightly. The drumming is fast but still very restrained, very good. The guitarwork is what stands out the most though. Not because they are at the forefront of the mix, but because their riffs seem to be constantly evolving, there are really no repeated parts to speak of, but it still sounds remarkably coherent. After listening to the song twice through I don't remember any distinct melodies or riffs, just that the whole of it was pretty awesome. The singer is fine, all the vocal melodies are good, but a rougher style might have suited the song better. The bass doesn't stand out much, but provides a solid backbone behind the complex guitar interplay. 9/10

Repost'd; King's X - Dogman (http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=E05404394D08A4C8)
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Post by: Meat Sandwich on 18 Jul 2006, 17:39
King's X - Dogman

Some seriously groovy drumming here, and the riffing is really cool. Normally, the kind of vocals in this song would really annoy me but for some reason I like it. I also love how you can really hear the bassist in this. The lyrics are nifty, too, I'm not sure exactly what it's about but it's got me nodding my head.

This is a really cool song, man. 7/10.

Now, one of you take:

Nile - Sarcophagus (http://rapidshare.de/files/26236791/Nile_-_Sarcophagus.mp3.html)
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Post by: Houdinimachine on 18 Jul 2006, 17:52
Nile - Sarcophagus

Well, I am not much for death/doom whatever it is metal... mainly because of the unintelligible ape groans from bands like this. The music itself seems somewhat decent in a non-offensive sort of way. I just kept waiting for it to take away attention from the voice, but it kept on staying subdued and letting that horrible gurgling stay in the foreground. The last half minute of the song was decent so I'll give it a...

5/10



Man Man - Feathers (http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=BD9A874E20007280)
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Post by: Meat Sandwich on 18 Jul 2006, 17:56
I disagree, but props for giving it a fair chance.
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Post by: Houdinimachine on 18 Jul 2006, 17:58
I'll be the first to admit I'm a choir geek so I prefer metal with actual singers.
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Post by: Storm Rider on 18 Jul 2006, 18:06
Like this? (http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=B02BA2635C5D8518)
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Post by: Houdinimachine on 18 Jul 2006, 18:15
That's fucking beautiful. I <3 you so much.

Now someone review mine.
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Post by: KharBevNor on 18 Jul 2006, 18:29
Man Man - Feathers

Started off with a minor, but still somehow jaunty little guitar figure, building up and whatnot quite lightly. Semi-hoarse processed or multiple voices with not a little hint of Tom Waits in them break in. Actually quite a nice song. 8/10.

Now, in keeping with the theme of todays strip, I simply must provide more metal. It saddens my heart that, these days, kids just have no idea what metal is all about. So I picked something really musically uplifting and pretty damn balls to the wall, though some would disagree with me. More horrible snarly voices I'm afraid.

Arch Enemy - Angelclaw (http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=60BB0E235115D1B6)

I challenge you to listen from about 3:15 to 3:30 and tell me that fast guitar playing is not emotional.
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Post by: Storm Rider on 18 Jul 2006, 22:51
I already love Arch Enemy (or at least, Stigmata/Burning Bridges/Wages of Sin Arch Enemy), so I'll pass on this one.

But it reminds me of a thread I was going to start.
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Post by: Rizzo on 18 Jul 2006, 23:26
Arch Enemy-Angelclaw

I didn't really enjoy this song. It may have been the low quality encoding but it just sounded messy. The guitar playing was skillful but the recording and vocals really let it down for me. Other Arch Enemy songs have really blown me away but this just left me hanging. I want more power and less frills. At the end of the day it's just guitar wankery and not even amazing guitar wankery either.
6/10

Circle Takes The Square-As The Roots Undo (http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=FDFA80E34D21302B)
Post hardcore.
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Post by: Hairy Joe Bob on 19 Jul 2006, 05:54
Well...

This is not a genre I listen to anymore. However it reminds me of back when I was into this kind of stuff and for that it makes me feel a bit warm and fuzzy inside. I do like it. The build up parts are very good, and almost menacing in places. I'd listen to this in my car as i drove on a rainy day I think. then hit 100 when it hit the loud part in the track. The fadeout is quite something. And gave me a little shudder down my spine.

So yes: I recommend it. It's good mood music for me I think.

A hearty 6/10. pretty average. but with ace guitar noodling.



I put forward:

The marvellous PIPETTES!

http://www.myspace.com/thepipettes

take a pick which song.
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Post by: E. Spaceman on 19 Jul 2006, 09:22
Hairy Joe Bob edited his post, so this is now meaningless.
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Post by: Rizzo on 19 Jul 2006, 23:38
I think he did? Or something like it anyway...
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Post by: Garcin on 24 Jul 2006, 16:52
Sure, you've heard Lightsaber Cocksucker Blues . . . but have you ever heard it sung by kittens?
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Post by: salada on 25 Jul 2006, 02:17
i haven't looked in here for a while now.
hmm. there seem to be two tracks, if you count the kittens. so:

kittens and mclusky -- lightsaber cocksucking blues

what can i say. i like mclusky. i like kittens. the lead-singing kitten's eyes kind of scared me a bit. that's one mf my favourite mclusky songs (but not quite 'She Will Only Bring You Happiness' with that wonderful line about their old singer being a sex criminal). so i reckon i'd give this maybe a 7 or 8 out of 10 all up.

the pipettes -- tell me what you want (this being the song that started playing when i opened their myspace page)

hmm. their name was cool. unfortunately, that's about where it stops. unbeknownst to a lot of people here (and in the world) i have an inexplicable soft spot for twee pop. this, however, misses the mark. i think it's the strings and the backing vocalists. so maybe 4 out of 10, mainly for the name and the matching outfits.



anyway, here's my one.

DJ Scotch Egg -- Scotch Attack (http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=BFF15AC803232F6D)

some background: despite the name, DJ Scotch Egg is japanese. he lives in england now though i think. this is from his album KFC Core, a half-hour breakcore album produced with a couple of gameboys and a megaphone over the course of 30 days during which time the guy ate nothing but KFC. this isn't my favourite track from the album, but it's the only one i have to hand at the moment.

ok go!
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Post by: pinkpiche on 25 Jul 2006, 04:35
DJ Scotch Egg - Scotch Attack

I really like this actually, the middle section on 00:49 is very nintendo-like. Very glitchy, which i like in my breakcore. I'm considering getting a hold of this album.

and here's mine

Snake and jets amazing bullit band - 10 cities (http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=BF7EBAB452AB7831)

danish indie-electronica-funk-something band, been rocking the underground stages for a while but is finally coming up to the surface.
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Post by: ZJGent on 25 Jul 2006, 06:38
10 cities - Snake & Jet's amazing bullit band

OH LORD. this is just the sort of thing that ought to play when I walk in a room. For some reason I walk to a funk that no-one else hears, and I've never been able to find it in song form. Wild Cherry once came close for a while, but this is... this is it.

On a technical level, I love the shiny little "globble" sounds that split up what could have come from the Funk Age anyway, but modernised to a firm and steady filmic pace. The piano is good, the sound overall is good, plus it's a winner on a genre that I love.

9/10. Mark deducted for lack of lyrics to sing along to.


Next song: "Paparazzi" - Shugo Tokumaru (warning: twinkly!)

(edit) Point. Sorry about that, peeps.

http://www.orbitfiles.com/download/id514661295
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Post by: Jedit on 25 Jul 2006, 10:39
Quote from: ZJGent
Next song: "Paparazzi" - Shugo Tokumaru (warning: twinkly!)


You're more likely to get someone reviewing this if you actually link to it...
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Post by: Storm Rider on 05 Aug 2006, 00:05
THREAD NECROMANCY

This is an awesome thread and it needs to not die. So I am bringing it back with a new track since ZJ's link will not work for me.

FROST* - Hyperventilate (http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=35BE7402604B337D)
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Post by: Misereatur on 05 Aug 2006, 06:29
FROST* - Hyperventilate

The song starts with some flutes, playing rather ambient lines. A piano comes in, and plays a line for a few minutes untill a seriously good prog' metal kicks into action, making this song even more interesting.
This is, to make it short, very good prog' metal. It's not re-inventing anything, but it's still excellent, and I will be checking them out.

edit: totally forgot the score

8.7/10


Dornenreich - Wer Hat Angst Vor Einsamkeit (http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=638A0DCA583F9D45)
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Post by: Cartilage Head on 05 Aug 2006, 13:22
Dornenreich-Wer Hat Angst Vor Ensamkeit.

 This was indeed an interesting song. It has some pretty outstanding instrument work,particularly the guitar,which is epic enough to have a battle to. There is one very major flaw,however..the vocals. I'm sorry,but these are awful,awful vocals,even for this genre of music. I might be more forgiving of the vocals if it didn't seem like they were actually taking themselves seriously while shrieking them.

 Gargamel!-Grin,Reaper (http://www.gargamel.net/newtendersite/SongsNSounds/Gargamel!%20-%20Grin,%20Reaper.mp3)
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Post by: salada on 06 Aug 2006, 14:55
Gargamel! - Grin, Reaper

that was odd. started off kind of synth-poppy and all of a sudden there was this screaming and it got a bit metal on me. interesting mix, but i must admit it's not in my usual listening whatchacallit. habit, or something. overall i reckon i'd give it a 7 for quirkiness, plus a bonus half-point for a name with punctuation (!). So 7.5/10.

Toecutter  - Ode To Brendan Phelan (http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=503E391369FC8589)

this was the first peice of breakcore music i ever heard, and i finally tracked down the album it's from so i thought i'd share it with you all.
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Post by: Energy Turtle on 10 Aug 2006, 07:22
Ode To brendan Phelan

I suppose I'll start of by saying this is not a genre of music that I listen to, so please forgive me for any ignorance or lack of understanding of the 'nuances' of the genre or whatever. While I did enjoy this song it was more for it's novelty value than anything else. The mixing is competent but there is too much focus on being random rather than actually making a 'song' (methinks this is the whole point though)
I'd give it a 5/10

edit: whoops forgot my song 'Everyone Alive Wants Answers' by Colleen
when I figure out how to upload stuff I'll hyperlink it
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Post by: Misereatur on 10 Aug 2006, 08:08
www.yousendit.com
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Post by: Energy Turtle on 10 Aug 2006, 09:33
here it is
http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=9318F9A33E4D2501&rcpt=aragorn_2@hotmail.com

I changed my mind, this song is called 'ritournelle' by the same artist
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Post by: regxcore on 11 Aug 2006, 17:40
Dear and the Headlights

typical indie track.. but i love it.

http://www.myfilehut.com/userfiles/168492/DearHeadlights%20-%20Sweet%20Talk.mp3

hmm, not sure if anyone here is going to like..
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Post by: Kai on 11 Aug 2006, 17:44
You have to review the track above you first.
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Post by: Der Golem on 11 Aug 2006, 20:53
Colleen - Ritournelle

Sweet track. Repetative but not boring at all. It is very relaxing but still sounds a bit sinister, which could probably be attributed to the sound you hear in the background for the second half of the song, sounds like it is being played on an old vynil player thingamabob (I'm sure there is a better word for that but in my current state I honestly can't recall what it is). Anyway, not much else to say, 7.5/10

Liam Lynch - My United States Of Whatever (http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=EAE414AD40360D33)
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Post by: Marked on 12 Aug 2006, 11:27
Liam Lynch - My United States of Whatever

Musically, my impression is "whatever."  But I'm not much of a fan of the guitar-distorted-so-that-it-sounds-like-it-coming-out-of-a-speaker-too-small.  The amusing lyrics make up for it, though.  Seems as though that most of this song's value is novelty value. So: 6/10

Now for my song:
 Boston Horns - Ain't It Funky Now?  (http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=A2F35A71064FFBF4)
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Post by: Rubby on 12 Aug 2006, 15:52
Sorry to derail but I just wanted to mention this since Liam Lynch was mentioned.
On the same album as the “Whatever” song he does a bunch of “Fake Songs” (the name of the album) in which he picks a band and writes a song that sounds just like that band. He does Bjork, Bowie, Pixies, Depeche Mode and Talking heads and they all sound so good.
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Post by: imapiratearg on 12 Aug 2006, 17:53
Quote from: SkepticSight
Alright lets go with something here then.

Artist: Daphne Loves Derby
Title: Midnight Highway


you like Daphne Loves Derby, therefor i love you in that totally non sexual way.
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Post by: imapiratearg on 12 Aug 2006, 18:05
Quote from: Marked
Now for my song:
 Boston Horns - Ain't It Funky Now?  (http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=A2F35A71064FFBF4)


ok...i listened to it like the thing said, and i'm probably replying to this totally wrong, but anywho, onto my review

first off: it's jazz i think.  not what i like to listen to. but it had a good beat and it was pleasant to listen to, i liked the horns too.  the guitar work was good and stuff.  but there were no lyrics.  i can't score it high because i don't like jazz.  but for the sake of not being ignorant or whatever.  i'll give it a 5 out of 10, because it was good.


my song!

wee!

"Readyfuels" or "(A Symphony of) Blase' " by Anberlin (pick one)
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Post by: ImRonBurgundy? on 12 Aug 2006, 19:26
post a link.  i'm not going to go to the trouble of looking for a song by a band that i already know sounds like a cross between Switchfoot and Coldplay.
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Post by: imapiratearg on 12 Aug 2006, 21:12
k... www.purevolume.com/anberlin

and they don't sound anything like Coldplay our Switchfoot.
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Post by: Der Golem on 12 Aug 2006, 21:48
Anberlin - Ready Fuels

Um. This is pretty bad. It doesn't sound like Coldplay, which is good i suppose, but honestly, I would rather just be listening to Coldplay. The riffs are decidedly insipid and uninspired, the song structure is predictable at best and the vocals are terrible. Sorry, 1.5 out of 10 I guess.

Apathy - The Janitor (http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=9ED06CC87B2409A4)

This is rap so here are the lyrics. (http://www.ugrls.com/lyrics/viewfile.asp?song=apathy-thejanitor)
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Post by: Energy Turtle on 12 Aug 2006, 23:19
I'm not a huge fan of rap (jurassic five and astmosphere are pretty cool though) but I like this song. It's got a smooth, catchy rhythm and I can dig the jazzy touch that the theme from the odd couple (I don't know what it's actually called) brings to the song. I don't know much about rapping but the rap itself is pretty well executed. I had read the lyrics before I had listened to it and I was afraid it was going to be 'juggaloey', after  I had heard the song it was put into context and I was alot happier.
It's not the best rap music I've heard but it's a pretty solid effort. I'd give it 7/10

my song - Your Kisses Are Wasted On Me by The Pipettes - thread needs more 50's girl group revival
http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=1624A56E0EF8422B
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Post by: Houdinimachine on 13 Aug 2006, 00:38
Quote from: imapiratearg
k... www.purevolume.com/anberlin

and they don't sound anything like Coldplay our Switchfoot.


lol it's Taking Back Coldplay
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Post by: ImRonBurgundy? on 13 Aug 2006, 00:53
i would like to know what pirate thinks Switchfoot sounds like if he doesn't think Anberlin sounds like them.
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Post by: Marked on 13 Aug 2006, 06:39
The Pipettes - Your Kisses are Wasted on me.

Wow.  I like just about everything about this song except the vocals.  Kickin bass line, Drums are not too much or too little, Guitar complements the rest of the song perfectly, Great dancable beat.  Actually, now that I listen to it again, the vocals are kinda growing on me. 8/10.

Alright, how about a live blues/folk cover of one of Bowie's disco songs:
 M. Ward - Let's Dance  (http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=72935D541CADEECF)
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Post by: KharBevNor on 14 Aug 2006, 17:06
M. Ward - Lets Dance

Very laid back sort of track, some good atmosphere at the start with the lonely sounding harmonica, a touch I particularly liked. Almost dub-like atmosphere and vocal effects as the singing kicks in. I don't know the original song, so I can't  compare anything, but this song sounds pretty good. Maybe a bit too relaxed and hoarse, but not that bad at all. 7/10

Now, I'm going to make you listen to over ten minutes of Cradle of Filth. This song, plus their cover of 'For Those Who Died' with Martin Walkyier singing duet with Dani, entirely justifies their continued existence for the rest of time as far as I am personally concerned. All the melodrama and excess, wedded with actually decent music. I just have to get this song out every now and again and scream along. So much fun.

Cradle of Filth - Queen of Winter, Throned (http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=C72C2B662DFE6FD7)

the lyrics (http://www.darklyrics.com/lyrics/cradleoffilth/vempireordarkfaerytalesinphallustein.html#3)
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Post by: imapiratearg on 14 Aug 2006, 18:55
Quote from: blindsuperhero

My choice - Streetlight Manifesto - Everything Went Numb (http://www.personal.leeds.ac.uk/~mat4cft/01%20-%20Everything%20Went%20Numb.mp3)


Streetlight Manifesto is amazing.  i love them.
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Post by: imapiratearg on 14 Aug 2006, 19:02
Quote from: Houdinimachine
Quote from: imapiratearg
k... www.purevolume.com/anberlin

and they don't sound anything like Coldplay our Switchfoot.


lol it's Taking Back Coldplay


Anberlin doesn't sound at all like Taking Back Sunday, or Coldplay, or Switchfoot.
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Post by: Kai on 14 Aug 2006, 19:25
I don't know... I'm not super up to date with Switchfoot, since they're unbearble enough for me to switch the radio like, immediately, but they sound pretty close to what I remember.


Either way, terrible.
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Post by: KharBevNor on 14 Aug 2006, 19:51
Ouch, I just listened to that band and that is nasty.

Sorry, but it really is. Makes the Postal Service look like fucking Joy Division or something.
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Post by: ImRonBurgundy? on 14 Aug 2006, 20:12
Quote from: imapiratearg
Anberlin doesn't sound at all like Taking Back Sunday, or Coldplay, or Switchfoot.


is this a game or something?

Kerosene 454 sounds nothing like Fugazi
Braid sounds nothing like Jawbox
The Lillingtons sound nothing like Screeching Weasel
Hot Water Music sounds nothing like Leatherface
The Broadways sound nothing like Jawbreaker

i'm not sure i get the point of this.
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Post by: KharBevNor on 14 Aug 2006, 20:17
The namedroppers sound nothing like MC Offtopic.
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Post by: salada on 15 Aug 2006, 02:41
ZING!

now someone do khar's one already.

Quote from: KarBevNor
Cradle of Filth - Queen of Winter, Throned (http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=C72C2B662DFE6FD7)

the lyrics (http://www.darklyrics.com/lyrics/cradleoffilth/vempireordarkfaerytalesinphallustein.html#3)
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Post by: Der Golem on 16 Aug 2006, 17:21
I've never really checked out CoF, I had heard Nymphetamine before and liked it but never got any more because well, word on the street is they suck and I didn't want their bad stuff to prevent me from enjoying that track. Now, this track, Queen of Winter, Throned, is pretty much what I assumed I would be getting if I went ahead and checked out more. Overly bombastic, gimmicky black-ish metal. Musically I was unimpressed, by the numbers stuff. The vocals vere awful. Felt gimmicky, not real. Really detracted from the song. 5.5/10 I guess.

Go here (http://mercenary.dk/downloads/audio/full/) And get Firesoul. Your life will be just a bit more awesome the moment you listen to it.
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Post by: minkles on 16 Aug 2006, 19:19
Mercenary- Firesoul:  That was kind of awesome.  And I like the piano, and the second half of the track overall.  Still, I've heard better, more interesting death metal.  6.5/10.  

Now listen to some Tarkio. http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=D6F148131AD60DB1
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Post by: SensoryOssuary on 17 Aug 2006, 11:30
So, according to Wikipedia, Tarkio was Colin Meloy's pre-Decemberists band. Liking a fair amount of Decemeberists material, I was somewhat excited to listen to this. His vocal delivery is characteristically precise, and I liked the lyrics, especially the chorus. However, the instrumental accompaniment sounds pretty much as unimaginative as possible. This is admissable, I guess, since it's apparently just a college-rock band, but I still wouldn't listen to it on my own accord. 6/10

Pere Ubu - Navvy
http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=79884CEC068EB933
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Post by: minkles on 17 Aug 2006, 13:42
Pere Ubu- Navvy-  I like the beat and bass, and it's certainly unique, but the vocals are too irritating and the song too repetitive for my liking.  5/10.

Akron/Family- Raising the Sparks (http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=F08ABBD219FBD1EA)
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Post by: redgiemental on 17 Aug 2006, 18:38
Akron/Family- Raising the Sparks

Well I loved the opening guitar of the song. I was really getting into it ..............then the vocals came in...........honestly I thought they were terrible. It got somewhat better around the 2 minute mark and I enjoyed it a bit from there. Not terrible but not sonething I'd listen to either.

4/10

Time to make someone stop in bat country!  

Avenged Sevenfold - Bat Country

http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=569F778C00A1F230
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Post by: minkles on 17 Aug 2006, 20:34
Avenged Sevenfold- Bat Country

This band has a talented drummer.  Unfortunately, that talent is wasted.  The guitar, vocals, and lyrics are bland and terrible.  This is radio friendly "rock".  2/10.


How about Asobi Seksu?
Asobi Seksu- New Years (http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=0CA4654B76906D71)
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Post by: imapiratearg on 17 Aug 2006, 21:17
Quote from: minkles
How about Asobi Seksu?
Asobi Seksu- New Years (http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=0CA4654B76906D71)


 "New Years" by Asobi Seksu

first thought: "reminds me of Snow Patrol"
second thought: "gah, a japanese band"
third thought: "i like the music, and the singers aren't bad"

overall i liked it. it was a good listen.  i just wish i could undertand the lyrics.

 7/10 you should feel special.

my song:  "Konstantine" by Something Corporate

linkage: http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=64504BC22586739A
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Post by: KharBevNor on 17 Aug 2006, 21:35
Man, that A7X song was nowhere near as bad as I'd expected. Vocals especially were really generic, but it didn't have a bad solo and it had a pretty nice 80's vibe to it which saved it a bit. Also, Fear and Loathing. I was braced for second album My Chemical Romance and had only downloaded to mock. Pretty good for the scene they come from though, though still not my thing.

Asobi Seksu - New Years

Starts up with noisy guitar and upbeat organ. Then a very syrupy, out of place seeming female Japanese voice kicks in, working suprising well with the  instrumentation, but seeming rather cliche. There is a somewhat post-punky vibe, however, a suggestion of an east-asian Cocteau Twins. There's also a great bit with a massively processed 'scream' of noise. Not that bad a track everything considered, and certainly not your average j-pop. 7/10

And now, rocking out with the cock out.

Cathedral - Hopkins (the Witchfinder General) (http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=1F98D31F7EDCDD50)
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Post by: Storm Rider on 17 Aug 2006, 21:44
Oh maaaan I love Cathedral. So I can't do this.

But both this band and the band this song is a tribute to kick total ass and everyone in this thread should know that.
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Post by: KharBevNor on 17 Aug 2006, 21:53
I always thought of this song as more a tribute to the film than the band, but the film is fucking awesome as well, so I guess this song is just mega mega awesome!
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Post by: Storm Rider on 17 Aug 2006, 22:03
I didn't even realize that Witchfinder General was a movie. Well, the point is that Cathedral and Witchfinder General are both super awesome, but Witchfinder General is really hard to find because they only released like 2 albums and an EP 20 years ago and they weren't on a big label anyway.
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Post by: KharBevNor on 18 Aug 2006, 00:28
I have a torrent of both their albums if you want it?

Also, where did you think all the samples came from?

"I am Matthew Hopkins, Witchfinder!"

It's this great old horror film with Vincent Price that UK doom bands have a strange obsession with. Kind of like neo-folk bands and The Wicker Man.
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Post by: Storm Rider on 18 Aug 2006, 00:40
Yeah, those torrents would be great. I only have about half a dozen WG songs but I can't find any more using any of the services I normally employ.
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Post by: Misereatur on 18 Aug 2006, 03:15
Whoa now, Witchfinder General torrents?
Khar, can you send those to me too?


I also can't review this song because Cathedral are one of my favorite bands.
So music forum guys, go listen to some great stoner doom.
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Post by: Marked on 18 Aug 2006, 15:26
Cathedral - Hopkins (The Witchfinder General)

I don't listen to much music like this.  And by "much" I mean "any".  This song is making me reconsider.  The distortion is (unlike I was expecting) not painful.  Although, I have to ask, is this song really about what it sounds like, or is this some sort of extended metaphor?  Either way, this song is pretty good, in a 'I need to feel badass right now' kind of way.  The samples, I have to say though, turn me off.  And now, you get to read a rating from the least qualified person to rate this song: umm... 8/10.

You metalheads need to check out some bands that have horn sections, because, well, horn sections make a band that much better.  So I give you:

 The Blues Brothers - Who's Making Love? (http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=062604005E361E84)
A little ditty about why you shouldn't mess around.  Take it to heart.
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Post by: minkles on 18 Aug 2006, 17:05
Well, I'm not a metalhead and I love horn sections.  Am I qualified to review your track?
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Post by: Marked on 18 Aug 2006, 17:56
Yes, yes you are.

(I only said that because just about all of the posts before me were talking about das metalzen)
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Post by: minkles on 18 Aug 2006, 18:00
Something Corporate- Konstantine- An awful, awful track.  And this is coming from someone who loves piano-rock.  Its closest thing to a redeeming feature is the hilariously bad lyrics.  Seriously, read them.  http://www.songmeanings.net/lyric.php?lid=141169
My favorite:
"and I'm dreaming in your living room
but we don't have much room to live"
1/10.  

The Blues Brothers- Who's Making Love?- I don't usually listen to this kind of music, and I had low expectations, as I had considered The Blues Brothers a novelty band.  But this was actually really good.  It's a really fun song, and I'll probably try to listen to more like it.  9/10
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Post by: minkles on 18 Aug 2006, 18:06
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists- The One Who Got Us Out (http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=D8F16F930C20F03D)
It's an AAC, sorry about that.
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Post by: Praeserpium Machinarum on 19 Aug 2006, 01:02
Ted Leo and The Pharmacists - The One that Got Us Out

I thought Me and Mia was a great song and this doesn't top it in terms of pop appeal. This is a subtle in message protest poppunk(meant in the best possible way) song, although it is a wee bit too complicated to be catchy as such. The lyrics are pretty good and for once it isn't mindless bushbashing, you could call them social conscious. The music is not at all subtle, it is brash and empowering brimming over with punky energy. Ted Leo sings with conviction and fervour despite his vocal limitations.
Overall I like this song, but I think it lacks really good hooks and potentially could have been better if the song structure was more simple.
It gets 7/10, a good song but not a great song.

Now noise!
Wäldchengarten is Denmark's finest when it comes to noise ambient and this is a soundscape off an EP called Uncomfortable Positions.
Their new album Distractions is released here on the 24th. Woo!
Wäldchengarten - Lies got you into this mess, but lies won't get you out (http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=BD16785F6AF105E7&rcpt=simonholmpedersen@ofir.dk)
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Post by: KharBevNor on 19 Aug 2006, 06:04
Quote from: Marked
Although, I have to ask, is this song really about what it sounds like, or is this some sort of extended metaphor?


No, not an extended metaphor to my knowledge. Doom is more often than not about setting an atmosphere than making a point, apart from of course the over-arching point of the genre, ie, the world's a shithole so lets smoke dope and listen to old Black Sabbath records. Of course, some metal lyrics are metaphors, even the most over-the-top ones (I know for example that quite a few Cradle of Filth songs are actually metaphorical, ie. From the Cradle to Enslave is about millenial tension, Scorched Earth Erotica is about environmentalism.) But often it's going to be quite obvious if there's a political point. It's all, however, mainly about creating worlds. Either better worlds to escape to, or shit worlds to escape from, if that makes any sense. So of course, political stuff fits there as well.

Wäldchengarten - Lies Got You Into This Mess, But Lies Won't Get You Out

Strangely enough, I was listening to a playlist packed full of stuff like Blood Axis, Lustmord and Navicon Torture Technologies, so this fitted right in. I gotta say, it's pretty much what I would expect from noise ambient, though pulled off very well. I really liked the peak of static in the middle, mixed in with the radio noises and pulling off with a sudden jerk. Nice. Gonna give this an 8/10.
 
Quote

You metalheads need to check out some bands that have horn sections,


Ephel Duath - The Passage (Pearl Grey) (http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=6006B99308B2D003)
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Post by: Marked on 19 Aug 2006, 06:59
Ephel Duath - The Passage (Pearl Grey)

Alright, I'm going to give my impressions as I listened to this song: Wait this is metal? I can't really hear what's going on, I'm going to turn it up.  Oh! Woah! Metal.  Woah! That is an amazing avant garde trumpet solo.  Damn, that guy has impressive range.  What are they saying?  I'm going to have to look up the lyrics.  Even reading the lyrics, it kinda feels like listening to one of those songs in finnish where the put fake lyrics in front of you.  Oh well, musically this is really good.  Nice mellow break halfway through or so.  With another impressive trumpet solo at the end.
9/10. (I was going to give it 8, but someone just gave a weird look for listening to this, automatic 1 point added in my book)


Also, Khar, do all their songs have the trumpet player in the band, or is he a guest musician for that song?  If he is actually in the band, I am buying some of their music.
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Post by: Kai on 19 Aug 2006, 07:00
Ephel Duath are amazing.
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Post by: Marked on 19 Aug 2006, 07:02
Oops, I forgot to post a song.

 Voodoo Glow Skulls - Stranded in the Jungle (http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=A29BBA401C781739)
Title: The Forced Listening Thread
Post by: Praeserpium Machinarum on 19 Aug 2006, 07:12
Quote
Wäldchengarten - Lies Got You Into This Mess, But Lies Won't Get You Out

Strangely enough, I was listening to a playlist packed full of stuff like Blood Axis, Lustmord and Navicon Torture Technologies, so this fitted right in. I gotta say, it's pretty much what I would expect from noise ambient, though pulled off very well. I really liked the peak of static in the middle, mixed in with the radio noises and pulling off with a sudden jerk. Nice. Gonna give this an 8/10.


Their second album Electrical Bonding is pretty fantastic so if you come across it, you should pick it up :)
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Post by: KharBevNor on 19 Aug 2006, 07:47
Quote from: Marked
Ephel Duath - The Passage (Pearl Grey)
Also, Khar, do all their songs have the trumpet player in the band, or is he a guest musician for that song?  If he is actually in the band, I am buying some of their music.


He is a member of the band. And their bassist is a midget! So good live!
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Post by: Marked on 19 Aug 2006, 10:19
The Bassist? Damn, that's gotta be hard.  You know, with the little hands and big spaces between frets.
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Post by: ImRonBurgundy? on 20 Aug 2006, 17:57
Voodoo Glow Skulls- "Stranded in the Jungle"

i'm pretty sure this is a cover, and i forget who did the original. but one part of the song has a roundtrip jungle beat and kind of an Oingo Boingo feel to it, but the other is some sort of attempt at soul or gospel with an annoying piano riff.  props to the skacore band for trying to branch out, but it just comes off sounding like a novelty recording. 6/10

this thread needs more good punk rock.

Dillinger Four- "Like Sprewells on a Wheelchair" (http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=F1A372242A72FA07)
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Post by: imapiratearg on 20 Aug 2006, 19:20
Dillinger Four-Like Sprewells On A Wheelchair

yay for punk rock!  i liked it.  the intro was great.  although the vocals were like...low and grating kinda.  i really liked the song.  8/10

i hate it how i score everything you guys sugguest, and you hate everything i post...

well you asked for punk rock, so how about, punk rock gods...

http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=857F7385541E9741

"Dinosaurs Will Die" by NOFX
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Post by: books_out_loud on 20 Aug 2006, 20:17
every time i die - the logic of crocodiles

satirical lyrics, combined with slayer influenced hardcore instrumentals.
honestly, as a fan of ETID, this track was not all that impressive.
5/10

track to be reviewed:
Lucero - "I can get us out of here tonight"
http://www.ezarchive.com/uwmryan/AlbumSpace/8ZYVTTT2/_zid-1490338/_open-/04_I_Can_Get_Us_Out_Of_Here_Tonight.mp3
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Post by: minkles on 20 Aug 2006, 23:05
Quote from: imapiratearg

i hate it how i score everything you guys sugguest, and you hate everything i post...


Sorry my last review was so harsh.  Nothing personal.  Just honesty.

I'm not reviewing anything by the way, just wanted to clear that up.
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Post by: ImRonBurgundy? on 20 Aug 2006, 23:14
Lucero- "I Can Get Us Out of Here Tonight"

the only thing i had heard from this band beforehand was their cover of "Kiss the Bottle", and this is pretty nice.  pleasant power pop.  reminds me of The Weakerthans somewhat.  9/10

Hot Water Music- "Alachua" (http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=CD6545E350645009)
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Post by: amok on 21 Aug 2006, 07:23
Quote from: ImRonBurgundy?
Hot Water Music- "Alachua" (http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=CD6545E350645009)


Sounds in places like it could be an AFI b-side, if Davey smoked 60 a day. The guitars get more interesting around the chorus bit though, good riffery - shame about the emo yelping. Eminently listenable but loses a couple of points for the either-stoned-or-incompetent vocalist :( 5/10

Delerium - Self-Saboteur (Feat. Kristy Thirsk) (http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=6142AA0F6FC689ED)
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Post by: ChaosTriangle on 21 Aug 2006, 10:22
Quote from: amok
Delerium - Self-Saboteur (Feat. Kristy Thirsk) (http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=6142AA0F6FC689ED)


Sounds like something you might hear on the radio.  Start off with some synthesizers, then cue in a drum loop and some husky female vocals, and bam!  You have yourself a pop tune.  Overall, not bad, but a little bland and not entirely to my tastes.  6/10.

Bomb The Music Industry! - Even Winning Feels Bad (http://www.bombthemusicindustry.com/demos/feels.mp3).
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Post by: ImRonBurgundy? on 21 Aug 2006, 10:57
Bomb the Music Industry!- "Even Winning Feels Bad"

i'm torn on this one.  the music is really great and fun (i especially dig the freakout synth), but the singer's voice is grating as all hell.  i dunno.  maybe it'll grow on me.  6/10

Frankie Stubbs- "Sailboats" (http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=631331C72E329BF3)
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Post by: Omnicide on 22 Aug 2006, 10:02
Frankie Stubbs- Sailboats

Pretty damn good. You can't go wrong with gravel-voices and guitar Richard Thompson'd be proud of. Almost falls into faux-celtic warbling cliches, but has a lovely bittersweet feel to it. Fair play to anyone who can make folk music catchy.

7/10

 Can -> Halleluhwah (http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=34271B4E54219868)

Trust me- worth the length. If you don't find yourself dancing your arse off, well, you're probably dead inside.
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Post by: Kai on 22 Aug 2006, 13:55
Can are amazing. This is all I have to add.
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Post by: KharBevNor on 22 Aug 2006, 14:45
Long, probably too long, but not that bad. Sounded a bit like Bauhaus' dub tracks with a bit of extra rock'n'roll slooshed over the top. It also sounded a lot like four songs pushed together to be one track. Also, I'm probably dead inside, because there was no excessive dance-impulse. Not enough...oomph? No, that's wrong. Still, not bad. Not bad at all. Though, definitely too long, now I consider it. That detracts a bit. 7.5/10

On the subject of overly songs that we think should make people want to dance:

The Sisters of Mercy - This Corrosion (http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=4D2CCC266BDAE557)

The other definitive goth classic. I absolutely cannot stay still whilst this song is playing.
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Post by: Kai on 22 Aug 2006, 15:31
your kraut rock skills are lacking, Khar
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Post by: KharBevNor on 22 Aug 2006, 15:37
Dude, if I wanted to hear 18 minutes of subdued noodling and someone sorta shouting in the background, I'd just play all the quiet tracks off of 'Fiend at the Controls' back to back.

Anyway, I bet I have more Kraftwerk albums than you, so NYA!
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Post by: Misereatur on 22 Aug 2006, 16:14
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Post by: KharBevNor on 22 Aug 2006, 16:53
Totally can.

I mean, come on, I have Hulk Hogans album. That's muscle.
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Post by: Kai on 22 Aug 2006, 17:40
Quote from: Misereatur
(http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i2/ffgtthttghyujjfdss/recc_icon.gif)



What is this from and can I get it on a t-shirt?
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Post by: KharBevNor on 22 Aug 2006, 18:32
It is a t-shirt.

It's from Cat and Girl! Please don't tell me you have not read Cat and Girl! READ CAT AND GIRL NOOOOOW!!!
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Post by: Kai on 22 Aug 2006, 18:47
I..uh.. haven't read it


but if that shirt is any indication, I am totally going to read it now
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Post by: Marked on 23 Aug 2006, 16:50
This is getting way off topic, Jeeze guys. (and gals).  I guess I'll have to review a song

The Sisters of Mercy - This Corrosion
This song, except for the choir in the beginning is amazingly generic.  Surprisingly, though, I didn't mind that.  It was pleasant to listen to, but there wasn't anything musically spectacular.  That and it is almost 11 minutes long and 10 minutes of that are almost exactly the same.  Gets points for enjoyablity, but looses points for originality and musicianship.  That said, I still liked listening to it.
7/10

My song:
 Miles Davis - A Night in Tunisia (http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=06ABF64400907242)
If you've heard the original, you should still check his version out.
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Post by: KharBevNor on 23 Aug 2006, 17:32
The generic aspect probably arises mainly from the fact that a) It was produced by Jim Steinman and b) Every goth band since 1987 has based their sound on it.

I think I should take a break from this, but if it isn't done tomorrow, I'll have this.
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Post by: ImRonBurgundy? on 25 Aug 2006, 12:29
Miles Davis- "A Night in Tunisia"

it's Miles Davis.  what's not to like?  there's a really interesting tension in parts of this.  i'm not even sure how he accomplished it, which is probably a testament to his musicianship. 10/10

Chisel- "Out for Kicks" (http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=A0B96D454E64941E)
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Post by: Murkey on 02 Sep 2006, 18:35
The link's broken and the thread's been dead for about a month, so I'll go ahead and submit one:


    Angra: Angels and Demons

I reformatted my comp recently, so I don't have the file... ah well, you resourceful computer people can find it somewhere.
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Post by: KharBevNor on 02 Sep 2006, 19:39
Actually, the threads been dead barely a week.

Also, just think of another song you have. Next to no one's going to physically bother if they have to track the damn thing down.
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Post by: ImRonBurgundy? on 03 Sep 2006, 00:11
so, hey, look, i'll redo the link.  problem solved.

i decided to spring for a better Chisel song.

Chisel- "Looking Down at the Great Wall of China" (http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=D017ED9573C42C7B)
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Post by: greenMonkey on 17 Sep 2006, 19:14
I'm reviving this thread because it is too awesome to be left for dead.  The above link however is dead, so I'll just post a new song.

The Mercury Program-Nazca Lines of Peru
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Post by: nuisance on 18 Sep 2006, 05:48
Quote from: greenMonkey

The Mercury Program-Nazca Lines of Peru


I found it hard to see past the genre cliches here first time 'round.  Instrumental rock with sorta shuffly drumming and vibraphone... repeats a bit, goes into a bridge, comes back with a bit of a rock out action.. this already seems like such an identifiably noughties sound and we're only half-way through the decade.

But, yeah, OK, I surrender it's real nice.  It's not in the least bit dark and it's got a nice kinda dry sound to it.

Here's something equally generic, in a completely different way.  Classic reggae cut from 79, some may have heard it covered by the Clash.

Willie Williams - Armagideon Time (http://www.orbitfiles.com/download/id877856311)
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Post by: ImRonBurgundy? on 19 Sep 2006, 13:37
uh... that appears to just be an mp3 of a British guy talking about Tokyo and Ray Harryhausen.
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Post by: nuisance on 19 Sep 2006, 15:14
Bahaha!! Wrong file, sorry.  That's actually me, was going to put that in the Sounds of QC thread... Have fixed the link.
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Post by: ImRonBurgundy? on 20 Sep 2006, 03:47
Willie Williams- "Armageddon Time"

This is some good, classic-style reggae in the vein of Toots & the Maytals and all those guys.  Soild. 8/10

Chisel- "Citizen of Venus" (http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=D38A2B3D57763592)
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Post by: ielerol on 26 Sep 2006, 00:31
Chisel- "Citizen of Venus"

My first thought listening to the beginning of this song was "hm, it kinda reminds me of Ted Leo. Even the singer. Hey wait, that is Ted Leo, isn't it?" So that's why the band name was familiar.

The rhythmic guitar line has caught me in a good mood for rockin' out. Some interesting layering going on, especially towards the end, and I am a complete sucker for vocal harmony, even brief counterpoint and wordless yelps.

I might be just imagining it, but I think Leo's got a bit more of the emopunk whine going on than in his later stuff, though I can live with it, and the lyrics are defiant without ever approaching whine, so thumbs up there.
Plus there's a mention of South Bend. I used to live less than 30 miles away from South Bend. Arbitrary, but awesome.

Basically this is vintage Ted Leo, which means it rocks pretty solidly.
8/10

The Ditty Bops - "In the Meantime" (http://download.yousendit.com/9AEC9538748BAD04)