Dibs

[U][B]Fantomas - Page 29[/B][/U]

Sweet. It's a short song. With a guitar that sounds like something from psycho. We hear patton breathing and than it breaks into him making some crazy noises. With bass drum and harder guitar in the back. It's acutally a great intro. And makes me want to check out the rest of the cd.
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8.4/10[/B]




My Songs
The Dillinger Escape Plan - We are the Storm (Mind ****)
Fishbone - Party at Ground Zero (Funky Reggae)

dibsies

Fishbone are awesome

I love that song, how they blend ska, metal, rock, hip hop, funk...

It sucks that their singer left to join a cult.

They still tour though.

Hmmmmm


The Spinners - Rubber Band Man


Good funk song featuring James Brown before he became famous.

[QUOTE=KazooVirtuoso]dibsies[/QUOTE]


My bad I didn't associate dibsies with DIBS

haha

Also your review sucked a[I]s[/I]s

[b]Dillinger Escape Plan - We Are the Storm[/b]

I've heard a little bit of their stuff a year or two back. I kinda liked it, but never became much of a fan... But anyway, this song starts out pretty crazy, which isn't a big surprise. I like that the weird-timeness doesn't sound forced, like some bands sometimes do. Vocals aren't anything special, but they go great with the music. This is pretty good stuff. And what's this? A mellow part? I never heard anything like this from them. I can dig it. And now back to the heavy stuff for the ending.

I was feeling it, now that my tastes have expanded I like them a lot more than I did in the past. 8/10, good stuff.

My choices:

[b]Beulah - Gene Autry[/b] - indie-pop
[b]Calexico - Bloodflow[/b] - southwestern... whatever it is
[b]Elysian Fields - Stop the Sun[/b] - mellow alt-rock, nice female vocals
[b]Isis - Swarm Reigns (Down)[/b] - sludgy and spacy metal

and for the adventurous:

[b]Kayo Dot - The Manifold Curiosity[/b] - the 15 minute avant-garde/spacy-rock/classical/chaotic-metal challenge (c'mon man everybody's doing it)

I'll dib that Elysian Fields one...I always wanted to hear them since I heard the Lovage album.

Well, I actually managed to still download the song (3 posts in a row, I suck)

Elysian Fields - Stop The Sun (edit!!!)

Starts with a deformed electronic noise...and these really hot female vocals come in...geez...what a sexy voice (her name escapes me). The song is sung in a very natural, effortless way. It's got this sensual, suspense vibe...that you get from bands like Hooverphonic and Portishead...only the production is 'warmer'. It's got some piano melodies, smooth bassline, and a basic beat....I like this song alot. There are this weird little piano solo's near the end that seem out of place with the beat...really nifty. I like the song alot...because of the vocals alone, which I had the pleasure of hearing on the Lovage record too. 8.5/10

I think I'll get some more Elysian Fields. God, I really should learn checking my spelling before I submit posts :/

Meanwhile I recommend:

Team Sleep/Mike Patton - Kool Aid Party

Dibs

Sorry I can't post a reveiw

The only file was corrupt.

I'll dibs.

[i]Team Sleep - Kool Aid Party[/i]

This is a cool song. It features Mike Patton's unmistakable voice on vocals. It starts with ocean sounds, and a kind of guitar reverb sound. Then a haunting riff comes in, on guitar with a big echo sound over it. All these different instruments and sounds come to life, and there is some kind of chanting going on, just before Patton's vocals come in. They are heavily altered with, but are unmistakably Patton's. It is a very slow song, but it has tons of atmosphere to it. There are loads of ambient sounds to it, and the haunting arpegiated riff keeps repeating throughout the whole song. It's pretty intense at times. Since it's so slow, it seems to go on forever, which is probably the only fault I have with it. It would be an awesome 3 minute song.

7/10. Not brilliant, but still decent enough.

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Darkthrone - The Dance of Eternal Shadows (Black Metal)
Machine Gun Fellatio - Pu[size=2]s[/size]sy Town (Rock/Pop)
Outkast - Bombs Over Baghdad (Hip hop)
Paul Chambers - Blue Spring (Jazz)

ill do bombs over baghdad

Ok this song is prolly the best outkast song, its fast-paced and has some political lyrics... sorta, i aslo found one that has outkast and rage against the machine, RATM supplies the fast rock, its alot better than the straight up hiphop one.
All in All this song is ok, not something i would listen to though.
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The Next Song is

Flip the Switch - Hot in Herre (nelly remix)

[url]http://www.purevolume.com/fliptheswitch[/url]

EDIT: Forgot dibs :p ...DIBS!!

Okay

The song goes right into the vocals, and the guitar is playing rythm, as are the other instruments. The singers rap in a very lam way, but of course that is probably intentional. They give it a very hilarious/interesting sound. It slightly reminds me off a Weird Al song. Overall, the songs hilarious. :lol:

10/10 :p

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Rusted Root - Send me on my Way (___Jam, to hard to explain)

Phish - Poor Heart (Electric Bluegrass/Jam)

OOH, I want to do Rusted Root!

^You probably have heard that song, but if you don't reconize it by name. Do it anyway.

[b]Rusted Root - Send Me On My Way[/b]

I know I've heard this song before (only once or twice), and I liked it so this is more than a great reason to get it.

12 string guitar beggining, a guy starts chanting, it sounds a bit like the Lion King music, bass drum and hi hats. Theres some scrapey percussion thing and hand drums used here too.
Theres some really nice vocal harmonies in here - another guy and a girl joining the lead singer. A pan flute joins the parade. After a while the full drumkit comes in here and doubles the speed.

It doesn't sound very jammy in this recording, except for a short break of flute and percussion, I can imagine them implementing a jam session in live shows though. I call this style roots rock... its similar to John Butler Trio, Xavier Rudd etc.

Theres a marimba or similar in there too.. then towards the end it slows, some instruments drop off and it finishes

After all that... I dont like analyzing this song (I got rid of a lot of what I had written) because its just so much more enjoying just to kick back and hear it.
It's rather bouncy, energetic and fun. Melodic, nice on the ears. Simple in structure Builds and fades well, so its doesnt suddenly start or finish.

8.5/10 - it's really enjoyable but it didn't really strike me as special for that top score.

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[b]Substitute Inc. - The Chase - Scene 3 and 4[/b] (one song spread over two tracks) - underwater progressive trippy-disco sci-fi rock (get it from me, Blueser57 on soulseek)

[b]Wumpscut - Black Death (French Concept)[/b] - ambient techno meets heavy industrial

[QUOTE]roots rock[/QUOTE]

If you want to be more exact it's Afro - Rock.

Dibs.

Pretty much no experience of this band before.
[b]Wumpscut - Black Death (french concept)[/b] - 5:50

Starts off with what I think is a synth tone, then what sounds like someone hitting a mic, and a loop of a quarter second of speech, is played over a woman speaking French. 0:53 it gets dense and close, with menacing vocals - reminds me somewhat of VNV Nation (an industrial band).

Around 1:00 it goes loud, and heavy, sounds like another form of industrial. The mechanical riffing is fairly fast-paced.

Then it goes back to the synth and female French, before what I think are German vocals, and a lower synth tone, lead back into the dense, claustrophobic heavy industrial riffing.

It pretty much continues in this way, going from the soft, female vocalled French w/synth to the dense riffage, sometimes adding extra or removing surplus tones and sounds from the quiet part. Often the German vocals lead the one into the other.

Near to the end, we get English, male vocals during a quiet bit, before a sample leads back into a final, even more chaotic heavy part to finish on.

Well, that was excellent. It's a fairly intense song; the contrast works well, and the dense industrial sections remind me of another band I'm listening to at the moment called Axis of Perdition (though Axis.. have black metal influence as well).

9/10

Bruford - [i]Five G[/i] (Jazz/fusion)
Xavier Rudd - [i]9 Times a Day[/i] (I know it's already been done, but it must be heard more :))
Circle Takes the Square - [i]Crowquill[/i] (emo-core/"screamo" - available [url=http://www.hxcmp3.com/bands/1710]here[/url], lyrics [url=http://www.darklyrics.com/lyrics/circletakesthesquare/astherootsundo.html]here)[/url]

You've posted those songs on almost every Forced Listenng thread on this forum :lol:

getting bruford, you've been recommending that one for a few pages now

[b]Bruford - Five G[/b]
Funky slap bass intro with hi hats. Then guitar joins and does a run-up riff a few times. I think I heard horns in there somehwere too. Then a keyboard joins and its rather spazzy. At 1:20 the music changes, going more melodic for a bit, theres a guitar solo. Then back to the run up riffs, though maybe a bit different this time, the guitar solo comes back over this.

It just keeps going and changing and guitar soloing, I think I lost interest in it because I'm 2:30 into the next song on the playlist and didn't really notice... not a good sign.

It reminds me of Gordian Knot - Code Anticode just without the crunch of distortion, and a bit more jazziness. The intstruments music is pretty technical in execution except probably the drums.

6/10 It's technical, unusual, and all that comes with jazz/fusion, but very little in the interesting factor for me. It just faded out without any climax or conclusion or anything..

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[b]John Butler Trio - big live songs thing[/b]
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[b]Battles - Tras 2[/b] - blippy math rock

[b]Zero Hour - Stratagem[/b] - progressive power metal, for fans of weird time sigs. 8 minutes long

[QUOTE=badmoon349]You've posted those songs on almost every Forced Listenng thread on this forum :lol:[/QUOTE]

Sssh, maybe the others won't notice :(

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Can't find any.

Undibs

Zero Hour can be found here, at the bottom of the page
[url]http://www.lasercd.com/merchant/lasercd/soundfiles.asp[/url]

Also, the John Butler Trio one has website links. I know it's the size/length that puts everone off, but it's really worth it.