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Diablo II - Ancients

Song starts off somewhat ambient but with a sort of frightening twist to it.
At about 00:38 a few instruments come in for a short period of time, it's almost as if your being chased.

As the song moves forward, signs of happiness in the song are often offset by the sadness portrayed with violins/cellos (i'm not sure if it's a synth or not) that followed.

At about 2:23 the mood of the song changes towards a more eerie feeling, the music seems to be leading up to something and then abruptly stops before the climax.

At about 3:08, the music becomes a bit more epic, in the sense of it's sound, not it's speed (because it's not fast.)

At about 3:50 there is a violin solo with nothing in the background, this solo is slow and eerie and finishes out the song.

I give this song a 7/10. It was pretty good, but i kept expecting the music to lead up to a climax and this climax never came. The music was very well arranged though. I would look into more music by this artist.

Songs...
Vintersorg - 'Om Regnbågen Materialiserades' or 'A dialoge with the stars' (progressive folk black metal-ish)
Persuader - The Hunter (Awesome Power metal)
Winds - The Fireworks of Genesis (Symphonic metal w/ strings, i believe it's available for d/l on [url]www.theendrecords.com[/url], if not, see my soulseek)
Solefald - Nutrisco et Extinguo (Progressive)

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Winds - The Fireworks Of Genesis - 4:17

The song begins with some mid paced strings and guitar. At 0:31 the vocals enter, his vibrato in his voice is excellent a brilliant singer. At 1:15 the guitar solo starts sounding almost out of tune, a very nice peice of shredding guitar harmonies towards the end of the solo. At 2:29 a piano joins in playing underneath the guitar riff this helps to add a new dimension to this part of the song, the guitar and vocals then drop off and its just the piano for about 15 seconds. The song then picks up pace as the guitar, drums and vocals re join. And the second guitar solo begins although this is more repeating the same lick over and over again.

I'm really likeing this song.

8/10



My Recommendations

Robert Cray - Up In The Sky (Soulful blues)
Al Di Meola - Mediterranean Sundance (Flamenco)
Katatonia - Omerta (Heavy Rock)

If you want any just grab me on msn (peter_alcock@hotmail.com) and I can send.

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[i]Katatonia - Omerta[/i]

Starts with a nice 6/8 feel on the guitar with vocals, that really fit the music well. Drums come in with a snare roll that gets gradually louder. The chorus, perhaps, is the singer doing do do's, it's quite good. Simple drums over the guitar riff, and bass root notes, and the occasional mess around. It's kind of samey by the chorus, and if I know my song form, a bridge will be next. Wrong I was, more verse, then an interesting solo, with hardly any notes at all. I like the guitar tone of the solo, it's got a nice kind of tinny sound to it. After the solo, it's that elusive bridge, then the ending, which isn't really an ending at all, it just stops, rather suddenly. I probably got a dodgy version, but oh well. It was good, but a bit too repetitive for my liking.

7/10.


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Emperor - Into the Infinity of Thoughts (Black Metal)
Joe Satriani - The Mystical Potato Head Groove Thing (Guitar Virtuoso/wank)
Yes - Roundabout (Progressive Rock)

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EDIT: Undibs, nothing will download.

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nope, Omerta does just end there

Yes- "Roundabout" 08:29
 

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[SIZE=4]Roundabout[/SIZE]
The intro to this song is played bny an accoustic and sounds very smoothe and slow. Then 44 seconds later the whole band comes in and the bass plays this very funky riff and I love the fills by the keyboard. I have never herd of this band or the song but it sounds 70's - 80's style and I think it is heaps fuken groovy. around three minutes into this song the keyboard and drums kick in with this mad bridge. I think what makes this song so sweet is the keyboard I just love it. The vocals in this song are very good and work well with the song. 5 minutes into the song the accoustic comes back in with this awsome electrosound. The electric quitar has this mad us solo anbout 6 mins into this song which sounds sweet. I also love the chorus to this song aswell. The accoustic comes in again right at the end to finish it of. This song is very long as nyou can see but what I love most about this song is the funky bass line and the keyboard. I rate this song 9/10 the only reason why I did not given it full marks is the length of the song, a bit to long for me.
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I recomend:

John Butler Trio - "What you Want" (Aussie folk rock)

Radiohead - "Pyramid Song" (Adult Alternative)

Outkast - "Rosa Parks" (Hip hop/rap)

Hilltop Hoods - "Nosebleed section" (Aussie hip hop/rap)

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Radiohead - Pyramid Song - 4:51

I have two radiohead albums, ok computer and the bends. But I have not heard this one before.


The song begins with a plodding piano piece, Thom Yorke's instantly recognisable vocals enter at about 0:37. At about the 2 minute mark the drums enter in playing some weird off beat almost jazzy in some parts. Some synth and strings join in this helps to give the song a very eerie spacy vibe. At 3:28 all the synths and strings drop away just leaving vocals, piano and drums. The strings then rejoin at the four minute mark this time louder and making much more of a mark on the song. There is then some sort of synth in the back ground that again adds to the spacy vibe of the song. The song ends with various synth noises.

I really enjoyed this song, i've not really explored radiohead outside the two albums I own, so i will definately check out some of the later stuff.

7.5/10

My Recommendations

Robert Cray - Up In The Sky (Soulful Blues)
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Lenny (jazz blues)
The Meads Of Asphodel - God Is Rome (Punky Black Metal)

I would like... one please.

uh, meaning I have one on the way

[b]Robert Cray - Up In The Sky[/b]

Now that's a strange intro... sitar (or guitar with a sitar sound) and piano with some drums in free time. Turns into a simple drum beat, guitar and bass accompany the now singing singer, he has a good, clean, clear voice. A bit of stringage at the end of each line to soften it up a bit. There is some blues feeling in there, a bit of jazz too. Ahhh.. soul is the name for that, I realize I haven't heard very much soul music at all.

What's he singing about? A guy wanting to be in the sky, his girl wants to be with him...
"Life's too short for the living, life's too long for the dying" I think it's about death and being in heaven (or afterlife of your choice) and "not being a burden to anyone, anymore ever again" in the chorus.
:/ mustn't have had much confidence... or they just wanted to be alone together.

The 2nd verse has some piano stepping through it and the sitar plays a bit when the strings do. The next line of it has some string bursts. Musically, it's fairly simple sounding.. except the sitar which bwibs out some slight lead, and the piano might be a bit tricky.
Sitar and piano continue for the chorus... interesting contrast.

Sitar solo, bwi bwii bwii.

Chorus again. Then the piano and bass play the verses vocal line and the singer sings the 2nd half of the chorus. Then ends on free time jingly's with sitar and piano...

The music doesn't like all that much, the lyrics are alright though, some cool one liners in there. The sitar and piano combo was interesting, but then it made me think it would be the food equivalent of adding lemon juice to milk... but this isn't forced drinking/eating.. it's Forced "listning", which I guess is meant to be listening. The guy's voice was pretty clear.. so easy to hear.

7.1/10

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the madcore session

[b]The Bird - Lei Kung[/b] - drum'n'bass with an absolutely [i]madcore[/i] awesome drummer

[b]Camille Saint-Saens - Aquarium[/b] - not classical.. but similar.. whatever the proper name for late 1800s music was. madcore superpiano. there's probably a fair few versions around.

[b]Reel Big Fish - Everything Is Cool[/b] - ska... and that versatile word "madcore" can also be used for this song

[b]Xiu Xiu - I Broke Up[/b] - another madcore piece of madcoreness, electronic this time

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Revoked, i can't find any of the three songs i haven't heard.

Add Blueser57 to your Soulseek, he should have all three for you.

He's not online :upset:


I added you per ardua i hope you don't mind

I'm such a trouble hey..
I havent been home, but while I'm at uni (now) I can email Aquarium or Lei Kung to someone if their inbox can handle it.. there's no other way to transfer from here...
Yahoo briefcase wont let me save those files to it to store.

If not, I'll be home soonish

edit: leaving now
edit 2: home now

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[i]The Bird - Lei Kung[/i]

It starts with an almost hypotising synth riff, with various voice samples. The drums comes in, with open and closed hi hat. The woman's moan sounds pretty good. When the drummer switches to the ride cymbal, that part is great. Random snare fills by the drummer are cool. Then the drummer starts going into his 'madcore' session - open closed hi hats, and basically hitting anything as fast as he possibly can. About 1:50 the riff changes into a slower, less droning riff, and the drums go back to the hi hat. There are some tribal sounding bongos played breifly, which i like. More madcore drumming now, over the bongos. The mix of them both is great. This goes on for a while, until the synth stops, and there is a sort of ambient bit. THe drums slow down a bit, and then the original sythm riff comes back, and more madcore drumming to finish the song. Pretty good, but not my cup of tea.

6.5/10.

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Emperor - Into the Infinity of Thoughts (Black Metal)
Joe Satriani - The Mystical Potato Head Groove Thing (Guitar Virtuoso/wank)
Pink Floyd - Interstellar Overdrive (Psychedelic Jam)

All available in my brand new "Forced Listening" folder on soulseek. My username is manuscriptreplica.

[QUOTE=lilpete86]I added you per ardua i hope you don't mind[/QUOTE]

I've had several names because of computer troubles, my name will stay as 'per ardua ad astra' on soulseek.

*bump*


I can't do this one i've heard all of those :upset:

EDIT: Revoked, manuscript isn't online.

^^ The Pink Floyd one should be easy to find. Have you tried looking on Kazaa?

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Joe Satriani - The Mystical Potato Head Groove Thing

Okay, I just noticed that I had this download from when I attempted to download it before, but it wasn't even close to being finished. I have also never really heard anything from Joe.

The track opens with a great Rock like riff. Inbetween each repeat to the riff, the drummer throws some nice little fills. The sound Joe gives off is great sounding, as are the drums.

Soon, a solo is added while someone plays rythm guitar. The solo sounds good, but isn't that appealing. Within time, Joe does some rapid playing, possibly shreding and some great tapping. I particularly like his tapping compared to the shreding though. Keep in mind I don't listen to music that includes tapping or shreding. So, if I'm calling something shreding that isn't, correct me if you must.

Overall, the song is pretty much a big solo. I really like how it's put together.

7/10 I really liked it. :)

And I can kind of see myself listening to small doses of guitar virtuosity in the future.

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[B]Country Joe & The Fish - The Vietnam song [/B] (not the actual name, but you'll find it easier under it) (Humourous folk/live)

[B]The String Cheese Incident [/B] - No Woman No Cry (live/cover) (Bluegrass/Reggae)

[B]Blues Traveler[/B] - Love and Greed (Blues/Rock)

[B]The Allman Brothers[/B] - Ramblin' Man (Country/Blues/Rock)

Badmoon! That song is almost metal, and you liked it!!!

:faints:

P.s. this isn't a dibs.

Haha :lol:

I appreciate some Metal.

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Bbbs
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[i]The Allman Brothers - Ramblin' Man[/i]

Prior to listening to this, I was listening to death metal, so this song was almost humerous to listen to after all that hate. Anyway. This is unlike most Allman Brothers I've heard (I'm used to their long, drawn out jam sessions) so yeah. It starts off with a cool, typically country, blues run on the guitar, joined in by the piano. A simple bassline, over drums, and clear, easy to understand vocals. It's cheesy, but cool so far. It's got the typical 2-feel of a country song. Now a chorus, not much different from the verse. After the chorus, some cool phrasing, then a guitar solo, which is quite good. More verse now, then a chorus. Not much variation here. Hopefully there's another solo. No, another chorus now, with some nice harmonies on the vocals. After some phrasing by the guitars, there's another solo, probably the most enjoyable part of the song for me. This song is cool, but it's completely not my style, I'm afraid.

4/10.

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Ephel Duath - Praha (Metal band doing a 100% jazz thing)
Pink Floyd - Interstellar Overdrive (Psychedelic Jam)
And if feeling especially metal:
Nowhere - Genocide (My mate's solo project, he played everything except the drums, he did the vocals too) ('technical' grind - lots of bass wank)

All available in my "Forced Listening" folder on soulseek. My username is manuscriptreplica.

kick it to me!

[b]Pink Floyd - Interstellar Overdrive[/b]

Sounds like general old stlye rock at the start, but it soon mutates, sounds like lots of improvisation. The drums stay constant for about 2:20 with the rest of the instrements going weird. I can hear a guitar or 2, bass, organ

A beeping guitar comes in... but things go borky. it sounds like old video game music at times with swells and beeps and all this other random. Again, the drums are constant, but playing a different thing now.

5:30 some slide guitar with delay comes in. A quick trippy section, over quiclky.. going into an ambient bit, mostly just organ and cymbal swishes...

I'm not liking this much, its mostly random notes... nothing much I can say to describe it

ooh some major panning action from about 8:40, I'm going to listen to that bit again in headphones, but its nearly over now, theres not much left that can be done.. not much they would probably do anyway. Yeah.. it finishes in the middle of some drumming.

ok the panning bit through headphones... strange, it feels like someone is touching my ears.. but its over quickly.. nothing to get too worked up about

****... what can I say? That was pretty poor.. If you like randomness and take hallucinogenic drugs, this stuff might do something for you. Otherwise, I wouldnt bother.
1/10

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[b]Ochre - Horizon[/b] - progish rock, my favourite local band before they broke up, and this is my favourite (recorded) song by them. 7 minutes. Possibly my favourite song at the moment

[b]George - Breathe In Now[/b] - really nice and soft alternative pop/rock

[b]Rocket Science - One Robot[/b] - polished groovy garage rock with a little bit of electronic

[b]Substitute Inc. - The Chase - Scene 3 and 4[/b] (one song spread over two tracks) - underwater progressive trippy-disco sci-fi rock

once again Soulseek- Blueser57 \!Forced Listening\ folder (should be the very first one)
the user chillerspoon also has Ochre, but he has a bit of a que at times

or there's IRC- /msg Blueser on Undernet, I'm not always on though (more stable, but I cant resume any sends on there)

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going to have to undibs i'm afraid, soulseek doesn't like me today

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Lilpete: Soulseek doesn't like anyone.

[i]George - Breathe In Now[/i]

Saw these guys live earlier in the year, along with the Whitlams and Mark Seymour (frontman for Hunters and Collectors) and was blown away with the quality of her voice. I forget her name, but she, along with her brother, have the most amazing voices ever. EVER. Then, about a month ago, I saw her with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra (I think) doing all these jazz standards with her mother, an opera singer. Again, I was literally blown away by the quality of her voice. It proves that females can be successful without posing half naked in every magazine possible. Anyway, on with the song.
This is off the new album, Unity, correct? I can't remember hearing it at the concert, but I wasn't really a George fan back then. It starts with some acoustic guitar, and some keyboards, and her voice. I downloaded a pretty crappy mp3, unfortunately, so the quality is bad, and there's crackles everywhere. An organ sounds when she sings the next bit, which I assume is the chorus. I hear some simple bass as well, just playing the root notes. Drums come in after the chorus, and it starts building up, and the bass gets more busy. Another chorus now, same as the first one. After this, the drums get a bit technical, and the bass goes to straight 8ths, and the singer starts crooning at about half the peak of her top note, which is still very high. Another chorus, and then the song ends. I really liked this, and it was a great job by the singer (It was very much a ballad - focused on the lyrics) but even with the great performance, she can do twice as good as that. She is amazing.

9/10.

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Mars Volta - Eunuch Provocateur (Prog rock)
Gerling - Dust Me Selecta (Electronica/rock)
Ephel Duath - Praha (Metal band doing a 100% jazz thing)
And if feeling especially metal:
Nowhere - Genocide ('technical' grind) - Available on Soundclick.com just search for 'Nowhere'.

All available in my "Forced Listening" folder on soulseek. My username is manuscriptreplica.

P.s has anyone else noticed that 'listening' in 'Forced Listening' is spelt wrong?

Katie Noonan is her name, she has such a great voice. I dont know which album its from though, probably the new one. Listening now... man red wine on a nempy stomach.. heh

No dib, I already know 2 of the songs, and I probably won't like The Mars Volta one or Grind.
That Gerling one is pretty good feel-good music.

Haven't met one person who hasn't liked Eunuch Provocateur...

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