[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?

dibs

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.

Songs
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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.

Dibs
Iibs
Bbbs
Ssss

[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)

Dibs

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

Dibs.

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...

Dibs.

Haven't done an Other one of these in a while :(

I've heard some of the rest of this album, but not this song. I like what I've heard so far.
[b]Ephel Duath - Praha (Ancient Gold)[/b] - 5:17

Starts off bass, soon joined by some light drumming (cymbal tapping, I think), and then a trumpet. The trumpet seems to be the main instrument, but there's a whole collage of sounds going on here - cymbals (sometimes tapping, sometimes rolling), light guitar, bass, other things I can't identify. Loving it so far, though there isn't so much a melody or unifying tune as a mass of sounds.

0:42 - what I think is an electric guitar solo starts up - it's fairly quiet in the mix, but noticeable, and pretty cool. It's not fast, just slow and meandering. The song carries on like this, pretty good but without any real direction, until 1:44 or so, when suddenly most of the instruments cut out, and only guitar is left - it ups the tempo and is soon joined by the drums and bass (the drums coming in on a roll).

The guitar is soloing again, faster than before, but not high pitched or otherwise traditionally metal. I think I can hear some piano around 2:10.The trumpet comes back in around 2:40, and becomes the main instrument.

Around 3:10 there's a flash of a solid riff, before a return to drum and bass, and then back again to the quiet (ish) riffing.

The drums start to get quite dramatic around 4:20, and pretty soon almost everything cuts out and draws to a close, leaving the guitar again, playing on it's own until around 5:05, when the song fades out with radio chatter (I think).

8.5/10 Very good, although I was expecting vocals. A little directionless at times, but good.

[b]Would I listen to more of the same band?[/b] Yup.

Songs:
The Pogues - [i]Streets of Sorrow/Birmingham Six[/i] or [i]Bottle of Smoke[/i] (Irish folk)
Michael Bublé - [i]Crazy Little Thing Called Love[/i] (swing cover of the Queen song)
Apocalyptica - [i]Nothing Else Matters[/i] or [i]One[/i] (unorthodox cover of the Metallica song - better if you've heard the original)

Dibs.

P.s. Ha... I forgot to mention it was an instrumental.

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[B]Apocalyptica - Nothing Else Matters[/B]

By 'unorthodox' i thought you meant ultra-black-death metal or something. but nope, i was wrong. i guess their actually a classical (quartet?) group. This version of the original song is very well-done when i compare it to other attempts of this nature. Unlike the string tributes to tool, this attempt at 'nothing else matters' is pretty much right on. i would compare moments in this song to moments in 'all strung out on ok computer' (the string tribute to radiohead's 'ok computer').

[B]Would i listen to more[/B] yeah, probably. i'd actually like to check out some of their own stuff.

8/10 (its only an 8 because its a cover)

choices:
flying saucer attack - she is the daylight
explosions in the sky - 6 days at the bottom of the ocean or snow and lights
hope of the states - black dollar bills
porcupine tree - lightbulb sun

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Porupine Tree- Lightbulb Sun

alright ive heard alot about porcupine tree from this website and various other places but never really checked them out. the song starts out with some nice acoustic guitar work for the intro and continues into the verse. this guy has a nice voice that fits with the guitar nicely and some darn good lyrics. then an electric guitar comes in and has an interesting riff i guess this is the chorus. then the acoustic guitar comes back. there are certainly alot of switchups like that in this song. then about three minutes into the song some really fantastic drumming comes almost out of nowhere. i can see that the drummer has potential you just couldnt tell for most of the song. after that the song is over and all you hear is what sounds like children playing.

i really liked this song.its not what i suspected cuz ive heard people say they were prog but this song sounds nothing like any of the prog ive heard. nevertheless still a great song. 8/10



Phish- Tweezer
Faith No More- A Small Victory
Ben Harper- Burn One Down
Yes - And You And I

diby diby dob bob dib

undib

comp stuffed

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Ben Harper - Burn One Down - 3.31

Sorry I took so long to write the review of this song, I downloaded the track but I completely forgot about writing the review for it.

The song begins with some sort of tribal drum beat. The guitar riff joins in about 0:14, and the vocals follow at 0:37. I must be honest that i'm not a huge fan of his vocals, they are fairly high pitched and I don't feel like they complement the song well. The bass joins in at about 1:08, i quite enjoy the bass parts in this songs especially as he sings "i'm going to burn one down" and the bass part follows his voice down. Lyrically i'm not quite sure what he means when he sings i'm going to burn one down. If anyone could tell me i'd be grateful.

Overall I enjoyed the song but i'm afriad there isn't anything special in there to make it stand out to me.

6.5/10

My Recommendations

Mike Oldfield - Altered State ( **** knows what this genre is :) )
Eric Johnson - Cliffs Of Dover (Virtuoso Guitar)
Keane - Bedshaped (Piano indie)

:)