[QUOTE=blueyxd]
Sunstad...[/QUOTE]

:p .

Turns out, the Mike Oldfield one was hard to find... :lol: so I'm doing the Keane one. Should be done soon.

Ok here it is:

[i]Keane - Bedshaped[/i]

It starts with some weird chimey sort of sounds, probably achieved through a synthesizer. They go on for a solid 30 seconds, then some piano comes in, with a nice opening chord, and a simple rock beat on the drums, with rim shots instead of snare. I don't think there's a bass, just piano and drums. Then nice vocals come in, he's got an excellent voice. He sings about something or another (I never was a big fan of lyrics) over simple chords on the piano, and the occasional run. The chorus is a bit more busy, a lot more chords, and the drummer moves to the ride cymbal, and hits the snare instead. It sounds pretty good. Now more verse. There's a nice buildup, which happened in the first verse too, but I didn't notice it until now. Another chorus, similar to the first, but with different words, I think. Now there's a quiet bit without drums, then to some weird voice effect, with nice harmonies. Then to a synth solo, simple, yet good. Now another chorus, then another quiet bit, and some nice descending chords to finish the song.

5.5/10, good, relaxing song, but not really my style. Cheers, anyway :thumb:



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Mars Volta - Eunuch Provocateur (Prog rock)
Cynic - Veil of Maya (Jazz/Metal)
Cynic - Textures (Instrumental) (Jazz/Metal)
Pink Floyd - Dogs (Prog rock) Warning: 17 minutes long.
Sting - Straight to my Heart (? Soft rock, maybe)

The Sting one is cool, it has a 7/4 time in it.

Dibs.

Revoked, for now. The download's going insanely slow.

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:lol: Nice. Madcore nice, you could say.

hehe

[b]Sting - Straight To My Heart[/b]

Some percussion for a quick intro, marimba starts up in some ethnic sounding mode, and hey there's the 7/4. Some synth piano noodling. The percussion is not a drum kit and never is. The marimba is the one keeping the beat.

Verse sounds like a desert theme, I could play Dune to this music, though it reminds me of another song. Stings voice sounds a bit different to what I've heard in the Police, it sounds like it's harmonized most of the time. Theres some other instruments coming in now and then, a horn and some boowoop thing.

It's a mix of african/persian musical ideas, sounds good.

Seamlessly turns into a very melodic chorus with a flute and it sounds lots like the one in Rusted Root- Send Me On My Way. Clapping builds the happy mood too. He sings something about "come into my world... you'll never have to sweep the floor... be my wife". The post chorus is 4 bars of atmospheric chanting before returning to the verse music.

Synth strings join in here, there's some vocal echo added now, this bit has thicker sounding instrumentation, which is only apparent after a few listens. I haven't really listened to what he's singing except the lines "Straight to my heart" which are easy to pick.

Another chorus, post chorus, verse music with some more synth piano noodling, then fades out.

I find it very interesting, I like the musical sounds lots, good contrasting and transitions between verse and chorus, structure is simple but that's fine. I'll definitely keep it.
9/10 just because it didn't "wow" me


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[b]Ochre - Horizon[/b] - it's been mentioned before... just hard to get, really worth it though

[b]Fred Nachbaur - Bridge The Gap[/b] - instrumental deserty theme music, similar to the reviewed song. [url]http://artists4.iuma.com/IUMA/Bands/Fred_Nachbaur/[/url]

You actually liked the Sting song? I think it sucks. The intro is the only good thing about it.

Now that I'm home, I'll dibs.

[i]Fred Nachbaur - Bridge The Gap[/i]

Before I start this review, I'll just say my computer is playing silly buggers with me, my version is 3:01, is this correct?

Onwards!

It starts with some weird synth sounds. I heard a chord in there, somewhere. You're right, it does sound like video game music a lot. There's so much going on at once, i can't really begin to describe it. There's an excellent bassline throughout, some vocal harmonies (all done with a synth) and some cool pitched percussion, sounds like those wind bells. New bassline now, synthy slap, sounds kind of porny/cheesy. Some bongos or something cranking away. Now some random instrument starts playing a solo, sounds like a xyolophone. Now back to the originial bass line, with the vocal harmonies. More wind bells. And suddeny, the song ends. That went fast. This dude is the coolest. I'll have to check more of his stuff out.

10/10 - couldn't have possibly been better. Sorry about the crappy review... there's way too much going on to describe it all.

Mars Volta - Eunuch Provocateur (Prog rock)
Cynic - Veil of Maya (Jazz/Metal)
Cynic - Textures (Instrumental) (Jazz/Metal)
Pink Floyd - Dogs (Prog rock) Warning: 17 minutes long.
Cypress Hill - Stank A[size=2]ss[/size] Hoe (hip hop) - This is awesome.

I'll do the cypress hill one.

Cypress Hill - Stank *** Hoe

I don't usually like hip hop so this is an attempt to be open minded. I like the intro which continues in the background and the lyrics are funny but serious at the same time. Another good thing is the singing and humming which sometimes accompanies the rapping and is sometimes by itself although the chorusy bit is a bit repetitive. His voice is a bit too nasally for me although I like his giggling. The outro bit is quite cool as well. All in all it's better than I expected, I would listen to it if it came on the radio but it hasn't converted me to hip hop really.
7/10

(I hope that was ok :) )

Voltaire - Dead Girls (Dry Humour, with a really nice gypsy style violin)
Bella Morte - Hope Again (Gothic, with a bit of electronica)
UK Decay - Dorian (Gothic, again with a violin)

Dibs

Voltaire - Dead Girls

Something told me this was going to be unique...so I chose this track. Nice start...acoustic guitars, very melodic, folky violins...the sound/production of the violins are a bit like GY!BE or Motorpsycho. Really cool how that one melodic chord maintains through the tempo change. An english-accented vocalist starts...very theatrical stuff. I like this...never heard anything remotely like this. The chorus is a bit more laid back. I like how the violins are the main melody...and the acoustic guitars and bass guitar keep a basic structure of the music. It's sort of a fake-depressing love song with a bit of a disturbed lyrical approach. I like it...really bizarre song. 8.0/10

My picks:

Aphex Twin - Outside Kickass Violin Solo (electronica)
Lemon Jelly - Nice Weather For Ducks (alternative dance)
Mastodon - March Of The Fire Ants (badass alt. metal)
Fantômas - Simply Beautiful (awesome live cover of the Al Green classic)
The Young Gods - Rue Des Tempetes (ultra cool industrial band)

Pick thy poison :p

Well if no one else is around, I'll do it.

The Young Gods - Rue Des Temptes

I like some industrial so I thought I'd try this song, plus I don't know who Al Green is.

I like the odd little start bit then his voice comes in which I really like, very nice. The random chords while he's speaking in French are really good, very atmospheric. I like the guitars later on and I like the raspiness of his voice. The guitars start to sound like violins which I like. It might be interesting to look up the lyrics. I like where at 2 minutes it all goes quiet except for a plodding beat and guitars and the sudden ending is cool but why so short :(

Well, it didn't sound like most industrial I've heard and I really liked liked it although it was a bit too short and I like to be able to understand the lyrics, I do like French though. 9/10

Type O Negative - Christian Woman (Gothic rock)
Adam And The Ants - Lady Catch A Falling Star (I love this song, and I'm sure you all know what Adam And The Ants are like)
Scissor Sisters - It Can't Come Quickly Enough (This is a beautiful song)
Sentenced - Dead Leaves (I'm not good with genres, I think this is metal)
Glampire - All That Glitters (Have no idea what this is, electronicy bits)

dibsies

edit: actually, this download is taking forever, so if you're in a hurry to do one, go ahead and take my turn

dibs

Adam & the Ants - Lady catch a falling star

Heavy distorted guitar doin this kinda classic rock/punk/blues chord picking. Reminds me of the Kings of leon. Drums make they're apearance and the song starts growin, this dude surely knows how to hit those drums. :smash:
Now vocals are in: great rockin voice, the one that holds on to u and makes u wanna scream along. Some clappin comes along with what i assume is the chorus. This whole riff repeats and there he comes, the so wanted guitar solo. Guitar still disstorted makin this exciting, powerful sound along with creepy backing vocals, but it's gone before i get the mood. Vacking vocals still in repeating "hu" "hu", and the whole song comes back to the begining. The whole first riff is prepeated to fade away along with some "hu" "hu" "hu".

Nice song. Like a slap around.
Easy listenin notes but distorsion makes the whole song.
7/10

Soda stereo - La ciudad de la furia unplugged ( has to be the unplugged version)/ Acidprogressive rock
Aterciopelados - El estuche
Mano negra - King Kong Five / don't know what style would fit this
Los Fabulosos Cadillacs - el carnicero de giles, Surfer calavera / Punk/jazz/ska/reggae/suf
Café Tacuba - La pinta/ Neither this one

You didn't write the song title btw :)

dibs

[b]Manu Negra - King Kong Five[/b]

The name sounds familiar, I think I read about this band and was planning on checking them out a while back. Ok, starts with reminds me of a cheesy 80's dance song beat. Then some rap-ish vocals talking about beats of so-songs and such. The bassline is alright, but otherwise I'm not diggin' it much. A cliche little old school rap acapella part... I didn't need to hear that. There's some organ stuff that sounds pretty nifty. The vocals and the beat are getting pretty annoying, though. Pretty much more of the same for the rest of the song. Pretty short song.

The instrumentation was alright, but the vocals and the drums weren't floating my boat. 5/10.


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[b]27 - April[/b] - Mellow dreamy indie-ish rock, with some guest vocals from Isis's screamer man
[b]Steve Burns - Troposphere[/b] - Flaming Lips-ish rock from the guy from Blue's Clues
[b]Cannibal Ox - Iron Galaxy[/b] - experimental-ish hip-hop
[b]Dismemberment Plan - Girl O'Clock[/b] - spazzy indie rock
[b]Kayo Dot - Pitcher of Summer[/b] - avant-garde indie/hard rock

Or for a 10-15 minute song:

[b]Kayo Dot - The Maniford Curiosity[/b] - avant-garde space rock/classical/extreme metal
[b]Pelican - Australasia[/b] - instrumental sludgy, melodic metal

*bump* :D

I may get dibs if I can find any of the songs.


EDIT: dibs

Dismemberment Plan - Girl O'Clock

This sounded interesting, especially the title, so I picked it. I like the jangly start and the guitar afterwards. His singing/speaking/stuttering is cool and doesn't annoy me like it may have done. His high singing in the slow bits is good as well and I like how it's a very busy song although I can see it may be annoying at some times. I especially like the keyboard/organ in the background as well. The bit where all stops except his voice made me laugh and the instrumental afterwards is very ice to listen too. The lyrics were slightly nonsensical which I like.

All in all I liked listening to it although when I'm in a certain mood I imagine the business would be annoying and it may be hard to listen to a lot of the same style. It was also short which, although it added to the song's effect, was bad because I liked it.

8.75/10

My Choices:
Moonspell - Darkness And Hope (metal)
Joy Division - She's Lost Control (goth)
The Tea Party - A Certain Slant Of Light (rock)
The Birthday Massacre - Broken (electronica)

I'm tempted to make you listen to HIM but I know you wouldn't like that :upset:

I'll catch it

[b]The Birthday Massacre - Broken[/b]

Well.. I say medium-industrial from the word git.
It lightens up a fair bit, going to ambient synth strings and with blobby synth bass and hi-hats. Drums rejoin to meet a woman's singing... a sort of nice melodic voice, it's a little bit 80's like, but sounds good with the echo.

Back to some heavier Filter-like industrial/dance for the chorus, a guy screams here. Screamy synth too.. but it's not all that heavy. That Wumpscut song was much heavier.

Back to the verse again, sounds the same as before. I'm not following/hearing any of the lyrics, but the woman singing sounds nice as before. Chorus, same again. Then it continues with a different screamy synth, no vocals here.

There's an ambient bit, synthy bass. oh yeah, the moshy bit, I've heard plenty of these before, this one doesn't even have a build up though. The heavy bit: no singing here though, which is a bit of a surprise. Theres not even another verse or chorus to

This kind of sounds a lot like ... something I'd hear on teen commercial radio. Catchy on first listen.. it probably won't last long in the interest banks though. I give it a bit extra for being the first alt-pop-industrial song I've heard, and some more for not having such a typical song structure as I expected.
6/10

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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

[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]The Postman Syndrome - Hedgehog's Dilemma[/b] - progressive emo/screamo, its rather fiddly on the guitar. nearly 8 minutes long. Sometimes this is split into 2 tracks, Hedgehog's and Dilemma, take care.

[b]Caterwaul - Innerlooped[/b] - 80's gothish rock

y'all know me, and y'all know that y'all probably only find the first 2 songs when I'm online. Soulseek- Blueser57

Im sorry I'm bad at genres :upset: Please forgive me. :p


*stealthily (or not) disguised bump*

UnReDibs.

dibs y0

Grr. Undibs, going away for a few days and i'm too tired to do it now.