I enjoyed Get Down, which I reviewed in a different Forced Listening I believe, so I thought I'd try another.
[b]Butch Walker - Alicia Amnesia[/b] - 3:23

Starts off with a quick drum roll, and then a riff. It definitely seems to be a pop punk riff, although it's quite long and winding for pop punk. There's a nice chunka-chunka bit about halfway through. Anyway, this riff repeats a couple of times, and then vocals come in.

Walker's vocals remind me somewhat of Freddie Mercury. I've said this before, and the only person I've said it to so far has assumed I meant his amazing singing talent, which I don't. I mean the kind of half-rapped, clipped vocals (the kind Freddie used in We Will Rock You, for example). There's a better example in the other Butch Walker song I know (the aforementioned Get Down), but here it's not really any different, only less pronounced. I swear the guy is channeling Freddie Mercury.

So anyway, I like his vocals. Lyrics seem to be about just a particularly forgetful girl (every man's dream, I'm sure), which makes for some amusing lines. Sung chorus (or pre-chorus, tis too early to tell yet) around 0:50, before a rather loud single repeated guitar note for him to sing "she doesn't know my name". Drawn out cry of "aliciaaaaa", a couple of repetitions of the riff, and then another verse. Much in the same pattern as before. A very cool little bridge part after the next chorus, with some doo wop-ish vocals, and then swiftly back to the chorus before the song draws to a close.

7.5/10, I think. I didn't like it as much as Get Down, but it was still pretty good.

[b]Songs;[/b]
[url=http://s43.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1SQ60BMAO21RJ178MEZ81TGF4Y]William Shatner (w/Joe Jackson and various others) - Common People[/url]
[url=http://s43.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3P6C68LJSGT5I0VTWGYSZ8F8XB]Johnny Cash - The Wall (live)[/url]
[url=http://s32.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1EXLY4UYJ9VAC0RXP7A9X7J564]North - Through Fire[/url] (relaxed, slightly funky alt/indie)
[url=http://s32.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3RN2V6Z5RZ4052IZKYXUQZH054]North - untitled bonus track[/url]
[url=http://s22.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3RYJ4843BOX0M3ARG2Q02QHJPE]Aereogramme - Post-Tour, Pre-Judgement[/url]
[url=http://s29.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3RWWDZP32I2H935WY8DGBNLLN4]Aereogramme - Hatred[/url]

Dibs

I've never heard anything from this band before, but I've heard them talked about, so lets see.

[B]Aereogramme - Post-Tour, Pre-Judgement[/B]

Starts with some cool drumming. Some nice vocals and a lovely chord progression on a clean guitar come in. Then...holy crap! An explosion of awesomeness! There's some hard drumming, distorted guitar and an incredible organ. Now some vocals. This guy's vocals rule. Goes back to the softer part of the clean guitar and then goes back into the big part.

I'm liking these lyrics, though I can't say what they are about right now. Goes big again and then drops back to just bass, some light cymbals with toms and a pretty little guitar lead. Builds up slightly before the vocals come back in. Some cool lines..."fu*k the devil, fu*k myself" sounds really cliche, but the delivery is great. Wow, now it's heavy again and the dude is screaming, sounds a bit like Converge. And that's the whole song. Wow, amazing.

[b]10/10[/b] That song was way too good, I'll definitely be checking out this band more, starting now.


[b]Songs;[/b]

[url=http://www.thejollyrogers.org/thepartypunch.mp3]The Jolly Rogers - The Party Punch[/url] Alt Folk/Pirate Pop
[url=http://www.thejollyrogers.org/ohbeone.mp3]The Jolly Rogers - Oh Be One[/url] as above
[url=http://s12.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1UPNEPBUQGNVP3OOAA0UTVM22K]Thomas Newman - Shawshank Redemption (stoic theme and end credits)[/url] Film Music

dribbles

[b]The Jolly Rogers - The Party Punch[/b]

A strummy, bouncy guitar opens it, just a couple of chords. The vocalist starts up, and he sounds like Ben Folds meets the Modest Mouse singer. It's pretty simple, just guitars, singing, and simple percussion with claps.

It's pretty happy, and melodic, though I don't hear anything piratey, as promised.
In the second half is quiet choirs, with a bit of Beach Boys sound, the main music powers up a bit, more noticeable than the the first half. The guitar riff is getting a bit repetetive, but it's pretty fun and it doesn't matter.

But the last 50 seconds or so sounds totally unrelated, with bad strumming and bad singing... I'll ignore this bit..


Yeah, that was pretty mellow, slightly tacky in it's simplicity, and the singer's shaky voice, but a good type of tacky, like Custard or Presidents of the USA, just for indie. I wouldn't have liked something like this, a year ago, but for now, I enjoyed it.
8/10

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[b][url=http://www.comcen.com.au/~caracarol/XTC - Apple Venus - 06 - Greenman.mp3]XTC - Greenman[/url][/b] - 70s pagan pop-rock

Dibs.

I've heard of these guys, and for all I know I've heard them before now. Still not really sure what to expect, though.
[b]XTC - Greenman[/b] - 6:01

Starts off with a rather familiar sounding little tune; sounds like it's being played on an organ of some kind. Quickly resolves itself into a rather sweeping and grandiose kind of sound, which instantly brings to mind Lawrence of Arabia for some reason. Small flourish in the strings (I think) before the vocals come in about thirty seconds in. Multiple voices (at least two, anyway), and they sound pretty good. Not amazing, but good clean voices for this kind of smooth song. The melody is really good too. Memorable, but not in an annoying way. Lyrics are just about "the one called the greenman". Little playful flute melody during an instrumental break/chorus, and then the next verse starts.

I'm noticing the bass now (at least I think it's the bass). It's really good, deep and nice-sounding. Harmonised vocals for a while, before what is either a repeated fragment of a line, or some non-verbal sound. The guy's voice wavers a bit around 2:55, but it's not all that noticeable.

About four minutes in now, and so far it's just repeated what it's done up to now. I'm liking this song. It's very sweeping and grandiose, lots of could-be-dramatic strings and such, but which aren't especially intimidating or overwhelming. Different instruments, such as percussion, the bass, the flute, get their chance to do their thing every now and then. And..there's not much more I can say about it. It's six minutes long, but there isn't much variation, and it just basically repeats itself through to the end (and a strings fadeout).

7/10, I think. It was enjoyable, but a bit overlong and faintly annoying for some reason. I liked several aspects of it though; the variety of instruments, the flow of the verses, and the general vastness of the sound, in particular. Sorry for the short review.

[b]Songs;[/b]
[url=http://s43.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1SQ60BMAO21RJ178MEZ81TGF4Y]William Shatner (w/Joe Jackson and various others) - Common People[/url]
[url=http://s32.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1EXLY4UYJ9VAC0RXP7A9X7J564]North - Through Fire[/url] (relaxed, slightly funky alt/indie)
[url=http://s32.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3RN2V6Z5RZ4052IZKYXUQZH054]North - untitled bonus track[/url]
[url=http://s26.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2G0BKDMF1POEY129DVMLF271TD]Aereogramme - Sunday 3:52[/url]
[url=http://s29.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3RWWDZP32I2H935WY8DGBNLLN4]Aereogramme - Hatred[/url]

dibs on
aereogramme-sunday

very smooth, mellow chello(that spelling's gotta be wrong) opening. Voice comes in, also quite nice. hope this speeds up a little right now though. drums and guitar i think come in at same time, makes you appreaciate this new fullness. Right about now this seems like the kind of song that would bring tears to my eyes if anything sad had recently happened to me...luckily that is not the case. oh and now thats a violin that just came in. wow the harmonies really are beautiful, but to be honest every time the voice comes in the song is worse for it. the ending=just simple guitar with vioce, now I am liking this voice a lot more.

Alright well that was a song that if I was in a certain mood i would have loved, but at any given time I would not go out of my way to hear it. 6/10

oh yeah
Muse-Muscle Museum

His review didn't deserve a review that good in return :)

Dibs.

his?

[QUOTE=breezer]his?[/QUOTE]

As in yours. Don't take offence, since it's the first I've ever seen you do, I wasn't really bothered, and I'd rather have more than less people playing the game. It was just a little short and disappointing.

Heard and liked before, as you know. I was debating which to do, but I figured I might as well go for the only Butch Walker there I've not yet heard.
[b]Butch Walker - Mixtape[/b] - 4:05

Starts off with some quite piercing piano (in so far as piano can be piercing). It sounded a bit like nursery rhyme-style piano at first, but it's soon joined by some acoustic strumming, which makes it sound all the more mature. It's just these two for a short while, until the vocals begin.

He sounds less like Freddie Mercury, this time. Probably because his vocals are a lot more laid back and relaxed than I've heard previously. I would say "drawled", I think, if he had a southern accent. Anyway, light percussion starts up at the same time (and the piano stops, I think); it's nothing special, which is unsurprising, since the focus is very much on the vocals. There's no great change in style on the chorus (except for the most concerted effort at singing I've heard from Walker so far, in a few lines here and there). The piano returns for short instrumental breaks post-chorus, pre-verse.

Pretty cool part now (around 2:00) after the second chorus; the vocals use that slightly more commanding, jerky delivery, and there's some flashes of distorted guitar here and there. Goes straight into another chorus. Multiple Butches join in for backing vocals. After a few repetitions of a chorus line, the song goes quiet, and some slightly distorted drumming starts, while the music builds up slightly around it. The bass here is nice; warm, good tone. It never builds back up into a chorus, it's just something to fade the song out on, but it reminds me somewhat of a NIN instrumental.

8.5/10. Bits of it weren't anything special, but I liked the outro, which makes it a solid 7. The extra points come from just the fact that I really like the basis for the song. It's essentially (so far as I can make out, in one listen) a love song, but it's about the person who gave him the bext mixtape he ever had, which, unlike most love songs, is a sentiment I can somewhat relate to.

[b]Songs;[/b]
[url=http://s43.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1SQ60BMAO21RJ178MEZ81TGF4Y]William Shatner (w/Joe Jackson and various others) - Common People[/url]
[url=http://s32.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1EXLY4UYJ9VAC0RXP7A9X7J564]North - Through Fire[/url] (relaxed, slightly funky alt/indie)
[url=http://s32.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3RN2V6Z5RZ4052IZKYXUQZH054]North - untitled bonus track[/url]
[url=http://s26.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2G0BKDMF1POEY129DVMLF271TD]Aereogramme - Sunday 3:52[/url]
[url=http://s29.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3RWWDZP32I2H935WY8DGBNLLN4]Aereogramme - Hatred[/url]

Bump.

Dibs. I'll try this.
North - Through Fire

[U][B]North - Through Fire[/B][/U]
I've never heard of them so I'm not sure what to expect.
Well in the start there is a nice little piano build up that sounds like a Norah Jones song. Then about 30 secounds in the Bass and cymbals comes in and I then have an idea that a deep voice will comes in, which I was hoping against and to my surprise a nice mellow soothing voice comes in.

The song starts to sound a bit like a upbeat jazz. The singer I can't really hear exactly what he's saying but the words he is singing reall flow and keep the song in a mellow sleepy state. About 2:45 into the song he stops singing and the guitar picks up with the piano still jamming away. The guitar solo reminds me of something Santana would do. Sounds sorta like a TV theme I dunno maybe I'm just tired. Then it stops and the singer comes back singing his rhythmic style still sings only about a line or two then the guitar comes back in.

Sounds like a faster version of the first solo but this time the piano is louder and slowly gets louder as the guitar plays. The guitar does its thing for about a minute then it dissappears leaving us with the piano. The piano slows tempo then slowly builds and the drums make the first sound thats caught my attention since the begging. The guitar comes back in playing my favorite part out of the three little solos it had. This time it reminds me of a sort of David Gilmour thing. Then the guitar just drops again, and agian leaving us with the piano to say good bye.

Sorry for all the comparisons this song sounded like so many songs or had little pieces that reminded me of songs but overall a really steady song. Despite only having singing in about one min of this 5:30 min song it kept me interesting with the changing of tempo and the guitar solos that were the same sounding yet different. And when the singer did sing I thought the words just really flowed.

8/10 I don't usually like these songs they tend to bore me but as stated above this was different.

Hope that was good.

[URL=http://s23.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=15KOZ3537WUW017DV4WO7CYQXF]The Bees - Horsemen[/URL]

[URL=http://s23.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=298QWACOIR6XU0BKWUWZGMFNJU]Secret Machines - Nowhere Again[/URL]

dibs

Note to Grateful Dead - [URL=http://www.musicianforums.com/forums/showpost.php?p=8210167&postcount=2685]Dust - Screaming Trees (post&link)[/URL]

[B][I]Horsemen[/I] - The Bees[/B]: 3:29

I haven't heard of these guys but if they are as good as the Secret Machines are they will not be bad at all.

The song opens with some choppy guitar chordy bit things, reminds me of Neil Young already and that's no bad thing as far as I am concerned. The vocalist comes in and his voice is very plesant, kinda strained a bit, the voice and the guitar compliment one another.

Bum-tap, the drums and bass come in and with that the first annoying part to the song, a **** marracca. The cowbell tries to fight the annoyingness of the marracca but it's too down low in the mix to do much. Ah well let's carry on.

The next section is quite cool, organ, bass and piano with some floaty vocally kinda stuff in the background. This short piece finishes and goes back to the choppy guitar stuff, rinse and repeat this pretty much until 2:39 when the solo section begins.

The solo is pretty rad, reminds me of Josh Homme but that's due to my lack of knowledge of guitarist names.

It carries on after the solo with more of the guitar until it ends in a pretty unsatisying way, even after the solo.

Overall I did enjoy it, not something I would normally listen to or look for myself but I will keep my ear to the ground for more stuff by them. I give this track an [B]8/10[/B].


[B]Forced Listening:[/B]

[URL=http://s18.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0M5D22FBG867O17LUF94ZB0N8V]Time is an Imploding Unit/Waiting for Green - Biffy Clyro[/URL] - Alt. Rock/Pop-Punk, 9:23 long.

[URL=http://s18.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0P5N9ZTH0HB42EO5BH0Q4WT3X]Tonight my Wife is your Wife - Reuben[/URL] - Pop-Punk/Rocky Tinges, 3:07 long.

[URL=http://s23.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0LGC3UCHXC26P2AYOFQSOK72EV]The Mission - Queensrÿche[/URL] - Prog (Power tinged) Metal, 5:47 long.

[URL=http://s5.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0NLVRG775PCYA0JO8J45M8I2R3]I Know Your Name - Bee & Flower[/URL] - Woman and Violin and things, dark, 4:50 long.

[URL=http://s22.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1V8M134QDYKHB0BM3ANAJN0SXG]What You Feel - Buffy the Vampire Slayer Cast Musical[/URL] - F[SIZE=2]u[/SIZE]ckin' Jazz-a-matazz, 3:01 long.

dibs

I can take this now can't I?

if so dibs.

[B][I]14th Street[/I] - Rufus Wainwright[/B]: 4:44

The song opens with guitar, piano and (drunkenly slurred?) vocals. Piano and vocals are the predominant instruments/things in this part and all sounds really good. The drums and bass add themselves to the song very soon with a 'dum-dum-dum-dum-dum' bit. The song is a lot livelier than I was expecting. Got a nice waltz 3/4 feel to it and the piano really sounds good.

The backing vocals during the chorus section (38 seconds for first chorus) are really good as well. There is a nice definition between the two different sorts of singing going on.

The song has lots of short section with the switches from verse to chorus and back but there are so many different instruments in certain sections (I think there is a harmonica in the second verse but it's really low down I can't be sure.) There's almost too much to mention. The brass instruments at the 1:30 mark onwards are great; they really give the song some oomph.

2:25 and there is a little more laid back part which is quite as appealing melody-wise but good none the less. At the 2:50 mark the song starts a gradual descent into a piano only piece which I really like.

Of course the song comes right back up again where it plays out with the chorus towards the end. There are many little alterations to bits of the song here and there, but it does start to drag a tad which is a shame.

The band eventually fades out until there is just a bit of banjo playing left, which in turn fades out itself.

I have to say I really like the whole togetherness of what was going on, and there was a lot of it to co-ordinate and what not. The song seemed to drag a little I felt though as it neared the end as it seemed to hold on for the sake of it but I bet it would sound fantastic live, especially with some improv in there.

Overall, I would give the track a [B]9/10[/B]. But a weak [B]9/10[/B]. More like [B]8.8/10[/B], but that's a silly score.

[B]Forced Listening:[/B]

[URL=http://s18.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0M5D22FBG867O17LUF94ZB0N8V]Time is an Imploding Unit/Waiting for Green - Biffy Clyro[/URL] - Alt. Rock/Pop-Punk, 9:23 long.

[URL=http://s18.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0P5N9ZTH0HB42EO5BH0Q4WT3X]Tonight my Wife is your Wife - Reuben[/URL] - Pop-Punk/Rocky Tinges, 3:07 long.

[URL=http://s13.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=02OQAH79TV44D0T8ZESNFFXU10]Metric - Pelé[/URL] - Very calm Post-Rock, 6:20 long.

[URL=http://s5.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0NLVRG775PCYA0JO8J45M8I2R3]I Know Your Name - Bee & Flower[/URL] - Woman and Violin and things, dark, 4:50 long.

[URL=http://s22.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1V8M134QDYKHB0BM3ANAJN0SXG]What You Feel - Buffy the Vampire Slayer Cast Musical[/URL] - F[SIZE=2]u[/SIZE]ckin' Jazz-a-matazz, 3:01 long.

Sorry for not doing my dibs before :upset:

I'll do this one right now though.

[b]Metic - Pele[/b]

Nice guitar riffs at the start and some cool drumming. There is a really nice fill right at the beginning of the song. The song is constantly changing and this is a very good thing. I think I can hear some electronics in the background, which is cool. The strange thing about this song is that it is always changing, but it stays the same for the whole 6:20. The little section where everything cuts out, around 3:23 is one of the best parts of the song, I really love it.

This drummer really is great. He's starting to build up the song with some top snare work. Now the song is fully built up, but doesn't go into massive heaviness, which most post-rock band do (this is something that annoys me). The keyboard in the background is pretty amazing. I like the ending, the way everything just gets softer.

Nice stuff, it has some good groove.

7.5/10

[url=http://www.thejollyrogers.org/thepartypunch.mp3]The Jolly Rogers - The Party Punch[/url] Folk Pop
[url=http://www.thejollyrogers.org/ohbeone.mp3]The Jolly Rogers - Oh Be One[/url] Folk Pop
[url=http://s12.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1UPNEPBUQGNVP3OOAA0UTVM22K]Thomas Newman - The Shawshank Redemption Soundtrack (this is two parts of it mixed into one)[/url] Film Music
[url=http://www.thejollyrogers.org/piratesanthem.mp3]The Jolly Rogers - The Pirate's Anthem[/url] Folk Pop

dib

[b]The Jolly Rogers - A Pirate's Anthem[/b]

I hope this one is piratey, the other one I tried wasn't. Maybe it helps that I just had Modest Mouse on, I'm in the right listening frame. This is just a bit cleaner in all aspects. Though it's not sounding a bit piratey! :(

Acoustic guitar strums and piano chordage, a soft flowing 6/8er. It changes quickly to a harder (yet soft sound) with a high guitar. The singer still sounds incredibly like Ben Folds meets Modest Mouse singer.

At 2 minutes is a more melodic bit, which is a good thing, but it's interspersed by some semi-yells to counter it. The piano "lead" is pretty simple and repetetive, but it works all the same. Then after a bit, the music softens once again, and this time it stays that way, all the way through the fade out to the end.

Where's the pirate sound??? It would be really cool to hear. Anyway, it was a decent piece. I find when they try to sound rough it just doesnt work, they seem much more suited to the softer parts of their music. I couldn't really focus well on the individual bits, but it didn't put me off.
8.2/10

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[b][url=http://www.comcen.com.au/~caracarol/The National - Alligator - 05 - Daughters Of The Soho Riots.mp3]The National - Daughters Of The Soho Riots[/url][/b] - soft indie

[b]Simon And Garfunkel - The Sound Of Silence[/b] - acoustic folk

[b]Violetine - Finer Place[/b] - rock

[b]Rumors Of The Big Wave - Nightmare[/b] - prog pop-rock


0-second bump, come on

duh-da-duh-dubbaduh-dibs.

[U][B]The National - Daughters Of The Soho Riots[/B][/U]

I quite like this band from what I've already heard but I've been putting off buying their latest album. No good reason for that, really. Maybe this will be the one that pushes me over the edge. I've already got a general feel for what they sound like so let's see...

I really dig the singer's voice, deeper than most, that kind of delivery that I think goes really well with the basic melancholy indie pop style they've got going on. The actual song starts of with a simple, driving beat. A nice guitar melody to go with that and the tune plugs along and the singer drops in. There some piano stabs now, and it continues that way until we get to the bridge chorus style steez.

We circle about, but I don't know, there's like a softly growing intensity, nothing so noticeable. Maybe I'm just tweaking out. Very straightforward song all and all, ends on some hi-hat crashes and poof, we're done.

Just a simply, wonderfully solid song, perfectly executed for what it is. Made me want to buy the album even more so I think it succeeded in its goal (and my subconscious desire.)

8.5/10

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A few tunes...

[URL=http://www.some.com/mp3/Rise.mp3]Innaway - Rise[/URL] (Indie-psychedelic rock)

[URL=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00075VVG0/104-0956925-1444718?v=glance]Pistol Star - Mr. DJ[/URL] (Alterna-soul)

[URL=http://www.devindaviswebsite.com/Iron_Woman.mp3]Devin Davis - Iron Woman[/URL] (Singer/Song writer-Indie rock)

[URL=http://www.summerhymns.com/SomethingsGoingOn.mp3]Summer Hymns - Something's Going On[/URL] (Psychedelic pop)

[SIZE=1]bomp[/SIZE]

[B]Innaway - Rise[/B]

I've always had much luck from Mr. Crumb during Forced Listenings so I'm expecting to rather like this song even if I actually hate it, deal?

I haven't heard of the band but I'm always on the look for a pysch indie band so this shall be interesting.

Starts on ambient nature noises with wind blowing. Then tamborines or something joins in to give a somewhat spooky vibe. Fantastic I dig the organ and "The Benefit of Mr. Kite" type bass line. Other smalls things in the backround add to the overall mood especially the vocals.

Drums join in and the song goes heavy pysch in a sinister way. I can't help but compare to it some heavy metal riffs with that dual guitar octave thing going on. Needless to say I enjoy this part, it was short and it fillled it's role.

Back to the moody organ line with sparse percuassion. This times a singer accompianys them. I dig his vocals, I think he said something about sunshine or I'm complety bias. The backing vocals are amazing and eerie. . One more heavy pysch jam this time with more noise and freakout, fantastic.

I usually listen to a song twice or so for FLs and I have to say I like it more the second I listened to this song. I'm going to download the album.

[B]My Rating: [/B]9.5/10

[B]My Choices:[/B]
Blur - Universal (Britpop)
Nick Drake - Place To Be (Acoustic)
Radiohead - The National Anthem (Alternative)
Lou Reed - Perfect Day - (Piano Ballad)
Buzzcocks - Time's Up (Punk)

deyab

[b]Nick Drake - Place To Be[/b]

Finally I'll get to hear his music, apparently it's good.

Sweet melodious acoustic guitar strums, sounds like folk to me.. these chords carry right through the song. It could be just one guitar played well, it sounds like 2 though. His vocals are very soft, with an airy feel, this go really well with the music. He leaves space for just the guitar, as to not overload the song.

Well, I might have to listen to the lyrics because there isn't much else to say about the music. Firstly he is remembering being young, can't exactly say what he remebers. Seems he has changed from a happy young man to a sad old man. I can't understand the last verse.. or stanza, but no doubt it fits.

It's simple but nice, guitar and vocals were nicely balanced and it all fit. It also had some kind of raw goodness that can't really be defined. I don't have much else to say.
Good. 9/10

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[b][url=http://www.comcen.com.au/~caracarol/Custard - Loverama - 06 - Nervous Breakdance.mp3]Custard - Nervous Breakdance[/b][/url] - indie-disco-pop-rock

[b]Decoder Ring - Collapse Coming On[/b] - like Mogwai on speed (still not too fast)

[b]Electric Light Orchestra - Yours Truly, 2095[/b] - 80's synth rock

[b]Rumors Of The Big Wave - Nightmare[/b] - prog pop-rock

Dibbity dip dip dibs

[B]Custard - Nervous Breakdance[/B]

Didn't like the vocals right at the beginning, but they quickly improved. Excellent bass line, very groovy. Piano adds to the sound very nicely. Lyrics are a little cheesy, but considering the genre, that's to be expected. Overall, it sounds like a less poppy and less produced version of The Killers. I'd recommend it to Killers fans, actually.

Groovy, 8/10.

The Paper Chase - I'm Going To Spend The Rest of My Life Lying (Got me as far as genre)
Robert Randolph and the Family Band - Good Times (3 Stroke) (Soul/Funk Rock feel to it)
The Bad Plus - Do Your Sums/Die Like A Dog/Play For Home (all 1 song) (Neo-Jazzish rock)

Crap, I've killed the Forced Listening thread....

no you didn't, sometimes it takes over a week for any action to occur

Lazy bastards.... Rate my music, **** you all!

Bump

I wasn't aware that I had to write a full magazine column. There's only so much I can say about one song.

If it's that much of a problem, I'll write a longer one. Personal attacks are not necessary.

dibs

[B]Wovenhand - Sparrow Falls[/B]

Okie dokie, long download for me. I kinda didn't expect the guy to have this powerful of a voice, very much gospel. Not really paying attention to the lyrics, though. Mostly assuming since I got this from the Sounds Familyre websitesand all the other songs had names like "To Love Like The Father & Son" and "I Saw a Mighty Angel." In any case, that wouldn't matter because this guy's voice is all sorts of fantastic. It's that kind of big, booming, overpowering type, the kind that rapes your ears and has the gall to lay in bed and light a cigarette afterwards.

Very pure folk rock going on here, hold on, the phone's ringing.

So it starts off simply enough, little acoustic picking, sounds like a little slide going on too. Everything's adding up, it's very dramatic, almost overly so. But it sounds just right to back up the singer's immediacy. At around 2:20, there's a really awesome instrumental part. The piano really drives the song a lot, I think, works works very well. If everything was dropped and it was just a piano-driven ballad, this would probably sound good. Although not as nearly as fantastic as it does.

Not exactly the most in depth review but I liked it. The whole thing sounds like a sinking ship, or something teetering on the edge of a cliff waiting to be pushed off. I really dug this, gonna have to try and remember to pick something up by these guys.

[B]9.5/10[/B]

Let me find some songs...