dibs for me then

Already heard the other two, so it had to be

[b]Madonna - Frozen[/b]

Soaring minor strings which are very sumptious. Some fuzz and a twangy guitar starts, then she starts singing. Very high and airy, probably the best part of Madonna's voice. Lyrics sound depressing, stuff about 'hate and regret'. A more dancey beat comes in, reminds me of All Saints - Pure Shores and she starts humming with backing vocals, which sounds really good. Quite a mystical, spaced-out sort of song.

More trance-like sounds and we're back to the verse. What sounds like a drum machine kicks in, the quality of which isn't very good, but her voice still sounds great so it's not the end of the world. We're back to the humming and I'm desperately trying to listen to it over the sound of typing, as I like it a lot.

The strings kick in again, and they sound so much better than the rest of the backing track. It'd probably be improved if they were the only instruments. I love the lower range of her tones that she uses as well, it all just sounds so good.

We're now at the 4:30 mark and the song is really finding its own groove, although it can't really go on just like this for another 2 minutes, can it?

This bloody humming is gonna be stuck in my head for ages. I'm not too fussed though.

Suddenly everything dies away and her voice comes out, very clearly with no affectations. Quiet strings once again, but it's mainly silence. Oh, that's the end. My the time went quickly.

That was great, but a couple of marks must be deducted for some bad instrument sounds - 7/10.

[b]My Picks:[/b]

Gwen Stefani - Bubble Pop Electric (insanely produced, hyperactive, fantastic pop)
The Flaming Lips - All We Have Is Now (mellow alternative)
Elliott Smith - Amity (gorgeous acoustic)
John Frusciante - Ramparts (very short instrumental alternative)

You know you want to...

dibs

Go Awaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyy.

w00t, a new band to check out. They sound AWESOME.

/doesn't check out at all

They are like... Bush + G. W. x Metallica = That Band (Who so Ever Will)

[QUOTE=Zmev]dibs[/QUOTE]

...

Do it. Do it now. Or suffer my wrath.

Review for Gwen Stefani:

song starts off with techno beat and Gwen talking to some guy named Johnny, tonight is [i]thee[/i] night o0o. Verse 1 comes in, cool beat in the back, Gwen singing faster than normal. Bubble pop electric in the backseat? I wonder whats that refering too. Ok verse 2 is pretty raunchy, not bad song, but I wont be listening to this in front of my mom anytime soon. "Tonight Im gonna give you all my love in the backseat" Alright. The bubble pop electric saying thing is getting annoying though. JOnny and Gwen finally meet, and drive off with same beat in back. "Drive into me" ...Oh my. And we're in the chorus again, bubble pop electric agian and agian is really wearing on me, and Jonny drives off.

8/10

My picks:

Dillinger Escape Plan - 43% Burnt (grindcore)
Devo - Smart Patrol/Mr Dna (New Wave/Synth)
Ween - Pork Roll Egg & Cheese (Lo-fi/Humor)
Kyuss - 50 million year trip (upside down) (stoner metal)

Only Dib/review if you havent heard it

I dib because i can.

[I][B]Ween - Pork Roll Egg & Cheese [/B] [/I]

Starts of with some drum.. Oh geez, weird vocals! Spacey! This is really weird music. It's sorta fun, in a weird scary kinda way. The verse and the chorus are in the same kinda style. The lyrics are hard to decipher without reading them. The song gets a little boring since there is nothing changing. It's still weird vocals, drum and some kind of spacey guitar. I'm not sure if i like this or not. This is bizar. Now it's breaking down and that only makes it weirder. 3.00 of weird weird music. There's nothing else i can say. It got a little boring nearing the end but it was....... interesting..

7/10

My picks:

Elliott Smith - "Georgia" or "No More" (both can be found at [url]http://www.elliottsmithbsides.com/EitherOrDemos.htm[/url] Then click Georgia.mp3 or No More.mp3 and there you go.)

Death Cab For Cutie - 20th century towers (a great slow, pretty song)

Damien rice - Eskimo (this song makes me smile.. so pretty and yay :))

dibs

bump, or I'll do another one

dibs

[B]Damien Rice - Eskimo[/B]

Haven't heard much Damien Rice lately, so I gave this one a go.

Starts off with soft, flowing strumming that slowly gets more audible. Damien enters, sounding uncannily Buckley-like in the first few seconds of his singing. The song, expectedly, is relatively quiet, with him hushing up and whispering occasionally, until the beautiful cello says hello at about 1:20.

The line "so I look to my Eskimo friend" really caught me. It's so simple catchy, it adds to the lush, relaxing vibe. So that continues, with Damien doing some nice falsettos here and there. The excitement builds up as the strings get louder, accompanying the singer, who does a soaring note at about 3:20. Beautiful. An opera singer comes in, which surprised me a bit. I'm not one bit overwhelmed, though thoroughly impressed by this climax. He sings his last few words as the sound dies down.

A very nice song.

[B]8/10[/B]

Songs:

Dreamend - Passing (melodramatic post rock) [url]http://www.dreamend.com/music.html[/url]*recommended*

Slowdive - Crazy For You(dream pop)

Enon - Rubber Car(perky indie rock) [url]http://www.epitonic.com/artists/enon.html[/url]

bump

I can't download the song; it won't let me :(

[url]http://www.dreamend.com/aibg/passing.mp3[/url]


try it again(right click, then save target as?)

wait, I think it does work.

But i've [i]got[/i] work :upset:

I'll do it later.

[I][FONT=Lucida Console]- dibs[/FONT][/I]

[B]Dreamend - Passing[/B]

Starts on phased mellow delayed guitar playing. It reminds of the kind of stuff I do when I'm playing my Rickenbacker with forty pedals hooked up so this is appealing to me so far. Soon an accompying guitar joins in and the mix is still mellowfied (x1000).

Do these guys have any relations with Explosions in the Sky or do all post rock bands sound like this? If anything they do less accsending and descending pick lines. Now I'm waiting for some sort of release like a big dramatic drumroll or something.

And there's that big drum release, Bravo! The delay mellow theme is staring to pick up. Awesome, right now there's some feedback solo going on, I love it! It's also really loud but I'm not going to bother turning my speakers down at all. They're finnaly playing fast, I'd been hoping they would all song. Yes, even more noise raping my ear, too bad it has to fade out on this, but oh well.

Wait that tottaly wasn't the end of the song, it's still going on. Now the mellow parts seem to fit the piece better. Parts of it remind me of the guitar playing on Fugazi's Sweet and Low. Meh, that ending was kinda weak, but I ended up liking the song more I was expecting to so, Bravo!

[B]My Final Rating:[/B] 8/10 Post Rawk!

[B]My Selections:[/B]

Soft Machine - As Long As He Lies Perfectly Still (Groovy Prog Rock)
Egg Hunt - We All Fall Down (Ian Mackaye side project, Slighty Industrial Punk)
Magazine - Motorcade (Post Punk, been on my list for 6 months)
Great Lakes - Parachutes (Neo Pysch)

I have all of these on my slsk (WRM) or god forbid AIM (Super Furry OMG)

Perhaps this is too early for a bump seeing as it took 6 days before Happymeal bumped his, but whatever.

I'll dib it.

[b]Magazine - Motorcade[/b]

Starts off promisingly, nice Floyd-esque slow guitar chords. Good drum rhythm, I'm really hoping for something good here.

Singing kicks in, it's very low and gravely, but interesting to listen to. Definitely getting into a groove there. Some really crazy backing vocals going on.

Yeah, overall the vocals are a little odd. Guitar solo kicks in, much much faster than the song so far, but really builds up and it's fantastic! Drums kick in and I find I'm trying to type at twice the speed... woah there Amy.

I'm really really interested in this song, can't wait to hear what's going to happen next.

The tempo keeps building up, some really cool bass coming through and keyboards and all sorts of larks.

Ooh, it suddenly slowed right down - very interesting.

Some more impressive soloing, very enjoyable.

Song appears to be going back to the beginning more, I'm not really expecting anything else to happen, we'll have to wait and see.

Oh, I'm wrong, it just did a little build up again. In fact, it keeps switching between the two, how kerrazy! Ok, that little thing's just repeating a few times now, and it's over.

[b]8.5/10[/b] Think I'm going to have to listen to that a little more to get a feel for it, but that was one of the best FLs I've done.

[b]My Picks:[/b]

Kasabian - Club Foot (I know, I know, but humour me if my incessant obsessiveness hasn't made you hear this already)[indie rock]

The Decemberists - Here I Dreamt I Was An Architect [alt rock]

Sufjan Stevens - The Dress Looks Nice On You [acoustic]

Explosions In The Sky - First Breath After A Coma [post-rock]

Mercury Rev - Hercules (warning, it's about 8 minutes long) [dream/alt-pop]

dibs :D
There's a Decemberists show in a few months around here, so maybe this will help me decide if i want to go.

[B]The Decemberists - Here I Dreamt I Was An Architect [/B]

Ok starts off with a little drum kick and guitar arpeggios or such repeating. I really like this guys voice, its comforting, feels like story time. Chorus type part - simple but nice. Good lyrics. Some keyboards in the back keepin the chord progression going. About ready to get sick of that guitar part, but then the chorus comes again and I am happy. I want to read these lyrics they sound interesting.

[B]7/10[/B] Good stuff, mellow & very listener-friendly. The band seems to have depth, an interesting voice & old fashioned sort of style.
I liked what I heard of Okkervil River too( who the Decemberists will be playing with) so that show is sounding more & more interesting to check out

[B]My picks : [/B]
Jeff Beck - Cause We've Ended as Lovers (intrumental, if you like guitar)
The Zombies - The Way I Feel Inside (short n sweet)
Okkervil River - Listening To Otis Redding At Home During Christmas
John Lennon - Jealous Guy (like Imagine but better)

Yeah, Yeah. Meh.

If someone would kindly do a review of this song:

[URL=http://www.dismembermentplan.com/plan_audio/mpeg/DPlan_The_City.mp3]The City by the Dismemberment Plan[/URL]

Personal favourite. :D

Edit: Why isn't the hyperlink displaying properly?

mx disabled it

[QUOTE=MemoryMachine]Yeah, Yeah. Meh.

If someone would kindly do a review of this song:

[URL=http://www.dismembermentplan.com/plan_audio/mpeg/DPlan_The_City.mp3]The City by the Dismemberment Plan[/URL]

Personal favourite. :D

Edit: Why isn't the hyperlink displaying properly?[/QUOTE]

Well, nobody do this. You have to review before asking others to review your songs. Too bad, eh?

My picks :
Jeff Beck - Cause We've Ended as Lovers (intrumental, if you like guitar)
The Zombies - The Way I Feel Inside (short n sweet)
Okkervil River - Listening To Otis Redding At Home During Christmas
John Lennon - Jealous Guy (like Imagine but better)

are still the picks you can choose from.

Dibs.