[i]Camille Saint-Saens - Aquarium[/i]

I fail to see the madcoreness in this song, but it is still pretty cool as. I picked up the South German Philharmonic 1999 version, so I dunno which one you have, it may be different. Also, my song was called only Aqua, I don't know if that's the right song or not. Anyway. Remember that old game on the SNES, Ghouls and Ghosts? And that pirate ship, on the second level? This music sounds exactly the same, sort of. It's got this semi-madcore piano thing going on, and some really creepy strings in the background. They kind of crescendo and go quiet again, it's a really good effect. After that, there's some octave thing, or something, going on in the piano, and the strings get a bit quieter. It's all descending, and really cool. On the 3rd time around, it's similar to the intro, but in another key. Then, at about 1:40 or so, it changes, and there's some pretty madcore stuff going on on the piano. It loses it's creepy ambience at this point, almost goes to a major key, briefly. It finishes heaps differently, it's pretty cool.

8/10. I may check some more stuff out, but probably won't.

New songs, because I haven't done one of these in such a long time.

[b]Stetsasonic - Talkin' all that Jazz[/b] (Cool as old school hip hop, with a madcore bassline in it. If you can't find it, there is a remix of it done by Dmitri From Paris that you can do)
[b]Diablo II OST - Tristram[/b] (Eeric Classical - Download here: [url]http://www.diabloii.net/files/sounds.shtml[/url])
[b]Neurosis - Away[/b] (Ambient/Rock, with hardcore vocals)
Mandatory metal song:
[b]Iron Maiden - Dance of Death[/b] (Heavy metal, with strings)

[QUOTE=manuscriptreplica]Prepare to be brainwashed by his hatred of everything. And his mandatory whinge about the government.[/QUOTE]


Hatred of everything eh? Sounds like me



EDIT: Dibs

Gonna have to undibs as i don't have time to write the review :(

Come on, you don't even need soulseek for this one.

Dibs on that Diablo one

Diablo - Tristram ("eerie classical")
I never really got into the Diablo craze, so I dont have any idea what to expect. I've heard it's a nihilistic game.
Opens up pretty calmly, with an acoustic guitar playing something classical-guitar-esqe. Other instruments join and exit, including what sounds like a bass and flute. Not much variation as far as I'm concerned, tops for me comes around 3:49 when the guitar goes into a flamenco-style crescendo. At about 5:00 the bass introduces a creepy minor key for a minute, then resumes with the guitar and flute.
You know what, I'm not very impressed by this song. I understand this music as mood music when you're concentrating on other things (like slaying demons or whatever). This music, while cohesive and organized, does not stand out and is not meant to. It is effective at setting a general backround tone, but it is not special in comparison to other songs I've heard with the same goal.

4.5/10

My suggestions are:
Norman Greenbaum - Spirit in the Sky
Gil Scott-Heron - Whitey on the Moon
Toccata and Fugue in D Minor - Bach
Manu Chao - Clandestino

4.5/10? Blasphemy! Oh well, I like it.

I'm afraid I'm going to have to dibs the Bach one, that makes three classical pieces in a row :)

[i]Sebastian Bach - Toccata and Fugue in D Minor[/i]

This song is cool. A 9 minute epic. First things first, you know that riff, that is often used in scary movies? The one on the organ? Well, I certainly didn't explain it well, but this is the riff, which I didn't know was a Bach thing. Anyway, with that out the way, I'll describe it briefly: this is mainly a huge, 9 minute organ solo. It gets pretty madcore at times. There's lots of huge chords, held for a long time, which gives it great atmosphere. I like it at about 1:20, it gets really fast and tricky, and basically sounds awesome. It alternates between slow and fast bits a lot. It's a hard song to describe really, a 9 minute long solo piece. It changes a lot, but I lack the perfect pitch to name all the notes to describe what a wonderful piece this is. So I'll stop here, and recommend this to pretty much everyone. My only complaint is that it gets a bit directionless at times, it's not really that complex to keep me interested in it for 9 minutes straight.

9.5/10.

[b]Stetsasonic - Talkin' all that Jazz[/b] (Cool as old school hip hop, with a madcore bassline in it. If you can't find it, there is a remix of it done by Dmitri From Paris that you can do)
[b]Neurosis - Away[/b] (Ambient/Rock, with hardcore vocals)
Mandatory metal song:
[b]Iron Maiden - Dance of Death[/b] (Heavy metal, with strings)

dibs

[b]Stetasonic - Talkin' All That Jazz[/b]

First impression: awesome. Starts with a weird synth sound or something and horns I think. Then the bassline comes in and it's awesome. Incredibly groovy. Then the drums enter, filling it in perfectly. It goes on for a bit then the bass cuts out and the guys start rapping. The rapping is actually really cool, really fun to listen to. A couple verses follow, mostly just staying on that same awesome groove but with tons of different variations here and there. Overall it was just very simple but incredibly groovy and fun. A great 'hip hop' song.

8.7/10

My suggestions:
[b]The Weakerthans - One Great City! or Left and Leaving[/b] (it's hard to classify them but I guess I'd say somehting like folk/rockish stuff, very melodic)

[b]Maxeen - Love Goes A Long Way[/b] (it's sort of pop-punky but with a cool melody and it's incredibly fun to listen to.

bump,,

Getting one now, but it's going incredibly slow

[b]The Weakerthans - One Great City![/b]

Acoustic guitar brings the song into being, with a quickish fingerpicked country (?) sound with ska like bits (not ska, but the ones you hear in this type of music).
It's melodic and a bit subdued. It might be 2 guitars, but I can't tell, it's possible that it is just one. The bass bits played by guitar are articulated, which beats root notes any day.

Singer starts a little bit in, he sounds a bit like the Marcy Playground singer with less treble. Lyrics about the close of a day in a city... sounds like this city is failing, things are going wrong, the people are miserable day after day... and the general idea is "I hate Winnipeg"

After this, the ska bits of guitar get louder, this bit is much more likely to be 2 guitars, still I can't be sure. This song is much more about the lyrics than the music. The ska bit gets a few hammer ons, still simple and pushed back to the background when the singing comes back.

The last.. set of lyrics is about a businessman/developer seeing part of the city die, and letting his wrecking ball proclaim "I hate Winnipeg". Maybe he is trying to breathe new life into the city.

And... It's over, seemed pretty quick, and at 3 minutes... it is.
Kind of depressing, I don't know what city life is really like so I can't associate with these lyrics.
With just guitar and vocals, the music is simple but with enough variation to not be basic. The main thing is that it fit the idea of the song well.

I don't think I'll be listening to this much in the future, too depressing for me in that social sense, but it was quite well written and executed.
7.3/10


The volumes were going a bit spazzy, they go up and down by something like 10% every now and then.. may be the fault of the encoder so it's not affecting anything scorewise.


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[b]Substitute Inc. - The Chase[/b] - underwater progressive trippy-disco sci-fi rock. It's 2 tracks, therefore 2 files to get.

[b]The Postman Syndrome - Hedgehog's Dilemma[/b] - progressive emo/screamo, tricky guitar. 8 minutes long. Might be split into 2 tracks - Hedgehog's and Dilemma.

[b]Anathema - Alternative 4[/b] - creepy ambient goth rock

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

[b]Thyrfing - Dryckeskvade[/b] - viking metal, very piratey sounding!

[b]Xiu Xiu - I Broke Up[/b] - madcore with electro-something

[b]Weddings Parties Anything - A Tale They Won't Believe[/b] - piratey rock. 7 minutes. With lyrics - [url]http://members.ozemail.com.au/~caracarol/tale.txt[/url]

for brave peoples
[b]John Butler Trio - 2003-08-17 - The Tivoli, Brisbane - 22 - Take[/b] - a 24 minute monster (with a 10 minute intro and a percussion jam) [url]http://www.archive.org/audio/etree-details-db.php?id=12744[/url] (last track) - also, imagine seeing this song live.

All except JBT are in my Forced Listening folder on Soulseek, I'm Blueser57
some may be near impossible to get if I'm not on, particularly Substitute Inc.

I'll dibs, this one, the download's going slow, though

undibs, none of them are downloading.

b**p

I really want to play but I don't have internet access at uni and the computer cluster doesn't allow downloading

:upset:

roll up folks, there's plenty to choose from

[b]John Butler Trio - 2003-08-17 - The Tivoli, Brisbane - 22 - Take[/b]
Starts out with some slow improvising on guitar (?) I think. It's kind of cool but a tad boring. It's starting to get a little more intense, I like that. Enter the percussion. Pretty cool jam thing going on. That goes on for a while then the bass enters. It keeps getting more intense, really goosebumpy. The jam ended and now its gone into this really cool guitar riff with really awesome drums underneath. The bass line is really cool, in fact the whole rhythm is great. And finally we hear the vocals. The guy has a neat voice, the melody is a tiny bit boring but still fits nicely. Lots of jamming going on in the breaks. There's a cool drum solo thing after a break down. It's very cool. The crowd is really into it, and for good reason. It's finally over after probably 7 minutes or so. Back into a jam with the other instruments to the end. Overall that was really cool, I wouldn't listen to it normally but it was definetly worth the 24 minutes I spent on it.

8.8/10

My suggestions:
[b]The Porcelain Gods - Emergency Band Meeting[/b] (A local band that I absolutely love, it's indie-pop/rock I guess. It kind of sounds like weezer but in my opinion better. The guys are only seventeen and they're brilliant live.)[url]http://www.soundclick.com/bands/3/theporcelaingodsmusic.htm[/url]

[b]Maxeen - Love Goes A Long Way[/b] (it's sort of pop-punky but with a cool melody and it's incredibly fun to listen to.

and I'm going to totally copy you with a Xiu Xiu song:
[b]Xiu Xiu - I Luv The Valley, Oh[/b] (Unclassifiable, the guy's voice is a little Joy Division like. Amazing, amazing song.)

bumpety bump

Dib dib dib dib dib dibby

[B]The Porcelain Gods - Emergency Band Meeting[/B]

Simple but hooky drums kick things off. The singer's voice, when it appears, is somewhat weak and lacking in charisma, but the melody can't be faulted. There's some interesting backing vocals, making the song sound like an offshoot of Weezer's El Scorcho.

The song drags a little. Some instrumental passages could have been cut to improve overall proceedings - either that, or fewer repeats. The song, in actuality, is only 4.30, but it feels like much longer. In particular, a guitar solo leads to an aimless interlude that really shouldn't be there.

Overall the instrument lines are simple, but there's some good stuff going on. As mentioned, there are a couple of purely instrumental passages, the best of which features some choppy, jumpy rhythm guitar work.

The lyrics are a little hard to decipher, but they sound fairly stock-in-trade from what I can make out. That's okay, though - the melody elevates them.

The more I listen to it, the more his voice sounds like River Cuomo. This is probably the source of many annoying, and most likely unflattering, comparisons to Weezer! That's a little unfair though.

[B]8/10[/B] overall. There's a lot of potential on display here, for sure. Their youth is still evident, which is both a blessing and a curse, but they should grow very well given time. By the time they're 20 they could be something REALLY special.

[B]My recommendations -[/B]
[B]Johnny Cash - One[/B] (U2 cover) (country)
[B]The Roots - The Seed 2.0[/B] (feat. Cody ChessnuTT) (soul-flavoured hip-hop)
[B]Sly & The Family Stone - Luv N'Haight[/B] (weird, druggy soul)
[B]Million Dead - I Gave My Eyes To Stevie Wonder[/B] (breakneck alt.rock/punk)
[B]Leftfield - Open Up[/B] (feat. John Lydon) (progressive house)
[B]Zero 7 - Destiny[/B] (trip-hop)
[B]Asian Dub Foundation - Fortress Europe[/B] (hip-hop/dub/rock/reggae/bangra - hard to classify!!!)

I'll take this one.

[B]Asian Dub Foundation - Fortress Europe[/B]

Ok, taking the Asian Dub Foundation song as I know most of the others. Seed 2.0 is a great great song by the way!

God this song has a lot going on in it.

The track states its intentions right from the offset, kicking off with some vibrant strings, which have an Eastern European sound to them.

There's also some kind of Asian wind instrument (excuse my ignorance) which comes in here and pops in and out throughout the song. This is really the only sound in the song which gives away the origin of the artists.

The base for the song is a pretty standard trance-ish beat and the vocals are akin to a UK rap/garage delivery. Usually this would be a bad thing for me. I don't usually care too much for that kind of sound in my music but here it certainly works. One of the vocalists slows it down towards the end, with a more relaxed trip hop kind of singing, which I appreciated. The lyrics generally are...too fast for me to hear heh, something about being soldiers, 21st century exodus yada yada.

Towards the middle, there are also some funky electronic noises, which I really felt were going to break out into Tubular Bells.

The song overall is well layered, nice guitars and wangly wangly noises etc sprinkled throughout also keep things interesting.

Something I would definitely consider buying.

8/10

My recommendations ~

Beach Boys - 'Til I Die (please take this one if you can)
Beach Boys - Lonely Sea
Crowded House - Private Universe

Bump! Come on.

[b]Beach Boys - 'Til I Die[/b]
Well, I know the typical Beach Boys sound... and it doesnt do much for me. Here goes anyway.

No intro, straight into it and yep, high male harmonies but... it's kind of dreamy and much less poppy than I was expecting. Theres piano and some organ, really light brushed drums, and the vocals are way out in front of everything else.

The "verse" goes for a few lines of high harmonies then breaks for just one or 2 singers to sing a lower pitched line while the others "oooh". I like the lower one more and I wish they did it for longer, it goes right back to the high pitch lines straight after it.

The chord progressions are kind of strange, definitely not pop. Later on theres some whistling which makes it sound trippier. Then they are joined by a glockenspiel and get into the repeating "Until I die" part, which sounds good. The harmonies and offset lines keep progressing with the chord progression staying the same, the voices do something different each time, which is cool. After a while, this shortish song fades out.

This was more interesting to me than I first expected. The lack of poppiness was a plus for me. The verse kind of annoyed me, except the lower pitched line, and when the whistling came in at the 3rd verse it sounded better. After that it changed to the Until I die bit which I liked more.

I can't see myself listening to this very much, but I did get another, more intersting perspective of the Beach Boys from it. There are some changes I could have wished for to suit myself, but it's not up to me. Overall, it was good.. yeah.
6.9/10


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[b]Substitute Inc. - The Chase[/b] - underwater progressive trippy-disco sci-fi rock. It's 2 tracks, therefore 2 files to get. Blueser57 on Soulseek if I'm on. Skip this song if I'm not.

[b]The Postman Syndrome - Hedgehog's Dilemma[/b] - progressive emo/screamo, tricky guitar. 8 minutes long. Might be split into 2 tracks - Hedgehog's and Dilemma.

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

dibs on the postman syndrome

I think it's time this is opened to everyone again

slight change too:

[b]HeadShot - Undergod[/b] - hard 'military' rock, something like Rollins Band/The Mark of Cain. And a link for those in the lazy bunch [url]http://www.mp3.com.au/artist.asp?id=4894[/url]

[b]The Postman Syndrome - Hedgehog's Dilemma[/b] - progressive emo/screamo, tricky guitar. 8 minutes long. Might be split into 2 tracks - Hedgehog's and Dilemma.

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

Blumps

[b]Kimono - [URL=https://www.smekkleysa.net/audio/full/Kimono%20-%20Japanese%20Policeman.mp3]Japanese Policeman[/URL][/b]

[i]Opening track Japanese Policeman is a breath of fresh air. It’s post-rock certainly, but it manages to latch onto a sound that is instantly memorable and persuasive at the same time. It asserts a far more earthy, sinister and darker form than most guitar bands however, nodding more to the claustrophobic tendencies of Joy Division than the pop song melodies that often frequent the genre. Between Sets manages to pull off a slower paced, heart-string-pulling ballad with the same guile as Mogwai, while still managing to raise a smile with some fantastic lyrics. The Elegy is stunning, washed up with choppy guitar and Slint-esque jagged fragments.

Kimono are able to switch styles effortlessly mid-song; one second delving into subtle slow-core torrents, the next plugging in the amps and setting the volume to max. And Mineur-Aggressif is yet another album to emerge from Iceland that passes the quality control requirements with flying colours.[/i]

[url]http://www.eclectichoney.com/reviews212.html[/url]


Such an interesting song, I myself only heard it rather recently and the guitar at the beginning just drew me in straight away.

8.5/10

If the first link to it didn't work try to acess it [URL=https://www.smekkleysa.net/audio/]from here[/URL], it's in that list. :thumb: