Dibs.

A certain some (yes you blue) needs to go on soulseek for me.

dang, now you're gone again..

Undibs it, I didn't get the whole song from you and I don't have the time. Someone else can do it.

so sorry about all that..

I'm going to try this as an option too for whoever is up for it.. [url]http://s21.yousendit.com/[/url]

alright, add these, they should be way easier to find

[b]The Cranberries - Ode To My Family[/b] - soft rock
[b]Bob Marley - Caution[/b] - reggae
[b]Alchemist - Austral Spectrum[/b] - heavy metal with an Australian theme

Dibs

Bob Marley - Caution 2:42

I was looking for the alchemist one as I saw them live and wanted to see how they sounded on record but I could only find this bob marley track. I'm not too big on reggae so we'll see how this goes.

The song starts with what I assume is a pretty generic reggae backing, organ, drums bass. The guitar then joins in with some tremelo picking.
The unmistakeable voice of bob marley enters at 0:19, with the help of backing singers who appear to be chanting at first and then harmonising with marleys singing.
The song doesn't really have anything really in it to interest me a huge amount. For the majority of the song it continues in the same way.

5/10
Sorry I didn't write much of a review but I couldn't really think of much else to say.


My Recommendations:

Lamb - Gabriel (Chilled out triphop)
Har Mar Superstar (Funky pop :cool: )
Jeff Buckley - Forget Her
Ryan Adams - English Girls Approximately (Acoutic country tinged rock)

These should be relatively easy to find.

Third page!

Bump

I'll dibs but what Har Mar Superstar song?

Lamb - Gabriel

I wanted to check out Har Mar Superstar because I heard he's a goofball and from the pictures of him I've seen, it seems like it. But I'll settle for this until I remember to check him out. Haven't heard of theses.

There's a nice, dreamy keyboard running through this song and the singer has a a pretty decent voice. She sounds familar, though I'm not sure from where. She's got a kind of AOR singer/song writer voice going on, but it's ok. It's got the kind of typical trip-hoppish beat and it's full of electronica atmospherics.

From the start, it's fairly sleepy, building up slowly as each new element comes in, the strings and all the little electronic touches make for a nice build up. The drums seem to pile one onto another as the song goes on, growing slowly louder. At certain points, the singer's voice does this weird little wavering thing when she holds notes, I can't tell if it's natural or an effect. Interesting.

It's pretty good, although her voice gets a little dull for me for some reason. The song's build-up is pretty cool. Nice and chill song but I didn't get too into it.

6/10

How's About:

[U]Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - Sleep Is Wrong[/U]
Spastic experimental metal with male and female vocals (semi-large download available here: [url]http://www.guitar-and-bass.com/temp/Sleep_is_Wrong.mp3[/url] )

[U]Young Marble Giants - Wurlitzer Jukebox[/U]
Minimalist melodic post-punk with a female singer

[U]Lee "Scratch" Perry - Jah Jah Ah Natty Dread[/U]
Roots Reggae recorded by someone who's clearly smoked too much pot

[U]Daniel Johnston - Living Life[/U]
Lo-fi indie pop

[U]Stevie Wonder - Big Brother[/U]
Folky singer/song writer tune, complete with harmonica

i'll take sleepy time

I'll do Lee "Scratch" Perry.

First of all, let me just say how awesome I think Lee Perry is and there is nothing wrong with smoking too much pot. :thumb:

The song is a very groovin' reggae tune. I like the percussion the most even though I play guitar. The drums just give it a nice rockin' feel. Definitly has got the cool upstroke feel on guitar which I am personally a huge fan of.
4/5

I say...
Jerry Garcia and David Grisman - Shady Grove(a nice bluegrassy tune)

Does anyone else think he'd heard that before? And if timelapse comes back before anyone else does; had you heard it before?

Also, I'm not sure three lines constitute a review.

I apologize for that, I was in kind of a rush to go to work and saw that Lee Perry song(which I have heard). I own Return of the Super Ape - Lee "Scratch" Perry and the Upsetters and I believe it is the 5th or 6th track on there.

To Add On The Review:
Another cool feature about this song is the awesome bass line. I jammed to this song with a couple friends the other day. It wasnt the best mainly because we were lacking that cool keyboard in there and all of those crazy cymbal crashes and maracas. And Lee Perry's voice.
Still a 4/5 from me.

Now can someone review mine please. Thanks. :thumb:

i thought it had to be songs you've never heard before? and i drop the sleepy time song, only came out of hospital today so i dont think i'll have time to write stuff

Yes, it is supposed to be just songs you've not heard before.

so do we do timelape's one or robert crumb's?

Crumb's. I'll leave it for you, since you were there before me.

who me?, i dont think im up for reviewing, ive just got out of hospital and my computer refuses to play any music at the moment

I'm downloading one of those songs now, but I don't know how long it's going to take, and I'm off to do some work (for once) now. I'll do it later if no one else has, though.

In summary; bump.

I'll do one if I do one.. seems obvious.
Better yet, I plan to do one soon.

well.. someone did a song they already knew.. and its not counted.. so

[b]Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - Sleep Is Wrong[/b]

Unusual intro, the intstruments are playing some wierd stuff, sounds a bit like King Crimson. A Marilyn Manson like voice is whispering something, and a frogman is croaking a bit of stuff.

At 1:00 the guitar starts playing some strange lead riff, drums are there too.
Moves into a industrial sounding/distorted slow bit, with feedback and strange sounds.

2:00 a guy starts vocalising over it.. sounds like Korn's signer when he does his heavy stuff, even the guitar sounds a bit like Korn, but this is so much stranger.

Barbershop (bup bup bup) bit comes next, a woman singing "when I grow up, I'm never going to die" An unusual bassline underlies it. Then the strange guitar from 1:00 is back playing the same thing. There's a pause in music for about 10 seconds, then a little more guitar before it goes back to sounding like Korn. "SLEEP IS WROOONG!"

4:50.. theres a quieter bit, a guy rambling on, the guitar rambles on too, quietly. The female vocals are loud here "When I grow up.." it builds up and up into some chaotic circusy piece of breaths and "uhh"s, some singing and some strange keyboard-END.

Well.. it ends even more abruptly than my review. How very weird and interesting, and possibly stupid.. what can I say? I will keep it to get more used to it.. for now 8/10.

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[i]At The Ballet from the musical A Chorus Line[/i] - uh, theater music. The characters went to the ballet to escape their crap lives.

[i]Alchemist - Worlds Within Worlds[/i] - really really weird "gypsy/space" metal. close to 8 minutes

[i]Custard - Monkey[/i] - tacky-modem-experimental-pop

[i]Kylie Minogue - Confide In Me[/i] - kind of dark pop

[i]Powderfinger - Boing Boing[/i] - sort of experimental rock

[i]The Cranberries - Ode To My Family[/i] - soft rock

[i]Weddings Parties Anything - A Tale They Won't Believe[/i] - punkish sea-shanty about cannibalism. 7 mins

remember, dont do it if you already know it
IRC:Undernet - Blueser

bumpage, with a new recommendage (including linkage)
[b]{Miocene} - The Fall[/b] - prog technical heavy rock/experimental electronic/_______ ____
[url]http://www.xtaster.co.uk/mioscene.mp3[/url]

I'll take it

Is that..new Miocene?

*hyperventilates*

*steals dibs*

Right, sorry about the wait, but this is my first Other FL in a while and..well, it's also Miocene.

I own and love both Refining the Theory and Cellular Memory, so I'm quite looking forward to hearing this.
[b]Miocene - The Fall[/b] - 8:31

Okay, I've listened to this many times over the past day or so (not standard Forced Listening practice, I know, but I couldn't help myself), and I don't think I'm going to do a play-by-play (and not only because it's 8 minutes long).

Basically, this song seems to be an amalgamation of what they did on Refining the Theory, and what they did on the Cellular Memory EP. It's longer than anything on Refining the Theory (except Free Reign, I suppose, but that doesn't really count), but not as long as the longest tracks on the EP. This is probably completely insignificant, but it struck me as a nice representation as a the combination of elements from the other releases.

It starts off much more in the vein of Refining the Theory; guitars playing with a tone similar to the very strange tone of that album. That was one thing that kind of threw me off in first listening to them, their guitar tones always seemed really strange.

Anyway, the first five and a half minutes of the song could almost have come straight off of Refining the Theory, except that it sounds more..refined. I'm not sure how, the general playing just strikes me as better. Vocals come in around 0:30 seconds..they were another aspect that originally threw me. At first it seemed to me that the guy shouldn't really be a vocalist, but as I listened more and more, the more I realised he fit. Anyway, he's on good form here, and has some of his best vocal work a couple of minutes in. I never understood the Maynard-plagiarising accusations levelled at him (though I can understand the Tool-plagiarism shots at Refining the Theory). The only way that I think he's comparable to Maynard is that both, due to some similarity in their delivery, end up having their words tattooed on my mind, whether I strive for this or not. They don't actually physically sound all that similar, though.

One of the song's (few) problems crops up about just after 1:00, and that is this part where the heavy riffing gives way to a mellower part, with some excellent light drumming and a great vocal performance. The problem is that for me it's the bext part of the song, and it's coming so early on makes the rest of the song, however good, seem pale in comparison.

The rest of this first half of the song is done in a loud, heavier, more aggressive style, before, around 5:30, breaking into something completely different. Something which, hopefully without pushing home this Refining the Theory/Cellular Memory cobination too forcefully, would have sounded at home as one of the songs on the EP. The last three minutes of the song feels more or less an extended drum'n'bass jam, just with the guitar playing some very cool, relaxed stuff over the top. At points it even approaches Squarepusher (a la Tetra-Sync) territory, just without the ridiculous bass.

9.5/10. It loses half a point, first for having that best bit so early on, and also because the ending seemed kind of weak. Other than that, an excellent song, which has somewhat re-whetted my already extremely whetted appetite for..well, anything they end up putting out.

*scours computer for Other suitable music*

[b]Songs;[/b]
[url=http://s19.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0QDBNWVDU1QZM1XHM2U3BCBHWM]William Shatner - Real[/url]

[url=http://s19.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=310921AM852M830OOV14UYJI1B]earthtone 9 - cracked hands, dry face[/url] (metal)

[url=http://s19.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=13D6KNXBKCADY2E1C7AQ0NE0L1]Birdsongs of the Mesozoic - Centrifuge[/url] (instrumental rock/jazz/classical)

[url=http://s19.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0K8CUZEGA6VPV3CIMAS0FPOBQR]Sean Malone - The Big Idea[/url] (jazz fusion)

[url=http://s19.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=25VKC0CUQDL5S3PQ3LDJ3G6DAS]Stevie Wonder - Village Ghetto Land[/url] (come on..it's Stevie Wonder)

yousendit appears to be down for now. I'll try and get uploads up as soon as possible.

Dibs.

[b]Stevie Wonder - Villiage Ghetto Land[/b]

Eveyone knows who he is at least. Never heard a whole lot. Think I saw him on a Superbowl Halftime Show once.

Begins with synth-Strings from Stevie himself no doubt. Then vocals. Nice clear voice. I like it. The strings continue. The lyrics seem sort of ironic as far as the music goes. The strings and Stevie's voice continue. It gets sort of boring. I was hoping for some cool R&B. I'm sure this song carries a lot of meaning but I'm just not digging it.

It became fairly boring by the end. Sorry for the short review but there wasn't a whole lot there.

4/10


Aesop Rock - Daylight (Rap)
[url]http://s23.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=36QO5EL73WYMR3SML8JE89HISJ[/url]

Carnival in Coal - Yes! We Have Bananas (Carnival Metal)
[url]http://s22.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3IC5KM3YU8VPH2X372NQL8QD0N[/url]

HORSE the Band - Pol's Voice (Nintendocore)
[url]http://s19.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3JAJVROQ62WHJ0F8XEIG0KJM4U[/url]

Dibs.

I've heard a lot about this band, but not actually much (or indeed anything) by them.
[b]HORSE the Band - Pol's Voice[/b] - 4:00

Starts off with some very light percussion, and then what I expect will be a large part of the song - the computery noises - comes in. Vocals are in there straight away. Not energetic at all, though, just kinda enigmatic talking, though he's building to a yell. The yell does come, with recognisable, rather thick, chugging guitar. Basically the structure of the song seems to consist of this chugging guitar in the background, usually accentuated by beepy nintendocore stuff. Hmm.

Instruments cut out just before 1:20 for the vocalist to say something, and then there's a few seconds of just electronics, which sounds like cheesy 80s pop, but without the false cheer it was always injected with. So I quite like it, it's catchy. Only lasts a couple of seconds though, like I say, and then we're back into normal band, with vocals, with this computery noise imposed over the top.

Ah, now the guitars keep cutting out every few seconds, while the vocalist continues, over the top of that beepedy-beeping bit I liked before. Just before 2:00 (about 1:55), there's just a light drum beat with the electronics over thetop. Slowly joined by guitar and a very fast, nicely visible bass line. That bit was very cool.

Now there's a "running away!" vocal section, and this whole bit is much closer to normal hardcore, I think, just with backing electronics.

The rest of the song is just some galloping electronics (the rest of the instruments, though they're clearly still there, don't seem to be doing much all of a sudden) while the vocalist yells about silence, heh.

7.5/10 I think. Mixed feelings. Some bits were worth 9/10 on their own, but were brought down by other bits. I think it's a song (and a band) that I'll discover more in the more I listen.

[b]Songs;[/b]
[url=http://s19.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0QDBNWVDU1QZM1XHM2U3BCBHWM]William Shatner - Real[/url]

[url=http://s19.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=310921AM852M830OOV14UYJI1B]earthtone 9 - cracked hands, dry face[/url] (metal)

[url=http://s19.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=13D6KNXBKCADY2E1C7AQ0NE0L1]Birdsongs of the Mesozoic - Centrifuge[/url] (instrumental rock/jazz/classical)

[url=http://s19.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0K8CUZEGA6VPV3CIMAS0FPOBQR]Sean Malone - The Big Idea[/url] (jazz fusion)

Dibs

[B]William Shatner - Real[/B]

I know there's was a fairly big to-do about the new Shatner, a to-do I didn't really do. Anyways, what the hell.

From the welcoming that the album got, I assumed that Shatner's whole bouncy speech patterns went out the window. I mean, that was the worst shtick ever. Anyways, the title of the song seems apt. I never worry too much about how well someone sings, it's all about how it's presented and this song is presented well. The sung chorus makes all the difference on the song. I'm also assuming that he gets back up like this on the rest of the album? Helps immensely from breaking the monotony because, well, spoken word tends to be monotonous.

His backup has a real twang about him, as does the track itself. I dunno who it is, but it's not bad. The tune has a kind of pop country feel to it, which works well I think. The acoustic in the background plays a palatable riff and the keyboard sounds nice. Great solo around the two minute mark. I could probably see this track as being a complete miss if there weren't some intangible thing holding this all together.

Best part comes as the sung vocals and Shatner's rusty spoken word intertwine for that short moment before the song ends. I never heard his first "album" nor any of his other stuff really but I like this. Kind of poppy but I love pop so it works for me. I'll admit, I liked it better than I thought I would have; I may have to check out the other stuff at some point. His lyrics aren't some philosophic wetdream but they're not trying to be. Just a guy relating his life.

[B]8.5/10[/B]

[URL=http://s32.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1SXWGZRQ8YMRC1JJTJ2TV7LR3Z ]Aretha Franklin - Chain of Fools[/URL] (Soul)

[URL=http://s32.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2QZTQ18N156JH18H7IYI7RSNIC ]Young Marble Giants - Wurlitzer Jukebox[/URL] (Post Punk)

The Zombies - Tell Her No (British Invasion pop)

Sun Ra - Everything is Space (Jazz, Sun Ra rave up)

Charizma + Peanut Butter Wolf - Here's a Smirk (Old School Hip Hop)

I can upload the other three tomorrow if anyone wants those. It's late and I need sleep for now.

Ben Folds is on piano, and the guitarist and backup singer is Brad Paisley; he also happened to write this song (lyrics and all), so the words on this particular track aren't Shatner's, they're just written for him.

Not a dibs, yet.

Can you upload the Peanut Butter Wolf track? I can do that one.

Sure just a second. It's not really old school technically but it was just easier that way.

Whew, took long enough.

[URL=http://s32.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3GGCG4FUWMW2U0DCPXAVKDHRNK]Charizma & Peanut Butter Wolf - Here's a Smirk[/URL]

Maybe this is too much too ask, but I really want to try out some Sun Ra so if it isn't too much trouble could you please yousend it or reccomend a different track, please. :)

As of now I'm on a half an hour search for "Everthing is Space" hopefully I'll find it.

I'm finding yousendit is taking too long, look me up on slsk as Famous Monster and give me a msg

edit, bah need to download a new version real quick

[QUOTE=Robert Crumb]Sure just a second. It's not really old school technically but it was just easier that way.

Whew, took long enough.

[URL=http://s32.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3GGCG4FUWMW2U0DCPXAVKDHRNK]Charizma & Peanut Butter Wolf - Here's a Smirk[/URL][/QUOTE]


Dibs.

I have heard Charizma and Peanut Butter Wolf before, but I have never heard this song.

Starts off with a cool intro, with different samples mixed together. Then the bass and beat comes in. Charizma is a talented rapper, with a good flow. Very smooth delivery. This song is great to nod your head too.

Little bridge with some more samples in the background.

The beats comes back in, and the second verse starts. More great rapping, over a nice beat.

I really dug this track. I think this is something that even people who aren't rap fans could enjoy. Great lyrics, rapping, and a cool beat

[B]9/10[/B]


Atmosphere - F[size=2]uck[/size] You Lucy
Jedi Mind Tricks - Blood In Blood Out
Kasabian - I.D.
Sage Francis - Masturbate Your Brain

Let me know if I need to upload these on yousendit.