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[B]Curse Ov Dialect - Uzbeki Westerns[/B]

'Been meaning to check out some stuff from these guys for awhile, but the qeues are too long in slsk! Thanks for the link.:)

Some guy with a high-level intelligence aura comes speaking to open the song. Some low folk-ish guitar strumming to get things going, then a rather trip-hoppy beat welcomes you in on the action.

The beat is pretty dark(mainly because of the guitar), but not so much dreary as it is brooding. The vocalist add to the atmosphere too, with the "aahhs" and the wailing in the background. I have no idea what he's talking about though. Nice.

It progresses with generous doses of bluesy horns and strings nearing 2 minutes
In many ways this song is very strange and a bit out of this world at times, but it also feels somehow familiar, which keeps me from getting alienated from the sound.

Overall, a very interesting listen. I'm watching out for these guys more from now on.

[B]8.5/10[/B]

Liquid Tension Experiment - Acid Rain(instrumental prog)

The Mass - Mostly Michael Schenker(hardcore/indie with saxophone)
[url]http://www.themass.us/releases.php[/url]

Lovage - Stroker's Ace(trip-hop)

Two Ton Shoe - [url=http://www.espew.com/cgi-bin/spew/1514656/TWO166b_PAPER.mp3]Paper Bag[/url](pop funk)

[QUOTE=blueyxd][img]http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~mtg22/IZimages/Dib.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]

Best dibs ever. You need a prize of some kind.

Rep ++?

Invader Zim owns me :cool:

Dibs, maybe undibs if I can't be bothered, but dibs for now

[url]http://tinypic.com/m6dn6[/url]


Well I'll be :smash:

Yeah, I repped him too.

*reps him again*

Do you get unlimited reps? :cool:

edit: no wonder we get so many posts in here, they are all spam!! :smash:

No, I got that message too :(



Spam :smash:

Undibs sorry, I really can't be bothered, if it's still undibbed tomorrow I will do it


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I'll take dibs then.

Haven't heard anything before, but I've seen you talking about them, so I have something of an idea what to expect.
[b]The Mass - Mostly Michael Schenker[/b] - 5:51

Starts off with a nice riff, nothing spectacular, but good. Reminds me of stoner rock, actually; fairly heavy, and catchy. Vocals come in with a raucous "come on!". The vocals are weird. On the one hand, they're also nothing special; not sung, and just rocky/hardcore style. Occasionally the guy yelps or holds a note though, which gives it a bit of an 80s hair metal feel. I like it.

"Guitar! Drums!" Stylish. And now we get a much more relaxed section. The instruments have all slowed down, and the promised saxophone comes in. Just soothing sounds at the moment.

The song changes tack again, and we get what can only really be described as creepy noises; occasional guitar squeaks and off-beat percussion, always still with the soothing sax over it.

Around 3:00, it changes yet again - more or less discordant bashing on drums (and other instruments), with saxophone squeaks and honks, too. I think around here I'll temporarily give up describing what happens - it's just all out strange.

Wow. Now we're back in the middle of a Gerry Rafferty song. Occasional drum wankery and a nice sax solo over the top. Oh. Gerry takes some crack, and the sax sounds almost violin-esque - squeaky and fast. All hell is breaking loose, I'm not sure what's going on :(

And that's more or less how it ends. A more incoherent review I have never seen, but it fits the character of the song. Very strange. And it didn't remind me at all of Michael Schenker.

7.5/10 I liked it. I'm just not sure why.

Songs;
Skindred - [i]Set it Off[/i], [i]Nobody[/i], [i]Babylon[/i], [i]Selector[/i] or [i]Pressure[/i] (Ragga)
Miocene - [i]State of Flux[/i] (er. alternative?)
Einsturzende Neubauten - [i]Ende Neu[/i] (live)
Frank Klepacki - [i]Just Do It Up[/i] or [i]C&C Thang[/i] (video game music)
Gordian Knot - [i]Reflections[/i] (progressive instrumental metal)
Sean Malone - [i]The Big Idea[/i] (instrumental jazz fusion. Largely bass/Stick oriented)

All available from me (Soultender on Soulseek). I'm going to bed now for a while, but I'll leave Soulseek on. A couple of them (Frank Klepacki, Sean Malone) you'd probably have to get from me anyway. With EN, it's probably best to be sure which version you're getting.

If you're having trouble browsing my files, you could try going to [url]www.slsknet.org[/url], going to News, and downloading the alpha test version that I have (Soulseek 154). If not, wait for me to come online and contact me on AIM/MSN.

/landmark

[QUOTE=Bartender]Yeah, I repped him too.

*reps him again*[/QUOTE]
Thanks man, it went up like 350 points from that, or so it seems.

I think that may well have been all mine and manuscript's together. I doubt mine are worth that much.

Bump.

[QUOTE=Bartender]I think that may well have been all mine and manuscript's together. I doubt mine are worth that much.[/QUOTE]

They are, your repping me gave me something like 400 points. I would dibs but there is an error browsing your files, Bartender.

Sorry. I've added you to a few different things, maybe it'll work now.

You're not online now, but next time.

[b]Skindred - Set It Off[/b]

Quick jungly drum intro.. then Jamaican guy with kind of strange voice, singing in one of those Jamaican styles. theres also a guitar note with a whammy bar drop each bar.

The next bit has distorted chunky guitar and the vocalists high bits sound kind of bad.. wrong, he sounds like he is really straining to do it... the drums are going between fastish jungle loops and some more simple beats.

Theres an even heavier guitar riff with some nu-metal growls of "set it off" and some other lines.

It repeats those sections again..

At about 2:05 it goes more mellow, much nicer on the ears. There's some high vocal bits here and sound a lot better, nice harmonies too. Pretty soon it goes back to the previous line of high singing, and it just sounds all wrong again.

Back to the old heavier bits again, and I'm not enjoying this. There's a kind of choir aah-ing along with the "set it off" bit. Still it sounds weird. Ending comes soon after


Well... it was a strange mix of jamaican, jungle beats, and metal-ish guitar. An interesting musical mix, but it didn't work for me at all.

I think if it was more melodic like that bit in the middle, and without the heavier bits, it could have worked. The mixing and matching seemed pretty wild, and those high vocals really bugged me outside of the mellow bit.

4/10 - sorry, I just didnt like this one.

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[b]Eluveitie - Lament[/b] - celtic metal, maybe even get Orô too, it’s the intro piece to Lament

[b]The Dresden Dolls - Truce[/b] - dramatic indie piano ballad, 8 mins.

[b]Alchemist - Worlds Within Worlds[/b] - really weird "gypsy-space" metal, 8 minutes

if you can't find them... (last resort only)
[b]Kylie Minogue - Confide In Me[/b] - kind of dark pop

Bump. I can't find any of them (except the Dresden Dolls one, but I already had that one).

Should I be getting into Sigur Ros?

I'm not sure what you mean, but whatever it is, that isn't how this thread works.

buuup

with another song+link
[b]Antimatter - The Art Of Soft Landing[/b] - soft electronic goth? - [url]http://antimatter.free.fr/lights_out/The_Art_of_a_Soft_%20Landing.mp3[/url]

.biD

[B]Antimatter - The Art Of A Soft Landing[/B]

Well, it immediately reminds me of Anathema, which can only be a good thing.

An ambient style intro eventually gives way to a female vocal, that I'm pretty certain is backed up by a male, giving the song that SHODAN-effect on the melody.

The song doesn't really change much. There's occasional blips of change in the percussion. The male voice rises to become more prominent. Quite why he reminds me of Scott Stapp I don't know.

Ooh, a change. Some distortion comes in, with a heavily distorted guitar added sound effects over the top. After a while of this heavier section, the man screams, which gives way to a piano line. Not just any piano line, but the piano line from Resident Evil: Code Veronica. Whether that was intentional or not I don't know.

Overall it's a pretty perfect summation of the genre. There ain't a lot of innovation, but ther doesn't ned to be. A good specimin of gothic music, I'd say.

[B]7/10[/B]

I'll go and fetch some stuff for the next guy/gal to get.

Fetch it quickly.

[B]Asian Dub Foundation feat. Sinead O' Conner - 1000 Mirrors[/B]
(A song about domestic violence in the Asian community, dedicated to Zoorah Shah. Variety of genres.)
[B]McFly - That Girl[/B]
(50s rock'n'roll welded to 00's British pop.)
[B]Spice Girls - Viva Forever[/B]
(Some beautiful flamenco guitar. Listen without prejudice.)
[B]The Roots - Return To Innocence Lost [/B]
(hard-hitting socially-conscious beat poetry)
[B]Hector Berlioz - Marche Au Supplice (March To The Scaffold), from Symphonie Fantastique[/B]
(Early Romantic piece, where Berlioz tells the story of a dream of his own execution.)
[B]Richard Wagner - Ride Of The Valkyries, from Die Walkure[/B]
(One of those pieces of music everyone knows. About a tribe of Amazonian warrior women.)
[B]Public Enemy - Fear Of A Black Planet[/B]
(Hip-hop. About the white community's fear of inter-gender relationships.)
[B]Genius/GZA - Duel Of The Iron Mic[/B]
(Early Wu-Tang hip-hop. Features the recently departed ODB, and Method Man.)
[B]Lauryn Hill - Ex Factor[/B]
(Gritty R&B. Great guitar solo.)
[B]Fleetwood Mac - Songbird[/B]
(Piano-led 70s pop-rock ballad.)
[B]Love - Alone Again Or[/B]
(60's proggy psychedelic folk.)

C'mon, ya bastards, you're spoiled for choice!!!

[QUOTE=Bartender]Fetch it quickly.[/QUOTE]
You're always doing that with my choices. :p

Love - Alone Again Or is such an amazing song. I can say to the least that your list is a little diverse. :lol:

[QUOTE=Iai]
You're always doing that with my choices. :p[/QUOTE]

Weird, isn't it.

Hey, that is a lot of choice. *reps*

Not a dibs for now, though, because I can't find any of the ones I haven't heard and would like to do.

Found one. Dibs.

My first Roots experience.
[b]The Roots - The Return to Innocence Lost[/b] - 11:55

I hope this is the right song, because it's twelve minutes long.

Starts off with a lilting, xylophone-type sound. The kind of thing that brings to mind nurseries and playschool.

And the lyrics start..this is where I falter in reviewing such music. It's hard to review it, without just repeating the lyrics. Iai is right, anyway, hard-hitting is definitely the phrase for it. It basically tells a story, from a third-person perspective, of a woman who is abused by an alcoholic husband, and then the (short) life of her first born son. I don't want to say too much in case others want to hear it; I imagine it's be much more effective without having had it spelled out to you beforehand.

I suppose I could go into rhyme schemes and things, but I don't really think I could do that either. One thing I will mention is that I like the gentle acoustic sample (I think) used for the majority of the song, after that nursery intro, and I really liked the final line, returning to the title phrase.

If I have any complaints, it's that I wasn't overly keen on her voice, though it wasn't terrible.

9/10

The song is actually only 5 minutes or so long. Then there's a few minutes of silence, and a hidden track. It starts off rather amusingly;

*beatboxing*
What?
*beatboxing*
Another one?!
*beatboxing*
You want me to do a hidden track?
*beatboxing*
It's four in the morning!

But yeah, I won't review that, because it's not The Return To Innocence Lost.

Songs;
Miocene - [i]State of Flux[/i] (er. alternative?)
Einsturzende Neubauten - [i]Ende Neu[/i] (live)
Frank Klepacki - [i]Just Do It Up[/i] or [i]C&C Thang[/i] (video game music)
Gordian Knot - [i]Reflections[/i] (progressive instrumental metal)
Sean Malone - [i]The Big Idea[/i] (instrumental jazz fusion. Largely bass/Stick oriented)

If you don't know how to contact me to get any of these..why are you doing an Other Forced Listening?

:lol: I totally forgot about that bonus track.

/leaves dibs for someone else.....for a while