Girlboy SOng

Starts off with some cellos and electronic noises bouncing form left to right. cymbals join in, and then fast computerized drums join in also. very fast. for now it's just those 3 things bouncing all over the place. There is some other sounds peeking up once and a while, very fast-like and hard to comprehend. the drums stop at 2:30, but come back in right away, then dissapear agin so it's jsut the strings section wailing away. Man this part is a real tear jerker. now xylophone comes in. This song is basically the strings section doing whatever while the computer does all the work of making the fastest fake drumming ever. The song fades out.

6/10. Now much of a song, but i could see how it would play in the grand scheme of an entire album...

[B]Brian Wilson - In blue Hawaii
Lovage - Anger Management[/B] w/ patton
[B]Brian Wilson - Surf's Up
Lovage - Sex (I'm A) [/B] w/patton

dibs

when you dibs you actually have to review the song.

yeah i know, i didnt have much time.

Anger Management

The song starts of with some soft piano playing for about 10 seconds until the beat kicks in. It's fairly laid back and Patton goes into a deep, growling, spoken word kind of thing. Around 00:30 seconds he starts singing a bit more. At 48 seconds he goes into a falsetto singing bit (either that or its the female singer from Lovage). The formula repeats. The lyrics are sexually charged and the verses can get somewhat boring. At around 2:00 minutes and some change, a stuttering violin comes in. It fades as Patton growls/speaks some more. It's interesting to hear his voice in this type of backdrop.

I give this song a 6/10 because, though it starts off fairly interesting, it gets old.

My Pick: Tomahawk - You Can't Win

hxxp://s56.yousendit.com/d.php?id=HK171SLWB0O45KMM345I77K0

The song starts very Patton like, with some drumming and fingerclipping
When the singing begins it get’s quite upbeat.
At 1:30 or so we get some interesting break, followed by a bass driven part.
After this, the song get’s a bit more chaotic, and changes a bit, the constant synth tone underneath get annoying.
At 3:10 there is some eerie piano and guitar part, reminds me a bit of delirium corda.
And, uh, it goes on and on and on, and it ends :confused:

Sounds ok, but I’m not impressed, there is potential, but this song doesn’t do nmuch for me

6,5/10

My picks:

Winds – What is Beauty? (neo classical/progressive)

Anekdoten - Seljak ( progressive jazz influenced rock)

uploads will be here in a few minutes

alright, the YSI's:

Anekdoten:
xttp://s44.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=04D9883FSU6DA2HJP3V8CWOAEH

Winds:
xttp://s43.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=050MDPFINF1853ECCZDTSSXPFM

Dibs

Gonna have to undibs, my speakers have broke :(

:( good luck with fixing them though

bumb, before the YSI's expire :(

Anekdoten- Seljak

Cool intro right off the bat, nice drums. Kind of a weird vibe around 40 seconds in. I'm liking the riffs and I think harmonzied guitars.

The bass kind of stands out still despite it sounding very chaotic. It sounds like almost too many things are going on at once.

At 2:30 just guitars, nice little part. I really like the part when the drums come back in. This is probably my favortie part of the song, the voice adds alot to the song. Everthing around 4 min starts to sound chaotic again. sudden ending

Overall 7.5/10

Kind of too chaotic sounding to give it an 8 or 9 but I'm definatly willing to listen to it again

/Does the song we reccomend have to be an instrumental?


[b]EDIT:[/b]
Sorry it took so long, I havn't been at my computer until now

I'm uploading two songs
Shine on you crazy diamond- Pink Floyd (progressive, psychadelic jam)
hxxp://s9.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=07H2PJFHHWWZU2F2Z0CZS6JO0I

Acid Rain- Liquid Tension Expierament (instrumental, progrssive metal)
hxxp://s54.yousendit.com/d.php?id=3L4NORBXJIIO82V5PTL7M4FUOC

Morning Dew- Jeff Beck
hxxp://s46.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2PP7ZX2OO026F1Z03I1ISC80IV (regular rock type jam song)

/hopes someone hasn't heard any of the three :-/

Enjoy

just noticed acid rain isn't suited for 'other music' very well, so I'm uploading Morning Dew- Jeff Beck

[b]Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond - Part 1-5 or 7?[/b]

I didn't get the version on YSI, so maybe what I downloaded was different, it was a similar size though.. anyway, it's about time I heard some PF other than The Wall.

Ok I got the Pulse recording. Crowd cheers, A sort-of-harsh synth fades in, with some other sparse keyboard melody. It's quite ambient, and I like that. It goes for 2:30 and some clean guitar electric comes in playing sparse lead bends. I can see now how Anathema gets compared to Pink Floyd, their song Emotional Winter sounds a lot like this.

After a very nice 4 minutes, it begins to change, the guitar starts playing more of a rhytmic thing, synth is fading, slow drums enter. It's now some guitar lead over this slow drum beat, organ is playing lots of minor chords.

Things move along very slowly, but I'm not complaining, this is pretty good. A synth lead is going along now, taking over from guitar.

There is finally some singing after 7 minutes. It's epic/anthemic, reminds me of We Are The Champions, there's a choir too. It's getting a bit tedious at the moment, this singing is going on for a while.

It eventually stops, and a sax solo comes in, sometimes doubling with the guitar. Again, I feel this is going on a bit too long, at least the drums have changed a bit to make it interesting. There's a kind of buildup in here, not as triumphant as I would have hoped. It's still pretty much in a minor key.

Singing comes back, I guess for the last time since there isn't much time left. Yep, when that stops, the sax goes random while guitar fingerpicks.. the crowd starts cheering and it ends.


That 13 minutes went quicker than I expected. I really liked the ambient intro, and the main part of the song when the singing started, but after a while it got a bit mopey, it didn't change often enough for me and I got bored by the end. 7.5/10


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[b][url=http://www.comcen.com.au/~caracarol/Rumors%20Of%20The%20Big%20Wave%20-%20Burning%20Times.mp3]Rumors Of The Big Wave - Burning Times[/url][/b] - pagan

Rumors Of The Big Wave - Burning Times

Starts out with a sort of ambient melody done by strings, very beautiful and mellow.. The strings start playing a rythm, and vocals kick in sounds like female and male vocals in unison. Still very beautiful and mellow..
Man, I suck at describing songs.... All I can think of when listening to this is that it's very mellow and beautiful all the way through.. And the lyrics are almost enchanting.. Need a few more listens to figure out exactly what they're about though.. The style sounds very celtic, or irish, or something.. But you already said it was pagan, so I guess that describes it best.. Hehehe


Very good song.. 8.5 out of 10.. I'm gonna listen to this, and track down more of it.... Should I just go get the album called Burning Times? Or is there another album that's more worth getting?

My picks:
[b][url=http://s27.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1H0G1OSDOV6UH2E012K5KRV9R9]Venetian Snares - Langside[/url][/b]

Or

[b][url=http://s27.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2L8CSPXMWT4XL21IMF5NQ9E8K0]Venetian Snares - Einstein-Rosen Bridge[/url][/b]

Chaotic techo made from samples of other songs.. Langside is far more chaotic, while Einstein-Rosen Bridge is more catchy and "listenable".... Whatever fits your mood

Well, that song is a one off, the rest of the album is more like U2 and early 90's pop-rock than anything else. It is decent, but nothing like this song. I dont think they have any other albums, its just something I randomly bought because it was $1.
This song is about pagans being persecuted for their beliefs in the times of... whenever it was they killed witches, sung from the pagans perspective.

anyway back to the music......................... Dibs

re-vo-ked, also those links are broken (change the http bit to something else next time you upload to YSI to prevent it from being blacklisted)

[QUOTE=Knifeboy]
My picks:
[b][url=http://s27.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1H0G1OSDOV6UH2E012K5KRV9R9]Venetian Snares - Langside[/url][/b]

Chaotic techo made from samples of other songs.. Langside is far more chaotic, while Einstein-Rosen Bridge is more catchy and "listenable".... Whatever fits your mood[/QUOTE]

That.....was freaking awesome. I'll definitely be getting some of his CDs.
::apologizes for going off topic and not contributing to the thread::

[QUOTE=vnvrymdreglage]That.....was freaking awesome. I'll definitely be getting some of his CDs.
::apologizes for going off topic and not contributing to the thread::[/QUOTE]

Get the album "Chocolate Wheelchair".. It's amazing

[QUOTE=blueyxd]
re-vo-ked, also those links are broken (change the http bit to something else next time you upload to YSI to prevent it from being blacklisted)[/QUOTE]

The links still work for me...
But here's megaupload links if they run out:

Megaupload links: [url]http://www.megaupload.com/?d=42K3FB7I[/url] Venetian Snares - Langside
[url]http://www.megaupload.com/?d=35F8VSE5[/url] Venetian Snares - Einstein-Rosen Bridge

[b]Venetian Snares - Einstein-Rosen Bridge[/b]

Oh, I thought it would be a slow one, this has a fast pace and lots of glitchy drums and samples that sizzle by. Theres a B Minor chord, cut up and used a bit like a ska chord.. strange because the song I was listening to just before featured the B minor chord a lot.

This one is crazy enough, I'm glad I didn't take the really crazy one, I would have hated it for sure. Some guys are talking about time and space and the speed of light. They reminds me of Devo, I'm not sure why.

This is mental, I am in the wrong mood for something like this. It's surprisingly easy to follow the beat and rhythm. At 2:30 there is a weird wobbly synth solo, totally fits into the strange music.

I can't handle it right now, I think I'll keep it though. It was interesting, for sure. Not that hard to digest when you compare it with other songs in the genre, so I'm sure it will grow on me with just a few listens.
7/10


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[b][url=http://www.comcen.com.au/~caracarol/Gerling%20-%20Birdbath.mp3]Gerling - Birdbath[/url][/b] - experimental/indie electronic

[b][url=http://www.comcen.com.au/~caracarol/Salmonella%20Dub%20-%20Push%20On%20Through.mp3]Salmonella Dub - Push On Through[/url][/b] - dub, for the passive listener

Bump. I reviewed Birdbath elsewhere.

bump, added another song

Dibs.

Never heard before.
[b]Salmonella Dub[/b] - 6:44

This song starts off with some saxophone that I loved straight off, and just gets better from then on.

Some slow, bongo-esque percussion comes in, and after some false starts and some electronic flourishes begins The Best Bassline in the World. Really, from the moment I heard the whole line through, I was somewhat in love with it. It's catchy without being too moronically simple, sounds beautiful, and has managed to be mixed so that it's noticeable when you want it to be, but easily ignored if you're concentrating on something else. It's just a real joy to listen to, for now, anyway. The percussion steps up a bit too, and there's good, light, catchy drums for the majority of the song.

After about two minutes of absolute relaxation to what I was already grooming to be a 10/10 song in my head, in comes the one thing I (for some reason) really wasn't expecting, and which I immediately thought would probably ruin the track; vocals. At first my fears seemed about to be confirmed, and I could feel the rating dropping to 9/10, maybe even 8, but after thirty or forty seconds I didn't mind the vocals, and the next style of vocal (faster, catchier) which came in twenty seconds after that actually improved on the song yet more.

And that's more or less the song. There's a bit more to it than that - there's a very cool little "breakdown" section after the vocals, in which amongst other things the bassline stops, only to return in bits and pieces - before the fade-out. And the song fades out very impressively on the thing I thought would ruin it, the vocals.

10/10 I might grow to hate it in the future, but for now this is devouring my attention.

Songs (remember to change the hxxp to http);

[b]Brainiac - Vincent Come on Down (alt rock)[/b]
hxxp://s25.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2NUXILWYGYLY83INBDPIZCDKE8

[b]Miocene - Calliope (improv. alt rock/spoken word)[/b]
hxxp://s25.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2FJJIXLGU9RS31ELWPQ02RDSC9

[b]Bonfire Madigan - 88 Arbitrary Configurations (cello'd indie)[/b]
hxxp://s25.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3GCWVJN9VEXXG2XXOO37CVA1UW

[b]King Geedorah - Fastlane (hip hop)[/b]
hxxp://s25.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1TG26LVBC5JFZ1O8NLXV9MW9I7

[b]Beck - O Maria (acousticy Beck)[/b]
hxxp://s39.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0M9RFYPHVVBTK0BKQ9LENV088A

gaw, revokerded, I've heard that Miocene already in a bootleg, just with an early working title: "Why Emo Sucks In 2003"

anywah, glad you liked Salmonella Dub, that was their song that hooked me.. that was about 6 months and I still quite it.

Dibs

[B]Miocene - Calliope[/B]

Starts out with some light drum work and I guess keyboards? I'm never that good at discerning instruments. Anyways, there's a slight little effect that morphs into clapping and the spoken word part kicks in. He's talking about... it's a speech about improvation, symphonies and other musical related thingies it seems. The music does have a very strong improvised feel. The drumming is kind of loose, a lot of action on the hi-hats. I'm trying to follow what the guy is talking about but that's a bit too hard so I've given up. His voice is kinda low in the mix so sometimes I just lose him when the drums pick up.

Very dreamy feel, I'm taking a public speaking class this semester so it makes me think about that class. Neat little part just happened where his voice kinda melts, goes down in pitch. By the end, the keyboards are all that's left. They've got a fairly synthy tone to them, relaxing, innit? The speaker ends his shpiel on something about the next stage of human development.

The song was very stark, if it were a color it would be gray. But I liked it. Made me think of other grey things and oddly, it made me hungry. I might have to look more into these guys.

8/10

Let me find some links:

[URL=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005737K/104-0956925-1444718?v=glance][B]Bruce Haack - Motorcycle Ride[/B][/URL] (Children's music/spoken word/early electronica/found sounds)

[URL=http://www.northatlanticexplorers.com/mp3/whenmyshipcomesinNORTHATLANTICEXPLORERS.mp3][B]North Atlantic Explorers - When My Ship Comes In[/B][/URL] (Ambient pop)

[URL=http://www.stonesthrow.com/jukebox/soundd_thehorse.mp3][B]Sound Directions - The Horse[/B][/URL] (The funky, funky sh[I]i[/I]t, a Madlib production)

I'll try to find some more later.

[b]North Atlantic Explorers - When My Ship Comes In[/b]

Ambient pop.. could be good.. I get the impression that it will be something like British Sea Power, going by the name and description.

A slow fade in of wave sounds, then some happy sounding organ, glockenspiel. Soon followed by strings and fingerpicked acoustic guitar over a hollow waltz beat. It sounds very nice and relaxing.

It goes into a slow 4/4 beat with piano as the main instrument and a soft, constant chord on the strings. At 2:40 the singing starts - not the type of pop I was expecting it to be.. This guy is singing with a soft voice, I don't know who he sounds like, his voice is a bit strange but good at the same time. There is a bit of deviation from the main key signature... good for variation, but I think this could work pretty well if it stayed entirely in the major key, despite the "sugar" factor that would bring about.

The singing stops for a bit and the instruments all level up (new units available), and there now is some celtic sounding flute. It reminds me of something else I've heard before, and I feel that my heart will go on (hehe). The next lot of singing is sung over these "upgraded" instruments, still it's balanced very well and nothing overpowers anything else.

It's a very pretty song, and I reckon post-folk (as a comparison to post-rock) would be a great way to describe this music, but it has a Broken Social Scene feel about it as well. I don't know if I'm just thinking this because of it's name, but the music gives me the feeling of a boat rocking on the ocean. It probably is meant to be like that, so more credit to them for being able to musify it.

The last few minutes is all instrumental, no solo's or anything fancy, just some nice mood music with focus on strings and piano. Then it cleans up all the loose ends in the music, and ends quickly and nicely.


Very good music, why is all the music like this about the sea? I can think of at least 5 bands/songs/albums off the top of my head. It doesn't matter, it's just a thing I seem to notice a lot, and I like it. The 8 minutes wen't by like nothing, I didn't get bored at all despite the slow tempo, though I can imagine lots of people would. For music like this, some cleaner production is in order. Nothing really "awsome" in this song, but I'd surely listen to more of this band if I found it, they are rather good.
9.1/10


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[b]Gerling - Birdbath[/b] - experimental/indie/electronic
[b]Darren Hanlon - Falling Aeroplanes[/b] - acoustic.. folk?
[b]Simon And Garfunkel - Scarborough Fair/Canticle[/b] - creepy folk/medieval?
[b]Telegraph - Should've Stayed Home Tonight[/b] - ska/punk

[b]Fagan - Dante (Teschnik Hybridization Mix)[/b] - trance (so listen passively)
[b]Broken Social Scene - Looks Just Like The Sun[/b] - super laid back, lo-fi indie (after 3:40 is part of the next song)
[b]Custard - Ladies And Gentlemen[/b] - indie pop for grown ups

2 week warning bump

you can still do any in my post above (provided you don't already know it, obviously) , but there is a link for [b]Three Second Memory - The Scorpion And The Frog[/b] [url=http://www.comcen.com.au/~caracarol/FL.html]here[/url].

Bump. That Three Second Memory song is a good one.

oh, people you can do the Violetine song on that link too

Can anyone explain why the scorpion will also die, when he kills the frog?

Dibs..

But the download is taking ages. My connection here is awful any time after midday. I'll leave it going, but it could take a long while, so anyone else feel free to step in.

I've heard of the Chieftains, via Elvis Costello actually, but I'm yet to hear anything by them. I rather expect to like them, though.
[b]Chieftains and Sting - Mo Ghile Mear[/b] - 3:25

Starts off with a solo voice, singing in Gaelic. Good language, pretty good voice, plenty of echo, good start. Joined by several other voices for some nice harmonising and such, before a single voice starts singing in English, over some light guitar and a good flute. Chorus is back in the original language again, which is a satisfying little pattern.

The drums keep picking up (during the choruses, I think) to some quite dramatic parts, though they sound quite distantly in the background. I love the parts, after several voices at once, where one (probably two actually, I think, but I like thinking it's one) voice rings out, and it's really clear and fresh-sounding..that's awesome.

Getting perilously close to the end of the song now, and I haven't written much, which is a shame. I really like the song, it's just unfortunate that there's not much variation or anything to comment on. Thankfully, the thing on which there is no variation, doesn't really require any variation, so it doesn't hurt the final score. I just can't write much about it.

9/10

[b]Songs;[/b]
Alabama 3 - Too Sick To Pray (Acid House Country Gospel)
Volto Do Mar - On a Hand Held Sky (er. Indie?)
Sufjan Stevens - Decatur, or, Round of Applause For Your Stepmother (folky indie)
Melvins - Joan of Arc (sludge)
David Byrne - Twistin' in the Wind (post-Talking Heads)

Links can be found [url=http://mxforums2.proboards45.com/index.cgi?board=RM&action=display&thread=1132227174]here[/url]

[QUOTE=Bartender]Can anyone explain why the scorpion will also die, when he kills the frog?[/QUOTE]Because the frog is half way across the river when he is killed, and the scorpion can't swim.

Drribs

[b]Sufjan Stevens - Decatur[/b]

Everyone seems to like this guy, so I need to hear this guy.

Oh. Banjo and accordion, no guitar? Maybe there is some if it's very quiet? It's got this slow country/folk sound. Soft harmonised vocals start and there is lots of rhyming, it sounds all nonsensical and I can't make out lots of the lyrics.

There's some guitar after the verse, just playing some twangy high notes in a sparse fashion. Sounds like Broken Social Scene in more ways than one, but I'm not finding it all that interesting like I do with BSS. Obviously song for mellow moods, I musn't be in that mood.

For quite a while it's just these verses with instrumantal guitar, then about 2/3 of through, a more chorusy part starts. A change is good, but I still haven't been taken in by this song.

In this chorusbit, the vocals are higher and theres some soft backing vocals. The music is just as it was before, banjo and accordion, some guitar, no drums. There's a short pause.. but back to the chorus another couple of times, and then finally some applause to end it.


So, it wasn't bad, but it didn't grab my attention at all. I don't know if I'd listen to things like this very often, I've made it this far without it. 5/10

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[b][url=www.comcen.com.au/~caracarol/Custard - Ladies And Gentlemen.mp3]Custard - Ladies And Gentlemen[/url][/b] - contemporary indie pop
[b]Anathema - Shroud Of Frost[/b] - doom metal (7:30)
[b]Death Cab For Cutie - Summer Skin[/b] - soft indie
[b]Broken Social Scene - Looks Just Like The Sun[/b] - laid back, lo-fi indie (after 3:40 is part of the next song)
[b]Decoder Ring - Music Box[/b] - soft Bjork-like... snow music
[b]Conjure One - Pilgrimage[/b] - instrumental trip hop/dance/journey thing (7 mins)
[b]Bush - Swallowed[/b] - grunge/pop
[b]The Dresden Dolls - Truce[/b] - dramatic piano stuff (8 mins)

Er... no dibs, my internet is acting ****ty.

Bump

[QUOTE=blueyxd][b][url=www.comcen.com.au/~caracarol/Custard - Ladies And Gentlemen.mp3]Custard - Ladies And Gentlemen[/url][/b] - contemporary indie pop
[b]Anathema - Shroud Of Frost[/b] - doom metal (7:30)
[b]Death Cab For Cutie - Summer Skin[/b] - soft indie
[b]Broken Social Scene - Looks Just Like The Sun[/b] - laid back, lo-fi indie (after 3:40 is part of the next song)
[b]Decoder Ring - Music Box[/b] - soft Bjork-like... snow music
[b]Conjure One - Pilgrimage[/b] - instrumental trip hop/dance/journey thing (7 mins)
[b]Bush - Swallowed[/b] - grunge/pop
[b]The Dresden Dolls - Truce[/b] - dramatic piano stuff (8 mins)[/QUOTE]

bump 2

dibs

[B][I]Ladies and Gentlemen[/I] - Custard[/B]

The song opens up with a little curly guitar piece, and a bum bum bum. The first section proper begins and it's pretty nifty, it's got a kinda laid back in a motivated way and happy thing about it which I quite like.

When the vocals come in after the like transition sorta piece (which was pretty darn well done) I feel unimpressed. They feel sorta flat and don't share the same happiness factor that the music has. The verse is pretty standard, a bit of a drop in greatness when compared to the intro part.

The 'build-up' section is also pretty standard and I'm a bit upset that the song has started to rest on it laurels. Just noticed how much I do like the quaint lyrics though.

A dual solo-y piece comes in at 1:25 and now I'm starting to get back into this song, especially when a third instrument joins in (a violin type thing).

The song goes into another 'build-up' section and again I'm not lovin' it. But the extra 'build-up' section when the drummer lets loose, there's a yelp from the singer and some shred from the violin is a getting this song back on form, or promises to, as once again the song in the ending part leaves me feeling underwhelmed, not even the high pitched violins could rouse much of an emotional response.

Overall, interesting song, and I would like to hear more from these guys as I think this song showed promise.

I give it a strong 6/10.

[b]Forced Listening[/b]

[url=http://www.marmadukeduke.com/themagnificentduke/duke.htm]Marmaduke Duke - The False and the Cinematic (Stream track 2)[/url] - Noisey Rock from a band with jagged edges.

[url=http://mp3.insound.com/download.cfm?mp3id=2388]Cex - Your Handwriting When You Were A Child In The Winter[/url] - Electronic Stuff

[url=http://www.beeandflower.com/sounds/05_Wounded_Walking.mp3]Bee & Flower - Wounded Walking[/url] - Creepy darkness

Deebs.