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undibs

[QUOTE=Bartender]He was primarily a musician, but I think he also had a go at film and writing throughout his life. He's dead now though. [i]Histoire de Melody Nelson[/i] is the only album of his I know, thanks to Crumb, actually.[/QUOTE]

That's pretty much the extent of my knowledge on the guy, too. Also, he has a pretty big discography as I understand but it's probably tough for people who don't live in france to get a hold of a lot of his stuff. I've seen some interesting looking albums that I haven't checked up on at my local Virgin records.

/undercover bump

Dibs

[B]Os Mutantes - A Minha Menina[/B]

Excuse me for already knowing this song but the other yousendits won't working for me and I knew I would enjoy reviewing this song. If anything, this review should remind me to get more Os Mutantes material. :)

"A Minha Menina" Starts on a spanish man taking through a heavy delay effect. The way he laughs at the end always cracks me up. Next the acoustic guitar comes in still with the heavy delay effect giving it a dreamy swirly effect that I love. If that isn't enough they add a funky fuzz guitar/bass over the type to really trip things out.

The singing is great, I always find myself singing along and not caring what they're saying in spanish. "pah pah chu ah pah pah pah chu ah" great, great, party song. Even at two minutes in the song sounds fresh after not much moving around. Thirty seconds later a fuzzy guitar takes a solo, killer.

I neer realized how long this song was until this review I always thought it was around the two minute mark, crazy. And there you go the song is over, Bravo!
[B]
My Rating: 9/10[/B] I need to get more Os Mutantes, Now!

[B]Selections:[/B]
The Evens - All The Governers (Ian Mackaye's New Duo)
[url]http://s34.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1BVXD3OK461GR01FI3FF5U00OJ[/url]

Black Moth Super Rainbow - I Think It's Beautiful That You Are 256 Colors Too (Trip Hop)
[url]http://s41.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0ZBZ0EMJEUFW825TV4PO5PQG8J[/url]

A Certain Ratio - Shack Up (Post Punk)
[url]http://s14.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2X4VZX9AD99LG3H0QEQT53C48S[/url]

Ah shat, yousendit is down. I have all these on soulseek as an alternative I'm WRM. Oh and AIM (Super Furry OMG)

Okay, all yousendits are up. Bump.

buMp.

[b]A Certain Ratio - Shack Up[/b]

What is post-punk anyway? Certainly not disco?
Well, that seems not to be the case, at least here.

The guitar that opens is very thin sounding, and has a 70's disco vibe to it. It pretty much revolves around this guitar riff in the verse, with a guy that cant sing too well saying a line, followed by someone else going "Shack up, Shack up"
Bass and drums add well to the feeling, but it's kind of boring me. Nothing much is happening. It repeats this quite a few times.
In the "chorus" there's just drums, bass, some other percussion, and some soft horn sound. It could make me want to hit the dance floor 30 years ago.. if I was into this music.

Next verse comes around, it sounds the same, the guitar sound is so thin and weak. Same pattern of vocal line, then "Shack Up"
What's meant to be happening here? Is this an old song, or just trying to sound old?
There's some trumpets that come in a bit into the song and play on and off until the end, but that's about it.
It just goes between verse and chorus.

Is post-punk generally like this? If so, I won't be listening to it often.
I hated the guitar sound, vocals were kind of bad too, but still better than the guitar. The rhythm section was alright, and there was a fair amount of vibe in there.
Overall, it just didn't interest me, and then some parts turned me away from it too.
4/10


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Your musical future:

[b]TISM - The Last Australian Guitar Hero[/b] - alt pop/comedy/strong language warning

[b]The Red Paintings - Just People And Leaves[/b] - Alt/art rock
[url]http://www.theredpaintings.com/mp3/The%20Red%20Paintings%20-%20Just%20People%20and%20Leaves.mp3[/url]

[b]Hot Rubber Glove - Mud Elephant[/b] - trancey dub, instrumental
[url]http://www.hotrubberglove.com/_dl/mp3/hot_rubber_glove_mud_elephant.zip[/url]

[b]Trinity Machine - Phobos Anomaly[/b] - ambient electronic, a cover of a song from doom
[url]http://machine.vectorstar.net[/url]

[b]Anathema - Temporary Peace[/b] - ambient soft rock. anything beyond 7:50 is bonus track, and anything between about 5:50 and 7:50 is just the sound of waves.

[b]Autechre - Nine[/b] - ambient electronic

[B]The Red Paintings - Just People and Leaves[/B]

Haven't heard of these folks. The name sounds familiar though, that's why I picked 'em.

Gentle strumming opens the song, and the vocals kick in shortly thereafter. The singer's voice is very affable, very alternative-like, and there's this little effect thing going on with them in the begininng. The tune begins to pick up some speed and here come the drums and an instrument that I'm not quite sure of.

Gets more rocky at the chorus with an electric guitar crunch but then it breaks off and gets quiet for a moment. It builds back up with a flurry of multi-tracked vocals, only to slow down again for a little string interlude. Very progressive for what appeared at first glance to be a poppy little piece of alterna-rock. The energy that begins to pick up around the 3 minute mark is very infectious, everything is going at full tilt. The song ends with swirling, almost shoegazer-derived noises.

Very unpredictable song although it digested well. The instrumentation had plenty of spice and sudden changes around the little melody kept things moving. The lyrics seemed to be a bit suspect but the song itself did well in piquing interest. I think I'll be checking more into these guys.

7/10

For yer listenin' ears...

[URL=http://s46.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0GZXU2PI8R0Q60DIN79KO1LZ9D]Terry Callier - It's About Time[/URL] (Soul-folk)

[URL=http://s46.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0GZXU2PI8R0Q60DIN79KO1LZ9D]DJ Krush - Supreme Team (feat. Anti-pop Consortium)[/URL] (Glitch-hop, underground rap)

[URL=http://s17.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3BYGFTSJIFPE1372XWOAC5JISI]Gary Wilson & the Blind Dates - When You Walk into My Dreams[/URL] (New Wave)

[URL=http://s39.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=15MCCRMWF8TA122N9HLDFS5E72]The Rise - An Automated Response If You Will[/URL] (Electronic hardcore or something. Whatever the hell Atari Teenage Riot was.)

Bump. :eek:

Dibs! :eek:

So, none of those YouSendIts worked, and The Rise was the only one I could get on Soulseek. I wanted the DJ Krush one, but there were over 2000 people in the queue for the one match.

[B]The Rise - An Automated Response If You Will[/B]

I'll start by saying I never really liked Atari Teenage Riot.

I'll follow that up by saying this is much better. It starts with a fairly straight-forward electro beat and guitar riff. The vocals are yelped and punky, and treated in standard industrial fashion. The lyrics and the melody are really repetitive, but since I have no idea what the lyrics are, it doesn't really detract from the song.

About a minute in, there's a stop-time with acapella vocals. Then the song changes totally, switching to a more driving riff. A sample comes in around 1.45 (a man saying "These are the sounds", I think) as the vocals cut out. The drums slow down somewhat, sounding as if the song is coming to a climax. But then the original vocals return, and the song finishes with the sound of the record skipping.

I liked it. I probably won't get much replay value out of it, but it was cool.

[B]7/10[/B]

I have none of these songs on my PC, and I'm having problems with disc space on my PC, and as such, I'm gonna have to just bombard you with a long list of songs instead of uploading to YouSendIt. If you can't find any of these, you suck at filesharing.

Legacy is underlined because that's the one I'd most like someone to do. But any of them are cool.

[B]Kraftwerk - The Model [/B]
(Early electro)

[B]Big Black - The Model[/B]
(Punk cover of the above song)

[B]Manic Street Preachers - 4st 7lbs[/B]
(Post-punk song about anorexia)

[B]De La Soul - Eye Know [/B]
(Good-time old-school hip-hop)

[B]The Afghan Whigs - Blame, Etc.[/B]
(Funky soul-grunge)

[B]Tricky - Black Steel[/B]
(Punky, electro cover of Public Enemy's Black Steel In The Hour of Chaos, with female vocals)

[B]Morphine - Honey White[/B]
(retro-ish rock'n'roll)

[B]Skunk Anansie - Hedonism[/B]
(90s British rock ballad)

[B]Mansun - Shotgun [/B]
(Prog-glam-indie-awesome-core)

[U][B]Mansun - Legacy [/B][/U]
(Also prog-glam-indie-awesome-core. This is more soaring and beautiful than Shotgun.)

[B]Mansun - Wide Open Space [/B]
(Radiohead gone medieval. Kinda.)

[B]Kinesis - One Way Mirror[/B]
(Punk. A bit like early Manics.)

[B]A Tribe Called Quest feat. Busta Rhymes - Scenario [/B]
(Jazzy hip-hop. Once voted the best hip-hop song ever.)

[B]Martin Grech - Open Heart Zoo [/B]
(Scientists rejoice - we've found the missing link between OK Computer and Kid A.)

[B]Bill Bailey - Cockney Melody[/B]
(A melody of hits, rendered in a cockney style by Bill Bailey and his piano.)

[B]Kosheen - Face In A Crowd [/B]
(Downbeat drum'n'bass)

[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]Kinks - Dedicated Follower Of Fashion[/B]
(British invasion. Typical Kinks, really.)

You went overboard.

Dibs.

I know.

My facking bad, I almost forgot about this, sorry. I'm starting Big Black now.

[B]Big Black - The Model[/B]

Alrite, so there were like 8 songs off that list I was interested in but this one finished fast and I've been meaning to look into Steve Albini's music more so there you go.

"The Model" Starts on a bass line and high treble drum machine like on Joy Division's "Disorder" sounds really cool right now. When the vocals come in a feedback and dirty guitar accompanys him. Something similiar to that happens on Fugazi's Smallpox Champion and Irionically I think Steve Albini produces that album [I]In on the Kill Taker[/I].

The noisy guitar melody continues for the rest of the song. The Vocals sound political but I'm not getting a very good idea of what he's saying. It seems like at this point of the song I kinda zone out and don't have alot to say but I'm still very much enjoying it. However I did notice that guitar a short rocking riff and then the song ended.

[B]My Rating: 8.8/10[/B] PUNK!

[B]My Selections:[/B]
Blur - Country Sad Ballad Man (Alternative Rock)
[url]http://s34.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=10FO7RKK6SRW33I006QVL1XSUM[/url]

The Evens - Two Shelters (Ian Mackaye's new White Stripes type duo)
Sonic Youth - Superstar (Noise Cover, Accesible)

Yousendits for the ones I have will be up soon.

[QUOTE=Iai]So, none of those YouSendIts worked, and The Rise was the only one I could get on Soulseek. I wanted the DJ Krush one, but there were over 2000 people in the queue for the one match.[/QUOTE]

Bah, I linked the Terry Callier song again where the DJ Krush one should have been.

C'mom guys, this Blur song is kickass, Bump.

I'm going to try to do a review of Blur - Country Sad Ballad Man

Starts out with drums, which I felt was a little ironic because throughout the song the drums stuck out to me as weak point. Bass and a kind of cool guitar comes in to play a country / alternative style through the song. The vocals are nice, switching some times to singing very high pitched.

The song was nice except the drums which I felt didn't fit and often came out over the rest of the song. However it all ended very strong so I will give the song a

7/10.

Some songs

The Bellrays - Zero PM (soul/punk)
[URL=http://s22.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=35W5C0WGNPUIL39RD4L29NO2TA]Zero PM[/URL]
King Django - Nex Season (dancehall reggae hip hop ?)
[URL=http://s19.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0LMV988DESLAM0H4SJBLIIB3HQ]Nex Season[/URL]
Morning Glory - Return Tha Bomb (punk/hip hop)
[URL=http://s26.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2VE0LK44MR4JB0RO92F262MCQ5]Return Tha Bomb[/URL]
The Fugs - Frenzy(Folk)
[URL=http://s48.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=37WKPC1A72E670SQDMM0X760LD]Frenzy[/URL]

If I can figure out how to link them I will.

Edit: The links should work.

If you want to link them then just upload the file to [url]http://www.yousendit.com[/url] and copy and paste the given link.

that King Django one is called "Nex Season"... for anyone having trouble finding it with Nex[u]t[/u]

I put up links that should work. Have fun.

Sunny Day Real Estate by Butch Walker
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Opening is kinda femine,probably a girl singing, I don't like that too much

Then it gets kinda songish, then the guitar thingy, then more talking, then starts to sound a lot like alkaline trio, then sounds kinda sublime-ish, diggin it, then more alkalinism(chorus I guess), then weak guitar solo, a good thing compared to no guitar solo or a nirvana solo, chorus again, energy build up, repitition, big energetic part, enegetic outro and its finished.

I give it a 7.9/10 out of 10, it's better than a lot of other stuff but not really my cup of tea
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Frozen Brains Tell No Tales-Buckethead(Instrumental,techno-metal)
[url]http://s19.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0JJ2XPNLK51EP24V82Y1C26X8M[/url]

Latex Solar Beef-Frank Zappa(Comedic Crazy Guitar Stuff)
[url]http://s19.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2VN9FN08NTF2U2QLFCZKFD6O23[/url]

dibs

[U][I][B]Frank Zappa- Latex Solar Beef[/B][/I]
[/U]
haha oh man... i've always heard about Zappa being an excellent musician/composer and such so i sure wasn't expecting this. Am i saying the song was bad? No, i really enjoyed listening to it. It's just really hard to put the lyrical content and comedic shrieks together with my preconceived notion of Frank Zappa. lol...im still laughing.

"Acetylene Nirvana/Hemorrhoids/Talkin' 'bout your hemorrhoids, Baby" :amaze: :lol:

heh...lyrical content aside, this was still a pretty cool song. The instrumentation was nothing too impressive. Theres some cool wah on the guitar and the bass is pretty prominent throughout the whole song.

Ahah and i love the outro...with the keys played in unison with his weird singing. :lol:

"Feel the steam/See the steam/Hear the steam/Feel the steaming hot black screaming/Iridescent naugahyde python gleaming/Steam roller"

....man i really wish i knew what he was talking about :confused:

7/10

[U][I]My Songs[/I][/U]
[URL=http://s47.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0TXLDQCS359303GDMLJU0HFLMO]Trollhammeren-Finntroll[/URL] (Finnish folk-influenced Metal)
[URL=http://s47.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3MJBEFK0DZGIP2HMP8NYGH5EI9]Steve Biko(Stir it Up)- A Tribe Called Quest[/URL](Alt/Jazz rap)
[URL=http://s47.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=03OYZUPT81ANZ35XV5CX0NZ3TT]Move it On Over-George ThoroGood[/URL](Blues Rock)
[URL=http://s47.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=223IXAVWGKAY61GBIMVIR4Q4GB]Suodeth(Bonus Track)-Kalmah[/URL](Melodic Power/Thrash Metal)
[URL=http://s47.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1XNKYL4AHKLN61IT18RZAW94AV]Unrestrained Growth- Buckethead[/URL] (Instrumental Rock)

bump

Anyone mind if I dib with a view to do it in a few hours? I'm in college now.

Okay, I'm home now. Give me a few minutes.

[b]Buckethead - Unrestrained Growth[/b]

Well, the only Buckethead I actually knew before this was stuff I'd heard in guitar magazines. From what I remember, it was in a Matias Ekhlund vein. Anyway, I usually hate guitar instrumentals that aren't be Jeff Beck, but I remember quietly enjoying what I heard of him.

*patiently waits for download to finish*

Opens with Buckethead playing some pretty standard, bluesy, Hendrix-lite guitar over a squelchy faux-industrial bassline and simple drums. Continues in this manner for a good minute and a half.

Eventually the drums pick up the pace, and the bassline changes. Still essentially a typically boring instrumental guitar piece though.

Some real bass gets added to the synths a bit later, as Buckethead does some Johnny Greenwood-esque killswitch trickery. There's a few Ekhlund-isms in this part. (I know that's spelt wrong, by the way.) Still pretty boring.

This is 8 minutes long? Ouch.

Keyboard solo. Joy. I'm 5 minutes in now, and not enjoying it in the slightest.

And it ends with no variation. Well, any interest I once had in Buckethead is now gone.

Really not my thing. Sorry.

[B]2/10.[/B]

My picks. I've pruned the list a bit.

[B]Kraftwerk - The Model [/B]
(Early electro)

[B]Manic Street Preachers - 4st 7lbs[/B]
(Post-punk song about anorexia)

[B]De La Soul - Eye Know [/B]
(Good-time old-school hip-hop)

[B]The Afghan Whigs - Blame, Etc.[/B]
(Funky soul-grunge)

[B]Tricky - Black Steel[/B]
(Punky, electro cover of Public Enemy's Black Steel In The Hour of Chaos, with female vocals)

[B]Morphine - Honey White[/B]
(retro-ish rock'n'roll)

[B]Mansun - Legacy [/B]
(Also prog-glam-indie-awesome-core. This is more soaring and beautiful than Shotgun.)

[B]Mansun - Wide Open Space [/B]
(Radiohead gone medieval. Kinda.)

[B]Bill Bailey - Cockney Melody[/B]
(A melody of hits, rendered in a cockney style by Bill Bailey and his piano.)

No YSIs due to PC problems, unfortunately.