One Dollar Short - Board Game

Not really my style at all. I really dislike it, musically. Lyrically it's cool. In all honesty I wouldn't have listened to this song if it were on the radio. I;d change stations. It's good for what it is....but I hate what it is. It gets a 4/10 for being good for what it is, and having clever lyrics.

I recommend - Southern Culture on The Skids - Cheap motels

Rockabilly/Pyschobilly song about Cheap Motles rooms. Very funny song. And has a pretty cool sounding guitar solo. Should be easy to find. Rather short though.

dibs :chug:

Well that downloaded quick........

Southern Culture on the Skids - "Cheap Motels"
You were right about it being funny. It was pretty much just a pointless song about cheap motels. I've got nothin' against pointless songs, though. I really liked the guitar riff intro, it was probably my favorite part of the song, because overall the it was rather repetative and uninteresting. It's fun listening, none the less, just certainly not something i would normally listen to at all.

3.5/10

My song: The Rapture - "House of the Jealous Lovers"
I've heard The Rapture classified as punk, but this song is not even close to what you would think of as typical punk. The lyrics are rather shallow (they never really change throughout the song), but I find everything else very interesting to listen to, despite the somewhat repetative nature of those, too. I know you can find it on limewire and kazaa.

Enjoy. :thumb:

i'll put dibseys on House of the Jealous Lovers

'Well that downloaded quick........' = :lol:

EDIT: The Rapture - House of the Jealous Lovers

What a horrible song! The intro is quite cool, but it descends from there. it starts with a nice bassline and a funky drumbeat, and guitar pulses out every so often. A more funky bassline follows, and that's where the song gets bad. the vocals are horrible, he is out of tune and can't sing at all. all he does is wail 'House of, the jealous lovers' extremely loudly and badly. The guitar tone in between these bad vocals is a tinny guitar that squeaks and groans for no reasons. I could hardly sit through the entire song, it is that bad.

3/10 - the start was quite cool. and the bass throughout is cool.


I Recommend: Stratovarius - Destiny.

This epic begins simply enough, with woman's vocals singing the melody. It goes for 10 minutes and is a power metal fest. A great, rocking song.

I call dibs!!!

I un-dibs. Can't find it.

EDIT:

cant find it, withdraw my dib :upset:

Here's an idea for a rule. You can't dib before you actually have gotten the song. Then we'll have alot less posts cluttering up the thread

and if you "dib" it, edit your post with that dib in it when you review the song, to save some space too. ;)

I'm downloading Destiny now. It'll take a while to get though because I'm on a slow connection. Hang in there!

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Ok got it, the start has a very anthemic feel to it, probably because it is, I like this. The womans voice reminds me a bit of Lord of the Rings too..
Bam, a faster bit.. power-thrash is it?
Theres something 80's about the guitar riff here, it reminds me of something else, I cant think what, maybe its a mix of the Terminator movies, something with a car chase, and Aces High by Iron Maiden.

Then the obligatory solo, a pretty decent one at that.
Quiet bit, something about this sounds really good to me, the singing and keyboard/strings/choir/whatever it is go well together, and before you know it, theres the Power Ballad, the singer sounds a bit off here.. oh well.
Will it speed up just before the end????
ohh, nope. it ends on a high note like an opera or orchestra something something. Pretty cool overall, it would probably be better (or maybe worse) if I knew the lyrics to go along with it.

Overall, it was very fulfilling musically, I'd say that's a good indicator of a well written song. If I had anything bad to say about it... Power Metal has a certain cheesiness about it, and this showed a little bit, but I guess thats just a personal taste issue, so that doesnt weigh much into the score.

10/10 for the composition, but minus a bit for the cheese factor and the off singing in one part, although he does have some long notes to hold...
so... 9.1/10 bananas

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My next reccomend:

[b]Michael Franti & Spearhead - Skin On The Drum (Bassnectar Remix)[/b]

VERY laid back piece. A pretty good remix if I can say so without having heard the original... but that's beside the point.
The site describes it as "Dreamy downtempo & trip hop", and I agree. This is night music, it'll probably sound better then..

get it from
[url]http://www.bassnectar.net/audio/[/url]
length and file size warning - this is 8:20 and about 12mb
enjoy..

^^ I'll dibseys! i really wanna recommend a regurgitator song. so yeah.

[i]Michael Franti & Spearhead - Skin On The Drum (Bassnectar Remix)[/i]

First of all, before hearing this song, i'll say that i hate remixes. This song may change that, but yeah. And i havent heard the original either.

The intro is quite cool. that kind of wavery, watery type of music is great. It is very relaxing like you said. the wah guitar is great. the original vocals (where he doesnt say words, just makes noises) is annoying to me. the verse, like the intro, is quite relaxing, its pretty much the same music for both the intro and the verse. the words are low key, adding to the relaxed feel. theres a guitar delay effect at 3:05 which i love. it lasts only a second, but its great.
Theres a change of tone (or something) at about 3:30, which is less relaxing, but oh well. Its still cool, just not as good as the earlier bit. it remains low-key for its entirety. it gets all electronic at about 6:00, which i enjoy. it sounds like a synthesized didgeridoo.

overall, a great relaxing piece. its not something i listen to all the time, but i will definately have a listen from time to time :thumb:
7.5/10.



I Recommend: Regurgitator - C'mon

i LOVE THIS SONG! I bought this album initially for the hit song 'fat cop' which had mild success. So i chucked it in, track no.1 c'mon and it blew me away. it fuses funk (kind of) and hip hop together -- excellent bass and drums, lyric-wise they flow very well, and they are humourous (if you can decipher them)
highly recommended! And i'm on both Kazaa and soulseek ATM and i'm sharing it so you should have no prob in finding it.

blueyxd: I'm glad you liked it (stratovarius)! It's good isn't it?

dibs.

Yeah, I didnt mind Stratovarius, I've been meaning to check them out for a while, just not on a high priority. I thought they were more prog though, in a technicality sense, but thats ok.
Glad you liked Skin on the Drum, any change of perspective on remixes for you?

cytoplasmicblob: dude if you dib, dont take a day to respond please.

blueyxd: yeah it was cool. i am speaking about remixes that are dance. theres a couple that i really hate, one is 'never tear us apart' by INXS, and another one bohemian rhapsody by queen. both were done very badly and completely destoryed the song.

dibs should be void after 24 hours. starting now.

or even... finding the song, or at least having access to it before calling it..

manuscriptreplica: ah yeah, those kind of rock songs that no one should remix in the first place... i'll say no more on this topic. I could reccomend a 2 or 3 other good song remixes though.. cause they do exist.

so like - can someone do the regurgitator song? its very good!































*discreetly accepts $$ from band*

Well, I downloaded the song anyway, listening now.

[i]Regurgitator - C'mon[/i]

I've heard this one before!! Did this have a video with 2 of the band members wearing a large shirt at the same time, siamese twin style?

Its kinda dance music, I cant really say what sort, I woulndt say its hip hop though. Its not really to my liking, I dont know what it is about it, its probably just too aggro or something. The use of samples is ok though, some strange things in there, some cool slap bass bits later on in the song.
Well you liked it lots, so there must be some issue with my personal tastes. I can't say much else about it.
Its not bad, theyre doing something a bit different. maybe 6 - 6.5/10 for me. If I liked the style more, I might have gone 7.5-8

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anyway...
[b]Breakeven - En Vogue[/b]

Hardcore Ska band, they were locals, until they broke up. I only saw them once supporting Reel Big Fish, and I thought they were pretty good.
This songs not hardcore except for one bit.. its still powerful though.

[url]http://mp3.com.au/artist.asp?id=5580[/url]

^^ not thats fat cop. i dont like hardcore, so no dibseys

manuscript, whats your soulseek user? I can't find C'mon to download (I know it's not necessary now, but I like to download other songs from Forced Listening).

dibs.

[b]Breakeven - En Vogue[/b]

This song didn't exactly a very good recording but it wasn't to bad. I liked the ska guitar riff in the intro and I thought the horns during the verse were really good. The drums throughout the whole song were well played but way to over powering. Overall the guitar was pretty good. Couldn't hear the bass at all. As for the vocals, the guy had a good hardcore voice, some good rythm in some parts although I thought it was slightly overdown near the end. If they recorded this a little more professionaly and maybe spiced it up a little more it would be amazing. It was quite good nevertheless. I give it a 7/10.


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I suggest...

[b]The Pixies - U-Mass[/b]

I know they're pretty well known and its not really introducing new music but this song is a little more unknown since it was on their last album that wasn't as big a hit as the others. If you don't know its Alt/Indie type music, similar to Modest Mouse.

Oh and you can probably find it on Kazaa, I'm not a hundred percent sure. If you can't, let me know and I'll give to you.

Enjoy.

U-mass has starts with a catchy guitar riff for one bar before the drums kick in. Almost immediately Franks insane lyrics start, making little sense but at the same time giving the idea of a deeper sense humour. The riff is repeated throughout the verse in the typical pixies standard, before a screamed chorus.

second verse is similar to the first, but with a bit more of an edge to it but lasts shorter before going back to the screamed chorus, which is followed by some more screaming over a descending scale solo. There is then a break with only drums before some guitar squealing and then a distorted semi-solo before cutting abruptly... one of the best songs on the Trompe le monde album

my reccomendation is

Rotterdam Terror Corps - God Is A Gabber or Brutal Attack
or Rob Gee - E.C.S.T.A.C.Y

Both are hardcore dance tunes, turn up your bass:thumb:

Got an x/10 for Umass?

9/10, good pixies song not the best

my soulseek is: manuscriptreplica

we probably will never be online at the same time, unless your australian. so yeah.

[b]Rotterdam Terror Corps - Brutal Attack[/b]

well.. the first 2 mins were ok, I was expecting hard drum stuff the whole way through after the first 4 bass/notes, but then theres someone sounding like Arnold Schwarznegger with a South African accent talking about proving that hardcore is not dying.. a melodic glockenspiel thing is also playing here, then a bit of military style snare roll thing.

rrrr, here is the main part I guess. hard techno drumming stuff, really does nothing for me.. the music behind it is strange, probably best described as a quick rising sound and a slower rising sound.. still doesnt do that much for me. This bit didnt last too long

But then it goes quiet again, glock and talking once more, some single note heavy synth bass too. ahahahah "if you are reeal hardcuu moderfwoucker", love the accent.
That bit is soon joined by a slow thumping bass drum.. then a slight break, then it gets back into, glock, bass, drums, rising synth sound. some bits come and go after here, no new things are introduced..

hmm, at 4:40, it seems to be over pretty quickly. My initial thoughts of me not liking it it went out the window, it actually wasnt bad at all... I guess it would be a good suggestion if you were just getting into that type of music. The guys accent made me laugh, (culturally insensitive bastard I am :D). The drums put me off a bit, thats a part which is for fans only.
I give it about 7.25/10 shoelaces

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hmmm, calm or heavy? ... calm
[b]Seascapes Of The Interior - Discriminating Wisdom[/b]
Australian post rock band from somewhere around Melbourne way.
This song has more normal instruments, played in a more normal way, though violin and trumpet do appear in it. The production isn't the best, it also seems to me that they tried to highlight the imperfections, but it still sounds beautiful and so very calming. Listen carefully at about 3:04 for the female voice. I really like that bit.

[url]http://www.seascapesoftheinterior.com[/url]
Also check out the other samples on the site, there is some really good stuff.

dibs on Seascapes Of The Interior

Seascapes Of The Interior - Discriminating Wisdom

Ok, song's slowly fading in... Based on my limited post-rock knowledge, reminds me most of Explosions in the Sky so far. Singing with no actual words in the background - I like that. Still getting louder, and now other vocals are coming in. I like the light echoes on it. I can hear an accordian in the background here and there. And now backwords trumpet? Sounds nice. Now everything's fading out. Mmmm. Post-rockinly soothing.

7/10 - Not quite as good as most of the post-rock I like, but still pretty good.

I recommend:

27 - No Water
Kayo Dot - The Manifold Curiosity (if you don't mind a 15 minute song)
Denali - French Mistake

All should be available on Soulseek, but might be hard to get at times when not as many people are on.

Bump...we shouldn't let this die..

Awww. You didn't go for the fifteen minute one.

dibs on yours, anyway.