Well I just had my first taste of Izzy in another Forced Listening thread, and now all the others seem to be full of him
[b]Izzy Stradlin' - Ride On[/b] - 5:27

Starts off with a bit of intro guitar, sounds like it might actually be the end of the previous song rather than an introduction to this new one. Anyway, after that another nicely catchy riff starts in. I like this man's riffs.

Short quieter section just before the second Ride on, baby! chorus is a part I like, and the solo after that seems well-placed after 1:30 of good and catchy guitarwork. After the solo we go back to the riff of before, which is no bad thing. I can see a pattern developing in Izzy songs, though; good to listen to, but not much to actually say about them.

2:34 now, and I do like those little quiet bits before the choruses. And another good solo now, longer than the last one.

Ah, this is somewhat better. We're at 3:36 or so, and though I was enjoying the song, I was mentally already rating it lower than the last one I heard. Now we have this slower, quieter, guitar-noodling part, and it's awesome. Hurrah. Goes straight into another chorus though, before the song leads out on a nice combination of the main riff and some general guitar. More good stuff, and better than the last one I heard I think, thanks to the parts towards the end.

9/10

[b]Songs;[/b]
[url=http://s45.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0SO4CLEDTKLR233D7Z1V6K901S]Gordian Knot - A Shaman's Whisper[/url] (instrumental progressive metal)
[url=http://s45.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3UMFJN1LFE3KE05R1JW58GN8CL]Bjork - Joga[/url] (symphonic/electronic)
[url=http://s45.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=35SZDH6SWWQMR2GU4V04MKH652]Farmakon - Loosely of Amoebas[/url] (melodic death metal)
[url=http://s45.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1C28BO26I8ZAS06LTI4TVAIDJC]Hot Cross - Finger Redux[/url] (emo)
[url=http://s45.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2HPTTG8V5TUAS267UQR8VACF83]Bernard Cribbins - Hole in the Ground[/url] (comedy?)
[url=http://s45.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2ZXJP8IUKMZRG2S9VCJNC7N1K6]Einsturzende Neubauten - Ende Neu (live)[/url] (experimental/industrial)

dibs.

ENDE NEU

Interesting sounds here. It's...sort of like sand, and whooshing noises. It's sort of like they are simulating the sound of sand storm onstage. I really dig it. It's really hypnotic in my personal opinion. The way that the crowd randomly starts yelling every once in awhile makes it even more fun. Then the bass starts, being sort of percussive. Well... the crowd applauses right after the 'sandstorm' stops. I kind of like that. The strings here are quite nice sounding as well, and good ol' blixa holds down a nice vocal part at the same time. Then the pounding drums come in, making it even more cool. Hmm...that climax around 2:30 is quite nice. The beat is completely driving, and slightly tribal. Actually, this sounds like some sort of festive music for a nomadic tribe. Which complements the 'desert' sounds at the beginning of the piece. The yelling of ENDE NEU is quite enjoyable as well. Yay...love the little howl around 3:40. The song just builds and builds, leaving you waiting for an explosion of sound that never quite comes. It just hits a climax, stays there, and then softens. A wise decision, if you ask me. The clapping and the stick clicking has a nice addition to the mood. I could easily see this song in the background of some sort of desert movie style soundtrack, with the pounding drums everywhere and the haunting strings. It definitely drives. I like it...
Of course, I'm biased, considering I love E.N....but I've never heard anything off of ENDE NEU the album. So...
9.6/10


Suggestions:

Emergence-Volcanic Telephone (Experimental Evil Video Game)
http://www.garageband.com/song?|pe1|S8LTM0LdsaSkZVW3amg

Dancing Elf Man with Bells-Treeman (Ambient Bell-filled dirge)
http://www.garageband.com/song?|pe1|S8LTM0LdsaSkZlG0Y2w

any uploads? I dont want to sign up and the bugmenot logins don't work

[url]http://www.soundclick.com/bands/3/volcanictelephonemusic.htm[/url]

...can't get the other one though.

....you gonna take that, blue, or can I dib?

It's about 5am for blue at the moment, I think, so you should be okay.

Hahaha. Okay. I'll probably be about an hour though, coz I'm watching Soul Deep right now. :)

[b]Volcanic Telephone - Emergence[/b]

Starts with a low, doomy bassline and simple, understated drums. Some ambient, radar noises then come in (think Fugee's Ready Or Not), providing a melody of sorts. The song changes a little after a few seconds, but not much. A couple of minutes in, some sound comes in that sounds like a hoover. Then some MIDI circus music. Fun.

Doesn't this song finish any time soon? Wow, it's only 4.09 long. This feels like about 10 minutes.

Oh, good, at 4 minutes it speeds up a bit.

Overlong and boring. Could have a good song if it wasn't trying so hard to milk such little material.

[b]4/10[/b]

The Afghan Whigs - Blame, Etc.
(Funky soul-grunge)

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

Mansun - Wide Open Space
(Radiohead gone medieval. Kinda.)

Bill Bailey - Cockney Medley
(A melody of hits, rendered in a cockney style by Bill Bailey and his piano.)

UNKLE - Nursery Rhyme
(Hard rock meets trip-hop. Badly Drawn Boy comes along for the ride.)

The Pogues - Fiesta
(Irish folk. Really upbeat. Used on about a million adverts.)

Suede - Animal Nitrate
(Glam, proto-Britpop.)

Tori Amos - Me And A Gun
(A capella song about her rape. Arguably the heaviest song of all time.)

Tom Waits - Hang Down Your Head
(Surprisingly tender ballad by his standards.)

Diamanda Gallas - How Shall Our Judgement Be Carried Out Upon The Wicked
(Recommended if you fancy a challenge. :) )

[b]Mansun - Wide Open Space[/b]

Unusual sounding acoustic guitar opens it, sounds like something Korn might do.
The singer starts.. is it a guy or girl? It's hard to tell... probably a guy. The song goes on in the fashion of alt rock, the opening riff is still going with fairly straightforward drums, some minor variations. It goes a bit harder in the chorus, but it sounds very similar to the verse music.

There's a little bridge with swirly guitar, the next verse has some dissonant strings for a bit, and some extra vocals going "ba ba ba" for a variation.. but the main bit is still the same as before.

The line "wide open space" is repeated a lot throughout. The music is repetetive too, the music never lets up. I actually feel uncomfortable listening to it.. closed in, so much for the wide open space. Lucky it's only 4 mins long.

I don't think I've felt such a feeling from a song before.. even though it was a bad one, I'll give it points for being able to do so. The singer should have taken more breaks, he(?) was there nearly every second of the way, and it got to me. The music did much the same thing, and the slight variations weren't enough to make much of a difference for me.
4/10


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[b]A Chorus Line (the musical) - At The Ballet[/b] - theater music. The characters went to the ballet to escape their crap lives.

[b]Alchemist - Worlds Within Worlds[/b] - really weird metal. close to 8 minutes

[b]Conjure One - Center Of The Sun[/b] - laid back dance

[b]Custard - Nervous Breakdance[/b] - alt-pop-rock

[b]Electric Light Orchestra - Yours Truly, 2095[/b] - 80's synth rock

[b]Goldie Lookin' Chain - Half Man/Half Machine[/b] - rap/comedy

[b]Karnivool - C.O.T.E.[/b] - prog/technical nu-metal

[b]Thyrfing - Dryckeskvade[/b] - viking metal, very piratey sounding!

[b]TISM (or T.I.S.M.) - The Last Australian Guitar Hero[/b] - alt-pop/comedy, language warning

Bump, and an [url=http://www.comcen.com.au/~caracarol/T.I.S.M.%20-%20The%20Last%20Australian%20Guitar%20Hero.mp3]Upload for the T.I.S.M. song[/url]

[QUOTE=Iai]Tori Amos - Me And A Gun
(A capella song about her rape. Arguably the heaviest song of all time.)[/QUOTE]

hmm. Upload this song please so I can listen to it.

stump

[QUOTE=manuscriptreplica]hmm. Upload this song please so I can listen to it.[/QUOTE]
Okay. I'll take blue's choice (when I get home), and I'll upload that song as one of my picks.

Bump. Still planning on doing this one? Go ahead, if you are.

****, forgot. Just downloading it to my mp3 player. If anyone else wants it, they can have it - otherwise I'll do it at college tomorrow.

[b]TISM - The Last Australian Guitar Hero[/b]

Starts with what I thought would be a spoken word interlude, but a hip-hop beat comes in after a while, and it turns out that's his rapping voice.

It's a rap song about music without guitars not being real music. Nice. It must be a pretty old song, though, because it namedrops Elastica. Man, I haven't heard them in years. The music is pretty similar to something the Dust Brothers might do, except more stripped back.

Hmm.....it goes on for too long, and it's not really all that funny. Wait....they just slagged off the NME. That's it, it gets a 10/10 now. :D

[B]10/10[/B]

Only took me......8 days......:upset:

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

[B]The Pogues - Fiesta[/B]
(Irish folk. Really upbeat. Used on about a million adverts.)

[B]Suede - Animal Nitrate[/B]
(Glam, proto-Britpop.)

[B]Tori Amos - Me And A Gun[/B]
(A capella song about her rape. Arguably the heaviest song of all time.)

[B]Diamanda Galas - How Shall Our Judgement Be Carried Out Upon The Wicked[/B]
(Recommended if you fancy a challenge. :) )

[b]The Zombies - Beechwood Park[/b]
(Psychedelia.)

[b]Basement Jaxx - Bingo Bango[/b]
(Progressive house. Shpongle meets Daft Punk, I guess.)

[b]Curtis Mayfield - Pusherman[/b]
(What's Goin On-esque political blaxploitation soul.)

Are you able to upload songs?

Never tried, but I don't see why not. What would you like?

Whichever you feel like uploading/would be easiest to upload. The only one I've heard before that I'm aware of is The Pogues, so not that.

Okay. I'm uploading the Tori Amos track, since it was on my PC anyway, and manu asked for it.

[url]http://s9.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=36UPXKQ8QPALP2FQAAGYM26ZN3[/url]

There ya go. :) It's a wma, but that shouldn't cause a problem.

My uploads are usually wmas themselves :) Thanks.

Dibs.

What I've heard by her is minimal, though I've liked most of it. Heard lots about this song though, so like the Whigs, high hopes. A capella might make it difficult to review, though.
[b]Tori Amos - Me and a Gun[/b] - 3:44

Okay, here we go. You understand this review is probably going to suck though, right?

...

*3:44 later* My usual practice in writing reviews is to write them as I listen through the song. Listening to this it soon became apparent that wouldn't work, since I had to pay attention to what she's singing. So this is all written post-song, and I apologise for the quality of my recollection.

I could guess from the name of the song that it probably wasn't going to be a particularly happy affair, but I suppose I underestimated exactly how little happiness there would be. This is a pretty bleak song (unless you want to consider her determination to see Barbados a ray of hope or positivity). I won't just spell out the whole thing - it'd be both pointless, and annoying for anyone who hadn't heard it yet might be strange enough to read this in detail.

I will say that her voice is good throughout, but then that's not really news. She manages to keep the levels in her voice and such consistent with each other (barring interesting little flourishes here and there) for the most part, and the actual tune of the song (ignoring the lyrics) is a good one. And heavy is a good word for it. What's more, she kept my attention (rigidly) throughout the whole thing, which can only be a good thing for an a capella song. And that's about all I can say about it. Told you this would suck :-/

10/10. I've been in a very 10/10ey mood today.

[b]Songs;[/b]
[url=http://s8.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3RQFK8OO694053F6I1EKG9U8Z6]Nomeansno - The End of All Things[/url] (rock)
[url=http://s13.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3GN3PZCBSK2JL3K1OHWBCUD6WT]Talking Heads - Slippery People[/url] (post-punk?)
[url=http://s10.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=36022016GLYZC0QX9TQCW3NDKA]Solomon Burke (w/the Blind Boys of Alabama) - None of Us Are Free[/url] (soul - a civil rights/protest song, in the vein of A Change is Gonna Come)
[url=http://s21.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0HKIO9VI1INNU16DU1BCHUAGQN]Mr Bungle - Vanity Fair[/url]

Sorry for the delay.

EDIT: There seems to a bit of a gospel-influence theme here.

All except the Mr Bungle, naturally.

<_< >_>

Dibbers.

I've never heard of Solomon Burke, but I am familiar with the Blind Boys of Alabama, I have their CD with Ben Harper.

Opens with some nice acoustic guitar work with some church organ-ish type of sound in the background, there's drums and a piano too. Voila, music! Powerful Black man's voice singing the song...the lyrics are pretty deep. The Blind Boys have a minor part in the song, just chiming in at the chorus and more towards the end. Solomon Burke has a really strong voice, it sends chills down my spine. Actually it doesn't but it's still very nice. The lyrics don't single out any specific events, just kind of generalize about struggles of blacks, although this song could be meant for any race easily.

The song is straight up Gospel music which I don't listen to much, but this song was really good. The chorus was addictive, song doesn't get old after listening to it a few times, no parts I want to skip through.

9/10



My Reccomendations:

Ted Lennon - "Water & Bones"
(folk acoustic/ukuele awesomeness)

G. Love - "Front Porch Loungin' "
(if you don't know who G. Love is or what he's like check him out you're way overdue)

Jack Johnson feat. Ben Harper on guitar - "Flake"
(an awesome Jack song...altfolk)

Ornella Vanoni - "L'Appuntamento"
(found most commonly on Ocean's 12 Sountrack, unbelievably awesome song, musical ecstasy always cheers me up...I think it's about love it's in Italian)

G. Love & Special Sauce - "Numbers"
(another awesome G. Love song)

Bump.