Dibs.

I like Ben Harper, but I've not heard Jack Johnson. Heard mixed reports of him, too.
[b]Jack Johnson - Flake[/b] - 4:07

Starts off with some nice, light acoustic strumming - always a good start when I'm in the mood for Ben Harper - and what sound kinda like steel drums in the background. When the song starts up properly though, the presence of regular drums makes me think I either imagined the steel drums, or they were just an intro. Whatever it was, it was a good start to the song.

Actually, steel drums seem kind of like a metaphor for the song; light, airy, upbeat, etc. The guitar is awesome, both the steady strumming and the occasional, higher picthed twiddling. His (I'm assuming Jack's, though I don't know) voice is pretty good. Nothing technically amazing, but fitting the music well. Backing vocals are minimal, and half the time I get the idea I'm mistaking another layer of guitar for lyricless vocals.

3:20 or so, and this is the bit I was looking forward to; the vocals drop away, the song gains a bit more of a groove, and an awesome little instrumental section ensues. Very nice. Unexpectedly (in my limited experience, anyway) the vocals return before this is fully over, and the song carries on with this instrumentally-awesome, somewhat groovier idea through a variation on the chorus, and a fade-out.

8/10 Pretty good. Good guitar, decent vocals, pretty good song. And the bit from around 3:20 onwards was just great.

[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]

I noticed that this thread started off with a lot of Cynic threads.
Well this guy isn’t Cynic but he is one cynical mofo.
Check the pic on his Yahoo group.
He looks like bad *** fat *** conservative real estate selling goon.

[url]http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Tor_Hershman/[/url]
He’s got full music files there too.

Now look at his pic on his music page.
He looks like bad *** fat *** freaked out hippie warrior.

[url]http://www.ic-musicmedia.com/TOR[/url]

Describe Tor’s music.
Some parodies that everyone will laugh at.
Other comedy that’ll drive small rodents and large religious fanatics away from your house.

His XXCS is totally experimental avant garde.
Part eight about hypnotizes you to sleep than part nine BLASTS you back to reality.
Parts two and three, Rhythm Hymn and Meadow Moon, are my favorites.
The first is freaked out drumming and the other an industrial swamp.

I don’t know if Tor is so bad that he’s good or so good he can be that bad and still be cool.

:eek: [COLOR=Indigo]You won’t believe it unless you are forced, by yourself, to listen.[/COLOR] :eek:

So..why'd you post that here?

dibs

Talking Heads - Slippery People

I think i got a live version.

It starts off with a shuffle drum beat and synth, the basic Talking Heads sort of thing. Vocals come in and then they harmonize with another set of vocals. More synth sound effects come in.

The chorus consists of the band singing a line, then the lead singer coming in alone between every line.

This pattern continues, until an oriental-sounding sound :p comes in and does some stuff, then the singer comes in and goes "bep, bep, bep, ba, ba, ba...." and then they go into the chorus. They do the chorus many times without intruments, and the song ends.

decent, 6/10. nothing special

requests:

Secret Chiefs 3 - Exterminating Angel
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - FC: The Freedom Club (if your lazy, just do the first 5 minutes)
Secret Chiefs 3 - Welcome to the theatron animatronique
The Beach Boys - Caroline, No

mubp

Bump 2!

dibs.

[B]Secret Chiefs 3 - Exterminating Angel[/B] 3:10

Alright, I'm going to find this song interesting becuase I haven't remembered you rating a song that you ever liked. Besides I have no idea what to expect.

Starts on a really fast snare hits and weird synth sounds. The drums remind me of Napalm Death but it doesn't really sound like a metal song. Alright, this song is some sort of spacey avant garde thing with echoey screaming everywhere. I'm not sure what to think right now.

At 1:20 a heavy guitar plays a chunky power chord and things go quiet, yep this is likley to be a grindcore song from here on. I'm so right. The only thing I reconized the satanic singer say is "DARKNESSSS" creeeeeepppy.

After the ricdiculious grindcore stunt, the band return to the avant garde spacy vibe at 2:30. I'm enjoying the delayed guitar. A monk like choir joins in for a short bit but it doesn't last long as they go back into thrash mode. This would be so much better without the death metal vocals and more ambient parts. The grindcore parts can stay they make the mellow parts more dramatic

[B]Rating 6/10[/B] I feel the urge to check at lest two more songs though.

[B]Selections[/B]
Blur - Caramel (Experimental Alternative?)
[URL=http://s41.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3AUB799OLPF75195CO692KJ6SK]The 5am Event - Hungry (Garage Rock)[/URL]
[URL=http://s41.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1BABGDZ317SQ721TIY1WKN5IDW]Blur - Trailer Park (Trip Hop?)[/URL]
The Pretty Things - Defecting Grey (60's Pysch)

Two yousendits up.

Blur - Trailer Park

Good song, but I would have liked it better without the vocals. They weren't *bad*, and they do fit with the song to an acceptable point, but they didn't help the listening experience either, and I think I would have had a better time with the song if it were just the music. The music here knows how to take it easy; my only complaint about that is the discordant sampling that pops up in the second half - it's too far up in the mix.

7/10

Choices:
Takako Minekawa - Maxi On!
Kraftwerk - The Hall of Mirrors
Mike Patton, Ikue Mori, John Zorn - Skin Eruptions
Yellow Magic Orchestra - Rydeen

[QUOTE=Well_Respected_Man]

[B]Rating 6/10[/B] I feel the urge to check at lest two more songs though.
[/QUOTE]

ya man the album is meant to be like a story, listened to as a whole

dibs

[B]Kraftwerk - The hall of mirrors[/B]

I was going to do the patton song, but I'd probably give it a 10, so i stayed away.

The songs starts off with a noise a nintendo or a pinball machine would make. Id does it for a while. Then some echoey banging comes in from behind it. Some more electronic video game sounds come in, and im-a-likin' it. Another electonic noise that sounds like a nylon-stringed guitar somes in and then some brit starts talkin gin rhyme. oh great.

He sounds like Morrissey. I want to puke. Another verse comes in, and this pattern continues. That pinball noise keeps going on. Now the brit is talking about falling in love with himself. I just threw up in my mouth a little bit. The pinball noise gets a little louder and wierder. A few choruses continue.

The same pattern continues. How bland can you get as a songwriter? The nylon strings do a little solo. Now that i think about it, they dont sound like nylon strings at all...

He comes back talking again. I keep picturing some cheesy morrissey looking dude. :upset:

welp he does another verse / chorus set, then another chorus, and then it fades out.

no. the song was the same repetetive crap over and over. And it doesnt help that the singer reminded me of that Morrissey flamer

4/10, for that pinball sound.

[I]secret chiefs 3 - welcome to the theatron animatronique
Beach Boys - Caroline, no[/I]

[QUOTE=deejuks2]
They're both over 10 minutes. get used to it.

[/QUOTE]

No; you always suggest at least one under about six minutes. For 56Kers, if nothing else.

well i just did a near 8 ninute song so i figured i deserved something, but i changed them. (bump)

another bump

Sorry, I didn't mean you weren't allowed songs over six minutes, just that if you force a song or two over six minutes, you should also give a couple under.

Beach Boys - Caroline, No *One second, let me get in the mood and part my hair to the side, rar*

I really dig the intro, with the tambourine or moraccas or whichever instrument they have. This gets my really psyched for some experimentality!!!

And aha! This song reveals itself, yet another timeless bridge between blue-eyed, teen idol music and rock'n'roll that we know now! The lyrics start off telling of Caroline getting a hair cut... and she's a different person. I assume this is about her changing.

Rightfully so... the relationship seems to be at an end with the changing character of Caroline! There is a light jazz feel to the song I dig alright as well. Brian Wilson is singing some pretty high notes in this song that is enjoyable.

I also would like to point out something that sounds like a harpsichord, it's somewhat foreshadowing of the psychadelia era soon to unravel! Percussion echo, harpsichord, is this not the structure of the late 1960's psychadelia?! +1 for this influence Beach Boys.

That's about where this song ends for me, the sound of the Beach Boys is a little bit too dated for me. It's very nice to know of, and hear occasionally, somewhat like a museum! You love seeing ancient pictures, but if you have a very modern house, you wouldn't wanna bring home Civil War paintings.... just something nice to look at sometimes.

For sake of history, and my appreciation for their contributions I will rate this song 7.5/10! I like the lyrics, just a little hard to swallow.

I suggest one of the following in order of highest recommendation!

1) Traffic - Freedom Rider
2) Queens of the Stone Age - The Blood is Love
3) Velvet Underground - I'm Set Free
4) Velvet Underground - I'm Beginning To See the Light
5) Neurosis & Jarboe - Erase

Now come on! This is the 2nd forced listening thread that has dropped off after I suggest. What's the deal? Am I really not wanted here? :(

no, thats what happens to FL sometimes. I might get one later, at the moment I have to download lectures and study before the exam tomorrow..

later then is now, now
as promised, I'll do one

[b]Queens Of The Stone Age - The Blood Is Love[/b]

Unusual waltz intro.
Soon changes to a not too hard bit of 4/4 rock. This sounds like their normal sound, going by the songs I've heard before, just a bit softer. A siren guitar line that just keeps going for ages.

This verse, I guess it could be called, goes on for quite a while with slightly strange muse-like chord progressions and that sireny sounding lead guitar. I don't mind it, but probably couldnt listen to it too often. It's very dry sounding... or feeling, it's like dust is blowing by in the middle of nowhere on a hot day. The singer has a very drowsy voice, he blends in to the music.

A more waltz like instrumental passage makes for a change to the music. Soon goes back to the long verse, I think it's even longer this time. There's a bit where it slows down for a bit, I had hopes that it would play something different, but again it's gone back to the verse riff, and ends soon after

For 6:37, it felt about that. I would have liked a bit more variation to get away from that one long verse over and over. That said, it wasn't a bad sound, just overused I feel.
6.5/10

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yeah, last chance for this song:

[b][url=http://www.comcen.com.au/~caracarol/The%20Red%20Paintings%20-%20Walls%20-%2002%20-%20The%20Streets%20Fell%20Into%20My%20Window.mp3]The Red Paintings - The Streets Fell Into My Window[/url][/b] - very art rock

[B]The Red Paintings - The Streets Fell Into My Window[/B]

Ok we're starting out with a violin I believe... with some guy talking. This guy is pretty eerie as well. I'm liking the violin playing with the subtle guitar joinin in after 30 seconds or so. And here comes the conjoining of all instruments and a dreamy choir in the background with the guy's talking getting even more irate than before... borderline screaming.

Ok... if you could mix the dude from They Might Be Giants, Neil Young, & Thom Yorke... I think it would sound like this guy. Or maybe i'm just really tired and imaginative. Anyway, I like the tense guitar.... it's the kind of 1,2,3, 1,2,3 1,2,3 that you hear in horror flicks. And now we get the chorus with a jam part, and an IMMEDIATE return to the horror-guitar, I like it. (Don't get me confused this isn't goth rock or anything, just a tense guitar verse)

To the finale, we get a few violin notes that weren't on the song before to add some complexity... and an ending composition-jam. Now we return back to the subtle tense guitar to allow the song to leave you with knots in your stomach!

This is a very solid song. This might not be a favorite, but this song has me searching for some more music by this band! 7.3/10

1) Traffic - Freedom Rider (60's jazz-rock... not pop-jazz either)
2) Muse - Dead Star (90's alt-rock radiohead impersonators)
3) Velvet Underground - I'm Set Free (60's art rock)
4) Velvet Underground - I'm Beginning To See the Light (60's art rock)
5) Neurosis & Jarboe - Erase (Industrial metal)

*Bump

Any chance of an upload for one of them? I'm unable to download anything currently.

downloading now

[b]Traffic - Freedom Rider[/b]

Sax and piano starts things. The singer starts, and it does sound like something from an era long passed. The song somehow sounds ahead of it's time, not that I'd know, but something about it is unusual... hey there's a flute.

I didn't like the piano/sax section at first, but it's grown on me quickly. Theres another verse, then chorus, much like before. It builds up to bit of a climax with the piano and organ.

Flute solo! Rather interesting to hear, it reminds me that I have heard very few flute solo's. Ooh, there's 2 of them at times, side by side. Very cool. It goes on for a while.

After the solo, the singer sounds more soulful, or more desperate? But it turns into an growing instrumental climax, with the line "Freedom Rider" repeated every now and then. The flute comes back going wild, but awsome. Then as it can go no further, the mood drops right off and it ends well.


If I was myself, as I am now, but in the 60's, this is the type of music I'd be listening to. I really liked it. 9.5/10


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[b][url=http://www.comcen.com.au/~caracarol/Down To Size - Hoax.mp3]Down To Size - Hoax[/url][/b] - medium-hardcore/emo.. I think

[b][url=http://www.comcen.com.au/~caracarol/XTC - Apple Venus - 06 - Greenman.mp3]XTC - Greenman[/url][/b] - 70s pagan pop-rock

[b]Sepultura - The Waste[/b] - heavy tribal/jungle metal. It has Mike Patton, and the only other flute solo I can think of.

I'll do this one hopefully. That flute solo sounds interesting.