[B]Neutral Milk Hotel - Song Against Sex[/B] 3:41

I have been meaning to check this guys out for the longest longest time. I know that somebody from Neutral Milk Hotel Is Olivia Tremor control (my favorite band at the moment) so i'm expecting something similar. the sound opens on some sort of siren noise and people talking. The starts fully at 15 seconds in, I notice right away that the bass stands out very much, It gives the song a very moving feeling, almost in a traditional way. The horns are very nice as well I didn't expect it either. Not much is changing though but it doesn't feel repetitive, that is very good. A horn Solo starts around 2:35 descending up and down, again I like the horns very much. The song ends on two horns playing by themselves.

[B]9/10[/B] Just My Style

[I]Will I Listen To More Of The Same Band:[/I] Yes, at this very moment.

Olivia Tremor Control - Black Foliage (Lo-Fi, itself there are 4 other versions)
XTC- Life Begins At The Hopl (New Wave)
StereoLab - Percolator (French Art Pop)

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[B]Stereolab - Percolator[/B]

ok, the song starts off with a drum beat and and a high-pitched dripping sound (if that makes any sense). Then an electric organ comes in and plays quick notes to the beat of the dripping sound.

The vocals come in. I know that it's french, but it still sounds rather silly.

Ok, now a bassline comes in and it sounds alright, but that organ is getting on my nerves. This interlude thing isn't bad; basically just the same thing over and over again about 8 times. More singing, another little interlude, more singing...i'm sensing a pattern here. Another instrumental, same as the last one. Repeat. Repeat. Another instrumental. done.

errrr, 5/10. No more, no less.

Nada Surf - Popular
Godspeed You Black Emperor! - lift your skinny fists.../gathering storm (the first 12 minutes of the album)
Mogwai - Katrien

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[B]Nada Surf - Popular[/B]

it starts off with some people talking and then the guitars come in with the people continuing to talk. then about a minute into the song the guitars pick up. it keeps to keep switching between the talking and singing this is a somewhat nice change although the talking gets to be annoying after a while. the singing is pretty good as well but i dont feel he really gets to show it that much because the often use of random talking in the song. but it doesnt make the song bad i just dont think the band could show off their full potential. still a good song though.

6.5/10

Leo Kottke- clone
slint-nosferatu man
keller williams- freaker by the speaker

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Ok, i bought this cd a month or so ago and haven't given it a REALLY good listen through, so, yeah:

[B]Slint - Nosferatu Man[/B]

Starts off with a steady, slow drum beat and slow strumming guitars. Random high-pitched noises come in every once in a while. Suddenly the beat picks up and explodes with distortion. The singer yells and it calms down once again. This continues for a little bit until the singer yells again and the distortion comes back in.

The bridge here is somewhat repetitive, but is still catchy. they change the riff up a little and the singer starts to whisper a few times. Its hard to make out what he's saying. Actually, the overall production is kinda bad. A minute or so instumental and then the singer comes back in. The drums sound pretty cool right here, but then suddenly it stops and fades out for the next 30 seconds.

i'd give this an 8.5/10. The guitars have a really cool sound to them and it's necessary to any post rock fan.

Smashing Pumpkins - Geek USA (alternative/acid Rock)
Explosions in the Sky - Your Hand in Mine (instrumental Post Rock)
Dope - Pig Society (heh, i haven't listened to that for a LONG time; industrial/nu-metal)

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Explosions in the Sky - Your Hand in Mine

A Pretty intro with bass and delayed guitars. I like this. A sort of rumble is happening in the back which is cool. Very atmospheric. No more rumble. Ah drums. Nice drum part. It all flows together really well. A lot of bass but it works well with this. Nice and clean nice melodies. Back to the intro but more pronounced. There's the rumble! It reminds me of Tool's song Lateralus when the drums come in. Ohhh little drum fill and a cool new guitar part. This feels like music for a movie soundtrack. Here come the drums (Sound like and oncoming train. ch-ch-ch-ch-ch) Octaves going on now. When the tremelo picking starts the drum part changes to somethign very cool. It's all pretty simple but good. And there go the drums again. Everything's fading out but there are like 2 minutes left of the song....is that the rumble I hear? I really like this part. guitars are doubling and the bass drum is going. Drums are back. The guitars have all been really simple thus far. A few more complexities would have been nice but it's not unpleasant by any means. I can feel the song drawing to a close. It's over.

Overall this song was really well done and a pleasure to listen to. I think I'll find me somemore of this.
8.75/10

Godspeed You! Black Emperor - rockets fall on Rocket Falls (Alternative neo-classical wierdness)
Sigur Ros - Untitles #4 (Alternative neo-classical wierdness)
NIN - La Mer (not your usual NIN)

I'd dib it but i have those songs so ill let someone else have them.

*Me desperately wants to join in*

I edited to option just for you modrock.

go for it modrock

Yay. me dibs


Bit late like..

NIN-la mer

Ok starts iff with bass and a kinda echo piano. The a melody on some wooden percussive instrument comes in. So far its good. Then some femal voice comes in.
Suddenly drums kick in and takes me by suprise really. At first i thought the song was ruined but then im liking it now.
Two minutes in and some more instrumetation layers come in and its sounding good, a little dischordant and hazy in a way. Its fading out in a strange way. Kinda stops but then it starts again quietly, its feeling good. The NIN stuff ive heard is balls compared to this.
Its kinda just drifitng and it ends, its a very crud review but i was just chilling to most of the song.

It was good, is there more NIN stuff like this?

8/10

My songs-

Grandaddy-He's simple, he's dumb' he's the pilot
Ryan adams-shadowlands
camel-unevensong
Boards of canada-music is math

crud. my soulseek is on the fritz. :angry:

[QUOTE=moderaterock222]camel-unevensong[/QUOTE]

dibsy

pre-dibs. i wanted that dibs.

Camel - Unevensong

Camel is an unknown progressive rock band of the 70's. I never really listened to them until now, though I have heard [i]of[/i] them.

I really like the pyschadelic music in this song. You can tell that the members can really play their instruments as the bassline featured in the song is drilled into your brain from the start. The vocals at the begining are pretty weak, but the bass and guitar make up for it. The drums are pretty quiet through out the song. The sound of the song as a whole through the first three minutes puts me in a dream state, it's not like anything I have really experienced before. Eventually the song slows down halfway through, it's a good breakdown because the singing becomes lovely and absolutely beautiful for the first time. At around the 4 minute mark you hear the instruments get louder, and the rest of the song is a wonderful instrumental. Great start, great breakdown, great ending. Great song.

5/5 Thanks Modrock

Mine:
Edgar Varese - Arcana (A song with wonderful percussion. I advise anyone who likes electronic music to listen to this at some point. THIS IS THE ORIGINAL ELECTRONICA )
Smashing Pumpkins - Set The Ray To Jerry (Beautiful song, with haunting bass playing by darcy)
Nirvana - Hairspray Queen (Easily my favorite Nirvana song, try it out)

official dibs

Nirvana - "Hairspray Queen"

Just bass guitar, then drums enter. A couple repititions and now a guitar comes in. Different from the normal stuff I have heard of Nirvana.

Oh crap, the vocals that is. Woah. These vocals are nasty. I can't make out what they say, but they are annoying. Sad because the rest of the song is really catchy.

When it's just the instruments it is pretty good. Now another vocalist comes in and he is much better. I'm sorry, I just can't stand the other vocals. I don't know how anyone could.

There is a second shorter instrumental part, then some mumbled vocals. Now back to the other vocalist (the decent one). I haven't been able to make out a single word so far. Now there is a sloppy guitar part and some grunting, and the song fades out.

I'm really sorry, but I didn't like it.

3/5 for everything but the vocals.

The Cure - "Close To Me"

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[B]The Cure-Close To Me[/B]

the songs starts off with just with just some keyboards in the beginning. then some drums come in that kinda sound like they would be on a hip hop song but it goes with it nicely. then some thing else comes i cant really tell what kind of instrument it is but anyways it comes in. followed by some horns for a few seconds.

i really enjoy the vocals on here. ive never heard anything from the cure but this guys voice is really good i must say.

about 3 minutes into the song just a fabulous horn solo comes in and wow its amazing how many different things are incorporated into this song. but besides the horn solo everything just kinda is repetitve throughout the song.

6/10 i like this song only downfall is it gets rather repitive


Leo Kottke- Clone
Mission of Burma-Academy Fight Song
Jeff Healy Band-Angel Eyes

dibzeed.

[b]Jeff Healy Band - Angel Eyes[/b]

Starts with a nice wee arpeggio'd intro. I like this guy's voice alot, Jeff Healy one presumes?

When the drum fill comes in this song becomes really good. Back to the verse with guitar lead parts inbetween lines. Drum fill comes in for the chorus again. 2 mins in and it's not really changed much, although it's good how it is.

Lyrics are of a typical love song "what did i do to turn your angel eyes my way". Back to the ol' verse again. Now there's a lovely wee guitar solo at about 2:50, lovely tone on he guitar. Back to the chorus, it's beginning to grow on me now. The guitar in the backround compliments his voice really well. Mostly the same stuff now, a couple of lines then a wee guitar part, although that's not a complaint. Guitar lead until the song fades away, very pink floyd-esque.

Overall it's a nice love song but would wear thin after 10 listens. 7.5/10

[b]Kid Creole & The Coconuts - Stool Pigeon[/b]
[b]Counting Crows - Long December[/b]
[b]Oasis - Talk Tonight[/b]

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Oasis - Talk Tonight

Starts with acoustic guitar, clapping to keep beat, no drums. In comes the vocals, simple lyrics which I like. His voice is heavy but very smooth. Talented singer. Sounds like there might be a stringed instrument in the back ground, maybe a bass or something. Very simple chorus. "i wanna talk tonight, until the morning light, about how you saved my life". A very simple relaxing song. The only other Oasis song I've heard before was Wonderwall and this song is just as good, or better depending on what type of mood your in. I've heard about all the controversy between the members of Oasis and I think its too bad, they are great musicians. I will definently be looking into Oasis a little deeper. I give it 9/10... no 9.5/10, but this song is definently one for a relaxing mood, if I was hyper and in a party type mood I'd be pissed off by this song, but I'm tired and this song hits the spot.

My choices:
The Thermals - How We Know
Temple Of The Dog - Say Hello To Heaven
Hot Hot Heat - In Cairo

Dibs

The Thermals - [I]How We Know[/I]

As soon as the bass starts, it's immediately catchy. The guys voice is different, but the lyrics seem rather elimentary. Still a very simple but **** catchy bassline. Good chorus, nice noises/feedback just before 2nd verse. The guy's voice and the repetitive lyrics are geting a little annoying, but I can handle it. I really like the chorus, only 3 chords but still cool.

All in all a nice song. Simple,catchy and not too challenging. Nothing original or amazing, but decent.

7.1/10

[U][B]My Songs[/B][/U]

Hot Snakes - [I]Why Does It Hurt?[/I](Alt Rock/Punk)
Van Morrison - [I]Hard Nose The Highway[/I](Folk/ Jazz-rock)
mclusky - [I]Lightsabre Cocksucking Blues[/I] (Rock/Power-pop)
Korekyojin - [I]She Came Burning[/I](Japanese psych-prog)

-- I undib --
I wanted to listen to the japanese one but i cant find it anywhere...

Ill dib.

It looks like ill be doing the Mclucsky one but bare with me...