haha yeah i have that one. but it wasnt part of your recommendations. :p i'll do it though.

[b] gordian knot - sing deep mountain[/b]

-starts off with a like drop A bass intro and some way dowtuned drums. pretty guitar layers over top of a beat that sounds evil. something about this song gives it this quality that is just sounds like an unpatterned jam. things are too random, loose, etc. thats weird because GK isnt known for that. there are some nice shredfests every now and then that sound great, but whenever its just soft easy jamming this really doesnt do anything for me. decent, but nothing to go crazy over. 6.7/10

i recommend:

[b]
coil - broccoli
damien rice - the blower's daughter
dillinger escape plan - sugar coated sour
[/b]

This thread kind of died for a while..

[b]Damien Rice - The Blower's Daughter[/b]

Starts with gentle guitar strumming and a voice. Sounds like it's a good voice for singing, which should be good for a gentle acoustic song. Got some strings coming in in the background now. So far his voice actually seems so-so.. mostly it's good, and is highlighted by the high part he does on "Can't take my eyes off you", but at other times it seems like it was about to waver and crack, which is annoying me slightly. I like the strings on the chorus'..he's singing high now, around 3:30, and I can't decide whether I really like it or whether I think it sounds stupid.

Well, it certainly wasn't terrible - I liked his voice (sometimes), and the use of strings - but the song seemed lacking. Maybe he has other songs I'd like more. I think 6.5/10 for this one, for the quality of the tools but the lack of anything really good having been crafted.

Songs:
Alec Empire - [i]The Path of Destruction[/i] (metal/technodancethingy)
Einsturzende Neubauten - [i]Ende Neu[/i] (industrial/experimental) - if possible get the live version, as it has a good (not guitar) solo at the start.
Mr Bungle - [i]Slowly Growing Deaf[/i], [i]Squeeze Me Macaroni[/i] or [i]Carousel[/i] (experimental, from their funkier album)

i'm sorry, i meant to suggest [i]cannonball[/i] by him...his lyrics really are genius.

anywho im going to be away from home for the next week, with only 56k connection, so i cant really check this stuff out. i'm going to be back in full force next week, so you folks better be getting ready. this thread's going to move at warp speed :cool:

hehe.

That made me feel wonderful..I'm on 56K all the time.

I'm slowly bringing everyone down to my level :cool:

56k.... that doesnt stop me from finding and getting stuff
being away for 4 days does slow me down though :p

[b]Alec Empire - Path Of Destruction[/b]

quiet stringed intro, grimly sounding. some talk of a bleak future.
and bang- it goes pretty hard.. core, heavy industrial electronic drums with a techno sounding "doosh" bass drum. he screams it up a fair bit.
its the soundtrack of a mechanical soccer riot

its got its ups and downs, quiet and soft, then loud and hard (most of the time)
it speeds up lots towards the end and finishes pretty hard. the outro.. cant even hear it right now, probably doesnt matter

well... its heavy electronic/industrial music with lots of yelling, so if you liked metal and wanted to get into techno, or vice versa.. this would probably be a good crossover song. However, I'm not. I havent heard much of this kind of music... and I dont think I will be after it in the forseeable future. I dont see myself liking this song much, maybe if I get angry.. but thats rare.

6/10

[b]Curse Ov Dialect - Shamans[/b] ... experimental hip hop, for which you'll need probably soulseek to find
[b]Solotaro - A Walk With Fate[/b] .. semi-experimental trip-hip-hop.. the link is up a few posts^

[B][U]Solotaro - A Walk With Fate [/U] [/B]
It starts off with a beat very reminiscent of the streets. Then some scratching comes in which blows that comparison away. Nice women vocals come in with a very trippy sense to them. Some guy comes in and starts talking about hits and breasts, (Also kittens). It seems very different then most of the other rap I have heard. Gets kind of repetitive like most rap songs. The women’s vocals come back in, I like them alot. The guy comes back in..he is boring. The lyrics seem to have substance just I don't like his voice that much. Scratching solo makes it a little interesting and then we get back to the very strange women vocals, which are awesome. The rest of the song is just backing back and forth between the women vocals and the rapper.

It was decent, not my kind of music though.

[B]6.4/10[/B]

[U]
[B]Songs:[/B][/U]

[I]Damien Rice - Eskimo ( Acoustic Opera :))

Velvet Chain - Strong ( Trippy Alternative )

Shabutie - Godfather's Lollipop ( Porn Rock )[/I]

[b]Velvet Chain - Strong[/b]

Starts with a sort of hip-hop-ish beat and some female vocals in the background. Then the full song actually kicks in. Simple but kinda nice bassline. Guitars playing a sort of light little ditty. I'm starting to not like the vocals as much now. Not bad, but they seemed to have more promise at the beginning part. I'm a big fan of great soothing female vocals, so this song's vocals has a lot of competition. Not a whole lot changing, this is getting sort of repetitive... A bit more, still more of the same... Eventually fades out.

6/10

Not good, not bad. Too repetitive (saying a lot coming from someone who likes post-rock). Had promise, didn't live up to it.

-[b]The Pocket Dwellers - Shine[/b] - Rap/funk/jazz band, this is a mellower song.
-[b]Calexico - Bloodflow[/b] - Seen them called alternative country, but I'm not sure I agree... Not sure what else to call them, though. From my favorite album (The Black Light), which never seems to get recognition.
-[b]Gruvis Malt - Malaise[/b] - Jazzy rap/rock
-[b]The Cardigans - Iron Man[/b] - Lounge-y indie-pop, covering the Sabbath song

Bump.

I didn't realise Kazoo was past the dibs stage. Maybe you should've bumped the thread with a new post.

shotgun.


[b]the cardigans - iron man[/b]

Welcome back :thumb:

Got your message last night, but I was disconnected sometime before I came and saw it.

Bump.

Slow download eh?

Death Cab For Cutie - President Of What?

someone else take it. i have literally searched for all of those files several times a day the past few days. no dice. :(

Yeah man, the search on Soulseek hasn't been working very good lately (if at all). Most of those shouldn't be too hard to find. The Cardigans should be very easy to find, and the others not-so-easy but still not too hard.

Bands that turned up hundreds of results a few months ago have barely been giving me anything at all now. Especially the past couple days.

Yeah, I'd noticed that as well. I still found some results though, mostly for the Cardigans and Calexico. They're akk queued though, so if anyone wants to jump in ahead of me, go for it.

Possible dibs.

I'll delete this if not. The Cardigans one jumps from 15-20 minutes on download to 3 hours. :-/

ook, i wanna get some of these songs, but.... i'm scared. basically last couple of times i had kazaa my computer got loads of viruses... are there any other programs that are ok for this? whats soulseek like?

soulseek is good.. though I did find cydoor on my computer.. and those files created on the same day that I got soulseek.. but I removed it and everything still works.
just dont get .exe and similar files if you are worried about viruses.

I'll do Gruvis Malt or Pocket Dwellers if Trooper doesnt get the song

[url]www.slsknet.org[/url] for Soulseek, I think.

[b]The Cardigans- Iron Man [/b]

Ooh. this song is Groooovy. :cool: Very relaxing. Starts off with that nice guitar riff and the drums. Ah, I was wondering about that. It's a cover of Black Sabbath's. The singing is quite different (very different). They make the song a lot more jazzy and funky. I like it alot. Now is that a triggered drumset? or Electronic one maybe? It has nice little guitar mini-solos before the singer comes in. This is truly a relaxing song. Definately a good cover of Iron Man. At 2:00 minutes in, it changes a bit. Gets a bit calmer. Nice guitar riff through this part. I love the singers voice. 2:45 it goes back to normal. Nice little keyboard riff. (I think it's a keyboard...:confused:) Very good song indeed. ("OH IRONMAN...") :cool: Around 3:30, a nice little solo again, before the singer goes into a large ammount of "Boop boo bee doop doo bee boops". Then the song fades out. That is a very nice song.

9/10 Nice :cool:

Praxis- Cold Rolled and Iron Dub
Praxis- Seven Laws of Woo
The Gathering- Great Ocean Road

dibs on that shiznat

You still doing that Pixie?

oooohhhh *pouts*

i want that cardigans tune even more now.

hehe.

None of those will DL for me ..so someone else can go

download...
'judith' by a perfect circle
'god called in sick today' by AFI
and
'the heart and the shape' by 36 Crazyfists

all these are mass good songs, they all have their own style and don't try to be like any other band. these songs contain great meaning and they are all thought provoked. cheers.

[QUOTE=nerida_delonge]download...
'judith' by a perfect circle
'god called in sick today' by AFI
and
'the heart and the shape' by 36 Crazyfists

all these are mass good songs, they all have their own style and don't try to be like any other band. these songs contain great meaning and they are all thought provoked. cheers.[/QUOTE]

That isn't how the thread works.

I've got The Gathering one queued up.

The Gathering - Great Ocean Road

As a big fan of Aghora, and having seen comparisons between them and The Gathering, I thought now is as good a time as any to give them a try.

Its seems to be fairly straight up rock, but with both harsh (not heavy) and ambient edges.
The female singer has a nice voice, she sounds a bit Irish..? The music is kind of simple, slow and soothing too, and the drums give it a mechanical feel when the singing stops, which reminds me of Heliotropic by Failure. There is a somewhat harsh sizzling guitar noise fading in and out

After a while this harshness and mechanicalness goes and it becomes more relaxing, kind of like a swaying ocean feel. From about half way through, up to the end, theres a long guitar "solo", or more a non-repeating section which sounds good and really adds to the song. It fades out and all is calm and well. I quite liked this song!

The vocals are the only comparison to Aghora I can find in this song, but it was a pretty good song all the same. It seems very well written, each part sounds good in its place. The relaxing bits are really relaxing, same with the harsh parts too.

9.5/10

[b]Curse Ov Dialect - Shamans[/b]. Experimental prog hip-hop, get from soulseek.

[b]Curse ov Dialect - Shamans[/b] - 4:24

Starts off straight away with what you could call ethnic/tribal non-lyrical vocals, and then some tribal-sounding instruments as well. Fairly soon, the vocals come in. I think they'll probably be the deciding factor in whether you like the band (or this track, anyway) - they're sort of deliberately not in tune. Since it sounds deliberate though, I don't mind it. I really like the lyrics (those I can make out). A little flute-sounding instruments keeps making little appearances, and I like it. Now there's a woman crying/sighing. But that didn't last long. And another rapped verse, followed by flutey "chorus" and some gravelly vocals in a language I can't make out. There's a rising horror-movie type tone in the background, but nothing becomes of it as the songs ends.

I liked it. I didn't love it, but it was good, and I like the lyrics. The rhythm of the lyrics was good as well, but I wasn't too keen on the instrumentation (except the flutey thing), or the ending in general, which just kind of petered out. 7/10

Songs:
Einsturzende Neubauten - [i]Ende Neu[/i] (industrial/experimental) - if possible get the live version, as it has a good (not guitar) solo at the start.
Mr Bungle - [i]Slowly Growing Deaf, Squeeze Me Macaroni or Carousel[/i] (experimental, from their funkier album)
Fantomas - [i]Delirium Cordia: Surgical Sound Specimens From the Museum of Skin[/i] (you know you want to)

dibs

That song is 104.7 megs big..

Yeah. You know you want to.

Just go for one the others. If you can't find either, try;

Frou Frou - [i]I Need a Hero/Holding Out For a Hero[/i] (unashamed pop, cover of the 80s version, but I like the vocals, and the lyrics, which are just the same as the original. The first minute or so is great)

It's almost done..I've heard about this..is it a 30 minute song?

75 minutes, but only the first 55 are really worth it. After that it's 20 minutes of near silence.

[B]Fantomas - Delirium Cordia: Surgical Sound Specimens From the Museum of Skin[/B]

Seriously, I do not recommend this to anyone..Masturbating is a more effective use of time..This is 75 minutes of completely messed up noises that aren't even interesting. I like long songs, I listen to the Mars Volta and the Allman Brothers..but this just doesn't do it for me.

[B]1.2/10[/B]

[I]The Pixies - Bam Thwok (Their first recording in 13 Years)[/I]

bump

[b]the pixies - bam thwok[/b]


awesome intro. i love kim's singing. she's great. this song has some good guitar work, though nothing amazing. i love the lines waka waka waka bam thwok. haha its like scat singing applied to punk music.

great stuff. one of my top 5 pixies songs. i bleed is my favorite.

8/10


lester flatt and earl scruggs - old salty dog blues

killwhitneydead - hold me closer tony danza

sheep on drugs - acid test

[b]Killwhitneydead - Hold Me Closer Tony Danza[/b]

Spoken word intro, with some strings in the background, someone talking about all their hate and pain. aww, he wants to share it with everyone.
Hardcore type intro to the music part, but with more death metal vocals.. even "goooor" type stuff.
Then the music goes more like death metal
A sample - "You have lost nothing... I've lost everything"
Theres some fast double bass, but everything else slows down for a chunker bit, and sireny guitar.
ehm... that was over pretty quick
40 seconds of spoken word intro and about 55 seconds of music.
Well, I picked up the obvious feeling of anger/pain/hate in the song, heh...
It doesn't do much for me at all, doesn't do anything actually. But its music does live up to the mood conveyed in the spoken intro. Could have gone for longer too.

3/10

[b]The Grand Silent System - Stint The Obey[/b]
ethnico-experimental-jazz-rocka
[url]http://www.mp3.com.au/track.asp?id=39773[/url]

[b]Anathema - Alternative 4[/b]
quite creepy ambient rock

[U][B]The Grand Silent System - Stint The Obey[/B][/U]

Starts off with a very jazzy intro. The only thing lacking is a jazzy bass. Then it breaks into some like flute type stuff, don't really like it. Vocals come in; the guy has an annoying voice. More with the somewhat Arabian tune to the music. We get some rock ballad type riffs now and then back to the Arabian type flow. Breaks into a jazzy type of bridge. Really nice sounding although the vocals kind of ruin it. Goes back to the chorus with the rock ballad type riffs. Breaks into a very low-key guitar bass drum and flute instrumental. It is getting louder, and louder and louder and then it stops. Kind of a let down. The lyrics sounded decent but the song wasn't that good, original but not my taste
[B]
6.7/10[/B]

[U]My Songs:[/U]
(British Rap)
[B]The Streets - Stay Positive
The Streets - Dry Your Eyes[/B]

[b]The Streets - Dry Your Eyes[/b]

Strings intro, sounds sad, and it probably is with that title.

This is a soft one, the singers talking voice is his usual one, but it doesnt have that cocky sound to it.

It's about a relationship break up.
He says he wants to change all the things he can to try and get another chance. The talked lyrics describe a single moment just after a break up. Almost entirely physical in the way he describes looking down to the ground, touching her chin, etc.. I can really imagine it, the lyrics are quite "seeable". There is not much emotion contained in them, but they make you think about what's happening and how it's happening, which makes them indirectly emotional.

He sings the chorus (double tracked vocals or 2 singers harmonized), in which he tells himself to let go, move on... etc. The chorus vocals are quite melodic.

Extremely simple drums... 1 bass, 1 snare, repeat... yet it sounds ok. Theres just acoustic guitar and some strings to accompany the vocals.

The verse/chorus thing repeats, progressing through the moment. I like his denial bit. The chorus is kind of a comforter after each verse.

It's a very well written song, pretty sad, with simple, but suitable music. I like the way he describes it all.

9/10

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Ok, don't get shocked by my suggestion...





















[b]Spice Girls - Viva Forever[/b]

Just pretend you've never heard of the Spice Girls before. If you listen without being biased from their pop status... then you might be quite surprised.