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Dibs

[B]Rush-Spirit of Radio[/B]
Starts out fast with the guitar, building in up energy. Drums come pounding in. Slows down going into the first riff. Singer comes in.

Guitar fades out for a second, lets me hear the percussion better. Returns to the first guitar part. The riffs that follow sound simple, yet very enjoyable similar to the begining riffs but changed in a few parts.

Builds energy like in the begining, then wam everything drops into a new riff and then changes into a slow reggae-like beat. Singers voice is clearer now. Very nice voice.

Guitar solo is alright, a bit weak sound wise. Goes back to the climbing guitar part in the begining.

Very good song. I especially like the ups and downs of the song. The transistions are suprising and caught my attention.

8.75/10

Recomendations:

[B]Toast Machine-Meshuggha Song (Bassist + Drummer, local band)[/B]
[url]http://s32.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3IDJ0O3APRJPV33E95P6BQKPXU[/url]
[B]3 Inches of Blood-Fear on the Bridge (Metal)[/B]
[url]http://s32.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2R0ZPN42VTDRR091W7X424APIG[/url]
[B]Talking Heads-Burning Down the House [/B]

dibs

Toast Machine

The song opens up with a rather funky beat, and a nicely done lead by the bass. There seems to be no real intro; the song gets things going right from the beginning. The bass player’s playing and tone seems a bit messy (If that makes sense), but I believe it is technically nicely done. I think I here some slap, pop, and various other techniques. I’m not a bass player, so I may be wrong on some of the terms.

Around fifty-five seconds, the bass has really gotten better sound wise; I’m guessing he is slapping. The drumming is also quite well done. The drummer doesn’t seem to be trying to show off, but he keeps a nice steady beat and plays few fills on (what I seems to be) a high-hat and china crash.

Very short song (One minute and forty-six seconds), but I am satisfied. It sounds a little bit like Primus, especially when the bass starts to pick up. I though it was pretty good.

7/10 :)

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Taj Mahal - Stagger Lee*
Tony Rice - Blackberry Blossom
The Byrds - You Ain't Going Nowhere
David Grisman - Dawg's Bull
Grateful Dead - He's Gone*
Grateful Dead - Crazy Fingers
Jimmy Cliff - Sitting in Limbo

*Should be live, if possible.

Bump.

bump

Okay, I hope I'm doing this right, dibs.

Jimmy Cliff

I think he's reggae, almost positive. Let's see how it turns out.

Starts out very mellow, the singer has a very soft voice.

I like how the music gets louder in the second verse, the drums kick in more.

AS we move on to the chorus, it continues in the same style. I think I detect horns, at least the second time I do. His band seems to mesh very well. Nothing special about the lyrics thus far, more of a relaxed song. I think I hear some Rastafarian messages (assuming he's Jamaican) unless I'm getting the wrong message out of the song.

AS we move into the outro, It's the same kind of thing, but with Gospel-like singers in the backround. The song starts to fade and I hear some flute. Overall not bad.

In conclusion, I liked the song. It had good music; a very nice groove to it. My problem with it, as with other Carribbeain(sp?) influenced music, is that it is pretty repetetive.

7.5/10


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Jack Johnson - Fall line
Jack Johnson - Banana Pancakes
George Thorogood - Move it on Over
Yes - South Side of the Sky

[QUOTE]I think I hear some Rastafarian messages (assuming he's Jamaican) unless I'm getting the wrong message out of the song.[/QUOTE]

Actually I'm pretty sure Jimmy Cliff is Christian.

[QUOTE=Badmoon]Actually I'm pretty sure Jimmy Cliff is Christian.[/QUOTE]

That was pretty much a total guess on my part. He was talking about his faith, so I know a lot of Reggae artists are very religious and Rastafarian.

BTW: In that second avatar thing in your profile, Is that Peter Tosh?

Yes it is Peter Tosh.

Bump. I can't do any Forced Listening on this computer without a direct link :(

Dibs.

[b]Jack Johnson - Banan Pancakes[/b]

Jack Johnson is awesome but I've only heard the singles.

So this song begins with what I assume is a very Jack Johnson-y guitar part. There is rain in the background. Then it pops into poppy song. It's pretty happy and I like the lyrics. The song has a very positive feel-good vibe about. It's not my favorite song I've heard by him by any means. It's not bad, it's just not as good as some of the other stuff I've heard.

His voice doesn't sound as good as I remember. He's singing higher or something. I like how chilled out he is. The music just radiates chill. He should write the theme song for world peace.

Bah-dah bup bah-dah.... I'm singing along already. It's so catchy and easy. Not very complicated and a bit repetitive but it's not a very long song and it's very enjoyable. I think I'll get more by him finally. Not much else to say. It's all pretty simple.

8/10

Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - Pthisis (avant-garde)

YSI coming.

[url]http://s39.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3PAS9SH92YVBD1LVRH4K3ZOW44[/url]

Le dib.

Sorry for the delay, flying things kept distracting me.

I've heard another song by these guys before, and it was odd. If this one's anything like that one, I'm not sure how good of a review this'll be.
[b]Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - Phthisis[/b] - 3:44

Starts off with God-knows-what noise. Sounds almost like whale noise, but orchestrated. COuld well be strings of some kind, and they're soon followed by some twangy guitar and bass, and various other sounds following the same pattern as them. Vocals come in, and they're almost Bjork-like; similar style anyway, if not actually Bjork herself. I like them, anyway.

From around 1:10 the background music changes, to a different rhythm of multiple instruments (and what I'm now fairly sure are strings in the background), and occasional what sounds like some number greater than 1 guys shouting "sah!" or something. The female vocals continue more or less the same over the top of this, though.

Okay, after that, there's even more going on. This is getting harder and harder to describe play-by-play. It's all good, though; another voice has joined out Bjork imitator, a male voice, I think. They may well be speaking a different language, I can't really tell, and the drums are going somewhat crazy. Other than that I can't really tell what's what.

The song's getting to the end now (it's rather short for what it is; when I think avant-garde, I think 20-minute Haino guitar abuse sessions and such), and there's a moaning and wailing - the kind you'd expect from souls trapped in some kind of torment in a bad film - and now (again), what seems to be a high rising tone, like a kettle whistling, is in the background. What seems to be one of the most solid riffs of the song so far has started playing, only about fifteen seconds from the end. Maybe it isn't actually any more "solid", and just seems so because of the absence of lots of other sounds.

The riff "da-dun!"s to a close, and the song ends with an olde time sample, a in a language other than English, and then some more trapped souls vocalising.

Well, avant garde definitely. Pretty good though. 8/10.

[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] (hardcore/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)
[url=http://s51.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3IRHIX06QIVLQ1FVHOW3HSH9SN]Upper Crust - Finished with Finishing School[/url] (rock'n'roll)

dibs in the hope it goes well today

[b]Einsturzende Neubauten - Ende Neu (Live)[/b]

I've been wanting to hear this for a while.

Whooshes open it, must be the air compressor I've heard about. It goes on for a while, and some light effects are used on the sound. About a minute in a marchy bass comes in playing the same note.. twice at once it sounds like. The air compressor stops.

Synth strings and mostly German vocals start up now, they go along with the bass, kind of soft, but then some percussion drops in to give it a constant driving feel. It sounds like a war theme, and more tribal than industrial. Some bits are louder and fierce, which adds the goodness of variation.

Now this goes on for a bit too, through the soft-intense cycles. The harsh sound of the spoken German language makes it work, and the guy's strange deep voice makes it even better.

At around 4:30, most of it backs off, just the bass is left playing it's usual riff. A couple of instruments come back lightly, then suddenly all of them are back and pushing the machine forward again. This part is the last bit of the song, it seems much like what was happening before in the fierce part. Then the song ends at a good place to end a song... crowd cheers.

Once again, EN have been interesting to listen to, I thought this was going to be minimalistic, but the driving feel of it was good. And for the small amount of instruments used, it did rather well, and managed to not sound like common music.
Overall, I thought it was pretty good. They sound good live too.
9/10


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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]Modest Mouse - Trailer Trash[/b] - indie

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

[b][url=http://www.comcen.com.au/~caracarol/T.I.S.M.%20-%20The%20Last%20Australian%20Guitar%20Hero.mp3]T.I.S.M. - The Last Australian Guitar Hero[/url][/b] - alt-pop/poetry/comedy, language warning

just giving this a kindly ole bump because any song id want to listen to, i already know

Dibs on Alchemist, if I can find it.

EDIT: Yeah, I still have dibs.

I added a TISM link if you or anyone else wants to give it a try

ill leave it open for a while, but if nobody dibs in the next few hours ill do the TISM song (not really too interested in it, id rather give the dibs to someone who might be more interested in one of the songs listed)

Feel free to take dibs if you wish. I only really wanted to do Alchemist, but I couldn't get hold of the track :(

ah this is what FL is about, giving new stuff a try. And while its neither rock or metal, some of you might share some of the sentiments in the TISM song.

I know, but I don't really have the time to do it right now.

sex bump

Dibs.

since no one else is doing anything at the moment, may i please have a YSI for the Karnivool. then dibs

Dancin' Man has dibs at the moment.