[b]Grand Magus - Summer Solstice[/b]

I've been really into the early Soundgarden stuff lately, so hopefully this is similar with more grunt.

Ohh yes! Deep guitar intro with a swing feel. A few bars in is a bit of lead guitar with wah over the top. It's chunky hard rock. Sometimes I just want to hear stuff like this - full cream THICK guitar with that slight bluesy feel.

The guy starts singing, has the appropriate voice, a few harmonies every now and then. Some occult sounding lyrics. He could be singing about some RPG in the chorus, "Fire magic".

After the chorus is a nice lead break. It's pretty basic actually, the verse following sounds like the one before, just some different words. Chorus the same. Who cares, its good foot stopming music. I'd like to have this on in the car.

Cool solo in the solo section. Chorus to end.

There's not really not much to say once you describe the verse and chorus.. eh. It was good, but there's nothing "wow, amamzing" about it. Is it even meant to be? Probably not. Not the type of thing I could listen to any time, but lately, stuff like this has been on my wish list.
8/10

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Anathema - Everwake .. ghostly
Broken Social Scene - Cranley's Gonna Make It .. feel-good instrumental indie
Clann Zú - One Bedroom Apartment .. melancholy
Kylie Minogue - Confide In Me .. kind of dark pop
Midnight Oil - My Country .. Aussie rock
Modest Mouse - The World At Large .. ambient indie
Salmonella Dub - Problems .. dub
Seascapes Of The Interior - Moving .. post rock. 20 mins
The Evpatoria Report - Optimal Region Selector .. post rock with some heavies. 9 mins
The National - Daughters Of The Soho Riots .. beautiful/sad soft indie
Violetine - Fuzzanova .. rock

If needed/wanted, I can probably upload anything except the post rock.

ya rly

Mine!

On the condition (not really, ill do it anyway) that 'tender (or anyone else) answer the following question because I know he frequents this thread:

What are some bands similar to Young Heart Attack and The Wildhearts? Im looking for some head bopin' staright out Rock N' Roll, and you introduced to me the two bands listed above so I figure... you know any more? =/ Thanks!

The National - Daughters of the Soho Riots

I’m a fan of ‘beautiful’ music, and I’ve heard The National being mentioned beside The Arcade Fire, one of my favorite bands, so I figured I’d give this one a shot.

We start off with a simple acoustic arpeggio, sort of slow and breezy helped out with a light beat of a bass in the background, something like you’d hear in the ‘reflection scene’ in many movies. Not haunting, but more of ‘thinking music’. It’s not a long drawn out into to ‘get you into the mood’ as many songs that start out in the same manner are – the vocals come in very soon after the start of the song. They’re deeper than I expected, but they fit the music well I think, it’s not so much singing as it is talking with a tune - it’s not harsh, yet not so soft as to make you think that this is just another pop song. I like the lyrics, there definitely not generic and have a meaning of their own

“break my arms around my love… you were right about the end, it didn’t make a difference… I’m here to take you now, out among the missing sons and daughters of the Soho Riots…”

This is a minimalistic song, driven by the same sort of basic melody, but it gets somewhat ‘heavier’ as more instruments come in – the well placed and scattered piano notes complement the guitar pretty well. There’s hints of hi-hat work, just a very simple tit-tat-tit, mostly just for atmosphere. The individual guitar notes give way to some strumming, and some bass, but again, it’s a device to build up the piece to stop it from going stale. It calms down again during the outro and that’s about it.

For what it’s trying to do, the song works pretty well. It’s not meant to be mindblowing, or overtly catchy, Keeping it simple and giving it mood and atmosphere seems to be the name of the game here, but I figure, give it the chance, and this song’ll grow on you like cancer.

7/10

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Christopher O'Riley - Black Star (Radiohead cover, Piano Instrumental)
Joe Stump - The Red Preist (Shreadz0rz speed metal)
Justin King - Phunkdified (folky/wolrd music acoustic guitar)
Orphaned Land - Norra El Norra (Middle-Eastern influenced metal)
Stream Of Passion - Passion (Female fronted prog-metal)
John Butler Trio - Attitude (Australain acoustic wizardy)
The Arcade Fire - Wake Up (Indie)
Ryan Adams - So ALive (light-rock)

Silver Ginger 5, Honeycrack, Super$hit 666, Ginger & the Sonic Circus, and Backyard Babies come to mind as well.

What did you expect of me?

I see. Sorry to disappoint :(

When it comes to the States I'm no really that bothered because they have Mountain Dew, which I can happily survive on until I get home.

Still, surprising to find it that far afield.

dibs

[QUOTE=StreetlightRock]
What are some bands similar to Young Heart Attack and The Wildhearts? Im looking for some head bopin' staright out Rock N' Roll, and you introduced to me the two bands listed above so I figure... you know any more? =/ Thanks![/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=Spat Out Plath]I'm not 'tender, but I can probably guess and endorse his answers. Ginger, obviously, Halfway To Gone and Therapy? are pretty much givens. The new Buckcherry album is great too.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=munky_magik]Silver Ginger 5, Honeycrack, Super$hit 666, Ginger & the Sonic Circus, and Backyard Babies come to mind as well.[/QUOTE]

These guys, and others, have you well covered. There's more than enough to keep you going for a while just exploring the extended family, so they're good suggestions. Also I have to leave in about five minutes, so I really don't have time to dig up some good suggestions or to explain further :-/ Sorry. I'll just take the time to say that if you like Super$hit 666, you'll most likely like Electric Eel Shock and (some) Boris (the rock-Boris, not the drone-Boris, even though they're the same band). Happymeal, in Alt/Indie, amongst others, should be able to fill you in better on them.

Cool, thanks fellas, I've got bits and peices of some of the bands ya'll have mentioned but ill check the rest out as well, sweet.

[B]The Arcade Fire - [I]Wake Up[/I][/B]

There was quite a lot of commotion about this band not so long ago. I remember spending more time reading about their and their albums greatness in reviews and not going out there and listening to the record itself; so this is my attempt to make up for neglecting the CD.

The song opens with a simple little guitar riff and the drums come in and clank around with it. The band waste no time at all before getting some euphoria in there; after a little lick from a harp instrument thingy you get a vocal chant and strings added to the song, which does sound pretty good.

The song takes a downward turn on the happy-o-meter when a lone vocalist takes up the singing for the verse section. There are still the orchestral strings in there and it all sounds very cool. I like the vocalist’s voice but the lyrics seem a bit weak at this moment with rhymes such as “colder/older” feeling a little obvious.

These sections repeat themselves for us with a change in what the strings play at one point and a bit of shout-y which feed nicely back into the chant. He sings something along the lines “I’ll guess we’ll just have to ad-” and the chant takes on the “just” part of adjust which I think it pretty cool. 1up for the vocals there.

There’s another section where the back vocalist take a more lyrics based approach to singing rather than the chanting style of before. It’s all going rather nicely when the song makes a bit of stylistic change in style and goes into a ‘Grease’ section, with the bass guitar really propelling the song along. This change is handled nicely and I’ve just noticed an accordion I think in there which I like. Oh there is some clapping in there too. And then it all comes to a bit of a sudden stop…the song is five minutes and thirty five seconds long but that end section for me is crying to be filled out and is probably my main quibble with the song writing.

Well it’s a good song. I like the range of instruments and how they are used in the song and the change in style was pleasant; still, it felt to me that they could have done more with that end section. I’d rate it [B]8/10[/B].

[B]Forced Listening[/b]

[B]Screaming Headless Torsos - [I]Vinnie[/I][/B] ~ Funk Rock

[url]http://youtube.com/watch?v=1txStq9xwog&search=screaming%20headless%20torsos[/url]

[B]Owls - [I]What Whorse You Wrote Id On[/I][/B] ~ Indie Rock

[B]Oceansize - [I]A Homage to a Shame[/I][/B] - Metal

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Oceansize - A Homage to a Shame
 

Song begins: Quite a dramatic opening, lots of discordant crashes for a few seconds before the bass and drums settle down to a steady Tool-esque groove. The guitar joins in with more Tool overtones. The guitar expands it’s part as the vocals join in. The vocalist has a good voice, but sounds a little bit strangled. A brief outburst of excitement occurs before we settle back down to the groove. Drumming is competent, but not overly inspired. Some overdubbed clean guitars usher us into the exciting bridge before passing us into a new section of the song. Very sort of, ethereal vocals. But the instruments are slightly too harsh and forefront and as a result end up spoiling the passage. Reminds me of a Chilli Peppers song, [i]One Hot Minute[/i] era. Actually, it might just be a Dave Navarro song. Anyway, This leads on to the main riff of the song with some crazy guitar solo-thing layer over the top. Which in turn gives away to some more melodic guitar layered over the main riff.
Then my version of the song just cuts out at 5:47, which I don’t think it is meant to do.

A decent song, relies on atmosphere which it manages to carry up sufficiently.
6.5/10

[b]Recommendations:[/b]

Millencolin - Black Eye (Pop Punk)
Pendulum - Hold Your Colour (Drum n Bass)
Wildhearts - Inglorious (Rock)
Christina Aguilera – Nasty Naughty Boy (Pop)
Arcturus – For To End Yet Again (Avant Garde Metal)

Dibs.

[b]Millencolin - Black Eye[/b] - 3:13

Starts off well, one guitar playing a catchy little jumpy riff underneath what sounds like another guitar feedbacking it's way into the song. Doesn't take long for that second one to slip into song-mode and start playing roughly the same thing as the quieter one was, and it's a fairly fast paced catchy bit of pop punk. Good start. I like the drummer.

First vocals we get seems to be the lead vocalist starting, joined for the end of the initial chanted sentence ("can see it in your eyes" or something) by other voices, though it sounds like maybe it's his own voice, recorded previously and layered under it. Sounds good, anyway, slightly triumphant, which I always like. Music all settles down into a more basic, quieter rhythm for th vocalist to start properly. Is good that they manage to be more subdued than they were at the start (the chorus, maybe?), but still build up nicely in speed and such to the chorus, without taking attention away from their vocalist.

First proper chorus shows that the intro vocals are a hook repeated through the chorus, but the vocalist sings something entirely different (and alone) before it. They blast through the chorus - everyone seems to have a whole lot of energy - only to settle down into a verse pretty much the same as the one before, which, in its turn, leads to another chorus. A change of pace and injection of melody (including more of an attempt at singing) form a bridge after this second chorus, which does little more than change it up a bit and keep the song's momentum going until the band finish off with the last chorus. And everything fades out.

[b]7.5/10[/b] I liked it. It's pretty much what I like in pop-rock/punk, plenty of energy and catchy enough, without just being too whiny to enjoy. It's formulaic as far as song structure goes, but then I wasn't expecting anything groundbreaking in that area, and it works plenty well enough for what it is.

[b]Songs;[/b]
Allen Toussaint & Elvis Costello - Who's Gonna Help Brother Get Further? (R&B/soul)
Amos Lee - take your pick: "Keep It Loose, Keep It Tight", "Seen It All Before", "Black River", "Love in the Lies" (soul/folk)
Herman's Hermits - No Milk Today (60s pop)
Capdown - Ska Wars (ska-punk)
Refused - Coup D'Etat (hardcore)
Darrell Bath - Still Learning (acoustic rock? don't think it's quite folk)
Hundred Reasons - I'll Find You (rock)

Maybe that'll do. Should be available on request if you can't find them anywhere yourself.

Dibs

[B]Klashnekoff - Blood[/B]

Beginning: Very cool - people talking, sounds very big and black. Song started now - Sounds bigger and blacker. I really like the beat, and the piano (if thats what you want to call it) It kind of reminds me of Dizzee Rascall, because of the vocals. It is a little strange, forsure. Big black guy voice is back - now he's rapping - and it is cool as hell. All I can really make out is small nouns and the's and hallowed be thy name lyric wise. It seems like he is telling a story. Drum roll - back to the beat. There is this thing where the bass breaks down, it really reminds me of Burzum, no idea why. It's just that atmospheric noise. Chorus is back with the big big black guy, he's my favorite. ;) I really like the ending, with just the music - no vocals, it adds the atmosphere, and then there is this thunder like sound at the end. Seriously liked this song, and it is alot more original than most hip hop songs out there.
8/10 - I've been getting more into rap and its counterparts lately.


Songs -
[B]Windir - Despot[/B] (folk-lore black metal)
[B]This Bike is a Pipe Bomb - R.O.D.A.D.[/B] or [B]Next Bus[/B] (folk punk)
[B]Obituary - Slowly We Rot[/B] or [B]Chopped in Half[/B] (US Death Metal, it chugs)

SN on AIM is WhenFattiesAttk if you can not find any of it.

Dibs

good to see this up and running again

yeah, I think I'll call dibs on something when I've got a spare half hour tomorrow.

[B]This Bike is a Pipe Bomb - R.O.D.A.D[/B]

A short song (1:43) by a band with a quite unusual name. It builts around a catchy, straight-in-your-face rhythmic pattern, which, at some of its variations, has slight country touches. This justifies the "folk" characterism, but only to an extent, since the band is clearly punk, with intense old school roots. In a few seconds, the vocals enter. They sound amateur-ish but still they have an inherent zest which creates a rather uplifting -almost in a poppy way- atmosphere. After a short and technically non demanding (=simplistic) interlude, follows a quite enjoyable vocal harmony to end the song. I overall, this song didn't strike me as something special and I bet there are many songs which bring out this kind of mood in a much more interesting way.
5/10

[I]Songs for teh depressed:[/I]
Madrugada - Sirens (indie rock/alternative)
Black Heart Procession - We Always Knew (indie rock)
16 Horsepower - Scrawled in Sap (alternative country)

I'd like to do one of these, but I'm failing terribly at finding them.

Tell me which one you want and I will send it to you ;)

The 16 Horsepower one would be good, as I think they're related to Woven Hand, who I just heard and liked a couple of days ago.

Then I should check Woven Hand also :p

I sent it to you, check your junk e-mail if you can't find it.

Sorry for the delay, phone call. Downloading it now, so, dibs.

Stoic: this is the Woven Hand I heard, if it helps. I think it's the same singer/guitarist.

[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAH9vAAyf6Y[/url]

[b]16 Horsepower - Scrawled in Sap[/b] - 2:47

Rather hoping I'll like this, given that Woven Hand song I just heard.

Starts off with fairly high-pitched acoustic bits and pieces and a steady beat, which I suspect will probably be the instrumental backing for the whole thing (barring minor changes), given that it's a fairly short song. Vocalist doesn't wait long before coming in. He's got an interesting voice; it's like his vibrato (I think; I'm not a trained musician, don't yell at me) is constantly wavering on the edge of his control, but he manages to hold it in check overall and I like it. In the very few examples of this guy I've heard so far, it makes whatever emotion he's currently trying to put into a song - a lot of them don't sound like happy emotions, but emotions nonetheless - believable. Or at least makes it believable that he might be writing from personal experience, rather than empathetic understanding.

Anyway, the song. It's going on all the while I'm writing this, relatively fast-paced but not upbeat. The pace is kept up by a second set of vocals (a second recording of Edwards put in at the appropriate time, I think, not a second vocalist coming in) to make what I assume is the verse-chorus transition seamless, despite some held notes, and a rapid tip-tapping drum beat accompanying the percussion already there, from the beginning of what feels like a second verse.

It's finished with you quite quickly and sharply, actually. You're not given much time (if any) to think in between lyrics, and the end comes soon after the end of the lyrics, so if you're trying to think about it instead of just listen to it, it's fairly exhausting. On a purely aesthetic approach, I like it, too; I like the slightly different rhythm the vocalist falls into after the first section ("to the moan in your voice/not a charm do you lack.." etc), the instrumentation is interesting and catchy enough, but not annoyingly so, or so that it detracts from the message. I'm convinced this song has a message; it feels like it does. I'm just not sure what it is.

I like it, though. Easily enough for me to want to listen to more.

[b]7.5/10[/b]

[b]Songs;[/b]
Allen Toussaint & Elvis Costello - Who's Gonna Help Brother Get Further? (R&B/soul)
Amos Lee - take your pick: "Keep It Loose, Keep It Tight", "Seen It All Before", "Black River", "Love in the Lies" (soul/folk)
Herman's Hermits - No Milk Today (60s pop)
Capdown - Ska Wars (ska-punk)
Refused - Coup D'Etat (hardcore)
Darrell Bath - Still Learning (acoustic rock?)
Hundred Reasons - I'll Find You (rock)

Maybe that'll do. Should be available on request if you can't find them anywhere yourself.

Dibs on Coup.

[B]Refused - Coup d'etat[/B] (2:40)
[B][U]
coup d’État[/U][/B] [I](pronounced /ku de'ta/), or simply coup, is the sudden overthrow of a government through unconstitutional means by a part of the state establishment — mostly replacing just the high-level figures. It is also an example of political engineering. It may or may not be violent in nature. It is different from a revolution, which is staged by a larger group and radically changes the political system.[/I]
I like the Refused alot and have not heard this song. Starts out with a high pitch frequency. Ow. The beginning so far is really nice, great guitar and melody. Got the usual Refused vocals coming in, and back to the melody. I get the feel that they are very angry in this song, and this goes hand in hand with the song title. I dont think this is the refused best - but then at 2:05 they jump into their groovy guitars and vocals, I prefer the last 40 minutes to this song. Ends abruptly after a small fade out. Still - not the best of the Refused.
7/10, one more because I like the basis of what the song means and the emotion put forth into it.

Songs:
[B]Deicide - Scars of the Crucifix[/B] (DM)
[B]Choking Victim - Infested[/B] (Hardcore w/ punk influence)
[B]Leftover Crack - Atheist Anthem[/B] See Choking Victim
[B]The Number Twelve Looks Like You - Texas Dolly[/B] (Crazy grindcorish hardcore nutzo)
[B]Horse The Band - Cutsman[/B] (added in for flavor - nintendo hardcore?)
[B]Oasis - The Importance of Being Idle[/B] (rock)
[B]Stone Temple Pilots - Interstate Love Song[/B] (rock)

:chug: chmooown!