Divaman: Song of the Day November 2021

Divaman 10.31.21	My pick this month is: The Fixx - Red Skies (from the album Shuttered Room) "Red Skies" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCM4_5uB1ww Perhaps The Fixx's best song, and one of the outstanding songs of the '80s.
ArsMoriendi 10.31.21	Yo La Tengo - "Black Flowers" (from I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OgdDhGeIOI One of the prettiest trombones ever.
porcupinetheater 10.31.21	Wovenhand - Dirty Blue (from Mosaic) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bmMztlkOAg Incredible liminal vibe. One of my forever faves
Trifolium 10.31.21	Ben Khan - The Green (from Ben Khan) https://youtu.be/QzwTvwoLLC4 Gooooood tune. Lots of the green-ing in it too.
Ryus 10.31.21	bladee - redlight moments https://soundcloud.com/bladee1000/redlight-moments-prod
widowslaugh123 10.31.21	The stranglers-Golden Brown https://youtu.be/z-GUjA67mdc
SlothcoreSam 11.01.21	Widow coming through with a classic, good luck topping that.
SlothcoreSam 11.01.21	K, I'm gonna go with one of my favorite bands. Sublime- Scarlet Begonias Off 40 Oz. to Freedom https://youtu.be/Cr0L-8uCYlw
Divaman 11.01.21	Actually, that brings up a good point. I'm not sure if you realized this widow, but we had "Golden Brown" just a few months ago. In April, it was rec'd for SOTD by farmerobama. I'm not going to forbid it, but you might want to think about coming up with a new rec, since this one was used within the last 6 months.
widowslaugh123 11.01.21	Oh shit didn’t realize that ok I’ll think of something else
Divaman 11.01.21	OK.
fogza 11.01.21	Ok, Pina Kollars - Dark Blue and Gold. https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=zcXW-p7Lpi8&feature=share
Pangea 11.01.21	Lots of options for this theme, but you know what, let's dance! Disclosure (Ft AlunaGeorge) - White Noise https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkk2H3Ztrfk (from Settle)
fogza 11.01.21	1. The Fixx: Red skies - Kinda skirts the line for me but I could see past some of the more dated elements like the synth riff sound and bassy chanting, not to mention the almost guitar solo (actually kind of dig that they bailed on it before it really gets going). 3.4
dedex 11.01.21	Jazz Liberatorz - Blue Avenue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFs03oAx9ME
Divaman 11.01.21	I hate it when people add albums to the database but don't bother to add the tracks. Lazy mfers.
SlothcoreSam 11.01.21	1. Red Skies. 3.0 that vocalist was trying way too hard with the camera, but I like his voice. The rest of the sound was 80s, which may have been good at the time, but outdated big time now.
SlothcoreSam 11.01.21	I should really change my song to Eiffel 65's classical masterpiece, Blue (Dabadee) the mega extended remix. But I don't hate you all.
Drifter 11.01.21	Songs: Ohia - Coxcomb Red Album: The Lioness https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DW5Cm1wDtbY Jason Molina was such a brilliant songwriter and for me this song is my favorite of all time lyrically. So beautiful and one I will always wish I had wrote.
Divaman 11.01.21	Sam, I LOVE "Blue (Dabadee)."
SlothcoreSam 11.01.21	Wha? I didn't think anyone likes that song, I'll contemplate it if we get to 2nd recs.
someone 11.01.21	Bowie's Blackstar is a bit of a punch below the belt i think, so i'll go for something a little easier
Divaman 11.01.21	It would certainly be a permissible pick. Do you feel it's below the belt because it's so well regarded?
someone 11.01.21	one heck of an overplayed track, but a serious banger nonetheless I Monster - Daydream in Blue (off Neveroddoreven) https://youtu.be/BhB6Lb7_kN8
someone 11.01.21	it's because i want to spread posi vibes, Divamane
widowslaugh123 11.01.21	Alright hopefully no one picked this one recently! George Baker-Little Green Bag https://youtu.be/kipjrg5O0A4
fogza 11.02.21	2. Yo La Tengo: Black Flowers - Sweet little song, really pretty. 4
madrigal30 11.02.21	cursive -- some red-handed sleight of hand is my rec for the month
SlothcoreSam 11.02.21	Yo Diva, it's because of that chorus, oh and the versus. And cus it was overplayed at all the nightclubs I used to frequent back in the day.
Divaman 11.02.21	2. Yo Lo Tengo - had a whole write up, but Sputnik ate it. Oh well. 3.1
someone 11.02.21	why'd you enter my rec wrong, Diva? you left out "in Blue"
Divaman 11.02.21	Damn, you caught me. I was deliberately trying to undercut you and ruin your life. OK, fixed.
ArsMoriendi 11.02.21	@Divaman tell me :o I wanna know
Divaman 11.02.21	I just basically described the sounds as they were happening and said the song was OK. It wasn't Shakespeare or anything - I just hate to go through the trouble of describing something only to have Sputnik eat it. (Although to be fair, it was likely my own stupid fault - I must have forgotten to hit Submit before I went up and edited the list to include fogza's and my scores for your song.)
haesslichermensch 11.02.21	Had to correct this one .. but one of my all time autumn classics New Model Army - Green And Grey https://youtu.be/pGpV0Ot3EeM
widowslaugh123 11.02.21	Needs to have a color in the title my guy
haesslichermensch 11.02.21	corrected^^ thanks
garas 11.02.21	"Blinded by the Emerald Mist" by Hällas. https://youtu.be/-fTQgGJVHNY Because more of you should get into Hällas!!
Divaman 11.02.21	This is shaping into a lovely little month.
SlothcoreSam 11.02.21	2. Black Flowers. 4.1. That was probably the best song I've heard featuring a euphonium.
fogza 11.03.21	3. Wovenhand: Blue Pail Fever - I dig all the 16 Horsepower and Wovenhand I've heard, and this is no exception. 4.5
dedex 11.03.21	yolo tengo lmao
dedex 11.03.21	1. Red Skies - fun lil early 80s track with the post-punky guitars and the cheesy synths. It always work on me. 3.7 2. Black Flowers - simply lovely. 4.0 3. Wovenhand - well it's a very beautiful song that i like. 4.1
Divaman 11.03.21	3. Wovenhand - Echoey, humming noises. Soon becomes nicely strummed guitar, w/low-pitched male vocals. Kind of dark. I think I like these guys. I'll have to give them more of a listen. 3.4
neekafat 11.03.21	Smashing Pumpkins - Blue Skies Bring Tears (Machina) Billy Corgan sees the apocalypse. Depression ensues (: https://youtu.be/ZePEzNF8E94
SlothcoreSam 11.03.21	3. Blue Pail Fever. 3.0 Sounds like a cross between Alt - J and another band I can't think of. Not bad, but doesn't go in the direction I was hoping.
JohnnyoftheWell 11.03.21	yikes forgot to submit um um um um um Diva can you put me as a placeholder with maudlin of the Well - Excerpt from 6,000,000,000,000 Miles Before the First, Or, the Revisitation of the Blue Ghost (from Part the Second) and i'll maybe update later https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBJETgfFWaI
Divaman 11.04.21	Yep.
fogza 11.04.21	4. Ben Khan: The green - I wasn't feeling this on first listen but enough there to grab me for a second try. Actually pretty decent, 3.5
Koris 11.04.21	Well, this one will be topical for me! My submission is Steely Dan - Your Gold Teeth II (yes, it's the second of a duology, but both songs are completely different) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzAJqKll6hI This was the song that got me into the Dan and prompted me to do their entire discog because of its fantastic mix of rock and jazz fusion. As I've said before, big thanks to sonic for getting me into their work!
dedex 11.04.21	4. The Green - heyo this swee didn't expect the post-jazz additions nice. 3.8
Divaman 11.04.21	4. Ben Khan - Strange, blunted music. Then it gets all jazzy. Not to my taste. 2.3
Scheumke 11.04.21	Alright imma go with a classic for this month and I'll let you choose. It's either going to be Gabriel's Red Rain or Type O's Red Water. First one here can pick ;)
Ryus 11.04.21	hmm both great tunes lemme take peter gabriel tho
Scheumke 11.04.21	Peter Gabriel it is. Will post the full thing with link tomorrow :)
Divaman 11.04.21	I'm glad. I almost picked that one myself.
JohnnyoftheWell 11.04.21	1. Red Skies: wow i almost missed the title lyric. this is saved from plainness by wavy guitarfeedbackreverb so diva is a hypocrite and i'm taking half a point off 2.7 2. Black Flowers: Awww haven't heard this in ages, cute track and probably a pinch underrated? YLT have so many socially awkward deadpan songs that I always appreciate when they go all-out sentimental yay. 3.9 3. Blue Pail Fever: yeah porc can you straight up replace sowing as sput's country spamking thank you, will maybe check this bring back broselit bone 3.7
Divaman 11.04.21	>1. Red Skies: wow i almost missed the title lyric. this is saved from plainless by wavy guitarfeedbackreverb so diva is a hypocrite and i'm taking half a point off 2.7 Does anyone else here find that they frequently have no effing idea what Johnny is talking about?
Koris 11.04.21	Good call on the Peter Gabriel rec, great stuff
Storm In A Teacup 11.05.21	Head Automatica - At The Speed of a Yellow Bullet (Basically Glassjaw singer covering a Jet song)
Storm In A Teacup 11.05.21	@diva yes sometimes Johnny has quite the imaginative reality 🙂 I like it
Ryus 11.05.21	this month im going for lowest rated song
Storm In A Teacup 11.05.21	1. Red Skies at Night I thought this had a lot of potential at first but I didn’t start seeing it realized until about the 2:20 mark. Then the song had its best moments. Idk reminds me of 80s Yes some. Didn’t achieve the heights I thought it might, but I thought it was much better than just decent. Solid 3.6/5
Storm In A Teacup 11.05.21	Saved by Zero > Red Skies At Night
Storm In A Teacup 11.05.21	2. Black Flowers This song teetered being either on the edge of greatness or on the edge of having too much a sad vibe. Never heard of this band. If they have more positive vibe music I’d fall in love. Sad vibes takes away a whole 1.0 from the rating. 3.5/5
JohnnyoftheWell 11.05.21	okay okay but for REAL, not having [been able to remember having] heard of yo la tengo [which you absolutely have done at whichever point] is the essential of an imaginative reality i am shook
Storm In A Teacup 11.05.21	I absolutely have not you son of a woman.
fogza 11.05.21	5. Bladee: Red light moments - Trap really has become the music of choice for meme artists. 1.8
Divaman 11.05.21	I usually can't even quite make out what his reality is.
JohnnyoftheWell 11.05.21	fuck you fogza i was banking on 「meme artist」being my bladee blurb and imma have to find a new one now
Divaman 11.05.21	You've got the get here early. fogza posts the first score for a song pretty much every night.
JohnnyoftheWell 11.05.21	yeah but did he write those words in his head 9 hours ago i didn't think so
fogza 11.05.21	Johnny be proud it is through your finger on the pulse assessment of music trends that I know what a meme artist is. You are an educator and a scholar and I love you, even if you hate me
fogza 11.05.21	I listen to song of the day roundabout 7:15 AM CAT (unless insomnia strikes). Your deadline is clear SOTD'ers!
JohnnyoftheWell 11.05.21	okay your strength and discipline give me strength and i will be a better and prouder son !!
Storm In A Teacup 11.05.21	“ I usually can't even quite make out what his reality is.” 🧐🧐🧐
Storm In A Teacup 11.05.21	3. Blue Pail Fever Okay this song rocks and has a bunch of good going for it. Gotta check more. 3.7/5
Storm In A Teacup 11.05.21	Trif what the heck is this 😔
Storm In A Teacup 11.05.21	4. The Green If inside every human was another universe of functioning organisms that could think (🤫) this is probably what they are listening to. Uh, that’s all I have for this one. 3.5/5
fogza 11.05.21	Storm is going through emotions
Storm In A Teacup 11.05.21	5. Redlight Moments yin diddly doodly nope-ly 1.9/5
Storm In A Teacup 11.05.21	I even am!
Trifolium 11.05.21	Hahaha Storm 💚🤗
dedex 11.05.21	5. Redlight Moments - yah it ain't my fav bladee tune. 2.2
Divaman 11.05.21	5. Bladee - Synths, and the guy is actually singing. He's not Pavarotti, mind you, but he's singing. I don't know, Ryus, I might actually be your champion for the round. Or if you really are trying to get a super low score, I might be messing you up again. 2.8
dedex 11.05.21	woah did not expect that
Ryus 11.05.21	diva is a drainer
Storm In A Teacup 11.05.21	Drainer of ⚽️ 🏀 🏈????
DoofDoof 11.05.21	Ok, my one has two colours - American Music Club 'Blue & Grey Shirt' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9V86ueofNAk
Divaman 11.05.21	Yeah, I'm a drainer! (Pause.) (Whispering:) Guys, what's a drainer?
dedex 11.05.21	ive got no clue shhhh let's act as if we knew
Divaman 11.05.21	Doof! Good to see you here.
ArsMoriendi 11.06.21	Where'd my comments go? I listened up to day 5 and left comments
ArsMoriendi 11.06.21	I guess I'll quickly summarize instead... "Red Skies" Boring 80s cheese. 2.6/5 "Blue Pail Fever" Decent indie-folk that builds. 3.6/5 "The Green" Good music, with a distracting voice trying too hard to be sexy. 3.2/5 "Redlight Moments" Boring incarnate. 2.5/5
JohnnyoftheWell 11.06.21	are you implying that the SOTD threads have developed antibodies against your takes :O
ArsMoriendi 11.06.21	No I'm implying that the SOTD threads did your mom
Storm In A Teacup 11.06.21	6. Little Green Bag this song is chill also boring but also alright 3.1/5
Storm In A Teacup 11.06.21	I lost 3.5 gs of green and found my green bag in a gas station parking lot. I still remember it was one of the closest parking spots to the quick trip door. Was so happy to get high after that.
fogza 11.06.21	6. George Baker:Little Green Bag - It's totally one of those songs which was destined to get revived by Tarantino, like it's a bit a cool and a bit novelty. Anyway, fun but probably something I wouldn't fire up too often. 3.4
Divaman 11.06.21	>Where'd my comments go? I listened up to day 5 and left comments I promise I didn't touch them.
Divaman 11.06.21	6. George Baker - Bass and tambourine intro. Don't love this vocal, especially when he takes it up an octave. Just kind of goes on, too. 2.4
Storm In A Teacup 11.07.21	7. Scarlet Begonias - I even love Sublime. This is a good one. 🙂 3.8/5
fogza 11.07.21	7. Sublime: Scarlet Begonias - It's sad what happened, but I never really got Sublime. This one has nice touches here and there but overall it's a bit boring. 2.8
JohnnyoftheWell 11.07.21	"I'm implying that the SOTD threads did your mom" i am the spawn of satan ye and also my mum
dedex 11.07.21	6. Little Green Bag - "It's totally one of those songs which was destined to get revived by Tarantino" yes. 3.6 7. Scarlet Begonias - this one don't impress me much (oh oh uuuuh). 2.9
Divaman 11.07.21	7. Sublime - Mot the biggest Sublime fan, but let's see how it goes. Mid-tempo percussion followed by organ and then vocals. Think I remember this song. The lyrics are familiar. Just OK. Minus .1 for the bridge. 2.4
dedex 11.08.21	8. Dark Blue and Gold - at first was like yeah its alright but around the 3:30 mark i was like yeah its very good. 3.6
fogza 11.08.21	dedex is such a top 10 user
dedex 11.08.21	teehee no you 🤗
Divaman 11.08.21	8. Pina Kollars - Chimy stuff, followed by slow music and a singer who sounds like Dolly Parton if she was a heavy smoker. Kind of dark and cool. (Plus fogza gave me two colors for the price of one.) 3.6
fogza 11.09.21	9. Disclosure: White Noise - Has quite an old school feel. Not entirely my thing, but it's ok. 3.2
JohnnyoftheWell 11.09.21	4. The Green: sputnikuser trifolium stop trying to have sex with me 3.0 5. Redlight Moments: "the guy is actually singing" LOL bullshit fuckouttahere. was gonna 1 this on principle but it is not a 1 maybe bladee is worth the hype after all 2.2 6. Little Green Bag: this is wholesome hungry music but i am not hungry. fun. 3.3 7. Scarlet Begonias: oh yeah this is what sublime sounds like never mind i don't like it 2.5 8. Dark Blue and Gold: fogza is arguably the worst possible kind of user bc he gets the wrong end of the carrot with like 57% of music ever but also rarely recs a bad song so i can't laugh at him like diva and colton wow this song reminded me why fogza is just the worst i like it (even if the prod is a bit weird, vocals are way high in that mix). there is a fake guitar solo synth/vocalise thing??? and it sounds great 3.6 9. White Noise: so yeah Disclosure is kinda a situationalist thang for me and this is good but also not the situation, man i'm drinking cocoa and just wanna chill here 3.3 10. Blue Avenue: thank you dedex this is exactly what i needed right now. maybe those beats in that wheelhouse feel a bit dated but idc this is the early sunset afternoon blues vibe today 3.6
Trifolium 11.09.21	If that's really how you feel Johnny, alright, I will 😞❄❄❄
dedex 11.09.21	9. White Noise - yay partytime m/ m/ 3.6 "thank you dedex this is exactly what i needed right now" 😍
fogza 11.09.21	Wow there's lots to unpack there lol
Divaman 11.09.21	9. Disclosure - Snappy synth percussion intro. Electronically distorted vocals. I'm not much into house music. Pleasant enough, I guess. 2.9
Storm In A Teacup 11.10.21	8. Dark Blue and Gold - Easily the best song so far and quite fantastic. 3.6/5
Storm In A Teacup 11.10.21	Winter has come for Trif 😭
ArsMoriendi 11.10.21	"Little Green Bag" Good bass. This is a fairly simple pop song, but in a fun catchy way. I gotta say: I like it. 3.7/5 "Scarlet Begonias" I like Sublime, but fuck Grateful Dead lyrics, they're so annoying. The best thing about this song is the drums. See, even Bradley had to add his own lyrics and they're better than the other ones. Ugh. 2.7/5 "Dark Blue and Gold" Gross voice honestly. The guitar's pretty cool, it's too bad that she sounds like she has a cold. Yeah, no thanks. 2.5/5 "White Noise" Intense beat. Honestly, "When a Fire Starts to Burn" is a certified banger and "Latch" and "F for You" are cool, so I have high hopes for this. This is kinda less catchy and memorable than those other ones. It's not bad though, might even be fun in a club. I feel like it needs more identity though. 3/5
fogza 11.10.21	Storm, your comment and scoring make no sense lol. Although to be fair, the Wovenhand track is better than my pick.
fogza 11.10.21	10. Jazz Liberatorz: Blue Avenue - I don't want to use the dreaded background music comment, but it's kinda background music. 3.1
Storm In A Teacup 11.10.21	I have no desire to add to my rating of your song fogza but I think I didn’t mean to give a 3.8 to begonia. 🙂 oops lol
fogza 11.10.21	😆😂🤣
Storm In A Teacup 11.10.21	Damnit man. It’s these flasks. But I love my flasks. 🙂
Storm In A Teacup 11.10.21	Diva please change my rating of begonias to a 3.0 I was sober when I did that and it shouldn’t count.
JohnnyoftheWell 11.10.21	you are a villain
Storm In A Teacup 11.10.21	9. White Noise : I hated this song and what’s worse is it made me wish I was listening to Gorillaz Dare. 1.5/5
Storm In A Teacup 11.10.21	😮😮😮😮
Storm In A Teacup 11.10.21	I only want to be a villain if I’m gonna play one in a porno and then fuck the lady who shoplifted so she doesn’t go to jail.
Divaman 11.10.21	10. Jazz Liberatorz - Jazz, huh? I'm not hopeful. Woodwinds and synth playing jazz chords. I like the percussion. Oops. They just veered off course. They had me, and then they lost me. Back on track, but I can't unhear the bit in the middle 2.5
fogza 11.11.21	11. Songs: Ohia: Coxcomb Red - Quite a formative "band" for me getting into indie. Not the best on the album, but pretty good. 3.7
JohnnyoftheWell 11.11.21	synth playing jazz IN THIS ECONOMY
fogza 11.11.21	Heavens to Betsy
fogza 11.11.21	i have decided to box johnny in 2025, it will take some time to save for suitable accommodation in japan
JohnnyoftheWell 11.11.21	wooo awesome in 2 yrs i am moving to the maldives and disappearing from the face of the earth literally
fogza 11.11.21	that is actually more cost effective thank you i will ask the locals to point me to the house that sounds like a mobile ringtone at night
dedex 11.11.21	11. Coxcomb Red - pretty song, expected some payoff. 3.3
Divaman 11.11.21	11. Songs: Ohia - Slow acoustic guitar. Somewhat uncontrolled vocal. Bleak vibe. I don't love the vocal, but it's a decent song. 3.3
fogza 11.12.21	12. I Monster: Daydream in Blue - Doesn't make a negative or positive impact on me. Maybe I find the distorted vocal a bit irritating, if I concentrate on it. 2.5
dedex 11.12.21	12. Daydream in Blue - pretty cool tune ye. 3.6
Divaman 11.12.21	12. I Monster - Synthy opening, followed by an unexpectedly gentle, poppy vocal. Weird contrast between the vocal and the synth, which gets a little heavy on the chorus. Distorted vocal on the bridge. It's like a 60's pop song given a weird 2021 synth arrangement. Abrupt ending. 3.1
fogza 11.13.21	13. New Model Army: Green and grey - Song makes me a little sad. 3.5
Divaman 11.13.21	13. New Model Army - Sounds of a thunderstorm. Moody, strummed guitar. Nice enough. 3.3
fogza 11.14.21	14. Hallas: Blinded By the Emerald Mist - Normally I detest this sort of thing, but it was actually bearable. The lead singer is a tiny bit slurry sounding and I think it helps soften it. 2.9
Divaman 11.14.21	Gonna open it up to second recs. Ars will like this one. The Mothers of Invention - Let's Make the Water Turn Black (from We're Only In It for the Money) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_x2O50MefU
Drifter 11.14.21	George Jones - Brown To Blue Album: Trouble In Mind Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVZQGuungh4&list=OLAK5uy_ly3FTCEKkZsSQG38Q041yyMLrq2701ds4 George Jones always sang with such conviction you'd think he was really in the courtroom recording this. It's a bit of a unique spin on divorce songs.
fogza 11.14.21	Don't usually like to pick songs everyone knows inside and out, but why not. Throwing Muses - Bright yellow gun https://youtu.be/pZ5FpXLOh-Q
SlothcoreSam 11.14.21	Playing catch up today, been busy at work with 4th wave covid. (sounds like a music genre) Here is my second rec. Prince- Purple Rain, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvnYmWpD_T8
Divaman 11.14.21	14. Hallas - I screwed up and X'd out of Sputnik before I posted my original write-up. Anyway, the gist of it is that this song has a Yes vibe. 3.5
porcupinetheater 11.14.21	Rec 2: The Wedding Present - Blonde Off Seamonsters Get with that toooooone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNXmZSRxAmQ Blonde counts as a color, right?
SlothcoreSam 11.14.21	4. The Green. 3.5. This has done great elements and came together well. 5. Redlight moments. 1.0, too much auto tune and lame beats, sounds like it was made on early fruity loops. 6. Little green bag. 3.4, it is almost a classic, just missing something. Vocals are great. 7. Sodium 8. Dark blue and gold. 3.3 It's husky country, but a little grittier and psychedelic rockier. 9. White noise. 4.2 Loved this album when it came out, and this was top 5 on the album. 10. Blue Avenue. 3.2, great for a lounge. 11. Coxcomb red. 3.3 waiting for something.
Storm In A Teacup 11.14.21	10. Jazz Liberatorz - “Blue Avenue” a small but lovely piece in the first half. Gonna check this artist(s?) out more and get high outside to it. 3.5/5 11. Coxcomb Red I didn’t really care for this and was ready to move on within the first minute. 2.4/5 12. Daydream in blue I know I’ve heard this before but can’t place where. Was it on a soundtrack ever? Decent stuff 3.2/5 13. Green and Grey it didn’t grab me at all 2.4/5
Storm In A Teacup 11.14.21	14. Blinded By The Emerald Mist basically a Yes song indeed lol 3.5/5
ArsMoriendi 11.14.21	My 2nd rec: "The Afternoon Turns Pink" by Black Moth Super Rainbow (from Dandelion Gum) Masterclass psych-electronic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWg_B3o1i_c
Storm In A Teacup 11.14.21	I have a second pick ready if the rest doesn’t get filled up. Will wait a few more days. 🥰
ArsMoriendi 11.14.21	"Blue Avenue" This is chill jazzy hip hop bears so far. Nice. A bit uneventful, but still cool. 3.4/5 "Coxcomb Red" I like the guitar tone and mood so far. Vocals are eh, but I'm feeling the vibe. 3.5/5 "Daydream in Blue" What in the Glory Box is this???? Cool vocoder. Good strings, good beats, good vocals, good everything? 4.2/5 "Green and Grey" Is this is a Roundabout cover? Wait, no it's some folk song. Nice pickup. Decent enough. 3.3/5 "Blinded By the Emerald Mist" Geeky prog, but not geeky prog I find too engaging. Too long for what it is. 2.8/5
ArsMoriendi 11.14.21	Also can I please host next month, I have a theme that only works for December! PLEEEEEASE
Divaman 11.14.21	Funny, I was actually just about to throw it out there and ask who wanted to host for December.
ArsMoriendi 11.14.21	Yay
fogza 11.15.21	15. Smashing Pumpkins: Blue Skies Bring Tears - SP is one of those bands I just lost interest in after Mellon Collie. This is actually better than I expected, but it still sort of just plods along. 2.9
dedex 11.15.21	13. Green and Grey - cool tune with a bit of a doomer vibe. 3.5 14. Blinded By the Emerald Mist - epic m/ 3.6 15. Blue Skies Bring Tears - aight but that's it. 2.9
porcupinetheater 11.15.21	Oh wait can I change my 2nd pick on the twentyfifthf to Neko Case - Deep Red Bells (from Blacklisted) B/c it is the best song and it makes me cry, and it just did that very cry yet again
Divaman 11.15.21	15. The Smashing Pumpkins - Slow guitar opening. Billy Corgan's whiny voice. It's alright, but pretty repetitious and kind of draggy. 2.6
Storm In A Teacup 11.15.21	Drunkupine Theater
porcupinetheater 11.15.21	What’s it to ya, ol Sperm-in-a-Pee-Cup
JohnnyoftheWell 11.15.21	SP aren't the first band i lost interest in after Mellon Collie and they won't be the last!
Storm In A Teacup 11.15.21	Absolutely nothing 🎶
Storm In A Teacup 11.15.21	15. This is not the correct Pumpkins song, please try again. 2.5/5
Storm In A Teacup 11.15.21	Tho I will say the first two minutes by itself is kind of a 3.1/5
porcupinetheater 11.15.21	Amazing how a band can go from writing Mayonaise to whatever the hell is happening on Machina in under a decade
Storm In A Teacup 11.15.21	Cuz billy is a madman.
Divaman 11.15.21	So the final score is still 2.5, Storm?
Storm In A Teacup 11.15.21	Yes, sir.
Storm In A Teacup 11.15.21	Diva, your score for 11 is missing. A 3.3 !
fogza 11.16.21	16. Maudlin of the well: Excerpt - I'm going to use Johnny's pick to soapbox after receiving some backhanded compliments a few days ago. I think we all envy the effortless cool of Johnny's inimitable writing style, but it comes at a price. You have to be the kind of sadist who willingly chooses an 11 minute post whatever track for song of the day; and true to form parts of it are pleasant, and parts of it have a rambling madman singing gibberish in a young Mr Burns voice. This is price of cool people; you have to rep weird music choices hard until inevitable irrelevance allows you to retire and enjoy, say, sebadoh's post gaffney records. Sidebar: did the of the well thing come from this band? 3.4
Storm In A Teacup 11.16.21	Oh dear I think diva ate Mexican again.
Storm In A Teacup 11.16.21	Lmao fogza with a vengeance 😃
Storm In A Teacup 11.16.21	16. “6 bajillion something” fogza gave a good rating I’ll also do a 3.4. Song really got great at around the 5:20 mark. 3.4/5
Storm In A Teacup 11.16.21	Idk if it is me or not but think fogza almost let his inner Budgie out. 🙂
fogza 11.16.21	I didn't tell him to eat a butt though
Storm In A Teacup 11.16.21	That’s why I said almost.
Divaman 11.16.21	Got it. Thanks Storm.
JohnnyoftheWell 11.16.21	am a sick boi with no appetite and a mouthful of anaesthetic rn but fogza finally spooning the dark side (with pjs on, mind) has unexpectedly made my day and exorcised any traces of budgie withdrawal that i hadn't realised were still in my system and now can we plz collectively depreciate sebadoh for 3 comments minimum, someone else go first
Divaman 11.16.21	Who's Sebadoh?
fogza 11.16.21	Ok ok tbf Loewenstein's songs are often pretty mid
fogza 11.16.21	Funny I figured you'd know them diva.
JohnnyoftheWell 11.16.21	whenever you can't figure out which sebadoh vocalist is on the mic, chances are it's diva and ummm Sister is kinda a banger but otherwise you are probably right
Divaman 11.16.21	(No, that was me playing along w/Johnny. We need one more.)
Storm In A Teacup 11.16.21	Sebadoh? More like shit band yo. 🙂
fogza 11.16.21	diva too subtle for me
Divaman 11.16.21	There we go! (Seriously, I actually don't know if I've ever heard a Sebadoh song. But I have heard of them.)
fogza 11.16.21	storm is pitching at a speed i can handle
Divaman 11.16.21	Where everybody else is playing checkers, I'm playing the saxophone.
fogza 11.16.21	lol diva i think you'd actually like bakesale and harmacy
Divaman 11.16.21	Were they contemporaries of Simon and Garfunkle?
fogza 11.16.21	i'm not falling for your accursed facetiousness again!
Divaman 11.16.21	That wasn't totally facetious. I had no idea those were two names of albums until I looked it up.
Divaman 11.16.21	I've just never had enough interest to check Sebadoh out. Somebody should rec them for SOTD. They must have a color song someone in their repertoire.
dedex 11.16.21	16. Excerpt from 6,000,000,000,000 Miles Before the First, or, the Revisitation of the Blue Ghost - long title - and long song woah! pretty tones ngl. sometimes i remember i loved this band (and prog). allé, for all time's sakes. 4.0 also if there's room for another rec I'll go with Maybeshewill - Red Paper Lanterns https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxrBPsPNqPM
Trifolium 11.16.21	I hope I did not rec this yet, but if I did, soooorryyyy!! Sam Sparro - Black & Gold (from Sam Sparro) https://youtu.be/eHuebHTD-lY Amazing tune, hot vid, what else can you ask for????!!!
Pangea 11.16.21	you have trif. it was June 2020 sotd
Trifolium 11.16.21	OH! Ok... let's think of another one then. I already thought I must have at some point.
Pangea 11.16.21	gonna disappoint you all with my second rec Blof - Blauwe Ruis (Means "Blue Noise", from Blauwe Ruis album). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghexNl0i2V0
Pangea 11.16.21	black & gold is a banger indeed
Trifolium 11.16.21	OK OK I have another one. This one is for budgie. Lantlos - Azure Chimes (from Melting Sun) https://youtu.be/mFJSM3kvBQ4
Trifolium 11.16.21	Ahahahahahahh I was thinking of reccing Marco Borsato (Rood of course) just now Pan!!! Wouldn't that have been something!!! Bløf is better though. Already entered Hier once before a long time ago.
dedex 11.16.21	I 'member when you rec'd that Sam Sparro track - what a fucking banger
Pangea 11.16.21	Hahaha nice. Hier is a great song too, i have always liked Blof Rood is hilariously awkward, would have been a nice rec as well
Divaman 11.16.21	OK gang, one more song and we've got the whole month.
Divaman 11.16.21	16. maudlin of the Well - Vaguely inside-out intro. Strings. Oh fuck, it's more than 10 minutes long. And it's too early to start drinking. Sigh. OK, bring it. Weird, half whispery, half raspy vocal. He's practically exhaling the lyrics. Fairly slow pace. Kind of draggy. I actually sort of liked the early part, but it's stalling out somewhat halfway through. OK, just picked up, but now it's doing a stop-and-start. And here comes a whole new movement altogether. Way too all over the place for me. 2.8
Divaman 11.17.21	Storm, you said you had one. Why don't you close out the month for us?
Koris 11.17.21	Hey, we're about to be at my song :D (or already are if you're in JST timezone)
Storm In A Teacup 11.17.21	Hooray!
Storm In A Teacup 11.17.21	“Blue Leaves, Red Dust” 🌪 by Youth Group 🙂 https://youtu.be/2yOY5bRLqRE
Divaman 11.17.21	Nice. I love it when a month comes together.
fogza 11.17.21	17. Steely Dan: Your Gold Teeth II - Hate the intro, I hate that mosquito sound. Swings into that old 70's theatrical rock voice that makes me antsy. Segues into that lounge guitar tone I don't fancy. Look, I'm just a pleb who doesn't like how anything sounds on this, you can throw as many time signature changes as you care to at it. 2.3
Koris 11.17.21	I guess that's what I get for picking a jazz-prog song xD But I guess that's the beauty of differing opinions. Everything you disliked about the song is everything I love about it
fogza 11.17.21	I'm sorry Div, I'm just a simple guy 😔
dedex 11.17.21	17. Your Gold Teeth II - I like their more subdued work tbh, this one didn't tickle me pp yfm. 2.8
Trifolium 11.17.21	"what a fucking banger" Absolutely. A big one. And agreed about Bløf Pangea!
porcupinetheater 11.17.21	Will listen to the rest when finals are done in a couple, but in the mean time 11. Ohia - 5. 5 forever. 16. Maudlin - 5. 5 forever.
porcupinetheater 11.17.21	Wait ew listening to all of them means I have to listen to Sublime ugh
Koris 11.17.21	^ Yeah, I'd be dreading that too
Divaman 11.17.21	17. Steely Dan - I have this album, but the only two songs I ever remember are "Dr. Wu" and "Everyone's Gone to the Movies". Let's see if this stirs up some memories. Some opening jazz stylings. Hmm, is this going to be an instrumental? Oh, wait, I remember this one. I kind of like it. 3.4
Storm In A Teacup 11.17.21	3.4 on 16
Storm In A Teacup 11.17.21	Oh quit your quality strawmanning porc the sublime song is only 3 minutes 31 seconds that's only a third of a song from your perspective. 🥳
fogza 11.18.21	18. Peter Gabriel: Red rain - It should be illegal to pick songs like this, I want to mark it down because it's so obvious but it's Red Rain so 4.7
Storm In A Teacup 11.18.21	17. I enjoy most of the instrumental. Vocals are okay, sometimes great. Rudimentary vocal delivery to start made me think it would be worse but it wasn’t. Not quite a Chevelle 3.8 but still enough to be close 3.4/5
Storm In A Teacup 11.18.21	18. Red Rain I can see this song winning the month. Borderline Chevelle rating of 3.7/5
dedex 11.18.21	18. Red Rain - banging opener m/ 4.0
Divaman 11.18.21	18. Peter Gabriel - A classic. 4.2
Pangea 11.18.21	1. Red Skies - yeah this is fun. 3.5 2. Black Flowers - this is beautiful. more trombones in music. 4.3 3. Blue Pail Forever - this does nothing to me. 2.7 4. The Green - it's okay i guess. 3.0 5. Redlight Moments - yeah really not my thing. Generally not a fan of excessive audiotune effects. 2.2 6. Little Green Bag - i feel compelled to tell you all that this guy is from my hometown. Cool track too. 3.8
SlothcoreSam 11.18.21	12. Daydream in Blue- 4.0 I kinda remember listening to this song ages ago, I think I even own this album, my 2000+ CD collection is gathering dust back home. 13. Green and Grey. 3.3. Great vocals, music is fitting might need to check more. 14. Blinded by the emerald night. 3.1 Was expecting much heavier from the album cover, instead its 70's style proggy euro rock, not bad. 15. Blue skies bring tears. 2.2 I was over the Pumpkins by this album, this song is reflective of the boredom I suffered listing to post-Adore SP 16. Excerpt from 6,000,000,000,000 Miles Before the First, or, the Revisitation of the Blue Ghost. 2.5 Never heard anything from this band, it is crazy there are almost as many Sput ratings of their albums, than there are of Spotify listens. The song itself overstayed its welcome, modern day prog is boring. 17. Your Gold Teeth- 2.7. It is good, but i hate it. 18. Red Rain. 0.1 Have not heard this guy in ages, I guess since commercial radio is dead, i will never have to listen to this type of shit again. You guys all trippin saying this is good. 19. At the Speed of a Yellow Bullet. 2.8 I hate Jet with a passion, and Glassjaw is OK. Luckily this song is better than both, just.
Divaman 11.18.21	Geez, Sloth
SlothcoreSam 11.19.21	Just telling you like I hear it. 😉
Divaman 11.19.21	Is .01 your actual assessment of "Red Rain" as a song, or a decision that you don't like it and don't want to see it win the month, so you're going to give it the lowest score possible?
SlothcoreSam 11.19.21	Yeah it's my actual rating for the worst song of the month so far. There is nothing good about it.
Drifter 11.19.21	porcupine is the only non-robot in this whole thread nice
Storm In A Teacup 11.19.21	Diva has his parent sash on but reasonably so. 😂
Storm In A Teacup 11.19.21	@sloth that is not even a top 10 Head Automatica song between the two albums so you might like their hits like Brooklyn Is Burning, Beating Hearts Baby, or The Razor.
SlothcoreSam 11.19.21	Cool, will check one of their albums out
Koris 11.19.21	Damn, I've never seen anyone rip into Peter Gabriel that hard
porcupinetheater 11.19.21	@Drifter fr, 1 other rate over 3.5 for Coxcomb tf? Going from the Every Road is a good Road, every kiss is a goodbye bit straight into “I watched you hold your son in your arms while he bled to death,” locks my breath in my throat like it’s the Tower of London. Nobody fuckin’ does it like Molina
SlothcoreSam 11.19.21	I took the sledgehammer to that poser
JohnnyoftheWell 11.19.21	semi--put-off listening to that purely from the SHAME of never having checked songs ohia but also am hyped to catch up i guess these lists are always full of garbo takes, so i won't be surprised if it's the best thing ever
Divaman 11.19.21	I'm trying really hard here. Help me out.
Storm In A Teacup 11.19.21	slits sloths throat, buries the body That is what you wanted, diva, right? …right?
Storm In A Teacup 11.19.21	🩸 🩸 🩸🥺 what have I done
porcupinetheater 11.19.21	Public remorse already, Jesus Diva, could’ve told you not to hire Storm as your assassin
Koris 11.19.21	Kinda off-topic from the current conversation but @diva: I know I did a SOTD relatively recently (July), but I have a really good idea for the January one if you'd let me host it again :]
Divaman 11.19.21	It's fine with me DT, but I'm not really in charge or anything. Does anyone have any objections?
Divaman 11.19.21	This month reminds me why I've been using the pandemic to pursue my lifelong dream to become a full-time housebound agoraphobe. With no internet.
Divaman 11.19.21	And a bunch of those fancy wrought iron gates to pull down in front of my windows and doors. And a moat. With alligators.
Divaman 11.19.21	And a stock of weaponry that would make the Branch Davidians stand up and say, "Hallelujah".
Divaman 11.19.21	I'm so depressed. I think I'll lie down now.
ArsMoriendi 11.19.21	"Blue Skies Bring Tears" Weirdly dense and terribly mixed. It seemed like a no-brainer to take the electronics of Adore and make them heavy, but in practice is so bad. 2/5 "Excerpt from 6,000,000,000,000 Miles Before the First, or, the Revisitation of the Blue Ghost" Off the bat, this is nerd prog, but the strings are cool. Not too into those vocals, but the atmosphere is cool enough. Surprisingly keeping my attention 7 minutes in though... the music is indeed engaging. Okay, 8 and a half minutes, and I'm ready for this to end. Decent enough. 3.6/5 "Your Gold Teeth II" Sweet vibraphone. Chill and jammy yacht rock. Not much else to say, but it's cool. 3.6/5 "Red Rain" Very 80s background music. This is too corny for me, sorry. 2.5/5
fogza 11.19.21	19. Head Automatica: At the Speed of a Yellow Bullet - Riffy. It's not really bad, but it sort of happens on its own in the corner while everyone keeps talking. 3.2
dedex 11.19.21	19. At the Speed of a Yellow Bullet - "Basically Glassjaw singer covering a Jet song" is the one and only description you need for this. 3.4
Storm In A Teacup 11.19.21	“It sort of happens on its own in the corner while everyone keeps talking” …that’s…actually the whole intention of the band and why they were started…lmao…party rock music,
fogza 11.19.21	so basically you're saying my analysis is excellent?
Divaman 11.19.21	19. Head Automatica - I generally like Head Automatica, but this song does nothing for me. 2.6
Storm In A Teacup 11.19.21	Indeed fogza 🙂
Storm In A Teacup 11.19.21	The song kind of annoys me, it’s their second most annoying song after Lying Through Your Teeth, Storm rating n/a but still for me a 3.2
fogza 11.19.21	😀
Storm In A Teacup 11.19.21	🐝🌸🌸🌸🐝😃
fogza 11.20.21	20. AMC: Blue and Grey Shirt - Pretty little sad song. 3.5
Divaman 11.20.21	20. American Music Club - folky guitar intro and vocal. Slight country stylings. OK. Maybe a little boring, though. 2.9.
fogza 11.21.21	21. The Mothers of Invention: Let's Make the Water Turn Black - I'm assuming the music is supposed to clue us in that this is a funny song, but it's not really funny. 2.3
Divaman 11.21.21	I'm not sure they intended it to be "funny" per se. The entire album is like this - it's kind of a deconstruction of the rock music of the time. The album cover itself, front and back, was a parody of Sgt. Pepper.
ArsMoriendi 11.21.21	"At the Speed of a Yellow Bullet" Very hard rock. Yeah I see the Jet comparrison. WAIT WAS THE A ZAPPA REFERENCE? It was "seen the smoke and fire and the market burning down" is a line from Trouble Every Day. This is pretty generic, but I gotta give props for the reference so, so +.1 for that. 3.1/5 "Blue and Grey Shirt" Alt-country chill vibes. This is pretty nice. I wouldn't say it's standout, but maybe it doesn't need to be. 3.7/5 "Let's Make the Water Turn Black" Will I like this one? Are you kidding? It's literally my favorite song from my favorite album of all time!!! (not my favorite song of all time, but still!) It's a perfect piece of goofy psychedelic pop. Back when I was 14 and only had Zappa's Best Of, Strictly Commercial, it was THIS song that pushed me to actually explore his albums. I swear to god the combination of storytelling, character creation, satire, voice pitching, jaunty drums, and just my god a window into the more positive side of my soul. "Ronnie's in the army now and Kenny's taking pills. Oh, how they yearn to see a bomber burn. Color flashing, thunder crashing, dynamite machine. Wait till the fire turns green." hits in the weirdest, but best way. 60s Vietnam culture and 50s suburbia culture clash beautifully. God damn, this is a 60s masterpiece. Fuck your favorite 60s album if it isn't this one honestly. 5/5
ArsMoriendi 11.21.21	Sorry, I got a little passionate there, but "Let's Make the Water Turn Black" is taste defining for me
Storm In A Teacup 11.21.21	Lol he said fuck all y’all at the end there.
porcupinetheater 11.21.21	Holy shit, totally just assumed that was your rec, Ars Plot twist of the century
fogza 11.21.21	"I'm not sure they intended it to be "funny" per se" Well, if it's not supposed to be funny I'd probably score it lower based on the gross subject material and unappealing song lol
ArsMoriendi 11.21.21	It has a humorous element to it, but in a satirical type way. The entire album is a commentary on the drastic cultural change that the 1960s brought. 50s style conservatives who hate the changes, the hippies who love it, the police, war, and psychedelic bands etc If it helps, the characters in the song are based off of Zappa's actual neighbors growing up in the 50s
Divaman 11.21.21	Holy fuck! I knew Ars would like it, but I've never gotten a 5 for anything from Ars in my whole Sput life. I think ... I think I'm gonna cry! (sniff)
ArsMoriendi 11.21.21	I mean it's legit like my 2nd fave Zappa song ever, only beaten by Inca Roads https://www.sputnikmusic.com/list.php?memberid=1034848&listid=197824 Check dis
Divaman 11.21.21	This almost makes up for the emotional trauma and resulting deep depression that Sam caused me earlier in the week.
Divaman 11.21.21	Actually, as I was listening the the song during the week prior to recommending it, I was wondering how you all would react to it just hearing it on its own, with no context. It's hard to put myself in that head space, as I've been living with this album for a long time. I'll be curious to see some other reactions.
fogza 11.21.21	"If it helps, the characters in the song are based off of Zappa's actual neighbors growing up in the 50s" I actually read the wiki entry for the song after listening and found the whole thing a bit gross and silly, but maybe that's just me
Divaman 11.21.21	I don't know if I even knew what the actual concept was when I first heard it. I just knew that it was totally different than the music that everyone was listening to around me, and it spoke to me in a way far beyond most of the other stuff I was hearing. Of course, I was also an early teen, so the grosser the better! :)
Storm In A Teacup 11.21.21	Lol now u old
Storm In A Teacup 11.21.21	Sorry Budgie hacked me for a second 🙂
Divaman 11.21.21	Dammit budgie!
Pangea 11.21.21	7. Scarlet Begonias - some cool moments, but the entire package didn't work for me. 2.7 8. Dark blue and gold - this is great. 3.8 9. White Noise - 🔥🔥🕺🕺 10. Blue Avenue - nice & chill, great percussion. 3.5 11. Coxcomb Red - i like the emotional vocals, but the song doesn't do enough. 3.2
fogza 11.22.21	22. George Jones: Brown to Blue - I like a bit of country but this is maybe a little straight sentimental for me. But not bad. 3.3
fogza 11.22.21	"Of course, I was also an early teen, so the grosser the better! :)" Different strokes and all that lol
porcupinetheater 11.22.21	The world would be a better place if teen boys learned they could use different strokes
fogza 11.22.21	crash boom bash porc will be here all evening...
dedex 11.22.21	20. Blue and Grey Shirt - sad 😥 but pretty 😊 3.5 21. Let's Make the Water Turn Black - woah if this ain't Arscore i dunno what is. song is doofy but kinda fun. 3.0 22. Brown to Blue - 60s easy listening divorce banger. 3.1
Koris 11.22.21	Alright, I guess I'll finally join in for once: 1. Red Skies - pretty cool tune. I love when songs use those percussive stabs of clean guitar; really gives off a cool post-punk edge (even though this is more like new wave). 3.5/5 2. Black Flowers - I keep telling myself to get into this band but never follow through with it. Maybe I should start soon though, given how nice this song is. Simple but enjoyable piano arrangement, and I like how dreamlike the atmosphere is. 3.8/5 3. Blue Pail Fever - Beautiful neofolk with excellent guitar playing and cool baritone vocals. Yeah, this one is awesome; another artist I've never checked out, but maybe I'll do so this weekend. 4/5 4. The Green - Not sure how I'd classify this, but it's pretty interesting at least. I like the weird quirky synths and funky rhythms. 3.2/5 5. Redlight Moments - I haven't heard much of Bladee's stuff outside of Eversince, but this was pretty decent. I don't mind the autotune much, and I think it's done for stylistic reasons anyway. The beat's nothing special, but still... this was ok overall. 3/5 6. Little Green Bag - Ah shit, I'm incredibly familiar with this one! I've been a massive Tarantino fan for a long time, so of course I instantly associate this with Reservoir Dogs; in any case, it's a fun song. I'm probably biased, but yeah, I like this one a lot. 4/5
porcupinetheater 11.22.21	1. Red Skies - Was so prepared to rate lower but that hyperactive instrumental at the front of the bridge revitalized the whole thing. Real nifty odd touch. 3.4 2. Black Flowers - Nice upbeat melody, weird little background quirks, pleasethereal vocals, dumb quasi-clever lyrics. Classic YLT. Play the hits! 3.5 4. The Green - Last minute and a half are gold, but the first couple minutes don’t do much. Don’t really even feel like they add much groundwork to make that awesome backside hit harder. Tryna get hit by some backside. 3 5. Redlight Memories - Still don’t know wtf I like Bladee 3.5 6. Little Green Bag - ew bad memories of people making me watch Tarantino movies gross. Bass rocks everything else is bad 2.3 7. Scarlet Begonias - Ugh Sublime is the worst and this is bad even by their standards, and since we apparently got this increment here’s the absolute floor 0.1 8. Dark Blue and Gold - These vocals have so much character than they even help sell the sort of obvious instrumental. Nice as hell, 3.8
ArsMoriendi 11.22.21	" and since we apparently got this increment here’s the absolute floor 0.1" It was just Sam using the under 1/5 scores but now I guess that's no longer true lol
Divaman 11.22.21	22. George Jones - Old country vibe. Sad divorce song. It's alright, but I'm not much of a country fan. 2.8
Pangea 11.22.21	12. Daydream in Blue - the song it samples is great, this i do not really care for. 2.7 13. Green and Grey - love this, song has a great build up. 4.2
dedex 11.23.21	23. Bright Yellow Gun - 90s alt, yes! 3.9
Pangea 11.23.21	14. Blinded by the Emerald Mist - nerd prog at its best. 4.0
Koris 11.23.21	7. Scarlet Begonias - Yeeeeeeeeaaaah... I can't stand Sublime, sorry. And wait, this is a Grateful Dead cover? Yeeeeeeeeeaaaah... not much of a fan of them either, lol. 1/5 8. Dark Blue and Gold - Not bad. I like the vibrato in the singing, and the guitar playing is pretty good. Nice combo of folk and alternative rock going on here. 3.3/5 9. White Noise - This one sounds really familiar tbh. Anyway, nice beat and I like the light airy vocals. The love the moments when the beat drops out and the synths just sway back and forth. 3.7/5 10. Blue Avenue - Damn, this sounds great! Love the combination of the horns and the hip-hop beats. I used to live pretty close to Los Angeles, and this gives off the feeling of walking around the bustling city at night with your headphones on. Awesome. 4/5
Divaman 11.23.21	23. Throwing Muses - 90's alt rock. These guys are alright, although I always liked Kristin Hersh's stepsister (Tanya Donnelly of Belly) better. 3.6
fogza 11.23.21	how did you feel about 'the real ramona' diva? back when both of them were in the band?
Divaman 11.23.21	I wasn't really following them, unfortunately. One of these days, I'll go back and revisit. I only became aware of both Tanya and Kristin after Belly's first album.
SlothcoreSam 11.23.21	20. Blue and Grey Shirt. 2.8, OK, sounds like something I could hear at open night mic down the road. 21. Let's Make the Water Turn Black. 3.0 I guess this is an acquired taste, that maybe you can grow into. I am not quite there yet, but has some elements I like. 22. Brown to Blue. 2.1 Drifter has quite the eclectic music taste. 23. Bright Yellow Gun. 2.8 Some female fronted alt rock, I think I have heard this before, or the lyrics are so obvious I am guessing the next few words before they come out. Vocal sound a bit like Chrissy Amphlett, from Divinyls, it isn't bad, just lacking some ooomph.
fogza 11.24.21	24. Prince: Purple rain - Another unusually coloured rain song. Prince goes power ballad and finds his redemption arc, not a dry eye in the house. 4.5
dedex 11.24.21	24. Purple Rain - uh i think i've heard this track before lel. 4.7
fogza 11.24.21	are you sure?
dedex 11.24.21	i think so but can't pinpoint when
porcupinetheater 11.24.21	24. Purple Rain - good song. Gonna rate every rec that’s an established classic that everyone’s already heard and loves a 1 cause it’s obnoxious how someone (you hear me, someone?) can just win the comp by mindless reccin’ Bowie or something from Rumors. 1.0
Koris 11.24.21	Purple Rain on my birthday! :D
dedex 11.24.21	y'know what porc? im with you on this so: 24. Purple Rain - 1.0
Koris 11.24.21	Oh wow, fuck you both -_- :]
dedex 11.24.21	m/
porcupinetheater 11.24.21	I rate Special K’s very special birthday a 3.7 :D
Divaman 11.24.21	24. Prince (before he changed his name to Squiggle) - Crap. I hate this goofy bastard. Shit, it's more than 7 minutes long, too. I guess this is the clip from the film, huh? Well, at least for Thanksgiving tomorrow, I can be grateful that I got this over with today. Slow guitar intro. Nice puffy pirate shirt. Thought about scoring this one anywhere from 2.3 to 2.8. I'll split the difference and give it a 2.5
fogza 11.24.21	porc has a point. I might kill my peter gabriel rating and the purple rain one
fogza 11.24.21	but i dunno, it's so brutal
dedex 11.24.21	life is also brutal
fogza 11.24.21	actually it doesn't really matter because i think their averages are tanked anyway.
Divaman 11.24.21	Let me know when you have some serious ratings that you actually want me to post, guys.
porcupinetheater 11.24.21	Dead serious
dedex 11.24.21	you think we're fucking jokes mate?!
porcupinetheater 11.24.21	Thought that rain was purple, shit’s a fucking bloodbath. God is Elizabeth Bathory
Divaman 11.24.21	Is it worth me even bothering to keep the scores for the rest of the month? 'Cause I've got other shit I can do to keep myself occupied.
porcupinetheater 11.24.21	I’ll pop it in the spreadsheet myself soon’s I get to a place where my laptop’s usable don’t you fret
fogza 11.24.21	No changes from my side diva lol
Divaman 11.24.21	Well, here's the deal. The songs for the month are all here. Everyone can enter (or change) their scores on the spreadsheet. (Everyone really ought to be doing it anyway, but I've been doing it for those of you who don't as a courtesy.) The address is: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1yo9Aj7t1IZwG41xFgX9kzIugIsVckENq5RnQace1WDw/edit#gid=2130327942
porcupinetheater 11.24.21	Omg thank you divadear Is this what autonomy feels like?
Divaman 11.24.21	I wouldn't know.
dedex 11.25.21	25. Deep Red Bells - this is beautiful but sad. i like. 3.9 alright imma cull Purple Rain only if it can win
fogza 11.26.21	25. Neko Case: Deep Red Bells - I always liked Neko's work with the New Pornographers more than her solo stuff, but this is a good song. 3.7
fogza 11.26.21	26. Black moth super rainbow: The Afternoon Turns Pink - Ok mood music, but kinda goes nowhere. 3.2
Koris 11.26.21	11. Coxcomb Red: Nice vocals and warm guitar tone. Gets a bit boring after a while, but I like the vibe. 3/5 12. Daydream in Blue: Pretty cool song, and a nice remix of the original. I like how electronica and symphonic rock are blended together here. 3.4/5
dedex 11.26.21	26. The Afternoon Turns Pink - yeah fogza gets it. 3.2
ArsMoriendi 11.27.21	"Brown to Blue" Old-timey country with a soul. Simple and cute. 3.4/5
Storm In A Teacup 11.27.21	My first pick was a throw away song but my second pick for me is a 4.9/5 song. Excited for y'all to hear. Need to catch up on this after this weekend.
Storm In A Teacup 11.27.21	I 5 purple rain tho because porc is a fucker and it is a 5 anyway. 😡
ArsMoriendi 11.27.21	"Bright Yellow Gun" I feel like this is popular 90s radio rock, but I've never heard it. It's catchy, but not really interesting beyond that. 3/5 "Purple Rain" Well I mean everyone knows this one. It's a slow 80s pop ballad and I wish I liked this more. A lot of passion and nice guitar work for sure though. I feel like it goes on for too long. Raspberry Beret is better than this idk. It's cool though. 3.5/5 "Deep Red Bells" This came out swinging with country jangles. This is pleasant, but it's not really my thing. I like the guitar and the atmosphere, but the voice isn't engaging me enough to give this a high score. 3.2/5
SlothcoreSam 11.27.21	""Deep Red Bells" This came out swinging " I read this as deep red balls, lol
ArsMoriendi 11.27.21	"good song. Gonna rate every rec that’s an established classic that everyone’s already heard and loves a 1 cause it’s obnoxious how someone (you hear me, someone?) can just win the comp by mindless reccin’ Bowie or something from Rumors." Honestly porc has a point The winner is often a certified classic... people should only rec songs people aren't automatically expected to know
SlothcoreSam 11.27.21	You're hosting next month Ars, add that to your rules.
ArsMoriendi 11.27.21	Actually, my theme will already is set in stone and will cause that to be impossible
fogza 11.27.21	27. Maybeshewill: Red Paper Lanterns - Pretty good post rock workout. 3.5
dedex 11.27.21	💪
fogza 11.28.21	28. Blof: Blauwe Ruis - Probably the most straight ahead modern rock song I've heard on SOTD. Don't love it although the drummer is fun to watch in the video. 2.9
dedex 11.28.21	28. Blauwe Ruis - ya 'tis een echt rocker. 3.1
Pangea 11.28.21	BLAUWE RUIS WANT JE HART GAAT NOOIT VERLOREN
Pangea 11.28.21	it's catching up day!
dedex 11.28.21	yay!
Pangea 11.28.21	15. Blue Skies Bring Tears -hold up, this doesn't smash. the mix is pretty bad, but it's okay otherwise i guess. 2.8 16. Excerpt from 6,000,000,000,000 Miles Before the First, or, the Revisitation of the Blue Ghost - don't really like the vocals, but otherwise this is great. dig the acoustic bits. 3.3 17. Your Gold Teeth II - nice jammy jazz fusion. 3.5 18. Red Rain - i don't really remember this one, so a bit confused at all the classic comments. anyway, it's pretty boring. 2.5 19. At the Speed of a Yellow Bullet - i was kinda annoyed at all the Come Ons, but it has good energy. 2.8
fogza 11.29.21	29. Lantlos: Azure Chimes - Ok when I saw the band write-up and it said progressive black metal I was like "oh no, here we go 7 minutes of torture", but you know what, this was ok, actually maybe something better than ok that I would listen to more than once even. #suprised 3.5
dedex 11.29.21	29. Azure Chimes - beauty. 3.8
Trifolium 11.29.21	Hmmmm yes yes yes! I forever want to get on board with rating these again but I forever forget to do so or can't find the time 😢 Perhaps one day!
Storm In A Teacup 11.30.21	@pangea I’ve been waiting for someone on here to say the “come on” were annoying!
fogza 11.30.21	30. Youth group: Blue Leaves, Red Dust - Nice slacker core with a bit of an extended outro. I liked it. 3.8
dedex 11.30.21	30. Blue Leaves, Red Dust - this is a perfect way to end the month. 4.0
Pangea 11.30.21	well i got your back storm!
Pangea 11.30.21	20. cant find on spotify rn and i'm on phone data so i don't want to use youtube. will get back to it later 21. goofy upbeat fun. can dig. 3.5 22. Nice ol country. 3.5 23. This is lots of fun. 4.0 24. Yeah i mean great song. 4.3
Pangea 11.30.21	25. beauty. 3.8 26. nice colourful stuff. 3.5 27. this is twinkly post rock so i must give it a high rating. 4.3 28. 🇳🇱🇳🇱🇳🇱 29. great song. 4.2 30. Also enjoyed this a lot. has nice dynamics. 4.2
fogza 11.30.21	pangea crushed it in the home stretch
dedex 11.30.21	don't forget to listen to 20 Panpan!
SlothcoreSam 12.01.21	25. Deep Red Bells. 3.6. Good song and good voice. 26. The Afternoon Turns Pink. 3.1. Needed something extra 27. Red Paper Lanterns. 3.9, great instrumental post rock track. 28. Blue noise. 2.5 perfectly average 29. Azure chimes. 3.9, this is German blackgaze, sounds like the last couple of Deafheaven albums were heavily influenced by this. 30. Blue Leaves, Red Dust. 4.1 This Australian band were mostly known for their version of Forever Young, but they had a lot of other great stuff, I have this album on CD, and this was one of the better tracks, haven't listened to it in aaaages.
Pangea 12.01.21	20. Blue and Grey Shirt - yeah kinda nice. 3.0
Pangea 12.01.21	okay i think i updated all the ratings in the scoresheet. blue leaves, red dust is on top with 4 ratings. hopefully a few more people will catch up in the coming days
ArsMoriendi 12.02.21	"Red Paper Lanterns" Floaty guitar and twinkly bells, hmmm. Don't like that breakdown. Meh. 2.8/5 "Blauwe Ruis" So is this power pop? Decent solo section. I like the spacey atmosphere. Most of this was meh though, but +.1 for the interesting enough section. 3.1/5 "Azure Chimes" Very down-tuned guitars so far. Oh, it's metal. The vocals remind me of Alice in Chains for some reason. This instrumental section is so boring. 2.5/5 "Blue Leaves, Red Dust" More floaty guitar, this time with sweet vocals. This is good and all, but it feels a bit overlong. 3.4/5
Ryus 12.02.21	oh sweet bladee won
porcupinetheater 12.02.21	Green light moment.
neekafat 12.04.21	Sorry to bring it up again but Jesus sloth your Red Rain take is one of the worst I’ve seen in a while, that’s an absolute classic
fogza 12.04.21	I was quite surprised it racked up two 2.5's and the dreaded sloth 0.1
neekafat 12.04.21	Truly an embarrassing moment for sput
Pangea 12.04.21	of all 80s cheeseballs, this is the one that you all hype up?
Pangea 12.04.21	anyway i'm gonna call blue leaves, red dust for the win. Congrats Storm!