7/10. Nice tune, but a bit overly-eighties for my taste.
They Might Be Giants - Everything Right is Wrong Again
9/10. This is a great song. I really think it sounds great for a song from 1986. It's pretty good. I remember that they used to use a drum machine back in their early days.
The Smiths- Hand In Glove
6/10. This is an alright song, one of the earliest examples of alternative rock and a decent tune to listen to. Never got into The Smiths though.
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Don't mock the shocker
8/10 The video you linked was unavailable and I could only listen to it via a kinda shitty live version, but even with the shitty sound quality I quite liked it. Royals is a song that lends itself well to covers and I like the menacing guitarline and that chorus is probably unbelievably fun to mosh along to.
Radiohead - Burn the Witch (new song!)
edited 3rd May '16 1:29:40 PM by Rvdz
Sing the song of sixpence that goes burn the witch, we know where you live
9/10: I'm someone without any particular emotional attachment to Radiohead, but this song really is fantastic. Strings that add a sense of tension and frantic energy, actually haunting vocals, and creepy lyrics. Love the bucolic horror of the video, too.
6/10. Not my kind of alternative rock. I'm more into the harder-edged kind, as you probably know by my Ween review.
Linkin Park - A Place for My Head
4/10 Paint-by-numbers early Linkin Park song. It doesn't even have a particularly catchy chorus, which they are normally pretty good at writing.
The Moody Blues - Tuesday Afternoon
edited 3rd May '16 10:57:02 AM by djbj
78/100 - Almost-but-not-quite-prog or maybe just "organized psychedelia"? I can hear lots of prog-esque ideas from the ghostly synths that shadow the rhythms and the mood-swing structures but it hints at such things rather than fully diving into them.
Given what you normally post, this is a surprising change. Surprisingly soft and it's actually something I can listen to. 7/10.
Faul & Wad Ad vs. Pnau - Changes
3/10. Holy hell, who thought it was a good idea to bring in children to make this already childish group of lyrics even more irritating? Besides that, there's also the awfully inserted saxophone that sounds like what a saxophone would sound like on Garageband. Combine that with the absolute motherload of EDM cliches (synth fuzz to cover up vocals, repetitive lyrics, a beat that you've already heard a million times before, etc.) and you have a terrible track.
Courtney Barnett - Pedestrian at Best
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yo that may not be the heaviest alt rock, but don't call no wave music "adult contemporary." that's anything but contemporary.
edited 3rd May '16 3:08:19 PM by golgothasArisen
"If you spend all your heart / On something that has died / You are not alive and that can't be a life"
8/10: Courtney Barnett's at her best when her songs provide a narrative, like "Avant Gardener" or "Depreston". Nevertheless, this is a brash, fuzz-inundated indie tune, demonstrating that Barnett is here to stay.
2/10. Songs that this are the reason I no longer listen to alternative radio due to it playing relaxed adult contemporary music instead of actual modern rock.
Clean Bandit - Up Again (feat. Elizabeth Troy)
I like noises.
While it's listenable, I've heard every single element of this song before: the singer sounds like Lorde + current Taylor Swift, and the beats are pretty generic. The fact that the song tries to turn into drum'n'bass later on does not help. It's harmless, but not memorable. (4/10)
Warning: This track contains about 30 seconds of loud structureless noise at the very beginning, feel free to just skip over it, don't freak out.
Kid606 - Catstep/My Kitten/Catnap Vatstep DSP
edited 3rd May '16 3:25:20 PM by Small_Mess
Nonsense is better than no sense at all.
40/100 - Bit of a kitchen sink approach to techno and what seems like a bunch of other electronic styles; almost like prog but rather than that style's ornate compositions this jumps between rapid-fire samples whose relation to one another is often tenuous at best and comes off as not quite improvised as much as simply stitched together. To be fair, there's some melody that helps tie these themes together but it does little overall to actually give much sense of unity.
7/10. It's definitely a better example of the type of metal I usually hear from you.
Daft Punk - Give Life Back to Music
7/10. Not the best track off of Random Access Memories, but I can see why people like it.
Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space
8/10 Beautiful and serene. It would be great music to relax or fall asleep to.
Atlas
Controversial opinion time - when it comes to North American Jewish folk singer-songwriters with wordy lyrics who peaked in the sixties, I'll take these two over Dylan or Cohen any day. That said, their debut is their weakest album. I can't listen to this without imagining its bouncier fraternal twin from The Sound of Silence, "Somewhere They Can't Find Me", and wondering why I don't just listen to it in that superior form. 5.5/10
Tastes better on the way back down.
8/10: Divers was a brilliant album, but being so packed with great songs "Goose Eggs" is somewhat lost in the shuffle for me. It's good (Newsom has never written a bad song), but the vaguely country-esque parts of it don't feel as well-implemented as they should. Still, though, great.
Don't mock the shocker
7/10 This song is a bit too short and feels slightly unfinished, but it's pretty good. Feels like something that will likely grow on me with multiple listens.
Have a David Bowie cover Amanda Palmer & Jherek Bischoff - Blackstar (Featuring Anna Calvi)
40/100 - Sounds somewhere between the background music for a cell phone commercial shown you'd see before a blockbuster film and maybe a quieter version of something I'd hear in the background for someone's online gaming montage.
4/10: This isn't the metal I like-too fast and intense for me. I will, however, point out that there is Crash Bandicoot in the recommended video bar, which is confusing.
6/10 Musically and lyrically, the song's kind of average, but knowing the Reality Subtext of what's been going on in Kesha's life makes me appreciate it slightly more. She's a pretty decent singer without her Auto-Tuned Valley Girl persona, though she should probably refrain from trying to hit high notes like she does near the end of this track.
The Bangles - Manic Monday