Rate The Song Above You

Not really into a Winehouse, even though she was talented. This song didn't really do it for me. 6/10.

Disturbed - Remember

At least "Down With the Sickness" was memorable, albeit for all the wrong reasons. Most of the other Disturbed I've heard has been little more than Tool lite, minus the prog leanings and general eccentricity that make Tool something special, and this is no exception. 5/10

Ingram Marshall - Gradual Requiem, Part 1

Eerily atmospheric ambient track, 4/5

Tom Waits - Alice

8/10: Waits as only Waits can be. You might not think that he'd mesh well with the history of Alice in Wonderland, but he really can do anything.

Steely Dan - Aja

I always could appreciate jazz music. 8/10.

Cowboy Bebop OST - Rush

Me, as well. Cowboy Bebop has an awesome soundtrack, 4/5.

Vremya i Steklo - Imya 505

4/10: This is pretty paint-by-numbers synthpop with irritating vocals. Sorry, not my thing.

Lambchop - Hey Where's Your Girl (the song ends at 2:24, the rest of the video is silence)

Short, quirky and sweet, with just enough elaboration in the arrangement to make it genuinely memorable while losing none of its twee charm. The squeaky, bending synth(?) lick is a key moment. 8/10

Fleet Foxes - Third of May / Ōdaigahara

Pleasant instrumentation, but the lack of focus in the arrangement makes it unmemorable, 2/5.

Seether - Careless Whisper

5/10. The edge was real, and it showcases its emotion well for what it's trying to be. That being said, I found it boring and sluggish.

Stevie Wonder - I Love You Too Much

Not much to say. It's nice and funky, and Steevie's voice is always honey for the ears. =]

Gojira - Dawn

The closing instrumental of their 2003 album "The Link".

Nice intrumental track, but it gets too repetitive for such length, 3/5.

Cult of Luna - And With Her Came The Birds

It's a pleasant, reasonably somber experience. The musical palette that it uses feels a bit thin when spread out over such a timespan. However, the musicians apply just enough changes to the song's structure so that it does not feel like a drawn-out drag. Very atmospheric, feels like a cabin perched on the side of a mountain covered in darkened foliage. (7/10)

Motorpsycho - In The Family

65/100 - Vibe similar to 80's Rush on this where prog intricacies have been worked into a simpler, more easily digestible form with prominent bass playing and soothing, easily digestible harmony encasing it.

Jordsjø - Jord II

Very nice instrumental prog, pastoral, energetic and cerebral in equal measure. It's one of those modern prog records that genuinely sounds like a lost 70s classic that was only just rediscovered. 8/10

Rozz Dyliams - Galeforce Beach

Rap is not a genre I'm into, but the beat was cool and the flow was pretty nice, 3/5.

The Slow Death - Empty Places

5/10: Big doomy riffs can't hide awful, silly growls. Still a good effort, though.

Calexico - Frontera

6/10. Decent song with some nice horns. But, this is one of those songs that won't stick with me.

Lauryn Hill-Doo Wop(That Thing)

8.4/10 Girl can sing, great sound, there were some parts I found a bit annoying, though?

Paramore - Hard Times

Fun and catchy, 4/5.

Russian Rammstein - Du Riechst So Gut

Well-played, and some bits were cool, but overall the tune just wasn't really one I'm into. 7/10.

Mental As Anything - He's Just No Good For You

edited 11th Jul '17 5:34:20 AM by Murataku

Quirky new wave from the Land Down Under that ends up thwarted by that eternal scourge of the 1980s, excessive production. The entire thing feels as though it's struggling to break out of a prison of kitschy reverb and elaborate polish, and sadly it doesn't succeed. 5.5/10

Led Zeppelin - No Quarter

8/10. One of the better tunes from Houses of the Holy. From the soft beginning through the guitar entrance to the piano parts and beyond, this is one of the few late Zep tunes that maintains a good build-up throughout it. It sounds best when it's played at night.

Let's go to Portugal, now. Lisbon, to be more precise.

Pop Dell'Arte - Querelle. Pop Dell'Arte is a Portuguese group, led by João Peste, that began in the mid-to-late 80's and was a very... unusual group (they release albums every now and then, each one different in sound from the last) back in those days. No tune sounds the same as the next one, but I thought of sharing this one, since it doesn't really feature lyrics (but João Peste scats all the way). Also, the video is a nice snapshot of the late-80's/early 90's movida-style scene that happened in Lisbon.

edited 11th Jul '17 9:24:14 AM by Quag15

This chaotically arranged track creates an otherworldly, schizophrenic atmosphere, 3/5.

Nickelback - Feed The Machine

…That's not what I had in mind when I saw the name "Nickelback", but I was rather pleasantly surprised. It's rather straightforward heavy metal, but it's done very effectively with a slow and menacing verse and a cool bridge. So yay.

Speaking of which, is dystopian sci-fi the new trend in hard-rock and metal or what? In just a year we've had The Astonishing, Dystopia, The Stage, some parts of Hardwired... and now this (though I don't know if the whole album is like that)…

Anyway, let's make a little detour through Kenya:

Sauti Sol ft. Red Fourth Chorus - Kuliko Jana

Someone translated the lyrics in the comments. The language is… Swahili, I think?

edited 11th Jul '17 10:24:41 AM by Lyendith