I like noises.
Matching the name of the track, this is some ideal night music: pleasant, calming, but with a sense of mystery and ponderousness. Reminds me of Grails, another great band of this genre, but with slightly more focus on strings. (8/10)
The Posies - You Avoid Parties
Pleasant, if unmemorable, guitar ballad, 3/5.
Sopor Aeternus & Ensemble of Shadows - Across the Bridge
Mysterious Stranger
8/10 It was well-performed and had a good atmosphere, but the vocals clashed with the instrumental.
Hey.
Love your hair, hope you win
7.8/10 a classic, if a bit overwrought. The bells kinda kill the mood not gonna lie.
Joke? Why are you calling it a joke? You drew a picture of two dudes hugging and wrote "I love hugs!" on it.
In the name of being honest
Wait, this track has a harmonica in it. Lemme get mine so I can play along.
Okay. Beautiful country ballad with great lyric work and vocal performance. The instrumentals (harmonica aside) feel rather workmanlike, but I suppose that fits the song's feel pretty well. 8/10
U2 - Daddy's Gonna Pay For Your Crashed Car
7.5/10 A pretty good but unremarkable dancey number from U2's later era
Scaled seeker
65/100 - Maybe the live mix ain't perfect cuz the vocals sound almost like they're fading out or barely there at points. Aside from that, it's the kind of explosive energy you generally expect from hardcore punk and over before you know it.
Mysterious Stranger
5/10 Well-performed, but I didn't like how the vocals came across and it wasn't a particularly noteworthy song.
Carl Perkins - Blue Suede Shoes
8/10 Such a classic. I can't believe I didn't know Carl Perkins wrote it. It's amazing how it infuses such a simple chord progression with such energy.
Gary Numan - Trois Gymnopedies (First Movement)
(Originally by Erik Satie)
There is no war in Ba Sing Se.
Not really an improvement on the original. If we're talking Satie remixes, I prefer Debussy. 5/10
Edited by MichaelKatsuro on Feb 20th 2021 at 10:13:35 AM
Double post.
Edited by MichaelKatsuro on Feb 20th 2021 at 10:13:22 AM
Love your hair, hope you win
10/10 What a perfect little idea for a show theme. The twang gives it a quite unique atmosphere and the length's just right.
Joke? Why are you calling it a joke? You drew a picture of two dudes hugging and wrote "I love hugs!" on it.
Mysterious Stranger
7/10 Man, Rush just couldn't resist jumping into the 80s MOR bandwagon like the rest of the great 70s bands and artists who thought fixing what isn't broken is a good idea, aren't they? Catchy, but forgettable.
Smashing Pumpkins - Tonight, Tonight
Classic 90s jam. 9/10
Mysterious Stranger
It wasn't a rock
8/10. Some legitimately good Latin Jazz.
Traffic - The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys
In the name of being honest
Bias disclosure: I'm not the biggest fan of the slower/stripped-down flavours of classic rock, especially not of the Epic Rocking variety, so this isn't the smoothest listen for me personally. Like, I don't feel that the bridge had to be that long? And the main piano riff doesn't sound especially interesting or challenging for something that runs for the song's entire 11-minute duration. Credit's where it's due: the lyrics are thoughtful, the sax can be delightful at times, and the choruses and outro make up for the rest of the song's relative limpness. 5/10
The Shanghai Restoration Project & Zhang Le - Song Bie
Mysterious Stranger
Love your hair, hope you win
10/10 Absolutely stellar jazz piece. Love the trailing piano and the bass score matching it so well.
Edited by FirstSnow on Feb 21st 2021 at 12:46:30 PM
Joke? Why are you calling it a joke? You drew a picture of two dudes hugging and wrote "I love hugs!" on it.
7/10 As far as folk-pop pieces go, this ain't half bad; the transition to the pacey bridge towards the end is the highlight of the song, but those vocals sound like your generic "white chick with a guitar" that keeps getting airplay on the radio
Scaled seeker
LOOOOVE IT. Classic song by a frankly underrated legend. The saxophone, the lyrics, the warm calming vocals...ugh. It’s just great. 10/10
Mysterious Stranger
9.5/10 It was amazing, from the vocals to the production. If I had to quibble, I would say the end dragged a bit, though.
The Soul Searchers - Ashley's Roachclip
The Unknown Pleasure they were talking about
It reminds me of the old Mac Tonight McDonald's commercials. Not that I have a problem with that, those commercials always had a nice feel to them that I can never properly explain. But it's good. 9/10.
Anyway, this next one's a bit of a meme Tally Hall - "Ruler of Everything"
70/100 - This does an impressive job of giving me fake 80's nostalgia. Longing for a time I wasn't even around for aside, there's a bunch of different melody lines layered across one another that lead to a very full though not overwhelming sound; it feels very "complete" and fleshed out and the interaction of all these layers gives it an easygoing intricacy that you never really notice until you really dig for it.
Disemballerina - Somnambulist