Rate The Song Above You

9/10 - Love the rapid guitar riffs mixed in with a slower one resulting in a swaggery combination, even if it does go on for quite a while.

Apollon de Moura ft. Jay Hampton - Visions

Really good electronic composition with a big, epic sound. Honestly could've used a little more bass (and a sharper audio mix all around), but other than that, I liked it a lot. 8/10

Pomplamoose ft. The Vignes Rooftop Revival - Les Yeux Noirs (Django Reinhardt cover)

10/10 An outstanding showcase of vocal and instrumental musicianship.

Natalie Imbruglia - Identify

86/100 - Dreamlike and ethereal, with the sort of sound you'd normally expect of some artificially slowed down pop single only it hasn't been. The wobbly guitar lines, slowly unfurling vocal lines, and how everything is mixed gives it a vibe as if it was partially recorded underwater. This plays into its dreary, bittersweet atmosphere structured as you expect pop to be but with a quiet sort of weight to its sorrows offset by how airy its melodies are.

Ulk - Sunken Paths, Towering Vines

Well-written, well-performed, but ultimately uninteresting to me. I think part of that is that I kept expecting it to build into something bigger but it never really did. I dunno what this is classified as, but I'm not into it. 4/10.

Calliope Mori - Excuse My Rudeness, But Could You Please RIP?

Because I wanna see how this gets received.

Look. Weird as it sounds, I really wanted to at least feel neutral on this. Vtubers are such low-hanging fruit at this point that taking cheap potshots at them just makes you look like a smug dick with no imagination. If I liked this, at least I wouldn't end up in the awkward position of having to criticise the song without stooping to that level.

And in the end... I'll give it this much, it at least isn't so bad I decided to throw out that courtesy. I don't get the impression this was meant to be taken seriously - it's very overtly goofy in style and delivery, though even interpreting the whole thing as a joke, it's not consistently funny, and at times it's just... I'm sorry, I kept promising I wouldn't punch this low, but the only way I can think to describe it is "painful weebery". "Murder is so kawaii"? Are you fckin serious?

Also the sudden brostep drop feels like a relic of the previous decade that should have remained buried.

5/10

Lena Raine - Heart of the Mountain (Celeste OST)

6/10 will be higher ONLY IF CELESTE IS EASIER

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmb9ZTSx80U

7.8/10 Now the loud hype drops of the early 2010s don't feel quite as dated because they weren't as heavily used per se, and the mix of German and another language is definitely some kind of novelty I haven't really heard much before outside of Attack on Titan and Rammstein.

Dawes - "A Little Bit of Everything"

Edited by FirstSnow on Apr 6th 2022 at 11:40:59 AM

65/100 - There's a song by Simon and Garfunkel this reminds me of, The Boxer namely, though the lyrics are of course very different in what they focus on. It still feels just as rooted in understandably mundane but deeply personal human issues. It has a more climactic sense of climbing emotional drive to its songwriting, spelling some things out more openly, but I don't really find that to be an issue. It's a pretty song, just not something I personally care for that much.

Negative Plane - A Work To Stand A Thousand Years

I like the lyrics, but the arrangement is kinda bland. 6/10.

There was a part around the middle I liked. Besides that, none of it really grabbed me. 5/10.

Radiohead - Kid A

Edited by PhysicalStamina on Apr 6th 2022 at 9:48:06 AM

Lately, something's been happening that I could never have predicted. I've been debating, for the first time in years, what my favourite album is. This is an unexpected development because, had you asked me at any point since I was about thirteen, I'd have said, without hesitation, Kid A.

Part of my devotion to this album is the sense that I owe it everything. My first experience of it was that watershed moment every oddball artistic type has in their youth, where the doors of your perception are blown off their hinges and a whole new universe awaits you on the other side of the empty frame. It transformed me from obnoxious "born in the wrong generation" rockist child to open-minded, awestruck explorer of every new sound I could find quick as anything. Even now, a clear sign of something I'm going to love with all my heart is that it gives me that same sense of wonder and discovery Kid A gave me as a youngin. Radiohead fumdamentally shaped me. So questioning whether it's merely one of my favourites, as opposed to the undisputed champion of them all, feels heretical as far as my inner child's concerned. (I have a very warped inner child.)

All that said, I have no doubt that I'm still going to love this album until the day I die. Its title track isn't the best cut on the album - it's not even in the top 5, which is the most backhanded way of expressing just how consistently high-quality Kid A is ever, really - but it does encapsulate a particular quality that always struck me as one of its greatest overall strengths, which is its sense of atmosphere. This track is all atmosphere, meticulously crafted and hyper-specific atmosphere at that. It feels at once wonderfully sweet and deeply uncomfortable, robotic, almost malicious - a nursery rhyme Skynet sings to newly-made Terminators as it trains them to kill us all. The way those synth pads swell triumphantly in the final minute makes me feel a strong emotion with no name. 9/10

Patti Smith - Gloria

5/10 Not really my type of music, but it works well enough so who cares. Also quite long, not gonna lie.

10 Years - Catacombs

36/100 - Proggy post grunge? That sounds almost like a really stupid joke but uh, yeah, that happened I guess. To its credit while I *guess* you could fit this under butt rock, ah oui yuo see veronica, c'est actually (hon hon hon) le highbrow bumbum rock music. It still goes through the sort of mellow verse big feelsy chorus motions you expect. Less obnoxious about it and the musicianship that goes into it a degree higher than the average Theory of a Deadman radio single stinker. That's nice I guess but it's really telling that this doesn't really elevate it past the constraints of a style that honestly should've died even before the Nickelmemes got tiresome.

TROOT - Venice in the Sky

Edited by StillbornMachine on Apr 8th 2022 at 3:58:25 AM

10/10 - Love the rock blended in with the jazz-like clarinet elements, sounds very groovy and beautiful. Easily a new favorite for me.

Generdyn ft. Fjøra - Bridges

7/10 pretty "epic" sounding, like it would belong a movie or something. i like the ambience in the background, and the drums are nice and "booming". overall pretty good song.

GNB Chili - Ascended

not sure if it's acceptable to bump but i might as well

This thread can go weeks between replies. I'd personally advise against bump posts.

Anyhey: Fun beat, but goes nowhere in the end. It could work as background noise for workout or a video game level, but I don't personally find it an enjoyable track on its own, sorry. 5/10

Florence + The Machine - Free

70/100 - An interesting, anachronistic combination of dancy, artsy rhythmic sensibilities and this old timey English folk approach to melody and a lot of the note intervals. I feel if they wanted to they could turn this into an instrumental ambient-electronic-something track; there's a really good sense of layered backdrop to it.

Negură Bunget - III

Edited by StillbornMachine on Apr 23rd 2022 at 5:04:26 AM

5/10 Cool prog metal track but feels a little too samey and predictable.

Boards of Canada - Wildlife Analysis

Pretty short, but relaxing and strange at the same time. 8/10

Soundgarden - Superunknown.

6/10

It gets pretty repetitive after the first 2 minutes and I'm not a fan of the singing, but it has a great rhythm and the chorus is pretty good.

The Who - Naked Eye

65/100 - I get a bit of a disconnect in this song between its very sombre, articulate cleaner verses and the jolly, bouncy riffs it builds up to. Neither are bad but put together it's a jarring, awkward shift of atmosphere that doesn't really compliment the song as a whole.

Bedsore - Shapes From Beyond The Veil Of Stars And Space

Dude, why? Do you not want people to keep posting in this thread or what?

Me coming in like "come on, metal isn't everyone's cup of tea but is it really - OH. oh the song's sixteen and a half minutes long. Explains a lot."

Honestly, I'm surprised you don't hear more metal with an overt psychedelic influence. Sure, the psychedelic movement's association will always be with flower power, but when the OG psych rockers got heavy, they got HEAVY heavy. Jimi Hendrix literally blowing out his amps comes to mind. So hearing this track open with a synth solo straight off a Pink Floyd song was a pleasant surprise.

Sure enough, this is unapologetically trippy music. At times you'd be forgiven for forgetting this is death metal at all and not something off of a lost late 60s band's sole, cult album. And you know what, even if they struggle to make the more traditionalist shrieking portions stand out the way the full-blown psychedelia does, it's cool on principle, far as I'm concerned. I'd be eager to see more metal bands try a style like this; it feels like it has potential to do really interesting things. 7/10

Yves Tumor - Licking an Orchid (feat. James K)

chill out, all of you. no one's any better or worse for liking any type of music, be it some 40 minute long metal symphony by some unknown scandinavian band or a 30 second soundcloud freestyle. leave your egos at the door, seriously. we either like or hate the song that someone posts, and that's fair enough in my book.

6/10 not bad, the vocals remind me a bit of Damon Albarn but with more blues/R&B inspired vibrato. Don't like the removal of downbeats in certain parts of the song though so I can't really groove to it.

Lil B - Pussy On My Face

Edited by YouSitTightBuddy on May 1st 2022 at 10:10:17 AM