Rate That Song

[MystyrMystyry]

That was sort of something else cool yeah man 6/10

This is something else too

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teUoLmMU9Xg&feature=related

[Mutatis-Mutandis]

I liked it. 7/10.

Something in the same vain. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NHbOqmNVm8&feature=fvst)

[David Lurie]

MOVEMENT OF JAH PEOPLE 9/10
not my favourite but a great Bob Marley song

http://youtu.be/rqMwsiLcmEY

[Lokasenna]

Not bad, if not exactly my sort of thing. 5/10

And now for something completely different... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bD3SBzanYMg&feature=related)

[The Comedian]

Nice! 7/10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnI28bdZylM&feature=related

[Mutatis-Mutandis]

Ugh. Everything I hate about indie. Repetitive, bland, pompous, and simplistic. 2/10.

I love watching the crowd. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8j6bHnWRjs&feature=related)

[OrphanPip]

I remember watching Woodstock 99 on TV.

I'm sorta meh about Korn, reminds me of high school, 4/10.

I spent yesterday listening to the most recent PSB greatest hits album.

Not one of my favourite of their songs, but it's from '99 so I guess it's appropriate. Plus the video is pretty hilariously over the top.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SWYZK-c3nQ&feature=related

[David Lurie]

I'm not exactly a PSB fan but this one is not so bad and the funny video helps 6/10

http://youtu.be/9dyUzUxE_2w

[The Comedian]

Ugh. Everything I hate about indie. Repetitive, bland, pompous, and simplistic.

I'm curious what you mean by repetitive -- I once listened to a song that you posted where the words to the entire song were: "WAKE UP!" repeated over and over with almost no variance in tone, volume, or pacing.

I don't mean or want this to be a justification of belief or a "metal vs the world" sort of discussion. I'm just confused about what's repetitive and what isn't.

[Mutatis-Mutandis]

I'm curious what you mean by repetitive -- I once listened to a song that you posted where the words to the entire song were: "WAKE UP!" repeated over and over with almost no variance in tone, volume, or pacing.

I don't mean or want this to be a justification of belief or a "metal vs the world" sort of discussion. I'm just confused about what's repetitive and what isn't.
Well, first, repitition goes beyond lyrics. And, you are being a bit hyperbolic--the lyrics to "Wake Up" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyOSx62c2Ic) do not entirely consist of him only saying "wake up." And, even though the vocals do not contain much variance (though, it is there as he switches between high screams and low growls), there is plenty for the rest of the song. Even if the lyrics are a bit repetitive, the song isn't. It's continuously changing.

Your song, on the other hand, is just the same notes over, and over, and over, with barely any variation. If you go to one minute in thsi song, it sounds nearly identical when you jump to minute two, and then to minute three. In "Wake Up," whether you like it or hate it, this isn't the case. The tempo changes, there's a guitar solo, etc.

Like most indie, The National's song just builds on the bland note combination. I hate this minimilist approach to music. It's like a bunch of hipsters all listened to Philip Glass and said, "Hey, let's do this with rock 'n' roll." I'm fed up with it.

This is just my opinion. Plenty of people love indie music (unfortunately for me), so good for them.

As for David's song ... I really liked it, even if it is pretty damn cheesy. Interesting lyrics, good melody, a near-progressive feel. Not bad at all. 7.5/10

This song (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-0rLI6-skQ) is quite repetitive, but I'm a Tool fanboy, so I love it. :nod:

[The Comedian]

That's a great explanation, MM. I honestly didn't know what excessive repetition really meant. And music is not really my thing much anymore. I used to really get into it, but now I'd rather just listen to an old CD on the way into work and that's pretty much the extent of my music exposure these days.

[MarkBastable]

Tool. Not awful. 5/10

Ah, being sixteen. Unfinished geography homework, the NME, John William Waterhouse prints, Paula's Dad's Bentley, the bloody awful Archers theme tune, Denim aftershave ('for the man who doesn't have to try too hard'). And Alice (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7x0BehBmIwk).

[Mutatis-Mutandis]

It's funny that I'm a metal head and I've never gotten into Alice Cooper. I love most of what I hear from him (I do not enjoy the "school out for summer" song at all--kind of a turn off, really), but I just never got around to his music. There's just too much to listen to get to everything, but maybe someday. 8.5.

You can blame Alice Cooper for this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3VVrai_lH4&feature=fvst), Mark. :nod:

[MystyrMystyry]

Great stuff M-M 8/10

Wake up America!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxJAHSX-PBM

[MarkBastable]

I'm aware that I don't like Hendrix as much as I ought. There's some terrific stuff (Fire, Stone Free), but this piece I'm less keen on. Great bit of political theatre, given the context, but not so wonderful as a piece of music. 6/10

Here's something (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYCnblx0NWk)I hated as kid, but have grown to like, simply for the melody.

[MystyrMystyry]

Yeeks! Granted I can see the melody is okayish in the particular realm of his meandering tinkley embellishments (were I to be brutally honest - 5/10) but the naff arrangement! Gagh... 1/10 (only because 0/10 wouldn't be fair on all those musicians, and those more deserving of 0/10

So the average is 2.5/10, or more fractionally correct 5/20, or 1/4, whichever serves your underhanded game better


This is a classic from the a strange period known as the 'swingin' sixties'. It exmplifies the style known as 'deadbeat'

Warning: watch out for the blipvert advertisements (and the frequent hair flicking, dodgy eyeliner, growling guitarist, smiling drummer, sing-a-long bassist, and of course monkeys in cages - what were they thinking agreeing to appear in this tosh?)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2DBcbZc3ck

(okay you got me that was just a bit of 'deadbeat' fun)

THIS!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwzaifhSw2c&feature=related

[MarkBastable]

Actually, I'd take the eyeliner pop-monkeys' tie-dyed bubblegum ahead of the self-absorbed adolescent drone-poetry of the Velvets any day. 8/10 for the former and 3/10 for the latter - and two-and-a-half of that is in anticipation of John Cale's subsequent career.

Oh, okay. Lou had his solo moments too, of which this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qhT4GY6eAs&feature=fvwrel)is one of my favourites.

[Scheherazade]

Oh, okay. Lou had his solo moments too, of which this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qhT4GY6eAs&feature=fvwrel)is one of my favourites.Love all his moments: 10/10


Just because I keep hearing this one on the radio 12 times a day on average:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dl6yilkU1LI

(Not to say that it does not bring memories!)

[MarkBastable]

I have a soft spot for that. 8/10

Also, for this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hffcyJ1GAg).

[The Comedian]

Really enjoyed that song. 9/10 (I'll probably download it later on).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZiXAtXuy1s&feature=related

[Mutatis-Mutandis]

Really enjoyed that song. 9/10 (I'll probably download it later on).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZiXAtXuy1s&feature=related
Not horrible, but about 2 minutes in I was pretty bored. Still, I'm feeling generous.

That's enough of this soft-*** ****!
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vjg7dQhARY&feature=related)

[David Lurie]

is this what they call death metal? anyway really I don't care what they call it 0/10 sorry

after that horrible experience I really needed some good stuff like this one http://youtu.be/CKs2rbUMX5g

[MarkBastable]

Not in the least offensive. A sort of cucumber-and-cream-cheese sandwich of a song. 5/10

I think that this piece (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htuxb-m4-ng)is so familiar that it's difficult to look again and see how good a song it is. It's also worth bearing in mind that the four of them were short of 19 at the time - which is pretty astonishing.

[Mutatis-Mutandis]

It was okay. One of those songs I've heard a million times, and not once in any of those million really grabbed me. Still, it isn't a bad song. 5/10.

I'm not impressed that they were so young, though. Maybe it was pretty good for back then, but they aren't really doing anything particularly special.

Writer, vocalist, and guitarist (the only one on this track) was only 17 when this song (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujPdWiaNOSo) was recorded. At least listen to the ending guitar solo to realize his talent.

[iankropp]

Love whistle for the choir!! 9/10 for me.

[MarkBastable]

I'm not impressed that they were so young, though. Maybe it was pretty good for back then, but they aren't really doing anything particularly special.

What was different about 'back then'?

[Paulclem]

I'll post this for Iankropp.

Gil Scott heron who died today.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_b2F-XX0Ol0

[Mutatis-Mutandis]

What was different about 'back then'?
Well, as time has gone on, people have become more proficient with instruments, at least within the realms of rock'n'roll. Example: Jimi Hendrix did things no one ever did on a guitar--now thousands of kids can do the same. Grade schoolers could play "All Right Now."

And, did my song get skipped, or are you all just sick of my songs? :P

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

....And, did my song get skipped, or are you all just sick of my songs? :P

Notwithstanding the fact that scared the hell out my cat, Lily who was sitting quietly next to me, I will give it an 8/10 because it is Saturday night.

Here's a quick one that lasts 7 min plus.


http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3099526434105125496#

.

[papayahed]

Nice and twangy, I like it - 8.5/10


A classic:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTWSSCYUD4E&feature=related

[MystyrMystyry]

Classic indeed - 9/10

For those who may have missed it (were you on the Moon?):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5Sd5c4o9UM

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

I'll post this for Iankropp.

Gil Scott heron who died today.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_b2F-XX0Ol0

Hold on, now I'm guilty of skipping over some else's submission. Sorry Paul.
I'll offer another 8/10 for a timeless message and in part because you have introduced me to someone I was not familar with - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gil_Scott-Heron.

I believe that resets the clocks.
Someone please rate Mystery's submission.

.

[David Lurie]

I'm still on the moon, who is Kate Perry? 6/10

http://youtu.be/tFenIIR47VU

[Mutatis-Mutandis]

Be thankful you don't know who Katy Perry is, and endeavor to keep it that way.

As to your song, it was okay. 4.5/10.

Maybe we can find some common ground with this one, Mark. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7DFsBcVMDA) (Aside from falling back on The Beatles, that is :))

[Paulclem]

Hold on, now I'm guilty of skipping over some else's submission. Sorry Paul.
I'll offer another 8/10 for a timeless message and in part because you have introduced me to someone I was not familar with - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gil_Scott-Heron.

I believe that resets the clocks.
Someone please rate Mystery's submission.

.

No worries Gilliatt.

[Paulclem]

Be thankful you don't know who Katy Perry is, and endeavor to keep it that way.

As to your song, it was okay. 4.5/10.

Maybe we can find some common ground with this one, Mark. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7DFsBcVMDA) (Aside from falling back on The Beatles, that is :))

I think this is one of their better tracks - 8/10. I recently bought a Best of Album by Rush with Tom Sawyer on. On some of their songs the lyrics let them down, but generally speaking I like them a lot.

I recently rediscovered this - I love the line
"Mummy alright, Daddy's alright. They just seem a little weird."
Applies to most people I think.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqB9lhHqmsE

[MarkBastable]

Well, as time has gone on, people have become more proficient with instruments, at least within the realms of rock'n'roll. Example: Jimi Hendrix did things no one ever did on a guitar--now thousands of kids can do the same. Grade schoolers could play "All Right Now."



To me it's a very weird criticism of All Right Now to say that grade schoolers could play it, because the implication is that the fewer people are capable of playing a piece of music, the better piece of music it is. And, conversely, the more people who can play it, the worse it is. The corollary - which you make quite plain - is that as more people get to be able to play a song, it gets worse. So All Right Now was a better song then than it is now. And, presumably, Jimi Hendrix's music is becoming more and more crap each day.

In my view of music, that measure of quality is not just mistaken, it's irrelevant. It's like saying that the quality of a pasta can be measured by how difficult or easy it is to eat with a toothpick.

You really dont want to hear my opinon of Rush, by the way. It would involve a lot of words beginning with p - pretentious and pompous being the first that spring to mind. 2/10

Oh hang on - Paul's got in there with Cheap Trick. Not bad pop-rock, but a bit too tra-la for me. Preferable to Rush though. 5/10

This (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPDHnHEDUgg&feature=related)may not have been the happiest period of Tina Turner's life, but it was when she made her best music. Her subsequent self-reinvention as the professional footballers' favourite in-car entertainer might have been good for her personally, but the recordings she made then rarely command space on my iPod.

[Paulclem]

I agree with you about Tina's earlier and later music. I like Delilah's power. It's got raw quality that her later stuff hasn't got. Pity Ike was such a git.

How about a combo- santana and John Lee Hooker.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aFKgi5D6eU

[MarkBastable]

I waver somewhat in my affection for Santana, perhaps because there's not an ounce of natural Latin American rhythm in my entire body. Then again, I'm not exactly crammed to the gills with black American DNA either, but I seem to understand what's going on with John Lee Hooker. 7/10

I should say, though, that that bass line could have been played by a grade-schooler, so it can't be much good.


I don't know why I have such a soft-spot for Budgie (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ov7-_XIrOkc&feature=related). It's not as if I was into them as a kid - I only started downloading their stuff about six months ago, and I don't even listen to it much. I think I like them because Burke was just so unlikely a heavy metal front man, and they all worked incredibly hard despite such little acclaim.

[Mutatis-Mutandis]

You really dont want to hear my opinon of Rush, by the way. It would involve a lot of words beginning with p - pretentious and pompous being the first that spring to mind. 2/10
:lol: You crack me up, Mark.

[MystyrMystyry]

I don't mind the second two albums in their entirety when I'm in the rare mood, but they are the triumph of grim determination rather than great 7.5/10

On that note:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xlf5ucFanpY

[Paulclem]

I don't mind the second two albums in their entirety when I'm in the rare mood, but they are the triumph of grim determination rather than great 7.5/10

On that note:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xlf5ucFanpY

Superb. 9/10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBUr1pSWTVI

This reminds me of working in the slaughterhouse....you didn't want to know that though....

[Mutatis-Mutandis]

Superb. 9/10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBUr1pSWTVI

This reminds me of working in the slaughterhouse....you didn't want to know that though....

I like a lot of Queen songs, but not this one. Plus, this song is how Lady GaGa came up with her name, so we can thank it for that, too. 2/10.

The lead singer's hair is epic. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LT66wE8nIV0)

[Mutatis-Mutandis]

That was a great song! One of the best ever posted! 11/10.

Melville lives on, even in metal. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dy8NdJTOR9E)

[JuniperWoolf]

Leviathan is my favorite biblical... thing. 8/10

Here, have some redneck pride; this one is big in my town right now, you can hear it from every pickup's window:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-XfthjK-bk

[David Lurie]

I'm glad I don't live in your town ;) 1/10

http://youtu.be/3GMpSxjFPbI

[MarkBastable]

Roxy's stuff was always a triumph of arrangement over content. Try playing that on an acoustic guitar. It just doesn't work. Like wot they do it, though, it's wonderful. 8/10


From the same era.... 10cc can be really irritating, but they were also capable of some fabulous melodies and arrangements, of which this is one of my favourites (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8a2eLdTzrQ&feature=related). Ignore the rather trite and irrelevant video.

[Mutatis-Mutandis]

I've always enjoyed 10cc. 7.5/10.

More epic hair. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dy8NdJTOR9E) (Don't miss the epic windmills at 4:22)

[MarkBastable]

I'm going to give that 2/10 because I thought it was a huge improvement on the book.


Here's a band (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2Voy4onbs0)I haven't really considered for thirty-five years, and who turn out to be nothing like as funny or as tight as I remember. Still, there's something wonderfully straightfaced about them, and some affection remains, even though they are probably the direct ancestors of Opeth.

[Mutatis-Mutandis]

I'm going to give that 2/10 because I thought it was a huge improvement on the book.
Good sir, not only do you put on display a poor taste in music with that statement, but a poor taste in literature! :)

As to your song, I like some of BOC's stuff. That isn't among it. 3/10.

As to my previous song, it was incorrectly linked. You may have been asking, what epic hair? and been sorely dissapointed by the lack thereof.

One wouldn't want to disappoint. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWiEC_Ioc4A) (Again, epic windmill at 4:22. :cornut:)

[Paulclem]

Good sir, not only do you put on display a poor taste in music with that statement, but a poor taste in literature! :)

As to your song, I like some of BOC's stuff. That isn't among it. 3/10.

As to my previous song, it was incorrectly linked. You may have been asking, what epic hair? and been sorely dissapointed by the lack thereof.

One wouldn't want to disappoint. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWiEC_Ioc4A) (Again, epic windmill at 4:22. :cornut:)

I'm afraid I was. 2/10 for the intro. it went downhill from there.

I saw this Guy on TV this morning. Great stuff.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUzmZvwMNsw

[David Lurie]

Seasick Steve reminds me of a character in Jennifer Egan's a visit from the goon squad - Scotty Hausmann - it doesn't really move me, my appreciation of his music is mood related, and today the mood says 4/10

today this one suits me better http://youtu.be/qM5eYVlztJc

[MarkBastable]

I'm afraid I found that a bit irksome. 3/10


I ought to despise the music of Andy Williams, but he's done at least three songs of which I'm inordinately fond, and this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5E9XUkoJH5I&feature=related)is one of them.

[MystyrMystyry]

I'll pay that - just - it could do with a remix 6/10

I don't know why this exactly - it came on the wireless the other morning and I've been absently humming it ever since (I've heard it before over the years but it's got me for some reason)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGFVkM-2XO8&feature=related

[Paulclem]

I'll pay that - just - it could do with a remix 6/10

I don't know why this exactly - it came on the wireless the other morning and I've been absently humming it ever since (I've heard it before over the years but it's got me for some reason)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGFVkM-2XO8&feature=related

I wonder they don't get sick of singing that song. Good song though - haven't heard it in a while. 6/10

I remembered this one. Good stuff.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGLsAkeRd84

[Mutatis-Mutandis]

Enjoyable. 7/10.

I've really been enjoying this composer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcZlXZy4XIY) as of late.

[Shalot]

That was alright. Not really my thing. 6/10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32jO8_Nh-Y0&feature=related

[MystyrMystyry]

Interesting - just today I was curious about Musicology's career outside of Litnet and Googled his name followed by Mozart - whoa..!

As for this song, I find it hard to believe it became a hit anywhere, let alone in Europe, but it did - I'm at a loss - my gut feeling is telling me not to score it, but I feel I am obliged to find merit and I just can't, so 2/10 for the Rococo architecticture in the clip itself

Something sentimentally relaxing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktBJolzNsLs

[Mutatis-Mutandis]

Not bad. It was relaxing.

How about a local band (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpI58qxkutI), from Belleville, IL. The frontman is a buddy of mine, and I was real impressed with his band's performance. He's a wonderful songwriter. Keep in mind this is shot only by some guy with a camera, so it doesn't sound nearly as good as it did there.

[Shalot]

sort of reminds me of Kings of Leon :P and I like the umbrella pictures in the background. 8/10. Now, I just wanted to reply to this, and I don't really have a song in mind. So...how bout this....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEVi0IxC0yM

[Mutatis-Mutandis]

A lot of people say that, but I don't really hear it. Maybe it's because I hate Kings of Leon.

[MarkBastable]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEVi0IxC0yM

Mediocre band with a first-rate name. In fact, a little part of me was extinguished by that clip, because I've never heard the music of Husker Du before, and I've always felt they were, sorta, stored up for me to discover one day, and they might turn out to be the best band I'd heard in years. Oh well - another comforting candle of optimism snuffed out. 4/10

Here's one where it worked though. I didn't discover this lot (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDp3Grz28mE&feature=fvsr) until I was well into my thirties.

[Mutatis-Mutandis]

Not bad. 6/10

\m/ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_rVQiywVw0)

[Shalot]

A lot of people say that, but I don't really hear it. Maybe it's because I hate Kings of Leon.

Yes, I remember that. That's why I made it a point to reply to that one. I happen to really like Kings of Leon. They have a couple of crappy songs that I don't care for and there is some douchery in some of their songs, but overall, I like them.

[Mutatis-Mutandis]

Honestly, I haven't given them a fair chance. I just remember their first song being a really cool, kind of heavy-ish hard rock song that was pretty good, and then they decided to go in a different direction, which I just don't dig. This is the song I'm thinking of (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLaJkbkG5NI), and it's not nearly as enjoyable as I remember.

Note: This is not the song to be rated, someone's going to have to bite the bullet and rate the Born of Osiris song I posted. :nod:

[Shalot]

About that Born of Osiris song - if there were no vocals, I could have said that I liked it. I'm not a big fan of that - reminds me of some Pantera.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jA-W1p3Pp4

:yesnod:

[papayahed]

I dig it. 7.75/10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNRrRFe11eg

[MarkBastable]

I dig it. 7.75/10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNRrRFe11eg

One of my favourite songs. 10/10

Another (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86-XrU8sh60)of them.

[papayahed]

Another classic 9.5/10


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gE3-q-aoFZI&feature=related

[MarkBastable]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gE3-q-aoFZI&feature=related

I like that - especially the implication of the lyric when sung by a guy. In that vein, I've always thought it'd be really effective for a gay singer to cover this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dp4339EbVn8)...

[Shalot]

I like that - especially the implication of the lyric when sung by a guy. In that vein, I've always thought it'd be really effective for a gay singer to cover this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dp4339EbVn8)...



10/10 - love the comments, especially:
"I won $50 off a couple black guys who didn't believe Dusty was white."


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TK1bi4emEkk

[faithosaurus]

I will say 7/10 since my epilepsy was not happy with the flashy parts, haha. But good song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlyXNRrsk4A&feature=lhpa

[MystyrMystyry]

That was funny enough 8/10. (I liked the sax solo over the eighties rhythm bit too)


This is a bit of weirdness from long ago

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7l8rlnMpCI

[MarkBastable]

This is a bit of weirdness from long ago

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7l8rlnMpCI


I had that song on a punk compilation I bought in about 1979. I didn't think Skyhooks sounded very punk. And it turns out they don't look very punk either. 6/10, for nostalgia's sake.

Then again, the criteria for inclusion on that album were pretty generous. The Talking Heads were on it.

But so was this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TP3x-VdOb44&feature=related)- which is about as punk as America ever got.

[Mutatis-Mutandis]

The less punk America is the better. That song was a bit annoying. 4/10.

One of the very few indie bands I like. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7m8CkxXhPtw) I think I may have posted this before, but oh well.

[MarkBastable]

The less punk America is the better. That song was a bit annoying. 4/10.

One of the very few indie bands I like. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7m8CkxXhPtw) I think I may have posted this before, but oh well.

So this is an apposite illustration of my incapability when it comes to understanding your dislike of indie bands. Because I've always thought that you're operating on the basis of a category error.

If you think 'indie' is a style, then not liking it makes sense, as long as you can reference an identfiable commonality of style that characterises indie bands. But you've cited both Arctic Monkeys and Fleet Foxes as 'indie' and I can't see that they have anything at all stylistic in common, although you don't like the former and you do like, exceptionally, the latter.

If 'indie' is circumstantial - because indie bands are those that have signed to labels unaffiliated to the majors - then it's difficult to see what they might have musically in common that you'd be able not only to dislike, but to predict that you'd dislike.

And if indie is an attitude - which would mean that you dislike what they intend to do - then anyone who you liked would by definition not be indie by dint of you liking what they did. Unless, I suppose, you felt that they failed to do it, and you liked the failure.


So I don't understand, at a logical level, why you are so against indie. What characterises indie? And what is it about that you don't like? And, given that Fleet Foxes are whatever indies is, what is it that makes them so? And given that they are indie, what is it you like that differentitates them from whatever it is that they share with the indie bands that you universally dont 't like?

Me, I thought they were alrightifyoulikethatsortofthing. 5/10

Got indie (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIs_YRaOXzA&feature=related), if yer want it.

[Mutatis-Mutandis]

I didn't create the genre of "indie," so it isn't like I am just making it up when I call both Arctic Monkeys ajd Fleet Foxes indie. Someone did before me. I don't seem to like most of what is labeled indie, and some I do. Maybe this is the case because there is such a disparity in the sounds of indie bands. And I base my opinions on how the music sounds alone, but if a band I dislike turns out to be pompous, it doesn't help. I don't dislike any band solely because of their attitude; I like plenty of extremely pompous bands.

As to why I like some indie bands and dislike others--how is this confusing? Since when does one have to like or dislike all in a genre, whether the genre label be arbitrary or not? I don't completely discount whole genres based on preconcieved notins like some people do with, oh, let's say something like heavy metal.

[OrphanPip]

I like that - especially the implication of the lyric when sung by a guy. In that vein, I've always thought it'd be really effective for a gay singer to cover this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dp4339EbVn8)...

I'm pretty sure that has been covered by several gay singers in every drag bar in the Western hemisphere ;).

Ian Dury doesn't do much for me, but I don't hate it, 6/10. I actually like Richard Hell though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gYW6V4UrIo

I couldn't think of anything good.

[MarkBastable]

I didn't create the genre of "indie," so it isn't like I am just making it up when I call both Arctic Monkeys ajd Fleet Foxes indie. Someone did before me.


Fair enough. I wasn't suggesting, though, that you should like or dislike all indie. I was wondering what you felt was the categorical quality that identifies indie.

Me, I can't see what characterises the genre. I mean, what characterises the heavy metal genre is inherent to the music. What characterises country is inherent to the music. What characterises folk is inherent to the music. So it sort of makes sense to say that generally one doesn't like heavy metal or country - even if the edges of the category are a bit blurred.

But there seems to be no common musical characteristic of the stuff that's called indie. Wikipedia suggests that the term covers "punk, psychedelia, rock and country" and reckons that it has to do with "an ethos more than a musical approach". So it's not a musical genre really. It's an attitudinal position. Though I'm buggered if I can see what attitudinal position is shared by Fleet Foxes, Arctic Monkeys, Jesus and Mary Chain, the Fratellis and the Cranberries.

[Babyguile]

I'm pretty sure that has been covered by several gay singers in every drag bar in the Western hemisphere ;).

Ian Dury doesn't do much for me, but I don't hate it, 6/10. I actually like Richard Hell though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gYW6V4UrIo

I couldn't think of anything good.

Electronic dance music. I have never like it I'm so sorry but never in my life have I gone through a period of thinking it was anything less than horrific. Though did I listen to the end of the song because I liked the lyrics.

:)

Okay so I came up with this after searching my extensive list of Youtube favourited videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgfcSfEz1wQ

[MarkBastable]

Electronic dance music. I have never like it I'm so sorry but never in my life have I gone through a period of thinking it was anything less than horrific. Though did I listen to the end of the song because I liked the lyrics.

:)

Okay so I came up with this after searching my extensive list of Youtube favourited videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgfcSfEz1wQ

That's got to be worth 7/10 just for the frock.

As it was on that page, here's this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHKWBxDzyfU&feature=related). Sometime in the 90's, the staff of the NME - the UK's indie bible - voted this the best pop song ever made.

[Babyguile]

That's got to be worth 7/10 just for the frock.

As it was on that page, here's this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHKWBxDzyfU&feature=related). Sometime in the 90's, the staff of the NME - the UK's indie bible - voted this the best pop song ever made.

Of course a great song. But I knew I'd like it if it was in the related videos part :)

Yes I know NME, but let's not mention Kerrang.

More frocks and this performance is one of my absolute favourites: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENO7xyOcs0w

[MystyrMystyry]

That was sort of something 5/10 armadillo's nuts

So's this (sort of something)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HtXplzzVWI

[Babyguile]

Excuse me?! What do you mean armadillo's nuts?

[Mutatis-Mutandis]

Fair enough. I wasn't suggesting, though, that you should like or dislike all indie. I was wondering what you felt was the categorical quality that identifies indie.

Me, I can't see what characterises the genre. I mean, what characterises the heavy metal genre is inherent to the music. What characterises country is inherent to the music. What characterises folk is inherent to the music. So it sort of makes sense to say that generally one doesn't like heavy metal or country - even if the edges of the category are a bit blurred.

But there seems to be no common musical characteristic of the stuff that's called indie. Wikipedia suggests that the term covers "punk, psychedelia, rock and country" and reckons that it has to do with "an ethos more than a musical approach". So it's not a musical genre really. It's an attitudinal position. Though I'm buggered if I can see what attitudinal position is shared by Fleet Foxes, Arctic Monkeys, Jesus and Mary Chain, the Fratellis and the Cranberries.
I agree. It is way too broad of a genre definition. I guess when it comes down to it, bands that are indie are just bands that aren't supposed to be commercial, that it's all about the art, which to me is dumb since this should be the case with all music--you shouldn't need a label to denote artistic integrity, but that's the way it is. Plus, if we're going by this, I'd say heavy metal bands are way more "indie" than indie bands, as your chances of getting at all big are much lower. And you never hear death metal songs in commercials, unlike indie music that infests the, which is just so ironic one would think I'm making that up.

Still, most indie does seem to share some characteristics. Almost all indie takes a pretty minimalist approach to structure and musicianship (this is probably the most commonly shared characteristic); there's usually, um, let's call it unique vocals; there's usually "deep" lyrics; and, it seems a lot of indie goes for a old kind of sound. These characteristics are what I don't like about it. Fleet Foxes has all of these characteristics, but I still like their sound, and concede that they're a band I shouldn't like. Musical subjectivity just doesn't make sense.

As to MM's song: It sounded neat, but was boring, and I would go nuts listening to a whole album of it. 3/10.

Another band I probably shouldn't like. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpyRI1j9t6c)

[OrphanPip]

So, I take it you don't like alt rock either? lol

Anyway, that was kind of bland, 5/10.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8CDERzun4k

[MarkBastable]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8CDERzun4k


Over the years, Bob Smith and I have come to an understanding. I admit that his band and his sound are a great idea that has led to a handful of wonderful pop moments, and he sheepishly confesses that he's rather failed to live up to my expectations following a promising first album. 6/10

I've always liked 'spelling songs' (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeG1sUh911o&feature=related). Except possibly D-I-V-O-R-C-E.

[OrphanPip]

I've always liked 'spelling songs' (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeG1sUh911o&feature=related). Except possibly D-I-V-O-R-C-E.

After I posted that video I went for a late night walk, and I had just listened to that song when you posted this. 8/10

Well, since gays were mentioned earlier in the thread, and it is pride weekend in the US. Here's a song so tasteless it got banned from play on Logo in the US. Ah, kitsch.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEcZSGUv_ng

[MarkBastable]

Well, since gays were mentioned earlier in the thread, and it is pride weekend in the US. Here's a song so tasteless it got banned from play on Logo in the US. Ah, kitsch.


Well, that was quite nasty. 3/10


It make this (http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xs6r9_frankie-goes-to-hollywood-relax_music)look positively genteel.

[papayahed]

Relax. 7/10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhJ-7KIf6k8

[MarkBastable]

I've never really seen the appeal of sitcom rap. 2/10


I have no idea why I like this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etviGf1uWlg), but I really do.

[Mutatis-Mutandis]

The uploader has not made that video available in my country.

[OrphanPip]

It's Groove is In the Heart by Deee-lite. 6/10.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJzuqZEbFHQ

[Mutatis-Mutandis]

The B-52's are one of those bands I should really, really hate, but don't. 7/10.

I have found some sort of temporary sanity in this ****, blood, and cum on my hands. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5sIXUbMgF0)

[MarkBastable]

Sonically, I rather liked that. Given that MM posted it, I was expecting it to go all screamy on me, but it didn't. And the video was entertaining as all get-out.

7/10


Simply because I can, more from the Empty Chambers (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoDIZNi0sck&feature=channel_video_title)thing.

[papayahed]

Don't like it so much. 4/10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUP5rwVNJko

[faithosaurus]

6/10 because the video is awesome.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nN6VR92V70M

[qimissung]

8/10 I like her confessional style of music.

And a hip hop song I like? I never thought I'd see the day.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNcaxP6pdt8

[David Lurie]

Never heard of K'Naan before but the song is not bad, a slim tune easy to remember 6/10
The following is from the playlist of the last book I've read - Citoyens Clandestints by DOA - not my usual kind of book, not my usual kind of song, I guess it requires to be played loud http://youtu.be/7WlTlfTng3M

[faithosaurus]

I'll go with 8/10. It took me forever to find out how to get the song; apparently the link isn't available in my country (USA).

I really like this song; it's pretty much about Demi's cutting and other issues she went through:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_8ydghbGSg

[MarkBastable]

Pretty unconvincing, I thought. 4/10


Can I put my hands on you? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aabojNSensw)

[OrphanPip]

There seems to be something like a 50% chance that whenever you post a song Mark that it is already on my ipod. The other half of the time our musical taste seem to be on completely different planets.

This is one of the songs that I do have on my ipod, 7.5/10.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqmORiHNtN4

I've been thinking about downloading this album, just because the idea of a R&B concept album about android slaves in the future amuses me to no end.

Edit: Well I've downloaded and listened to the album from beginning to end, it needs a few more listens before I can collect my thoughts about it. I thought it was pretty good, plus there was an of Montreal collab on the album, and I love almost anything that band touches.

[MarkBastable]

A slight song, but you can't fault the production, which gives it more weight than it really has, I think. 5/10

I'd offer ten-to-one on the 50/50 chance of this one being on Pip's iPod.


...while he's watching the waitress's legs.... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMFQtnd0amc)

[OrphanPip]

Something about Hejira that just misses the pop sensibility of her earlier stuff. It's good though, 8/10.

My favourite Joni Mitchell is "Free Man in Paris"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llgw_5BgbjI

[MarkBastable]

My knowledge of Joni's work is patchy, though when I come across some new stuff I'm rarely disappointed. Free Man in Paris, though, is pretty central to her canon, I think. It even featured in a recurring gag on Friends*. 8/10


I wouldn't tell you if I didn't care (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxG5p57ZW9s&feature=related). (As I've said before - if only Johnny had met Kirsty before he met Morrissey...)


*Oops, no - hang on. That was In France They Kiss on Main Street. My mistake. As you were.

[David Lurie]

I respect and admire Kirsty MacColl but this song leaves me cold 5/10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWQFX3VhVWM

[qimissung]

Really lovely. 8/10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fhur6g8_BM

[OrphanPip]

I like her better with the New Pornographers, anyway 7/10.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKRRDmug9c4

[Lokasenna]

No, not for me. It was horrible to begin with, but graduated up to merely naff when the vocals kicked in. 3/10.

A friend of mine sung this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAIm4HhIJFk) in a show the other night. I hadn't heard of it before, but I think it's quite a catchy, punchy tune.

[qimissung]

I actually liked it, which is more than I can say for the song "Copacabana" which never appealed to me.

6/10

OK, time for something summery.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XG8MQ8f4nF4

[MarkBastable]

Unforgiveable. 2/10


Cross your heart with your living bra.... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNKicn80TaQ)

[qimissung]

I actually remember when that came out. It's OK.

3/10

Now something for the kids.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oe3FG4EOgyU

[Snowqueen]

Hey Qimi I loved it! Schnappi is so cute if it really is it's name.....:lol:

9/10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJT0uhfcCkw

It's for the kids too.

[David Lurie]

...2/10... I'm a different kind of kid (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYxmjE6dY-M)

[Snowqueen]

Yes I can see that but I'm generous....lol

3/10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVG9eg_V0vQ

[qimissung]

It's very pretty, Snowqueen, very soothing. 7/10

Something for the anarchist in all of us.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsEwK69LXjQ&ob=av2e

[papayahed]

Fun! 8.5/10

I'll stick with JCM:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nPPRQeTxTY&ob=av2e

[faithosaurus]

Up beat! I like it. (Plus, there was an IMVU ad next to it with little characters dancing, that totally fit perfectly).

8/10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQj2iOEx-V8&NR=1

I absolutely love Amy Lee's voice. Very haunting and angelic.

[David Lurie]

1/10 how good a singer Catherine O'Hara is? ... or ... if Cliff Lee pitched the way Amy Lee sings, he wouldn't be throwing complete game shutouts all the time :svengo:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3_P8brLKFQ

[Mutatis-Mutandis]

I found it rather irritating. 3/10.

So stoked for their new album. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Un9fhoXDWXw)

[faithosaurus]

A little heavy for me. 4/10.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkMGf2_NKvs&feature=related

[MarkBastable]

A little heavy for me. 4/10.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkMGf2_NKvs&feature=related

Like being attacked by a tearful milliner wielding a violet. 3/10

Of IP's entire canon, the only one I really like (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_uF6ObhDks).

[David Lurie]

6/10
I don't like Iggy, though I (moderately) appreciate most of the stuff he did with the Stoogies.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fcY78ab4yo

[JuniperWoolf]

I hate that song, a lot. 0/10

The band that shaped my childhood (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJOGq5XTojo), which is probably why I'm often so depressing.

[Solfatara]

Well, I find The Smashing Pumkin to be rather average at what they do, and usually I think both the vocals and the guitar are rather flat... however, they're quite bizarre in some fun ways and I think this song had some nice parts. + the video was on acid.
6/10

Ok, might as well post one of my own favourites.
Mosquito Song - Queens of the Stone Age. Recommend listening through all of it:)

[MarkBastable]

Here's (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiLsvRSU5H8)a link to the QotSA song. I wouldn't recommend it myself. A tired tune overlaid with a lyric of contrived grisly irony straight out of a high school magazine. 3/10

If you're going to make a forty-year career out of being sixteen, this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0wS3hwYUwQ&feature=related)is the way to do it.

[The Comedian]

I dig that tune. 6/10

Here's one that I got on my mind: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrZ4sMRYimw&ob=av2e

[MarkBastable]

The song was pretty ordinary, but I liked the video. 5/10

Who needs love when there's Southern Comfort? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlJ9z_LowBI&playnext=1&list=PLA5E2F277E2484E0C)

[OrphanPip]

I think I've posted that song before in this thread, maybe not though, I've posted a lot of Dresden Dolls and Amanda Palmer though. 8/10

I'm doing some housecleaning, so you all get to enjoy my housework music.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0o4PFSxLAdE&feature=related

[MarkBastable]

I think I've posted that song before in this thread, maybe not though, I've posted a lot of Dresden Dolls and Amanda Palmer though. 8/10]

Yeah, it was through this thread I discovered Dresden Dolls, and subsequently developed a bit of a teen crush on Amanda.


I'm doing some housecleaning, so you all get to enjoy my housework music.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0o4PFSxLAdE&feature=related

Some days, but not today. 5/10


While we're in that area of crosspollination, here's one of the very few songs by the calculating MrB (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsksSWOxq2Y&feature=related) that I like.

[billl]

Yeah, it was through this thread I discovered Dresden Dolls, and subsequently developed a bit of a teen crush on Amanda.



Some days, but not today. 5/10


While we're in that area of crosspollination, here's one of the very few songs by the calculating MrB (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsksSWOxq2Y&feature=related) that I like.

The performance and the filming of it are both amazing. Everyone looks so great, the "choreography" is fantastic, and Byrne has taken absolute command in about as goofy a manner as can be imagined--doesn't even seem goofy. And the music matches perfectly--no surprise I loved the CD long before seeing the film. I think Byrne's sweating is understandable, but a jacket might be a good idea, for appearance's sake.

8.77/10

Anyhow, Amanda F. Palmer was mentioned, so that reminded me of the Dr. Who special that aired last Saturday, which featured her and another American Whovian named Reggie Watts, who she can be seen performing with somewhere on youtube, if you look for it. Here's an example of his work, if you aren't familiar:

(CAUTION: sexual language)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhrTbB3YSXU&feature=channel_video_title

[Jack of Hearts]

Give that one a 6/10 but it's riding on the coattails of 'fun' mostly.

It reminds this reader of a similar video by Imogen Heap (don't know the artist at all but the video was cool):



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25VGdNU3nrU

[Paulclem]

Give that one a 6/10 but it's riding on the coattails of 'fun' mostly.

It reminds this reader of a similar video by Imogen Heap (don't know the artist at all but the video was cool):



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25VGdNU3nrU

Amazing - and I've never heard of her. 10/10

Er... what to follow that with? Something competely different.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ng3z7lrC80I&feature=player_detailpage

[Shalot]

Not bad - 9/10


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izRBY6sO_go

[Jack of Hearts]

Have no idea how to rate it. How can anyone enjoy classical music without context or understanding? This reader has never studied it. On a purely superficial level it's a pretty noise with a lot of voices and it's very subtle at parts. Is it something this reader would turn on at any point of his day? Maybe, if he were making a point of it, if he understood it.

On a purely superficial, unwashed masses kind of scale: 5/10- mostly based on the technical skill it must've taken to make it and somewhat on its pretty sound. It no other way does it speak to this reader.

It seems like a filthy thing to do, to post this song after the previous one. Non-sequitur completely.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8b5uMN1bAQ

[Paulclem]

Filthy = Norah? No it's a nice song. She's got a great voice. 8/10

Something different.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOz0tL6FhM0

[Shalot]

sounds like something my dad would have listened to: 8/10

I'm all about this song right now:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5ZhBAylbN4

[Paulclem]

sounds like something my dad would have listened to: 8/10

I'm all about this song right now:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5ZhBAylbN4

I'm 47. Perhaps I'm the same age as your Dad. :biggrin5:

That was ok. 5/10

It was like this in the early 80s in the UK. Depressing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-H0uIH5HHQ&feature=player_detailpage

[Jack of Hearts]

Ehhh, that one missed this reader by a generation or two. 4/10.

But not every song can be cheese-free. Let's keep it going, 'till the sun goes down. Let's keep it goin'.




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8oZZJojROo

[Shalot]

9/10 - like this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktdeX4PTL80

[OrphanPip]

I've never been a big Black Sabbath fan, 6/10.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHwVBirqD2s&ob=av2e

Best music video ever? :p

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

...Best music video ever? :p

Not one of my favorites from Elton John - 4/10

Here's the best music video featuring Elton John:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZCwiNJ4wgo

.

[MystyrMystyry]

I've never been a big Black Sabbath fan, 6/10

Burn the heretic!


Best music video ever? :p

Woeful, in clip and noise 1/10


Something for MutatisBastable:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDQtIjGQGPM

[OrphanPip]

Not one of my favorites from Elton John - 4/10

Here's the best music video featuring Elton John:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZCwiNJ4wgo

.

That's not even an Elton John song though, I think it shouldn't count.

OK, 8/10 for the clip from Tommy (Although, it's not as good as Ann Margret over the top craziness in that movie).

4/10 for the gimmicky Beatles thing.

And here's some Bob Fosse

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG3VfKlfDEk

[MarkBastable]

Burn the heretic!



Woeful, in clip and noise 1/10


Something for MutatisBastable:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDQtIjGQGPM


Not a bit funny. 2/10

Orphan Pip said: Best music video ever?

It is wonderfully cheesy. I've always liked it.

Now this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhnUgAaea4M)is funny.

[JuniperWoolf]

You betcha. From those brilliant, fantastic heroes Matt Stone and Trey Parker (whose babies I would have ASAP). 10/10

I forgot this band existed until I heard this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wf0qEXeGCJM) song on the radio yesterday. I used to really dig it, and amazingly I think it's still good today.

[Shalot]

Not a bit funny. 2/10

Orphan Pip said: Best music video ever?

It is wonderfully cheesy. I've always liked it.

Now this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhnUgAaea4M)is funny.

That's one of my husband's ring tones. He's on call a lot, and he tries to pick something that will get his attention during that time so that he doesn't get in trouble at work. it is pretty funny - the first 10 or so times. I've probably heard "America....**** yeah" so many more times than a person ought to have to hear something like that.

oh yeah, Juniper Wolf 3/10 on 311 just for the memories. reminds me of a time in my life when I was real unhappy. As far as the music goes, it's good, but it makes me feel bad because I remember stuff along with it. I hate when memories ruin good music


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1tAYmMjLdY&ob=av2e

[MarkBastable]

(Incidentally, my 'not a bit funny' a couple of posts back was in response not to Hey Big Spender, but the previous thing. Pip got in there while I was typing.)


Blink 182...

Poppier than I expected, if a bit insubstantial (though the latter's not necessarily a corollary of the former). However, the video touched on my affection for Gothic architecture and Goth chicks. The inclusion of the raven might have been overegging it a tad. 5/10

Here's a great animation for a great piece of music (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcZlXZy4XIY).....

[OrphanPip]

(

Here's a great animation for a great piece of music (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcZlXZy4XIY).....

The animation is lovely (though Disney is essentially ripping off UPA's old animation style from the 50s and 60s, they are really good at appropriating anything and everything they can), and the music is irreproachable. 8/10

I like Disney, but sometimes animation that explores the ugly, the sexual, and the plain old weird can be interesting too:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8s7JgN0Xsg

[krymsonkyng]

Downright creepy. I definitely got a shiver or five out of that which is impressive considering the simple art and music. I enjoyed the thoughts it produced so I'm going with a 6.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47zb8105IXU&feature=grec_index

[qimissung]

Not really my cup of tea, krymsonkyng. At least it's not metal. :D 3/10



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QR5s1aqE5k

[The Comedian]

It's just that 50's sound. . .mot really my bowl of soup. 2/10. But this is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXBjdAj1SUg

[MarkBastable]

A bit wet. I prefer No Rain which is..er..less wet. 4/10


Here's (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEXHeTcxQy4)one of my favourite modernish bands - with more than a little vaudeville about the music and a lot of entirely gratuitous burlesque in the video.

[Scheherazade]

Love this song (and couple of others by The Fratellis): 9/10!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExTsO_q19II

[MarkBastable]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExTsO_q19II

Not bad. I'll go no further than that. 6/10

More from The Fratellis (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQZJeYjeUKM&feature=related)- this one always reminds me of this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ9KtuRHXRc).

(...I ended up working in an office with the kid who played Leroy, the aspiring boxer. Needless to say he chortled with honest and renewed delight every time I managed to work into the conversation the bass cadence of "Let me have him, Joe...")

[The Comedian]

9/10 enjoyed that punchy little number.

Here's one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfRWTK6SNKM&feature=related

[Scheherazade]

I quite enjoyed that one... His voice is great: 7/10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocQeP1UOwss

[papayahed]

Love The Femmes - 9.1/10


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGDQ85Dg-ss&feature=fvwrel

[MarkBastable]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGDQ85Dg-ss&feature=fvwrel

Did you watch BBC4's evening of OGWT performances last night? I got quite misty-eyed.

7/10 for the Specials.

A song unique, I suspect, in its concern for kangaroos. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMpyCGTH9xw)

[The Comedian]

Love it!

9/10

I like this one 'cause it's simple and true: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebt0BR5wHYs

[papayahed]

Did you watch BBC4's evening of OGWT performances last night? I got quite misty-eyed.


Don't get BBC4



I like this one 'cause it's simple and true: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebt0BR5wHYs


I've always liked that song. 8.5/10


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-edpXPCEyKc

[MarkBastable]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-edpXPCEyKc

That's Slade in their decline. It's like Big Country but without the spirit of reckless originality. 3/10. Oh alright, 5, as it's Slade.

When we got married, the Beloved and I compiled a CD* as a gift for all our wedding guests - one side (as if it were an LP) was her songs about romance, and the other mine. One of mine was this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8QpO3yVI2Q&feature=fvst), which has a sort of charmless charm that's entirely representative of what I wanted love to be like when I was thirteen, and which I was delighted to find when I was forty. Also - come on - ex-skinhead Midlands band with a classically-trained violinist. It's an Evelyn Waugh story waiting to happen.


*(The CD was entitled George Washington Kicked Your A**, which was the wording on a cardboard sign the Beloved's little sister held up in Arrivals at Newark airport when I first went to NJ to meet the family.)

[The Comedian]

Not to bad, not that good. 5/10

But I'm in the mood for somethin' a little more twangy and soulful: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jkx68VTJ33o&feature=related

[Scheherazade]

And that is the kind of country music song that makes me not like country music: 1/10.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07kpF1MZHOQ

[Mutatis-Mutandis]

I kept waiting for something, anything, to happen, and it never did. 2/10.

I've been listening to a lot of rock from the 90s lately. I miss the 90s, when a lot of popular music was good. Like this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cv5d2IzMK2Q).

[papayahed]

It's ok. 7/10

This (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYFwd7ieLwg) is 90's to me.

[MarkBastable]

This (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYFwd7ieLwg) is 90's to me.

Man, I really don't feel very well. Can you call me a cab? No, a cab. I SAID, "CAN YOU CALL ME A...." Oh, forget it. I'll have another rum and coke.

3/10


...broken up and swallowed... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtWkjtulUA0)

[hoope]

not abd 6/10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkWGwY5nq7A

[MarkBastable]

Absolutely nauseating. 0/10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YA3hZEDPNI&feature=related

[The Comedian]

Mark beat me to it.

hoope -- It's a little too sappy and polished for my taste. I likin' this right now: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omZ05EtVVTg

Mark -- Love the Pretenders and that song is great. 8/10

[Olga4real]

Sorry Comedian this song is not for my taste, so I give it only 4/10.

Here is a what I'm listening to and loving it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGI-4laiYb0&ob=av2e

[The Comedian]

It's fine. 4/10.

Here's one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTEjCc8VI2o

[Olga4real]

It's better 6/10.

I found something I used to be fond of: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WcB79HW2Io&feature=related
There is no video, but we vote the music here don't we?

[Scheherazade]

I can imagine myself enjoying this song more at a bar at a seaside town on a summer night but at the moment I am in the UK on a rather chilly October night: 5/10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExTsO_q19II&feature=related

[papayahed]

Pretty ok, I think it would grow on me. 7.25/10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTltKbfvnfI

[Scheherazade]

That is really not something I would listen to: 1/10


This song is stuck in my head at the moment (not even a fan of theirs):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7HahVwYpwo&ob=av2n

[The Comedian]

eech. . . that's very polished and computerized. I've sort of wanted to get into the Peas, though. But I just can't. Sort of like Dickens. 2/10

Here's one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xjdkc14-zwQ

[Scheherazade]

Here's one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xjdkc14-zwQQuite liked it and I am sure it would grow on me even more: 7/10

Because it was readiyly available at the end of Comedian's link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=fvwp&NR=1&v=4i8ml0XnR4k

(I like this song).

[The Comedian]

(I like this song).

Swish! That makes two of us. 8/10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKTlRN3jLfw

[Scheherazade]

Love the music... Wish there were no lyrics: 4/10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRLwIM_CwdI&feature=related

[MarkBastable]

Wish there were no lyrics: 4/10

Or music.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRLwIM_CwdI&feature=related

I really like Tom Petty, on the whole. I mean, he'd make my top twenty easily. But I've always thought that song represented an off-day. 5/10

This (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOOiZAHFvfc&feature=related), on the other hand.... Someone says in the comments that she walked down the aisle to it. That's pretty impressive. Just on the basis of that, I'd've married her.

[Scheherazade]

This (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOOiZAHFvfc&feature=related), on the other hand.... Someone says in the comments that she walked down the aisle to it. That's pretty impressive. Just on the basis of that, I'd've married her."This, on the other hand,..." bores me. Cannot see how this is better than "Free Falling": 3/10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pAsWrTa9Ww

[MarkBastable]

Cannot see how this is better than "Free Falling"


I'll try not to hold that against you.

[Jack of Hearts]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pAsWrTa9Ww

Eh, 5/10.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkfkkiLm91I

[MarkBastable]

Eh, 5/10.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkfkkiLm91I

Irredeemably awful. Even her legs couldn't persuade me to listen to all of it. 0/10

I've tried to come up with something even worse (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUKu66GMgnU&feature=related)....

[Jack of Hearts]

2/10. Yeah, that was awful. It's tempting to play lowball.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_P-v1BVQn8

[MarkBastable]

2/10. Yeah, that was awful. It's tempting to play lowball.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_P-v1BVQn8

Ah, now - think about that song. In the midst of a bland time for popular music, a considered and wry lyric about suicidal loneliness was hooked up to a jaunty little tune and it charmed its way onto every mainstream station and into every listener's brain. 10/10


It's a great song, and - what's even better - one of a pair. He did it twice. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmtEcB9VX5U)

[Paulclem]

2/10. Yeah, that was awful. It's tempting to play lowball.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_P-v1BVQn8

Wierdly - I like this for the nostalgia. 8/10

Listening to it again, it is compelling in its depressive tone. It's one of those - "well I'll listen to this before I top myself songs" which cheers you up. I think it must be the - there is a poor sod worse off than me - feelings it evokes.

[Olga4real]

Very nice sweet music I give it 5/10.

Here is something different: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb1ZvUDvLDY&ob=av2e

Edit: I voted Jack of Hearts' song, sorry. I was too slow..

[Paulclem]

Sorry Mark - I didn't realise you were posting. I'll edit mine out.

[Paulclem]

Ah, now - think about that song. In the midst of a bland time for popular music, a considered and wry lyric about suicidal loneliness was hooked up to a jaunty little tune and it charmed its way onto every mainstream station and into every listener's brain. 10/10


It's a great song, and - what's even better - one of a pair. He did it twice. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmtEcB9VX5U)

Good song again. I remember him on that show that Hughie Green did in the 60's/ 70s hiding under his hat and playing the piano.

Been listening to this recently:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MA3DNlBMNL0

[Jack of Hearts]

Mark- No. Just because you're old, and you were alive when he made it, doesn't make the song good. 0/10 and may god have mercy on your soul.

Paul- Nostalgia is the dust on the furniture.

Olga- 10/10 for Tupac.

Here ya go.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMsZ6wkZWhA&ob=av2n





EDIT: 6/10 for Paul's Whitesnake. A little bit of love for the Heart of the City.

[MarkBastable]

Mark- No. Just because you're old, and you were alive when he made it, doesn't make the song good. 0/10 and may god have mercy on your soul.



You're missing the point, but I'll make allowances because you're only young.

Incubus - fair indie, but witless and uncompelling. 4/10 Nice animation though.

Via Hillsborough please. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdmR58BIHOg)

[Paulclem]

Mark- No. Just because you're old, and you were alive when he made it, doesn't make the song good. 0/10 and may god have mercy on your soul.

Paul- Nostalgia is the dust on the furniture.

Olga- 10/10 for Tupac.

Here ya go.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMsZ6wkZWhA&ob=av2n

:lol:

I think it's got great merit as Mark pointed out. Where else can you hear the depressing realities of life in a pop song.

[Olga4real]

Mark- No. Just because you're old, and you were alive when he made it, doesn't make the song good. 0/10 and may god have mercy on your soul.

Paul- Nostalgia is the dust on the furniture.

Olga- 10/10 for Tupac.

Here ya go.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMsZ6wkZWhA&ob=av2n




I liked this music! Thank you Jack! I assumed we have similar tastes.
I can's say the same about Mark.


You're missing the point, but I'll make allowances because you're only young.

Incubus - fair indie, but witless and uncompelling. 4/10 Nice animation though.

Via Hillsborough please. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdmR58BIHOg)


Mark I give you 4.5/10. It's not about our ages, it's about our tastes.

Previously I posted a song of Ledisi, here is another one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GuZMVDZEPs

[MarkBastable]

Mark - It's not about our ages, it's about our tastes.


That was my point.

Again, as I refuse to use poxy smilies, I'm going to have to invent a font called Irony Sans Serif.



Previously I posted a song of Ledisi, here is another one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GuZMVDZEPs


Emetic. 3/10


Don't send me no doctor.... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5s-k-i1cvA&feature=related)

[Olga4real]

That was my point.

Again, as I refuse to use poxy smilies, I'm going to have to invent a font called Irony Sans Serif.




Emetic. 3/10


Don't send me no doctor.... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5s-k-i1cvA&feature=related)

I give 8/10 to your song.

Do you know what Picasso said about tastes? "Ah, good taste, what a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness."

Here is the next song.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maHETHBi10w

[MarkBastable]

Do you know what Picasso said about tastes? "Ah, good taste, what a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness."


I tend to agree with him.

[NikolaiI]

I give 8/10 to your song.

Do you know what Picasso said about tastes? "Ah, good taste, what a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness."

Here is the next song.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maHETHBi10w

6/10, I would probably rate it higher if I were more used to that kind of music.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPAwrtm-JK8&feature=relmfu

partly because of the discussion of Tom Petty earlier. I think I like "She's my Baby" and "End of the Line" more, actually.

[Scheherazade]

partly because of the discussion of Tom Petty earlier. I think I like "She's my Baby" and "End of the Line" more, actually.Love it (though my favorite is "Handle Me With Care"): 8/10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBzvcYD0x1M

[NikolaiI]

Love it (though my favorite is "Handle Me With Care"): 8/10


That was awesome!! I give it an 8/10.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReBAQ2aqeEw&feature=related

[MarkBastable]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReBAQ2aqeEw&feature=related

That managed to be both thin and overweight at the same time. 3/10


See year what a year can bring... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbRZzyF86WM&feature=related)

[The Comedian]

I want her to sing this to my daughters when they are teens. . .every day.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_ywzzjYJ0I&feature=related

[NikolaiI]

That managed to be both thin and overweight at the same time. 3/10


See year what a year can bring... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbRZzyF86WM&feature=related)

7/10

Not a favorite of mine but it's nice.


I want her to sing this to my daughters when they are teens. . .every day.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_ywzzjYJ0I&feature=related

7/10

Hm I like this okay but I don't know really how to rate it; I guess 7/10 will do : P

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSNuclN_w8E&feature=related

[MarkBastable]

Doesn't get me where it counts, I'm afraid, though I admire the artistry. 5/10


Not that I'm a great folkie. But I've always has a soft spot for this lot (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkNhaRtAFTE).

[NikolaiI]

9/10 It's perfect but I'm jealous so I'm only giving them a 9 :)

Music like this really makes me happy.

Okay, I'll get off the Bert Jansch kick soon I swear, but http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMlLlwVk9eI

It's definitely more subdued.. but it's just the most amazing sound I've heard. Especially that it's just him, and it's not dubbed.

[Jack of Hearts]

5/10, mostly for great guitar and splitting the guitar in half like that- how on earth...- but the lyrics and voice aren't so good.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hs8y3kneqrs

[keilj]

8 out of 10. Maybe a little higher. Very good song.

Did you see the Pearl Jam documentary on PBS last night?


Anyway - how about this one


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1G16F3GDOQ

[NikolaiI]

9/10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZT6mxVpHFA&feature=related

[Jack of Hearts]

7/10. There's no denying great guitar work.

Woke up this morning with this on the brain...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SbUC-UaAxE&ob=av3e

[David Lurie]

I can't stand a song titled November rain, not when the weatherman says is going to rain for the next three days, furthermore I really can't stand the Guns 'n roses 1/10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gn-afFAgIFs

[MarkBastable]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gn-afFAgIFs


I've got a lot of time for Baxter. He quietly plugs away producing charming low-key songs of domestic observation, and I'm very pleased he does. 8/10


I trot this out every so often (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nyeSGaBcrA&feature=related) to remind myself - and you - how good old-fashioned r'n'b can be when it's tight and focussed.

[JuniperWoolf]

Tight. 9/10

Do yourself a favor and don't just listen to the music, actually watch (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWFHH11e328) this video.

[MarkBastable]

Tight. 9/10

Do yourself a favor and don't just listen to the music, actually watch (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWFHH11e328) this video.

Blimey. 10/10. I actually rather liked the song too.

So, to stick with that era, I'll present one of my favourite renditions of a solid-gone jazz standard (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvnKyg1qOhs&feature=related).

[The Comedian]

It's not too bad; I'm sure it's good, actually. But I just could never get into that jazz-age stuff. 6/10

The dark-days of November are upon us. So I'm feelin' a little grim (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3mcFG0ou4A&feature=related)

[keilj]

It's not too bad; I'm sure it's good, actually. But I just could never get into that jazz-age stuff. 6/10

The dark-days of November are upon us. So I'm feelin' a little grim (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3mcFG0ou4A&feature=related)

Perty good. 7/10. I'd forgotten how cool/fairly unique their singing style was.

This one starts of kind of quiet


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14nD-QMjFvI

[MarkBastable]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14nD-QMjFvI

6/10 Not one of my favourite Elton songs, but when he was good, he was very good. I could probably do a 180 mixtape of his stuff that I really like.


Here's one. Two teas, both with sugar please (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrmP2jFdmsw).

[keilj]

8/10. Neat changes in that one. Impossible not to tap your foot to it


Anybody remember this gent:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1TpeMt8aF4

[David Lurie]

Yes I remember him, but in my opinion his performances as a triple jumper were much more exciting than his singing 5/10

I love this song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1lFM1K8R1s

[JuniperWoolf]

I hated it for the first 1/3, but when she started singing I actually quite liked it. 6/10

This (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxhk-cWQbrs) guy makes comic books, which I assume is why the video is so cool.

[Jack of Hearts]

Well it looked great, sounded ok, but wasn't all that entertaining. 5/10.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lot5pakYrOo&feature=related

[Olga4real]

Although I like the most songs you post but this one was not for my taste so I give it only 6/10.

Here is a song I listened to for the first time in Sarajevo at New Year eve 2011 it was a concert in the street and people sang together with performers. It was amazing!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkhZ-ivtA4g&feature=related

[Gregory Samsa]

OK melody, but unexciting when I don’t understand the lyrics. 4/10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3r5lnQYwdbE

[Olga4real]

[QUOTE=Gregory Samsa;1088969]OK melody, but unexciting when I don’t understand the lyrics. 4/10

Have you ever thought that most of people in this world who listen to English music don't speak English and don"t understand what those songs are about, although they like Elvis, Beatles, Michael Jackson. I for example hadn't known that Road To Hell by Chris Rea was not a love song until I started learning English, however I loved the song very much. Just sharing.

[Gregory Samsa]

[QUOTE=Gregory Samsa;1088969]OK melody, but unexciting when I don’t understand the lyrics. 4/10

Have you ever thought that most of people in this world who listen to English music don't speak English and don"t understand what those songs are about, although they like Elvis, Beatles, Michael Jackson. I for example hadn't known that Road To Hell by Chris Rea was not a love song until I started learning English, however I loved the song very much. Just sharing.

Of course. There's no accounting for tastes and some music works fine with language people don’t understand, like Sigur Rós for me. But I don’t think Bob Dylan would be good if I didn’t understand the lyrics and I guess you probably liked Road To Hell more when you actually understood what it was all about.

[MarkBastable]

Have you ever thought that most of people in this world who listen to English music don't speak English and don"t understand what those songs are about, although they like Elvis, Beatles, Michael Jackson. I for example hadn't known that Road To Hell by Chris Rea was not a love song until I started learning English, however I loved the song very much. Just sharing.

For me, if I don't understand the lyric, I can't really like the song - because I know that I'm missing a major component of the work. It's one of the problems I have with opera, for instance. The frustration of not understanding the Italian - or German, or whatever - completely negates any pleasure I might get from listening to the music.

[papayahed]

OK melody, but unexciting when I don’t understand the lyrics. 4/10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3r5lnQYwdbE


I kinda liked it 8/10


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gy_aahkIdEI

[keilj]

Very cool. 8/10

Makes me want to listen to the Spinners



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkje4FiH9Qc

[Jack of Hearts]

Yech. This reader doesn't like religion, the 1970's or Andrew Lloyd Webber. 3/10 for purely superficial reasons. Also, in that video, Jesus seems like a mean dude.

Forget what year this opus was written but it was central to a certain golden age:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGL2rytTraA&ob=av2e

[The Comedian]

Sort of like banging your head against a wall. . . . . feels good when it's over. 2/10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1t18suYTiGA

[Jack of Hearts]

5/10. Because the only good thing to come out of grunge was Pearl Jam.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQINEK17aMA

[arthurdigby]

I can’t hear the lyrics ‘coz it’s kinda noisy here but the music is not bad just enough to keep you from sleeping while on work. haha..a little upbeatXD

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NJqUN9TClM&ob=av3e

[billl]

8/10 [CORRECTION 9/10] The song relies heavily on what it is supposedly shooting down--if I understand it correctly. Then again, what else were they supposed to do, I guess? It's a clever trick that becomes a cheat or something on re-listens. But as long as I'm in on the joke... I don't know...

Leaving that conundrum aside, it's not dumb, it's catchy (a sad anthem becomes a scolding one--that's a nice trick), she's cute. Everything is really perfect and careful, though, and so it's hard for me to go higher than 8. But sometimes I like careful and perfect. Ah, heck, I'll give it a 9/10. The video and everything adds a lot, I guess--it's good to see it skillfully laid out. That's a LOT of sunshine and perfection, though. But funny, here and there.

How about a messy crime story:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7iARb-JpaY

[MarkBastable]

8/10 [CORRECTION 9/10]

How about a messy crime story:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7iARb-JpaY


I was rather drawn in at the start, and then it all went to pieces with the cringey spoken bit in the middle, and got even limper at the end. Never heard of the guy, but I'll probably seek out some more. I suspect he's an acquired taste. 5/10


Here's another acquired taste. We can talk about it in the car.... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qm4nhFxTO50) I perfectly understand that many people wouldn't want to acquire it.

[RobinHood3000]

Hrm. Not really feeling it. I wouldn't go so far as to say it's abrasive, but I couldn't really latch on to it, except for the instrumental bit about three minutes in. 6/10?

Then again, my taste can be a bit "acquired" sometimes, too. Or at least a bit esoteric.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ne49KtcQlA

[The Comedian]

I could see how one would want to push buttons to that song. . . . but not much else. 5/10

I'm more in the mood for a bluesy, head-nodding song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBACTCS4SmI

[billl]

It's a little strange to me--the "blues" angle is interesting... I'm inclined to imagine melodrama and moaning about "baby left me" or some "back door man" and there's often something to smile about in the vivid complaining about how bad things are or in some rascally reaction. This tune, though, hits me like a straight-forward lecture about how things can only go in one direction, and that direction is down. Like an instruction manual type of vibe. I can't even decide what emotion the singer is feeling--maybe there's subtleties replacing the melodrama, moaning, and humor I'm used to, when I think "blues"... There must be.

Of course, he's basically a legendary vocalist now, from all reports many people love his singing, and his music continues to touch people's souls. (For the record, I dig "Rooster".) There's dudes nodding their head in the clip and really getting into it, so I'm sure someone else could really rate this pretty highly. But I just don't get it, it actually seems cold and robotic to me. Not bad, though.

4/10


Here's music that I'm thinking might manage to accommodate head-nodding and button-pushing.
http://vimeo.com/5943130

[MarkBastable]

Here's music that I'm thinking might manage to accommodate head-nodding and button-pushing.
http://vimeo.com/5943130


I don't find that at all easy not to like, despite not being able to find any reason not to hate it. 9/10


Here's a band (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IABfAtuqZfQ&feature=related)I stumbled across on iTunes, who sound so spookily like their influences that you sort of wonder why they bother.

[billl]

I don't find that at all easy not to like, despite not being able to find any reason not to hate it. 9/10


Here's a band (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IABfAtuqZfQ&feature=related)I stumbled across on iTunes, who sound so spookily like their influences that you sort of wonder why they bother.

7.5/10

This song was OK--kind of straight-ahead in regards to the melody and the tune in general. What stand out, of course, are the production, the polished performance, and the earnestness. It has the scent of "school band nerd", and the essence of the performance is naturally reminiscent of Marillion, with perhaps a Pink Floyd finish. I'm interested that the album might have a theme or story to it, and they seem good enough that I'd probably be able to make it through a listen. Going by just this particular track, though, I can't help but think that, if I let my mind wander just an inch, it might continue for a mile.

I decided to check what their influences might actually be (via Wikipedia article), and saw mentioned Genesis (Peter Gabriel era, I assume) and Gentle Giant. I know that Genesis a little bit (Lamb Lies Down On Broadway is the only thing I can really point to, though), and I see the thematic angle there, and perhaps the band nerd angle too. But Gentle Giant, I knew nothing about, and so I checked one song on youtube, avoiding the first-listed video because the text summary began with some raving about how handsome the drummer is. And so, accompanied by a nagging memory that I eventually realized was the British TV show "The Goodies", I watched this fascinating and quite watchable slice of the 70's that I completely missed happening at the time:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMrYSTzqFI8

[MarkBastable]

..the Goodies.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMrYSTzqFI8

3/10

A brilliant observation, and not just because of the dungarees. The thing about 70s prog rock is that when it worked at all - which it often didn't - there was usually an element of self-mockery about it. And Gentle Giant displayed very little of that.

The other problem was a tendency towards the apparently arbitrary. Any kind of art - but particularly music - ought to convince you that that's exactly the way it goes, and if it didn't go that way, it wouldn't be what it is.

When you listen to prog rock and you hear tiddley-bonk-tiddle, biddle-whack, biddle-whack-whack, you can't help thinking, "Well, that's alright, but there seems to be no real reason why it could not just as easily have been tiddley-tiddle-bonk, whack-biddlewhack, bonkity-bonk-whack."


I thought I might post a few that had been used as theme tunes for UK TV shows. Here's one now (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36B225lLvY4&feature=BFa&list=AVGxdCwVVULXcqNeotcsX2Z_8BoWUFHISO&lf=list_related). (Long fade-in. Do not adjust your set.)

[billl]

I thought I might post a few that had been used as theme tunes for UK TV shows. Here's one now (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36B225lLvY4&feature=BFa&list=AVGxdCwVVULXcqNeotcsX2Z_8BoWUFHISO&lf=list_related). (Long fade-in. Do not adjust your set.)

Great point, by the way, about how that Gentle Giant vid had some troubling examples of apparently arbitrary "tight" jamming.

VID GRADE: 9/10

This latest TV Theme entry makes me think that a show opening with that would probably be something out of the ordinary. I can vaguely hear "Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence", but then this sort of track maybe invites some "filling in the blanks" due to the simplicity and 80's-Modern style. That might not make sense exactly, but the point I want to make is that it's unique and unexpected, and a listener is in a position of doing their best with it. But the uniqueness doesn't owe to some crazy dissonance, or to anything that seems done for shock. And, in fact, now, in a post-MIDI world, something like this gets another layer of oddness, a sort of human scrub to the cold machinery we were once supposed to be so curious about. I suspect a show associated with it would probably be similarly unusual, charming, and human.

I could have, of course, left the latest entry sit up there for a while, since it just arrived and I've already posted a few recently. However, the promise of a plan to post "a few" TV Theme songs for UK TV probably means that I might even be doing a service by immediately continuing the Theme theme with a theme song that I nearly posted on my last post--I was a little shy about putting something up that was barely over a minute, so this is the perfect opportunity.

It's to a show I've never seen, but had a rabid fan base that was devastated by the show's cancellation. Quite a bit of catchiness in a minute and a half.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVHOn-S82ms&feature=feedf

[MarkBastable]

A year or so after Eno released this album (1975), Bowie hooked up with him and blatantly nicked all his ideas to use on Low and Heroes (though Bowie's brilliant strategy, of course, was to get the guy in the room with him before he started plagiarising). The music for Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence was written in the early eighties, and it owes a hell of a lot to this piece of Eno's, and others like it.

Another Green World was used as the theme for the BBC arts show Arena.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/images/arena1_gal.jpg

[billl]

Amazing that was '75. I knew he was ahead of things, but that's still hard to get my head around.

[Jack of Hearts]

6/10 for Terriers. That guy singing the deep parts sounds like the lead singer of the Butthole Surfers.

Here's one everybody else in the world knew about but this reader discovered last Tuesday:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCZuYS-9qaw&ob=av2n

[MarkBastable]

It's a chucklesome puzzle for Brits of my generation that Billy Idol seems to be taken seriously in the US - because we think of him as Disneyfied chipmunk punk. With the bleached hair, teeth and personality, he's about as threatening and subversive as a chicken McNugget. But less nourishing. 2/10

Bet she's still a virgin but it's only twenty-five till nine. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wp7x27BTGDE&feature=related)

[Jack of Hearts]

8/10. The music really plays to his vocal strength. That's the kind of music they ought to play at a dive bar out in the sticks, on a tiny FM radio with washed out speakers, on a Wednesday at 3:00am, when everybody's drunk and leaning over the railing.




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hbC-_79p7I




EDIT: Look at this reader's comment on Mark's song and then look at the top comment for the Youtube video linked directly above. Wow.

[billl]

I sometimes cringe at his nearness to minstrelry, but these two tracks work pretty well--a showman, storyteller and poet: 8/10.

I wasn't able to find something else, but I did find this Senegalese track from the early 90's. Sanitation wasn't great there, and this *educational* song by an Islamic pop music guy is called "Set", which translates as "keeping clean" apparently, but the meaning probably extended beyond just being careful around piles of trash. Maybe just good background music for some of us non-speakers, though...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LIcWnvdiuE

[Jack of Hearts]

6/10... but admittedly not nearly worldly enough to appreciate it. You can describe the experience all day long, you can tell people that this is music from Senegal and the 'Set' means 'be clean,' but there's no accounting for some actual experience. Maybe hearing the song in a closer context. Maybe having more context. This song makes this reader feel insulated, like he should be traveling and finally learning these things.

Here's a striking comparison, something nearer the heartland:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JczEyQHBLEw&feature=fvst

[billl]

Here's a striking comparison, something nearer the heartland:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JczEyQHBLEw&feature=fvst

That's actually a novel "beat" for him. I like listening to the old Hank (although I have a limit at around 5-10 songs, depending), and that one's particularly good--it underlines the point you were making well.

Now, for some Christmas Cheer, gentlemen everybody. A genius performance:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nb3a0NKigOU

[MarkBastable]

Well, that was pretty wonderful, in a totally ironic, postmodern way, obviously. 9/10


Victorrrrrrrria! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdGqJpTvp2c&feature=related)