Rate That Song

That song is a little. . . too much. . .for me. 2/10

I've listened to this song while doing a drive like this many times (in my younger years mostly).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IDvP...eature=related

Not so much my taste; 4/10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDy2w...eature=branded

I'm not really in the mood for Paramore, but I don't think it's bad either - a bit indifferent I guess :blush:
4/10

An almost forgotten song I heard again today: City to City - the Road ahead

It sounds like it's ripping off REM 'Everybody Hurts' at the beginning, and then doesn't really go anywhere. 3/10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuezN...eature=related

Works for me 8/10.

Here's something tangentially related to the season.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkje4...eature=related

They actually showed that movie on TV yesterday :). Not my favourite song from the musical, but kind of sweet...
6/10

Called the best trance song ever... I beg to differ but I like to share :). Silence is a song by Sarah McLachlan, mixed by Delerium and then remixed by Tiesto. I guess I prefer it when the last step is skipped...

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They actually showed that movie on TV yesterday :). Not my favourite song from the musical, but kind of sweet...
6/10

Called the best trance song ever... I beg to differ but I like to share :). Silence is a song by Sarah McLachlan, mixed by Delerium and then remixed by Tiesto. I guess I prefer it when the last step is skipped...

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Not bad - 6/10

How about some 70's stuff.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbLDI5lNdRQ

Bonzo Dog Do Dah band. Great name.

A peculiarly English phenomenon, the Bonzos. Not sure this'd work for most litnetters. Then again, I'd've said the same about the Pythons, and they're huge all over the place. 8/10


There was a time when I'd've given the life of someone of whom I was moderately fond to play guitar like this.

uhhhhh ???/10.

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

I don't know who this Gaga lady is, but this kid is pretty dang good. 7/10.

This one brings back memories for moi!

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

0/10... that was just so not my cuppa anything

Avantasia - The Wicked Symphony (try to listen to all of it ;) )

1/10

The 1 is for the first part - the part that sounded like the soundtrack in a movie where some battle is being fought (Lord of the Rings came to mind). And then the singing started - disaster. Sounded like a bad musical and then bad 80's hair music. Worse than Europe - the final countdown. :yikes: sorry. I couldn't make it all the way through.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99hlp...eature=related

Ok, theta I like, this would be more fun with glasses though. I just don't much get why they have to play the piano in binaural tracks, always distracts me. Violin I get, but piano's just not doing it for me in binaural.

7/10 because of the piano, by itself the piano's fine but it doesn't really fit into the track for me.

Avantasia - Blizzard On A Broken Mirror

yeah ok, I have a thing for the entire album, sue me ;)

Suddenly it's 1973 and Uriah Heep have a lot to answer for. Ghastly. 0/10


I wouldn't tell you if I didn't care..... If only Johnny Marr had met Kirsty before he met Morrissey.

Meh. 4/10.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lk6Q4...eature=related

P.S. Jay, I really liked the Avantasia stuff.

Below the video, the first comment from a viewer is, Opeth caused me to masterbate 3 days straight.

After which, further critique seems superfluous. 0/10


You're not from New York City - you're from Rotherham.

So you rate songs based on other people's reactions? Okay. You probably didn't even listen to the whole song, as anyone with half a brain would at least acknowledge the merits of the writing. Probably heard the vocals and turned it off.

Arctic Monkeys - "Fake Tales Of San Francisco" Just another unoriginal dime-a-dozen indie band. Still, it has a nice hook 5/10.

Genesis - "The Lamia"

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So you rate songs based on other people's reactions? Okay. You probably didn't even listen to the whole song, as anyone with half a brain would at least acknowledge the merits of the writing. Probably heard the vocals and turned it off.

Arctic Monkeys - "Fake Tales Of San Francisco" Just another unoriginal dime-a-dozen indie band. Still, it has a nice hook 5/10.

Genesis - "The Lamia"

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I like the "half a brain" comment. So you rate people's mental capacity by whether they agree with you?

Genesis had their moments, and none of them were after Gabriel left. The thing about the Lamb Lies Down - the good thing, on the whole - is that PG wrote all the lyrics, which meant we were spared the others' pseudoclassical meanderings. Then again, PG seems to have felt the need to appease them with this little sojourn into Graeco-Keatsian myth. The tune works, but the lyrics and the imagery are a bit adolescent. 6/10


It was a great stage show though.

Another from the dime-a-dozen indie. I think Alex is the best chronicler of domestic romance that rock music has produced since Paddy McAloon. It's not a huge thought - but then I only have half a brain to think it with.

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I like the "half a brain" comment. So you rate people's mental capacity by whether they agree with you?

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Just as bad as forming an opinion based on someone else's opinion. I just don't see how someone could give that song (or much of any song, for that matter) a zero. To me, that says you think the song has absolutely no redeemable features, objectively or subjectively. Which means you ignored the writing, probably didn't listen to the whole song (which includes many mellow and acoustic interludes accompanied by wonderfully sung clean vocals), and the excellent musicianship. It just pisses me off when someone writes a song off due to certain aspects of the song that wasn't liked and therefore refuse to see the virtues of other aspects of the song--much like you did with the Avantasia songs. Frankly, I think that Arctic Monkeys song is horrible, but I can still see the positives in it.

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Genesis had their moments, and none of them were after Gabriel left. The thing about the Lamb Lies Down - the good thing, on the whole - is that PG wrote all the lyrics, which meant we were spared the others' pseudoclassical meanderings. Then again, PG seems to have felt the need to appease them with this little sojourn into Graeco-Keatsian myth. The tune works, but the lyrics and the imagery are a bit adolescent. 6/10

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Yeah, but Phil Collins had his moments. Wind and Wuthering is a wonderful album.

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Originally Posted by MarkBastable

I like the "half a brain" comment. So you rate people's mental capacity by whether they agree with you?

Genesis had their moments, and none of them were after Gabriel left. The thing about the Lamb Lies Down - the good thing, on the whole - is that PG wrote all the lyrics, which meant we were spared the others' pseudoclassical meanderings. Then again, PG seems to have felt the need to appease them with this little sojourn into Graeco-Keatsian myth. The tune works, but the lyrics and the imagery are a bit adolescent. 6/10


It was a great stage show though.

Another from the dime-a-dozen indie. I think Alex is the best chronicler of domestic romance that rock music has produced since Paddy McAloon. It's not a huge thought - but then I only have half a brain to think it with.

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The British music 'press' have an acute talent for misplaced hype, but I think The Arctic Monkeys are a rung above most of the next big things. 7/10.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0xDNtqNcAc

Not bad. 7/10

Fleet Foxes - "Blue Ridge Mountains"

An interesting, if slightly anaemic, arrangement, and a nicely wrought melody. The metaphor's a bit wasted on me, but then I'm a city boy who thinks trees shouldn't be allowed out unless shackled and accompanied by an armed guard.

5/10

Not that I have to agree with the sentiment of a song in order to be blown away by it.

Not bad. Not a huge fan of the gospel stuff, but Aretha does have one hell of a voice. 6/10.

Gustav Holst - The Planets - Mars, the Bringer of War

It's a bit like an angry bolero, there's a bit of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring in there too. 6.5/10

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

That creeped me out. 3/10.

Need something to counteract all that frivolity:

Nile - "Utterances Of The Crawling Dead" :cornut:

that's some angry music 5/10 and all that 5 is for the part before the vocals. After that, I was just unhappy.

Now, here is something really similar to that. :->

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSMeU...eature=related

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Originally Posted by Shalot

that's some angry music 5/10 and all that 5 is for the part before the vocals. After that, I was just unhappy.

Now, here is something really similar to that. :->

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSMeU...eature=related

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Frankly, I prefer Orpeth. 0/10


Hurray for Peter Pumpkinhead.

I remember this song from when I was just a little child, 8/10.

I have to admit that given this was the one time someone other than me posted a gay anthem, and that you got to it before me to give it a 0, has made me slightly resentful.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ue2UXnxp8Rs

hmmm. My Dad likes XTC. Me personally, I don't know. maybe 4/10.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...5221543443747#

Ah, I got skipped, I really don't care for Garth Brooks, 3/10.

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

oops sorry to skip you orph. maybe I didn't refresh the browser...wasn't intentional anyway.

7/10 - for automatic lover. kinda catchy.

5/10 = you make me feel mighty. - it makes me wanna dance. I just wanna dance.


Okay so here's mine: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTx1BeHiyvw :->

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Originally Posted by MarkBastable

Frankly, I prefer Orpeth. 0/10

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:hurray: Though, it's spelled Opeth :nod:.

As for the above song. 7/10. A few weeks ago, probably a 4/10, but I'm kinda getting into opera now.

Faith No More - "Malpractice"

No too bad -- 6/10

Right now I'm in the mood for something a little more mellow, however.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlaoR5m4L80

Okay. Her voice is a little too much for me, but I like where they were trying to go with that. 5/10

Ban Me

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bP_0dDjoW_o

10/10 ha ha

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEwgCHL_o88

not bad. . .not somethin' I'd listen to again, nor somethin' I should be watchin' at work, but not bad. 5/10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqDlTKqxu2w

4/10. I've become extremely tired of the indie scene, save a very few songs.

What Would Brian Boitano Do?

The South Park movie gets kind of old for me, 5/10.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TL6MAyTXMRA

Here's something tacky and camp.

It's funny. Very funny. And funny is good. 7/10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qORYO0atB6g&ob=av2el