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Bravo, Mark! I was just going to say that if prog was a waste of time, so were almost every other genre of music that isn't popular in the main stream. You did a much better job defending the greatness of (good) prog.
As to the your song: I really like Paul Simon. Just not that particular song so much. 4/10.
"Promenade" of Pictures at an Exhibition. Right now, this is my favorite piece of classical music. So great.
Bump. This is, in my useless opinion, the best forum game here, so I'm selfishly bumping it (and, please, don't let my petulance at criticism of my songs stop you from doing so...though I'd think the likelihood of that wouldn't be huge with Pictures at an Exhibition).
Good 7/10Quote:
Originally Posted by Mutatis-Mutandi
Mark's mention of John Peel in the post above reminded me of Peel's favourite song by The Undertones - a simple song with a good raw sound. I always thought Feargal Sharkey was unhealthily skeletal.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oskM5XD_Yc4
Alright, but I'm not crazy over it 6/10Quote:
Originally Posted by Paulclem
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0JSZu4t388
Edit: Sorry if you haven't seen the opera, but yes Dido dies at the end.
Yes, I'd have given it 6 too. I don't like opera - call me uncultured - I've been called worse - but I don't like the singing. Technically it must be good, but I don't find the technicality does anything for my ears.Quote:
Originally Posted by OrphanPip
3/10
Now what to follow it with?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOO8-Jp-xsg
It's not my favourite Beatles' song, partly for the crazy video 9/10.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgPqmRNjoTE
I don't think Ringo gets enough credit for the delightfully whimsical nature of the songs he contributed. Loved the video! 8/10
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgDXy5kTokQ
8/10 because it The Beatles, but not one of my favorites--I prefer the "serious" songs over the "light-hearted."
Arguably the first true heavy metal song ever composed. (You may be surprised.)
Not surprised, mostly because I've heard every Beatles song, I wouldn't call it metal though, it's hard-rock and pretty heavily influenced by The Who. 7/10
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJIqnXTqg8I
I like it, especially the instrumentals. 7/10, probably eight if I were in the right mood.
This one comes to you from Turkey:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4WIkRD5Bpw
Low, driving bass line. Pounding drums. Heavy, distorted guitars. Yelling vocals. Trust me, it's metal. The Who was a heavy influence on metal, also.Quote:
Originally Posted by OrphanPip
I can't say I necessarily enjoyed it. But, I usually find music from other cultures very interesting, and this was no exception. And I really liked the trippy video. 6/10.Quote:
Originally Posted by JuniperWoolf
Back to my roots.
It's alright, 6/10
I'm not sure I can forgive them for what happened to the Stanley Cup in Dallas, tsk tsk.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2dHheEgYDA
2/10 Just not my type of music.
Next, The Wicked End by A7x. Anything less than a 8/10 and I curse you to 10 years bad literature
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roZbgp3W51A
I guess I'm cursed. 2/10
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMEpaVL_WsU
Man, what a voice. 9/10
OrphanPip, the gentleman starring in that Of Montreal video is Josh McKay. I used to live down the street from him. For a brief time, he and I fancied the same girl--who, as it turned out, fancied Josh's brother Misch.
Josh and Misch were in a band called Macha. Their musical style was...unique:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Tlk8...eature=related
5/10
Not one I would listen to regularly, but nice. Great mesh of two different styles.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmDTS...eature=related
8/10. Funny song.
But, for my money, when it comes to comedy in music, nothing beats Frank Zappa. Add to that he was a musical genius, and you have a man as yet unequaled.
Punky, Punky, give me your lips to die on . . . I promise not to come in your mouth!
4/10
Sorry, I just do not get his genius. I will listen to more. So really, its a 4 with a promise of more attention.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCvMKcNJCAY
It really helps not to listen too closely to Led Zeppelin's lyrics, but as a purveyors of impressive, operatic bombast, they're difficult to beat - when you're in the mood.
Then again, ambivalent though I am about the music, if I could have had anyone's life in the Seventies, it would have been Robert Plant's. 7/10
Meanwhile, at the other end of the spectrum of artistic intention, meet my relations, all of them grinning like facepacks.
5/10 it made me nervous
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AOp9c5DRzc
Not bad. 6/10.
Love this song.
Mike Patton is a genius, but this particular song does little for me. 6/10
I have long contemplated posting the following video in this thread, but my better sense has always prevailed.....until now.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtDEmtwuTlI
LOVED IT. I've always intended to check out Mr. Bungle, but this is the first song I've heard by them. I loved it. Probably going to get the album now. 10/10.
Avant-garde metal. Makes Mr. Bungle look like formulaic pop when it comes to weirdness.
I get the impression they're trying to be wierd and the result is a mish mash. 1/10
Do you like jazz Mutatis? A lot of the stuff you've posted seems to be jazz/ rock. I don't know if such a distinction exists, but that's what it reminds me of. It would explain my aversion - I'm ... not keen on jazz.
This Guy's voice is brilliant - and his suit is pretty good too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uErUVGoQLSA
I like the original version too. Catchy - I just need to make sure I don't sing it in the office...
I would have given that song a 6/10 the first time I heard it, but I'm so ****ing sick of it I can't give it higher than a 2/10.
Yeah, I love jazz. I love chaotic, intricate, complicate music. Really, anything that is challenging to listen to. There is a limit, though . . .
Like this. Though, I do love DEP's later work.
It's going to be a nightclub classic... (do they still have nightclubs?). I could have imagined singing along to it with the whole dancefloor in the past - (do they still have dance floors I wonder?).Quote:
Originally Posted by Mutatis-Mutandi
I see where we diverge Mutatis - perhaps I should stop rating your songs. It's nothing personal. 2/10
From the other end of the scale.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNi8aW8Nf6s
Please don't! I don't care if someone gives my songs a low rating (though, it can irk me when someone bashes a song without basis, but I've gotten over it). Anyways, I listen to a lot of music the vast majority of people don't like, so it's not unusual.
As to your song, I just don't generally like that 80s techno sound. Plus, the first singer sounded like a dude, lol. 3/10.
Something a little less chaotic.
I'm reading that elision as 'so forgetting sick of it'.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mutatis-Mutandi
I rather liked Stolen Babies, but that might be more the video than the song. 7/10
5:15, in which Pete Townsend offers practical evidence of his own assertion that he was never much of a guitarist, but he could write a good tune.
Yes she does. It was only when I saw the video that I realised it was a woman. I think it's more disco than techno by the way.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mutatis-Mutandi
I was listening to The Who today in the office whilst working. Great stuff. 8.5/10 The video looks quitessentially British doesn't it.Quote:
Originally Posted by MarkBastable
I like this one. Didn't get it when I was young. :lol:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BmkBroiw1s
8/10. I like it, too. Moon's "drumming" is hilarious.
German progressive metal band. Don't quit listening when the yelling starts--there's some very good singing later in the song.
Taylor Swift. She's just so nice and wholesome and sweet and safe ... I just can't stand her. She is a positive influence on many young girls, though, so that bumps her up to a 3/10.
After that, I need a palate cleanser.
Ack, maybe one day I'll open one of those links to a metal song and I'll have some sort of epiphany, but not this time. 4/10
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smqNtBXN5Mc
I liked it! 8/10
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FE3KA7DdhQQ
Did - ohQuote:
Originally Posted by qimissung
Dye-doh
Did-doh
Di-doh ?
Nice song. 7.5
A nice contrast to ramp it up a bit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svdmgux-y2E
Not something I'm into, but there's really nothing about it I find disagreeable aside from the repetition. 5/10
[laugh] If one wants to become a metal fan, or at least explore the genre, you don't start with Cannibal Corpse. It takes years of metal listening to build up to that and enjoy it (I can only take a few songs at a time). Any metal newbie needs to start with something like this, like I did.Quote:
Originally Posted by OrphanPip
It's a bit easier to wrap your head around.
I've actually seen Metallica live once, still not all that enthused by their music 5/10.
I'm just willing to go to any concert as long as someone else is paying.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzpHm...eature=related
Judas Priest - along with Saxon, Iron Maiden, Def Leppard - emerged from the neglected industrial heartlands of Great Britain in the Seventies, and forty years later that provenance really shows. They're as threatening, unpredictable and outrageous as a nice cup of tea and a slice of Victoria sponge. If this really is the Devil's music, then Beelzebub must have hung up his pitchfork and opened a yarn shop in Dudley. 4/10
Here's Lizzy, neatly staddling the line between metal and commercial rock. I said in an earlier post I'd have loved to have Robert Plant's life. I'd've settled, frankly, for Scott Gorman's hair.
Something just doesn't mesh for me, 5/10. To be honest I don't even like Judas Priest.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0npq1MKg-MA