Not my kind of song. Too repetitive. Not horrible, though. 5/10. I did like one of the top rated comments, though: "ten thousand ****ty indie rock bands wish they were this cool"
That song "Friday" isn't too horrible after all.
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Not my kind of song. Too repetitive. Not horrible, though. 5/10. I did like one of the top rated comments, though: "ten thousand ****ty indie rock bands wish they were this cool"
That song "Friday" isn't too horrible after all.
"Friday" was made to parody. 8/10
Here's one that I'm fairly certain ya'll will hate:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKleT...eature=related
I don't like much country, and this didn't make it into the pretty small selection that doesn't reduce me to tears of patronising mirth. 1/10
This, on the other hand, I do like. My band used to do it as a slow blues, and it worked surprisingly well.
Okayish - don't really get a rush of superfluity - more a comfortable old coat 6/10 silverfish defying the mothballs
This one is notable because the guitarist has ants in his pants or worms or something - but at least he gives you something to look at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rp6-w...eature=related
Coincidentally, my band do that one too. Townsend may have written only a handful of really good songs, but those few are just wonderful. 9/10
Here's another one we do...
The Last Shadow Puppets mildly annoys me because Alex Turner is essentially making music pretty much identical to what he does with Arctic Monkeys. But, I like the Arctic Monkeys so it's not like I can hate it... very troubling.Quote:
Originally Posted by MarkBastable
Love, 9/10.Quote:
Originally Posted by MarkBastable
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsVWl...eature=related
Sure you can.Quote:
Originally Posted by OrphanPip
Relaxing. 5.5/10.Quote:
Originally Posted by OrphanPip
Inventive.
There are parts of that that seem to actually work, but I think it's a bit of an awkward mash up most of the time, 3/10.
If there happens to be an apocalypse, it wouldn't be so bad if the world afterward was like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG1NrQYXjLU
I seem to be falling into a pattern with your songs, Pip. None seem to be horrible, but they usually aren't my cup o' tea, either. Still, for its era, it is one of the better songs. 6/10.
One of my current favorite instrumental bands.
Pretty kickass. 8/10
Since you went insturmental, you forced me to bust this out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMfcB...eature=related
......<fill in predictable dismissive comment here>...... 1/10
I think it's the other way round. The Puppets were his Barry/Bacharach aside to the Monkeys, but more and more the latter have come to sound like the former. But, either way, I like what Alex does.Quote:
Originally Posted by OrphanPip
On the subject of Billy Idol, it's always slightly astonishing to Brits that North Americans seem to take him seriously. We considered him the raspberry-scented My Little Pony of punk.
Chicago.
Not bad at all. Nice groove.Quote:
Originally Posted by metal134
I don't even consider him punk (didn't even know he was supposed to be punk). I just assumed he was one of the better artists among the multitude of **** the 80s produced.Quote:
Originally Posted by MarkBastable
Robert Fripp is undoubtedly one of the most innovative, creative, progressive artists to ever walk the Earth. I love King Crimson. That being said, I did not dig that very much at all. 4/10.Quote:
Originally Posted by MarkBastable
Next Song:
The ending always gives me chills.
That was so good in so many ways that I didn't even notice it was in mono
!0/!0 big ones
(Think I might colourise and try to stereophy it!)
One of the rare few country songs I can stand - I chose this version only because the official (better sounding) video has MTV emblazoned all over it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLU8C9WeIH8
I find it very hard to take that seriously. But, in my defence, so does Keith. 5/10Quote:
Originally Posted by MystyrMystyry
Utterly fluffy and insubstantial pop, much loved by a six-year-old of my acquaintance.
That sounds like one of those songs you hear on the morning radio whilst pouring milk on your cornflakes and getting ready for school - am I right? am I right?
That's a six for the Basil Brush memories - still running in repeat in some places
Actually, that band reminds me of another responsible for this song used in the opening scene of The Man From Hong Kong in a spectacular hang-gliding sequence
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mSZRCWWZEs
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Mystery, you're flirting dangerously close to disco.
We've already bid farewell to that sister 2/10 :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kz3gpKCjRTM
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Not in the first rank of Who songs, I'd say. 5/10
This is another one that features high on the list of my daughter's favourites, though while Pilot was harmless fun, this song is a bleeding infected carbuncle on the perineum of popular music, and its place in my daughters' affections can be blamed on their mother, who's the right age to have had this poisonous confection permeate her skin like nuclear fallout.
poo (bubblegum metal, ya know)
1/10 flushes
I'm fairly certain this is from earlier than '78, but I can't be goggled to find out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tR_oB...eature=related
Usually the one-hit wonders of one's childhood turn out three decades later to be rather better than you remember. This is not true, for me, of The Motors. 4/10
If you're going to be, say, 53 at the end of this year, there would have been a moment in your adolescence, probably between the time you discovered girls and the first time you actually got laid (so about twelve years), when this record was just about the most sensuous and mind-bogglingly sexy thing you'd ever heard.
I'm awake but this is not my home.
For the first time, I'm not alone.
(Incidentally, that's a horrible pic of Kiki Dee on the record sleeve. She looks more like herself in this version, even though the arrangement is dire. I'd have died for her, frankly. Still might. I mean - look at this. I was fifteen for God's sake. I didn't stand a chance.)
Trite and tiresome. 2/10
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-o_i...eature=related
Um, YES! Symphony X is freaking awesome, even with the occasionally annoying singer. Nice pick. 9/10
I'll tear your mind out! I'll burn your soul!
I liked it! 8/10
Here's something that plays of the burning soul concept:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOErZuzZpS8
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That video was evil and satanic. Just how I like it! :) 8/10
Now for some evil one-up-manship:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kGPhpvqtOc
Always loved that song. Probably because I LOVE screaming. A true pioneer of the art. Plus, gotta love the sufficiently ****ed up performance. 9/10.
Continuing with the Satanic theme. . . . .
The music kicks the preacher's ***! (And, for Opeth fans, that is Mikael Akerfeldt on vocals and Martin Axenrot on drums.)
Hells yeah! I had no idea Akerfeldt was in a supergroup. He is one of the all-time greats. 10/10
I gotta post this one as much for the video as the song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHb4gs1hwck
Irredeemably pointless. 0/10.
No - hang on - I'll give it 1/10 for collecting together a bunch of CCTV and amateur footage of unsuspecting people and making fun of them.
It took balls to release this in 1969, even if you were the Beatles.
8/10
Reminded me of this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUWzeOcBYxI
I guarantee that if someone had posted that very same song and it were by, say, Black Sabbath instead of the Beatles, you would have been "blah blah blah, snippy snotty 1/10"Quote:
Originally Posted by MarkBastable
Last song: Kinda trippy 7/10
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OorZcOzNcgE
Quote:
Originally Posted by metal134
I'm not sure that makes sense even as a theory, let alone as a guarantee.
I think Purple have aged less well than a lot of their contemporaries, and it's something to do with the bottom end. You can't knock the playing, but it all sounds very specifically 1971 in a way that, for instance, Sabbath don't - which is odd, because the guys in Purple were much better musicians. Maybe the thing about Purple is that they were so perfectly a creation of their time, it's difficult for them to transcend it. 6/10
Possibly better than the studio version.
Sure does make sense.
Not really - because I'd like any band who could write that, and the fact that I liked them would be a known fact around here, so that when I said I liked that song, you'd say it was because I liked the band and if any other band had recorded it, I'd be snotty about it.Quote:
Originally Posted by metal134
The difference here, I think, is that I don't believe any band but the Beatles could have written that, which is why I like them and it.
Whereas you seem to think that, for instance, Sabbath could have written it, which I think is a pretty flawed proposition.
This is a tough one...let's think about this; the guy pissed on the Alamo, but I must consider the music only. The song takes me back to a time when I was attempting to outrun blacktop bullies through a field of dew soaked field of grass in my my bell bottoms and earth shoes.
For the fond memories, I'll give it 7/10.
I'm not sure who authored this next one, but the voice is wonderful. (A random pick from my collection of albums)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uD71Ks6DXeg
http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/a...m/IMGP1514.jpg
Nope.Quote:
Originally Posted by MarkBastable
Succinctly argued, as ever. Not necessarily a clear argument, but a short one.Quote:
Originally Posted by metal134
To get back to your original snipe...
I guarantee that if someone had posted that very same song and it were by, say, Black Sabbath instead of the Beatles, you would have been "blah blah blah, snippy snotty 1/10
...is your contention that I'm snotty (which, in your terms, I'd probably admit to) or that I'm inconsistent (which I'm happy to argue against, though it'd be pointless, because the assessment of my consistency is bound to be 100% in my terms, and less than that in yours)?
True. But this is Ozzie. You can diss him for being a bit stupid (and we wouldn't claim him as our most sparky export), but it's difficult to suggest that he was making an anti-American post-colonial point that implied even the vaguest disrespect to a national monument. He just needed a piss, and he found a wall. That's about as insightful as he gets.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gilliatt Gurgle
I'm with metal, even if he isn't arguing his point as well as it could be. Whether or not Black Sabbath could have written that song is irrelevant. He's saying if they, or any metal band (or, maybe more particularly, modern metal), did release that song, or any song similar to it, you most likely would write it off as soon as you realized it was a metal band. You seem to have pretty strict preconceived notions on just about any genre of music that you don't like, and immediately discard it with out even attempting to acknowledge the genre's obvious and irrefutable virtues (creativity, song structure, musicianship). Frankly, you're just close-minded. And, that's okay; at least you seem to realize it. I am too when it comes to certain things: reality television, modern country-rock, dance as an "art."
Anyways, as to Gilliat's song. . . .
Bearable for one song. I felt like I was in a tacky Mexican restaurant, though. That's not the music's fault, though. 6/10.
That penguin is BROOOOOOOOOOTAL!!!
P.S. Metal, the church Slayer vid was hilarious.
The notions aren't preconceived. They're conceived - on the basis of experience, as all notions are.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mutatis-Mutandi
Those things that you list as virtues - I don't think they count in themselves. Creativity, structure, musicianship, imagination, originality, technique, vision are all ingredients that can be combined to make something worthwhile, but all of them feature in a lot of rubbish too.
The question, then, is: what does make a work of art worthwhile - and is it entirely subjective? I think that, actually, there's a large objective element, and it's analysable. It's not just down to 'personal taste' or 'just one opinion'. I think you can identify what's good and what's not, and why it's good or otherwise, and you pretty much have to do that case by case.
However, in a thread like this, no one wants to read that analysis every time, especially when the conclusion is 1/10. So it's better to be briefly dismissive of the stuff you don't like, unless you have something specific to say about it.
My brief dismissiveness doesn't change the music. It doesn't impugn anyone else's opinion of it. It doesn't even, actually, matter. In fact, as people often say when I'm 'snotty' about something, it reflects more on me than it does on the thing I'm being snotty about. Which is fine.
9/10 pinguinos on slow pills (actually the clips after that were amusing as well)
I've only just found an extended version of a classic track - excuse the video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6IPBN6ARkE
Hey, it's all cool with me, bro. Metal's just a bit rankled, like I was at first when I started participating in this thread. If he's like me, he'll take your 1s and 0s as badges of honor. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by MarkBastable
Though, I don't think there's any real objective way to analyze music. And, if there is, I highly doubt that objectivity somehow discards all modern heavy metal. Maybe your personal ideas of what that objectivity is, but it's not like there's a set of rules set in stone.
If no one has rated your song by later today, MM, I'll get to it. Just checkin' in, at the moment.
That man, that reincarnation of Santa Anna, left an indelible stain on the soul of Texas!Quote:
Originally Posted by MarkBastable
Gives a whole new meaning to those immortal words; “Remember the Alamo!”
In all honesty, his stain pales in comparison to the greater insult brought on by the sprawl of concrete, traffic and other forms of urban affliction pressing in on all sides.
It is a peaceful Sunday morning, a Carolina Wren heralds the dawn and I have no mettle for metal, therefore my ranking, being influenced by the tranquil state, is 2/10.Quote:
Originally Posted by MystyrMystyry
Let’s consider the merits of Mr. Gallagher and Mr. Shean:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkzAE...eature=related
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