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.
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"
Last edited by Mutatis-Mutandis; 01-14-2011 at 10:19 AM.
I like the "half a brain" comment. So you rate people's mental capacity by whether they agree with you?Originally Posted by Mutatis-Mutandi
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.
Last edited by MarkBastable; 01-14-2011 at 05:35 PM.
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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.
Yeah, but Phil Collins had his moments. Wind and Wuthering is a wonderful album.
Last edited by Mutatis-Mutandis; 01-14-2011 at 05:42 PM.
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
Last edited by sixsmith; 01-14-2011 at 07:58 PM.
'Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.' - Groucho Marx
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.
Last edited by MarkBastable; 01-15-2011 at 04:45 AM.
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
Last edited by OrphanPip; 01-15-2011 at 04:19 PM.
"If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia."
- Margaret Atwood
That creeped me out. 3/10.
Need something to counteract all that frivolity:
Nile - "Utterances Of The Crawling Dead"
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
Last edited by Shalot; 01-15-2011 at 11:12 PM.
"...if you weren't smart enough to get a pedophile in a dress to put a small amount of water on the child’s forehead, then what the eff did you think was going to happen?
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
"If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia."
- Margaret Atwood
hmmm. My Dad likes XTC. Me personally, I don't know. maybe 4/10.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...5221543443747#
"...if you weren't smart enough to get a pedophile in a dress to put a small amount of water on the child’s forehead, then what the eff did you think was going to happen?
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