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My Goal in Life (Fat and Happy Reviews)
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Leaf
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I wanted to be in this fight, but alas, life has a way of screwing up your fantasies...
BLACK BOTTLE: First song I listened to this fight. Nice harmonies. This is really good. yeah, its a boy/guitar tune, but it's right on. It's a good campfire, hangout tune. The lead is great. I just enjoyed this... and here I was, worried that such a short fight could potentially suck...well, not yet. I call this a contender for a vote...
Butz: Creepy groove right off. I like creepy grooves. This sounds familiar...and I recall someone posted that they were in this week with this band name... awell, I can go back and look later. Still, nice sound... oh, this has to be Boltoph eh? I like that heavy tone man... crunchy and evil and dirty. Yet another contender. I'll listen to this one more than the Black Bottle one I figure, I dig the production and mentality of this. This would be afun tune to play on.
Defamation League: cool... a fight that has no tunes that immediately turned me off. I like your vocal tone.. it's got that beasties snotty rap tone to it. Production can be better. The backing tracks seem a tad bit too far back in the mix compared to the vocals, at least on my work speakers they do. Fun tune though, I'm enjoying it. Except the "bitch" at the end. That's been done SO MUCH.. use another word.. otherwise, I lika.
Vote is going to Butz I think, cause I'm a rock and roll boy at heart, but good little fight people! I'm gonna listen to this one a few times...
BLACK BOTTLE: First song I listened to this fight. Nice harmonies. This is really good. yeah, its a boy/guitar tune, but it's right on. It's a good campfire, hangout tune. The lead is great. I just enjoyed this... and here I was, worried that such a short fight could potentially suck...well, not yet. I call this a contender for a vote...
Butz: Creepy groove right off. I like creepy grooves. This sounds familiar...and I recall someone posted that they were in this week with this band name... awell, I can go back and look later. Still, nice sound... oh, this has to be Boltoph eh? I like that heavy tone man... crunchy and evil and dirty. Yet another contender. I'll listen to this one more than the Black Bottle one I figure, I dig the production and mentality of this. This would be afun tune to play on.
Defamation League: cool... a fight that has no tunes that immediately turned me off. I like your vocal tone.. it's got that beasties snotty rap tone to it. Production can be better. The backing tracks seem a tad bit too far back in the mix compared to the vocals, at least on my work speakers they do. Fun tune though, I'm enjoying it. Except the "bitch" at the end. That's been done SO MUCH.. use another word.. otherwise, I lika.
Vote is going to Butz I think, cause I'm a rock and roll boy at heart, but good little fight people! I'm gonna listen to this one a few times...
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jack
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defamation league
i don't know. the production isn't too bad, but the backing mix gets old pretty quick without any deviation. the rapping is sort of mediocre at best. maybe if i liked this genre of music more i could appreciate it more but as it stands, i don't really like this that much.
black bottle
this is fairly well done. guitar is good. singing is pretty good. i'd bring the vocals up and the guitar down a bit. the doubled vox on the chorus definitely bumps it up a notch. i wish you'd introduced another instrument when the second verse comes around. i hear 2 guitars but this could really use a bass, or a guitar playing bass notes, or something to give it more in the low frequency range. nice little lead break. this song is pretty good.
buttz
before i listened to a note of this, i thought "this has gotta be sven mullet". i still think it is. this is pretty good. singing is almost too good to be sven, but that guitar has his sig style. whoever this is, it's pretty tasty. that riff behind the verse is pretty fat and infectious. well put together tune. nice job.
i'm voting buttz mullet.
i don't know. the production isn't too bad, but the backing mix gets old pretty quick without any deviation. the rapping is sort of mediocre at best. maybe if i liked this genre of music more i could appreciate it more but as it stands, i don't really like this that much.
black bottle
this is fairly well done. guitar is good. singing is pretty good. i'd bring the vocals up and the guitar down a bit. the doubled vox on the chorus definitely bumps it up a notch. i wish you'd introduced another instrument when the second verse comes around. i hear 2 guitars but this could really use a bass, or a guitar playing bass notes, or something to give it more in the low frequency range. nice little lead break. this song is pretty good.
buttz
before i listened to a note of this, i thought "this has gotta be sven mullet". i still think it is. this is pretty good. singing is almost too good to be sven, but that guitar has his sig style. whoever this is, it's pretty tasty. that riff behind the verse is pretty fat and infectious. well put together tune. nice job.
i'm voting buttz mullet.
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Dan-O from Five-O
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<b>Black Bottle:</b> The acoustic guitar sounds good, very well recorded. I like the lick at the very beginning, I wish it repeated again. This has a good story to it, who hasn't been there before? This is off topic and going back about half my life, but I once had this happen to me. She came up to me on a break and asked me if she should wait around or ride home with her friends that were leaving. She stuck around, and your line about it not being something easily erased really struck a chord with me. Fortunately I bolted before sun-up. Anyway, your song tells a great story, and something that people can relate to, myself anyhow. The guitar playing (strumming) is on time, and it sounds great. My one criticism is the backing vocals being off time with the main vocals. I think they should match more closely. It's not bad as is, it more of a live feel that way. But a more polished take I think would add a lot to the overall part.
<b>Buttz:</b> This is well recorded with some very cool sounds going on. The main vocal is great, the voice is sweet and enticing. It fits the instrumentation going on and makes me want to listen to the lyrics closely. However, when the song reaches it's fever pitch, I initially thought the vocal should have powered up as well. After a couple of listens, I still think that. Maybe this is a style thing now, the vocalist remaining in such control of his voice, and it's not entirely bad, I just don't think it fits the music at that point. You have to bear in mind that I grew up listening to screamers from Little Richard to Roger Daltry, so I'll probably almost always error on the side of letting it rip. The guitar is, why not the vocalist? Overall, this is a very well produced song that I think with things like real drums and a producer enticing you to forget about children and squeeze the balls during the vocals, could be great. Very nice work.
<b>Defamation League:</b> Besides not being my thing, it's amateurish, and sophomorically not my thing. It's kids with a Casio (my apologies to Casio) and a computer. I'm surprised though that you actually didn't have any levels peaking and distorting the Realistic (my apologies to Realistic) microphone. The lyrics are just as uninteresting as they are uninventive. The "B" word at the end is unnecessary and unfunny. I can't think of any more "un" words except to say that if this was a ball of yarn, I would undo the whole thing, and burn it, with gasoline, so it wouldn't ever rear it's ugly face again. All in all, you're not a Defamation League, you're out of your league. In a 3 song fight, that's quite an accomplishment. Put that on your resume.
<b>Buttz:</b> This is well recorded with some very cool sounds going on. The main vocal is great, the voice is sweet and enticing. It fits the instrumentation going on and makes me want to listen to the lyrics closely. However, when the song reaches it's fever pitch, I initially thought the vocal should have powered up as well. After a couple of listens, I still think that. Maybe this is a style thing now, the vocalist remaining in such control of his voice, and it's not entirely bad, I just don't think it fits the music at that point. You have to bear in mind that I grew up listening to screamers from Little Richard to Roger Daltry, so I'll probably almost always error on the side of letting it rip. The guitar is, why not the vocalist? Overall, this is a very well produced song that I think with things like real drums and a producer enticing you to forget about children and squeeze the balls during the vocals, could be great. Very nice work.
<b>Defamation League:</b> Besides not being my thing, it's amateurish, and sophomorically not my thing. It's kids with a Casio (my apologies to Casio) and a computer. I'm surprised though that you actually didn't have any levels peaking and distorting the Realistic (my apologies to Realistic) microphone. The lyrics are just as uninteresting as they are uninventive. The "B" word at the end is unnecessary and unfunny. I can't think of any more "un" words except to say that if this was a ball of yarn, I would undo the whole thing, and burn it, with gasoline, so it wouldn't ever rear it's ugly face again. All in all, you're not a Defamation League, you're out of your league. In a 3 song fight, that's quite an accomplishment. Put that on your resume.
jb wrote:Dan-O has a point.
JB
Defamation League
- I'm glad it's short. Some of the lines were funny. You should compress the shit out of the vocals, there's some peaks that hurt my feelings. Yeeeeaaaah. Biatch. I really couldn't get into this one. A change would have been nice. This sort of sounded like you were playing with new toys. This song makes me think you probably have a questionable personality and will be bummed when you're 50 and everything that was once valuable to you has corroded—unless you make the big time.
Black Bottle
I like the story telling. We've all been there. I think the prechorus from a storytelling standpoint should have been "covered up my face", because it sounds as if she's still diggin you, but you think it was a mistake and would have rather it had not happened. Small critique. I rather enjoyed this one. And I liked the harmonies.
Büttz
I worked on this with Boltoph and Trude. The verse and prechorus was an orphan groove I had recorded a while back but hadn't been able to make anything of, so I sent it off to Boltoph and MAN did he do something with it. I've been listening to this one quite a bit. I like the Malstrom, how it sounds like birds in spots. The heavy chorus makes my hair grow faster. I like how Trude's voice sounds in the chorus and the end. I like the lyrical concept. I reeeealy like the way B says "fat" at 2:40. You can almost hear the condescending emotion.
- I'm glad it's short. Some of the lines were funny. You should compress the shit out of the vocals, there's some peaks that hurt my feelings. Yeeeeaaaah. Biatch. I really couldn't get into this one. A change would have been nice. This sort of sounded like you were playing with new toys. This song makes me think you probably have a questionable personality and will be bummed when you're 50 and everything that was once valuable to you has corroded—unless you make the big time.
Black Bottle
I like the story telling. We've all been there. I think the prechorus from a storytelling standpoint should have been "covered up my face", because it sounds as if she's still diggin you, but you think it was a mistake and would have rather it had not happened. Small critique. I rather enjoyed this one. And I liked the harmonies.
Büttz
I worked on this with Boltoph and Trude. The verse and prechorus was an orphan groove I had recorded a while back but hadn't been able to make anything of, so I sent it off to Boltoph and MAN did he do something with it. I've been listening to this one quite a bit. I like the Malstrom, how it sounds like birds in spots. The heavy chorus makes my hair grow faster. I like how Trude's voice sounds in the chorus and the end. I like the lyrical concept. I reeeealy like the way B says "fat" at 2:40. You can almost hear the condescending emotion.
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boltoph
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I saw him again today! Sitting there in LONG SLEEVES!johnsonic wrote:Büttz... I like the lyrical concept. I reeeealy like the way B says "fat" at 2:40. You can almost hear the condescending emotion.
This tune's about a guy that sits in a metal fold-up chair by the side of the highway in downtown Boston in front of an apartment I used to live in. He appears Fat and Happy but once you approach him in conversation he's, um...anything but Happy. To the point where you might say I gotta a little pist trying to be nice to him! Hence, the ending.
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Black Bottle
I really like this classic country groove. Could've used more instrumentation later on in the song, but whatever. Some nice seventh changes for that prechorus, and a catchy chorus. Glad to hear the harmony in the chorus. I like the concept but think it should be more of a positive melodic vibe in a way. Sounds like a fun night. The "walk of shame" always brings a big smile to my face. I like everything except the minor chord on "never knew your name". It's so depressing there. I guess it's mostly just my own view of the situation. I like the melancholy vibe throughout the rest of the song but that one minor seems to bug me. It's really a good tune though, I really like it. Catchy, original Country, an instant classic.
Defamation League
There are a few sweet lines in here, i really dig "she's fat, I'm happy". The backbeat and background melody should change for the chorus. HAHA my favorite part has to be the "Yeeeeeea" . It's really simple and funny man, I don't have much to say about it.
Büttz
MacIntosh keyboards make it really easy to do umlauts and other special characters. Merely hold the alt + u buttons, release, then type the letter you would like to be an umlaut. I'm sure it must be configurable on a pc keyboard too. ®ö©k ÷ Røçk = ßü††z
I really had alot of fun cutting and pasting stuff to define the song structure. Thanks Johnsonic for kicking this into motion. My fav parts are Sir Sonic on the "the way you sit there, looking so creeeepy" and Trude at the end, man that is sweet. And you know how much I love the very ending. Kinda a ripoff of Tool but so much fun doing the guitars.
I really like this classic country groove. Could've used more instrumentation later on in the song, but whatever. Some nice seventh changes for that prechorus, and a catchy chorus. Glad to hear the harmony in the chorus. I like the concept but think it should be more of a positive melodic vibe in a way. Sounds like a fun night. The "walk of shame" always brings a big smile to my face. I like everything except the minor chord on "never knew your name". It's so depressing there. I guess it's mostly just my own view of the situation. I like the melancholy vibe throughout the rest of the song but that one minor seems to bug me. It's really a good tune though, I really like it. Catchy, original Country, an instant classic.
Defamation League
There are a few sweet lines in here, i really dig "she's fat, I'm happy". The backbeat and background melody should change for the chorus. HAHA my favorite part has to be the "Yeeeeeea" . It's really simple and funny man, I don't have much to say about it.
Büttz
MacIntosh keyboards make it really easy to do umlauts and other special characters. Merely hold the alt + u buttons, release, then type the letter you would like to be an umlaut. I'm sure it must be configurable on a pc keyboard too. ®ö©k ÷ Røçk = ßü††z
I really had alot of fun cutting and pasting stuff to define the song structure. Thanks Johnsonic for kicking this into motion. My fav parts are Sir Sonic on the "the way you sit there, looking so creeeepy" and Trude at the end, man that is sweet. And you know how much I love the very ending. Kinda a ripoff of Tool but so much fun doing the guitars.
Written while listening to the entries:
Black Bottle- Nice singin' voice. The song doesn't do much for me, and it's too long. Not annoying, though. The chorus isn't catchy enough. That one chord really sounds out of place, where it goes from a major to a seventh with the same root. 5/10
Buttz- Impressive. My kind of ditty. I want to hear this one again. 8/10
Defamation League- Made me wince. And chuckle. And wince again. Mostly wince. Eh, don't listen to me, I don't like rap. 3/10
I voted for Buttz. Yay.
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Black Bottle- Nice singin' voice. The song doesn't do much for me, and it's too long. Not annoying, though. The chorus isn't catchy enough. That one chord really sounds out of place, where it goes from a major to a seventh with the same root. 5/10
Buttz- Impressive. My kind of ditty. I want to hear this one again. 8/10
Defamation League- Made me wince. And chuckle. And wince again. Mostly wince. Eh, don't listen to me, I don't like rap. 3/10
I voted for Buttz. Yay.
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<b>Black Bottle</b>
+++ Pleasant song with decent vocals. Good mix and overall sound. +++
--- Backing vocals are too loose in the chorus. Needs more practice ---
<b>Buttz</b>
+++ Oh wow, Boltoph in a trippy rock excursion... +++
<b>Defamation League</b>
+++ Nice cut-ups +++
--- standard fare white rap ---
+++ Pleasant song with decent vocals. Good mix and overall sound. +++
--- Backing vocals are too loose in the chorus. Needs more practice ---
<b>Buttz</b>
+++ Oh wow, Boltoph in a trippy rock excursion... +++
<b>Defamation League</b>
+++ Nice cut-ups +++
--- standard fare white rap ---
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Smalltown Mike
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Defamation League
The music isn’t bad, and the rapping isn’t bad (the rhythm is there, I think the phrasing needs improvement) but I find the lyrics so horrendous that I can’t listen to any more. (I didn't even get to the 'bitch' at the end of the song that bothered so many people.)
However, after reading the other reviews, I have this to add. I don't think the slams about personality are fair. I think with rap, everybody talks about the same thing (bitches and money) so much that everyone thinks they can only talk about bitches and money. That's so boring, and so overdone. I like rap in theory but I don't listen to it any more because it's so boring and predictable. So stray from the bitches and money raps and and be creative, I say.
Buttz
Good tribal rhythm. Good Boltoph lyrics as always. Great guitar and contrast between light verse and the heavy chorus.
Black Bottle
This sounds really great. Fantastic voice, and great lyrics. Vocals could be a little louder. Well done. You get my vote.
The music isn’t bad, and the rapping isn’t bad (the rhythm is there, I think the phrasing needs improvement) but I find the lyrics so horrendous that I can’t listen to any more. (I didn't even get to the 'bitch' at the end of the song that bothered so many people.)
However, after reading the other reviews, I have this to add. I don't think the slams about personality are fair. I think with rap, everybody talks about the same thing (bitches and money) so much that everyone thinks they can only talk about bitches and money. That's so boring, and so overdone. I like rap in theory but I don't listen to it any more because it's so boring and predictable. So stray from the bitches and money raps and and be creative, I say.
Buttz
Good tribal rhythm. Good Boltoph lyrics as always. Great guitar and contrast between light verse and the heavy chorus.
Black Bottle
This sounds really great. Fantastic voice, and great lyrics. Vocals could be a little louder. Well done. You get my vote.
Punk rock is for children. Grab a six-pack at Half-a-Dozen Records.
It wasn't a slam on his personality - I don't know him. It was a slam on the personality the song gives off and an assumption about the mind it came out of. Rubs me the wrong way, petty stupid bullshit. I guess that's why I don't listen to rap. I believe there is rap that deals with real issues, to go straight to the bottom of an art is a cop-out.I don't think the slams about personality are fair.
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Smalltown Mike
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I agree with this 100%. The lyrics bugged me so much I turned the song off. There was some thought and creativity that went into writing the lyrics, except it was thought and effort into writing the same old sexist sex raps. Put that effort into writing lyrics with a much better message and you might have something.johnsonic wrote: It was a slam on the personality the song gives off ... to go straight to the bottom of an art is a cop-out.
I think we're agreeing here, Johnsonic, and I didn't mean to make you into the bad guy.
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