These are all great! Berkeley Social Scene: Loving the arpeggiated guitar in the verse. Chorus is catchy too. Like the twin riffing guitars in the bridge and at the end. Easily enough goodness and interest to justify its length. Grid: This is really disturbing from the outset. Love the sparseness of...

Starving bears on broken Ice Flaming forests, blackened homes Flooded valleys, barren fields We fiddle while the planet burns "Today I saw grass growing through cracks in the tarmac" (quoted from a testimony given at NEYM c.1985) And in the end we’ll muddle through, some will survive In th...

It's probably gonna be better than last time. At least, I hope so.

Didn't really have any, but ... Growing up in Kingswood, football was my life. When I wasn’t playing football, I was watching football or talking about football. I never thought I could be anything else. I had no time for school. Then when I got dropped by Rovers, for a long time I didn’t know what ...

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I don't have a kazoo.

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Darn. My solo would definitely have been less bad if I'd thought of that in time.

I don't have a kazoo.

Berkeley Social Scene : Really liked the rhythm and riff at the start of the verse, would have liked a bit more of that. Hostess Mostess : Beautiful vocal tone, love the hook in the chorus (I don't believe). The eerie scratch effects I thought were a mistake at first but work well with the guitar s...

Balleando Gaiundos : Too joyful not to like. Like the shift in tempo, the guitars are spot on, and the baroque-pop keyboard is love. Could be a Sabaton backing track - has this fallen through a time-warp from their album about the great robot uprising of 2024? Berkeley Social Scene : I like the dou...

House Arrest - tomdg Rent slave Wage slave Silverfish Ant plague Mould walls Asbestos Gas condemned Monoxide These four walls imprison me Put ‘em under house arrest (x2) Flat roof bed shower Toxic land sick building Death trap poor trap Fire-clad high rise These four walls imprison me Put ‘em under ...

So, House Arrest ... I thought I'd turn the phrase inside out and imagine that it was actually the house being arrested for crimes against its occupants. So I've written about the dark side of renting, unscrupulous landlords, and the economic inequalities that meant that money gets taken from one pe...

Go Between by tomdg This day I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live. Hate was the choice that we made as a nation Hatred and prejudice and isolation Hate thy ne...

Working on this one. My first thought was the novel we had to read at school (the past is a different country, they do things differently there) but I didn't fancy that so went in a very different direction ...

Brother Baker: Iconic ska sound. It loses the ska beat when you slow it down for the break, but because of the instrumentation it still fits with the rest. Nice lyrics. Brown Word and the Big Whine: Like the penultimate chord in the chorus. Hints of "Love me do" on Harmonica. Nice tones al...

Yeah, what do I know. But I do like metal so the optional challenge was good fun. Brother Baker: Starts with a really strong opening riff - I love the whole intro. I'm a purist when it comes to metal and prefer it without keyboard, but that's just a taste thing. Range of vocal styles might have been...

Potential Consequences - tomdg feat rox I really want a coffee, I really want a beer I really need a haircut and my friends to all be near To go shopping, watch the football, have a party, celebrate It’s my birthday and I sit at home like billy no-mates Yes I’m sick of spending time in front of my n...

tomdg feat rox. My take on iconic instrumentation. Plus, I'm going all authentic and giving it full nerdcore.

Tomdg – How do you say Tomdg? The long chains of lyrics are pretty interesting. The lyrics themselves could do, I think, with more specificity. Almost every noun in there is abstract: dream, news, soul, nightmare, fears, terror, heart, pain, disbelief, hate, prejudice, lust, power, curse, state, po...

Wednesday morning, two a.m. I tried to sleep, a futile dream I cannot bear to check the news I cannot trust another soul I wake to nightmare incarnate My fears confirmed, the terror chokes My heart with pain and disbelief, To hate unsheathed, to prejudice unfurled The lust of power, the curse of Cai...

I thought the title sounded like "The Same Deep Water As You", which I now appreciate even more.

Tomdg : bold choice to make your live song so bass-riff heavy! It's a good riff though and makes this stand out from the guitar-heavy songs. Interesting lyrics for the most part although the over-emphasis of "obviously" towards the start struck me as odd. I really like the way the title l...

Tomdg—This reminds me of early Midnight Oil (I really like Midnight Oil), which is probably not a comment you expected to get. Funnily enough, I thought of them this week (BLNY). Not so much the sound, but something they said about how the fight to restore the land stolen from original Australians ...

Well ... I've uploaded a fight for this week, a video I had done previously of another songfight song, a new version of an old songfight song of mine, and a cover of my favourite songfight song ever. Well ... the latter two are uploading now, if they fail you won't see them ... Hopefully you've got ...