Rumor Has It That You've Lost This Fight (reviews)
Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2010 10:34 am
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Let's start a few rumors!
Review Thread: Check
Let's start a few rumors!
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Rumor has it that FM may be waiting to see whether TJ is going to fix the date at the top of his art...inevitableguy wrote:Art: Check
*coughs*king_arthur wrote: Hmm, am I going to be the only person who used the actual title in their song??? No, check that, I see Wages did...
Funny, I did the same thing. All week, I swore the title was The Rumor Holds Strong. "Lives" would have fit just as well, so everyone should just pretend that's what I actually sung.joshmillard wrote:In my defense, I used what I thought was the title in my song.
I know it's not required that you use the title of the fight in the song (although I generally knock people who don't). I'll be nice this time since you had a misunderstanding of sorts... (voted)I misread the title as "The Rumor Is Strong" - Josh Millard
Neat idea using the Virginia City gold rush & the Yellow Jacket Mine fire. (almost voted)"On the morning of April 7, 1869, a fire spread at the 800 foot level in the Yellow Jacket Mine. Firefighters entered the mine but the smoke and flames pushed them back. As the fire burned, wood timbers collapsed and poisonous air expanded into the adjacent Kentucky and Crown Point mines. The fires persisted and mine sections were sealed off and remained hot for several years. At least thirty five miners died, and some bodies were never retrieved. The Yellow Jacket Mine fire was the worst mining accident in Nevada history up to that time." - Wikipedia
I have I feeling I'm in the vast minority...but I didn't know. I know it's about the Beatles...but I don't know much about them."I'm also interested to hear views of the lyrics. Who knows what it is about? At what point did you know?" - Wages
Spintown wrote: Bad Boys At Bat Mitzvahs - Maybe it could use a little bit of an intro? Enjoyed the song, but the story feels a bit rushed. I looked up the a bit of the history this song references and there's plenty of material to add a little to the story:
Neat idea using the Virginia City gold rush & the Yellow Jacket Mine fire. (almost voted)
Thanks! The lead thing is an e-bow (it replaces a pick by vibrating the string) on my otherwise unprocessed guitar. I never "get" how panning should work, so I tried what seemed good to me.joshmillard wrote:Hoglen and Wages: I was thinking "British Invasion" and then started attending to the lyrics, so, heh, go you. Nice piece of work. Synth lead thing (is it a synth? or really heavily processed guitar?) off on the left side feels a little weird and sounds a little pitchy, about 2/5ths in and again near the end. Was waiting for those backmasked vocals at the end, points for form on that front. Can't be bothered to reverse this right now but may do so later if you don't put up a link in the mean time.
Thank you!joshmillard wrote: Naked Philosophy: this is like an alternate universe where David Byrne started the Pixies.
Or perhaps the owls are not what they seem.joshmillard wrote:Ah ha! That gum you like is going to come back in style.
I'll buy that. it starts that fast because i recorded the guitar in one shot before i even had one word written. and sitting there listening to it over and over i just wrote too many words to fit in.joshmillard wrote:Bad Boys At Bat Mitzvahs: not much to say about the music; guitar sounds fine and motors along solidly for what it is, vocals fit in well. Dead sprint start would be fine if it felt more intentional and less like you just started there for lack of a better idea; even just a really explicit "and here we go" token like a deep breath before it kicks off would have helped, say. Solid story justifies the minimalism, though the choppy syncopated strumming at the turnarounds feels more like a brainstorm for a full mix than something that works all that well by itself.
Perhaps, but where we're from, the birds sing a pretty song and there's always music in the air.reve wrote:Or perhaps the owls are not what they seem.joshmillard wrote:Ah ha! That gum you like is going to come back in style.