Chill out, already (Everybody Calm Down reviews)

[Lunkhead]

With both Leaf and BLT posting to this thread, I predict it will hit 20 pages soon.

[Billy's Little Trip]

Oh, the reason I said PM sent to Ken is because I hate to leave someone publicly hanging, especially Ken because he's been a HUGE help to me here. There's nothing worse than posting a thread and no one even acknowledges you. Call it a crime of passion.

oh, plus I just remembered the other reason. I didn't want to post "it" in public. But I'll have you know that I made that post more productive just for you.....and Ken. Maybe you can help with your awesome knowledge base and all around superior intelligence.
cleeek >> http://songfight.net/forums/viewtopic.p ... 62#p126062

[Leaf]

Oh, the reason I said PM sent to Ken is because I hate to leave someone publicly hanging, especially Ken because he's been a HUGE help to me here. There's nothing worse than posting a thread and no one even acknowledges you. Call it a crime of passion.

oh, plus I just remembered the other reason. I didn't want to post "it" in public. But I'll have you know that I made that post more productive just for you.....and Ken. Maybe you can help with your awesome knowledge base and all around superior intelligence.
cleeek >> http://songfight.net/forums/viewtopic.p ... 62#p126062

Dude. Don't rub my awesome superior intelligence in everyone's faces.

[Billy's Little Trip]

Dude. Don't rub my awesome superior intelligence in everyone's faces.

Dude, you call your penis, awesome superior intelligence?

[Leaf]

Dude. Don't rub my awesome superior intelligence in everyone's faces.

Dude, you call your penis, awesome superior intelligence?

So many come backs, so little time.



Look. Are you gonna review some songs, or are you going to keep fantasizing about my penis? Cause I can send you photos if that is what it takes.

[tonetripper]

Did someone shout out for Captain Phallus?!!!

[Reist]

Reist: seriously, change your avatar. you are not a kid anymore/. I keep wanting to take your candy and kick your shins. I seriously remember you're stuff as being so inferior to this one... which is fucking awesome... you fucking great canadian drummer dude you. you make me proud to be a canadian. The sound is great. your drums sound great. Your lead work needs work, but not a lot!! Your voice sounds great. The song itself... is okay. I've heard lots like this. I think what it lacks... is a strong hook. I've had a hard time with this hook concept myself... but stilll, you need one man. otherwise, great. This pop-punks style is okay, and you sound authentic, but is it really you? What you live? This was the track that has surpirsed me and surpassed my expecatitons of the artist. Take that as you like... I'd take it as a compliment. My work room mate is here.. he totally dug this tune. he is not a musician, just leaned over and said..thsi one is good amn, good voice... so there!Q!Q!

Thanks, dude - good to hear you liked it.

ps - yeah, it's definitely time to change the avatar ... I've had this one for at least a year.

[boltoph]

Aardwolves
I like the change around :22, and the melody that follows it. It's John Lennon-esque in my opinion. Goes on over and over, a few too many times but I like it. I like the stops. The chord structure could use more variation, but other than that it's a nice little song that sounds like it has some emotion behind it.

Adam Dachis
The vocals are a little obtrusive. It's all happening so fast that I don't quite get to grab onto a solid melody. The generic chord pattern could be changed to make it a little more interesting...a couple minor-two chords, minor-sixth's. Anything minor. But that could just be me. I like the ending phrase quite a bit.

A Late Thaw
I'm drinking a drink with ice and I thought my ice cubes crackled in the beginning at about :14 in, but it was just the guitar slide. Pretty cool. I like the vibe on that guitar, the choice of arpeggios is right up my alley. This is still feeling great at :42. I don't mind that it didn't have lyrics before then. When they come in, I like the Thom Yorke vibe and almost like the batch of reverb thrown on there but might rather it be an even larger room reverb, but mixed lower. I thought the song died a little around a minute and a half in, and could've been shorter. But I liked the peaceful calming feeling of it alot.

Andrew Reist
Nice entry after that last tune. Guitars are a little loud. Or maybe I'd just bump em down in the 800hz range at width of about 1.5 octaves, a couple db. I think the tone is massive, huge, but a littlle heavy in the mid/low range. I love the oh-oh's. And chilin' with the bottle. And the "come down if we're gonna go". That's a damn catchy chorus. Nice.

Billy's Little Trip
I almost thought it was going to start like Damage, Inc. but it busted into some punk stuff. I like the held out feedbacky stuff. The guitar is a manufactured sounding thing like Andrew's but with less low and a little fuzzier. This needs the Green Day guitar tone. But it's pretty hard hitting and catchy.

Blues Mfg Facility
Mfg'd La Grange...ok

Finding Nemoy
There's a couple nice ideas like the break at :54, breakdown to mellow guitar. A couple funny lines too, but not really grabbing me. And I like to be grabbed.

Flvxxvm Florvm
This is a bit like La Grange too, once it kicks in. But it rocks more in a weird video-game-ish way. I don't get the spiderman reference. All in all, it moves along.

Gert
Don't take that greasy-faced fucker "gert"'s posts too seriously...

The Hand Formula
It's a solid title line, I'll give you that, some attempts at good hooks, the fever/flu lyric, I like.

j$
The "fuck out of existence" line is powerful, with the std/hiv implication. The whole lyric is impressive throughout. I could go for a louder, more distorted bass, and a guitar without that flanging or phasing sound that's going on. I agree about the destruction. This is a bit of a sign o' the times.

Jonathan Mann and the BSS
My first thought was wondering how many people, who does what, in this group?
I like the sound. The drums could'a kicked in a little louder, some vocal harmonies would've been nice (besides in the group title line part). By 1:30 i'm getting bored with it but it pulled me in a little on "some kid selling lemonade". I like the line "the only thing that matters is that nothing matters, anyhow". That's the high point of the song, for me...and the slide guitar on the right. Wished the very last, repeating chorus had a build-up into a mad cello/violin or rock band section instead of the repeating chorus.

Lyric Burglar
Sounds a little fruity, a little reaching for the vocal melody. It's a little loose all around which contributes to a feeling of reckless abandon; I like that about it. Less reverb would be appreciated on the lead guitar and vocal. Nice hollow-y bass tone. Turn it up. Annoying on the "nah nah nah".

MC Eric B
Steel drums / reggae, I like. The whole tune actually works for me and makes me smile. Fuck, I totally agree with the lyrical theme. I like how it sounds like yer smiling the whole time and the choice of doubled vocal.

Melvin
I mean, how can I NOT like the sound of those samples. This is all bling and $. But can't help loving it. And the frame of mind. By the time you get to "hands in the air" and then the Snoop Dog gin n' juice line, i'm hooked. This is some fucked up shit. Crazy, good in a way I just wanna hate. I'm dyin'. Even the choice to repeat the Snoop Dog line that time 2/3 the way thru, and the "uh". Fucking great. Great shift in vocal melody at about two and a half mins in. I can see a dance club just pumping, thousands of people just getting down to this shit....you gotta release the single. This is a fucking hit, and it's probably safe to do as a parody.

Noah McLaughlin
I like the driving rock feel, though I'd like to hear a Bon Scott voice here, like an AC/DC voice. I like the little pick-me-up in the second half of the verse, keeps things moving. Change to the distorted vocal, I like that too. The outro change to 1-2 was a nice surprise. More screaming!

Octothorpe
This song really cracked me up on "find your inner ear". I like the idea of the muppet band doing this one, it's all I can picture. It's actually catchy chorus with the "calm down" and that aforementioned inner ear line. I like the goofy simplicity of the keyboard and guitar solo. I like the interesting choice of instruments as well and the groovy and "to the max". I also like where Oscar the Grouch jumps in on the last verse for a line. Great imagery of childhood daydreams.

Puppies and Flowers
The chorus reminds me of something I can't place but I like it. I think I'm thinking of Pixies, that chorus vocal. I like the 7/8 situation going on at times, and really like the lyrical progression as it goes through the second verse and into that second chorus. And the hooky chromatic guitar line. Scream that growl shit! Louder, bitch! Tension like a brick won't break. I like how it moves into sheer madness halfway through. I'm hearing voices. This is like the work of a schizophrenic eunuch. That's a good band name. This HAS to be a cover of a Schizophrenic Eunuch song. You ever heard of em?! I think they toured with Meatknob a while back.

R. Mosquito
Holy fuck was the distorted mix intended? I haven't really read the thread in full so I don't know if that's been mentioned. It hurts, i mean fuck, it's a good song going on but really straining the ears trying to listen to it with that distorted madness.

Sockpuppet
My first thought is that the "everything's gonna be alright" and "nothing's gonna change" probably repeated more times than they needed to and got a little rough on the latter, near the end of the song. This feels more like it belongs with a different title. Show the "monster" all of your love sounds a little, well, suggestive; which made me smile.

Noel
I liked that acoustic entrance of the song. And some of the lines, I really like, like "drive you down" and "psych you out". Maybe thats not the right lyric, I could check it but I like to hear the lyrics as I hear them, without the lead sheet. More fun that way. Nice peaceful solo. Reminds me of a cross between that "hey there Delilah" song and the Shins.

Todd McChatton
This starts off pretty fat, I like the whole mix, the bass, the spread, light little guitars, the steady 2-4 snare. Nice tasty guitar licks, moving grooving bass. This is pretty nice. I read Leaf's comments earlier so I was probably biased, but this is a pretty fat song, in between a Grateful Dead and some other. I like the clean guitar tones. Could'a put a touch of overdrive on there just a tiniest bit for the solo, esp. Ending falls apart a bit but I liked the vibe alot.

Tuba Toothpaste
Squeezin like a tube of greasy t.p. It's a pretty funny sounding take on some serious issues. I thought maybe it should've slowed to half time at some point, the drum line gets pretty boring after a while. Nice horns though. The horns are the hook of the song, I think.

The Weakest Suit
I think it's pretty funny when the vocal effects come in on "calm down" right after taking the hit off the joint. I like how the song is from the joint's perspective. Entertaining, esp. with that vocal flange effect when the joint gets smoked.

In summary: It's hard to summarize while I still have the Weakest Suit's song in my head...there's alot of songs here that use fundamentals from other "famous" songs. That surprises me. I can't really say there's much here that really, really feels totally original, yet has heart and soul to it and is memorable as well. It's like, if Melvin's fantastic creative idea was built around his own melodies/backline, then I'd be fucking screaming for that song. A few other cool things going on that were pretty well done, so i'm glad I made it through the reviews. I guess it's just the plight of being humans in the 21st century. Most ideas, at this point in time, are really just a rehashing of stuff already done...but in a new way. I still won't let it rest. Fuck that. Bring me the new Led Zeppelin. Was it the Mars Volta? Nope. It hasn't happened yet.

[Spud]

I'm getting a weird feeling of deja vu from that last set of reviews...

[Leaf]

snicker.

[reve]

Reviews / Comments / Voting cheat sheet. I apologize for both my tardiness and brevity.

Overall winner: Johnny Cashpoint.

Today we're employing the binary smiley methodology in reviews.

Aardwolven. Hey, I'm a vegetarian. I hear a degree of imaginary arpeggiation here due to the compression artifacts. Or the crab. But it's a good track none the less.

A. Dachis. Easy vote.

A Late Thaw. Listening in headphones, I'm not particularly fond of the way your voice pans back and forth through my head. Were this faster and more jangley, it could be a smiths song. Which would have cooler.

A. Wreist. This is excellently produced rock music. They would play this on my local alt-rock station for sure.

BLT. Billy always rocks, and continues to display his rock prowess here. My bit of constructive criticism is that the delays really don't work at your high skill level. It winds up sounding more cheesy bad than cool or even cheesy kitch. However, this minor qualm has no impact on the easy decision to vote for you.

Blues Manufacturing Facility. If this had ended with noisefuzzoutcrazies at say, 2.20, it would have been an easy vote. But it went on too long.

Finding Nemoy. Vote. Personally, I feel that the song is strong enough that it would have benefited from a less experimental arrangment. But that's me.

F. Florvm. The mix here is fantastic.

Gert. This was very well executed as well. But it was kind of a scatterplot, stylistically. Granted, sometimes that works. But here it just sounded kind of disconnected.

Hand Formula. One of my favorites of the fight. BUT it should have stopped ~ 1:20. Still, double plus smiley.

J. Cashpoint. Mr. Cashpoint, if the old voting were in place, I'd have voted for you. Why? Because you are a genius. Don't let anyone tell you different.

J. Mann et. al. While good, this could have been far more fantasticer had it gone a little more "Black Rider," ditched the electric guitar solos, and dropped about a minute and a half. I had originally given you no-vote, but you had the good fortune of following J$'s track... so after reapeated listens your song grew on me. So hey,

L. Burglar. I admire you. But this one didn't really grab me.

MC Eric B.

Melvin. Because you're so skilled, I hold you to a higher standard.

N. McLaughlin. This was good, and certainly the right length.

Octothorpe. Well, since my song was really just a really an excuse to yell "Octothorpe for president," it's clear I dig the 'thorpe. And this did not disappoint.

Puppies con Flowers. This rocked, but it's too quiet. Turn it up, eh?

R. Mosquito. Wow, my song suxxored -- sorry. If anyone wants to re-sing it for me I'll send ya a non-destroyed mix. Takers?

Sock Puppet. The drums should go straighter. It leaves me feeling a bit loopy at the end

Noel. I thought you were going to go into a weird time scheme with the false start, which would have been cooler. Still, smiley face. Some songs benefit from the lo-fi approach, and this is one of them.

T. McHatton. I like your clown-themed lyrics a great deal, but the underlying music seems randomly assigned.

Tuba Toothpaste. This could benefit from more diverse instrumentation. It sounds a little too keyboard demo song to really suck the listener in. I'm sorry.

I love each and every one of you, though. Even if I'm stingy with my votes.

[Lunkhead]

Here is an edit of the Jonathan Mann and the Berkeley Social Scene entry that is about 30 seconds shorter. It's not necessarily better, just shorter. I like both versions, personally.

[Caravan Ray]

Apologies - I have been very slack in recent fights with getting reviews up. And now all the big, scary Canadians have blown in and telling us all to do reviews, so I am feeling the heat (although we all know that they can't play rugby and just skate around like little girls covered in padding with crash helmets on and want to sing like Nickelback.....pooftahs)

anyway....You will get your reviews when I'm good and ready, but in the meantime - let it be known that the following will get a vote from me (the rest of you have failed)

Johnny Cashpoint
Johnothan Mann
Gert
Puppies and Flowers
Finding Nemoy
Melvin
Billys Little Trip
FlucksimFlorvvim
Reisty
ToddMcHatton



EDIT:

oh - and if it was "old time" voting - it would have been a toss up between BLT and Johnny Mann.

[Ross]

WEll, I thought I should eb a good citizen and vote, although I have not had time to compose reviews (barealy had time to make a song for the "In the Tank" fight.

So based ona very quick listen I voted for 3 songs:
Adam Dachis
SomeGuyCalledNoel
Jonathan Mann and the Berkeley Social Scene

IF I was voting for just one one i would have been Jonathan Mann...

What's with the Blues Manufacturing facility cover thing? I assume that has already been addressed here ad nauseum.

I like elements of many others, but had to vote for some - gert - you guys sound awesome, the song just didn't get me, J$ - love the lyrical device, Todd, you sounded a litle like you were channeling The Dead on the chorus here.

See you all in the next fight.

[Reist]

They would play this on my local alt-rock station for sure.

Is that a bad thing?

[jeff robertson]

Flvxxvm Florvm
I don't get the spiderman reference.

That comes from recording the guitar solos before the lyrics were done. There was one spot in the solo just before the "Spiderman" verse where the improvised soloing just happened to remind me a little bit of the melody from this. Second verse was quickly written to play up on that. That and the fact that I'd heard this on the radio the very day.

[Spud]

Well, since my song was really just a really an excuse to yell "Octothorpe for president," it's clear I dig the 'thorpe. And this did not disappoint.

Octothorpe appreciates your vote. If we play any shows between now and the elections, we will put this on during the pre-show.

SPUD

[glennny]

I must finish reviews, only 4 to go. But first Boltoph was asking about our line-up for Jonathon Mann & the Berkeley Social Scene:

Jonathon Mann: Acoustic guitar, Banjo, Lead Vocals, maybe some other misc too.
Lunkhead: Lap steel,production, mixing, backing vocals.
Ken Mahru: Drums, production, drum mixing.
Martyr: Bass, backing vocals.
Glennny: Mandolin, Lead guitar.
Jonathon Mann's friend #1: backing vocals (sorry I forget your name)
Jonathon Mann's friend #2: backing vocals (I forget your name, even sorrier)

OK, only 4 remaining reviews :


Some Guy Called Noel: You must live in Silverlake, and worship Elliot Smith. I love this song. Although I can't help missing Elliot Smith listening to this. Great guitar finger picking, nice breathy Elliot Smith vocals. This is a keeper. Though just short of a vote.

Todd McHatton: Wow man, where did you come from? last few fights you've had just wonderful submissions. This song sounds great. I think the song is just dopey and dumb. I can't give it a vote. This will be the 1st time I'm not voting for you. I imagine you'll usually earn votes. Yeah the music and playing is great, just the lyrics that happen o bug, though I usually try and ignore lyrics.

Tuba Toothpaste- A silly sounding song, with pretty straight lyrics. Something this cheesy really needs to be funny for me to like it. That drum machine is grating. There's some nice melodies floating in there. I like the horn accents. I hate the keyboard tone.

Weakest Suit- This is pretty cool. Kind of a departure from your usual. I enjoy this, not enough for a vote. It's all about the distorted "Calm Down".


Pretty good fight! The Gert song severely rocks, if there were but one vote Gert would take it for me.

[Caravan Ray]

Better late than never style reviews:

Good Fight. All valid entries it seems. No real shit. That is good.

In strict order of preference:

VOTES:
Jonathon Mann: I have been slack at writing reviews in the last few months - but damn I have been enjoying your stuff! And this is the best so far. Great great song. Beautiful melody in a straggly Tom Waitsy sort of way. Great vocals. Great lyrics. Hooky chorus. What more does anyone need! Thank you.

BLT: How did your production get so awesome recently? I got your email about backing vox for this (too late arsehole) - but I will admit - there is nothing I could have added to this. (I tried to do some demented screaming - but it made my daughter cry, so I gave up). This is just plain brilliant. Double-plus-good.

J$ - Wonderful lyrics. And wonderful arrangement. A year ago this would have been an easy winner. Standards have risen since you have been away!

Finding Nemoy - Loved this. No explanation needed. I just loved this.

Gert: Wonderful. I am not usually a fan of Gert's North American rock stylings - but there is so much variety in this it is hard not to love. And of course, STMike is the King of Vocalists (who is the chorus vocal? Deshead? Also very cool). Great work boys.

Melvin - This doesn't sound like Weezer! Suffice to say, this is not my choice of genres - but this is really well done, and I can't help but liking it. Great use of sample, great chorus. Well done. The "so young gifted and white" line is wonderful. As is the "hands in the air boots on the ground" line.

Reistmeister: First - i think you stole that opening riff (minor complaint - I don't know where from and I'm sure it wasn't intentional). That aside - This is awesome! Damn! How old are you? Shit I wish I could have done this at your age. Quit your moaning about your singing or whatever. You have got it going on now dude. You have improved completely out of sight. Please remember your weird old friends when your are famous and tour Australasia.

Flucksom Florum VS Lyricburglar: FF Wins! I really love this. The techno beat with the ragged guitar is great. Great stuff.

Todd McHatton - This sounds like The Monkees! Of course I'm going to vote for it! Awesome!

Puppies & Flowers - RAWWWWWWKKKKKK!!!!!

Close But No Cigar:
RMosquito - Ooh - nasty mix. Shame. It sounds like a very cool song under there.

Noah - Ragged. Cool. I like it. No vote this week though.

Octothorpe - Very good, despite the self-referentiality. Love the lead vocals.

MCEricB VS Lyricburglar - DRAW! - Let me guess - you are not actually Jamaican are you? The reggae is a nice idea, but your timing falls down badly. That aside - I love how you improve in the slow , steady way - like continents shifting. You have a chorus hook this week! And it is a pretty good hook. Great work. I'd still recommend you cut down on the Band-in-a-Box stuff and just work with simple beats. Use your voice to add melody. Checkout Starfinger's back catalogue - he does a lot with just beats and stuff.

Sockpuppet - Song is pretty good. Could work well. Like the vocals - but timing is making it sound jarring

SGCNoel - I like the song. Guitar a bit overpowering. needs a delicate production - harmonies, strings etc. Could be really cool.

Weakest Suit - Not bad. You've done better. Good vocals and good hooky chorus. I'm not really into druggy songs I suppose - otherwise I would probably like it a lot more.

Adam Dachis - Shit! This sounds like Mr G

TubaToothpaste - Not at all bad. Not grabbing me.

See You Next Week:
Aardwolves - You write well and have a great singing voice. The crappy recordings are no longer acceptable. Pull your socks up girlie. You know everyone here will do everything they can to help with the boring recording stuff. Use that help. Let's really hear what you can do.

Hand Formula: Don't sing about banking.

A Late Thaw - The bits in English don't make sense. Best to stick with that other language you seem to be singing. That is another language isn't it?

Blues Manufacturing - Not much here. And at least acknowledge it if you nick other peoples stuff

[j$]

you don't really use a "skype mic" you liar. Cause skype didn't even fuckin exist when you started recording and I doubt that was some fucking upgrade.

Nov 2003-Jan 2004 (roughly) Singing into a cassette recorder, playing back into jack and recording the results.

Jan 2004 (roughly) - June 2007 Tie-Mic, held in hand, shouted into. Managed to blow it up otherwise would still be using it. Loved that tone.

June 2007-current day - wrap-around gaming headphone / microphone combo, put on table six inches away and shouted at. tried wearing it, kept banging my face against it.

Really, you can't hear the difference between this song and, say, this one?

A year ago this would have been an easy winner

Yeah, I was winning so much around this time last year I am more than happy being everyone's 4th favourite gay.

If anyone wants to re-sing it for me I'll send ya a non-destroyed mix. Takers?

Yeah, send it over, i'll have a go. Can i put some bass on it as well?

[Billy's Little Trip]

OK, I try to make a point of reviewing at least the fights I'm in. I have listened to these songs a lot on my ipod, so I should be able to give each a brief listen to remind me of what I like. I'm just going to leave it the way I copy and pasted them, because I'm a pioneer.

play artist Aardwolves
|||||||||||||| 6 - I enjoyed this story. Clever and unique. I promise I'm going to help you improve your final production, if it kills me. You're a very talented wolfet.
play artist Adam Dachis
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| 18 - Oh yeah, this is a very fun off Broadway musical song. This should be sent to Doogie. Very good song.
play artist A Late Thaw
|||||||||||| 5 - Wonderful acoustic and I like the over exaggerated string zip sound. Interesting panning that is a great G&G method to keep interest at a different level. This is exactly what I'd do if I were to do G&G. Nice.
play artist Andrew Reist
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| 19 - I like the bold round tone of the guitar, but it seems too out of mix with the rest of the mix. Your lead bridge is fun. Your kick sounds sweet, but I wish the snare was snappier. Vocals, as usual are just so so. They'll be so much better after puberty.
play artist Billy's Little Trip
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| 14 - I need to clean my garage.
play artist Blues Manufacturing Facility
||||||| 3 - Love the La Grange riff. Sounds so odd with a casio'ish beat. Vocal effect is cool.
play artist Finding Nemoy
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| 19 - I think I'll always like Frisbee's natural honest voice. This is a really good song. It makes it even more interesting hearing him kindly robbing everyone, lol.
play artist Flvxxvm Florvm
|||||||||||||||| 7 - Another casio. Again with the John Lee Hooker blues riff. The guitar is fucking smokin'! Love it. Sometimes a man just has to play his guitar and there aint nothin' anyone can do about it.
play artist Gert winner
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| 44 - Damn, 44 votes? This was my top pick also. There are so many great elements to this song. It's like 5 great songs in one. The funky verse guitar riff and drums remind me of something Nuno Bettencourt would do. Someone mentioned that the chorus line, "everybody calm down" had problems. Not for me, quite the opposite. It absolutely pushed the song into greatness. It loosened up the mix enough to keep it real and emotional.
play artist The Hand Formula
|||||||||| 4 - Who says that you need expensive instruments to make a song? Not me. This is a song. I like it.
play artist Johnny Cashpoint
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| 14 - This song could be easily performed with a cast of drama students. So English, lol. This song is quite brilliant, actually. Interesting instrument layers. I like it.
play artist Jonathan Mann and the Berkeley Social Scene
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| 29 - This is a pretty good song. Great group of musicians. I'll admit I get bored easily and I could never listen to music like this for very long, but it is very well done. I like the singers voice. Reminds me a bit of Dylan.
play artist Lyricburglar
||||||||||||||||||||| 9 - This music is good. You sure know your way around some na na na chants, lol. This tune grooves.
play artist MC Eric B
||||||| 3 - I think it's very cheap of you to steal lyrics from that poor Mr Burglar. He works very hard on his music, then some two bit hiphop musician comes along and swipes his song. Shame on you Eric, shame on you. But I must say, you did a pretty good job, but please, come up with your own lyrics next time.
play artist Melvin
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| 19 - Not sure why, but the beginning of this song made me stand up :/ So, you cut hair, Mikey? A horse with no name? Dude, how do you sleep at night, lol. As usual, great production and a good message.
play artist noah mclaughlin
||||||||||||||||||| 8 - Octophorpe's angry little brother, lol. Cool.
play artist Octothorpe
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| 13 - Thirteen is an unlucky number. I hope you don't get another drummer that cases your joint and steals your instruments again. I think it's so cool that you guys got Lewis Black as your singer. He's such a Mad Dog. I'd have to have a brain to forget I had one.......wait, did I say that right? Good job.
play artist Puppies and Flowers
|||||||||||||||| 7 - This songs rocks! Now, why can't all songs sound like this. Rocked me and put a smile on my face at the same time in a Green Jello(y) kind of way.
play artist R. Mosquito
||||||| 3 - Other than the annoyance factor, this song is actually pretty damn good. Did you say Octophorpe for president? LOL, coolness.
play artist Sockpuppet
||||||||||||||||||||| 9 - This is pretty good. I like bedtime stories. Are you singing this one to me while looking at a picture of me? Cuz if so, can I send you a new one. I just got a haircut. Good job Fluff.
play artist SomeGuyCalledNoel
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| 15 - 5 finger acoustic, nice. Smooth vocals and melody. This is a good song, good work.
play artist Todd McHatton - 34 votes? It's pretty good actually. I picture cute twins sharing a stick of teeth whitening Wrigley's spearmint gum. You should do what Charlie Harper does. He has a beach house in Malibu.
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play artist Tuba Toothpaste
|||||||||||||| 6 - This is pretty good, but could you start playing a tuba in your songs? Your name is misleading, lol. I just realized that you have the same exact writing style as my E-buddy, Steve Durand. I like it.
play artist The Weakest Suit
|||||||||||||||| 7 - Can you do every song like this for now on? It's funky and groovy......and it's about weed, lol. I love how you say, "I am a joy". Fun song, I like it.

[Billy's Little Trip]

BLT: How did your production get so awesome recently? I got your email about backing vox for this (too late arsehole) - but I will admit - there is nothing I could have added to this. (I tried to do some demented screaming - but it made my daughter cry, so I gave up). This is just plain brilliant. Double-plus-good.

MUM! Daddy is going cwazy!
...That made me laugh. Thanks, John.

BLT. Billy always rocks, and continues to display his rock prowess here. My bit of constructive criticism is that the delays really don't work at your high skill level. It winds up sounding more cheesy bad than cool or even cheesy kitch. However, this minor qualm has no impact on the easy decision to vote for you.

Thanks, Reve. When you say delays, do you mean the breaks or delay on vox and instruments?

Billy's Little Trip
I almost thought it was going to start like Damage, Inc. but it busted into some punk stuff. I like the held out feedbacky stuff. The guitar is a manufactured sounding thing like Andrew's but with less low and a little fuzzier. This needs the Green Day guitar tone. But it's pretty hard hitting and catchy.

Thanks, Bolt. Yeah, it does have a little slice of Damage Inc there on the intro, doesn't it.