Okay, 1-5 system changed up a bit. I'm going to use the Rolling Stone rating system: 1-Poor, 2-Fair, 3-Good, 4-Excellent, 5-Classic.
Andre
I like it. It suffers only from little performance bobbles here and there. Nothing practice won't remedy.
3/5
Cheap
Feels like a little Morrisey love going on. The reverb's a little too heavy. Overall I like it but it doesn't hold my interest for very long.
2/5
Dan-O
Much to my chagrin, I really find myself liking this song
. I started listening and thought "wow, these harmonies are solid...who is this?" I haven't listened to all of your back catalog or anything, but I like it more than anything of yours I've heard so far. You should do crappy love songs more often.
4/5
Del Sesto
Reminds me of my parents old 45 of
They're Coming to Take Me Away. Doesn't do much for me, sorry.
2/5
Donut Disturb
Hmm, this song speaks volumes about your talent and creativity. The funny-song-that-sounds-serious thing doesn't grab me. I would have rather heard this turned into a longer song with more meaningful lyrics. The lyrics kind of killed it for me, it would have probably been a 3 or 4 for me otherwise, but this isn't something I could listen regularly and take seriously.
2/5
Doscientos
I'm not sure why I review you guys...I've never seen you on the boards or heard you respond to any of my reviews, but here you are...
I agree somewhat with other comments that you're sort of pigeon-holing yourselves. The first couple times I heard you guys I was surprised, but I'm not surprised anymore because I know what to expect. That said, it's still an excellent song that I will keep and listen to whenever I'm in the mood for "Doscientos style music", so then I guess that's not a bad thing.
3/5
Jonny Grippo
I haven't really read everyone else's reviews of the other songs this week, I've been skipping to everyone's review of me this week (narcissistic, I know). So I don't know if you've gotten dozens of Pixies comparisons already, but that's definitely what strikes me. I could totally hear Kim Deal providing the backups for this. I really, really like this.
4/5
Jordan Seavers
Didn't even have to check the media player to see who this one was
It's amazing, as always, but I do tend to agree that you, like Doscientos, are starting to have a tendency to be predictable. Again, I don't know if that's a bad thing or not, so long as the songs are good. I mean, I don't know that I've been
surprised by any song that Death Cab does lately, but I still love them as much or more than ever. I would say,
4/5 in comparison to other songs
3/5 on the Jordan Seavers scale
KMS- me
As I've said, I find myself disliking this one a lot less than everything else I've done on here so far. Recording the whole guitar part by itself would have been smarter, but I sort of recorded it as I wrote it. So I probably should have done a completely new 2nd recording. It's one of my favorite things I've written lyrically. My main focus for this song, after listening to other artists I love and comparing my stuff out of them (subtracting the "having no talent" factor, Blue) was to 1.) Write lyrics I liked first thing, 2.) Have an introduction (which I did, but forgot to record) 3.) Have several chord/tempo changes 4.) Double track my vocals and work on my harmonies. I found it to be a personal success.
I do wonder if someone has some very basic advice for panning when you're essentially just doing G&G? Should both vocal tracks be panned center, one left and one right, centered with harmonies panned left or right?
Kweep
What I hate about this song is how stinking short it is. I LOVE the intro, favorite part of anything you've submitted so far. The rapping is okay, but what I would have loved is for, right where it ends now, to have turned into you singing. I imagine you being the resurrection of
this.
4/5
The Special Relatives
Pretty good effort. The leads are doing much for me, but I like the rhythm parts and the lyrics are pretty good (though there seems to be like a High Schooler in College for the first time usage of swearing on SF).
3/5
Luke Henley
So your stuff doesn't do it for some people. Well I'll tell you that when I was listening to songs by artists I love to figure out how to improve my songs, your S_Rock entry was in my playlist. Incidentally, my wife has been listening to that song on repeat as well but somehow got it in her head that it was Neutral Milk Hotel. When she found out it wasn't she was like "oh, that was my favorite Neutral Milk Hotel song". Anyway, this song is no exception. Lyrically I don't like it as much as some of your others, but musically it's fantastic.
4/5
Melvin
Very polished. I've been scanning my library to see who it reminds me of, I'm getting a very familiar vibe, but can't place my finger on it. This is one of my favorites this week. Love the falsetto vocals, the guitar, bass line, everything comes together nicely and originally here.
4/5
Rone
How long have you been here Rone? For some reason I feel like we're classmates for some reason
I think you should sell this song to William Hung. It's actually better than you give it credit for, but it would benefit from some additional instrumentation, oh yeah, and
more singing!
2/5
Sir Walrus
Song Fight raps are the bane of my Song Fight reviewing existence. It would almost be nice if there was one title each week that was designated for rap. I don't really listen to rap, so even the best rap song on here is going to have a hard time competing with a decent "regular" song on here, though I would love to hear someone going more the Michael Franti & Spearhead route w/ their rhymes. This song does nothing for me, but take that w/ a grain of salt.
1/5
There was some really nice stuff on here this week. My big contenders are Henley, Seavers and Melvin.
