Caravan Ray - This starts out very pretty. Oh, you're getting a little spunky. I like the list although parts of it (the mutlinationals) feel like they don't match up to the meter right. Maybe I'm just hearing it wrong. The "oh yeah" and the claps are a little wimpy. What kind of hippie music is this, Ray? I thought you were a raunchy Aussie I could count on. Interestingly, I accidentally listend to part of this song in double or triple speed and I think it was more fun, although a little too much like all the punk songs in this fight.
Civil Offense - The scratching sounds are neat and well-subdued. The vocals are losing me a little in that void loungey sense, but I like what you're doing with all the air and noise in the song. The really agressive turn in the vocals are a bit histrionic but still fun. I can get behind the drama.
Cranial Biffida - I like how deep and circular this is for a dark drone type of song. Very wheels within wheels. This reminds me of the Phunt entry for Pieces of Eight. While the music stays pretty consistent, it seems like it's changing in both tone and how the samples and music are interplaying.
Dr. Worm - That one string which I guess is the main guitar feels really buried low in the mix. Drums seem a little subdued. Dude singing is a little quiet for such hard instrumentation maybe? The metal sounds from the drum in that changeup around "I'm selfish" feel a little tinny for the rest of the RAH RAH RAH music which is pretty deep and driving. Like the whole band is rocking out except for some dude in the corner who is limp-wristedly hitting the highhat with a lack of assurance. Seeing myself type things like that make me realize how little I actually know.
Eidolon - This reminds me of the melody in something else maybe a Raised by Wolves song. Ah, I finally figured it out. <a href="http://www.songfight.org/songpage.php?k ... ible">It's Invisible</a>. "You could steal someone's motorbike. You could steal anything you like." Do you hear it? Maybe it's not there after all. Just something reminiscent. I feel like the music stands together pretty well if a little conventionally. Faded ending successfully executed.
Emergency Pizza Party - hahaha. Okay, this is pretty long and the loopiness doesn't change much. But this is a pretty hilarious combination of nerdiness, cutie pie dance synth and rap. The guy toward the beginning who sounds like Rick Morranis. That makes me laugh on each listen. It's a really ridiculous track. Boing. haha. Okay, I feel like I don't want to encourage a ton of these tracks by laughing, but too bad. This track is monstrously silly. I don't think I could round up enough friends to successfully record something like this because we would be laughing too hard at ourselves the whole time. Monstrously silly. But also, I'm young and feeble-minded. I'm pretty sure an intelligent person will get over the hilarity of this before the song ends.
Flvxxvm Florvm - raaahhhhh. keepin it short is fun. You could have made a lot more happen in there, but that was grim and consice.
Gawking Urethras - Funky and shifting instrumentation. I probably would have ODed on the flanger if I had tried to produce this, so good restraint.
Jim of Seattle - The chorus at the end is really welcome after all the dramatic narration. This was fun, but I only listened to it the once. Neat characterization of the different personas present in the thread.
Klownhole - I can't really distinguish words in the muffled moaning vocals. That guitar riff that's pretty omnipresent and becomes really clear in moments like the one preceding "organ solo" is very Immigrant Song-reminiscent. All kinds of classic thrashing. Maybe a little less violent than some of your earlier tracks that I remember.
Leaf 62 - Sweet production. Goofy talking solos. Good fake anger in the vocals.
LML - This is kind of unchanging. I like the harmonica-y phone-sound. It seems like it doesn't directly snap in with the rest of the track and it adds a little extra dimension. The vocals are pretty, but who doesn't say that when a girl sings on songfight? The lyrics aren't terribly original and they kind of take a focus in the song. The ending is a good hangup.
The Mad Vulgarian - soph-o-more. It's great how even nerdcore surprises me sometimes. I didn't think I'd be saying: Not nerdy enough. I mean, this is pretty arbitrary on my part, but I feel like this song is supposed to be at least a little funny, and that humor is banking on the fact that the vocals come from a nerdy guy. But the content doesn't really sell that nerd image (neither does the voice really). Make the lyrics more personal if you are nerdy. A lot of the lyrics at the beginning sell images like stuff about d20. Those are good, but then they get generic bandcamp geek/study hall. More images necessary. Also the sample of the service industry dude "here or to go" is pretty weak. If you're not nerdy and this wasn't supposed to be nerdcore, excuse a lot of the wording... but a lot stays true. Maybe you can make songs more personal-feeling and get more comfortable with the lyrics til you can make them flow in a unique and authentic voice and really let loose.
MC Eric B - and action figures we trade. The chorus singing isn't very selling it. It's as subdued as the rapped parts. Also, the melody for that chorus is kind of wimpy compared to the boww boww loop you got yourself.
MC Localhost - Civ 4 is pretty fun. I like it better than Civ 3. I like how the distortion on the loop intereferes with the vocals. The mom samples are very low in the mix. Some of the rapping is pretty weak in its ve-ry bro-ken up pa-cing.
Medmonk - bwa?! I'm going to listen to this some more. Are these samples from your Rate of Decay? I'm glad you stepped up a second time. I like this better, for what it's worth.
Melvin - People still say "sounds like weezer", huh? I guess that'll be your eternal curse. This didn't scream weezer to me. I think it's catchy and familiar and overall pretty. The "come on; come on." sounds a tad forced in that I don't really feel like comin' on.
Paco del Stinko - jibberjabba' is a cool part! Your vocals don't strike me as so over the top as when you first started in SongFight! and I kind of miss that ridiculous Paco. I have been away, but I will get around to the archives and see if this is a veritable pattern or just an anomaly. I hope you are still wacky!
R Mosquito - Now here's a song that screams Weezer. That intonation that becomes really clear in the voice solo before and around "lifting stuff for a living" is something that makes the vocals interesting and cheesy at the same time. Ah ah a ah! with back up does it too. There is a balance between the novelty of that intonation and the artificiality since most people don't sound like that when they talk. I guess you balance it pretty well. The content of the song is sort of following the same vengeful geeky whining as a lot of entries this week.
Ross Durand - It seems like the song could have felt much better if the guitar tone had varied a lot more throughout the song. The way it is, the guitar feels very repetitive and predictable. The concept of buying a life is neat, but the chorus repeats to the point of belaboring an otherwise interesting and comic premise. The samples seem a tad irrelevant both lyrically and sonically, but I do like WoW.
Um, there's this messed up anime called //hack.sign or some such. It has a similar theme as this song but isn't as humorous which might be the show's shortcoming. Spinlock - haha. The synthy music reminds me of samples of 80s television programming. The choral chanting is so unexpected in this context, but the song feels so cheesy I have to kind of be laughing the whole time. It's not something really soulfully cheesy like Max the Cat's Bioluminescence. It's a silly sort of cheesy (to me).
Starfinger - hahahaha. It feels like Starfinger is doing a WreckdoM voice. The song is pretty odd and jingly and the vocals are weird in that "oh gosh Frank Zappa is rambling on the live recording again!" and I love that. The chorus is linked really strongly considering it's silly and different chorus stuff. The whole song really works the jingly commercial feel well. hah.
Steve Durand - I think this is a very effective way to produce your vocals, Steve. The beginning there makes me feel like really melodramatic sorrowful stuff kinda like Pink Floyd...and those hippie bands like ... (Ya, as Boltoph said) Peter Paul and Mary. And the horns are restrained and it helps. The lyrics are funny. And it's a funny take on the title. Maybe I'm just desparate for songs that don't have to do with nerdy kids. The xylophoney sound is welcome when it comes too.
Tenacious Geek - Music is pretty cheesy at the beginning and it goes on like a too-long intro. The whispery vocals could be interesting sonically but the instrumentation just trounces on without regard to them. I can't tell what they're saying. The fake drums are a little too fake without being GLORIOUSLY fake. The sample around "tail wag" is sort of neat. I appreciate that the whole song is forming around those samples rather than just inserting something as if it had no affect on the instrumentation.
Wes Davis - haha, the trumpety humming sound is pretty funny. Did you hear Niveous' gift in the GoM 2006? I'm reminded of that sweet gift with that "horn" breakdown. I think the vocals might be mixed a little low. The instrumentation was interesting enough at first but it's very repetitive and the addition you eventually make is sort of muted so the progression that's been there from the very beginning is still the major focus for a LOT of the song and it seems like it's kind of a dull focus.
Your Money Wasted - oh shit it's one of those songs with a lot of real instruments! This is pretty driving and punking. I don't know if I can add a whole lot even though I've heard a lot of music similar to this.
Zinkline - The mic you're working with for vocals accentuates the distance your mouth is from the mic a lot, I think. Because the vocal levels fluctuate pretty wildly between way too low and a tad too low, sometimes even changing mid-sentence. I can't really hear what you're saying in the vocals that are higher and eventually become back up. It just sounds like thin murmuring. The instrumentation could be made a bit more present too, but it's not got much to show for itself so I don't know if you want to put it in the spotlight.
