There's a name I can get behind. Poop was pretty funny when Tom Green did it. The girl rapping reminds me a little of Leslie and the Lyes. That's entertaining. This song is a little charming, and that hook is pretty good. It's totally the chick rapping, and it's totally just because she sounds cute. Okay, the weird high-pitched rapper was amusing too. Alright, I've come around on this song. Not horrible!
thanks, there are actually 2 girls on this song. I'm the first one, betty rebel is the second. we get a lot of people reviewing us as the same person.
jolly roger wrote:I gotta say, it was fun playing drums for the Gawking Urethras.
...and a fine job you did, especially considering all the rhythmic changes! Apologies if I undermixed the kick drum, but I had a lot of other lo-end stuff going on...
Charles
"...one does not write in dactylic hexameter purely by accident..." - poetic designs
No need to rescind... I wasn't offended. I just thought it was funny. For 8 hours of time, I'm pretty happy with it... it makes me laugh.
Of course, if you expect me to change MY review of your song... you gotta wait a day. I'm tired... stayed up too late last night and my work day is almost done.
I do recall that you have a good voice though. I would have added that, but it would have ruined my joke.
jolly roger wrote:I gotta say, it was fun playing drums for the Gawking Urethras.
...and a fine job you did, especially considering all the rhythmic changes! Apologies if I undermixed the kick drum, but I had a lot of other lo-end stuff going on...
I'm a little surprised by the comments, both on the music and the vocals because I thought both turned out rather nice. There have got to be some good reviews coming.
John M, I don't really understand how my vocals are all over the place. Can you elaborate? ...and who is Raine Maida? (I could Google, but I'm too lazy at the moment)
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Leaf wrote:Civil Offense: ...The weird percussion is interesting.
Hey, thanks Leaf. That's almost like a compliment and stuff. Remembering the "drummer on drummer harshness" from last week's review thread, well, I feel specialer now
Leaf wrote:Civil Offense: ...The weird percussion is interesting.
Hey, thanks Leaf. That's almost like a compliment and stuff. Remembering the "drummer on drummer harshness" from last week's review thread, well, I feel specialer now
I totally missed that. I hope you realize I enjoyed it.. I just couldn't figure out what it was... I thought maybe you slapping on your thighs while wearing black cords... but that's just a guess.
Leaf wrote:I totally missed that. I hope you realize I enjoyed it.. I just couldn't figure out what it was... I thought maybe you slapping on your thighs while wearing black cords... but that's just a guess.
Timbales with those neoprene head mute pads on them. In hindsight, shoulda used mallets instead of sticks on them to get a more tympanic sort of feel. Que sera.
jolly roger wrote:I gotta say, it was fun playing drums for the Gawking Urethras.
...and a fine job you did, especially considering all the rhythmic changes! Apologies if I undermixed the kick drum, but I had a lot of other lo-end stuff going on...
I'm a little surprised by the comments...
Was the Gawking Urethras Wages on the vocal? Was it? Mixed by King Arthur? For the record I think you guys did a damn fine job too, quiet kickdrum or not. The rest of the mix sounds good and I like the tune. And it's kicking all ass to see collabs going on. I just met up with a dude called "Tonetripper" last night in a hotel in Boston and recorded a tune. I met that guy on Songfight!
I'm just a little bitter right now cause i would've loved to play guitar on Leaf's tune
just kidding. I love hearing you rock it.
ok, not really kidding, but not bitter, and do love hearing you rock it (the guitar, that is)
but i'm gonna listen some more, to all of em, anyway.
Leaf's track is kicking. Listen to how pleasant he sounds in his speaking voice. Such a polite young man.
That Melvin track is one of his best. Great groove.
Jim of Seattle = a huge freak with a very funny tune. My favourite part is the dot dot dot in Leaf's parts.
I like Jim's impersonation of Octothorpe music behind his impersonation of me.
However, this song is a perfect example of why the catch phrase "Jim has no soul" was kicked around here for a while. He really COULD be reading the dictionary. He is a very good reader, but where is the emotion? Very often, I feel that is the shape and sound of the words that intrigue him, not their content or meaning.
Spud wrote:I like Jim's impersonation of Octothorpe music behind his impersonation of me.
However, this song is a perfect example of why the catch phrase "Jim has no soul" was kicked around here for a while. He really COULD be reading the dictionary. He is a very good reader, but where is the emotion? Very often, I feel that is the shape and sound of the words that intrigue him, not their content or meaning.
SPUD
Indeed it is. Admittedly a big problem for me. (Or is it? Maybe I should just go with it.) I think the problem extends beyond lyrics, but is the case with the music as well. Emotions are scary. Ask any of my siblings.
And for the record, NONE of these voices are actually impersonations. And the Octothorpe section is just me doing Philip Glass and there is no connection with that and actual Octothorpe music. Why Philip Glass? No idea.
Leaf wrote:No need to rescind... I wasn't offended. I just thought it was funny. For 8 hours of time, I'm pretty happy with it... it makes me laugh.
Of course, if you expect me to change MY review of your song... you gotta wait a day. I'm tired... stayed up too late last night and my work day is almost done.
I do recall that you have a good voice though. I would have added that, but it would have ruined my joke.
*love> in is now in session*
Oh, I wouldn't rescind if I actually thought it was crap. Note I did not rescind on some other reviews that were unfavorable. Also your joke was good, and I wish I'd caught it when you made it initially, but honestly I had stayed up all night(I still haven't gone to sleep yet), and I wasn't in the right frame of mind for getting jokes. And regardless of whether I can sing, if the song sucks, the song sucks. Nothin' can be done about that. Well, except writing better music. I could try that.
Jim of Seattle wrote:
And for the record, NONE of these voices are actually impersonations.
Are you sure? The first time I heard it, the opening "um" on my paragraph sounded a lot like you sampled me. The second time I knew it wasn't.
-bill
I'm positive. I worked off some basic images I have of some of the people in some cases (Jack as a friendly country guy, Caravan Ray as a happy Aussie, etc.) but sometimes I just thought "Hmmm, let's see if I can play such-and-such a style here" regardless of who was singing (Hoblit as a gospel-y thing, JB as an opera bass, you as soft-spoken balladeer).
Hello, friends. I know it's not a popular move, but I'm going to split the reviews into two chunks. I apolologize to those who have names that start with letters below L. Know that I am one of you.
billy's little trip
that bassline first started like a minutemen song. but then it went in
a different pop-punk direction, which was good, but not as good as the baseline promised me. That said, the only thing to look for in the future was those hard edit points... kinda jarring.
caravan ray
Again, as always for you, this is quite good; lushly produced and lyrically deft. I am always sucker for a Gilbert and Sullivanesque pitter-pat, though.
civil offense
This is quite up my alley, musically. While break-up oriented lyrics tend to be a put off for me, I think you executed this track admirably and should be commended.
cranial biffida
You know, this is just my personal opinion here. I like most of the background, but the downshifted vocals just don't work for me. I've found that unaffected vocals often are more menacing because they're just so human.
dr worm
This is a fantastically well done song. My one bit of constructive criticism is that you should record the vocals x-y with two mics. I'm listening through headphones, so the stereo spread for the guitars makes you sound like you're in a bit of a hole.
eidolon
From a song structure perspective, I think this is one of the better tracks posted this week. I think I listened to it more times (4?) than any of the other tracks.
emergency pizza party
On one hand, I like the poppy-ness of the backing track. On the other hand, I haven't really been on songfight in the last 18 months or so. So I am totally, totally lost in what happpened with you guys and Benjamin Bear. So being the curious type, I looked at your myspace page, and apparently Benjamin Bear is / was one of you. This confused me more. Is it insular inner-band joshing around? Or is it cold, hip-hop vindictiveness? So in summary, I can't make any real sense out of the lyrics because I'm not familiar with the political context. Help me out. What happened with Benjamin Bear?
flvxxvm
It's like blues/hardcore. Some people may have talked a little smack here, but if this were faster and a little tighter timing, it would have been a vote-catcher for me.
gawking urethras
I like this a great deal. Being a new wave fan, the talking heads parts do more for me than the 60's rock parts. BUT I think everyone should look to the GU's and think twice about competing, because you folks really raise the standards bar. (edit-> Hey Wages, I also had to Google Raine Maida. Overall, if I had to bring one comparison to the table, I'd say The Robocop Kraus.)
jim of seattle
Baring some turnabout of emotion during the week this will get my vote. I was just tickled pink.
leaf
There was a strangely high proportion of metal songs this week, and Leaf's was the best of that category. Rhythmically varied and lyrically apt, a much better song couldn't really be composed in this style.
lml
You know, I bring this up only because in the prefight you mentioned about the use of royalty-free loops. For me, this would have been even stronger with no drums at all. As a frame of reference I point you to the Mike Watt / Kyra Roessler band Dos. However, this may just be on my brain because I mentioned the Minutemen up a few tracks back.
I promise to do the rest of the alphabet later this week. Ta!
reve wrote:
emergency pizza party
On one hand, I like the poppy-ness of the backing track. On the other hand, I haven't really been on songfight in the last 18 months or so. So I am totally, totally lost in what happpened with you guys and Benjamin Bear. So being the curious type, I looked at your myspace page, and apparently Benjamin Bear is / was one of you. This confused me more. Is it insular inner-band joshing around? Or is it cold, hip-hop vindictiveness? So in summary, I can't make any real sense out of the lyrics because I'm not familiar with the political context. Help me out. What happened with Benjamin Bear?
we were just joshing. he made the backing this time so we thought it would be funny to diss him on his own beat. he was all for it. it is also a parody on how certain people in the nerdcore community feel about benjamin bear. for some reason, other nerdcore artists have a strong disliking for him. so basically, we just thought it would be funny to diss our own band member.
reve wrote:civil offense
This is quite up my alley, musically. While break-up oriented lyrics tend to be a put off for me, I think you executed this track admirably and should be commended.
Thank you. Usually my stuff ain't topical, at least in the personal sense, but this track was rather prescient (±12 hours ahead of the meltdown) and I'm glad that you enjoyed it. Again, thank you for enjoying a rare opening of the vein in public.
