The Song Fight Bulletin Board

Dirge wrote:

Speaking of quirky, progressive-type vocalists, please tell me you also listen to King Crimson. Specifically, the "Primary Color" era led by Adrian Belew. The ’81-’84 grouping of Discipline, Beat, and Three Of A Perfect Pair is one of my all-time favorite trios of consecutive studio albums, right up there with:

Oh man, I am such a Fripp head. My favorite era is the Larks Tongue, Starless & Bible Black, and Red era, but the Discipline era is a close 2nd.

You would probably like our Thank Glennny for the Frisbee entry of "Brownie Points" from Nur Ein 2. The challenge was use several time sigs, so I wrote a song with full on Frame by Frame style gamelons.

As far as writing odd time sig stuff, like anything else for me it starts with the guitar. That's because I'm a guitarist. I write vocal melodies, and bass lines on the guitar too. I think in guitar even when behind the piano. Often I'm just writing riffs and I end up counting it later. "Oh wow this is in 11, Ken will love this....."

Like in the last movement of "Anomoly" by Zipline we counted the 11/8 "fuckity suckity fuckity fukk you"

Now I have to check out Thought Industry, and Opeth. I'm quite fond of all the others you mentioned.
You my friend will love if you don't know them already : Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, and Idiot Flesh

Congrat, Tye, good voice

Yeah, well done. I listened to it all the way through and the vocal harmonies are terrific, ditto the production. Acoustic guitars nicely recorded. Sorry I didn't make it all the way through on the first try. I'll try to explain why I'm such a asshole in the next review.

Congrats to Tye, nice return.

Good fight guys. I appreciate all the feedback for the song...it led me to do a remix without the intro and with better mixing in general (I think anyways). I have learned alot this time around, thanks for the criticals! Tye.

Sorry, I almost forgot to post this at all (on this sight or otherwise.) Here is a louder clearer version for any who are still interested...

http://soundcloud.com/dejected_motives/ ... rs-revised

Oh man... that one is almost as bad.. what the hell is going on?!! *sigh* I need more free time..

http://spintown79.blogspot.com/2011/11/ ... years.html

The HATE Noise featuring Mean Gene Goatee - For fucks sake...I don't want to do this...but I have to say something nice about The HATE Noise. The track got me bobbing my head instead of covering my ears for once. The rapping had flow, and most of the lyrics were ok. My ONLY problem with the track is the hook is too repetitive. How many times do you need to repeat "Sharks and Mean Gene's been here for years"...you're a rapper...you did fine with the rest of the lyrics...be a little more creative & less repetitive there. *grits teeth* Nice work. (would have voted)

Tye Lemery - Cut the acoustic opening. You mumble a bit too much for me to pick up lyrics at times. One reason you should use the lyric forum. The music (after the opening) wasn't bad though, and the chorus was fine. I could seriously like this if you fixed those 2 things. Not bad at all. (would have voted)

Paco del Stinko - I enjoyed the hook again (2 weeks in a row I think), but I felt the vocals in the verses wavered too much at times. Music rocked throughout.

Shambles Square feat. MC Heapey - The music didn't do anything for me. The lyrics were pretty creative, but it's hard to listen to a British Mr. Peabody delivery for that long without something to mix it up a little.

Berkeley Social Scene - Enjoyed the lyrics & message for the most part. The music just felt a bit flat to me. In other words I would have liked some that would have made me get up off the couch & put the remote down.

The Sportswriters - Daguerreotype? *grabs dictionary* Ooooh...ok...continue. I think the vocals are too up front. What Star Wars film is "And the earth I become" a quote from?

Billy & The Psychotics - Music was rockin' but it sounded familiar. Listened to a few old CD's looking for what it reminded me of but didn't figure it out. Didn't really care for a number of lines in the song. For instance: "but you wonder if you should walk this time away". Nobody talks like that, so it throws the listener. Not really sure if I dug the vocal performance either.

Dejected Motives - I have to strain to hear the vocals & it's 9 fucking minutes long. Oops never mind...there's 4 minutes of dead air at the end. But still...even when I cranked the volume up it was hard to hear.

Dirge & Sara - My biggest problem with this one is the guitar. Just didn't like the sound at all & it felt like it was competing for attention almost.

Faight From Fire - The vocals in this were bad throughout. Really though, I think you came to the right place. The production here was just messy overall & you can probably get useful tips from SOME of the people in Song Fight.

Ken's Super Duper Band 'n Stuff - Not bad, but the lyrics just felt...like I've heard them before...1,000 other times in 100 other songs.

Klownhole - You sounded like my stoned grandpa trying to tell a story over the music blaring from my annoying neighbors house.

Monkey Touchers - You're now the NEW Hate Noise.

Pigfarmer Jr - So he stole the kid? That caught me off guard...kinda funny. But up until the twist the story is bland as hell.