Author Topic: Gauging of interest on music review thingey (Read 45013 times)

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Grefter · « **Reply #32 on:** May 23, 2014, 11:40:02 AM »

Quote from: metroid composite on May 23, 2014, 11:33:07 AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhvXc7ccy8Q
Sepultura - C

Unexpected. Listening now I can see it though. It is way way way less aggressive and rough than the Sepultura I knew and loved as a younger man.

metroid composite · « **Reply #33 on:** May 30, 2014, 05:06:30 AM »

Hm, going to try something new. I've been consulting with Grefter once I narrow things down to 3-6 pieces, as he's the one who consistently expresses interest. But maybe other people are interested as well. So...these are my finalists; I haven't decided which one will be song of the week yet. Feel free to provide your input/comments/votes/sarcasm:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdWCLT7kccY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bYMAgM42pM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pjuHcP5hsM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awvqIi427_A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOxPvmXNVtA

EDIT: you have about...3-4 hours to respond if you want to affect my decision and/or writeup.

Grefter · « **Reply #34 on:** May 30, 2014, 12:35:55 PM »

Sorry, I had a friend from work go out for drinks to celebrate getting engaged, so missed fun times.

Time To Say Goodbye - RWBY Volume 2 Theme - Jeff Williams + Casey Lee Williams.

This is some pretty textbook late 90s/early 2000s poppy metal. Somewhere between an Anime opening and Evanesence. I can see why you would listen to it a fair bit. The drums feel a bit drum machiney to me? Not sure if it is or not though. Its just feels a bit canned.

Equilibrium - Wirthause Gaudi

You chose well. This is also probably the best a metal track will go over with your broader audience I think. It is a fun track and is metal as fuck underneath (and over the top of) the polka beat. I dig this a lot.

15& "Sugar" M/V

So this week K-Pop had a funk track? It... lacks like so much of the body of a real funk track. There is way way way way way way way less sex than a normal funk track. The Bass is also played tuned up a lot more than normal for a funk track, but hey its not a terrible pop track. Completely fairy floss track, but it isn't atrocious. It isn't even close to the best K-Pop mimics an older western style you have spotted though.

Within Temptation - And We Run ft. Xzibit

This is like a gift that Super would give Dhyer. I am genuinely interested in what Dhyer thinks of this track. Yo dog I heard you liked Symphonic metal with female vocalists. So I took your symphonic metal track with a female vocalist and put Xzibit in it. That said, it is pretty much better than the last time we got Rap/Metal fusion going on. Because the Rap/Metal fusion happening in the late 90s we Numetal and yeah. Numetal was a special time. Even if I like stuff from that era there is so much dirty dirty stuff from then that just wasn't good and didn't age outside of the 8 month period they came out in. The Rap/Metal stuff was some of the worst (and was on the tail end as Rap was really starting to launch massively like just before The Eminem Show was coming out, so riding on the coattails of the new hotness).

So anyway, this isn't bad! I don't hope to see a ton of it again because many bad memories. That said, Within Temptation is a pretty good group to do it with and Xzibit is still pretty legit even if we forget it nowadays because of Pimp My Ride + Internet.

DJ Earworm - Mash Up for What

This is pretty masterfully put together. I would say its not better than the sum of its parts. I already talked about how while Ariana Grande feat. Iggy Azalea - Problem is not FOR me, it is a well put together track. I assume Iggy Azalea track is well put together because she is fucking talented. Checking out the DJ Snake feat Little Jon - Turn Down for What... that thing is a masterpiece of video + song. Everything amazing in the film clip comes from that. Amazing.

I am not really a fan of Pharell Williams. Not sure I can really pinpoint it. Might just be that Happy is kind of lacking in depth and is over exposed? Dunno. I know it is stupidly popular though.

Jason Derulo track definitely massively pulls down the average though, but not enough to make this Mashup better than the average of the other 3 tracks that I rate pretty good by themselves either first hand or just taking them by rep. 2 Chainz really should stop slumming it like that track though.

metroid composite · « **Reply #35 on:** May 30, 2014, 04:21:21 PM »

Aha, a wild grefter.

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Sorry, I had a friend from work go out for drinks

Well, I guess I picked an appropriate song then

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It isn't even close to the best K-Pop mimics an older western style you have spotted though.

To be fair, it doesn't necessarily need to be, it just needs to be better than the other songs this week. Which...musically I was thinking it was 1st or 2nd, and just thinking in terms of how to mix things up from last week, last week was very serious business artistic, and this was very laid back and cheerful.

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Yo dog I heard you liked Symphonic metal with female vocalists. So I took your symphonic metal track with a female vocalist and put Xzibit in it.

Honestly, I liked the rap parts. Xzibit's deep voice is a fun contrast to the high notes typical in Within Temptation music, and the rap itself is actually good rap. Or rather, I liked the rap parts when I listened to it turned up with high quality headphones where the base came through clearly. One thing I do before sharing these is listening to it through laptop speakers because I know that's how my parents and at least one of my sisters consumes this stuff, and it just does not translate through my laptop speakers at all. Xzibit's voice just has no kick at all when listening to it on shitty laptop speakers, and I actually have trouble hearing what he's saying over the music, which was not a problem with headphones.

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This is pretty masterfully put together. I would say its not better than the sum of its parts.

Hmmm...there's three songs in the mashup I like (Pharell, Ariana Grande+Iggy, and another Iggy track). And a bunch of songs I don't really like, but which have hooks that I do like. For instance I'm not a huge fan of the track "Turn Down for What", it's fairly spartan as a track (a beat line, and some repeated vocal lines...although the vocal lines are very memorable) but mix it with some other music and it's good. The Iggy rap I think is probably improved, since Iggy does have this tendency to rap with very little background music, so the beat is definitely improved for that one. And there's aspects of Jason Derulo's song I like, such as the hook "Get Jazzy on me" and the instrumentation. I would prefer it if Jason Derulo's chorus wasn't the focal point, though. Like...maybe use a different chorus? Ariana maybe? "I've got one less problem without ya." "Turn down for what??" I guess that doesn't flow as well as a sentence. I will say that Jason Derulo's chorus is at least better than his verses, but that's not saying much.

Actually, one criticism I'd give this as a mashup is that Ariana did not mesh well with Jason Derulo at times when they used vocals from both. Just did not really feel like the same song; the keys didn't really line up or something.

Anyway, here's the full list of my notes from this week...:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmVqPSVcjQs
허밍어반스테레오 (Scully Doesn't Know) - B-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMRz5AFk6aI
허밍어반스테레오 (Insomnia) - C

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdJJ0T-11fs
허밍어반스테레오 (지랄) - C+

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ze_9-g7P5tQ
Kadavar - D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOxPvmXNVtA
DJ Earworm - B+

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOxQ-swgnD0
Carl Nunes ft Christian Ferraro - B-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiP14ED28CA
Jason Derulo ft Snoop Dog - C

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvgAXAVWgyc
창민 (2am) - C-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cgmVZgqpfI
Berry Good - B-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18_BdY-Uw2o
김창완 band - C- (What is this? Is it a song?)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUN9QtrzWus
Alex Ark - C-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISiGtxsN5d0
Avicii - B-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l702zs1f46s
Blackhawk - D (would be a C, but needed to end).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1j3UDor7cik
The Safety Fire - D (some really cool guitar work. But feels completely disorganized)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzas5qr_t9o
Scooter ft Whiz Khalifa - C-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Do2yf5JoJaA
Enrique Iglecias - C+

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kEmP4A3m6A
Tokyo Monsta - C-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBE2q6yz8J4
R3hab & nervo - C

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdWCLT7kccY
Jeff Williams - A-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=182TRJq9Zt8
Sam Smith - B-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0X9Cxvz5yg
Peter Murphy (I am my own name) - C-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVu2padh3cs
Peter Murphy (eliza) - C

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTXbTKnuUn4
유나킴 - D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVv7lLNUfPw
May Jun - C

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwtcVdnJ-9w
윤종신 - C

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08wDeWQqWnw
Unisonic - C

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyoakIm6R84
Alyosha - B-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8y99z5EVtY
Epica - B-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6A7tKcwMhKc
Jess Glynne - C- (I want to be excited about this, because it's Jess Glynne...but I'm not. What's special about this song?)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqt56z6XBdc
Die Apocalypshen Reiter - C

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bYMAgM42pM
Equilibrium - B+ (lollll)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlYcUqEPN58
Ed Sheeran - B

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sciMH5NLU8
Jay Hardway - C-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ih5DCnZkF00
유희열 - C-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0Nj_deXOWI
Walter French - C

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAWr_X4DUy8
3LAU - C+

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8D5XTXSbrms
Brad Paisley - C

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kml7gvGpEsU
Kill Paris - C

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfwjXiFWBa8
Chicane - C-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbFckwFasBQ
Robin Skoulteris - B- (seems to be just a trailer, but this is good stuff)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvdtPC8SpME
박지영 - C+

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pfx4dutNUA
Bingo Players - C

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEkfezHjXp4
Neighbro - D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pjuHcP5hsM
15& (sugar) - B+ (+++? Seems very good)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhmGtFOKjsk
15& (rain & cry) - C+

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksNGH9Rvaiw
Fredde Le Grande - B

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksNGH9Rvaiw
Booka Shade - D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIfoNcm8Psw
VIXX - C+

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfQAhii0TzA
Kylie Minogue - C+ (absolutely love the video; not sure how I feel about the song).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJn8WvUOblE
Smooth McGroove - C (kart 64 might not be the best way to get picked by me...).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SypEmdbVteQ
15& (star) - D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cp12BTfpVlA
유나킴 - D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtJ8JGjbi9g
칠학년일반 - C (Translates to 7th grade group...which makes a lot more sense than the official name of "year 7 class 1")

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvbfcVmTZ_U
DJ Antoine - C

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M52hTSrK57w
김연우 - C-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dgf93BPLC0
pentatonix...or two of them anyway - C (well that was a thing; solid, but not something I'm putting on repeat).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-4YVauJPRo
Jamie Lynn Spears (Shotgun Wedding) - C+

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oonhRT5omZw
Jamie Lynn Spears (Mandolins or something) - C-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Jda2Ron1vI
Jamie Lynn Spears (big bad world) - B

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_S_mil4ckWQ
Jamie Lynn Spears (run) - C-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VH5vMcwro78
Ghost Town - C+

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zE9nJdN5n-I
15& (Not Today Not Tomorrow) - B

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3YMO_tx5s4
P-Type - B (really good rap, actually)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Y-J7sBT_no
Arch Enemy - C+ (not feeling this one yet like I was feeling war eternal; maybe it needs more listens).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuM7hObGjWI
Will I am - D (it's...not that bad, but ehh, did not feel like finishing it)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvOxfNUHgms
French Montana - D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDPUm0W0_LM
Nicki Minaj - C+ (Not sure if I like this yet; it's growing on me)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUE8_YZhmt0
정준영 & 윤하 - C

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gW_gcTlaQbE
정키 (I'm sorry) - C-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBbT-FzMJLc
정키 (Complain) - D (Not really in the mood for slow jazz I guess)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ST8zMNji3yQ
정키 (Be Forgotten) - D (ok, this guy is really unstructured ballady; not helping his case. Talented and all that but I'm not getting exited about it)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABpoq0TdNOc
정키 (Being Left) - C (ooh, made it to the end of a 정키 song without getting bored)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGqFjIZtFmg
정키 (things I can't say) - C+ (actually I like this one)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaOwV32e90s
정키 (Alone) - D (too much talking and breaking up the song for me)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAyYNVs6mgM
15& - D (hm, maybe I'm just more critical than usual this morning, given how other 15& songs have done)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqbXx4pHu-k
Smile G - C (Oooh, 50s music. My parents would love this).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TciYA70POj0
Bella Thorne - C

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXCSnYhwiwg
Austin Mahone - C

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDNlpAm0wXw
АМЕЛИ - B- (oh ok, I'm not a total grinch today).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfgoiYu9EUE
Jennifer Lopez - (Has a music video now)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awvqIi427_A
Within Temptation ft. Xzibit - A-

Grefter · « **Reply #36 on:** May 30, 2014, 10:00:29 PM »

Quote from: metroid composite on May 30, 2014, 04:21:21 PM

Well, I guess I picked an appropriate song then .

Indeed!

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To be fair, it doesn't necessarily need to be, it just needs to be better than the other songs this week. Which...musically I was thinking it was 1st or 2nd, and just thinking in terms of how to mix things up from last week, last week was very serious business artistic, and this was very laid back and cheerful.

Most certainly, more praise for the other ones the a criticism of this one. It is a catchy track and your criteria are "this week" and "listened to it a lot", which it definitely is hooked to fall into listening to it a lot. Like I said it is a catchy track.

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Honestly, I liked the rap parts. Xzibit's deep voice is a fun contrast to the high notes typical in Within Temptation music, and the rap itself is actually good rap. Or rather, I liked the rap parts when I listened to it turned up with high quality headphones where the base came through clearly. One thing I do before sharing these is listening to it through laptop speakers because I know that's how my parents and at least one of my sisters consumes this stuff, and it just does not translate through my laptop speakers at all. Xzibit's voice just has no kick at all when listening to it on shitty laptop speakers, and I actually have trouble hearing what he's saying over the music, which was not a problem with headphones.

Again, Xzibit's bit is legit, it really works and Xzibit surprising me is way more because of his career outside of music. It catching me off guard is entirely on me. I just really wanted to work a "yo dog" in there.

The Super reference is more about how Super is really weird.

Alsoin the audio output... That is probably something good to keep in mind yeah. I listen to stuff either on my headphones or through my speaker setup on my PC which has a woofer etc (not great speakers, but serviceable). I think even the Within Temptation parts of the track would suffer from tinny laptop speakers. Metal is not something that translates well when you lose chunks of the audio range and mash everything tougher because of how much they emphasise tempo and go with heavy bass and high notes on lead. And there is already the common complaint that instruments are mashed together too much even before it is squeezed out of two really close together tiny stereo speakers.

There is definitely a thing to picking for your target audience, there is some advice from an old producer back in the day who said to listen to your album on a shitty set of speakers (and these days through some cheap headphones after compressing to 128k mp3 I suppose) because that is how like 80% of your market will hear it.

Edit - and with things like Arch Enemy showing up, I am looking forward to the new In Flames album coming out and seeing what you think of singles off that.

Edit 2 - I think you are feeling the right thing, War Eternal seems like the better track than You Will Know My Name. Both are a bit more in line with my tastes in metal than your usual hits (Though I still am listening to Deathstars).

metroid composite · « **Reply #37 on:** May 31, 2014, 05:55:20 AM »

War Eternal came really, really close to beating Lady Gaga (honestly felt that War Eternal was the clear better track musically that week; I really liked it. Just...thematic reasons to choose Gaga). So...yeah, it's good. So this track...C+ is like 2 listens to War Eternal's 50-100 listens. We're talking like...two orders of magnitude

Deathstars is still a very memorable track to me yeah. Can't say I'm regretting picking the Arianna track, though. There were target audience concerns with the Deathstars track, and the Arianna track is doing very well in the charts (which...Arianna hadn't done much on the charts in a long time, so correctly guesssing a hit before it was released to radio stations feels good and stuff).

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Metal is not something that translates well when you lose chunks of the audio range and mash everything tougher

Funnily enough, I felt like Wursthaus Gaudi translated reasonably well when played on laptop speakers. Probably because you can follow the tempo by listening to the polka music. Incidentally, my dad had this to say about Wursthaus Gaudi:

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Now - that's a song!! Too bad the music drowns out the lyrics.

metroid composite · « **Reply #38 on:** June 06, 2014, 05:08:25 AM »

Last time only Grefter responded, but hey, let's try again. I've narrowed it down to these; haven't decided yet. If you want to influence my decision, or make snarky comments, the next four hours would be the ideal time to do so:

finalists this week:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHTpNtfPJq8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RI2mlNbS3Ns
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0M6wU6PAF4U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OWj0CiM8WU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWHfiEKK3zw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3x_FD3ENxI

metroid composite · « **Reply #39 on:** June 06, 2014, 04:28:35 PM »

Hm, maybe I should copy paste some of Grefter's IM comments into this topic, because they were good.

The short version was that I liked the Battle Beast track, but tht he felt like it was an Iron Maiden style track and this was done better by Iron Maiden. He recommended I choose between the One Republic track (which he said was very Black Keys) and the mashup. I had more to write about the mashup. My full set of notes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9b-HPmV1dbk
Solidisco - C+

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1bMl37R1Yk
The Toxic Avenger - D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIbKUWJTFKI
Tokimonsta - C-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJZkEE29ZxA
Unknown - D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otiyKVNcuMI
15& (Shy ma boy) - B

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_AypuBVTaQ
some sort of korean nationalism - C (Is there some kind of olympics or world cup or something coming up soon?)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsPEKrz6U5w
하임 - C (Really interesting and unique stuff; not sure if I like it, but credit for originality)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWNGOPLJTGs
K-paul & Kid Simius - C-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_WCqSQGfsQ
DJ Fresh - B-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-befR4wHsjQ
Shakira - (has a spanish version now)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8IR4FUotDM
Balbina - C

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbibXGd4mxY
Crowbar - C-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4czNJXdMQ1A
Dubvision - B-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPe7zxfxJmQ
Disclosure - D (If it wasn't a 6 minute song, this would probably be a C-...)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnXoJ2-DX2s
M4sonic - C (Mmm...started good, then turned to dubstep; I really don't think the dubstep improved the song in this case).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewmut1_SIqQ
Iman Shumpert - C

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iS1g8G_njx8
Ariana Grande ft Iggy Azlea - (has a music video now...and from what I can tell the lyric video is more stylish)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxnaPa8ohmM
G-Easy - C+

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5By5X6sl_U
Herve & Zebra - D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwWtNll8Sc0
Alexandra Stan - B- (hey, some unapologetically upbeat major chord heavy pop music. I feel like it's been a while).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nzuqV7WP3c
Project Dirty - C+ (Hm, this one has potential too; might come back to it).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxtoT296QEY
Hunny Madu - C+

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kqss6GJFAEc
162 - C+

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fj-MZkZGhR4
15& (Silly Boy) - C

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdMNij8yv00
Framing Hanley - C

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eu5T-T_1ozE
김예림 & 에디킴 - D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6sFG7qOd4A
Linkin Park - C+ (Huh, they aren't actually that bad; I have been misled by the internet)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQm0jP7-hzY
Matty B - C-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOSQSDN0WoU
Sweet Sorrow (Wonderful Day) - C+

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGr_jxbKplA
Sweet Sorrow (Pounding Heart) - B- (I'm not sure if this one is good, or I just didn't feel like switching my song at the time)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIUtH7xjCFQ
Borabora - C

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7Y9c9eGQUA
Amna - C

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etfIdtm-OC8
T.I. - C+

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHTpNtfPJq8
Robin Skouteris - B+

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwuAPyOImoI
Taeyang - C

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6g4KfV4ZXlY
Monuments - C-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUMF_YOG5fk
Keith Urban - C

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DlUfVZXLw0
DJ Fresh - B- (hm, old version got taken down?)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_pnSn6o7oI
Smooth McGroove - C- (oot: land of "music has at most 8 bars")

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqqOZbMWesI
Sam Smith ft Mary J Bilge - B

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxmnxhACJPU
Young Liars - C-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVSrqPY7Ux0
한승석 & 정재일 - D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RI2mlNbS3Ns
AcerCella - B+

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDYB8TbLFiA
B.A.P. - C-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyVA-mhNYZE
Julia Westin - D (quality stuff, but just would rather stop listening to this half way through and listen to Cella instead).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cz1ydZAboD8
Marlo ft Jano - B-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVOzir65Ztw
Danny Howard & Futuristic Polar Bears - C-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H13vVyPUCqk
Travis Porter - D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaVPRg0TnoU
Migos - C+

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCy5461BtTg
Linkin Park (rebellion) - C

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0M6wU6PAF4U
Ghost Town - B+ (I don't know how much I like this, but it's very unique, and keeps getting stuck in my head; guess I'll put it in the running)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_65t46eYJQ
Tritonal & Paris Blohm - B-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itCqOYCsdaE
Rose on the Breast - C

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKqzLbPaYXk
Arno Cost & Norman Doray - C-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZbbKkFtANg
Wolf - D (nothing really wrong with it, just not feeling it)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVdfY4HX-Bg
Keemo & Schild - C-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OWj0CiM8WU
One Republic - B (Has a video now, and...holy crap it's good; good enough to enter it into the running a second time maybe? I'll start counting listens--usually music from a few weeks ago won't get dozens of listens from me, though)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9aKjbRIJ_k
Fozzy - B-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0pJ-mBHiV0
U-Kiss - C+

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wRW57nBLMI
Secondcity - (hmm, pretty sure I've reviewed it before; not sure if it had a video then; oh ok, it was up on Spinnin Records, but then got made not available in your country).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6vSf0cA9qY
Klingande - C+ (Actually I don't remember how much I listened to this so...C+ is a total guess)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWHfiEKK3zw
Battle Beast - A-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWUGHlefpYk
Boyfriend - C+

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nGxSiBFmDE
Fly to the Sky - C-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNkinODwdqk
Crush - C-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgSqSex1HDg
Neon Jungle - B-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ICQpLivgqs
휘성 - C

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usaHkd31cuM
Matrix & Futurebound - B-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3x_FD3ENxI
Heartbeat - B+

Ranmilia · « **Reply #40 on:** June 12, 2014, 02:45:04 AM »

Just posting to say I love reading mc analysis and listen to the highly rated stuff here. Don't think I know nearly enough about music to actually add comments but I appreciate the posts!

metroid composite · « **Reply #41 on:** June 13, 2014, 07:38:33 AM »

Quote from: Sir Alex on June 12, 2014, 02:45:04 AM

Just posting to say I love reading mc analysis and listen to the highly rated stuff here. Don't think I know nearly enough about music to actually add comments but I appreciate the posts!

I do like hearing about this. Like...on an average week if I'm lucky I'll get maybe one sign that anyone read anything (like one email reply from my family, or one favourite on twitter).

In other news, choices for this week! a.k.a. to PSY or not to PSY?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=519kDfyFMZo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smRacnihcB0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mu4FYCzQ4mc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkMNOlYcpHg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tc-p93x5rPQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pJMNZLw-XA

Grefter · « **Reply #42 on:** June 13, 2014, 07:41:58 AM »

I need to get home to play this game... Just need to finish off some testing stuff.

Grefter · « **Reply #43 on:** June 13, 2014, 10:15:42 AM »

N-Trigue feat. Play N Skillz, Pitbull & Natasha - Scream It

It is better than a standalone Pitbull song but I still don't like it. Generic party tracks need to be really good to get a bite from me though.

Clean Bandit - Heart on Fire

This was a pretty sleek track. Nice minimalist instrumentation and clean vocals. Fun basic building film clip (with lyrics as the video! You know how I love that). This one rates pretty solidly, but doesn't really hit home with me. it is damn well made and I have been meaning to check out Clean Bandit after seeing their album chart.

DEATHSTARS - Explode

I enjoy this, but it really isn't as good as Devil's Toys. It does hammer home that I am probably going to buy the album if I see it though. Hmmmm I don't think it is really one I would feel you would have much to talk about? The lyrics video isn't that great either and while a good chance for you to talk about metal lyrics, this one isn't lyrically that inspired (especially compared to Devil's Toys!). The best line is probably Take aim, head and heart. That is a good one, but yeah.

It is one of those "Good if you like the band" tracks rather than one to introduce people to it sort of things. A textbook album track.

Arch Enemy - No More Regrets.

This is a pretty solid metal track. It isn't the best Arch Enemy track we have talked about this month, but it is solid and I think an easier platform to really discuss metal with people (vocals are pretty clear and the song structure is very very basic). If you wanted a starting point to start discussing metal with people that don't really know it (and maybe help them reflect on Wirshaust Gaudi?) I think it works pretty well.

With the amount you are hitting up Arch Enemy and some other metal acts I do think you have room to expand out a bit. I think you would like some other heavy stuff that uses clean vocals amongst the growl. I don't think you will instantly fall in love with Aversion's Crown or Parkway Drive, but I think if you run into In Flames tracks you might actually really dig them.

Mika - Boum Boum Boum.

This is not a bad little pop track. Pop music in French hits right places in my brain for some reason, but I do think it is held back by being too repetitive. I think I get what they are going for with it, but I don't think it really ranks it enough to be best of the week. It is definitely top half of these six! Just not enough to really ever get past number 3 of 6 to me.
PSY - HANGOVER feat. Snoop Dogg M/V

Man this song is duuuuuumb. It is a simple beat repeated on loop a bunch with Snoop just stomping through dropping in a verse every now and then.

which is to say that, of course you should pick this holy crap is it good. I don't have a bunch to say about it but it is really well put together and Snoop is amazing. Psy and Snoop together is pretty much maximum Pimp factor in a single video. It wouldn't even have to be good to warrant talking about, but it is a solid drinking song.

metroid composite · « **Reply #44 on:** June 14, 2014, 06:02:21 AM »

metroid composite · « **Reply #45 on:** June 20, 2014, 07:12:55 AM »

Grefter · « **Reply #46 on:** June 20, 2014, 10:32:49 AM »

Hunter Hayes - Tattoo

Is a country song. Is not my thing. Is called Tattoo and seems to be about marriage? Do not understand why called Tattoo.

20syl - Kodama

This is a super fantastic ambient track! The film clip is also pretty awesome. I think Alex will really dig this one knowing he is listening along. Highly recommend listening to a few times. This definitely could easily be the track you are talking about being sure on (without going deeper in the list), but I am not sure how much we have really talked about my taste in electronic music since you started this other than Dubstep stuff. But you could pick it up from comments previously obviously since my taste in music is pretty well documented.

Yuna - Mountains

Way better than her songs in FFX-2. Hits me right in my weakness for female vocalists of this style (Minimal instrumentation, carried on the strength of their vocals without trying to turn every track into vocal gymnastics and highlighting lyrics).

Mary J. Blige - A Night to Remember

Kind of like this! She doesn't abuse a held note as much as she could, but it is also a pretty shallow track. It isn't bad. Anything with a funk guitar still will get a bit of love from me even if it is a thing to cash in on a little after Daft Punk's last album. It isn't bad, it just doesn't do much for me. I wouldn't turn it off if it came on the radio, but I wouldn't really throw it in a playlist.

[MV] LENA PARK(박정현) _ Double Kiss(더블키스)

Okay you are like actively trying to make me a hypocrite now! This is a pretty busy funk guitar track that rides the strength of a female vocalist and it is shallow as hell. I like it.

I might like it more than the Yuna track even. It is a pretty straight play on old school rock and is about the same level of seriousness. I also dig the film clip, it reminds me a bit of Polyester Girl by Regurgitator on that it is pretty deliberately artifacted CGI for the time it comes out, but it is quaint and makes for a fun clip. There isn't much to it, but compared to my last bit on the previous track? I would so put this in a playlist.

Ella Henderson - Ghost

This last one... Bah. Definitely showing it with this one! I don't like it as much as Yuna or Lena Park and it is probably better put together than either of them. I wouldn't put it in a playlist, but wouldn't turn it off the radio either.

Aaaaaaaand we find out I missed clicking a link while I was playing Magic while watching these and missed

OK Go - The Writing's On the Wall.

Yeeeeeeep this is both the track and the film clip of the week. I have seen reference to them having something out online without getting a chance to see it, so this one is going to make its rounds.

I love the fact that a band that sound like Blur back in the day can still drop out singles. I dislike that they have to go on the strength of their film clips so much for some of their popularity, but these guys are consistently amazing at putting them together, so I shouldn't complain too much.

These guys are a good band with a great visual sense. Really multimedia talent in play there. 10/10 would watch many times to come on Greatest Hits shows for film clips of 2010s.

metroid composite · « **Reply #47 on:** June 21, 2014, 02:20:52 PM »

metroid composite · « **Reply #48 on:** June 27, 2014, 07:08:26 AM »

I like...can't even focus on music this week; too excited by MLG still. Oh well, here's what I've got

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPRjCeoBqrI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rHuitW9xDc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bC3jD_l6q48
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7ix6RITXM0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExiKLRXSTNs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4Yzj-m_SBk

Grefter · « **Reply #49 on:** June 27, 2014, 10:42:55 AM »

Coldplay - A Sky Full of Stars

This is a song Snow should listen to on loop. Coldplay doing a pretty vapid upbeat track! Not what I really listen to Coldplay for, but I suppose it is good to see Chris Martin singing about something other than dead people or melancholy? Also wheee Sydney or something?

Lady Antebellum - Bartender
Country meets party track. Very not Grefter. It feels super super safe. The film clip looks like hot 30 something chicks vs Buster from Arrested Development as a bartender.

Atttitude City - NSP

This is pretty much what every day is like and is a fusion pretty diverse genres of music. 10/10 and will easily be my most linked thing from this week.

Maroon 5 - Maps

One of these days I should probably quantify what it is that I don't really like about Maroon 5 stuff. I talk a lot about how I really love a driving bass line and they consistently do that, but it feels like there isn't much more to it I guess. This song shows a decent amount of it in that it is a pretty basic drum beat with lyrics that stick to the beat like glue. Compare it to a song like Nico and Vinz - Am I Wrong which has a similar structure and vocal range I guess to kind of use as an example? There just isn't heaps going on here.

I also kind of dislike the narrative the song constructs of "I was always there for you" etcetc, but now that "I" am having a hard time you aren't there so "I" will find you and blah blah blah. It is very centered around the protagonist of the song I guess is a way to put it. Commonly it feels like in that kind of thing the song is either directed AT the listener (like One Direction songs singing about how generic vague feature of YOU is the best!) or is for the listener to project on to be from their point of view. I suppose it is just the strong use of first and second person pronouns in a song. It isn't someone singing about something they have experienced or a story they are telling, but it is setting it up to be a dialogue or at least a one sided conversation (Where Gotye - Somebody I Used To Know avoids this by having a two sided conversation).

That said, Nico & Vinz was a related link so I am listening to that now.

2BiC(투빅) _ Walk backward(뒤로걷기)

I have nothing much to say on this one either. Piano Ballads gonna be Ballads. You don't like the kinds of music I do from as many decades as I do without having a soft spot for them. Whether it is a young Tom Waits doing a Piano ballad (Or an older one in a duet!) or Gunners doing a Power Ballad, they still hit me pointlessly in the feels with their amazingly cheap emotional manipulation.

Sure it is in Korean and I have no idea what is going on. That doesn't matter. Ballads work because of the tone just as much as the content. This one is pretty decent at it.

Miranda Lambert - Somethin' Bad ft. Carrie Underwood

Alright, you have been having these two on and off for a while, I kind of think it is time to go with them if you haven't used them recently? Still not my kind of thing, but much much better than Lady Antebellum to me. The film clip looks like they had a ton of fun making it which doesn't hurt!.

I am having trouble pinpointing why I think it is better than Lady Antebellum other than going "While it is indirect and doesn't say much about what is going on, it has more to it than DRINKING! which is what I expect from a country party track." Bonus points for not referencing cars or girrrrrrlllzzzzzzzzzzzz while still being a country song about having a good(bad) time.

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