At this point it's kind of like performance art, I do hope you enjoy.
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honest opinions apreciated
[ January 28, 2005, 03:50 PM: Message edited by: The Silverblue Sun ]
Posted by The Silverblue Sun (Member # 1630) on :
maybe i'm gonna have to pay for an honest review,
do you guys want money cookies or favors?
Posted by Synesthesia (Member # 4774) on :
Payment? How about brownies and money? *checks it out*
Not bad, I like the guitar, but it's slightly cacaphonous (sp) in a cool way...
[ January 24, 2005, 04:10 PM: Message edited by: Synesthesia ]
Posted by Goody Scrivener (Member # 6742) on :
I'll check this out tomorrrow, Thor, my brain has completely morphed into Silly Putty and I'm just trying to get through posts so I can crawl into my cold empty bed.
Posted by Allegra (Member # 6773) on :
I would check it out, but I have dial-up so it would take an hour. Maybe I will look at it tommorow on campus.
Posted by Troubadour (Member # 83) on :
OK.
Bear in mind this is just my opinion and that if there's a style you're trying for here, it's not one I'm familiar with or a big fan of.
With all due respect, it sounds totally self indulgent. You're not writing and recording a work for people to listen to as they would music on an album; you're trying to make statements. It sounds like performance poetry mixed with John Cage. (Except that Cage used some truly brilliant musical and acoustical techniques to achieve his work.)
Musically I couldn't get into it.
The drum machine samples were really lacking in presence.
The guitar work on "A Baby is Born" had multiple issues for me. The solo finger-picking at the start sounded utterly soulless, like it'd been played without feeling to a metronome, while the crunching rhythm work throughout the centre sounded like a stoned recording session.
As I said, it's not my style at all, so I'm probably looking at it from the wrong perspective, but I didn't get anything from this musically.
Sorry Thor, I'm truly not trying to run you down, it's my perspective, so feel free to ignore.
Posted by Primal Curve (Member # 3587) on :
<laughs quietly to self>
Posted by The Silverblue Sun (Member # 1630) on :
i like bayonet. bayonet is honest, woot.
Posted by Sopwith (Member # 4640) on :
Ummmmmmmmm... errrr....
Kind of like beat poetry with no sense of rhythm.
Bayonet was unintelligible, but at least it wasn't the same as the other three, which all sounded like they were all recorded from the same Robitussin-influenced trip.
Soulless.
C'mon Thor, where's the desire to make beautiful music? You've shown there's better in you than this.
It's just my opinion, of course. I may not be "getting" it.
[ January 25, 2005, 10:19 AM: Message edited by: Sopwith ]
Posted by The Silverblue Sun (Member # 1630) on :
Soulless?
owww.
The beautiful music is being made slowly and carefully, as opposed to what is on that site now, stuff that has been scotch taped together.
I do think the stuff that's on there now is less music and more performance art.
your critiques will make me work harder and look at it from a less self-indulgent scope.
Self-indulgent? yeah. Impatient? yes.
Soulless? I disagree.
"Airborne. Red Alert. Grab your Guns, Get back to work. You must survive their ritual suicide.
Gotta be fast. Gotta be quick. The blood will run thick. Men. Kill and Kill again. Kill fast. Kill quick.
Airborne. Red Alert. Grab your Guns Get back to Work."
Soulless?
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Posted by Synesthesia (Member # 4774) on :
You ought to write poems and songs or maybe really cool plays were people just say interesting things.
Posted by Zyne (Member # 1357) on :
This does not entirely suck. (From me, that's a compliment.)
It shows some good ideas about form and development. Especially the end, the end was logically progressed down to nothing.
I hated the drum samples. This may be a technology limitation. It sounded about as interesting as the rapping of a ruler on a desk. I would have liked to hear a more full sound, or perhaps a sound that varied from time to time.
Posted by Troubadour (Member # 83) on :
Thor, good on you for taking all our critiques on the chin.
Posted by Sopwith (Member # 4640) on :
Thor, perhaps soulless was a bit strong, but the works really fell below my expectations of you.
From all you've written and said over the years, I just expected something more melodic and heartfelt.
Instead, we got as you said "performance art", which is often (not just with this stuff) neither art or much of a performance.
Like I said before, I just know you've got better stuff in you. Too much emphasis on production tricks and electronics, not enough of Thor, yanno?
Posted by The Silverblue Sun (Member # 1630) on :
i am now working on getting out good versions of one or two of my love songs.
woot.
Posted by The Silverblue Sun (Member # 1630) on :
Must.
Move.
Forward.
I love to make music.
it's a lot of fun.
i'm not trying to be a professional, just trying to be honest.
Oh, an honest outlet for my mind and soul.
I personally believe that everyone has one great song in then.
I think at this point I've written one and co-written a second one, (neither are on the website) will I ever be able to sing them properly? maybe not.
my voice is the weakest weapon in the band/group
..but my words stand with anyone who walks this Earth.
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