Non-metal Themed Mixtape Game
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I WILL RATE THIS IN DUE COURSE DON'T YOU WORRY MY HARD ROCKING AMIGOS
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Well maybe for someone who was a 60's folk rock fan back then or something, but even by general music standards back then it wasn't so extreme. Schoenberg, Thelonius Monk, and Metal come to mind by 1976. Even stuff by some more mainstream acts like the Beatles or Jimi Hendrix was challenging by that point. As HBB said this song is very repetitive melodically, it's a complicated melody but once you hear it a couple times it makes sense for sure.
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Broadcast - According to No Plan
Digging the ominous minimalism. Nice ethereal voice. 8/10.
Split Enz - One Step Ahead
Interesting vibe. I can appreciate the groove. 6/10.
John WIlliams - Usher Waltz
Kinda irritating but I admire the skill involved. 4/10.
Pixies - Where Is My Mind
This shit is pretty awesome. Def checking this album out in full. It just has that sound. 10/10.
David Thomas - Semaphore
Vomit. 2/10.
Jamin Winans - Recognize
Minimalistic excellence. Opposite of vomit. 10/10.
Wipers - What Is
Repetitive and bland. 4/10.
The Who - I Can't Explain
Fun little ditty. 7/10.
Gentle Giant - I Lost My Head
Whimsical shit right here. But then everything changed. And it went on a wee bit too long. 6/10.
Buzzcocks - I Don't Know What to Do With My Life
Nothing too captivating in this mofo. 4/10.
Tim Buckley - Hallucinations
I digs. Haunting stuff. 8/10.
Bob Dylan - Ballad of a Thin Man
Dylan's usually solid. Cool tune. 7/10.
Digging the ominous minimalism. Nice ethereal voice. 8/10.
Split Enz - One Step Ahead
Interesting vibe. I can appreciate the groove. 6/10.
John WIlliams - Usher Waltz
Kinda irritating but I admire the skill involved. 4/10.
Pixies - Where Is My Mind
This shit is pretty awesome. Def checking this album out in full. It just has that sound. 10/10.
David Thomas - Semaphore
Vomit. 2/10.
Jamin Winans - Recognize
Minimalistic excellence. Opposite of vomit. 10/10.
Wipers - What Is
Repetitive and bland. 4/10.
The Who - I Can't Explain
Fun little ditty. 7/10.
Gentle Giant - I Lost My Head
Whimsical shit right here. But then everything changed. And it went on a wee bit too long. 6/10.
Buzzcocks - I Don't Know What to Do With My Life
Nothing too captivating in this mofo. 4/10.
Tim Buckley - Hallucinations
I digs. Haunting stuff. 8/10.
Bob Dylan - Ballad of a Thin Man
Dylan's usually solid. Cool tune. 7/10.
CiG
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Somehow I doubt their fans were also into these 3 things. Especially not the general music consumer back then.
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I kinda doubt Gentle Giant intended to appeal to "the general music consumer" at that point in time.
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So, who else needs to rate this game? I didn't even participate in this round, so I'm all the more eager to move on to the next
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ALLY TO GOOD, NIGHTMARE TO YOU
I was going to jokingly suggest that I'll tally this when I get back to Sweden in January, but I think that is becoming uncomfortably close to the truth.
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Broadcast - According to No Plan
6/10
Split Enz - One Step Ahead
5/10
John WIlliams - Usher Waltz
6/10
Pixies - Where Is My Mind
7.5/10
David Thomas - Semaphore
8/10
Jamin Winans - Recognize
6/10
Wipers - What Is
8/10
The Who - I Can't Explain
7.5/10
Gentle Giant - I Lost My Head
8/10
Buzzcocks - I Don't Know What to Do With My Life
6/10
Tim Buckley - Hallucinations
8/10
Bob Dylan - Ballad of a Thin Man
9/10
6/10
Split Enz - One Step Ahead
5/10
John WIlliams - Usher Waltz
6/10
Pixies - Where Is My Mind
7.5/10
David Thomas - Semaphore
8/10
Jamin Winans - Recognize
6/10
Wipers - What Is
8/10
The Who - I Can't Explain
7.5/10
Gentle Giant - I Lost My Head
8/10
Buzzcocks - I Don't Know What to Do With My Life
6/10
Tim Buckley - Hallucinations
8/10
Bob Dylan - Ballad of a Thin Man
9/10
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Broadcast - According to No Plan - 3
what confused me is why this was made
Split Enz - One Step Ahead - 8
chilled out song i like
John WIlliams - Usher Waltz - 5
not confusing at all
Pixies - Where Is My Mind - 10
dat guitar is catchy as fuck
David Thomas - Semaphore - 3
sounds dumb
Jamin Winans - Recognize - 6
beautiful, love this, wish it'd go longer. sadly not on theme
Wipers - What Is - 7
a head bobber yea
The Who - I Can't Explain - 6
just ok
Gentle Giant - I Lost My Head - 3
they were trying to be experimental and it failed
Buzzcocks - I Don't Know What to Do With My Life - 6
fine
Tim Buckley - Hallucinations - 7.5
quite nice
Bob Dylan - Ballad of a Thin Man - 8
great
what confused me is why this was made
Split Enz - One Step Ahead - 8
chilled out song i like
John WIlliams - Usher Waltz - 5
not confusing at all
Pixies - Where Is My Mind - 10
dat guitar is catchy as fuck
David Thomas - Semaphore - 3
sounds dumb
Jamin Winans - Recognize - 6
beautiful, love this, wish it'd go longer. sadly not on theme
Wipers - What Is - 7
a head bobber yea
The Who - I Can't Explain - 6
just ok
Gentle Giant - I Lost My Head - 3
they were trying to be experimental and it failed
Buzzcocks - I Don't Know What to Do With My Life - 6
fine
Tim Buckley - Hallucinations - 7.5
quite nice
Bob Dylan - Ballad of a Thin Man - 8
great
dwellerINTHEdark
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To all the people that said the Ink track is not on theme please watch the fucking movie thank you so much.
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Broadcast - According to No Plan
i suspect there's a little too much icy drug-addled '60s revival here for me, i can't get my head around it sober aside from finding it subtly semi-affecting and a lovely pick for the theme. 7/10
Split Enz - One Step Ahead
i didn't know of this band before hearing about them on here a few times now. this one is also very '60s melodically speaking, but better. 8/10
John WIlliams - Usher Waltz
russian classical guitar? sign me up. i suppose i'd rather just listen to old school renaissance stuff like dowland or whatever but this is cool and better suited to the theme. 7/10
Pixies - Where Is My Mind
probably my favourite of their big hits, despite how pop culture has attempted to ruin it. helps that it's one of their only songs that feels fully-formed and ready for release, rather than a fragment or practice run like usual. that looseness is part of their charm of course but it's also regularly frustrating. this reminds me i still need to listen to BOSSANOVA. 9/10
David Thomas - Semaphore
i worship early ubu. this is more like a clown doing ubu covers at a child's birthday party. that's pretty confusing, i'll give you that. i liked the slow part in the middle. 6/10
Jamin Winans - Recognize
pretty generic and not noticeably thematic. i haven't seen the movie either. 4/10
Wipers - What Is
this isn't their best song or anything but fuck i love them so much. the most emotionally charged punk band ever, with some of the most beautifully melancholic guitarwork in music history. they did existential angst better than just about anybody. 9/10
The Who - I Can't Explain
my preferred who era by far, but not one of their better songs from it. pretty much a kinks rip-off, and i didn't care for that era of the kinks all that much anyway. slightly pushing it thematically IMO, it's more about the impossibility of expressing love than any kind of overall confusion (he literally says the phrase "i know what it means"). 4/10
Gentle Giant - I Lost My Head
i assume this'll win, and not undeservedly. 8/10
Buzzcocks - I Don't Know What to Do With My Life
this sounds more dead kens than the album i've heard (the debut), did they influence each other at all or was it a case of both sharing influences? either way it's welcome. still too poppy and palatable for my tastes, but i'm surprised by how much i like this. 7/10
Tim Buckley - Hallucinations
i've heard every tim buckley album and at the time i preferred his early work (inc. this album), which is bigger and dumber and more blatantly derived from '60s psych, but also less boring than his more subtle, meditative and experimental later work. whether i'd still feel that way now idk, but this is less theatrical and more evocative than i remember this album being, and great for the theme. 8/10
Bob Dylan - Ballad of a Thin Man
unlike most here i don't like this version quite as much, or at least not for this theme. it's more fiery and impassioned and rockish with a better guitar sound but that doesn't serve the surrealism of the lyrics as well as the lumbering, farcical repetition of the studio version (which, in fairness, isn't on youtube). both are great in their own ways though - this version actually reminds me of what hendrix did to 'all along the watchtower', a cover dylan himself worshipped and probably attempted to emulate quite a bit live. incidentally, the studio version of this was my other choice for the surrealism round, and is actually rather similar to the procol harum song i ended up submitting. i've overplayed this album to high hell but i've gotta ten it really. 10/10
i suspect there's a little too much icy drug-addled '60s revival here for me, i can't get my head around it sober aside from finding it subtly semi-affecting and a lovely pick for the theme. 7/10
Split Enz - One Step Ahead
i didn't know of this band before hearing about them on here a few times now. this one is also very '60s melodically speaking, but better. 8/10
John WIlliams - Usher Waltz
russian classical guitar? sign me up. i suppose i'd rather just listen to old school renaissance stuff like dowland or whatever but this is cool and better suited to the theme. 7/10
Pixies - Where Is My Mind
probably my favourite of their big hits, despite how pop culture has attempted to ruin it. helps that it's one of their only songs that feels fully-formed and ready for release, rather than a fragment or practice run like usual. that looseness is part of their charm of course but it's also regularly frustrating. this reminds me i still need to listen to BOSSANOVA. 9/10
David Thomas - Semaphore
i worship early ubu. this is more like a clown doing ubu covers at a child's birthday party. that's pretty confusing, i'll give you that. i liked the slow part in the middle. 6/10
Jamin Winans - Recognize
pretty generic and not noticeably thematic. i haven't seen the movie either. 4/10
Wipers - What Is
this isn't their best song or anything but fuck i love them so much. the most emotionally charged punk band ever, with some of the most beautifully melancholic guitarwork in music history. they did existential angst better than just about anybody. 9/10
The Who - I Can't Explain
my preferred who era by far, but not one of their better songs from it. pretty much a kinks rip-off, and i didn't care for that era of the kinks all that much anyway. slightly pushing it thematically IMO, it's more about the impossibility of expressing love than any kind of overall confusion (he literally says the phrase "i know what it means"). 4/10
Gentle Giant - I Lost My Head
i assume this'll win, and not undeservedly. 8/10
Buzzcocks - I Don't Know What to Do With My Life
this sounds more dead kens than the album i've heard (the debut), did they influence each other at all or was it a case of both sharing influences? either way it's welcome. still too poppy and palatable for my tastes, but i'm surprised by how much i like this. 7/10
Tim Buckley - Hallucinations
i've heard every tim buckley album and at the time i preferred his early work (inc. this album), which is bigger and dumber and more blatantly derived from '60s psych, but also less boring than his more subtle, meditative and experimental later work. whether i'd still feel that way now idk, but this is less theatrical and more evocative than i remember this album being, and great for the theme. 8/10
Bob Dylan - Ballad of a Thin Man
unlike most here i don't like this version quite as much, or at least not for this theme. it's more fiery and impassioned and rockish with a better guitar sound but that doesn't serve the surrealism of the lyrics as well as the lumbering, farcical repetition of the studio version (which, in fairness, isn't on youtube). both are great in their own ways though - this version actually reminds me of what hendrix did to 'all along the watchtower', a cover dylan himself worshipped and probably attempted to emulate quite a bit live. incidentally, the studio version of this was my other choice for the surrealism round, and is actually rather similar to the procol harum song i ended up submitting. i've overplayed this album to high hell but i've gotta ten it really. 10/10
Sirjack
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Good reviews man but you're wrong: Gentle Giant won't win because people are stupid. Out of this game it should but it won't. l reckon you will.
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