re: Rate The Song Directly Above You

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Surely you jest

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About what? The song you posted was largely uninteresting and amateurish. The rapping is unimpressive and the "chorus" is grating, at best, channeling all that sucks about dub step drops with a massive level increase in place of true dynamics.

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However, I think "amateurish" is an inaccurate criticism.

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The "music" is extremely simplistic and repetitive. I don't mind looping, but a loop has to at least have some meat for the potatoes.

i'll give middle brother a 4/10. i made it through the song, and it didn't offend my sensibilities, but also not something that would make me want to search out other material from them. just not my bag is all.



Parquet Courts - Uncast Shadow of a Southern Myth


Lyrics

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I'd seen the bloodlands of Antietam
The shotgun shack in Tupelo
But a brick circumference left hollow by Sherman
Crumbling before me how it moaned

His shape swallows my recollection
That phantom silhouette implied
Strange fruit rotting from an airborne and hotter than hell
Is this the king's last man I've spied?

I stood there beside my companion
Scratching a rumor he had heard
Do you have a gun?
What? He said, yeah, you mean this one?
Straight down the barrel was his word

And I smelt the fumes he inhaled swiftly
Each word was hinged upon his choke
Like kudzu creeping up a state tree discretely
Forever bending as it broke

And I heard the jangling keys of Graceland
Ring from his teeth stained brown from coke
Drunk and stumbling like a man of distinction
They clamored shaking as he spoke

Of droves of pilgrims at his doorway
Of Reagan, Carter, Clinton, Gore
Fortunes offered them, refused routinely
This ain't no damn auction house he swore

Black male standing around 6 foot something
Ebbs through the waves of small town blight
A minute coldly from southern affection
Collides secretly into night

Forgive those who trespass against us
Began as the dead intruders plea
Into the very muzzle I'd once peered into
He gives the last words he will speak

But that broken glass supports forced entry
Reminds his lawyer through the phone
What southern judge do you know, comforting gently
Who jails white men who defend their home

No souls were present for the moment
His bombed out brick walls finally fell
Lying face down in the throes of atonement
Checked out of the Heartbreak Hotel

He was the uncast shadow of a southern myth

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Like it...8/10


Robert Plant--"The Way I Feel"


From an album I wore out in my latter high school days.

3/10 I saw Savage Garden and hesitantly clicked. I gave it the honest, open minded try; however, I still could not like it. It's not terrible though.


Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Turn Into

8.5/10 pretty badass

James Hunter - Class Act

7/10: I went 45 seconds waiting to hear how this sounds anything like SoM, and then I realized it was a cover of Marian! This is very good actually. Reminds me of Air's first record "Moon Safari." The singer's voice is a little weak for me to love it, but it's certainly a good find.


Die Warzau - All Good Girls This song is a true dichotomy. The music is very fun and upbeat, but the theme is quite painful (child sexual abuse). I suggest reading the lyrics along with the song. Similar to Depeche Mode's "Blasphemous Rumors' (quite possibly the saddest song ever written), it plays the opposing themes against each other (music to lyrics). The lyrics if you're interested

8/10 I like it


Northern Downpour - Panic at The Disco

8/10

Love SoO! There are songs on that last record that I'd give 10/10, unfortunately not this one. Still this is a great track.


Alabama Shakes - You Ain't Alone

I'm still riding high from this concert last night, so I'm dropping one of the songs here.