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upload failed am kill self Current Mood: :-) Current Music: simple plan May 1st, 200810:32 am: POLYSICS - We Ate The Machine
I gots me another awesome album and I'm gonna do another not-so-awesome review. Let's go!
01. Moog Is Love
You should buy the album just to have this song.
02. Pretty Good
The second single. The song itself is... Pretty Good. But it's truly great at the vocoder parts and the solo. There are better singles on this album than this, but this is still... Pretty Good. Damn, I can't stop saying that.
03. Rocket
I didn't really like this song when I first heard it, but now I've listened to it a lot and it's grown on me. If I would have to compare it to any of the songs from their last album, it would be either You-You-You or Always Happiness. In other words, it's damn good.
04. We Ate The Machine
Starts with some cool drum machine stuff that sounds like it came straight from one of P-MODEL's early 90's albums and goes straight into a metal riff, some metal clanging noises, a few noises from that intro I just mentioned and Yano's new-found ability to play double-bass drums. I actually would have liked it if Yano was on this song a bit more. It sounds like Hiro and Fumi are trading vocal blows, but I could imagine them all doing that.
05. DNA Junction
Starts with some badly-played piano. Not an insult, I'm pretty sure it's meant to sound bad. And it sounds really cool when Fumi, Yano and Hiro start playing over it. The verses actually are a little bit depressing sounding, it sounds like the lyrics are about a guy who never wants to change and always wants to be alone. The chorus has nothing to do with this, and is freakin' awesome. I like the solo a lot. It's as unique as the one on Professional Tennis from Karate House. This song actually reminds me of Wicked Laugh from For Young Electric Pop most, though.
06. Kagayake
I can tell that POLYSICS were listening to a lot of P-MODEL when they were making this album. The whole song sounds like something Susumu Hirasawa would have wrote. Especially the chorus, that's totally something Susumu would do, especially on his newer work. The verses sound more like Another Game-era P-MODEL, though.
07. Pony and Lion
I don't like the sound of the verses on this song. They aren't bad, but something about them.. I don't know. The insturmental bit that sounds like it's supposed to be a substitute for a chorus sounds awesome though. I like the talk box parts and the solo's the best out of this.
08. Arigatou
The noise at the start is annoying, but it's only a few seconds and the song that comes after it is awesome. It's Hiro rapping over what once again sounds like something made in the early 90's by P-MODEL. And he actually does a damn good job. Now I want to hear a POLYSICS-RIP SLYME collaboration. Wait, I've always wanted to hear that. It would make the greatest animutation music in the history of time. At the end of the second verse, the whole band comes in and rocks hard. And Hiro starts doing his rap through a megaphone in his best screaming voice. FREAKING AWESOME.
09. Irotokage
The lead synth in this sounds like the boat stage from Street Fighter II. In other words, it sounds great. I really love the chorus on this, because it has the best harmonies I've ever heard from POLYSICS. They almost sound like the freakin' Bee Gees at that part. That just shows you how talented of a band they are.
10. Mind Your Head
I love this riff, it's classic DEVO. Sounds like Hiro's rapping again over it. I am very pleased with this track, but I don't have much to write about it. It's good. That's really all you need to know, right?
11. Digital Coffee
I've thought it over for a while, and I would like to say "DIGITAL COFFEE FOR THIRD SINGLE OR DIE!!!!" It's just too great. It sounds like one of the better tracks off of For Young Electric Pop. And the chorus is like.. audible kawaii. It's near-perfect.
12. Boys and Girls
This actually kinda reminds me of Oh! Monaliza from Now Is The Time! but with big techno beats behind it. In other words, it's really fun but I can't help but thinking that it's stupid. But the chorus is really cool sounding.
13. Blue Noise
This is the best song on a great album. The reason I don't think it should be the third single is that it's a little too laid-back for it to become a hit or anything, but it's still amazing. It's what sounds like a chiptune being sung over by the vocoder and the talkbox. It kinda reminds me of their cover of Jerkin' Back'N'Forth in style, but without the upright bass and the jazz drums. This has the same purpose as the equally awesome MY ROOM from National P, it's a ballad to go right before the end song. I couldn't imagine it as an album ender like CODE 4, but it's still freakishly awesome.
14. Dry or Wet
The end song. I could have done without the freakin' clavicord being thrown in there, but this is a good song to end on. It works like Switch Love Show did and it's definetly a much better ending than their last album had, which was a blatant ripoff of Jocko Homo with a little Speak and Spell thrown in. So yeah, a good ending.
If you are a cool guy, you must have this album. And that's all I gotta say.
I'm going back to camping out at my mailbox waiting for my physical copy of this to come. Current Music: POLYSICS - Dry or Wet March 5th, 200811:42 pm: Gnarls Barkley - The Odd Couple
I just downloaded the leak of the new Gnarls Barkley disc so I thought I would write a review on it on-the-spot.
So let's do this thing.
01. Blind Mary
The album opens with some carnival music. Which expands into what sounds like a MIDI backbeat. Cee-lo starts singing through what sounds like a ring modulator with a little bit of vocoder in the background. And it pretty much stays at that place for the entire song. I think it's about a circus freak who falls in love with a blind girl, but keep in mind that this is only my second listen of the song. One thing that strikes me about this song is the severe lack of soul. This song has no soul. It seems like an attempt by them to do a song that doesen't have soul in it. It's a pretty cool song anyway, though. Good melodies.
02. She Knows
This song starts with a cool beat. Kinda sounds like an old drum machine I played around with once. It's got one of those signature Dangermouse background tracks behind it, but it should have been a lot higher in the mix. This track is pretty much Cee-lo singing a few tracks over that beat. Some handclaps are added in the middle. This song would really benefit from the background music being higher in the mix and maybe having a little bass.
03. No Time Soon
This is much better than the last track. It's a lot more complete, and the arrangement is near-perfect. It's got layers of guitar, synth, bass, vocals and a beat that sounds like it was made from laser sounds that came from a childs toy. In other words, it's freakin' awesome.
04. Whatever
This song sounds a lot more like something from St. Elsewhere than what I've heard so far in this listen. It's got a great beat from the mouse and some good lyrics from the soul machine. Notice that I just complimented his lyrics on this one. No offense to the man, he almost always sounds great. But for some reason on this track he sounds nasal. Like he was singing it with a cold or something. But I like the song, though.
05. Who's Gonna Save My Soul
This song is the second single, released a couple days ago in a Youtube video. And it blows my mind. All I can say about it is that it's a perfect single selection. It's amazing.
06. Run
Another great single choice. This song was released on some blogs in February. This was the perfect song to tease people with. It's like.. the new Crazy. Or it seems that way to me. They added a synth solo and a few laser sounds since the leak.
07. Would Be Killer
This song starts with the sound of a few guns being loaded up. If we're still in the business of comparing this album to St. Elsewhere, this song would be the new Necromancer. It's creepy, but not creepy in a "ZOMG GET AWAY FROM ME" kinda way. More of an "THIS IS A GREAT HORROR MOVIE, LOL" way. It's even creepier than Necromancer though, due to the backwards noises that can add horror to just about anything. But it sounds great.
08. Open Book
We've got some jungle noises to start off the track. And then a surprise crazy MIDI beat. I seriously didn't see that coming. And here's some bass and strings. And of course, the soul machine starts his vocals. The chorus in this song is seriously weird. It's got a choir in it in everything. This seems like a failed attempt at genre-hopping to me.
09. Going On
I dig the beat, I dig the bass, I dig the organ and I've always dug Cee-lo. This songs got a really cool melody. This is my first time listening to it, but I think it's gonna be stuck in my head for a while. Oh crap, surprise industrial beat. What the hell is going on here. This was a perfectly good Gnarls Barkley song which was turned into an industrial jam.
10. Charity Case
This song starts with.. the projector sound that starts off the St. Elsewhere album. And the song begins. It's a jazz beat, some breathing sounds and random background vocals from Cee-lo. And then the song goes down to just the sound of a bell and that's when the first verse starts. The beat sounds a lot better with vocals on it. There's heavy use of a vocoder as a female voice on this one. I wonder if they couldn't get anybody to be the random lady so they just vocoded the soul machine to sound like one. That would be okay, because I happen to love vocoder. Either way this song has a great feel to it. One of the better album tracks on this so far.
11. Surprise
This has been a pretty surprising album so far, so I wonder what the song named Surprise is gonna sound like. When it starts off, everything is put through a phaser, which is pretty cool. The verses are a little boring, but I like the melodies in the chorus. I'm hoping that the Mouse does more mixing on this album before it gets an official release because tracks like this one could really use some more polish.
12. A Little Better
This one begins with what sounds like Dangermouse ruining a record, but quickly goes into the main background. I like the sound of this one. If I were them I would pick this one for single number four. Single three would be "Whatever", if anyone cares. Once again, this could use a little more mixing. But I really love the vocal melodies in it.
13. Neighbors
This one has what a lot of the other tracks on this album don't. Great mixing. It doesen't overdo things like in Open Book and it doesen't underdo them like in She Knows. It's just right, and it's a perfect ender for the album.
So... it's a good record, but it needs a little more. Dangermouse has a habit for changing the songs up after the leaks so I'm hoping that the CD release of this will be better. Either way, I'm totally buying it and you should try it out too. If you don't expect another perfect record like St. Elsewhere, you might find yourself some new favorite tracks.
Current Music: Gnarls Barkley - The Odd Couple (Duh.) February 6th, 200808:04 pm: YouChewPoop Sucks!
Not only did they hate my album because it used samples from old poops (which it was supposed to, as it was a fucking TRIBUTE), but today I found out that they downvoted an extensive countdown of the top 100 poops of 2007 until the guy had to lock the votes. Over the fact that CD-I and Mama Luigi were in it. That's bullshit. I wonder if they even realize that if things like CD-I and Mama Luigi were never used that their site would most likely have never existed.
(RedAlien does not suck.) Tags: that's mama luigi to you motherfucker
February 1st, 200810:11 am: Sir-Rant-A-Lot #5: Sharpton is a dumbass.
Alright, Sharpton likes Hillary because Obama isn't black enough. This would be okay if Hillary was black at all, but she isn't. Black people: Don't listen to your leader. Not only is he a dumbass, but he killed the jews. (See below.) Tags: al sharpton barack obama hillary clinton
10:09 am: Sir-Rant-A-Lot #4: Barack, The Magic Negro
How in the hell can Imus get fired for insulting a basketball team when Rush Limbaugh is playing this ?
10:08 am: Sir-Rant-A-Lot #3: Fuck you, easily offended people!
"OMG Y R U SHAWING TEH KILOR ON TAH NEUS TAHT R EIVL" - Because it's news.
If you don't like news, DON'T FUCKING WATCH IT.
In fact, if you don't like Imus, DON'T FUCKING LISTEN TO HIM.
And shut the fuck up when a TV personality says/does/shows something you don't like. Nobody is forcing you to watch anything that offends you. While most of our rights as Americans are gone, you still have the right to change the channel. Use it.
Tags: vtech don imus
10:04 am: Sir-Rant-A-Lot #2: Grand Theft Auto causes all violence on the planet.
http://kotaku.com/gaming/virginia-tech/breaking-idiot-thompson-blames-va-shooting-on-games-252702.phpIf Jack Thompson doesent shut up, I swear I'm going to go on a 6-star rampage. Same thing goes for Hillary Clinton and Tipper Gore. (Vote Obama!) Tags: grand theft auto vtech jack thompson
10:02 am: Sir-Rant-A-Lot #1: Shut the fuck up, Al Sharpton!
Freddy's Fashion Mart
In 1995, Sharpton led a protest in Harlem against the plans of Freddy's Fashion Mart, a Jewish-owned clothing store, to expand into a black neighborhood, displacing a black retailer. Sharpton told the protesters, "We will not stand by and allow them to move this brother so that some white interloper can expand his business." Three months later, an armed protester forcibly entered the store and burned it down, killing himself and seven others. Sharpton distanced himself from the crime, claiming the perpetrator was an open critic of the civil rights leader and his nonviolent tactics. Nonetheless, Sharpton later expressed regret for making the racial reference, "white interloper," though he denied responsibility for inflaming or provoking the violence
Crown Heights Riot
The Crown Heights Riot occurred after a car accident involving the motorcade for the Lubavitcher Rebbe killing a young boy, Gavin Cato. A riot was sparked after a private Hasidic ambulance came to the scene and, on the orders of a police officer, removed the Hasidic driver from the scene. Gavin Cato and his cousin Angela were picked up soon after by a city ambulance. Caribbean-American and African-American residents of the neighborhood then rioted for four consecutive days fueled by rumors , that the private ambulance had refused to treat Cato.
Now, call me crazy...
But killing several jews seems a bit worse than insulting a basketball team. Tags: al sharpton shut the fuck up don imus
09:59 am: Sir-Rant-A-Lot
I made a few posts under the LJ alias of ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) sir_rant_a_lot, and I'm going to post them here. Get ready to be mega-offended. Tags: sir rant a lot is offensive
08:42 am: BOESERMÆNIA II
I saw this in the opening for Ultimate Muscle.  Now that I think of it, that guy looks an awful lot like Metaknight. Tags: ultimate muscle kinnikuman dmb music
January 31st, 200810:40 am: THIS SHOULD HAVE BEEN THE LINEUP FOR BRAWL
Ones with slashes are alternate versions. 01 - Mario/Luigi 02 - Peach 03 - Bowser 04 - Wario 05 - Yoshi 06 - Link/Toon Link 07 - Zelda/Sheik 08 - Ganondorf 09 - Fox/Wolf 10 - Falco 11 - Krystal 12 - Donkey Kong 13 - Diddy Kong 14 - Jigglypuff 15 - Pikachu 16 - Pokemon Trainer 17 - Samus/Zero Suit Samus 18 - Kirby 19 - Metaknight 20 - King Dedede 21 - Sonic/Shadow 22 - Miles "Tails" Prower 23 - Dr. Eggman 24 - NiGHTS 25 - Olimar 26 - R.O.B 27 - Ice Climbers 28 - Captain Falcon 29 - Megaman 30 - Ryu/Ken Current Mood: mah boi Current Music: mah boi March 7th, 200605:14 am: Everything youve heard is true.
Any dumbass can do modern art. Viola! http://artpad.art.com/gallery/?ivtad24e0kwI will now get a beret, a stripey shirt, and a crappy accent. Current Music: Devo - Go Monkey Go February 17th, 200602:44 pm: Guitar Update!
 Some of you may remember when I posted about my new guitar. Well since then, all stickers were removed, the tuners were fixed, a pickup had to be replaced because of a broken magnet, and now it's finally in playing order. And Bassman, you were wrong; the trussrod is NOT broken. All in all, I think it was a pretty good deal for being free. Current Mood: Angry at Blogger Current Music: P-MODEL - GO AMIGO
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