Love or Hate?

TechnicLePanther · 11-25-2015, 01:13 PM

Come on, Troll. I know you have this review in you. (I'm really excited.)

Trollheart · 11-25-2015, 01:19 PM

Cool yer jets, hot shot! Here ya go!

Title: California
Artiste: Mr. Bungle
Genre: Experimental/Avant-Garde
Familiarity: I've heard Disco Volante and was not very impressed, though that was for Metal Month III...

1. Sweet charity: Well this is nice. Birdsong, Hawaiian guitar, whistling, slow ballad, very relaxed. Really nice. Sort of a dreampop idea to it, while retaining a rock swagger. Good start.
2. None of them knew they were robots: Bit more frenetic; kind of a rockabilly idea in this. Pretty amusing though. Organ is great. Bit overlong maybe.
3. Retrovertigo: Gorgeous little acoustic ballad. Oh, okay: it ramped up there but it's still lovely. Really like this one.
4. The air-conditioned nightmare: Kind of a weird sense of The Beach Boys about this. This is a track Frownland wanted me to listen to but then changed his mind when he saw I'd been recced the entire album. Kicking up now with a melange of surf rock and what may approximate to death metal? Weird indeed. But good weird. Now it's gone into a kind of bluesy, West Coast thing. Idea of The Eagles, sort of thing.
5. Ars moriendi: Russian folk music? Mad violin and accordion. Bit of Mexican guitar, Mariachi, dart of metal thrown in. Kind of all over the place. Now there's an acoustic piano for a moment, then it goes back to the accordion. Kind of. I can't keep up. It's a little too overwhelming, hard to pin anything down.
6. Pink cigarette: Seems to be a slow blues song with a kind of Arabian melody underpinning it. Definite sense of Elvis's slower stuff here. Nice backing vocals. At least it stays the same, doesn't genre-jump every three seconds. Flatline at the end is hilarious. Yeah, you're going blue.
7. Golem II: The bionic vapour boy: Don't quite know what to make of this. Waits/Beefheart meets boyband with a bit of funk. Weird.
8. The holy filament: This one's nice, kind of chant over a piano. Elements of progressive rock/ ELO. Nice.
9. Vanity Fair: Bit of doo-wop/soul now. Cool.
10. Goodbye sober day: Yeah, this is too out there for me. Ends badly really, which is a pity.

End result: Overall though, a lot better than I had expected and not as hard to get into as Disco Volante. Some very good tracks. I still wouldn't be seeing myself becoming a fan or anything.

So, Love or Hate? I think it would have to be a Love, really.

TechnicLePanther · 11-25-2015, 03:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Trollheart

Cool yer jets, hot shot! Here ya go!

Title: California
Artiste: Mr. Bungle
Genre: Experimental/Avant-Garde
Familiarity: I've heard Disco Volante and was not very impressed, though that was for Metal Month III...

1. Sweet charity: Well this is nice. Birdsong, Hawaiian guitar, whistling, slow ballad, very relaxed. Really nice. Sort of a dreampop idea to it, while retaining a rock swagger. Good start.
2. None of them knew they were robots: Bit more frenetic; kind of a rockabilly idea in this. Pretty amusing though. Organ is great. Bit overlong maybe.
3. Retrovertigo: Gorgeous little acoustic ballad. Oh, okay: it ramped up there but it's still lovely. Really like this one.
4. The air-conditioned nightmare: Kind of a weird sense of The Beach Boys about this. This is a track Frownland wanted me to listen to but then changed his mind when he saw I'd been recced the entire album. Kicking up now with a melange of surf rock and what may approximate to death metal? Weird indeed. But good weird. Now it's gone into a kind of bluesy, West Coast thing. Idea of The Eagles, sort of thing.
5. Ars moriendi: Russian folk music? Mad violin and accordion. Bit of Mexican guitar, Mariachi, dart of metal thrown in. Kind of all over the place. Now there's an acoustic piano for a moment, then it goes back to the accordion. Kind of. I can't keep up. It's a little too overwhelming, hard to pin anything down.
6. Pink cigarette: Seems to be a slow blues song with a kind of Arabian melody underpinning it. Definite sense of Elvis's slower stuff here. Nice backing vocals. At least it stays the same, doesn't genre-jump every three seconds. Flatline at the end is hilarious. Yeah, you're going blue.
7. Golem II: The bionic vapour boy: Don't quite know what to make of this. Waits/Beefheart meets boyband with a bit of funk. Weird.
8. The holy filament: This one's nice, kind of chant over a piano. Elements of progressive rock/ ELO. Nice.
9. Vanity Fair: Bit of doo-wop/soul now. Cool.
10. Goodbye sober day: Yeah, this is too out there for me. Ends badly really, which is a pity.

End result: Overall though, a lot better than I had expected and not as hard to get into as Disco Volante. Some very good tracks. I still wouldn't be seeing myself becoming a fan or anything.

So, Love or Hate? I think it would have to be a Love, really.

A little trivia:

The singer of Mr. Bungle is Mike Patton, also known for Faith No More and his various other side projects. He has the largest identified vocal range, coming in at a grand total of 6 octaves and 1/2 note, which is almost an entire piano. For some comparison, Axl Rose has 5 octaves and 2 and a half notes.

The Batlord · 11-25-2015, 04:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TechnicLePanther

A little trivia:

The singer of Mr. Bungle is Mike Patton, also known for Faith No More and his various other side projects. He has the largest identified vocal range, coming in at a grand total of 6 octaves and 1/2 note, which is almost an entire piano. For some comparison, Axl Rose has 5 octaves and 2 and a half notes.

Identifying him with Faith No More will get you no favors in this thread.

The Batlord · 11-25-2015, 01:52 PM

Just noticed that you actually did import the recs from that alphabetical rec thread. Lol. Not changing my rec though. Take it, bitch.

Trollheart · 11-25-2015, 02:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by The Batlord

Just noticed that you actually did import the recs from that alphabetical rec thread. Lol. Not changing my rec though. Take it, bitch.

Which one you talkin' bout?

The Batlord · 11-25-2015, 02:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Trollheart

Which one you talkin' bout?

Hey, you were the one to accept it, so I'm not telling, unless you decide to admit to the site that you're a pussy and remove all my recs. It's not that long of an album anyway.

Trollheart · 11-26-2015, 02:23 PM

days left to get your last recs in for the year! Recs close midnight on November 30 and will definitely not reopen until early 2016, so get yours in now!

Trollheart · 11-26-2015, 02:25 PM

Title: Renegade
Artiste: HammerFall
Genre: Power Metal
Familiarity: Zero

1. Templars of steel: Good powerful start, very warrioresque, reminds me a little of Manowar crossed with Stratovrius. Slower, grindier than I had initially expected. Plenty of Maiden there too, as if I needed to say.
2. Keep the flame burning: Faster, very power metal with a great solo of course.
3. Renegade: Another great rocker with powerful riffing and a great vocal. Like the backing vox too.
4. Living in victory: Fastest one yet, with a great melody
5. Always will be: Gorgeous riff to open this, seems to be a ballad. Metal bands write the best ballads, and of those, I think power metal bands have the edge there.
6. The way of the warrior: Very neoclassical guitar, really romps along.
7. Destined for glory: Very dramatic start with orchestral style keyboards then a big soaraway guitar.
8. The champion: I find this a little meh, to be honest. Kind of hard to think of anything to write about it.
9. Raise the hammer: Powerful little instrumental
10. A legend reborn: Good strong dramatic closer.

End result: This is the first I've heard from HammerFall, and while I did like it, I kind of don't see too much difference between this and any other power metal album I've heard, which is always a problem with this subgenre. Still, pretty bitchin' for sure.

So, Love or Hate? Think this has to be a Love (okay Batty, you can put the baseball bat down now...)

YorkeDaddy · 11-25-2015, 06:15 PM

Know what TH, go ahead and switch my Majical Clouds rec to cloudcover - Enter Humanity if it's not too much trouble. I reckon it's been long enough since I rec'd the first of the three

https://cloudcover1.bandcamp.com/album/enter-humanity

11-25-2015, 01:13 PM	#1 (permalink)
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11-25-2015, 01:19 PM	#2 (permalink)
Trollheart Born to be mild Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: 404 Not Found Posts: 26,996	Cool yer jets, hot shot! Here ya go! Title: California Artiste: Mr. Bungle Genre: Experimental/Avant-Garde Familiarity: I've heard Disco Volante and was not very impressed, though that was for Metal Month III... 1. Sweet charity: Well this is nice. Birdsong, Hawaiian guitar, whistling, slow ballad, very relaxed. Really nice. Sort of a dreampop idea to it, while retaining a rock swagger. Good start. 2. None of them knew they were robots: Bit more frenetic; kind of a rockabilly idea in this. Pretty amusing though. Organ is great. Bit overlong maybe. 3. Retrovertigo: Gorgeous little acoustic ballad. Oh, okay: it ramped up there but it's still lovely. Really like this one. 4. The air-conditioned nightmare: Kind of a weird sense of The Beach Boys about this. This is a track Frownland wanted me to listen to but then changed his mind when he saw I'd been recced the entire album. Kicking up now with a melange of surf rock and what may approximate to death metal? Weird indeed. But good weird. Now it's gone into a kind of bluesy, West Coast thing. Idea of The Eagles, sort of thing. 5. Ars moriendi: Russian folk music? Mad violin and accordion. Bit of Mexican guitar, Mariachi, dart of metal thrown in. Kind of all over the place. Now there's an acoustic piano for a moment, then it goes back to the accordion. Kind of. I can't keep up. It's a little too overwhelming, hard to pin anything down. 6. Pink cigarette: Seems to be a slow blues song with a kind of Arabian melody underpinning it. Definite sense of Elvis's slower stuff here. Nice backing vocals. At least it stays the same, doesn't genre-jump every three seconds. Flatline at the end is hilarious. Yeah, you're going blue. 7. Golem II: The bionic vapour boy: Don't quite know what to make of this. Waits/Beefheart meets boyband with a bit of funk. Weird. 8. The holy filament: This one's nice, kind of chant over a piano. Elements of progressive rock/ ELO. Nice. 9. Vanity Fair: Bit of doo-wop/soul now. Cool. 10. Goodbye sober day: Yeah, this is too out there for me. Ends badly really, which is a pity. End result: Overall though, a lot better than I had expected and not as hard to get into as Disco Volante. Some very good tracks. I still wouldn't be seeing myself becoming a fan or anything. So, Love or Hate? I think it would have to be a Love, really. __________________ Trollheart: Signature-free since April 2018

11-26-2015, 02:23 PM	#8 (permalink)
Trollheart Born to be mild Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: 404 Not Found Posts: 26,996	days left to get your last recs in for the year! Recs close midnight on November 30 and will definitely not reopen until early 2016, so get yours in now! __________________ Trollheart: Signature-free since April 2018

11-26-2015, 02:25 PM	#9 (permalink)
Trollheart Born to be mild Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: 404 Not Found Posts: 26,996	Title: Renegade Artiste: HammerFall Genre: Power Metal Familiarity: Zero 1. Templars of steel: Good powerful start, very warrioresque, reminds me a little of Manowar crossed with Stratovrius. Slower, grindier than I had initially expected. Plenty of Maiden there too, as if I needed to say. 2. Keep the flame burning: Faster, very power metal with a great solo of course. 3. Renegade: Another great rocker with powerful riffing and a great vocal. Like the backing vox too. 4. Living in victory: Fastest one yet, with a great melody 5. Always will be: Gorgeous riff to open this, seems to be a ballad. Metal bands write the best ballads, and of those, I think power metal bands have the edge there. 6. The way of the warrior: Very neoclassical guitar, really romps along. 7. Destined for glory: Very dramatic start with orchestral style keyboards then a big soaraway guitar. 8. The champion: I find this a little meh, to be honest. Kind of hard to think of anything to write about it. 9. Raise the hammer: Powerful little instrumental 10. A legend reborn: Good strong dramatic closer. End result: This is the first I've heard from HammerFall, and while I did like it, I kind of don't see too much difference between this and any other power metal album I've heard, which is always a problem with this subgenre. Still, pretty bitchin' for sure. So, Love or Hate? Think this has to be a Love (okay Batty, you can put the baseball bat down now...) __________________ Trollheart: Signature-free since April 2018