KimyReizeger

Here's mine, just for the record really. www.myspace.com/kimyreizeger None of them are particularly old or new.

The guitar sounds nice, deep and rich, but it's a bit shittily recorded, as in, there appear to be mistakes (but not in a 'makes-it-sound-raw kind of way, because I think the tune would benefit from a really a pristine guitar recording). Vocals are interesting and sound really cool, Thom Yorke-y. Good effort. What kind of mic do you use?

It just doesn't sound good. Weak is just a word often associated with chords, and although this is rock music, composers built rules to avoid chord progressions of this type, I-II, in your case Gmin to Amin, being kinda universally acknowledged as a rubbish sound. As I said, you don't need training to hear that Gmin Amin Cmaj sounds like the musical equivalent of a spastic ordering food at a French restaurant.

I was in a band a few years ago that he liked. We spoke to him on the phone, were going to go to his place and record (apparently), but it never happened.

Pub Landlord was funny.

The song on myspace is ok. I don't particularly like the chord progression. I think it's pretty weak; you don't need classical theory training to know that a I - II - IV sounds cack. Don't mind the singer's voice, though he sounds like he's been frowning a bit to much, kind of like a Brummie whose horrible accent has forced his face to look a bit funny. The recording is ok, the piano sits ok in the mix, and the arrangement is relatively different (ie thank God not at least it's not another 'rhythm-and-lead', two-guitar mediocre rock band.) I don't think it's a good song, but it's not offensive either. 4/10

I tried reading this for the third time the other day. I find it really boring. He spends too much time laying down the circumstances of the world, really blatantly creating the impression of an alternate reality which is naturally abhorrent to us in this reality, with little story. The entire first half seems to just keep asserting this point, building up 'the picture', laying the foundations. It may well be a 'good' point, but there is no entertainment in BNW, something I feel the best novelists can imbue their message with - 1984 surely being the most effective and enlightening example I can draw in this context. So feel free to give me a new way to read this book. I felt this was a relevant post due to the fact that Brave New World is generally well read and liked, and I have personally found lots of good things in his essays.

Inspired by the gear thread in this forum. How much money have you spent on synths? I have a novation Xiosynth. It's pretty cheap as far as instruments go, around 250, but I've found it a good entry point and would consider myself pretty adept. I've also learned a lot more using a hardware synth than VSTi and can subsequently get much better sounds. I also think the sounds I can make are generally high quality, tonally speaking, not particularly / notably / remarkably worse than anything I've heard on records. So how does quality / features improve as the money goes up? Guitars for example, sound and play like shit before you breach the 400 mark (first-hand, high-street prices at least; and very often after you've penetrated that boundary - Ibanez for example).

Ok, but by saying opinions mean nothing negates the existence of constructive criticism of any kind.

I think I'm just using them as an example now though; it's not as if you don't hear this sort of thing all the time, is it? I think, in a sense, i see this kind of thing as coming under the 'shoddy cover band' bracket, because there really is nothing you haven't heard before in some form or another. I'm sure I've got those same riffs recorded on tape upstairs from when I was about thirteen, though possibly a slightly better guitar tone. What do you mean the vocals sound mature? Tonally? You surely aren't talking lyrics..

I'm finding it hard to see why so much praise is lamped onto the vocalist, who sounds like a miserable, three-times-divorced-and-still-not-twenty single mother with a fondness for the passionate, hopeless despair of such moody cult intellectuals as Avril Lavigne or 'that bird from Evanesence', spilling her heart out at a pseudo gothic psycho-therapy session. The song titles certainly suggest she's endured a few teenage emotional beatings, a subject matter already comprehesively covered in music as a whole. The guitar is hopeless; beginner riffs over a backdrop of technique-heavy (in theory) 'shredding' and 'Just wait I can get it' tapping non-prowess.

I just don't see the point in putting music in a 'feedback forum' with the sole intention of dismissing criticism as somehow invalid because it is only one opinion. I also would have thought any 'artist' with a scrap of pride would feel slightly put out by being called uncreative.

Just finished Success by Martin Amis. I tried Times Arrow and Money initially but gave up on both for different reasons. Success is a fantastic read about a trio of young people driven to madness and vice by society..and incest. It captures very well the loneliness of city life, the physical and mental degeneration of working shitty jobs, abhorrence of a fashion / commerce driven society. Lucky Jim by his Dad, Kingsley, is also cracking; it's what inspired me to persist with Martin. About to start a Will Self number I bought today (for a pretty horrible nine quid..)

[quote name=nhoj;607455 uncreative? cool i'll keep that in mind! its fine by me' date=' you either like or you don't. Why is that fine by you? Don't you want to be good? Please don't rest on a 'whatever floats your boat' style argument.

It's hard to see how a group of people could be this uncreative and be appreciated.

Who gives a shit what musicians say? Because your appreciation of a musical act is spoiled by the personal beliefs and actions of individual members? Do you listen to music for the sake of music, or do you use it as a fashion statement? I couldn't care less if my favourite musician was a neo-Nazi child-slayer, because I'm not there to appreciate his values!! Is metal un-ethical? Does metal disagree with soup kitchens? Does metal think the welfare state is bullshit? Does metal want to grind the lower classes in giant mince-makers; put babies on spikes; invade Poland?

Pretty bloody bad.

I'm not sure about his solo stuff, but Land of Confusion and Invisible Touch are both brilliant. I also really like 'The carpet crawl' - I think that's the name.

Samuel Johnson - Rasellas Hardly a novel; more a fable. The most pessimistic thing I've ever read. The entire premise is that there is simply no way to be happy in the world we live in; happiness is a fleeting moment that is acquired only momentarily at particular high points in life. Otherwise, man is forever compelled to want more, lust after what his neighbour has, set unrealistic dreams for himself that will never be realised and eventually succumb to his own imaginination in continual ignorance of reason and moderation in life. Lovely stuff.

That cannot be real?

Statements like this - the curse of liberal society? Yes in my opinion, but each to their own