Thread 127404164

It's Song Review Time (And I Should Probably Say Something Else But Whatever)

Let's try to keep these at the ten minute mark or shorter, but otherwise post whatever the hell you want.

I'll let the first non-OP guy link the first track.

>>127404164 (OP)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYUtpe6Mhj0

>>127404186
"ApoCalypso" is a fun enough title to describe a silly enough song. On paper, a Balkan filtered Caribbean pop track seems like the lowest circle of hell. It's surprisingly pleasant. His deep-ish vocals fit well enough. I guess. Probably worth listening to again. 7/10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0cxP-371GE

>>127404235
As much as I don't like children singing, this is really good singing. The tune's alright, pretty fun. (7/10)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJ2ia4_nnSI

>>127404363
Its a little saccharine sweet for my taste, but I like the song overall. The production sounds like someone who is used to mixing dance pop records so it clashes a bit with the pop punk kinda vibe so it almost ventures into parody. overall a pretty good eruo take on the american sound 6/10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYAawgqq6t8&ab_channel=Slothrust

>>127404439
Really solid track, particularly with those lyrics and vocals. Seems interestingly reminiscent of 1990s and 2000s era indie rock and power pop releases in a way that I personally like. I don't want to nitpick things. 8/10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itzde0VrzFU

>>127404363
Decent-ish pop punk track that transplants the Blink-182 sound to a British context in which it all mostly works. Nothing special. Yet I feel like not being critical. I'd listen to it again as well. The fact that this is less than three minutes and thirty seconds long helps a ton, honestly. 7/10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pg8DgkrZbpM

>>127404625
Never liked Boz Scaggs. He clearly pandered to the yuppie "drink overpriced wine" crowd and that's not my kind of vibe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=If82O1e0bow

>>127404665
She's always been a legend. This particular track feels rather weak, though. Lyrics are painfully... eh. I can't pretend that going "Good morning, sun!" without irony plays well either then or now. And the aggressively mediocre instrumental backing doesn't help, even if it (thank God) picks up after over half the song is over. Difficult one. 5/10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KOT5kg59KI

>>127404665
I love this song great lyrics and great, bouncy instrumentals. BTW this was the B-side to He's Just My Kind, a very typical 25 bpm 40s ballad.

>>127404738
>>127404717
the duality of man

>>127404811
Stands as a bit of proof that The Who were washed by this point. This sounds like a rip of late 60s Isley Brothers and is way behind the times for 1978.

>>127404625
Everything about this screams "filler". Also, what the fuck does the line "He just ate his cocktail napkin?" even mean? Even as a metaphor?

As far as nonsense with decent vocals that sets up a jazzy blue-eyed soul atmosphere goes, it's fine. This is music for standing in a hotel lobby asking for somebody to fix a broken lamp, though. Not something to focus on. Eh. I can't criticize it too much, though, because Boz Scaggs still has that legendary singing talent. 6/10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vG_T-N_zFaY

>>127404840
It's a bit unusual that it's the opening track on the album as well because in the 70s it was typical to put the best song of the set as the opener.

>>127404840
>Also, what the fuck does the line "He just ate his cocktail napkin?"
Just what anon said. His audience was the type of people who eat in overpriced restaurants and brag about their summer vacation in Europe. He knew exactly how to pander to them.

>>127404876
Oh look it's Boz Scaggs for Millenials and not any improvement over the original.

Behold!

>>127404876
>Drakeslop
No.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjYFY37AVvo

>>127404876
When he says "fuck that"? He's right. Fuck that. Fuck this song. 1/10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNchTKdRs2A

>>127404235
10/10 anything involving the King gets a 10

https://youtu.be/cyjuX6VFpxY?si=m65ZpIch0AiS3R0C

>>127404916
>the woman who would be eaten by a cartoon and turn into a living meme for the rest of her days

>>127404922
She has a splendid voice. I could try to really analyze this, but I honestly don't want to. Basically just easy listening type music at its purest. 7/10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl4ApAnh-OY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl4ApAnh-OY

>>127404915
Robert Christgau apparently really liked this one. The guys have better tracks, but as a dark, quasi-psychedelic bit of anxiety turned auditory I also think that this is fine. Much as I hate agreeing with that asshole. 8/10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woyaKianemI

>>127405159
classic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIQGnYzNfQI

>>127405167
Standard nu metal sludge. School shooter esque lyrics fit perfectly for that intended vibe. Can't even pretend to find any of it listenable. I suppose that the cathartic factor makes it worthwhile for certain guys, especially those who can yell along with the "Right now!" yell. 3/10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7C9gqh3S6x4

>>127405167
A 40 year old man wrote these lyrics.

>>127405269
meh not a fan

>>127404811
Keith Moon's decision to literally forecast his own death on this album cover will never not astonish me. Let alone how everybody else in the group allowed that choice to happen. As far as goofy and sloppy pop rock goes, still, this is not as terrible as it would seem on paper. I mean... it's a protest against "filler" from famous bands that sounds like "filler" from a famous band. Which works logically. Yet still sounds tedious. Yeah. It's metaphysically appealing to a degree, especially with that level of cynicism. Not worth listening to more than once (and probably not even once). 5/10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTIkudYT3mg

>>127405443
This woman gets hated on needlessly.

>>127405503
Motorhead songs are all the same thing anyway so judging them is unfair.

>>127405309
10/10 lyrics and vocals. 0/10 for everything else. Holy fuck. This is one of the most devastating contrasts I've ever heard. Had to quit before too long. This is like using two urinal cakes for a sandwich bun in which the actual ingredients in the middle would otherwise be fine. 4/10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJG1qJXrBCY

>>127405448
"Though they don't want you to know it, these hateful little twerps are sensitive souls—they're moved to make this godawful racket by the godawful pain of the world, which they learn about reading everything from textbooks to bondage mags. This is the brutal guitar machine thousands of lonely adolescent cowards have heard in their heads. Its creators deserve credit for finding each other and making their obsession real." - September 1986 / Robert Christgau

>>127405574
This trolled Cuckgau good so good for them.

>>127405665
how did the song troll him?

>>127405448
Not going to say anything. 10/10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COb1qmEd5nc

>>127405698
Complained they were butthurt about elephant poaching rather than slavery (wait, wasn't slavery long long in the distant past while poaching was actually happening in the present day?)

>>127405503
Not going to say anything here either. 10/10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElE9XOuvRHE

>>127405448
very hot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfMvcGDkOes

>>127405739
This was Ellington's final new recorded material before his death.

>>127405739
Stick to "Choo 'N Gum", honey. It's more your speed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfowA1lg2G8

>>127405794
Griff dropping truthpills. 8/10.

>>127405824
Fuck off /pol/.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BP96VZfeSk4

>>127405833
She didn't peak until the Mercury years. A pretty average and uninspired ballad. 4/10.

>>127405761
Extremely enjoyable post-punk meanderings. Bowie vibes. Zero complaints. 8/10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wjyhABZSdE

>>127405868
Overplayed as hell and it goes against the <10 minute thread rule. 3/10.

>>127405833
There's way, way too little to this for me to really stand it. Meh. 4/10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tT5X6-yvIec

>>127405868
Far too boomer-y for me. Has a slight 70s prog vibe to it, which aite but yeah just not my thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-0jaie9B5E

>>127405739
Painful and bad from a woman who specialized in it.

>>127405868
This album really didn't need to sell as well as it did, I'm not kidding.

>>127405868
Taylor Swift can't do that with a guitar.

>>127405914
I don't necessarily have anything against the Velvet Underground esque "mutilated pop" songs, but this just feels empty and pointless to me. 6/10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kj6gSIqfBE4

>>127406068
I actually hadn't heard the Nico resemblance until now.

>>127406108
Wait... really? Seems like the very first thing that one would go back to.

>>127406068
Everyone loves ZZ Top.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tw0zYd0eIlk

>>127405739
I agree with the other guys. This is bullshit. 1/10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lrrtESJfJE

>>127406159
>This is bullshit
My take is Ellington was old by then and didn't give a fuck about anything anymore but a quick paycheck.

>>127406186
Sounds accurate.

>>127406135
I'm not listening to that. Forget it, pal.

>>127406063
I have to admire anyone who permanently wrecks his voice for his art.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmiKUD_ruYg

>>127406217
Although I feel strange listening to this in summertime it's one of the arguably better Sleigh Rides I've heard and there's a lot of them.

>>127406247
Classic and not much else to say about it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0-lENIRHaM

>>127406281
White trash -core.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSbSfYy2Tdg

>>127406315
Not much of a Tori Amos fan. 3/10.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3b_SaXYyNZk

>>127406413
ONJ before she got good and was just making bland 70s AC.

>>127406537
way too boomer for me

>>127406537
it sounds like a joke.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3F10hXdmQY&list=RDB3F10hXdmQY&start_radio=1

>>127406654
Bless my soul, I can't understand a word they're saying.

>>127406135
I know that this was meant to be "ironically bad". I just find it bad. "Bad bad". 1/10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFlANWvdhdQ

>>127406135
2/10 song

>>127406226
>>127407447
It's a fucking banger

>>127407447
Sounds like a lot of rock from the 80s. I liked the energy though. 6/10

https://youtube.com/watch?v=R2evCE_UYFc

>>127406159
>This is bullshit
That accurately describes most of Teresa Brewer's catalog but especially after the 50s when she was no longer making music for an actual audience and it was all self-indulgent wankery that appealed to no one but herself and Bob Thiele.

>>127407658
The guys really wanted to be as good as the mega-popular British blues and rock artists that ruled the world in the 1960s, and at least with this single and the related album they basically pulled it off. 10/10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Nv11dYMsXQ

>>127407838
Jesus Christ is this skate punk and hardcore punk influenced material so much better than whatever the fuck started to happen in the past twenty-five years or whatever. 8/10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmwpD79zATo

>>127407981
This is my favorite version of this standard. Ella's version is ok vocally but the cool jazz arrangements here are preferable to the old fashioned big band ones of hers.

>>127407981
Thankfully Teresa Brewer never made a version of 'Deed I Do. Well, almost. There was a part of it in a medley on one of her albums but she never did the entire song.

>>127405574
The European colonization of Africa is such a heavy subject, and this absolutely fails to even understand that history. Let alone put it into something dramatic that's listenable. It's like an elementary school student taking something by ChatGPT. And that's just the lyrics. Were it not for the release date, I'd think that this is some related AI service too trying to "generate standard 'sad sounding' music". God. Who the fuck thought that this would work? 1/10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvs9ODIjhiU

>>127408021
Rosemary Clooney's is ok but a bit herky jerky. Next to BD, Peggy Lee had the best version of it.

>>127405782
Apparently, this is basically 99% the 'Wrecking Crew' up to its usual tricks while Gary Lewis himself speak-sings a tiny bit and has that very dramatically edited by various studio tricks. That fact doesn't really change the fact that I like it a lot. Standard pop rock song. Really enjoyable to listen to, though. 9/10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrISpBSWN30

>>127407981
Like the other guy said. Fantastic. Flawless. 9/10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aa9dHQ1fiOo

>>127407995
B&R. 8/10.

>>127407995
Fuck this fascist bullshit.

>>127408315
The album cover suggests a lot more than this merely adequate pop rock.

>>127406326
Horrendously boring. I listened to every second. And it was a total waste of time. 4/10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMBYNWr5R_U

>>127408315
>hey who wants Brenda Lee for the 70s but not nearly as good

>>127408315
How terribly mediocre this is... is almost like offensive. This sounds like AI generated music. Yeesh. Couldn't listen to the whole thing. 2/10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lntauBurt5o

>>127408358
Not listening to that. 1/10.

>>127408503
He should have used a condom. 4/10 song.

>>127408522
Classic "long road trip" song. 7/10.

>>127408503
This was a shitty novelty song when the Marcy Brothers first recorded it, and it got no better what Billy Ray Cyrus picked it up. And time hasn't changed a thing. This always was horseshit from the word "go". Basically. 1/10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-Db3scgx3M

>>127406654
I know that this is deliberately intended to be incoherent noise just made to be offensive and make people angry, and in that the guys succeeded. Still is worthless. 1/10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRacpUtGQHE

>>127408658
I think it's one of those "so dumb you can't help but laugh at it" things.

>>127407995
The shtick of being a hard rock and/or punk rock Donald Trump would probably wear thin past something like the third song ends, but by itself this is tolerable. Not actually that funny. Still... eh. Kind of harmless either way. 5/10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vL0TtQkOXMw

>>127408883
A song with a strange charm
https://youtu.be/Xep_ZDIYX30?si=3lVjB6bQIsC2rxsu

>>127406635
Pretty great ballad. It drags somewhat, but she still has an iconic voice that suits quite a lot of things. 8/10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbuyCl6nhKs

>>127406178
Simply marvelous.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHNnCg0oZuc

>>127409513
I don't count anything after Bebe Le Strange.

>>127408346
Dreck.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRF_7xsu10c