Red Mosquito

number one – wow, really? I mean, srsly
it’s really hard to deal with alvin and the chipmunks and actually ‘listen’ to the song. the music is ok, but c’mon, fuck those vocals.

two – I liked, and it automatically gained points for being an instrumental. also, I appreciate the dissonance.

three – um, speed metal, anyone?

anyway, it’s not completely horrible as a subgenre, just rather stuck up its own ass, I mean ‘math rock’ –

Malice, how about this one from Battles?

malice wrote:number one – wow, really? I mean, srsly
it’s really hard to deal with alvin and the chipmunks and actually ‘listen’ to the song. the music is ok, but c’mon, fuck those vocals

Heh. I actually really like that song.

those were the most accessible ones I could think of. It gets stuck so much further up its ass.

theplatypus wrote:

malice wrote:number one – wow, really? I mean, srsly
it’s really hard to deal with alvin and the chipmunks and actually ‘listen’ to the song. the music is ok, but c’mon, fuck those vocals

Heh. I actually really like that song.

of course you did, jorge

BurtReynolds wrote:those were the most accessible ones I could think of. It gets stuck so much further up its ass.

I think it's ok, but it's meant to be very in your head experiencing it if one's to take it at all seriously - I don't generally like having to work that hard at music. that's how it comes across to me.

I can see how those were 'accessible' examples though...

LetMeSleep wrote:Malice, how about this one from Battles?

it opens up about 3 minutes in- at which point I like it a lot more – but was enjoying the video throughout – so that’s a plus, if the entire tune was more like around that 3 minute mark I’d be much happier with it.
I quite enjoyed the wind down at the end 2 minutes or so

I'll probably listen to it again later and see what I think of it

malice wrote:

theplatypus wrote:

malice wrote:number one – wow, really? I mean, srsly
it’s really hard to deal with alvin and the chipmunks and actually ‘listen’ to the song. the music is ok, but c’mon, fuck those vocals

Heh. I actually really like that song.

of course you did, jorge

Hey! Way to turn my completely amiable comment into some sort of insult (I think)!

theplatypus wrote:

malice wrote:

theplatypus wrote:

malice wrote:number one – wow, really? I mean, srsly
it’s really hard to deal with alvin and the chipmunks and actually ‘listen’ to the song. the music is ok, but c’mon, fuck those vocals

Heh. I actually really like that song.

of course you did, jorge

Hey! Way to turn my completely amiable comment into some sort of insult (I think)!

it's probably the most listenable track of theirs IMO. they can be work though.

Most of it is virtuoso show off crap to me, but Battles has a few good ones. Early Foals has some cool math sounding songs, too.

right you are, Burt.

Battles suck but at least we're not talking about Grimes anymore

Fuck that. Grimes is awesome.

She's so cool.

none of this is obscure. why not retitle "shit i don't like"?

I took obscure to mean "highly specific" and/or "excessively categorized" rather than "unknown."

Malloy wrote:none of this is obscure. why not retitle "shit i don't like"?

he likes it

my fault on both counts then

Kevin Davis wrote:I took obscure to mean "highly specific" and/or "excessively categorized" rather than "unknown."

That. I was in a hurry. Lame is also optional. You know what, I should just try again.