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(12:12:41) XXXXXX: i dunno man the whistling sounds like a wild boar being fucked in the ass
(12:12:45) XXXXXX: which is pretty cooooooool!!!!!!!!!!!!!

― Jonathan Williams (ex machina), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 17:15 (twenty-two years ago)

"Liked both of them, but Beachweek better. My only gripe with that one was the Kurt Cobain Brains all over the sidewalk drum sounds. It's got that "Good Humor Truck" sound that VI was bitching about in another thread, that I really like."

― Nick A. (Nick A.), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 17:53 (twenty-two years ago)

When I was a (perhaps overly) naive 20 year old, I used to take my demos round to my friends who were squatting in East London. They'd all be sitting there, totally spliffed up, listening to it, going "yeah, that's great".

And I thought they really liked it ... Now I realize they were probably so stoned it might a well have been tape hiss. :-(

― phil jones (interstar), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 18:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Solo stuff: "Damn that noise is annoying! You need to get a new talent!"

Band: "Metal Talking Heads?"

Both from the indispensible garageband.com.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 18:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Too-knowing pastiche of Sixties girl group stylings. Sounds more like the ghastly Helen Love played at the wrong speed. Perhaps it is.

oh dear lord...

from the gay times. an organ which surely knows all about too knowing pastiche...

― kate, Tuesday, 10 December 2002 18:39 (twenty-two years ago)

"ANYONE WHO IS NOT AFRAID TO MAKE HIMSELF SOUND LIKE A BUNCH OF GIRLS JUMPING ROPE IS COOL WITH ME."

― dleone (dleone), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 18:41 (twenty-two years ago)

ironic thing is, it WAS played at the wrong speed, due to chris t-t knocking the speed button on the 4-track up as we were mixing it, and us forgetting to put it back down coz we were laughing so hard at the daphne and celesteness of it all...

― kate, Tuesday, 10 December 2002 18:41 (twenty-two years ago)

I love the speed button on my 4-track. That's how I made that noise that that particular reviewer found so irritating. Ain't nobody got love fer lofi-noise-rap.

As Beck's crygenically frozen head said once on Futurama, "yeah, it makes all kinds of obnoxious noises...I use it in almost all of my songs".

I love how that episode had a Rhyming Becktionary.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 18:47 (twenty-two years ago)

"I like it if only for the fact that you're not trying to sound like anyone else."

He was my friend so my low self opinion makes me think he was lying.

― meirion john lewis (mei), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 18:50 (twenty-two years ago)

"im into guitars and stuff you're just sound effects" - dean ween

― chaki (chaki), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 19:06 (twenty-two years ago)

"yeah, it makes all kinds of obnoxious noises...I use it in almost all of my songs".

this is my personal approach to effects pedals...

OH! I forgot my personal favourite reaction to a demo, from a well-known indie label that shall remain nameless. "wow, you guys are really great, i can't believe you're not signed. we'd sign you in a heartbeat, but we've already got a girl band."

oops, sorry, posted that to the wrong thread, didn't i? us girls got nothing to complain about at all. i suppose it's kinder than "we'd sign you in a minute, but we've got enough retrofetishistic bands ripping off 60s bands and writing songs about members of the jesus and mary chain and the dandy warhols..."

― kate, Tuesday, 10 December 2002 19:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Kate is the coolest mofo that ever dropped a "BOO-YAH!" on that stupid thread I could only read but couldn't bring myself to post on.

As for reviews...the next person who refers to either my band's or my own music as "quirky" is gonna get a swift kick to the jugular. Okay, I'm a weirdo GET OVER IT.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 19:45 (twenty-two years ago)

I looked up some reviews online of my high school metal band, ha.

"Waiting for Dawn is a power doom band from Wisconsin. This demo is a scant two songs, but shows some promise for these melodic doomsters. "This Day" starts off with some catchy riffing. This is some solid power doom, with catchy melodies and a good groove to it.
[cut]
After a few more demos, this band will be ready to take on the doom world!"

DOOM DOOM DOOM! DOOMSTERS! We went around calling each other doomsters for months after that.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 19:51 (twenty-two years ago)

"This 14-song home recording is amazingly good for two brothers who are too young to marry, even in West Virginia"

― charlie va (charlie va), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 20:14 (twenty-two years ago)

"sounds like Galaxie 500 rehearsing"

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 23:01 (twenty-two years ago)

haha nick, garageband.com is great! I loved this one (very hateful) tirade so much I made it my signature review. Best line:

"i think this is a good anthem to play while driving around looking for performance artists to run over in my unsophisticated automobile."

― original bgm, Wednesday, 11 December 2002 05:52 (twenty-two years ago)

"If Oscar from Sesame St. fame got into a horific car accident and received a stoma to be able to breathe, he would mimic this lead singer. Honestly, I have no idea which genre to toss this in. The guitar is out of tune, which doesn't really matter, and that's all there is to it. As for lyrics, I couldn't understand anything. Ugh."

― steve, Wednesday, 11 December 2002 08:18 (twenty-two years ago)

"Fuck, this is abrasive man! I might put it on if I'm really drunk. I have no idea of what they're trying to do!" - Pete Steele from Biohazard in Kerrang!

― dave q, Wednesday, 11 December 2002 08:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Several years ago, the guitarist and bassist of a band I used to be in were out hawking one of our demos around a few record labels....

One of the AR men they played it to told them that in his professional opinion they should ditch the lead singer (me) and suggested that they should replace him (me!) with the girl who was singing the backing vocals.

The "girl" who was singing the backing vocals was also me.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 11 December 2002 09:22 (twenty-two years ago)

From garageband, my favourite review:

"I'll come right out and say it. This song bugged me. Your singer has no business with a microphone."

The nastiest:

"This song is very Kula Shaker... i don't ilke so much this style, but i guess it's good."

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Wednesday, 11 December 2002 15:12 (twenty-two years ago)

"Insider rock."

― mike a (mike a), Wednesday, 11 December 2002 15:41 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

"What the heck am I listening to. I am here at 12:56 in the morning (eastern time zone) and I am attracting aliens to my house. I am listening through headphones and I am *word to God* taking them out listening to the speakers of the computer to make sure my headphone's speakers have not broke. They unfortunately have not."

"a slightly deranged but sincerely delivered vocal"

― JC-L (JC-L), Thursday, 19 August 2004 15:07 (twenty-one years ago)

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