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[Irysa]

RHIANNON IS EDITING THIS POST BECAUSE SHE SCREWED UP. In this topic, we will post songs and reviews for said songs. If you wish to discuss this Music Thing or something of that sort, go to the other topic. Actually, go to the other topic first unless you just want to read what people say or if you just want to say what you think of songs that other people post. NOW ON TO THE PART OF THIS POST THAT ASAPH ACTUALLY WROTE:

The Diablo Swing Orchestra - Balrog Boogie

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Mea Culpa, Ecce Signum, Corpus Vile, Coram Deo
Pactum Serva, Scala Caeli, Gloria Patri, Pax Et Bonum
Sine Cura, Vade Mecum, Casus Belli, Lusus Naturae
Dies Illa, Velut Luna, Dona Es Virtum

I recently found this band, and wowie, I was sure surprised. They mix Chicago Swing Jazz and Symphonic Rock into some of the most unique and funky music I've heard for a long time. It vaugely reminds me of the Rocky Horror Show, if you know what I mean.

This song is one of the best of what I have so far. I love the fact they use Contrabass, and no bass guitar here, and I love the Operatic vocals used on the track, which actually sounds operatic, unlike "some" bands who try to use it...
The overall song is exceedingly catchy and memorable, and inspired me to check them out some more. Enjoy!

This post has been edited by Rhiannon: May 6 2007, 03:14 PM

[Yuka]

Lee Brotherton (Remix Factory) - Dreams of an Absolution
Posted by Walrus

Okay, before I say anything that truly is part of my review, I walked into this dreading it for two reasons. One, its a song from a Sonic game. Not the oldschool Sonic games either. Two, its a song from a game period. Songs in games usually fall short on my book, which may seem ironic, since I seem to have a love for video game music.

Walrus opens us up with the fact that this is apparently the theme of some character (Silver) in an XBox 360 Sonic game (I'm assuming The Secret Rings?), and states that this song is techno. While I am partial to his statements, I think its more synthetic pop that doesn't sound bad at all. I've stopped trusting Walrus's reviews for the moment, as his reviews are greatly contrasting to mine (not so much on Balrog Boogie, but greatly different on Death, Come Near Me), but that doesn't stop me from agreeing with what he's implying with this song: While the games may be sucking now, atleast the music isn't.

Dreams of an Absolution (which is a great name, by the way) opens up with a simple synth wave/pad chord progression, while we hear some excerpt from the lyrics in the background not exactly sang. An actually not annoying male voice coded up all techno-y then shoots in metaphorically to start the often repeated quartet of lyrics. It does this a few times in the song, while breaking from that for the chorus, which then returns to said quartet of lyrics. While the lyrics have a tendancy to get dull fast, atleast there is some insturmentational variation, as well that at the four minute mark we finally get something moderately new in lyrical senses. It midway through sounds like a techno song, it ends like a techno song, but of course has lyrics. It ends rather shitty.

Partial to my reviewing score is that I do have an innate fondness for songs of this genre, so I'm giving this two scores, one for the techno/synth-pop fanatics and one for everyone else.

Techno/Synth-Pop Fanatic Score: 8.5
Everyone Else Score: 7

Edit: Walrus has corrected me on the name.

Walrus: no, PS3 and 360 both got the same game
Walrus: called SONIC the Hedgehog
Walrus: most people call it Sonic 06
Walrus: or Sonic Next Gen

Edit 2: After further review of the song's lyrics and my review, I realize that my review where I'm talking about the song's lyrics being repititious being wrong. This bumps up the Everyone Else Score to a 7.25. This is purely my fault.

This post has been edited by Sauce XIV: Apr 5 2007, 03:18 AM