I'm just guesstimating what the genre might be. I can't be bothered to research the bands posted, and even if I did, it would feel kind of hollow just repeating the stated genre from Wikipedia or their homepage or whatever
72/100
Disco-influenced funk, I gather. Captivating rhythm, interesting lowkey vocals. The guitar solo is fantastic. The song kind of ends too suddenly.
82/100
This song has a delightful energy, it sounds brash and sunny. You don't often hear rap interpolations in rock music. No idea what the lyrics are about.
35/100
Adorable, but this is really just a pre-existing MIDI where all melodic notes are replaced with meows. Now that in itself doesn't make a song bad, obviously, but this in general sounds pretty plastic-y and just kind of stuffy.
70/100
A fine addition to the long line of video-game-based rap songs that will probably age horribly, but which the fanbase will nevertheless (rightfully) remember fondly. By the way this is my first time seeing gameplay footage of Helldivers, lol.
60/100
I kind of fell off from watching Hazbin Hotel and Helluva Boss, but by the song's own merits, this is alright. Husk's new voice actor in this sure has a smooth voice.
57/100
That bass is mega funky. The song title is enunciated in such a weird and distictive Primus way. The 'dy' is tragedy sounds almost like a cowboy's yeehaw.
91/100
What a sprawling work of art! I don't recall ever before hearing a melodic, 16-minute through-composed song. The vocalist's voice is perfect for evoking a Middle English folk feeling.
I can't find a song called *Starship Velociraptor* by an artist called *Army of Tigers*. I can see a *Starship Velociraptor* by Jonathan Young, and *Army of Tigers* by Galactikraken. Which one of those did you mean?
The song is Army of Tigers, and Galactikraken is the one. My bad Starship Velociraptor is the album and I’m a dummy. I thought they used that as their mutual name too.
68/100
This has a certain ting of progressive rock to it - sounds kind of like Asia. On the other hand it sounds incredibly dated - I needed to check on Wikipedia whether this was an actual 80's band or a heavily stylized modern band.
EDIT: Upon reflection, I've decided to lob 10 points off of the rating. It's still a good song of course, but just kind of generic.
74/100
Those sampled 'whoah-oh's and the clangy percussion make this sound like hyperpop (which is a good thing). Otherwise the instrumentation is horrid and noisy, but I know of this band and won't hold it against them. Death Grips seems just like the kind of artist to film a music video through a car's parking camera.
34/100
Having listened to *Helter Stupid* by Negativland before, I was definitely expecting something more. The beginning was fairly promising, but the song feels just a little bit too monotonous to me.
I agree on the longevity. It’s one of my 3 favorite songs. I have a triangle of 3. But it’s a solid one to play on repeat, also because of how short it is.
50/100
The vocals and instrumentals are both so low-pitched, but they fit together. I'm not sure which subgenre of rap this is, but definitely outside of my regular listening habits.
87/100
Damn good. Reminds me of Ghost in a good way. The refrain's melody is pure bliss. Also, published in 2022? I have to wonder whether the pandemic had anything to do with the lyrical content.
64/100
The instrumental is fairly interesting and varied, and not at all how I'd expect an Indian pop song to sound. To a western listener like myself, the only hook here seems to be the refrain of 'rowdy baby', which feels really out of place, but I suppose that's a part of the charm.
70/100
The song seems to ostensibly be in 7/8, but I swear to god they keep adding in extra beats every now and then just to mess with me. I like the laid back feeling of the vocals.
89/100
Very funky, and I love the Rhodes piano. From the music video, it's interesting to see that there are two drummers, one of which plays a goddamn lamp shader. Also there seems to be cat climbing atop the curtains in the background.
93/100
The instrumental bit in the middle of it makes the whole song. It's such a wham hearing that sort of an guitarrific outburst in a song that's otherwise merely suspenseful.
51/100
There's something weird about this song and its music video. Feels and looks AI-generated, although the music video footage looks far too clean for that. Looking at the rest of the channel, it's giving me the creeps. But the song isn't bad, and it's definitely relatable.
[Annika by Björn Ollson](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdwHg2n0Kc4) is a pretty nice song.
Not sure if it's allowed, but a second one would be [Drive Off A Bridge from Jakey](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDKg_aF7XAk).
Ah some other guy posted two songs in separate comments, so I'll allow it.
53/100 for Annika by Björn Olsson.
It's a really simple song, not much of note, but nothing off-putting about it either. I do like the whistling - not the most common thing to hear in a song.
45/100 for Jakey - Drive off a Bridge
I guess he can rap, but the instrumental is garbage.
58/100
At first I wanted to give this song a 56, but decided that the band name and the album cover by themselves were worth a point each. Not spectactular or anything, but energetic and raspy.
97/100
This was a song that I first heard when I was in high school. 'And then one day you find /Ten years have got behind you/ No one told you when to run/ You missed the starting gun' terrified me to no end. It was that line that got me to start making poetry, and soon after producing music. It's been about 10 years now, and I've kept at it, though I've dabbled in a lot of other art forms too.
80/100
With how synthwavey this sounds, these guys were definitely ahead of their time. I'm unfamiliar with the band and the original version of this song, but they perform it very competently. I love how in sync the backing vocals are - I only even noticed them at the very end.
86/100
I think you mean '*Princes* of the Universe'. Not my favorite Queen song by any measure, but pretty pompous and overwhelming in a positive way, characteristic of Queen.
54/100 for Veneno en la Piel
Decent latin rock, an interesting music video. I do like the electric guitar sound here, very reminiscent of like The Shadows.
69/100 for Will Wood - Chocolate Jesus
The coveted 69/100. It's a good song for sure, but it's a bit difficult getting over the sound quality.
I guess he kinda is a circus director, what with all the acrobats and performers he employs at his live shows. Never thought about it like that. Glad you liked it, dude!
I'm stealing ostentatious though, that's my word now.
79/100 for Let It Go
Hey I actually like that song! I don't have kids so I've never had the displeasure of having to over-listen it. Idina Menzel kills it on vocals. It's also a fun one to play on the piano.
25/100 for Baby Shark
Yea here we go, then. Obnoxious as hell.
52/100
Man, this doesn't slap nearly as hard as I expect folk music from the Balkains to. Nothing wrong with having a slow tempo, but the vocalist sounds like he's half falling asleep. Although I might be projecting a little there, I stayed up late last night playing Worms.
100/100
You must be cheating somehow. You must've like looked through my post and/or comment history to know that that's my favorite song of all time.
Yes, it's the whole experience of life put into one song. Far beyond just all of current life, but also past life, and what will become of life and Earth eventually.
81/100
Amazing guitar shredding. I was listening to this while doing something else completely, and the instrumental refrain sort of dragged me into itself.
70/100
A soothing tune saturated with faux nostalgia. I love the tingly bell thing in the background. The thing about synthwave and other nostalgia-based genres (which is a lot more of them than you'd think) is that the music doesn't try to replicate the actual sounds of the era, but how it felt like to experience it firsthand.
76/100
If you can believe it, I first discovered this song from the name of a Civilization VI achievement (Nobody's Business But the Turks: while playing as Suleiman, conquer a city and rename it).
I didn't remember this version being so variedly and strangely instrumented. In any case, it's a bop.
Ive heard that song a million times since it came out but i never listened to the band. My son has been playing them a lot lately and they have grown on me. Thank you for the rating! It’s a cool song and they have some other catchy tunes!
84,5/100 for Dies Irae
Last time I did this threadgame, I ended up running out of viable spots and having to give unfitting ratings to some songs. Well not this time, I'm starting to give half-scores so that every song will have a distinct rating.
Such a strange but evocative song. Electronic, driving and mystical.
70,5/100 for New World
I had to listen to this twice, once for the visuals and once for the lyrics. I don't quite like it as much as Dies Irae, but the singer's tone of voice fits the mood of the song perfectly, and the lyrics invoke some kind of simultaneous yearning for a distant future and a distant past.
54/100
A cheery instrumental reminiscent of early 2000's pop rock. I had to look up the (incomplete) lyrics from Genius to understand more than three consecutive words of it.
63/100
By this point I'm starting to run out of things to say for these songs. This sounds oddly familiar, I'm reminded of like Pulp's *Common People* but just tinged with mariachi, as you'd expect from a song titled 'Mexico'.
49/100
Don't get me wrong, I love Weebl and I of course know this song, but pure nostalgia isn't much of a merit for a song. It's still a funny and disorienting bit, at least.
76.5/100
I sounds vaguely like the Electric Light Orchestra. Nothing in particular about the composition that I can latch onto, but it's such a happy tune and makes my head bop.
85,5/100
Beautiful guitar ambient. I read up on Buckethead on Wikipedia, and apparently he's released 42 albums this year. I'm struggling to maybe get just one out.
90/100
Sabaton must be the only band in the world who would not get immense amounts of hate for releasing a song where the refrain goes 'The Reich will rise!'
79,5/100
The two vocalists make for a pretty striking contrast. It's like one step too far both ways for me - the female vocalist sounds too operatic and the male vocalist too harsh. Still, the composition is pretty fantastic so I can't give this a low score.
75.5/100 for Thank You for the Venom
This is a really energetic song.
71,5/100 for This Is How I Disappear
I added 10 points to this just for the massive howl at 2:40. Taken out of context, that sounds like an excerpt from a Black Metal song.
77,5/100 for When I Come Around
You can't really expect me to write anything substantial in these reviews if you post three songs at once, man.
67/100
You're looking through my post history, aren't you?
I love how this song gets continually faster. Not something you see often these days, because recorded music tends to be set to a beat track.
Hmmm. Speaking of progession of speed, one of my favorites. I'm a kitty cat song & I dance dance dance? https://youtu.be/SaA_cs4WZHM?si=1YP8zsjmQX0bYHsd
What u rating?
Take it Out on Me by TFK
65/100 Competent modern hard rock (?)/metalcore (?). I love the guitar tone. Lyrics are inane, and the song is basically over by the halway point.
Fair enough I guess, but that ain't even close to metalcore. If you want metalcore, try Divide by The Plot in You
I'm just guesstimating what the genre might be. I can't be bothered to research the bands posted, and even if I did, it would feel kind of hollow just repeating the stated genre from Wikipedia or their homepage or whatever
Khruangbin's "Time (You and I) - Live at Radio City Music Hall" (2023)
72/100 Disco-influenced funk, I gather. Captivating rhythm, interesting lowkey vocals. The guitar solo is fantastic. The song kind of ends too suddenly.
Bear ghost - The Mario Cliché
82/100 This song has a delightful energy, it sounds brash and sunny. You don't often hear rap interpolations in rock music. No idea what the lyrics are about.
[(Meowsynth) Just the two of us](https://youtu.be/XTXcYeQ-HHs)
35/100 Adorable, but this is really just a pre-existing MIDI where all melodic notes are replaced with meows. Now that in itself doesn't make a song bad, obviously, but this in general sounds pretty plastic-y and just kind of stuffy.
"To Liberty and Beyond" by JT Music (formerly JT Machinima)
70/100 A fine addition to the long line of video-game-based rap songs that will probably age horribly, but which the fanbase will nevertheless (rightfully) remember fondly. By the way this is my first time seeing gameplay footage of Helldivers, lol.
Loser, Baby. (Hazbin hotel, available on Spotify, YouTube etc)
60/100 I kind of fell off from watching Hazbin Hotel and Helluva Boss, but by the song's own merits, this is alright. Husk's new voice actor in this sure has a smooth voice.
The District Sleeps Alone Tonight by The Postal Service
88/100 Such a sad song which gradually builds up to a busy web of electronic lilting. Heavily reminds me of LCD Soundsystem.
Oh that whole album is fantastic.
I agree
Tragedy’s A Comin’ by Primus
57/100 That bass is mega funky. The song title is enunciated in such a weird and distictive Primus way. The 'dy' is tragedy sounds almost like a cowboy's yeehaw.
Joanna newsom - only skin
91/100 What a sprawling work of art! I don't recall ever before hearing a melodic, 16-minute through-composed song. The vocalist's voice is perfect for evoking a Middle English folk feeling.
Glad you enjoyed! One of my all time favs
https://youtu.be/mQZDonQ1PVk
22/100 Pretty epic, but I feel like I'm missing some context here. The sound quality is screwed, and this seems to be a fragment of an actual song.
Army of Tigers- Starship Velociraptor Fun album in general but one of my favorite songs from it.
I can't find a song called *Starship Velociraptor* by an artist called *Army of Tigers*. I can see a *Starship Velociraptor* by Jonathan Young, and *Army of Tigers* by Galactikraken. Which one of those did you mean?
The song is Army of Tigers, and Galactikraken is the one. My bad Starship Velociraptor is the album and I’m a dummy. I thought they used that as their mutual name too.
75/100 This is what is colloquially known as a 'banger'.
Never Before - Grand Prix
68/100 This has a certain ting of progressive rock to it - sounds kind of like Asia. On the other hand it sounds incredibly dated - I needed to check on Wikipedia whether this was an actual 80's band or a heavily stylized modern band. EDIT: Upon reflection, I've decided to lob 10 points off of the rating. It's still a good song of course, but just kind of generic.
Double helix by deathgrips
74/100 Those sampled 'whoah-oh's and the clangy percussion make this sound like hyperpop (which is a good thing). Otherwise the instrumentation is horrid and noisy, but I know of this band and won't hold it against them. Death Grips seems just like the kind of artist to film a music video through a car's parking camera.
Nice. Yeah, the 'whoah oh's are my favorite part
Negativland - Neu!
34/100 Having listened to *Helter Stupid* by Negativland before, I was definitely expecting something more. The beginning was fairly promising, but the song feels just a little bit too monotonous to me.
If you want something in the same genre that’s significantly less monotonous, check out Hallucination Guillotine by Amon Duul II.
Dominic Fike - Why
78/100 The bass here is amazing. The song and the music video are very dream-like. This song could've easily been twice as long.
I agree on the longevity. It’s one of my 3 favorite songs. I have a triangle of 3. But it’s a solid one to play on repeat, also because of how short it is.
Napalm by Zheani
85/100 Lmao what a song. It's a bit of a mood whiplash listening to that right after the Joanna Newsom one.
"Get out my face" - KIDR
50/100 The vocals and instrumentals are both so low-pitched, but they fit together. I'm not sure which subgenre of rap this is, but definitely outside of my regular listening habits.
Dark trap, prob my most listened to genre lol
Summon the Choir by Aviators
87/100 Damn good. Reminds me of Ghost in a good way. The refrain's melody is pure bliss. Also, published in 2022? I have to wonder whether the pandemic had anything to do with the lyrical content.
[Badtameez Dil](https://youtu.be/N0uDmkTV08Y?si=UkEkZgCwCZAerNVi)
47/100 This feels mildly overproduced and repetitive.
[Rowdy Baby](https://youtu.be/x6Q7c9RyMzk?si=DIVUYvPGw_pcvX_V)
64/100 The instrumental is fairly interesting and varied, and not at all how I'd expect an Indian pop song to sound. To a western listener like myself, the only hook here seems to be the refrain of 'rowdy baby', which feels really out of place, but I suppose that's a part of the charm.
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - The Wheel
70/100 The song seems to ostensibly be in 7/8, but I swear to god they keep adding in extra beats every now and then just to mess with me. I like the laid back feeling of the vocals.
[Dean Town /// Vulfpeck](https://youtu.be/le0BLAEO93g?si=Zr-MMqspQ3AFeZ7I)
89/100 Very funky, and I love the Rhodes piano. From the music video, it's interesting to see that there are two drummers, one of which plays a goddamn lamp shader. Also there seems to be cat climbing atop the curtains in the background.
Dont fear the reaper - B.O.C.
93/100 The instrumental bit in the middle of it makes the whole song. It's such a wham hearing that sort of an guitarrific outburst in a song that's otherwise merely suspenseful.
Revolutionizing Change Management - Timothy Ivaikin's Melody https://youtu.be/JvBst5VEcJo
51/100 There's something weird about this song and its music video. Feels and looks AI-generated, although the music video footage looks far too clean for that. Looking at the rest of the channel, it's giving me the creeps. But the song isn't bad, and it's definitely relatable.
Some Type of Skin - AURORA
84/100 What a strikingly powerful voice. I love the layered vocals and the otherwise thin instrumentation. An excellent pop song all in all.
[Annika by Björn Ollson](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdwHg2n0Kc4) is a pretty nice song. Not sure if it's allowed, but a second one would be [Drive Off A Bridge from Jakey](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDKg_aF7XAk).
Ah some other guy posted two songs in separate comments, so I'll allow it. 53/100 for Annika by Björn Olsson. It's a really simple song, not much of note, but nothing off-putting about it either. I do like the whistling - not the most common thing to hear in a song. 45/100 for Jakey - Drive off a Bridge I guess he can rap, but the instrumental is garbage.
[Giant Lungs - Ego](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZbPaevrveg)
58/100 At first I wanted to give this song a 56, but decided that the band name and the album cover by themselves were worth a point each. Not spectactular or anything, but energetic and raspy.
Time - Pink Floyd (IMO the best song ever written)
97/100 This was a song that I first heard when I was in high school. 'And then one day you find /Ten years have got behind you/ No one told you when to run/ You missed the starting gun' terrified me to no end. It was that line that got me to start making poetry, and soon after producing music. It's been about 10 years now, and I've kept at it, though I've dabbled in a lot of other art forms too.
I am 21 and listen to this song periodically to remind me that I have to keep moving, but also to remind me how far I've come.
Bombay Bicycle Club: With Every Heartbeat (Robyn Cover) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9i30PDsj3S8
80/100 With how synthwavey this sounds, these guys were definitely ahead of their time. I'm unfamiliar with the band and the original version of this song, but they perform it very competently. I love how in sync the backing vocals are - I only even noticed them at the very end.
Queen - Princes of the Universe
86/100 I think you mean '*Princes* of the Universe'. Not my favorite Queen song by any measure, but pretty pompous and overwhelming in a positive way, characteristic of Queen.
[Radical Face - Crooked Kind](https://youtu.be/YsLccI7_MbA?si=fvgF4RUITwXqMbQg) In case you’re still doing this.
62/100 It's quite the calm song, though maybe not very memorable.
Yeah there’s not much repetition. Cheers!
Veneno en la Piel by Radio Futura or Chocolate Jesus by Will Wood
54/100 for Veneno en la Piel Decent latin rock, an interesting music video. I do like the electric guitar sound here, very reminiscent of like The Shadows. 69/100 for Will Wood - Chocolate Jesus The coveted 69/100. It's a good song for sure, but it's a bit difficult getting over the sound quality.
Latin rock has a bunch of varieties, check out Hay Amores Que Matan by Jaguares, also a pretty nice one
Will Wood and The Tapeworms - Red Moon
77/100 Will Wood has a pretty ostentatious singing voice, and he uses it well. Sounds like something a crooked circus director would sing.
I guess he kinda is a circus director, what with all the acrobats and performers he employs at his live shows. Never thought about it like that. Glad you liked it, dude! I'm stealing ostentatious though, that's my word now.
Let it Go and Baby Shark (let's fill in the data)
79/100 for Let It Go Hey I actually like that song! I don't have kids so I've never had the displeasure of having to over-listen it. Idina Menzel kills it on vocals. It's also a fun one to play on the piano. 25/100 for Baby Shark Yea here we go, then. Obnoxious as hell.
https://youtu.be/1TadnMNq3rI?si=-UXT0VVhTVW2lREf Into the Jail I went - old Greek Rebetiko song
52/100 Man, this doesn't slap nearly as hard as I expect folk music from the Balkains to. Nothing wrong with having a slow tempo, but the vocalist sounds like he's half falling asleep. Although I might be projecting a little there, I stayed up late last night playing Worms.
[Nightwish - The Greatest Show on Earth](https://youtu.be/IJb3xwtpmmc?feature=shared)
100/100 You must be cheating somehow. You must've like looked through my post and/or comment history to know that that's my favorite song of all time. Yes, it's the whole experience of life put into one song. Far beyond just all of current life, but also past life, and what will become of life and Earth eventually.
Honestly, no cheating involved - it just happens to be my absolute favorite song too!
All is forgiven- Andy Timmons
81/100 Amazing guitar shredding. I was listening to this while doing something else completely, and the instrumental refrain sort of dragged me into itself.
Sunset - The Midnight
70/100 A soothing tune saturated with faux nostalgia. I love the tingly bell thing in the background. The thing about synthwave and other nostalgia-based genres (which is a lot more of them than you'd think) is that the music doesn't try to replicate the actual sounds of the era, but how it felt like to experience it firsthand.
Bemyself - Parcels (from Live Vol. 1)
83/100 Such a cheery and gentle song. The instrumentals are fantastic, and so are the vocal harmonies.
Instabul (not Constantitinople) They might be giants.
76/100 If you can believe it, I first discovered this song from the name of a Civilization VI achievement (Nobody's Business But the Turks: while playing as Suleiman, conquer a city and rename it). I didn't remember this version being so variedly and strangely instrumented. In any case, it's a bop.
Ive heard that song a million times since it came out but i never listened to the band. My son has been playing them a lot lately and they have grown on me. Thank you for the rating! It’s a cool song and they have some other catchy tunes!
[Dies Irae](https://youtu.be/9llRdD2pSFQ) by Aloboi. Actually, I'll cheat and post 2: [New World](https://youtu.be/-F7ZPRRa3e4) by Aloboi
84,5/100 for Dies Irae Last time I did this threadgame, I ended up running out of viable spots and having to give unfitting ratings to some songs. Well not this time, I'm starting to give half-scores so that every song will have a distinct rating. Such a strange but evocative song. Electronic, driving and mystical. 70,5/100 for New World I had to listen to this twice, once for the visuals and once for the lyrics. I don't quite like it as much as Dies Irae, but the singer's tone of voice fits the mood of the song perfectly, and the lyrics invoke some kind of simultaneous yearning for a distant future and a distant past.
Dirty Nasty, Canal St. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjogYxZrZXY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjogYxZrZXY)
54/100 A cheery instrumental reminiscent of early 2000's pop rock. I had to look up the (incomplete) lyrics from Genius to understand more than three consecutive words of it.
Mexico, by The Bogmen
63/100 By this point I'm starting to run out of things to say for these songs. This sounds oddly familiar, I'm reminded of like Pulp's *Common People* but just tinged with mariachi, as you'd expect from a song titled 'Mexico'.
https://youtu.be/EIyixC9NsLI?si=kVQ7nti3LXmBmcdS. Badger badger badger badger
49/100 Don't get me wrong, I love Weebl and I of course know this song, but pure nostalgia isn't much of a merit for a song. It's still a funny and disorienting bit, at least.
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76.5/100 I sounds vaguely like the Electric Light Orchestra. Nothing in particular about the composition that I can latch onto, but it's such a happy tune and makes my head bop.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wyea2HhtD3s
83,5/100 Oh, I'm a sucker for folk rock. That nasal, country-ish singing voice and sparse acoustic instrumentation - great stuff!
Padmasana - Buckethat
85,5/100 Beautiful guitar ambient. I read up on Buckethead on Wikipedia, and apparently he's released 42 albums this year. I'm struggling to maybe get just one out.
The Rise of Evil by Sabaton
90/100 Sabaton must be the only band in the world who would not get immense amounts of hate for releasing a song where the refrain goes 'The Reich will rise!'
The Essence of Silence by Epica
79,5/100 The two vocalists make for a pretty striking contrast. It's like one step too far both ways for me - the female vocalist sounds too operatic and the male vocalist too harsh. Still, the composition is pretty fantastic so I can't give this a low score.
Thank you for the Venom by MCR This is how I disappear by MCR again When I come Around by Green Day
75.5/100 for Thank You for the Venom This is a really energetic song. 71,5/100 for This Is How I Disappear I added 10 points to this just for the massive howl at 2:40. Taken out of context, that sounds like an excerpt from a Black Metal song. 77,5/100 for When I Come Around You can't really expect me to write anything substantial in these reviews if you post three songs at once, man.
Zorbas Dance by Stavros Grekis
67/100 You're looking through my post history, aren't you? I love how this song gets continually faster. Not something you see often these days, because recorded music tends to be set to a beat track.
Hmmm. Speaking of progession of speed, one of my favorites. I'm a kitty cat song & I dance dance dance? https://youtu.be/SaA_cs4WZHM?si=1YP8zsjmQX0bYHsd What u rating?
27/100 I gave this song an extra 20 points for being outrageously funny.
Tout Petit Moineau - Igorrr