[quote name='CaNz to only White']
Sorry If I upset you with the rating White, ( I am sure I didn't upset you much, but I all my ratings were out of my opinion alone, and I don't mean to insult your taste at all) I just like certain things different in songs. I will agree that there is a lot of repetition in any song including my own, and for some songs thats perfectly okay, but the song Riff didn't sound good to me in the first place, yet they took the exact same chords and distorted it rather than a change up, and in the chorus they only alter the portions sound of the chord progression rather than change it entirely. This is slightly different from The songs I chose because they have different progressions for all parts of the song. Awake has a different Intro, different Verse, different Chorus. and a Solo as well. The same applies with Gimmy Sympathy except instead of six minutes it is four. 2/3 of the time to be repetitive. a lot of the Train song is instrumentals... there are not many lyrics in the song so I heard the same riff a lot. the lengths of the riff also adds to why I feel that way. The riff repeats after four beats. In awake the riff repeats after 16 once every verse (the first four beats and the second four are Identical I know, but the whole pattern that repeats is 16) as for Gimmy Sympathy the verse repeats after 16 beats twice each time, before jumping into a very different chorus riff.
I counted the same Riff in trains 12 times before I heard any other instrument played. I know a lt of Acoustic songs like that, but I only like those when the Riff sounds good to me. It Can easily sound good to other people though, I just rate em like I hear it. I barely recognised the drums when they came in, and the song keeps the same tempo through the entire six minutes so I don't think they made a real impact. I don''t mind the drum beat, but its pretty simple. It matches the song well, but it doesn't change it, so it doesn't change my view of it. Vocals are always up to peoples opinions. I just thought the foggy distant sound made him had to understand. If mine are hard to understand too then thats fine, but it doesn't change my view of the song either. I know Evans Blue is tough to understand... That band takes repetition to finally get, but I like the sound of Evans Blues singer far better, and the lyrics in my opinion are on an entire other level.
I often play the guitar, bass guitar, piano, harmonica, and I used to play the drums, but I never had too much talent in it and have not played in ages. I also listen to lots of music. You?
I know don't have to mention the video, but all of them have had them thus far and it gives you something to look at... At least for me it doesn't effect the song rating, but I like to mention it.
I like Hustle Rose better than Gimmy Sympathy too, As well as a couple songs from Underground, my favorite of all time is Combat Baby from that CD, but I like Gimmy Sympathy too and I wanted to show off the silly video.
I wouldn't wanna say why one song is better than another either.
I would like to defend my song choice since you got to do it to yours. I agree that its a common rock song, however what stands out is 1: lead singer is a girl yet she can make good rock songs. 2: lyrics are bettter than most in my opinion, 3: I think its done on purpose since they are alluding to popular rock bands (music fits the lyrics) and finally 4: Metric is not a normal rock band, so I like it because they do something they aren't used to better than most bands that only play this genre. Also Gimmy Sympathy is said three times in the song, She does sing the words " who'd you rather be" and "ohh seriously" in the same pitch though so maybe that brought up the confusion. so really they only say Gimmy sympathy once per chorus... also though at the end of the song she does say the here comes the sun part a lot, but I think that's because she was just doing it to put words in the outro. every other chorus she only says it once. I consider repeating it at the end a change up though... so I thought it was even less repetitive, though I can see why you'd feel that way.
Anyways, I am sorry again if I stepped on a toe with the low score, but its just how I feel.[/quote]
I am a fan of a good J-pop song!
7.5/10
For transitioning between super happy sounding Pop music to heavy metal... they do this almost seamlessly. The big haired dude has an awesome voice too, though its a bit auto-tuned, especially during the happy chorus. Drums were generic, but the transitions between the two different sounding sections are perfect. The only problem I have with the instrumentals are that they all kinda sound like generic pop rock and then generic heavy metal, just put together really really ridiculously well. The other singer(s... I donno how many there are) gave more depth to the sound of the songs lyrics, and though I don't know what they were... I don't really care.
also... The video is pretty funny and entertaining.
CaNz the music snob has spoken!
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16_2HBaeFXk[/media]