so recently i found the best single existant in my entire music library. I KNOW RIGHT!? no seriously it's amazing, i love it, i love it, you will too. it's xiu xiu and parenthical girls' split cover of smiths songs, and it happens to be one of my favorite smiths songs too. the covers they did are amazing, as one would expect. they kept the lyrics and the general melody of the songs but xiu xiu'd and parenthical girls'd them. they almost have an eeeeerie sound. it's a really interesting and incredible listen, cause i haven't heard anything like this really. the two songs i'll post are actually an split single released by xiu xiu and parenthical girls, and the mp3's are 320, cause i rule.
anyways, in this post i will review both tracks, as they are just that good.
This xiu xiu song in particular makes it to the top 3 of my favorite tracks by them. it maintains the xiu xiu style while covering a particularly shitty song by morrissey. while starting off slowly with a fade in rounded kick, it gains intensity with the usual xiu xiu noise, however further in the song the most incredible bloops and beeps start sounding, and it's just toooooo wicked. of course soaked in distortion, the bleeps really really add to the otherwise fairly typical xiu xiu sounding tune. sometimes adding reverb and more or less distortion also changes up these beeps, so it's just a really refreshing thing to hear. together with the stabs of horns, this song is somewhat unique in terms of a cover. the vocals are also fairly awesome, adding the xiu xiu misery to morrissey's confident tone. in conclusion, when keeping in mind this is a morrissey song, which would mean it would have nothing out of the ordinary in it at all, i think xiu xiu really did well here in terms of providing an interesting cover, which in my opinion, is better than the original.
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Oh my god this song blew my mind. This parenthical girls cover is getting an insane amount of plays by me recently. it starts off with piano notes, eventually working into the handsome devil guitar riffs, but ever so off tune as if it was in some sort of horror movie. almost sounds as if it were by the misfits or some other band we all listened to in grade 10. when the drums come in they make the song more up beat and dance-able, really. really. although different from the original drumming, it's still pretty wicked. the vocals are also very well done. i've always loved this dude's voice, and he really does the trembello of morrissey's well. anyway further in the song there's some feedback and what not to add to that eerie effect i mentioned, and then when it gets to the part where it says "i said, i said, i i said" all these awkward horns coming in drowning out anything else, really, which i find fucking coooool. it happens again a few times but the song maintains the same patterns till some slow part, which, i'm not really that big of a fan of. it's alright i guess, got some cool 80's sounding snare in there, but whatever. the BEST part of this song is after he says "i'm going to get you......(piano noise)....you handsome devil"after that slow part, the normal ending comes in, but with these amaaazing creepy strings added! it's absolutely incredible in my opinion. they just add that last touch to make the song amazing. then those crazy intense horns attack you again, and then it's fairly serene till the end but with some synth in the background this time, not bad. necessary though, because if you had the cool horror strings during the ending with great lyrics like "there's more to life than books you know, but not much more" i think it would just make that one section less significant, seeing as how it's right after that slow part. it ends with that off tune guitar again, and i'm satisfied. (note: i'm not reading this over, fuck that,so if it doesnt make sense, that's okay)
your pal,
justin b the great the second part 2
Labels: 320, am, cover, devil, for, handsome, hated, i, loving, morrissey, mp3, parenthical girls, smiths, the, xiu xiu
merry christmas vendetta
oooooh i found it! haha it came out today too. 320's! man i'm killing it. it's only the three songs i mentioned in a previous post, but whatever it literally is just the leftover songs from their album haha. i find there's a lot of distortion and noise on the synths, not that that's a bad thing, just sayin'. anyways i gotta study, sorry for not writing much. enjoy!
ps. when i find the doom gaziilion ear i'll add it to this post, and i'll facebook status it as usual, so add me or some shit or keep checking!
your pal,
justin b(loody betroots)
Labels: 1977, 320, beetroots, bloody, christmas, megaupload, mp3, rapidshare, rar, vendetta, warp
heaps dead
NEW LAYOUT
i have exams now, you see.
so this explains the lack of posts, i apologize. tonight i just felt like hanging though, and i thought i'd make this thing look a lot better, and i think it was a successful mission. tell me what you think though! email me or facebook me in that little contact window on the left there, or leave a comment please! tell me if you like the new loooks ;) haha
on that note, i don't have all that much music for today, but the shit i do have is nuts!
Excision
Swagga (single)
this two song single is nuts. the song swagga blows minds. blows minds fool! just trust! 320kps too, because only the best for my family.
ALSO. alright so i downloaded this skream mix, right? and it's fucking nuts! i originally got it cause it had the new noah d tracks, which by the way start at around 53 minutes. yes this is a long ass mix. it's 2 hours long. you don't have to get it if you want, but you can just delete it afterwards, and the two songs around 53 minutes in are totally, totally worth it. theres some other good ones too, just hunt around that shit! you can't find these songs anywhere. i don't even think they're released, but i'll keep hunting!
Skream - Stella Sessions Live On Rinse.FM (27.05.2009)
Alright, so, this last song has been getting masssive amounts of plays on my ipod lately. it's in that skream mix around 1:17 which is where i heard it, so i found it for you cats. 320 again, cause i rule and you're great. it's got a nuts drop with just a wicked harmonious baseline, just listen foo!
Emalkay - When I Look At You
enjoy! hope you like the new layout, and this tunage! it's pretty tough to find and remember, you heard it here first! (hopefully)
your pal,
justin b
Labels: 320, at, datsik, emalkay, EP, excision, i, look, mix, mp3, rapidshare, rar, skream, stella, swagga, when, you
i really like this ep. fun fact: i danced to it for half an hour before i went to bed one night, in my underwear. it's such fun music and it's just got a wicked 80's feel to it. i dare you to not like it, really, i do. the first song is just so incredible, it's difficult to be in a bad mood while listening to it. so get it! trust me.
for the record, out of 10 i'd probably give it a 8.6!
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you know those songs that you hear somewhere, but it's impossible to tell who it's by, cause if it's on the radio no one says a song title afterwards, and if it's anywhere else it's not credited? i fucking hate that! i heard this song in 2006 on December 24th, and i found it a week ago or two, 2009. fuck! i found one of my text drafts in my phone saying "place in my heart for you. you are home" and i still remembered what it was from. so i googled it in quotes and i found it! it's really a very nice song. it's really comforting, and i think the last lines are wicked. i think if i was that band, i'd want the whole crowd to say those lines with me over and over, it'd just be wicked haha. so listen!
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ALSO. Sound Of Stereo are coming out with a new ep, "Zipper" pretty soon i think. the crazy sounds these guys make are just so cool haha. they released a teaser of their ep, which i think you should get.
enjoi!
justin b
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