Obsolete song shamelessly features live musicians, melody

[herodotus]

What with rock having been declared dead and whatnot this is probably pretty meaningless, but what the hell.

Riptide

I drum in this song, but that's about it. The rest is a chap named Charles.

Enjoy.

[shamann]

It doesn't really sound like anything that registers in my head as rock and roll, but that's obsolete music for ya.

I like the drumming though, sounds like you're hitting stuff pretty hard.

[herodotus]

It doesn't really sound like anything that registers in my head as rock and roll, but that's obsolete music for ya.

So true.

I like the drumming though, sounds like you're hitting stuff pretty hard.

I actually use little tiny sticks.

But yeah, you probably wouldn't want to sit too close to my snare drum.

Or anyones snare drum, really.

Thanks for listening.

[shamann]

I actually use little tiny sticks.

Careful, you're just giving those playground kids more to work with.

[intel]

But yeah, you probably wouldn't want to sit too close to my snare drum.

Or anyones snare drum, really.

not even my own? it'd be hard to hit if I weren't sitting close...

not a bad track. I'm with the Shaman: doesn't really sound like rock n' roll to me (take THAT Billy Joel). not really big on the vocals in this track, but the instrumentation is pretty good.

[herodotus]

I actually use little tiny sticks.

Careful, you're just giving those playground kids more to work with.

That just shows how secure I am about these things.

But yeah, you probably wouldn't want to sit too close to my snare drum.

Or anyones snare drum, really.

not even my own? it'd be hard to hit if I weren't sitting close...

not a bad track. I'm with the Shaman: doesn't really sound like rock n' roll to me (take THAT Billy Joel). not really big on the vocals in this track, but the instrumentation is pretty good.

Glad you like part of it at least.

The guy who wrote the song and sang it is an unabashed prog-rock sort of guy who is pretty disconnected with most of the music of the past 15 years. So I figure that the cycles of nostalgia should bring his stuff back into fashion in about 2 or 3 years.


And as for Billy Joel....well, lets just say that what Phil Collins is to many Brits, Billy Joel is to us midwestern Americans.

[intel]

those Brits are just upset at the fact that not every short, balding ugly man can be a famous pop star.

its only the ones with talent.

[Glooper]

I like this... good pop rock song.. it's well produced.

And I reckon it's not far away from sounding recent. A tad faster and with more wall of sound and it would sounds like a foo-fighters mixed with weezer or something.

Ben

[griels]

Great stuff - beautiful harmonies - now this kind of Rokk I can appreciate

Plenty of creativity here - some will probably label it 'prog', but it's not pandering to defined formulas...

[Ian B]

A fantastic song

Pleae don't shout at me, but the first thing I thought of was REM and that this is how they could sound with a bit of effort on their part.

5 listens straight thro' and it gets better each time, brilliant

[Sascha Franck]

Wonderful song, great progressions, nice vocals (and backing vox). Just great.
The only thing I'm not that sure about is the guitar solo, but that might as well just be the guitar player in me.

[knockman]

oh! nice voices and changes. doesn't quite sound like anything else i know of, perhaps a little like the band elbow but then i don't listen much to anything like this these days. your drumming keeps it the right side of progressive for me: avant-garage-prog? or some such, genres don't help much anyway.

thanks for sharing, fascinating

[herodotus]

I like this... good pop rock song.. it's well produced.

And I reckon it's not far away from sounding recent. A tad faster and with more wall of sound and it would sounds like a foo-fighters mixed with weezer or something.

Ben

Thanks.

Charles will be glad to hear that someone thinks it doesn't sound like it came from a time vault.

Thanks again for listening!

Great stuff - beautiful harmonies - now this kind of Rokk I can appreciate

Plenty of creativity here - some will probably label it 'prog', but it's not pandering to defined formulas...

That's because we don't know any formulas!

Thanks for listening!

A fantastic song

Pleae don't shout at me, but the first thing I thought of was REM and that this is how they could sound with a bit of effort on their part.

5 listens straight thro' and it gets better each time, brilliant

Thank you very much. And I happen to like REM. At least up to 'Life's Rich Pageant'.

[thomekk]

Hi hero,

Definitively Alternative Rock!
The drums could be s-l-i-g-h-t-l-y more forgroundy in the mix.
Not really my music, but I can appreciate the professionality/Mix

[herodotus]

Wonderful song, great progressions, nice vocals (and backing vox). Just great.
The only thing I'm not that sure about is the guitar solo, but that might as well just be the guitar player in me.

Thanks Sascha!

oh! nice voices and changes. doesn't quite sound like anything else i know of, perhaps a little like the band elbow but then i don't listen much to anything like this these days. your drumming keeps it the right side of progressive for me: avant-garage-prog? or some such, genres don't help much anyway.

thanks for sharing, fascinating

Thanks very much!

Hi hero,

Definitively Alternative Rock!
The drums could be s-l-i-g-h-t-l-y more forgroundy in the mix.
Not really my music, but I can appreciate the professionality/Mix

Thanks for listening!