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HisNameIsFrank said:
Dream Academy - Life In A Northern Town
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8.5/10
I've always liked this little tune.
A lot of people don't know that David Gilmour of Pink Floyd produced this track. You can definitely hear his influence as it sounds a lot like Momentary Lapse of Reason-era Floyd with its reverby drums and chorused-out guitars.
The nostalgic lyrics romanticize a bygone era of simpler times. A world that really doesn't exist anymore. Because of this, the song has always makes me a little melancholy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgI1ovaYrl4]Ian Brown - F.E.A.R
 
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ian brown can suck for the most part
i like one of his song (on the 2 album ive got)
but hes got some good
i like his vibe, style & voice
this song is fine with me right now
nothing more
so ill go with a 5 on 10

next :
i was listening to this song so...

Jackie Mittoo - Got my Boogaloo
 
A lot of Gen X'rs who still bother to listen to new music tend to be pretty hostile towards emo because it was really the first genre to come out that was totally Gen Y.
I happen to not mind it. In fact, as a genre it has a lot more to offer than the shitty grunge I grew up with. And seeing as every generation rebells against the music of the last generation, since grunge was all about cynicism, its only logical that emo is all about romanticism. And it also values technical musicianship which grunge solidly rejected.
Anyway, onto the song.
The drummer needs to take a xanax. It sounds like he is trying to impress rather than entertain. Taken in on its own, it's very nice playing but I don't think it really fits the song. He kinda chills out halfway through.
Soaring vocals, piercing harmonies, disonant jangly guitars. A rather unconventional song structure but emo kids are all about unconventional song structures these days.
It doesn't speak to me. But then again, it would be doing something wrong if it did. Yes I'm old.

7.5/10

Julie London - Cry me a river
 
its not really an "emo" song.
if you listen to all that emo bullshit music and then listen to this
its nothing like it

more of an indy song if you ask me

I think that the fact that everone in the group is doing their own thing really makes the song great
It clashes beautifully.

As for your song its a good song
6/10
once agian
not really my style.

Adieu -Enter Shikari
 
this was for : Julie London - Cry me a river

thats good stuff
gave me that chet baker vibe
some old pop jazz with added romance
you can typically ear the hollow body jazz guitar on top of the upright bass
nice deserted lounge vibe

7 on 10
 
this on is for adieu

thats song started good
then you ear a crappy emo voice
intrumental interlude
and then it get real bad with the now we are heavy part
to a slow exit

real bad for my taste but with some element that i really liked like the intro and the synth sound and how the pace fitted the melody

3 0n 10


now lets fly to brasil for : Os Mutantes - A Minha Menina
 
There's that "E" word again. A friend of mine put it best when he said "Emo is just a word people use to describe a band they don't like".
 
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