DIALOGUE MICRO-REQUEST-REVIEW SPECIAL!: Lidane Livering, Encyclopedia Frown, Randy and The RN’s
DIALOGUE MICRO-REQUEST-REVIEW SPECIAL!: Lidane Livering, Encyclopedia Frown, Randy and The RN’s
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We’re famous now! People request to be reviewed! Unfortunately, we’ve been slacking on this front for a while, but we’re finally going to sit down and check these out. The first one’s really old. |
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Also, it technically came out last year, but we’re just throwing it in. It’s part of a, uhh… series, and the last one came out in February. |
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Evidently this band’s really old. They made some stuff at the turn of the millennium and they’re back by popular demand. |
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It’s basically a bunch of fuzz with random noise and vocal sampling for almost an hour. |
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Some of the tracks have a beat. The last one’s kind of cool, but it’s just like an Atari 2600 song overtly distorted with some hand claps thrown in. |
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I was going to say track 6 is a cool one. It held my interest surprisingly long, almost half of all 8 minutes of it. The first two are my least favorites, still. |
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Track six sucks. Moving on, there’s some great post punk from some other band. Phantomwise! Actually, I don’t like this either. |
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I liked it quite a bit. It took a while because the singer sounds like he’s having a hard time, but there are other bands with similar vocals but usually sound stupid. Also, apparently Manila is the greatest density of people living over an entire city or something. |
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The last two tracks do this thing where the guitar plays the same melody as the vocals. That’s some Barney bullshit right there. |
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Musing to self: For some reason, guitar backing the vocal melody is one of Junkhead’s greatest peeves, but if that is true, I haven’t been able to figure out why he likes power pop… |
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Normally they play chords and the vocal melody is different. You don’t even listen to power pop. |
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Shots fired! |
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You’re like Yosemite Sam lookin’ at all those bullet holes in your hat. Anyway, a lot of early blues rock does that more than power pop. Other early metal that was still blues influenced did that too, like Black Sabbath’s first two albums. |
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Yeah, the last two songs of Phantomwise have some cool melodies, but you are right, the verses suffer. |
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The second track has like, no melody. It’s this slow boring dirge where the singer sounds like he’s falling asleep. |
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I like it. It might be my favorite of the night. |
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That’s crazy. |
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It’s very immature sounding and almost retarded, qualities I enjoy thoroughly. |
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This is probably the least passionate music I’ve listened to in a long time. Totally phoned in and trying to fit a style and so missing the mark. |
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Like, it tries too hard, then? |
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I mean, it would be trying too hard if it tried at all? |
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Like, it tries? |
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It doesn’t. |
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No extra credit for Encyclopedia Frown. Go back to the cramped Pearl of the Orient! |
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So I mean, what do you like about it? Since I’m burying these poor gentlemen who requested this review. |
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I do like the dragging apathy and uncooked writings. Really. It’s not indifference, it’s disconcern. |
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I have no idea what that means. So my favorite’s Randy and the RN’s! |
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Second time this year on BlahBlahMusic.com I think I like this release a little better. |
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I think the vocals are pushed too far up in the mix, it’s a little too obviously cheap digital stuff. But the songs are just as good, a lot more aggressive and fun. |
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There is a large amount of digital distortion. The first time I listened I was almost too appalled to give it a chance, but the poppyness is very appetizing. |
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The sounds also kind of all over the place, like almost all the songs were recorded with totally different setups. I really like “Waiting for the Summer”, slow, loud, and pure pop is always a great thing. |
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Case in point, guitar backed vocals. |
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I was waiting for that. But y’know, sometimes people are good enough songwriters that they don’t suck. I think Randy (if that’s his real name) has a really good knack for hooks. “Break Yer Heart” he just sings along with the guitar the whole time, but its amazing pop-punk. |
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I think the melody itself has to be sing-songy, otherwise it will sound like a double scoop of turd. RANDY SPIKE knows how to clean up a melody and add some spicy and sincere rhymes. |
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Yeah, Randy never sounds like a pretentious twerp. He’s like a rock ‘n’ roll Everyman. It’s also refreshing he knows how to get in, make a statement, and get out. “Suicidal Highway” is less than two minutes and covers more ground than most supposed pop auteurs could ever muster. |
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I would love to hear a whole succinct album from him. I do not know if he ever stuck to one style in the past. |
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Sounds like he just does whatever the hell he wants. |
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That must be where the magic is. Definitely one of my favorite musicians out of New York. |
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I’m going to invite him to the Blah Blah Music Christmas bash. |
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I can’t wait to find out about that. |
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We’ll request a three hour version of “Kombucha Kids”. |
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That’s the song that sounds like he recorded it three years ago in the back of a van while driving up the Rocky Mountains. |
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That’s actually very similar to the Christmas bash’s setting. |
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In a van tumbling sideways down the Rocky Mountains. |
Ay-Hole:
Forsaken by Lidane Livering: 2/5 because it was mildly entertaining. Maybe I’m not cultured enough for it…
Phantomwise by Encyclopedia Frown: 3/5 because I wouldn’t turn it off if it came on.
Wish You Were Weird by Randy and The RN’s: 4/5 because it represents a crisp finished project with all of its un-sanded edges confidently sticking out.
Junkhead:
Forsaken by Lidane Livering: I give it a C-. There should have been more beats.
Phantomwise by Encyclopedia Frown: F. My washing machine sounds more interesting.
Wish You Were Weird by Randy and The RN’s: B+! This guy has legit talent. If our blog was read by millions of people, millions of people would love him.
Bandcamps:
Forsaken by Lidane Livering