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2009-07-07
By Ann JMS Harlan (Indiana)
Well, I didn’t find the other reviews all that helpful, so let me give it a try. However, I doubt I’ll be much help – there is little I can think of to compare most of these tracks to. Mostly not my cup of tea, but I shall attempt to describe the tracks so maybe you can decide if it might be your cup of tea.
One advantage of this collection is that if you like a particular band here, you get 2 cuts from them. One disadvantage is that you must take the whole thing to discover what you may enjoy out of it.
The production values are very good – the sounds are clear and well-balanced, occasionally distorted only for artistic effect. Most of the lyrics are clearly understandable (important to me). These are generally far more music than noise, and seem creative – they are varied in style. Many tracks have some swear words "sprinkled in" – unnecessarily in my opinion.
1 & 2 – start off musical and progress to driving & screaming at the end. Lyrics are "explicit" and complaining. Beat medium; vocal quality, guitar/bass/drums quite good. I liked them until about 3/4 through and until I really listened to the lyrics in #2. Rock-ish.
3 & 4 – start off "weird" and become more musical as instruments are added. Breathy, repetitive lyrics against more lyrical instruments that do some "experimental" things – almost like the lyrics serve the percussion function. Trance-ish.
5 & 6 – sort of remind me of my less favorite Led Zeppelin or Pink Floyd tracks – the busy guitar licks and driving bass – but interspersed with breathy, high female vocals (#5) or pleasant male vocals (#6) and a more dreamy musical line. However, the transitions seemed to not make much musical sense. #6 is the first track I thought was decent enough to maybe keep – but perhaps my musical tastes are a bit too "rigid" – I prefer more melody and structure, I guess.
#7 & 8 – driving metallic guitar and busy bass & drums. Vocals good – a bit angry. Heavy-metal-ish (but not quite that heavy). #8 a bit more melodic than #7. I liked these 2 a bit more than 1-6. Hard-rock-ish.
#9 & 10 – harmonizing male vocals, slow rhythm, dreamy nicely reverbed guitar. Reminds me somewhat of the early Led Zeppelin I liked better than the later. Well-done juxtaposition of dreamy against more intense musical bridges. These I actually liked quite a bit. These tracks have made me more patient to await the rest of the downloads.
#11 – female vocals – medium rock with a slight country or folk flavor (her "accent" maybe). Clear rhythmic melody. Vocals a bit harder to understand. Musically coherent throughout. I liked it.
Well, that’s as far as my downloads have gotten after about 8 hours (I’m on dial-up). I’ll edit to add more after I get the rest of the tracks, if I do. As my reactions progressed along the selections from pretty-much-stinks to hey-not-bad to pretty-decent, maybe track 18 will be awesome-great…
As the remainder have timed out (download is no longer available), I shall need to re-"buy" and use my firewall to block internet activity until the downloader skips down (check your internet connection) to track #12. I’ll also uninstall and reinstall the downloader (before and after) to clear the skipped tracks from the list (and save the time it takes to keep checking each one) – it’s quick and simple to do. (I mention this on the off chance someone else on dial-up finds this tip useful.) I think I’ll wait until I’ve gotten the other stuff I’d rather have first, though…
2009-05-15
By C. Deaton (Arizona)
I have recently discovered the wealth of free music available on Amazon and this by far was my favorite of recent offerings. Son, Ambulance being my favorite of the group but Neva Dinova and Land of Talk being close seconds. Some good stuff here for those looking for something different.
2009-04-20
By Captain Cook (Los Angeles, CA)
The songs by Cursive are great, but the real treat are Tokyo Police Club and their songs ‘In a Cave’ and ‘Juno’.
2009-04-17
By Gabriel B. King
Download this if just for the Cursive songs. From The Hips is an awesome song. If you like Pavement and Steven Malkmus you will love Cursive.
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