Hear my new EMO song!

[dharma]

Wow.

/pwned

"I feel small.
I've got a problem.
Pain is everywhere around me.
I dream of the day you'll come and take this pain away."

"But it's not happening
For me it never does
Because
I'm gay
Your boyfriend's cheating on you with me...."

Wow.

"My broken heart, my heart of glass, my glass heart, my broken glass heart, my shattered glass heart which is broken, my glassy glass shattered heart fragmented on the rocks of self-hate."

There are no words to express the beauty of the laugh I had at the expense of my own culture when listening to this.

I'd like to request a pseudo-funk song along these lines.

On a more serious note, you guys are tight together. Put out something you care about :P

A friend of mine and I have done a "4-chord punk song with dirty bent notes" before, and that was the only time I've gotten a laugh near the sublime amusement at your new life in EMO.

[Adam Barkley]

I just realized that you mentioned your band in the jazz metal band. Joke music aside, I'd dig some clips of you guys being serious.

Neal Peart went emo???????


j/k, hilarious clip. If I were to post my gangsta rap lyrics, I'd be banned permanently.

[Bushfire]

Originally Posted by *ToNeS*

Haha, it's great that most people are getting the joke (except for that New Zealand guy). A mate said to me after hearing it - "This is exactly what it sounds like when crazy musicians like you guys use your powers for evil." I thought that was classic! I'm planning to shop it around to some local stations and see just what people make of it.

We got joking about it the other night and we were envisioning the bunch of us in five years time, sitting on a tour bus with pink spikey hair and mascara and the whole bit, just shaking our heads at ourselves and everybody.

But not to worry. We tend to do this kind of thing to take a bit of pressure off the stuff we actually write seriously. There's only so many compound polyrhythmic sections a band can drill before they need a fix of EMO?! to unwind.

Hey! I got it, just commenting on it, and it would of made a good song right up until you started singing, but I did realise you weren't being serious!

[*ToNeS*]

You guys are great, cheers for the commentary! The band is having a hearty chortle at some of the posts on here.

dharma, I'm glad you could have a laugh at it. The reason why we never get anything done is because we more often than not get side-tracked doing stupid crap like this, and loving it. We have taken the piss out of (white boy) funk before, and it got pretty ugly. We stuck on a one note root-octave cliche funk rhythm for about a minute with the only vocals being intermittent stuff like, "Yeah!", "Get up!" and "Smack her down!"

abark000, at the moment we're tracking drums for one of our jazz/metal/noise things (what we do when we're not being dickheads). Vocals are sort of halfway there (don't worry, my voice is kind of alright in reality), and to us the sax stuff just wasn't messed up enough so we're redoing it. I tell ya, it takes a lot more effort for a lot less reward to get this kind of thing happening in comparison to what's on the radio! I'll be sure to post it up on here when it's finished. But it'll take a while; we often pack up and drive out into the desert to 'zen up' for our recording sessions. What?

[dharma]

Originally Posted by *ToNeS*

dharma, I'm glad you could have a laugh at it. The reason why we never get anything done is because we more often than not get side-tracked doing stupid crap like this, and loving it. We have taken the piss out of (white boy) funk before, and it got pretty ugly. We stuck on a one note root-octave cliche funk rhythm for about a minute with the only vocals being intermittent stuff like, "Yeah!", "Get up!" and "Smack her down!"

"Smack her down!" HAHAHA
You guys really make me giggle, I give you that.

Ever heard of Esteban, the weird gaucho-lookin dude with the uber-long fingernails that does guitar infomercials? He can't play for crap, it all sounds like scratching because of his ridiculous nails.

Friends and I did a song called "Esteban the Interdimensional Cocaine Dealer" that included bits about a bloody fued with his teacher and a massive cocaine habit. E to F change in slap rhythm. So silly. So fun.

[*ToNeS*]

Originally Posted by dharma

"Smack her down!" HAHAHA
You guys really make me giggle, I give you that.

Ever heard of Esteban, the weird gaucho-lookin dude with the uber-long fingernails that does guitar infomercials? He can't play for crap, it all sounds like scratching because of his ridiculous nails.

Friends and I did a song called "Esteban the Interdimensional Cocaine Dealer" that included bits about a bloody fued with his teacher and a massive cocaine habit. E to F change in slap rhythm. So silly. So fun.

I think more actual musicians should take the time to do some seriously good parodies of current lame trends in music (not the sad ones you hear which are poorly knocked up by some guy with a mic and a guitar). I laugh my bottom off whenever I see whatever the latest 'awesome' band is on cable - I mean, are they for real? What the hell is half of this stuff? Our guitarist has really good ears and works out what goes into one of these songs in about five minutes. There's absolutely nothing to them, and it's almost frightening that people can make so much money off of rudimentary harmony and extremely basic chording. It's even easier to dress up like halloween and jump around pulling orgasm faces; we take any oppurtunity to embarass bands like this. No, we're not very popular with local outfits in our area

So I say, if you guys have any stuff that ridicules the ridiculous, post it up on TB! You'll be doing music a service.

[Wrong Robot]

While I most certainly agree that the harmony and melodies of most pop music is rudimentary and boring. I would personally argue that, interesting harmony is boring too... which is a risky statement. But the point I'm trying to make is that interesting rhythm is, on average, far more decisive when it comes to whether or not you'll want to listen to something. Well, of course, that statement isn't entirely true, but, By and large, I believe rhythm to be more important than harmony, and especially melody. There are 12 notes, but infinite rhythms. Of course, they are all interconnected, blah blah blah...etc...etc.

the simplest melodies can be made enjoyable and lasting by having a great rhythmic quality to them. Likewise, incredibly dense and interesting melodic/harmonic movements can be incredibly lame without a compelling rhythmic backing.

That said, I don't believe much popular music these days has particularly interesting rhythms either. A couple of years ago, mainstream hip hop went through a phase where they were incorporating all sorts of anticipations, delays, syncopation and all around interesting rhythmic structures. It didn't last too long, but I was genuinely impressed by some of the stuff that was coming out from usually vapid news channels.

rant rant rant blah blah blah

I should post the drunken mario brothers song me and my friend sung the other night. It's not really ridiculing anything, but it's ridiculous.

[Wrong Robot]

Originally Posted by dharma

Ever heard of Esteban, the weird gaucho-lookin dude with the uber-long fingernails that does guitar infomercials? He can't play for crap, it all sounds like scratching because of his ridiculous nails.

THAT GUY IS SUCH A DOUCHE!

[dharma]

Does Johnathan Edwards have a competitor?

Wrong Robot and I say yes.

[Bushfire]

So something being 'complex' makes it better by default?

[Wrong Robot]

Originally Posted by Bushfire

So something being 'complex' makes it better by default?

What a silly thing to assume from someone.

[Bob Clayton]

musically it's pretty solid.

[*ToNeS*]

Originally Posted by Bushfire

So something being 'complex' makes it better by default?

I knew some lamer was going to chime in with a ludicrous confrontation like this. No time for it - refer to what Wrong Robot said.

And WR, I'm 100% in agreement with you. I've always gone on and on to my bandmates about the importance of RHYTHM in songwriting. IMO, it's the key. The best example I can think of where this is particularly obvious is Tool - check out the relatively standard progressions and power chords they use. Yet, they rhythmically restructure them in such a way as to get something fresh and interesting happening (case in point: check out the post-chorus figure on "Schism" and don't tell me that couldn't have SUCKED if it wasn't for the awesome change-ups in each bar!).

That said, the only form of harmony I'm hearing on the radio these days is the goddamn perfect 5th (they love it in their vocal lines), perhaps a major 3rd when a guitar solo pops up if they want to get all Queen on everyone's arses. It's not that I demand that every melody be absolutely jazz and intricate, but there are a lot more options than that - and since pop music is largely designed with melodies in mind (so the kids can sing along at PARTIES!) and not rhythms, I stand by my desire to kill everybody involved in boring me with this repetitive discharge.

[Bushfire]

Originally Posted by Bushfire

So something being 'complex' makes it better by default?

Yeah sorry, that was stupid, I apologise.

But it really wasn't directed at anyone in this post really, I just get angry at musicians that like to feel superior than others because their music/instrument is more complex than someone elses.

Again, sorry.

-Bernard.

[Fong249]

I mean... i thought it was pretty funny. The bass is kinda boring but hey, thats emo.

(THATS NOT SAYING THAT ITS BAD OR NEEDS TO BE COMPLEX TO BE GOOD)

Voices sound like they might be giants btw.

[fenderx55]

Originally Posted by *ToNeS*

the checkered shoes...

i have checkered shoes... ::repares razor blade:::

[*ToNeS*]

Originally Posted by Fong249

I mean... i thought it was pretty funny. The bass is kinda boring but hey, thats emo.

(THATS NOT SAYING THAT ITS BAD OR NEEDS TO BE COMPLEX TO BE GOOD)

Voices sound like they might be giants btw.

You know, it might not sound like much, but that's the most fun I've had banging out straight eighths since playing Van Halen covers to a packed house of absolutely nobody. I think emo is my new guilty pleasure. Apart from twinkies

Originally Posted by fenderx55@yahoo

i have checkered shoes... ::repares razor blade:::

INFIDEL!