Mystery Music Review

My late friend S. from Junkyard Full of False Starts gave me a music CD to review a while back. I now feel sorry he never got to see my review. So here it is now.

The unfortunate thing is that S. never told me the name of the CD, nor did he label any of the tracks so I have no idea about anything. I'm going to guess the band is Alaska! I have never heard the band before, but I know S. liked them so that's my best guess. I thoroughly enjoyed the CD. It was a cross between Sonic Youth and the scene from the first Friday the 13th movie near the end, when the mother gets her head chopped off. I would have given it an A+ if I could have understood the words. They were sometimes muddled with the base line. A lyric sheet would upgrade it from the B+.

So I will go on to try to explain my feelings from the CD since I post a million songs on here already.

Track 1: Guitars wailing for a straight 2 mins in unison. Almost like Scottish bagpipes. I like harmonic stuff like this. Then a downtrodden beat with a plucky forest love child guitar strumming. I liked this one.

Track 2: Nice,... a little funk bump rock. I feel like I am highway shrubbery during this song. And I collected a blown by plastic grocery bag in my twiggy clutches. Again I need the lyrics bad.

Track 3: This is a good summer song. Quirky, little feedback funky plucks. Very much what I like. Very interesting emotion music.

Track 4: Whoa, some organ freaky deeky music to start. Then into a mellochaotic rant rock. "Cha, cha, cha, cha, cha." Can't tell if that's is the drums or the singer, but I like it. Nice song. Oh, at 3:27 I love the echo fade off from the song. F yeah. I want to live in that noise. That's what my heaven will sound like. It ends with that while trailing it for a few minutes. Perfect.

Track 5: This song sounds like a bad rendition of when Lee Renaldo sings for Sonic Youth. Luckily the whole song is saved 6:58 into the song when a whaling violin goes into an awesome beat and mellow flicker guitar. That's what I'm talking about. I wish you could hear this. I could listen to this part for hours. Mmmmmhmmm.

Track 6: I love this one, "Lives are dreamin', Lives are dreamin, Lives are dreamin eye.." Boy it would really be cool if I knew what the repeating chorus is. I think I've heard this before.

Track 7: Alright. Crazy rock with flange voice. Sounds good, but not to super cool.

Track 8: 11 seconds of nothing, then your hit with drum snare reverb. I likey. Then almost religious hymn slow rock. Very nice and odd feeling. Like I'm me, yet I'm combined with dirt. I lie in the ground and my gullet is filled with rain water. Unique. I think the vocals are backwards. Wish I could understand this. I love it.

Track 9: This song mostly annoyed me for some reason. Then I realized why, it rocks with a lot of screaming that I can't understand.

Track 10: Interesting intro into a nice beat. Like a just entered the bathroom of an old house, and I may not want to check the medicine cabinet. Some backward Jimmy Hendrix guitar playing in here. I'm liking it. Everything goes flicker delay near 2:50...nice. Back to cool guitar. Ends with more backward noises.

Track 11: Nice rock with picking at the top of the guitar being done. I just popped some Percocet. It feels good. Itching on my face. Total junkie rock. Love the way this guys drops his voice in the chorus. This might be my favorite along with track 5, ends with a man saying, "Yeah."

Track 12: Starts with classic 50's music. Sounds like a T.V. from my past. Cool. I enjoy the rest of the song as well.

Track 13: White snow, storm wind sound. Into graceful melody. That's it? Oh man, spooky. 1:30 into the song it goes into a 50's trumpet swing style music. No sing, just some swing. Very spooky when I'm alone in a dark room right now. I feel like Leatherface is behind me right now.

Well. That's it. That was awesome. I really enjoyed it and it was different in some ways. I need lyrics to fully appreciate it and hopefully I'll find out some day. So thanks S. Now I leave him with a picture of two things he loved dearly.