A long long time ago I asked on here for anyone with an unsigned band to post up a link to their myspace or whatever so that my Year 9 class could review their music.
Unfortunately my school then promptly banned access to such sites.
However I have triumphantly bypassed such constraints and now here are some inital thoughts from Year 9 about the music you kindly volunteered. We didn't get to listen to it all, but I am posting in the order that it arrived - more next week.
First up - (we are) pictures
http://www.myspace.com/wearepictures
Pictures: Sounds Like The Fall of Troy (if you know of them) they have that experimental ‘difference’ to their music and I always like that in a band.
I like songs with words in them
To upbeat and rocky for my liking, maybe just tone it down a bit. Very original tune maybe a bit of variety would do the trick. Its all over the place!
And now *cough* 'Talker'...
Talker: A light poppy sound, quite a happy feel, and that’s always good, a great sound they have made but the tune gets a little repetitive until further on in the song, cool song though
Quite good although I would like to be able to hear the words though
personally I hate the talker, there not bad. But a 4 year old could easily make that same sound by banging saucepans together. To me its just aloud noise. And Ive never heard something like it! After hearing that Ive now lost my will to live. And that’s putting it as bluntly as possible.
If they really wannabe number one hit, they’ve got a lot to work on.
sorry
Nice piece on the guitar what about the lyrics though?! A bit hectic towards the end!
and if you want to listen to the above
http://www.myspace.com/shittalkerleeds
that third comment made me laugh so hard
BRILLIANTTHANKS
!
Mucky Little Paw Prints
http://www.myspace.com/muckylittlepawprints
Mucky Little Pawprints
Muckylittlepawprints: A great sound, a great chill out-type song, I quite like it
Muckylittlepawprints
Terrible
Nice soother. Great for relaxing! The 1st was ok but the 2nd was a bit… Aaggghhhhh
the 2nd is our best song ever!
thank you anyways :)
And now 'Poppycocks'
http://www.myspace.com/poppycocks
Popycocks: A poppy song, pop songs aren’t my thing usually but that doesn’t stop me liking this song ?
To indie for me really im mean I like a bit of indie but it is to smooth
I love Poppycock’s!!!
They rock; they make me feel so alive. Id defently buy there album
Is beaty and extraordinary. =] I think many people would love to here Poppycock.
Bye
Popycocks is pritty good, its not to hevy not to fast and not to crazy I like it
Nice song. Great singer, have you ever thought of doing a version of dragostea din tei… it would be a real challenge but I think you could handle it!!
"beaty and extraordinary"
Brilliant. More! More!
hehe, yeah
from Talker: "But a 4 year old could easily make that same sound banging two saucepans together." I may have to steal that li'l gem of a line for one of my own reviews.
Can't believe there were no
"COCKS LOL" comments
Do they have a problem with writing in the english language?
...Country going down the drain ad nauseum...
I was just going to comment on this...
Perhaps MrScagdenSir needs to have a quiet word with his students' English teacher. I mean really - "to me its just aloud noise"?! Lunch time detention for that one.
Ha!
Actually the example I used was only a space away from being correct, so apologies for my snide remark. My job makes me a horrible person.
John Skelly
http://www.myspace.com/johnskellymusic
John Skelly: I really like my chilling tracks like Newton Faulkner or Jack Johnson and this is another addition to an acoustic artist that I like
Sounds like a person drunk on a park bench thinking they know what they are on about
Too chilled for me
John Skelly…boring and dreary again…sounds like he is trying to be plain white tee’s…nothing like them!
Luke Leighfield
Not many people wrote about this one - sorry
http://www.myspace.com/simplylukeleighfield
Luke Leighfield
Luke Leefield: I’m not a pop person but he has made a great sound, great singing
sorry there was more - I had it saved in the wrong place
If I try by luke leighfield I really liked I thought the singing sounded a lot like billy joe the singer from greenday. Don’t know what made it catchy but I really liked it. Keep up the good work guys.
Luke Leighfield…not spectacular but the best one by far at the moment
The rhythm is great and the drummer kept the beat well although it does go a bit depressing at times! Sort it out guys. A bit more enthusiasm
4 or 5 Magicians
http://www.myspace.com/4or5magicians
4 or 5 Magicians: Pretty cool, great use of the instruments, I enjoyed it
4 or 5 magicians
I like these they are really quite awesome they aren’t to soft or to heavy I surprised that they aren’t big already
Change the record by 4 or 5 magicians had a really catchy intro just like guns n roses. As soon as I heard it I thought this is awesome. The bridge in the middle was really cool, some very good drumming and guitar skills nice work guys.
Not my type of music but I don’t hate it,
But its ok for the type of people that like this kind of thing
Change the record is ok though, the beginning is a bit random with the heavy death metal
"just like guns n roses"
:D
dan_thslash!
Loving the juxtaposition of
"quite" and "awesome".
LOLage
this is great
don't suppose you have the names of the kids that made the particular comments? Want to put the quotes on myspace, like when they show pictures on Blue Peter. For instance : "not my type of music but I don't hate it but it's ok for the type of people that like this kind of thing", Keisha, 14, Canterbury.
Erm....
Not sure I'm alowed to give out kids names (even first names in this paranoid day and age). I live in fear of...
TEEN INTERNET STALKING ENCOURAGED BY POST-ROCK ADDLED TEACHER
or something. But feel free to use the quotes (and attribute them to made up names?)
haha
this is a shame. I'll write a blog anyway. Cheers for doing this - good to know the kids are onside!
also are you sure you played them Change The Record
and not Ideal Man? Because Ideal Man is the one with the death metal style noise intro, and I can't see how anyone, even an underexposed 14 year old, could describe Change The Record as like Guns n Roses!
If you did do this, then the opening line has CUNT in it.
I wish my music teacher at school was like you!
Can we use these for your single press release from now on?
Pretty please?
Please do
feel free
actually the page went a bit odd
and played half of each song. They lapped 'em up though...
:D
these are amazing.
"Sounds like a person drunk on a park bench thinking they know what they are on about "
AMAZING
kids can be so cruel
"Sounds like a person drunk on a park bench.."
awesome!
^That is a PF/DiS quality simile
if I've ever heard one! :)
hahah
these are superb. should make this a regular feature on dis.
This has been an entertaining read.
Broken English / Upglish?
http://www.myspace.com/brokenenglishmen
Broken Englishmen
I like these they are really quite awesome they aren’t to soft or to heavy I surprised that they aren’t big already
Broken English are awesome but the singing is a bit dim
Isolation by Broken Upglish wow i thought it was amazing im certainly going to by this song. Very good intro awesome bass line catchy drums good song. I really really liked the intro that made me go wow. Hope to hear more of your material. Very good work you should be famous, I hope isolation will become a single that would be awesome. very cool work.
Broken Upglish: Cool! Nice sound they make. One of the better experimental songs
Broken Upglish
A bit boring
"the singing is a bit dim"
Excellent.
is one kid writing the same thing for every song?
We already had that "quite awesome" quote
for 4 or 5 Magicians already.
sorry
i've stuffed up the copying and pasting
I'm only human
Lolz
I'm actually quite shocked by this, the general consensus from me and my mates (as in us lot in the band) was that we were a bit crap... And I agree with the guy saying the singing is dim, the guy who mixed us was awful, spent literally five minutes doing it and didn't really listen to the songs as he mixed out some pretty important bits. I also like the yoda kids view "Nice sound they make".
btw
We were broken english, but then we split up, hence the broken upglish :D.
Ice Sea Dead People
http://www.myspace.com/iceseadeadpeople
I sea Dead People
Ice, Sea, Dead people
Awesome gives u great vibes
hate it because it sounds like some dieing cats it made me laugh all the way through how boring it was
Ice, See, Dead People: Great, loving the punk sound. There are very few decent punk bands out there e.g. The Gallows, but this band is wicked. Thumbs up to this
BRILLIANT
"hate it because it sounds like some dieing cats it made me laugh all the way through how boring it was"
This is exactly what I would have said when I was that age about Ice, Sea, Dead People.
then gone and listened to the charlatans in a huff
Being only a year older than these people
I'm slightly ashamed that they cannnot spell and dislike Ice Sea Dead People
The kids are alright etc
some top notch punditry on here, puts Senors Shearer and Pleat to shame but as has been said above is this where the Queen's best is heading?!
Sincerely hope you're not their English teacher MrScagdenSir Sir?
Their English seems pretty standard if not slightly better than I would've expected,
seriously.
yeah i mean considering this is probably
a group of mixed ability children who are 13/14 its not really suprising.
don't you mean
i sincerely hope your not there english teacher.
I am in fact AN English teacher
but for this lot I'm just the teacher who runs their 'writing about music' extension activity. I deliberately avoid focusing on their spelling etc as that can get some of them to not wan to write anything.
*want
outing yourself as an English teacher makes you put spelling errors in your post. Fact.
I give this thread
5 stars.
And a few little snippets...
Some of the bands not many of them got round to writing about but here are a few thoughts:
Linda's Nephew
http://www.myspace.com/lindasnephew
Lindas Nephew: I really love the sound that this band has, I think they really know how to use what they have to great effect, a nice calm sound. A bit like Bloc Party ?
Lindas Nephew
BBOOORRIIIINNNNNNNGGGGGGGG
Death in public
http://www.myspace.com/deathinpublicmusic
Death in Public: Wow, I really like this. Wicked beat, again, like Bloc Party. They have a really neat sound
Death in Public
cool
Fridge Noises
http://www.myspace.com/fridgenoises
Dreary…makes me feel depressed and boring…no tune. Absolutely rubbish…!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They sound like the clangers
:D Clangers
Make a rival to DiS
with just Year 9 Kids reviewing albums please. Much better.
how do they even know
the Clangers?
This is brilliant
i wish i was in a band for real so i had something for kids to slag off.
I posted my old band in the original thread
I'm actually quite excited at the idea of some kids telling me I'm shit
I'm going to try to get them all listened to
in the order they were posted. It's going to take a while to get through them all - the response was superb. The kids only have as long as the song is playing to listen to / discuss and write about the track which is why they are all rather short.
Anyone interested in getting involved can post on the original thread:
Anyone in a band brave enough to submit their music to review by my class of Year 9s?
http://www.drownedinsound.com/articles/2972189
haha well if they ever
get round to our stuff they'll have plenty of time to slate it.
I can't wait to hear what 'the kids' think of Pris_
:)
yey!
we can well whore ourselves to that year 9 market now :)
haha, fantastic
can i ask what school you are teaching at?
as a student in canterbury it would be very interesting to know where all these kids are!
^ paedo
:D
bollocks
rumbled
Erm... no.
See my reply to 'can we have the kids' names' (above). And even though I used to teach in Canterbury (Simon Langton if you're interested) I now commute absolutley miles so... sorry.
these are well funny
top marks sir!
we never had teachers like you when i was at school.
I bet you weren't previously a bouncer like Alison Bramble in those annoying adverts I keep rolling over despite trying to avoid!
have you played them any Merzbau yet?
ace!
good work!