A calming but spooky jam can work well too as heard here. Love the breaks with the high notes and especially the tremolo guitar work that starts at 1:50.
A half hour long song, lols. I think this had the potential to win it all if it ended at around the first half. I loved every noisy and uncomfortable part about those first ~13 minutes. And then the song drags itself on for ~14 minutes playing these repeated sequences that were great... but I only wanted it for like 4 minutes tops. It was often hard to keep my attention. It redeemed itself a bit with that final singing section that was enjoyable. I didn't give myself the opportunity to listen to this in a dark, secluded room (just because that's taking a bunch of time out of my day), but I think I could have appreciated it more than I already do had I done so.
Serj's singing sounds so bad and it took me having to sit down and critique songs for me to finally notice. Lalala part comes across as corny when I think he was trying to go for cool and 'out there'.
doing a lot of skipping through this, cause...well...time, but i like the noise parts. it's stopping itself from getting too atmospheric where i'm at right now, and it's great. coming back to 3rd
If I was previously told there was a noisy, distorted cover of a Smiths song out there, I'd get pretty excited about it... But this is just painful. The guy's singing makes the song infinitely worse. And some people say they don't like Morrisey's voice! Well, at least it's not this. Sorry.
And finally, a near 16-minute long song. The first 6 minutes are great but I'm not gonna really talk about that. It's the last 10 minutes that stomped on everything else. This is the only song that really made me feel lost. Like I was out drifting in a sea of black completely alone or something. It wasn't uncomfortable like a lot of the other stuff - it was soothing in a way. I loved how that section starts off with guitars that sound like sirens. And the slow trills during the outro were fantastic.
I thought the same thing about my submission, since I submitted something that at 13 minutes was obviously really, really, really long compared to everything else that would be submitted.
But alas I continue with my trend of failing miserably with (almost!) all of my predictions about how my songs will score.
Submit a song that sounds like it came straight from a dream. We're lightening the mood here. Pleasant dreams, no nightmares. And I want dreamy, not just chill.
This was mostly okay. Not enough happening to fully pique my interest. Maybe more harp was needed. Also, 2:50 was an utter tease. I thought it was going somewhere super cool and then it didn't. F*** you, Genesis.
I think this has the problem of not being very exciting to listen to if you're not totally focused on this + trying to get yourself in an uplifted mood. If so, then yeah, it becomes a pleasant listen.
