RAORoman - Wiley - Bring Them All / Holy Grime (feat. Devlin)

This feels like it's trying to be too hard to just be fast. It's the reason I've never been that into Twista. I mean yeah, it's impressive that you can rap really fast, but it just kind of becomes a jumbled mess. I was very hopeful because I've thoroughly enjoyed several other Wiley songs, but this just doesn't quite do it. The Devlin verses are worse. Nothing really quite hits the way I want a Wiley song to because it's too focused on just pushing through at breakneck speed. Still not awful, but not my thing.

tchaz - Dave x AJ Tracey - Thiago Silva


I like that this guy just calls himself "Dave". That's pretty arrogant, & that's cool. Although I guess sometimes he calls himself "Santan Dave". AJ's lyrics get a bit forced at times, & they could hit harder in places, & I don't really understand some of the slang involved (although I do enjoy the soccer references). It's good, could be better, but mildly addictive.

Nick Royale - Skepta - Man

I was immediately Skepta-cal about anything submitted by Nick…but I could tell about 5 seconds in I was going to like this. Enjoy the cadence & rhythm of the rapping a lot. The "skit" in the middle is kind of annoying, but it only lasts a few seconds. I also think the 1st verse is better than the 2nd, but overall I'm quite happy with the song.

Ok, so this is unfortunate. I never liked the band who made the original version of the track for this entry. Worse, the song was played incessantly at certain clubs I used to go to. I never could understand why. For the first n-years I hated those ~four minutes every time and just didn't know where to hide. Eventually i became inured to it. But, by god the world would be a better place if this track had never been recorded.

It's synth-pop. I like my cyborgs to have some sentient/sentimental side - even if it is just feeling a little pain the diodes down their left sides. I'm pretty sure Guy-Manuel and Thomas do. Here the cyborgs are being bossed about by some tough-as-old-boots scots bint and forced to repetitively bore us to death. oh my electric sheep. :sigh:

The submitter couldn't have known all of that, but the remix submitted here has nothing to recommend it - i.e. doesn't do anything for the song unless you like bog-standard Australian house remixes. I'd blame Cap.tain Bink.les for this fiasco, but I don't think even he could be a fan. Shoo, shoo, back to dirty Boges and Della, capt.

JMurder3

Jolyon Petch & Andy Murphy - Sweet Dreams

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sQwtR_zGNM

A cover, so I had to ding this for category fit. And it's a well known song.

The first time I listened it really didn't make any strong impression on me. I left it a day or so and looked up the act. Wikipedia tells me they specialize in Metal cover versions of non-Metal songs. That's probably up there with lounge-jazz versions of Buzzcocks songs for tchaz-woat genre.

But, fortunately, wikipedia is lying here.

This isn't my favourite kind of thing, but it's a reasonable stab at a brooding, intense, dystopian version of what was original all pretty butterflies and fluffy clouds classic. Definitely worth a few listens.

KarmaDope

Leo Moracchioli - What a Wonderful World (sitout, as I
literally have nothing but covers to submit for this cat) -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkUc...Heve&index=150

Sorry, KarmaDope, if this cat was very unenjoyable for you. Ofc you actually get 0 points

Let's talk about the French. : pause: :sigh: : pause:

They have a long tradition, from gypsy jazz and the Hot Club de Paris, through Johnny Halliday to le ceroc and on, of seeing that there is something there in whatever-type-of-music but not quite grokking it.

They have all of the words and the smart answers and haircuts, but don't have dat raggamuffin style.

luv you ct

So this is another exemplar - even though perhaps, being generous, one of the least worst. It's a cover of a GOAT song*, and it's not terrible ... not terrible at all. By the end it even gets some momentum going and is 85% convincing. But they can't help themselves but throw in the circus act/balkananics/...

Goodness me.

* don't open the spoiler unless you want to know what the song is.

Walrein

Caravan Palace - Black Betty

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_JxMb8RLEY