Rec Time

From Da South

Brian "Clocks" Volozanin

Tin Man

Last Chance

Nur Ein 14 Round 7 Reviews

You can read everything below if you want, but I was also a guest on the 2 Jerks 1 Vote podcast, and I gave my thoughts on the 2 finalist there as well.

Shadows
Everyone who submitted a shadow in this round, and all the others...well done.  I’m glad you get that this is supposed to be fun & about creating music first & foremost.  I actually don’t like judging & doing reviews, and that’s the only reason I didn’t write them for you….I never committed myself to doing them.  But I DO enjoying listening to the songs each round & seeing how you all meet the challenges.  Thank you for adding to that joy each round.  Also….Max….DAMN.  You win this round.

Agony Sauce
This is tough.  Cause I was hoping the last round you would drop all the extra challenges.  I mean there’s nothing new to add to this round, so I didn’t see the point in doing all the same challenges again.  I’m sure because I’ve judged all these rounds I have a different POV than most listeners to this will.  For me when you get to the spelling, I’m like yeah, saw that coming...and in this case it again seems out of place to me.  I thought the sample fit into your song pretty well.  The overall the song is really well done, I just feel like even though this is a NEW song, it feels like I’ve heard it before.  It’s cool that both of the final songs were collabs amongst the finalists.

Vowl Sounds
Another case were I’m just ready for the gimmick to end.  I think this was one of the better songs in this story.  You bring it to a close nicely, even if I don’t fully buy the wife would be as forgiving to the girl as you wrote it.  She stole her man, and helped cover up her murder so I thought that was a bit of a stretch.  That’s also one of the things that’s bothered me throughout this contest.  You write a song.  I enjoy the story, but then I also create my own story in my head imagining how it would continue.  But then the next song comes out & you blow up my little image I had of your song.  Lol  Not really your fault at all, but people do that with songs all the time.  They can mean 1 thing to 1 person, and another to someone else.   So you basically don’t allow me create my own version of the story by constantly correcting me each round. ;p  I haven’t been listing my rankings in these reviews since Niveous has been doing it when he posts the results, but you do get my vote in this final round.  Because like the Agony Sauce song, this was really well done, and sounds great.  I think I enjoyed it a tad more because I didn’t feel as if I’d heard it before.

Mike's Song

Underground

Straight Rights

Elan & Jordynn

Synchronized Screen Juggling

Nur Ein 14 Round 6 Reviews

This round, I ranked people by how much I enjoyed listening to the song.  I’m letting the judges a little more qualified handle the challenge aspect of this round.

Agony Sauce
Last time I mentioned you may have reached a point where your self imposed challenge of doing ALL previous challenges may have negatively affected your song for ME.  This time I think you just did too much with the current challenge.  Your song feels more like a medley of songs than a stand alone.  I’m not a huge medley fan normally.  (with the exception of Weird Al Polka medley’s & just about anything Dean Martin did live)  I start to get interested, and then it feels like a different song.

Max Bombast
I like the story, but unfortunately I don’t think our current leadership is going to hand over the keys to anyone.  The next generation is going to have to take it from them.  I kinda wish the song was from the POV of that generation.  The verses are much more catchy & enjoyable than the chorus is.  I think it’s a solid song overall, but not having a catchy hook hurts a bit.

Rachael Layne
Fake ending?  Really didn’t care for that at all.  Felt awkward.  Overall I enjoyed the music.  Sounds like something you would hear in a movie montage showing lots of happy sweet memories.  The vocals are lovely, but the story is pretty simple & uninteresting to me.  Because I wasn’t interested in what you were singing, honestly I’d prefer an instrumental despite how pretty your vocals were.

Rain Watt
Generally if I want a sweet sappy sounding song, I want it from someone who can make your knees go weak with their vocals.  Yours ain’t cutting it for me, not in this style at least.  I was also a bit bored with lyrics.  The guitar work was the best part of the track for me.

Vowl Sounds
Your little ouija universe has been very hit or miss with me.  I liked your first installment a lot, but at times wished you would drop it & do something that was a stand alone song.  Last round you got me interested again though, and you just really nailed this one.  Very spooky throughout, interesting music, great vocals all around, and the lyrics didn’t feel like they were written in 5 minutes like a couple this round.  This was the 1 song this round that sounded like a round 6 song.  Well done.

Gianna Newborg

Bad Guy

Ronald McDonald Vs The Burger King

Tammy MacDogfart Diss

Bill Nye Spits Fire

Hot Wheels Xylophone

Sarah "Smac" McCreanor

Colour Song

Nur Ein 14 Round 5 Reviews

Agony Sauce
A song that actually hits home with me a little atm.  You can’t tell a story backwards much clearer than this.  Unfortunately, for the first time your cumulative challenges mission kinda affected the song for me a little.  The sample you used threw me a bit because I couldn’t make out what was being said.  It still sounded nice….but it just annoys me when I can’t pick up lyrics.  Really enjoyed the end where you flipped the chorus around...embracing the backwardness of this challenge.

Berkeley Social Scene
I appreciate the picture you included with the lyrics.  I’m not up on my Greek mythology, so without that image I’d have been lost with this story.  Before I listened I went to wikipedia & got the gist of the Minotaur’s story, which helped.  There are times when the verses sound a little clunky lyrically, but they aren’t horrible.  I did really like the chorus & your delivery of it.  It held my interest musically, so I guess the one thing I’d like is for the lyrics to be smoothed out a little more.  For instance “terrible place”...”terrible face”... or places where you have to pause in the middle of a line so you can end it where you want to.

Grumpy Mike
Thanks for the “spoiler” at the end of your lyrics post.  I mean I’d have got most of it anyways, but I never even heard the term “Glorious Mysteries” before, so reading up on all the 5 points made this easier.  I think the idea & execution are fine.  I can’t say much negative about it.  At the moment this hasn’t created an earworm for me...the hook isn’t sticking…  I’m not a very religious person so the topic you picked isn’t for me, maybe that’s part of it.  But you did find a creative way to tell a touching story.  That’s about all I got sorry.

Max Bombast
Your vocals again just amaze me.  I didn’t know what an “oubliette” was until I Googled it. Is that common knowledge?  I could just be clueless, but that might throw some people off.  I liked the phrase “worms in the sky” a lot.  Yeah, don’t have any complaints other than that minor one I mentioned, I really liked this.  This is in the running for my top spot.

Merisan
So the townsfolk freed a killer, turned him into a cyborg, and sent him to clean up the town from a bunch of corrupt fat cats?  If I interpreted that right….I love it. ;p  I’d like the vocals to be louder in the mix, and maybe they could be a bit more menacing?  I know it’s not told from the killers POV, but the story is dark enough I think it might have helped.

Rachael Layne
You’ve brought a wide range of sounds to this Nur Ein.  This is another one that I really like.  The story was simple & easy to follow even backwards.  The vocals were lovely at the end of the chorus.  My only minor complaint is that the music got a little too repetitive for me, but it was still interesting enough that it wasn’t a big deal.  This one has singability for me, and sticks in my brain.

Rain Watt
I like the chiptunes in this.  Unfortunately your story didn’t really pull me in at all, so it felt like the verses were there just to break up the choruses.  The chorus wasn’t bad, and was kinda catchy.  I’m not as confident with you moving on this round as I have been in the past rounds.

Vowl Sounds
Who says sequels are never better?  I really didn’t expect this to take such a dark turn, but I rather enjoyed it.  The vocals were clear as a bell for me until the very end.  Didn’t really care for the “Satanic messages” part of the track.  Really enjoyed the story though, and you probably had me hooked with it more so than anyone else this round.

Sleeping With Michael

Masks

Crosswalk The Musical: Aladdin

That's My House