Comments on: Is The SSF Gonna Rock You?

By: ashvin

ashvin — Sun, 16 Oct 2005 05:39:39 +0000

Are we looking for Sri Lankan bands that rock ? Try My Vitriol. Atleast one (Som Wardner), possibly two (Ravi Kesavaram), srilankan and with a name like that you know they rock.

By: dilweed

dilweed — Sat, 15 Oct 2005 20:39:48 +0000

Listening to it again, I now like it better and her voice is awesome, it makes we want to cry, but wish she came along before the cranberries, maybe someone can kick the lead singer of cranberries in the vocal chords. She already has enough money.

By: Ananthan

Ananthan — Sat, 15 Oct 2005 20:29:15 +0000

a little whiny, but still pretty good

By: cicatrix

cicatrix — Sat, 15 Oct 2005 19:22:42 +0000

I dunno what the rest of you are going on about, but she has an AMAZING voice. It is freakishly pitch-perfect, crystelline, and sends shivers down my spine.

IMO, they sound sort of like a Spiderland-era Slint with a less-jazzy Tanuja Desai on vocals.

(wow. I'd clean out my bank account to see that combo ever happen.)

By: Cracker Ass Cracker

Cracker Ass Cracker — Sat, 15 Oct 2005 16:33:41 +0000

yeah, maybe if they got rid of “BROWNIES” they’d be a little better….I’ve heard they now have an “Indian” drummer too…..bummer!!

By: dilweed

dilweed — Sat, 15 Oct 2005 10:05:19 +0000

Exact copy of the cranberries. I wouldnt be suprised if she started singing about war in her native Ireland and wrote a songs about her strong Irish appearance.

By: A N N A

A N N A — Sat, 15 Oct 2005 09:45:48 +0000

Kayyyy Elle Effffffff! A ha.

By: ads

ads — Sat, 15 Oct 2005 09:44:30 +0000

Thanks everyone for the comments! Suhail, to be honest, I didn’t actually like “Push Pull Push” that much. I just mentioned it because the sound reminded me of the Cranberries on a first listen, but the song’s a little, I dunno, torpid, for my tastes. I’m trying to reserve judgement until I give the songs a more careful listen, though.

By: Suhail Kazi

Suhail Kazi — Sat, 15 Oct 2005 08:04:21 +0000

Hi ads, nice find. The lady sure has a nice voice. Try this for their comprehensive profile (got there by clicking on CD image

Push Pull is good. starts slow and builds up nicely, but it never reaches the perfect crescendo, like say, sweetchildintime. Also the starting sequence of CharlieHustles(pete rose) is v.close to some v.popular song, which I’m sure most of you’d have heard. I just can’t figure out which one it is. I think some metallica song(nothing else matters??). however rest of charliehustle is v.good. I liked it more than PushPull.

Summon the Painter sounds like a total rip-off of that song(video of which shows 2 (3?) girls blazing down a burning truck through the seasons – what band is that, I dont know?). probably they are taking the ‘influence’ thing a bit too far..so far that they are v.close to Anu Malik. Pls tell them in Sinhalese not to copy. They are quite good to hold it on their own

One more thing I dont understand is this some kinda pressure on all these new bands to stuff their albums with one track of each type (pure, alti, soft-slow, folkish, punkish blablah)…somewhere in all this they tend to lose their original voice. I see that all the time with these local country crooners here in Austin. I am no guru of any genre of music, and I understand artists want to experiment various styles, but you can sortof make out the bluff if it’s planted. And then they keep frothing about local music..local this .. local that.. local my foot!

Since we are on songs, let me introduce you to this Austineer, GuyForsyth(guyforsyth.com – LongLongTime..awesome track)

Again, thanks for this find!

btw, man this ‘sss’ sure seems to be v.desperate. Probably one of the best back-handed compliments I’ve seen in a long time now. I like these guys. They come, they see the photo..umm no links ..huffpuff..blowsmoke..belchbellow..leave. nice detour from the mundane commenting

By: sss translated

sss translated — Sat, 15 Oct 2005 07:25:39 +0000

“My lobotomy prevents me from reading the second sentence.”