Judge Jukebox Judy Jury Duty Mystical Musical Justice Game

[Doraemon]

Here's an idea. Someone posts a link to an mp3 from a legal source such as myspace, that soundclick one, peoplesound, certain mp3 blog posts, etc...for us all to comment on, discuss and give a score out of 10, allowing us all to play Simon Cowell for a bit

Rules
Nothing from RAS - we are are already aware of this site's awesomeness, otherwise we wouldn't be here.

None of our own music - it'll only cause tears. We need some professional objectivity here

This is my offering, "Song Song Song" by someone who goes by the name "Final Fantasy" who's interviewed on this page. Anyone heard of this guy?

http://www.lovehasnologic.com/empme/2006/04/15/fantastical-chat/

Anyway, the reason I chose this is I just can't make up my mind about it. It's heady mix of classical strings, a little light hippy-folkish vocal in there...and, oh I almost forgot...GREAT BIG FRICKIN'  KODO DRUMS! This sounds like something I should love, but for some reason I think it doesn't seem to quite gel. Acctually, no maybe it's growing on me. The vocal is so naive, like it's on Sesame Street or something. It's not half as interesting as the instrumentation though. I DON'T KNOW! I really want to embrace this...is it too mad for it's own good though? Maybe his voice would be better in a simpler, acoustic setting. I just expected a voice on a track like this to be a bit more epic. Am I missing the point?

7/10 from me on this one. It reminds me of the soundtrack to Akira. Nuff said.

Discuss.

[Ashley]

This is actually a video.  Sometimes I fall into really strange bands by chance - I found this one stalking about the CBC Radio 3 site.  (Which, by the way, is amazing.  I never knew CBC Radio 3 was actually mostly indie.  I thought it was just the one show that was on until 4 AM.)

They're called They Shoot Horses, Don't They - they're hard to describe.  A bit akin to Animal Collective and The Flying Bulgar Klemzer Band.  (Animal Collective being primal and mewling, and The Flying Bulgar Klemzer Band being "traditional Eastern European Jewish dance music with elements of rock, jazz and salsa".)

Sunlight Give Us the Real Stuff, the video isn't very good, and it's not my favourite song, but it's really hard to find stuff on these guys, so it'll do.

...No, I'm not rating them or even reviewing them, I just found out about them so I'm really just rolling in it.  My preception is skewed.