Since we are getting closer to finding out who is the GW FREESTYLE CHAMPION I decided to change the format of these battles a little.


For each battle I make I am going to pick a phrase/theme and you have to include it in your verse, you will now also be judged on how creative your use of that theme or words is in your battle rhymes.

Here are the three words you must include in your first verse: grandfather, disco and why.

There are seriously loads of cool things you can do! Use this beautiful woman for inspiration:



Other than that the same rules apply:

YOU KNOW THE DRILL GUYS NOW GET TO IT!


Firstly here is a quick recap of the rules and some tips for the public to vote on who is the best:



Members of the public do not post or vote in this topic until each competitor has posted two verses each


QUARTER FINALS ROUND 1: DOPPLEGANGER VERSUS COUCHFIEND

FUCK MY LIFE

I've only had my ps3 for like six months and I turned it on and it told me that the system was corrupted and needed a restore, so I go to restore it and it wont work. I kept trying and trying and it restores then goes back to the same screen. I never did anything out of the ordinary with it yesterday and I still have my warranty booklet but not my receipt!


Anyone had similar issues and do you have any tips?

YOU KNOW THE DRILL GUYS NOW GET TO IT!


Firstly here is a quick recap of the rules and some tips for the public to vote on who is the best:




*EACH COMPETITOR HAS A WEEK TO POST IN THEIR TOPIC OTHERWISE THEY ARE DISQUALIFIED, I WILL PM EACH COMPETITOR A DAY IN ADVANCE TO WARN THEM THAT THEIR ROUND IS COMING UP



LETS GO NIGS!!!!  Members of the public do not post or vote in this topic until each competitor has posted two verses each


REMEMBER FLOW FLOW FLOW READ IT OUT LOUD


LETS GO BITCHES! (FINAL ROUND BEFORE QUARTER FINALS!)

VS






ROUND SEVEN: MC MASAMUNE VS MC BIGGLES


Firstly here is a quick recap of the rules and some tips for the public to vote on who is the best:




*EACH COMPETITOR HAS A WEEK TO POST IN THEIR TOPIC OTHERWISE THEY ARE DISQUALIFIED, I WILL PM EACH COMPETITOR A DAY IN ADVANCE TO WARN THEM THAT THEIR ROUND IS COMING UP



LETS GO NIGS!!!!  Members of the public do not post or vote in this topic until each competitor has posted two verses each


REMEMBER FLOW FLOW FLOW READ IT OUT LOUD


LETS GO BITCHES! (TWO ROUNDS TO GO UNTIL THE SEMIFINALS)

VS[/b]




BATTLE B-B-BATTLE AFURA VS STRANGELUV


Firstly here is a quick recap of the rules and some tips for the public to vote on who is the best:




*EACH COMPETITOR HAS A WEEK TO POST IN THEIR TOPIC OTHERWISE THEY ARE DISQUALIFIED, I WILL PM EACH COMPETITOR A DAY IN ADVANCE TO WARN THEM THAT THEIR ROUND IS COMING UP



LETS GO NIGS!!!!  Members of the public do not post or vote in this topic until each competitor has posted two verses each


REMEMBER FLOW FLOW FLOW READ IT OUT LOUD

CLASH OF THE ICEY/HOT STUNNAZ: RAP BATTLE ROUND 6: LARS VS ASE

Try to set the bar semi-high guys and show everyone how its done ​!

Firstly here is a quick recap of the rules and some tips for the public to vote on who is the best:




*EACH COMPETITOR HAS A WEEK TO POST IN THEIR TOPIC OTHERWISE THEY ARE DISQUALIFIED, I WILL PM EACH COMPETITOR A DAY IN ADVANCE TO WARN THEM THAT THEIR ROUND IS COMING UP



LETS GO NIGS!!!!  Members of the public do not post or vote in this topic until each competitor has posted two verses each


REMEMBER FLOW FLOW FLOW READ IT OUT LOUD

From billboard.com  ​

Chad Kroeger laughs when asked if the phenomenal sales for 2005's "All the Right Reasons" gave confidence to Nickelback as it set out to make its sixth studio album, "Dark Horse."

"No, because look what we have to try to live up to," says Kroeger, who co-founded the quartet in 1995 in Alberta, Canada. "There's a mountain sitting behind us. We've got to try and put something out now that's going to stand up to that. So for us, the bar has been raised ridiculously high."

"Dark Horse," which comes out Nov. 18 on Roadrunner and was co-produced by Mutt Lange, certainly has a target to clear. Buoyed by seven multiformat hit singles and five No. 1 videos-and apparently unaffected by widespread critical drubbing-"All the Right Reasons" has sold 10 million copies worldwide, according to Roadrunner, and spent a staggering 110 consecutive weeks in the top 30 of the Billboard 200. It fell off the chart Oct. 11 after a 156-week run, the longest registered in 11 years.

"All the Right Reasons" also took off in a big way this summer in Europe, meaning Kroeger and his bandmates-brother and bassist Mike Kroeger, guitarist Ryan Peake and drummer Daniel Adair-were multitasking across two continents as they recorded "Dark Horse" and promoted its predecessor.

"We've never left the previous album cycle," Roadrunner president Jonas Nachsin says. "That's got to be a seriously positive sign going into a new one. It's become such a monster to try to put our arms around, we're just doing the best we can to guide it into fruition at this point."


In his first interview about the new album, Kroeger -- who started working with Lange ("The dude is my hero," he says) on "Dark Horse" in March in Switzerland -- acknowledges that he "would've liked a longer break" for himself. But he also recognized it was time for more Nickelback music in the marketplace.

"If you're a fan of the band and you went out and got 'All the Right Reasons' the first week it was released, you'd be waiting for new material for, like, three years now," Kroeger says. "So it was definitely time for us to make sure that we had a new album and some new songs for the fans."

Just some nickleback news for ya'll  ​

RAP BATTLE ROUND FOUR VOTING




VS[/b]






Well you guys obviously get the idea by now, this was a pretty unorthodox battle and the only of its kind but one deserving person needs to advance to the next round so you decide!

The battle is here: http://www.gamingw.net/forums/index.php?topic=8351.msg1414849#msg1414849


Go go go BEGIN VOTING
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ASE VS LARS IS NEXT

HELLO AGAIN!

Music Creation Interview: Scubacoaster/Bunnymilk




MUSIC INTERVIEW WITH A DUNCE

I am one of those WASTES OF SPACE you hear about sometimes.

FYI I have been pretty useless lately and this is my first article in six weeks!!! Missed me huh? Bunnymilk aka Scubacoaster aka Local dunce aka Conjugal_visit66 is an altogether self-recognized ‘waste of space’ and a former GW admin. He retired because you guys fuck him off so much he gave up on us : ) Scuba likes to play around with music stuff and we actually talked for ages about everything from GW ISSUES to FAVORITE MEMBERS.


Me: Sorry I have been so hard to contact lately!! Please do tell us about the man behind the legend!

Scubacoaster: My real name is Marlon Brando which was either a sick joke by my parents or just a very unfortunate coincidence. Anyway I have grown up with no end of godfather jokes so don't make any.

Me: Hahaha wow that is the best!  Except he is a frightening mobster and as a gw member you are probably very white/thin?

Scubacoaster: I'm actually a bit of a porker. I was thin for ages but then I let myself go and now I really do look like Marlon Brando. All I do is eat food.





come up with your own jokes...


Me: Marlon do you not work or anything!??

Scubacoaster: I string between jobs. I have been a Marshall on a dirt bike track, a cinema projectionist, a GUY WHO WORKS IN A PRINTING PRESS (whatever the hell that job title is.) I have worked in a book shop and at the moment I am unemployed yeah.

Me: Do you not have a big plan or anything just yet? (This is some personal and totally unrelated to music subject matter!)

Scubacoaster: Oh man, you sound like my Dad! I don't know, I'd like to be president, or a leech farmer or Dracula or something cool but not really. I spent my whole life saying HEY I WANT TO MAKE MUSIC AND BE A MUSICIAN and then slowly finding out that it is not going to happen ever! It was pretty depressing so now I sit here kind of self loathing my own music creation despite it being the only thing I really want to do with my life. Maybe I will kick it all and join the army or something.

Scubacoaster: Some cop-out job that allows me to just exist and then not exist when it's over.

Me: Maybe study to become an audio engineer so you can fuck around with music stuff all day. What instruments do you play?

Scubacoaster: I started off on the drums. Me and a couple of pals in school started up this funk band and spent all our time dicking around and not actually making any music at all. We had some cool times and the highlight was selling out a 3000 seat theater which not many people get to do in their lives. Once that all packed up I picked up guitar and dicked around on that for a while. I did this battle of the bands thing as a joke with my pal Tommy (who some GW members have met) and we won two local awards for that and then it kind of died out and I decided to play the COMPUTER all on my own. I can play most things with some level of competence like Piano, Any stringed instrument etc but drums are my strong point and I can't touch anything which required LUNG power because years of smoke abuse have rendered me a wheezing mess and all I can produce is red face and a high pitched whine.





Kick smoking in the butt!

Me: Did your olds get you into music?

Scubacoaster: No! They were pretty supportive through most decisions in my life but my dad would rather I just got my act together and worked some dumb 9 - 5 office job like him and my mother (I have to say this because I can't say mum due to multicultural audience) has no interest in music at all. I guess the closest is my gramps who gave me my acoustic guitar and a bunch of Jimi Hendix albums.

Scubacoaster: ….Which I then let collect dust for years while I pursued my drum lessons.

Me: To be honest I'd prefer to be able to play instruments than have a shitty job. Do you have any cool music stuff planned at the moment and what type of music do you MAKE!

Scubacoaster: I am working on Faceless pretty much all the time which is THEGAME that hundley/konix/gz are also working on. Also I don't really know how to classify the music I make by genre or anything but I make stuff on the computer using synths/samples and I think it's kind of neat. It never really sounds like the stuff I enjoy listening to but I guess it is some kind of ambient/electronic/trip-hop stuff.

Me: Yes I know about the Urban legend that is faceless, do you have any teaser tidbits you'd like to give us about its progress? How long is the game going to be all up?

Scubacoaster: It is fucking gigantic I will tell you this much! Hundley has written this monster script which I am not going to spoil for him because he would throttle me probably. I would say it equals the length of any commercial RPG from the old PSX era but with much better writing. There is a point in the script (and bare in mind this is just words on paper without audio/visual aid) where I literally jumped out of my seat and yelled at the screen in furious anger. I will also tell you a funny story about how a couple of weeks ago I was messing around with our development board and accidentally DELETED THE ENTIRE THING. We had all the information backed up but that was a horrifying experience where I cried to Dada over IRC, he will never let me live this down but it is kind of funny in retrospect. I would say the demo is very close to being AVAILABLE but as for the whole thing I'm not too sure. There is not really too much I can give away because the game has been shrouded in mystery for so long I kind of feel like I should not be hyping it at all.

Me: So other than music and crying over video games are there any other creative ways in which you express yourself!?

Scubacoaster: Interpretive Dance.

Me: . . .





Scubacoaster: Hahaha no really I like to mess around with PAINT STUFF sometimes but I am not good at all, it always comes out kind of abstract and weird. I also like Photography but I have nothing to really show for this at the moment. I mean my hobbies pretty much include MUSIC/PAINT/READBOOK/TAKEPHOTOGRAPH/PLAY TEAM FORTRESS 2.

Me: What’s your fave musical experience?

Scubacoaster: Probably one of the live concerts I've done. I did this concert once where me and my friend Luke were both playing guitar and miraculously both pulled our leads out at the same time and scrambled to plug them back in. If it hadn't been ENTIRELY SYNCHRONOUS it would have been an amazing technical fuck up but instead it turned out like some kind of planned slapstick comedy and got a great response. It was a battle of the bands thing and we won! I think it was one of those things where we were judged by personality over technical skill. Either that or they had to pick one retarded band to give the prize to every year.

Me: Like a disabled persons music fund!!!?

Scubacoaster: Yeah exactly like that...........

Me:
WHO
ARE
YOUR 
FAVORITE
AND
LEAST
FAVORITE
GW
MEMBERS?

Scubacoaster: Hahahaha, normally I would try and be nice and say something like I CAN'T ANSWER THAT! But fuck it I guess I will. I pretty much think Hundley is the best guy on GW. There are also dudes who I talk to ALL THE TIME like goat on a stick, rowain, goldenratio, couchfiend. I haven't spoken to either of them in a while but panda is definitely a TOP NOTCH guy and maybe you forgot him but idiotkid also. I am going to throw in disclaimer and say: IF YOU ARE MY PAL AND I DIDN'T MENTION YOU HERE SUCK AN EGG I CAN'T MENTION EVERYONE!!!! My least favourite members? Harry Manback because he photoshopped turds over one of my album covers once and is generally pretty annoying, suck my dick harry manback. I also hate all the jerks out there who get off and just being jerks to people and I pretty much hate all memes and shit so when those pop up I kind of have to take a step back and feel disgusted at people for a second. I don't feel so bad about talking about people behind their backs when I know it is going to be broadcast on the mainpage.

Me: Seems like there are a few people people who want harry manback to eat NUMEROUS cocks. Lets finish with some quickfire questions, Last thing you stole?

Scubacoaster: Probably a YO YO or something.

Me: Current state of GW?

Scubacoaster: Pretty messed up! Everyone is too cynical and angry and everyone is a jerk. People need to chill out and just have more fun.

Me: Favorite childhood band?

Scubacoaster: When I was young my favorite band was THE OFFSPRING, I'm so glad you grow out of that shit.

Me: Current musical guilty pleasure?

Scubacoaster: Jamiroquai and also The cure.

Me: Are you a big concert goer?

Scubacoaster: I used to be, I used to go to all sorts. The best was RHCP Live in Hyde Park (maybe you heard the live album!?) Well I was there. The worst was probably DIMMU BORGIR, I don't even know why I went but it was pretty hilarious and my friend Tommy got beer canned over the back of the head. I also saw System of a Down but this was kind of reluctantly because some pals wanted to go and we ended up crashed out on someone's floor in London and missed our bus home the next day which was the day of our science GCSE. Also seeing James Brown before he died was HILARIOUS, an old man strutting around stage with a cape and a Zimmer frame going YEAH while the backing singers sang the song.

THANKS TO SCUBACOASTER FOR THE INTERVIEW



(Try not to let Faceless get you down again man)


Scuba stuff

Scubacoaster music from his album Pulse:

http://www.avalanchestudios.net/bunnymilk/02%20-%20BunnyMilk%20-%20LoFi%20Output.mp3

http://www.avalanchestudios.net/bunnymilk/BunnyMilk%20-%20Snack%20Needles/Coffee%20Shop.mp3

Scubacoaster artwork tomfoolery:

http://www.scubacoaster.leafo.net/Pictures/bm_dog2.png

hello

some dick broke my wireless internet connection so it wont be fixed until next wednesday so il be on a little less till then.


when im back ill do the next rap battle topic and post an interview with scubacoaster





what i want to happen in the meantime:

no more topics about weed or "semper anything" (its not funny, hasn't been for months tbh)
gw6

 il be on a lil but just not as much i know this topic isnt really necessary

k thx

BOOM! VOTING TIME BITCHES



RAP BATTLE ROUND THREE: MC DOKTORMARTINI VS MC OMCIFER

GREETINGZ FELLOW THUGS AND WELCOME TO THE THIRD OF THE GW RAP BATTLE TOURNAMENT

Firstly here is a quick recap of the rules and some tips for the public to vote on who is the best:



*EACH COMPETITOR HAS A WEEK TO POST IN THEIR TOPIC OTHERWISE THEY ARE DISQUALIFIED, I WILL PM EACH COMPETITOR A DAY IN ADVANCE TO WARN THEM THAT THEIR ROUND IS COMING UP



LETS GO NIGS!!!!  Members of the public do not post or vote in this topic until each competitor has posted two verses each

THIS BATTLE HAS NOW FINISHED DECIDE THE WINNER EVERYONE!!!!!!!


SHOW THEM HOW IT IS DONE GUYS!



RAP BATTLE ROUND TWO: MC JUMAR 1987 VS MC P-TIZZLE

HELLO FELLOW THUGS AND WELCOME TO THE SECOND OF THE GW RAP BATTLE TOURNAMENT

Firstly here is a quick recap of the rules and some tips for the public to vote on who is the best:



*EACH COMPETITOR HAS A WEEK TO POST IN THEIR TOPIC OTHERWISE THEY ARE DISQUALIFIED, I WILL PM EACH COMPETITOR A DAY IN ADVANCE TO WARN THEM THAT THEIR ROUND IS COMING UP





JUMAR AND PTIZZLE LETS SHOW THEM HOW IT IS DONE!!!!  Members of the public do not post or vote in this topic until each competitor has posted two verses each

VOTING HAS BEGUN EVERYONE! !!! ROUND ONE: MC HARRY MANBACK VS MC ADELINE

HELLO FELLOW THUGS AND WELCOME TO THE VERY FIRST ROUND OF THE GW RAP BATTLE TOURNAMENT

Firstly here is a quick recap of the rules and some tips for the public to vote on who is the best:



*EACH COMPETITOR HAS A WEEK TO POST IN THEIR TOPIC OTHERWISE THEY ARE DISQUALIFIED, I WILL PM EACH COMPETITOR A DAY IN ADVANCE TO WARN THEM THAT THEIR ROUND IS COMING UP





Ok guys lets FUCK SOME SHIT UP ADELINE AND HARRY ! Members of the public do not post or vote in this topic until each competitor has posted two verses each

ALRIGHT GUYS HERE IS THE SET UP FOR THE FIRST ROUNDS


ARE YOU READY!!!!!!!!


Harry Manback vs Adeline
Jumar vs P-Tizzle
Omcifer vs Doktormartini
Fatty vs Couch
Lars vs Ase
Afura vs Strangeluv
Masamune vs biggles
Doppleganger vs Bravo



Now obviously each winner of their round goes onto the next and the person who loses doesn't!

Quarter Finals timetable

Round 1: DOPPLEGANGER VS COUCH
Round 2: OMCIFER VS ADELINE
Round 3: ASE VS BIGGLES
Round 4: PTIZZLE VS STRANGELUV

Round 1 winner: Doppleganger
Round 2 winner: Omcifer
Round 3 winner: Strangeluv
Round 4 winner: Biggles

SEMI FINALS

Biggles vs Strangeluv
DoppleGanger vs Omcifer

HOW ARE THEY BEING JUDGED ON THEIR RHYMING PROWESS???[/center]


At first the topic will be only for the two competitors to post in until the battle is over then it will be opened for the public to post in. If you interrupt the competition and post during a battle I will give you a major warn and delete your post. Each competitor gets two rhymes each, one to start and one to respond.


Each topic will have a poll in which members of the public will judge according to the following points who is better than the other.


HERES HOW YOU JUDGE WHO IS THE BEST GUYS


#1: Originality of Rhymes and Jones, no one wants to read someone talking about how much cash and bling they have and how the fucked the other persons mom, that is boring.  

#2: How well is the rhyme written? Read it out loud and see if it flows, if it doesn't sound right the person obviously isn't that great.

#3: How hard are the disses? Is their an obvious winner?

#4: Who says the wittiest or funniest stuff? Was it hilarious? How good were his puns or metaphors?


*EACH COMPETITOR HAS A WEEK TO POST IN THEIR TOPIC OTHERWISE THEY ARE DISQUALIFIED, I WILL PM EACH COMPETITOR A DAY IN ADVANCE TO WARN THEM THAT THEIR ROUND IS COMING UP

**Harry manback and Adeline are first, I'm going to PM them both tonight and then post the round the following day. [/center]


ARE YOU READY!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LETS GET IT ON!

I remember we used to do this back in the day and it was alot of fun, each person has a week to post a rap style insult toward the other person and then the public decide via a poll who is the winner, the winner then goes onto the next round. You don't have to know alot about hiphop, it just has to rhyme and be humorous or whatever!

So who is keen? Also any questions? I'm hoping alot of people will get involved cause it can be really fun.





Contestants:

Afura
P-tizzle
Doktormartini
Bravo
Strangethug
Ase
Lars
Omcifer
Couch
Adelame
Harry Manback
Biggles
Doppleganger
Masamune

Out of the kindness of my heart I have decided to let Jumar and slack join the competition (mainly so we have equal numbers for all the finals heh)

Well I promised that we would start Topic of the Week discussions again so here is the first in the new series...


It seems like the media is constantly pushing the limit of moral values and what they will use to sell a product to a consumer. Music is one of these products and a multi-million dollar industry, recently I read in a survey it is the number one most important entertainment source to consumers. Obviously businesses want to capitalize on this interest and as the industry continues to grow they constantly need think of new ways to sell an item. Many people look back on previous years such as the 90's or 70's as the classic musicial era in which creativity and innovation were at an all time high.


So my question is: Do you think mainstream music is consistently becoming 'worse'?


New popular music has become worse???


or there will always be good and bad?



apologies if my writing isn't totally up to scratch, i am pretty tired

One thing I have always wanted to do is to go to a real good rap concert, recently I found out Ice Cube, Snoop and Bone Thugs are coming for some MTV show.

Well the first two I could give or take but I would like to see bone thugs as its the first time they have had their full line up in like 8 years with flesh bone finally out of jail. Only problem is, rap concerts often appear to be hit or miss, I don't want to go and see them lip syncing the words and only singing the hook (seems to happen at alot of hiphop concerts) also probably the second problem is I am a non gangsta white person, I will be going with one other friend but I know there are some really big maoris around and it might be a) very scary b) awkward as fuck for me. Honestly, I've been to several clubs where people have tried to fight me for similar reasons!

I love hiphop and I will know all the words but I don't dress or act like a wigger in the slightest and I would prefer not to do die. Its my 21st comin up and I can probably get a ticket to this as a present.


So tell me two things, A) Do you think I will die if I go B) What has your experience been with rap concerts?

k


here are some awesome songs i hope they perform properly





so far i have a feeling it will be poo if i go, also in other news i am probably going to be seeing neil young/pearl jam live

this topic may be disturbing


GG Allin is probably the most hardcore musician ever, he is famed for his live shows in which he would consume his own feces, give and receive oral sex (from any gender) etc.
His dad was crazy and gave him the name "Jesus Christ Allin" when he was born but his mom later changed it to stop him from being teased in special ed class.


GG was basically a very insane man, he had a fascination with serial killers and often visited them in prison. 'GG' Died at age 36 from a drug overdose, this is probably the most interesting part about his death:


 

In his last show the power went out during the second song, after which he trashed the venue and walked the streets of New York naked and covered in blood and feces, surrounded by fans whom he openly embraced..


After arriving at his friend's apartment, some party-goers posed for photos with Allin, not knowing that he was already dead. The next morning, some noticed that Allin still lay motionless in the same place where they had left him, and called for an ambulance. Allin was pronounced dead at the scene.

At his funeral, Allin's bloated, discolored corpse was dressed in his black leather jacket and trademark jock strap. He had a bottle of Jim Beam beside him in his casket, as per his wishes (openly stated in his self-penned acoustic country ballad, "When I Die"). As part of his brother's request, the mortician was instructed not to wash the corpse (which smelled strongly of feces), or apply any makeup. The funeral became a wild party. Friends posed with the corpse, placing drugs and whiskey into its mouth. As the funeral ended, his brother put a pair of headphones on Allin. The headphones were plugged into a portable cassette player, in which was loaded a copy of The Suicide Sessions. The video of his funeral is widely available for purchase, and is an extra feature on the Hated DVD and some bootleg VHS tapes.[14]

the following videos are a bit nsfw

Here's a famous clip of gg allin on jerry springer: WORTH WATCHING AND INTERESTING


gg allin live and naked (look how scared everyone is of him ahaha, also he has a very small ....)


same song with him smashing his head on the ground into a glass bottle VERY DISTURBING


Here is some of his horrible wonderful music:

"I hate people"



Not the best topic ever but I think he is pretty interesting in a horrible kind of way...

DISCUSS

U2 frontman Bono says his bandmate, The Egde, is the most influential guitarist since Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page and The Who's Pete Townshend.

Bono's comment came in response to an almost flawless review of the bands recently re-released debut album, 'Boy'. The album, originally released in 1980, was given four and a half stars by Rolling Stone.

In an email to the publication, Bono said he had recently listened again the record and decided that something “truly special” occurs during The Edge's guitar parts. “Edge's genuine genius developing on the blank and bleached photographic paper… avoiding all the obvious blues scales that blind every other guitar player that ever heard Led Zeppelin …The Edge finds some new colours for the spectrum of rock,” he wrote.

“Colours he now owns … owning a colour, wow .. imagine owning the colour yellow like VAN GOGH… EDGE owns, well I'm not exactly sure what colours they are… indigo or violet or crimson...?"

“But you sense an emotional colour temperature that is unique to him… its his palette we’re painting from.”

He added: “Surely this is the most influential guitarist since the great composers Jimmy Page, Pete Townshend, Neil Young but remember he doesn’t have the history of the blues to plumb, these are unchartered waters…was to the English psychedelic revival we were also inspired by and plundering”

Discuss

FOLK MUSIC

I feel like I haven't made a topic in a little while so I thought I'd open up a discussion about Folk music.

For some reason music which is influenced by nature has always been quite interesting to me, I really like the sound in terms of instrument usage, lyrical content and just the overall atmosphere. However, I don't enjoy much VIKING/FOLK METAL though because it's kinda different imo and more similar to power metal than anything (so cheesy).

Foreign language stuff is also quite cool, particially Swedish or European in general. I don't know quite why but the whole paganistic heritage is awesome imo. Like the other night when I was interviewing Lars I spent like three hours afterward just looking up Icelandic people who believed Trolls and Goblins are real heh.

I'm by no means a professional on this genre, in fact I'm realitively new to it. So feel free to post your own recommendations as I only have a few!

Anyway

Here are just a few of my favorite Folkish Bands.

Of course there is Indie folkish stuff like Iron and Wine/Surfjan

This is a beautiful song.



Agalloch

Pretty cool American band I have just started listening to a bit, although not a traditional folk band they do have folk influences/themes.



He is striking the skull of a deer to make that noise. So Atmospheric.

This song isn't very Folk sounding but I really like the acoustic solo midway.


Otyg

This is one of my favourite vocalists first bands, he plays prog metal now but when he was younger he made two pretty cool Folk music albums with this band and some demos.
All of the stuff is pretty bad quality and kinda hard to get into but I like it


(I don't know what the fuck that noise is at the end)

Here is an unreleased song: (a bit more rock sounding)