(FP Free Album Release) 2011 - The Ratings LP - A Concept Album - General

That's nice. :smugdog: But it's late.. :smith:

[QUOTE=Phanny;29557218]Pepin you are not good at singing please don't sing ever again just play music and get someone else to sing for you[/QUOTE] [media]http://soundcloud.com/pepin/the-rasta-man-is-coming-to-town[/media]

Ahhh, I remember when me and Mr. Own came up with this idea about 4 or 5 months ago :smith:

[QUOTE=No Party Hats;29560731]Ahhh, I remember when me and Mr. Own came up with this idea about 4 or 5 months ago :smith:[/QUOTE] Oh man, good times. But Akyaz telepathically stole our idea! :v:

One or two songs are okay. Nothing I would really listen to. But you guys still deserve a gold star, good work. Though the Album cover looks like shit in my opinion.

[B]An Agreement - Reset Panda[/B] Could have used a pop filter... Not sure how it is music. [B]I Disagree, Reginald - Clovis[/B] Not really sure how the music conveys disagreement. [B]Dylan's 420th Dream - Funktastic Dog[/B] Not really sure how this is funny. [B]Sunlight - Hakita[/B] Midi music. This feels like one of those songs they would play in a game when you just finished the main quest, so it makes sense with winner. I'm thinking Dragon Warrior Monsters. [B]Buzzsaw - Puddlez[/B] Sounds electric. And electronic. Gets across the concept. [B]Information - Puddlez[/B] I'd say it works, the music feels like bits, if that makes any sense. Not sure if I'd get the concept with prior knowledge and "information" being said over and over. [B]Forever - Reset Panda[/B] Sounds like a sad song. Something I'd see in movie about a girl that can't go outside, and she is in a ballerina outfit for some reason. [B]Tool For You, Tool For Me - Akayz[/B] A wrench. And another tool. Makes sense. Drums, they are a tool to make music. Microphone. They are a tool used to record vibrations in the air. [B]Friends - Pepin[/B] I was trying to get an overly happy kind of a gay feeling across because that is what the rating is usually used for. [B]Orion - KanonieR[/B] I feel like Beyonce would be singing in this song. Or maybe a jazz singer. Seems more introspective, so I'll consider it artistic. I actually like it a good bit. [B]Late At The Gates Of Hysteria - Akayz[/B] Is this going to turn into Time? I hope so. That'd be so epic. Nope, timing seems to be late, which I think is the point, so it fits. Plus all the clocks. [B]Boxed On Saturday - Akayz & Pepin[/B] The concept I was going here was a dumb and bad song. Not sure about Akayz, but my intention was to mix together rap, death metal, an acoustic guitar, random samples, nonsensical lyrics about nothing, random synth solo that doesn't fit, and an incredibly dumb guitar solo. The dumbest idea I could think of. [B]Smarked - Pepin[/B] Trying to get across the feeling of being comfortably too high. My friend was freaking out about it one time, he thought he was going to die from smoking too much, but he was alright with it.

Working on the team, the only problem I had wiwth the album was lack of continuity - instead of an album it just feels like a bunch of songs throsn into one album

[QUOTE=JackHowers;29561212]Oh man, good times. But Akyaz telepathically stole our idea! :v:[/QUOTE] Oh shit wait he didn't steal our idea. Remember, ours was to make songs from the Emotes!

[QUOTE=leach139;29556112]Here you go [img_thumb]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1164025/ratingslp/front.png[/img_thumb] [img_thumb]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1164025/ratingslp/back.png[/img_thumb] If you want any alterations to it, let me know (I've got the PSD's for it saved) - I tried to keep it clean, ideally you should have put producer / mixer details in the tags for each track[/QUOTE] I looked at those 2 pictures cross-eyed. It took me five minutes to refocus my eyes

someone did acid and i wasn't notified? [URL="javascript:FR_InsertTextHelper(%20'vB_Editor_QR_textarea',%20':argh:'%20);"]:argh:[/URL]

[QUOTE=ResetPanda;29564291]Working on the team, the only problem I had wiwth the album was lack of continuity - instead of an album it just feels like a bunch of songs throsn into one album[/QUOTE] True. But people are different :3: Next time we might have it sounding similar, but it'll be more difficult.

So Akayz tries to be smug and progressive and ends up failing, then refuses to take critism

We need a Facepunch 2012 calander for next year. [editline]2nd May 2011[/editline] I'd buy one.

[QUOTE=AK'z;29558209]There's a way of liking all the tracks for what they are. Reach that point then you'll like it as a whole, a bit better.[/QUOTE] So you'll like it more... if you like it more? Sound logic there bro

[QUOTE=The_Putty;29567228]So Akayz tries to be smug and progressive and ends up failing, then refuses to take critism[/QUOTE] It is an awesome album. :mmmsmug:

There's some tracks that I felt the persons must have used time on, Orion was pretty fine, and the box track was as terrible as Pepin said it should be, but you didn't really catch the ratings in my opinion, and some of the tracks who did was way too literal (like "agree" and "disagree"). You called the album experimenting, but I really do not see the experiment, it was pretty uninspired it seems, and apart from a little light here and there, it was pretty bad and repetetive. [editline]2nd May 2011[/editline] I kind of liked the half-way jazzy parts of "Sunlight". Forever wasn't bad, but it's not really something I remembered afterwards either.

Oh damn you're done? I kept meaning to post in the other thread with a song that I kept meaning to record. Procrastination got the best of me!

So far it's been 82 downloads of the album in full. 629 plays on bandcamp. :iia: Contribute to the next concept album if you wish, We'll be in the gig's room :smile:

I just don't have good recording equipment. My band and I have tried to record in the past and it ended up sounding pretty awful.

[QUOTE=GoDong-DK;29568229]There's some tracks that I felt the persons must have used time on, Orion was pretty fine, and the box track was as terrible as Pepin said it should be, but you didn't really catch the ratings in my opinion, and some of the tracks who did was way too literal (like "agree" and "disagree"). You called the album experimenting, but I really do not see the experiment, it was pretty uninspired it seems, and apart from a little light here and there, it was pretty bad and repetetive. [editline]2nd May 2011[/editline] I kind of liked the half-way jazzy parts of "Sunlight". Forever wasn't bad, but it's not really something I remembered afterwards either.[/QUOTE] If you mean the piano solo, I got some inspiration to that from Jazz :buddy:

I've had shits that have looked better than the album cover.

[QUOTE=Hakita;29569068]If you mean the piano solo, I got some inspiration to that from Jazz :buddy:[/QUOTE] That is what I meant, from 1:12. It was pretty nice. I wasn't very fond of the weird keyboard sound, but well, otherwise it was pretty good. And anyone who contributed with electric music, I don't really like electric music, so I haven't (can't comment without beign biased, atleast) really commented on that.

[QUOTE=Hakita;29569068]If you mean the piano solo, I got some inspiration to that from Jazz :buddy:[/QUOTE] Which version of Sunlight do you prefer?

[QUOTE=AK'z;29570823]Which version of Sunlight do you prefer?[/QUOTE] I like the one with the rewritten guitar solo more.

Some alternative covers by other people. :smug: [img]http://i121.photobucket.com/albums/o202/akayz_people/randomconcov.png[/img] [img]http://filesmelt.com/dl/Rainbox2.png[/img] [img]http://i121.photobucket.com/albums/o202/akayz_people/boxorating2.png[/img] [img]http://i.imgur.com/KtorQ.png[/img]

The tags are fucking horrendous. [img]http://ploader.net/files/5f02a420f32771fa0d057531dd5cf8b5.png[/img]

[QUOTE=Anthophobian;29571236]The tags are fucking horrendous. [img_thumb]http://ploader.net/files/5f02a420f32771fa0d057531dd5cf8b5.png[/img_thumb][/QUOTE] Is that the wav? I didn't tag them that's probably why.

I'll listen to it in the morning AK'z thanks for helping put it together. Use one of the alternative covers though. [highlight](User was banned for this post ("Profile Harrasment - Don't do that" - Craptasket))[/highlight]

[img_thumb]http://filesmelt.com/dl/Rainbox2.png[/img_thumb] [img_thumb]http://filesmelt.com/dl/Collab.png[/img_thumb] Those are the ones I like most. But then again, I made them both :v:

[QUOTE=Anthophobian;29571236]The tags are fucking horrendous. [img_thumb]http://ploader.net/files/5f02a420f32771fa0d057531dd5cf8b5.png[/img_thumb][/QUOTE] You've got it sorted by Artist then Album Artist, try the other way around