As I'm sure everybody remembers, I play music and record dumb songs which I give away for free on the Internet. (I'm too lazy to look for the thread I posted six years ago to reference.)

Allegro.cc has a "request a review" feature for the games on the depot. Not that I've used it, so I don't know how it works ... but there is no such thing that I know of at the moment for music on the Internet.

This is where the challenge comes in: I would like to receive feedback on my music which I have posted on archive.org. I have received over 1000 downloads but only have one review. I would like to see what other people's honest opinions on my music are. Be brutal!

Drone EP is ... weird, would be my description.
Isaac Jacobs 3 has songs mostly with lyrics and electric guitars.
The Abrahams Unplugged is all acoustic guitar songs, with only a few having lyrics.

So ... what do you all think? (You can see all my albums here.)

OK, but don't take it personally...

You make it sound like you do that by choice. You don't.

The few songs that I listened to were terrible. I don't understand how Slartibartfast managed to listen to so many of them... The quality is pathetic... It sounds like you used a cheap microphone to pick up the guitar and vocals at your computer... It's one thing to do it. It's another thing to release it sounding like you did it.

Judging by the titles of the songs I assume you were going for a Weird Al sort of thing, but it's not working. If you're serious about your music start taking it serious. If you're not then stop wasting bandwidth and disk space.

I don't know what it is you're trying to do, but stop it. Honestly. Gangsta Folk? That's disrespectful to actual gangster rap artists. I honestly consider it racist. What I heard almost sounded like you were trying for country, but you missed by a long shot.

The lyrics were terrible. If you're going to have lyrics it's important for them to be clever. It takes time to come up with clever lyrics. Don't rush it.

Also, you seemed to make mistakes playing the guitar and weren't very confident when you tried to sing (seemingly missing your cue to sing). That should NEVER happen on a released recording! Re-record until you get it right. If you never get it right...there's your sign.

OK, I need to learn and then go to sleep, but if its a challenge, I will take it on!

So, whatever The Abrahams Unplugged is ( an Album, perhaps? ) I went to listen to some songs from it. Here is what I think:

Major

What the fuck? From what I heard, its like do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti-do-ti-la-so-fa-mi-re-do in a loop. Really repetitive. And the quality isn't the best either. In short, its something you expect in a film showing a insane guy going... Well, insane. It hurts the mind.

Angus

Still, I hear some repetition, and I think some mistakes when playing. But other than that, this is quite an enjoyable song compared to Major. Nothing special, but its enjoyable.

I'm Still a Retard on a Guitar (WTF?)

OK, the guitar playing is quite nice. I mean, it WAS quite nice until it came to the singing part. Oh my god. Did you make the microphone yourself? The recording quality is shitty. And your voice... Well, its not that good. But I reckon you can fix that with some good editing with some good equipment. ( Heck, look what Paris Hilton did. ).

A Toast to Toast (Man That Stuff's Good)

This one is like Angus, a little better even. Enjoyable. All tough I must say that its gets annoying after a minute or so. I think its because the constant repeating sounds and the constant guitariness. I need drums!

Stop the War (Save the Whales)

The beginning was very good I must say. But the problem in your songs is that they are too long compared to how much different sounds are played. The repetitiveness really ruins everything for me. Sure, there is a hint of a more squikier guitar later on and the humming voice. But thats all. More diversity! Please!

Watermelon Song

Well, this one was good, one problem though, sometimes you "scratch" on the guitar. Its not a pleasant sound and it doesn't happen that often. But it can really discourage people from listening to the whole song.

Porn Groove No. 12

This was a groovy song. I have said it once and I will say it again. Repetition is not good. Yes, there are some parts where another guitar gets played. But not enough. Mostly there is only one guitar playing the same tune over and over and over again. Sure, thats how most successful songs have, but they have other instruments and singers to mask that repetition.

Thats it for today, I will listen on tomorrow and add to this list.

I just want to say that I agree with everything that has been said about the vocals.

Yes, it is just a major scale. And I dislike that track and skip over it when I listen to that album. I also skip over the songs with lyrics on that album. I think they're all terrible.

Who is forcing me to make my junk available? I'm not understanding your statement.

I guess when I said "be brutal" I meant to be honest, not retarded. If you consider anyone who calls themselves a "gangsta" or "gangster" to be worthy of respect in the first place, then... Further, from the definition of racism, I do not see where you make your conclusion.

Edit: bamccaig, please get a dictionary >_<

First of all "gangster rap" isn't a race, so it's not racist. And, I fail to see how that's disrespectful at all.

I can't find any rap that sounds close to good, let alone great.

A lot of songs have irrelevant titles. So what?

IIRC, it was used to describe the genre.

Genre names (at least real ones) are usually derived from something related to the music or culture. They're not just mindless nonsense thought up by an uncreative person.

Rock and roll#Origins of the phrase.

<quote name="The Song "Alice's Restaurant"">

This song is called Alice's Restaurant, and it's about Alice, and the
restaurant, but Alice's Restaurant is not the name of the restaurant,
that's just the name of the song, and that's why I called the song Alice's
Restaurant.
</quote>