Bye Bye Life

[Thorolf]

Another one of my old bands, jazz punk band Knuste Katakomber, with their song Bye Bye Life.

Thorolf A. Holmboe: Bass and vocals
Frode Barth: Guitar
Gunleik Groven: Drums

I made the structure of the song, bass, lyrics and melody line, but all members are credited as composers due to the highly original instrumental contributions.



Regards

[Whataguy!]

I don't think this is the type of tune to play on a wedding or bar mitzvah gig

Seriously, I like the contrast at 00:40 and 01:28. Neat chords there. I also liked the creative guitar work at around 01:50.

Tunes like these are hard to write because there's a big risk of sounding pretentious. A lot of groups who really don't have the life experience to write a tune like this have what I call the wannabee sound, just attempting to sound like whatever group that's in the vogue. There is no wannabe feel here. It really sounds like you're founding something new.

This isn't really the type of music I'm interested in, but I can appreciate what you're doing here, man.

[reith]

Oh boy! VERY nice. Reminds me of an era. The only problem is the production quality is so high. I have a record here by The Tits called "We're so glad Elvis is...." etc. Your track vaguely reminds me of it - same genre, same vocal delivery but the sound (on that record) was horrid (which is to say exactly in keeping with garage recording). I think they came from Denmark or Holland which had a particular punk sound. An age of succinct expression, lovely fashions, plastic beer glasses, safety pins, fluorescent hair, spike-crop hair, torn t-shirts, the Stiff label, naughty badges, The Slits, Siouxsie, altogether nice people from what I can remember. I have a photo of Siouxsie in more adult years...so very beautiful...

(I could ramificate on forever so don't tempt me!).

Nice surprise - post more, please. Or send me the CD?

[reith]

Surprised that no one else has commented. It was refreshing to find I was not alone in liking an occasional burst of attavistic, intuitive, raw indie music. Sometimes relaxing after the intensity of trying to grapple with symphonic stuff - sort of cleans the slate, if you see what I mean!

cheers,
Reith

[Thorolf]

Thanks for the comments!

@ reith: A key word for me in your comment is “intuitive”. This is what I try to be all the time, and indeed I think that the same kind of intuition exhibited here should govern compositional forays in all directions, including symphonic stuff!



Regards

[crimson]

Wow, this was interesting stuff! It's kind of manic, insane in a way. Reminds me a bit of the System of a Down. Your voice or singing style is a little similar to SoaD's singer. System of a Down is one of my biggest favourites, second only to Rhapsody (now Rhapsody of Fire). Oh, another band that comes to my mind from this is Primus, mostly because of the use of the instruments (the bass is very visible in the mix and there's not much distortion in the guitar), also the song's style is somewhat similar to Primus. I don't think this is a bad piece at all. It was weird but not so much as to feel obscure to me. I could identify separate parts in the song quite easily. Overall this is a very interesting piece to listen to. Not bad at all!