[Silver Machine]

 Peeps I aint interested in production or perfection, I tend to record everything in a coupla takes then cut and paste it together all wrong, till I get it right. 
Feel free to experience any emotion you  want to listening to this, peeps; but if you only find silliness then you just  lick the coating from all my songs.

Yeah it's a documentary about life in the teenage rainforest.

https://clyp.it/hoy043vw

In the Teenage wilderness, teenage organisms co-exist, in a complicated ecosystem, 
and a highly specialised food chain is observed.

Are you hungry?

Teddy Boys eat Beatniks
Mods and Rockers eat Teddy Boys
Hippies eat Mods and Rockers
Punks eat Hippies
Skinheads eat  Punks
Hells Angels eat everything!

Teenage Food Chain

Some species have adapted, to thwart the apex predators:
Young Vegans, and Skinny Fashion Models appear so emaciated, they don't look like a real meal!
While, Goths, have adopted a look of deathly funereal  decomposition, able to dissuade all but the hardiest appetites!

Are you hungry?

Teddy Boys eat Beatniks
Mods and Rockers eat Teddy Boys
Hippies eat Mods and Rockers
Punks eat Hippies
Skinheads eat  Punks
Hells Angels eat everything!

Teenage Food Chain

[Yodasdad]

Love the lyrics and the concept and it did make giggle when I started listening.

Some real dirty guitar riffs and a lot of imagination.

Not really my listening cuppa but hats off for originality.

Yodasdad

[PaulAds]

Hi (ho) Silver (machine) 

First up... I feel like I owe you an apology for my last review which - although I think I figured what the song was about - I didn’t feel that I went into enough depth over it. I sometimes wonder how much thought the man in the street puts into his own life/destiny...never mind what guys like me/you/us are trying to say. Maybe the way the music is presented misleads people...I dunno...I wish I could buy you a beer and have a natter about it sometime...I think you’d be fantastic company.

Anyway...this is really good observational stuff...super title too...with lots of great hooks that would stick in the minds of listeners...I guess I just worry that a bigger audience (however much of a pipe dream that is for virtually all of us here) will fail to get a chance to fail to pick up on your undoubted talent and originality.

Maybe I’m just a jaded old loser...but I wonder if more structure, a slightly more traditional sound and a soundcloud account ( ) would help bring your excellent work to more ears?

[redrhodie]

This could be the theme to The Breakfast Club, class of 2020. The music has changed, the feelings are still the same. Liked it.

[shadowfax]

This is music but not as we know it Jim!!..impossible to critique this anarchic piece of brilliance!
are you an alien?
love the guitar riff and the lyrics are awesome, had a smile on my face all through the song,
is that OK?

fab work mate!!

[Marrianna]

Hi!

I love that track. So much imagination with effects. I wanted to leave a comment but no time to join at the moment so just to say I could have done with hearing more words. Those that are there sound a bit muffled so not that clear in parts. A great, unusual track which  I think could have been longer and could have been called Are You Hungry?
Thanks for the listen 
Marrianna

[montydog]

Holy jumping Jesus, Silver Machine! What ARE you on? It's mad, mad, mad MAD. Incredibly original, imaginative and unpredictable. It is quite a treat for the ears and refreshingly crazy but with a centre of truth and astute observation.

I loved it. Bring it on.

M

[Darren1664]

I have nothing but admiration for your music. You're not afraid to be original and you've come up with something brilliantly original here. You're a talented guitarist and create some very interesting sounds with it (somewhat similar in style to Tina M) and I find your concepts captivating.

You really keep me on my toes and I'll be looking forward to what you will come up with next. For now, I will enjoy this one. Fascinating.

 

[PaulyX]

Yesssss!
This is great stuff.
The title is intriguing. The 'monkey holler' sounds are spot on - equal parts funny and terrifying. The narrator's voice is great, like some futuristic warped documentary. I got goose bumps when she said "are you hungry?". And then that dirty, dirty guitar comes in like an angry bulldozer. Superb. My favourite of yours so far. Gonna be playing this a lot this week. Can I get a download somehow?
I was having a beer conversation with a friend last night about how its a shame there aren't any youth tribes any more. Maybe they all ate each other?

[pompeyjazz]

Eat ya heart our David Attenborough. I read the lyrics through 3 times before I listened. Outstanding stuff so well thought out. Such clever stuff going on. You've got to let us into your secret as to what you use for your vocal stuff.  Ace work Silver 

[Skub]

Yo..uh..Silver.

There appears to be a theme of futuristic menace pervading the songs of some posters on the forum today and since I'm always up for a good bit of post apocalyptic terror,that just fine with me.

The song has a hungry insect appeal,like it's a giant mutant spider regarding us objectively shortly before the regard ends and...

I've scared myself now. 

[Morefrog Jones]

Hi (ho) Silver (machine) 

Maybe I’m just a jaded old loser...but I wonder if more structure, a slightly more traditional sound and a soundcloud account ( ) would help bring your excellent work to more ears?

From one jaded old loser to another Paul - NAh!! Ive tried that and that dont work either.


As for the Silver machines 'Tune' - its odd and experimental - a bit of fun..... but would you listen twice?

It would work with an accompanying surreal animated video on you tube perhaps - Ive have to watch some crazy stuff with a seven year old grandson all the time......like this one which has had over 250 million views - yes thats over 250 million views :

[adamfarr]

Hey SM. I think this one worked much better. The screaming is something you can hear in most teen-inhabited underpasses/town centres at night (as well as in my house) but also has that predatory rain forest vibe. It's a jungle out there, right?

Orginal clever lyrics that aren't too cryptic. Backing serves the song. Thought provoking and hard to ignore.

If I could suggest a couple of things then I would say - one of the reasons people may not be taking your work as seriously as you'd like could be the vocal processing - often I think you (or your vocalists) sound a little cartoonish and so the immediate reaction risks being "this must be comedy"... I could hear this song delivered in the style of Flipper (Sex Bomb, Baby, yeah!) or Fun House and being taken totally seriously... (another thing is pulling that off of course, easy for me to say!)

The other thing could be a bit clearer production - not sure if it's a compression thing on the platform you use or something you could tweak but I felt the lyrics were muffled or swamped a bit by the backing in places so it took a few listens to get the full lyric.

Hark at me. Sorry. Did I say I liked this one? For I did.

[Binladeda]

 Great piece of work my friend.  More an installation than a song.
 Something to Behold and listened too.... I'd have trouble dancing to it
 anyway

 Love the arrangement and production. The sound of the guitars is
 like a punch in the stomach    Amazing The whole thing grabs
 you round the neck and says LISTEN TO ME.

 You have a great 'in your face', 'not to be ignored' style. Fresh and modern.
 I love it mate....a work of art



 

[2tuoo]

THAT. WAS. AWESOME!!!

You are going to start a revolution, aren't ya?

Is there a name for this genre?

It's like nothing I've listened to (maybe nig larry has some of it) - it has enough musicality and structure with a mix of insanity and outworldiness.