Do you like Raw Dog?

[ariich]

I can honestly not remember seeing a non-score soundtrack to a film that didn't have at least a handful of pop/rock songs, enough to make a bedrock for a soundtrack album with a few added "inspired by" songs to make up numbers. You got any examples Steve?

[Scurvy!Dreams]

Spiderman, Transformers, The Matrix. Maybe I'm underestimating how many songs are used very briefly in films, but I also think that if a song is on a soundtrack, it's far from a given that it's in the movie/game.

Especially in this case, I think it was fairly obvious that the song just belongs to a tie-in EP. It's silly how many people are giving the song a pass because they think it would make good background music for a game they haven't played and it isn't going to appear in. (And I don't think some posters saying that even play video games at all!)

[FlashCE]

Spiderman, Transformers, The Matrix. Maybe I'm underestimating how many songs are used very briefly in films, but I also think that if a song is on a soundtrack, it's far from a given that it's in the movie/game.

Especially in this case, I think it was fairly obvious that the song just belongs to a tie-in EP. It's silly how many people are giving the song a pass because they think it would make good background music for a game they haven't played and it isn't going to appear in. (And I don't think some posters saying that even play video games at all!)

I love those that say "In the context of the game, this song makes sense" or "This song fits perfectly well in a God of War game".

[hefdaddy42]

There's nothing wrong with that track, it sounds like a background just as much as any DT other instrumental does, enjoy the fuckin track and STFU.

You may get your wish sooner than you think.  Watch it.

[ACID_FOX]

If it was an album track, I'd be very dissapointed, but as a bonus track, very awsome.

[orcus116]

I was pretty bored for most of it but that guitar/keyboard riff at around 5:09 was pretty cool.

[rumborak]

Especially in this case, I think it was fairly obvious that the song just belongs to a tie-in EP. It's silly how many people are giving the song a pass because they think it would make good background music for a game they haven't played and it isn't going to appear in.

I don't see that as "obvious" at all. Especially in light of how DT had to rip out all samples from the song, it's clear that a) DT had no clear idea either how this song was going to be utilized, and b) we are not listening to the song in the form it was intended during composition.

rumborak

[hefdaddy42]

Especially in this case, I think it was fairly obvious that the song just belongs to a tie-in EP. It's silly how many people are giving the song a pass because they think it would make good background music for a game they haven't played and it isn't going to appear in.

I don't see that as "obvious" at all. Especially in light of how DT had to rip out all samples from the song, it's clear that a) DT had no clear idea either how this song was going to be utilized, and b) we are not listening to the song in the form it was intended during composition.

rumborak

If it had been intended for use in the game, there would have been no need for samples from the game.  There would have just been the game.

[Sir GuitarCozmo]

In response to the title question, I'm sure with enough teriyaki sauce, it'd probably be palatable to the right person, but there's no way in hell I'm eating it.

[Zook]

[rumborak]

Especially in this case, I think it was fairly obvious that the song just belongs to a tie-in EP. It's silly how many people are giving the song a pass because they think it would make good background music for a game they haven't played and it isn't going to appear in.

I don't see that as "obvious" at all. Especially in light of how DT had to rip out all samples from the song, it's clear that a) DT had no clear idea either how this song was going to be utilized, and b) we are not listening to the song in the form it was intended during composition.

rumborak

If it had been intended for use in the game, there would have been no need for samples from the game.  There would have just been the game.

Not if it's being played during the title, credits, high-score etc.

rumborak

[KevShmev]

Do you like Raw Dog?

Yes. /John Myung

 

 

[razorsedge]

it's an interesting track.  It kinda feels like DT was hired to write a brutal metal song for a video game.  what i mean is, i think they were very much in the mindset that they were hired to do something specific and they wanted to execute that.  they did.  I don't think something like this would ever appear organically in their writing.  elements of it, sure; but never like this, i think.  so when people say that it is disjointed or sounds thrown together, or is lazy, i think it really is.  they weren't using their DT songwriting mindset.  they were handed a mindset to use, and did. and probably didn't think much of it past that.    

[Perpetual Change]

Is that part at 2:11 Myung doing something funky, or Rudess invading Myung's sonic space?  'Cause either way it sounds cool.

[OperantChamber]

Is that part at 2:11 Myung doing something funky, or Rudess invading Myung's sonic space?  'Cause either way it sounds cool.

From MP's Twitter:
Jordan just laid down the coolest distorted/wah wah bass line....Tony Levin meets Cliff Burton!!! : )   
4:00 PM Jan 7th via Twitterrific 

@GMKennelty bass line on the keys of course....JM will learn it and double it   
4:05 PM Jan 7th via Twitterrific in reply to GMKennelty

[rumborak]

 

rumborak

[Plasmastrike]

rumborak

[antigoon]

bass line on the keys OF COURSE

[ariich]

bass line on the keys OF COURSE

It was "of course" because he had already said that JR played it, and someone asked if he had played it on bass.

[OperantChamber]

It was "of course" because he had already said that JR played it, and someone asked if he had played it on bass.

Exactly.

@MikePortnoyDT Jordan... bass?   
4:01 PM Jan 7th   via Echofon  in reply to MikePortnoyDT
https://twitter.com/GMKennelty/status/7491998517

[antigoon]

bass line on the keys OF COURSE

It was "of course" because he had already said that JR played it, and someone asked if he had played it on bass.

YEAH YEAH YEAH, ARIICH, ALWAYS CONCERNED WITH THE "DETAILS." WHATEVER.

[Jamesman42]

I like my women like I like my dogs.
















































On all fours.

[Sir GuitarCozmo]

I like my women like I like my dogs.


On all fours Able to lick their balls better than I can.

Wait, what?

[PixelDream]

I do like it, but for what it is. I believe they did it in a day or something?
It's also pretty weird to get 'one song' from DT.

I love the heaviness, raw production and JP's leads are outstanding. That 'Burton/Levin' bassline was pretty awesome indeed. Too bad JM didn't have input on that one, but it's nice to hear some JM drifting away from the guitars.

[moffatt]

I have to say i lol'd and  when i saw this comment raw dog on youtube

actually im a fan of their old stuff before the became a nu-metal/ pop metal ripoff band

nothing to do but more 

[bosk1]

I like my women like I like my dogs.


On all fours Able to lick their balls better than I can.

Wait, what?

You know how when you laugh really hard, sometimes whatever you are eating/drinking comes out your nose?  I was eating "Blazin' Buffalo Ranch" Doritos when I read that.  I'm going to check myself into the emergency room now...

[orcus116]

 

I didn't even know Blazin' Buffalo Ranch Doritos could come out of your nose.

[bosk1]

I didn't even know Blazin' Buffalo Ranch Doritos could come out of your nose.

Neither did I.  It's not a feat I would ever like to see duplicated.

[TheVoxyn]

It's somewhere between aye and nay for me. It's okay, but I don't think that I will listen to it that often.

[Sir GuitarCozmo]

You know how when you laugh really hard, sometimes whatever you are eating/drinking comes out your nose?  I was eating "Blazin' Buffalo Ranch" Doritos when I read that.  I'm going to check myself into the emergency room now...

*takes a bow*

[ariich]

bass line on the keys OF COURSE

It was "of course" because he had already said that JR played it, and someone asked if he had played it on bass.

YEAH YEAH YEAH, ARIICH, ALWAYS CONCERNED WITH THE "DETAILS." WHATEVER.

[LCArenas]

actually im a fan of their old stuff before the became a nu-metal/ pop metal ripoff band

Well, seeing Fails like this on YouTube is a daily bread, anyway.

[Jamesman42]

You know how when you laugh really hard, sometimes whatever you are eating/drinking comes out your nose?  I was eating "Blazin' Buffalo Ranch" Doritos when I read that.  I'm going to check myself into the emergency room now...

*takes a bow*

We did good today. I like your style.

[hefdaddy42]

I didn't even know Blazin' Buffalo Ranch Doritos could come out of your nose.

From my experience, virtually anything can come out of your nose.

[LTE]

Boy, you guys will argue about anything.  It's obvious this EP was just a fun, one off promotion by Roadrunner. I mean DT ARE musicians, can't they have a little fun just playing and writing an instrumental?

I liked it, for what it was. I've only heard it once, but it sounded like a much heavier, more static liquid tension experiment. So like. Solid Tension Experiment, hehe.
I liked the polyrhymical parts, I hope they will write with more of those. Yes most of the riffs were just thrown together, left overs from BCSL, but its just a fun nonsense track. I'm sure they didn't sit down and discuss the theme and meaning of it at all.