This is lovely...so soulful. I really like the dumbek work, subtle and not overdone bounced against the electronic percussion...very tasty. Thanks...this is going in my tune rotation.

I find I am playing less and less Tanki all the time since MM. I used to play every single day religiously...for hours. Since MM started I began to only do my missions on my main and alt accounts. Then I started to complete just one mission a day. Then, I started to skip a day here and there. Today was the first day I even bothered to join a battle since the UFO celebration started. Too long waiting in queues, too many times getting tossed into the middle or end of a game on the losing team, too many mismatched battles either in regards to rank brackets too wide or uneven number of players, too much churn, too many Freezes, too many Isida's that don't bother to heal anymore since it doesn't pay, too much the same battle over and over whether it's on this map or that map, in this mode or that....all the battles are becoming kinda the same over and over. You win, you lose...neither matters too much anymore. Tanki is just getting old very quickly...it's becoming boring.

The Freeze thing is getting ridiculous. The upgrade itself wasn't really so bad, but it motivated everybody and his brother to either bust out their Freeze or buy a new one. I was just in a CTF on my alt account with four or five of the damn things...not exactly sure since more than one had green paint. We were the better team by far and I probably ran the flag back to our base ten times easily, but two or three Freezes hanging around and it was impossible to cap a flag. Then a gold box would drop and my team would vanish to play catch. One Freeze on a team is OK...even two is still playable. But multiple Freezes are WAY worse than the Isida packs. At least you could kill one or two of the Isidas...with many Freezes you are just helpless no matter what kind of turret/hull you have. Yep Tanki, you are going to sell lots and lots of Freeze Modules and MUs...balance, yeah right.

"Canto para Nanã" is a superlative smooth polyrythmic bossa nova from Lisa Ono's first album, Nanã. I've been following her since the early 90s when this album was released. She is a very prolific singer to say the least and has recorded 100s of songs, but Nanã, from 1990 is my favorite collection. I can't believe I found the whole album on YouTube. If this one song, "Canto para Nanã" does anything for you, whip up a cocktail or three of your choice, sit back in a lounge chair in the sun and let this full album in the spoiler carry you to Florianopolis.

The original started a world wide dance craze that is still going strong. Tasty and very flavorful! I put a more current remix in a spoiler...the obligatory dj remix drum machine kind of degrades the song in my opinion. There is a very cool punchy insert at about 2:51 that kind of makes up for the boring drum machine. =================================================================================================== CéU - CéU(Full album) This is a really wonderful album and the whole thing is on YouTube. Sadly the fidelity is so crappy that I didn't bother to put it as a full post. The bass is just GONE...there are some very low transients in some of the tunes (probably about 28Hz to 35Hz) that are badass and completely disappear with the automatic compression on YouTube. CéU is one of my favorite artists from Brazil. She is a composer, arranger, instrumentalist, singer, and entertainer...she is the whole package. Maybe someday you will see the CD and try it...hopefully the lame YouTube recording won't put you off too much. All the songs are worth a long hard listen. The album in it's entirety will transport you to Brazil. OK, I just now listened to the whole album on YouTube...it's not as bad I I originally thought. At least you can hear her singing. The main bass loss is in Roda 8:09...pretty much my favorite song on the album and the lack of bass ruins the whole effect of the song. If you listen to this album, bust out the headphones, that will help a bit. If you are up for the whole album, click the YouTube icon and listen to it on the YouTube site...the individual tracks are listed with times and links. ====================================================== I wanna play too...

Que Culpa Tengo Yo starts out as a loungey torch ballad, but starts to show it's true afro-cuban colors at about 0:52 and builds to the horn lines at around 2:31, a percussion dip at about 3:38 then a final build to the "throw the house out the window" finale. Absolutely brilliant from one of the greats of Cuban music. Cuba! Cuba!

I love the Monkees. So many great songs. They were a manufactured band for the Monkees TV show, but they actually turned out to be a great and talented band, not just actors, and as musicians they fought with the TV show to have control in their music. After the TV show was cancelled the band continued to perform as The Monkees and generated a great catalog of songs. Michael Nesmith, the dude with the sock-cap in the Last Train to Clarksville video, pretty much invented the modern music video. Back in the late 70's he popped out a song called Rio and instead of just putting himself singing and playing the music, he generated an image rich short movie to go along with the song...the first modern music video. With this video he also conceived of the idea to create MTV. Remember, at this point in time there was no such thing as music videos and TV only had typical story shows, news, etc...no music other than variety shows featuring musicians/singers. I got this blurb from The New York Post: "Nesmith explained his concept to Warner Bros as “a new kind of TV that played videos 24 hours a day, like a radio station,” Nesmith had found his market. Warner and partner American Express proceeded with the concept, calling it MTV and launching the network on Aug. 1, 1981. While Nesmith was offered the chance to be MTV’s production head, he turned it down to pursue his other creative projects." Wow, I bet he regrets not jumping in on the MTV tidal wave...especially after conceiving the idea! Not long after making Rio, he made my favorite Nesmith tune/vid, Crusin'. I put Crusin' in a spoiler, but I think it is actually a better song than Rio, but Rio has the historical significance.

Oh Yeah! This is now in my personal play rotation...so punchy...so tasty. Never heard this before...thank you.

While BlackPink is certainly more inciting to watch than Childish Gambino (wink wink, nudge nudge), C.G. has created a very uncomfortable dance (?) video to go with his neo-rap which to me owes much of it's flavor to the talkin' blues genre from the 1920's. When I first saw and heard this video I thought it was humor and shock just for shock's sake. Just a piece of fluff. But it kind of earwormed me and the more I listened and watched the deeper it seemed to become. It somehow reminds me of a 1970's powerful anthem from Gil Scott-Heron - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised Childish Gambino has created a disturbing and artful music video that has many many layers. The music has several genre changes that are woven together seamlessly, but there is a plethora of symbolism in the dance video. Thought provoking at the very least. And fun too....a rather odd dichotomy. Overall, this is a brilliant piece of art. lyrics if you are interested:

The cello chic is the same one that solos in the BSG Orchestra on Apocalypse ...I don't know her name. I've never "gotten" Zimmer. It has a great build up and a nice resolve, but as much as I appreciate the artistry and accomplished composition...it just doesn't light my fire...So it goes...as K.V. would say. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Magenta Krewella - Bad Liar is quite nice. She pronounces fire like Sid the Sloth from Ice Age ... Fyah :) I like ths song and will spend some more time with it. Cathedrals - Unbound doesn't grab me right away. It might be the super compressed sounding recording...kinda sounds like it's playing through a tiny tiny radio speaker (we used to call them transistor radios...smokeyh2 knows what I mean :) ) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I would kinda guess that Snarky Puppy isn't going to give many posters here a thrill since it is fusion jazz, but they are one of my very favorite bands in existence today so I felt compelled to include them on the forum. Everything they do is brilliant and masterfully executed. It's played live and not much finessing with studio tricks. I put up four of their pieces. Something, sung by Lalah Hathaway, is the only vocal...what a tremendous voice she has...check bridge at around 4:35 Thing of Gold is from one of their very first albums, Shofukan is from, probably, their most popular album and The Curtain is from their newest in a collaboration with The Metropole Orkest. Snarky Puppy - Shofukan Snarky Puppy - Thing of Gold Snarky Puppy feat. Lalah Hathaway - Something Snarky Puppy, Metropole Orkest - The Curtain

I see LittleWillie is still running off at the mouth about the glories of matchmaking while insulting as many posters as he possibly can.

Sniper in spoiler Did you listen to Sniper? ...Kinda the same theme yeah?

This song was Soundgarden's biggie hit and if you are used to the original version, there is a good chance you will despise this version. I think it is wonderful because of the contrast between lyrics and the oh-so-smooth orchestration of Steve Lawrence along with his squeeze Eydie Gorme. The video edits out Soundgarden themselves and splices the freaky bits together. The lyrics, the song, the arrangement, and the video make a fabulously twisted four minutes. Norah Jones does a serious and lovely torch version of this song too. I'm not embedding it because I'm interested more in reactions to Steve and Eydie's version. The Norah Jones version is easy to find on YouTube.

Great gold drop rate...better than Tanki's birthday! What ever you do, don't buy any gifts since they will just get removed from the recipients garage and profile eventually. Gifts are only temporary (to 100)

The video really makes this song. It's so funny. I can't really tell but does the tiger at 0:47 have a can of whipping cream or even worse, a can of spray paint? Hardcore either way :) BlackWasp777 Thanks for the uppy-duppy. I haven't heard that song in ages and have put into my current tune rotation. Sorry, I don't know how to combine posts unless they are done all at the same time and you use MultiQuote. In other words, once a post has been made and posted, I don't know how to embed another different quote in it an hour or so later.

Sure, both original and Epica's are very powerful. I just listened to "Cry For the Moon"...I like it! I hear some Mike Oldfield influence in the basic rhythm chop...try listen and see if you agree: I wasn't going to embed these because I didn't want this post to get squished together with my other Dolly Parton post. And, I don't think Tubular Bells or Epica will appeal to many folks on the forum. But I ended up sticking them both in a spoiler for convenience sake and maybe someone else might be interested. I hope that keeps them from getting combined with Dolly and the KLF. The front of Tubular Bells by Oldfield was the main theme for "The Exorcist" which was a terrifying movie in it's time and is the part that reminds me of Cry For the Moon. Tubular Bells has many dramatically different sections within it. It's long and even gets a bit tedious to listen to...at least for me...but parts of it are really good. This YouTube version is compressed to hell and doesn't do the original recording justice...the CD is wildly better fidelity and full of real bass and very bright highs. Compression is the price we pay for "free" music and instant accessibility on YouTube. Anyway, another bit of this I think you will like starts at about 6:25 to around 7:50. My favorite part of the piece is found from around 14:00 to 15:05. Tubular Bells is a trip and the style changes are in dramatic contrast to each other but all tied together by the reoccurring main theme found at the front of the piece...the bit that reminds me of Epica. PS I took you off "Block" ...I usually read your posts anyway :)

Wow! I love this remix! So tasty. I've always liked the original even though one might apply term "cheesy" to the song. The way it is treated here, with the groove and new percussive parts being dominant over the vocals makes it a almost a new song. Thank you for this one...it's a keeper and might turn out to be the consummate version for me. Dolly Parton did a song with the KLF that I always liked too...a tad goofy, but a real earworm and totally fun. This may balance out the previous post of that mondo-sad version of Sound of Silence. I was glad to hear it once. It is well done and I appreciate the artistry, but way too depressing for me...yikes.

I still love it! It's a great road song...aahoooooo! Saw a werewolf drinkin' a pina colada at Trader Vics...his hair was perfect ....priceless Kid Rock copped the groove and sampled lots of the melody for "All Summer Long" a few years ago. He mashed up Werewolves with Sweet Home Alabama by Lynyrd Skynyrd. Turned out to be a pretty good song too...how could it miss?...it was a reincarnation of Werewolves of London (sadly with out the ahoooo-s though). Werewolves is better but give Kid Rock a listen.

Interesting lyrics...trippy guitar solo at about 2:55....I don't think I've ever heard anything like it done on guitar before...keyboards yes Epica does a great job with this! I usually hate classical adaptations but this is pretty badass. I have listened to some more of their stuff after hearing this piece. Thank you for this new discovery (for me). Just for comparison sake here is the Berlin Philharmonic doing the piece closer to it's original form...it kicks at about 1:35 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bfK_okpyos ===============================NEW SEPARATE POST========================================== Majek Fashek - So Long (From the CD Spirit of Love) This is a brilliant CD...all the tracks are great. It was kind of this guys one shot, but it is just so well done. If you ever see it, try to pick it up. There is almost nothing on YouTube and what is there is poor fidelity or from lesser albums and will probably disappear. Back in the early 90s "So Long" had a little airplay in the USA, but not too much. Sombody ripped this from MTV and it gives you an idea of the music, but the CD is terrific studio work and great fidelity...a realitivelly unknown masterpiece. CDs' cover: After listening a couple of times, I really like Rusted From the Rain. It's a great slow build with a very tasty guitar solo phrase at about 2:28 to 3:00 where it culminates into a monster rocknroll spike. Good stuff. The second one, Sympathy, hasn't gotten any traction yet...maybe too much punk influence for my tastes...a couple more listens might bring some click. I really like these songs you posted. Time After Time is haunting and, I believe, timeless. Someone posted Cat's in the Cradle wrong...kind of a big mistake. It is Harry Chapin singing and composer too, not Cat Stevens. Cat Stevens is wonderful too, but didn't do this song. Chapin died very young but created some incredible story-song type music. Cat's In the Cradle was probably his only mainstream "hit". His best album is Sniper and Other Love Songs. His stuff is rather obscure at this point in time, but truly worth a long hard listen if you ever get a chance...a really unique poet/songsmith. American Pie was the only song from the D. McClean catalog that ever really did it for me...maybe I never listened close enough or long enough Prince and Purple Rain....even though Prince has superstar status, I think he is still underrated. He may be a genius. Brilliant guitarist, consummate showman, daring producer, fine arranger/composer...and he has done so much or so many artists...the guy is literally awesome. Alice Cooper was and is kinda hard to get by the glam stage act, but the tunes are solid. School's Out was and remains a good fun song. The Journey and Rush leave me with an appreciation of talent...especially Rush (great musicians), but neither band ever made me love them. OK to listen to, but I don't think I ever owned one of their many albums. Now I gotta quit fooling around on this thread and go listen to some Prince and Harry Chapin...thanks, now I got earworms. ===============================NEW SEPARATE POST========================================== OMG...I found Sniper on YouTube! This song is a story...a story with perspective. The perspective is a mass murdering sniper. To get this song you need to listen to the lyrics (easy to hear and understand) and the entire song...from beginning to end. It's 10 minutes...if you don't have the time, don't even start it, because excerpts will not work and won't make musical or narrative sense. Ideally you would bust out the headphones, close Tanki, and give ten minutes to the memory of a great musician/poet. This is kind of like a sung movie and demands the attention you would give a movie if you went to the theater. Am I? I am a lover who's never been kissed. Am I? I am a fighter that's not made a fist. Am I? If I'm alive then there's so much I've missed, How do i know I exist? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWKpblxejWE Sorry about the multiple posts....I did them all at different times. I also hope I'm not hogging up the thread, but I love music and really enjoy listening to things I've never heard before, or haven't heard in a long time. I also really enjoy sharing some of the jewels (IMHO) I have found during my long association with tunes.

Dirty Loops Baby (Justin Bieber cover) Sorry Justin, you just, ...well, maybe next life check the bass bridge solo at 1:42 Sorry to put two in a row like this, but I just love these guys...hope you do too

Dirty Loops...a whole nother level. Fabulous production and galaxy class muscianship I've never heard anything from them that isn't nuclear. If the first part of this doesn't "Hit You", check the bridge at about 1:55 DIRTY LOOPS - Hit Me

Bear McCreary ...I would have loved to have heard this in person, but t least we get a recording, kinda compressed and not great fidelity, but better than nothing.

English: Wahahahahahahahhaha oh, no, it's so funny It was a thought that I spent a few minutes with. Their writing styles do sometimes seem somewhat similar...to me anyway. It was actually just a casual mention because I thought it was kinda funny too. I thought I'd share it on the thread and maybe bring a smile or three. But LittleWIlle went nuts and turned it into a mini-war. He just wouldn't listen or bother to read what I wrote and kept saying I was accusing these two of being the same person....I never did.

The scoring system is entirely separate from MM and could have been applied to the Battle List. The battles are WAY less fair with MM because of open-ended rank brackets, frequently disproportionate team size, the constant churn as MM injects players from the queue into the losing team, and the cherry...it all happens after a wait in queue that is sometimes abusively long. MM is an awful system of placement and is inferior in all aspects. It took the devs 20 months to come up with what they have so far. How long will it take them to iron out "the bugs"? Smooth MM is not on the horizon anytime soon.

Yep...it's a lovely skin that, sadly, I will never use. I honestly wish I could give it to you...free...I am probably the worst Railgun user in the history of Tanki. What a waste right? So, for me, 3500 cry would have been better...awful yeah? I did say that as long as I was wishing though, I would have much rather had 1,000,000 crystals since the million crystals in the same category as the Rail XT (Exotic) Too bad we can't transfer equipment.