NUR EIN
almost 5 years agopassed
3:11

Challenge

Gradual emphasis of repetitions

Semiprecious
by Frankie and the Mountweasels

3am in Gympie and the neon lights of Brisbane and your loving arms and coffee are still 2 more hours drive
I love it on the road
Carrying my load
I love it on the road
I love my semi trailer
I love my semi trailer
My precious semi trailer
I love the trucking life
I love the trucking life
I love my precious semi trailer, she's my semi: precious wife
Precious semi, precious semi

I truck to Oodnadatta
Truck to Parramatta
Any destination cos it doesn't trucking matter
Trucking Ulladulla
Truck Eurobodalla
Trucking Cunnamulla
I'm a cunning trucking fellow
All around the trucking world
East, south, west, north
And down the trucking autobahn to trucking Dusseldorf
Precious semi, precious semi

j$

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It's ok. I appreciate the 80s synth we can all be Kraftwerk vibe, though they would never write something as dull as this. I like it more when the vocal kicks in, though just repeating the title doesn't really meet the challenge. Overall I liked it but doubt I would ever listen to it again.

JonPorobil

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{beleagured sigh} ...All right. This review is going to come off much meaner than any other review I've written this week. I'm sorry for that, but I know that you can take it. You've been doing this as long as I have, we've met in person, and let's not forget that you won Nur Ein during a year when I was a judge, so you know I don't dislike you or your music in general. So let's get on with this review of your stupid, stupid, mind-bogglingly stupid song. I get that you were reaching a unique lyrical approach, one that would stand out among a field of 25-or-so other songs with the same title. And singing about your precious semi (trailer) isn't a terrible backdoor approach to the lyric, although you kind of had to bend over backward to make it work lyrically... But I would say this doesn't meet the challenge, because instead of a "gradual emphasis of a repetition," you went with "beat us over the head with a reptition starting from the first chorus and don't let up." I get that some of your choices were made in service of a title and challenge combination that I suspect failed to inspire you, and you probably wouldn't have done them otherwise, but honestly, I found the way you repeated "Semi precious" ad nauseum so grating it made me want to skip the rest.

vowlvom

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a full minute of intro is a bold choice. I like the synth arrangement though so I think you get away with it. The speak-sung vocals are kinda fun (reminds me a little of Ian Dury) and the German line makes me smile, but I found this one didn't hold up too well to repeat listens. Kudos for possibly repeating Semi more times than I did though.