Force Vomit - Singing styles

In this post, i will look at the singing styles of the boys from FV. if u were to listen closely, you dont really hear FV singing in foreign accented styles. meaning unlike some other bands around, they dont try to sound unsingaporean, or 'ang-morish'. Being malays, they decided that they wanted to sound singaporean and malay at the same time, as they are a local band. i feel that's very interesting as althought singing english songs in a singaproean malay accent doenst normally sound good, i feel it werks for them as their songs have dat certain malay sound to them, as discussed in my previous posts. of course im not saying dat they actually sang all their songs with huge malay accents, just dat their natural singaporean malay accents are kinda prominent in most of their songs.

in spacemen over malaysia, listen to the line, "so if you can tune in please listen so come on in please come on in we came to say hello".

for siti, listen to "don't give up, oh siti dont give up"

The lines above have quite a malay sound to it when mister dino and gang sings them. there are a couple throughout the songs as well.

i feel that singing style also plays a huge part in this analysis as i imagine that FV will sound diff if they were to sing like the members of say electrico, with their non singaporean accent ( http://www.myspace.com/electricomusic). So in wanting to achieve the mlay feel in their music, FV went about singing with a tinge of singaporean malay accent.

Force Vomit - Melodies & Scalings II

As said in my previous post, Force vomit has been describes as surf rock too. Examples of surf rock music can be found here.. http://www.myspace.com/dickdalecom listen to the elimintor for a good example.

the following are some excerpts on surf music scales

most surf is in a minor key, but the five chord is usually major, very harmonic minory.
most surf melodies are bassed on the minor pentatonic scale, athough a full minor scale, harmonic minor, and blues scale could be employed succesfully.
It is sort of related to traditional mexican folk music, as far as the chords go, and to some extent, middle eastern music.

Middle eastern soundin scales help.
E F G# A B C D E
or, if you like to count intervals:
1/2, 1 1/2, 1/2, 1, 1/2, 1 (starting at the root)

it can be seen that both surf and malay music have some roots in middle eastern music. of course it cant be said that all of malay and surf music comes from middle eastern music. both the genres are a mix of many different musical traditions. i feel that in the case of force vomit, they have inculcated both to achieve a certain unique sound dat is neither fully malay nor fully surf, butt has strong leanings to both.