Binaural: Official Album Thread

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It's pretty amazing.

The only main thing I disagree with (and thus, I guess, am the recipient of a fresh mucusy spitwad), is Of The Girl being a great album opener. I'm not going to deny it's strength at opening a concert, but to me it's perfect right where it is. After the cacophony of Insignificance's conclusion, Of The Girl does a great job of easing us into the second part of the record. It does a great job of establishing a Side A and B feel to the record for me, something they needed Red Dot to accomplish on Yield.
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lol @ forgetting to include Light Years in the tracklisting.
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I never really return to Sad. I don't really get the enthusiasm for that one. Glad they left it off.
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McParadigm wrote:lol @ forgetting to include Light Years in the tracklisting.
i CTRL+F'ed "light years" because i was sure you'd included it somewhere. i eventually just figured the exclusion was some kind of meta statement or something
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--- wrote:
McParadigm wrote:lol @ forgetting to include Light Years in the tracklisting.
i CTRL+F'ed "light years" because i was sure you'd included it somewhere. i eventually just figured the exclusion was some kind of meta statement or something
ah shit

I shoulda gone with that
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Rod Serling wrote:
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Of a Girl
You've just crossed over into ... the Twilight Zone.
this was a good schtick, would enjoy seeing it resurrected
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just listened to puzzles & games, did absolutely nothing for me. that one wouldn't have aged well (the verses especially).
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that would have been one of their all time greats.
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--- wrote:just listened to puzzles & games, did absolutely nothing for me. that one wouldn't have aged well (the verses especially).
It's not even close to being done, also; it's far less developed then some of these more recent unreleased tracks we've gotten.
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stip wrote:that would have been one of their all time greats.
Maybe but I find Light Years far more interesting.
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Thejambi wrote:
stip wrote:that would have been one of their all time greats.
Maybe but I find Puzzles & Games far more interesting.
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Puzzles and Games main takeaway is the chorus. The verse is pretty blah, and the verse melody is stuttering and awkward sounding when it's there at all. The bridge is good, but sounds shoehorned in there in a way it does not in Light Years. I just wish there was a better song for that chorus, which is pretty powerful.
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darth_vedder wrote:
Thejambi wrote:
stip wrote:that would have been one of their all time greats.
Maybe but I find Puzzles & Games far more generic.
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Thejambi wrote:
darth_vedder wrote:
Thejambi wrote:
stip wrote:that would have been one of their all time greats.
Maybe but I find Puzzles & Games far more generic.
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it's a dark day in RM when you can't trust the quote function
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--- wrote:I never really return to Sad. I don't really get the enthusiasm for that one. Glad they left it off.
:o
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--- wrote:I never really return to Sad. I don't really get the enthusiasm for that one. Glad they left it off.
I don't believe you.
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4/5 wrote:
--- wrote:I never really return to Sad. I don't really get the enthusiasm for that one. Glad they left it off.
:o
i used to really dig it, but i think my tastes have just changed. listened to it today for the first time in years, and was struck by how "i don't think i'd care if i never heard this song again" i felt about it. and then i listened to rival and gods dice and in the moonlight and was reminded just how much i love those three.

i know i'm in the minority on this one.
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--- wrote:
4/5 wrote:
--- wrote:I never really return to Sad. I don't really get the enthusiasm for that one. Glad they left it off.
:o
i used to really dig it, but i think my tastes have just changed. listened to it today for the first time in years, and was struck by how "i don't think i'd care if i never heard this song again" i felt about it. and then i listened to rival and gods dice and in the moonlight and was reminded just how much i love those three.

i know i'm in the minority on this one.
Hmph.

I haven't heard it in forever either, but I can't imagine that being my reaction.

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yeah I don't think I care much about Sad either
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