Take the Long Way

Gigalogy84 · Post by **Gigalogy84** » Sat March 21, 2020 6:17 pm

Heavy song and agree with Soundgarden comparisons. The verses are my favorite parts.

Ms Harmless · Post by **Ms Harmless** » Sat March 21, 2020 7:02 pm

there's a real 80s wall of filters on the guitars, it's such a charm

Vindicator · Post by **Vindicator** » Sat March 21, 2020 8:02 pm

Really good song, growing on me more and more. It has what I loved about rockers like Grievance, INTERPLAY with the guitars, drums, bass. Cool vocal lines. Progression into an amazingly classic PJ outro.

I love you Matt.

15showsandcounting · Sat March 21, 2020 10:14 pm

Reminds me of Parachutes, which also sucked.

Birds in Hell · Post by **Birds in Hell** » Sat March 21, 2020 10:15 pm

15showsandcounting wrote:Reminds me of Parachutes, which also sucked.

Impressive to fit two "wtf" moments into such a short post.

Ms Harmless · Post by **Ms Harmless** » Sat March 21, 2020 10:15 pm

15showsandcounting wrote:Reminds me of Parachutes, which also sucked.

Take the Long Way reminds you of Parachutes?

Post by **Jorge** » Sat March 21, 2020 10:15 pm

Birds in Hell wrote:
15showsandcounting wrote:Reminds me of Parachutes, which also sucked.
Impressive to fit two "wtf" moments into such a short post.

Post by **stip** » Sat March 21, 2020 10:38 pm

theplatypus wrote:
Birds in Hell wrote:
15showsandcounting wrote:Reminds me of Parachutes, which also sucked.
Impressive to fit two "wtf" moments into such a short post.

Norah · Post by **Norah** » Sat March 21, 2020 10:39 pm

Birds in Hell wrote:It's not a matter of the bitrate here, though.

If this was ripped in 128kbps directly from a lossless source, it would sound better (though not ideal).

The problem is that it sounds transcoded, i.e. ripped from a CD to MP3, burned to a CD-R and then ripped again to MP3.

In doing so, it sounds much worse than a straight MP3 conversion would as the double-encoding introduces lots of phasey sonic weirdness. There's a noticeable lack of clarity compared to even a regular MP3.

Compare the singles here to the official audio on Spotify (on high quality) or YouTube (on HQ audio), it's a pretty big difference.

spenno gets it

7 Years and Maybe Longer · Sat March 21, 2020 10:50 pm

15showsandcounting wrote:Reminds me of Parachutes, which also sucked.

I agree with you that Parachutes sucks, but this song, which sounds nothing like it, is really good.

Ms Harmless · Post by **Ms Harmless** » Sat March 21, 2020 10:52 pm

wait how does this song remind two people of Parachutes?

7 Years and Maybe Longer · Sat March 21, 2020 10:53 pm

Ms Harmless wrote:wait how does this song remind two people of Parachutes?

Sorry I wrote that the wrong way. This sounds nothing like Parachutes.

I was agreeing with him that Parachutes sucks.

ABNorman · Post by **ABNorman** » Sat March 21, 2020 10:53 pm

If anything, using a parachute is taking the short way.

Ms Harmless · Post by **Ms Harmless** » Sat March 21, 2020 10:55 pm

ABNorman wrote:If anything, using a parachute is taking the short way.

but the safe way!

make sure the kids are alright, wash your hands and use a parachute

ABNorman · Post by **ABNorman** » Sat March 21, 2020 10:57 pm

Ms Harmless wrote:
ABNorman wrote:If anything, using a parachute is taking the short way.
but the safe way!

make sure the kids are alright, wash your hands and use a parachute

Buckle up

Norah · Post by **Norah** » Sat March 21, 2020 11:01 pm

Parachutes is one of the best, if not the best, post Riot Act songs.

Monkey_Driven · Post by **Monkey_Driven** » Sun March 22, 2020 12:29 am

cutuphalfdead wrote:Parachutes is one of the best, if not the best, post Riot Act songs.

Top 10 for sure.

Post by **evenslow** » Sun March 22, 2020 1:14 am

Homeboyd · Post by **Homeboyd** » Sun March 22, 2020 2:25 am

evenslow wrote:

Buckle Up?

WaitingForBluey · Post by **WaitingForBluey** » Sun March 22, 2020 2:50 am

This might actually be the weakest song on the album for me. It's cool but a little forgettable. We'll see.

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