Gigaton: Official album thread

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VinylGuy wrote:I love pretty much all of their closers but Future Days, a song i despise in the studio version.
I'm in this camp as well. I probably don't hate Future Days as much as a lot of you, but the gloss and the piano really kill it for me -- easy skip since it's at the end of the record.

As for River Cross -- I don't see how anybody could love Indifference and despise this one. In fact, I prefer RC.
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guitar_davey wrote:
VinylGuy wrote:I love pretty much all of their closers but Future Days, a song i despise in the studio version.
I'm in this camp as well. I probably don't hate Future Days as much as a lot of you, but the gloss and the piano really kill it for me -- easy skip since it's at the end of the record.

As for River Cross -- I don't see how anybody could love Indifference and despise this one. In fact, I prefer RC.
I'm with you on both of those points

every time I hear that piano on FD it hurts me that I don't hate the potential of using keys; I do hate that it sounds like a shitty Casio keyboard instead of a proper, live, roomy piano (also that it's unnecessary and just smacks of a childish producer who needed to put his grubby fingers on the song)

they need Vessel of Sleep Token to show them how to put a piano on a song tastefully
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Ms Harmless wrote:
guitar_davey wrote:
VinylGuy wrote:I love pretty much all of their closers but Future Days, a song i despise in the studio version.
I'm in this camp as well. I probably don't hate Future Days as much as a lot of you, but the gloss and the piano really kill it for me -- easy skip since it's at the end of the record.

As for River Cross -- I don't see how anybody could love Indifference and despise this one. In fact, I prefer RC.
I'm with you on both of those points

every time I hear that piano on FD it hurts me that I don't hate the potential of using keys; I do hate that it sounds like a shitty Casio keyboard instead of a proper, live, roomy piano (also that it's unnecessary and just smacks of a childish producer who needed to put his grubby fingers on the song)

they need Vessel of Sleep Token to show them how to put a piano on a song tastefully
Absolutely! Piano is amazing in the right context - BOB playing a toy piano "overture" on this tune is not it.
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This guy is me listening to Who Ever Said for the first time


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I'll never understand reaction videos.
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I love reaction videos! that guy Got Some posted is a Sleep Token fan as well, he reminds me of Harry from Home Alone
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I find myself watching every Black (unplugged) reaction video I come across. There sure are a lot of them.
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Farmer John wrote:I find myself watching every Black (unplugged) reaction video I come across. There sure are a lot of them.
Haha those videos are specifically what I share with non-PJ fan friends of mine!
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i love superblood wolfmoon so much
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me too
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it's a legit five star song for me. Probably at this point the gigaton song I listen to the most (though that starting run of 4 is so good!) Eddie's best incarnation of this style of song. And some of my favorite lyrics on the album
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I like it a lot too.
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This is still the PJ record I listen to most these days. I still love it front-to-back.
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guitar_davey wrote:This is still the PJ record I listen to most these days. I still love it front-to-back.
Except for River Cross
:D
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Buby wrote:
guitar_davey wrote:This is still the PJ record I listen to most these days. I still love it front-to-back.
Except for River Cross
:D
:haha: I like River Cross.
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guitar_davey wrote:
Buby wrote:
guitar_davey wrote:This is still the PJ record I listen to most these days. I still love it front-to-back.
Except for River Cross
:D
:haha: I like River Cross.
I know. I saw the top of this page ;)
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and love not withstanding we are each of us fucked is such a great lyric and one of the few times that slightly awkward sentence structure helps emphasize the point
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Buby wrote:
guitar_davey wrote:
Buby wrote:
guitar_davey wrote:This is still the PJ record I listen to most these days. I still love it front-to-back.
Except for River Cross
:D
:haha: I like River Cross.
I know. I saw the top of this page ;)
A little slow on the uptake over here. :haha:
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guitar_davey wrote:This is still the PJ record I listen to most these days. I still love it front-to-back.
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stip wrote:and love not withstanding we are each of us fucked is such a great lyric and one of the few times that slightly awkward sentence structure helps emphasize the point
"slightly awkward sentence structure"?
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