Dark Matter: Official Album Thread

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no reviews have talked about the apparent instrumental segue between WFS and... I can't remember, but it feels like those are so rare for PJ to do (since Yield and Vitalogy?) I'd have mentioned it
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Mike wrote:
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bluestate wrote: This review called Upper Hand the centerpiece of the album.
Maybe because it's right in the center hehe
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Ms Harmless wrote:no reviews have talked about the apparent instrumental segue between WFS and... I can't remember, but it feels like those are so rare for PJ to do (since Yield and Vitalogy?) I'd have mentioned it
there is a very small one in Gigaton - a glacier melt kind of sound. I forget where it is.
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Mike wrote:
oneway23 wrote:
bluestate wrote: This review called Upper Hand the centerpiece of the album.
Maybe because it's right in the center hehe
That's how I read it too. It's dead in the middle, not THE epitome track.
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Interesting turn of phrase..very on the nose...Usually, when I hear "centerpiece" with regard to an album track, the connotation is typically referring to the emotional core or the apex.
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oneway23 wrote:Interesting turn of phrase..very on the nose...Usually, when I hear "centerpiece" with regard to an album track, the connotation is typically referring to the emotional core or the apex.
I stumbled over it in the same way you did.
An odd choice of words, indeed.
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Ms Harmless wrote:no reviews have talked about the apparent instrumental segue between WFS and... I can't remember, but it feels like those are so rare for PJ to do (since Yield and Vitalogy?) I'd have mentioned it
Is that what they're called, segues?
I thought a segue happened when songs followed each other straight up without a pause, like Parabol into Parabola on Lateralus.
Interludes or intermissions is what I thought was the name for those too-short-or-weird-to-be-a-song pieces. Vitalogy seems full of them, and it made me love the album even more thanks to their presence.
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Val wrote:
Ms Harmless wrote:no reviews have talked about the apparent instrumental segue between WFS and... I can't remember, but it feels like those are so rare for PJ to do (since Yield and Vitalogy?) I'd have mentioned it
Is that what they're called, segues?
I thought a segue happened when songs followed each other straight up without a pause, like Parabol into Parabola on Lateralus.
Interludes or intermissions is what I thought was the name for those too-short-or-weird-to-be-a-song pieces. Vitalogy seems full of them, and it made me love the album even more thanks to their presence.
I know you weren't directly addressing me, so apologies to Harmless, but, segue or interlude for those funny little pieces, usually.
I understand what you mean when one song segues directly into another, but, I would call something like the Tool example "gapless playback." Others may feel differently.
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oneway23 wrote:
Val wrote:
Ms Harmless wrote:no reviews have talked about the apparent instrumental segue between WFS and... I can't remember, but it feels like those are so rare for PJ to do (since Yield and Vitalogy?) I'd have mentioned it
Is that what they're called, segues?
I thought a segue happened when songs followed each other straight up without a pause, like Parabol into Parabola on Lateralus.
Interludes or intermissions is what I thought was the name for those too-short-or-weird-to-be-a-song pieces. Vitalogy seems full of them, and it made me love the album even more thanks to their presence.
I know you weren't directly addressing me, so apologies to Harmless, but, segue or interlude for those funny little pieces, usually.
I understand what you mean when one song segues directly into another, but, I would call something like the Tool example "gapless playback." Others may feel differently.
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Pearl jam live from Seattle Warehouse April 22 on Howard Stern , from the Pit, not April Fools they are saying
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stip wrote:
Ms Harmless wrote:no reviews have talked about the apparent instrumental segue between WFS and... I can't remember, but it feels like those are so rare for PJ to do (since Yield and Vitalogy?) I'd have mentioned it
there is a very small one in Gigaton - a glacier melt kind of sound. I forget where it is.
ooh I don't even know if I've heard this
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Ms Harmless wrote:
stip wrote:
Ms Harmless wrote:no reviews have talked about the apparent instrumental segue between WFS and... I can't remember, but it feels like those are so rare for PJ to do (since Yield and Vitalogy?) I'd have mentioned it
there is a very small one in Gigaton - a glacier melt kind of sound. I forget where it is.
ooh I don't even know if I've heard this
Right after WES?
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Lmdmusic wrote:Pearl jam live from Seattle Warehouse April 22 on Howard Stern , from the Pit, not April Fools they are saying
I hope this happens!
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Val wrote:
Ms Harmless wrote:no reviews have talked about the apparent instrumental segue between WFS and... I can't remember, but it feels like those are so rare for PJ to do (since Yield and Vitalogy?) I'd have mentioned it
Is that what they're called, segues?
I thought a segue happened when songs followed each other straight up without a pause, like Parabol into Parabola on Lateralus.
Interludes or intermissions is what I thought was the name for those too-short-or-weird-to-be-a-song pieces. Vitalogy seems full of them, and it made me love the album even more thanks to their presence.
yeah those are the words I was looking for more than "segue" - although technically a segue is just a passage from one thing to another
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Lmdmusic wrote:Pearl jam live from Seattle Warehouse April 22 on Howard Stern , from the Pit, not April Fools they are saying
I knew we would get one...great!
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how would I watch that from the UK?
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Ms Harmless wrote:how would I watch that from the UK?
They usually put the interviews up on YouTube. I'm sure it will shared here as well.
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Monkey_Driven wrote:
Ms Harmless wrote:how would I watch that from the UK?
They usually put the interviews up on YouTube. I'm sure it will shared here as well.
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I see we have no new music again today *sigh*
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Ms Harmless wrote:I see we have no new music again today *sigh*
There is a new DM filter though; it’s fun.

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