Lets Actually Listen to the Album: No Code

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jtmack20 wrote:
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Strat wrote:WHY DO PEOPLE NOT LOVE BINAURAL AND THINK ITS THE BEST?!?!? WHY GOD WHY FUCK THE INTERNET!
Because Binaural is arguably some of PJ at their best mixed badly with some of their less memorable songs. A mix that as a whole works less than say Vitalogy and No Code do.
I agree with this. Binaural was a potentiallu great album diminished by a terrible track selection. Including Sad and Fatal at least and excluding some of the weaker tracks and it couldve been great. Parts of it are great. Yield is very good, but not great in my opinion. No Code to me is the last album that was greater than the sum of its parts. Since then each album is just a group of songs, some better than others.
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I don't know what these weak tracks are on Binaural that people keep referring to.
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cutuphalfdead wrote:I don't know what these weak tracks are on Binaural that people keep referring to.
Writer's Block.
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cutuphalfdead wrote:I don't know what these weak tracks are on Binaural that people keep referring to.
Writer's Block.
I thought that one had a good rhythm to it.
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cutuphalfdead wrote:
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cutuphalfdead wrote:I don't know what these weak tracks are on Binaural that people keep referring to.
Writer's Block.
I thought that one had a good rhythm to it.
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It's also dark and moody.
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It sounds too much like an Ed solo track.
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cutuphalfdead wrote:I don't know what these weak tracks are on Binaural that people keep referring to.
I'll walk you through it next week.
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harmless wrote:
cutuphalfdead wrote:
Lament wrote:
cutuphalfdead wrote:I don't know what these weak tracks are on Binaural that people keep referring to.
Writer's Block.
I thought that one had a good rhythm to it.
:thumbsup:

It's also dark and moody.
You must be talking about Pendulum.
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stip wrote:
cutuphalfdead wrote:I don't know what these weak tracks are on Binaural that people keep referring to.
I'll walk you through it next week.
Fun fact: I don't read that shit.
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Lament wrote:It sounds too much like an Ed solo track.
I actually never forgave PJ for including it on the album.
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cutuphalfdead wrote:
stip wrote:
cutuphalfdead wrote:I don't know what these weak tracks are on Binaural that people keep referring to.
I'll walk you through it next week.
Fun fact: I don't read that shit.
And that's why you don't know
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harmless wrote:
Lament wrote:It sounds too much like an Ed solo track.
I actually never forgave PJ for including it on the album.
It does make light of a serious condition
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stip wrote:
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Lament wrote:It sounds too much like an Ed solo track.
I actually never forgave PJ for including it on the album.
It does make light of a serious condition
Ed always needed to check his privilege. Well, not always; arguably it all began with this song.
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cutuphalfdead wrote:I don't know what these weak tracks are on Binaural that people keep referring to.
Soon Forget? Evacuation? Light Years?

Bump them for In The Moonlight, Education, Sad, and Puzzle & Games, and Binaural just may be the best PJ album.
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darth_vedder wrote:
cutuphalfdead wrote:I don't know what these weak tracks are on Binaural that people keep referring to.
Soon Forget? Evacuation? Light Years?

Bump them for In The Moonlight, Education, Sad, and Puzzle & Games, and Binaural just may be the best PJ album.
Light years? :gomez:

If you wanna do anything keep everything, add In the moonlight, sad, fatal and education. Double album of awesome. Screw puzzle and games. Fiiine, I'll give you evacuation as a bside.

I think I'm the only person who likes soon forget.

Talking about alternate universes, you know what would have been sexy? a circa 96 ep featuring I got Shit, long road, parting ways, of the girl and dead man. Binaural would have been poorer for it though.
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Binaural is perfect as is. I listened to it last night so I know I am correct on this.
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darth_vedder wrote:
cutuphalfdead wrote:I don't know what these weak tracks are on Binaural that people keep referring to.
Soon Forget? Evacuation? Light Years?

Bump them for In The Moonlight, Education, Sad, and Puzzle & Games, and Binaural just may be the best PJ album.
Add Thin Air to the weak tracks.

It's not so much that the tracks in question are bad but that the "compilation approach" that PJ likes a lot doesn't work for Binaural. 2 distinctive production approaches don't help either. It should have been a double album or 2 different albums. I'm not a huge fan of NAIS but i think that those who are would have really liked an album in that vein, with Strangest Tribe on it preferably.
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darth_vedder wrote:
cutuphalfdead wrote:I don't know what these weak tracks are on Binaural that people keep referring to.
Soon Forget? Evacuation? Light Years?

Bump them for In The Moonlight, Education, Sad, and Puzzle & Games, and Binaural just may be the best PJ album.
Yes, when you take the worst songs off an album and replace them with much better ones it improves the album.
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stupidmop wrote:
darth_vedder wrote:
cutuphalfdead wrote:I don't know what these weak tracks are on Binaural that people keep referring to.
Soon Forget? Evacuation? Light Years?

Bump them for In The Moonlight, Education, Sad, and Puzzle & Games, and Binaural just may be the best PJ album.
Light years? :gomez:

If you wanna do anything keep everything, add In the moonlight, sad, fatal and education. Double album of awesome. Screw puzzle and games. Fiiine, I'll give you evacuation as a bside.

I think I'm the only person who likes soon forget.

Talking about alternate universes, you know what would have been sexy? a circa 96 ep featuring I got Shit, long road, parting ways, of the girl and dead man. Binaural would have been poorer for it though.
I like Soon Forget, and Light Years, and Evacuation.
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harmless wrote:
stupidmop wrote:
darth_vedder wrote:
cutuphalfdead wrote:I don't know what these weak tracks are on Binaural that people keep referring to.
Soon Forget? Evacuation? Light Years?

Bump them for In The Moonlight, Education, Sad, and Puzzle & Games, and Binaural just may be the best PJ album.
Light years? :gomez:

If you wanna do anything keep everything, add In the moonlight, sad, fatal and education. Double album of awesome. Screw puzzle and games. Fiiine, I'll give you evacuation as a bside.

I think I'm the only person who likes soon forget.

Talking about alternate universes, you know what would have been sexy? a circa 96 ep featuring I got Shit, long road, parting ways, of the girl and dead man. Binaural would have been poorer for it though.
I like Soon Forget, and Light Years, and Evacuation.
:hooray:

I like evacuation fine too, but I was trying to think of a track to toss and i think I'd probably miss it the least.
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