LoathedVermin72 wrote:What's the original tracklisting you guys are talking about?
"Breakerfall"
"Insignificance"
"Evacuation"
"Letter to the Dead" - aka - "Sad"
"Rival"
"Grievance"
"Gods Dice"
"Light Years"
"Of the Girl"
"Thin Air"
"Nothing as It Seems"
"Fatal"
"Sleight of Hand"
"Soon Forget"
"In the Moonlight"
"Parting Ways"
"Education"
That was when they first put up news about the new album or when orders were being taken, i can't recall. But thats it.
LoathedVermin72 wrote:What's the original tracklisting you guys are talking about?
"Breakerfall"
"Insignificance"
"Evacuation"
"Letter to the Dead" - aka - "Sad"
"Rival"
"Grievance"
"Gods Dice"
"Light Years"
"Of the Girl"
"Thin Air"
"Nothing as It Seems"
"Fatal"
"Sleight of Hand"
"Soon Forget"
"In the Moonlight"
"Parting Ways"
"Education"
That was when they first put up news about the new album or when orders were being taken, i can't recall. But thats it.
Jesus, that's really long. And putting something after "Parting Ways" is obviously a terrible call.
"Letter to the Dead" is a stupid name for "Sad". Like, in the reality where the song is framed as a literal letter to the dead... it would be a person writing to a dead person about their friend grieving about yet another dead person?
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LoathedVermin72 wrote:What's the original tracklisting you guys are talking about?
"Breakerfall"
"Insignificance"
"Evacuation"
"Letter to the Dead" - aka - "Sad"
"Rival"
"Grievance"
"Gods Dice"
"Light Years"
"Of the Girl"
"Thin Air"
"Nothing as It Seems"
"Fatal"
"Sleight of Hand"
"Soon Forget"
"In the Moonlight"
"Parting Ways"
"Education"
That was when they first put up news about the new album or when orders were being taken, i can't recall. But thats it.
Jesus, that's really long. And putting something after "Parting Ways" is obviously a terrible call.
Have you not done the Binaural Deluxe edition? Ridleybradout kept Gods' Dice in the #2 slot, but it's otherwise as Strat posted. It's superb, a huge improvement on the album. I agree that Education is a shitty closer, but than I generally dislike that song (and Parting Ways, so I press stop after ItM).
I only listened to the alternate versions and outtakes. I didn't pay attention to the actual album or how it was ordered.
Kevin Davis wrote:As my free hours to listen to albums in full become fewer, I find myself caring less and less about things like flow and sequencing. I don't know that "jarring transitions" and such are things that have ever really registered with me when listening to an album. At some point it's just a collection of tunes that either do it for you or not, know what I mean?
Have your read the Chuck Klosterman piece in which he realizes he no longer cares passionately about music? I wish I could remember the band he used as the example, but it's something along the lines of "My co-worker put on a Blink-182 song, and I didn't feel angry, or much of anything. I realized I no longer cared about music enough to "hate" a band and have negative feelings about them."
It's a great read, I wish I could remember where I saw it.
I can't quite claim that level of detachment yet -- I feel like in general I'm a lot more even-tempered in regards to my dislikes, but with all those arena-folk bands yelling "HEY!" every time you turn your fucking head, what's a poor boy to do?
