Red Mosquito

digster wrote:I think Of the Girl is a fantastic show opener but would not work as an opener on Binaural. I feel like it's perfectly placed where it is. After the cacohpony of Insignificance, it feels like a natural beginning to the second half of the record. I don't really see the issue with the first three songs, either.

LoathedVermin72 wrote:Thank you for your service

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?

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?

tragabigzanda wrote:

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.

Steven Hyden wrote:I think this is a pretty common trajectory for a lot of people. When you're young, you're much more into proving yourself. Then maybe you get a little bit older and you don't really want to argue about why a band sucks or why they're great. I'd much rather talk to someone who I could just enjoy music with. When you're younger, you're trying to figure out who you are. You do that often by defining yourself against people that you feel like you're not. People do that with politics, they do that with culture, all the way down the line. And maybe that's an important thing for people to go through. But I think when you get past that, you start to feel like, I want to find connection, I want to find a community—even if it's with people who aren't exactly like me, or aren't anything like me.

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Birds in Hell wrote:I've been listening to the original (and significantly superior) tracklisting for so long now that I can't remember the order on the official release.

What's the original?

"Breakerfall"
"Insignificance"
"Evacuation"
"Letter to the Dead"
"Rival"
"Grievance"
"Light Years"
"Of the Girl"
"Thin Air"
"Nothing as It Seems"
"Fatal"
"Sleight of Hand"
"Soon Forget"
"In the Moonlight"
"Parting Ways"
"Education"

No "Gods' Dice"?


NO DICE!

Agreed. Replace fatal with god's dice.

No way. Fatal stays. I still have Gods' Dice in the Track 2 slot, it transitions surprisingly well into Insignificance.

I really like Education at the end, I've always thought it has a 'hidden track' vibe about it.