What earworm songs are burrowing through your head today? - Page 40

lumberjim · 08-19-2019, 01:40 AM

We waited 13 years for this album. A few weeks sounds fine.

I'll be here

Gravdigr · 08-20-2019, 05:26 PM

That song is very, very Tool.

I like. Like a lot of Tool's stuff.

I could've ID'd it as Tool right when the drums came in.

Flint · 08-21-2019, 12:35 PM

I'm waiting for a good time to zone out and focus on listening to this with nobody else in the room.

lumberjim · 08-27-2019, 10:16 PM

How about now?

monster · 08-27-2019, 11:38 PM

This needs to go the fuck away. There's a woman called Sylvia at pottery this semester. Every time I think about pottery....

Gravdigr · 08-28-2019, 04:25 PM

One of my buddy's favorite songs...

Flint · 08-30-2019, 04:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Undertoad

Speaking of snares doing their job, ...

Wanna get your dick knocked off by a snare drum, listen to the album version of the Eagles-- I Can't Tell You Why. ( can't find a copy on YouTube )

That snare drum sounds like it will move your woofer cone.

Flint · 08-30-2019, 04:12 PM

A little digging and people seem to think Don Henley was using a Ludwig 402 Supraphonic. That's a 14" x 6.5" in chrome-plated aluminum.

Undertoad · 08-30-2019, 09:24 PM

Listening now on Spotify, it's a remaster but the sound is still pretty huge.

It makes the song feel like it's dragging a little. We have to wait for the decay to move along

Flint · 08-31-2019, 04:25 AM

I watched a video about professional sounding back beats needing to have high velocity at the tip of the stick. Which means on a slow track like this, you have to massively delay executing the strike, because you'll be whipping the stick into the snare to get the high velocity needed for a back that has conviction. It's almost like ballet, the movements you do with your body to get your stick in the right place at the right time. I'm a big fan of "dancing" behind the kit.

Flint · 08-31-2019, 04:29 AM

And yes, Lumber Jim, the Tool track was a real trip to listen to. It's all about a progression of textures getting layered on each other in a sequence that paints a mental picture. Hearing the track for the first time I didn't know where they were going when an instrument began the first phase of a new part coming in, but then once the momentum built up it made perfect sense. And I wondered, is this what listening to this band was always like? I just don't remember hearing a Tool song that I didn't already know where the parts were going.

lumberjim · 08-31-2019, 11:10 AM

They always have seemed to creep up on me too. I'm liking it more and more. The hooks are more subtle on this new album... But they're there.

Gravdigr · 08-31-2019, 02:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Flint

...a progression of textures getting layered on each other in a sequence...

Layers. On top of layers.

That describes Tool, overall, pretty well.

This last album uses a lot of track time to build some of those layers. Tool has (or seems to have) always had long tracks, but I was still a little surprised at how long these tracks are. And the number of long tracks.

Flint · 09-06-2019, 05:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lumberjim

They always have seemed to creep up on me too. .

You know how some songs have a cool intro that is, like conceptually disconnected from the real beginning of the song, and when the song comes in it's unexpected, because the 1 isn't where you thought it was going to be, or something?

I think Tool tries to do that over and over and over, the whole song. You never know what's coming up, it's unexpected every time.

Flint · 09-10-2019, 07:45 PM

Here's a song where all the chords and important stuff in the intro and chorus section happens directly on the 1 (count ONE two-three, ONE two-three). It's a "symphony in 1" where the harmonies between the guitar chords and bass notes is strong enough to carry everything. The second half of the song d i s i n t e g r a t e s for two minutes.

Like all my favorite albums, this was their last one before breaking up.

Quote:

Are you weary of the lengthening days?
Do you secretly wish for November's rain,
and the harvest moon to wane in the sky?
There is nothing in this world more bitter than spring...

And I wrote you this letter
'cause the clothes were hung on the line,
and the crows flew out of the field and up into the sky...
I'm lying here in the station,
stretching out on the tracks
are all the possible places that I might arrive.

There is nothing in this world more bitter than love,
in all those long days of June.
Bring me the long brown grass, now that it's dry...
There is nothing in this world more bitter than spring.

08-19-2019, 01:40 AM	#586
lumberjim I can hear my ears Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 25,571	We waited 13 years for this album. A few weeks sounds fine. I'll be here __________________ This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality Embrace this moment, remember We are eternal, all this pain is an illusion ~MJKeenan

08-20-2019, 05:26 PM	#587
Gravdigr The Un-Tuckian Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: South Central...KY that is Posts: 39,517	That song is very, very Tool. I like. Like a lot of Tool's stuff. I could've ID'd it as Tool right when the drums came in. __________________ These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA, EPA, FBI, DEA, CDC, or FDIC. These statements are not intended to diagnose, cause, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. If you feel you have been harmed/offended by, or, disagree with any of the above statements or images, please feel free to fuck right off.

08-21-2019, 12:35 PM	#588
Flint Snowflake Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Dystopia Posts: 13,136	I'm waiting for a good time to zone out and focus on listening to this with nobody else in the room. __________________ **************** There's a level of facility that everyone needs to accomplish, and from there it's a matter of deciding for yourself how important ultra-facility is to your expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever gives you a little joy or excitement or awe, then you're on the right track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Terry Bozzio**

08-27-2019, 10:16 PM	#589
lumberjim I can hear my ears Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 25,571	How about now? __________________ This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality Embrace this moment, remember We are eternal, all this pain is an illusion ~MJKeenan

08-27-2019, 11:38 PM	#590
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	This needs to go the fuck away. There's a woman called Sylvia at pottery this semester. Every time I think about pottery.... __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

08-28-2019, 04:25 PM	#591
Gravdigr The Un-Tuckian Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: South Central...KY that is Posts: 39,517	One of my buddy's favorite songs... __________________ These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA, EPA, FBI, DEA, CDC, or FDIC. These statements are not intended to diagnose, cause, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. If you feel you have been harmed/offended by, or, disagree with any of the above statements or images, please feel free to fuck right off.

08-30-2019, 04:12 PM	#593
Flint Snowflake Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Dystopia Posts: 13,136	A little digging and people seem to think Don Henley was using a Ludwig 402 Supraphonic. That's a 14" x 6.5" in chrome-plated aluminum. __________________ **************** There's a level of facility that everyone needs to accomplish, and from there it's a matter of deciding for yourself how important ultra-facility is to your expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever gives you a little joy or excitement or awe, then you're on the right track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Terry Bozzio**

08-30-2019, 09:24 PM	#594
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	Listening now on Spotify, it's a remaster but the sound is still pretty huge. It makes the song feel like it's dragging a little. We have to wait for the decay to move along

08-31-2019, 04:25 AM	#595
Flint Snowflake Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Dystopia Posts: 13,136	I watched a video about professional sounding back beats needing to have high velocity at the tip of the stick. Which means on a slow track like this, you have to massively delay executing the strike, because you'll be whipping the stick into the snare to get the high velocity needed for a back that has conviction. It's almost like ballet, the movements you do with your body to get your stick in the right place at the right time. I'm a big fan of "dancing" behind the kit. __________________ **************** There's a level of facility that everyone needs to accomplish, and from there it's a matter of deciding for yourself how important ultra-facility is to your expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever gives you a little joy or excitement or awe, then you're on the right track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Terry Bozzio**

08-31-2019, 04:29 AM	#596
Flint Snowflake Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Dystopia Posts: 13,136	And yes, Lumber Jim, the Tool track was a real trip to listen to. It's all about a progression of textures getting layered on each other in a sequence that paints a mental picture. Hearing the track for the first time I didn't know where they were going when an instrument began the first phase of a new part coming in, but then once the momentum built up it made perfect sense. And I wondered, is this what listening to this band was always like? I just don't remember hearing a Tool song that I didn't already know where the parts were going. __________________ **************** There's a level of facility that everyone needs to accomplish, and from there it's a matter of deciding for yourself how important ultra-facility is to your expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever gives you a little joy or excitement or awe, then you're on the right track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Terry Bozzio**

08-31-2019, 11:10 AM	#597
lumberjim I can hear my ears Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 25,571	They always have seemed to creep up on me too. I'm liking it more and more. The hooks are more subtle on this new album... But they're there. __________________ This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality Embrace this moment, remember We are eternal, all this pain is an illusion ~MJKeenan

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