One Perfect Sunrise c/d?

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(lol xpost)

― Jesus Dan (dan perry), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 14:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Dan, I was simply thinking of Orbital's lengthy closing show-stoppers, and my mind was naturally drawn to compare what I regard as their best (and one of the great closing show-stoppers in music history) (I mean, amongst the pantheon of Mozart, Bach, Davis, and GY!BE), and this one, which doesn't IMO work nearly as well, lacking the intricacy and the indelible pattern the final four or so minutes of OTS burn into your brain.

― I am the best lyrocost since Dylan (Scourage), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 15:03 (seventeen years ago) link

...but as Matt DC says, I'd probably need to hear it more than twice before it starts to make sense.

― I am the best lyrocost since Dylan (Scourage), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 15:05 (seventeen years ago) link

'Out There Somewhere' is a great piece of work but i never ever want to listen to it (see also a lot of BOC stuff i find too gloomy/haunting)

whereas i often get an urge to hear everything else on 'In Sides'. it is odd i know.

― sede vacante (blueski), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 15:34 (seventeen years ago) link

LOL we've had the "you are mental for finding that song gloomy" conversation before, right?

― Jesus Dan (dan perry), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 16:47 (seventeen years ago) link

not so much 'gloomy' but sinister and 'dark' yes. it is about abduction and uncertainty after all. but then so are a lot of tracks i do like listening to, probably.

― sede vacante (blueski), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 17:11 (seventeen years ago) link

The first part is sinister and dark, the second part is joyous and uplifting.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 17:13 (seventeen years ago) link

and the last 4:50 are the greatest 4:50 in music history (basically, right?), both uplifting and emotionally overwhelming, evoking thoughts of both beauty, mortality, the infinite, and one's own desperate insignificance within it, joy and sadness in the most poignantly balanced equation music has ever set the human ear to solve.

you know what I mean?

― I am the best lyrocost since Dylan (Scourage), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 17:25 (seventeen years ago) link

that's your interpretation but i'm not convinced as you know. i can't remember exactly what the Hartnolls said about the piece but it was something like 'part 1 is the suspense and 2 the realisation that things have gone wrong/not as expected' rather than 'rescue/resolution' theme (which i think 'Meltdown' does have, making it more satisfying, and i stress this, in A way).

i think Orbital convey joy/uplifting without melancholy or a particularly sinister edge on these tracks: Are We Here (single edit, not the album version which obv. has that extended dark sequence), Way Out (a bit 'spooky' perhaps but only in a carnival sense), Frenetic, One Perfect Sunrise...the latter being the only one i dislike (because it reminds me of a cross betwee Dreadzone's 'Little Britain' and that Charlotte Church 'opera trance' song mainly). there might be one or two more.

― sede vacante (blueski), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 17:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Nothing Left 2 perhaps

― sede vacante (blueski), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 17:26 (seventeen years ago) link

*the second 'both' is erroneous and unnecessary, pretend it isn't there.

― I am the best lyrocost since Dylan (Scourage), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 17:26 (seventeen years ago) link

i think Orbital convey joy/uplifting without melancholy or a particularly sinister edge on these tracks

Dude, CHIME!

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 22:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Matt speaks truth

― Jesus Dan (dan perry), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 23:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Can we get Louis laid for Christmas? Guys? Whipround?

― Sick Mouthy (sickmouthy), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 10:52 (seventeen years ago) link

"now that's what i call quality seconds" etc.

― sede vacante (blueski), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 11:03 (seventeen years ago) link

For a second I thought "whipround" meant something completely different (and terrifying).

― Jesus Dan (dan perry), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 14:25 (seventeen years ago) link

I wouldn't want you getting me laid, Dan...

― I am the best lyrocost since Dylan (Scourage), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 14:26 (seventeen years ago) link

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