I’d also love to hear stories about how it moved you on your first or 100th time listening to it.
I will get back to you in 42min. and 38sec.
After listening to the album it was underwhelming. It was good and sometimes great. I can’t call it a “masterpiece”
My favourite was “15 step”. It had nice and interesting percussion.
All I need in 1:40 was a highlight and ending of Videotape had also nice rhythm.
I definitely listened to better albums.
I think it’s really impossible to pick just one, but gun to my head, I’d pick Weird Fishes. It’s got strong energy, but it’s still introspective and emotional, great backing vocals, great Thom vocals, and as a bassist I love a lot of the bass work in that song.
One of my favourite pieces of music, a treat for the ears and soul. Love the arrangement of the arppegiated guitars and rhodes piano, and ya when the bass kicks into the second half it rules.
The opener, 15 Step. I mean, it doesn’t live up to Creep, but nothing ever will.
Can I pick something off Disk 2? It’s Bangers + Mash.
The lyrics, Thom’s crazed singing, the way the instruments drop out and back in throughout the verses, the stumbling overlapped drum patterns, the opposing guitars, 1 repetitive and monotonous and the other with a frantic riff…
If we’re talking on the album, it’s Jigsaw Falling into Place. Bodysnatchers, 15 Step, Weird Fishes, and House of Cards are all very close though.
Reckoner
But I like the From The Basement version more.
