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Learning to Live Is Genius
« on: April 21, 2011, 11:06:35 AM »
I listened to it as I was driving home yesterday evening. What a pwner.

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Re: Learning to Live Is Genius
« Reply #1 on: April 21, 2011, 11:08:03 AM »
Yes. It's DT's best by miles.
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Re: Learning to Live Is Genius
« Reply #2 on: April 21, 2011, 11:08:35 AM »
Definitely. So many highlights that it's not even funny.
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Re: Learning to Live Is Genius
« Reply #3 on: April 21, 2011, 11:10:36 AM »
Whoa, oh, ohhh. WHA-UH-OHH. WAHHH-UHHHHHH-AHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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Re: Learning to Live Is Genius
« Reply #4 on: April 21, 2011, 11:11:32 AM »
The Best Them.
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Quote from: Adami on November 08, 2010, 09:38:57 PM
I imagined the story to go more like this.

I was sitting a traffic light blaring Space Dye Vest and next to me in another car was Kevin Moore. And I'll never be open again.

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Re: Learning to Live Is Genius
« Reply #5 on: April 21, 2011, 11:12:32 AM »
Yeah... it won the DT survivor.
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Re: Learning to Live Is Genius
« Reply #6 on: April 21, 2011, 11:13:33 AM »
Quote from: Aniland on April 21, 2011, 11:10:36 AM
Whoa, oh, ohhh. WHA-UH-OHH. WAHHH-UHHHHHH-AHHHHHHHHHHHHH

That's cool but it's the other stuff that's amazing. Everyone knows about the vocals and the lyrics and the epic guitar solo. But the best part of the song is after all that stuff, when the Wait for Sleep reprise starts and Kevin Moore plays an amazing keyboard solo that makes you feel like all is right with the world.
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Re: Learning to Live Is Genius
« Reply #7 on: April 21, 2011, 11:19:20 AM »
I agree. It's just that the climax in that moment sums up everything awesome about this band. :)
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Re: Learning to Live Is Genius
« Reply #8 on: April 21, 2011, 11:20:51 AM »
Quote from: zxlkho on April 21, 2011, 11:08:03 AM
Yes. It's DT's best by miles.

Yes.
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Re: Learning to Live Is Genius
« Reply #9 on: April 21, 2011, 11:25:18 AM »
ITT: TOX states the obvious.
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Re: Learning to Live Is Genius
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Re: Learning to Live Is Genius
« Reply #11 on: April 21, 2011, 11:43:27 AM »
Quote from: TheOutlawXanadu on April 21, 2011, 11:13:33 AM
Quote from: Aniland on April 21, 2011, 11:10:36 AM
Whoa, oh, ohhh. WHA-UH-OHH. WAHHH-UHHHHHH-AHHHHHHHHHHHHH

That's cool but it's the other stuff that's amazing. Everyone knows about the vocals and the lyrics and the epic guitar solo. But the best part of the song is after all that stuff, when the Wait for Sleep reprise starts and Kevin Moore plays an amazing keyboard solo that makes you feel like all is right with the world.

They never write outros like that anymore.
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Re: Learning to Live Is Genius
« Reply #12 on: April 21, 2011, 11:48:51 AM »
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Re: Learning to Live Is Genius
« Reply #13 on: April 21, 2011, 12:31:36 PM »
Quote from: Aniland on April 21, 2011, 11:10:36 AM
Whoa, oh, ohhh. WHA-UH-OHH. WAHHH-UHHHHHH-AHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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I trying to sing this and I never succes  :biggrin:
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Re: Learning to Live Is Genius
« Reply #14 on: April 21, 2011, 02:16:58 PM »
Quote from: TheOutlawXanadu on April 21, 2011, 11:13:33 AM
Quote from: Aniland on April 21, 2011, 11:10:36 AM
Whoa, oh, ohhh. WHA-UH-OHH. WAHHH-UHHHHHH-AHHHHHHHHHHHHH

That's cool but it's the other stuff that's amazing. Everyone knows about the vocals and the lyrics and the epic guitar solo. But the best part of the song is after all that stuff, when the Wait for Sleep reprise starts and Kevin Moore plays an amazing keyboard solo that makes you feel like all is right with the world.
To be even more precise, I think that the highpoint of the Wait for Sleep reprise is actually the unison that follows the keyboard solo, it just doesn't get any better than that.
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Re: Learning to Live Is Genius
« Reply #15 on: April 21, 2011, 02:18:59 PM »
Everything after the F# (or whatever the hell it is) is boner-inducing.  Probably DT's best song, only ACoS comes close IMO.

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Re: Learning to Live Is Genius
« Reply #16 on: April 21, 2011, 02:20:59 PM »
I wish we had more threads like this.

Learning to Live is indeed genius.
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Re: Learning to Live Is Genius
« Reply #17 on: April 21, 2011, 02:51:27 PM »
Great song. Not the best, but one of the best. Top 10 for sure
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Re: Learning to Live Is Genius
« Reply #18 on: April 21, 2011, 02:53:31 PM »
The final verse into the bass groove into the outro is absolutely perfect.
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Re: Learning to Live Is Genius
« Reply #19 on: April 21, 2011, 02:58:11 PM »
Quote from: Tomislav95 on April 21, 2011, 12:31:36 PM
Quote from: Aniland on April 21, 2011, 11:10:36 AM
Whoa, oh, ohhh. WHA-UH-OHH. WAHHH-UHHHHHH-AHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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I trying to sing this and I never succes  :biggrin:

But who was sing?
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Re: Learning to Live Is Genius
« Reply #20 on: April 21, 2011, 04:17:09 PM »
I heard it was OH HEL-
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Re: Learning to Live Is Genius
« Reply #21 on: April 21, 2011, 04:26:28 PM »
Quote from: orcus116 on April 21, 2011, 11:43:27 AM
Quote from: TheOutlawXanadu on April 21, 2011, 11:13:33 AM
Quote from: Aniland on April 21, 2011, 11:10:36 AM
Whoa, oh, ohhh. WHA-UH-OHH. WAHHH-UHHHHHH-AHHHHHHHHHHHHH

That's cool but it's the other stuff that's amazing. Everyone knows about the vocals and the lyrics and the epic guitar solo. But the best part of the song is after all that stuff, when the Wait for Sleep reprise starts and Kevin Moore plays an amazing keyboard solo that makes you feel like all is right with the world.

They never write outros like that anymore.
And it's a good thing. I hate fadeouts. The only fadeout I've ever felt completely satisfied with is in Supper's Ready by Genesis.
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Re: Learning to Live Is Genius
« Reply #22 on: April 21, 2011, 04:33:05 PM »
The instrumental build-up for the verse that goes "The way your heart sounds..." is said to be inspired in the moment a couple is reaching climax. True story. I promise.
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Re: Learning to Live Is Genius
« Reply #23 on: April 21, 2011, 04:35:16 PM »
Quote from: bösk1 on April 21, 2011, 02:58:11 PM
Quote from: Tomislav95 on April 21, 2011, 12:31:36 PM
Quote from: Aniland on April 21, 2011, 11:10:36 AM
Whoa, oh, ohhh. WHA-UH-OHH. WAHHH-UHHHHHH-AHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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I trying to sing this and I never succes  :biggrin:

But who was sing?

Vijay?   :lol
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Re: Learning to Live Is Genius
« Reply #24 on: April 21, 2011, 04:37:23 PM »
Ohh the F#. I was able to hit it a year ago, then puberty deepened my voice immensely, now I can't even close. :(
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Re: Learning to Live Is Genius
« Reply #25 on: April 21, 2011, 05:42:23 PM »
Quote from: LieLowTheWantedMan on April 21, 2011, 04:26:28 PM
Quote from: orcus116 on April 21, 2011, 11:43:27 AM
They never write outros like that anymore.
And it's a good thing. I hate fadeouts.

I hate definitive endings to songs.

Just kidding of course, that's ridiculous.  I don't understand how anybody could have a *fundamental* problem with fadeouts.  They're just a structural element.  Do you hate them even if the music is good and it works and fits the closing of the song well?

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Re: Learning to Live Is Genius
« Reply #26 on: April 21, 2011, 06:20:18 PM »
They build upon that song as they go then the F# hits you on top of that WFS Reprise gives you the best DT song created.
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Re: Learning to Live Is Genius
« Reply #27 on: April 21, 2011, 06:46:50 PM »
Quote from: j on April 21, 2011, 05:42:23 PM
Quote from: LieLowTheWantedMan on April 21, 2011, 04:26:28 PM
Quote from: orcus116 on April 21, 2011, 11:43:27 AM
They never write outros like that anymore.
And it's a good thing. I hate fadeouts.

I hate definitive endings to songs.

Just kidding of course, that's ridiculous.  I don't understand how anybody could have a *fundamental* problem with fadeouts.  They're just a structural element.  Do you hate them even if the music is good and it works and fits the closing of the song well?
To me, fadeouts rarely fit. It just makes the ending of the song feel like it's missing something for me. Of course fadeouts would never drag the quality of the rest down, I just never really liked fadeouts at all.
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Re: Learning to Live Is Genius
« Reply #28 on: April 21, 2011, 08:49:58 PM »
So how could have LTL ended? A power chord?
To me the outro is perfect there was no other way to end it.
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Quote from: Adami on November 08, 2010, 09:38:57 PM
I imagined the story to go more like this.

I was sitting a traffic light blaring Space Dye Vest and next to me in another car was Kevin Moore. And I'll never be open again.

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Re: Learning to Live Is Genius
« Reply #29 on: April 21, 2011, 09:03:11 PM »
DT and their controversial outros. Of course.
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Re: Learning to Live Is Genius
« Reply #30 on: April 21, 2011, 11:35:02 PM »
Quote from: toro on April 21, 2011, 08:49:58 PM
So how could have LTL ended? A power chord?
To me the outro is perfect there was no other way to end it.
This, my favourite last minute or so of a DT song.
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Re: Learning to Live Is Genius
« Reply #31 on: April 22, 2011, 08:32:16 AM »
Quote from: toro on April 21, 2011, 08:49:58 PM
So how could have LTL ended? A power chord?
To me the outro is perfect there was no other way to end it.

Yeah, the outro is one of the best all-time.
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Re: Learning to Live Is Genius
« Reply #32 on: April 22, 2011, 08:38:19 AM »
What an excellent, excellent song. It was always my favorite of the songs we played live.
Interestingly, I find the F# one of the less exciting parts of the song. Maybe because I have witnessed too many bone-crushing butcherings of that part (both by DT and my band).

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Re: Learning to Live Is Genius
« Reply #33 on: April 22, 2011, 08:56:05 AM »
Quote from: rumborak on April 22, 2011, 08:38:19 AM
What an excellent, excellent song. It was always my favorite of the songs we played live.
Interestingly, I find the F# one of the less exciting parts of the song. Maybe because I have witnessed too many bone-crushing butcherings of that part (both by DT and my band).

rumborak

The guitar part immediately following it is what I really love.
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Re: Learning to Live Is Genius
« Reply #34 on: April 22, 2011, 09:33:19 AM »
It's certainly one of my favourites - I love the version on the Live Scenes dvd.  Immense.  :hefdaddy
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