Well, interpretation leaves everything up in the air, but officially I mean; the way the band intended it was for The Incident to be one disc. But yeah, it's definitely tied to the The Incident through the lyrics and even some instrumental beats, which is why I suppose they didn't release it separately because it's close in relation to the theme of TI; but I definitely wouldn't call it an extension of the album. It's a close cousin of TI and they just so happen to eff each other because they've got issues and that is the incident that made Bonnie a cat. Cause cats are gross and always rubbing up against...their...cousins...
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The second disc isn't an EP. It is part of the album, its not a bonus disc. The only reason it is split is because Wilson wanted to put emphasis on the first 14 songs being tied together in one piece. The DVD-A doesnt list it as a bonus EP like it does with Deadwing/FOABP/LBS. It is intended to be one complete album.
That said, I do listen to the two individually often, especially disc 2.
I didn't mean it so literal, of course it's apart of the album, I was attempting to make a point by saying it may as well be an EP and can be viewed as a sort of bonus, obviously they released it with the album purposefully; but people seemed to be giving the impression that it's apart of the song-cycle of "The Incident", which it is not. It is a completion of the album in that there are two parts, The Incident, and then the separate disc 2. I know Wiki is always given a bunch of shit for being completely unreliable (which is ridiculous) but here it is anyway (and it's cited from the official site; I also remember reading this when the album was first introduced):
[T]he centre-piece is the title track, which takes up the whole of the first disc ... The 55-minute work is described as a slightly surreal song cycle ... The self-produced album is completed by four standalone compositions that developed out of band writing sessions last December - Flicker, Bonnie the Cat, Black Dahlia, and Remember Me Lover feature on a separate EP length disc to stress their independence from the song cycle.
So yes, it is one complete album, I didn't actually mean that the second disc is an EP, but rather what is referred to above in that it is completely separate from TI and is the length of an EP, but has connections to the album and is similar enough to be called apart of the experience.
I'll let this be now, considering it really doesn't make a difference but if someone thought that it was apart of The Incident then I just wanted to set things straight. Because yeah, it would be kind of ridiculous to have a second disc and it still be apart of TI. They should have named the second disc something else, as Wilson did with the bonus disc (which actually is a bonus disc) in Grace For Drowning; the third disc is called "The Map", so it's a bit more obvious that its separate. But I guess that's a different case altogether. All things aside, I think the second disc kicks the first's ass. Hell, there's about the same number of songs that I like from TI as there are on the second disc. For useless information, the only songs I can stand on TI are: Blind House, Great Expectations, The Incident, and I Drive The Hearse. Every other track bores the shit out of me. Like, I'll be sitting there thinking "Man, the guys on DTF have to be on to something...here we go, start to finish" and then halfway through I've found that I'm sitting in a warm, juicy pile of my own shit. It's fucking odd.
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