I fell asleep to your mix last night, Jammin, and boy was it a beautifully etched out ride. I don't know how you chose those songs but they were perfect for each other; it's definitely one of the best mix's I've heard in a long time. I mean, I know you said you crafted it strictly with flow in mind but the songs really do fit each other in many different aspects; much of which are in tone and style despite the gaps in some albums between songs. Awesome stuff, I'll definitely be cranking this one again. It feels like an official playlist.
On a different topic, I still can't get into Lazarus. Mainly because of the painful memories that have latched and dug their claws into the song itself and thus my head whenever I listen to it but it's just
too pretty and whimsical for me. That whole darkly beautiful aspect that Wilson and Akerfeldt talked about with Storm Corrosion, or any Opeth album? This song is like the polar opposite to that train of thought; it's just all too nice sounding and..well not 'happy-go-lucky' but something about it just rubs me the wrong way. I think it is (not counting the abortion that is most of TI) the only PT song I actually dislike. Not massively, and not entirely for the song itself (like I said, fuckin' memories boohoo wah wah, ghosts of girlfriends past scrooge), but good lord. Wilson must have thought "I like the idea of having something disturbing and ugly right beside something beautiful, but what about a song that makes someone think they're in a pixie filled fairytale wonderland with ghosts?" Too pretty man,
too pretty. Smear some
blood on that shit, brah. That's what she said. She's a sadist.
P.S. I really love Cut Ribbon. I still have the wrongly titled "'Wet' Ribbon"; good stuff though, it's a badass lil groove (it was
the biggest lightbulb moment whenever I found out that it wasn't actually called Wet Ribbon..."
OH MY GOD THAT'S WHAT HE SAYS CUT RIBBON, WHY WAS THE RIBBON WET? WHAT DID YOU SPILL ON IT?"). I wish they had the SW App available for download/buy somewhere. They really could make a pretty penny off of making those songs that they have to stream on the app available to buy for .99 cents, I'd buy almost every song up. I especially want the remix of Index, IndexTwentyTwelve.