So, I tried marijuana for the first time in my life last night, and listened to Colors II a few hours into the trance. Laying on the couch, covered my whole body and face under a blanket, all the lights off. Total sensory deprivation other than my airpods and the album.
I started at Never Seen/Future Shock and let the entire rest of the album to the end play without opening my eyes, pausing, or looking at the track names, so I don’t even know where songs start and end, I was totally lost in the vastness of the black void, onslaughted by rainbow worlds in a vortex.
I can’t describe how unique the experience was. I haven’t felt that elevated by music since i listened to Scenes From A Memory for the first time. Absolutely best thing theyve done since Parallax II.
What I heard went beyond music. I could feel the music. I honestly felt like I was being launched into space in the final moments. I was surrounded by a color spectrum I cant describe.
Really trying not to sound like a stereotypical stoner moron but I think now I understand how people in the 70s felt smoking up while listening to Dark Side of The Moon and such.
I feel like this is one of the greatest albums of all time. Prog, metal, or otherwise.
I don’t want to listen to it again until I can replicate the atmosphere again.
I dont remember all of it, but all morning I’ve been getting flashbacks of snippets. I remember the album being very keyboard centric and catchy as fuck. This is BTBAM at their poppiest but it works amazingly well. So fresh. No other BTBAM album sounds like this one, post Fix The Error at least (the singles are very standard fair for the band but i feel like every thing from Never Seen onwards is just a completely new experience).
I’m going to digest this album verrrrry slowly. Its still so fresh and I’m not gonna play it to death. Never felt this way about an album before....
Just wow.
Topic: Between the Buried and Me (Read 131492 times)
