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Re: Between the Buried and Me
« Reply #1 on: February 12, 2014, 08:26:41 AM »
Parallax 2 is the best them

Also first!

Also, self-titled is amazing.

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Re: Between the Buried and Me
« Reply #2 on: February 12, 2014, 08:32:56 AM »
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Re: Between the Buried and Me
« Reply #3 on: February 12, 2014, 09:38:24 AM »
Nah, Colors is still the best. They will probably never top it, but if they keep making albums as good as Parallax II, I won't mind.

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Re: Between the Buried and Me
« Reply #4 on: February 12, 2014, 11:49:30 AM »
lolfacts.

I'll still always love TSC the most, but I love their recent work just as much for totally different reasons.

Speaking of... I would really love me some new BTBAM in the next couple years.

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Re: Between the Buried and Me
« Reply #5 on: February 12, 2014, 01:28:24 PM »
I'm seeing them in Charlotte.  Who else is going?
     

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Re: Between the Buried and Me
« Reply #6 on: February 12, 2014, 01:36:50 PM »
Of all bands you could travel for, you pick this one? You have disappointed me.
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Re: Between the Buried and Me
« Reply #7 on: February 12, 2014, 01:43:09 PM »
BTBAM are fantastic.

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Re: Between the Buried and Me
« Reply #8 on: February 12, 2014, 02:01:39 PM »
why did we need a new thread

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Re: Between the Buried and Me
« Reply #9 on: February 12, 2014, 02:03:36 PM »
Because the old one was huge.

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Re: Between the Buried and Me
« Reply #10 on: February 12, 2014, 02:08:17 PM »
Because the old one was huge.
And you know what they say about threads that are huge :zydar:

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Re: Between the Buried and Me
« Reply #11 on: February 12, 2014, 02:09:58 PM »
Because the old one was huge.
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Re: Between the Buried and Me
« Reply #12 on: February 12, 2014, 03:54:05 PM »
Of all bands you could travel for, you pick this one? You have disappointed me.

It's 90 minutes away and on a weekend.  If more bands hit Charlotte, Raleigh NC, or Columbia SC I'd go to a lot more concerts.
     

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Re: Between the Buried and Me
« Reply #13 on: February 12, 2014, 04:30:58 PM »
I kind of wish this band would stray away from the Colors sound. They seemed to keep changing album to album up until Colors and then it seems like they decided to release slight variations of Colors on the next new releases. I get that they may feel they found their sound and style but hearing it over and over again on the last few releases has made me lose a lot of interest.

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Re: Between the Buried and Me
« Reply #14 on: February 12, 2014, 05:57:37 PM »
One song I really love that I don't often see much love for is Swim to the Moon. I know many people often describe it as "long for the sake of being long", and while that might be right, I just think it's such a fun song, and I really do love all of the middle section, even if a lot of it are random parts. It's easily my favorite from The Great Misdirect, and probably in my top5 BTBAM songs. Love that xylophone as well.

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Re: Between the Buried and Me
« Reply #15 on: February 12, 2014, 06:29:01 PM »
I never got the hate for Swim to the Moon, even before I learned it was part of the Parallax storyline.
     

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Re: Between the Buried and Me
« Reply #16 on: February 12, 2014, 06:55:47 PM »
It's just a big ball of nothing to me personally. When I saw it live the crowd energy died to absolutely zero when they played it except for a small group in the front that headbanged to everything.

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Re: Between the Buried and Me
« Reply #17 on: February 12, 2014, 07:15:30 PM »
I wish they had death vocals instead of core vocals.

I REALLY wish they had death vocals instead of core vocals.

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Re: Between the Buried and Me
« Reply #18 on: February 12, 2014, 07:28:05 PM »
Tommy is awesome, though I do kind of miss his more varied harshes from the self-titled.

His incredible clean singing makes up for it, though.

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Re: Between the Buried and Me
« Reply #19 on: February 12, 2014, 08:53:06 PM »
One song I really love that I don't often see much love for is Swim to the Moon. I know many people often describe it as "long for the sake of being long", and while that might be right, I just think it's such a fun song, and I really do love all of the middle section, even if a lot of it are random parts. It's easily my favorite from The Great Misdirect, and probably in my top5 BTBAM songs. Love that xylophone as well.

Agreed. The only complaint I have about it is that the ending is a bit abrupt.
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Re: Between the Buried and Me
« Reply #20 on: February 12, 2014, 09:07:41 PM »
One song I really love that I don't often see much love for is Swim to the Moon. I know many people often describe it as "long for the sake of being long", and while that might be right, I just think it's such a fun song, and I really do love all of the middle section, even if a lot of it are random parts. It's easily my favorite from The Great Misdirect, and probably in my top5 BTBAM songs. Love that xylophone as well.
I love Swim To The Moon. It might not be my favorite, but it's probably a top five. It maintains my interest throughout its entire run-time, much moreso than some of their shorter songs at least.

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Re: Between the Buried and Me
« Reply #21 on: February 12, 2014, 10:32:20 PM »
Fossil Genera > the rest of their discography

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Re: Between the Buried and Me
« Reply #22 on: February 12, 2014, 11:08:29 PM »
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Re: Between the Buried and Me
« Reply #23 on: February 13, 2014, 12:09:10 AM »
i wouldnt rule out fossil genera nor swim to the moon as my fav BTBAM song.

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Re: Between the Buried and Me
« Reply #24 on: February 13, 2014, 12:13:44 AM »
I absolutely love TGM for the most part (especially Mirrors), but I still think it pales in comparison to TSC and was before they really got into their own after Colors kind of knocked their world upside down.

I don't think anything will ever trump TSC for me though..it's too perfect a blend of the beautiful and macabre. I know I'm definitely in the minority on that one though. Which is fine.  :azn:

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Re: Between the Buried and Me
« Reply #25 on: February 13, 2014, 12:22:58 AM »
i got into them thru TSC. hadnt heard of em til seeing commercials on television for Alaska when it was coming out. they seemed interesting enough, so i YouTube'd some live isht and went to buy the album that week. when i seen the copy of TSC came with a bonus live DVD, i bought that instead. right album at the right time for me.  :metal

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Re: Between the Buried and Me
« Reply #26 on: February 13, 2014, 03:52:04 AM »
Fossil Genera > the rest of their discography

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Re: Between the Buried and Me
« Reply #27 on: February 13, 2014, 07:45:09 AM »
Fossil Genera > the rest of their discography

Don't know if I'd go quite that far...but it's certainly a top 5 all time BTABAM song in my book.  That song is AMAZING!!!
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Re: Between the Buried and Me
« Reply #28 on: February 13, 2014, 07:53:33 AM »
I felt like Parallax II was a step in the right direction. Still "progressive" but with much shorter songs.

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« Reply #29 on: February 13, 2014, 07:55:06 AM »
I don't know that that's really the case, four of the songs on P2 were 9+ minutes.

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« Reply #30 on: February 13, 2014, 07:56:57 AM »
I felt like Parallax II was a step in the right direction. Still "progressive" but with much shorter songs.

I like the "more clean vocals" part.   They seem to be bringing in more harmonies.    If I had one complaint with Colors (which is brilliant), it's the monotony of the core vocals.   It feels like about an 80/20 split on Colors.   On Parallax, it feels more like 60/40.    I hope they keep going in that direction.   I don't want to see the harsh vocals go away all together, but I would rather hear them as an occasional thing to "color"  ;) the rest of the music.
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Re: Between the Buried and Me
« Reply #32 on: February 13, 2014, 03:09:08 PM »
Live in-studio recording DVD for Parallax confirmed.

https://richardthinks.org/2014/02/12/interview-dan-briggs-of-between-the-buried-me/

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I’ve got a record with one of my other bands, Orbs, that we recorded this past summer that’s being mixed in the upcoming weeks. I’m pretty excited about it, I’m hopeful it’ll be out by the summer.

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« Reply #33 on: February 13, 2014, 03:52:09 PM »
This DVD will be amazing.  Colors live is still one DVD I constantly go back to so looking forward to this. 
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« Reply #34 on: February 13, 2014, 03:53:24 PM »
I like Orbs, and Dan's fusion group Trioscapes. Looking forward to the DVD also, sounds awesome.