ADToE is just as creative as any other DT album.. As many have said, is not the first time they do certain song with similar structure than other song in their catalogue; the fact that there are 5/6 of those certain songs in the same album is just a curiosity the album has, but from there to saying things like that Thiago dude was saying, there's a world of distance.. Even more if we realize we're talking of probably one of the bands that has more different song structure in the history of music, and he and his followers should know this very well..
I don't really see or think about it aside from making jokes like "oh uagm and lost not forgotten have jp playing octaves that move up and down. same song confirmed" (Which, to be clear, is not to poke fun at anyone in particular, it's to poke fun at people who take the perceived similarities too far)
They're not "perceived", but pretty obvious similarities and, in any case, the ones that took it too far were the band themselves, and not us who are merely describing what they did.. Is very clear
what they did (although not that clear
why they did it), and also is very obvious, as most here in this thread have already pointed out, that it's not just one random similarity that these songs have in common, but many and they're quite evident..
From what I've heard and seen, most of the similarities between the songs are superficial. PMU and OtBoA are probably the best case, but even then the songs are so different in their own rights that the comparison falls apart when you look closer. How they use meters is different, the overall mood is somewhat different, the melodies are different, the arrangements are different, and so on. Do the two albums have some stuff in common? Yes. Is ADToE deliberately based on I&W? Probably not. The albums are too unique to really say that there's any recycling.
I agree but also disagree.. Of course you cannot make an album consisting of five or six songs that, besides of having very similar and obvious structures than other five or six songs off another previous album of yours, also repeats their respective melodies, scales, exact arrengements, etc.. That would be even more absurd than MirrorMask's joking example about them excluding the LNF's intro just because UAG doesn't have one.. So, the fact that they haven't done an even greater ridicule like that doesn't mean that there are no obvious structural coincidences in the two sets of songs.. Better than that, just do an acoustic (or whatever) version of that older album and that's it.. How would ever an artist make that other thing?..
If someone wants to break down and analyze music that way, that's great if it makes you happy. But I don't think that is really how art is meant to be experienced.
Nah, at least *I* (and I see it's the case of most here) have never let this thing influence my experience while listening to any of the two albums.. I didn't analyze the similarities every time I was actually listening to the songs; after a while you already know how they are, and can just imaginarily note the similar structures.. But even if you need to listen to the songs to do that, then that's not an artistic experience at all; is just a different kind of experience..
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