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A bogan sounds like a woodland creature, perhaps one from Lord of the Rings.
LemonMacPhisto said:I'm cool with Minnewanka.
When can we do Sheboygan, Wisconsin?
LemonMacPhisto said:A bogan sounds like a woodland creature, perhaps one from Lord of the Rings.
LemonMacPhisto said:A bogan sounds like a woodland creature, perhaps one from Lord of the Rings.
phillyfan26 said:
Thought that too. Maybe Ryan's clubbing friend in The Office was a Bogan.
LemonMacPhisto said:Ax, I'd also like to let you know that one of the working titles for my DI V list was "Axver, Don't Even Bother." It's changed since then, but I figured you should know.
Have you started on yours?
Axver said:
Yeah, mine's actually nearly complete. I'm hoping it's one that might appeal to more than one or two people this time. Looking at it on paper, I feel like there should still be work to do, but listening to it, I think it feels very close to finished.
LemonMacPhisto said:
That's good to hear, as long as you're happy with it. I'm glad how mine's turned out - wonder how it'll be criticized this time around.
Pretty similar to your DI 2 list then?
LemonMacPhisto said:
That's good to hear, as long as you're happy with it. I'm glad how mine's turned out - wonder how it'll be criticized this time around.
Pretty similar to your DI 2 list then?
Axver said:
No, actually, I think it's fairly unique as far as my lists go. Lots of post-rock and other instrumental stuff, which might make it a hard sell to some people. The main idea is to use the most beautiful songs I know, though it has evolved and developed since then.
Axver said:No death metal at all, this time around.
I initially had a softer Agalloch song there, which I think is very darkly beautiful, but it got cut because it didn't fit with the other handful of darkly beautiful songs I'm using (which themselves may still be cut) and was pushing my list way past the time restriction.
LemonMacPhisto said:
Is it similar to the last 4-5 songs of your last list? Aside from some issues, I really dug that.
So it's safe to say that "darkly beautiful" has replaced "atmosphere" as the buzz word this time around?
Axver said:
It's not melancholic like that, but I hope it's as beautiful as Untitled --> Collapse The Light Into Earth is.
I wouldn't say that's the buzz word, since the songs I consider darkly beautiful are close to being on the chopping block! "Beautiful" alone would be the buzz word, I suppose. Basically, one nice evening I was listening to Alcest's Tir Nan Og, which I think is the most beautiful album closer I've ever heard, and decided to make a tracklist to go with it.
I'm listening to the tracklist now, and I'm impressed with the transition between Eluvium's An Accidental Memory In The Cae Of Death and 65daysofstatic's Radio Protector.
LemonMacPhisto said:Your opener should be Beautiful Ghost (Introduction to the Songs of Experience)
LemonMacPhisto said:Your opener should be Beautiful Ghost (Introduction to the Songs of Experience)
phillyfan26 said:
That whole muttering of poetry over atmosphere really is quite conceptual, too.
It's a winner all around. And it's fucking rare.
LemonMacPhisto said:
So it's more of an uplifting list then?
Cool beans. I always read Alcest as "incest," but I'm a pretty sick fuck.
Axver said:
Is this including stats from the very first edition of DI, where we could use multiple tracks by the same artist? I imagine those of us who competed in that would have weaker diversity percentages as a result.
Axver said:
No, actually, I think it's fairly unique as far as my lists go. Lots of post-rock and other instrumental stuff, which might make it a hard sell to some people. The main idea is to use the most beautiful songs I know, though it has evolved and developed since then.
Axver said:
The U2 song I've got at the moment is A Sort Of Homecoming. It was a toss-up between it, The Unforgettable Fire, and Bass Trap. It fits sonically better than UF in its current spot, and I feel I've enough instrumentals already without throwing Bass Trap into the mix too.
Shine On You Crazy Diamond I-V is my opener at this stage. Every time I hear the intro, I think of when I first heard it back in September 2003 at about 5:30am, when the dawn was breaking over the northern plains of New South Wales.
LemonMacPhisto said:A Sort of Homecoming's one of my favorite U2 songs - I don't know why I haven't used it in a list yet. I'm using Rejoice this time around. It was between that or When I Look at the World.
phillyfan26 said:
That whole muttering of poetry over atmosphere really is quite conceptual, too.
It's a winner all around. And it's fucking rare.
Axver said:
Yes, I've tried to go for something positive, at least to me. I don't know if that will translate too well for the rest of you lot!
And heh, my mind has always made a similar connection. Like alcest is an even more twisted incest or something. I'd like to know what it actually means. I'm presuming it's French for something, since the guy behind Alcest is French and all the song/album titles and lyrics are in French.
phanan said:
It's a shame the 26 December 1989 show isn't officially available, cuz then he could add Where The Streets Have No Name with the poetry at the beginning.
I mean, how much more poetic can you get?