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Topic	Rank the Tracks Week 79: Protest the Hero's Palimpsest (+ Ataris results)
BlueCrystalTear 09/07/22 10:19:57 PM #20:	Since I'm busy as fuck and will have even less time the next few days, I'm just gonna do something different and write thoughts about each song as I listen to it, then post my one-listen ranking. "Migrant Mother" is kind of a mixed bag for me. There are times where I actually find it groovy, other times at which I find it appalling. I presume you guys know me well enough by now to know which parts are which. "The Canary" is worse. At this point, I am starting to realize what my issue is here: The drums are at times overwhelming. It feels like it's almost impossible for a drummer to keep banging that fast, and the end result is needles in my back. The "feel" of the music is just too much. "From the Sky" starts out indistinguishable from the first two. You could legit play me a 15-second clip of any of these first three songs and I would not be able to tell you which one it was from. There is a very different part that's a lot softer in the second half, which is why I like this better. "Harbourside" is something completely different than the first three, a one-minute instrumental that sounds like it's from a climactic romcom scene. I love it for this, and that cooldown from all the banging is very, very welcome, and something So Long, Astoria lacked entirely. It really helps the rest of the album by just being there, and it's an awesome minute of music to boot that's hard to believe came from the same guys who made the rest of the noise. "All Hands" is much like the first two tracks, but I like how it starts out - and the daemonic chanting actually works as a way to separate it from the other songs here, but not done in a way that sounds too screamy. I... actually welcome it? "The Fireside" is... no thanks. Screamiest song so far. It's nothing but earsplitting noise, no different than crying children. I like the ending better, but not enough to redeem the song. "Soliloquy" is an awesome word. This song is not one of those. The daemonic chanting does not work here like it does in "All Hands" either. "Reverie" is when I start to get tired of this shtick. This is the fourth straight song that sounds the same. It's become apparent what my #1 so far is, the one that actually stands out. Like last week, my criticism for redundancy is that it renders the entire thing unmemorable. This one is just the same song as the last three and could have been removed. "Little Snakes" is no different than most of this album so far. I do like it better than a few others on here because there's nothing that makes me dislike it more than those. I see another short song called "Mountainside" and the running theme with the names and conclude this must be what it ultimately is: A welcome instrumental interlude that, although short, feels like a movie soundtrack song. This one is more tragic, but it's still great, and a welcome reprieve that would've worked better two songs ago. "Gardenias" is awful. I do wonder if this is due to its track placement since it sounds no different than the others. The end outro is the only part I rather liked musically, though I think the song coming to an end helped too. "Hillside" is another instrumental interlude and I find it curious that they had one on either side of the album's nadir; this sounds much like "Mountainside" but lacks the same effectiveness since it was so soon after it. At this point, it didn't really add anything, and lacks the same memorability as the first two. "Rivet" is just the usual fare that summarizes the entire album. That's all it is. The outro is nice and certainly better than some of the others. This is really a split of 10/2/1. Ten songs all do the same thing with only a little variance. Two other songs also do the same thing, which makes those standouts. And there's the one that really, really stands out because it's the one that helps the album the most. I would have found this album unbearable without it there. My #1 is without question. Harbourside Mountainside From the Sky All Hands Hillside Rivet The Migrant Mother Little Snakes Soliloquy The Canary Reverie The Fireside Gardenias --- [This post adds nothing to the discussion but for whatever reason I felt the need to say it anyway.] <cite>BlueCrystalTear posted [p:967868461] in Rank the T... [t:80154142]...</cite> <quote>Since I'm busy as fuck and will have even less time the next few days, I'm just gonna do something different and write thoughts about each song as I listen to it, then post my one-listen ranking."Migrant Mother" is kind of a mixed bag for me. There are times where I actually find it groovy, other times at which I find it appalling. I presume you guys know me well enough by now to know which parts are which."The Canary" is worse. At this point, I am starting to realize what my issue is here: The drums are at times overwhelming. It feels like it's almost impossible for a drummer to keep banging that fast, and the end result is needles in my back. The "feel" of the music is just too much."From the Sky" starts out indistinguishable from the first two. You could legit play me a 15-second clip of any of these first three songs and I would not be able to tell you which one it was from. There is a very different part that's a lot softer in the second half, which is why I like this better. "Harbourside" is something completely different than the first three, a one-minute instrumental that sounds like it's from a climactic romcom scene. I love it for this, and that cooldown from all the banging is very, very welcome, and something So Long, Astoria lacked entirely. It really helps the rest of the album by just being there, and it's an awesome minute of music to boot that's hard to believe came from the same guys who made the rest of the noise."All Hands" is much like the first two tracks, but I like how it starts out - and the daemonic chanting actually works as a way to separate it from the other songs here, but not done in a way that sounds too screamy. I... actually welcome it?"The Fireside" is... no thanks. Screamiest song so far. It's nothing but earsplitting noise, no different than crying children. I like the ending better, but not enough to redeem the song."Soliloquy" is an awesome word. This song is not one of those. The daemonic chanting does not work here like it does in "All Hands" either."Reverie" is when I start to get tired of this shtick. This is the fourth straight song that sounds the same. It's become apparent what my #1 so far is, the one that actually stands out. Like last week, my criticism for redundancy is that it renders the entire thing unmemorable. This one is just the same song as the last three and could have been removed."Little Snakes" is no different than most of this album so far. I do like it better than a few others on here because there's nothing that makes me dislike it more than those.I see another short song called "Mountainside" and the running theme with the names and conclude this must be what it ultimately is: A welcome instrumental interlude that, although short, feels like a movie soundtrack song. This one is more tragic, but it's still great, and a welcome reprieve that would've worked better two songs ago."Gardenias" is awful. I do wonder if this is due to its track placement since it sounds no different than the others. The end outro is the only part I rather liked musically, though I think the song coming to an end helped too. "Hillside" is another instrumental interlude and I find it curious that they had one on either side of the album's nadir; this sounds much like "Mountainside" but lacks the same effectiveness since it was so soon after it. At this point, it didn't really add anything, and lacks the same memorability as the first two."Rivet" is just the usual fare that summarizes the entire album. That's all it is. The outro is nice and certainly better than some of the others.This is really a split of 10/2/1. Ten songs all do the same thing with only a little variance. Two other songs also do the same thing, which makes those standouts. And there's the one that really, really stands out because it's the one that helps the album the most. I would have found this album unbearable without it there. My #1 is without question.HarboursideMountainsideFrom the SkyAll HandsHillsideRivetThe Migrant MotherLittle SnakesSoliloquyThe CanaryReverieThe FiresideGardenias --- [This post adds nothing to the discussion but for whatever reason I felt the need to say it anyway.]</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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