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Topic	Se7en Ranks 1,300 songs from the --{\| 70's\| 80's\| 90's\| 00's\| 10's \|}-- #1
Raetsel_Lapin 04/29/18 10:01:17 PM #157:	Hey, someone else thinks the song is somewhat Springsteen-esque? That's kinda neat. ========================================== Breaking Out I'm sure a lot of people are wondering why I didn't go with "Light Up the Night" as my pick for a song from Act 2: Light Up the Night was DLC for Rock Band 4, they created an entire music video/short film for the song, and it was the first single from the album. Light Up the Night is practically the definitive Protoment song. As great as that song is, I don't think it stands as well on its own. It has lyrical callbacks to past songs & the significance of Joe and Light meeting is lost without the rest of the album. You need to go back and listen to the first half of the album to hear why Light went into hiding and to get all the music references; then you need Breaking Out to introduce the character of Joe; then after "Light Up the Night", you really need the last two songs to finish the album... and then you should probably just go listen to the entirety of Act 1 (Act 2 is a prequel that leads directly into the first),... "Breaking Out" doesn't really have that problem. It introduces the character of Joe, an original character and it doesn't rely on knowledge of the lore or story. It easily stands on its own and (while I love the entire album), I don't think you're missing a lot by skipping directly to this track. It also feels like something that could play on the radio: Just a basic story of some guy on a motorcycle rebelling against society. Easy to understand and relate to, definitely the song I would throw out if I had to limit myself to only one Protomen song. ...also it kinda reminds me of Bruce Springsteen, but I don't really know enough about his music to justify that association. Of course if you read the narration that's meant to go along with the song,then it doesn't work quite as well. Ending with an unidentified old man pointing at the killer robot lurking in the shadows that's about to assassinate Joe? It might make things segue more seamlessly into the next song, but raises way too many questions for the song to be able to work on its own merits any longer. There's a reason I avoided going with a lyric video for it, since I don't think the narration really does anything to help this song. ========================================== --- "That's life. All the trues are false and all the falses are true."-Charlie Brown <cite>Raetsel_Lapin posted [p:900539840] in Se7en Rank... [t:76531547]...</cite> <quote>Hey, someone else thinks the song is somewhat Springsteen-esque? That's kinda neat. ========================================== Breaking Out I'm sure a lot of people are wondering why I didn't go with "Light Up the Night" as my pick for a song from Act 2: Light Up the Night was DLC for Rock Band 4, they created an entire music video/short film for the song, and it was the first single from the album. Light Up the Night is practically the definitive Protoment song. As great as that song is, I don't think it stands as well on its own. It has lyrical callbacks to past songs & the significance of Joe and Light meeting is lost without the rest of the album. You need to go back and listen to the first half of the album to hear why Light went into hiding and to get all the music references; then you need Breaking Out to introduce the character of Joe; then after "Light Up the Night", you really need the last two songs to finish the album... and then you should probably just go listen to the entirety of Act 1 (Act 2 is a prequel that leads directly into the first),... "Breaking Out" doesn't really have that problem. It introduces the character of Joe, an original character and it doesn't rely on knowledge of the lore or story. It easily stands on its own and (while I love the entire album), I don't think you're missing a lot by skipping directly to this track. It also feels like something that could play on the radio: Just a basic story of some guy on a motorcycle rebelling against society. Easy to understand and relate to, definitely the song I would throw out if I had to limit myself to only one Protomen song. ...also it kinda reminds me of Bruce Springsteen, but I don't really know enough about his music to justify that association. Of course if you read the narration that's meant to go along with the song,then it doesn't work quite as well. Ending with an unidentified old man pointing at the killer robot lurking in the shadows that's about to assassinate Joe? It might make things segue more seamlessly into the next song, but raises way too many questions for the song to be able to work on its own merits any longer. There's a reason I avoided going with a lyric video for it, since I don't think the narration really does anything to help this song. ========================================== --- "That's life. All the trues are false and all the falses are true."-Charlie Brown</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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