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30 Days Meme
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iridescentglow but it does look like a lot of fun.
Day 1 - Favorite Song
My favorite song is The Chemical Brothers feat. Richard Ashcroft - The Test
It's an incredibly layered song. Kind of like Death in Vegas' Dirge but a lot less gradually and noticably layered. Dirge is the song where the addition and integration of new sounds drown out the older sounds until you have this huge noisy thing with hardly any individually distinguishable sounds.
The Test is similarly layered and new sounds are added and integrated all the time to drown out old sounds and to disappear. Ashcroft's voice is always distinguishable. Can't say the same about the lyrics. The internet consensus says that he sings "I'm seeing waves breaking form to my horizon" that one time and it sounds like it but that doesn't even make sense.
But I love the lyrics. I know it's about an LSD trip but the part about "my heart and soul are free" make me still kind of emotional. If it was a shorter song it would be the most listened-to-song on my ipod. It is certainly the one song I've never grown tired of and I've been listening it since it came out. Incidentally it was the first DVD single I ever bought.
But then this was the time when music videos in general still had budgets and production values, so the video has abstract dream-like landscapes, underwater sequences and houses falling down. And a whale. Nowadays production value extends to hiring Swedish cable actors and dancing in a leotard in front of a white wallpaper. And that is deemed THE BEST VIDEO OF ALL TIME. I think I'm growing bitter so I better stop.
iridescentglow but it does look like a lot of fun.Day 1 - Favorite Song
My favorite song is The Chemical Brothers feat. Richard Ashcroft - The Test
It's an incredibly layered song. Kind of like Death in Vegas' Dirge but a lot less gradually and noticably layered. Dirge is the song where the addition and integration of new sounds drown out the older sounds until you have this huge noisy thing with hardly any individually distinguishable sounds.
The Test is similarly layered and new sounds are added and integrated all the time to drown out old sounds and to disappear. Ashcroft's voice is always distinguishable. Can't say the same about the lyrics. The internet consensus says that he sings "I'm seeing waves breaking form to my horizon" that one time and it sounds like it but that doesn't even make sense.
But I love the lyrics. I know it's about an LSD trip but the part about "my heart and soul are free" make me still kind of emotional. If it was a shorter song it would be the most listened-to-song on my ipod. It is certainly the one song I've never grown tired of and I've been listening it since it came out. Incidentally it was the first DVD single I ever bought.
But then this was the time when music videos in general still had budgets and production values, so the video has abstract dream-like landscapes, underwater sequences and houses falling down. And a whale. Nowadays production value extends to hiring Swedish cable actors and dancing in a leotard in front of a white wallpaper. And that is deemed THE BEST VIDEO OF ALL TIME. I think I'm growing bitter so I better stop.