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I've been making a playlist of the Conventional Weapons songs as we get them, and then listening to just those on repeat, for stretches while I'm in the car, and if I'm doing dishes or something, and it's definitely made me appreciate Ambulance and Gun. more than I did, and while it hasn't made me really appreciate where they would fit in with Boy Division and Tomorrow's Money on an album, I can see more now how they grew out of the same place. And then Gerard linked us to Zero Zero, and, more because it would make it easier to find in my iTunes than anything else, I added it to the CW playlist. And, totally unexpectedly, I feel like it ties Number One and Number Two together somehow.
Like really totally unexpectedly. I've been trying for the last twenty minutes to put my finger on even one way why so that I could make this post and sound even a little bit articulate, and then I decided to just start writing and see where that took me, but I still have nothing. Which is a problem for me being a music fandoms, really--my whole life, pretty much all I've had to say about music was either, "I like that," or "I don't like that," with the occasional foray into "that might grow on me."
So idk. Do you think I'm crazy? do you agree? as my us history teacher used to say, comments? criticisms? witticisms? Or any other thoughts on these boys in this band?
Like really totally unexpectedly. I've been trying for the last twenty minutes to put my finger on even one way why so that I could make this post and sound even a little bit articulate, and then I decided to just start writing and see where that took me, but I still have nothing. Which is a problem for me being a music fandoms, really--my whole life, pretty much all I've had to say about music was either, "I like that," or "I don't like that," with the occasional foray into "that might grow on me."
So idk. Do you think I'm crazy? do you agree? as my us history teacher used to say, comments? criticisms? witticisms? Or any other thoughts on these boys in this band?
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I have the same problem. I just don't have the words to describe music adequately. It baffles me that people write coherent reviews of music because I just can't do it. Which feels weird, for someone who writes.
I'm guessing the band put some thought into which songs were going together on the CW releases, matching like to like as best as possible, but I'm getting the overall feeling that the CW tracks really are all over the place in theme and feel.
And how Zero Zero fits into the grand scheme...*hands* It feels more like CW1 than CW2 to me, but the beginning reminds me of CW2...*sigh*
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It's not the same for movies and books. Those I get from the get go. Movies because film is a visual medium so I can sit down and remember xyz scene. Books for the same reason (when we read, we're imagining, i.e. creating that visual in our head.)
Maybe it's just harder to do that with music? IDK.
In all truth, your idea of use Zero, Zero as the bridge between CW One and Two is quite brilliant. IMHO, it works because the song's tempo is definite slower and slightly poppier than Boy Division and Tomorrow's money. However, it's still got the 'tude from Gun. and (to a lesser degree) Ambulance.
Placing it in the middle like that has actually made Ambulance a more palatable song for me. Despite all of my repeat listens, I haven't warmed up to Ambulance. *hands*
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I think part of it for me is also that I cannot begin to understand how people write music. I am very moved by it at times, but its creation is a total mystery to me. how is it possible to hear something in your head that you've never heard before? or that you've heard but in a different order and a different context? i just don't get it. I have no visual imagination either. I'm a girl all about words.