Brand New - Science Fiction (August 17, 2017) [ARCHIVED] Album • Page 656

I choose waterboarding.

 

She is interesting, and seems like a genuinely great person. Everything she's been about post-Scientology has been really cool.

 

We just rewatched all three Indy over the past month. Still love them.

Watching 'A New Hope' tonight. One of my favorites ever.

 

Are you aware of/have you seen the Despecialized versions of the OT?

 

Her Scientology show is so good. I love her. Fighting the good fight taking on that fraud of a religion. Spoiler alert it's a money grabbing cruel cult.

 

It's all we watch. I own the others and never watch um.

 

Haha, perfect.

 

lol yeah I was gonna "ftfy" and replace religion with cult but you did it for me

 

Sheeeesh you want me to pit my favorite Brand New songs against each other and then rank my top 10 movies of all time? This is one hell of a relationship that idk I can provide for.

 

if yall want a dope new album to listen to if you can pull yourself away from science fiction, listen to this

CCCLX by Lunice on Apple Music

 

I'm really starting to hear the record in 3 acts, easily divided into 4 tracks a piece.

Act 1 - lit me up- could never be heaven
3 out of these 4 songs are slow and none of them really get heavy at all. Can't get it out is the outlier here but still features a lot of acoustic guitar and a major key. This act introduces a lot of the themes of the record that will later return really setting up the record.

Act 2. Same logic- in the water
This is the heavy section of the record. While all of the songs are dynamic, they all feature heavier rock elements to the record. 3 out of 4 of these songs has epic solos and the guitars on same logic are punched up a ton for the chorus.

Act 3- desert- batter up-
The more experimental section of the record. Desert and no control seem to be related lyrically, I really like to see no control as the response to the son from desert. 451 is just a Nashville tinged blues rock song, pretty much unlike anything they've done before, and batter up concludes the entire record beautifully.

Idk just something I was thinking about last time I listened.

 

That's the Manchester Orchestra speaking through you. However it's a really good take

 

Happy Friday friends!

 

While we're on the top of Science Fiction I've actually never seen Close Encounters. The funny thing is I'm obsessed with UFO documentaries/theories etc. Might go see it in theater for my first time this weekend!

 

Top 15 off the top of my head, in no particular order.

The Shawshank Redemption
North by Northwest
Fight Club
Apocalypse Now
The Godfather II
Almost Famous
Up
Schindler's List
Groundhog Day
The Usual suspects
Pulp Fiction
Empire Strikes Back
Seven
The Big Lebowski
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest

 

Do it!

 

1. Spring Breakers

 

Piranha 3D

 

Thanks, you too! Any big plans for the weekend?

 

I have my son this weekend so spending lots of time with him for sure!

 

I actually thought about that, like we just got a 3 act record with the Manchester lp. But that feels more like a story and a concept fully thought out. I'm thinking of this more on musical tone, while there are lyrical elements that connect it. Also not saying it was done purposefully, but interesting that the 4 heaviest songs line up that way. And the first act really feels like a warmup, an introduction to this new sound.. and then the final act is like let's just combine everything we did in the first two acts and go for more of an experimental approach that really pushes our sound. I love it and I think it was executed really well. I'd be interested if any of this went into deciding the track listing, the opener and closer feel really deliberate.


Also let's say if desert and no control are related

Desert- represents maybe the more traditional gospel bluesy tone of the south

No control- the rock of the youth, the kid being made feel that they are rebelling for having no control over who they are as a person. Being made feel worthless by the character in the first song. This may be a stretch but the difference in tone between these songs is night and day and could
Represent the characters that are telling the story.

 

Blue Valentine
Rushmore
Half Nelson
Manchester By The Sea
Inside LLewyn Davis
Drive
Two Days, One Night
The Before Trilogy
Eternal Sunshine
It's A Wonderful Life
Garden State
Drinking Buddies
Lost In Translation
Blue Is The Warmest Colour
Mulholland Drive

No order besides the first two

 

Damn, just watched the trailers for Little Children and Take Shelter after seeing the love for them in here. Honestly never heard of these films before today, but they are now at the top of my "to watch" list.

 

Fantastic Mr Fox is the GOAT

 

Excited for my first road trip with Science Fiction. If I drive slow enough, I should be able to get 2 whole plays in.