It’s weird that soundtrack work has been their most interesting stuff (and if we’re counting a certain remix of a track from Ken Burn’s Vietnam, most successful) lately but a straight up traditional nin song from a soundtrack isn’t really clicking.
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Not the Wendy Carlos Tron theme but they’re definitely working with some retro Switched on Bach/Clockwork Orange sounds
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I’ve been reading a bunch of Clive Barker short stories lately. A phrase stood out to me in one of them.
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The vocorder was the show’s MVP
Also appreciated that they played Hamburger Lady before the show started. Felt reassuring as the bro next to us in the “I love mentally unstable women” shirt was talking to us about Shinedown
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Also were the lights during Reptitle an explicit reference to the scene in Aliens where that main sample comes from with that scanning line thing?
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Even the video is reminding me of With Teeth in some way. Still think this is a pretty limp single. I have a low tolerance for Trent’s trite lyrics, but the lyrics feel especially trite on this one. Love the vocoder parts though. Even the yeah yeah yeah chorus is dumb in a fun and cool way.
Get this man to talk about anything other than pigs and infection, someone, please!
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i like this song specifically for the production and the C#-C-G-E (key of E minor) descending bassline under the hook, just love how that works out. first appears at 49 seconds in the tune.
kind of implying E dorian with the C#, then hitting the natural C gives it that bVI feeling and then just blues back home with a minor third down to the root. i actually kinda wish it didn’t resolve that to the root, or had an irregular phrase or something, the first semitone descension is just so goddamn striking and the minor third down is a little anticlimactic afterward
(the minor third makes sense with the loop since the first C# is also a minor third down from the E root)
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messing with it, i really think it could have been sick to land the bass on the minor third with that particular phrase C#-C-G#-G (*). it is already doing the major minor thing later where we’re resolving to E major at the end instead of minor so i’d just invert those earlier so you imply the major first before resolving to the minor and keep the semitone destabilizing going longer. then maybe make it an 8 chord loop instead of 4 chord and do the full resolution at the second time around
little less loopy. to be fair, it’s a good loop
* i think for most people this would make the song less of a banger but idk, i think the chorus a little topheavy (better in the first half of the four-chord loop) until the re-harmonization later on (but again, the first two chords have a much more interesting augmentation)
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saw them live in NY (“it’s…Tuesday night…”) last night and it was a lot of fun. i’ve seen NIN…i’m not sure how many times. probably at least 7 to 10 times, now, but i really appreciated what they brought to the performance with this one, and thought the use of the second little stage was pretty neat. also thought having Boys Noize basically lead their rendition of “Closer” was kind of a cute way to like, reach across the age gap, i suppose.
i think NIN manages to pull off more than being a nostalgia act, while still managing to tap into the core parts of why a lot of folks have come to see them play.
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Video looks like it’s using glitched out 3D photogrammetry. Didn’t Radiohead have a video like this a couple years back?
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Tron Ares soundtrack is up on youtube now. it’s aight
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Sooo is the new record technically a Disney release?
That’s some timing.
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Walt Disney Records officially on the label
very unfortunate
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Yeah, this is a score just using their band name. Faintly disappointing, you’ve got maybe like three actual songs on here.
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still have never seen a Tron
feel like every time i ask if it’s worth watching one, the answer is usually “meh…”
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Listening to Year Zero for no reason
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I wrote a pretty lengthy paper on Tron for a film class breaking down all its influences, from the use of a laser as a conduit as in CDs and laserdiscs, to Spartacus, to Surround.
It’s got Douglas Trumbull, Moebius, and Wendy Carlos behind it. It’s fun.
Just don’t go buying it or streaming it anytime soon.
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