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Old 03-30-2023, 11:13 AM   #31
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I wish Netphoria supported a poll where we could vote the 5 tracks we like on all 33 songs. Then we could see what shit sinks and what shit floats, and I could decide which tracks to listen to a 2nd time.

 
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Old 03-30-2023, 11:22 AM   #32
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is part III already out in full ?


I'll wait till then before chiming in.

but ATUM is decent. it'S got more guitar than CYR (which I didn't hate either)

 
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Old 03-30-2023, 11:48 AM   #33
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top 5: the time he had Butch on the thing and they talked about the Butch & Billy times, um and also that time recently he talked about fast food or something I think? no wait, that might have been a non-fast food item but he wanted to adopt it for Zuzu's. and also anytime he talked about the songs in a way that really made it seem like the dude was chilling and about to just unleash some good music he'd made with friends he reunited with, being goofy about the MCIS/Machina stuff 'cause he actually was playing a character, playing up to the MTV Billy Corgan who actually was grandiose and conceptual in a kinda fun way that poked fun at stadium 70s rock he loved or whatever, but actually backed it with sincere, intimate, beautiful, sometimes angry music

bottom 5: literally any combination of 5 songs released from this piece of shit

 
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Old 03-30-2023, 11:55 AM   #34
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The drums are heinous but Gold Mask is a good song. Wasted here, unfortunately.

 
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Old 03-30-2023, 11:56 AM   #35
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The only song I enjoyed was the title track. Helped in large part because it was an instrumental and I didn’t have to hear the way he sings now. Billy with his old voice is genuinely one of my favorite singers, too. A shame.

 
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Old 03-30-2023, 12:03 PM   #36
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The only song title I remember is Empires
lol
That's Empahs, thank you very much

 
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Old 03-30-2023, 01:09 PM   #37
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And yet you're arguing ATUM is pretty good?
Never said it’s pretty good, just said it’s better than cyr.

 
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Old 03-30-2023, 01:47 PM   #38
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I wish Netphoria supported a poll where we could vote the 5 tracks we like on all 33 songs. Then we could see what shit sinks and what shit floats, and I could decide which tracks to listen to a 2nd time.
we could technically do three 11-option multi-choice polls (thought I guess there's no guarantee we wouldn't get a few "slick willies" coming in and just checking all of them) then take the "winners" of that for a final consolidation poll or whatev

 
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Old 03-31-2023, 12:22 AM   #39
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Empah Empah something something Empahs Empanadas

 
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Old 03-31-2023, 12:03 PM   #40
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Favorites:
1. Atum
2. Beyond the Vale
3. Moss
4. Night Waves
5. Springtimes

Worst:
1. Embracer
2. Neophyte
3. Butterfly Suite
4. With Ado I Do
5. The Canary Trainer

 
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Old 04-03-2023, 04:20 AM   #41
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It finally happened that I got one of these song's hooks stuck in my head and I don't even know which one. "I could never" or something.

And Space Age is great - obv when I listen I'm imagining how it would sound in MCIS era.

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Old 04-03-2023, 02:51 PM   #42
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Best ones:

1) Embracer
2) Empires
3) Atum
4) Space Age
5) Where Rain Must Fall

 
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Old 04-03-2023, 03:11 PM   #43
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Space Age is one of the best for sure.

 
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Old 04-03-2023, 03:25 PM   #44
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Top 5 worst:

Atum: Act One
No. Title Length
1. "Atum" 3:32
2. "Butterfly Suite" 3:28
3. "The Good in Goodbye" 4:40
4. "Embracer" 3:39
5. "With Ado I Do" 2:52
6. "Hooligan" 3:05
7. "Steps in Time" 3:49
8. "Where Rain Must Fall" 4:15
9. "Beyond the Vale" 3:42
10. "Hooray!" 3:43
11. "The Gold Mask" 3:36
Total length: 40:21
Atum: Act Two
No. Title Length
1. "Avalanche" 5:42
2. "Empires" 3:10
3. "Neophyte" 4:16
4. "Moss" 2:59
5. "Night Waves" 2:53
6. "Space Age" 3:12
7. "Every Morning" 6:10
8. "To the Grays" 3:12
9. "Beguiled" 3:58
10. "The Culling" 4:30
11. "Springtimes" 4:01
Total length: 44:03
Atum: Act Three
No. Title Length
1. "Sojourner" 7:41
2. "That Which Animates the Spirit" 3:55
3. "The Canary Trainer" 3:57
4. "Pacer" 5:24
5. "In Lieu of Failure" 3:26
6. "Cenotaph" 3:04
7. "Harmageddon" 4:20
8. "Fireflies" 3:26
9. "Intergalactic" 8:58
10. "Spellbinding" 4:06
11. "Of Wings" 5:28
Total length: 53:45

 
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Old 04-05-2023, 02:06 PM   #45
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i don't know very well atum
but i like listening the most part of cyr the singing is more pleasant

 
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Old 04-05-2023, 03:40 PM   #46
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This is like asking me to rank the top 5 and bottom 5 shits I've taken this week. They're all smelly heaps.

 
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Old 04-05-2023, 05:00 PM   #47
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This is like asking me to rank the top 5 and bottom 5 shits I've taken this week. They're all smelly heaps.
Sure but you can definitely rank shits - some feel fucking GOOD, some just don't cut it.

 
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Old 04-05-2023, 06:41 PM   #48
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All the worst songs are the ones where Billy is performing on them

 
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Old 04-06-2023, 12:19 AM   #49
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No idea how you guys are remembering the names of one track to the next, I think I could roughly place about half of these by title at best
That was my initial reaction to the thread here - and that's coming from somebody who listens to the podcast weekly, too.

And while I think Paranoid's general thesis statement (essentially, "this ain't MCIS, get used to it - just be grateful we're getting anything from our guy and find some joy in it, people") makes a lot of sense and is my general attitude too - I think that even more than the relatively C- tier songs, the root issue is that we're getting is the staggered release issue confounded by the sheer NUMBER of these songs too.

There are SO many of them. And they are released a week apart in podcast 96kbps mp3 resolution then they show up in clumps on streaming services. So I haven't gone back and listened to "disc one" or "disc two" online. I think at this point I'll just wait for my vinyl and then try to make a concerted effort or two before it goes on the shelf.

I'm not sure that dumping them all online then doing the podcast would have been a better business model, but man - it's hard to remember which one of these things is which. Sure, songs like Empires and Harmageddon and Hooray stand out - but even the ones that I think "hey, this isn't another Cyr synth-y thing!" I couldn't tell you the name of.

And that's a bummer. Because it's not like I didn't want to like these songs, ya know?

 
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Old 04-06-2023, 02:34 AM   #50
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imagine being able to listen through this album an entire time, let alone the multiple repeat listens required to distinguish any of these songs from one another. i honestly can't make it past 15 seconds of any song, I feel like im in some sort of used car commercial.

i guess i do enjoy atum, but this track is just a rip off of the stranger things guys

 
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