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Henz Escapee

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Wanted to pad out the good stuff from Drones into an album length playlist. Liking this atm:

 

The Groove

Dead Inside

Drill Sergeant

Psycho

Fury

Reapers

Crying Shame

Mercy

Eternally Missed

The Handler

Glorious

The Globalist

 

Still carries the theme of lonliness and indoctrination, though it's admittedly less coherent. The added references to god works unexpectedly well.

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Combine the best of LPs 5 and 6 and then we can forget about some of the cheese:

 

Overture

Supremacy

Uprising

Panic Station

United States of Eurasia

Survival

Liquid State

MK Ultra

Animals

Redemption

Unnatural Selection

Isolated System

Supremacy

Animals

MK Ultra

Unnatural Selection

Liquid State (with regret)

Panic Station

I Belong To You

United States of Eurasia

Exogenesis

 

(Release Isolated System and Undisclosed Desires seperately)

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TheLionSlicer Escapee

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This is one for TR & T2L I like a lot. It might not be the "best" songs from the albums but it's fairly cohesive sounding.

 

Isolated System

Uprising

Resistance

Explorers

Animals

Unnatural Selection

MK Ultra

Follow Me

Overture

Cross-Pollination

Redemption

 

It makes me sad to leave out songs like Survival or Undisclosed Desires but I was going for flow more than anything else. Perhaps you could replace Follow Me with Survival but I'm not sure. I should try it

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MartianSpaghettiRider Escapee

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Wanted to pad out the good stuff from Drones into an album length playlist. Liking this atm:

 

The Groove

Dead Inside

Drill Sergeant

Psycho

Fury

Reapers

Crying Shame

Mercy

Eternally Missed

The Handler

Glorious

The Globalist

 

Still carries the theme of lonliness and indoctrination, though it's admittedly less coherent. The added references to god works unexpectedly well.

 

...But in terms of sound it isn't incoherent at all. I like it!

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For Drones:

Easily

Eternally Missed

Dead Inside

Psycho

The Groove

Reapers

The Handler

Mercy

[JFK] + Defector

Revolt

Crying Shame (The revolt collapses)

The Globalist + Drones

 

This is with me trying to keep the concept and trying to flesh it out a little. Spending a little more time on the relationship, and the dark parts.

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This is with me trying to keep the concept and trying to flesh it out a little. Spending a little more time on the relationship, and the dark parts.

 

Like the idea, here's my (way too extended) version:

 

Soaked

Easily

Supermassive

Dead Star

Map of the Problematique

Dead Inside

Psycho

The Small Print

Reapers

MK Ultra

Mercy

The Handler

Overture

Supremacy

Defector

Uprising

Revolt

Glorious

Redemption

Hoodoo

The Globalist

Drones

Take A Bow

 

I really like that last 5/6 song run (Glorious/Redemption - TAB). Flows well and tells a pretty sad story imo.

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Like the idea, here's my (way too extended) version:

 

I really like that last 5/6 song run (Glorious/Redemption - TAB). Flows well and tells a pretty sad story imo.

 

I really like the run from "The Small Print" to "The Handler." Also, looked up Soaked and am loving it. I don't think it's available anywhere except YouTube, which sucks.

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GodNeverPaid Escapee

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I've been thinking about Drones and about some subtle changes to the B-sides and original songs of the album to make it a bit different. Not a re-ordering, more like a re-design, though I think it could work, even without my changes.

 

Drones:

 

Part 1: Empathy loss

 

1. Dead Inside.

2. Drill Sergeant (Also, part of the marching from Intro of Abso will be playing.)

3. Psycho

4. Forced In - the beginning of the protagonist's indoctrination. (Ends with the marching from Intro and the MK Ultra keyboard-riff slowly fading out.)

 

Part II: Indoctrination

 

5. Reapers

6. Futurism - "A future turns us into silent gods, and I won't miss you at all, grounded,

boxed in, like the evil in your veins".

7. The Handler

8. Dead Star - The protagonist is in doubt but is helped by others to safety.

 

Part III: Liberation

 

9. The Groove - realizing his mistakes, the protagonist begins to revolt.

10. JFK

11. Defector

12. Glorious - victory over the tyranny and the glory of love is celebrated but it also foreshadows the protagonist's fall to corruption.

 

Part IV: Dystopia

 

13. Yes Please - the protagonist is haunted by the ideas of a new dictatorship.

14. The Globalist (Minus the last part. Instead goes into a distorted, looped message saying: "It's all over now.")

15. Hyper Chondriac Music - the protagonist is left sobbing at the eve of destruction, as he realizes that he became what he hated and that he was being used all along.

16. The Gallery - the empty aftermath (With journalists reporting mass destruction, heavy casualties and the end of the world.)

 

PS: In HCM, a good change of lyrics would be "space race" --> "space waste".

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MartianSpaghettiRider Escapee

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I've made a little The Resistance re-ordering/re-tracking, more particularly excluding Guiding Light and replacing it with Glorious. I personally think it bring the level much higher.

 

1. Resistance

2. Uprising

3. Undisclosed Desires

4. United States Of Eurasia ( C.D., with the jetfighter rumble fading out instead of merging with the next track)

5. MK Ultra

6. Unnatural Selection

7. I Belong To You

8. Glorious

9. The Exogenesis Symphony

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Shouldn't Glorious be with the synth-heavy songs at the start? Feels like this would work better:

 

Glorious

Resistance

Uprising

Undisclosed Desires

USoE

Unnatural Selection (slow piano ending of CD leading into the organ of US?)

MK Ultra

IBTY

Exogenesis

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Shouldn't Glorious be with the synth-heavy songs at the start? Feels like this would work better:

 

 

Unnatural Selection (slow piano ending of CD leading into the organ of US?)

 

Because Glorious in my opinion is brilliant and majestic to set the cosmical mood in anticipation for the Exogenesis Symphony. IBTY, (although I love it) isn't very suitable to do that if you exclude the Saint-Saëns' Samson and Delilah insert.

 

Your idea for the placement of US and its transition from USOE works better to be honest. Mine tries to create a sort of cohesiveness in terms of storyline, akin to Drones, due the nature of its inspiration (Orwell's 1984), not really in terms of sound.

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Zepp Escapee

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Imagine what BH&R could have been:

 

Take a Bow

Easily

Supermassive Black Hole

Map of the Problematique

Soaked

Starlight

Crying Shame

Assassin GOB

Exo-Politics

City of Delusion

Hoodoo

Knights of Cydonia + noise

Glorious

 

That could even be better than Origin and Abso.

 

Now The Resistance:

 

We Are The Universe

Uprising

MK Ultra

Helsinki Jam

Undisclosed Desires

United States of Eurasia

I Belong To You

Unnatural Selection

MK Jam

Resistance

Exogenesis

 

I've always liked the idea of having Resistance right before Exogenesis because of its atmospheric outro. That album would be amazing too.

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Imagine what BH&R could have been:

 

Take a Bow

Easily

Supermassive Black Hole

Map of the Problematique

Soaked

Starlight

Crying Shame

Assassin GOB

Exo-Politics

City of Delusion

Hoodoo

Knights of Cydonia noise

Glorious

 

That could even be better than Origin and Abso.

 

Now The Resistance:

 

We Are The Universe

Uprising

MK Ultra

Helsinki Jam

Undisclosed Desires

United States of Eurasia

I Belong To You

Unnatural Selection

MK Jam

Resistance

Exogenesis

 

I've always liked the idea of having Resistance right before Exogenesis because of its atmospheric outro. That album would be amazing too.

 

Regarding BHAR: I'd do it this way.

 

Take A Bow

MOP

Easily

SMBH

Invincible

Assassin (GOB)

City Of Delusion

Hoodoo

Knights Of Cydonia

Glorious

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For Black Holes I did:

Take a Bow

Supermassive Black Hole

Map of the Problematique

Easily

Exo-Politics

Glorious

Assassin (GOB)

City of Delusion

Hoodoo

Knights of Cydonia

 

Once you realize that Starlight needed to go this album becomes much better

 

Edit:

I've found I like this a little better

 

Take a Bow

Supermassive Black Hole

Map of the Problematique

Easily

Exo-Politics

Glorious

City of Delusion

Hoodoo

Assassin (GOB)

Knights of Cydonia

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