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Post subject: Re: Song of the Moment: Sleight of Hand
Posted: Fri September 29, 2023 6:18 am
likes rhythmic things that butt up against each other
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I greatly appreciate almost every song on Binaural but I can’t even articulate how much this one means to me so… just bumping this deep cut masterpiece.
Post subject: Re: Song of the Moment: Sleight of Hand
Posted: Fri September 29, 2023 9:46 am
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I just don't know with this one. It's unusual, surely. But I always felt like it's something unfinished. Like an early draft version of something unfinished.
Post subject: Re: Song of the Moment: Sleight of Hand
Posted: Fri September 29, 2023 10:26 am
Production Police
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Lounge Lizard wrote:
I just don't know with this one. It's unusual, surely. But I always felt like it's something unfinished. Like an early draft version of something unfinished.
I think my problem with this song is that after the spacey bridge, we just get another chorus, with no real uptick in emotion. It pushes the song from moving towards monotonous.
Post subject: Re: Song of the Moment: Sleight of Hand
Posted: Fri September 29, 2023 8:02 pm
The worst
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tragabigzanda wrote:
Lounge Lizard wrote:
I just don't know with this one. It's unusual, surely. But I always felt like it's something unfinished. Like an early draft version of something unfinished.
I think my problem with this song is that after the spacey bridge, we just get another chorus, with no real uptick in emotion. It pushes the song from moving towards monotonous.
This is where I'm at. Sleight of Hand is actually phenomenally successful at capturing a very particular mood - someone trapped in a roaring, monotonous space, almost suffocating in how expansively claustrophobic it is. There's a lot going on - but without any real emotional release at the end you have a song trying to capture the feel of enervating monotony sounding monotonous. Successful, but why would you want to visit that space. SoH doesn't help you escape from it.
Post subject: Re: Song of the Moment: Sleight of Hand
Posted: Fri September 29, 2023 8:34 pm
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Sleight of Hand > Soon Forget > Parting Ways is a fucking mad final 3 tracks. The idea of sandwiching 2 supremely emotional tracks around something as throwaway as SF is just classic PJ of that era. They just didn't give a flying fuck, the crazy bastards.
Post subject: Re: Song of the Moment: Sleight of Hand
Posted: Fri September 29, 2023 10:13 pm
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stip wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:
Lounge Lizard wrote:
I just don't know with this one. It's unusual, surely. But I always felt like it's something unfinished. Like an early draft version of something unfinished.
I think my problem with this song is that after the spacey bridge, we just get another chorus, with no real uptick in emotion. It pushes the song from moving towards monotonous.
This is where I'm at. Sleight of Hand is actually phenomenally successful at capturing a very particular mood - someone trapped in a roaring, monotonous space, almost suffocating in how expansively claustrophobic it is. There's a lot going on - but without any real emotional release at the end you have a song trying to capture the feel of enervating monotony sounding monotonous. Successful, but why would you want to visit that space. SoH doesn't help you escape from it.
Post subject: Re: Song of the Moment: Sleight of Hand
Posted: Fri September 29, 2023 10:50 pm
NYUCK NYUCK NYUCK
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 3:35 pm Posts: 32296 Location: Buenos Aires
That "I'll see you on the other side" and staying on that A chord during the last few bars (with all the extra wah and trem bar effects) give the song a satisfying sense of closure. Still I love how it just kind of meanders. Beautiful song, one of their best
Post subject: Re: Song of the Moment: Sleight of Hand
Posted: Fri September 29, 2023 11:21 pm
Production Police
Joined: Tue September 24, 2013 5:56 pm Posts: 47166 Location: In the oatmeal aisle wearing a Shellac shirt
I was thinking of that exact change when I first posted. Going off memory, I don’t think there’s extra wah/whammy, is there? Isn’t it just more prominent in the last moments because everyone else is winding down?
Post subject: Re: Song of the Moment: Sleight of Hand
Posted: Sat September 30, 2023 12:27 am
NYUCK NYUCK NYUCK
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 3:35 pm Posts: 32296 Location: Buenos Aires
I don't know and I can't listen now, but whether there actually are more guitar effects there or I'm remembering the illusion of more guitar effect facilitated by the arrangement, the result is the same. That nice buzzy resolution
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