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Post subject: Re: Song of the Moment: Hard to Imagine
Posted: Sat August 15, 2015 5:52 am
for those who are not...shall be
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august 24 2009 but sadly no body took a good enough camera to YouTube dafuck. I wasn't there but I've listened on line to rather sparkly other versions of this song, pete. don't cut or sell yourself short now
Post subject: Re: Song of the Moment: Hard to Imagine
Posted: Tue August 18, 2015 12:34 am
AnalLog
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knee tunes wrote:
august 24 2009 but sadly no body took a good enough camera to YouTube dafuck. I wasn't there but I've listened on line to rather sparkly other versions of this song, pete. don't cut or sell yourself short now
Post subject: Re: Song of the Moment: Hard to Imagine
Posted: Tue August 18, 2015 1:58 am
Commissioner
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matt reeder wrote:
knee tunes wrote:
august 24 2009 but sadly no body took a good enough camera to YouTube dafuck. I wasn't there but I've listened on line to rather sparkly other versions of this song, pete. don't cut or sell yourself short now
This is the best version of this song, period.
cutuphalfdead wrote:
pretty sure the best version was released on the chicago cab soundtrack
Post subject: Re: Song of the Moment: Hard to Imagine
Posted: Tue August 18, 2015 2:34 am
tl;dr
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 6:06 pm Posts: 8468
Lament wrote:
matt reeder wrote:
knee tunes wrote:
august 24 2009 but sadly no body took a good enough camera to YouTube dafuck. I wasn't there but I've listened on line to rather sparkly other versions of this song, pete. don't cut or sell yourself short now
This is the best version of this song, period.
cutuphalfdead wrote:
pretty sure the best version was released on the chicago cab soundtrack
I was there on 8-24-09 and am on Team Chud here.
Me too, but that was a good version. This song was done pretty consistently well during the '08-'09 era, something of a rarity in that sense -- though my favorite live versions are Gorge and Halifax '05.
Post subject: Re: Song of the Moment: Hard to Imagine
Posted: Tue August 18, 2015 12:50 pm
The worst
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I'm giving it 4 stars because I know it's a good song, but it's always felt slightly unfinished--almost like a demo. I can't quite like this song as much as I know I should.
Post subject: Re: Song of the Moment: Hard to Imagine
Posted: Tue August 18, 2015 4:52 pm
tl;dr
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 6:06 pm Posts: 8468
This song is like "Release" -- a gradual swell of static energy, like a rolling thunder off in the distance that rumbles deep a few times to make its presence known, then vanishes. By itself, it's tough to count it among the greats, but its functionality as catalog flavor wins it a few more points. It works, as many of their concert openers do, as a great tension-builder, before the cap comes off and all hell breaks loose.
And technically, it doesn't require much of the band -- the arrangement skews loose, and the vocals don't seem particularly challenging -- so it can be performed in concert seemingly at will with minimal risk of fuckup.
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