tyler
A Burden on Online Simpsons Fandom Since '13
when the big finish lives up to its expectation, there's little else like it. there's a certain bliss or transcendence to a closing track that knows its job, that knows what album its on and how to cap it in a way that seals it with a beautiful bow. i'm gonna periodically post my favorites in this thread, and i encourage you to do the same, with as much explanation or as little as you like.
no real better place to start for me. since i left you by the avalanches, my favorite album of all time, is an all-out party, a perrenial "summer" album, an eclectic score for the movie that is the euphoria in your lives should you invite it in, comprised of about fifteen billion samples, its a world no other album inhabits, and in its final moments, as its ship sails to shore and the party winds down, the record crackles out its last melodies. first comes a looped french vocal sample, one last taste of the albums wide array of vocal flavor which vividly elucidates its comprehensive adoration of musical expression, a world of embraced talent, spun down to its last heart cradling lullaby. then a gorgeous flute comes fluttering amidst stacatto strings of defiant beauty and whirling psychedelic textures that wrap the atmosphere like northern lights, gnarling and discombobulating in their final fervor before our final chorus. the opener of the album, naturally, is called "since i left you", and here we have a totally different sample of a looping "since the day i left you". the opener finds sheer joy in the freedom of "since i left you/i found a world so new", but here we get "but i just cant get you/since the day i left you", colored by refractory shudders of noises, final whistles and whispers as the sun sets. it is the final bittersweet vestiges of bliss as you know, thats it. party is over, the record is fading. until next time. listen to sily.
no real better place to start for me. since i left you by the avalanches, my favorite album of all time, is an all-out party, a perrenial "summer" album, an eclectic score for the movie that is the euphoria in your lives should you invite it in, comprised of about fifteen billion samples, its a world no other album inhabits, and in its final moments, as its ship sails to shore and the party winds down, the record crackles out its last melodies. first comes a looped french vocal sample, one last taste of the albums wide array of vocal flavor which vividly elucidates its comprehensive adoration of musical expression, a world of embraced talent, spun down to its last heart cradling lullaby. then a gorgeous flute comes fluttering amidst stacatto strings of defiant beauty and whirling psychedelic textures that wrap the atmosphere like northern lights, gnarling and discombobulating in their final fervor before our final chorus. the opener of the album, naturally, is called "since i left you", and here we have a totally different sample of a looping "since the day i left you". the opener finds sheer joy in the freedom of "since i left you/i found a world so new", but here we get "but i just cant get you/since the day i left you", colored by refractory shudders of noises, final whistles and whispers as the sun sets. it is the final bittersweet vestiges of bliss as you know, thats it. party is over, the record is fading. until next time. listen to sily.