Dance Gavin Dance - Artificial Selection (June 8, 2018) Album • Page 52

I reckon as of recently I think its the best Tillian release

 

It might be my second favorite Tilian release at this point

 

IG stands out hugely from the other Tilian records as far more straightforward/poppy and going for "fun" over complex or atmospheric. Def not my thing and it's easily the bottom for me. And I skip DoaS every time while everyone else lists it as a top DGD track, ha.

 

dont think so i barely remember it but it was like super early 2010 like february in st louis at a 400 cap maybe half full, couldve been all local openers or something

 

i mean the sksk tour mightve been when zac got the boot but that wouldve been just after this tour i think

 

SKSK was the best band do not @ me

 

hah found the ticket page for that show

Dance Gavin Dance - Tickets - The Firebird - Saint Louis, MO - February 1st, 2010

 

@Mandala I back this, they were dope

 

that snake devil song ruled hard

 

I always forget how loaded this album is but my list is identical. Shark, legend, and eagle are such a clear cut below the rest. I think because they’re all relatively close is why my mind kinda jumps to put IG last in the Tilian era.

 

Legend has some cool guitar work going on but I agree about Shark Dad and Eagle Vs Crows. Those are definitely my bottom two on the album

 

I love Shark and EvC. Shark's entire middle section with Jon is one of my favourite bits in their entire discography, and EvC is classic DGD silliness.

 

They didn’t outright say they were reuniting, but all 4 original members posted about the 10 year anniversary of the album and asked people if they thought they should get back together for it. I kid you not.

 

May I submit my favorite Jon lyrics ever, from The Cuddler.

"Talk about your feelings
I'm goin pitch black
Talk about my feelings
I don't wanna, fuck that
It don't believe me I mustn't whip that
Soft as the pillow is, ship this shit back

Stand up and notify the registry
I'm buying a house in a shit storm economy
Make love, I plagiarized the books I read
My infinite wisdom, belligerent at lightning speed
I'll go get the decider
I'll be the center divider
I could be more than just "Hey bro, listen."
I'll be claiming you flaggin
I'll be braggin I'm admin
I could fulfill the people's crave for pigskin

Small world syndrome, I can hear your criticism, buh- buh- bouncing off the base of my buttons
You bluffin
I could go get the biggest brick so you could break in
I could constrict the citizen to make a payment"

 

its that one type of night with the bright white ice pick

asses, asses, asses in battle

 

This is definitely a good one.

These are the parts from him that always stood out to me or that I just thought was creatively delivered vocally (sorry if it's a big post, hopefully you enjoy reading the wicked shit this man spouts):

Couldn't brace yourself in the morphine hallway
Lying on the ground with a heart as a ball and chain
Message to the bird, I know your wings will be fine
spread them on the floor, learn to heal with take time
Close the hatch and lock us inside

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Brace me, honey
I need friction
If I slur my words, correct my diction
It's not always fact or fiction
I made the plan, I'll make my own plan
Period, colon, grammar arsenal
I think we need some brand-new barstools
A new decor. Oh, man, that car's cool
I change the plan, I bought my own plan

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The first thing I say in the morning is "Fuck that shit."
People are offended and tired, so fuck that shit
I walk myself to my church service and ask for this:
Balance my brain chemicals, so I can give a shit

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Who has a plan?
We hold out our hands in hope for a free ride to successful endeavors

The weak are the liars, the strong think too much
I am too cynical to say I don't give a fuck

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And lately we should be making me
The best type of record for wasting please
Amazing bark is getting dark
You know that I know can ride the arc
And lately we should be making me
The present elect is a burning tree

And you know, that I know, that I can't be me
So I can be you, and well, you can be me

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What's it like to be a marble?
Did I get something in your eye?
She's a referee, and I'm lethally
Overdosed on pumpkin pie
Yes the future is mount delicious, son
But the leaf changes forms continuum
My destiny is calling me, it says
Jon Mess you should own a gun

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I blamed the fact of my division, so long in temporary places
The long lost pitch of your invention lay hidden bond inside its place
When something less will come together and solid walls will fall apart
So lately piece of mind is setting, when did the weather taste so tart?
Will running solve a contradiction of makeshift tomes and revelations?
The pious price of buying diction, a speech I never should have made

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Don’t be tardy for my leaky Barbie TV party pee in the park

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Yo, who proves to me to believe what you need without me?
Who proves to believe in me?
Yo, who proves to believe without me?
Don't believe that you're with me, just to believe
Just to, and just to, and just to, and just to believe
...
I blocked your three point shot, you get caught napping a lot
Your handles worse than Chris A. when he's high on pot
You're like an epileptic version of a ballet dancer
KG might say that you have cancer

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Sinus pressure getting older. I like weight upon my shoulders
Here I live inside this cd. Tell your friends he's super creepy
Weirded out a simple human
Confused by words? Arrange and move them
Into spaces, no apparent meaning
Eat this song your ears are greedy

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I don't really wanna be the bitch that gets its shit, bottles it
Deliberately swallows it. One less contestant life
They'll provide the documents to make believe you're gonna fit
Spend your time as militant, self-help perfection hype

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Take a sip from the drain
The flavor tastes like nothing
Or nothing tastes the same, cause nothing is never there
I know what I'm talking 'bout
I believe the words in my mouth
'Cause I can say that it was all just a metaphor

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Petting Zoo Justice. The whole thing.

 

I couldn't wait to tap into the brain of my cat and let him know he's my little baby meow meow boo

 

...C'mon Tilian

 

Ew

 

Make some $$ Till

 

How do Our Last Night manage to cover any song and make it sound exactly the same as their last cover?

Ugh this band sucks so bad, why Tilian

 

They actually have some decent original material (not great but okay), but at this point they’re such a gimmick band.

 

im all in favor of tilian getting the bag why do you think he did that slaves song that one time

 

how much money do you really think you can make with that?