Manchester Orchestra - A Black Mile to the Surface (July 28, 2017) Album • Page 85

Favorite MO songs:

Where Have You Been?
Shake It Out
I've Got Friends
Pride
I Can Feel a Hot One
April Fool
Simple Math
Leave It Alone
Girl Harbor
The Alien

 

Probably should go to bed instead of watching live andy hull/mo videos

 

Colly Strings
The River
Pride
Deer
Shake It Out
I Can Feel A Hot One
Where Have You Been?
Simple Math
The Mansion (Hope)
Escape (Cover)

 

Pride
Top Notch
Where Have You Been?
Cope (Hope version)
Mighty
Shake It Out
Simple Math
After The Scripture
Deer
The Gold

 

I Can Barely Breathe
Colly Strings
Where Have You Been?
Pride
The River
Sleeper, 1972
Shake It Out
Golden Ticket
Alice And Interiors
Every Stone (Hope)

 

Was hoping we would get a video with this one! Damn

 

Looks like The Moth is the third and final single. I had a hunch The Wolf would be a single because they used parts of it in promos. I wonder when and where we will see the other two Daniels videos I've heard about.

 

The more I listen to this song the more I love it

 

Top 10 MO: (no order)

Where Have You Been (although I agree with others, the live version has absolutely ruined the album version for me)
I Can Barely Breathe
After the Scripture
I can feel a hot one
Shake it Out
Everything to Nothing
Leave it Alone
Pensacola
Every Stone
Trees

Top 10 RAGC (no order)

I Was a Cage
Like Lions Do
What a Pity
I Am A Vampire
Memories from a Shore
Love, Come and Save Me
Right Ahead, Young Sailor
I'm Not Ready to Forgive You
Blame
Down to Your Soul

Bad Books (no order)

You're a Mirror I cannot avoid
You Wouldn't Have to Ask
Please Move
Forrest Whitaker
It Never Stops
Pytor
Petitie Mort
42
Mesa, Arizona
Ambivalent Peaks

 

this is awesome.

 

Really, really good song

Golden ticket
Where have you been
In my teeth
Apprehension
I can barely breathe
Everything to nothing
The river
Colly strings
Deer
Sleeper 1972

 

Moth is so fucking cool.

 

Where Have You Been?
I Can Barely Breathe
Pride
Everything to Nothing
The River
Pensacola
Simple Math
Girl Harbor (HOPE)
Every Stone
See it Again
Cope

also, we need a live album from them. i love the recorded version of I Can Barely Breathe, but that song is absolutely next level live, easily my favorite.

 

Love this song a lot

 

RAGC:
Rotten Black Root
Blame
Love, Come And Save Me
I Was A Cage
When I met Death
Right Away, Great Captain!
I'm Not Ready To Forgive You
Oh No, I Tried
Father Brian Finn
I Was A Cage

BB:
Pyotr
It Never Stops
42
The After Party
You're a Mirror I Can Not Avoid




So, I talked to a co-worker of mine and he said The Moth was in 3/4 time signature and it wasn't actually polyrythmic but that it could sound very similar due to the different chord changes and the wonkiness of it. He has a masters in Music theory.

He could be wrong as he only listened to the first 30 seconds. And I have absolutely no idea. Thoughts?

 

Technically they are right but.

The song is in 3/4. The snare drum is playing in 2.. which means it accents beat 2 in a measure and beats one and three in the other measure. The bass and bass drum is accenting beat 1 and the the and of beat 2 which also gives a 6/8 feel. So you have a 3/4 feel and a 6/8 feel on top each other. These time signatures are essentially the same thing but they have different feels. So yea technically it's all the same but for me what's interesting is the song is in 3/4, the snare is in two, and the bass drum has a 6/8 feel. I too have a masters degree in classical performance though.

I've literally played pieces where the time signature will say both 3/4 and 6/8 haha they are the same things but they are counted differently and have a different feel. When he 1 and the and of 2 are accented it's more of a 6/8 feel but when the quarter notes are accents it's more of a 3/4 feel.

#theorytimewithteebs

 

I remember about a while before COPE came out their was a live rip floating around from I believe House of Blues California. It was a professionally recorded show and it was super great quality. I downloaded it and it was awesome and for whatever reasons, my iTunes deleted it (along with a bunch of other albums I had downloaded for free). But it had a bunch of COPE songs on it before COPE was released (Every Stone, After the Scripture, The Ocean, Cope) and then of course the usuals.

 

LOL man so many late nights with this same realization at 2:30 am.

 

I. CANT. STOP. LISTENING. TO. THE. MOTH

 

im not super into any of the 3 songs released.. guess this one wont be for me :(

 

I would still suggest giving the whole album a listen front to back even if you don't like the singles, everything works better together on this.

 

Man that part after the chorus when the music cuts out for a second is so great.

 

Out of curiosity, was the piece conducted? If so, did they conduct in 2 or in 3?

 

when i've played pieces like that, the conductor often changes their pattern for different measures either based on the feel of those particular measures, or that they want to more closely align with the rhythm of a particular instrument group

 

Solo classical guitar piece. Wasn't conducted