mewithoutYou Band • Page 43

I can never decide but I figured out I don't have to. Legendary pair of albums.

 

It's close. In any case, it's one of the few albums where one can ask this question without it looking like complete hyperbole. So there's that.

 

I've been binging pale horses this weekend for some reason. So good though

 

Magic Lantern Days is still one of my favorite songs this band has done

 

NATURE HAD ANOTHER PLAN

 

Yea that song is so cool!

 

They repaired my fence, those bastards, I can't go back home no more.

 

In case anyone missed it the other day, it looks like they're writing the next release

 

I wanted to understand the language

 

Fuck yeah

 

Their last two albums have been stellar.

 

i'm in one Rickspeed Empire.

 

I think I understand the language..

They wrote 4 parts for a song A B C and D so like A may be a verse and B may be a chorus

C was probably originally a bridge but they moved it to the intro

so you have C (intro) A (Verse?) B (Chorus) B sub is an interlude of some sort I think
then A B again (space) is probably one of those parts on pale horses where we get like cool delay guitars and there is a lot of space in the music

D= outro so the song is ending.

3:27 is obviously the song length
the 8s at the bottom of the A-B language most likely stand for measures or times through a chord progression

the C = could be how they are grouping beats for each measure of that section.

Obviously I could be wrong but that is my take, and I have no idea why I spent 10 minutes analyzing it haha. I've always been a theory nerd so I really like taking song forms and seeing how people write music differently fascinates me.

 

In case people aren't on /r/mewithoutYou, check this out: My little sister made these for me, for my birthday. Thought I would share em with you fine folks. • r/mewithoutYou

 

The sub is also doing a charity raffle & the winner gets a copy of the mewithoutYou/Say Anything split 7"

Charity Raffle: Win a copy of the Say Anything/mewithoutYou Tour Split • r/mewithoutYou

 

The reading for bear's vision of St Agnes bums me out so much

 

Ill never forget the first time i realized what was actually happening in Bears Vision (which was my 2nd or 3rd listen probably) and how truly sad it was but also how sincerely entrenched into like, Christian philosophy and ideals it is. Like, sacrifice myself for my brother (or sister, is the fox female? i cant remember) so that they can be happy.

 

I literally just today understood the song and I'm like. In shambles. Like I keep thinking about it and nearly bursting into tears at how selfless bear is. I've been sick for days and my emotions are what they are but I'm pretty sure I'd be feeling the same way anyway

 

Wow just read about it on genius.. I will say that the annotations on there for mwy are incredible

 

Look how soon my hands won't move

 

Bear's Vision was also inspired by a story Aaron's friend told him called the Hungry Tigress. It's a Buddhist jataka tale (children's story).

Jataka Stories - The Story of a Tigeress

 

It's a pale horses sort of day for sure

 

The differences are so interesting to me. The original tale is so stripped of emotion, which is in itself a powerful thing because you understand the guru's sacrifice as a thing you just do, that charity is it's own reward or it's own end. But Aaron, idk maybe he didn't buy that or didn't think the audience would buy it, so he makes you care about these characters before going forth with the ending.

 

My girlfriend is analyzing the lyrics to Fox's Dream for an assignment in her philosophy class. I'm so proud.

Now I'm totally going to put on Ten Stories on the way to class tomorrow morning.

 

Would love to read that if she wouldn't mind sharing