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really, I'm not sure of an album which opens so weakly

breakerfall, gods dice, evacuation???

the third is hated by most (though I like it NOW), the first just doesn't sound good on a stereo, nor are the lyrics that interesting, and the second lacks distinction

i remember being home visiting my parents for their anniversary the day before it came out, spent the night, and on my way back to my dorm room, i picked it up right outside my parents subdivision and tried jamming it on the way...and it just blew.


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I'd take binaural first 3 songs over s/t's ones any day

but they say I'm nuts, so go figure

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I'd take binaural first 3 songs over s/t's ones any day

but they say I'm nuts, so go figure


wow.

so for you:

breakerfall > life wasted
god's dice > wws
evacuation > comatose rapture


I'm with the consensus that thinks you're nuts, but to each his own in this wonderful democracy


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I'd take binaural first 3 songs over s/t's ones any day

but they say I'm nuts, so go figure


can I postulate about you?

you don't like sleater-kinney AT ALL, right?


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Binaural has a horrible start to it, thank God it picks up the pace when Light Years come on.

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Isaac Turner wrote:
BadMusic wrote:
I'd take binaural first 3 songs over s/t's ones any day

but they say I'm nuts, so go figure


wow.

so for you:

breakerfall > life wasted
god's dice > wws
evacuation > comatose rapture


I'm with the consensus that thinks you're nuts, but to each his own in this wonderful democracy


It's more a superiority of the whole series than just song against song
basically I hate Life Wasted, and WWS/Comatose are just okay

and I love God's Dice

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I'd take binaural first 3 songs over s/t's ones any day

but they say I'm nuts, so go figure


can I postulate about you?

you don't like sleater-kinney AT ALL, right?


I've never listened to them, then I don't know

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Evac. just sucks.
The first two just needed to longer. I like both songs but I feel just as the song gains momentum...they are done.
So I pretty much count Breakherfall and God's Dice as one song, then skip onto Thin Air.
Binaural is still number two over all.


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I love the opening 3 of Binaural. But they don't compare to the opening 4 of Vitalogy, or the opening 2 of Vs.

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if you'd just play we the first 3 tracks of each album, i'd agree.

however these first 3 tracks are essential in forming the complete awesomeness that is Binaural.


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im sick of people saying that they dont like a certain song on binaural or binaural as a whole because it doesnt sound good in stereo. Newsflash, its not supposed to, hense the name. Listen with headphones and rock out. Thanks.

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im sick of people saying that they dont like a certain song on binaural or binaural as a whole because it doesnt sound good in stereo. Newsflash, its not supposed to, hense the name. Listen with headphones and rock out. Thanks.


I should try that, but I'm afraid I'd love the album too much then

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this should be in the Binaural thread..

yes, Binaural with headphones is bliss

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im sick of people saying that they dont like a certain song on binaural or binaural as a whole because it doesnt sound good in stereo. Newsflash, its not supposed to, hense the name. Listen with headphones and rock out. Thanks.


i'm sick of people saying they are sick of peoole for hating on a record that is one of the band's least impressive overall, and that's not considering what they left out nor how they sequenced the stupid thing. good experiment? why was it remixed by a different engineer to cover some of the tracks. other albums by tchad sound a lot better on a stereo, why does this one not? divergent opinions are welcome.


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I used to love Breakerfall (when the album came out and during that tour). But it's since fallen out of my favor, and I have never liked GD or Evac at all. Weak opening to my least favorite album.


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I don't think I follow the stereo vs. headphones comparison.
What is the difference? I always thought stereo speakers would be the best option because the sound is better. Maybe I say that because I have $5 earbud things from Wal-mart.
I dunno.


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Bo Jackson wrote:
I don't think I follow the stereo vs. headphones comparison.
What is the difference? I always thought stereo speakers would be the best option because the sound is better. Maybe I say that because I have $5 earbud things from Wal-mart.
I dunno.


the the technique the album was recorded, not entirely coincidently called, this is called binaural recordings, is best captured with headphones on.


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conoalias wrote:
Bo Jackson wrote:
I don't think I follow the stereo vs. headphones comparison.
What is the difference? I always thought stereo speakers would be the best option because the sound is better. Maybe I say that because I have $5 earbud things from Wal-mart.
I dunno.


the the technique the album was recorded, not entirely coincidently called, this is called binaural recordings, is best captured with headphones on.


Really? News to me, I'll have to check that out this weekend. This is exactly whey I joined this little forum.
Thanks Butters!


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Bo Jackson wrote:
conoalias wrote:
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I don't think I follow the stereo vs. headphones comparison.
What is the difference? I always thought stereo speakers would be the best option because the sound is better. Maybe I say that because I have $5 earbud things from Wal-mart.
I dunno.


the the technique the album was recorded, not entirely coincidently called, this is called binaural recordings, is best captured with headphones on.


Really? News to me, I'll have to check that out this weekend. This is exactly whey I joined this little forum.
Thanks Butters!


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binaural_%28album%29
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Several tracks on Binaural were recorded using binaural recording techniques, hence the title. These can usually be identified by a warm sound to the music, such as the acoustic "Of The Girl" as well as an asterisk next to the name on the track list.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binaural_recording
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Binaural recording is a method of recording audio which uses a special microphone arrangement. Dummy head recording refers to a specific method of capturing the audio, generally using a bust.

The term "binaural" has often been confused as a synonym for the word "stereo", and this is partially due to a large amount of misuse in the mid-1950s by the recording industry, as a marketing buzzword. When played through headphones, binaural recordings can reproduce the auditory sensation of being present at the recording location much better than conventional recordings either through headphones or loudspeakers. Conventional stereo recordings do not factor in natural crossfeed or sonic shaping of the head and ear, since these things happen naturally as a person listens, generating his own ITDs (interaural time differences) and ILDs (interaural level differences).


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Bo Jackson wrote:
conoalias wrote:
Bo Jackson wrote:
I don't think I follow the stereo vs. headphones comparison.
What is the difference? I always thought stereo speakers would be the best option because the sound is better. Maybe I say that because I have $5 earbud things from Wal-mart.
I dunno.


the the technique the album was recorded, not entirely coincidently called, this is called binaural recordings, is best captured with headphones on.


Really? News to me, I'll have to check that out this weekend. This is exactly whey I joined this little forum.
Thanks Butters!


you may come back a different man. it's enlightening if you have a good pair of headphones. you'll hear things you've never heard before.


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