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#21 Bosco   User is offline

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Posted 09 June 2010 - 4:31 AM

Soupey, I agree with just about everything you have just said. (especially the MGMT part)

But I think what's being misunderstood is, that Further's visual experience is just a group of "music videos". Which I can say, is certainly not the case. The videos don't distract you from the audio experience at all. They instead immerse you further ( see what i did there :cool: ) into the music.

And I'm not trying to take anything away from the music. Like I said before, normally, I would agree with you. But there is just certain occasions (this one) when two things combined are so good, you cant ignore the cohesive brilliance.

View Posttom_rowlands_chemical_chi, on 08 January 2003 - 8:53 PM, said:

This old man,
he play beats,
He don't need no music sheets,
but with a snip-snip-snippy-snip
gave his mop a chop,
Old man hairstyles are a flop.

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Posted 09 June 2010 - 4:45 AM

View PostThesouphead, on 09 June 2010 - 03:46 AM, said:

The very first time I heard MGMT's kids, I fell in love with the track..I mean, it was instantaneous for me and that is somewhat of a rarity. I listened to the track over and over and during those listens, I formed my own neural connections and I formed my own personal cognitive relationship with the music. Months and months later, I saw the video for said track and it didn't even come close to the visual beauty that I formed inside my head. It was so off-putting, that I thought to myself that if i had seen the video first, my love for the track wouldn't even be a fraction of what it was. Their decided visual element was horrible compared to the one my brain had created on it's own. Mine had an emotional linkage that involved the recent birth of my first kid while their visual had stupid aerobics and Kiss masks. ugh!


I signed up just to tell you that your an idiot because you didn't even watch the MGMT video, you watched the FAN VIDEO that everybody assumes to be the official video. THIS is the damn official video: http://www.youtube.c...h?v=fe4EK4HSPkI Granted in my opinion it sucks just as bad.

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Posted 09 June 2010 - 4:47 AM

View PostBosco, on 09 June 2010 - 06:31 AM, said:

The videos don't distract you from the audio experience at all. They instead immerse you further ( see what i did there :cool: ) into the music.



I don't doubt this at all my friend(s).


FYI...I could be one of the very few, if not the only person who has lectured a college class on the Chemical Brothers music being sequenced with the visual work of Adam Smith and Co.

I had live footage broadcast on a projector with the audio being pumped through Event studio monitors. The reactions were priceless!!!


































PRICELESS!!!

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Posted 09 June 2010 - 4:55 AM

View PostBoneho Chane, on 09 June 2010 - 06:45 AM, said:

I signed up just to tell you that your an idiot because you didn't even watch the MGMT video, you watched the FAN VIDEO that everybody assumes to be the official video. THIS is the damn official video: http://www.youtube.c...h?v=fe4EK4HSPkI Granted in my opinion it sucks just as bad.




Thanks for the info. Honestly.


..but my point still stands. With either video, the visual element alters my preconceived visual representation of the song. My personal, mental footage was better for me in that case.



ps- I found one of the unofficial versions of the Electric Feel video to be much better than the official version. They should have just had the Showbiz animatronics as teh whole video!!!!


http://www.youtube.c...h?v=MmZexg8sxyk
ehh

vs


yeah
http://www.youtube.c...h?v=MGWJbcTvL_M

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Posted 09 June 2010 - 5:01 AM

View PostThesouphead, on 08 June 2010 - 11:47 PM, said:

FYI...I could be one of the very few, if not the only person who has lectured a college class on the Chemical Brothers music being sequenced with the visual work of Adam Smith and Co.

I had live footage broadcast on a projector with the audio being pumped through Event studio monitors. The reactions were priceless!!!



Well, thats just full of win right there!

View Posttom_rowlands_chemical_chi, on 08 January 2003 - 8:53 PM, said:

This old man,
he play beats,
He don't need no music sheets,
but with a snip-snip-snippy-snip
gave his mop a chop,
Old man hairstyles are a flop.

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Posted 09 June 2010 - 5:32 AM

View PostThesouphead, on 09 June 2010 - 04:55 AM, said:

yeah
http://www.youtube.c...h?v=MGWJbcTvL_M


lmafo, i'm in full agreement with all of your points man haha. The same thing happened to me with Kids too. I didn't mean to sound assy before too, I really was just trying to get your attention is all.

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Posted 12 June 2010 - 6:45 PM

I find both audible/visual AND simply audible as maiden listens would be equally great.

obviously the mind can wander and conjure up all sorts of crazy shit when it has nothing to focus on except the music by itself,
though hearing that same music for the first time with a universal festival of colour and shape thrown at you is absolutely something else...

personally I chose to only listen the first time, then two hours later watched it with my friends and man, I am SO happy.

The same thing has happened with other albums important to me, hearing those songs years later for the hundred somethingth remind me of that very first listen, of being young and the feeling I got WHEN I first heard the music I love.

Hope everyone's first listens were special*





*like sex right?

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Posted 12 June 2010 - 6:59 PM

Wow, letittakeyoutothestars - I just want to say I've really been enjoying your posts, and I love reading the reactions you've had when listening to Further!
be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle

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Posted 13 June 2010 - 3:56 AM

View Postwhirlygirl, on 13 June 2010 - 04:59 AM, said:

Wow, letittakeyoutothestars - I just want to say I've really been enjoying your posts, and I love reading the reactions you've had when listening to Further!


thanks, this is the only place I can truly tell people how the album affected me.
I try telling folks at work etc who aren't huge chems fans about how insane it is, but they just nod and say "oh yeah, cool"

I love this community.
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