tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9602155.post3935793275790699466..comments2024-03-04T08:47:21.895-06:00Comments on The Nicsperiment: Brave Saint Saturn -- Anti-meridianThe Nicsperimenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08101227163387381013noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9602155.post-49226513172259786182012-02-01T22:27:41.245-06:002012-02-01T22:27:41.245-06:00Technically a "hidden track" should real...Technically a "hidden track" should really be hidden. Almost the only way to do it is to hide it BEFORE another track (so you have to scan back on the good ol' CD players, as they usually don't rip well, although you can -- and I have at one point before you could easily find such tracks on the internet -- use programs to rip hidden pre-tracks.) If it's after, it's just a really long track with something that comes after and will automatically play unless you turn it off (and face it, most of us are too lazy to turn it off these days, so it plays the extra track). "Shut up" is <i>technically</i> the only hidden track that I can think of on FIF's albums.<br /><br />"Far, Far Away" is a favorite on that album, too. The imagery in that song is more poetry than most poems achieve. I remember when they released the "teaser" for FIF2. A few friends and I were at a FIF concert and picked up the two-song teaser (with Reese's talking track). Heh, one of my friends and I left the opening band to go buy it and ended up not resisting sneaking out to listen to it in the car (he had the driver's car keys, as he had driven her car up). We left her in there with a couple others to save our spots, so she was a bit ticked when we came back in and told her we had already heard the songs (one that was cut from the album) in her car. Without her. ;~)<br /><br />I thought and thought about getting a FIF song, but I am still more strongly drawn to BS2. I went with "Daylight" after a lot of discussion with Neal.Jessicanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9602155.post-32591546221685677682012-01-25T08:40:34.231-06:002012-01-25T08:40:34.231-06:00You never know. Maybe everyone is thinking the sa...You never know. Maybe everyone is thinking the same thing about END! Or maybe they will add something crazy to the lyrics just to make each one stand out. I'd probly pick something from FIF2, just because it's my favorite...maybe "Spartan"...or "Farsighted"...or Eulogy...or get Jeff to write out "Car." Dang, that is a tought decision!<br />I'm glad we have a two-person BS2 consensus!<br />Is "Kingdom of the Dinosaurs" the only real hidden track?The Nicsperimenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08101227163387381013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9602155.post-57987313066176191562012-01-23T18:34:50.039-06:002012-01-23T18:34:50.039-06:00So I helped kickstart FIF (a couple times for diff...So I helped kickstart FIF (a couple times for different things), and I get any song by any band handwritten by someone in 5Fe. I have been torn between "Daylight," "These Frail Hands," "Invictus," and "Always Just Beneath the Dawn." (I'd do END and just be done with it, but I suspect they are going to get mighty tired of writing out that song.) AJBtD holds a very, very special place in my heart, because I can tear my heart out in many of the same ways: "If there is strength inside of me, it's you who put it there. And I concede that something stabbed and made you bleed, stole the light you once believed. Yet I still do." There's something fragile in this type of parental relationship: you have two fathers, and one doesn't believe in the other, but you hold both so dear, so beloved -- and you hope.<br /><br />There are a few songs on this album that I regularly skip if I'm going for the strong ones, so I do agree with your assessment of this album (all of the BS2 albums, actually).<br /><br />But don't forget the "hidden" track on this album that hints at more to come...maybe. ;~) (FIF and their unhidden hidden tracks carried over to BS2. Of course, 5Fe did have one truly hidden track, at least...eh?)Jessicanoreply@blogger.com