One of SW’s best – I’ll never get tired of saying the same thing for most of his tracks because they are! I even posted this in A Collection of Great Depressing Music but thought it deserved its own little dedicated tidbit. I love this looming then apocalyptic dread and the lyrics; 21 days to the end of the world/consciousness shift/something important, never forget!
What seems so real today, will soon enough become The thing you’ve always craved, surely now I’ve become (the way I hear it: The fear you’ve always craved, will sure enough become — Wilson often makes his lyrics easy to mishear on purpose)
There I was sitting with Mordread, listening to music on Youtube, him playing Curiosity and me looking up stuff on SCP after we played the game (great idea and SCARY AS HELL, must look into it more — I know I’d never discover such a thing on my own) when I randomly click on a video that piqued my interest. Enter Diablo Swing Orchestra; can you imagine metal with trumpets and some cello ever sounding good? Well it does. A lot. A whole lot. This is a great discovery — once again, chance leads to things much greater than purposefully looking for new music!
24/3/2015 EDIT: Here once stood King Crimson – Epitaph
Listen… imagine people being manipulated, going through lives of enslavement, being tortured or dying of as a result of inequality, killing or allowing the future of their unborn to… Oh just listen and you can very well have depressing pictures of your very own. This is a post that wants to inspire you, OK?
Also, post your own collection of great depressing music. Let’s make a circle of artistic comradery in our silent expressional misery.
Do one thing everyday that scares you
Sing
Don’t be reckless with other people’s hearts,
don’t put up with people who are reckless with yours.
Floss
Don’t waste your time on jealousy;
sometimes you’re ahead, sometimes you’re behind…
the race is long, and in the end, it’s only with yourself.
Remember the compliments you receive, forget the insults;
if you succeed in doing this, tell me how.
… But trust me on the sunscreen.
No idea what the concept is (apart from “let’s sample aaaall of our musical instruments in a single montage — how neat!”), but I still like it! It’s addictive, actually.
While we’re at it… (no, I haven’t completed Portal 2’s co-op yet*hi-fives Mordread*… still addicted to this track from the OST though!)
Well, this time the blue moon just happened to be in August. Everyone started going bananas over how that one was going to be this August’s large moon, nevermind all the talk over whether it would actually be blue or not.
Just to make things clear at this point: August full moons aren’t larger than the rest of the year’s full moons, contrary to the widely believed fact (no less by yours truly until fairly recently) — the proximity cycle doesn’t coincide with the luminosity/phase cycle. In fact, it was only this May that the full moon happened to be the same day as that month’s perigee. Anyway, I digress.
Museums and archaeological sites were open for the night, couples everywhere were enjoying their romantic night out, people were outside cherishing their last days of summer wondering what was so special about this moon in particular.
In another realm, a digital one, the Scythian discovered the five sylvan sprites, fought with the Bright Moon Trigon, jammed along with Jim Guthrie, all the while feeling a hand guiding her actions. A hand belonging to a person who hadn’t had a gaming experience so moving and intense in quite some time.
If you ask me years from now what I was doing on this day of the blue moon, I’ll probably remember the Scythian’s adventures in the world of Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP under the bright moon of ambiguous actuality.
I find that this experience speaks tons about how much and how quickly our digital and our physical lives have already blended… and beyond a shadow of doubt will continue to do so to spectacular, terrible, unimaginable levels.
Spoilers ahead:
Jamming with Jim Guthrie, the game’s composer:
Battling the unimaginable geometry of the Bright Moon Trigon:
How’s this for change? Sitting for tens of hours at the computer working on the FINAL STRETCH in the middle of August is certainly beneficial to my musical escapades! Back to work…
Playing Bastion these slow, hot summer days nights. The day I was waiting for finally came, that is, the game to be on a ridiculous sale on the Steam summer sales: €5+ for the game and the soundtrack. What a steal. Almost as big of a steal as this song’s picking of my insides. Truly a great moment when it is first heard in-game.
