Album: On A Full Moon
Other Versions: None
Era: N/A
This song would go so awesomely behind the opening credits of a psychological thriller. It sounds kind of like it belongs on the soundtrack to some kind of Hitchcock movie. It's another testament to how well David manipulates emotions - this song scares the crap out of me. I refuse to listen to it in the dark.
About a minute and fifteen seconds in there's this high pitched plinky dealie that makes me jump EVERY TIME. I look like an idiot sitting at the computer, headphones on, minding my own business, and aaah! This is the musical equivalent of walking down a dark, deserted, silent hallway, no idea where the killer is but you don't hear any movement so you're calming down. There's a part where hits some low notes hard which is like, say, a rat running across your path. That plink is OH NO YOU SEE SOMETHING PEOPLE-SHAPED OUT OF THE CORNER OF YOUR EYE. The song picks up intensity, like you're walking faster because you KNOW you've just seen the killer. Then it slows back down near the end, you haven't seen any new movement and you feel okay about being in the hallway again.
And then it's over. No real conclusion, you're left to your own devices. Which is why I can't listen to this in the dark. When it's light in the room, I can pretend the song ends because I made it out of the hallway okay. When it's dark, that's when the killer snuck up behind me and BOOM knife in the back, oh no I'm dead.
This is a two minute song and I've formulated an entire horror movie around it. David is a motherfucking genius. That said, as cool as this song is, I have a hard time listening to it because it messes with my head. For its purpose it's excellent, because I assume freaking the listener out is what David intended. I'm just not a big fan of the purpose.
My Rating: 6/10
Alright, let's do a single from Have A Nice Day:
- Who Says You Can't Go Home?
- Have A Nice Day
5 comments:
Now I must hunt down that song. I feel the urge to listen to it - even though I know it'll scare the shit outta me. Nice Dave impression by the way. I vote WSYCGH.
HAND!!
Who Says You Can't Go Home!
Very good review! This is a tough one, but I'll vote for Have a Nice Day.
ok. I'll vote for HAND.
I read your slash stories. i think they're good but today I can't look at the band in the same way! jaja.
it's a joke. maybe tomorrow I'll forget the images in my head that your story produced. you're a good writer and the story about alec was the best.
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