Line #19 YMMV/BetweenTheBuriedAndMe


1	* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic:
2	** While the self titled, ''The Silent Circus'', and ''Coma Ecliptic'' aren't no slouches, ''Alaska'', ''Colors'', and ''Parallax II'' are definitely big highlights in their music catalog.
3	** Songwise, it's everywhere, but "Selkies: The Endless Obsession" from ''Alaska'', "Mordecai" from ''The Silent Circus'', and "White Walls" from ''Colors'' are sited as prime examples.
4	** Even for the SeasonalRot looked album ''The Great Misdirect'', "Swim to the Moon" is considered a favorite.
5	* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The hoedown at the end of "Ants of the Sky."
6	** "Bloom". Dear god, "Bloom". [[spoiler: Prospect 1 sinks to the bottom of the sea, where his oxygen is removed and he's forced to dance by Queen Sea, the manifestation of the sea, gets his oxygen back, and floats back to the surface.]] Justified, though, in that it's a flashback to events that took place before the ''Parallax'' storyline began.
7	*** The song also features scat-singing done in HarshVocals for even more absurdity.
8	* BrokenBase:
9	** Primarily between the fans of their older, more uniformly metalcore sound on their eponymous debut album and ''The Silent Circus'' and the fans of the more progressive and experimental ''Colors'', ''The Great Misdirect'', ''Hypersleep Dialogues'' EP, and ''Future Sequence''. ''Alaska'' serves as a dividing line and is generally well-liked by both groups. Even the more prog-oriented section of the fanbase seems broken on ''The Great Misdirect'' in particular. Depending on who you ask, it's either one of their best albums or one of their worst.
10	** Their decision to only play songs from ''Colors'' onwards live also brought this about. Some people just saw it as a mere formality based on how little they've been playing earlier material to begin with, understood their reasoning, and had no problem with it, while others were ''pissed'' about it and saw it as a slap in the face to older fans (the band did clarify that "Selkies" wasn't going anywhere at the time, while "Mordecai" also continued to get some sporadic playtime). They quietly reversed this in the years following, including, in some cases, even digging up tracks from the self-titled ("More of Myself to Kill"), and their current stance seems to be that they're willing to throw bones to the older fans who grew up on those songs here and there.
11	** Fans have also been divided on the LighterAndSofter nature of ''Coma Ecliptic''. Some think it's a great album, while others miss the death metal freakouts from previous albums.
12	* EpicRiff: The jam in "Disease, Injury, Madness" has an AMAZING guitar riff driving it forward.
13	* FridgeBrilliance: The song title "Silent Flight Parliament" seems like a WordSaladTitle... until you remember that a group of owls is referred to as a parliament. And the Night Owls have managed to conceal their plans from humanity...
14	* GrowingTheBeard:
15	** '''TWICE'''. The self entitled was usual metalcore, but then ''The Silent Circus'' showcased the band's rather impressive MindScrew style in a more prog-like feel. And then was amped up perfectly with ''Alaska'' as well, shredding metalcore elements.
16	** For many fans, ''Colors'' provides either a third example of this or a case of EvenBetterSequel, though the division between those two tropes is often nebulous. Of course, it's not a universally held opinion by any means. In any case, ''Colors'' established many trends that continue on their records to this day and is pretty frequently considered the record that codified their SignatureStyle.
17	* HypeBacklash: ''Colors'' is becoming this for a ''very'' VocalMinority. The backlash on the album stems from the considered "peak" with ''The Parallax II'' and especially in regards to ''Alaska'', which they see as overshadowed by the praise ''Colors'' gets.
18	* ItsShortSoItSucks: Downplayed example, but the most common complaint regarding ''Automata'' is the short length of each half. The two records together are only 68:32 long (''Automata I'' is 35:17 and ''Automata II'' 33:15) and could easily have fit on a single CD. For comparison, their EP ''The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues'' was thirty minutes long. The ''music'' has overall been very well received, however; in fact, many fans consider it one of their best releases when taken as a whole.
19	* MemeticMutation:
20	** '''WOBSESSION!!!'''
21	** "btbam's suicide note" [[note]]A screenshot from an interview with Dustie Waring in regards to a "setlist" that mostly consisted of "Selkies: The Endless Obsession", an intermission of "Laser Speed" and an encore of "White Walls". Dustie went as far as to call it his "worst nightmare".[[/note]]
22	* SugarWiki/MostWonderfulSound:
23	** It's raining, It's raining, IT'S RAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIN!
24	** Tommy's clean vocals for some, especially how well he can do them.
25	** '''Any''' time a keyboard comes into play. When it isn't playing NightmareFuel at least.
26	** Paul Waggoner's vocals in the beginning of "Desert of Song".
27	** The slow bits in "Memory Palace".
28	* NightmareFuel:
29	** While not a pants pissing band, Between the Buried and Me ''does'' have some very creepy moments in their music, in particular Tommy's very chaotic and screechy vocals on ''The Silent Circus''.
30	** Both parts of "Lost Perfection" - complete '''MindScrew'''.
31	---> ''[[MonsterClown Clowns]] now appear''\
32	''They're carrying knives and jugs of gasoline''\
33	''Tonight is our death!''\
34	''[[MurderSuicide The clowns being to slash each other...]]''
35	** The concept of ''The Parallax'' is pretty terrifying in regards of ParanoiaFuel, considering the Night Owls have "worked from here, they have for centuries..."
36	** The music video for "The Coma Machine", again an example of the band's MindScrew elements: A man wakes up in a bed in a warehouse to find his own body in a hospital gurney as he's being monitored by a machine. The rest of the video goes into...weirdness, such as [[spoiler: [[NothingIsScarier a figure whose face causes the man to recoil in shock]], A noose which the man hangs the figure with, and the sole fact the man [[DrivenToSuicide kills himself]] by turning off the machine, causing himself to convulse in a creepy manner]].
37	** "Robotuner" off ''Alaska''. From Tommy's '''''loud as fuck scream''''' and the bizarre lyrics of robots destroying the world (or implied [[TakeThat to criticizing the media's destruction of music by popularity]]) with something like..:
38	--> '''''[[RageQuit FUCK THEM HARD! FUCK THEM HARD!]]'''''
39	* {{Narm}}:
40	** '''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Y3TQcp2t5s WOBSESSION.]]'''
41	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNhlC7Ic770 Between the Buried and Me in seven seconds.]]
42	** MOVE THE FLESH OVER THIS ROTTEN BONE ONE MORE DAY
43	** All of "The Ectopic Stroll".
44	** IDIDNAHTIDIDNAHTWANNAGOBACKIDIDNAHTWANTTAKEMEBACK. Especially when Tommy death growls it.
45	* SeasonalRot: ''The Great Misdirect'' often seems to get this treatment from the fans. Many thought the band set the bar too high with ''Colors'' and much of the album just sounded like leftovers from the ''Colors'' sessions, not offering anything new. This sentiment also extended to ''Hypersleep Dialogues'', which is generally regarded as being vastly weaker than ''Future Sequence''. The ''Automata'' albums are also not particularly well-regarded, and the general consensus is that they tried too hard to address the complaints some fans had about the LighterAndSofter turn on ''Coma Ecliptic'', and wound up releasing two very forgettable and unremarkable albums instead. Of course, ''The Great Misdirect'' and ''Hypersleep Dialogues'' both still have plenty of fans.
46	* SignatureSong: "Selkies: The Endless Obsession" and "White Walls". Zigzagged in that while they are their most famous and recognizable songs, their live appearances are becoming increasingly sparse and the band has made it very clear that they're sick of them.
47	* ToughActToFollow: The general consensus agrees that ''The Great Misdirect'' isn't a bad album, and actually has one of the band's best known songs (specifically "Swim to the Moon"). Same can be said with ''Coma Ecliptic'' which came after the ''incredibly'' hyped and praised ''The Parallax II: Future Sequence''. Ironically, this has been completely ''averted'' with ''Colors II'', which has managed to garner almost as much praise as the album it's a sequel to.
48	* TearJerker:
49	** They have several, but their cover of Music/CountingCrows' "Colorblind", which was ''already'' a TearJerker in its original version, particularly stands out. "Silent Flight Parliament" from ''The Parallax II: Future Sequence'' also qualifies, partially because of the DownerEnding and partially because of the music.
50	** "Desert of Song", [[BrokenBird Here...we...sing...sing with the fear...]]
51	** "Swim to the Moon", which is basically [[spoiler: [[DrivenToSuicide the suicide of Prospect 1]] which fails to begin with..]]
52	** The ending of ''Coma Ecliptic''.
53	* VindicatedByHistory: ''The Parallax II: Future Sequence'' was very polarizing upon release, being seen as either their best album since ''Colors'' or one of their worst albums and a further descent into the SeasonalRot started by ''The Great Misdirect''. But in the years since, reception towards it from the fans has been more positive, often seen as one of their most consistent and satisfying records and one of their most mature and fully realized works. It helps that the band have stood by it, and the decision to play the album in its entirety a second time in 2023 (a full ten years after the initial tour) to celebrate its 10th anniversary has certainly helped, with the initial tour for said album considered to be one of the band's best tours.
54	* WinBackTheCrowd: ''Colors II'' has overall been their best-received album since ''The Parallax II'', somehow decisively averting {{Sequelitis}} and ToughActToFollow.

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