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Wackd Since: May, 2009
#1: Sep 20th 2012 at 8:57:01 PM

Okay, how do I explain this?

Your listening to a song. It's a really good song. And you get to this small patch, not in the chorus, just kinda free-floating, that has a really distinct feel to it—like maybe, it belongs in a different song, but not in a sampling sort of way.

Erm...

Okay. "Two Tone Army" by the Toasters (most of you will probably know it better as the Kablam theme) is a really good but not exceptional song. It's a fun listen, but there's a few seconds around the 1:30 mark that really stuck with me, and felt like they should be in something big and epic-sounding, out of place but in a good way. I guess. Here, take a listen and see if you can tell what I'm talking about.

I get a similar feel from the opening piece of "Boots of Chinese Plastic", which is kinda eery for the first few seconds before becoming a more straightforward alt-rock song. Here's a link because YouTube markup hates underscores.

Anyone else get this? Am I explaining it well enough? Or am I just nuts?

edited 20th Sep '12 8:58:43 PM by Wackd

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#2: Sep 21st 2012 at 12:57:49 PM

You're not nuts. There are some bits of the Gladiator score that I want on heavy repeat, since they're suitably cool and climatic, although they don't jive with the song per se.

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#3: Sep 23rd 2012 at 11:09:13 AM

I more commonly experience the opposite; when an otherwise awesome song contains something that feels silly and out of place, to its detriment.

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0dd1 Just awesome like that from Nowhere Land Since: Sep, 2009
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#4: Sep 25th 2012 at 10:49:17 PM

@Kablam theme: Those few seconds you highlighted actually kind of sound like part of Muse's "Knights of Cydonia", around when the trumpets kick in.

edited 25th Sep '12 10:49:38 PM by 0dd1

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#5: Sep 26th 2012 at 7:51:39 AM

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