Favorite track? Least favorite. Discuss all things ITAOTS
>>60280590
>>60280590
Oh Comely sick af
>>60280637
Agreed. A lot of people cite it as the worst on the album, but I think it's the most emotional track, and the lead singer really does well with his vocals here.
>>60280590
Least Favorite: Fool Probably. It's not even a bad song, it's just sad, even if it definitely adds to the story. As for adds to the album the least, Communist Daughter easily. It's only there to give you good feelings and have a space between Holland 1945 and Oh Comely. It helps the pacing, but that could've been filled by pretty much any track with lyrics that slightly allude to the themes of the album and doesn't have harder instrumentation.
Favorite: Ghost. The album builds itself up like an orgasm and Ghost is the climax, a climax so long and gushy that it spills over onto [untitled]/The Penny Arcade in California.
>>60280673
And again, one take.
>>60280704
My favorite is also Ghost, I love how it blends elements from previous songs together.
>>60280748
Really? I never knew that, but I believe it shows in the song now that I think about it.
>>60280776
And the guy at the end yelling "holy shit" was a dead giveaway
>>60280776
That's what the "HOLY SHIT!" at the end of the song is about. It's another band member in the studio yelling about how he did it in one take.
>>60280810
This is just a rumor. The person shouting is Robert Schneider and it's totally unrelated to the performance. He was watching a football game in another room and shouted at the television screen; the timing was purely coincidental.
>>60280891
Source?
>>60280891
>>60280810
>>60280776
Plus, Jeff obviously layered vocals post-recording. It couldn't have just been one take
>>60280949
If most of the song was recorded in one take, that's still impressive.
>>60280949
That's just on a few sections, though. The apocryphal bit about the "holy shit" is the only thing widely contended; it's pretty universally said that Jeff completed the main vocal line on Oh Comely in one try.
As always, this has to be posted when people talk about the "holy shit" thing. It's Scott shouting it. Source: ITAOTS 33 1/3 book and Rob Schneider himself.
http://e6townhall.com/showthread.php?6318-Ho-LY-SHIT&p=233437#post233437
>>60280927
Do you really think Jeff Mangum would reveal his face on this board?
