Let's Talk Binaural & Light Years

DangDang
DangDang Posts: 1,551
edited March 2011 in Words and Music...Communication
Holy motherballs batman!

I haven't just LISTENED to an album while doing nothing else--not even drive--in a long time.

What's up with this album? I was reading about binaural recordings, and the album seems to produce what I can best describe as an auditory path of music from left to right. Its more than just "in stereo". Its as if there are 10 or 11 different & distinct sources of sound that are spread & spaced out in this "path of music"

And they include so many sounds. During one song, I hear a "ting" just once & not again in the song or album. Its so varied its nutso.

And I had no idea the song light years was THAT awesome. It was always "background". I listened to the words for the first time the other day, and it was killing me so much.

I feared myself dead.

But its ok, I lived to tell about it.
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  • JonnyTree
    JonnyTree Posts: 3
    binaural is an epic album. i was actually just listening to it on the way home from work
  • Fight to get it back again
    Fight to get it back again Posts: 27
    DangDang wrote:

    And I had no idea the song light years was THAT awesome. It was always "background". I listened to the words for the first time the other day, and it was killing me so much.

    Wow...The first time I heard the opening drums and guitar of Light Years that became one of my "go-to" Binuaral songs. I'm really digging Insignificance lately, especially any live version.
  • dimitrispearljam
    dimitrispearljam Posts: 139,725
    great song....its amazing live and fafter that is NAIS...
    "...Dimitri...He talks to me...'.."The Ghost of Greece..".
    "..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
    “..That came up on the Pillow Case...This is for the Greek, With Our Apologies.....”
  • MarylandTeacher
    MarylandTeacher Posts: 233
    DangDang wrote:
    Holy motherballs batman!

    LOL
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  • sparticlesoup
    sparticlesoup Posts: 24
    i bought this album just after it came out, in early 2000, and, unlike their previous works, just couldn't get into it. when i went to see them perform in August of that year, i didn't really know the songs. the whole flow of Binaural was just different from everything they've done to that point. i don't know what it was. now, i listen to Binaural often, with all its crunch and "dirty" sounds, having been given a chance to make their proper journey throughout my head, which has taken several light years. i love it!
  • myra
    myra Posts: 1,257
    sparticlesoup wrote:
    i bought this album just after it came out, in early 2000, and, unlike their previous works, just couldn't get into it. when i went to see them perform in August of that year, i didn't really know the songs. the whole flow of Binaural was just different from everything they've done to that point. i don't know what it was. now, i listen to Binaural often, with all its crunch and "dirty" sounds, having been given a chance to make their proper journey throughout my head, which has taken several light years. i love it!


    I've read reviews for their work as a whole stating that Binaural and Riot Act were not as good as what they usually do.

    Couldn't believe it !!

    Yet I guess it's because it's harder to get into those two albums really.

    Binaural definately benefits from the time you take to listen to it from beginning to end, without interruption and without doing anything else meanwhile. It is so dense, with sounds coming from everywhere ! It does feel like a journey indeed.

    Then you can't help wondering : how could have I missed that in the first place ? :oops:
  • acrossssSsssshittt
    acrossssSsssshittt Posts: 1,014
    I get sad.. listening to Binaural
  • bigmattk11
    bigmattk11 Posts: 284
    Like many of us, I never gave Binaural a chance. After I saw them in Indy and they played "Insignificance", I thought I should give it a go. Most underrated PJ album. For the most part, I think that fans get it, but the critics don't. Binaural was an album of musical and lyrical artistry. Trying to get it on Vinyl, but it goes for $250 :cry:
    I got some if you need it.

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  • PilateOfTheStorm
    PilateOfTheStorm Posts: 4,319
    Binaural is amazing,
    the moods of that album, so intense, atmospheric, eerie yet beautiful

    i love it
  • themessenger
    themessenger Dallas Posts: 1,320
    I've listened to Binaural a lot more lately than I have in many many years. I think a handful of songs on there are some of their best ever (Insignificance, NAIS, Light Years, Thin Air, Grievance). The only songs on the album I never got into were God's Dice and Evacuation.

    The sound of the album is amazing, but others are correct it doesn't strike you at first, it takes many listens to it and then you really enjoy everything they put into it. I think I'll listen to it again today while I'm working. :P
  • tinkerbell
    tinkerbell New Zealand Posts: 2,161
    The best way to listen to Binaural is through good quality headphones from start to finish. Awesome!
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  • rollings
    rollings unknown Posts: 7,127
    with heavy breath
    awakened regret
    back pages and days alone that could have been spent
    together
    but we were
    miles apart
    every inch between us becomes light years now
  • BinauralJam
    BinauralJam Posts: 14,158
    It's the perfect PJ album to listen to early in the morning, on your commute to work, when your really hungover.
  • theserialthrilla
    theserialthrilla Posts: 15,760
    BinauralJam wrote:
    It's the perfect PJ album to listen to early in the morning, on your commute to work, when your really hungover.


    so you have the new Rpod :lol:

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  • drummerboy_73
    drummerboy_73 Las Vegas, NV Posts: 2,011
    tinkerbell wrote:
    The best way to listen to Binaural is through good quality headphones from start to finish. Awesome!

    Sure is...except when you lie down in bed at night with it on...and as you drift into sleep, "Writer's Block" kicks in and scares the bejeezus out of you!!!! :shock:
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  • slightofjeff
    slightofjeff Posts: 7,762
    Half Full wrote:
    with heavy breath
    awakened regret
    back pages and days alone that could have been spent
    together
    but we were
    miles apart
    every inch between us becomes light years now

    Those are the money lines. Basically says, make the most of your time together, kids, because there will come a day when at least one of you will be dead.

    And you will regret the time you didn't take advantage of.
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  • shinmasaliu
    shinmasaliu Posts: 36
    I honestly feel like I'm the only person on this planet who likes "God's Dice". Yeah I know.
    This is, this is ... my ... last exit.
  • dimitrispearljam
    dimitrispearljam Posts: 139,725
    shinmasaliu wrote:
    I honestly feel like I'm the only person on this planet who likes "God's Dice". Yeah I know.
    you think :D
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    "..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
    “..That came up on the Pillow Case...This is for the Greek, With Our Apologies.....”
  • drummerboy_73
    drummerboy_73 Las Vegas, NV Posts: 2,011
    shinmasaliu wrote:
    I honestly feel like I'm the only person on this planet who likes "God's Dice". Yeah I know.

    No way!!! I love it...such a blast to play on the drums!
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  • Loulou
    Loulou Adelaide Posts: 6,247
    I agree!!!! I liked playing it on my older bro's drums!!!! :D:D:D Lot's of fun! :D
    drummerboy_73 wrote:
    shinmasaliu wrote:
    I honestly feel like I'm the only person on this planet who likes "God's Dice". Yeah I know.

    No way!!! I love it...such a blast to play on the drums!
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