NOTE FROM THE FUTURE (11/7/2019): Holy fucking what, i never finished writing the liner notes last year? Goddammit. Well...i'm just gonna publish it as is, and maybe try to write something else later? I have been very bad at keeping up with the PAC for the last three years.
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It's that time of year again, actually slightly past that time of year, when i shout at length into the formless void of the internet about why i picked these specific songs to commit to archaic media and burden my friends with! Let's get started.
This is the first time i have ever pursued a specific structure with the song order, i find it incredibly pleasurable. Others...may find it jarring. Sorry? But only a little.
1. Mogwai - Ratts of the Capital
There's so much instrumental music on the comp this year. This is the only one of those songs that is not synthwave. I've really moved away from lyrics and vocals this year, which may have been foreshadowed last year a bit, but still is kind of surprising since i've long maintained that those are the most important bits of a song. The big problem with listening to so much instrumental music is that, without lyrics, it's essentially impossible to google a song if you don't know what it is. I spent so much time with just one of this track's massive guitar riffs stuck in my head between 2017-18 and i just could. not. figure out what the hell it was; i eventually had to make a Facebook post and try my best to describe it. It went...as well as could be expected.
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It's that time of year again, actually slightly past that time of year, when i shout at length into the formless void of the internet about why i picked these specific songs to commit to archaic media and burden my friends with! Let's get started.
This is the first time i have ever pursued a specific structure with the song order, i find it incredibly pleasurable. Others...may find it jarring. Sorry? But only a little.
1. Mogwai - Ratts of the Capital
There's so much instrumental music on the comp this year. This is the only one of those songs that is not synthwave. I've really moved away from lyrics and vocals this year, which may have been foreshadowed last year a bit, but still is kind of surprising since i've long maintained that those are the most important bits of a song. The big problem with listening to so much instrumental music is that, without lyrics, it's essentially impossible to google a song if you don't know what it is. I spent so much time with just one of this track's massive guitar riffs stuck in my head between 2017-18 and i just could. not. figure out what the hell it was; i eventually had to make a Facebook post and try my best to describe it. It went...as well as could be expected.
That post was originally made on October 20, 2017. I had hoped to find the song in time to include it on PAC2017, and was convinced it was by either Russian Circles or Pelican. The date i made my last comment, that i fucking finally found the song? March 3, 2018.
So now i had the song, and i found out it was over eight minutes long. That would be the longest song ever included, and would probably take the total track count for Poor-Ass Christmas down by one or two or three songs from average. In years past i would never have considered such a thing. This year? Fuck it, opening track.
Before we move on, here's an only barely-related image i made several years ago of Amanda's face on a mogwai:
2. Dance With the Dead - Tales from the Boneyard
I really can't overstate how important the band Dance With the Dead has been to me this year.
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