Re: Loads of Birds
 

not here it wont. i recommend buying the japanese release

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i think it's fine that it was an extra track on the japanese,

yes, its better than some of the slower instrumental tracks,
and of course ring road/boy boy boy..etc..

but its an average track for them..

later
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Re: Loads of Birds
 

Nice to see bits of LOB were used in the Sunshine OST. There's elements of it playing on the R2 DVD menu.

Re: Loads of Birds
 

i got my hands on this track back when this thread was first posted but i didn't really listen to it much or have anything to say about it. i had too many other tracks to catch up on and obsess over, so this one got back-burnered.

in hindsight, i wish i hadn't delayed. i pulled together a playlist i like to call "music for trains" (thank you eno) and this one made the cut. suddenly i find myself listening to it 6 or 7 times a day. every time i fire up the ol' ipod it's the first thing i select. it must have been a slow burn because it's fast become one of my absolute favorite songs. it's a very polydistortion/massive attack vibe.

hear hear.

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I think it fits nicely with the album. I have it last after Best Ever but that's probably not the best place for it.

As for ordering from Japan... what a pain in the ass that can be. Back when JAL came out, I did the whole buy-a-japanese-itunes-gift-card thing. Dis.as.ter. I managed to get the tracks onto my machine and listen to them. But suddenly one day, they were locked and I was told by my computer that I no longer have the rights to play this music and it shall remain locked. Can't burn it, copy it to the iPod, nor convert it to aiff etc.

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[COLOR=indigo]I love this song. It haunts me. It has a very dark feel to it. [/COLOR]
[COLOR=indigo]On the movie Sunshine, a version of it repeats throughout the film. I wish the version from the movie would be released some day, but that's another thread.[/COLOR]

With the Japanese iTunes stuff, I've had a similar problem. I also got locked out of songs I purchased. What I did was this:

In iTunes go to Edit->Preferences->Advanced->Importing.
From there I changed the "Import Using" to MP3 encoder and the "Setting" to "Higher Quality (192kbps)". You can set up the 4 checkboxes however.

I then went to my "Music" list and found the tracks that were locked. I right clicked on them and selected convert selection to MP3. Each one took about a minute to convert. When it was done, I was then able to play, burn and export the new MP3 to my iPod. I then deleted the original locked file I got from iTunes. It's convuluted, but it's a great way to use iTunes against itself to unlock the tracks you already paid for.

This may or not help, but it did work for me.

http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/1...estricknj1.png

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oh great tip! thanks!

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I think that re-encodes and loses some quality, sadly, but I agree - getting the music is better than not... even if it's slightly degraded.

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yeah after the excitement died down karl is actually pretty weak on this one and the whole thing sounds a bit cliche. the bitcrushing and "WAOWWAOW" is a nice effect but the strings and the rest pushed the 'cinematic' vibe of the album a bit too hard.

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Last time I tried this, it told me it couldn't recode it because it was drm locked. Itunes really sucks sometimes.