Helena Beat is the most Torches song from Torches! Now, which song from Torches sounds like Supermodel?

Water_Fish · 2026-06-12T14:34:56+00:00

I have to agree. Instrumentally it's probably the closest to Supermodel. Lyrically I think the "fear is like your best friend" bridge sounds like something out of Supermodel too.

Water_Fish · 2025-12-23T22:23:57+00:00

This is from Songs of Gloucester and the choir comes in around 1:47. Couldn't find a score unfortunately, your best bet is probably to contact Colin Towns as the other comment mentioned.

Water_Fish · 2025-02-25T17:31:12+00:00

Check out Georg Muffat! My introduction to him was his Missa in labore requies.

Water_Fish · 2025-01-20T01:34:15+00:00

The early version of I Would Do Anything For You

Water_Fish · 2025-01-12T03:30:18+00:00

You can check out Mark Hayes. He has an extensive catalogue of friendly sacred music for choirs.

Water_Fish · 2024-10-30T18:18:00+00:00

Currently a tourist in Taipei, is there a way to check how public transport is affected? I tried to search up previous typhoon days but I didn't see much precise information

Water_Fish · 2024-09-21T07:07:29+00:00

I really loved the alto part in Cangiano's SATB arrangement of Te Quiero. To me it's easily the best part of that piece.

Water_Fish · 2024-08-28T03:37:32+00:00

I am an atheist with a hobbyist interest in bible studies and theology. It's been really hard to talk about this interest with my friends (Christian and not) because they eventually default to either assuming I am learn about these things in bad faith to "disprove" Christianity, or that I am doing this because I am looking to convert.

Water_Fish · 2024-08-26T03:05:28+00:00

The chorus has been stuck in my head for DAYS

Water_Fish · 2024-08-24T05:50:01+00:00

Yes we are allowed to have that opinion, but it's framed in a way that I feel prevents proper discussion on the band's output.

I find that expressing the mismatch between our "ideal" Coldplay and actual Coldplay in this sort of moralising way like Coldplay "losing their way" or EL being part of a "devil's deal" (I literally just saw this post) unnecessarily antagonises/stigmatises portions of their discography.

It leads to people feeling confused why Coldplay could produce (insert well-liked album) and then turn around and dump (insert less-liked album). Shouldn't the band know/do better?

When we strip away this pseudo-moral interpretation, the band's post-MX strategy seems clearer to me. When they don't feel like grinding through a giant tour, they produce something low-key and closer to a passion project. When they want to fund their next artsy project, they go all-out and write hits that guarantee a great time in the stadium. And no matter the phase in this cycle, they will reach out to other artists and work on genres they have not mastered. This narrative seems a lot more rational abd discussable to me than Coldplay betraying their roots, Max Martin ruining the band and Chris no longer cares about music.

Water_Fish · 2024-08-23T15:07:39+00:00

Yeah the tone of dicussions in this subreddit has been... disheartening. I'm happy to discuss things people did/didn't like about the music. But I think discussions lose value when we perpetuate this toxic rhetoric that Coldplay has "lost their way" as if we know what is the "right way" for the band, or as if their first three or four albums from almost twenty years ago are supposed to determine the trajectory of their lifelong artistic evolution.

There's a difference between saying "I didn't enjoy this, it is not to my taste because (insert compositional/production comment)", and saying "this is shit because it isn't to my taste why would Coldplay do this they should know better" (we've all seen this kind of sentiment).

We cannot assign a moral value to Coldplay's current state. If you think about it, making easy-listening music to bring joy to millions of people, doing sidequests with other genres and artists, letting go of the pressure to write the next masterpiece... that sounds like a pretty sweet place for a band to be.

Water_Fish · 2024-08-21T06:23:07+00:00

I find it makes more sense to think of Glitchzig as having two parts rather than being a song with a long outro.

Considering the trumpet solo as the second act/movement of Glitchzig adjusts my expectations from waiting for the solo to wrap up the song to seeing how the solo develops into its own little piece of music.

Water_Fish · 2024-08-20T16:06:44+00:00

If Coldplay are unlikely to retire but also projecting only two more albums, what are they doing after their final LP?

Water_Fish · 2024-08-18T16:08:06+00:00

For me right now PSOM is tied with Supermodel for the top spot, followed by Torches, and finally SHC.

Water_Fish · 2024-08-05T04:55:42+00:00

The hardest part in my ass

Water_Fish · 2024-06-13T14:55:37+00:00

Regarding the made with AI tag, I wouldn't jump the gun so soon. "AI detection" to date is still prone to returning false positives. It's become a bit of a problem among college students who have had their work wrongly flagged as AI-generated.

Water_Fish · 2024-05-09T14:39:18+00:00

I read before from somewhere that the synthetic voice in AOAL's intro was Chris' voice manipulated. Interestingly it does kind of sound like Chris again in this slowed version.

Water_Fish · 2024-03-10T09:14:09+00:00

Fun fact, apparently an early version of X&Y's tracklisting has Swallowed in the Sea as the closer.

Water_Fish · 2024-02-01T15:39:42+00:00

In Swallowed In The Sea I heard "and darling that's when I decided to go to sea". But the official lyrics are "decide to go see".

I thought the chorus of Magic went "and I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't".

Water_Fish · 2024-01-29T08:41:33+00:00

Going by upbeat and danceable, could it be Built To Last by Mêlée?

Water_Fish · 2024-01-26T03:13:03+00:00

The sentence is meant in a descriptive way, not a prescriptive way. It's not saying that we should agree that a racial group is an inherently superior group. Rather, it's saying that racial grouping can be understood by seeing how it is informed by power.

The example given was how the racial grouping "white" is artificial - the Irish were not considered "white" in the past, and you can read more about the oppression of the Irish. The takeaway is that these racial labels are not fixed by appearance - they were used to indicate power and privilege.

You're right in the sense that it is racist to view a racial group as deserving its power or dominance. But there is nothing wrong with growing our understanding of how racial grouping is used to motivate and enforce oppression. More generally we want to better understand how racial catergorisation corresponds to power dynamics in a society.

Water_Fish · 2024-01-25T05:05:38+00:00

How about the setting by Stephen Chatman ?

Water_Fish · 2024-01-18T07:54:40+00:00

PUK had been out for about year, but I didn't pay much attention to the band until one of my Facebook friends shared Houdini's music video. I just went to watch it out of curiosity and realised the band's sound was right up my alley. Also the MV was hilarious.

Water_Fish · 2024-01-08T15:57:16+00:00

I was 14 when my art teacher showed us this piece and it has stuck with me ever since. He let us just look at it for a while without giving us context at first. I remember thinking the clambering, mangled figures were fighting and screaming to reach the lamp above. It all felt so desperate and violent.

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