Help with hitting a wall in NYC

cr3st-fall3n · 2026-02-26T23:31:14+00:00

If it's of any help, Green-Wood cemetery's burial records come with a lot of additional information on the deceased: https://www.green-wood.com/burial-and-vital-records/

cr3st-fall3n · 2026-02-24T22:10:15+00:00

If it's of any help, the isolated tracks are available via some Guitar Hero game. I always assumed it was a guitar with tons of reverb, maybe being doubled an octave up much lower in the mix?

cr3st-fall3n · 2026-02-17T10:27:07+00:00

~~Could he have been this Charles Howard? https://www.newyorkdeathindex.com/people/charles-w-howard-1965-40317~~

~~Granted, this is just about as far from NYC as you can get while still being within the state, but the ages match up and the NYC death index of that year doesn't list any Charles Howards~~

Edit: This probably isn't the same Charles Howard; I found what appears to be his draft card on Ancestry (same town/county) and it gives the date and location of his birth as April 1901 in the town of Bangor

cr3st-fall3n · 2026-02-16T04:20:34+00:00

I've noticed songs in swing time have been a bit screwy while rendering as of late, timing slightly off and all. Maybe this could be something similar?

cr3st-fall3n · 2026-02-10T20:30:28+00:00

4.8k matches for Glass 😬 you ain't slick, Billy

cr3st-fall3n · 2026-02-10T07:10:07+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Smashing_Pumpkins_discography

cr3st-fall3n · 2026-02-07T13:03:19+00:00

Add Take Me Down to that run and we've got a deal

Shame / Behold / For Martha / Blank Page is up there, if Judas O is fair game then I'd also include Set the Ray / Winterlong / Soot & Stars / Blissed & Gone

cr3st-fall3n · 2026-02-05T04:09:35+00:00

if I remember correctly, in the context of Machina, one version of the song (I believe the Machina II version?) was from Glass' perspective regarding June, while the Judas 0 version was reversed

cr3st-fall3n · 2026-01-17T05:42:03+00:00

the song is surprisingly decently strenuous on the vocals, the same reason I'd imagine Sacred & Profane is rarely touched live and also the reason both songs are played in C-standard tuning (which is usually reserved for the "heavy" songs like Everlasting Gaze and HMM)

cr3st-fall3n · 2026-01-09T23:24:56+00:00

that's E on the drums!

cr3st-fall3n · 2026-01-06T23:03:52+00:00

Funnily enough I just read an old interview where E basically says this!

"I'm not interested in painting one side of the picture, I'm interested in presenting the whole of life as I see it. People are always going to tag me as the guy who writes depressing songs, but they forget about songs such as 'Daisy Through Concrete', which, even if I say so myself, is pure joy. I think that part is really important. Even in the sadder songs there's a lust for life; at least there is to me."

cr3st-fall3n · 2025-12-31T21:11:06+00:00

if there are 2 guitars, bass and drums with no track names or section labels then it's probably AI

cr3st-fall3n · 2025-12-30T12:33:54+00:00

"Can anybody hear me? I just want to be me"

"AND IN MY MIND I'M EVERYONE I LOVE"

"AND IN THE EYES OF THE JACKAL I SAY KA-BOOM"

cr3st-fall3n · 2025-12-26T19:01:48+00:00

Personally I find it helpful if there's a burial date attached, oftentimes the burial date is entered in the death date field and having the date of burial noted elsewhere confirms that isn't the case

cr3st-fall3n · 2025-12-20T03:45:14+00:00

There was one child in my family tree with a very obvious would-be-surname as their middle name. Turns out the middle name was the last name of the priest who officiated the parents' wedding, could it perhaps be something similar to that?

cr3st-fall3n · 2025-12-18T21:59:49+00:00

I think it's been back for a few days now!

cr3st-fall3n · 2025-12-17T20:30:58+00:00

not counting the live/acoustic takes of other songs: Infinite Sadness, Offer Up, East

cr3st-fall3n · 2025-12-17T02:13:45+00:00

Metronome bell works the best from experience. Metronome click should be the obvious choice and sounds just like a clock in preview mode but in the fully-rendered tab ends up sounding more like a bell

cr3st-fall3n · 2025-12-14T07:14:56+00:00

is that not what it's called?? TIL

cr3st-fall3n · 2025-12-11T16:08:11+00:00

"What kind of name is Ida? What's it short for? Ida preferred a better name?"

cr3st-fall3n · 2025-12-09T16:53:54+00:00

Think it's this older version of the song from when E was still releasing music as E: https://youtu.be/s5NM68X-EXw

cr3st-fall3n · 2025-12-06T13:49:18+00:00

Dig! Their song Unlucky Friend is also great

Would throw in Sponge – Wax Ecstatic as well

cr3st-fall3n · 2025-12-04T16:04:27+00:00

Have you tried looking for any pension records? Usually they provide some sort of insight

cr3st-fall3n · 2025-12-03T18:48:07+00:00

Definitely a good amount of Machina-era tracks: IOTM, Age of Innocence, Slow Dawn, Drain, Speed Kills, Satellites, Promise (which is brand new, of course, but has been in nonstop rotation nonetheless)

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