Personally, I don’t like mind electric I don’t think the voice effects were weird. Some parts in the song were reversed. Not talking about the first three minutes. I’m talking about the parts in the song so when you listen to it reverse it sounds a little normal and I just think that was a stupid decision.
i've never seen a tally hall full ranking before, i'm pretty glad we share the same opinions overall, including DSISM on top, it's my absolute all time favorite. Please do more Tally hall content, I really need more lol
a FULL tally hall ranking would include Tally hall, Tally hall (demos) , Miracle Musical, Joe Hawley Joe Hawley, Not a Trampoline, Edu / Sketches 3D Cojum dip, Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum, Good & Evil, And also some Casey related stuff, don't know much about him😭
It's kinda cheating but listening to a version of The Mind Electric with the reverse half skipped makes it MUCH easier to listen to and enjoy. Especially if demo 4's added. The transition gives me chills. I'd definitely recommend sitting through it that way as a casual listener but there's so much more when looking at it as an art piece The lyrics are very poetic, pretty much every line has multiple meanings, and it's hauntingly beautiful and just really impressive honestly The instrumentals also do a lot to show how the singer was already powerless and mentally unstable, desperate for what he has left in his life. His voice getting reversed mid-sentence when he says "insane" and stuttering makes his state feel wrong and out of his control. Then he gets drowned out by louder singers sentencing him to the infirmary and he breaks down even further. The pleading and energy of the court sentencing section reminds me a lot of Bohemian Rhapsody The lyrics and instrumentals both show his desperation and his reality being forcefully torn apart by the shocks and abuse in the mental hospital but the lyrics and background working together make each other even more terrifying. Not to mention that the ending "see how the serfs work the ground" section just sounds amazing on its own Remembering that The Mind Electric and the rest of Hawaii: Part II all had to be envisioned, written, performed, and produced by real people feels... almost unbelievable Basically if The Mind Electric has a million fans, then I'm one of them. If The Mind Electric has one fan, I'm that one. If The Mind Electric has no fans, that means I'm dead
I agree. Had the reverse part not been included, I would probably have put TME somewhere in between #20-#15. However, when a discography is almost perfect, even the slightest imperfections can send a song far down the ranking.
6:28 I think the whole world and you is about someone always feeling in their friends shadow and it’s kinda a sarcastic, bitter song about how everyone sees them as the main character and no one pays attention to the singer
Fucking sobbing cause mind electric was ranked second to last- its such an amazing, powerful, intense experience of a song, the most glorious climax to an album I’ve ever heard. It’s definitely not for easy listening but like- cmon it’s a song about grief and trauma and fucking electric shock therapy and institutionalized abuse where the poor guy literally straight up loses his marbles, it would be entirely reductive to take all those themes and make a song about them easy to listen to. Plus, even with the noise, when you break it down into its parts, it’s recurring motifs and all the other leitmotifs from the rest of the album, how warped and distorted and unapologetically creepy they are, it’s a music theory masterpiece, even in the non-musical segments. It’s reversed at the beginning because it’s the characters life literally flashing before their eyes. It’s an entirely genius piece, and while I respect your opinion, and agree that it is definitely not an easy listen for someone not into more experimental music, I disagree in your ranking of it.
i respect your opinion @@apauljuice , and although the album does i believe have a fair amount of backmasking on it, i understand that it's a difference of priority and taste, and ultimately entirely respect that. More power to you
