Nottoolate wrote:
Didn't it turn out that songs on TH could be matched up with a pair based on the key they were written in? I think I remember reading in a thread that someone mixed some of them together and they ended up sounding good. There's also still the old theory of an album being hid within the album...
Hmm...
Gemini - D Minor
Reach for the Dead - D#/Eb Minor
White Cyclosa - D Minor
Jacquard Causeway - B Minor
Telepath - G#/Ab Minorish
Cold Earth - probably A Minor (see my post in the music theory thread)
Transmisiones Ferox - D#/Eb Minor
Sick Times - weird kinda B Minor
Collapse - D Minor
Palace Posy - seems to start in B Minor or something but ends in E almost-Major (this song is quite strange)
Split Your Infinities - begins in Eb Minor and ends in Eb Major
Uritual - G#/Ab Minor
Nothing Is Real - Bb Mixolydian (so this already kind of wrecks the theory)
Sundown - no key, see the music theory thread. best guess d minor but it's not consistent
New Seeds - Bb Minor but it just barely ends in Bb Major
Come to Dust - D#/Eb Minor
Semena Mertvykh - D#/Eb Minor but with weird notes
So that's 3.5 songs in D Minor, 4.5 songs in D#/Eb Minor, 2 songs in G#/Ab Minor, 1.9 songs in Bb Minor, and 1.7 songs in B Minor. Some keys are the same and others are close but I think if BoC had wanted to make a bunch of pairs line up they'd have made it more obvious. Even if we call Sundown the "oddball" out because it doesn't have a set key and we need 8 pairs with 1 extra, Palace Posy and SYI both modulate halfway through, and New Seeds has a Picardy-3rd-style ending. Plus the tuning is inconsistent; as we all know BoC detune the crap out of their recordings and I had to change my synth tuning multiple times while trying to figure out all these keys.
Believe me, I love this theory and wish it were true, but I don't think it is. Plus I agree with the other user - it really makes sense in the long run, what with the opening horns of Gemini, the collapse, the apocalypse (a word which means unveiling Biblically...so maybe not implying the end of the world necessarily), the rebirth, and the futile collapse at the end.