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Post by s on Mar 2, 2007 22:33:58 GMT -5
Okay, here, I have each page uploaded as an image: 12345
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Post by artluvr on Apr 17, 2007 14:58:30 GMT -5
I bought this a few weeks ago and it filled me with so much ASOUE love that I came back to 667. IT'S LIKE FAITH HEALING, SORT OF.
I haven't heard most of these before, but I can safely say that Dreary, Dreary is quantifiably fantastic. Even better than Smile!, which definitely was my favorite ASOUE song ever for a while.
And When You Play the Violin makes me want to draw Lemony being spanked with a hickory switch, oh god.
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Post by Fiona Fanboy on Nov 17, 2009 23:54:19 GMT -5
My favorite song on Songs from A Series of Unfortunate Events as Executed by The Gothic Archies: The Tragic Treasury is "Smile! No One Cares How You Feel". It just fits perfectly with the Volunteers Fighting Disease's misguided belief that making someone smile will make them feel better when sick. "Things Are Not What They Appear" comes a close 2nd, as it fits 100% with the fact that in the whole series, things are just that.
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Post by Sophie-Senpi on Feb 11, 2010 12:49:35 GMT -5
i sing 'shipwrecked' when i do the dishes, and even as a lullaby to my baby brother lol
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Post by Invisible on Feb 11, 2010 12:51:56 GMT -5
Hoping to make him a future ASOUE fan, we are, Ivey? The fact that you sing to your little brother is really cute!
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Post by Poe's Coats Host Toast on Sept 17, 2013 7:30:53 GMT -5
I just listened to The Gothic Archies' 'Tragic Treasury' again, and re-read the lyrics to "We Are The Gothic Archies," in which the refrain goes "We are The Gothic Archies: death, tentacles and pip." Tentacles and Pip (and maybe death in future installments?) are both specific parts of ATWQ. At the very end the H.P. Lovecraft entity "Yog-Sothoth" is also mentioned, which is in itself quite similar to The Great Unknown. The song is the last track on the album, and I thought that this could actually be like one of those clues that Helquist used to leave in the last illustration of an ASoUE book, hinting at the next volume, in that the album's the last release that is directly part of ASoUE and hints at ATWQ. This is just a theory of course, but I like the idea of it.
PS: I'm not sure how to go about submitting something to Conflicting Conjectures, so I'm just going to post this here and if someone decides it's worthy of inclusion (maybe not, since the album is considered "merchandise"), feel free to re-post it there.
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Post by Dante on Sept 17, 2013 13:48:25 GMT -5
To submit to Conflicting Conjectures, you just PM what you want entered to me. I would prefer something longer than a paragraph, though.
I'm also inclined to think that linking Tentacles and Pip to ATWQ six years in advance is a bit optimistic, but you may also be interested to learn that there is a mention of "the Great Unknown" in a previous Gothic Archies song ("The City of the Damned," on their "The New Despair" CD... but that anticipates ASoUE itself by two years and is clearly just using it as synonymous with death).
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Post by Poe's Coats Host Toast on Sept 17, 2013 17:21:23 GMT -5
Okay, good to know. I think I saw one or two quite short inclusions there, but yeah, this one's not a theory of big scope, so there's not much to add.
Also, I imagined it in the sense that Handler might have made it into a reference to ATWQ after the song was already released, when he noticed the mention of octopi/tentacles in this song while writing the new series, and then naming one of his characters Pip, because of it. But in the end I didn't consider the probability of this theory being right or wrong all too much, I just got a kick out of its making sense, and being like a Helquist future-reference in song-form, unintentional or not.
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Post by Dante on Sept 18, 2013 1:44:10 GMT -5
That's fair enough. Probably a great deal of what we do on this website is to draw connections that aren't there, and the whole point is that it's enjoyable whether it's accurate or not.
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Post by Hermes on Sept 18, 2013 15:48:09 GMT -5
I'm also inclined to think that linking Tentacles and Pip to ATWQ six years in advance is a bit optimistic, but you may also be interested to learn that there is a mention of "the Great Unknown" in a previous Gothic Archies song ("The City of the Damned," on their "The New Despair" CD... but that anticipates ASoUE itself by two years and is clearly just using it as synonymous with death). Was Snicket involved in TGA at that point, or was it just Stephin Merritt?
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Post by Dante on Sept 18, 2013 16:25:35 GMT -5
I don't think Snicket was involved at that point, no. I don't have my copy of TND with me at the moment, though, so I can't check. I'll try and remember to do so in a couple of months when I get my hands on it again.
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Post by Agathological on Oct 1, 2014 17:08:57 GMT -5
Old thread but I love this soundtrack. 41 mins is not enough I feel but eh; it's quality not quantity.
My favourites are: Shipwrecked (Latitude 0 and Longitude 8 I discovered after much research is off the coast of the Sao Tome and Principe island, off the coast of Gabon), Things Are Not What They Appear and A Million Mushrooms.
Least? When You Play the Violin took a while to grow on me and Walking My Gargoyle ain't that great.
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Post by Poe's Coats Host Toast on Oct 1, 2014 18:45:41 GMT -5
Ha, thanks for bringing up this thread because I just recently realized how much The Talking Heads' classic "Psycho Killer" reminds me of The Gothic Archies. So much so, that I actually wouldn't be surprised if Stephin Merritt took that song as a reference point for 'Scream and Run Away,' which I find is quite similar in many ways.
I'm not saying Merritt ripped the song off, but it certainly sounds like he riffed on that particular arrangement and mood when he came up with 'Scream and Run Away.' It's funny, I've known 'Psycho Killer' for a long time, but listened to it for the first time since I've discovered ASoUE (!), I think, when I had that realization.
I also would like to repeat how much I love The Tragic Treasury. Mostly because of "Crows," "Dreary Dreary," "Scream&Run Away," "Things Are Not What They Appear," "Shipwrecked," and "Smile! No One Cares How You Feel" (pretty much in that order). The rest of the songs I usually skip (except for "Walking My Gargoyle," which is fun; "Violin" is also decent).
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Post by Dante on Oct 2, 2014 2:41:10 GMT -5
"Walking My Gargoyle" is actually one of my favourites, even though it was decanonised as TCC's song.
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Post by Isadora Is a Door on Oct 4, 2014 5:36:00 GMT -5
i like crows
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