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Rank: Whale Shark
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Hello folks, Because any official spoilers or previews of Hula Hoop are a long way off yet, I've come up with a slightly unusual way to give everyone who's interested in doing some early detective work on the book something to really get their teeth into.. Some people might have seen the Raw Shark Texts playlist I made a while back, and the things I've said about music being one way into that book. Well, here - before the book published, or even finished - is the first track of the Hula Hoop playlist... 1) Apocalypse Please by Muse I'll add further tracks over the coming weeks and months... S
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brilliant song from a brilliant band! i've seen muse quite a few times live, and the opening of apocalypse please evokes so many emotions. just heard a new song from their upcoming album, the resistance. it's called the united states of eurasia... check it out, especially if you like queen and classical arrangements!
and for your convenience, here are the lyrics to apocalypse please:
Declare this an emergency
Come on and spread a sense of urgency
And pull us through
And pull us through
And this is the end, the end
This is the end
Of the World
And it's time we saw a miracle
Come on it's time for something biblical
To pull us through
And pull us through
And this is the end, the end
This is the end
Of the World
Proclaim eternal victory
Come on and change the course of history
And pull us through
And pull us through
And this is the end, the end
This is the end
Of the world
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Rank: Unspace Science Committee
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also, parts of the new single from muse, "uprising", sounds like it was inspired by the dr. who theme!!
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Rank: Luxophage
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This is, for lack of a better word, a very epic song!! I've never heard Muse before, but i think i'm going to become a quick fan!
And, ever since i read The Stand, the idea of an apocalypse or the end of the world has been a golden for me!
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Rank: Whale Shark
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1) Apocalypse Please by Muse
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7) The Windmills of Your Mind by Noel Harrison
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Rank: Deconstructive Piranha
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Love Windmills of your mind, a great song like, I want to look inside your head by Peter Sarstedt.
See in black and white, feel in slow motion....
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Rank: Luxophage
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"Round like a circle in a spiral
Like a wheel within a wheel
Never ending on beginning
On an ever-spinning reel"
"Hula Hoop"
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What is this getting at??
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Windmills of Your Mind is a fantastic song. I'm more familiar with a cover of it that appeared on last year's "Entanglements" by Parenthetical Girls. I don't expect too many people here will be familiar with them, but a quick summary that is probably more confusing than helpful would read like this: they are not girls, they're a band that more or less started with lots of collaboration from members of Xiu Xiu, the Dead Science, and Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, and they have make some of the most soul-crushing, haunting, and beautiful music I've ever heard. It sounds like I'm gushing (and I suppose I am), but their album was easily my favorite album of 2008. Here's their last.fm page, if anyone is interested: here. You can hear quite a few full tracks there. Sadly, not the Windmills of Your Mind, cover, though.
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Also, I don't know how many of you are into lo-fi, noise pop sort of stuff, but pitchfork/blog darling Wavves posted a video new song on his Ghost Ramp blog today. I only mention it because it's called Hula Hoop. I'm going to go out on a limb and say it probably has very little to do with Book 2. But it's still a good listen if you're into this sort of thing.
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Rank: Luxophage
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After listening to it (probably twenty times!), i've pretty much had that song playing in my head for the better half of yesterday, and most of this morning....
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