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Faster Jackalope
No MemoryNur Ein XIV
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Faster Jackalope

Entry from No Memory in Nur Ein XIV.

Elements of chiptune/ computer sounds

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Faster Jackalope

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No Memory

glennny-Verse vox, guitars synths, tambo, and bloops
Truth- Latin bridge vox, bleeps, lyrics
Frisbee- Chorus Vox, English Bridge

Verse 1
I am a Memory Man
With a busted capstan
And I try to compensate
For my Space Echo
With a ton of spring
And a little bit of plate

Pre-chorus 1
Life is thrown too fast at me
Too fast for me to deal
It passes before me
Before my thoughts can be congealed

Chorus
No memory, I’m seizing up
No memory, I’m out of luck
My bucket brigade
Is wholly unmade
No memory, my signal’s stuck

Verse 2
I am an echoplex
Analogue effects
They are the way my temples gray
My wow and fluttering
Is how I try to sing
When my past is in my way

Pre-chorus 2
But lately my own latency’s
The vacant way I feel
Suffering and buffering
Like a deathly spinning wheel

Chorus
No memory, I’m seizing up
No memory, I’m out of luck
My bucket brigade
Is wholly unmade
No memory, my signal’s stuck

Latin Bridge (translation: The Old Songs are Better)
ANTIQVA CANTICA MELIORA

English Bridge
“Is it live or is it memory”
Is what the hive mind always asks of me
In my mind drive I will ever be
Whatever anybody asks of me

Verse 3
I am an 8-bit man
With no backup plan
When the cartridge doesn’t play
Though I wedge it down
Or jiggle it around
And blow on the contacts all damn day

Pre-chorus 3
Life is thrown too fast at me
Too fast for me to deal
It passes before me
Before my thoughts can be congealed

Chorus
No memory, I’m seizing up
No memory, I’m out of luck
My bucket brigade
Is wholly unmade
No memory, my signal’s stuck

END

Reviews

2 posted notes

vowlvom

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I like lots of the individual parts of this but I'm not sure any of them fit together particularly well. The verses are cute and catchy with excellent 8-bit melodies, the shift into the loud, messy pre-chorus feels a little too extreme to me and the chorus doesn't quite get me back on board. The lyrics are interesting, an unusual take on the challenge, but this kinda feels less than the sum of its parts to me overall.

Spintown

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Before I finished the first verse I had to get Google to help me out. Googled Memory Man, capstan, scanned the lyrics & Googled echoplex… I don’t really know anything about this stuff, but I can paint a picture of what the song is about now. When the pre-chorus came in it was a bit shocking. The music was jarring & the vocals a little lost in the mix in places. The chorus wasn’t bad, but every damn time that pre-chorus came on I wanted to use the memory wiping device that BBS is selling. Not sure why you needed the Latin bridge, the English one was fine aside from the backing vocals being a bit distracting. This song sounds like a mashup of different songs that didn’t want to go together. Individually might have liked 2 of them, but the different sounds just didn’t flow together all that well for me.

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