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Love love love love love love ...speaking [collapsed] and honestly haven't been able to give the rest of the album an adequate listen because of that. Every time I listen I skip to it, skip back to it or just go straight for it. Listen to it 4 times in a row and then have no more time left for the rest of the album. No joke.

Seriously what is not to like about a bm musician making a 10 minute long ode to mother earth complete with banjo, mandolin and acoustic guitar. Everyone should check this track out. I've only heard good things about it. I don't know where Chuck got the adjective "crappy" from.

Huh? who said it was crappy?

EDIT: Also, who is "Chuck"?

It's a nice little folksy jam type thing but I honestly can't understand someone putting it on repeat. For me it's more like- oh this is nice but it's still going on? Time to skip forward to some FVCKING BLAKK METAL!

OH when you said cover I thought you meant him "covering" Speaking but you're talking about the album cover.

You just don't understand the bluegrass, Chuck. My Appalachian genes eat up that banjo like it's the nectar of the gods.

Lol, trapt you hillbilly.

*Has no idea whether this is the correct US slang to use or not*

lol.

I wish I knew more about Wheels because they're music I feel would be really relevant for an attempt to understand D&G. Drone's atmosphere, especially through headphones, is interesting to consider in the light of creating subversive discourses within music.

I enjoyed the Wheels' tracks but I can't stop but thinking the highlight of this album is Speaking. When the banjo picks up pace at around 8:30 is orgasmic to my hillbilly sentiments, which I've tried to bury for so long. The mandolin which builds up to that breakdown, for lack of a better word (hoedown?), is so awesome. Up until that point, the whispered condemnations of ecologically harmful practices over top that melancholic acoustic guitar is just bleak and really fits. A rejection of technology with an ode to the past captured in a sound that can be pessimistic while so upbeat when done properly.

Well, I can't understand your love for that one track but fair enough. I have to say I found the WWW side more interesting here, though I do really dig Panopticon also.