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 What are your favorite Shpongle tracks? 
#1733326 - 07/20/03 09:05 PM (20 years, 4 months ago) |
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My list, in rough order
1. Divine Moments of truth
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4. Around the World In a Tea Daze
5. Behind Closed Eyelids
I recommended Shpongle to a friend, and he downloaded a couple tracks and said they sounded like "enya songs that didn't make the cut"      
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Re: What are your favorite Shpongle tracks? [Re: Noviseer]
#1733520 - 07/20/03 10:23 PM (20 years, 4 months ago) |
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DMT is an awesome track.
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Re: What are your favorite Shpongle tracks? [Re: Grav]
#1733629 - 07/20/03 11:02 PM (20 years, 4 months ago) |
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Star Shpongled Banner
A New Way to Say Hooray
Behind Closed Eyelids
the rest of Tales
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Re: What are your favorite Shpongle tracks? [Re: pattern]
#1733637 - 07/20/03 11:06 PM (20 years, 4 months ago) |
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...and day turned to night - an amazing composition where percussion is "auditioned" into the song as we listen 
Shpongle Falls - an excellent introduction to "Are You Shpongled?"
Dorset Perception - an excellent introduction to "Tales of the Inexpressible"
STOP PIRATING SHPONGLE! You need it in cd-quality to really hear everything..
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Re: What are your favorite Shpongle tracks? [Re: Strumpling]
#1733719 - 07/20/03 11:45 PM (20 years, 4 months ago) |
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What we need is someone to make a 200kps VBR ogg rip of it.... 
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Re: What are your favorite Shpongle tracks? [Re: Strumpling]
#1734140 - 07/21/03 03:46 AM (20 years, 4 months ago) |
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I own Are You Shpongled, Tales of the Inexpressible is shipping right now, and I am anticipating getting the new album soon after it comes out. You are right, the quality and continuity of the actual discs makes them very worth owning.
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Re: What are your favorite Shpongle tracks? [Re: Noviseer]
#1734956 - 07/21/03 01:00 PM (20 years, 4 months ago) |
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Ok, I wanted to pick up one of their discs to check out, everyone seems to love them, but they weren't available at amazon.com, which surprised me since they seem to have some pretty obscure stuff. Any suggestions?
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Re: What are your favorite Shpongle tracks? [Re: TheHobbit]
#1735026 - 07/21/03 01:29 PM (20 years, 4 months ago) |
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Amazon.com does have both shpongle CD's. Just spell it properly and it'll come up. "Shpongle." aw fuggit here's the link. enjoy 
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/index=music&field-keywords=shpongle&search-type=ss&bq=1/104-8494312-3270360
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Re: What are your favorite Shpongle tracks? [Re: Noviseer]
#1736259 - 07/21/03 08:06 PM (20 years, 4 months ago) |
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Monster Hit!
(thanks strump!)
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Re: What are your favorite Shpongle tracks? [Re: Noviseer]
#1736401 - 07/21/03 08:47 PM (20 years, 4 months ago) |
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1. Behind Closed Eyelids ( My brain still hurts when I try to comprehend this music)
2. Vapour Transmissions (Great variety of electronic "solos" and "riffs")
3. Dorset Perception. (gotta love the guitar and that haunting woman voice)
4. A New Way To Say Hooray ( I thought I would get tired of hearing Terence McKenna say the same stuff everytime I listen to the song but now it just wouldn't be right without McKenna )
5. Every single other song is amazing, only other band I can say that about is Tool.
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Re: What are your favorite Shpongle tracks? [Re: Noviseer]
#1737690 - 07/22/03 08:25 AM (20 years, 4 months ago) |
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Yep, got it, although it kept comoing up as 'Sponge' until I typed in an album title.
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Re: What are your favorite Shpongle tracks? [Re: chodamunky]
#1738708 - 07/22/03 03:41 PM (20 years, 4 months ago) |
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dude its called Vapour Rumours - please don't pirate Shpongle.. on mp3s you can't even hear the coolest stuff!
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Re: What are your favorite Shpongle tracks? [Re: Strumpling]
#1739002 - 07/22/03 05:24 PM (20 years, 4 months ago) |
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hey man, remember that PM you sent me about Sphongle, did you not get my reply which directly explained why I had to download the songs?
Well I'll say it again since you seem to take my pirating to heart: I have looked all over my local area stores for Shpongle albums, most stores such as Music World or Sunrise don't even have them on their database and HMV said they could order it for $37 CDN which no way in hell I'm paying. I went to Toronto and looked in several big name and private music stores and nobody has heard of Sphongle. I went to Amazon but since I don't have a credit card right now I can't order it. So you see I've tried, so very tried, but could not find Shpongle  . So either I download it or don't enjoy their music at all. Btw, 192 bitrate is better than regualr CD quality (which is 128kbps), trust me, I hear everything and the song transitions are pretty much smooth with no silence in between.
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Re: What are your favorite Shpongle tracks? [Re: chodamunky]
#1739631 - 07/22/03 08:36 PM (20 years, 4 months ago) |
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The first time I ever heard Shpongle was on mp3. It was then that I decided to buy it.
Not everyone can afford to buy CDs that they havent even heard before!! Gotta test them out first.
192 bitrate is NOT better than CD!! CD is at least 320. I have 320 rips of Shpongle from the CDs I bought. And in the case of Shpongle, the CD is a must have. It wont matter if you are listening to it on computer speakers. But trust me, if you listen to it on headphones or a nice stereo, you will hear the difference. The other good thing is that the songs flow into each other perfectly on the CD. With mp3 you will get the breakup between songs. Of course you can believe all day that the mp3 is as good as the CD, because thats all youve heard, but you can never really know until you hear the CD.
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Re: What are your favorite Shpongle tracks? [Re: chodamunky]
#1740322 - 07/23/03 01:41 AM (20 years, 4 months ago) |
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I got the CDs by giving money to a fellow human I know who has a credit card and ordering it from www.amazon.com using the card number.
"192 bitrate is better than regualr CD quality"
Unfortunately that's incorrect, at least with the "LAME" encoder (or any other one I've tried), which seems to create the best-sounding MP3s from my experience.
Many local music shops can order the album for you.. particularly Shpongle, one of the most popular psychedelic electronic artists of all time.
heh I wasn't talking to you specifically when I said "please don't pirate Shpongle.. on mp3s you can't even hear the coolest stuff!" that was kind of a "Public Notice" Peace, pirate 
edit: by the way, it is IMPOSSIBLE to make a "better-than-CD-quality" copy of music taken from a CD.. IMPOSSIBLE - you can't extrapolate more data from a CD than is already there.
Man I used to be in your boat - I had Shpongle pirated as well; for a long time. I thought it was the best of the best, UNTIL I GOT IT ON CD - I was blown away all over again - the differences between ripped mp3s (even "high-quality" and high bitrate ones) almost seem intentional; its that pronounced of a difference.
I haven't encountered many artists other than Simon Posford who make their shit so detailed that a lot of the stuff can't even make it through mp3 compression; even with high bitrates..
lol ok that's enough from me
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Re: What are your favorite Shpongle tracks? [Re: Strumpling]
#1741856 - 07/23/03 04:50 PM (20 years, 4 months ago) |
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hmmmm, see my parents don't have a credit card and neither do my friends but I'm gonna try and get one from my bank to do some shopping on Amazon ( I want to buy an Alex Grey book ). If you guys say that Sphongle will blow you away all over again on cd then I will take your word for it and give it a shot and get Are You Sphongled? I realize I was mistaken by saying that 192kbps is better than CD quality, I didn't read the following chart properly and assumed anything above 128 kbps is better than cd, silly me 
heh I wasn't talking to you specifically when I said "please don't pirate Shpongle.. on mp3s you can't even hear the coolest stuff!
Can you give me a particular example from a Shpongle song that would be difficult to hear on mp3?
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Re: What are your favorite Shpongle tracks? [Re: chodamunky]
#1741952 - 07/23/03 05:19 PM (20 years, 4 months ago) |
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its the details, man - many sounds in the cd "come from somewhere" and "go somewhere" and this is just way more clearly heard/felt at CD quality .
of course you want to make sure you have a nice stereo or some killer headphones to get the best experience - Shpongle seems to test the limits of every stereo I've played it on (many..)
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Re: What are your favorite Shpongle tracks? [Re: Strumpling]
#1746610 - 07/25/03 12:09 AM (20 years, 4 months ago) |
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hands down:
Behind Closed Eyelids
OMG, that song is incredible...the whole "Are You Shpongled?" album is insane!
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Re: What are your favorite Shpongle tracks? [Re: DannyBoy]
#1746912 - 07/25/03 02:07 AM (20 years, 4 months ago) |
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dorset perception
dmt
flute fruit
vapour rumours
and gotta love that robot sample in shpongleyes... goddamn genius
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Re: What are your favorite Shpongle tracks? [Re: yelimS]
#1747220 - 07/25/03 06:11 AM (20 years, 4 months ago) |
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what blows my mind... well so many things blow my mind about shpongle... but one of the first relevations I had... that guy took the generic text-to-speech computer voice. He bent it, played with it, made two of em, and made such an amazing little harmony. He brakes the rules of western music. you don't write consecutive fifths. hell, he does that in multiple songs; starshpongled banner and divine moments of truth both have that. ANd I can hear how it wouldn't work, but... it works.
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Re: What are your favorite Shpongle tracks? [Re: Noviseer]
#1747861 - 07/25/03 11:29 AM (20 years, 4 months ago) |
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hehe in "...and day turned to night" the whole song is done in 7/7 which is VERY TRICKEY to make (especially for 20 minutes..).
Follow the beat in that song - if you follow it in your head 1..2..3..4..1..2..3..4..1..2..3..4..1..2..3..4.. the beats won't match up; gotta do 1..2..3..4..5..6..7..1..2..3..4..5..6..7.. - cwazy stuff!
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Re: What are your favorite Shpongle tracks? [Re: Strumpling]
#1747934 - 07/25/03 11:48 AM (20 years, 4 months ago) |
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yea i brought that song into my music class cause my professor asked for a song with an odd/unusual meter. He liked it 
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Re: What are your favorite Shpongle tracks? [Re: Noviseer]
#1748858 - 07/25/03 04:27 PM (20 years, 4 months ago) |
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I also dig when Posford changes the time-measures in the middle of his songs..... that is pretty hard to pull off as well
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Re: What are your favorite Shpongle tracks? [Re: Strumpling]
#1750793 - 07/26/03 01:35 PM (20 years, 4 months ago) |
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yea, he quietly inserts a hit of the new rhythm, you kind of subconciously are prepared for the change, and then when he finally does it, you're head is dancing to the new beat instantly. I love this in divine moments of truth
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