System of a Down's "Chop Suey" is listed as the second hardest song in the game on vocals, but the song's inflections really aren't at all complex.Rush's "The Trees (Vault Edition)" is smack-dab in the middle of Tier 6 on drums, yet is significantly easier than quite a few of the Tier 5 songs."Flirtin' With Disaster" is Tier 6 on drums, but primarily consists of a standard swing beat and relatively simple triple fills.The disparity in difficulty is especially jarring compared to novice-killers like "Foreplay/Long Time" and "(Don't Fear) The Reaper". Metallica's "Enter Sandman" is listed as Nightmare tier for drums, but feels downright trivial compared to just about every other on-disc song in the same tier.As a result, some of the songs that were once top tier in the original game can feel comparatively easy. The tiering system was adjusted following the first game, and many harder songs have been released over the years as DLC or on-disc tracks.It’s a good thing they never made a music video for this song, it would only distract from the film noir quality of the lyrics. And then there is the unnamed man in The City Sleeps by MC900FT Jesus, he raps as effortlessly about arson as het gets away with it, as most pyromaniacs seem to do. He has a soft spot for buildings, especially those that exert some unwanted control over him. Tim McGuire by Three City Four also cannot help but use matches in a compulsive way. Grant McLennan’s sweetheart is a full-time arsonist, she proves you can write a good pop-tune about anything under the sun. It’s what happens to the blazing cornfields of Prefab Sprout and in a pleasantly chill tune by Paul Kelly, that proved to be my smouldering surprise of the week ( thanks deano).įire can be vengeance, it is what drives Shawn Colvin’s Sunny to bring a list of names ( what names and why?) and set fire to her own kitchen. But it can get out of hand just like that and then you’re in trouble. Playing with fire as we were all taught can be dangerous, but that doesn’t stop many young people from doing it anyway ( I made countless little fires with dad’s magnifying glass). Fire can even save your life from another fire! James Keelaghan has the moving story. Putting the past behind with deliberate flames seems to be the motivation for Low and Slapp Happy too, one burns a guitar in a rage, the other sets light to a straw king in a strange combination of reverence and disdain. Been there, done that! Ruth Brown enjoys every bit of it, pulls up a chair, sits by the fire with her new lover. These days you can erase whole conversations with the push of a delete button on your smartphone or computer, but nothing adds that amount of real drama to a breakup like burning love letters. But the burning cornfields of Randy Newman have little to do with agriculture, they are really ominous, forerunners of darker things to come.īut before all of that black charcoal, let’s stay with the lighter sides of setting stuff on fire a little longer. For some wild reason a controlled burn is what The Gourds would love on their dying day ( I love the ‘Superstition’ drumbeat in this one), to Mary Gauthier on the other hand burning fields bring only soot, sorrow and dirty laundry. Kills lots of pests, puts nutrition back into the soil, rejuvenates. In fact, it used to be – and in some parts of the world still is – simply an agricultural technique. Conflagration should not automatically lead to lamentation.
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