GMD SONG SURVIVOR: Slough Feg - Traveller, Round 1

[Vegard Pompey]

In anticipation of their new album in June.

I left out the Spinward Marches interludes from the poll since you're limited to 10 choices, and they aren't really complete songs in their own right.

The poll will close in 5 days.

 

[Vegard Pompey]

I thought this would be a more popular song survivor given it won by a landslide in the 2003 poll. But I guess not everyone who voted then is still around. Anyway, I won't keep this going unless a few more people vote.

I went with Baltech's Lament, Curse of Humaniti and Gene-Ocide. The first two are pretty easy choices, but Gene-Ocide hurts a bit to pick because I really like that outro, I always get a kick out of songs that cross-reference other songs on the same album.

 

[Master_Yoda77]

Yep went the same. Those three songs, while great, just tend to bore me a bit because The Final Gambit is so fucking good. Also wanted to go wtih Addendum Galactus since it feels weird there at the end, but it's too good to choose.

 

[Vegard Pompey]

Addendum Galactus feels like the song that would play over the credits, if Traveller was a movie. In fact the melody/progression of the verses specifically reminds me of some credits theme from an old video game or something but I can't put my finger on it.

 

[Krow]

Love the album and all but song survivors I do not love. Will try and listen and vote later.

 

[no country for old wainds]

may as well tag everyone who's still around who voted for it.

@Mort Divine @alex76 @rms @Slayed Necros @Anom@nder Rake @-CC- @Phylactery

and there's hbb and TB but they've acknowledged the thread already

 

[HamburgerBoy]

and there's hbb and TB but they've acknowledged the thread already

How does that work?

I plan on voting btw, just want to give the album a fresh listen since it's been a few years. My favs are probably solid but not sure about my least favs (which are all still great iirc).

 

[no country for old wainds]

as in, you both liked the OP

 

[HamburgerBoy]

as in, you both liked the OP

derp

I thought maybe you had access to some kind of admin/mod thread-viewing-history function or something, lol

 

[HamburgerBoy]

On new evaluation, Curse of Humaniti is the only song that isn't at least an 8/10, but it's still plenty good. Asteroid Belts goes because it's a 2.5 minute song and it's half-interlude, though it's still badass. Vargr Moon for a difficult third pick, nearly the longest song yet it doesn't have any 10/10 moments unlike basically all of the other songs.

I was going to insult people for voting Gene-ocide but I'm not sure I could put it in the upper half of the album as much as I love it.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

Curse of Humaniti is definitely the weakest track here.\

Vargr Moon for the win.

edit: Gene-ocide and Vargr Theme for the other two picks.

 

[Master_Yoda77]

I used to be able to play all of Professor's Theme on guitar at one point. It seems to have slipped my mind. That's probably going to be my #1 pick.