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Old 05-10-2017, 05:02 PM   #1
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My Playlist for Lateralus, accepting some of Fib

Hi... I'm not new here, have been lurking forever and really appreciate all that tdn and you fine people as well have done over the years for the community.

I'm not trying to re-do anything that others have done with the whole Fibonacci sequence thing. That's totally more time than I've got on my hands. But I did listen to the sequence a few times and really liked how it started. But then I just sort of lost interest as it dragged on. And that was for a reason. So I re-ordered it as my own Lateralus playlist that I can enjoy, and something I think fits together a little better.

So enjoy this playlist if you want, don't if you don't.

The central tenet of my playlist is the idea that after Fib sequence 6, 7, 5, 8, 4, 9, 13 - you start getting into some tracks that literally run into one another on the album. At least how it plays on my machine. The following tracks have no empty space at the end and obviously lead into another song: 2, 6, 10, 11. If the band had put a secret order in there, I think (my opinion only!) they would have intended these songs to remain clumped with what was behind them. Also, 13 to me is not a part of the album. It's a creepy ending track. Not even a song. So to me, it can only go at the end.

So I've established that in my mind, you can't separate 2/3, 6/7, 10/11/12. However, I really love the Fibonacci idea. So I decided to just re-order this in a really simple way that accepts the beginning of the Fib sequence then instead of the spiral going to 13 then starting anew, it simply continues and grabs 1/2/3 then 10/11/12 in clumps, after 6/7/5/8/4/9.

So here's my playlist for Lateralus
6 - Parabol - Obvious possible album start and lead-in to Parabola
7 - Parabola - Continues from Parabol
5 - Schism - Standalone Song - Great lead-in to Ticks & Leeches
8 - Ticks & Leeches - Hardest song on album. Nice to have a break after
4 - Mantra - Quiet ending leads nicely into most "epic" song -> Lateralus
9 - Lateralus - Epic Title Track. Ending to first Half of the playlist.
1 - The Grudge - Start of the second half of the playlist with whirring sound
2 - Eon Blue Apocalypse - Leads into the patient
3 - The Patient - Continues from Eon Blue Apocalypse
10 - Disposition - Beginning of an epic trio
11 - Reflection - Continuation of an epic trio
12 - Triad - Triad: A group or set of three connected people or things
13 - Faap de Oiad - Obvious creepy ending track
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