#Thank You Scientist

[2laroola]

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[thinkingjellyfish]

My Top 10 Favorite Choruses And An Explanation For Each

It’s hard to explain the appeal of music without a great education in it but I’ll try anyway. There’s nothing I love more than a good chorus and I will tell the world about it. Nothing can stop me, not my mom, the difficulty of explaining music, or god. So here’s my favorite courses and explanations after that.

Of Mind - Nocturne / Tesseract 

Bleak / Opeth

Bodies / Sex Pistols 

As The World Caves In / Matt Maltese 

Romantic Homicide / d4vd

The Diary of Jane / Breaking Benjamin

Head Mounted Sideways / Vola

West Coast Smoker / Fall Out Boy

The Ghost of You / My Chemical Romance 

Psychopomp / Thank You Scientist 

10th favorite chorus Psychopomp / Thank You Scientist 

Starting with a weird one. Psychopomp is a song by the prog band Thank You Scientist. It's long and a bit of an adventure with strange choices all around. Strange doesn’t equal bad as I find the song a fascinating listen that pulls me in. 

But in order to explain the chorus we have to talk about the build up. The singing starts fairly low key compared to the harsh progy instrumentation of the intro. with the instruments the singing builds slowly. They have time. This song is a whopping 9 and a half minutes long. So they build into the first thing that sounds like a pre chorus but it’s not it goes into more build up, and then the chorus begins!

“You separate the physical from the unknown.” mysterious lyrics sung with power and length of delivery while the melodies of the instruments are pounding in a way not unlike Bleak by Opeth, my second favorite chorus but we will get to that. 

He continues the long powerful delivery before speeding up with the line “cause you are eachother if you see your mother tell her” to me this feels like he’s letting us breath by spreading up and weakening the delivery if the powerful delivery kept going it would be overwhelming and boring. The rhyme scheme also picks up “eachother, mother, her.” coming rapid fire. 

He continues the powerful delivery with “and you can’t afford to leave.” finally he finishes the chorus with “your paralyzed” the line that is the shortest of the chorus making it incredibly impactful. before sending us back to the beginning with the progy instrumentation.

The instrumentation is also interesting. In the beginning it was overwhelming but compared to the pounding of the chorus it almost seems like it’s allowing us to breathe. Despite it’s strange progyness.

In summary, please come back Thank You Scientist we miss you.

9th favorite chorus the The Ghost of You / My Chemical Romance 

The first of the more well known songs on the list. This is my favorite MCR chorus. It’s very emo obviously but it’s emotional in a way unlike other MCR songs. The instrumentation in the beginning gives off to me a hopeless feeling. Unlike MCR’s more angry style on other songs.

This hopeless feeling is not reinforced but built on by the chorus where he sounds like he’s howling for something. I don’t quite understand what the song is about but someone has definitely died and he’s howling about how they are never coming back.

And the line “at the end of the world or the last thing I see.” is such a powerful intro to the chorus.

As a kid when I first heard this song (my brother showed it to me he was and still is a fan) I thought it was different from the others it really stood out to me. Helena never caught my attention for whatever reason and nothing from Black Parade would get me till I listened to the album in full but this song and its video hit me hard. 

So a big part of why I love it so much is nostalgia plain and simple. But the emotion of that chorus is what caught my attention in the first place. And I think that says a lot. Even to a kid who had no idea about death I could understand that he is hurting and that is something to take note of.

I’ll post more analysis at a later time. see you!

[aslonoth]

I think I used to WRONGLY dismiss Maps of Non-Existent Places by Thank You Scientist since it was a first album and those tend to have quite a bit of jank, but after a couple more listens, woweee, it's so freaking good!!!

Maybe I'm super wrong, but I think the choruses give off j-rock vibes (in chord progressions, generally optimism, or just the sorta dancey rhythms??), and so I didn't give it as much credit cuz I've heard that before and not as unique?

But, yeah, on more listens, those choruses (especially in Carnival and Absentee) are so dang refreshing and provide so much catharsis to the awesome classic Thank You Scientist instrumentals and verses. Dunno if this makes any sense, basically I really love this album cuz of the slightly different vibes to the other two albums

[nightbynightfly]

An Album a Day 2024: Day 123

May 2, 2024

Thank You Scientist - Stranger Heads Prevail (2016)

Prog-rock, Metal, Jazz fusion

[wantonglances]

I know I joke that I’m a reformed saxophonist, but any time I hear the guy from Thank You Scientist, I want to chew through drywall.

[danceinsidelightning]

Like i said in my last post i just got into them and

[koter-irl]

Music Mondays!

In The Company of Worms - Thank You Scientist

[averiathefangirl]

i am literally shakinfg i cannot contain myself they are back again I DIDNT KNOW THERE WAS A WHOLE ALBUM COMING OUT ALONGISDE BETTER WAY CLOSURE IN MOSCOW IS BACK AGAIN AND CHRISTOPHER DE CINQUE GOT A HAIRCUT AFTER NINE YEARS oh and the video is by FAYE FADEM, former drummer of thank you scientist (she did the touring after the release of stranger heads prevail and the drums on terraformer) and local trans icon you guys have no idea how much i need to scream right now this is way better than any durgs jus ajasdhjdghjgdhlkdwwopiavma ipo

[eat-sleep-breathe-drum]

Man I hope thank you scientist puts out new music soon. I need to feel weird to the sound of electric trumpet and vibraphone again

[aslonoth]

Currently obsessed with Caverns by Thank You Scientist (and the rest of their discography tbf). Awesome instrumental opening, and then the first verse douses you in insane drippy vibes like you’re in some kind of… uh cavern. As soon as the verse starts, you’re like, oh I’m somewhere else now, cool. And then the chorus is devastating it’s all just so good, fantastic band. Also the lyrics hit so hard and fit so well

[datcravat]

SCIENCE BEGETS TRUTH✨

[pupsnacks]

Im forever going to be haunted by the fact that TYS played a brand new song when i saw them live but its likely never gonna release since their singer left. Man

I can barely even remember it

[pika2482]

AOTD 12-20-2023 - Stranger Heads Previal (Thank You Scientist)

[All albums are rated subjectively based off my own enjoyment]

7/10

Another 7-8/10. I suppose I'm suffering from what's known as Selection Bias; As I selected albums from which I had already heard a song or two / seemed interesting to me, my ratings are going to be higher by default. Nevertheless-

Lots of interesting things going on here. Thank You Scientist is an 11 piece Prog Rock band, and by God do they use every instrument available by all means. The highlights of this album include Mr. Invisible, a 10/10 track that flawlessly showcases each and every instrument to their fullest potential, A Wolf in Cheap Clothing, a Through-Composed tune that takes full use of it's available dynamic range, and Rube Goldberg Variations, a 9 minute through-composed Epic full of bombastic composition and tight ass solos through multiple different genres.

Unfortunately, this album got off to a rough start. The Sommambulist was just north of Mediocre. It wasn't bad, nor did it have any of my usual turnoffs. It just didn't jive with me as much as the other tracks did. It has it's moments here and there, but they leave right as I was getting turned on to the track.

The mixing was also a low point, as I found myself struggling to pick out instruments from the mix in most of the songs. I don't know what I'd do differently (as I haven't had to work with an 11 piece band before), but it just felt too convoluted or muddy in the mids and mid-highs, similar to how Insomnia by JMPB suffered as well.

Overall I did enjoy my time with this album. While it would have scored a point higher, the mixing reduced my overall enjoyment enough to deduct a point. Regardless, I'd recomend a listen to anyone that finds themselves enjoying Prog, or to the Rockers that want just a bit more Pizazz in their music.

Favorite Songs: Mr. Invisible, A Wolf in Cheap Clothing, Rube Goldberg Variations

Least Favorite Songs: The Sommnambulist, Caverns