If you were to make a playlist highlighting Dev's music that contains big powerful, dramatic, climactic, heavily layered type stuff. What would be on it? Here's what I came up with.

[8/1470] Devin Townsend - Solar winds (09:47)
[9/1475] Devin Townsend - Color your world (09:45)
[10/11691] The Devin Townsend Project - Supercrush! (05:11)
[11/11692] The Devin Townsend Project - Resolve! (03:11)
[12/11693] The Devin Townsend Project - The Way Home! (03:13)
[13/11694] The Devin Townsend Project - Numbered! (04:54)
[14/11695] The Devin Townsend Project - Awake!! (09:44)
[15/1405] Devin Townsend - Truth (03:59)
[16/1409] Devin Townsend - Soul driven cadillac (05:15)
[17/1412] Devin Townsend - Life is all dynamics (05:07)
[18/1413] Devin Townsend - Unity (06:58)
[19/1420] Devin Townsend - Om (06:18)
[20/1424] Devin Townsend - Coast (04:36)
[21/1426] Devin Townsend - Gato (05:23)
[22/1427] Devin Townsend - Terminal (06:58)
[23/1433] The Devin Townsend Project - Ki (07:21)
[24/1443] Devin Townsend - Hide nowhere (05:01)
[25/1444] Devin Townsend - Sister (02:49)
[26/1448] Devin Townsend - Regulator (05:06)
[27/1449] Devin Townsend - Funeral (08:06)
[28/1450] Devin Townsend - Bastard (10:17)
[29/1452] Devin Townsend - Thing beyond things (Bonustrack) (04:47)
[30/1465] Devin Townsend - Planet rain (11:08)
[31/1272] The Devin Townsend Band - Storm (04:38)
[32/1274] The Devin Townsend Band - Deadhead (08:05)
[33/1275] The Devin Townsend Band - Suicide (06:45)
[34/1278] The Devin Townsend Band - Sunday Afternoon (06:20)
[35/1496] The Devin Townsend Band - Triumph (07:09)
[36/1505] The Devin Townsend Band - Sunset (02:32)
[37/1511] Devin Townsend - Mountain (06:33)
[38/1513] Devin Townsend - Deep peace (07:35)
[39/1514] Devin Townsend - Canada (06:53)
[40/1515] Devin Townsend - Down and under (03:43)
[41/1517] Devin Townsend - Nobody's here (06:55)
[42/1518] Devin Townsend - Tiny Tears (09:13)

Any comments, complaints, suggestions?

No complaints... Gotta listen those moments, again.

the midsection of The Fluke

Seventh Wave
Life
Funeral
Bastard
Truth
War
Dynamics
The Complex
Planet Rain
Mountain
Deep Peace
Canada
The Fluke
Nobody Here
Tiny Tears
Stagnant
Storm
Random Analysis
Deadhead
Suicide
Judgement
Addicted
Supercrush
Numbered

what's the point of those numbers at the beginning?

what's the point of those numbers at the beginning?

That's just the output from xmms2. I use xmms2 on Linux Mint (Gloria) as a music "server". So that's just the output from the xmms2 list command. It's pretty cool. You can use all kinds of GUI clients for it. I just use the command line though. It will keep running in the background like any service would.

So, those numbers are just id's. Using that list as an example, in this list, I could play the song "Truth" by typing:
xmms2 jump 15

I could type that from any terminal/console/shell, whatever you want to call it. The whole music player as a "server" concept is pretty cool, I think.
I also have it configured to scrobble to last.fm with xmms2-scrobbler. It's kind of tricky to setup.

I'm a command-line linux-nerd and a programmer by profession. I was super excited last night when I got Rosegarden (midi composer/sequencer) working with Jack (audio server) and timidity (midi soft-synth) with fluid3 sound fonts. I can compose space-music, like Dev did as the background track for that "Jam" video he just put out on youtube. I can do stuff like that now, convert it to wav with timidity, import it into Audacity and give it my own "wall of sound" or do other crazy shit with the many Audacity effects plugins, including nyquist plugins.

It took me forever to do this, but the truth is that you can make some pretty cool sounding shit for FREE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The only thing you need to pay for is the computer itself.

I know that's way off this topic, but the question kinda dragged my mind toward it, and I'm still so excited about it.

Now I only have to get pulseaudio to work with the "line6usb" (open source linux project) drivers so that I can record guitar or other instrument tracks through my POD XT. But I have been making NO progress with that.

Getting all this stuff to work is painful but rewarding (usually in my eyes only). It's kinda like being a programmer, developing rich GUI's in web applications. "Oh look, I finally got that graphic to spin around when the system is processing something! Isn't it cool?!"


Back to the topic, "The Fluke" was suppose to be in this list. It is now anyway.

...audacity...

If you're messing with audio stuff, might you not be better off with something like LMMS or Ardour instead?

...audacity...

If you're messing with audio stuff, might you not be better off with something like LMMS or Ardour instead?

For midi, or my POD XT? I have ardour, I couldn't get the line6usb driver to work with anything.
I really like rosegarden with timidity for midi. So many sound fonts that you can get.

Anyway, I really like Audacity and am use to it.

...audacity...

If you're messing with audio stuff, might you not be better off with something like LMMS or Ardour instead?

For midi, or my POD XT? I have ardour, I couldn't get the line6usb driver to work with anything.
I really like rosegarden with timidity for midi. So many sound fonts that you can get.

Anyway, I really like Audacity and am use to it.

Audacity is good for simple editing of audio files, but if the point is to actually make music, Ardour seems much more powerful, especially if you can get VST plugins working in it (there are so many awesome free ones). Reaper also works very well under wine.

I never got my audio interface or jack running properly in linux, so I don't know what the state is now... Music production and recording is the single reason I ever boot to Windows.

Yeah, I compose the music with Rosegarden. Still, it's much easier with Cakewalk on my Windows PC. But my wife uses that computer, so I use my work laptop. IT locked it down (win xp), so I couldn't install shit on it. But I was able to repartition the HDD and dual boot with linux! IT can suck it.

My PC has a crappy soundcard, so it has timing issues. Oh well, I can't afford shit. But I've made some pretty sweet space music with the setup I have right now.


Back to topic, what SYL songs would you add?
The only ones that come to mind are Thalamus and Almost Again.

[swervedriver]

Pretty much all of Alien probably, excluding maybe Love? and Two Weeks (and perhaps Possessions). Others that I think may apply here are In The Rainy Season, Dire/Consequence, Aftermath and Hope. Not sure about the City tracks.

The almighty "FUCK YOOOOOOOOOUUUU" in Shitstorm.
Ki arpeggios.
The last verse of Coast.
Storm, the instrumental in the middle.
The beginning of Skeksis.
The beginning of AAA and the instrumental in the middle.
Almost Again.
Chorus of You Suck.
Thalamus/Zen.
Oh My Fucking God

And my favourite...
Truth, especially the ending and the transition to Christeen.

[swervedriver]

Can't believe I forgot to mention Processional. That song is basically the definition of this topic.

Can't believe I forgot to mention Processional. That song is basically the definition of this topic.

Bingo !

Layers? Soul Driven.

Power? Oh My Fucking God.

Climax? The end of Truth.