Talk:Token Back To Brooklyn
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This song seriously creeps me out.
- CREEPIEST TMBG SONG EVER EVER EVER. And that is, like, saying something. (This is coming from the girl who regularly listens to "Where Your Eyes Don't Go" on repeat for hours, too.) I'm not even sure why exactly, cos there are definitely ones (like that) that have equally or much more creepy content, but it just gets me like HELL. For a long time I couldn't even listen to it, and I still can't go anywhere NEAR the DAS ver, oh godddddd. --Self Called Nowhere 04:58, 15 August 2010 (UTC)
- Interesting. I find this song to sound like a good, yet unfinished TMBG classic. Odd drum machine, odd synthesizers, and senseless lyrics with a deeper meaning. It just needs to be a little more fleshed out for my liking. I want to hear Subway really bad. Fake Out In Buenos Aires Still creeps me out, though. If I listen to it alone at night, it terrifies me on a deep level. I won't do it again. -- DidgeGuy (ΰ€ ΰ€) 14:19, 15 August 2010 (UTC)
- Yes, totally. I hate the almost seven seconds of silence after the last line. The "nightmarish" feel is really hard to encapsulate with anything, and yet this song seems to do it perfectly. Just something about the drums fading out at the end makes me uncomfortable. It recreates the feeling of waking up after a nightmare, it still makes perfect sense to you, it's still horrifying and you don't want to think about it, but you can't get your mind off of it. I don't find it that scary, though. I'm listening to it on loop right now, and if anything, I find the DaS version less scary and more song-y. Maybe it has something to do with your personality. Can you explain why you find the DaS version more haunting? Definitely wouldn't dare to listen to either version on repeat at night though, that would probably scar me for life. /: --DoubleDenial (talk) 22:48, 15 March 2019 (EDT)
- Two things contribute to the DAS version being way scarier to me. One is the line "claims he killed our parents," which I think anyone can agree is way more terrifying than the "says he'll tell our parents" here (my first thought with "tell our parents" is actually "then maybe they'd be able to help you get out of there," which seems like the one spot of possible hope in this version). But definitely the biggest one is the "Get away, get away" at the beginning of the DAS version, which for reasons I guess I can't fully explain is just THE SCARIEST DAMN THING to me. --Self Called Nowhere (talk) 01:21, 16 March 2019 (EDT)
- Yes, totally. I hate the almost seven seconds of silence after the last line. The "nightmarish" feel is really hard to encapsulate with anything, and yet this song seems to do it perfectly. Just something about the drums fading out at the end makes me uncomfortable. It recreates the feeling of waking up after a nightmare, it still makes perfect sense to you, it's still horrifying and you don't want to think about it, but you can't get your mind off of it. I don't find it that scary, though. I'm listening to it on loop right now, and if anything, I find the DaS version less scary and more song-y. Maybe it has something to do with your personality. Can you explain why you find the DaS version more haunting? Definitely wouldn't dare to listen to either version on repeat at night though, that would probably scar me for life. /: --DoubleDenial (talk) 22:48, 15 March 2019 (EDT)
- Interesting. I find this song to sound like a good, yet unfinished TMBG classic. Odd drum machine, odd synthesizers, and senseless lyrics with a deeper meaning. It just needs to be a little more fleshed out for my liking. I want to hear Subway really bad. Fake Out In Buenos Aires Still creeps me out, though. If I listen to it alone at night, it terrifies me on a deep level. I won't do it again. -- DidgeGuy (ΰ€ ΰ€) 14:19, 15 August 2010 (UTC)
Only TMBG can make a song that's creepy, bad and awesome all in one. -- Buzzmusic100 ("Keep your voice down...")
Dial-A-Song version > This version. --ΰΌΊππββ€ββββΉββββββπΰΌ» 19:16, 13 April 2012 (EDT)
how to replicate[edit]
I want to be able to replicate the "track 0" that TMBG did with this song, does anybody know how I could do this with home-studio equipment? --65.188.149.173 02:12, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
- Replicate as in create your own 'track 0' on a CD? If so, here you are. Otherwise, I'm not quite sure if I understand your question. -CapitalQ ♫ talk ♪ 02:26, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
- An interesting but only somewhat related note: the band Guster originally had a hidden 0 track on Goldfly, their second album, until their record label told them that someone had copyrighted the process of hiding a track before track 1 and was sitting around waiting for someone to do it so he or she could start a big lawsuit. Has anyone else heard of this copyright law? ~Drew
- Nope, but it looks like a few dozen other bands are sitting ducks for said "big lawsuit". ;) Just search the page for every instance of the word "pregap." -CapitalQ ♫ talk ♪ 02:40, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
- Thanks guys, that was exactly what I wanted to know. --65.188.149.173 15:10, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
is this "trivia worthy"?[edit]
i forget where i heard this... i tink it was somewhere on Gigantic, like the commentary or something. But somebody (i think Flans) was saying that this song's lyrics originally went "He said he'd kill our parents" instead of "Tell our parents" on dial-a-song... but they changed it because they "had enough songs about killing their parents"... anyone think this is Trivia Worthy?
- Lyrics:Subway Token To Brooklyn. :) -CapitalQ ♫ talk ♪ 01:55, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
- well, you could still probably include that Gigantic quote on the page for the demo if you wanted, just since it's a pretty cool line. ~ magbatz 03:24, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
He should have kept the original lyric, it works better. (Mr Tuck)
