I knew tmbg had utilised the toy piano a few times before "lazy", but I didn't realise 1. just how many songs in, and 2. that it's largely linnell. there's literally two flansburgh songs on here + only his solo work lmao
I will never shut up about how the Harvey Dent Suite from The Dark Knight soundtrack perfectly embodies his desire to be Gotham's hero, only to fall into darkness while still trying to hold onto that same hope.
The suite -- portions of which below are called "Harvey Two Face" but are longer in sheet music form -- has multiple sections where there's two melodies and countless interplays between light and dark motifs/etc. The beginning of the suite being such a beautiful, soaring melody -- Harvey's hope for Gotham -- and while it returns near the end, it is so much more delicate than his original "hope," and finds itself undermined by the final resolution of the suite being a final, wavering minor chord.
The second part speeds up as Harvey's ideals and soaring hope fight against the darkness and madness of Gotham. His major key soaring "hope" theme slips into minor key, deepening and darkening it. He still wants to fight for Gotham, despite what it throws at him. But his "hope" slowly loses out to the increasing drums, and the "doubt" of the french horn that takes over. His hope becomes an echo or almost a competing melody to the new "doubt."
But Harvey's hope doesn't fall completely. It softens into a delicate, minor key version of his theme. More "doubt" creeps in, slowing down and lingering. His "hope" theme tries to make a valiant return, but it is far quieter and weaker, and slips into minor key again and again.
Still, it finds the strength to surge back up again in the final part, building on itself beautifully. The "hope" theme crests to a defiant, more delicate reprise of its original appearance -- Harvey's hope, still trying to prevail.
Despite this, the "doubt" motif returns on the french horn. And the valiant note of his returned hope trembles into a wavering, minor key resolution. Harvey's hope disappears into the doubt, and the piece ends with that lingering in your mind.
(interestingly, in The Dark Knight, they only use Harvey's soaring, hopeful theme, and even more interestingly, only briefly while he's on screen. This piece's complexity therefore goes under the radar of a lot of TDK fans. It's also very fun to play on the piano because the competing melodies/motifs lead to some complicated trade offs between each hand)
pale blue eyes by the velvet underground is the ultimate twissy song ever like i know twelve has sung it one time for missy inside the vault as they're celebrating a milestone of her rehabilitation and mid-song missy joins along and they have a little duet together
kind of thinking that by now or at least in a few years time, 5sos all know how to play each other’s instruments and all are incredible vocalists too, there’s nothing stopping them from doing an eras kind of tour where they perform each of their solo stuff as well as the band stuff (which they divide up into moods or genres etc, just so I can hear thin white lies next to teeth) and just. shake up the style they play them in and the setlist whenever they feel like since fans really like going to multiple shows anyway and they def could get away with that
rushed this quick little 1-minute celesta / piano piece in 3 hours for a school assignment !! i have lots of fun making more classical-style compositions, its a nice break from my usual electronic-heavy stuff. i might return to it sometime to expand it and maybe humanize the key velocities and timings more in my own time, but for now hope you like this spooky little waltz !! 🎵🎹✨️💜
don't have a name for this track yet, please give me song name ideas hehe ✨