#for real you Cannot listen to out in the twilight with only one earbud i love that song and it's just so. so sad. miserable. despondent.

[nobody-knose--archive]

grading tally hall songs based on how well they hold up when your earbuds are broken and you can only hear the right channel:

taken for a ride: mostly it's just quieter and i constantly get the impression i'm missing out on stuff whether i am or not. bonus point allotted for missing out on joe's part at the end specifically. 6/10 banana man: i don't miss the vibrato. i do miss some of the harmonies. being able to hear the melodica & warbly guitar when they appear is nice. 4/10 mainly because i already dislike this song be born: the fact that right off the bat i can hear something different with the guitar is a marker of how well i know this song more than anything else. the jeremy kittel fiddle doesn't deserve to be this quiet & neither does zubin. 5/10 the bidding: the intro could be mistaken for that of the pingry ep. unfortunate. also, the guitar at the end is easier to hear. 7/10 because bora & ross aren't there. i miss them just apathy: at first the acoustic guitar's absence is very easy to miss and then the actual verses start and it's like. this is half of a song. 5/10 this is half of a song spring & a storm: i didn't want you whispering into my ear anyway, joe. i would like to know what you did with the little kids, joe. 8/10 ah these are some lovely peaceful rain sounds- oh god oh fuck the drums the whole world & you: this song is always perfect. wonky harmonies make it more perfect. 10/10. greener: i know for a fact this would be worse as the 2005 version but this isn't the 2005 version so it's pretty okay. 9/10 i don't know what to say haiku: to quote myself at an earlier date: rob’s lonely And alone & joe is stuck in the void again (but what else is new?). 6/10 literally every song is worse without zubin two wuv: this song is just different in most ways i can't call it bad or lacking it's just different. wonky, even. 9/10 honestly i wish it had more differences hidden in the sand: fuck dude that sand sure can hidden. 7/10 13: reminds me of a ytp but if a ytp had the budget for audio panning. 5/10 like 13 already doesn't have much to offer and you take away half of the only vocals? what's even the point good day: oh lord andrew your masterpiece has been ruined i'm so sorry. where are the sounds? the wonky shenanigans? 4/10 look how they massacred my boy ruler of everything: i know this song's audio channel shenanigans inside & out, but i don't even need to, really. 5/10 so it can match with 13 welcome to tally hall: this feels the most relevant place to say i know there'd be a lot more missing in the 2005 versions for all of these songs but that's too much tally hall for me to listen to in one day. 7/10 the glass breaking sound is gone - &: literally the entire keyboard part is gone. like it may have been a silly little organ synth but it was organ-ic enough in my heart. 5/10 wow a perfect split it's almost like it's 5/10ths good & 5/10ths evil. that'd be silly though no way it's real you & me: *starts listening* something is missing isn't it *fiddles with earbuds* ah yes the entirety of zubin sedghi. 7.8/10 too little bassist out in the twilight: huagh 1/10 the trap: zubin sedghi jumpscares are the only valid kind of jumpscare. 3/10 i mean objectively this is worse but it's also really funny like this. plus hasn't everyone been curious about listening to it like this at one point fate of the stars: (1st part) on one hand, you miss out on an entire arpeggio. big l. on the other hand, that guitar strumming fucks. (2nd part) it feels less cavernous. (3rd part) more guitar is not a fair trade for less harp. 3/10 if you're going to listen to fots then you ought to go all out sacred beast: the song that inspired me to do all this because while it is lacking in some ways, i think the stronger acoustic guitar gives it an interestingly different sound. 8/10 worth checking out a lady: conjures imagery of a universe where tally hall is more not-rock band musicians than rock band musicians. 10/10 this is kind of just a different song who you are: reminds me of live performances of this song. that's a good thing. 8/10 it's like. not that different man you: i forgot there's string instruments in this song. 9/10 andrew really moved past audio channel differences after 2005 huh misery fell: it's easy to not notice any differences till the chorus buildup but that doesn't mean there aren't any! 7/10 it's interesting to see my suspicions confirmed on this album having less audio channel shenanigans than mmmm never meant to know: i'm frantically hurrying from place to place searching for the guitar's counterpart but it's nowhere to be found it's gone 5/10 turn the lights off: like the only place it's notable anything's missing is that bridge/breakdown part & the periodic background chanting and even then it's not a big deal. i'm weirdly disappointed. 7/10 hymn for a scarecrow: if you don't think this song sounds terrible and incomplete without andrew on piano then get out of my house. 4/10 one shouldn't have to choose between the weeping guitar & cascading piano in the breakdown cannibal: i mean this is a zubin song. why not play the bass more than anything else. the acoustic guitar is still there kinda. 6/10 i'm grooving

#for real you Cannot listen to out in the twilight with only one earbud i love that song and it's just so. so sad. miserable. despondent. #tally hall #i'm not going to do the other albums yet at least i mean. it'd feel weird to do most solo stuff without jhjh #and i'm not listening to jhjh just now very fast purely for the sake of doing it again without my right earbud #joe-h #tis i #actually i'm saying it right now i'm in no way obligated or intending to make another one of these thank you & goodnight #to the world and back again