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Tweaker - Happy Child
(from The Attraction to All Things U)

Tweaker - Happy Child (feat. Will Oldham)

I got really into Tweaker (A.K.A. Chris Vrenna) for a while, in that period where I was really obsessed with anything Nine Inch Nails related.  I had no idea who Will Oldham was at the time, but it definitely primed the pump for when my indie friends started recommending him to me later.

Oldham reprised his guest performance on Tweaker’s second album, but by then Vrenna was building his brand as a remixer who provided a very specific version of “weird”, and the result was rather more predictable and less interesting.

The gist of The Attraction to all Things Uncertain, is that Vrenna more or less storyboarded the album, and the guest vocalists wrote the lyrcis based around those themes.  So the odd emotions and distrubing plot are as much a collaboration as the weird aesthetic.

fleetfootedfox 16 Nov Tags 2 Notes
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Way Down In The Hole :: Falling Down The Rabbit Hole

Chris Vrenna

Third Eye Blind was like, the only band that my disparate friends could agree on in high school.  Tom Waits, on the other hand, while a brilliant and enduring songwriter, is not something I can say I enjoy listening too.  Kinda polar opposites that way.

Yet another song from the score to American McGee’s Alice.  probably the best PC video game I’ve ever played, both for the playing up the unhinged creepiness of the Alice story, and for the awesome score

from Calliope No. 8
fleetfootedfox 17 Jun Tags 3 Notes
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Tweaker - Ruby (feat. Will Oldham)

a list of bands i have attempt to collect every scrap of their recorded everything:

  1. Metallica (this was before Load, obv.)
  2. Celldweller (nee Circle of Dust)
  3. Tool (up until Lateralus) (when I first discovered the internet, I used it to check toolshed.down.net o.b.s.e.s.s.i.v.e.l.y.)
  4. Nine Inch Nails
  5. Tweaker (as an offshoot of NIN)
  6. Opeth
  7. dredg

Tweaker led me to finally appreciate Will Oldham, after years of hearing his howls and off-key wailing from the tinny, small computer speakers of my coworkers.  His collaborations with Chris Vrenna (tweaker) frame his voice completely differently.

fleetfootedfox 5 May Tags
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Pool of Tears (Tweaker remix)

Sorry, bit of an obsession today.  Loved this game, loved the soundtrack, posted the MP3’s for a livejournal community, figured I’d link ‘em here, too.

fleetfootedfox 23 Apr Tags
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Fortress Of Doors (Tweaker Remix)

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Tweaker - Flying on the Wings of Steam

Track from the game that didn’t make it to the soundtrack.  If you haven’t heard the score, it’s seriously creepy Danny-Elfman-esque shit.  It’s ridiculously good.

fleetfootedfox 10 months ago Tags
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