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A couple things I believe are also worth mentioning. "Dream Sweet in Sea Major" is precisely 7 minutes long. This is supposedly the time it takes for you to completely cease function after being officially "dead." Additionally, the date which this was released on was 12/12/12, which in addition to being a very unique date, was supposedly the end of world, as that's when the Mayan calendar ended.
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Not enough people talk about just how great the actual musicality of this album is. Influences from orchestral pieces from 1700s and the experimental psychedelic music from the 1960s and hip hop in the present make this one of the most unique albums. The harmonies are as genius as the Beach Boys, the melodies as catchy and innovative as the Beatles, and strings as moving as Mozart.
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I always thought that it was about a sailor who was framed for murder after finding his lover dead in the woods, falsley pleading insanity as his brain is destroyed by intrusive shock therapy, he then eventually and torturously dies, meeting up with his true lover in the afterlife.
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Yay I started a discussion!
Edit 2 electric boogaloo: read my lengthy reply because I came up with a new theory that may or may not be good but I like it.
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My interpretation of the album (really simplified):
The dude is a sailor, he travels to Hawaii, where he meets his love. They fall in love and go on a date to the forest. They get lost, the girl gets murdered and it is believed our dude is responsible. Knowing he cant defend himself he pleads for insanity to get a lighter sentence but is instead sent to electroshock therapy which makes him actually insane. Hearing the voice of his lover he escapes, and finally when sailing he mistakes the siren and a lighthouse for his love and crashes, thus dying by drowning.
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7:20 Little known fact that Tally Hall actually had a 5th member who wore a green tie and played keys. His name was Andrew Horowitz. He was not, however, involved on the Miracle Musical project, which is probably why he wasn't mentioned here. Side note I would also consider Bora Karaca (orange tie) to be the hidden 6th member of Tally Hall, like how George Martin was considered 'the 5th Beatle'.
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I always interpreted this album as a man trapped a loop of reliving the events that led to his demise, unable to move and trapped in a empty, giant, ocean-like limbo, unable to move on. But there is a reason why we are focused on this loop specifically. Itâs supposed to end at stranded lullaby and go back to introduction to the snow, but instead we get dream sweet in sea major. It seems normal at first, reminiscent of introduction to the snow, but then going off to do itâs own thing and eventually having the main character say his final goodbye as he finally moves on, able to leave his limbo. Weather he goes to heaven or hell, he has been finally able to say his goodbye. My mind always focused on the lyric âso things are different tonightâ not only signifying a break in the loop, but also being the lyric before the song spirals on into itâs own identity, being the lyric that shows his final acceptance.
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I actually never considered the boy being the murderer in murders, I always interpreted it as the âerl kingâ being the murderer with the boy finding the body and him singing the âall for nothing at allâ. I really love how many interpretations can be pulled from this album with all making sense! Great video, honestly.
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Intro - 00:00
Happy - 2:50
Part I :Tally Hall - 4:25
Part II: The Musical - 8:45
Introduction to Snow - 10:25
Isle Unto Thyself - 12:00
Black Rainbows - 16:30
White Ball - 18:45
Discuss - 20:25
Murders - 21:20
Space Station Level 7 - 25:15
Mind Electric - 29:10
Labyrinth - 35:20
Time Machine - 37:20
Stranded Lullaby - 38:20
Dream Sweet In See Major - 40:45
Part III: What now? - 48:00
End - 50:10
Such a cool video btw I liked it
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At 24:49 you said, that the lyrics "All for nothing at all" belong to the girl whom our protagonist had murdered earlier. And as I was thinking in this way of understanding the album, I had really strong goosebumps when at 44:29 came out the "she knows you heard her" lyrics. She knows the protagonist heard her and thus he will never get away from what he has done, because her last words will always chase him.
That's kinda brilliant
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I was singing along to hidden in the sand at 6:28 and the audio scared me so bad ahahah.
I was a huge fan (still am) of tally hall and this album. This video is a real treat
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I've always taken Hawaii Part II to be a deeply personal album for Joe. The narrative of the songs when isolated is interesting enough on its own, but Joe Hawley's personal life has a very large effect on how this should be perceived.
Schizophrenia is the villain of Hawaii Part II, because Joe might suffer from it himself.
Many speculate this to be why Tally Hall went on its indefinite hiatus to begin with, and if you're at all familiar with Joe's many controversies over the years, they've all been tracked back to his poor mental health. But the conceptualization of Hawaii came when he was a kid; he went with his family to Hawaii in (I think) 1997, and it inspired him to take up music to create an album about his time there. It was while living at an uncle's farm in exchange for work after end of Tally Hall that he finally had the time to put his dream album together, but so much had happened to Joe between 1997 and 2011 that the end product is Hawaii Part II: An album that has very little to do with the innocent trip to Hawaii he took.
In my mind, Hawaii Part II is specifically about Joe's breakup with his college girlfriend, something he has admitted to still be effected by as recently as 2019. The most striking piece of evidence towards this in my mind is Stranded Lullaby, which is a modified version of "Our Lullabye;" a song Joe wrote for his ex when she moved away to attend a different school.
Joe's a deeply troubled person. He never got over losing his first real love, he still misses Tally Hall, and he suffers greatly from an undiagonised mental disorder. Hawaii Part II is a cry for help.
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When I heard The Mind Electric for the first time, I was like âWhy does this make my brain feel so good. Why do I want to listen to this over and over again?â And it finally clicked that this was technically a Tally Hall spin-off album, a band of whom my favorite songs were Ruler of Everything, Spring and a Storm, Hidden In The Sand, and The Bidding
Having watched this video, holy shit is this album so strange, off putting, horrifying, haunting, and beautiful all At once. The madness of oneâs own mind is such a terrifying thought. Let alone what it can make you do if you descend too far down into it.
The Mind Electric reminds me of certain bits of Everywhere at the End of Time (another album that fills me with existential horror) especially because of all the distortions and random audio queues. Both convey the feeling of your mind slipping away from you in very visceral ways and itâs terrifying. Fantastic video breaking it all down!
Edit: I completed forgot to mention the bits of semi related footage that youâd insert into certain parts of the video. Like the Stephen Hawking audio clips and such. It really stayed true to the sporadicalness of the album imo!
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@balloon.
11 months ago
bro its fucking midnight
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