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Title makes me feel like it's the promo music for a broadcast of an 80s US-Canadian fighting league. "Welcome back to ARENA AMERICANADA, the only fighting league where STEROIDS ARE LEGAL."

Seat of Consciousness wrote:Title makes me feel like it's the promo music for a broadcast of an 80s US-Canadian fighting league. "Welcome back to ARENA AMERICANADA, the only fighting league where STEROIDS ARE LEGAL."

I think it's a given that this track will be used at NHL games.

Just hearing this for the nth time and it definitely has that mid-1980s vibe with those chords...sounds like a lost sports theme or an obscure crime solving TV series with has quick cutting opening credits...another album favourite

Good robot concert, will be attending again

akirako wrote:I wonder about the title. You know in the latest Rambo flick, when Rambo's disciple beats Ivan Drago's and the commentator goes something like "now the Russian audience is giving the American athlete a standing ovation" whilst epic music plays? That's what you'd call una americanada in Spanish.

I came here to post that the overall feel and some of the little details of this track remind me heavily of Vince DiCola's music. DiCola did both the soundtrack to _The Transformers: The Movie_ and _Rocky IV_. Back in the day, those soundtracks both sounded super futuristic to my kid ears, and I'm sure they played a deep role in getting me to love electronic synthesizer type sounds.

Oh, and the last approx. 1/3rd of the track reminds me quite a bit of a moment on Biosphere's _Substrata_.

apriorion wrote:

akirako wrote:I wonder about the title. You know in the latest Rambo flick, when Rambo's disciple beats Ivan Drago's and the commentator goes something like "now the Russian audience is giving the American athlete a standing ovation" whilst epic music plays? That's what you'd call una americanada in Spanish.

I came here to post that the overall feel and some of the little details of this track remind me heavily of Vince DiCola's music. DiCola did both the soundtrack to _The Transformers: The Movie_ and _Rocky IV_. Back in the day, those soundtracks both sounded super futuristic to my kid ears, and I'm sure they played a deep role in getting me to love electronic synthesizer type sounds.

Oh, and the last approx. 1/3rd of the track reminds me quite a bit of a moment on Biosphere's _Substrata_.

Damn, I totally see it! Thank you!!

i hear skyliner more than left side drive but TCH all the way for sure with this one. liking it a lot more on this second listen than the first time i think. this one's really a treat. so much noir type chording

In a good way this track has me all like "if TCH was more synth heavy"

One of the most 80s flavoured tracks on the album. Those chords and measures are proggy as hell - ELP, Alan Parsons Project etc.

While sounds from Tomorrow’s Harvest appear throughout the Inferno, Arena Americanada is the one track that actually sounds like it could have been made for Tomorrow’s Harvest but didn’t fit. The drums sound like they’re coming directly from that world, and the arrangement - despite the bright, commanding melody - is restrained in a way that feels aligned with TH.

Den wrote:While sounds from Tomorrow’s Harvest appear throughout the Inferno, Arena Americanada is the one track that actually sounds like it could have been made for Tomorrow’s Harvest but didn’t fit. The drums sound like they’re coming directly from that world, and the arrangement - despite the bright, commanding melody - is restrained in a way that feels aligned with TH.

throughout Inferno*

Has anyone else felt this? The choral sounds too.

Revising my note again to say that the one percussion part that does not sound related to Tomorrow’s Harvest is the shaker.

Waterbagel wrote:i hear skyliner more than left side drive but TCH all the way for sure with this one. liking it a lot more on this second listen than the first time i think. this one's really a treat. so much noir type chording

I was thinking Skyliner too!!

I’ve fallen a bit behind in reading this forum lately but has anyone called this ‘Chariots Of Fire In Space’ yet?

(This might end up being my favourite).

Den wrote:

Den wrote:While sounds from Tomorrow’s Harvest appear throughout the Inferno, Arena Americanada is the one track that actually sounds like it could have been made for Tomorrow’s Harvest but didn’t fit. The drums sound like they’re coming directly from that world, and the arrangement - despite the bright, commanding melody - is restrained in a way that feels aligned with TH.

throughout Inferno*

Has anyone else felt this? The choral sounds too.

I think the synths with that big reverb definitely remind me of TH, like Cold Earth and Sick Times. It's so beautiful when they ring out for the first time on the track

This is probably the one I'll end up liking the most, given time, as right now it's about the only track I get even close to skipping. Just hasn't landed for me yet, but I hoping it's a slow burn. Damn, this record man. It's under my skin.

turquoise70 wrote:

Waterbagel wrote:i hear skyliner more than left side drive but TCH all the way for sure with this one. liking it a lot more on this second listen than the first time i think. this one's really a treat. so much noir type chording

I was thinking Skyliner too!!

haven't been picking much of anything out of the back half of the record to listen to, only go thru it when i'm listening to it in full, and now it's been a couple days! can't even quite recall what this one sounds like

Josh wrote:

Seat of Consciousness wrote:Title makes me feel like it's the promo music for a broadcast of an 80s US-Canadian fighting league. "Welcome back to ARENA AMERICANADA, the only fighting league where STEROIDS ARE LEGAL."

I think it's a given that this track will be used at NHL games.

And GTAVI I'll wager.

Seat of Consciousness wrote:Title makes me feel like it's the promo music for a broadcast of an 80s US-Canadian fighting league. "Welcome back to ARENA AMERICANADA, the only fighting league where STEROIDS ARE LEGAL."

All yall are saying this Arena Ameri-can-ahh-da, right?

I say it like empanada