scott wrote:Kinda like the Shaggs. Almost exactly like the Shaggs, actually.

Can you name for me a tricky, intricate math rock band that has produced records that you put in the category of 'not sounding like thinking'?

steve wrote:

154 wrote:...it's really not that unique, and quite boring after the laughter has worn off.

Not unique? Please find and post an example of a song by a band other than Complete that resembles "Beautiful Sunrises." I think this is impossible.

Mandroid2.0 wrote:Benadrian and I have determined that most mundane daily tasks must all be completed with vocals mimicking the singer of Complete.

"canyoupassmethose greeeEEEEN BEEEEEAAAANNNNS!"

"I'dliketheketchupandthemustard when you GIT THE CHANNNNNNNCCEEE!!!"

Rick Reuben wrote:

tmidgett wrote:They know what they are doing. What they are doing is DETERMINEDLY weird. It is NOT an accident. You cannot do that shit accidently. You don't write songs that brutally stripped down by accident.

You don't play two-note bass parts that are bent that out of tune for five minutes w/o knowing you are doing it. You don't play drums like that for five minutes etc.

That sounds to me like a description of a band thinking about what they are doing on stage- 'not an accident' 'knowing you are doing it'. But if you want to ignore all that and instead place Complete in the category of bands 'going for it' on stage, whatever.

[Mihaly] Csikszentmihalyi identifies the following as accompanying an experience of flow:

1. Clear goals (expectations and rules are discernible and goals are attainable and align appropriately with one's skill set and abilities).

2. Concentrating and focusing, a high degree of concentration on a limited field (a person engaged in the activity will have the opportunity to focus and to delve deeply into it).

3. A loss of the feeling of self-consciousness, the merging of action and awareness.

4. Distorted sense of time, one's subjective experience of time is altered.

5. Direct and immediate feedback (successes and failures in the course of the activity are apparent, so that behavior can be adjusted as needed).

6. Balance between ability level and challenge (the activity is neither too easy nor too difficult).

7. A sense of personal control over the situation or activity.

8. The activity is intrinsically rewarding, so there is an effortlessness of action.

9. People become absorbed in their activity, and focus of awareness is narrowed down to the activity itself, action awareness merging(Csikszentmihalyi, 1975. p.72).