Brand New – Welcome to Bangkok

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  General Comment:Point1: There is screaming in the background.
  Point2: Space Cadet IS a referance to the Deja artwork, but more the referance that he is 'lost' (Devil&God pulling him apart etc). I think it's his 'mission command' trying one last time to say, "Leave, this is your last chance. I don't think he STAYS, because the next track is Not the Sun!!! (I've been underground, I like it here(?))
  Point 3: This song is him, landing in Hell. Kate dying in the crash, and then You Won't Know ends with "I'm dead and can't call you to tell you" (more or less).
  
  Again, I'm just another asshole with a keyboard.
  
  I think Vices is like, "Welcome to Hell...this Fox will show you to your room Mr.Bush!"

  Flag GodInBirdson July 22, 2011   Link

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  General Comment:I understand this is about a mans journey through life and that maybe jesse thinks he has gotten "too far into" perhaps a downward spiral hes been experiencing. Which is why he says pull out as a way of saying I gotta change as a person in order to turn my life around. But the thing that I cant grasp is the significance of the title "Welcome to Bangkok" and why the song ends with that very phrase. So if Bangkok is his destination then what exactly is the symbolism of it? Maybe Jesse is just mocking all of us with a stale joke involving sex and "You wanna go to the capital of Thailand?" THWAP! "WELCOME TO BANGKOK!" lmao.

  Flag cshipleyon January 25, 2011   Link

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  General Comment:This song is like my ears are having sex on ecstacy. The layering and the screaming, and just the pure noise is just so intense.

  Flag fullmetalfunkon January 07, 2011   Link

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  General Comment:i am in love with the ending of this song. i can't stop listening.

  Flag tomwilkon December 05, 2009   Link

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  General Comment:this song is absolute bliss. It's good old fashioned amazing old school heavy gratenss that literally cannot be beaten. Feedback to me is heaven on earth. I love the accoustics at the beginning and how it tricks you, then how it goes as heavy as possible, full on and how you can tell that the band put everything they have into it - you can see this even more live. The accoustics remind of touching down on a plane, walking out of the airport...and when it goes heavy - seeing the extent of Bangkok - the skyscrapers, the sheer modernisation of it, the culture, the heat - overwhelming, exciting, beautiful...you can just imagine them - wide eyed, amazed by it...it could even be the car ride to the hotel, and the end is when they get to the hotel, and it no longer feels like Bangkok.

  Flag b1987on October 18, 2009   Link

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  General Comment:This song is nuclear destruction.

  Flag ViperRideron August 13, 2009   Link

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  General Comment:Alright I know I'm commenting on something super old, but maybe Jesse was dealing with something at the moment, distracting him from what he was trying to accomplish
  Has someone ever said "Space to -enter name here-"?
  
  called a space cowboy/cadet
  
  maybe he was dealing with someone?
  
  telling them to pull out from their spacing out
  
  hah.
  idk.

  Flag Uhlexxuhon July 22, 2009   Link

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  General Comment:xdvr - that's an interesting theory. I like it. I never even thought of that.

  Flag Arteron April 05, 2009   Link

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  General Comment:Yeah Takkun i heard that too

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  General Comment:I agree with the Bjork theory.. I was watching an episode of "celebrity meltdowns" and I saw the incident where the reporter said "welcome to bankok" and she beat the crap out of her it made me think about this song right away. I think this song is about paranoia and how things can build up over time and then all of a sudden explode.. At first the song is very mellow then it speeds up gradually then it just hits hard with the double drums.. just like when things are going good in life then one by one things get worse but you keep it inside then all of a sudden somebody makes you mad and you flip.. I think this song sums up Brand New's struggles in the last 3 years after deju

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