The Black Keys - 240 Years Before Your Time

[jgrul001]

This song is great

[DeAThME7aL]

...that guitar :']

[twothousandpeople]

Where is all the dialogue from?

[GrungeMonkeyz]

This will be played 240 years in the future, and it will still blow people's minds.

[GrimZoso]

Look guy's the silence is so you think that the track prior to this was the end of the CD. It's supposed to creep up on you, so you listen to it with great intensity. Like...There is two minutes of silence on the end of the track Triad on Tool's Lateralus Album. Which then opens up into Faaip De Oaid, to scare your stoned ass.

[kellyklf]

Biggest load of crap, why the silence?! I don't buy using up space, all it does is use up my hard drive space.

[SwamiEpstein]

@kellyklf Because of space allotted to a CD, sometimes artists will fill up their last track with silence to occupy all of the space they can. Not sure why, but it's tossed in for filler. Kind of weird, I don't understand myself.

[19limelight]

badass

[Zas379]

So, I know putting to 20 minutes of silence in there was intentional...but why? What was the point of them doing that? Someone please respond.

[Houdini116]

@Zas379 It's something called filler. They might have had quite a bit of recording space left on the album as almost all of the songs on The Big Come Up are about 2-3 minutes long so usually some bands will do something where they use up that space by doing what TBK did here.

[willwelsh816]

@Zas379 It's kind of a hidden track, If you wait a while on Nirvana's Nevermind, Endless Nameless comes on after Something in The Way.

[fdaapproved]

damn im sooooo disappionted, i had to cut this song cuz it wouldnt fit on the fresh blank with all the others. too bad

[The10AMautomatic]

I love how you turned a 35 min song into like 3

[Houdini116]

@The10AMautomatic Me too.

[queonda07]

@The10AMautomatic i love your user name

[Larm2112]

But there is one voice that has never been heard before, the voice of old Mr. World himself. The way he might sound if he could speak to us in our own language. Mr. World, how is this wonderful and orderly Earth of ours formed in the first place? And how long has it been going on?

[AtomHeartGuy]

@Houdini116 Right? Seriously, tcsdef is a total dumbass

[tcsdef]

wheres the other 17 minutes?

[AtomHeartGuy]

@tcsdef He edited it out, because it's just silence

[tcsdef]

@AtomHeartGuy

i know that

and once again, WHERE IS IT.

[AtomHeartGuy]

@tcsdef F off. Buy the album, if you want to hear silence so bad

[Houdini116]

@tcsdef I took it out so we could just hear the actual music and not the filler in between.

[lozkopij]

somtmes cd's have 20min silence on the last track because there's a hidden track, sometimes they just have the 20minute space for nothing whatsoever, bit of a mystery really

[j0ejack]

if it was a hidden track, it used to be that hidden tracks were just given high numbers like 140- and old players wouldn't find it unless you told them to go to that direct number. Now cd players skip the blanks, but some cd players would insert about 3-8 seconds at the start of the new song for each blank song; making a large section of silence. my guess is this was their way of getting the same effect with new cd (or mp3) players.

Makes me remember disgustipated from TOOL's lateralus.

[Giannotblue]

@j0ejack haha, disgustipated isnt even music. its a story about religon, carrots, shotguns shot and pianos smasked to a six-beat, and a serial killers phone call. dont get me wrong i love tool, but that song was just creepy.

and dissgustipated was of Undertow. just sayin :P 

[iforgotmypen]

@Giannotblue Dissgustipated was track 99 on the undertow album, plus you just described NIN

[Giannotblue]

@iforgotmypen aaaaactually disgustipated was track 69 on the album. not kidding. and what do you mean i described nine inch nails? go to wikipedia and look up disgustipated. all the stuff i listed is whats in the song.

[RastafariPoet]

Hendrix blood

[Tribalandon]

the 20 minutes was defenintly intentionally, but whats the reason? meaning behind it?

[TERRIBLEPRODUCTIONSS]

@Tribalandon drugs. 

[LeFruFru]

it sucks this song on the vinyl release only has the first part of the song

[ZEROSINzaw]

Normal Super Mario Bros :P

Hard to find, but I did..

[supersaver87]

This is a song from 2002? Crap, I thought this was late-sixties...

[sandrizzle17]

@supersaver87

yeah it's hard to believe they are from this century!

[thedon420333]

cool i never heard the moon part, thanks

[added23]

lol these guys are jokes. putting a 23 minute and 21 second song on their album which consists of exactly 20 minutes of silence

[jesbfr]

@added23 it was a memorial to his grandma that had passed away

it wasn't some stupid stunt

[added23]

@jesbfr ok. cool info. never knew that. i wasnt bagging on them. i love the black keys

[onda42]

@added23 does that make nirvana stupid for the 21 minute track for something in the way a song thats a bit over 3 minutes. no it doesnt

[added23]

@onda42 nope. nirvana and the black keys are dope. i think its cool that they dont follow the "usual" time structure in a song. i didnt mean these guys are jokes in a bad way, where im from "jokes" means funny, so thats what i meant

[onda42]

@added23 yeah man but just the way you wrote people are bound to take it the wrong way, people get so sensitive on youtube

[added23]

@onda42 lol yea i know

[popomczowzow]

@onda42 no nirvana is stupid for other reasons

[sixty7ford]

thanks for removing the twenty minutes of silence!

[Papadepapo]

@sixty7ford i don't understand the 20 minutes

[popomczowzow]

@sixty7ford hahaha what a tease

[xavsell]

Best song to smoke up to. And if you forget to turn the album version off after the song goes on about "Mr Earth" ( 20 minute gap) you get blasted with the 'Moon". Some seriously trippy good shyte :)

[sebasisdabest]

@xavsell hell of a good idea, im bout to core an apple right now to this song!

[1aceraussie]

@xavsell That happened to me when I was riding my bike home from school! Shared the daylights out of me

[boilermakerstud]

Kudos for the post man!!!!!!!!!!!!! I also have been looking for this for a while!

[rzzzft]

Thanks!!

I've been searching a long time for this one

[scheitinjebroek]

i also heared on normal super mario bros 2

[Fififlan]

Fuckin' A