A Review of the Album ``UUUU'' by Masketta Man

Under review is another album of music I've liked, available for listening and purchase on Bandcamp:
https://maskettaman.bandcamp.com/album/uuuu

A surprising amount of beautiful art has been made about Batman, of all things.  This album is based
on the Batman film ``The Dark Knight Rises'' and primarily concerns itself with the very first scene
of the film, which has become a meme.  Therein, the villian Bane and his henchmen crash a CIA plane,
with no survivors, in order to kidnap a scientist.  The name of the album is a reference to the line
``For you'' spoken by Bane, and this is a particularly important phrase throughout the entire album.
As of writing I've yet to watch the entire film, but it's not really required viewing for listening.

An example of another act inspired by this meme is the crashing of an airplane into the French Alps,
in 2015 by Andreas Lubitz, near the village Digne-les-Bains, leaving no survivors of flight 4U 9525.

The album entries follow ordered by my preference, their names, their durations, and album ordering:

           Flying Good 03:24 3
>       The Fire Rises 07:17 1
>              Hothead 03:46 2
>      Too Big For You 03:26 4
> (You're a) Quiet Guy 02:54 5

The first track is a song version of the first scene of the film, with all lines spoken in-order and
largely without flourishes, which helps to emphasize those lines spoken differently for effect.  The
tempo, instruments, and tone transform wildly throughout the song, with instrumental periods between
subscenes.  Roughly the middle of the song features the lone most important line, which is stretched
out beyond parody.  The song transitions from calm, to tense, to fast, and the deadpan delivery some
of the lines are given adds comedic effect.  It's a surprisingly enjoyable song, for its odd nature.

The second track uses a different line from later on in the film for the beginning of its chorus and
what that line is should be obvious after listening to it once.  It's a pleasant song telling a tale
of two policemen, one older and less enthusiastic than the other who is hotheaded and very agitated.
Unlike the previous track, there's a single singer of a single character throughout the entire song,
and the song has a consistent tune sans a stretch of guitar playing shortly after the halfway point.

The third track tells the story of the first scene through the perspective of the primary CIA agent,
with an emphasis entirely on another focal point of that scene, that is the intimidation tactic used
in an attempt to have the hostages speak, which is pretending to shoot a man before throwing him out
of a plane as an example to the others.  The line ``He didn't fly so good.'' was used to communicate
this to the other hostages, who were blindfolded, and forms the crux of the chorus.  This track also
keeps a more consistent tune than the first track, but less so than the second, picking up a bit for
the chorus in a more noticeable way.  I particularly enjoy how the chorus switches between different
versions of the line throughout the song, first using third-person past, later second-person future,
and finally first-person future.  I would've liked to hear the present tense, but it matters little.

The fourth track almost passes for a homosexual romance song, but fortunately no such thing is truly
present in the album.  This is the least complex and most gentle song of the album, which emphasizes
its absurd nature.  This song focusses on yet another important line from the film, around which the
track is mostly based, and again involves the CIA agent alongside Bane.  It's nonetheless enjoyable.

The fifth and ultimate track is an odd instrumental track, and I find little worth writing about it.

Part of the fun in this album is listening to it with others who know naught about its contents, and
seeing how they react.  My research suggests most people don't bother carefully listening to lyrics,
so long as the song is enjoyable to hear, which isn't an unreasonable response.  I stopped listening
to this album for several years, but have now found myself drawn to it again.  It's not difficult to
exhaust oneself of it, but I can certainly imagine myself continuing to listen to it for many years.
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