The Dear Hunter - All Reprises/Callbacks
This is an attempt to find every reprise/callback/self-reference The Dear Hunter makes in its Act series. Any help would great as I'm sure I've missed plenty of things (especially in acts IV and V), so if you know of any I've missed just say so and I'll add it to the list. I hope to update the list when Act VI comes out as well. |
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Act I: The Lake South, the River North
His Hands Matches His Tongue - 3:57 - “Sing softly bring me to the lake” recurring lyrics from 3:42 of The Pimp and the Priest |
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Act II: The Meaning of, & All Things Regarding Ms. Leading
The Lake and the River -
"Everything you lived and died for, every reason leading you through here" is a call back to one of the first lines on 1878
5:47 - “She’s inanimate…” lyrics recurring from the chorus of The Procession |
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Act II: The Meaning of, & All Things Regarding Ms. Leading
The Oracle on the Delphi Express - 3:06 - Reprise of 5:46 on The Lake and the River |
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Act II: The Meaning of, & All Things Regarding Ms. Leading
The Church of and The Dime - 1:11 - “Faster, save me. Harder, I can’t breathe.” from The Pimp and the Priest. I think the song is also in the same key as The Pimp and the Priest. |
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Act II: The Meaning of, & All Things Regarding Ms. Leading
The Bitter Suite 1 and 2 - 4:27 - The harmonizing background vocals sing “Touch, taste, feel”, a line from The Inquiry Of Ms. Terri |
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Act II: The Meaning of, & All Things Regarding Ms. Leading
The Bitter Suite 3 - 3:38 - “She had a summer’s smile, with winter’s skin” lyrics from the intro of The Bitter Suite 1 and 2 |
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Act II: The Meaning of, & All Things Regarding Ms. Leading
Evicted -
Opening vocal melody takes from the guitar part at 3:58 of The Lake and the River
2:33 - “Hey, kid, get a job” from 4:17 on The Bitter Suite 1 and 2. |
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Act II: The Meaning of, & All Things Regarding Ms. Leading
Dear Ms. Leading - 1:50 - This little bridge part is the same thing that transitions The Procession into The Lake and the River |
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Act II: The Meaning of, & All Things Regarding Ms. Leading
Vital Vessle Vindicates -
2:36 -“We fall beneath the sea…”, the lines ends differently, but it’s a call back to the chant in The Bitter Suite 3
3:12 - “Sing softly bring me to the lake” again.
3:51 - The Flame is gone, the Fire remains” - recurring lyrics from Battesimo Del Fuoco
5:46 - Reprise of the end of City Escape |
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Act III: Life and Death
He Said He Has A Story - The guitar part at the intro and which recurs throughout the song sounds like it might be based on 2:06/outro of Mustard Gas |
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Act III: Life and Death
Father - The intro reprises the main tune of Vital Vessle Vindicates. |
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Act III: Life and Death
Life and Death - The piano outro is based on Son, especially the vocals on the middle section of Son. |
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Act IV: Rebirth in Reprise
Rebirth - 1:29 - same drum part from The Pimp and The Priest |
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Act IV: Rebirth in Reprise
Remembered - “The flame is gone, the fire remains” repeated throughout the song |
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Act IV: Rebirth in Reprise
A Night on the Town -
6:02 - Reprise of The Bitter Suite 3.
7:44 - Reprise of outro on Mustard Gas |
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Act IV: Rebirth in Reprise
Is There Anybody Here? - 4:26 - this slow build up sounds like an elongated version of the transition used at 0:46 of Smiling Swine |
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Act IV: Rebirth in Reprise
The Bitter Suite IV and V - “Hey, kid, get a job” reprised throughout the song. |
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Act V: Hymns With The Devil In Confessional
The Most Cursed of Hands / Who Am I -
The first section of the song is based on the outro of King of Swords
4:22 - The main guitar part played throughout He Said He Had A Story |
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Act V: Hymns With The Devil In Confessional
The March -
2:12 - Reprise of the chorus from The Old Haunt
2:43 - Transition is the same thing used at 0:46 on Smiling Swine.
3:15 - Reprise of King of Swords outro/The Most Cursed of Hands |
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Act V: Hymns With The Devil In Confessional
A Beginning - Same ending as City Escape/Vital Vessle Vindicates |
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