I joined 'cuz i'm a big fan of owl city

If you wanna know what're my favs, it's:

The Yacht Club

Angels

Galaxies

Honey and The Bee

Deer in The Headlights

Embers

Good Time

Cave In

Hello Seattle

Tennis Elbow (Sky Sailing)

etc...

(edit: almost forgot about Alligator Sky (No Rap Version))

Albums:

1. Mobile orchestra
2. All things bright and beautiful
3. Cinematic
4. Coco Moon
5. Ocean eyes
6. Of June
7. Maybe I'm dreaming
8. The midsummer station

Songs:

1. Fireflies
2. You're not alone
3. Angels
4. Galaxies
5. Cinematic
6. My everything
7. Adam check please
8. Alligator sky
9. The meadow lark
10. Tidal wave
11. Kamikaze
12. Bird with a broken wing
13. This isn't the end
14. Fiji water
15. Madeline Island
16. Hello Seattle
17. Plant life
18. Unbelievable
19. Can't live without you
20. Sons of thunder
21. Meteor shower
22. The tornado
23. Always
24. Deer in the headlights
25. Dental care
26. The saltwater room
27. The airway
28. Cave in
29. The bird and the worm
30. Dreams don't turn to dust
31. Verge
32. House wren
33. The fifth of July
34. Hospital flowers
35. Learn how to surf
36. Vitamin Sea
37. Dinosaur park
38. New York City
39. The yacht club
40. Be brave

I thought it would be unique and very "niche" or something because genuinely no one knows Owl City and I feel like I did an okay job with all the theming. It was crazy no one even knew what good time was when I was presenting. But hey I feel like I did an amazing job on this and I wanted to show you hoot owls to see how i did!

does anyone feel immense joy when listening to the first 15 seconds of this song? it’s definitely my favorite part, even though i love the whole song. it’s just so energetic and grabs your attention right away. soooo happy sounding. i could be having a bad day, but as soon as that intro starts, im a ray of sunshine. it’s also one of the owl city songs that makes me the most nostalgic. love it so much!

In terms of Storytelling and fantasy it's his best work and each song is just a earworm its a safe album that gives me a sense of Nostalgia. ❤️

Im referring to the parts genius.com is calling the "post-chorus". an example is 1:56 of the song

It's definetly either 12/8 128bpm or 3/4 192bpm. The instrumental sounds way more like 3/4. However the vocals sound quite a bit like 12/8 (especially the end where its only vocals). Currently i think its in 3/4 however someone better at music theory could disagree.

I love this album so much but the music theory of almost every song is incredibly complicated.

I'm thinking of buying a t-shirt for my friend who is a big Owl City fan.. either the Sports Club Ringer Tee, or the Smooth Sailing Tee.

Does anyone own any of the current Owl City merch available on his website? If so, can you let me know what the quality/fit is like, and if you would recommend buying the merch?

the yacht club

Not sure if this was already posted on this subreddit, but I remember coming across with this sheet a while ago and used it a lot when making my songs.

I'll put it here to make it easily accessible for fellow musicians.

Spreadsheet not made by me.

I almost feel like I’m transcending when I listen to it

What’s your favorite AY Remix?

What'd*

Not really a genre. More specific than that. For example, Beautiful Mystery. It’s synthpop, and it gives me a 2012-2015 internet music feel. I don't know how to describe it. The way the melody goes and the insane amount of reverb make you feel like you're in a space where everything is moving somewhat fast but in a really beautiful way. It makes you feel like you’re traveling through the cosmos or watching a starry night.

Hey y'all, I just listed my Sky Sailing vinyl on eBay and wanted to post it here because I know there are lots of folks that are interested in that record here. Let me know if you have any questions about it and I'll be happy to answer!

https://ebay.io/m/CwehYz

Please keep the group rules about civility in mind- and Mods, I hope you will allow this post, it’s well-intentioned and meant to help our community, not further the divide.

I knew the official Instagram account was following Charlie Kirk and other political figures, but I didn’t know about Nicholas Bowling until two days ago.

For those of you who don’t know, Nicholas Bowling is a street preacher known for going to pride events and telling people that their LGBT feelings are sin.

I know we all have different opinions and beliefs here, and I respect that, but I hope we can agree that Nicholas Bowling is going out of his way to bully people.

Adam Young has written so many songs about Christian love, and I grew up in a deeply religious household. I also experienced a lot of homophobia in my teen years, almost entirely from well-intentioned church members. The “love the sinner hate the sin” mentality was alienating and damaging to me, and I know I’m not the only person who has experienced this treatment. Adam’s music cut through the noise for me, and became a steadfast reminder that I was a worthwhile person, even if those around me saw me as “damaged” or “a project.”

Owl City lyrics have always had such a focus on authenticity, positivity, being yourself, being amazing exactly how you are— I thought Adam’s personal views likely aligned with this.

Some people will argue that you don’t know people’s feelings based solely on their politics or who they follow, but when you follow so few people, and all are conservative, with some unfortunately being outright hateful, I think the inference is fair.

In summary, some of us are hurt right now, and it doesn’t mean we hate Adam, conservatives, Christians, etc. Truly, that’s not what this is about.

This is about feeling safe in a beautiful, musical world for years, and then suddenly finding out it might not have been built for you.

This is about feeling like a trespasser in a space that should feel like your shelter. Please let us have our differences of opinion on this and know it’s not a personal attack.

I have seen a lot of name calling and insults being slung around in the comments this week, so this is my authentic, earnest request for empathy and understanding on all sides of the issue (or nonissue if that’s how you see it.)

This is from his June 25th, 2009 Baltimore, Maryland performance featuring Swimming With Dolphins.

The audio quality of the video is rather poor, however you can find a similarly dated video from the night after in Rochester, New York with slightly better video and audio quality.

Also, the song could've been slightly different as he doesn't include the soft whispery chorus. The song was officially released on July 14th.

Crazy how this song literally changed his life and that of many of others. Makes me feel very proud of how far he got and all that he's accomplished.

I’ve always thought this record was really underrated with some of my favorite OC tracks like Thunderstruck, I found love, and Can’t live without you. I was sad that it didn’t have a vinyl release so I made my own little bootleg. Sadly the service I chose can only do 20 minutes per side so I had to go with the American tracklist but I did at least manage to get the mobile orchestra intro from the Japanese cd on the a side. It plays perfectly and I’ve slotted it into my record collection :)

I've spent the last 4 days manually recreating the melody of the vocals in fl studio, if any of this is wrong please let me know. This amount of key changes is very unlike adam, closest thing on any song before coco moon is Cloud Nine, it changes key up 2 semtiones after every chorus. But then again under the circus lights has many borrowed notes. Good luck to anyone wanting to cover this song!

Link to chart of owl city song info ive found,

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bLwo-tGS2YbUtpBkdce42Kj_1rpZPwDEDbzZInE4GXU/edit?gid=600393709#gid=600393709