Best part of one of the best songs ever. 

this is easily the best song ever, if anyone doesn't agree they are wrong

Totally awesome music, remind me when I was stuck in Philippine fight NPA, was able to take a break at bar

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"Light Up The Night" is featured on Act II: The Father Of Death. 

It is also featured on Terminator The Second (Original Soundtrack).

Light Up The Night

The Big Roar

Whirring

Good Fight

The Protomen - Act II - The Fall

Red Vs Blue-Jeff Williams-The More (Explicit)-Lyrics

This one is about a girl meeting a boy at a bar in Boston called Foley's. Vale Deah might be about a member of Trocadero, but since no one in the band could remember ever being at Foley's, it's probably not.  This was one of the early songs where Wendy really outdid herself on both creating a beautiful, creamy soundscape on the verses, as well as pushing the envelope (pun intended) of the Moog on her intense solo to close the tune.
You can hear Vale Deah over the credits of the RvB Season 1 DVD, as well as Bungie's ViDoc "Oh Brave New World." 

Lyrics:
I somehow knew you were there
Lookin' like you didn't care
I reached for the change in my pocket
I counted the change in my pocket

I wanted to buy you a beer 
I somehow knew you were near
The bartender said it's okay...

Credits:
Trocadero: Words & music
Nico: Danelectro baritone guitar, vocals 
Wendy: Moog Opus 3, vocals 
Brandon: Drums, Moog Taurus pedals

Vale Deah

This one is kind of a departure for us. While we've flirted with disco in the past, we've never really tried to make out with the genre. Don't worry, we won't do it again. This tune also distinguishes itself from our other material as having a guest musician: Guitarist Philadelphia Telepants recorded a beautiful, blistering solo to close this song.

Lyrics:
Gun metal green 
Prettiest that I've seen 
I've nothing to hide
And you've nothing to hide

I'd trust you at the wheel,
Even if we're going down
Our love is made of steel
Last us 'til the underground
Steady and surreal, 
In a world of lost and found

Took out the trash
Paid my bills all in cash
Nothing to hide
And it's summer outside

I'd trust you at the wheel,
Even if we're going down
Our love is made of steel
Last us til the underground
Steady and surreal, 
In a world of lost and found
Trust you at the wheel,
Know you'll keep us safe and sound

We don't need a key
We were already free
Cruising along
To a mexican song

Credits
Trocadero: Words & music
Nico: Danelectro baritone guitar, drums, vocals
Wendy: Kurtzweil K2661, vocals
Philadelphia: Fender guitar


Steady Ride (Gun Metal Green)

You're hanging with someone who acts like an alien, you've played too much Space Invaders (Taito version, of course), the lines start getting blurred... 

Lyrics:
It’s time for you to know
Call this an early warning
My late resignation

It seems all systems are go
for this emergency transmission
3....2....1.....zero

You are like a Space Invader
You crippled all my cities
To waste and desolation

You are like a Space Invader
And by your own admission
You’re a human hater

This game is over...

All of the words that you said, were a lie, Invader
Coming down. 

Credits:
Trocadero: Words & music
Nico: Danelectro baritone guitar, Yairi baritone guitar, vocals 
Wendy: Moog Opus 3, Piano, Kurtzweil K2661, vocals 
Brandon: Drums, Moog Taurus pedals

Space Invader

It's kind of a Boston hurrah type of song. Not really about booty calls, but more about leafing through your address book while doing shots. Dated, since no one has address books anymore, not ones made of paper anyway. Don't get too attached to the keyboard solo -- a different one is played at each performance.  You can hear a bit of (517) in that old RvB episode where, uh, the puma tries to kill sarge.

Lyrics:
213 girls talk too much
And 212 boys not enough
312s are very bold
Man 206 gets way too cold
Doing shots I'm all alone
I slur my words after the tone

And I drink and I call...

I can't stand to be alone...
Save me on the telephone.

419s they hate the phone
And 208s are never home
And all my lovers they have voice mail
They call me back, they give me hell!

And I drink and I call...

I've dialed the numbers, dialed them all
But nothing beats, a local call

617 boys, hmm, 617 girls, hmm
617 boys, hmm, 617 girls, hmm

Credits:
Trocadero + Susan Hsia: Words & music
Nico: Danelectro baritone guitar, vocals
Wendy: Moog Opus 3, CasioTone, vocals
Brandon: Drums


(617)

Words can't even begin to describe the depth and power of Alan Moore's Watchmen and neither can music, but we had to try. This tune features original Trocaderist Susan Hsia, who co-wrote it. Sadly, she left the band for inconsequential things like Harvard, work, love and marriage.  Superhero appears in Episode 28 of RvB

Lyrics:
True American love,
Is like a green Coke bottle
They don't make it anymore
Part of me died back in '64...

I want to be a superhero
I've got a mask I've got a name
Your days calling me freak are numbered
Don't bother with surrender

We were so wrong
All dressed up, with somewhere to go
We wanted to do right, but
The costume fits just a little too tight...

I want to be a superhero
(I want to be a superwoman)

I don't have any super-powers
(I'll hang out with my super girlfriends)

I want to be a superhero, I don't need any super...
(Talk about our days)

I'm gonna be a superhero
I don't need (have) any super-powers

Your days calling me freak are numbered
(and pushing me around, well)

My broken heart's a super-power
(they're over, they're over, over)

Credits:
Trocadero + Susan Hsia: Words & music
Nico: Danelectro baritone guitar, vocals
Susan: Moog Opus 3, CasioTone, vocals
Brandon: Drums


Superhero

Nico: Susan and I used to really get into the X Files (we started around seaon 3.) The tension and chemisty between the two protagonists was just so tangible... the piano theme at the beginning was played on a Casiotone -- I swear it beats a 9 1/2 foot Steinway in this context.

Lyrics:
With my games, and your games
And the rules we hate the same
And my breath, and your breath
As I hear you call my name

Like two parts, face to face
And the whole, falls into place
All as one...

With my dad, and your dad
And the gin, they never had
And my rules, and your rules
And your heart, and mine it cools
Beating hard... 

Follow the truth, follow the lies
Nobody wins, everything dies...

With your art, and my art
To instigate, a change of heart
And your heart, and your mind
And your body, next to mine

Credits:
Trocadero + Susan Hsia: Words & music
Nico: Danelectro baritone guitar, vocals
Wendy: Moog Opus 3, CasioTone, vocals
Brandon: Drums, Moog Taurus pedals

All As One

Nico: they say it's easy to write about it if you've lived it. I guess that's true. This tune has two things which save it from being a complete YAID (Yet Another Indie Dirge): Wendy's awesome string arrangement, and, to use the words of mastering engineer Mark Donahue: "the loudest twenty seconds I've mastered this year."

Lyrics:
In love, in need, in want, in miss
I taste your bite, I taste your kiss
And I think back, the things you said
They make me mad, a bull to red

And I wonder where you are
And I wonder what you wore
And I'm lost inside a bar
And I'm drunk inside a war…

Drinking Martinis by myself
On a Sunday
Drinking Martinis again
On a Monday

It's a half life...

I buy your brand, I smoke your brand
I count the what ifs on one hand...

Drinking Martinis alone
Sunday morning
Drinking Martinis again
Sunday evening

Credits:
Trocadero + Susan Hsia: Words & music
Nico: Danelectro baritone guitar, vocals
Wendy: Moog Opus 3, violin, viola, vocals
Brandon: Drums
Karen Langlie: Cello


Half Life

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"The Hounds" from "Act II - The Father of Death"

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