Double Experience is a geek rock band from Ottawa, Canada, formed in 2011 by vocalist/bassist Ian Nichols and guitarist Brock Tinsley. Their recent album, Unsaved Progress, was released in 2016 and spawned their most successful song to date, a Destiny-centric song entitled "The Glimmer Shot".
Members
- Ian Nichols - lead vocals, bass (2014 - present)
- Brock Tinsley - guitar, backing vocals (2014 - present)
Discography
- "721835" (2014)
- "Unsaved Progress" (2016)
- "Alignments" (2020)
- "Undefeated" (2024)
They provide examples of the following tropes:
- Affectionate Parody: The music video for “Your Biggest Fan” is nearly a shot-for-shot parody of Rob Reiner’s “Misery”
- A.I. Is a Crapshoot: The lyrics for the song "AI Freaks Me Out" contain multiple paranoid theories about robots.
- Audience Participation Song:
- "Godzilla". Most typically, the audience sing the chorus vocal, specifically the “go-go-Godzilla” chant.
- Be Yourself - their song “Bill Murray” is a perfect example of this, featuring the lyric "What's the point in trying to be someone that I can't be?"
- Brain Uploading: "Ghost in the Machine" is all about abandoning human bodies for digital immortality.
- Call-Back: In the Destiny-inspired song "Figured You Out" the singer makes reference to "whispering wild theories", the same as as in their original Destiny-inspired song "The Glimmer Shot", where the singeer had "divined wild theories"
- The Cameo: Fred Mascherino (from Taking Back Sunday) plays a guitar solo on “Goddamn Mimetic Business”.
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Character Alignment: The theme of the entire album Alignments; it contains a song about all nine Dungeons & Dragons alignments. - Cover Version:
- “Godzilla” by Blue Öyster Cult
- "Don't Stop Me Now" by Queen (Band)
- "Buddy Holly" by Weezer
- and inexplicably "The Edge of Night" by Peregrin Pippin Took
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- Drugs Are Bad: “Strange Acquaintance” contains the scientific explanation of addiction in the opening stanza.
- Double-Meaning Title: “S O F I Ne” is written about chemistry pertaining to Intercourse with You, while the chorus uses chemical elements to spell the title; sulfur, oxygen, fluorine, iodine, neon.
- Leet Lingo: The album title 721835 is l33t for the word “tribes”.
- Lead Bassist: Vocalist Ian Nichols is also the band's bassist.
- Longest Song Goes Last: The modest 4:16 track "Alignments" from the album of the same name. Interestingly, it is preceeded by the shortest song in the band's original catalogue, "The Imp".
- Looped Lyrics: The chorus lyrics of "Jet Black" are recursive.
- Non-Appearing Title: Lots of these. "Gambit", "Strange Acquaintance", "Horror Beyond Imagination", “The Glimmer Shot”, “Impasse”, “Exposure Exposure”, "Ghost in the Machine"
- Precision F-Strike: nearly one on each album. "Weakened Warriors" on Unsaved Progress, "The Imp" on Alignments, and "Top of the World" on Undefeated.
- Punny Name: “Weakened Warrior”
- Scatting: The beginning of “Horror Beyond Imagination”.
- Shout-Out: “AAA” includes a reference to the House of TARG, an arcade from the band's hometown of Ottawa.
- Reveal Shot: In the video for "Godzilla", the band tease the titular creature only to reveal that it's really a costumed-bulldog wrecking havoc on the city.
- Rock Trio: Not originally, but the sound of the modern line up has shifted to this.
- The Power of Rock: "Exposure Exposure" has a repetitive hook and message about living and dying for the genre, while the bridge veers into Hymn to Music territory.
- Title Track:
- "Alignments"
- "Undefeated"
- Uncommon Time: Their song “Horror Beyond Imagination” is predominantly in 7/4
- A Wild Rapper Appears!: MC Lars on the band's song "Your Biggest Fan"
