Ludo/YMMV

• Crowning Moment of Awesome:
  • One tour video shows them on a day off, building and igloo. Once they're finished, long after the sun's set, they get their instruments and play a song in it.

Matt: Why did we do this today?
Andrew: Why didn't we do this every day?

• • In the final lines of "Rotten Town" (which involves a chorus of voices singing the lyrics in a round, already Crowning Music of Awesome material alone), Andrew Volpe holds one last note for a total of 24 seconds. He must breathe through his ears.
• Crowning Moment of Heartwarming:
  • "Anything for You." C'mon, admit it.
  • The protagonist's motivations throughout the entire Broken Bride album. He spends 15 years defying physics to build a time machine, not for fame, not for profit, but to bring back his deceased wife.
  • A real life example with the birth of Andrew's kid.
• Crowning Music of Awesome:
  • The last chorus of "Save Our City" counts. Oh yes.
  • There's also the reprise of Part 1 at the climax of "The Lamb and the Dragon".
  • This troper gets tingles when she listens to the Broken Bride album at all. Also, "Lake Pontchartrain."
  • I especially love "Cyborgs vs Robots". And "Skeletons on Parade".
  • Okay, can we all just agree that really any song coming from Ludo is a Crowning Music of Awesome? It'll save a lot of time, folks.
• Fetish Fuel: This video in general is... interesting... but Tim Ferrel, with his glasses and his hair? Mmmm~
  • A lot of Andrew's appeal come from the precarious balance he strikes between this, Nightmare Fuel and Adorkability. That and Refuge in Audacity.
• Ho Yay: A video in their tour blog features them all crossdressing. At one point, Matt Palermo strokes Andrew's behind. Andrew's only reaction is to tell him to not stop.
  • Andrew gets up to a lot of this really. Seems like he can't go a single tour diary without making out with a bandmate's elbow onstage, or just standing around holding onto their pelvic bones..."really hard".
• Misaimed Fandom: "The Horror Of Our Love" is not supposed to be romantic. It's about murder, rape, necrophilia, and cannibalism, disguised behind a sweet melody to create eerie Lyrical Dissonance. But because it sounds pretty, people think it's the sweetest love song ever. There are Youtube comments of people saying they plan to dance to this song on their wedding.
  • OH MY GOD. Why would anybody think that it was romantic in the first place? Did they even LISTEN to the lyrics?
  • While I think we can all agree that 'Horror' isn't exactly the most romantic song and certainly not one you should be playing in front of close friends and family, the actual meaning of the song isn't quite so macabre. Andrew Volpe stated on a Youtube video of the song (found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d25xlurNV0s) that it was actually, in essence, about feeling love so strongly for someone that you wish to be connected with them at all times, mentally, physically, spiritually, etc. So yeah, the lyrics are still creepy and the fangirls are still delusional, but the real intent behind the song is kind of beautiful.
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • The Horror of Our Love. So Yandere and twisted it's guaranteed to create some nightmares.
  • Lake Pontchartrain when you realise the Fridge Horror aspect. Hell, even without that - vengeful, murderous, crawfish ghosts who comandere radio signals and forces of nature to trick you into driving to your watery doom? Scary as shit.
  • Save Our City may qualify at the zombie verse, as may The lamb and the Dragon when it describes the dying earth.
• Tear Jerker: "Morning in May", "I'll Never be Lonely Again"
  • "Safe in the Dark". Tim Ferrell's sister commented on a video with this: "This song is about when our dad passed away. Its not about vampires or werewolfs or boyfriends or bandmemebers dying. Its about when our dad first got sick with MG and how we dealt with it."
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks: How some fans are reacting to Andrew's side project, Hot Problems, because he's writing pop songs rather than a second rock opera.