Rabid's Video of the Week #4 - Absurd!st Movement by anomaly76

Welcome to video of the week, where I pick a random video from my exceptional playlist and talk about it in depth

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THIS WEEK'S VIDEO: #16

Absurd!st Movement by anomaly76


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ocit2cZ2Us8

This one sure goes back a ways!

Absurd!st Movement is credited as:
- The first scened quirk
- The source of anomaly's intro for his later tracks
- anomaly's only full-length, finished, scened track

To give you some perspective, this track was made after Switch, Cydonia and Make Believe and before DaPoe's World, Omniverse, and Monumental. Gravity wells had been invented only two months earlier, though the term "quirk" had been around for bit longer. (IRTL was 2 months old when this was released!)

In addition, it was really the first track to be scened in an abstract way. Anomaly was just like that - he did his own stuff and created trends along the way. I'm almost positive FlagCapper watched this while making Revolution, because there are SO many similarities.

In any case, there aren't many tracks that are still fun to watch three and a half years after release, but I think this is one. There also aren't very many early tracks on this list (because I didn't join the line rider community until about February 2007, around when gravity wells were invented) so that says something about how groundbreaking this track was.

This track was entered in the first ToC (which was held about 5 months after its release) It finished Round 1 ahead of "Black Sea" and "Super Mario Bros. 1-1" in Division B (out of 4 divisions). in the remaining 32 videos, it easily passed "Rated F", BARELY beat Super Line Rider World 2 (17 to 16), and was finally defeated by Black Sea (which went on to get second place), 25 to 29. This puts it in the Elite Eight of the original ToC. (and since Black Sea was second, it really could have been in the final four. That leaves its ranking somewhere between 8th and 3rd.

MY GOD I LOVE THIS TRACK

kbai

I remmember seeing this back in 07'

Good times.

Woah! I remember this being one of the first lr's I have ever seen, and it inspired me A LOT.

Unconed, TechDawg, ShadowNinja, Anomaly76, x612nt13, and OwlFlavored were my main/first inspirations.

there was one picture of this track i saw in like some sort of comercial for irtl, and it looked like something alien, and ever since then i have been trying and failing to scene something of an outer world.

anyway, good choice rabid, i watch this every know and again in my down time, love it and anomoly

This is one of my all-time faves as well

CHiH wrote:This is one of my all-time faves as well

This ^. I remember watching this when it came out. i wasnt even a member here yet

chaomocha wrote:good choice rabid

It was a random number between 1 and 137 lol.