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Old 05-28-2023, 02:15 PM   #211
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    Re: Do you like the album?

    Not as good as UTTAD, Crash, BTCS, BS or Big Whiskey And The GrooGrux King, but better than the rest.

    This is the correct take.

    I’m in this camp.
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    Old 05-30-2023, 03:04 PM   #213
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    Not as good as UTTAD, Crash, BTCS, BS or Big Whiskey And The GrooGrux King, but better than the rest.

    This is the correct take.

    I’m in this camp.
    I sort of agree, but I just think WATM is a better album than BS and BW. I can see myself returning to WATM more just to take the trip again, whereas the other two I haven't spun in years.
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    Old 05-30-2023, 04:06 PM   #214
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    Worst album, second only to Stand Up -- I will never listen to in it's entirety again -- No value, no worth, no OMG moments, zero production value, zero jams, it's just nothing...

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    Old 05-30-2023, 06:20 PM   #215
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    Worst album, second only to Stand Up -- I will never listen to in it's entirety again -- No value, no worth, no OMG moments, zero production value, zero jams, it's just nothing...

    Do you like it though?
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    Old 05-31-2023, 08:38 AM   #216
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    Old 05-31-2023, 08:41 AM   #217
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    Do you like it though?


    Guy is still looking for "some jams" on a 2023 DMB album, expectations are perhaps too high.

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    Old 05-31-2023, 08:56 AM   #218
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    I sort of agree, but I just think WATM is a better album than BS and BW. I can see myself returning to WATM more just to take the trip again, whereas the other two I haven't spun in years.
    The songs on BS are of course much better, but that album always fell flat with me. Too sparse of production and it never quite captured the raw emotion of LWS. The songs themselves are far and above anything on WATM, but WATM is a better album in listenability IMO. I'd put it under Big Whiskey but ahead of BS.

    Every time I put BS on, I'd rather just go listen to a live show with those songs on it. I also hate that WAYG ended up on the album in place of SUAD, JTR or Monkey Man.. Just a terrible addition that interrupts the flow of that album. That song more than anything DMB has done will always be elevator muzak to me. It's fine as a solo song, but it was the first song post Everyday where I was like Dave has lost it. But then we also got YNK.. Which is one of his best.

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    Old 05-31-2023, 11:42 AM   #219
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    The album is great. I have no complaints. I've been listening on repeat. I went to both Texas shows and I felt that all of the new songs crossed over into the live setting very well and some have already further developed. It doesn't sound like old DMB but I didn't expect it to. They will never be able to recapture that sound without Roi. It sounds like the band as they currently are, which is still great. With WATM, I feel like you can hear the renewed energy and it comes across live as well. AFTW was their attempt at sounding like old DMB. While they succeeded in sounding the most like old DMB, it severely lacked any energy or passion. AFTW is just blah. There was no soul in that album. They were just going through the motions.
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    Definitely better than the last two albums.
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    Re: Do you like the album?

    Yes, I like it and find myself listening to the whole album more than I have with the last few albums.

    Ranks behind big 3/LWS/BS, but I place it firmly ahead of SU, BW, AFTW, and CT. Middle of the pack with ED.

    My gripe is that several of the songs are just too short.


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    I think WATM has some of Dave’s most effortlessly good songwriting since Busted Stuff. There are times on BW, SU, AFTW and CT where he is realllllly straining and some of those records can be pretty ham fisted. Not many clunkers here, just really solid east listening.
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    The album is great. I have no complaints. I've been listening on repeat. I went to both Texas shows and I felt that all of the new songs crossed over into the live setting very well and some have already further developed. It doesn't sound like old DMB but I didn't expect it to. They will never be able to recapture that sound without Roi. It sounds like the band as they currently are, which is still great. With WATM, I feel like you can hear the renewed energy and it comes across live as well. AFTW was their attempt at sounding like old DMB. While they succeeded in sounding the most like old DMB, it severely lacked any energy or passion. AFTW is just blah. There was no soul in that album. They were just going through the motions.
    Good post.

    This is exactly how I feel as well, particularly your take with AFTW. Its simply lifeless to me and while there are some standout tracks, its in the bottom tier of DMB albums for me. WATM has risen to a top 5 album for me.
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    Not particularly. It's better than CT, as low of a bar as that may be.
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    Can not believe the AFTW hate.
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    It's the worst album to date imo. At first I didn't care for it at all, but It Could Happen has grown on me. The Ocean and the Butterfly as well.
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    It's finally started to grow on me a bit, but still somewhere in the bottom 4 for me (SU still hands down the bottom). Big 3, BS, BW, and maybe Everyday still rank higher.
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    I find the only songs I've really been going to after a few weeks are watm, break free, monsters and tot. Aywwt I think does have the best lyrics of the album, but the chorus is just brutal. Madman’s Eyes to me just unlistenable.

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    Aywwt I think does have the best lyrics of the album, but the chorus is just brutal.
    If the quiet first part were it's own song I'd love it. As soon as the bumbling chorus comes and Dave is singing about all the little boys and girls again I hate it.
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    Its ok. Still bottom two overall for me.
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    If the quiet first part were it's own song I'd love it. As soon as the bumbling chorus comes and Dave is singing about all the little boys and girls again I hate it.
    I feel the same way. I don't even understand how he settled on that chorus with those beginning lyrics. I'd rather the chorus be instrumental than what it is. It could have been such a good song.
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    I feel the same way. I don't even understand how he settled on that chorus with those beginning lyrics. I'd rather the chorus be instrumental than what it is. It could have been such a good song.
    Again, if you compare it to the style of say Happiness is Warm Gun, it's intent is just a mish mash. It's not really meant to be a coherent thought. It's just fun/interesting.

    Not trying to force you to like it, and perhaps this is the very reason you don't anyways.
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    Again, if you compare it to the style of say Happiness is Warm Gun, it's intent is just a mish mash. It's not really meant to be a coherent thought. It's just fun/interesting.

    Not trying to force you to like it, and perhaps this is the very reason you don't anyways.
    I get the Beatles vibe and the white album is my favorite Beatles album, so I get what you are saying. I definitely think it is supposed to be a coherent thought. It seemed as if the song was going on an introspective path at first, think maybe I am I said and then just got mailed in.
    I don't have children though, so maybe I would feel differently if I did. Although I am a teacher and basically take the principles from Buster's school that children should neither be seen or heard, especially on the weekends. Happiness is a warm gun is a much better song though.
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    I like it. Comfortably falls in with Big Whiskey and Away from the World.

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    I get the Beatles vibe and the white album is my favorite Beatles album, so I get what you are saying. I definitely think it is supposed to be a coherent thought. It seemed as if the song was going on an introspective path at first, think maybe I am I said and then just got mailed in.
    I don't have children though, so maybe I would feel differently if I did. Although I am a teacher and basically take the principles from Buster's school that children should neither be seen or heard, especially on the weekends. Happiness is a warm gun is a much better song though.
    Oh by far it is. I just think Dave used it as his reasoning to make such a weird song. I happen to enjoy it. But I can sympathize as to anyone that doesn't.
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    I like it. Comfortably falls in with Big Whiskey and Away from the World.

    Big Three

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    BW/AFTW/WATM
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    Still way better than AFTW IMO. AFTW is better than Stand Up, but worse than CT.

    Big 3/LWS -

    Big Whiskey
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    CT








    AFTW





















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    Oh by far it is. I just think Dave used it as his reasoning to make such a weird song. I happen to enjoy it. But I can sympathize as to anyone that doesn't.
    I can definitely understand that reasoning with everything after, I just don't get it with aywwt
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