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Originally Posted by KevinTH5
Don't know how I feel about this yet. Which can be a good thing for me. Some songs are like Grey Street and knock me on my ass the first time I hear it. Some songs are like Sugar Will and takes me a lot of listening to like and appreciate what I'm hearing. I like the lyrics for sure. My biggest thing is the guitar solo. I think the song had me up until then. Someone else said it would make for a good Boyd solo and I agree completely. The second Tim amped up I thought, crap, I could hear a sick Boyd solo here.
Another thing though...I feel as though some people are "loving" some of these songs for the sheer fact that Lillywhite was involved. I think, so far, these songs are about on par with Big Whiskey and in a year or two everyone will be bitching about them. People seem to forget that A LOT of people thought Big Whiskey was the bands come back and some even called it Big 4 material. Not saying I hate the new stuff, just an observation. I truly believe if Lillywhite were behind Everyday everyone would have loved it and called it genius. "Lillywhite got them to try something new. He's the greatest". He might be, but the band has to write the songs, not him.
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I think one of the interesting things so far is the diverse reactions to everything, like i love gaucho and think musically its great...now the riff comes along and i am really feeling there's attention to the music, not just the production, but the riff is a pretty phenomenal song musically...we had that with big whiskey, songs like shake me and seven are phenomenal musically but their lyrics were turds
I def feel these songs are well thought out and more mature, even mercy, seems like a simple song, but lyrically and melodically its great, dave's vocals are great...now granted theres 6 songs to go that will tip the album from what we have right now which is nothing crazy but good to possibly big 4 or possibly disappointment....that clip of drunken soldier sure as hell has me excited
the riff musically is what i was hoping from dmb, gaucho was the return to writing great riffs and the jam at the end (with or without the kids) was def a band showing off their chops a bit....now the riff is a song where attention was paid to every aspect of the song, the timing is ridiculous, carter has a difficult job, the songs dynamic, the chorus is catchy and melodic but the lyrics are deep... I don't think the band has written a song of this quality musically since you never know