Lights of Home
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LadySpinHead
Refugee
I prefer the album cut. I usually always dig the strings version if anything, but this one fell flat for me. Prefer the original.
Yes.
CosmoKramer
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We need to take this to a vote!!!
Taste Great - Strings
Less Filling - Album Cut
(BTW- If you get the above reference then you are old)
I vote Strings.
Taste Great - Strings
Less Filling - Album Cut
(BTW- If you get the above reference then you are old)
I vote Strings.
Super Yo
New Yorker
“Lights Of Home” has the potential to be epic live.
A truly classic.
A truly classic.
Rachel D.
Rock n' Roll Doggie VIP PASS
I really like the Strings version, but the album version is a better fit with the other songs.
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Scorpionac
War Child
Album version for me. It sounds more like the band playing together in a room, which I prefer to something that sounds like it relies on other performers (the strings). The only thing I really miss from the strings version is the deep, menacing piano notes in the chorus.
Album.
super fly guy
New Yorker
Album.
Super Yo
New Yorker
Album
lazarus
Blue Crack Supplier
I don't think it fits with the song before it in any way. Spacy synth sounds and ruminating Bono to a little blues lick?
prbiker15
Blue Crack Addict
Definitely the original album version.
Seems to be a “coming back from the dead” type of song. Love the inclusion of “Free yourself to be yourself” at the end.
Seems to be a “coming back from the dead” type of song. Love the inclusion of “Free yourself to be yourself” at the end.
kiwilad
Refugee
Definitely the strings version. By a long way
Yahweh_OMG
New Yorker
Album too
And by the way NLOTH 2 is better than NLOTH imo
And by the way NLOTH 2 is better than NLOTH imo
Roland of Gilead
Gunslinger
Album gives me what I want.
Rachel D.
Rock n' Roll Doggie VIP PASS
It fits with the ones after it. The first song is not like anything else on the album; it’s kind of a Prologue and 13 is the Epilogue, with the “actual” album of 11 songs in between. Or that’s how I see it.
mikal
Blue Crack Addict
While I don’t know that musically, the song fits well in the 2nd slot, lyrically it does. Really sets the tone of the album.
lazarus
Blue Crack Supplier
I think the sing-along at the end is odd coming so early in the album. I love it but it feels like something that belongs much later.
mikal
Blue Crack Addict
Yeah I tried a different tracklist essentially swapping Lights Of Home and The Blackout. Not sure if it worked that late in the album either though.
I don't get this idea that it doesn't fit musically after Love Is All We Have Left
mikal
Blue Crack Addict
I wouldn’t say it’s that bad or anything. I just think the Blackout works really well there.
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Scorpionac
War Child
Agreed.
I don't think there's anything wrong with the transition between Love is All We Have Left and Lights. It might sound a bit jarring, but maybe that's the point.
lazarus
Blue Crack Supplier
So basically they could put any song after LIAWHL and you'd think it was a fine transition?
It. Doesn't. Flow.
It. Doesn't. Flow.
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Scorpionac
War Child
Nope.
Yeah, it doesn't. But there's more to sequencing an album than making sure every song is sonically similar to the songs that come before and after it. And I like that the transition is jarring, which I alluded to previously. Anyway, have fun with your alternate track list, no one's telling you your idea is wrong.
MrPryck2U
ONE love, blood, life
This is one of the 5 Star songs on the album for me. I think it works well after Love Is All... and kicks the album into high gear. Dig the St. Peter's Strings Mix too, but prefer the album cut.
It does flow.
Two things come to mind - the start of Pearl Jam's Ten, where the meandering master/slave is interrupted by Once, and in U2 world, Ode To Joy into Zoo Station.
I do agree that the 1st and 13th tracks act as a defacto introduction and epilogue, and no, not every song would work after Love Is All We Have Left. This one does, because of just how jarring the entrance is, and the theme of the song.
Two things come to mind - the start of Pearl Jam's Ten, where the meandering master/slave is interrupted by Once, and in U2 world, Ode To Joy into Zoo Station.
I do agree that the 1st and 13th tracks act as a defacto introduction and epilogue, and no, not every song would work after Love Is All We Have Left. This one does, because of just how jarring the entrance is, and the theme of the song.
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