LemonMelon
More 5G Than Man
Green is their worst album up to Reveal.
Green is their worst album up to Reveal.
Still a number of great songs on it.
Up was worse.
Green is their worst album up to Reveal.
Green is their worst album up to Reveal.
Up was worse.
Up was worse.
It seems I'm one of the few here who doesn't have a high opinion of Up. It's certainly not bad, but I find it hard to ignore what a massive drop in quality and consistency it is from New Adventures. Up very much sounds to me like a band who has lost a major part of its identity.
I'd argue that they had some short-term inspiration precisely because of the loss of that major part of identity. Once the trauma of losing a band member and a fellow songwriter was gone or the shock had eased down and they started to get comfortable again, they've plummeted into mediocrity.
the analogy with r.e.m. And dm is not exact per se, but i can think of another band that has plummeted into mediocrity once they got back to a more organic sound and got really comfortable with it...
I'd argue that they had some short-term inspiration precisely because of the loss of that major part of identity. Once the trauma of losing a band member and a fellow songwriter was gone or the shock had eased down and they started to get comfortable again, they've plummeted into mediocrity.
The same thing happened with Depeche Mode. I think that losing Alan Wilder and everything else that went behind the scenes after Songs of Faith and Devotion did provide inspiration for a great record called Ultra, after which they never made a good album again.
The analogy with R.E.M. and DM is not exact per se...
Glad to know I'm not the only one hiving it up with their REM opinion, thinking their commercial breakthrough period was a step backwards.
Up would be stronger with a couple songs cut, but it has more GREAT songs than Green, which does itself have a few.
Up, Ultra, Pop and Pearl Jam's Binaural all belong to that group.
The only song on that list I don't like at all is Stand.
And I was also unaware they were previewing Out Of Time material back then.
Cool to see deep cuts like Good Advices too. Even if I still have no clue how that song goes.