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twochordcool said:
Overwrought?
I think that is what makes music and art successful - if it DOES makes you FEEL something.
Me personally, I usually begin with Running To Stand Still because I hear the first 3 songs on the radio quite a lot, and to me, they can get played out!
But that doesn't make them bad songs at all!
Personally, I think the album goes uphill after those first 3 songs - I think the best songs on that CD are the not-so-obvious songs that are never on the radio!
What are you faves?
Which can you do without?!
Why I don't often like songs I consider overwrought is that so often the singer is emoting so much that I can't possible get that into it...it's kind of like walking in on someone masturbating -- you just want to leave and let him have his moment. Whereas if it's done more subtly it's like being seduced. I'd much rather be seduced than walk in on a guy jacking off.
Anyway... on to JT songs I like and don't really like. It's an excellent album. I don't really think there are any completely shit songs on here and if someone else loves every song...well, I certainly understand that. But there are songs I would rather skip now. So what I'm gonna do is list the songs I would burn to a disc for steady play.
1) Where the Streets Have No Name -- nearly didn't make the cut. I like the song, but think I would get really tired of it if I played it too often. Then again, being the first song it would be very easy to skip if I did get tired of it, so I would keep it.
2) With or Without You -- I actually love this song. It has been overplayed, but since I haven't listened to the radio except on rare occasions in a decade or so, I don't really get the over saturation. It is a bit overwrought, but the kind of creepy, obsessive nature of the song (you have to admit someone who says "I can't live with or without you" is pretty creepy and obsessive) saves it and gives it that delightfully chilling quality.
3) Running To Stand Still -- I like the quiet desperation of this one. And how it builds up -- swirling and pulsing only to die off at the end. Nice. This one's a keeper.
4) Red Hill Mining Town -- A bit overblown, but despite that I've always like this song. It reminds me a bit of Bullet the Blue Sky, but works better for me. Probably that it is less political and more personal.
5) In God's Country -- A great song for driving. Very visual -- that really makes the song for me.
6) One Tree Hill -- I can feel the exquisite beauty and yet the intense anguish. I like that juxtaposition of beauty and pain... of life and death -- and the ultimate sense of peace. At least that's what I feel in listening to it.
7) Exit -- this one kind of has a psychedelic feel to it, it's pretty damned trippy. I love that. The build up to the wall of noise is great (as is the wall of noise itself), and that incessant, kind of irritating noise slithering along underneath -- I like that a lot. The vocals are used more as another instrument than as a stand alone feature...the song come across to me more as an instrumental. I hear the lyrics, but they don't really seem to have much meaning outside giving the song more texture.
8) Mothers of the Disappeared -- Not the best song they've ever done, but a good end song. Kind of brings you down and eases you out. This one I could actually take or leave depending on my mood.
And the songs that wouldn't make the cut for me are: Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For; Bullet the Blue Sky; and Trip Through Your Wires. Where the Streets Have No Name and Mothers of the Disappeared are more can take or leave them songs for me.
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Hate it!
