thavidesco
Refugee
I never understood their idea that Staring has some potential to be grand. I mean the sound of the electric guitar and the arpeggiated refrain was excellent, but the rest is quite mediocre. And they killed this good part on the tour by doing an acoustic version, which was a snooze festival, U2 sounding like Oasis or Travis. Terrible moment...
Anyway in the end I liked the album more than the desperate attempt to remix it for Best of. I remember version of Gone that is sooo butchered by trying to be more rock n rolly and using vocals from 97 and 01, that was really baaad mish mash... The same counts for Staring...attempt to push it closer to live version. Not good at all. At least new mix of Discotheque was okay, I especially liked the new intro more.
Anyway in the end I liked the album more than the desperate attempt to remix it for Best of. I remember version of Gone that is sooo butchered by trying to be more rock n rolly and using vocals from 97 and 01, that was really baaad mish mash... The same counts for Staring...attempt to push it closer to live version. Not good at all. At least new mix of Discotheque was okay, I especially liked the new intro more.