Well, I had hopes! Because some of these songs, to be quite honest, sound a lot better live, without all the trimmings and trappings they tossed on top in the studio. I feel like I probably would have liked the album they had before they ever went to Abbey road much better. I much preferred the live performances of Fever to the album itself - I think my Live In Denver tracks have twice as many plays as the actual album ones.
I suppose it is a forgiveable sin, but then again, I lean much more towards raw and unpolished sounds. MCR's Bullets is gorgeous to my ears, and I adore things like Pencey Prep and the Foo Fighters and Green Day (the old stuff more than American Idiot) - music that lets the guitars, drums, and vocals do the work, without frills that distract from the core of the music. It's just a matter of my personal preference.
I don't like songs that mean nothing coherent :-/ I mean, maybe it makes some twisted kind of sense to them, but music can't be one big injoke - it has to communicate with an audience.
Also, if P.O.'s more comparable with TBP, well then, all the more reason for me to not like it, because while I enjoyed TBP for a long time, it definitely grew tired for me, precisely because it is more about concept than rawness.
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Date: 2008-03-18 10:17 pm (UTC)I suppose it is a forgiveable sin, but then again, I lean much more towards raw and unpolished sounds. MCR's Bullets is gorgeous to my ears, and I adore things like Pencey Prep and the Foo Fighters and Green Day (the old stuff more than American Idiot) - music that lets the guitars, drums, and vocals do the work, without frills that distract from the core of the music. It's just a matter of my personal preference.
I don't like songs that mean nothing coherent :-/ I mean, maybe it makes some twisted kind of sense to them, but music can't be one big injoke - it has to communicate with an audience.
Also, if P.O.'s more comparable with TBP, well then, all the more reason for me to not like it, because while I enjoyed TBP for a long time, it definitely grew tired for me, precisely because it is more about concept than rawness.
I really do hope I come to like it more.