The Garden EP Options

[SJN1279]

I just purchased via Itunes. I'm really liking what I hear so far. Really digging the Lennon cover in particular(it was the only song I didn't hear). Listening to The Garden remix now and its' awesome too.

This post has been edited by SJN1279: Nov 18 2012, 11:37 pm

[Pokey]

Ok, so I managed to get a hold of the EP, I will TRY to give it a fair assessment, it's not great, but this is about the most kind review I could come up with - Garden EP Review

[SinfulEyes]

Ok, so I managed to get a hold of the EP, I will TRY to give it a fair assessment, it's not great, but this is about the most kind review I could come up with - Garden EP Review

Also, please note the new avatar. I know it's a pretty crude Photoshop job that took about 120 seconds but it's only fair since I think that's how long it took Ed to write this new album.

[FishOutaWater]

I won't buy or even listen to this album. I wouldn't take it for free. I feel like it would only encourage something that is inherently bad. I don't know how it came to this. I was a fan who once had Ed sign a freak'in Ken Wilbur book that I bought and read because Ed had influenced me to read it. Now I feel like George Clooney in the Descendants - his wife is brain dead on life support and he finds out she was cheating on him. Her father is yelling crazy stuff at him about how she is so great and he didn't deserve her. At first I was at that stage where Clooney first heard about her misdeeds and he was running uncontrollably down the street to find answers. Then he yelled at her in anger. By the end, he invited the boyfriend to visit her in a brain dead coma and he didn't give a crap and he moved on to have a relationship with the rest of his family. That's me. I wouldn't bend over to pick up a copy if this cd if I saw it sitting on top of the trash can. Although it would be fun to do a review if it on my blog...

This post has been edited by FishOutaWater: Nov 19 2012, 1:53 pm

[Lerxst]

I won't buy or even listen to this album. I wouldn't take it for free. ... I wouldn't bend over to pick up a copy if this cd if I saw it sitting on top of the trash can. Although it would be fun to do a review if it on my blog...

Damnit Fish, I was waiting to hear your take on the drop off in lyrical content, oh well, I'll try my best then since you won't touch this drivel.

Garden

"All I know.. Dirty water.."

Well that didn't take long, all but 4 words and we are introduced to the concept of water once again. I won't lie I laughed immediately because when the music started, I was intent on waiting for the lyrics thinking to myself "I wonder if there will be water..."

Again, revisited themes of you guessed it:
"Desert, Thirsty.. quench it.. Heaven.. .hell"

Still waiting to hear... oh yes here it is! Love! The predictable theme continues.
"for your love..."

Cliches:
"die a thousand times." and "light that fades"


But wait, here comes the best part of the lyrics. I call these fillers:
"Whhooaaa ooh oooh whoa oooh oaaah ooh oh ooo oooh oh ohhh..."

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Rise

The buzzing at the beginning that's a moth zapper.. it should be zapping some life into this song.

Here we go again with the cliches:

"going to stand my ground"
"ball and chain"
"a shooting star burning in the night"
"spin out of control"

Also gotta love the subtle messages in the song. Yes, the posse is arriving. Revenge? What's this about lawyers and lawsuits? Meh.. more lazy lyric writing and thrown in messages to make it semi-interesting.

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I'm the Proof

"speeding car..." you sure it wasn't a fast red car? Such predictable use of adjectives in lyric writing these days. Use imagination!!

"are you still hungry?" Yes I am, are you? What next? How about "Do you have a light?"

"Sometimes people change and I'm the proof." Yes, there is much truth to this statement. Thank you Ed.

What? no mention of.. oh wait yes, it's in here, he does mention:
"love..."

"Take a drink, I know you're thirsty." Seriously? Okay fine.. I'll have a glass of... wait for it... water.

"Sunshine on your face" Meh... Still waiting for "crashing waves"

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Solar Flare

More cliches. I mean I don't mind cliches in lyrics but the overuse of them is just too much. It says to me "I'm a lazy writer", Ed can do much better and has so seeing this stuff is just a shame.

"fall from grace" yes, that describes this exactly right.

"took my breath away"
"I keep falling down"
"can't find the light"

"na na na na na na na na" - more signs of laziness, this filler stuff is right up there with the
"Whhooaaa ooh oooh whoa oooh oaaah ooh oh ooo oooh oh ohhh..." from Garden.

"love" ? "fate"? - yes, they make their appearance again in the lyrics

"Save me from myself" - Hmmmm.. Yes, I hear you.
"I need your love tonight"


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Mind Games

Please please.. don't ruin Lennon for us. OH NO!! THE REMIX!

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I think the beginning of the Solar Flare remix and the background tracking as well pretty much summarizes the EP.

"Na na na na na na na NAHH"


To go from this:

Mr. President?
I hereby pardon you of all your crimes
For they are just as much mine

Selfishness and separation have led me
To believe that the world is not my problem
The world is not my problem
I am the world
And you are the world

To the stuff of this EP, it's just really really bad. Talk about a long fall from the top. Long gone are the days of deep philosophical search for spiritual truths, long gone are the days of questioning that universal question of Why? The books on eastern thought and religions of old are now replaced with what Ed has truly found. Love in Christ and Contemporary Christian rock. Oh well. I guess this is the best we're gonna get.

-Jimmy