The Flood and The Mercy - reviews Options

[dangum]

The album is now available in some European markets.

Please use this thread to post your review of the album.

[Live4Life]

Hood, I am not taking anything personally. I am not "trying"to tell you anything.

I do not think it stinks.
And yes, i do think Ed has improved.
You're saying you don't see how anyone can say that? Why can't i say it?
It's my opinion. People can and will say it because they CAN.
We just have dif opinions. Nothing more. Get a grip dude.
I lump you in because you are part of the WD clan and most of you are like broken records.
Same thing over and over and over...

This post has been edited by Live4Life: Sep 24 2013, 8:15 pm

[Hoodstock]

Hood, I am not taking anything personally. I am not "trying"to tell you anything.

Seriously? I'd say your previous words say otherwise.

Why oh why do yo people insist on trying to tell us what we will or won't like?

Serously, shut the fuck up already.

See? Jeeshhhh, stop telling people what they will or will not like.

Anyways, it's not like I'm blindly coming on here to rip Ed. I actually provided specific reasons for my opinion and they are directly comparing Ed's previous work to his current album (not anything related to Live):

IMO Alive has songs more songs that are listenable:

The Great Beyond
Grace
Stand
Zion
Just In Time
A New World

Vs.

The One
Seven
Parasite
All That I Wanted

According to me that's a 6 to 4 ratio of good songs. On top of that, if I ranked those ten songs from best to worse there would not be a single Flood song that cracked the top 5.

In addition to that I'd also add that out of the 5 non-remix songs on The Garden 4 of the songs (excluding I'm The Proof) are also better than anything on his new album.

So yes, to me it's a huge disappointment.

No, IMO I don't see how anyone could disagree.

Getting into the album, there are actually a lot of catchy riffs and tunes. Yes, it is great that Ed has gone away from the falsetto.

Unfortunately sound can only carry a song so far. As he did on bad songs on Alive, and also with I'm The Proof, Ed just completely ruins songs with uninspired lyrical garbage.

On top of the genuinely bad lyrics he also repeatedly goes back to the same wells that he's been fishing out of for decades with more references to the common standby's like Water, Children, and "The One".

The combination of the horrible, uninspired lyrics added to the next regurgitation of his old cliche's are the biggest disappointment to me.

Looking at the lead track "The One". This reminds me of Zion (although not quite as good). Ed had this fascination with throwing Zion into later songs until he finally just wrote a song with it as the title. It's the same as The One. For those that don't remember "The One" is referred to in songs like Top, They Stood Up For Love, and Every Time I See Your Face. This is actually one of the better songs on the album, but he could have done way better by doing something original.

Examining lyrics - Actually taking just the second verse of one of the good songs, Parasite, as an example of how bad this is.

[b]PARASITE

************
Big Mouth
Little heart
Talk so loud, think you're smart
You're just a bag of guts
And nothin' but
The door is shut
This wall ain't comin' down.....
************

Everyone can see what Ed is doing here. I would assume this song would have had some passion, emotion, and thought behind it. This song is years in the making with decades of history behind it.

Referring to the Parasite as a "bag of guts and nothin" - c'mon. Seriously - Where is the inspiration?? With what's behind that song that is seriously the best lyrical assault that he could come up with. "Bag of guts" - Whoooo - Ed is pissed!

Someone in a middle school band could be more creative.

This is evident throughout any song on this album, whether it be a listenable song or not.

If anyone wants to disagree with specific examples on how I rank songs from this album against Alive and The Garden, or why you think it is better than them, please feel free. I'd love to hear your thoughts.