Any new album news? Options

[BP24]

Has anyone heard any new album news?

This post has been edited by BP24: Jan 31 2008, 11:38 pm

[Alex]

.....c`mon!!!!!

Do you not think that that's a valid response? I'll download this next album, and if I like it I'll buy it but I'm certainly not going to go to the store to purchase it blindly. If it's crap I certainly won't be following the band any more- they've already used up all their chances in my book, and it's purely for sentimental reasons that I still follow them at all.

I didn't buy SFBM either..

[SJN1279]

Do you not think that that's a valid response? I'll download this next album, and if I like it I'll buy it but I'm certainly not going to go to the store to purchase it blindly. If it's crap I certainly won't be following the band any more- they've already used up all their chances in my book, and it's purely for sentimental reasons that I still follow them at all.

I didn't buy SFBM either..

On ArtistDirect.com, V and Songs from Black Mountain are higher rated than TDTH, BOP, with Secret Samahdi being the lowest rated of the band's catalogue. An album's quality is always subjective.

[LiveRoCkS77]

On ArtistDirect.com, V and Songs from Black Mountain are higher rated than TDTH, BOP, with Secret Samahdi being the lowest rated of the band's catalogue. An album's quality is always subjective.

Again, wtf kind of comment is that? An albums quality is NOT subjective. Anybody who rates SFBM or V ahead of TDTH is just a complete idiot, plain and simple.

Maybe it's not all cut and dry, but an album that is musically and lyrically well written like TDTH is automatically a decent album, despite what ANYBODY thinks to the contrary. That goes for any album by any artist. Sure people can have differering opinions, but that doesn't make a particular subject subjective in nature. Sometimes it's as simple as one side being right, the other being wrong.

For example, you can't take an album like SFBM and give it a good rating on a musical scale. My buddy took basically every single tune and was able to play the chord progression from every single song on his electric within seconds. The music badly written, anybody not realizing that just being either a fool or illiterate. The music tells no story, is incohesive at times, littered with cliches and is just plain embarassing to educated ears. I means, what's next? "Take my hand, don't leave me alone, don't hurt me again!" Go listen Avril Lavigne if you want that trailer park, 12 year old girl dreamy, novice shit.

Me? I want some more thought and effort put into it. I want to hear lines again like 'We could have been born helpless children beggin' for our next meal, I could be a Voodoo lady just a classy hooker playin the field!" That's the shit! Truth and poetry all unravelled through one brilliant fucking line.

How about any line from They Stood Up for Love?

naked lovers feel the blood beneath their veins
electric nerves communicate
with tiny explosions through our brains
who is this energy that never left or came?
give rise to passion the only glory
of this human story

I give my heart and soul to the one

we spend all of our lives goin' out of our minds
looking back to our birth, forward to our demise
even scientists say, everything is just light
not created, destroyed but eternally bright
masters in everytime lord in everyplace
those who stood up for love down in spite of the hate
in spite of the hate

who put the flower in the barrel of that gun?
who lit the candle that started the fire,
burnt down the fortress, the throne?
who could house all the refugees in a single shack
or a lowly bungalow?
who lives in a different dimension, free from the
struggles we know?

I give my heart and soul to the one

we spend all of our lives goin' out of our minds
looking back to our birth, forward to our demise
even scientists say, everything is just light
not created, destroyed but eternally bright
masters in everytime lord in everyplace
those who stood up for love down in spite of the hate
we spend all of our lives goin' out of our minds
they live in the light

we made it to the moon
but we can't make it home
waitin' on a rescue that never comes
made it to the moon
but we can't make it home
maybe home is where the heart is given up
to the one
to the one

we spend all of our lives goin' out of our minds
lookin' back to our birth, forward to our demise
we spend all of our lives goin' out of our minds
they live, they

they stood up for love
stood up for love
stood up for love
they stood up for love
stood up for love
stood up for love

we spend all of our lives goin' out of our minds
masters in everytime
we spend all of our lives goin' out of our minds
stood up for love


Nothing they've written in the past ten years comes anywhere close to rivalling this or anything from TDTH for that matter. Some people thing bullshit pop music is well written. Doesn't make it subjective, it makes those people wrong and probably most reasonable to assume, uneducated.

[SJN1279]

Am I the only person who skips over long-winded posts that compare albums that most of us already own?