Album Analysis II, V Options

[Hoodstock]

The analysis of Throwing Copper seems to have run it's course, so it's time to move on.

The Idea - Analyze the album (in this case V) song by song, stating whatever you want or whatever comes to mind about each song. Go into as much or as little detail as you want and then summarize your overall thoughts on the album at the end. Just speak your mind openly. If there is a lot of feedback, we can do it again with another album at a later time.

You can copy and paste the following to make it easy if you want:

1. Intro

2. Simple Creed

3. Deep Enough

4. Like A Soldier

5. People Like You

6. Transmit Your Love

7. Forever May Not Be Long Enough

8. Call Me A Fool

9. Flow

10. The Ride

11. Nobody Knows

12. OK?

13. Overcome

14. Hero Of Love

15. Deep Enough (Remix)

Overall Summary:

[Pokey]

I'm quite fond of The Ride, I don't mind the first verse, but the line "in the west, we think we're the best" absolutely kills me, it's like socks in bed, or sugar in tea, it's horrible. It reminds me (although nowhere near as bad) as Icky Thump "Americans what? nothing better to do? why don't you kick yourselves out you're an immigrant too" .. like seriously, fuck off and play music and leave politics to others.

Anyways, sidetracked.

as far as V goes, it's obvious it's not their best work. I'd still put it above BOP and SFBM. V to me is a more personal album, it came out in a tough time for me .. so this is where that whole "just because you like it doesn't make it good" thing comes out. I do like most of V, but I know it's tripe.

However to me this seems like the last live album with any passion on it ... it might not have worked, but I just get the sense that Ed more than anyone really believed in this stuff and really wanted to give it a try. To me V is easily forgiveable, it's an experimental album ... BOP and SFBM have no excuse. This was Live going out of their way to really try something different, they didnt pull it off but hey, so what.

OK? people like you, call me a fool and Transmit your love are horrid, the rest I like. But obviously not like to the extent that I hope they ever try it again. I like the crazy energy of Deep Enough, Tricky's part in Simple Creed is good, Flow I think is a pretty sweet song that'd probably go down well at a gig. The Beatlesesque keyboard in Nobody Knows is a nice touch. Ed's voice in Overcome is beautiful, however I hope to never hear him do it live again as he just can't recreate it. Lyrically the album is balls though.

[Badman]

Transmit your love [is] horrid... Lyrically the album is balls though.

Transmit and The Ride are similar. You have to listen to the sound and not really the words (something I rarely do) to appreciate them. Start Transmit from 2:45 and listen to the rest. The harmonies in this part and the awesome guitar scream make this song.

If you want compelling lyrics don't look here. If you measure a live album by instrumentals, this album is better than MJ.