my goodness, my brothers and sisters....
how it feels to be something on...Its not called "i wanted to be them/but
instead i destroyed.." its not called "christ has risen." the album by the
reformed sunny day real estate, missing one original member, following the
almost secretive implosion of LP2, and a bunch of whooey as far as what
would happen put out an album. a fan base that personally experienced the
magic that first turned our hearts in a unique way towards the songs of the
group found it weird if not a little unnerving upon first listen to the album
when the volume knob was turned up, but the noise remained clear and
distinct. it was not another album, it was a new one that came out at a time
when i needed it-an album that came out when a lot of people were praying for
it- when a lot of todays music had hit the NEW level of mediocrity. now i
wasnt around for the seventies, and the eighties seemed cool because thats
when i grew up to be a boy. but come the fuck on man, the music people are
being FED today(creed-anyone that may in some bleak way remind all of alice
in cahins-matchbox 20-hootie-the verve pipe-any band intent on calling
themselves progressive rock when all they do is rewrite hits form the
seventies-stone temple pilots)
hiftbso- a beautiful album of barely controlled emotion, pushing at times so
hard against the ear and other times so inviting its sexual-how it feels to
be something on --==--not dead or alive or sad or happy or fucked up or
completely in control or out of it or on it or in it. its about being on.
not off.
--ben
"try to smile as...."
