Yikes, I thought he was talking about LP2 as the mediocre album, not How it
Feels. LP2 was mediocre by sdre standards, but awesome compared to any other
band's. How it Feels is like one of the top 2 or 3 albums I've ever heard, and
even if you didn't get into the music (which is barely conceivable), you can't
deny that it's some really original shit, any way you look at it, and that it
makes alternative bands that draw comparisons (like Built to Spill and Radiohead)
seem corny and lame.
sdre rules
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 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...."
