Date Posted:15:14:15 04/14/06 Fri Author: 23 Subject: Re: Down on the Upside In reply to:
lakemnitz
's message, "Down on the Upside" on 10:13:54 04/13/06 Thu
Superunknown may have been my favorite for quite some time, but I find myself playing DOTU much more often. It really feels like it was ahead of its time. The songs on there feel much more musically advanced (if that even makes sense) than really anything else I'm hearing today. And for some reason, they sound even better to me now than they did back in 1997. It's almost like somehow my ears weren't really ready to fully appreciate the album until they experienced everything else they've heard in the past 8-9 years to prep them for it.
Not a bad song on the whole album, lyrically or musically.
Twan & Light-couldn't have said that better myself.....and I agree Twan when this first came out I really wasn't ready for it either; I was like well I like Pretty Noose, Blow up the Outside World and Burden In My Hand, but that was really about it.
I have been thinking about what it is about it that really gets me and it is just that the CD has so much emotion, angst and you can really hear the pain, but it just comes out so beautifully.
I love how in some of the songs they kind of go off and just jam a bit like Reach Down on TOTD. I feel like I am listening to SG for the first time again. It is so cool.....
