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Originally Posted by Bleeding Purist
1. Open All Night (1994)
2. Radio Saved My Life
3. Satelllite
4. Postcards From the Wasteland
5. Right Side of Wrong
This was hard, but I had to go with what naturally sprang to mind first. So it was easy in the end. It came down to which songs didn't take a couple of listens to get into them, and still hold up after many listens.
Open All Night comes to mind first and foremost as the highlight of the past 5 years. The first listen had huge impact, it was magical, something that I don't experience with the band as often anymore. It also is a song with personal significance
The rest also closely follow and rank at the top with their best work even when considering pre-2000. I really couldn't put any Crush tunes down because I've never really been happy with that album's watered down lyrics.
While two of those are technically pre-2000, 3 of them are more relatively recent work that I consider top quality. Of course, more than a few people are raising their eyebrows at Right Side of Wrong, but I do feel it's overlooked around here. So most people can't relate to it, that wasn't exactly the point. It was a creative approach. The only mistake they really made with the song was when they tried to make it the replacement for Dry County in the live-set by having a piano solo seguing into the song complete with Jon talking at the same points in the song where he did in Dry County. That was a dis-service to both songs. At least they rectified that by having Jon shut up after the first several performances.
Postcards From The Wasteland was an easy pick. It was good to see that others were also just as ready to oblige it as one of their choices. It was one of the songs that for me, restored my faith that Jon hadn't lost his lyric writing ability, that the Crush lyrics were definately a conscious decision to dumb down for the intended focus group. I remember a review someone did around here for Bounce at the time. They were mostly unhappy with it, pointing out how ridiculous some of the lyrics were, such as Bounce. They wanted the Jon we last had with Destination Anywhere. Postcards was cited as a prime example of Jon and the band doing something right, paying particular attention to the genius of the lyric "Tonight I'll see you in my dreams, see you soon, love, me." I completely agreed and it was proof they could still produce quality work.
Satellite, I'm convinced came out of the Bounce sessions, even though the voice would have us believe it was closer to These Days. It definately would be his best vocal performance since 2000.
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great to read, but I meant only the demos from the boxset which were written for crush and bounce. Because I wanted it to cover the songs written after these days.
06-15-2005, 03:40 AM
