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Originally Posted by Rdkopper
Which songs in particular?? Besides Army of One and Amen
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I've never liked Because We Can due to it's poor chorus. It's their worst lead single of any album for me to this day. I'm With You is fine, but I only listen to the live version since it sounds like Jon gets backed up by roboters on the album. What About Now was a song I initially enjoyed quite a lot and it's still (it was around the time I had started my studies to become a teacher and we were fighting against insanely high student fees in our area back then, so the song somehow cut it for me) a decent one. Pictures of You is one song similar to The Distance for me in terms of almost everyone liking it and I'm failing to see why. Water was good at the live shows, but Bobby's (or Shanks') guitar sound being so upfront on the album doesn't work for me. What's Left of Me probably is my favourite from the standard album. Army of One, I think musically it's decent, but the lyrics are so damn dumb that it might've gotten a pass in their early days. For a band in their 50's that's not working anymore. Thick As Thieves is good if I manage it to make it past the "electric chair" part of the lyrics. Beautiful World has the line "there's glory in the saddest story" which I quite like and the melody is working there as well, but as a whole it just falls flat on me.
So does Room which is kind of surprising to me, not only because it had gotten a lot of praise on here, but also because I genereally like these kind of moody tunes (I enjoy She's A Mystery and Labor of Love a lot). Here something just doesn't connect with me.
The Fighter is a song I had instantly liked but after that marathon of mid-tempo and slow drag-along songs it just passes me by. Not Running Anymore and Into The Echo I listen to quite a lot, though.
The album has its moments, but it seems that they just couldn't piece it together. Almost each song has a section where I think "that's good", but it gets outweighed by a part that's just too rubbish for me. And the song order totally kills it, especially on the 2nd half.