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Javier · #21 03-01-2009, 04:44 AM

I love hand.

kenobi_on_a_prayer · #22 03-01-2009, 09:08 AM

Love HAND but don't want a replica of it. Still, that's easily been their best album this decade (IMO of course).

Captain Walrus · #23 03-02-2009, 02:48 AM

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Originally Posted by Captain_jovi

See, I disagree. I found HAND the most consistent record they did this decade. To me, Bounce suffered BIG TIME from trying to be too many things, while HAND flowed much easier. Bounce kept would go chunky rocker, power ballad, story telling song, ballad, rocker, and ended on such a weird note but, IMHO, Hand was far more up tempo and a bit more fun.

I did say that they'd been doing it since Crush

and I agree that Bounce was MUCH more schizophrenic that HAND and it really didn't do the album any favours. Crush was really well sequenced for the first half IMO, but then lost the plot, putting two slow songs together, and later having what I at least regard as being the two worst songs on the album (She's A Mystery and I Got The Girl) one after the other. Lost Highway we all know fell apart massively in the second half.

So I would agree that HAND is the most consistent record since These Days, but that still doesn't mean I find it to be consistent enough really. Between Welcome To Wherever You Are and I Am especially, each song is virtually completely different to any of the ones that have gone before it, and while there are some really good songs in there, I just feel it could have done with some more proper rock songs

Jay Jay · #24 03-04-2009, 06:37 AM

In one of the Drumming magazines from a few years back, they had a review from one of the current albums (Crush I think) and it refered to Tico's playing as "No fills, No frills". Tico is a serious underplayer even though he has the talent to play like the best ,as I have seen his playing on a instructional drum video , in which Tico does several drum Solo's and he is fantastic! I would hope that the full extent of Tico's ability would come out on this new "Riff" style album with more double bass and plenty of trick drum fills included..

Simon · #25 03-12-2009, 01:56 AM

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Originally Posted by Jay Jay

In one of the Drumming magazines from a few years back, they had a review from one of the current albums (Crush I think) and it refered to Tico's playing as "No fills, No frills". Tico is a serious underplayer even though he has the talent to play like the best ,as I have seen his playing on a instructional drum video , in which Tico does several drum Solo's and he is fantastic! I would hope that the full extent of Tico's ability would come out on this new "Riff" style album with more double bass and plenty of trick drum fills included..

That's true. On "Crush" it was ok, I mean the fill on "Two Story Town" is simple but majestic at the same time and the drumming still had some origininality, but from "Bounce" onward Tico is just playing straight 4/4 rhythmus with barely ever using the toms at all. A shame for such a good player - and such a good band. I believe this simple drumming is a big contribution for the loss of quality and strength in their recent albums. Why the hell do they have to make everything more simple? Songwriting, guitarwork... and drumming. Don't get it.

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