Hmm, why focus on those two songs? Gotta Let It Go is one of the worst on the album for being so blatant and it does bring it down a notch. Love, however...I believe you miss the point. It is not a power ballad in the way you expect. The album is in keeping with the trend they set with "Yeah!" They made an album that is heavy with their influences more so than they had ever before. You have to listen to it in that context.

Love, while it's far from one of my favorites, I recognize it for the fact that it is heavily influenced by Queen. If you put on your Power Ballad filter, you're not going to digest it properly. This isn't a song trying to recapture the 80s. As a whole, the album draws on the 70s.

This album is the closest they've come to making an album that harkens back to High N Dry. It lacks the big vocal choruses they are known for, which in this case is good as it avoids becoming cliche'. This is obvious in songs like Hallucinate, which is quality as far as I'm concerned. Tomorrow is a fairly worthy companion as well, though a bit chipper in it's tone making it easy to miss what it's about.

I don't believe I've posted since I really gave the album a good listen a while back, but my opinion of GO has completely changed. I love the sh** out of it now. I was more initially thrown by the fact it has pretty much a mid tempo pace where you would expect a faster pace. The vocals are ridiculous catchy with the caliber of lyrics I expect from the band.

I do feel that as a whole, the album is not consistently good as they had a tendency to do so in the past. Nine Lives is a sh** stain with some of the most god awful lyrics they've ever written that would be more at home on the sh** platter that is Adrenalize. You won't find me saying "it grows on you" at any point in time. Cruise Control, while having some decent lyrics, is lacking something. It just never really takes off and I find myself bored with it. Good Die Young is just too plain and for some reason Bad Actress doesn't grab me too much.

I have a guilty pleasure in C'mon C'mon. The title is stupid, but it's difficult not to start toe tapping and singing along when you let yourself go with it. I'd have much preferred this as the first single (I'd choose Go, but that's me) and Nine Lives not even make the album.

It's hardly a horrible album. It's a companion piece that would make more sense as a double album with "Yeah!" However, it doesn't quite deliver what I had hoped for so it never satisfies the void that X failed to fill. Euphoria was the last full album that for the most part, I loved from start to finish.