I've just gone back to read the reviews-so-far for this album: very interesting as always to see someone else's take on an album
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Originally Posted by SGR
Something about the quick shift between the somewhat melodic and mid-paced “True”, which opens the album excellently, to the rollicking speed test of “Your Haunted Head” comes off a little jarring to me upon repeated listens. I think if “Dance Along the Edge” came second in the tracklist (and this track third), that would feel like a more natural transition. Regardless, good tune!
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That's a very perceptive comment, SGR, 100% agree, and likewise with your comment about the instrumental
True being in the wrong place. It should've been in the middle of the album to give us just a short break from the singer.
Also thanks for looking at the lyrics, which are better than I imagined (takes me quite a few plays to actually work out lyrics usually). So I was wrong about
Song For Kim - I might go back and give it another listen.
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Originally Posted by Mindfulness
“Dance Along The Edge” is a nice song, probably my 2nd favorite off the album, catchy hook and just has a 1986 vibe. These drum beats are 1986 vibes, I wasn’t even alive but my family was probably jamming to this album. My stepfather liked this album when I told him we were reviewing it.
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I always like reading these details about how people are approaching the music because its usually so different from my perspective, for example, 1986 is not looking back to before I was born, but instead was a year when I'd pretty much given up on rock and pop, feeling that the young 'uns just weren't up to the standard of the 60s/70s bands I'd grown up with. Still, different directions or not, we agree on one thing, Mindfulness:
Still In Hollywood is a real stand-out!
Time for me to check out this
Joey song that is getting mentioned, replay
Song For Kim, and why not, replay the whole album to see if I experience the SGR effect and have to come back to bump up my rating of Concrete Blonde.