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Feb. 17th, 2004 08:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
godreamSo I finally got my hands on the new Eve 6 CD. (OK, it's probably not new any more, but it's newer, at least.) Thus far it hasn't been quite as good as I was hoping/expecting. It lacks a lot of the clever wordplay in the lyrics that I've really enjoyed in their past releases -- and for goodness sake, "breathless"? "restless"? Two syllables, guys. Not three. In "Bring The Night On" it sounds like breath-a-less. Huh?
Maybe it'll grow on me, though. I'm liking some of the songs later on the CD better than the earlier ones, thus far, on first hearing. Nothing as catchy as "Inside Out", nothing I like as much as "Showerhead", nothing like "Superhero Girl" or "Nightmare" or "Open Road Song" or "Promise" or "Rescue", and the slow songs don't measure up to "Here's To The Nights" -- and I've obviously listened to their first two releases far too often. Which probably contributes to the possibly unrealistically high expectations I had for this CD.
You know what it is? They've matured or something. I don't think they do mature quite as well as angry teenage emotion and running away songs. Or else I wasn't prepared to listen to mature, to songs comforting friends and affirming life. Stupid as it sounds, I wanted angst, I wanted rebellion, I wanted anger and passion and and none of this positivity. Somewhere, catchy and addictive turned to singsongy. Of course, I'm typing this as I listen to the CD for the first time, and have a few songs to hear yet, and I often like songs better on second or third hearing, so we'll see.
And they do get points in my book for the line "she tests me like a scantron". I laughed, at least.
Maybe it'll grow on me, though. I'm liking some of the songs later on the CD better than the earlier ones, thus far, on first hearing. Nothing as catchy as "Inside Out", nothing I like as much as "Showerhead", nothing like "Superhero Girl" or "Nightmare" or "Open Road Song" or "Promise" or "Rescue", and the slow songs don't measure up to "Here's To The Nights" -- and I've obviously listened to their first two releases far too often. Which probably contributes to the possibly unrealistically high expectations I had for this CD.
You know what it is? They've matured or something. I don't think they do mature quite as well as angry teenage emotion and running away songs. Or else I wasn't prepared to listen to mature, to songs comforting friends and affirming life. Stupid as it sounds, I wanted angst, I wanted rebellion, I wanted anger and passion and and none of this positivity. Somewhere, catchy and addictive turned to singsongy. Of course, I'm typing this as I listen to the CD for the first time, and have a few songs to hear yet, and I often like songs better on second or third hearing, so we'll see.
And they do get points in my book for the line "she tests me like a scantron". I laughed, at least.
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Date: 2004-02-20 08:50 am (UTC)