Sir Mustapha
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Posted: April 13 2005, 12:13 |
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Quote (Korgscrew @ April 12 2005, 15:11) | All he's doing on Discovery is treating his songs like he would his instrumental pieces. |
Yeah, because Discovery definitely isn't a pop album with pop songs released to try and please the record label a little bit. Not at all. Of course, Discovery is far from pop. It's an instrumental album with a little bit of vocals, and that's why "The Lake" is put right in the end with a big, huge "(instrumental)" label next to it. Hmm...
No, Mike! Doesn't sound right to me. I understand trying to make a set of pop songs a little "more" than that, but he didn't need to be so damn obvious about it. The chord sequence was already similar enough, to begin with, but the melody appears from nowhere and goes nowhere. Why bother, then?
Also, the Townshend comparison was just because he was already linking songs repeatedly on Tommy and Quadrophenia (and even Who's Next: 'The Song Is Over' directly quotes 'Pure And Easy' ), but it could have been any other band that had been doing concept albums in the 70's. Discovery isn't even a concept album! Geez.
And now that you mentioned it, I think Townshend's paranoia is far more justified than Mike's. Come on, Tubular Bells was released, sold a gajillion copies and still sells, and made Mike what he is now. "Lifehouse", though, is an unfinished project that gave true results - kind of like Pete's own "Smile". But even "Smile" is finished already, and Brian Wilson is a far less stable person than Pete Townshend! That mush really... suck.
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