arron11196
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Posted: July 03 2008, 05:44 |
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Quote (Sweetpea @ June 02 2008, 19:03) | arron11196, your experience makes me wonder if part of "Why Mike?" is because we tend to appreciate things we have to work for - putting in that listening investment, and having it pay off so well? |
Well, I certainly didn't consciously set out for it to be that way, but it may very well be. I honestly couldn't tell you. I think I'm too close to the situation to be able to tell, and it would require an outside perspective.
The process that I would have gone through here is the one AFTER I'd realised that I actually liked the thing - then exploring which bits spoke to me and which bits didn't. Before JWWOTW flipped that switch, the album and others like it basically had no chance.
I'm still like that today. A couple of years ago I would have hated the track "Blow me away" by Breaking Benjamin. But, I got into Porcupine Tree, who have vocals that are less screamo. Through the gradual process of "getting" them, they opened up the door to more stuff like Breaking Benjamin.
Even though Mike is the same artist, I kind of feel like his albums have given me the same treatment. They're so varied and different, sometimes there isn't the artistic cohesiveness that generally tends to follow from one album of an artists' to the next... they at least in part have a similar sound. I don't know about you, but I think most of Mike's albums sound very different from each other. I suppose the closest would be TBII and TSODE, although TSODE has a wildly different relaxed feel and so is worlds away (pun intended) from the god album.
-------------- Arron J Eagling
Everyone's interpretation is different, and everyone has a right to that opinion. There is no "right" one, I am adding this post to communicate my thoughts to share them with like-minded souls who will be able to comment in good nature.
(insert the last 5 mins of Crises here)
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