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Si’s new polling, post Bay Days and early release, has “Levitate” at (as of 10:32 pm EDT, with no knowledge of how many peeps have voted X amount of times, and too lazy to find out) “great work” with 38% and “maybe grow” at 38%, with “best” at 13% and “sorry” at 13%!
Any of you Baysians/early release copy receivers care to give us a review?
T
Well… it’s not an early review, but here’s my shot. I bought the new CD at Best Buy on Tuesday – with a self-imposed streaming audio ban last month – so I really hadn’t heard it so far.
The CD is growing on me. Some of these songs strike me as “wonderbread rap” like Prarie Dog Town and Space is the Place – and Paperboy is just flat-out weird. Kind of a good Haloween song though…
Amazingly, Levitate is one of my favorites so far… something about the churning bass lines just beg me to crank that one. I definitely like In the Low Country – and Contients Drift is probably my top track with Invisible at the top of the list somewhere…
Like I said, it’s growing on me.
Just to give you an idea of where I’m coming from – I would be one happy dude if Bruce announced there was a third disc worth of previously unreleased tracks from the “Sprirt Trail” days – but Bruce is not one to stay in one musical groove for long, and I’m certainly better off having been on the ride with him, so I’ll keep listening to the next “change tune” and enjoying the ride!
Heath
My fav is a toss up between “Black Rats of London” and “Prairie Dog Town”. I like BRL because of its historical bent. I like PDT because the live version at Bay Days was such a hoot! Especially when the audience had to entice “”June Hill”” to come out to sing!
I’m sure PDT was awesome live. I love how so many of Bruce’s studio recordings are just a jumping-off point for some really creative stuff in concert!
Heath
Heath – You are absolutely right about this being the jumping off point. I saw Bruce perform a lot of the new music when he was touring this summer in NY and NJ. It was just wonderful. I’m loving the new album.
BTW…I don’t know if you caught this article from the Washington Post. It’s a good one. Bruce talks about the inspiration for all the new songs. It’s a fun read. And, it put Paperboy in perspective for me….it’s really not creepy.
http://www.expressnightout.com/content/ … vitate.php
Kat
Got my copy on release day, and I gotta say that the cd definitely sounds better coming thru a stereo than a stream coming thru a laptop or desktop…
That said, most of the tunes have yet to grow on me. “Here” is my certain fave — the lyrics and music more than convey what I seem to understand BH wanting them to, evocative and haunting but strangely uplifting! IMHO! “Rats” and “Drift” I’m digging on, as well. The rest, well….
Who knows, perhaps in time…it’s hap’d to us all: the album you just couldn’t get, but a couple of months later, BLAMMO!
But if not, they can’t ALL be zingers (thanks, Primus title!) and there’s always BH’s next platter that matters…Trey
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