BananaSlug
1K Club - QQ Shooting Star
Bleak. I think SW has achieved a new level of bleakness here. On past discs I have been able to just enjoy the music and not worry too much about whatever downer SW's been on, here it's pretty difficult. And the topic is drugs!? Of the long list of things to be down about drugs/apathy/artificial reality aren't exactly the top of the list, at least not where I live. Plus, Bad Religion covered the topic as well as anyone ever will in '21st century Digital Boy'
Cuz I'm a 21st century digital boy
I don't know how to read but I've got a lot of toys
My daddy's a lazy middle class intellectual
My mommy's on valium, so ineffectual
Ain't life a mystery?
The music is top notch, as always. And that is usally all I care about on a PT disc. Hopefully with the right drugs I'll be able to ignore the bleak topic and simply groove to the music The DTS mix sounds great and the mix is what we've come to expect. Though I think that Richard's participation has been moved a bit into the background and hence the trippy synth parts floating around you are absent for the most part here. Ever since the last show in SF I have really come to see Richard Barbieri as the key ingrediant that keeps PT from being just a nu-metal riff based band. None the less, I expect that the disc will grow on me and become a resident in my disc changer. SW doesn't make the same disc twice, and that's a good thing. I just hope he has some happiness in him somewhere and it finds its way out on some future project - in 5.1!
Cuz I'm a 21st century digital boy
I don't know how to read but I've got a lot of toys
My daddy's a lazy middle class intellectual
My mommy's on valium, so ineffectual
Ain't life a mystery?
The music is top notch, as always. And that is usally all I care about on a PT disc. Hopefully with the right drugs I'll be able to ignore the bleak topic and simply groove to the music The DTS mix sounds great and the mix is what we've come to expect. Though I think that Richard's participation has been moved a bit into the background and hence the trippy synth parts floating around you are absent for the most part here. Ever since the last show in SF I have really come to see Richard Barbieri as the key ingrediant that keeps PT from being just a nu-metal riff based band. None the less, I expect that the disc will grow on me and become a resident in my disc changer. SW doesn't make the same disc twice, and that's a good thing. I just hope he has some happiness in him somewhere and it finds its way out on some future project - in 5.1!