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BARON BLOOD wrote:Every Frontiers record is starting to sound the same.....They need to let go their current sound and go for a more organic one.
Ehwmatt wrote:For some reason, I just can't get into this album that much. I love POL and of course I love Survivor, but I'm just not feeling this one as much. Jim sometimes drags his songs about 2 minutes too long, and that's in full effect on many tracks here. I would've preferred another album like Above the Storm over something that sounds like POL with a replacement vocalist and less inspired songwriting. I seem to be in the minority, though.
Journey/Survivor wrote:Ehwmatt wrote:For some reason, I just can't get into this album that much. I love POL and of course I love Survivor, but I'm just not feeling this one as much. Jim sometimes drags his songs about 2 minutes too long, and that's in full effect on many tracks here. I would've preferred another album like Above the Storm over something that sounds like POL with a replacement vocalist and less inspired songwriting. I seem to be in the minority, though.
Peterik, while still a great songwriter, greatly misses Frankie Sullivan's songwriting/guitar playing in his new material. Just the same as Sullivan greatly misses Peterik's songwriting and organizational skills.
Sure would be awesome for them to realize that, and to do one last Survivor album together!!!!!
Ehwmatt wrote:Journey/Survivor wrote:Ehwmatt wrote:For some reason, I just can't get into this album that much. I love POL and of course I love Survivor, but I'm just not feeling this one as much. Jim sometimes drags his songs about 2 minutes too long, and that's in full effect on many tracks here. I would've preferred another album like Above the Storm over something that sounds like POL with a replacement vocalist and less inspired songwriting. I seem to be in the minority, though.
Peterik, while still a great songwriter, greatly misses Frankie Sullivan's songwriting/guitar playing in his new material. Just the same as Sullivan greatly misses Peterik's songwriting and organizational skills.
Sure would be awesome for them to realize that, and to do one last Survivor album together!!!!!
Peterik's written some great stuff on his own, including stuff that rocks as hard as most of the stuff he and Frankie did together. Sometimes, though, I feel like his songs need a good editor (which, interestingly enough, is how he himself described Frankie's primary role on a lot of their co-writes). There's no reason for most of the songs on "Risk Everything" to be well over 4.5 minutes (average track length appears to be 5 mins 3 seconds). Many of his more recent songs (recent POL and this album) seem to have one verse and chorus too many. A great hook gets diluted if the song is too long. Toto can get away with these longer pop songs most of the time because their musical breaks are usually great, but JP's material sometimes suffers from length.
What do you think of the album overall? How do you rate it compared to POL?
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