Ehwmatt wrote:kgdjpubs wrote:The_Noble_Cause wrote:Hmm...tough call.
'Revelation' is more consistent.
'Arrival' is an album of peaks and valleys, but it's high points really soar.
'Arrival' also shows a band unafraid of forging ahead, whereas 'Revelation' seems to have been carefully calculated to sound like the past.
For example, can you imagine the contemplative 'Livin to Do' on there? - I can't.
I'll go with 'Revelation' just because I can't find a bad track on it, but 'Arrival' is stronger in many respects.
Not the least of which is a vocalist devoid of diction problems.
Well put. Cut Arrival down to 10 tracks (same number of actual songs on Revelation) and it would probably win.
As far as the Livin to Do comment, it's a stronger track than What I Needed, but they are both basically cut from the same cloth. That being the lyrically deep, non-commercial track that shows considerably more depth as a band than your simple pop-rock song. Kevin Shirley seems to like those tracks, but for whatever reason, less of them were present this time around.
Livin to Do buttfucks What I Needed in eight hundred different positions. That's the one track from Rev I just haven't gotten. Actually, that and Sunshower.
Have to disagree with you there. I really dislike Augeri's vocals. There are only two Augeri era songs I like and they are Remember Me and Higher Place. His voice never captured me and it was only the music that made me enjoy the two tracks I just listed.
