strangegrey wrote:jrnyjetster wrote:strangegrey wrote:Change for the Better has always been one of the best songs on the new disc.....
What?? strangegrey likes the new stuff from Revelation? Can Journey actually be doing something right, this time around?
I have always maintained that Change for the Better is a slamming song with HUGE potential. There are 2-4 songs on that disc that are stunning. There are also 2-4 songs on that disc that are fucking putrid....and there's 1 song on that disc that should have never been redone...
However, my problem with Revelations is not the new material, but the retreads. That's where this band has driven the last nail into it's coffin...The retread tracks, in my eyes, destroys what little credibility and stature the once great band had in my eyes. With that disc, they *instantly* became no more than a tribute band to me. A useless and downright disgraceful thing to do.....and what makes it worse is that it killed any chance of Arnel escaping from Perry's shadow, dispite the fact that Perry hasn't been involved in this band for 10-25 years (depending on your perspective)...
However, the new songs on the new revelations disc, on their own, were valid tunes....just some were good, some were shit...
What's the difference between recording a past song, and singing them every night on tour?
Just asking....don't bite my face off....
