Barking -- Some general thoughts

[revolver9]

Originally Posted by lament

As for Barking.. overall, I love it. It was hard at first to get used to the straightforward pop of ALAF, or the fact that Scribble wasn't quite the 2005 live version I've been used to. But honestly - how can you hear "can you feel it?" and "heaven, heaven" in ALAF and not smile? it's so fucking catchy you just want to smash puppies.

I can't stand the chorus of ALAF. "can you feel it?" and repeating "heaven" killed an otherwise nice house track. It's about the dumbest sounding thing I've heard from them lyric wise. The bridge lyrics are terrible too. But the verses I feel are nice imagery.

But the worst is Diamond Jigsaw. And I'm not even a PVD hater. It's so generic and forgettable. Blah.

Besides that, I think there are some misdirections on Moon in Water. And Hamburg Hotel was really dulled up. Glad for the Essex version.

Love Bird 1, Scribble, Grace, Louisiana.

It's disheartening because I think that without the producers there would have been a better overall sense of satisfaction. I'm not even one asking for another Dubno or STITI but when I listen to OWB I don't imagine the songs any other way, and I don't care to.