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Post by larry emdur is my hero! on Mar 13, 2003 10:31:26 GMT 10
i dunno about your days of the new example - i can see your point about them changing their musical direction, but what i felt, with Red in particular, it's not as if they are breaking any new musical ground...just because Travis Meeks decides to take the band in a slightly different direction doesn't instantly make it creative. Sure he's not drawing on what's popular at the moment, but it's still stuff that's been done before. I cant see much difference between Meeks, and say Daniel Johns...attempting something creative and pushing in new musical directions, yet coming up with something that's isn't really all that new as many rock critics seem to proclaim. There's nothing wrong with this it at all, it doesn't make them any less of a songwriter. Sometimes the best music is one that works within the proven formula of a genre and just adds to it slightly.
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MARK!
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Post by MARK! on Mar 13, 2003 15:28:56 GMT 10
red didn't push any creative boundaries at all... it would have... then the record company made him strip down the songs and make them commercial..... and this is why songs like fighting with cley (which was written before the yellow album) were released... from my knowledge the only 2 songs that remained the way travis wanted them (excluding the interludes) were giving in and dancing with the wind..... both of which i think are the standouts of the album.
though all should be fine now...... travis told the record company to get stuffed in relation to any new albums and he's gone independant..... he's going to make sure that this one gets ditributed properly aswell....... he also promises that the new one (purple) will be the most creative yet......
so i'm hoping for a masterpiece that competes with green, cause green is definitely in my top 5 all time albms....
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