The break at 3:17 kills the flow and then just when it sounds like they might just save it, those piano tinkles at 3:30 build to nothing and the song peters out completely. But I do now find the end quite dissatisfying. The second verse starting 1:08 is masterful in the same way the second verse of The Handler is brilliant, just one of those passages where they threw everything at it and it works. Blockades remains completely forgettable, and The Void - argh, it's odd. I just love how ridiculous the album version is.īreak It To Me is immense, album and remix.
I love both versions of Propaganda, but the aspects of the song emphasised in the acoustic version I think I prefer overall.
The Dark Side grows and grows and grows on me, and the alt version is the pick of the alternative versions for me - the HCM treatment works a charm. It washed over me rather than irritating me. I genuinely do really like the gospel version, but tonight, I definitely didn't grimace at the straight up album version. It really couldn't ever live up to the song I built it up to be in my head.ĭig Down is a funny bugger. I stand by the alt version of Algorithm being vastly inferior to the album version, although that said, it's really not that strong a song - I like it, but it definitely suffered from the hype machine like Supremacy did. I can't stress just how much I hate the additional focus on the brass and that piped crowd noise. I find Pressure a touch dull, and the marching band version is absolutely vile. I don't think I'll ever truly warm to those saccharine yelps in the intro and post-choruses but the song itself is sound. Instead though, it was songs like Something Human and Get Up And Fight that really stood out for me - Something Human in particular, especially the acoustic version, is a really sweet song.
Even the tracks I previously really have struggled to stomach like Thought Contagion and Dig Down (note: I still think TC is pretty damn horrible for a whole bunch of reasons). Revisited the whole album tonight for the first time for a good few months and I was quite surprised by quite a few things.įirst and foremost, I enjoyed album as a whole far more than I recall having done a while ago.
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