Damon Fibraio wrote:
>I think DT fans are a bit of a spoiled bunch. Look
>at what passes off for popular music today and tell me that this is still a
>crappy album. I don't mind shredding sometimes. I don't think these are bad
>songs at all, and I would listen to this over a band like The White Stripes
>any day at any time. But, we being at a different plane than standard rock
>listeners, I guess we are picky.
>
Actually, I really like The White Stripes. Their music has little
resemblance to DT but they have some very cool melodies and dynamics and I
like their vocal delivery. In fact, I'd say that DT could take a hint from
them about melodies -- you need to spend more than a few seconds developing
a melody before moving on. This is especially true for vocal melodies.
DT had much more interesting vocal melodies back on I&W and Awake than
they do more recently (I haven't listened enough to ToT to pass judgement
yet). I posted a long rant about this after 6DoiT so I won't get into it
all again.
On a different note, I agree with the poster who said that DT has
forgotten how the guitars and keyboards can work together and also work
within the context of the song -- take a listen to songs like Learning
to Live and TTT to see what I mean. In those songs the solos weren't
played a pure solos, independent of the rest of the song. Instead they
worked beautifully within the context of the song. That's not to say
that they don't do that at all today, but too often the solo seems like
a break into whatever the soloist feels like playing rather than as a
progression of the song.
After some more listening I'll post on how I feel about ToT.
Steve
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