Strong Alibi wrote:It's catchy yes I agree... but it's completely indistinguishable from any poppy generic song I've heard in my life. This is not OLP. And I don't mean I want their old style back... I just want CREATIVITY and ENERGY back..
I one-hundred percent agree with you. This song doesn't even show an attempt to have creativity. It's just a bland, generic waste of time. If this was the first song I heard by them, I wouldn't even bother searching for anything else by them.
We don't even have the comfort of the cop-out of blaming Bob Rock for this. This was the band's choice. This was Raine's production.
With every new OLP song and record we hear... the first four albums become more and more of a goldmine in musical creativity. I guess music that perfect can't last forever. We're just lucky all the elements came together perfectly in 1992, and lasted right through 2001 and produced dozens of amazing songs.
Hell, this song gives Gravity and Healthy a good name. I considered those my guilty pleasures, but I can't even tolerate this. I'd much rather have another Somewhere Out There or Innocent than this.
Yeah... and the chorus is what totally ruins it. I'm just imagining Raine singing it like he did live... with the higher notes being reached... and it sounds so much better... but of course, they didn't do that. Can't wait for Nickelback fans to start telling us "damn, that's some generic stuff dude".
You're absolutely right. That's the problem. I'm listening to the live version right now on Youtube, and it's tenfold times better than the studio version. There's no comparison. But then again you can hear the background singers better in the live version (they sing at a higher note), and if you listen close you can hear that Raine sings at a lower octave than you might think at first. But still loads better. I agree, the studio execution was horrible. What's the deal Raine? I think if the background singers were amplified it would be better.
Okay, I listened... I wanted to say some positive things about this song, but I agree with miked23 on the production points being very generic and poppy. It sounds like the opening to a TGIF ABC show from the mid nineties aimed at children. Can you not see this song playing during the opening of Family Matters or Step By Step with Patrick Duffy? It totally sounds like that. It sucks the way they put raine's voice so much out in front of the instruments and made the guitar somewhat muted. It's there, but it's behind the vocals, which is a shame because it sounds like Raine isn't even singing anymore when he uses his deeper voice during the verses. it sounds like he's doing his poetry speak from some of his solo stuff. it's not really singing and if you'd call it singing, it's not like he's putting a lot of effort into it.
maybe if it were mastered with the vocals turned down more behind the music and sharper guitar it would have a better sound, similar to the way that Tool masters their recordings, but even then, the lyrics are just so easy to replicate that when my brother heard it he said "it sounds like something a group of high schoolers would write and practice in their basement when trying to form a rock band together."
it really does... don't get me wrong, it's exactly what mainstream radio is looking for, something that will blend into the hundreds of other songs that all sound exactly like it and the exact reason Matt Good hates the Canadian music and radio industry.
haha, yeah, you should ask him to re-record it lol... tell him there's not enough raw energy and that they tamed it down way too much... but then again he won't care and it's too late anyway
Lando wrote: It sounds like the opening to a TGIF ABC show from the mid nineties aimed at children. Can you not see this song playing during the opening of Family Matters or Step By Step with Patrick Duffy? It totally sounds like that.
Haha.
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Add me to MSN (patrick9_11@hotmail.com) if you would like a recording... I'm too lazy for Rapidshare... I already have a few other CM members added to MSN
