[kj] Why KJ2003 doesn't suck ...

[Leigh Newton]

Democracy just sounds to me like a bunch of filler
with a few really amazing songs that got marred by
shitty production. I do enjoy it though, it just
sounds to me like a band who had run out of steam. 03
does have its fair share of filler as well, but it's
also got a certain immediacy to it that even the good
songs on Democracy lacked. I'm not really sure why i
singled that album out or why i'm comparing the 2 cuz
there really is no point. What i REALLY mean to say
about 03 is: Knowing full well that all of their
REALLY amazing albums are way way in the past and will
never ever be duplicated, it's nice to hear an album
like 03 which, while nothing even close to the genius
of the early stuff, still sounds like a band who gives
a shit. Yeah, that's it. i think.

Leigh


--- fluw <fluwdot at earthlink.net> wrote:

> leigh, with respect
> democracy and 03 are different sides of the same
> coin. democracy takes a 
> more luxuriant approach. where 03 takes the
> belligerent route - as if a 
> bunch of old men are trying to prove they still have
> sauce in their nuts 
> - but that belligerence hardly gives 03 much proof
> of a band that is 
> still on fire. effectively democracy and 03 are
> equal as the two albums 
> lack realization of the talent within.
>  
> if 03 sounded like democracy? it might prove the
> band was not in good 
> shape for future efforts .. although democracy by
> itself is fine, just 
> not something that needs to be revisited, much like
> 03 and pandemonium  
> 
> i will agree that 03 at least showed the band had
> the interest left to 
> try and build a head of steam for the future.
> whether or not that may 
> coalesce into a great swan song, i believe it leaves
> some doubt. but 
> neither record, could be called ambitious or even
> nearly as interesting 
> as anything they did before 1990, apart form OTG.  
> 
> Leigh Newton wrote:
> 
> >still on fire and still has something more to give.
> >More than i can say for Democracy.
> >
> >Leigh
> >
> >  
> >
> >  
> >
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