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Post subject: Re: Right Song/Wrong Album: Riot Act
Posted: Tue August 18, 2015 12:49 pm
The worst
Joined: Thu December 13, 2012 6:31 pm Posts: 39895
I would have liked to hear Thumbing My Way on No Code, I think. I find the RA version kinda lifeless, and there's a pretty good song on there.
Yellow Moon might have been pretty cool on Riot Act--the song would have had more room to breathe, and the album's tired feel would have been appropriate for the song.
Post subject: Re: Right Song/Wrong Album: Riot Act
Posted: Tue August 18, 2015 2:53 pm
Production Police
Joined: Tue September 24, 2013 5:56 pm Posts: 47149 Location: In the oatmeal aisle wearing a Shellac shirt
While it's not my favorite record, I think that RA is a very complete artistic statement album, bested only by Vitalogy. I think every song belongs, and the sequencing is perfect. Sure, it'd be cool to hear a few outtakes on there, like Other Side or Let It Ride (I know that's a S/T outtake). But generally speaking, I'd say the songs, production, and album packaging all came together quite well on this one...
Post subject: Re: Right Song/Wrong Album: Riot Act
Posted: Tue August 18, 2015 3:21 pm
NEVER STOP JAMMING!
Joined: Wed January 02, 2013 1:56 am Posts: 21843
And the style of writing is pretty concentrated. Thumbing is way wrong for No Code, lyrically. Ghost is too haunted for Yield (which already has a different, more celebratory sounding "run away from your problems" song). The only albums that have any overlap to fit are Binaural and ST.
Post subject: Re: Right Song/Wrong Album: Riot Act
Posted: Tue August 18, 2015 5:15 pm
Misplaced My Sponge
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 9:52 pm Posts: 6330
tragabigzanda wrote:
While it's not my favorite record, I think that RA is a very complete artistic statement album, bested only by Vitalogy. I think every song belongs, and the sequencing is perfect. Sure, it'd be cool to hear a few outtakes on there, like Other Side or Let It Ride (I know that's a S/T outtake). But generally speaking, I'd say the songs, production, and album packaging all came together quite well on this one...
Pretty much this.
When RA first came out, based only on the album title, I reckoned it was gonna be an angry rocker. Save You really is the only song that feels like it fits the title. I was kinda thrown off by the music, but it kinda won me over shortly after I got over my initial disappointment it wasn't an angry / aggressive rocker with songs like "Brain of J", "Grievance", "Habit", "Animal" and "Whipping".
So to relate to this thread, my first thought, pre-listening to it, of RA was expecting the likes of the heavy songs on it. The above mentioned fit the bill, and in an alt universe, would have helped the title fit the music of the album.
Post subject: Re: Right Song/Wrong Album: Riot Act
Posted: Tue August 18, 2015 7:18 pm
Broken Tamborine
Joined: Wed December 24, 2014 7:39 pm Posts: 269 Location: Los Angeles
I think there is a bit of a relationship between NC and RA. I could imagine shuffling several songs between the two records. Can't Keep and I Am Mine could call NC home
....maybe?
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