1. Strange Brew-A bit slow for my taste. Good sound, just missing the it factor. Lacking in real emotion or force. Too mellow. Not very catchy. 2. Sunshine Of Your Love-Real classic. Great song. Still subdued, but has much more emotion to it, both in the vocals and the guitar. Catchier as well. Guitar solo adds a bit too much dead air to song, should be ever so slightly shorter. Ending is a bit weak/generic. 3. World Of Pain-Much better initial sound. Haunting vocals. Strong opening but gets repetitive as it goes on. Solo felt kind of out of place. Weak ending again, last one puttered out, this one was just a fade. 4. Dance The Night Away-Mixed feelings. The vocals/guitar sound too similar between all of these songs. They have a very similar cadence in each of them and the warbly guitar sound too much. The drummer also isn't getting to really express themself in this one, they're just providing a very basic rhythm. This one actually had a good ending though. 5. Blue Condition-Something that finally sounds different!!! I like the piano, the little hits add a lot. Reminds me of something familiar and plodding, take me down to the ball game? I think my main issue is that all of these songs are fairly repetitive and don't do much to generate different sounds across the breadth of the piece. Each one has one sound it latches onto and barely deviates from. This one didn't really have an ending, it kind of just stopped? 6. Tales Of Brave Ulysses-These songs are just boring because they don't ever surprise you other than at the start. They'll do a fake out for a few seconds at the start at most but then stick with that sound for the rest. They don't really develop as time goes on. There's also always a random guitar solo that doesn't really do anything for the song other than extend its length. It's too monotone (album as a whole). The guitar is basically the same in every song (in character if not in notes played). These feel like they could all be one longer song arbitrarily separated or a bunch of variations on the same song idea. Fade out again. Fade outs can be fine but all of these songs have had pretty lazy endings and so I'm mentioning it here. 7. SWLABR-A different sound again? So, 2/7 have had a unique sound so far. This one has real emotion in it, it's just not doing it for me for whatever reason. It's still too repetitive as well. These songs don't feel like they have any growth. Ending is still lazy but at least there is one. 8. We're Going Wrong-Oh no, we're back to the weird vocals I don't like again. These songs are all so slow. Slow songs can be good, but they need to develop, go somewhere, or do something, and these just aren't. This album in one word so far is: boring. 9. Outside Woman Blues-The guitar is actually unique again here, but once again it's just so repetitive. The repetition in these tracks would suggest extra emphasis on the lyrics but the instruments are nearly always substantially louder than the vocals and the lyrics don't really say much for the most part, which would suggest the opposite. 10. Take It Back-The harmonica adds some nice character to this one. Does this one actually develop? This one also has a much more bluesy tone than the rest of the album so far. This one actually does develop. This is the best track after Sunshine Of Your Love. This is a solid piece, although I would like to say that once again the lyrics are kind of just there in the background. Still a bit repetitive, although it has substantially more variance than the other tracks. And a solid ending. 11. Mother's Lament-Obviously a joke, but I unironically liked it more than most of the songs in the album (although I am admittedly biased in favor of songs that tell a story). Summary: A couple good songs but the album is ultimately boring and repetitive.
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