oh my gosh. i am floored. this was perhaps the most
articulate post i have ever read on the subject of
sunny day real estate. of course it helps that the
post also shares my "snobby" and "elitist" opinion
about the band. because anyone who would say such
things is obviously snobby and elitist. fact of the
matter is, a few (more than one) of you have asked
this list why they don't like trt and have asked to
give reasons. my immediate response was "trt sucks"
but that wasn't creative or legitimate enough to get
through. so here goes: the rising tide sounds big and
it sounds glossy and it sounds pretentious and it
sounds verse chorus verse and it sounds like a big ol
bowl of crap. this record was put out by a band that i
once had respect for. this will serve as my last post
ever to this list. why be part of a list for a band
that i now have little to say about. those of you who
i still keep in contact with. feel free to email me.
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Granted, there are a million bands copying "Diary"
> out there, and that's just
> sad. Emo music, to me, is terrible. You claim "The
> Rising Tide" is Sunny Day
> maturing, then you may be right. If Sunny Day going
> from being influenced by
> Fugazi to listening to and nearly directly copying
> bands like U2 and
> Radiohead, then, yes, they are very mature. Maturity
> doesn't mean because
> Sunny Day is more mellow now, so they must be
> mature. The Rising Tide is
> terrible. It sounds just like Queensryche to me. I'm
> not kidding either. If
> you listen to the lyrics, they are just silly, they
> are like fantasy rock. If
> music paints pictures, the Rising Tide paints
> pictures with dragons and
> wizards. As someone else said, the song structures
> are very predictable.
> Listen to the second song, "One." From the time they
> strum the first chord,
> until the time the strum the second, I picture Dan
> and Jeremy with their
> hands in the air doing the devil "rawk" sign. During
> that time, I imagine
> skulls being lowered down behind Will while smoke
> pours out of their mouth.
> Its not maturity, its bigness. Its like they wish
> they were U2. They wish
> they had those pyrotechnics. Its really sad. Explain
> to me how The Rising
> Tide is any more mature than How It Feels. And the
> lyrics are terrible. He
> actually says "Everything and everyone, in the end
> we all are one." I never
> heard that growing closer to Christ took you further
> away from being able to
> write good lyrics, but apparently it has. The less
> mature Sunny Day never
> wrote lyrics like a 5th grade girl whose parents are
> getting divorced. The
> song "Snibe" has a chorus which sounds like Men With
> Hats song "Safety
> Dance", you know the one, "We can dance if want to."
> Its really sorry. The
> entire CD, with a few exceptions in a few songs, its
> terrible. TO the people
> who will write back to disagree with me, tell me how
> they matured, tell me
> how the lyrics are better, tell me you don't hear
> everything Im saying. They
> actually have robotic vocals, and I hear Rush, I
> hear Stix. If this is
> maturity, what's the next step? And also, whoever
> disagrees with me, tell me
> what the hell you listen to aside from Sunny Day.
> Thanks.
>
> matt
> NP- Silver Scooter
>
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