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Re: Another Way To Die! REVIEWS! Thu 17 Jun 2010, 02:04
The LEADER
i dont like it that much
first, the transitions just bug me: like, from the intro to the main song, to the chorus, back into the verse, and then into the bridge. very unnatural that the music literally just stops so much during the song with only the drums in the back at these parts, and i dont like it very much
second, the song is sposed to be about global warming, and i didnt know that til after i watched the lyric video. so when i watched it, i thought it was just about man destroying the world through pollution and the BP oil spill generally, not about global warming. what im trying to say is that it's too general for me. most songs pick an issue and follow through with it: inside the fire picked suicide and covered that beautifully, prayer picked conflict with god and covered that specifically, but another way to die just says shit to say shit, and it doesn't really say what it should: the message of the song is too general to mean anything other than "man is fucking the planet!" to me.
three, dave kinda seemed like he lost imagination halfway through. intro is very good and flows, first verse is the same. chorus just sucks, IMO, but after the first verse, he says "another way to die" too much, IMO, and "can we repent in time?". he says those two things 15 times the entire song, mostly out-of-chorus, and it's like he ran out of things to say so he said "hey let's just repeat the song title and this little hook over and over!"
four, i dont like the chorus, too radio rocky
five, guitar solo doesnt fit IMO and isnt very good
six, song is like a bunch of diff songs spliced into one song. slow brooding intro into a very staccato and fast moving 1st verse into a very legato and "slidy" chorus into another fast staccato verse into another slidy chorus into the slow and brooding guitar solo into a more dynamic, but still slidy chorus into an end. songs not very progressive about switches either, as i said earlier, the band literally stops playing when they switch styles. too all over the place for my taste.
seven, this just obviously wont do as well as inside the fire as a single: that song was addictive, the subject matter was edgy and relevant, and importantly, the song wasn't boring. thats one thing i feel about another way to die: its a little boring and not very progressive.
overall i love the song and its still growing on me but i dont think it's a great song, just good.
first, the transitions just bug me: like, from the intro to the main song, to the chorus, back into the verse, and then into the bridge. very unnatural that the music literally just stops so much during the song with only the drums in the back at these parts, and i dont like it very much
second, the song is sposed to be about global warming, and i didnt know that til after i watched the lyric video. so when i watched it, i thought it was just about man destroying the world through pollution and the BP oil spill generally, not about global warming. what im trying to say is that it's too general for me. most songs pick an issue and follow through with it: inside the fire picked suicide and covered that beautifully, prayer picked conflict with god and covered that specifically, but another way to die just says shit to say shit, and it doesn't really say what it should: the message of the song is too general to mean anything other than "man is fucking the planet!" to me.
three, dave kinda seemed like he lost imagination halfway through. intro is very good and flows, first verse is the same. chorus just sucks, IMO, but after the first verse, he says "another way to die" too much, IMO, and "can we repent in time?". he says those two things 15 times the entire song, mostly out-of-chorus, and it's like he ran out of things to say so he said "hey let's just repeat the song title and this little hook over and over!"
four, i dont like the chorus, too radio rocky
five, guitar solo doesnt fit IMO and isnt very good
six, song is like a bunch of diff songs spliced into one song. slow brooding intro into a very staccato and fast moving 1st verse into a very legato and "slidy" chorus into another fast staccato verse into another slidy chorus into the slow and brooding guitar solo into a more dynamic, but still slidy chorus into an end. songs not very progressive about switches either, as i said earlier, the band literally stops playing when they switch styles. too all over the place for my taste.
seven, this just obviously wont do as well as inside the fire as a single: that song was addictive, the subject matter was edgy and relevant, and importantly, the song wasn't boring. thats one thing i feel about another way to die: its a little boring and not very progressive.
overall i love the song and its still growing on me but i dont think it's a great song, just good.
