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- Tue Oct 18, 2022 11:29 am
- Forum: Alter Bridge
- Topic: Ranking 'The Epics'
- Replies: 29
- Views: 4983
Re: Ranking 'The Epics'
To add to your excellent explanation, Buffon, I think that a great AB epic has to really have that genuine emotional resonance and catharsis to really make it. I have to feel something and be taken somewhere. As fantastic as Fortress and Dying Light are (and I really do love listening to them) they...
- Tue Oct 18, 2022 9:19 am
- Forum: Alter Bridge
- Topic: Ranking 'The Epics'
- Replies: 29
- Views: 4983
Re: Ranking 'The Epics'
Double-post: just read my last one back and realized I'm still referring to Calm the Fire as a "recent" song when it'll be 10 next year. Time flies, huh
- Tue Oct 18, 2022 9:12 am
- Forum: Alter Bridge
- Topic: Ranking 'The Epics'
- Replies: 29
- Views: 4983
Re: Ranking 'The Epics'
My ranking from best to worst, with spaces to indicate the "tiers" for lack of a better word: - Blackbird - Fortress - Cry of Achilles - Words Darker than Their Wings - Fable of the Silent Son - The Last Hero - Dying Light - This Side of Fate Criteria: Most important: the song should hold ...
- Mon Oct 17, 2022 4:26 pm
- Forum: Alter Bridge
- Topic: Pawns & Kings – post release reactions & user reviews
- Replies: 96
- Views: 17318
Re: Pawns & Kings – post release reactions & user reviews
I do like A7X in bits and pieces, mind you - they're a fun band, and they also have a couple of very talented musicians and writers- probably unfair of me to bucket them with FFDP! But like I said, I have higher expectations from Alter Bridge than all these mainstream American bands they always get ...
- Mon Oct 17, 2022 3:15 pm
- Forum: Alter Bridge
- Topic: Pawns & Kings – post release reactions & user reviews
- Replies: 96
- Views: 17318
Re: Pawns & Kings – post release reactions & user reviews
This is War, [...]what I'd call outright bad - these are songs I expect A7X, Nickelback and Theory of a Deadman (respectively :lol ) to be putting out. That's interesting. For me TIW is signature AB and I cant see for the life of it how that could be a nickelback song :headscratch But again - there...
- Mon Oct 17, 2022 1:20 pm
- Forum: Alter Bridge
- Topic: Pawns & Kings – post release reactions & user reviews
- Replies: 96
- Views: 17318
Re: Pawns & Kings – post release reactions & user reviews
I like it. Not as strong back-to-front as Blackbird and Fortress, and probably not as many standout songs as ODR and AB III. But there's plenty of good material on here, and the production is miles better than Last Hero and Walk the Sky, probably Fortress too, so looks like they listened to the feed...
- Mon Dec 02, 2019 10:39 pm
- Forum: Alter Bridge
- Topic: Battle Of The Track Numbers: Track 11
- Replies: 40
- Views: 10328
Re: Battle Of The Track Numbers: Track 11
I keep forgetting Twilight even exists. Such an ... inoffensively dull song.
Voted for The End Is Here, though All Ends Well has definitely grown on me over the years.
Voted for The End Is Here, though All Ends Well has definitely grown on me over the years.
- Mon Nov 25, 2019 6:23 pm
- Forum: Alter Bridge
- Topic: Battle Of The Track Numbers: Track 09
- Replies: 48
- Views: 11036
Re: Battle Of The Track Numbers: Track 09
Farther Than The Sun is miles better than Calm the Fire.
Could have gone with any of the first four here, they're all solid songs without being top-tier. You Will Be Remembered deserves to end with zero votes
Could have gone with any of the first four here, they're all solid songs without being top-tier. You Will Be Remembered deserves to end with zero votes
- Tue Nov 19, 2019 11:00 pm
- Forum: Alter Bridge
- Topic: Battle Of The Track Numbers: Track 07
- Replies: 40
- Views: 10931
Re: Battle Of The Track Numbers: Track 07
Indoctrination, by far.
In Loving Memory is a classic, the rest... eh.
In Loving Memory is a classic, the rest... eh.
- Fri Nov 15, 2019 4:24 pm
- Forum: Alter Bridge
- Topic: Battle Of The Track Numbers: Track 06
- Replies: 35
- Views: 10169
Re: Battle Of The Track Numbers: Track 06
I adore Cradle's verses and the intro but the rest just does nothing for me. It's all a bit ovewrought and dense and it loses the true emotion in all three melodrama. Spot on. There's a beautiful song in there, but they ruined it by force-fitting it to the standard Alter Bridge formula. Peace Is Br...
- Wed Nov 13, 2019 1:16 pm
- Forum: Alter Bridge
- Topic: Battle Of The Track Numbers: Track 05
- Replies: 41
- Views: 10380
Re: Battle Of The Track Numbers: Track 05
The guitar work in the chorus is what makes it stand out. There's some really cool stuff going on in there, more intricate than most Alter Bridge choruses. The only thing that annoys me about the song is the very last line of the last chorus: three "I'm coming home"s within a ten-second sp...
- Tue Nov 12, 2019 1:41 pm
- Forum: Alter Bridge
- Topic: Battle Of The Track Numbers: Track 05
- Replies: 41
- Views: 10380
Re: Battle Of The Track Numbers: Track 05
And I'm the second. I honestly expected it to win this, or at least end up second behind Metalingus.TenaciousBe wrote:Wow. I can't believe that I'm the 25th vote, and I'm the first one to vote for The Uninvited.
Happy to see some Coming Home love, at least. One of my favorite AB choruses.
- Sun Nov 10, 2019 8:57 pm
- Forum: Alter Bridge
- Topic: Battle Of The Track Numbers: Track 04
- Replies: 44
- Views: 10186
Re: Battle Of The Track Numbers: Track 04
Lover would be amazing if there was only one Myles singing.
I could go with any of the first three albums here. Picked All Hope Is Gone because I had a feeling it would be overlooked, and now I see it's level with f***ing My Champion after my vote. You should all be ashamed of yourselves.
I could go with any of the first three albums here. Picked All Hope Is Gone because I had a feeling it would be overlooked, and now I see it's level with f***ing My Champion after my vote. You should all be ashamed of yourselves.
- Tue Nov 05, 2019 12:10 am
- Forum: Alter Bridge
- Topic: Walk The Sky Production Quality.
- Replies: 229
- Views: 59433
Re: Walk The Sky Production Quality.
I've always thought Metallica's Black Album has some of the best production I've heard in a rock record. It sounds absolutely huge, without feeling like the music is assaulting you.
- Sat Nov 02, 2019 3:11 pm
- Forum: Alter Bridge
- Topic: Battle Of The Track Numbers: Track 02
- Replies: 32
- Views: 7268
Re: Battle Of The Track Numbers: Track 02
This one's much simpler.
Come to Life. Should have been the lead single from Blackbird
Come to Life. Should have been the lead single from Blackbird
- Thu Oct 31, 2019 5:38 pm
- Forum: Alter Bridge
- Topic: Alter Bridge Walk the Sky / Victorious Sky US Tour 2019
- Replies: 497
- Views: 101435
Re: Alter Bridge Walk the Sky Tour 2019
I always figured AiC use the tablets to control their pedals/effects or something like that.
They only ever play the same couple of dozen songs live every tour. Be disappointing if even that's too many words to remember \m/
They only ever play the same couple of dozen songs live every tour. Be disappointing if even that's too many words to remember \m/
- Wed Oct 30, 2019 2:09 pm
- Forum: Alter Bridge
- Topic: Walk The Sky Production Quality.
- Replies: 229
- Views: 59433
Re: Walk The Sky Production Quality.
Does it bother anyone else that there are people who can't hear the difference between ODR's production and something like TLH? There are plenty of users here who just say they sound the same and it blows my mind. Go put on Broken Wings and listen to how clear everything is. Like how the **** can p...
- Wed Oct 30, 2019 2:02 pm
- Forum: Alter Bridge
- Topic: Battle Of The Track Numbers: Track 01
- Replies: 32
- Views: 6620
Re: Battle Of The Track Numbers: Track 01
Cry of Achilles will win comfortably, but the openers from the first four albums are all fantastic.
I will forever hate Show Me A Leader for ruining the streak.
I will forever hate Show Me A Leader for ruining the streak.
- Mon Oct 28, 2019 5:46 pm
- Forum: Alter Bridge
- Topic: Forever Falling: AB's best work since Blackbird title track?
- Replies: 72
- Views: 18477
Re: Forever Falling: AB's best work since Blackbird title track?
They're not the only songs with the standard pattern, no (far from it), but they are two particular examples where the structure is very, very closely followed. And yes, I do mean the tempos, drum fills, and just the general sense that you can layer one song on top of the other like Muffin says; I'd...
- Mon Oct 28, 2019 3:00 pm
- Forum: Alter Bridge
- Topic: Forever Falling: AB's best work since Blackbird title track?
- Replies: 72
- Views: 18477
Re: Forever Falling: AB's best work since Blackbird title track?
Isolation is a much better song, as I'm pretty sure 90% of people will agree, but that's not the argument here.
Structurally, they're virtually identical. Isolation just does the formula better.
Structurally, they're virtually identical. Isolation just does the formula better.