Johnathan wrote:Raine a talented lyricist. If he was in the music business for money, he could wrote many a songs and sold them to a famous artist and get rich.
OR
OLP coulda wrote "mindless generic rock" that woulda to fit into main stream america today.
very well put...
Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil. - Niccoló Machiavelli
Johnathan wrote:I fail to see why people hate Bob Rock.
People hate those who are successful.
Some examples:
Bill Gates
Martha Stewart
Britney Spears
Jennifer Lopez
Deion Sanders
Michael Jackson
Tom Golisano (only New Yorkers (specifically Rochesterians) probably know this one)
Most of the list includes celebrities because they absord more media.
Chances are you all hate some rich dude that lives in your neighborhood.
we're getting off topic just a lil bit, lol you can't judge between the new and old... look at pretty much every band out there... find a band that hasn't changed at all over the years... it was inevitable for this to happen to OLP- Like I said before though, all their stuff sounds great- I can honestly say that I do not hate or dislike any of their songs, covers, live material etc...
if you want a perfect example look at The Beatles... compare their early stuff to Sgt. Pepper, and then look at the White Album...
I can't wait until the day schools are over-funded and the military is forced to hold bake sales to buy planes.
"It's a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself. Makes you wonder what else you can do that you've forgotten about"
Venom wrote:Raine baffles me sometimes. He hates the ideology of America, but yet is trying to grab more of an AMerican audience by dumbing down the lyrics and trying to sound like all the other "american" rock bands. I don't get it. The old OLP rocks and they never should have simplified thier lyrics. Its what made them great.
As an American, I so very reset that. The "american" bands that they're being compared to the most (that I've heard) is Nickelback. How American are they?
But seriously, I totally dig the ambigious vintage OLP, but I also appreciate the new form of writing. Instead of making deep, insightful interpretive songs, they're now making opinions in their music, and more purely conveying raw emotion.
Long live OLP. In any shape, fashion, or form.
"When looking up there, I just felt whole, like I belonged. Like one day I too would shine my most brilliant. Sitting there also made me think about sitting through services at my little country church back home. About that never-changing congregation of the same sixty-seven people and everyone has known you since before you were born. Now, out here in the real world, everything just seemed more vivid than when I used to sit in that little pew. That pew that was now so, so far away from where I was. I feared I had somehow left God behind there, too. I feared he was somehow just sitting there, saving my seat on the fifth pew from the front row, just waiting on me to come back. I left so quickly, I worried that he may not have noticed I was gone. And, now, I’m just too far away to find. So he’s just sitting there, patiently waiting on me to come back. I closed my eyes and prayed a moment. I hoped more than anything that he could still hear me." -an excerpt from my novella, A Sea of Fallen Leaves.
who knows... it may be for the best, unfortunately we can't be in the future and look back on their career and try and reflect on where they went right and where they went wrong. You just have to go go along for the ride or jump off.
I can't wait until the day schools are over-funded and the military is forced to hold bake sales to buy planes.
"It's a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself. Makes you wonder what else you can do that you've forgotten about"
you can't judge between the new and old... look at pretty much every band out there... find a band that hasn't changed at all over the years... it was inevitable for this to happen to OLP- Like I said before though, all their stuff sounds great- I can honestly say that I do not hate or dislike any of their songs, covers, live material etc...
