NEW SINGLE Heavyweight

Flynner · Post by **Flynner** » 12/20/2011, 8:14 pm

Also heard Heavyweight on the radio (the Edge) for the first time and it was awesome!!

Trustworthy · Post by **Trustworthy** » 12/20/2011, 9:14 pm

wtf the edge played it today?

Trustworthy · Post by **Trustworthy** » 12/20/2011, 9:15 pm

i wonder if riley has ever given anything a 10 before?

Flynner · Post by **Flynner** » 12/20/2011, 9:56 pm

Yep Bookie played it, and before it he read the exert from dot com in the news section

Johnny · Post by **Johnny** » 12/20/2011, 10:52 pm

faninor wrote:Really like this song so far. I wouldn't say the chorus is bad, but it's not as strong at the rest. If I were in charge of making a radio edit, I'd hack out the first chorus and go directly from "I've gotta stop, drop, roll" then into the 2nd verse. And maybe just slightly shorten the intro. There's some neat stuff going on with the arrangement throughout, but some people won't pay so much attention to that.

Raine singing in his falsetto absolutely makes the song and I agree with you about the choruses as well. The verses would flow really well together in that arrangement. I'm also liking the use of fuzz by Steve for the verses as well, but the bass seems too distant. If it were played at an octave lower and maybe though a Big Muff, I think it would add a full sound to the song.

Also, this a rare post of me not hating. Enjoy it while it lasts. :freak:

Post by **faninor** » 12/20/2011, 10:55 pm

Johnny approved (ish)! :duncan:

The bass sounds fine to me on my good headphones, but I wasn't comparing to any other songs or anything.

Johnny · Post by **Johnny** » 12/20/2011, 10:59 pm

Well to me, it's like the bass is just there for the sake of it. It's kinda like a white guy in a Spike Lee movie.

Codes · Post by **Codes** » 12/20/2011, 11:16 pm

Trusty what would you say the mix of the cd is like in terms of the tempo of songs. Is there harder songs than Heavyweight, or is there more softer sounding ones?

Driven · Post by **Driven** » 12/21/2011, 12:06 am

I don't like the verses, but the pre-chorus and chorus are badass. Raine's production on Burn, Burn was weak, but he was super strong on Heavyweight.

Flynner · Post by **Flynner** » 12/21/2011, 12:41 am

the verses are what make this song for me.....but everyone has their opinion

DG · Post by DG » 12/21/2011, 1:09 am

Verses

Chorus

The verses are amazing. The chorus is good, but not nearly as enthralling as the verses.

OLPManiac · Post by **OLPManiac** » 12/21/2011, 5:46 am

OLPManiac wrote:1170 viewers!! In 9 Hours!! I think that is disappointed that on Amazon the song will be only on 3rd January because some people tell that they'll wait this 2 weeks for buying the song...however there are yet 64 comments on the song! Good OLP!!!

EDIT: http://pulsemusic.proboards.com/index.c ... 421&page=1 hahahah guys read the pen's comment! hahahah

I write "Heavyweight" on Google and i found some positive comments!! Only positive feedbacks!!! Oh and on the board that i talk in the message that i have quoted there is an user that told "I take back my statement. OLP should sell their new album with a new pair of pants. That was goooood!"

The guys are in the right way Trusty!!!

RileyLewis · Post by **RileyLewis** » 12/21/2011, 8:26 am

Trustworthy wrote:i wonder if riley has ever given anything a 10 before?

Yeah I'd probably give a few OLP songs a 10 (off the top of my head: Hope, Superman's Dead, Blister, Naveed, If You Believe). Nothing after SM, though there have been a few 8s or maybe 9s since then, but mostly 6 and 7s.

But OLP has never been an "artistic" band that makes 10/10 music consistently. They are a pop/rock band that tries to make radio music. So I don't expect that out of them.

Tinman · Post by **Tinman** » 12/21/2011, 2:01 pm

RileyLewis wrote:
Trustworthy wrote:i wonder if riley has ever given anything a 10 before?

Yeah I'd probably give a few OLP songs a 10 (off the top of my head: Hope, Superman's Dead, Blister, Naveed, If You Believe). Nothing after SM, though there have been a few 8s or maybe 9s since then, but mostly 6 and 7s.

But OLP has never been an "artistic" band that makes 10/10 music consistently. They are a pop/rock band that tries to make radio music. So I don't expect that out of them.

I won't go that far. I think Sm was the epitome of artistic. Granted, after they released it they then modified their entire being to be more radio friendly... but i think to say that they have always been a pop/rock band with little more ambition is selling their old stuff short. When they first were writing Naveed, they had planned to have islamic music styles throughout the album (and cut it because they felt they could not do the music justice). I think at its heart, this band has been founded on doing things on an artistic/spiritual level. Things change, yeah, but the past doesn't.

Waiting to Exist · Post by **Waiting to Exist** » 12/21/2011, 5:04 pm

I'm a big, big fan of this song the more I listen to it. Love the opening, love the verses. The chorus musically doesn't do a ton for me, but I love the lyrics to it. "We fight not to be, not ot be weeeeiiightless." That gets me, and then during the last chorus, the way Raine sings, "They’ll wake us." So even if the choruses ain't perfect, they have some bright bright spots for me.

Also a big fan of "bringing me back... back... AGAAAAAIIIIIIIIIN."

Overall, I'm very happy with the work.

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RileyLewis · Post by **RileyLewis** » 12/21/2011, 8:01 pm

Sorry, I didn't make myself clear. I meant that they are not an artistic band nowadays. They did try to be, especially with Naveed and then Spiritual Machines later on. But now they are not out to create "creative" music, they are out to make "great" music (at least in my mind).

The difference, I feel, is that in the "old" days I could imagine Raine staying up all night trying to get poetry to fit into a song, trying to compress huge meaning into little bits of words, etc, whereas now I think it's just a fluid process that he does more on the fly. I think they probably cared more about the "artistic" side of it earlier on than they do now.

katshimmers · Post by **katshimmers** » 12/22/2011, 7:12 pm

Really enjoying it so far

twiqz · Post by **twiqz** » 12/22/2011, 11:58 pm

I've been playing the hell out of it, I absolutely love the sound and can only begin to imagine what the rest of the album is going to be like. The lyrics are so awesome. I'm thinking in my head ..... ok "All you did was save my life" was their single and there are gems like escape artist and paper moon. What will this album have in store for us if heavyweight is this good?

ahhhhh come to pittsburgh, PLEASE

ivewaited · Post by **ivewaited** » 12/28/2011, 4:57 am

The verses are definitely what makes this song.. I also love the dreamy bridge too.. but the verses.. mmm.