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A harshness

Posted by Sordidman (A) on May 21, 2008 at 13:04:56

In Reply to: Final thoughts (if there was ever such a thing for me!) posted by RC Daniel on May 7, 2008 at 20:16:16:

I haven't really sat down and listened to it. I've had it on about 4 times now, and have been doing other stuff. So, - hopefully one of these nights, I'll be sitting in the sweet spot with it.

So, I just have a first few impressions too. As much as I love them, it seems like they're being annoying just to be annoying. I guess that Sordidman has his "commercial-line," - and when it gets crossed, I get turned off. I don't usually like discordant, off-time, loud noises: although I am a "noise," "new, different, sounds" fan. If that makes sense. Take, for example, the song "Sour Times." On the first record, it was a pretty great loungey, commercial, cabaret, crooner-like song that they changed on their new arrangement into an odd-timed discordant and difficult song. (To me, they seemed to be changing it simply to annoy).

This perversity, I usually appreciate, and really appreciate the way New Order does it: in Portishead's case, annoys me.

All that being said, these are simply first impressions. And I'm betting that the above impressions will change. Geoff Barrow is still drumming, so that can only be good......

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