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Originally Posted by LucyK!
*Lead balloon warning*
Bored. Bored, bored out of my mind!
Radio 2 had High Hopes as Album Of The Week before it was released (they play one song each day from an upcoming album) and not one of them excited me, I was at work so not properly listening but they really didn't grab me at all.
Now got the album and sorry to say the boredom hasn't improved! I found almost every song to be completely lifeless, and on a good selection of them I can sing other Bruce songs over the top as they're re-works of existing songs.
I can only hope that the tour ends up being like the Working On A Dream tour, during which Bruce dropped I think all but one songs from the album and went back to just playing songs and requests from his back catalogue.
Sorry Bruce  |
Sorry you feel that way, Lucy, but I don't agree. (Except for Dream Baby Dream)
Yes, some of the songs are re-worked (Joad, 41 Shots), but of the ones we haven't heard before, I think there are some really good lyrics. Maybe because I love
The Rising so much, but I really like
Down in the Hole,
Frankie Fell in Love is fun, and I love
Heaven's Wall.
I guess we'll be seeing very soon how the new tunes work out live.
I wasn't really crazy about the Dream tour (though I saw a couple of amazing shows near the end of the tour) compared to the
Magic tour. The requests were fun, but I think the dedicated section in the middle of the show kind of disrupted the flow; I liked it better on the WB tour when he just picked one here and there. The last tour where I really loved the new songs was
Magic.
As much as I love the shows, I'm ready for something new.