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Post by lonelysummer on Mar 8, 2023 14:46:51 GMT -5
The time for Dennis to do a solo album was 1970-72. He still had that unique voice then, and the songs included on Feel Flows are uniformly strong. POB has its moments, but it's not a favorite of mine.
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Post by radiokingdom on Mar 12, 2023 10:42:13 GMT -5
I hear the positive and negative things about POB that people have said on this thread.
My evaluation is pretty much solidly positive. I do hear a bit of the sameness that a poster mentioned. However, that quality is more than made up for by something I have trouble putting my finger on. I would call it a kind of melding of sincerity and creativity that is fairly rare to hear.
I don't feel on a single track that Dennis meant it as a throwaway or just stuck it on the album to fill up an LP. Sure, it's true that I enjoy "Thoughts of You," "You and I," and "Moonshine" more than I do, say, "End of the Show." But I never feel like I just don't care about a certain track, more like some of them feel inaccessible to me because of a problem in my attention or approach to them. And I don't always feel this way about albums by artists I'm sympathetic to -- I'm totally okay with not liking the odd BB song or thinking of it as filler. There's something about POB that feels real to me the whole way through.
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Post by Awesoman on Jun 21, 2023 7:50:37 GMT -5
I hear the positive and negative things about POB that people have said on this thread. My evaluation is pretty much solidly positive. I do hear a bit of the sameness that a poster mentioned. However, that quality is more than made up for by something I have trouble putting my finger on. I would call it a kind of melding of sincerity and creativity that is fairly rare to hear. I don't feel on a single track that Dennis meant it as a throwaway or just stuck it on the album to fill up an LP. Sure, it's true that I enjoy "Thoughts of You," "You and I," and "Moonshine" more than I do, say, "End of the Show." But I never feel like I just don't care about a certain track, more like some of them feel inaccessible to me because of a problem in my attention or approach to them. And I don't always feel this way about albums by artists I'm sympathetic to -- I'm totally okay with not liking the odd BB song or thinking of it as filler. There's something about POB that feels real to me the whole way through. Yeah again I think the album was intended to be heard in full to get the proper listening experience and emotional reaction that Dennis was going for. You could even suggest that maybe the sum of this album is greater than its parts although a few of these tracks stand pretty well on their own.
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