Re: Disc 1 vs. Disc 2, and sadness...

["Nathan Swartzendruber" <thefishpatrol at hotmail_com>]

I guess I wouldn't call this happy-happy, but I wouldn't call my experience 
with it sad, either. What keeps it from sadness, to me, is its lack of 
regret. As if to say, hey some bad stuff has happened, some hurtful stuff 
has happened. Some of it's still going on. But isn't life just like that, 
and thank God there's more to it than the pain. Maybe I don't feel like I'm 
winning, but I sure haven't lost yet. Look at all we've lived along the way.

This is definitely some charged stuff, and it takes some emotional energy to 
really listen through. (But let us not ignore the groove.) What I love about 
good music, is that it connects you to the people behind it. Not like 
imaginary-best-friend/stalker, but like Voice, and K&L are very visible in 
that sense on this album.

Case in point, at the very very end of "Anything At All," you can hear the 
tick from Linford's old piano (when the sustain pedal releases?). Easy as 
spit to "clean that up," but the home recording feel isn't a gimmick. This 
stuff's written for the old upright, worn shoes on wood floors. Not a 
magazine slick for a new sounds-like-a-real-piano synth world tour 
see-us-on-E! and listen to the singles cause that's all we've got to say.
If that makes sense.

All right (it's all right, now),

Nathan
>
>First, I'm glad that Debbie mentioned how sad this music is.  I know there 
>are
>some happy tunes on this release, but even the up tempo songs still hit far 
>far
>away from raising the mood of the work above "sad".

[snip]

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