most improved: "Who Ever Said" - when I first heard it, I felt a little deflated that it wasn't a new "Last Exit" snarling out of the gate; the guitars weren't aggressive enough, the "gave up on satisfaction" part sounded too much like "life wasted!" and "world wide suicide!", shouty bits that always felt a little bit dad rock to me; I thought that synthesized guitar melody part was just a synth that was intrusive in a BoB "hey this is good but what if we put ME on it?" way (I only started to feel better about it after finding out it was a guitar effect, not a pointless keyboard tune); and I thought the extremely long bridge part was sheer awesomeness from the get-go, but I was tired of songs where I loved the bridge, but wasn't excited about anything around it; but, more listens, louder listens, to allow the parts that I thought were hokey to blend in with the parts I thought were great, I can say that the whole thing rocks now, and the hokey parts are only as hokey as... something like "Breakerfall", which also rocks, overallKevin Davis wrote:Now that this has been out for a while, what is your most improved Gigaton track, and conversely which one has fallen the farthest?
farthest fallen: I don't think any of these songs have fallen, genuinely, but I guess one or two have lost their "newness" and shine... I'm going to say "Quick Escape"; truthfully, I really like it, the performances are all good, and Matt sounds funky for the first time since... never, but I think for a aong about a blast off to Mars, it's curiously... static? what if it took "Who Ever Said"s exploratory spirit and stuck a weird bridge in the middle? or something... I mean, I think it's all based on like two four-chord phrases
