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Waiting for Stevie vs. Running vs. Got To Give

Voting open until 4/23 8 PM est

Vote for Running

Got to Give

WFS is cool, but Got to Give is great.

Got to Give

stip wrote:Vote for Running

Something tells me that is not how you cast your vote.

Got to Give

Got To Give

C’mon guys. Stip gave you this whole nice tournament, a phenomenal review of the new album, and countless more. The least you can do is give him Waiting For Stevie.

liebzz wrote:C’mon guys. Stip gave you this whole nice tournament, a phenomenal review of the new album, and countless more. The least you can do is give him Waiting For Stevie.

But it's average.

liebzz wrote:C’mon guys. Stip gave you this whole nice tournament, a phenomenal review of the new album, and countless more. The least you can do is give him Waiting For Stevie.

years of crushing defeats for Alive have hardened my March Madness heart

WFS hasn't hit me as hard as some, but Running and Got To Give are on the lower end of the album (though I still like 'em both, amazing).

Got To Give is excellent, One of the album highlights.

Stevie. It's a really good song, but that riff (and particularly how it the bass and the guitar are combining to make it shimmer), I could listen to that on repeat for quite a while. It's not quite at the upper echelon of the album for me, but it's definitely grown on me since my first listen.

My main Dark Matter stumbling block is that I think it falls off post-Stevie, including the other two songs here. I'm listening to them on full listens, but really I'm wanting to just go back to my personal highlights that show up earlier on the album.

I love the chord that resolves the main verse progression of "Got To Give" ("about you," "but who knew") -- that's a great little musical curveball that really offsets the Springsteen/Mellencamp tenor of the rest of the song. "Whoever said love is a compromise knew you" is a great lyric, especially resolving as it does on that slightly dissonant chord. These are all somewhere in the middle tier of my early impressions but I'm going with "Got to Give."

Got to Give

Kevin Davis wrote:I love the chord that resolves the main verse progression of "Got To Give" ("about you," "but who knew") -- that's a great little musical curveball that really offsets the Springsteen/Mellencamp tenor of the rest of the song. "Whoever said love is a compromise knew you" is a great lyric, especially resolving as it does on that slightly dissonant chord. These are all somewhere in the middle tier of my early impressions but I'm going with "Got to Give."

Good post

Kevin Davis march madness posts are always a highlight. Excited to have new songs for them

Got to Give is maybe the song I'm discovering the most small details in with every listen. It's a good song towards the bottom of a stacked album, but lots of moments waiting to be revealed. I just picked up on some of the bridge lyrics yesterday I really liked, and this is probably the most successful version of this type of song yet.

digster wrote:Stevie. It's a really good song, but that riff (and particularly how it the bass and the guitar are combining to make it shimmer), I could listen to that on repeat for quite a while. It's not quite at the upper echelon of the album for me, but it's definitely grown on me since my first listen.

great description

Got to give



my vote to Waiting For Stevie!