neurological dryer lint

heh. i was browsing around for lyrics to frances and stumbled on this review. the guy who wrote it is like so many others who expect a band, whose members were in a band they'd previously heard, to produce music exactly like the ones before. he rants about how stuff on this disc doesn't have the merits of older At The Drive-In material, that their lyrics are rambling and the structure of the songs are weird-for-the-sake-of-being-weird, basically.

how can you expect the same work? the same songwriting, assembling of pieces, subject material... were i these guys' position i'd be playing the polar opposite of what i played before, if for no reason but to explore possibilities. they should be a polka band or do alt-country. why stay the same? more than anything - they're artists, they have the right to do what they want with their work. frankly one of the reasons i didn't get into velvet revolver is because they didn't sound any different than if you threw G&R and STP into a blender. it didn't take much creativity or innovation to produce contraband. i'm impressed with TMV doing what they did, boldly producing what they wanted and not what an audience is looking for. because the audience will find you if your stuff appeals to them.

brooke mentioned in the comments that he's playing rohs street tonight, but i'd heard the place caught fire and wasn't open, and their website confirms it. hmm. brooke, what's the dill, you still playing?

and tomorrow is anberlin, who i've waited so long to see live.