Re: Best On, Worst On

["Jim M" <petenotped@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message ----- From: "Schrade, Scott"

> > Worst: breaks my heart, but "Getting In Tune".
>
> I can see that.  I could also see someone choosing "Song Is Over."

And, I just did.  Way too long and slow developing.  Not powerful enough to
be the finale of Lifehouse.  Seems like Pete was going for a "Listening To
You" type of repeating ending with "I sing my song to..."   It doesn't work,
for me.  Getting In Tune is one of my favorite songs at the moment.  Simple,
sure, but meaningful.  "I can't pretend there's any meaning hidden in the
things I'm saying."  There's meaning in that!  That the meaning of music can
be in the notes, not the words.  No way is it the worst song on the album.
NO WAY!

As an aside, I've long wanted to put together a kind of
what-Lifehouse-should-have-been CD, with as many of the related songs, in as
cohesive an order as I could.  My constraints are one 80 minute CD and
commercially available songs performed be the whole band (i.e., no Pete solo
stuff, so that it at least sounds like it could have been a real album).
Here's what I came up with based mostly on Pete's Lifehouse box set track
listings:

Baba O'Riley
Going Mobile (I think Pete had this first, but you can't not open with the
Baba synth)
Love Ain't For Keeping (My next version of this CD will use the Record Plant
version of this and...)
Behind Blue Eyes (Originally went after Too Much, but I'd keep the Record
Plant songs together)
Bargain
Too Much of Anything
I Don't Even Know Myself
Put the Money Down (I could lose this, if anyone had suggestions to replace
it)
Pure and Easy
Gettin' in Tune
Let's See Action
Relay
Join Together (And, now, my dillema...)
Won't Get Fooled Again
Song is Over

How can WGFA not be the climax?  How can SIO follow it?  If it doesn't,
where else does it go?  HELP!!!!!!!!!

Oh yeah, the best song?  I'll throw in another vote for Baba.  Audacious.  I
listend to it a few weeks ago trying to just concentrate on the synth track.
The way it goes right through the entire song, tying in with everything
they're doing, is just exquisite.

By the way, Scott.  "I could also see someone choosing..."  and "It was
between BO'R and WGFA"?  You're laying down rules ("No lists of three
favorites & two least favorites.") and then finding transparent ways around
them, man.  No fair!  I know, no one was playing the game...but we've got
lives, you know.  Give us a chance!

Jim M