Music Review: David Cook - This Loud Morning
I love David Cook. I love him as a person, and as a musician; his song Declaration is one of my favorite songs of all time. His self titled album was totally my jam for a while in 2008, and Permanent still makes me cry whenever I listen to it.
Which is why I'm disappointed in This Loud Morning. On first play through only a few songs stand out to me (Circadian, Time Marches On, The Last Goodbye, and Paper Heart) the rest kind of blurred in my head because they all sound the same. David does ballads well, but what I really like him doing is rock. That's probably why I like The Last Goodbye and Paper Heart so much is because those are closer to what I love him doing. I also felt like all the ballads had the same verse, but we'll see if that opinion changes when I listen again closer.
I did like the way that the second and third songs blend together, but after the first play through I went to MCR's Danger Days and played the first two songs because those are perfection together, even if the first isn't really a song. Perhaps because Danger Days was the last CD I bought before this one but I kept comparing them. Both have an overall theme/concept, but Danger Days managed to do it while being distinct with each song (compare The Kids From Yesterday to Planetary (Go!), for instance). This Loud Morning doesn't seem to have managed that quite as well.
Then again I also know that you can't judge a CD on the first listen. On my second listen the songs don't sound so similar, and I'm sure I'll love this CD like I did the first.
ETA: Okay, it's been about 12 hours since I first got this CD, and I've changed my mind. My least favorite song is Fade Into Me, and that's because it goes on too long. Paper Heart better be the next single, or something is very wrong. It has 16 plays on Media Player and that's low because I've been restraining myself. The songs I mentioned liking above are still the ones I like best, but the rest are growing on me. The transitions from 2 and 3 are lovely, Danger Days still did it better though.
Which is why I'm disappointed in This Loud Morning. On first play through only a few songs stand out to me (Circadian, Time Marches On, The Last Goodbye, and Paper Heart) the rest kind of blurred in my head because they all sound the same. David does ballads well, but what I really like him doing is rock. That's probably why I like The Last Goodbye and Paper Heart so much is because those are closer to what I love him doing. I also felt like all the ballads had the same verse, but we'll see if that opinion changes when I listen again closer.
I did like the way that the second and third songs blend together, but after the first play through I went to MCR's Danger Days and played the first two songs because those are perfection together, even if the first isn't really a song. Perhaps because Danger Days was the last CD I bought before this one but I kept comparing them. Both have an overall theme/concept, but Danger Days managed to do it while being distinct with each song (compare The Kids From Yesterday to Planetary (Go!), for instance). This Loud Morning doesn't seem to have managed that quite as well.
Then again I also know that you can't judge a CD on the first listen. On my second listen the songs don't sound so similar, and I'm sure I'll love this CD like I did the first.
ETA: Okay, it's been about 12 hours since I first got this CD, and I've changed my mind. My least favorite song is Fade Into Me, and that's because it goes on too long. Paper Heart better be the next single, or something is very wrong. It has 16 plays on Media Player and that's low because I've been restraining myself. The songs I mentioned liking above are still the ones I like best, but the rest are growing on me. The transitions from 2 and 3 are lovely, Danger Days still did it better though.