Tempted
It's been proven to me several times that with some albums you just need to hear it at the right time and place to get it.
I really enjoy Collide's music, but the first few times I heard Some Kind of Strange, it didn't really work for me. It was a birthday gift in 2003, and on the ride home my brother popped it into the CD player and we were both underwhelmed: it seemed like a pleasant but non-distinct run of music, with nothing delineating one song from another. I tried the album again during a long, mostly highway drive years later with similar results.
On a recent night drive, I put the Asleep By Dawn issue two compilation CD in the player and was surprised by how much I really enjoyed Collide's "Tempted" on it so I decided to give Some Kind of Strange another chance, this time on a night drive, mostly down regular streets instead of highways, and in the dark and without the highway hum the album opened up for me like a flower, blossoming, and I could make out each individual song and enjoyed it a lot. You just have to meet it and get into it in its own mostly mellow groove. "So Long" even gave me goosebumps at times. Plus, listening to music in the car in the dark is a huge help on hearing the intricacies and layers of songs.
It also kind of helped that I'd heard the remixes of some of these songs on their Vortex(/Xetrov) remix album. I should listen to that again soon, though it has the problem of having multiple remixes of a few songs, which gets repetitive and annoying at times. You can comment here or at the Dreamwidth crosspost.
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I really enjoy Collide's music, but the first few times I heard Some Kind of Strange, it didn't really work for me. It was a birthday gift in 2003, and on the ride home my brother popped it into the CD player and we were both underwhelmed: it seemed like a pleasant but non-distinct run of music, with nothing delineating one song from another. I tried the album again during a long, mostly highway drive years later with similar results.
On a recent night drive, I put the Asleep By Dawn issue two compilation CD in the player and was surprised by how much I really enjoyed Collide's "Tempted" on it so I decided to give Some Kind of Strange another chance, this time on a night drive, mostly down regular streets instead of highways, and in the dark and without the highway hum the album opened up for me like a flower, blossoming, and I could make out each individual song and enjoyed it a lot. You just have to meet it and get into it in its own mostly mellow groove. "So Long" even gave me goosebumps at times. Plus, listening to music in the car in the dark is a huge help on hearing the intricacies and layers of songs.
It also kind of helped that I'd heard the remixes of some of these songs on their Vortex(/Xetrov) remix album. I should listen to that again soon, though it has the problem of having multiple remixes of a few songs, which gets repetitive and annoying at times. You can comment here or at the Dreamwidth crosspost.
comments at Dreamwidth.