Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off
I mean the dude is in his 50s, but even so he still sound great for his age.
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Album Rating: 1.5 | Sound Off
@artiswar because I enjoyed the record nonetheless
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Album Rating: 1.5 | Sound Off
So long is the worst Maynard I’ve heard
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He sounds great in Talk Talk, but he definitely tried new registers in other songs. I think he sounds good and I do think the album is good but it lacks some of the spark and the rage the band had in previous albums imo.
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Album Rating: 4.5
yeah, it's very subtle. honestly, I'm surprised by the backlash this got; it's a solid return for a band that's been away so long.
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Album Rating: 4.5
This album is incredible. Maynard James Keenan has always been my #2 favorite vocalist of all time (Kurt Cobain is #1 because of his ability to convey pain and empathy through his voice which more than compensates for actual vocal talent, and #3 is Thom Yorke because is voice is purely angelic), and I can’t believe how even at his age now which I’m assuming he’s already crossed the 50yr old threshold his voice has to me never sounded as beautiful as it does here on this unique collection of songs. I have also been a big fan of Billy Howerdel ever since the first APC album and as a guitar player myself I just love his ability to effortlessly switch from a heavy Metal oriented guitar style to beautiful almost middle eastern inspired spiritual guitar passages which I’m sure is no coincidence considering that he was once s guitar tech for the great Adam Jones of Tool and I’m sure some of Adam’s guitar voodoo rubbed off on him. I think this album is really great in that it allows the artists to freely tread different artistic paths without any sort of boundaries whatsoever and yet never feels forced or self-indulgent or overdone. It works so well that you just are able to sit back and let the music flow into you and envelope your soul. I’ve always heard Maynard speak of great poetic singer songwriters like Joni Mitchell being huge influences on him and I never fully understood it until now, this album hits you emotionally on every level like a great album of Joni Mitchell’s “Blue,” and it gets better and better with each subsequent listen which to me is the sign of a great record.
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Album Rating: 1.5 | Sound Off
"Kurt Cobain is #1 because of his ability to convey pain and empathy through his voice"
Layne Staley>>>>>
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Album Rating: 3.5
"this album hits you emotionally on every level" true, among with a lot of other things you said there. Kind of needed on the thread.
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Album Rating: 3.5
Layne Staley is fucking amazing. Really a belter he had to leave us so soon
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Album Rating: 1.5 | Sound Off
Layne was the best singer that ever graced this planet
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Album Rating: 3.5
Funnily enough, Maynard was compared to Layne when he first started with Tool
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Album Rating: 1.5 | Sound Off
Yeah, funnily enough
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Album Rating: 3.0
I prefer Maynard dunno
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Album Rating: 3.5
By a long shot, yeah
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Album Rating: 3.5
Yeah, well i'd prefer pre 2007 Maynard ever so slightly, but on this record his performance left me rather unimpressed, save for a few standouts a la TalkTalk and So Long
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Album Rating: 3.5
Well, Layne has never even got remotedly close to Maynard's age on this one, so we'll never know how he'd have sounded during that time. That why it's kinda unfair to compare.
Maynard has shown an impressive diversity over his whole body of work though, so the range of things and styles he's able to convey is much larger, which is the main reason of many, many reasons why I think he's better.
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Album Rating: 4.0
I'd say that Maynard is easily top 3 best singers in the rock community (for not saying in the world) while Layne has probably one of the most unique voices
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Album Rating: 1.5 | Sound Off
Maynard even in his prime was never even close to Layne
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Don't remember anything about this album.
Very drab.
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Album Rating: 1.5
That's because it sucks
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