The stage was also very weird to me tho, with that inflatable ear and I think there was something else that was also inflated that served as a second video screen. In any case, I'm glad I did, because it was only after hearing those songs mixed in with the older catalog that my opinion of them started to improve to varying degrees. I'm still not sure what possessed me to do it. Surprisingly, I ended up catching 2 shows for that tour (odd considering how much I loathed the album). Even the album art was a real turn off for me - seeing severed ears in mason jars with an embossed tri-ryche was not what I expected from them and was just plain weird (altho I find Bosk's commentary on All I Want and the potential connection to the artwork interesting). After giving the album maybe a second listen, I couldn't stand it any further and didn't even bother trying to listen to it again. Hit the Black is pretty good, and of course spOOL is the only really quality track on the album. First bright spot for me really was You and the next was Reach. The next 3 are kinda meh - OK but fairly forgettable. Then you got the one-two punch of Cuckoo's Nest and Get a Life. It's not the worst, but it's close to the bottom, IMO. To this day, I don't see how many people name this as one of the better songs on the album. One thing that I noticed that I don't like but seems to litter the album quite a bit is the use of slide guitar, starting with Sign of the Times. And then the quality of the songs was a huge nosedive too. Right off the bat, the mix was all wrong and nothing like the QR I had come to know and love. But when HitNF came out (which I was excited for), I was absolutely disgusted by the album. For me, PL was definitely a disappointment when I got it, although over time I came to appreciate it more (tho it still ranked behind RfO, O:M and Empire). Never got to post about HitNF - am on vacation right now, but got the time now. OK enough arguing over T4E - save that for another thread.
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