The redux version of this track is an improvement to the other one, that much I can say; I even enjoyed it on first listen. Unfortunately, on a second listen, I realised that, for all the interesting textures every now and then (the gospel organ is good, surprising me, who don't like that style), it is devoid of content; unlike "Money" it is not offensively basal, but the arrangement is like a suspension in ether by only hinting at what the original does, without actually doing it, nor properly developing the other direction.
I don't place "DSotM" as one of my favourite records, to my detriment, and never feel the desire to listen to it, but I appreciate the commitment, the musicality, the care, and, yes, the joy of the original - it does what it does well. Roger's redux shows every sign of not being that sort of record, but of just existing as a thought experiment of "what if I was Leonard Cohen covering it?".
To end on a brighter, tongue-in-cheek note, it is nice to see Roger return the favour to Alan Parsons by changing "his" song "Time" to be closer to the overall mood of Alan Parsons's "Time", when that was an own take on the Pink Floyd sound on "Us and Them".
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It is alright not to enjoy that sort of music, but what makes it less music or musical than the music you prefer? I don't think this attitude is very productive, and history shows that that same rhetoric was thrown at the electric guitar when it appeared, at jazz, and at Romantic concert music even as far back as Beethoven.
I don't place "DSotM" as one of my favourite records, to my detriment, and never feel the desire to listen to it, but I appreciate the commitment, the musicality, the care, and, yes, the joy of the original - it does what it does well. Roger's redux shows every sign of not being that sort of record, but of just existing as a thought experiment of "what if I was Leonard Cohen covering it?".
To end on a brighter, tongue-in-cheek note, it is nice to see Roger return the favour to Alan Parsons by changing "his" song "Time" to be closer to the overall mood of Alan Parsons's "Time", when that was an own take on the Pink Floyd sound on "Us and Them".
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Originally posted by YYZ
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