The songs just all felt like they had no point. There was nothing too enthralling about any of them, especially when compared to the originals.
Normally, I like to look at albums in a bubble, but with a covers album, you have to compare the songs to the originals. And in most of the cases, the APC versions came up severely lacking.
As much as I admire good song writing, good lyrics alone don't make a good song. That song has nothing, just a bit of old fashioned acapella singing. Besides, I heard those lyrics many years ago on Joni Mitchell's original. It's a thoroughly dull note to end a thoroughly disappointing album.
It's Maynard singing by numbers. Little trace of his usual finesse and emotion. I've heard those lyrics many times before, and they lose all meaning in APC's limp version, and of course, it's dull. Very dull. They usually save something special for last, I was hoping for something a little more like the Pet/Lullaby/Gravity flow like on 13th Step, not an acapella. It's a filler track, not an album closer.
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What? Tool make short prelude tracks like Mantra and Parabol, but they are completely vital to the atmosphere of Aenima and Lateralus, and most of them are very good in their own right. Undertow didn't have a single track less 4:50 minutes long, not a filler track in sight, Opiate was an EP, no room for filler.
APC have never made a filler track. Crimes & Lullaby were perfectly timed short haunting prelude tracks. Aside from that, nope. They put 100% into every song, even the not so great ones.
Tool are a great, great band. In years to come, they'll be up there with The Stones, The Beatles and Zeppelin in the rock hall of fame. In many people's eyes, they're already there.
I didn't really care for eMOTIVE at all. I thought they butchered When The Levee Breaks (one of my favorite Zep songs), and I didn't like the Imagine cover either. I thought Mer De Noms was their best album (The Hollow, Rose, Judith, Orestes, 3 Libras, Thinking of You, Brena) since it has so many good songs. I thought The Thirteenth Step was alright, The Noose if my favorite track by far but it certainly had its highlights. But overall APC is pretty good, even thought I like Tool so much better (new album this spring I can't wait!)
Is Mer De Noms worth buying? I liked the thirteenth step but I haven't bought Mer De Noms yet.. I don't know why.. just always find something I wan't more or I get cheap and try to save my money.
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