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Post by curmudgeon on Apr 17, 2008 17:54:18 GMT -5
The best part of the song is when he kills the sentiment with the lyric at the end. You're my favorite thing...once in awhile...
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Post by wiser's deluxe on Apr 30, 2008 10:04:37 GMT -5
with the re-issue of Sorry Ma' ... (IMO the best of the bunch for several reasons, including the addition "If Only You Were Lonely") ... i've come to truly enjoy listening to "Raised in the City," especially the demo version, which is more raw and spontaneous and, dare i say, in some ways, better than the one released.
the opening guitar riff and the pounding drums echo what the British movement was doing at the time ... The Jam, perhaps? But the lyrics and direction the song takes is truly Mats-based.
based on this, "Raised in the City," is becoming one of my underrated fave things.
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Post by scoOter on Apr 30, 2008 14:33:44 GMT -5
with the re-issue of Sorry Ma' ... (IMO the best of the bunch for several reasons, including the addition "If Only You Were Lonely") ... i've come to truly enjoy listening to "Raised in the City," especially the demo version, which is more raw and spontaneous and, dare i say, in some ways, better than the one released. the opening guitar riff and the pounding drums echo what the British movement was doing at the time ... The Jam, perhaps? But the lyrics and direction the song takes is truly Mats-based. based on this, "Raised in the City," is becoming one of my underrated fave things. oh sweet fancy jesus, i can't imagine a world in which raised in the city is "underrated". at least not in the circle of mats fans. in the greater public, sure, it's "underrated" along with mats entire catalog. i have always assumed that fans held raised in the city up to the level of stone-cold classic, and i will continue to do so even if people disagree with me on it. having the demo version of it just seals the deal for me, but truth be told i prefer the one they originally slapped onto "sorry ma..." on another note, we're coming out is the one mats song my college band, diesel zuccini, ever learned how to play. |
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Post by TomT on Apr 30, 2008 19:06:38 GMT -5
i've come to truly enjoy listening to "Raised in the City," especially the demo version, which is more raw and spontaneous and, dare i say, in some ways, better than the one released. the opening guitar riff and the pounding drums echo what the British movement was doing at the time ... I completly agree. I made a cd comp of the first 3 reissues and used the demo version. I love those drums! It's a shame it wasn't recorded better. |
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Post by SnowCover on Apr 30, 2008 19:14:37 GMT -5
I really prefer the demo to the album version. I've been listening to it like mad the past week. It has some certain feeling that I can't put a word to that the album version lacks... the words upbeat, youthful and poppy come to mind but none of those are exactly what I mean.
Edit: I think the word I'm looking for is fun (fun fun). I didn't mean to say that the album version isn't fun, just that the demo has a certain magical feeling of it for me.
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Post by scoOter on May 1, 2008 15:18:16 GMT -5
I really prefer the demo to the album version. I've been listening to it like mad the past week. It has some certain feeling that I can't put a word to that the album version lacks... the words upbeat, youthful and poppy come to mind but none of those are exactly what I mean. Edit: I think the word I'm looking for is fun (fun fun). I didn't mean to say that the album version isn't fun, just that the demo has a certain magical feeling of it for me. i think it had magical feeling for mr. jesperson, too, all those years ago. |
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