Sweet Catastrophe

Lifehouse–Who We Are was released today!! Have you bought it yet? No? Why? We’re not friends anymore. Seriously, go out and support my favorite band if you love me! And if you can’t find it in your heart to go out and buy it, just open up iTunes and get it there! Support my loves!

Seriously, this is an awesome album, even all the bonus songs for different stores are amazing. My only complaint is Storm, which, for the casual fan will still sound like an amazing song, but for me, well, let’s just say I need to gripe some now.

Gosh, where to begin. Alright, the thing is, it kept being said that Storm was included because it fit with the rest of the album so well. I just couldn’t disagree more. Again, to the casual fan, it may seem to, but speaking as someone who’s been there since the beginning, it doesn’t have the same feel as the newer stuff. It’s not the same lyric style either.

Let’s add to this that awkward a capella intro. They kept talking about how the song had been re-worked to fit the album…I dunno, I think that intro totally ruined it for me. There’s really just not enough music to the song at all. It’s like Jason’s vocals with some light noise in the background. I think there are definitely things they could’ve done with the music to at least make the music/feel of the song fit the rest of the album, but outside of that, I much prefer the original. This new version just doesn’t have that ethereal feeling the original has. The original fully pulls me into its core and I’m totally immersed in the song, but this new version just does nothing for me.

Of course, I’m also a little biased because Storm is special to me. I heard Storm before No Name Face was even out here, well before I even heard Hanging By A Moment so it sucks to see a song like that changed in a way that just really doesn’t seem to be for the better.

Maybe I could accept this, IF we hadn’t gotten all these great bonus songs. I can’t get over Signs of Life and what a great song that would’ve been for the album’s ending. It’s so calm, and beautiful and at 5:18 it would seem that would’ve been the natural choice to end the album. I love how it has this great ending where the tempo changes, but still really fits the song. To me, the song screams “The End.” Then the fade out the end just completes it. I could so totally see curtains closing to this and hi, that’s totally the album art theme, so what gives? Why couldn’t we have had Storm as a bonus song and Signs of Life as the album finale? *sigh* Oh well; I adore the album, regardless.