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57. Billy Talent Dead Silence
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https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lxMM7iblCCkZIaZmvquK9ulaUsV0UEmcI

1. Show Me the Way
2. Man Alive!
3. Crooked Minds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DQcrwbAtBY

No idea what to expect. Ive never heard of Billy Talent but the name makes me think its going to be pop.

Lonely Road to Absolution has really lovely harmony.

Viking Death March seems like it has pointed lyrics about something or other but all I can really focus on is the repetitive guitar work. I guess the main point is the lyrics but I find the repetition distracting. It feels too normal, for whatever thats worth. Surprise Surprise is immediately more engaging with weird gibberish and endless drums, but I cant tell if thats even part of the song, since the link is a music video (which is why I hate listening to music videos when Im trying to find music). This song also has the basic guitar riffs. I get the sense that this is going to be a long seventy minutes.

Why are the drums so loud sometimes and other times theyre barely even there? In Love Was Still Around the drums are so prominent it distracts me from everything else.

Five songs in and Ive only picked up fragments of the lyrics but some of them seem political in a general sense: knocking down vaguely corrupt figures, pointing out social injustice. I guess thats kind of neat. Maybe there is extra Canadian resonance Im not picking up on. Some of the other songs involve themes of love and longing, like Stand Up and Run, which incidentally has some of the worst repetition on the album to me (which is saying a lot). Crooked Minds has some kind of fun parts (I like the long notes the singer holds in the chorus) so it takes the top spot for now, only to be superseded by Man Alive!, which has a catchy chorus. Show Me the Way is fun. Catchy, fun. These are words I use when I struggle to find ways to praise things. I enjoy Show Me the Way more than anything else on the album, Ill say that much.

I dont have a lot of specific comments. The entire album congeals into one blob for me. I dont necessarily mind music that plays it safe, whatever that even means, but this album is basically the same thing for fourteen tracks, and given that I dont enjoy its style, its not going to get a high score. I felt like I could predict, with almost unerring accuracy, what the next measure of each song was going to sound like: the singing, the drums, the guitars. Again, thats not inherently a bad thing, but when the entire album is like thatthis was very unpleasant for me to listen to. Man alive!