Goat wrote:
Not a huge deal, admittedly. Cheers for your input, although obviously I disagree on the final point! BTW, meant vocal replacement, rather than suggesting that they booted Pepper and replaced him with Woody.
No, not a huge deal, but there is a historical context here, and the album plays much better in its rightful place in that context, you know.
Fans of the post-Animosity material were probably shocked by the style shift here, just like fans of the early work couldn't believe what they were hearing when Blind came out. Well, with the Internet and all that, it probably was not that drastic. Blind made heads explode, I think. Haha.
Anyway, this album, I think, is a grower. It's not immediately hooky, you know, but on repeated listens, in the right mood, it just gets better and better.
And Woody doesn't sing, Mike Dean does. =)