Speed of Sound: Solo vs. Full Band
TheGossman
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Solo version is 10x better than the full band version hands down
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What's fundamentally so disappointing about Speed of Sound is that we've all heard what an amazingly beautiful, haunting, moving, affecting song it was from Eddie's demo, but the band seems to have drained all the soul from it by trying to do far too much with it. It's a beautifully simple song. They made it far too complicated, so that now it's painfully overwrought.
But to give the rest of the band the credit they deserve, they transformed Unthought Known from a frankly boring song (lyrics notwithstanding) into something utterly transcendent...
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Agree 100% with you.
The solo version (demo) was beautiful and moving, but the final version is a disappointment.
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The full band version is moving but in different ways. I love singing along when the whole band is playing. Also, I get this really weird feeling whenever I hear it - like I'm on a little wooden rowing boat out in space heading towards the moon and it's rocking vey gently from side to side along with the beat of the song. Odd, I know.
Fantastic song.
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I agree with just about everything you said!
Speed of Sound was gorgeous in the demo version. I was so stoked for it on the album. Then I heard it and ugh... ruined. I've warmed to it since, but still burdened down w/ weird 80s synthesizers and just overall molasses. Force of Nature is probably the most forgettable song on the album for me. Finally, Unthought Known is indeed transcendent... it's a masterpiece.
Basically, what you said.
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The different parts of the song don't mesh as well for me on the demo. Feels like two different songs. I think the instrumentation on the record version pulls it all together (in the minority who feels Matt C's drum work is pitch perfect, maybe some of his best in terms of solidifying a sound) and really gives the final two chorus sections the power the lyrics call for. Plus the record version has lazers.
Heh. One man's milk...