Pasadena Album Synopsis

[cesarsalad]

after a few more listens, i gotta admit, i don't know how ryen does it but this fight the darkness song has definitely grown on me.

the album is pretty damn good. i agree with the comment about the production -- this album has excellent production!! way better than stotb's.

Me too, although, Im still iffy about Barriers 

heh... i liked barriers from the very first time i listened to it.

[Seb]

I'll keep this brief, as I'm hopefully doing a proper review of this for my site in the next week or so, and I doubt anyone actually reads everyone else's track-by-tracks anyway, but :

The utterly awesome : Straight Flush (one of my favourite Brummel songs of all time, I think), Motorology (even my non-Ozma-liking girlfriend likes this), No-One Needs To Know, Incarnation Blues, Heartache vs Heartache

The pretty darned good : I Wonder, Underneath My Tree, Barriers, the first thirty seconds or so of Lunchbreak when it sounds like a fun rock 'n' roll musical pastiche

The eh, not so much : Eponine, Fight The Darkness

The ew, no : the rest of Lunchbreak

So all in all, it's a success, and contains some of the best material they've ever recorded. But bits of it still sound a bit too high-schooley. Somewhere between three and four stars for me, I think.

[icecreamman]

Brummel's voice is just ridiculously sweet on this album.  It is so powerful.

[falyn]

Incarnation Blues <3

[CT-700]

Brummel's voice is just ridiculously sweet on this album.  It is so powerful.

Yes, I fully take back anything I said about his voice from last week.

[cesarsalad]

I'll keep this brief, as I'm hopefully doing a proper review of this for my site in the next week or so, and I doubt anyone actually reads everyone else's track-by-tracks anyway, but :

The utterly awesome : Straight Flush (one of my favourite Brummel songs of all time, I think), Motorology (even my non-Ozma-liking girlfriend likes this), No-One Needs To Know, Incarnation Blues, Heartache vs Heartache

The pretty darned good : I Wonder, Underneath My Tree, Barriers, the first thirty seconds or so of Lunchbreak when it sounds like a fun rock 'n' roll musical pastiche

The eh, not so much : Eponine, Fight The Darkness

The ew, no : the rest of Lunchbreak

So all in all, it's a success, and contains some of the best material they've ever recorded. But bits of it still sound a bit too high-schooley. Somewhere between three and four stars for me, I think.

aw. lunchbreak is my favorite song on the album

[Fantastic Max]

I'll keep this brief, as I'm hopefully doing a proper review of this for my site in the next week or so, and I doubt anyone actually reads everyone else's track-by-tracks anyway, but :

The utterly awesome : Straight Flush (one of my favourite Brummel songs of all time, I think), Motorology (even my non-Ozma-liking girlfriend likes this), No-One Needs To Know, Incarnation Blues, Heartache vs Heartache

The pretty darned good : I Wonder, Underneath My Tree, Barriers, the first thirty seconds or so of Lunchbreak when it sounds like a fun rock 'n' roll musical pastiche

The eh, not so much : Eponine, Fight The Darkness

The ew, no : the rest of Lunchbreak

So all in all, it's a success, and contains some of the best material they've ever recorded. But bits of it still sound a bit too high-schooley. Somewhere between three and four stars for me, I think.

aw. lunchbreak is my favorite song on the album

Yeah. haha..I used to think that, but now the rest of the song has grown on me

[Brady]

Took me about 3-4 listens through the album.  The only song I'm not digging but can handle is Lunchbreak...everything else is golden for me.  Oh joy.

[savewhatyouare]

i used to dislike 'fight the darkness,' now i can't stop dancing to it.

[cesarsalad]

fight the darkness gets the title for most difference between first impression and current impression. why do i like it so much

[Kyosho]

The phrase "fight the darkness" is said 20 times in the song. Wow.

That said, I still quite enjoy the song. (still miss Into Light!)

[I Like Ozma]

the biggest improvement to the "demo" songs on the album is that i think they found a way to change straight flush into a song that feels like its dragging to a slower rock song that sounds cool.

[brad]

The phrase "fight the darkness" is said 20 times in the song. Wow.

and how many time is "can't you hear the words i sing?" said in eponine? 16?

[hipsun]

the biggest improvement to the "demo" songs on the album is that i think they found a way to change straight flush into a song that feels like its dragging to a slower rock song that sounds cool.

straight flush on the record is the demo with a few vocal overdubs. i wonder is the demo with strings added at the end.

[I Like Ozma]

the biggest improvement to the "demo" songs on the album is that i think they found a way to change straight flush into a song that feels like its dragging to a slower rock song that sounds cool.

straight flush on the record is the demo with a few vocal overdubs. i wonder is the demo with strings added at the end.

what i meant to say was that "they found a way to change straight flush from a song that feels like its dragging into a slower rock song that sounds cool"

[ireadcomics]

It's been so long since I used this site I forgot all my info. But I re registered because I want to see how the other fans thought of something. I've been an Ozma fan since the beginning and though I really like Pasadena, it's just sitting awkwardly with me. I miss the catchy keyboard melodies from RRRpt3 and DDD. Does this strike a chord with anyone else?

[I Like Ozma]

thats how i felt when the demo's came out, but now that the album is almost out i think we have all come to terms with it. i do however wish this album had all that classic ozma stuff though.

[tom]

It's been so long since I used this site I forgot all my info. But I re registered because I want to see how the other fans thought of something. I've been an Ozma fan since the beginning and though I really like Pasadena, it's just sitting awkwardly with me. I miss the catchy keyboard melodies from RRRpt3 and DDD. Does this strike a chord with anyone else?

Did you listen to Pasadena? Because there is some pretty damn catchy keyboard melodies on there. It may not be sugar-coated pop like they used to be, but they still write fantastic songs.

[CT-700]

It's been so long since I used this site I forgot all my info. But I re registered because I want to see how the other fans thought of something. I've been an Ozma fan since the beginning and though I really like Pasadena, it's just sitting awkwardly with me. I miss the catchy keyboard melodies from RRRpt3 and DDD. Does this strike a chord with anyone else?

Did you listen to Pasadena? Because there is some pretty damn catchy keyboard melodies on there. It may not be sugar-coated pop like they used to be, but they still write fantastic songs.

Exactly what tom said. Plus even if someone is yearning for the old songs, there are two on the album. Plus the coveted release of d-song. You can find the dualing guitar/synth solo sound on just about every song except I Wonder. And if I say so myself, they really upped the anty in the production of those sounds with all the harmonized layers and such. Extremely effective.

[ireadcomics]

It's been so long since I used this site I forgot all my info. But I re registered because I want to see how the other fans thought of something. I've been an Ozma fan since the beginning and though I really like Pasadena, it's just sitting awkwardly with me. I miss the catchy keyboard melodies from RRRpt3 and DDD. Does this strike a chord with anyone else?

Did you listen to Pasadena? Because there is some pretty damn catchy keyboard melodies on there. It may not be sugar-coated pop like they used to be, but they still write fantastic songs.

Exactly what tom said. Plus even if someone is yearning for the old songs, there are two on the album. Plus the coveted release of d-song. You can find the dualing guitar/synth solo sound on just about every song except I Wonder. And if I say so myself, they really upped the anty in the production of those sounds with all the harmonized layers and such. Extremely effective.

Please don't miss construe my post. I really like the new album and though there are a couple of oldies on there, I still yearn for the Domino Effect-esque, power keyboard type of lead melody. Believe me, I am digging this new album but it's no secret their style has changed some since their earlier work. 

[Cremo]

does anyone listen to the intro of motorology and expect it to kick into incarnation blues after the drum machine intro

all in all though it's a good album, i wasn't expecting to hear anything from ozma again when they broke up so anything is a plus.

[Rome]

D song and I wonder are my favorite.

edit** and both ryen's and daniels voices are fantastic.

[Andy]

motorology is about back to the future, right?

i just got that... this morning... in the shower.

-Jordan 

It's by dan, so probably.

[I Like Ozma]

i dont like the vocals in d-song as much as i should. and the guitar when they say "when it fell"



I'm not sure if i've mentioned this yet, but when i was taking a rock and roll history class we were talking about the twelve bar blues and that was when ozma first got back together, so i messaged them on myspace, but i never heard anything back and now "incarnation blues" is out, i'm not too sure if it was written in the twelve bar blues, but it kind of sounds like it plus it has the word blues in it! i just wanted someone from ozma to either confirm or deny the fact that they wrote this song because of my brilliant idea



another thing, i think d-song is pasadena's "shooting stars"

[The Other Mike]

12 bar blues, eh?  I'm sure that dan, as a music major, never stumbled across that one.


Oh, and it's not. Check the tab that was posted if you want evidence of that.

[tom]

does anyone listen to the intro of motorology and expect it to kick into incarnation blues after the drum machine intro

Yeah, I do all the time, even if I've heard the record like 20 times now.

[Andy]

oh. it's available on itunes.
oh.

and the order is different...

no one needs to know
barriers
eponine
fight the darkness
heartache
etc on from there ...

[Seb]

oh. it's available on itunes.
oh.

and the order is different...

no one needs to know
barriers
eponine
fight the darkness
heartache
etc on from there ...

Um, that's the order as it's meant to be, isn't it? It's definitely the order as listed on the back cover, on the leaked version, and the order that the lyrics were posted in. Surely it's just Myspace that's got it wrong?

[FireAarro]

another thing, i think d-song is pasadena's "shooting stars"

The start of these sound a bit similar to me.

[Rome]

what?!?!

aside from the guitar being strummed in a similar fasion, they sound nothing alike. not to mention there is a piano in d song.


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