Personally I think the fault at that part of the song lies with the lyrics. Ignoring the vocals entirely for a second, the music in that whole section is dark and heavy. The lyrics for the first 3/4 of it fit fine, but the last couple of lines simply do not. This has nothing to do with the vocals, the lyrics simply don't fit the music. Poor show from JP really, as even when he's off-form lyrically, his words still tend to fit the music.
That just shows that the whole section doesn't work as a finished product, thereby reducing the overall quality of the song as a whole.
Indeed, which is a shame as the rest of the song is seriously good. But as it's only half a minute it doesn't bother me much.
Reap, it definitely works a little better that way round, though not much. The music for the whole section is pretty dark and heavy. The uplifting lyrics just don't really fit at all.
But the lyrics are
not uplifting at all. I'm sorry, but if you think they are, you are missing the point of that section.
Yeah, Puppies On Acid was around forever, but as far as I know, that's the only thing they had in any great detail before the writing sessions.
I don't know what was around before then and didn't get played live, but
in addition to Puppies on Acid there was also the whole classical guitar
section of Erotomania that was re-used from an old Pull Me Under demo.
Yes, indeed. I had forgotten about that. Good catch.
What about it?
That it was almost completely written before JLB got into the band. There wasn't any writing sessions in this case.
Yes, but that fact still has nothing whatsoever to do with what I said, hence my question.
IMO, it's one of the few songs on WDaDU where Dominici sounds fairly/really good. That goes a long way towards making it really good for me.
I think that could possibly be because he wrote the vocal melody. At least, I'm assuming he did since he wrote the lyrics. And if that is the case, he would have most likely at least somewhat written to his own strengths in terms of phrasing, note choice, etc. That's my guess anyway, for what it's worth.
I just posed the question to Charlie on his forum to see whether he can shed any light:
https://www.dominici.com/forum/index.php?topic=407.0