Damn, the other thread is closed? Hope you're not gonna close down the entire Forum.
On a serious note, I'm really looking forward to the album, I dig almost everything about it, even the more "controversial" aspects of it (straightforward songwriting, Billy's tone, singer's tone).
The only thing I'm not too hot about is Mike repeating the same old fills. Also, I hope that Derek will use more traditional, diverse, and organic keyboard sounds in the rest of the songs (Hammond, Moog), he's all up and about his "real, no cheese keys srsly," but he mostly uses the same old digital, plastic sounding lead he had for decades.
The other day I was just about to buy the album on iTunes, but then I remembered how Derek and Mike acted lately, and just said "fuck it," and bought another album instead. All in all, still my most anticipated album of the year. edit: on second thought, maybe Icefish took that spot.