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Title: (POLL) What rating do you give to Fall Into The Light?
Post by: dream75 on January 18, 2019, 10:34:39 AM
Good song  :tup
I think it is one of the best singles ever  :metal
Title: Re: (POLL) What rating do you give to Fall Into The Light?
Post by: lucasembarbosa on January 18, 2019, 01:27:26 PM
I voted C/Sufficient for UA, but I have to say that FITL gets without a second thought a B/Good.
Title: Re: (POLL) What rating do you give to Fall Into The Light?
Post by: ChuckSteak on January 18, 2019, 01:29:48 PM
Sufficient.
Title: Re: (POLL) What rating do you give to Fall Into The Light?
Post by: Zydar on January 18, 2019, 01:30:57 PM
Good, but I'm sure it will climb to Great after some time.
Title: Re: (POLL) What rating do you give to Fall Into The Light?
Post by: Ninjabait on January 18, 2019, 07:29:59 PM
Great, for sure! This is up there with On the Backs of Angels and The Astonishing singles as some of the best singles they've released in the Mangini era for me
Title: Re: (POLL) What rating do you give to Fall Into The Light?
Post by: jakepriest on January 18, 2019, 07:46:20 PM
Sufficient

The clean/solo part is very good, but the rest of the song falls flat for me, including the intro
Title: Re: (POLL) What rating do you give to Fall Into The Light?
Post by: Architeuthis on January 18, 2019, 08:15:31 PM
Great! 
Title: Re: (POLL) What rating do you give to Fall Into The Light?
Post by: erwinrafael on January 19, 2019, 03:18:48 AM
Song is just less than a hundred thousand views from one million.
Title: Re: (POLL) What rating do you give to Fall Into The Light?
Post by: JLa on January 19, 2019, 04:12:29 AM
It's amazing really. World class musicians going at full force for 7 minutes and the only thing that sticks in my head is that Metallica-ish intro.

Voted Kevin just because. But I guess "sufficient" will do.
Title: Re: (POLL) What rating do you give to Fall Into The Light?
Post by: Polarbear on January 19, 2019, 05:14:45 AM
Good.

I was genuinely surprised just how much I liked it. Made me more excited to hear the album.
Title: Re: (POLL) What rating do you give to Fall Into The Light?
Post by: utopiarun on January 19, 2019, 08:30:09 AM
Love it!
Title: Re: (POLL) What rating do you give to Fall Into The Light?
Post by: red barchetta on January 20, 2019, 06:48:23 AM
Very solid song.  Amazing guitars work but my only complaint would be the very quiet bass sound.  You would never hear a Rush song with a mask bass guitar like that.  And it's a shame.
Title: Re: (POLL) What rating do you give to Fall Into The Light?
Post by: jakepriest on January 20, 2019, 07:57:22 AM
Very solid song.  Amazing guitars work but my only complaint would be the very quiet bass sound.  You would never hear a Rush song with a mask bass guitar like that.  And it's a shame.

What do you mean? You can clearly hear Myung at every point in this song. It's the most audible he's been in a long time.
Title: Re: (POLL) What rating do you give to Fall Into The Light?
Post by: erwinrafael on January 20, 2019, 08:23:12 AM
Very solid song.  Amazing guitars work but my only complaint would be the very quiet bass sound.  You would never hear a Rush song with a mask bass guitar like that.  And it's a shame.

Very quiet bass sound? You can mot hear that fat bass that kicked in along with the drums?

I guess some people really just can not distinguish between a bass and a rhythm guitar sound.
Title: Re: (POLL) What rating do you give to Fall Into The Light?
Post by: lovethedrake on January 20, 2019, 08:52:00 AM
I can hear the bass but I still wish it was louder.  As a fan of yes and spocks beard I think the Bass could be more audible.

At the beginning especially... I can hear Myung, but turn it up !
Title: Re: (POLL) What rating do you give to Fall Into The Light?
Post by: jakepriest on January 20, 2019, 01:22:58 PM
I can hear the bass but I still wish it was louder.  As a fan of yes and spocks beard I think the Bass could be more audible.

At the beginning especially... I can hear Myung, but turn it up !

Metal mixes don't work as well as rock mixes when you turn the bass up over the guitar imo. DOT seems to be the perfect balance.
Title: Re: (POLL) What rating do you give to Fall Into The Light?
Post by: Evai on January 20, 2019, 04:00:29 PM
When you have such a nice, rich chocolate cake, it fills you up and doesn't leave much room for anything else
Title: Re: (POLL) What rating do you give to Fall Into The Light?
Post by: mikeyd23 on January 21, 2019, 09:33:02 AM
I can hear the bass but I still wish it was louder.  As a fan of yes and spocks beard I think the Bass could be more audible.

At the beginning especially... I can hear Myung, but turn it up !

Metal mixes don't work as well as rock mixes when you turn the bass up over the guitar imo. DOT seems to be the perfect balance.

Right, metal mixes aren't going to sound like Rush mixes. Rush tends to have a lot of mids and highs in the bass guitar sound cut through. DT isn't going to really have that, but the bass on the first two songs off of D/T sounds good, full, and present.
Title: Re: (POLL) What rating do you give to Fall Into The Light?
Post by: SuperTaco on January 22, 2019, 06:03:59 PM
Great. This makes me very excited for the rest of the album.
Title: Re: (POLL) What rating do you give to Fall Into The Light?
Post by: Anxiety35 on January 23, 2019, 07:27:26 AM
I voted sufficient.

I love the first minute and I would have enjoyed revisiting the thrashy riff again somewhere in the song. DT have done this in many of their songs but for some reason it's bothering me on this one. The opening minute or so sounds like it should be on a JP solo album. The middle section is cool. I dig the textures and the build up. Rudess' solo is great.

But overall as a song, it feels like 3 songs blended into one (the intro, the verses/chorus, and the middle section) like a medley. To me, the parts don't belong together.

Maybe the song hasn't clicked with me yet. I'm not angry or disappointed. It's the creative prerogative of the band to make what they want. I respect that.
Title: Re: (POLL) What rating do you give to Fall Into The Light?
Post by: TheOutlawXanadu on January 23, 2019, 07:57:05 AM
I voted for "Good". I enjoyed it more that Untethered Angel, which I also liked a lot. Very excited for the new record!
Title: Re: (POLL) What rating do you give to Fall Into The Light?
Post by: hefdaddy42 on January 23, 2019, 08:19:51 AM
Good, leaning toward Great.
Title: Re: (POLL) What rating do you give to Fall Into The Light?
Post by: TL on January 23, 2019, 08:25:46 AM
I liked it. I'll give it a few more listens and let it sink in before I vote.
There were a lot of neat parts. The intro immediately caught my attention, and that middle section is just stellar.
I will say, I still found the mix a bit muddy in the heavier sections. I kept picking up on cool stuff that was almost hidden in the background, that I would have loved to have had higher in the mix. Keyboard parts that are buried, and the vocals almost feel a bit, I don't know, drowned out in places? It's hard to describe. I will say, I liked how the drums sounded for the most part.

Overall, I enjoyed it. I'm definitely looking forward to this record.
Title: Re: (POLL) What rating do you give to Fall Into The Light?
Post by: wolfking on January 24, 2019, 04:28:10 AM
If there was a 'meh' option, I'd probably vote for that.
Title: Re: (POLL) What rating do you give to Fall Into The Light?
Post by: red barchetta on January 24, 2019, 06:35:05 AM
I can hear the bass but I still wish it was louder.  As a fan of yes and spocks beard I think the Bass could be more audible.

At the beginning especially... I can hear Myung, but turn it up !

Agreed!
Title: Re: (POLL) What rating do you give to Fall Into The Light?
Post by: The Letter M on March 06, 2019, 10:32:19 PM
Bumping this as to make it the (un)official FITL discussion thread, since I couldn't find a dedicated thread yet and the song has been out for quite some time, this seemed to be the closest to a dedicated discussion thread.

After all this time, I still find the song HIGHLY enjoyable, and probably my favorite of the three singles they released prior to the album's release date. How has this one held up for everyone else so far?

-Marc.
Title: Re: (POLL) What rating do you give to Fall Into The Light?
Post by: KevShmev on March 07, 2019, 08:44:26 AM
I voted great, since it is far better than good and easily one of my 2-3 favorites from the new record.  I played this for a friend last week who hasn't been overly enamored with DT's work since the early 00's and he was pretty impressed. :hat
Title: Re: (POLL) What rating do you give to Fall Into The Light?
Post by: Dublagent66 on March 07, 2019, 08:50:55 AM
Great.