I honestly had no idea people actually liked Blind Faith. I didn't assume people despised it as much as I do, but I would have expected it to come in well towards the bottom of that already fairly mediocre list.
Shouldn't be surprising.
Did you participate in the "league" that finished a couple months ago?
BF finished second (to the title track) in both the regular season and playoffs for SDOIT, and it made the "sweet 16," only losing (to Scarred) in the semifinals of its division.
I could see not liking it, but to "despise" it? Even the DT songs I don't like and consider to be at the bottom of the barrel I don't "despise."
No, I rarely check into that sub. I'll vote in the occasional survivor if there's a tiebreaker going on or something, but mostly I forget it's there. And truth be told, the reason I so seldom participate is because of things like BF beating out the rest of the album.
And I want to make abundantly clear that I don't think others are wrong, or flawed in their opinions. I fully get the subjective nature of music. I simply recognize that my musical taste seldom jibes with the masses. In this case I assumed that it did, for some reason.
Well I will explain why I love the song if you will explain why you hate it so much.
- I love the dreamy psychedelic intro that reminds me of weed and acid trips from days gone by.
I love that that dreamy part gives way to the ultra heavy parts in the chorus
I love chord progression after the second chorus and the start into double time
I love JP's guitar intro to the solo
I love the piano break and then I love the choir patch after the break (Is that the first time JR used this patch since he first joined DT?)
This song is the very definition of progressive.
OK - your turn.
Fair enough. By and large, I just don't find it a particularly interesting song, particularly when compared to all of the greatness on the album. For dreamy and atmospheric, which I also really dig, Misunderstood and Great Debate blow it out of the water. The only part of it that stands out to me is a fairly rocking guitar solo, but considering the guitarist that's pretty much par for the course. And, I particularly don't like the vocals. That's often the case with JLB, and often not, so it's not the end of the world. Where it moved into despise territory was being subjected to live versions of it where I just can't stomach LaBrie's caterwauling. Both in person and on video. I think a lot of us can probably agree it's not the best song for him to be singing live, and for me it just became one of those "impossible to unhear" things. Now even the studio version bugs me.
None of this is anything I'd expect to apply to other people. If people like it more power to them. I just never realized that so many people thought so highly of it. From my perspective I kind of assumed it was a throwaway song on an otherwise wonderful album.