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Originally posted by myndpeace
One thing about Tusk is that it has a weird-for-weirdness-sake sort of feel to it, i.e. the "Why? Because I can" mentality concerning the production. I think that since then Lindsey has grown more mature in both his songwriting and production, losing that "rebel without a cause" attitude and using weird effects to make a point rather than just because he has the technology to. This makes SYW more cohesive and more accessible.
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I feel the same way. I remember Richard Dashut saying that for Tusk, they would get the song to something that sounded terrific and then Lindsey would say "Great, now let's turn all the knobs the other way and do the exact opposite." He wasn't going for what sounded terrific, he was going for what sounded
different.
That said, Tusk is certainly a great album. But I think the experimentaion in SYW makes a lot more sense and seems to be there to add meaning rather than to be "different" or "experimental." I think that's an important distinction.
I really love anything that rocks as hard as "Come" or "EFO," regardless of how people might describe them as "self-indulgent excessiveness" or "80s sounding." I don't buy either of those descriptions. I just know I like them.