Red - Innocence and Instinct

rockerVu2 wrote:

Maybe they wait till there's room for my CD in a plane or so.

Because its so hard to find a place to put a small envelope only about 8 inches long and half an inch thick on a plane.

It depends on how they sent this. If it went First Class or Global Priority, then your package goes on the next flight out. However, if they sent it Media Mail, then all First Class and Priority packages get loaded first. If there is not enough room for more, then the Media Mail stuff gets pushed back. The good thing is that Media Mail packages are only allowed to sit for so long. After a short period (I don't know the time--just the practice from talking to my local mail people), they then bump the Media Mail package to a First Class and send it. The bad thing is that your package can just sit and wait and wait until that happens.

A lot of vendors let you to make the choice how to ship your CDs.
I've never seen a way to choose how to ship your CDs at MC.
They send it and I think the take the slowest way.
Got a CD package yesterday.
It took 5 days to send the CD from the USA to here.
Now I'm sure MusiChristian sends their packages by Media Mail.
We'll you'll see how long it takes before I finally get my Red CD.

I'm gonna have to pick this up today while I'm out. Best Buy shows having it for only $7.99. I haven't bought a new modern rock album in a little while now.

I can't believe my eyes that the Red CD is here.
But now ..... Innocence and Instinct.
Do I like it?
I think this album has to grow for me.
There are songs I really like.
I have to give this album some more listenings before I can tell I like it or I don't like it.

rockerVu2 wrote:

I can't believe my eyes that the Red CD is here.
But now ..... Innocence and Instinct.
Do I like it?
I think this album has to grow for me.
There are songs I really like.
I have to give this album some more listenings before I can tell I like it or I don't like it.

I think it's pretty good but not quite on par with the first one. I'm glad to see it's just as hard though and that their not heading in a Kutless way of mostly ballads with a hard song here and there. Strange how they included a Duran Duran song though.

Yes "Innocence and Instinct" is a very good sophomore album of Red.
This CD is "steengoed".
Some musical things really touch me, but that's me.
The songs start to grow for me and I like this album.
I can't tell what's the best Red, End Of Silence.
Both albums have their own identities.

rockerVu2 wrote:

This CD is "steengoed".

??? Sorry, my vocabulary isn't very large.

rockerVu2 wrote:

Both albums have their own identities.

I definitely agree. I really like the theme they used for I&I. You have some songs that are really uplifting such as Start again and Never Be the Same, but then you also have songs that are dark and about conflict such as Confession and Shadows. And it seems like each song has its own feel unlike on End of Silence. On EOS, it seemed like a lot of the songs had kind of the same feel. Also Im glad they didn't do what a lot of Mainstream Christian Bands do and add so much ambiguity that you can't tell their Christian. There are some songs on this disc that absolutely give me chill bumps. Like on the chorus for Start Again where he sings, "I’m lost inside the pain I feel without you,
I can’t stop holding on, I need you with me!!!" I get the chills every time!

"Steengoed" means fantastic.
Hope that helps?

Silentthunder what are your thoughts about using a piano and the hard rockin' guitars?
I think it's a very melodical contrast the tender tones of the piano and the rockin' sound of the guitars.

rockerVu2 wrote:

Silentthunder what are your thoughts about using a piano and the hard rockin' guitars?
I think it's a very melodical contrast the tender tones of the piano and the rockin' sound of the guitars.

Oh, I definitely agree. Im a huge fan of musical contrast anyways. Thats probably why Im such a fan of Red, because of their utilization of musical contrast. It really adds an epic undertone to the whole album. Once again, It also goes with the whole Innocence and Instinct theme of the album.

I completely agree with you about Red.
Bands who use various music styles on their CDs are good because the various music styles keep you listening.

Andy, I hope to reed your review of "Innocence And Instinct soon.
You can describe the CD better than I can.

7thSecond wrote:

rockerVu2 wrote:

This CD is "steengoed".

??? Sorry, my vocabulary isn't very large.

Sounds like you need to brush up on your Dutch 7th. That would be "vet gaaf".

Steengoed is how we call something that's fantastic Staybrite.
Cool you remembered "vet gaaf"
Well that new Red CD is "steengoed & vet gaaf."