Never say: I don't like that Petra Album...
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Never say: I don't like that Petra Album...
Well, I was one of those Petheads that almost 12 years ago listened for the first time the Double Take Album...
Sincerely... I was totally dissapointed...
Now, after almost 12 years later... and almost 12 years older...
I say: I like the Double Take Album.
Sincerely... I was totally dissapointed...
Now, after almost 12 years later... and almost 12 years older...
I say: I like the Double Take Album.
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Re: Never say: I don't like that Petra Album...
I still hate it. It makes me sad and I am embarrassed for them when I hear it.
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Re: Never say: I don't like that Petra Album...
agreed. I have tried to like it. I can't do it.
I like every other album in the discography, even the weak ones (No Doubt and God Fixation spring to mind), but I just can't get into DT.
YMMV of course.
I like every other album in the discography, even the weak ones (No Doubt and God Fixation spring to mind), but I just can't get into DT.
YMMV of course.
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Re: Never say: I don't like that Petra Album...
It took you 12 years to like it? That's like me with most Rush or U2 songs. It happens but I always wonder why it takes so long- is it really that terrible?
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Re: Never say: I don't like that Petra Album...
Same here, its just not Petra!!!
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Re: Never say: I don't like that Petra Album...
Well, I sort of like it. I do like Dance and Praying Man very much. Unfortunately songs like Beyond Belief, This Means War! and He Came, He Saw have lost a bit too much of their edge in the new versions. If they wouldn't have hired the Nashville String Machine it might have become a much better unplugged album. But for me Dance and Praying Man are really excellent new versions. Breathe In was the biggest mistake of this album in my opinion. Orta is fine when he sticks to his solo stuff, but trying to sing lead for Petra and then write a song that is lyrically kind of sub-par is just too much.
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Re: Never say: I don't like that Petra Album...
I do like some of DT, but it was a sad waist of a major record label really.. imagine if that was JAH on Word around 2000?
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Re: Never say: I don't like that Petra Album...
i'll admit it's an album I barely play, although I did really like The Longing. I also liked parts of Just Reach Out. When I perform that song at our youth group, I sing it the way it was originally written, but the last time I do the chorus, I modify it so it sort of sounds like the Double Take version. Gives it a nice twist, I think... I think I like Just Reach Out on that album because it probably sounds the closest to the original, for me anyway.
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Re: Never say: I don't like that Petra Album...
rexreed wrote:
It took you 12 years to like it?
Well, the answer is... yes.
I really like Dance, Praying Man, Judas Kiss, This Means War and Creed...
I like (well, more or less) the other songs...
And the Pete Orta song???... I don't like it...
But I still go with albums like Jekyll & Hyde, Beyond Belief, On Fire, Wake Up Call and More Power To Ya... That's the real PETRA!
It took you 12 years to like it?
Well, the answer is... yes.
I really like Dance, Praying Man, Judas Kiss, This Means War and Creed...
I like (well, more or less) the other songs...
And the Pete Orta song???... I don't like it...
But I still go with albums like Jekyll & Hyde, Beyond Belief, On Fire, Wake Up Call and More Power To Ya... That's the real PETRA!
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Petra sold out, because they thought they had to. They should have told the labels where to put it and called it a day. JAH should have been their last album in 1998. They would have created a demand for their return that would have sustained them a bit longer. That is my Monday morning QB opinion. Petra means rock. Then they went soft and techno, they were sending a mixed signal. Nobody wants to hear and see middle aged dudes performing that stuff. Go rock or go home. Petra changing genres was like NASCAR race teams changing to Volkswagon Beetles with pretty little flowers painted all over them. It just doesn't work.
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Re: Never say: I don't like that Petra Album...
brent wrote:
"Petra sold out, because they thought they had to. They should have told the labels where to put it and called it a day. JAH should have been their last album in 1998. They would have created a demand for their return that would have sustained them a bit longer. That is my Monday morning QB opinion. Petra means rock. Then they went soft and techno, they were sending a mixed signal. Nobody wants to hear and see middle aged dudes performing that stuff. Go rock or go home. Petra changing genres was like NASCAR race teams changing to Volkswagon Beetles with pretty little flowers painted all over them. It just doesn't work."
I'm 100% with you...
Yes, now I like the DT Album, but PETRA means ROCK!... not soft music...
I still think that a "Jekyll & Hyde Part 2 Album" is still a good idea...
"Petra sold out, because they thought they had to. They should have told the labels where to put it and called it a day. JAH should have been their last album in 1998. They would have created a demand for their return that would have sustained them a bit longer. That is my Monday morning QB opinion. Petra means rock. Then they went soft and techno, they were sending a mixed signal. Nobody wants to hear and see middle aged dudes performing that stuff. Go rock or go home. Petra changing genres was like NASCAR race teams changing to Volkswagon Beetles with pretty little flowers painted all over them. It just doesn't work."
I'm 100% with you...
Yes, now I like the DT Album, but PETRA means ROCK!... not soft music...
I still think that a "Jekyll & Hyde Part 2 Album" is still a good idea...
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Re: Never say: I don't like that Petra Album...
JAH2 is a great idea.. beef it up even a little more with Dream Theater type sound and you have a gold record.
Thumbs up to Brent Handy producing JAH2
Thumbs up to Brent Handy producing JAH2
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Re: Never say: I don't like that Petra Album...
I must admit that I do like Double Take, especially Breathe In.
I look at it as a novelty album though.
I look at it as a novelty album though.
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Re: Never say: I don't like that Petra Album...
I don't think the album will ever grow on me. It was such a disappointment. I was expecting a solid unplugged album, much like what they did with Ready, Willing and Able on video, but what I got was the only Petra that I really couldn't find much of anything good to say about it.
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Re: Never say: I don't like that Petra Album...
Amen
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