Originally posted by Mr_Trek:So you'd say The Rising is more of a concept where all the songs make the best sense together and that Magic is more like a collection of good songs?
Not a concept album as such - at least in the sense of a bigger album e.g. The Last Temptation, Quadrophenia, The Wall, I Robot etc (all fantastic albums by the way) but it has ideas behind it and maybe he's telling stories from a third-person point of view. In that case, yes.
Magic is really just a straight-up rock and roll album of good songs and that's why I like it.
But I don't like bad. But yes, I like some good guitar work, but not when it gets really messy and it's just a showoff of how many notes on can play fastly, it has to have some melody