u/Direct-Active-241 — reddlx

At first, I was NOT on board. It was my least favorite album for a while and I very insistently talked about hating it, but my views have changed quite a bit.

Last year, I said that Copy of a , Came Back Haunted, and All time Low were the only good songs, which was completely unfair.

I also explained my distaste for In Two, Running, and Everything in detail. Although I still think Running is very unpleasant, and Everything is hard to listen to, In Two is a great song and I definitely misjudged it. In fact, I'd go out of my way to say Running and Everything are the only bad songs on the album.

Eater of dreams is obviously very underwhelming and caught me off guard, but it's an intro, and if you can't accept an instrumental intro at this point, you don't know about their later discography.

Copy of A, despite being pretty overplayed, it's still phenomenal and a really fun song. I don't understand the hate, it's catchy, it's fun, and sonically satisfying to listen to.

Came Back Haunted is amazing. It's one of my favorites and the music video directed by David Lynch makes me love it even more. I'm disappointed by the remix of it on the Peel it Back Tour, but otherwise, it's great!

Find My Way was a hard one for me for a little. At first I shut it off whenever I heard it, but I realized how beautiful it is. Not even in my top 50, but still good!

All time Low was actually my favorite for a while, being funky and groovy while having those electronic soundscapes, especially in the live version. Still hits hard.

Disappointed is actually one of my favorites. It's a lot of fun, and I don't see how people don't like it. I love it!

Everything, fun fact, is my least favorite song. It's not that the message is bad, because I'm happy Trent is healing, but the fact is. it's just not great. The instrumentals feel lazy to me, the lyrics are cookie cutter, and the vocals are pretty hard to enjoy on this track. I want to like it so bad, but I just can't.

Satellite, the redemption and more! This song is so good. People hate on it so much, yet it's so groovy and has really cool guitar parts as well as a great flow of events in general. The lyrics are also smart.

Various Methods of Escape, great song with good moments!

Running. Don't get me wrong, I still don't like the song, but the chorus is great. Trent went SO wrong with the weird singing with the repetitive bass stabs, I get so annoyed by that song. I have no clue what the vision here was.

I Would For You, yet another great song that people hate on?! It's a great, great song, and It hits especially after Running on the record. Lyrics? Great. Vocals? Great. Instrumentals? Great.

In Two has the perfect amount of aggression, love it.

While I'm still here is one of the best songs in general, and ties this album together. The dissonant verses that shouldn't make sense, to the chorus that just feels so right. The guitar part is also great, and the saxophone is amazing. The live version of this in 2013 is true art. The black back up singers make it so beautiful and gave me goose bumps.

Black noise is a great, stressful end to the album, loved it.

I've grown to like this album, despite the fact that I think it's below literally every album before it other than ghosts, It is absolutely DISRESPECTFUL to call this a sequel to The Downward Spiral. It's closer to The Fragile honestly.