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Originally Posted by Severian
Actually, this album is just now starting to grow on me. I've had it since before its release, but I have never really appreciated it as a singular work until recently. It was actually the say the final show was released on the internet. I was waking taking the bus home, thinking about the break up, and this was the only SY album that was on my iPod at the time. So I listened to it, from start to finish, and it all started to make sense on a strange way.
I definitely think it is a worthy album, and I believe it has a place in SY history. Is it all that it could have been? Probably not. But how many final albums are perfect? Most bands don't end on top, with an Abbey Road/Let it Be kind of final statement that perfectly sums up their career. So I'm not going to say it couldn't have been better, or that I wouldn't love to see my favorite group end with another, more definitive, final album. But it certainly could have been a good deal worse. Plus, the title is pretty perfect, and "Massage the History" is about as great a final song as one could hope for.
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Maybe itīs hard to believe, but when Eternal came, I was really excited about it and thinking it was their Sgt. Pepper! I mean it is kind of "perfect" SY album, great songs and sounds are quite soft and balanced, there are no sharp elements that are very typical almost all the other SY albums (I think only comparison to Eternal is Daydream Nation). I donīt mean I donīt like those sharp elements. Well, maybe I even then didnīt think it was better than EVOL or Sister, but anyway SY is to me one of the rare bands whose material havenīt ever got bad. There are two albums, that I was disappointed right after their release, but I have also learned to love them later.
I donīt think itīs realistic to expect that SY will decide to make a "great, final album" and also succeed in that. I think in art when somebody is trying to make something, I mean in purpose trying to make something really great, itīs just donīt work. I think whatīs really great in SY-albums that they sound very natural made to me.