Jonny wrote:I don't like this thread.
Me neither.
I'd just like to put it out there that both Cone and Steve have said that they think that this is their best album. Both of them have said very good things about the album musically and lyrically.
Deryck never refers to the album as "my album" or "my music" or even "my lyrics". He says "our album", "our music", and "the lyrics".
Yes, when he talks about the lyrics he's going to use the pronoun "I". He wrote the lyrics, as he always has (excluding a few songs), and so the songs are going to be from his point of view, a point of view which for the most part his bandmates seem to agree with. They don't appear to have a problem with this, and, in fact, Steve says he has always encouraged Deryck to be more personal with his lyrics.
And when has Deryck EVER said that this is their heaviest and fastest album? And even if he has said that, how is that relevant to what Cone said? They're different people. They can have different opinions on how the music compares to their other music speed-wise.
About the bass parts, in an article I posted a while ago, Cone said, without Deryck sitting right there, that with more experience as a songwriter, he understands where Deryck was coming from and says that he feels he (Cone) was a bit selfish about the bass parts on past albums. I'm not saying I agree with him, I'm just saying how Cone feels.