fenderrocks wrote:I think BYDWK, TFYTG and Skumfuk are pretty fun, but the album as a whole I guess it dark, but really the Organ Thieve's songs aren't "fun" so I dunno what he's trying to say
He just said "needs more fun", so it's relative and I think it he was specifically relating it to what he thinks Sum 41 is/was or should be (always happy, making songs just for fun and rocking out). It's almost like he didn't want the band to grow up and change that much, because everything was great fun up to the early DTLI days. But that wasn't the direction Deryck wanted to go as a songwriter. I understand both sides and I have a hard time imagining how it could've worked with a side project or something.
The funny thing about it is, you would expect a heavy metal guy like him to be into DTLI and Chuck the most, while in fact that was the time he lost interest in the band and even his favorite song is Makes No Difference, one of the oldest songs, which had been around even before HHOP (I remember a demo version of it in their EPK videotape).