Celebration of "After Hours"!

[Ive always been a dreamer]

I can't agree that Here's To Life is 'melancholy & mundane'. Not all celebrations of life have to be about having a party. I love the reflectiveness of it; I also love that I heard Glenn say that it described his own life. As for it not building in intensity - I could not disagree more. It's a slow burn.

FP, we just have to agree to disagree about Here's to Life. I appreciate that you love it, but it strikes me as having a melancholy and mundane tone. I didn't say a celebration of life needed to be a party or a romp. However, when I listen to the song, I think 'Geez, if this is as much excitement and energy as you can muster up about your life, dude, then that's pretty sad.' I get the song, but it's reflectiveness doesn't move me the way it does you. It's possible I would have appreciated it a little more if I had seen it performed live, but even then, I doubt that I would love it. Besides, I tried to keep my review about the songs on the album, not the live performances. Oh well, different strokes.

This became my second favourite album very quickly. I now think that doing Motown would be too obvious. If he does this again I would like him to do more singer-songwriter type material with perhaps one or two Motown songs; not an entire album.

Again - to each their own. I would absolutely love to see him do Motown. I'm not sure exactly why it would be too obvious or even if it matters, but I think he would totally nail those songs. Besides, paying homage to his hometown would be really cool IMO.