So you've only listened to it four times. You haven't even given it a chance. Some of my favorite albums are ones that took a while to grow on me. What makes a good album is that it gets BETTER with repeated listenings, not whether or not it blows your socks off the first time you hear it.monster machine wrote:The Wake Up call CD didn't do a lot for me - I thought the production stripped away too much of the Petra sound. In fact, I bought that album the day it was released and, honestly, I think I've listened to it 3 times since then.
I take issue with your choice of words, but what does it matter if the band had different members in it? The things that hurt Petra was that (1) they messed too much with what they were doing and tried to be something they weren't on No Doubt... Wake-Up Call was honest and was a progression, and then No Doubt was a step into left field, and (2) maybe more than #1, Word wasn't pushing Petra's product like they had before. In the music business, sad to say, substance and talent doesn't mean as much as marketing.monster machine wrote:Let us not forget, it was shortly after this album that the core band started to break apart...
I don't know that long-time members who have paid their dues on the road moving on to the next stage of their lives equates to the "core band starting to break apart." And Petra survived one big change in membership in the mid-80's and came out of it, after a rocky year or two, with nary a scratch. I just think they mainly didn't get the label support they needed.