'Seven Turns' was a tough album because we knew that the critics would use it to determine whether or not we should have remained broken up.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I can understand why we got bad reviews. We went right over people's heads. One album would follow another and would have nothing to do with what we'd done before. People didn't know what was going on.
I guess when we were up against it, we knew this album was going to be compared to all the classic early material, because it was going back to the original five.
I'll probably never put out another album because I'm a tough critic of my work, and I don't think I could come up to those standards any more.
There are always some doubts when you do a new album though. You wonder whether you succeeded or not, especially when you waited as long as I did for this one - seven years. You're never really sure if it will be a nice record or not.
Of the 25 songs we've recorded there were 24 that we wanted to have on an album. That wouldn't have worked. So when one of our wise managers suggested the idea of considering two different album, it cleared the way for us.
I think that I've got some pretty bad reviews on albums or songs that later proved themselves.
I enjoyed making this album a lot because of the knowledge we acquired over the last 3 years.
You might have a favorite band and really dislike one of the records. That's fine.
Slow, Deep And Hard was a great album, even though it was probably our least selling record.
'7 Years' seems to have attracted a lot of age groups - people seem to see their own lives in the song, and it's great to see so many people reacting in that way to it.