The Collective version has more of an airy feel, as if they were jamming in a studio. The original is great, of course, and it is different from the Collective version in that it is more polished, like the guys went to individual rooms and played separately.
I agree - this song is gorgeous, and I enjoy the Collective version more. I remember hearing it for the first time in 12/01, I was driving around visiting Toluca Lake/Hollywood CA area with my fiancee (she lived there in the early 80s), and it was a quiet beautiful night...
This song to me tells me of someone who left an old life and has now returned to see that where they were raised is different now, something's changed, and the people from his old life return to him and say that they miss him and want him to return, but sadly, he doesn't remember a single thing from the old life. And it's sad, but only for those left behind in the old life, that those relationships can't continue on, even though there is love there, because of its toxicity being to great. And the feeling is familiar ("I feel it pulling me") but his mind can't pinpoint intellectually the events and people of his past.
The Collective version has more of an airy feel, as if they were jamming in a studio. The original is great, of course, and it is different from the Collective version in that it is more polished, like the guys went to individual rooms and played separately.
I agree - this song is gorgeous, and I enjoy the Collective version more. I remember hearing it for the first time in 12/01, I was driving around visiting Toluca Lake/Hollywood CA area with my fiancee (she lived there in the early 80s), and it was a quiet beautiful night...
This song to me tells me of someone who left an old life and has now returned to see that where they were raised is different now, something's changed, and the people from his old life return to him and say that they miss him and want him to return, but sadly, he doesn't remember a single thing from the old life. And it's sad, but only for those left behind in the old life, that those relationships can't continue on, even though there is love there, because of its toxicity being to great. And the feeling is familiar ("I feel it pulling me") but his mind can't pinpoint intellectually the events and people of his past.