After loving SB's album V, I was rather turned off by Snow. It was all right but it just didn't click and the concept sounded too much like a movie that had come out a couple years before, Powder. I said to myself, "Really? That half-assed, completely non-subtle movie is what he wants to build a concept around?" Neal was obviously chomping at the bit to get out of SB and soon did.
Flash forward to Testimony. I always liked his "epic" writing style and still think he could probably write a pretty decent score to a Broadway musical -- just not the lyrics. For me, Neal jumped the shark when I got to song "Sleeping Jesus" on Testimony. I don't often cringe when listening to music but the lyrics of this particular song made me nauseous because they were so bad.
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