If you listen to this song you should be able to: fly a MIG fighter jet into Waziristan to hunt down Osama; win a bare-knuckle Muay Thai tournament; race a dragster through rush hour traffic; elude the police in a roof-top chase. That's right, it's a song which gives you amazing powers. It has a Moog solo. And a wall-of-mirrors 80s-sounding guitar intro. It even has some fast kick drums. It's the kind of song that - had you produced it (and unless your name is Simon Efemey, you didn't) - it would be front and centre on your CV.
The album which The Way is taken from - Tuonela - is bad and under no circumstances should you listen to it. Previously Amorphis were a hairy metal band from Helsinki. This album marked their attempted transition into weird-but-bland AOR. The whole thing kind of washes over you, leaving absolutely no impression. And that's a hell of a feat for an album with this many terrible saxophone solos. The only thing the album has going for it is this: a Finish doom metal band is attempting to expand their style to include smooth jazz. On paper its hilarious. In reality it sounds like a studio full of European session-musicians "cutting loose".
Great songs on forgettable albums #2
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