Music and Lyrics
The music on Vulture Street was more rock orientated than Powderfinger's past work, especially Odyssey Number Five. The opening track, "Rockin' Rocks", was described by Harp as "far too cheesy to open this record—or any record, for that matter". The song became the band's opening track for live performances, though. The first single, "(Baby I've Got You) On My Mind", was one of the heavier songs on the album; varying reviewers alikened it to AC/DC, Bad Company, and Stereophonics, and musicOMH called it "an unashamed full-tilt rocker". dB magazine said the title of "Stumblin'", released as a single from These Days: Live in Concert after appearing on Vulture Street, was representative of the "classic rock clichés" on the album.
Second single "Since You've Been Gone" contained similar lyrical features to "(Baby I've Got You) On My Mind", but with a more mellow sound. Fanning wrote it following the death of his brother, to help deal with the event. "Sunsets" also dealt with this theme; Fanning told MTV Scene "we write unashamedly about that emotional attachment". "Love Your Way" saw an acoustic opening followed by a loud chorus for which Universal Music Canada recommended the air guitar. musicOMH's Simon Evans alikened the song to Roy Harper, while David Welsh praised the three main aspects of the song—the acoustic introduction, "affected vocal delivery", and guitar solo. On live performances, Fanning plays "Love Your Way" with an acoustic guitar to give the loud second phase of the song more "oomph".
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