― Al (sitcom), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 02:01 (twenty years ago) link
― Al (sitcom), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 02:02 (twenty years ago) link
For a group that was once identified as "Christian," Fallen dwells on darkness and inner turmoil without a lot of uplift. Granted, not all of life is sunshine and roses, but Evanescence seeks refuge from chaos in sleep, daydreams and (on "My Last Breath") death. God shows up like a fuzzy blip on the lyrical radar. The result is a cryptic, grim effort that hones in on the problem, not the solution.
― Kingfish Disraeli (Kingfish), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 02:04 (twenty years ago) link
― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 02:05 (twenty years ago) link
― Al (sitcom), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 02:10 (twenty years ago) link
The video single "My Immortal" really is a 'power ballad' done right, though, I must say. If you're gonna court the people requesting "November Rain" constantly, that's how to do it. Unfortunately, I downloaded the album version and it's awful, lacking the coda 'for the guys' and filled with sappy awful-sounding orchestration throughout.
I got the rest of the album to see what was up, and it seems like someone got a bad producer or something.
Conclusion: The singer pictured above has great pipes, and I think her pop star tendencies have already conquered whatever "goth" there was in her (I think she was a Smashing Pumpkins and Tori Amos fan, not Sisters of Mercy and Ministry). She has a career ahead of her, but I hope all the mistakes that mar the album (guest 'rapper' on the single, obligatory christian themes for the hometown peeps I guess?) don't follow her, and left with the songwriter that quit.
This is a really long way of saying there's a reason why things are popular, and yeah- they're not Nickelback.
― Richard K, Wednesday, 19 May 2004 02:35 (twenty years ago) link
― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 03:37 (twenty years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 05:09 (twenty years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 05:10 (twenty years ago) link
― abegrand, Wednesday, 19 May 2004 05:50 (twenty years ago) link
― edward o (edwardo), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 05:54 (twenty years ago) link
Also, "Going Under" gives me goosebumps (cf. the OTM pre-chorus observation made above).
― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 05:56 (twenty years ago) link
― Siegbran (eofor), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 06:40 (twenty years ago) link
― Steev (Steev), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 07:08 (twenty years ago) link
― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 08:53 (twenty years ago) link
― Melissa W (Melissa W), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 09:01 (twenty years ago) link
Their music may sell well (oh no!) but to me it feels like it's from the heart.
Isn't that enough?
― mei (mei), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 09:03 (twenty years ago) link
― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 09:05 (twenty years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 09:06 (twenty years ago) link
Check out the Gabriel & Dresden remix of "Hello."
― LC, Wednesday, 19 May 2004 09:21 (twenty years ago) link
"Johnny Appleseed (bang bang!) Let's eat!"
Our cabins were all named after trees. My cabin was Juniper and it was the cleanest cabin of the year. We also won floor hockey and archery. There were bats at the campsite so I made this little bat-noise maker with a branch and a thick leaf and waved it by girls' ears - it made them hoes JUMP!
My friend only brought one pair of sandals and they started to stink so bad at evening chapel he had to go barefoot. I tried to help him out by putting cologne on them but it didn't work.
One water fountain outside chapel. The big thing one year was spit wars with girls - we chased all the girls and they chased us, everyone spitting water on each other. Christian girls don't give a fuck. I was hella fast and I got every girl wet. The one I really liked wrote this in my hymn/memories booklet autograph page: "You got some wheels! See U next summer!" I never did see her next summer.
― LC, Wednesday, 19 May 2004 09:30 (twenty years ago) link
― LC, Wednesday, 19 May 2004 09:39 (twenty years ago) link
― LC, Wednesday, 19 May 2004 09:42 (twenty years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 09:53 (twenty years ago) link
The record buying public actually went out and bought the song because they liked it, without being told to.
Respect to them for that. And RIP.
― Huey (Huey), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 12:42 (twenty years ago) link
― Phil Freeman (Phil Freeman), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 12:46 (twenty years ago) link
― Vinnie (vprabhu), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 12:53 (twenty years ago) link
some might say LUDICROUSLY so
― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 13:09 (twenty years ago) link
― Patrick Kinghorn, Wednesday, 19 May 2004 13:14 (twenty years ago) link
― Al (sitcom), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 13:27 (twenty years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 13:34 (twenty years ago) link
Evanescence is soooo defensible.
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 22:22 (twenty years ago) link
― adam (adam), Thursday, 20 May 2004 02:17 (twenty years ago) link
― Al (sitcom), Thursday, 20 May 2004 02:30 (twenty years ago) link
― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Thursday, 20 May 2004 03:37 (twenty years ago) link
― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Thursday, 20 May 2004 04:40 (twenty years ago) link
― edward o (edwardo), Thursday, 20 May 2004 04:59 (twenty years ago) link
#1 album right now.
― rustic italian flatbread, Friday, 21 October 2011 13:27 (twelve years ago) link
this band is going to be forever remembered for "I CANT BLUH BLUH"
― frogbs, Friday, 21 October 2011 14:50 (twelve years ago) link
aw yeah
― markers, Friday, 21 October 2011 15:05 (twelve years ago) link
This band is still going, although they've announced further lineup changes. At this point, aren't they pretty much the ship of Theseus?
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 22:32 (two years ago) link
Marginally better lyrics than Bon JoviMarginally better music than NightwishGoing Under has aged very well and is up there with Numb by Linkin Park for nostalgia, being 15, and watching video clips on TV
― Nabozo, Wednesday, 25 May 2022 12:33 (two years ago) link
obv i was way too cool to like the open door when it came out (internalized misogyny) but i love fallen and was listening to it today and was like... well, what if it's good? it's probably good? i kinda miss the extremely processed sound of fallen, just sounds like the best sounding record you could possibly make in 2003, obv they went for a live-er sound on the open door which weirdly sounds more compressed (in line with heavy rock production in 2006) but once it gets goin' it's kinda like a nu-metal sarah mclachlan record? adore it
― ivy (BradNelson), Thursday, 22 June 2023 03:03 (eleven months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG8_sWlTZaA
― ivy (BradNelson), Thursday, 22 June 2023 03:11 (eleven months ago) link