yeah, it's not very spectacular, but there are a few songs that stand out i try to hold it as them being a separate band. i dont call it evanescence. it's the amy lee show, and it's mostly what i expected... amy lee and hired help. it's amy doing her thing, making music she likes, making her artistic vision. it's not their artistic vision. and that's part of why it's got about 2 different songs 13 times.
it's not bad, i mean each song has something enjoyable.. it's not that it's not listenable, but they don't stand out. and it is far overproduced, which makes me happy i did not buy a concert ticket, because the concert will be like watching amy sing karaoke to tracks - even worse than they already were. it just wont be really capable of being reproduced live and i don't think it will be enjoyable.
and lyrically, yeah, "grown up" but i think they lack diversity. they're all essentially "i am the victim of this or that and i want to fight back but sometimes i can't" ish.
Sweet Sacrifice, Lacrymosa and All That I'm Living For are my favorites, the rest of the album is... not nearly as memorable as Fallen. Not even close. I remember listening to Fallen and Origin and each and every song had a hook to reel you in and you could actually remember it.
The things I do like on this album are the amount of high falsetto notes, the truth in her voice, and more use of the orchestra. I completely agree with you about Sweet Sacrifice. I actually kinda wanna cover that one :p
i agree completley, it was a big dissapointment. i expected a lot more from them after working on it for so long, but it really let me down.
it really doesn't have the quality that fallen did. the songs don't want to make you keep listening. in fact, i haven't just barely listened to the whole album, simply because the songs are repetative and essentially the same thing, just morphed into different melodies. i kept getting distracted
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i try to hold it as them being a separate band. i dont call it evanescence. it's the amy lee show, and it's mostly what i expected... amy lee and hired help. it's amy doing her thing, making music she likes, making her artistic vision. it's not their artistic vision. and that's part of why it's got about 2 different songs 13 times.
it's not bad, i mean each song has something enjoyable.. it's not that it's not listenable, but they don't stand out. and it is far overproduced, which makes me happy i did not buy a concert ticket, because the concert will be like watching amy sing karaoke to tracks - even worse than they already were. it just wont be really capable of being reproduced live and i don't think it will be enjoyable.
and lyrically, yeah, "grown up" but i think they lack diversity. they're all essentially "i am the victim of this or that and i want to fight back but sometimes i can't" ish.
*shrug*
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The things I do like on this album are the amount of high falsetto notes, the truth in her voice, and more use of the orchestra. I completely agree with you about Sweet Sacrifice. I actually kinda wanna cover that one :p
All in all, I like it. But it's not Evanescence.
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it really doesn't have the quality that fallen did. the songs don't want to make you keep listening. in fact, i haven't just barely listened to the whole album, simply because the songs are repetative and essentially the same thing, just morphed into different melodies. i kept getting distracted
i agree with sierra, it's the amy lee show now.
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Have not heard it been put a better way then that.
Sophmore albums are hard though cos they have all that pressure to create something better and most bands fail at it.
But i agree with all of ya's that the open door just isn't evanescence
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DUH.
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