08-06-2003 05:27									#1
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Anyone got any thoughts on this band?

I love their CD. Damn good.

	08-06-2003 05:48									#2
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Crap music, fit singer. Meh.

	08-06-2003 05:54									#3
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I really like Bring Me To Life. Haven't heard anything else.

	08-06-2003 05:56									#4
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can't stand them, but i haven't heard much good new stuff on the radio in the past few months

	08-06-2003 05:58									#5
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end is forever:Why crap? and what do you mean fit?

she's in great shape yeah..


asher:when i heard that song on a rock station, it turned my head, and the rest of the cd i think is even better.

	08-06-2003 06:00									#6
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quote: Originally posted by Soul Survivor can't stand them, but i haven't heard much good new stuff on the radio in the past few months

that's exactly why it turned my head. It was different enough to interest me.

	08-06-2003 06:08									#7
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I think they are funny, this review IMO is great, the Sylvias oven bit cracked me up.1 star out of five

For the masses to devour

by bengotdafunk from Plano, Texas (USA)

why rate an album i would never give a second listen to anyway? because it hurt so much i'd like to give something back.

everything about this music makes me want to yank that narcissitic semi-goth-senator out of that album cover and eat her head. that obnoxious smirk--do you sense it too? gleaming at you as if she knows something you don't. as if her voyage into the doom-quarters has trekked a thousand miles further than yours. as if she KNOWS the sheer, blasting profundity of her album will blow you away into the foggy, unbearable land of traaaaaansient vaaaaaapor where only numbness and solidarity subside! ooooooooh! the sunless desert from which there is NO ESCAAAAAAAPE! where love is but a memory!

this music is worth 4 words: melodramatic, digressive, mediocre, and conformist. it are these qualities that make music such as this and say, creed, exhausting to endure.

what is the origin of a good migraine?:

1.) self-indulgent, pseudo-operatic wailing
2.) painfully cliche chord progressions
3.) laughably pretentious proclamations of despair
4.) awareness that each musician of evanescence will make a respectable load of cash off this album's single.

evanescence is linkin park, but a little less creative, led by a female power-ballad tornado instead of a young-angry-white-boy-tiger-roar of redundant furiosity.

evaneeeeescence, oooooooooh, vespers and vapors and ghosts, oooooh GHOOOOOOSTS and goblins and rainy industrial city nights! ooooooooh woe and fleeting hopes! oh this dreary life of western civilization, ooooooooooooh dark and dank and doleful and dismal and oooooooooh love is a dead corpse! just take me now, i can no longer withstand the burden of rock n' roll touring under this lonesome despair, this somber burden of the merciless gothic essence!

evanescence. this is a name a band chooses by turning off the lights and lighting candles and putting on black tape for a blue girl and flipping through the dictionary. i mean, c'mon, if they were really serious they would've at least spelled their name in true pop-form by replacing the end with a z.

here's a run of probable early name choices for the band that is now "evanescence":

pre-dictionary:
--edgar my guardian
--sylvia's oven
--creepy gaseous substance
--the incorporeal beings
--the melancholigraphers
--the alleyway urchins

dictionary-found:
--necrosis
--lachrymose
--disconsolation
--the disconsolates
--ignis fatuus

the only reason i give this album a star at all is because it is music and i'm glad that there's music.

perhaps i have way too much time on my hands.
i recommend jeff buckley's "grace" or bright eyes' "lifted..." because they possess all the qualities that "fallen" pretends to shine.

buckley drove his car into a friggin lake. this evanescence chick fell out of an imaginary skyscraper window in a digitally manipulated music video.

her dress flapped in the dewy air like a yearning vessssssssper.

	08-06-2003 06:43									#8
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That's all fine, but does it sound good to you?

Of course anyone can site how this or that band is copying an old theme to be in the mass market.

That's irrelevant. Do they pull it off good is the question.

For the most part i think they do.

Over dramatic? yes. Ghostly, dark, somewhat depressing, yet at the same time rockin'? yes.

That's the style. My question was do you like that style, and if so, how do you think they pull it off.

I didn't ask if you consider a band good if they just fester in obscurity at some bar in bum**** Texas in some dopey attempt to be accepted by "the real music lovers".

Sell out this, blah blah...Do you like the sound? yes or no.

Of course the music is melodramatic. But it sounds good I think.

	08-06-2003 08:20									#9
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Personally, I think they suck.

If one was going to listen to a band that was in this category, Lacuna Coil is much better, but it might be best just to avoid this goth garbage completely.

	08-06-2003 08:24									#10
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I love 'Bring me to life'
You can heard the entire album on their web page.

	08-06-2003 08:43									#11
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quote: Originally posted by BustaMike Personally, I think they suck. If one was going to listen to a band that was in this category, Lacuna Coil is much better, but it might be best just to avoid this goth garbage completely.

I doubt you would have ever heard of Lacuna Coil if it wasn't for Evanescense.

And Lacuna Coil's punk vocals are annoying as hell.

Plus I can't play their damn CD on my computer, has to be in a CD player.

Evenescense rocks.

	08-06-2003 09:41									#12
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I heard of Lacuna Coil long before Evanesacrap, but you are right, when that guy is singing it sucks. I never said Lacuna Coil was great either, I just said they're better.

	08-06-2003 09:58									#13
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quote: Originally posted by vee4473 That's all fine, but does it sound good to you?

That the only really important question really. Plan's review is a perfect example of elitist thats just too cool for pop music.

Anyways having said that I dont like their song. They try so hard to make it sound gothy IMO but its not. Result seems to be a very strange attempt to be goth while trying to be other stuff at the same time. Like rapping in the middle of it all. WTF? But the guys rap sounds much better than the girl who is mediocre in singing talent IMO. Though I'll have to say that this one song isn't really a good one to measure her singing talent (its a really easy song to sing).


I'm not really digging it. I'll listen to it, but I won't buy their album. It's at most "I might not change the station" for me.

	08-06-2003 09:59									#14
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Saw them at our City Stages festival (Birmingham, AL) and they sucked. Does no band touring these days know how to jam? If I wanted to hear songs like they play them on the album then I'd listen to the ****ing album. Can't they at least move around a little? $#%@!!!

	08-06-2003 10:04									#15
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Bands can't jam nowadays. It's all studio trickery, no real musicianship is left.

Rolling Stones can outjam any of these fools and they are old geezers

	08-06-2003 10:06									#16
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quote: Originally posted by Ted Striker Bands can't jam nowadays. It's all studio trickery, no real musicianship is left.

There are some bands, of course, that can jam incredibly well.

Most of the pop bands are all studio trickery, though.

	08-06-2003 11:56									#17
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No thanks, ill stick to 90's music.

Love that stuff. Top 5.

Metallica - reloaded
Bush-Razorblade suitcase
Nirvana- In utero
Blur - everything
Tom waits- Is da shiznit (Actually been a fan of his for 15 years. Kickass jazz/bar singer)

	08-06-2003 12:39									#18
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I had heard their songs before. It was only today I finally got the name of the band. It's nice to see how it is spelled. I was just going to check them out on Kazaa tonight. What are the odds there would be a thread on them the same day I discovered who they are.

I like her voice a lot. The music isn't really anything special from what I can tell (I haven't heard the whole song). definately worth a listen to.

I'll get back later to tell how much I like their songs when I hear more of them.

	08-06-2003 12:40									#19
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and someone post a picture dammit!! . She sounds hot. I'm just going by what her voice sounds like though.

	08-06-2003 12:42									#20
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this picture kind of turns me on

	08-06-2003 12:44									#21
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if it was a bunch of husky white males where would this band be

	08-06-2003 13:27									#22
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I still like her singing. I'm listening to Bring me to life now- that is the song they play on the radio. The rapping is annoying. I'd rather to listen to Linkin Park for that. When will people learn that most white guys cannot rap, only a few exceptions to that rule.

the music is horrible. I'm not sure if I got a bad download bitrate or what. I forgot to check the bitrates on my downloads.

I kinda almost like them. If that accounts for anything.

edit: listening to Haunted right now. It sucks
just started listening to whisper. doesn't sound so good so far

conclusion: they are a one hit wonders who's hit really isn't very good. I just like the way her voice sounds in bring me to life. the rest of the song sucks.

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	08-06-2003 14:53									#23
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My chick likes this band. I find them better than 95% of new stuff on the radio (course that's not saying much at all).

	08-06-2003 15:49									#24
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They did an acoustic set on BBC Radio 1 this week, and surprised me with their ability to carry it off. The leadsinger got an extremely powerful voice.

I quite like it, beats a lot of other stuff that is out at the moment.

	08-06-2003 18:11									#25
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Found the link to the acoustic version:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/jowhile...nce_jun03.shtml

	08-06-2003 19:06									#26
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eh. mediocre at best. her voice is above average, certainly but that nimrod from 12 stones should be shot.

	07-07-2003 13:10									#27
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Bump 'cause this band sucks and that review in the middle of the thread is priceless.

	07-07-2003 13:27									#28
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Man this band is getting on my nerves. You can't turn on the TV anymore without hearing that you have to buy this "best CD of the year"

Although Lacuna Coil is rather boring, I'd take them any day instead of this. At least they have a few good songs.

Besides, if you like heavy music with female vocals, look for bands like Within Temptation, Nightwish and Gathering instead

	07-07-2003 13:46									#29
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I've hear only the song "bring me to life".

It sounds like one of those nu-metal bands that can be categorized like "13 of these in a dozen".

But still it sounds good - mainly due to the female singer. I certainly would like to hear more songs from them.

	07-07-2003 13:53									#30
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quote: Originally posted by Combat Ingrid Besides, if you like heavy music with female vocals, look for bands like Within Temptation, Nightwish and Gathering instead

Or the first three albums of Theatre of Tragedy, or Inkubus Sukkubus (although they're a bit repetitive as of lately).