Cpunks,
So, I'm a thinking and when I'm not thinking, I'm writing about thinking. I did the random thumb twirl this morning and stopped on Evanescence. Naturally I had to listen to the new one "The Open Door" and I started to immediately think about "Fallen" the first Evanescence CD that owned me for months in 2003. I had to explore why the music from the new CD was leaving me wanting...
"Hello, I am your mind Giving you someone to talk to Hello..."
"If I smile and don't believe Soon I know I'll wake From this dream"
"Don't try to fix me I'm not broken Hello I'm the light Living for you so you can't hide.... don't cry"
So, I switched to "Fallen" and started thinking about the hooks that this CD had in me and why. There is a lyrical flow to this CD, one that is quite powerful, a sense of loss, a sense of hope, and sense of helplessness, general emotions that many, many people feel on a daily basis. We all reach a point in our lives where the fuckin' pieces don't seem to fit and the need for a screaming guitar solo (like the one from Haunted) outweighs our need to take care of ourselves. So in a way, this CD was a nice way to escape the very emotions that were being sung about... I'm not totally forgetting my questions, i'm just reveling in the musical manifestation of them. The music is nothing new, really, maybe a bit Linkin' Parkish but place "My God, My Tourniquet" on top of it and the relationship between Amy Lee's lilting strength and the entity that she is singing about pops. All emotional inputs and their sources are questioned.
"I lay inside myself for hours"
I've attached "Hello", one of my favorite songs from this album because it just tears me in two. The simple power of laying in total despair only to discover that when all else has totally atrophied, a single breath, a single thought can ignite life, can turn it all around, whatever it is... HELLO. Absolute beauty in thought, and absolute healing in thought, concepts that just can't help but be hopeful to someone out there, or someone in here.
Tak
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It Speaks!
And such great words...
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I've neglected MOG long enough!!! I didn't even know they had the new mp3 upload feature so neatly embedded in the compose section. Awesome touch.
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I'm not a huge Evanescence fan...but it's so easy to get lost in Amy Lee's voice if you let yourself. Her voice is so emotive.
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I lurve me some Evanescence. :D
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Incredible post. :)
Wow!
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Welcome to MOG!
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THis is such a nice little community of music addicts!
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Radiohead's "How to Disappear Completely" tends to have the same effect on me.
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O yeah, I'm listening to this right now. You know Kid A is such an under appreciated album by me. This song gets lost as I tend to listen to Radiohead in album chunks at a time. This tune is sooo haunting and slicing. I love it for it's power.