It's easy to take potshots at actors turned musicians, since it often seems like the actors are taking advantage of their celebrity by turning into recording stars. This ignores two facts: first, often these actors have been playing music for as long as they've been acting; and second, who's to say that these critics, if put in the same position, wouldn't take advantage of their celebrity to pursue their dream projects? In the case of 30 Seconds to Mars, the metallic post-grunge quartet led by Jared Leto (after all these years, still best-known as Jordan Catalano on the alt rock-era TV series My So-Called Life, although he has been excellent in Darren Aronofsky's Requiem for a Dream and David Fincher's Fight Club and Panic Room, as well), these actor-turned-musician arguments don't really matter since, by any measure, the band is quite awful. A melange of U2 atmospherics, grunge angst, gothic brooding, and metal guitars, the band floats out of time, inspired heavily by '90s alt rock but too clean, heavy, and facile to truly be part of that tradition, yet too indebted to the past to sound like part of the 2000s, either. Their second album, 2005's A Beautiful Lie -- whose title is uncomfortably close to Nine Inch Nails' "Terrible Lie" (and is most likely not borrowed from the Amazing Rhythm Aces' 1975 song of the same name, either) -- is a little tighter and more streamlined than their eponymous 2002 debut, but the basic angst-ridden ock remains the same. Leto isn't a terrible singer -- a little too breathy at times and a little too inclined to dive into a full-throated scream, but not terrible -- and the bandmembers are capable enough at shifting from tense quiet verses to piledriving, heavy choruses, but they borrow the worst habits from all their favorite groups, and then assemble them in insufferably earnest fashion, playing clichés as if they were revelations. It's a bleak yet hammy collection of self-absorbed gloom-ock, a record where an allusion to the title of the Cure's "Just Like Heaven" is treated as something soul-searching and profound (of course, it does hurt that A Beautiful Lie is being released just a month before "Just Like Heaven" is being borrowed for the title of a Reese Witherspoon omantic comedy). It's clear that Leto and the rest of 30 Seconds to Mars really mean it, man -- this is as earnest as an emo record gets.
So I bought the album. Whenever I buy an album I am always scared that I'm not going to like it. This album however I stuck in the background while I did some work for uni and shortly I was singing along. From Yesterday especially stuck out. There is not an aspect of this song that I don't like. It gets stuck in my head, which is always a good thing. For an album I just randomly picked up off t...
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I've been on so many websites of late that just totally bad mouth several bands that I listen to- 30 Seconds to Mars and Society 1. Don't get me wrong, I don't really care whether someone likes one band or another. I hate many many bands, but I usually dislike bands based on their musical merit not whether I think the lead singer is a douche or not.I think people have the misconception that bec...
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30 Secondaa To MarsMany people may think that once a person does acting they can’t have a succesful popular band - Jared Leto proves all of these people dead wrong. In interviews he said is acting is his side job. 30 Seconds To Mars first self titled album took years to make and the result is a great album I listen to over and over again. Their second album, a beautiful lie is ten times better .
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Okay, I have to admit, I have a huge fangirl crush on Shannon Leto (drums, 30 Seconds to Mars.) Who is your secret band/celebrity crush?
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Why on earth would anyone make an 13 minute video for a song that only last around 3-4 minutes? Everyone knows Jared Leto(his bandmates...they play instruments really well) is a good actor,maybe not everyone, but I still don't understand the necessity of making a video that long. I understand artists want to express themselves and tell a story with their music but for crying out loud 11 minutes...
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I'm not a music snob. I'll listen to just about anything. But it's not the music that made me go to the 30 Seconds to Mars show last week. It's the fact that I have had a crush on Jordan Catalano since high school(ish). Not so much Jared Leto himself, but Jordan Catalano. The way he'd lean back against the locker with his eyes closed. Or when Rayanne got stage fright and Jordan started si...
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Take a look at the eyeliner, note the pining lyrics & vocals, check the chipped black nail lacquer...*_NOW_* try to tell me these lads aren't heavily influenced by the New Wave scene we all so dearly love ?!?I've been listening to this band from the getgo. Got some flack from some of my friends... with their stereotypical response of "Keanu Reeves, Russell Crowe, Billy Bob, Brian Austin Green....
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and I did...and yesAnd I swear to GodI'll find myselfIn the endI swear to GodI'll find myselfIn the end...A truly beautiful accoustic....
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what to say not that much just listen and enjoymog.comMore about this songShare
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was totally surprised when I heard this album, basically because of the actor/rock singer duo but I must say I was wonderfully surprised at both albums hope more rock is to follow
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I was watching 'Video On Trial', a show on Much Music that pokes fun of music videos and I saw their critique of the video for "The Kill by 30 Seconds To Mars":http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFrR3lhAIs4&mode=related&search and it peeved me off that none of the 'judges' got that the video was based on the movie "The Shining":http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081505/ directed by Stanley Kubrick from a...
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I've been on so many websites of late that just totally bad mouth several bands that I listen to- 30 Seconds to Mars and Society 1. Don't get me wrong, I don't really care whether someone likes one band or another. I hate many many bands, but I usually dislike bands based on their musical merit not whether I think the lead singer is a douche or not.I think people have the misconception that bec...
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Why on earth would anyone make an 13 minute video for a song that only last around 3-4 minutes? Everyone knows Jared Leto(his bandmates...they play instruments really well) is a good actor,maybe not everyone, but I still don't understand the necessity of making a video that long. I understand artists want to express themselves and tell a story with their music but for crying out loud 11 minutes...
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Okay, I have to admit, I have a huge fangirl crush on Shannon Leto (drums, 30 Seconds to Mars.) Who is your secret band/celebrity crush?
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This is a really good song for those who were really hurt or are still hurt by someone who we don´t wanna even say the name, enjoy it! The things that can´t kill us just make us stronger
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I'm not a music snob. I'll listen to just about anything. But it's not the music that made me go to the 30 Seconds to Mars show last week. It's the fact that I have had a crush on Jordan Catalano since high school(ish). Not so much Jared Leto himself, but Jordan Catalano. The way he'd lean back against the locker with his eyes closed. Or when Rayanne got stage fright and Jordan started si...
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30 Secondaa To MarsMany people may think that once a person does acting they can’t have a succesful popular band - Jared Leto proves all of these people dead wrong. In interviews he said is acting is his side job. 30 Seconds To Mars first self titled album took years to make and the result is a great album I listen to over and over again. Their second album, a beautiful lie is ten times better .
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Then you got to hear this. I have it listed under songs you should be lstening to but I fially found a good html to post.
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This band has a unique style that can be enjoyed whenever.
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So, being an election year and all, I get a new boss in January. The old one wasn't so bad, nice guy. But with a new boss come new change. I like change. I welcome change. I just hope it is for the better. I've become so frustrated at work that I am almost to the point where I don't like going anymore, wich isn't a good sign at all. When work seems too much like work, and makes me tireder than ...
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| 1 Attack |
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| 2 A Beautiful Lie |
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| 3 The Kill |
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| 4 Was It a Dream? |
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| 5 The Fantasy |
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| 6 Savior |
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| 7 From Yesterday |
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| 8 The Story |
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| 9 R-Evolve |
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| 10 A Modern Myth |
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| 11 [Untitled Hidden Track] |
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| 12 [Untitled Hidden Track] |
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