You Need Some Evanescence In Your Life? Say YES!

[David Meek]

Fallen by Evanescense.

Woweeeee! I purchased this disc on the basis of one song Bring Me To Life that I heard on the soundtrack of the movie DareDevil. It's turned out to be one of the sweetest blind-buys I've made in a long time. I LOVE THIS CD!!!!!! The playlist is:

1. Going Under
   Bring Me To Life
   Everbody's Fool
   My Immortal
   Haunted
   Tourniquet
   Imaginary
   Taking Over Me
   Hello
   My Last Breath
   Whisper

Evanescence is: Amy Lee - vocals, Ben Moody - guitars, Francesco DiCosmo - bass, Josh Freese - percussion

Amy Lee's voice is distinctive in tone and just "fits" for me. It's not gravelly, just different - clear with maybe a touch lower reach than most women - sorry, that's the best I can do. The accompanying music varies from good old-fashioned muscular rock to quiet ballad-like songs with symphonic and choral accompaniment. I has a good strong rythm line, good backing vocals and some nice guitar work. In other words, it's not your average rock 'n roll soundtrack music. It's GREAT music to put on, crank up and air-guitar/air-drum with - I got a couple of VERY amused looks from co-workers when they caught me. Be warned: if you put this CD on in the car, I'm NOT responsible for your speeding tickets!
:naughty:

FYI, this is their major label debut. There are a couple of CD-R releases and one small label release Origin, which I'm going to try and find.

One further thought: I haven't listened to this on the home system, so I can't comment on it's ultimate fidelity. That'll come tonight, so more later. . . .

edited for content 04/03/2003




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[SiliGoose]

It sounds nice on my home system.

I don't know if a single song has created anticipation for an album like we saw with Evanescence.
I really like Bring Me To Life but the rest of the album is pretty good as well.

There's something about her photo on the cover isn't there? Spooky-sexy-cool...it kind of draws you in.

However, the new release by The White Stripes is occupying my time right now.




-Sili

[David Meek]

I lied. I couldn't wait 'til tonight so I ran home at lunch and threw it on the system. Instant gratification = good! :B Sound quality is, well like Sili said, it does sound good at home. It may not be the absolute in SQ, but it's not bad, not bad at all - especially when stacked up against some of today's releases.

Sili, in that picture, she reminds me of Willow (Allyson Hannigan) on the TV series Buffy The Vampire Slayer. Yep, spooky-sexy-cute.




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[Danbry39]

Yikes, once again I want to blind purchase a CD by someone I've never heard before.

As far as the Willow comparison, all I can say is look at her eyes. They look like they're staring right into your thoughts. Double yikes, she's reading my thoughts.




Keith

[George Bellefontaine]

I never heard her before but ya'll got me interested, too. Yeah, those eyes.




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[Pat]

Yep, you guys made me do it...I was liking the song I heard on the radio, so I found it at Sam Goody (of all places) for $11.99.
It hasn't been out of the car since...I'll have to bring it in sometime to listen on the home system.




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[JonMarsh]

Almost bought this Sunday at Best Buy, vaguely remembering this post. Now I wish I had. Well, let's hope next weekend I still vaguely remember I was supposed to buy a CD....


~Jon




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