March 19, 2003

dude!
I'm going to review Sing the Sorrow for you all!
Because I'm bored.

Miseria Cantare - The Beginning
Yeah, well, thats the intro. It's pretty cool.
Rating: Pretty Cool

The Leaving Song Pt. II
"Imperfect cry and scream in ecstasy, so what deflaws the flawless?" And there's some Spanish. Man, when I first heard the song, I though that it was Latin. Latin would have been so much more cool. "I left them all to die." And then he goes AHHHHHHH a bunch. Then the cool part comes when they go back into the chorus. It's like hes "falling" into the chorus.
Rating: very good

Bleed Black
Starts off with some breathing. And then the intro comes in. John loves that intro. John loves the song. This is probably my least favorite song on the album. Although, I must admit, it has some of the best lyrics on the album. "As morphine cuts through deadened veins, I'm numbing in these days." That's a fucking great line. The breakdown comes. And that's pretty cool. It's not the best. Fall Children has a better breakdown.
Rating: not bad

Silver and Cold
Some piano. The song reminds me of a slow dance song at the prom. Albeit, the prom would be for FUCKING DEAD PEOPLE!!! Like zombies or something. "As a rapturous voice escapes I will tremble a prayer, and I'll beg for forgivness." I dunno. Reminds me of sex and religion. Like those Catholic preist scandals they had. Maybe Davey was molested by a preist once. Probably not. I like Jade's back-up's in the breakdown. But once again, the breakdown isn't all that great. Still reminds me of a zombie prom. They'd all be prom-bies.
Rating: ZOMBIE PROM

Dancing Through Sunday
The guitar riff is fucking awesome. I love it. But the name of the song reminds me off the following: Taking Back Sunday. I don't like that band. But I like this song. It's pretty short. The first time I heard the chorus I thought it was awesome. Sounds like Davey is saying "I'm an asshole," though. FUCKING AWESOME BREAKDOWN. METAL TIME!! SOLO-GALORE! JADEXCORE! and then they finish the song. (dude, I think Davey gets punched in the stomach before the solo.
Rating: Man, when they sing the chorus, you can hear all sorts of harmonies, it's great.

Girl's Not Grey
The single. I actually like this song. Quite a bit. It's catchy. More catchy than the last song. It's got some awesome lyrics. I love the chorus. A lot. "What follows me as the whitest lace of light just begs to be imbrued?" Well, Davey, I don't know. In the first part of the breakdown, before the quiet part, they do that thing that I love right after "much further down" is sung. Duka-duda...DUNK. The quiet part in the breakdown is awesome, too. And then Davey hits some awesome harmonies at the end. It's an all around good song.
Rating: Good song.

Death of Seasons
FUCKING AWESOME SONG.
FUCKING AWESOME SONG.
Rating: FUCKING AWESONG SOME.

The Great Disappointment
More like, NOT The Great Disappointment. I love the verses in this one. The chorus.... eh I dunno. It's not too awesome. They do cool time signature changes though. Ooooo!! I LOVE the intro. I really wonder if they could play the intro live. "I can remember... searched for the amaranth." "Oh I would smile then, waiting so patiently." Breakdown is okay.
Rating: 3/5

Paper Airplanes (makeshift wings)
Without a doubt this is my favorite song on the album. I love it. "These waves of plastic fame go out of fashion and I smile because you're dying to become forever unknown." That line conundrums me. I can hear all of it, except for "and I smile because." I don't think anyone actually ever says that in the song, its just in the lyrics. You, know. For the helluvit. In my opinion, this should have been the first song on the CD, right after the intro. No pause between the two. I set it up like that in calkwalk, and DAMN, it's awesome. That would have been a killer way to begin the album. This song is killer. Words that describe this song: awesome, killer, rockin like Dokken, Sweet, the best song on the album IMO. HA! I said IMO. I've never used that before. EVER. ANYWHERE. BEST SONG ON CD.
Rating: AWEXOME

This Celluloid Dream
"You lanterns light the afternoon snow." That's how I thought the chorus to this song went. I thought it would have been pretty cool if they went like that. But they don't. "Whoever came up with the latern stuff is a fucking retard," they said. Yeah, I'm a retard. That's why this song makes me so depressed. Whenever I hear it, I always think of what that one kid said. Not really, though. I really really like this song. I still hear that in the chorus, though. "ALL GREY!!!!" Cool breakdown. Then Davey goes all India-style on us with that last "Grey." I like the bouncy rhythm of the song.
Rating: Bouncy.

The Leaving Song
This song should come BEFORE The Leaving Song Pt. II. That would make sense.... and it sounds cool if you do it so that as pt. I fades out pt. 2 is fading in. It takes to long to fade in by itself. Good song though. "Turned away in disgrace, felt the chill upon my face cooling from within." Oh, and all the parts that mention "the cracks" are awesome. This song is almost sad, but it doesn't reach that emotional stirrance within my soul. There is one song on the CD that does however. But, I'll talk about that song when I get to It.
Rating: Pretty

...But Home is Nowhere
This is one of my favorite songs on the CD as well. It's got that classic AFI feel to it, but with the fucking new AFI feeling also. "Discarnate. Preternatural. My prayers to disappear ungranted in dead time left me disowned, absent of grace, marked as infernal." <--Chorus is great. Verses are GREAT. SONG IS GREAT.. AWESOME BREAKDOWN. Then the choir and bells come in in the last CHORUS. My only gripe is that the rise into the last chorus could have sounded so much more powerful. It starts to rise, but it doesn't really get there, and then the chorus comes in, with all the cool stuff, but it just doesn't sound as huge as it is, because it is missing the huge build.
Rating: Scuking Awesome

Synesthesia
Okay, so it's not actually on my CD. I downloaded it. But it's on the Europe version. And it IS THE BEST AFI SONG EVER. MY FAVORITE AFI SONG EVER. It is everything that AFI should be. Fast drums by Adam, great backups, catchy, awesome huge breakdown, awesome basswork by Hunter. It embodies all of these things. I see why they didn't put it on STS. It doesn't have the right sound. It has the 336 sound. Those were some good songs. This song is better. Better than any AFI song in the history of the world.
Rating: BEST SONG IN THE WORLD.

Now the World
This song is pretty much the same as the 336 version, except the chorus doesn't sound as huge, and Davey cuts off some words in order to take some breaths towards the end. But, I still like it a lot.
Rating: 336

poem
Why do they call it a poem? It's not a poem. Why did I call it a poem? Peer pressure. It's more like prose, a story if you will. Very beautiful words. I wish the voices were louder.
"We held hands on the last night on earth. Our mouths filled with dust, we kissed in the fields and under trees, screaming like dogs, bleeding dark into the leaves."
"The sky had come crashing down like the news of an intimate suicide. We picked up the shards and formed them into shapes of stars that wore like an antique wedding dress."
"You said, "the cinders are falling like snow." There is poetry in despair, and we sang with unrivaled beauty, bitter elegies of savagery and eloquence."
Rating: Quietly Beautiful

This Time Imperfect
This is the song I was talking about in the Leaving Song section. This is the most beautiful song I have ever heard. It brings tears to my eyes. No kidding. Not only the first time I heard it, but also many times after that. I told Becky to download it, and she did, and she said it almost made her cry, too. Now, I think, she is going to buy the album. That will be so cool. I told her it would be her favorite album ever. It is definately my favorite ablum, at the current time. This song... this song is a masterpiece.
Rating: AFI's Masterpiece.

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