Evanescence

Discussion in 'Art & Culture' started by Fraggle Rocker, Jul 22, 2003.

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  1. Fraggle Rocker

    Fraggle Rocker Staff Member

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    After sharing a month of musical bliss over Audioslave, my wife told me about a band named Evanescence that she saw a couple of times on The Fuze channel. Guaranteed that I would love them, authorized me to go out and buy the CD immediately, even if I had to pay full price. (I didn't, it was on sale at Circuit City for 12 bucks.)

    Damn, she was right. If I had my own record company and my own studio and could hire any songwriter, singer, musicians, and producer in the world, I could not have conceived of a band that plays more perfect "Fraggle Rocker's dream music" than Evanescence.

    I even coined a name for the genre that they epitomize:

    "Lite Goth"

    Anybody else like them? You have to hear the whole CD "Fallen," not just the video hits. It's got continuity and dynamics, the closest thing anybody comes to a "concept album" any more. Segues from a sweet acoustic ballad about depression, lost love, and eternity in hell; to a soprano wail over Korn-style infrared-noise chop-saki power-chords about depression, lost love, and eternity in hell; to a Garbage-meets-Renaissance, post-New-Wave, Neo-Progressive-Rock, mini-epic... about depression, lost love, and eternity in hell.

    I've played it about six times in two days. I haven't foresaken Audioslave, but Evanescence is now my nominee for Best Band of the 21st Century.
     
    Last edited: Sep 14, 2003
    Fraggle Rocker, Jul 22, 2003
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  3. SoLiDUS

    SoLiDUS OMGWTFBBQ Registered Senior Member

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    Going Under and Bring me to Life are pretty good...
     
    SoLiDUS, Jul 22, 2003
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  5. MrMynomics

    MrMynomics The Boss Registered Senior Member

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    Pop is pissing me off.
     
    MrMynomics, Jul 22, 2003
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  7. Zero

    Zero Banned Banned

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    Pop would piss me off. But not if a pop queen boinked me.
     
    Zero, Jul 22, 2003
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  8. SG-N

    SG-N Registered Senior Member

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    "Bring me to Life" is really great but I don't know "Going Under" yet... I will have to listen to the full CD.
     
    SG-N, Jul 22, 2003
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  9. Zero

    Zero Banned Banned

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    The whole CD is great. It is one of those few CD's you wouldn't regret buying.
     
    Zero, Jul 22, 2003
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  10. sargentlard

    sargentlard Save the whales motherfucker Valued Senior Member

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    I sense biting sarcasm...just biting.
     
    sargentlard, Jul 22, 2003
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  11. BloodSuckingGerbile

    BloodSuckingGerbile Master of Puppets Registered Senior Member

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    Evanescence are Nightwish wannabes.
     
    BloodSuckingGerbile, Jul 22, 2003
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  12. Zero

    Zero Banned Banned

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    Evanescence r0x0rs, everyone else is trash.
     
    Zero, Jul 22, 2003
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  13. sargentlard

    sargentlard Save the whales motherfucker Valued Senior Member

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    Heard their famous single......sounds decent but the guy in the back annoys me. He sounds like you average Numetal frontman.
     
    sargentlard, Jul 22, 2003
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  14. spookz

    spookz Banned Banned

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    i truly love fraggle and cant wait for wifey to pen a few posts!
     
    spookz, Jul 22, 2003
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  15. UberDragon

    UberDragon The Freak at the Computer Registered Senior Member

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    hmmm.. has anyone ever liked a band that was you thought pretty good while they were kind of starting out and then radio grabs a single and suddenly, everybody likes them?


    That pisses me off
     
    UberDragon, Jul 22, 2003
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  16. Guyute

    Guyute Senior Member Registered Senior Member

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    Evanescence.....one hit wonder...radio is already overplaying there song.....i give them another year....
     
    Guyute, Jul 23, 2003
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  17. plasticwingsmelting

    plasticwingsmelting Banned Banned

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    I don't like them.


    And I rarely regret buying CDs.
     
    plasticwingsmelting, Jul 23, 2003
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  18. plasticwingsmelting

    plasticwingsmelting Banned Banned

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    I don't like them.


    And I rarely regret buying CDs.
     
    plasticwingsmelting, Jul 23, 2003
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  19. plasticwingsmelting

    plasticwingsmelting Banned Banned

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    I don't like them.


    And I rarely regret buying CDs.
     
    plasticwingsmelting, Jul 23, 2003
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  20. sargentlard

    sargentlard Save the whales motherfucker Valued Senior Member

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    Plastic...do you hear a echo..i do...
     
    sargentlard, Jul 23, 2003
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  21. Nightpoet

    Nightpoet Registered Senior Member

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    The guy in the background is the singer for 12 Stones, not actually a part of the band.

    (I have no idea who 12 stones are, or what they sound like, I"m just sayin)

    I love Going Under.
     
    Nightpoet, Jul 23, 2003
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  22. SG-N

    SG-N Registered Senior Member

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    Yeap : All4One, BoyzIIMen, Avril Lavigne (it was a mistake while I was downloading a mp3... thus I found her before she was on the radios)
     
    SG-N, Jul 23, 2003
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  23. Zarklephaser

    Zarklephaser Registered Senior Member

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    Extraordinarily average band.
     
    Zarklephaser, Feb 1, 2006
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