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Sep. 6th, 2002 11:58 pmLive in the dark, and the world is threatening
-- Disturbed
I just saw the Disturbed video that has been generating all the 9/11 controversy and, perhaps as expected, I don't get the problem. Just another knee-jerk reaction from the powers-that-be who aren't bright enough to look past the surface? I dunno. Disturbed says they won't remake the video, which may hurt them as their second album could probably use the exposure...though the controversy may be getting them more than a video tossed into the normal rotation would. I'm cheering their decision anyway.
I liked their last album The Sickness. Kind of a punk/metal hardcore, vaguely Korn-ish, though Sickness was a bit less polished (if you could call Korn polished -- and I do.)
Any band's sophomore album is telling, whether it really is their second album or just the second album after "the popular one." Many times, the hit album comes after years of tweaking and crowd-testing tunes in front of fickle club audiences. The band gets some measure of success, then the second album is produced after six or eight months, with very little in the way of live crowd-testing. Some bands can't take it; they need audience feedback to make a hit, and the second album is a disaster.
"Prayer", the first single from Disturbed's new album, is, in my humble opinion, abso-fucking-lutely brilliant. The video is just a video, not bad, but not all that. But the song is wonderful. The lyrics are a give and take between the lead singer and God, a tried-and-true cliche, even with the Job angle. They pull it off, though. The song has a good hook musically through the chorus, and an edge through the rest of the lyrics: It's a contrast between chaos of life experience and the order of relating it to one's deity.
Here's the video, if you can get past the cheesy commercials: http://launch.yahoo.com/musicvideos/lists/byalpha.asp?l=D&p=1
-- Disturbed
I just saw the Disturbed video that has been generating all the 9/11 controversy and, perhaps as expected, I don't get the problem. Just another knee-jerk reaction from the powers-that-be who aren't bright enough to look past the surface? I dunno. Disturbed says they won't remake the video, which may hurt them as their second album could probably use the exposure...though the controversy may be getting them more than a video tossed into the normal rotation would. I'm cheering their decision anyway.
I liked their last album The Sickness. Kind of a punk/metal hardcore, vaguely Korn-ish, though Sickness was a bit less polished (if you could call Korn polished -- and I do.)
Any band's sophomore album is telling, whether it really is their second album or just the second album after "the popular one." Many times, the hit album comes after years of tweaking and crowd-testing tunes in front of fickle club audiences. The band gets some measure of success, then the second album is produced after six or eight months, with very little in the way of live crowd-testing. Some bands can't take it; they need audience feedback to make a hit, and the second album is a disaster.
"Prayer", the first single from Disturbed's new album, is, in my humble opinion, abso-fucking-lutely brilliant. The video is just a video, not bad, but not all that. But the song is wonderful. The lyrics are a give and take between the lead singer and God, a tried-and-true cliche, even with the Job angle. They pull it off, though. The song has a good hook musically through the chorus, and an edge through the rest of the lyrics: It's a contrast between chaos of life experience and the order of relating it to one's deity.
Here's the video, if you can get past the cheesy commercials: http://launch.yahoo.com/musicvideos/lists/byalpha.asp?l=D&p=1
