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| The Silent Circus
I know I said I was hoping to be finish before I saw these guys on Sunday, but that's the story of my life. Filled with a lot of empty promises, but never coming through. Anyway, here are my favorite moments from this awesome album. What are yours? Feel free to also comment on my list of favorite moments from their self-titled album. | | 1 | Mordecai
The whole song is simply amazing, but at 2:10 begins the legendary outro that we have all grown to love. From the clean vocals ("Living dreams, loving dreams, awakening to what I've always dreamt of/ The familiar sound of the lovely laugh from the love of my life will keep the notes coming."), to the jazzy guitar solo, to the build up to the beginning of what could be the greatest guitar solo exits to a song of all time. This song still gives me the chills! | | 2 | Aesthetic
Oh my God!!! The introduction, which amazingly lasts only about 30 seconds, just sucks you in without making you think of the consequences. This song would have been the reason why the Titanic would've sunk in the 2000s. The captain of the ship would've had this urge to follow what he would deem as the most beautiful sound he had ever heard in his whole entire life. The ship would still have sunk as soon as it hit an unseen iceberg, but this irresistible introduction would've been the beginning of the end.
All aspiring metalcore bands should take note and try to use this piece of heaven as their paradigm for their songwriting. | | 3 | Ad a Dglgmut
The first 2 minutes of this song is literally meant to be inaudible as Tommy screams nothing but gibberish which sets up the clean vocals later in this track ("It all makes sense, we're capable of beauty/ Through sounds which make one cringe/ Dogs only hear us now"), basically proclaiming that only the truest of the music lovers can appreciate their music. Amen! | | 4 | Coulrophobia
At 3:11 there's a clap-clap, followed by a small guitar solo, a guitar part that actually sounds like a psycho circus is in town, followed, by a cool breakdown, which leads into...... | | 5 | Anablephobia
"DEATH IS IN THE AIR" | | 6 | Destructo Spin
To quote Tyler Munro, "The greatest part about this song is 1:41 in, where a single clean jazz note (excuse my terminology) is played, just a single note, as if to say boom." A fair reminder as to why this band is so damn enjoyable to listen to. The little things, the smallest details is what increases replay value. | | 7 | Camilla Rhodes
There's this awesome breakdown beginning 35 seconds into the song and at about the 3:25 mark, there's this catchy guitar riff that can go unnoticed if not paid attention to, but rewarding when you listen to it. | | 8 | Reaction
Mordecai was a great lead-in to this track and continue to think, heretofore, that Mordecai, Reaction, and Shevanel Take 2 would have been combined into one giant song had they created all of this during their "Colors" and "Great Misdirect" stage of their careers. | | 9 | (Shevanel Take 2)
The end of the song sums up this track (and perhaps the entire album) best, "Sometimes I run and sometimes I crawl/Sometimes I fly and sometimes I fall/But this dream of mine won't change at all." | |
fatlip27
01.24.10 | Thoughts? | Mordecai.
01.24.10 | Love your 1. Pretty much agree though i would put 9 a bit higher. | Yazz_Flute
01.24.10 | 2 and 5 lower
7 and 9 higher
but pretty much my order besides that | Jips
01.24.10 | Saw them last night... Was awesome... Way better than last time cause they headlined so the crowd was way better | fatlip27
01.25.10 | The crowd WAS awesome tonight! I'm still not over the fact how epically fantastic BTBAM were tonight in Chicago.
I just realized something though.... they didn't play anything off this album. I wanted them to play Mordecai so bad, but it was still a great time.
Mordecai, I've been wondering: What moment in "Shevanel" warrants that song to be moved up your list? | Jips
01.25.10 | they dont play off this album... most of the current line-up had nothing to do with recording it...
mordecai would be awesome live tho... | BigTuna
01.25.10 | Mordecai is one of the best songs ever recorded imo. | fatlip27
01.25.10 | If the lineup has changed since Silent Circus, why did they play "More of Myself to Kill" off the first album? And I saw the Colors: Live DVD and they played Mordecai then. I know they're trying to push the new album with the 20 minute songs, but to me and people who think like me, Mordecai will always be one of their top songs. This would be like Metallica not playing Master of Puppets live.
Nevertheless, it was still an amazing show. Just saying that Mordecai would've been the icing on the cake :) |
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