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Tarfumes.com - Life Is Not a Waiting Room
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List Price: $13.98
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Manufacturer: Vagrant Records
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0601091051225
Label: Vagrant Records
Manufacturer: Vagrant Records
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Vagrant Records
Release Date: 2008-10-07
Studio: Vagrant Records
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2008 album, Life Is Not A Waiting Room by Senses Fail. The formation of Senses Fail started with Buddy Nielsen, who in 2002 started recruiting members through an ad on the Internet, a year before the formation of the band. Dan Trapp read the article and Trapp, who was only 15 at the time, brought his friends Dave Miller and Garrett Zablocki from a band he had played with previously. Later, the bass player Mike Glita, former drummer for Tokyo Rose joined the lineup. The band took their musical influences of Punk, Metal, and Hardcore, mixed them with poetry, emotion, literature, religion, eastern philosophy and spirituality to create their own sound and image. The name "Senses Fail" is derived from the Buddhist belief in Nirvana. Lead singer Nielsen explains, "In Buddhism, they believe that being alive is hell, and the only way to reach Nirvana is to ultimately have no attachments to anything.'
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Simply Awesome
Comment: I absolutely love this CD. It has a great mix of harder songs like "Lungs Like Gallows" and "Wolves At the Door", rock that isnt real hard or soft like "Family Tradition", "Blackout", "Four Years" and my favorite "Garden State", this also has a few softer songs like "Fireworks at Dawn" and "Yellow Angels". I love the balance that they put in this CD. The biggest improvement in this CD is the guitar. They have some wicked solo's and bunches more where you just wanna rock out when you hear them. It took me a little while to get used to Buddy's voice. But after a couple songs the strangeness was gone and it didnt bother me any more and I actually really liked it. Buddy's voice in this album sounds a lot like his voice when he performs so that is a big plus for me. The CD is great throughtout and I never skip any songs when listening to the CD. Not a single bad song on the album. Senses Fail truly did a great job of rockin' like they did in their early years but they were still able to show their progress as a band.
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Summary: Great
Comment: At first, when i listended to it, i hated it.. it sounds different from previous albums at first. but once u listen to it more, u find the same chord progressions and guitar work as before. i like the added guitar details.. overall, a great album
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Summary: Just Horrible.. I'm crying as I type this...
Comment: I have been a fan of Senses Fail since the beginning. I looked past the fact that live they were prtty horrible as Buddy would usually show up drunk and just slur his way through the set. But they were so great to watch live that I just tried not to listen. Still searching was pretty good, and with the release of this their latest project, I was excited for some new Senses Fail. But I was horribly let down. I can't even stand to write this because i own so many Senses Fail t-shirts, I've been to many shows, I've supported them the whole way. But I can't support this album. The ONLY good song is Family Tradition. Every other song is either about alcohol or New Jersey, or a shot of jack, or waking up in the morning to Drink more. Come on Buddy, does every song lyrically have to do with your stupid drinking problem? I can't get with it, but if it was even a good song musically I would probably still listen to most of the rest of the songs... but they are not. This new album is patterned after Still Searching. It is basically Still Searching Part 2. "Fireworks at Dawn" is the first song on the record and a frail attempt at duplicating the first song on the last album, "The Rapture". And then there is "Yellow Angels" which comes at about the same place on the record as "The Priest and The Matador" did and they sound basically the same.
A huge problem that I have with this record is one of the songs, Blackout, has a chorus that is basically a rip off of a chorus by Boys Like Girls called Heroine. I hate when bands do that. They have a song stuck in their head, and strangely they write a song that sounds just like what they have in their head. Did you think we wouldn't catch that Buddy? Seriously. Vocally on the rest of the songs Buddy is trying to sound very poppy. compare his voice on this album to any earlier records, IE Let It Enfold You or From the Depths of Dreams and you will see a man trying to sound like someone who should be opening for some teenage pop princess--you know, bands like Simple Plan or Bowling for Soup. Pathetic. Pick it up guys. I expect much better than all the other so called fans who blindly follow not knowing any better.
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Summary: Still Searching...2
Comment: good cd, but no evolution from the band.
same sound, same style of lyrics, which in most cases would be a good thing... i just expected more from these guys.
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Summary: much better than their last one...
Comment: This is overall a really good CD, although it feels a little bit flat; the glossed over drumming and ghostly guitars in some songs kinda make up for the flatness, but there's also the emotional factor. It seems this dude has been through hell since the last CD. "Hair of The Dog" and "Family Tradition" show this best. Songwriting wise, the songs are more coherent/cohesive than the ones on STILL SEARCHING, their last CD, from 2006 (can't believe it's already been 2 years!). The music doesn't have the freshness of their 2004 debut LET IT ENFOLD YOU, but I guess unless the artists completely re-invent themselves (which rarely happens...), that's pretty much to be expected.
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