Music CD - Blindside: Silence

	Music CD: Silence Artist: Blindside List Price: $11.98 Our Price: $4.88 Your Save: $ 7.10 ( 59% ) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Manufacturer: Elektra / Wea
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Tracks: 1. Caught A Glimpse 2. Pitiful 3. Sleepwalking 4. Cute Boring Love 5. The Endings 6. You Can Hide It 7. Thought Like Flames 8. Time Will Change Your Heart 9. Painting 10. Midnight 11. Coming Back To Life 12. She Shut Your Eyes 13. Silence
Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0075596276528 Label: Elektra / Wea Manufacturer: Elektra / Wea Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Elektra / Wea Release Date: 2002-08-20 Studio: Elektra / Wea
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Amazing Comment: I usually don't write reviews but after that last guy's comment i had to. No one has the right to rag on blindside. Amazing band with good christian lyrics, shredding guitar, and incredible screaming. A worthwhile CD. Great investment. Customer Rating: Summary: Another bland paste Comment: Nothing really struck me on this album as original. Their musicianship wasn't terrible, just uninspired. I've heard the occasional screaming vocals before, and done better. While I continue to search for new music, I have encountered dozens of standard sounding rock bands that don't thrill me. Blindside is another of those bands. Nothing really inventive in each song. Verse/chorus/verse again. I have no idea how this band managed to open for Sepultura. My one word summary: BORING. More power to you if you don't think so. Customer Rating: Summary: Blindside's Best Comment: I don't really know what it is about this band and why I really enjoy them. They really shouldn't even be something I listen too but yet I can't stop. Both their first release and "Silence" I enjoy a lot. I do however feel "Silence" is their best. The first track I had heard by the band, thanks to internet radio, was "Sleepwalking". After hearing that and just the power in that song I had to hear some more. My curiosity made me check the band out and I found that they are actually pretty awesome. The best racks on the cd would have to be "Sleepwalking", "The Endings", "Pitiful", and "She Shut Your Eyes". "Silence" is also an amazingly sad ending track. Here's the rest of my ratings... 1. Caught A Glimpse - 10/10 2. Pitiful - 10/10 3. Sleepwalking - 10/10 4. Cute Boring Love - 9/10 5. The Endings - 10/10 6. You Can Hide It - 9.5/10 7. Thought Like Flames - 9/10 8. Time Will Change Your Heart - 9.5/10 9. Painting - 9.5/10 10. Midnight - 9.5/10 11. Coming Back To Life - 9.5/10 12. She Shut Your Eyes - 10/10 13. Silence - 10/10 Overall: 96% A I feel this is one of Blindside's best release and is actually pretty unique for the time. I can't really put my finger on a band that sounds similar. Although, that's probably due to the fact I don't usually listen to much music with that type of vocal style. That should say something about how good this band is. Customer Rating: Summary: best cd ever!! Comment: this by far, is blindside's best cd and my favorite cd ever. pitiful is a beautiful, emotional, amazing song. all the rest of the songs are amazing, this is definitely a must buy cd Customer Rating: Summary: Silence? hardly. Comment: One of the things I appreciate the most about Blindside is that as a Christian band, they have struck that rare golden balance- they don't make an obtrusive show of their faith because they don't have to. It's simply part of who they are and what they do, and this, I think, explains why they have such great integrity and still so much appeal to secular audiences as well. Lindskog's lyrics deal with a lot of the overlooked nuances of a personal relationship with God, which he expresses with a very unique turn of phrase. Whether this comes from a truly keen perception or just infamiliarity with English idiom, I have no idea, but it certainly makes for some powerful and interesting lyrics. Add this to the band's unique sound and structure of their songs, and you get the kind of distinct, memorable music that only Blindside can pull off. Each of Blindside's albums has it's share of musical gems, but frankly, Silence has the most. The songs are mellower and clearer than those on "A Thought Crushed My Mind," but they don't lose any of their punch. Likewise, they feel much more unified than those on the next two albums-- there are no empty spaces on Silence, no places where the formula goes sour. In other words, although some are better than others, the songs that may strike you as filler on the first listen become much richer and more complex the longer the disc spins in the player. In usual Blindside fashion, each song has movements and elements in it that emerge on each listen. For such typically loud music,it employs a lot of melodic subtlety too. The album starts off heavily and dramatically with "Caught a Glimpse," then roars into "Pitiful" and "Sleepwalking," two of the strongest tracks the group has ever done, in my opinion. "The Endings" and "Painting" are both very unique and powerful, with a sort of soaring quality that melds seamlessly back into driving guitars. They seem to break up the slower parts of the album, which closes with "Silence." "Silence" will either strike you as profoundly beautiful or absurdly boring; it has a very simple, almost empty, haunting sound which adds a lot of potency to it's deep lyrics. But don't just listen to me, listen to it- buy this disc because you need it. If you're already a fan, don't miss out on this; if you want to be, the songs on this cd will make the successes on all of the others all the more meaningful. In general, "Silence" meets all of my qualifications for a solid album: good lyrics, a unique sound, a high volume of songs that hold up well on their own, and redemptive elements in the ones that don't. There are a lot of things to enjoy about Blindside's message and their music, and "Silence" is a showcase of all of them. More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: After two acclaimed full-length indie releases and extensive touring in Europe and the U.S., Blindside has signed with Elektra for their major label debut. Silence was produced by Howard Benson (P.O.D., Sepultura, Motorhead and many more). Their style is simple but explosive, with a lot of complexity swirling around underneath. 2002.