Um...
Who hypes the album in the review like this? Pathetic. The editorial review for this album makes me sick (reproduced below and possibly just above). The only thing going down in history is the day HH released a steaming pile of garbage on delusional fans.
"HAWTHORNE HEIGHTS are set to make February 28, 2006 a day that will go down in history. After spending the fall of 2005 holed up in the studio in Hoboken, New Jersey, HAWTHORNE HEIGHTS have surfaced with a painfully beautiful album that is nothing short of the biggest rock record of 2006. ".
ITS AWESOME!!!!!
i'm a mid teen. ok first i am not a kid. anyways, i really liked this album. my friends kept saying things about Hawthrone Heigths so i had to listen to them. after the first song, i couldnt stop listening to it. now the people on here keep saying "you can ingore the screaming" ok, now THE SCREAMING IS THE BEST PART. and thats why some people know it as "SCREAMO!" ok? and i only dis-liked 1 or 2 songs. The song "December" is one of the songs that i dis-like. it was to slow and didnt have good beat. but the first 3 songs are my favorite. there fast and have an awesome beat. well over all i gave this 5 stars. you really should buy it. its worth it. :D.
4 stars because I think they have potential
Um. . I think these guys are good, but they have to decide what genre they want to be. Are they trying to be emo, screamo, metal? I'm confused.
All the songs sound the same. The only ones I recognize when I have my iPod on shuffle are "Dead in the Water" and "Decembers".
The songs all have the same theme. They need to vary a little bit.
Their voices are soft. This clashes disasterously with the screaming. Either they should stop singing so softly, or stop screaming.
-That was a lot of negative stuff, but there are good things too.
Their music is good. Not too harsh, not too mellow (except for Decembers).
The reason I think their songs are all about the same thing is because they are trying to tell a story. The pictures prove that.
Their music is good to put on when you're writing a story or dark poetry (like I do). It's also good to put on when you're mad and just want to drown out the world (again, with the exception of Decembers. It's just too painfully mellow and slow. cough-they-sing-about-butterflies-cough)
. . . My final overview is, if you can find it cheap, buy it. I'd say under five dollars would be reasonable. You only need one version of it. I don't know why you'd buy two. But whatever. I'd wait for their next one anyways to judge them. They still have room for improvement.
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(Not good enough to release two versions of the same CD, however, even if it did have different artwork and DVDs inside. Over all, not a terrible CD, if you can get past the screams. ) Personally, the screaming "thing" doesn't add to the songs because it's such an OVERUSED device in several types of music nowadays, so it makes me want to skip ahead and see what's next rather than listen to the song finish. Guys in H. H. , if you ever read any of these reviews, look for a different gimmick than "Emo-Screamo". If you want to wear your hearts on your sleeves, that's fine, but when you blend in with everyone else, your music will get lost in the shuffle. That's not a good thing, right?
As far as the screaming "thing" goes, a guy sounding like his [. . . ] are being squeezed in a bench vise WHILE an unlubricated watermelon is being slowly inserted in his [. . . ] is NOT singing, I don't care who is doing it.
ughhh...what is this?
im completely against flooding with 'This band sucks!!!' no,i own this Cd and i listen to it. geez,im listening to this on itunes,and thinking about how much better other bands are then them. . . and the songs sound the same!!!i listen for the guitars and music,and the songs vocals and riffs sound like the same old ideas being repeated. . . seriously,like 'pens and needles' and 'this is who we are' begginings sound like they just took a guitar or two out. Listening to this,i just keep thinking 'havent i heard this song before!?' i havent heard their entire other album,but the tracks i heard were way better than half the repeats on this album!!!
if your looking for a good CD,i would not reccomend wasting your hard earned cash on this album. Just buy one of their songs and play it over and over,and you will have this album!!! .
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