KORN

[Thorngrub]

holy shiiit . . . daaammn . . . that bad, huh?

whoa

[Thorngrub]

man, that's sad. . . .New Orleans is a great town ...

[Thorngrub]

PISSIN

Don't forget that you are born
free, Better to die on your feet
than to live on your knees


Nawlins is a dirty dirty town.

[Thorngrub]

YOU DIRTY LITTLE TOWWWN!!

[Thorngrub]

And now its muddy muddy.

[Thorngrub]

PISSIN

Don't forget that you are born
free, Better to die on your feet
than to live on your knees


Yeah, I hope there aren't too many casualties. If there is, I hope the majority of them are stupid bastards. Like then ones hiding out in the dome. I heard some people didn't have wheels and couldn't get a ride out of town. Then what do you do? Must be an odd situation. Would you pick up a hitchiker who's just trying to get out with the rest of the evacutees? I mean he probably wouldn't rob you or anything right? What would be the point? How would he get away. No one should be left in that city in a case like this.

[Thorngrub]

NP:

[Thorngrub]

Am I ever grateful I bought COLD's new album yesterday. It is terrific through and through. From start to finish, Scooter & Co. deliver an opus of heartwrenching emotional honesty, now firmly set in stone as their modus operandi.

I heard it for the 3rd time this morning on my way to work - (something I never do, listen to my discman in the mornings) - and it filled the empty sails of my soul and set me on a steady course straight through the bermuda triangle of all my loves lost.

I love this band, like no other. These guys have thrown me a lifeline in the middle of a howling storm, again. Only this time, after listening to it closely thrice, I can see with obvious clarity that this 4th release from COLD is a definitive focusing of their craft. It eliminates any of the overproduced, pop-qualities reminescent of THE YEAR OF THE SPIDER (an album I will nonetheless always continue to adore), smooths out the self-aggrandized aggression of 13 WAYS TO BLEED ONSTAGE, and fuses what's left with the internalized emotive catharsis of their debut.

This is, of course, a good thing. COLD's back and in better shape than ever. Scooter's vocals have really become enriched (if that were even possible) with more focus and passion than ever before. It is a testament to the complete nature of the songs that they each tend to grow on you on repeat listenings. If there is any doubt while hearing this album the first time, hang in there. The opening track, for instance, really slammed it home to me upon hearing it for the third time. Then the rest of the album overflowed into my ears like a revelation.

If the music & words of A DIFFERENT KIND OF PAIN do not affect you -- you have not lived yet. That's OK, though: someday you will love. Someday you will be left behind. Someday you will understand why COLD is tattooed on my heart.

[Thorngrub]

Lady: Be sure to stop by JACkory's Insect Lounge to keep up with my new literary board, "ThoRns Grove - Where Books Eat YOU". You should find plenty of interest, therein.

Take care

[Thorngrub]

PISSIN

Don't forget that you are born
free, Better to die on your feet
than to live on your knees


So you really like the new Cold huh? I was listening to some samples (I know, I know, it's better to listen to the whole thing) but it sounded like everyone song was basically the same. It seems they started to head more in that direction with the last album. Where they're all kind of the same tempo, kind of the same style chorus and singing style. I like just about everything they've done so far, but it seems the songs are getting harder to seperate from each other. I think I'm going to have to try and find this in a store where I can listen to the whole thing. I'm afraid to go out on a limb with this one.

[Thorngrub]

Yah I really do like it man. I hear what you're saying - - and I kinda agree, only the way I see it is, what with the songs more or less blending into each other, that this just makes the album one grand opus, almost like a concept album, only instead of a narrative plot device, the concept is thematic. The more I listened to it, the more the songs began to seperate themselves out, and tracks I initially thought "I don't know about that one..." have transormed into more solid pieces (such as "When Angels Fly Away"-- it took 3 listens for it to slam home). So although I hear what you're saying, I personally find that aspect of their new direction to be endearing, and appealing.

I like COLD because they're not posers, (if there was ever any "posing" in their career, it could only have been on their 2nd album, which I think is pretty decent anyhow, so there ya go), Scooter obviously sings from the marrow of his heart, unapologetically, and his spirit soars because of it. His vocals never fail to fill my sails, and set me on a steady course, a sailor on the seas of fate. It takes a fundamentally honest type of person who makes no bones about their emotional state to truly dig in and enjoy COLD's dramatic offerings.

The band is really tight again, too. They've had some personell changes, but this lineup is right on it, totally together in the crafting of their seamless sound. I have to admit I was a tad apprehensive about getting this album . . . thinking they may have sunk beneath the slick pop-dom of the MTV-direction some of the songs from SPIDER were beginning to suggest. Thank all the dark lords of creation I was wrong: they've bolstered up their sound, thickened the grungy riffs up, kept the percussion sharp and on tack, and pretty much achieved a sonic blend that is greater than the sum of its parts.

COLD is back.

[Thorngrub]

PISSIN

Don't forget that you are born
free, Better to die on your feet
than to live on your knees


Well I think I'm gonna give it a shot. Partly because of your review, but even more because I just can't let this band go. 13 Ways To Bleed On Stage is still one of the greatest albums I ever heard in my life. I've been listening to a lot of punk lately, and generally just more uplifting stuff, but still sometimes it's necessary for me to spend some time with Cold, and go to that dark place. I don't see this ever changing nomatter how happy I may be in my life.

Staind on the other hand lost me a long time ago.

Also hanging in the balance: If I like this cd, I will go see Cold on Sept. 12th. If I don't, then I will stay home and watch UPN.

[Thorngrub]

Cool. I've yet to be as impressed with COLD live as I am with their albums; maybe that's changed, by now. I'd definitely go and check out this tour (hopefully they'll come thru Salt Lake).

As for StainD - - I know what you mean . . . they've nearly lost me, as well. But something from deep inside keeps whisperscreaming @me to give em one more chance. That same conscience told me to get 14 Shades -- and although I feel it is, in certain ways, a massively overlooked & underrated album -- I recall there being some truly wicked sounds & guitar tones & riffs on it -- nonetheless, I never did go back to that album for many repeat listenings. I'm afraid I'm going to have to give "Volume V" a shot. I understand it's heavier than 14 Shades, and shies away from the ballady-type stuff more. In any case my curiosity will get the best of me. I really dig Aaron's lyrics -- and he's got the pipes to back em. Meanwhile, his band is fuckin ACE. Definitely a cut above COLD's bandmembers, if you ask me. It's just that COLD has won a more secure place in my heart since the last coupla StainD albums.

I'm tunin' out the haterz: COLD + STAIND = 2 great bands that go great 2gether

[luke]

theladyofthelake said:

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Now I can't get over the idiots who didn't evacuate and are now stuck on their roofs begging someone to come and get them. Um, hello? Did you think the mayor was lying to you when he told you that you were facing a catastrophe the likes of which we haven't seen in about 40 years?

Um, hello, most of those people don't have cars. There was no mass transit out of New Orleans. There's a difference between "idiocy" and "poverty."

I liked that Cold song with Rivers Cuomo...saw them live a bit back and that was it. But Staind...c'mon, guys, that's entirely inexcusable.

[Thorngrub]

haha, yeah its inexcusable...but when did that stop me before

np: ghost reveries \ opeth