i cringed..

nothing special to post.. just some random ramblings here..

after 3 very long years, the new evanescence album i finally out! 'the open door' was finally in my hands.. the first thing i did, i opened my laptop, connected my ipod to it ready to transfer the music immediately.. i popped in the cd.. had a listen to a track.. all of a sudden, i cringed.. i shook my head.. must be a bad song.. even so, i carried on listening till the end.. i relaxed myself. on to the next track.. i cringed again.. it was worse than the last.. after i finished listening to the whole album, i sat back and i swear i think i my eyes started to tear up.. except for a song or two, the whole album did not even give a light tug to my attention. not like the first album.. every single song i hear, i loved instantly. what the heck happened?

then, i realised that i wasn't using any proper sound amplifier.. just the speakers on my laptop. it won't do any justice to any song i play on it.. so, i composed myself and blamed it on the speakers.. so, i grabbed my headphones.. everything sounds awesome in it..

i took a deep breath and played the tracks again.. a huge improvement. even though the songs sounds better, it still didn't make me fall in love with all of them.. they sound so gothic now and most of the tracks sounds so out of tune in some parts of it..

the songs that i predict becoming their singles:

weight of the world

lithium

all that i'm living for

like you

if it was their last album, i would have a hard time picking.. ':s

while on the subject of good albums, there's an album i really absolutely love right now. hoobastank's 'every man for himself'. a huge joy to listen to from beginning till the end.. listen to it folks!

i'm out