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Fallen |  | Artist: Evanescence
Label: Wind-Up
Category: Music
List Price: $8.99
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Seller: bigolfish
Rating:  2445 reviews
Sales Rank: 551
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.8 x 0.4
UPC: 601501306327
EAN: 0601501306327
ASIN: B000089RVX
Release Date: March 4, 2003
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| Tracks:
| • | Going Under | | • | Bring Me To Life | | • | Everybody's Fool | | • | My Immortal | | • | Haunted | | • | Tourniquet | | • | Imaginary | | • | Taking Over Me | | • | Hello | | • | My Last Breath | | • | Whisper |
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| Editorial Reviews:
The Daredevil soundtrack provided a nice boost for this previously unknown quartet from Little Rock, Arkansas. Evanescence's songs "My Immortal" and the imposing "Bring Me to Life" are clear standouts in the film, mainly because they work so well with the dramatic, eerie undertones of the storyline. They reappear here on the band's debut, alongside a selection of similarly brooding tracks that evoke pensive artists like Tori Amos and the Cranberries. Vocalist Amy Lee has the kind of voice that can cause weeks of insomnia, but on songs like "Tourniquet" and "Haunted" she belies the music's sinister mood with evenhanded spirituality, thoughtfully letting some light shine through the tempest. --Aidin Vaziri
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 Good music July 31, 2010
P. Gardner (Bowling Green KY)
This CD came in really fast. It was in the condition it was promised to be...excellent. We would definitely buy from this seller again
Best CD of Evanesence July 29, 2010
Amy (Alabama, USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I love this album more than their second, Amy's voice is amazing and is perfect accect to the band
Fantastic Album July 19, 2010
paintgal06 (Hawaii)
All I can really say is this is a fantastic album. I've listened to it over and over for years now. It doesn't disappoint. I'd have to say pretty much every song is a "stand out".
 About as good as "Goth" can get June 27, 2010
themcmanusbro (Paris, FRANCE)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
If there was ever a pretentious sub-genre of pop-rock, it was "Goth." At least "punk" knew what it was rebelling against, even if it had no reason to rebel; "Goth," on the other hand, is totally misnamed and has no idea what it wants to be. Amy Lee's band, however, is not truly "Goth," although she certainly revels in the "Goth" motifs to create something rather new and different.
That is the true interest of "Fallen": it is really something different from standard rock- or pop-fare. The lyrics are highly thoughtful, smacking of depression and self-induced anguish and all the same a consciousness that something perhaps more beautiful lies above. Notwithstanding Amy Lee's vehement insistence that she had never wanted this to be a "Christian band" (which, given the connotations therein, is totally understandable even to this practising Christian) this is quite possibly the story of a soul yearning for salvation.
Of course it is not "sacred music" and it would be totally unacceptable for a contemporary Christian label (the music under which, by the way, is most definitely not "sacred," either, despite its pretensions to the contrary). That is something else that makes this disc unique: its expression of the anguish and frustrations of ordinary life against the promise of higher things.
Interestingly, the album's flatness, from a musical standpoint, is also revealing of just how shallow and pointless are personal anguishes against the backdrop of sacred majesty. Musically, the disc is at its best when it borrows from classical or medieval motifs--a polyphonic choir can be heard singing "Servatis a periculo; servatis a malefico" (Thou savest from danger; thou savest from evil) on "Whisper"--as a nod to its "goth" aesthetic or to Lee's classical music training and when Lee's lyrics turn away from inner struggle and onto outward universal contemplations: "Will I be denied Christ?" she asks in "Tourniquet," meaning, of course, will she go to hell if she commits suicide. "Hello?" is also good, as it keeps itself simple and personal without trying to stand up to great classics.
That this is a musically anemic piece of work should not surprise. Musical anemia is an endemic fault in all rock groups, owing to the limited number of voices and limited singing range of those who do sing as well as the relatively few instruments and band members. However, next to the classical motifs and the longing for medieval and baroque Christianity evinced in these tracks, the shallowness of the genre is all the more evident. This is true of the lyrics as well: the personal and temporal can never compare to the Divine and the eternal. Amy Lee may have good taste, but so long as she is playing in the popular/rock genre her good taste will expose the inherent flaws of the genre and make her music look underdeveloped in comparison. And that is why I docked two stars.
"Fallen" is worth a listen or two and (for a layman who does not hear confessions) is a good psychological case study of a tormented soul, but if you are looking for rich, deep music, check out Vivaldi: The Four Seasons; if it's Christian music you are after, check out Missa Praeter Rerum Seriem.
Just as it said June 27, 2010
natissee
Product arrived just as was listed and in a timely manner after being contacted almost immediately by the seller.
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