Godsmack - Awake
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Artist: GodsmackEdition: Music CD
Format: Enhanced, Explicit Lyrics
CD Release Date: 2000-10-31
Music Label: Umvd Labels
Soundtracks:
- Sick of Life
- Awake
- Greed
- Bad Magick
- Goin' Down
- Mistakes
- Trippin'
- Forgive Me
- Vampires
- The Journey
- Spiral
Free Music Notes for Awake
Free Music Review: My Favorite Godsmack Album
Hit: 5 Stars
After releasing a $2,500 produced debut album, Godsmack returned with their sophomore album titled Awake. This album is great from start to end. Sully's lyrics are filled with anger and frustration. Due to better production, the album also seems heavier than the self title. Bad Magick is the only song that sounds similar to the self title. We also have Mudrock, the same producer from the self title. The complaints on the self title that all Sully could say was Go Away, Keep away, etc are shut up, due to the fact that Sully never says anything like that. No go aways, no keep aways. Tommy's drumming flows perfectly from drum to drum. Robbie's Bass is all over the place in songs like Goin' Down. Tony's Guitar Solos are filled with emotion, something that Godsmack fans hold to their hearts dearly. My favorite solo is found on Trippin'. Although it starts out slow, it is absolutely perfect and is over a minute long.
The CD is also enhanced with 10 short videos with the members talking about the album. Although the qualities of the videos aren't that great, you have to remember that this came out in 2000. Another complaint about the album is that all the songs sound the same and they bleed into one another. In my opinion, it's pretty obvious when a song on the album starts and stops. I can understand when people are talking about the first 3 songs sounding the same. But they have several differences. Sick of Life has a very different feel on it that on the other songs, it is also the heaviest song on the album. Awake has that different guitar effect in the beginning that makes it obvious that a new song has started. Greed is about a guy that tried to screw them over and they talk about it on the enhanced part. But everything in this song changes from Awake. I just don't feel that every song sounds the same unlike some people.
I have actually thought through the album and have determined that it can be interpreted as a concept album, but it isn't. It's just something I thought about. Somewhat like NIN's downward Spiral. Below I will list song/rating/concept idea. The concept idea is kind of like how i view the album. I thought you folks might find this interesting.
Sick of Life: 10/10-The teenage years
Awake: 9/10 Life is going good, the guy falls in love.
Greed: 10/10 She has Become the "greedy little baby", and everything starts to go bad.
Bad Magick: 8/10 He tells her to get off his back/dumps her.
Goin' Down: 10/10 She and other things continues to make his life a living hell.
Mistakes: 7/10 as he grows older he feels he has made mistakes and regrets.
Trippen' 10/10 Life continues this way, he meets a new girl. But it still doesn't get better no matter how hard he tries.
Forgive Me: 10/10 He dumps his girlfriend but then realizes he makes another mistake. She turns him down when he asks for forgiveness.
Vampires: 10/10 (An instrumental that won an award.) He is now a withered old man and all the vampires of society continue to drain his blood.
The Journey: 3/5 (intro) He dies and he travels into the light so to speak.
Spiral: 9/10 the guy is now reincarnated and given another chance.
This is my view on the album and how I feel about it. I'm not one of those poseurs that thinks GODSMACK IS SO COOL I GOTTA BUY THEIR STUFF CAUSE THEIR ON THE RADIO. I never listen to the radio as a matter of fact. I Listen to Godsmack because I like Godsmack. Not because I'm told to like Godsmack by some leech who just goes with the flow. I hoped this helped. Go ahead and click the Buy button.
Awake Poster
Japanese edition of the alternative metal act's 2000 sophomore album. Includes the bonus tracks 'Sweet Leaf' & 'Why'. 13tracks in all. Standard jewel case. 2001 release.Godsmack play their ghoulish hard rock with such a straight face, they make Metallica look like the Insane Clown Posse. For proof, look no further than heavily pierced frontman Sully Erna, who is not only a practicing Wiccan but the author of melodramatic declarations such as "Can't you see what this pain has fucking done to me." It's too bad the follow-up to the Boston band's triple-platinum self-titled debut rarely delivers with the desired intensity. Instead, the disc offers anodyne takes on the same old themes of aggression ("Sick of Life"), alienation ("Bad Magick"), and hocus-pocus ("Vampires"), with the all-too-familiar buzzsaw of nu-metal guitars and elastic bass grooves tearing throughout. --Aidin Vaziri
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