Black Like Sunday

King's X - Black Like Sunday

Black Like Sunday
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Artist: King's X
Edition: Music CD
Format: Enhanced
CD Release Date: 2003-05-20
Music Label: Metal Blade
Soundtracks:
  1. Black Like Sunday
  2. Rock Pile
  3. Danger Zone
  4. Working Man
  5. Drams
  6. Finished
  7. Screamer
  8. Bad Luck
  9. Down
  10. WOn't Turn Back
  11. Two
  12. You're The Only One
  13. Johnny
  14. Save us

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Free Music Review: So Tell Me What You Think Already
Hit: 5 Stars

I picked this up on the way to work. It was a 45 minute commute on a sunny Friday afternoon, so a new King's X cd blasting from the stereo was perfect. I probably always think this on first listen of a new cd of theirs, but it sounds brilliant, likely their best on Metal Blade at least.

For those who disliked the last release, three important notes: No drum loops. Fourteen songs, and nearly 60 minutes of music.

The first track starts out with a riff that reminds me of Over My Head, only a bit slower. But up-tempo hard rock is what you get through much of this cd, which is probably why I like this so much. Black Like Sunday is a very cool song, anyway.

Rock Pile has it's moments, some good guitar, but the lyrics are dumb. I liked the first chorus a lot but not the verses in between, and that chorus only appears once. The lyrics are about success and failure as a rock band, so in some ways it's autobiographical for King's X I think.

Danger Zone is another good song, a slower tune about a boy's struggles as he grows into a man. Working Man is another cool up-tempo rocker about the curse of having to slave away nine to five. A great song actually. Dreams follows, a song about keeping hope and your dreams alive. This is the first song with some of the funky bass lines that were all over the place in Manic Moonlight, but the bridge to the chorus jumps into a sort of ska rhythm. Very different, but fun.

Finished is a song about a missed chance at a relationship, and has a nice harmony chorus in typical King's X fashion. In Screamer, Doug does just that. It's another up tempo rocker with some nice guitar riffing, at least in chorus. Bad Luck is a heavy rocker written around events in Revelation, actually. The heaviest song on the cd, and one I like a lot.

Down is the slowest tune on the cd, dark and somber. Won't Turn Back is fast-paced, again almost ska-like. Two is slower song that gets heavier during the chorus, followed by You're The Only One, which is a fun upbeat Beatlesque (or Jugheadesque) pop tune. Really, one of the most upbeat tunes King's X has done in forever. Very good.

Johnny is a 10-minute story song about a young punker trying to fit in. In typical King's X fashion, it's not 10 minutes because of too many lyrics, but because they take a good five minutes or so to break the music down, stretch it out, and build it back up. The last song, Save Us, is a short, fast punk-pop song about all the things people want to be saved from.

I don't know if it's a masterwork or anything, but I already like it more than their last several cds. The cover art is cool, apparently they had an online contest and used the work of the winner. But the back does not list the tracks in order, something that annoys me, and there are no lyrics inside the jacket (or ordered track listing there, either).

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