30 Sec\u00adonds to Mars<\/strong><\/a>. I loved a lot of the tracks from their first CD. When the sec\u00adond album came out I bought it from Ama\u00adzon as soon as it came out. It\u2019s a fun\u00adda\u00admen\u00adtal\u00adly dif\u00adfer\u00adent CD from the first, in scope and style.<\/p>\nI\u2019m a great fan of Tool and A Per\u00adfect Cir\u00adcle, some Tori Amos stuff, most of Garbage\u2019s work (Bleed Like Me was ter\u00adri\u00adble), and pret\u00adty much every\u00adthing Evanes\u00adcence has put out. To be hon\u00adest, a lot of the music I lis\u00adten to is clos\u00ader to main\u00adstream than woah-out-there<\/em> music, but then even the term main\u00adstream depends on your loca\u00adtion and the kind of demo\u00adgraph\u00adic you asso\u00adciate with. I avoid most tech\u00adno, hate jazz, can\u00adnot stand any homie rap shit and R&B makes me want to hurt pup\u00adpies. The dying strains of boy bands just make me shake my head in dis\u00adgust (well, with the sin\u00adgle excep\u00adtion of Maroon 5\u2019s Hard\u00ader to Breathe<\/em>, which I\u2019m not very proud of). Friends of mine lis\u00adten to ambi\u00adent trance, euro pop, The Bea\u00adt\u00adles, ABBA and Korn. We\u2019re an ecclec\u00adtic bunch.<\/p>\nThe first 30 Sec\u00adonds to Mars album had a sci\u00adence-fic\u00adtion bent that influ\u00adenced the lyrics and the emo\u00adtion\u00adal feel of the music. I\u2019m not sure of the gen\u00ade\u00adsis of the whole theme, but it made the band unique and gave a strange \u2018remote\u00adness\u2019 to some songs. Some\u00adtimes it felt as thought the singer was com\u00adplete\u00adly out\u00adside the song, look\u00ading in from the per\u00adspec\u00adtive of the lis\u00adten\u00ader. I still don\u2019t pre\u00adtend to know what Bud\u00addha For Mary<\/em> is all about, ignor\u00ading the obvi\u00adous reli\u00adgious ref\u00ader\u00adence. A very pol\u00adished rock\/electronic album with great vocal tal\u00adent, but a few songs a lit\u00adtle hollow.<\/p>\nThe sec\u00adond album lost the sci-fi theme and became much more emo\u00adtion\u00adal\u00adly con\u00adnect\u00ading, with a wider vari\u00adety of mate\u00adr\u00adi\u00adal and more qui\u00adet vocal moments. Of course, the lead song from the album is the loud\u00adest and most emo of the lot, but once Attack<\/em> fin\u00adish\u00ades the two star songs of the album come out: A Beau\u00adti\u00adful Lie<\/em> (also the album\u2019s name) and The Kill<\/em>. I heard the first on the band\u2019s web\u00adsite before I bought the album, and kept going back to hear it again.<\/p>\nIt\u2019s a con\u00adsis\u00adtent album, with the excep\u00adtion of Was it a dream<\/em>, which is an imme\u00addi\u00adate let\u00addown after the first three tracks. I\u2019ll admit that it took a while to warm to the whole thing, unlike the first CD, but then I\u2019m pret\u00adty finicky and music has to have some\u00adthing spe\u00adcial to get a thumbs up from me. I gen\u00ader\u00adal\u00adly need more than a beat and words to be inter\u00adest\u00aded, and I don\u2019t pre\u00adtend to under\u00adstand peo\u00adple who say things like \u201cI love all music!\u201d, because that\u2019s entire\u00adly alien to me. I have to feel empa\u00adthy in the tonal struc\u00adture or the lyric\u2019s mes\u00adsage to enjoy it.<\/p>\nI start\u00aded this post just to talk about music, and it\u2019s some\u00adhow turned into a review, or even worse an adver\u00adtise\u00adment. Not inten\u00adtion\u00adal. It kin\u00adda shaped itself.<\/p>\n
\u2014- <\/p>\n
so I run and hide
and tear myself up
start again
with a brand new name
and eyes that see
into infinity<\/em><\/p>\n\u2014- <\/p>\n
lie awake in bed at night
and think about your life
do you want to be dif\u00adfer\u00adent
try to let go of the truth
the bat\u00adtles of your youth
cause this is just a game
it\u2019s a beau\u00adti\u00adful lie<\/em><\/p>\n\u2014- <\/p>\n
Well, it\u2019s 9:47am. Time to go fin\u00adish Foot\u00adfall<\/em>. :P <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the morn\u00ading grinds on my music gets more angsty. One of my favourite bands of late is 30 Sec\u00adonds to Mars. I loved a lot of the tracks from their first CD. When the sec\u00adond album came out I bought it from Ama\u00adzon as soon as it came out. It\u2019s a fun\u00adda\u00admen\u00adtal\u00adly dif\u00adfer\u00adent CD [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}