Silverchair - Young Modern

[johnnyhoward]

Call me slow, but I've just got round to finally listening to the album (has taken a while to reach it on my to-do list) and first impression would be disappointment. It took them 5 years to come up with this crap?

I was the same as you when I first heard it. I gave it another chance a few months later and was pleasantly surprised at how good it was. I know albums that win ARIA awards are usually crap, but this is an exception.

 

[likka]

Good album that must be listened to multiple time to actually "get" it. I quite enjoy listening to it now... took a while though.

Having said that it is still vastly overrated and self indulgent.

The best songs are always the simple ones... someone should tell Daniel this, not that he would listen.

First two Silverchair albums > Young Modern.

 

[lincsPJ]

Good album that must be listened to multiple time to actually "get" it. I quite enjoy listening to it now... took a while though.

Having said that it is still vastly overrated and self indulgent.

The best songs are always the simple ones... someone should tell Daniel this, not that he would listen.

First three Silverchair albums > Young Modern.

exactly. (last line edited for accuracy purposes )

it's not silverchair anymore. its daniel and his other 3 band members that play with him. it's all 1 big ego trip for him - to see how complex he can make an arrangement.

if his ego deflates one day, maybe he'll remember that it was the early songs that made them what they are today... and what the fans still want to hear.

 

[mulhollanddrive]

Daniel Johns is like Joel Schumaker of the film world. Very basic, simple talent who tries to make himself appear more complex than he is.

And i grew up listening to Frogstomp when i was 13. After seeing him at the ARIAS carrying on like a self obsessed arty ego tripping idiot, I'm not surprised his music now reflects this.

He butchers the use of orchestra like no other band, and thinks he's a revolutionary.

I really like songs like Israel's son, Freak, The Door, Ana's Song...But have no understanding in the world about how people can like The Greatest view for example and any other Silverchair song of the like. I use to listen to JJJ, and they played a concert from them in about 2000. I always skipped the middle part because they played rubbish like Paint Pastel Princess or whatever its called.

All just my opinion.

Also, my bagging of Silverchair is directed to Daniel Johns, Ben and Chris seem quite happy to take the money, without getting sucked into his ego.

 

[mulhollanddrive]

Having said that...Straight lines is ok, and after doing a discography search of Silverchair, here's my top 10, I'd be surprised if there's a single song on the new album that would make my list:

1. Emotion Sickness
2. Ana's Song
3. Slave
4. Israel's Son
5. The Door
6. Findaway
7. Pure Massacre
8. Freak
9. Abuse me
10. Tomorrow

4 from 1st, 4 from 2nd, 2 from 3rd, nothing from the next 2 albums.

 

[ManWithNoName]

I thought "The Greatest View" was fairly decent. Pity the hard rock intro bits were so few and far between though.

 

[King_Tredrea]

Young Modern is reasonable, but doesnt have the versatility of Diorama. Diorama is an utter masterpiece, Young modern is a step down from that.

and people that mention frogstomp and freak show, your not even credible.

 

[iameviljez]

Having said that...Straight lines is ok, and after doing a discography search of Silverchair, here's my top 10, I'd be surprised if there's a single song on the new album that would make my list:

1. Emotion Sickness
2. Ana's Song
3. Slave
4. Israel's Son
5. The Door
6. Findaway
7. Pure Massacre
8. Freak
9. Abuse me
10. Tomorrow

4 from 1st, 4 from 2nd, 2 from 3rd, nothing from the next 2 albums.

It's an interesting divide, isn't it. You have people who vastly prefer the last two albums, people who vastly prefer the first two, and Neon Ballroom is the meeting ground for the two of them. As for me, let Daniel write whatever he wants, I don't have to like it... but I do.

1. Tuna in the Brine
2. World Upon Your Shoulders
3. Those Theiving Birds
4. Young Modern Station
5. Emotion Sickness
6. The Greatest View
7. Straight Lines
8. Ana's Song
9. Luv Your Life
10. Tomorrow

 

[iameviljez]

and people that mention frogstomp and freak show, your not even credible.

Yes they are. It's just as though you have two different bands, that's all. One who did the last two albums (which are hugely different in themselves) and one who did the first two... and N.B. is a bridge.

The first two albums are too simple for my tastes but that doesn't stop others from liking them, and fair enough.

 

[Damon_3388]

Long range bump, but I still lol when I recall the NME review for Young Modern - Can't find a link, but they absolutely trashed the album and the band's entire back catalogue too, and gave it 2/10

That publication's reviews for Neon Ballroom (3/10) and Diorama (3/10) were spot on as well IMO.

 

[Bomber Bears]

Silverchair put on possibly the worst live show I've ever seen when I saw them at BDO a few years back

I liked this quote about the band personally

"once you reach the level of intellectual maturity where you can tell the difference between cryptic but poetic lyrics and nonsensical crap, you have outgrown Silverchair"

 

[DJ Dupree]

Pff. NME.

They have no business reviewing any of our bands. Disgraceful little toilet rag. Stick to reviewing the latest Joy Division clone band, you knobs.

If Pitchfork reviews are AC/DC, NME reviews are Airbourne. (Hint - a really simplistic and shit version of something else)

 

[Damon_3388]

Pff. NME.

They have no business reviewing any of our bands. Disgraceful little toilet rag. Stick to reviewing the latest Joy Division clone band, you knobs.

If Pitchfork reviews are AC/DC, NME reviews are Airbourne. (Hint - a really simplistic and shit version of something else)

I actually find NME to give pretty fair and honest reviews for the most part, and are usually a good indicator of what's decent and what isn't. They give everything a chance, but will slate a release if it rightfully deserves it. They don't just blindly praise every "Joy Division clone band" or every indie rock "flavour of the month" either. They probably to more to reign in the hype and try to get to the bottom of whether something is actually worth the hype than most music media does. They will still promote and devote column inches to artists that they don't give good reviews to as well, when they could just as easily chose to ignore them entirely.

 

[omit]

people compared this trash to atdi.

That's shameful

 

[Damon_3388]

people compared this trash to atdi.

Blasphemous IMO.

 

[Strapping Young Lad]

people compared this trash to atdi.

That's shameful

Who, what?

 

[AsianWithAFro]

I love this album

In saying that I love Silverchair lol

It is nowhere near as Diorama though

 

[Hard Ball Get]

Frogstomp is awesome. Freak show is ok. It falls away after that... and badly.

 

[Coledinho]

Neon Ballroom was terrible, Diorama was meh. This album however was FANTASTIC. Even better than Frogstomp IMO

 

[hirdy_is_champ]

I've got Neon Ballroom, haven't really listened to it for a while but will occasionally listen to Emotion Sickness and a few others. Emotion Sickness is an incredibly song and the video's pretty good as well.
Cannot stand the song Straight Lines, i.e. didn't go near Young Modern.

 

[Bomber Bears]

Blasphemous IMO.

this

Who compared them? Shitty newcastle band against the band which released the best album of the last decade?

 

[crownie]

Long range bump, but I still lol when I recall the NME review for Young Modern - Can't find a link, but they absolutely trashed the album and the band's entire back catalogue too, and gave it 2/10

they were not wrong