Dashboard Confessional - Alter The Ending
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Artist: Dashboard ConfessionalEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Deluxe Edition
CD Release Date: 2009-11-10
Music Label: Universal Music Group
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Get Me Right
- Until Morning
- Everybody Learns from Disaster
- Belle of the Boulevard
- I Know About You
- Alter the Ending
- Blame It on the Changes
- Even Now
- The Motions
- No News Is Bad News
- Water and Bridges
- Hell on the Throat
- Get Me Right [Acoustic]
- Until Morning [Acoustic]
- Everybody Learns from Disaster [Acoustic]
- Belle of the Boulevard [Acoustic]
- I Know About You [Acoustic]
- Alter the Ending [Acoustic]
- Blame It on the Changes [Acoustic]
- Even Now [Acoustic]
- The Motions [Acoustic]
- No News Is Bad News [Acoustic]
- Water and Bridges [Acoustic]
- Hell on the Throat [Acoustic]
Music reviews of Alter The Ending
Music Review: DC: Redefined
Rating: 5 Stars
So I fired up the new release from Dashboard Confessional and started to listen like usual, in my car on the way to work. After the first 2 tracks (and a couple WTF?!?!? moments) I pulled over at 7-11 to get my coffee and actually had to pop the disc out to make sure I put in the right disc. Yes, I had to do a double take on a DC album.
My experience with DC is pretty extensive. I first heard "The Best Deception" and it hit me at the right portion of my life that I was able to connect instantly. I was hooked from there and have listened to everything Chris Carrabba has put out including his short stint with Further Seems Forever. "Dusk and Summer" was a great album that moved DC in a new direction. It added in more of the actual band and less of the "emo" as it were. With the release of "The Shade Of Poison Trees", that came to be almost like a swan song in a since. I think that was him saying goodbye to the "old ways". That one was for the fans that have been around since "The Swiss Army Romance" and in a lot of ways "The Shade..." was a lot like it when I look back, especially in the sound. It was mostly acoustic and the writing wasn't as sharp, though it was still quite good and had a bunch of standout tracks. It just wasn't a step forward.
So where does that leave us. Well, we have basically the official sequel to "Dusk and Summer" and that is definitely not a bad thing. For the first time the actual band works on all levels. "Dusk and Summer" was a little rocky in parts (mainly the meshing of the vocals to the music) but everything just works here. From the vocals to the instrumentation it seems that this album was written with the music in mind and not just the lyrics. That is a little weird to say considering the Acoustic Disc that comes with the special edition is almost as good as the actual album. Usually it is the other way around with the acoustic tacks being the highlights. Not so here.
"Get Me Right" is a great opener which leads to my favorite song on the album "Until Morning". This is the track that made me realize just how much maturity has taken place since "The Swiss Army Romance." The same general topics of trying to keep what you are losing is still there, but told from a more mature perspective that I can truly relate to. Truly the only other band I can think of that has matured as much as DC over the course of their career (for better or worse) is 311. After listening to this track I realize that DC may lose some of the hardcore fans and honestly I think Chris and Co. are ok with that. They are more mature and their audience should reflect how they portray themselves.
"Everybody Learns From Disaster" is great and generally works. The storytelling from days of old are back but again with a smarter, wittier tone. "Belle of the Boulevard" is a weird one. I'm not too sure what to make of it yet. It is a great song that can truly be interpreted in more than one way and to me that is what makes good music, the ability to interpret it in more than one way while still enjoying it.
Some other highlights are "Alter the Ending", a slowed down version of "Even Now", "The Motions", and "Water and Bridges". Truly though there is very little wrong with any of the tracks presented here and never in a long time have I been truly happy with every track from an album that I purchased. "Hell on the Throat" is a great closer by the way.
All fans should have picked up the Deluxe Edition and got the Acoustic Disc. Again, all the songs are actually great and a few sound a little better acoustically ("Even Now" for instance). With that said, I'm glad it is just a bonus and not the released album. You really need the full band versions to appreciate what Chris and rest of the crew have accomplished here.
A part of me will always love songs like "Hands Down" or "Saints and Sailors" but really this is the album that will be seeing the most play time in my CD player and my iPod now. Like Chris, I have grown up. While I still have some of the same problems and issues as I did almost 10 years ago, gone are the days of the whiny teenager.
Description of Alter The Ending
5 extra tracks over standard US release: Unitl Morning, Belle Of the Boulevard, I Know About You, The Motions, Water & Bridges. 17 tracks totalAlternative Rock CDs
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