Dashboard Confessional - The Places You Have Come To Fear The Most
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Artist: Dashboard ConfessionalEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2001-03-20
Music Label: Vagrant Records
Soundtracks:
- The Brilliant Dance
- Screaming Infidelities
- The Best Deceptions
- This Ruined Puzzle
- Saints And Sailors
- The Good Fight
- Standard Lines
- Again I Go Unnoticed
- The Places You Have Come To Fear The Most
- This Bitter Pill
Music reviews of The Places You Have Come To Fear The Most
Music Review: Perfection...well almost.
Rating: 5 Stars
Ok, I need to make a few things clear before I write my review. First of all, I hate emo with a passion. I despise most of the ideals that the emo genrea portrays. Secondly I am not a depressed 14yr old who slits his wrists to fall asleep at night. Third and lastly, I am looking at this review as an acoustic musician. Taking into account everything I feel is required of someone to write a good album.
Now on to the review:
This album has as many imperfections as the skin of the age group "Places..." is targeted at. With that being said, each of those imperfections makes it more and more unique and loveable than DC's emo counter parts. Chris Carabba has found a way to harness the ultimate power know to musicians only as heartbreak and then turn an album into a timeline of sorts, showing all the stages of it.
Track 1: Brilliant dance 10/10- Was written in such a way as to put the listener into the actual time and place Carabba is singing about. This imagery reaches its peak during the second verse "The plaster dented from your fist, in the hall where you had your first kiss reminds you that the memories will fade." That line struck me as something of simple yet effective way to prepare his listeners to run the gauntlet of emotions on the album.
Track 2: Screaming Infidelities 10/10- This song was DC's breakout hit, and there are many reasons why that is. One of the reasons is because MTV played the crap out of this video, but with that aside we are free to look at the other reasons. Chris does a good job of making this song emotional, while still being sarcastic. What most DC listeners don't seem to understand is that Chris Carabba likes to approach some of his lyrics with a sense of sarcasm. This song is a beautiful example of what I am talking about.
Track 3: Best Deceptions 9/10- I had to give this song a 9 only because of its slightly pretentious attitude. Besides that, the vocals are pristine, the guitar is catchy and the lyrics are quite clever. "I'd rather say nothing; I'd rather you never heard my voice." Those lyrics are angry, angst ridden, and down right heart wrenching.
Track 4: This Ruined Puzzle 10/10- I am going to keep the review on this song really short. This is about as close as this album gets to perfection, there is only two songs that actually reach it. Favorite lyric...."This basement is a coffin, I am buried alive...I am dying here just to be safe"
Track 5: Saints and Sailors 9.5/10- Lyrically this song is amazing, again Carabba is able to use his intelligent lyrics to superimpose an image onto your brain. The song can get a little repetitive which is why I gave it a 9.5, however with witty lines like "A walking open wound, a trophy display of bruises" and "wandering this house like I never wanted out; this is about as social as I get now" it redeems most of its merit.
Track 6: The Good Fight 10/10- This song takes stabs at more than just a girl, it lashes out at his previous "skate-punk" musical endeavor and all the ideals that come with that music. Good fight walks the line between catty and sarcastic quite well. Beautiful.
Track 7: Standard Lines 10/10- I am not even going to review this... its just sheer beauty. I will however let you read the chorus:
But your taste still lingers on my lips
Like I just placed them upon yours
And I starve for you
But this new diet's liquid
and dulling to the senses
And it's crude but it will do
Track 8: Again I Go Unnoticed 10/10- What impresses me most about this song is the very awkward time signature. As usual the lyrics are superb, almost haunting. The subject matter of this song branched out past the rest of the subject matter on the album. In this song he actually is with someone, who seems to be... dare I say having her time of the month? I don't know if that's the case, but that's the image the lyrics left me with.
Track 9: Places that you have come to fear the most 20/10- This is going to be another short review because I can't put into words how amazing this song really is. Everything just seems to fall into place here. The guitar and vocals mesh perfectly; the added female vocal is almost ironic but still beautiful. The lyrical content is well written, painful and almost heartbreaking. This song is one of the 2 that reaches the ultimate goal of every musician, and that is PERFECTION.
Track 10: This Bitter Pill 1,000/10- I don't know how to write a review for this song. I feel that my words can't do it any for of justice, but I will try anyway.
The song goes from: hauntingly quiet to the other end of the spectrum: heart shatteringly loud. This vocal/guitar effect does a perfect job of sucking you in and then making sure you don't walk away from this cd without shedding at least one tear. There are VERY few songs that can make me cry, but when I heard bitter pill I cried my eyes out. I cried because for one of the few times in my life, I could actually hear someone's heart explode. Towards the end of the song, when Chris starts screaming, you know that he is genuinely destroying himself for our enjoyment. What a way to close out a cd, with someone basically saying "Hey, come watch me break my heart again." I understand now why he doesn't like playing it live; it must kill him to even think about it. This song is PERFECTION at its purest form.
The whole album 10/10- From start to finish, I was captivated. When I first heard this album, I didn't move from my computer after the second song. Now five years later, its still hard for me to put it on pause. This cd is a must buy for anyone wanting something deep, emotional and darn near perfect.
Description of The Places You Have Come To Fear The Most
Japanese version featuring a bonus track: 'So Impossible'Of all the downtrodden intellectuals turning skate-punk into emo, Dashboard Confessional's Christopher Carrabba is by far the most bruised. With just an acoustic guitar and some choice words, the Ben Folds sound-alike turns the concept of the love song on its head with The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most's torrent of poetic abuse aimed at girls who've taken advantage of his good nature. From "Saints and Sailors" ("This apartment is starving for an argument / Anything at all to break the silence") to "The Good Fight" ("I claimed you as my only hope and watched the floor as you retreated") to "Screaming Infidelities" ("So kiss me hard because this will be the last time I let you"), Carrabba is unapologetically bitter. Yet while his love life may be a tragic mess, the pure cathartic joy he derives from putting the ladies in question back in their place--evident from his venomous acoustic attacks--is unmistakable, infectious, and fantastically liberating. Wallowing in self-pity has seldom been so much fun. --Dan Gennoe
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