Shinedown - Us & Them
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Artist: ShinedownBrand: SHINEDOWN
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2005-10-04
Music Label: Atlantic
Soundtracks:
- The Dream
- Heroes
- Save Me
- I Dare You
- Yer Majesty
- Beyond The Sun
- Trade Yourself In
- Lady So Divine
- Shed Some Light
- Begin Again
- Atmosphere
- Fake
- Some Day
Music reviews of Us & Them
Music Review: You are Listening to an Excellent Dream! A++
Rating: 5 Stars
Dreams:
Turn the dirt into your joy
It's all been boring lately
So I suggest we trade a question mark
In for a maybe
Time your riddles write and make a point
That has no sense
Make sure you're smiling
And make sure your money's well spent
Innocence and ignorance
It all goes hand and hand
I'm not sure that I'm right
But I hope you'll understand
I hope that you're still searching
For a start that has no end
And all the plastic people have now become your friends
Before your start to drift
And your soul begins to scream
I just wanted to tell you that you're listening to a dream
The way another fan that appreciate Shine down views the intro "Dream" on "Us and Them" will be a different perspective that allows them to decode Dream and make sense of the symbols in their own way.
The way I view the introduction of "Dream" is that the overall theme is being set as people who won't see the other side of the story anymore, that they can't see how to make happiness out of anything but make sure that they at least feign happiness. How they spend their money and can't seem to get any joy out of anything but money, which isn't real happiness. They are innocently believing that they are doing right, but ignorant of any thoughts but their own. How everyone plans ahead too far and no-one just lets time be and doesn't try to make everything have an end, and how people are slowly morphing themselves into the same shape, the same lifeless, thoughtless plastic that everyone else is becoming.
Whether the band members of Shinedown would agree with me, is another thing as they are the one's that have created this beautiful art. To some listeners it may sound as a bunch of words being recited by a girl but it's anything but especially when you take into realization that before you begin to die and drift off, before you are punished for the wicked, greedy ignorance we are all guilty and it must be understood that we are all living in what has basically become a dream, but we aren't living it only listening to it and letting ourselves be manipulated by everything else in it.
The track "Heroes" follows which by the way is a Great Song that has a grunge vibe that would find its place in the late nineties. The album does have a few misses and I think that Save Me is one of them but is made up for on the track I Dare You. I like the fact that Shinedown have attempted a pure rock record and strayed away from ballads. Just check out the amazing riffs on "Atmosphere" approximately 3.19 - 3.39 point. Excellent!
Then comes the Epic "Fake" and this song is for me worth the $28.99 Import Price I paid for the album alone. It sounds Modern without trying to come across as "please accept me" like so many other bands do to push their products.
I love the part of the song especially when the catchiest chorus kicks in:
But I'm Bleeding
And my hands are bruised
From the grip I once had on you
But I'm open for a new way
Because there's not much more that I can
Fake!
I can only take a guess that this song is about a sudden whoa I didn't expect the person I loved to grow beyond me and now the person is starting to spread new wings. I think we can all relate to where the song is coming from in that we have all felt hurt when the one's we professed our love for no longer have time for us and the more we try to grab on and keep on the quicker we see her moving away. I sense that the song is titled Fake as the singer is faking him being supportive and realizing that he's going to have to find a new way to think about her if he wants the relationship to survive.
In a word "Us and Them" by Shinedown is Excellent despite some contrary opinion.
Description of Us & Them
Rising from the swamps of Jacksonville, Florida, Shinedown is her to stay. The engaging starpower of frontman Brent Smith combined with the dynamic guitar prowess of Jasin Todd and the powerful rhythm section of Brad Stewart and Barry Kerch have proven to be one of the most potent in rock music today. The lead single "Save Me" is an anthem of hope that will ignite the bands starving fanbase and realize a whole new audience for Shinedown.Naysayers take note: Shinedown?s Us and Them does not disappoint. Longtime fans and a horde of new and faithful followers will revel in heavy, swaggering, bloozy stomps ("Heroes," "Atmosphere"), anthemic radio-ready ballads ("Beyond The Sun," "Some Day") and the tracks that fall somewhere in between (including the pop-ish "I Dare You"). The quartet evokes a different mood on virtually every track here, whipping out Led Zeppelin-esque riffs one moment, then moving onward to delightfully bloated classic rock fodder (the finely flawed "Lady So Divine") the next. Us and Them does hit two bum notes, albeit gracefully, toward the album?s end with the forgettable "Fake" and "Begin Again," but even those tunes fail to ruin the celebratory vibe found elsewhere. Easily one of the most memorable rock releases of 2005. --Jedd Beaudoin
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