Silverchair - Young Modern

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  • UKpearljammer
    UKpearljammer Bath, UK Posts: 910
    I was lucky enough to live in Sydney from 05-08 and got to see them quite a few times and they were amazing, especially the Young Modern album launch at the Carrigeworks. Putting on free booze and canopes all night for c500 people was very generous too.
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  • 2-feign-reluctance
    2-feign-reluctance TigerTown, USA Posts: 23,462
    Saw them in 1999 at PointFest in St.Louis - Kind of a strange in-between stage for them musically. Pretty thunderous sound for 3 guys. Glad to see this thread bumped up. Love Young Modern - my favorite thing they've done.
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  • eeriepadave
    eeriepadave West Chester, PA Posts: 43,542
    never did get a chance to see them live :(
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  • Hugh Freaking Dillon
    Hugh Freaking Dillon Posts: 14,010
    they lost me with Anthem for the Year 2000. I mean, really, what the fuck was that, anyway?
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  • TroubledSoul
    TroubledSoul Posts: 1,374
    Hugh Freaking Dillon wrote:
    they lost me with Anthem for the Year 2000. I mean, really, what the fuck was that, anyway?

    that was daniel's transformation from angry 17yo to political 19yo, all whilst battling anorexia.

    neon ballroom is their most underrated album, and where most fans dropped off... like hugh freaking dillon. it was their no code/yield era. daniel johns was an amazing song writer.. how many 19yos could write emotion sickness and get david helfgott to play piano for him.

    however daniel developed the unfortunate "axl rose" syndrome... where it was all about himself. massive ego maniac where every song had to be the next "greatest song ever written". complex arrangements, disjointed melodies, orchestras, weird ass tunings... long gone were the simplicities of power chords and dropped D tunings of frogstomp and freakshow.

    i can understand people liking young modern, but i cant see how silverchair fans can like young modern. but the time that album was released, it wasnt even silverchair anymore - it was the daniel johns trio with chris and ben as studio musicians. as soon as daniel started bumming paul mac, it was all over.
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  • B-Rock
    B-Rock Posts: 149
    Hugh Freaking Dillon wrote:
    they lost me with Anthem for the Year 2000. I mean, really, what the fuck was that, anyway?

    That was the lead single to one of the greatest albums ever.

    I respect Daniel for going all weird for Neon Ballroom and especially Diorama. David Botrill the guy who produced the album in an interview recently said this when asked about what bands he has worked with:

    "Obviously I have to mention Silverchair. They’re great guys and Daniel Johns is an amazing musician and someone I would still call a prodigy. He is an unbelievable musician and creative personality. Looking back now, it is not surprising that he became so successful at such a young age because he is so incredibly talented."

    This is coming from the guy who produced Muse and TOOL (Anima + Lateralus)
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  • Champagne Breakfast
    Champagne Breakfast Posts: 1,526
    B-Rock wrote:
    Hugh Freaking Dillon wrote:
    they lost me with Anthem for the Year 2000. I mean, really, what the fuck was that, anyway?

    That was the lead single to one of the greatest albums ever.

    I respect Daniel for going all weird for Neon Ballroom and especially Diorama. David Botrill the guy who produced the album in an interview recently said this when asked about what bands he has worked with:

    "Obviously I have to mention Silverchair. They’re great guys and Daniel Johns is an amazing musician and someone I would still call a prodigy. He is an unbelievable musician and creative personality. Looking back now, it is not surprising that he became so successful at such a young age because he is so incredibly talented."

    This is coming from the guy who produced Muse and TOOL (Anima + Lateralus)
    great quote. two of my favorite records ever. neon ballroom -- point of view and emotion sickness are in a league of their own. diorama -- in its entirety.
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  • Olivavu
    Olivavu England Posts: 1,683
    Diorama is easily the best album.
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  • CTD10
    CTD10 Posts: 351
    Fantastic band. I own all their stuff. Loved the first two when they first came out. I was 13 when Frogstomp came out so I always look at Silverchair as a band that i grew up with. They got much better as they went on. Hopefully someday they will release another album, because Young Modern was amazing
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  • morgannspicer
    morgannspicer Posts: 266
    This is one of my all-time favorites. Boyfriend just introduced me to the album like a month ago and haven't stopped listening to it since. Title track is my favorite but Waiting All Day is a close second right along with Those Thieving Birds (both parts of course).

    This album reminds me of the Beatles white album in many, many ways...

    Wish Silverchair wasn't on permanent hiatus. Want to see them live so bad.
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  • B-Rock
    B-Rock Posts: 149
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xy60WlJS0Mk

    The vocal melody at 6.40 is my probably my favourite vocal line from any song.
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  • goldrush
    goldrush everybody knows this is nowhere Posts: 7,841
    It's not my favourite Silverchair album but it's certainly has its moments:
    http://youtu.be/_GW6eCyUIZc

    It's a shame they called it a day, I was looking forward to seeing which direction the new album would be going in. It'll be interesting to see what Daniel does next
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  • Hugh Freaking Dillon
    Hugh Freaking Dillon Posts: 14,010
    TroubledSoul wrote:
    Hugh Freaking Dillon wrote:
    they lost me with Anthem for the Year 2000. I mean, really, what the fuck was that, anyway?

    that was daniel's transformation from angry 17yo to political 19yo, all whilst battling anorexia.

    neon ballroom is their most underrated album, and where most fans dropped off... like hugh freaking dillon..

    nah, I dropped off after Frogstomp. Loved that album. The next album's single didn't do it for me, honestly, can't even remember what it was. But when I heard Anthem, I thought "ok, these guys are DELIBERATELY trying to get a slot playing during the Super Bowl halftime show!".
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  • pdalowsky
    pdalowsky Doncaster,UK Posts: 15,253
    Honestly i think i might be the only one who genuinely thinks that Silverchair started with their best record first and got gradually worse. Dont get me wrong i enjoy all their records, but that ealy sound was just great.
  • UKpearljammer
    UKpearljammer Bath, UK Posts: 910
    pdalowsky wrote:
    Honestly i think i might be the only one who genuinely thinks that Silverchair started with their best record first and got gradually worse. Dont get me wrong i enjoy all their records, but that ealy sound was just great.

    To each their own and I can understand and respect your opinion, I loved their early work initially, but as the years have gone by I find it hard to listen to those albums and much prefer the epicness of their latter work, especially Diorama.
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  • UKpearljammer
    UKpearljammer Bath, UK Posts: 910
    B-Rock wrote:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xy60WlJS0Mk

    The vocal melody at 6.40 is my probably my favourite vocal line from any song.

    Emotion Sickness is one of my favourite songs ever!
    My PJ shows:
    London 28/10/96, Las Vegas 11/7/98, London 29/5/00, Nurnburg 11/6/00, Prague 14/6/00, Salzburg 18/6/00, Verona 20/6/00, Milan 22/6/00, Zurich 23/6/00, New York 8-9/7/03, Boston 11/7/03, Reading Festival 27/8/06, Shepards Bush 11/8/09, Berlin 15/8/09, Manchester 17/8/09, London 18/8/09, Dublin 22/6/10, Belfast 23/6/10, London (HRC) 25/6/10, Alpine Valley (PJ20) 3-4/9/11, Manchester 20-21/6/12, Leeds 8/7/14, Milton Keynes 11/7/14 To be continued....
  • Olivavu
    Olivavu England Posts: 1,683
    I saw them at Reading 1999. I wish I'd seen them in 2002/3.
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  • Olivavu
    Olivavu England Posts: 1,683
    If You Keep Losing Sleep is terrible.

    This album is comfortably their worst for me.
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  • Olivavu
    Olivavu England Posts: 1,683
    1 - Diorama
    2 - Neon Ballroom
    3 - Frogstomp
    4 - Freak Show
    5 - Young Modern
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  • B-Rock
    B-Rock Posts: 149
    Olivavu wrote:
    If You Keep Losing Sleep is terrible.

    This album is comfortably their worst for me.

    If you keep losing sleep is an amazing track to me. The song is so crazy and creative. The vocals in the second verse always get me.

    I actually think that Frogstomp is their worst album and I struggle to listen to it, especially after you listen to Diorama and Neon Ballroom
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