Description

 Artist: Funeral For A Friend

Title: Your History Is Mine: 2002-2009

Label: Atlantic

Genre: Rock

Bitrate: 212kbit av

Time: 02:15:16

Size: 213.55 mb

Rip Date: 2009-09-28

Str Date: 2009-09-28


DISC 1:


01. Amsterdam Conversations 3:40

02. This Years Most Open Heartbreak 2:43

03. Jeneau 3:36

04. She Drove Me To Daytime Television 3:35

05. Escape Artists Never Die 5:17

06. Red Is The New Black 5:12

07. Streetcar 3:37

08. Rose For The Dead 4:04

09. History 4:06

10. Into Oblivion (Reunion) 4:22

11. Walk Away 3:45

12. Kicking And Screaming 3:22

13. No Honour Among Thieves 2:45

14. Built To Last 4:20

15. Wrench 2:30

16. Captains Of Industry 3:43


DISC 2:


01. Getaway Plan 4:16

02. The System (Radio One Session) (Far Cover) 2:07

03. You Want Romance 2:51

04. Scene Points For The Winner 2:37

05. Lazarus (In The Wilderness) 2:49

06. I Am The Arsonist 4:48

07. This Letter 3:45

08. Babylon's Burning (The Ruts Cover) 2:32

09. Sunday Bloody Sunday (U2 Cover) 4:23

10. The Boys Are Back In Town (Thin Lizzy Cover) 4:19

11. Pirate Song (Gameface Cover) 3:46

12. Rise And Fall 3:29

13. Crash And Burn (Demo) 3:55

14. In A Manner Of Sleep (Demo) 4:31

15. Africa (Demo) 3:24

16. Faster 3:49

17. Join Us 3:48

18. Drive (Tiscali Acoustic Session) 5:14

19. The Art Of American Football (Tiscali Acoustic Session) 3:21

20. Into Oblivion (Haunts Remix) 4:55



Release Notes:


WELSH rockers Funeral For A Friend deliver their first career

retrospective in the form of the 16-track Your History Is Mine:

2002-2009 but while certainly packed with monster riffs, plenty of

Goth-like wailing and the odd moment of melody, it s a laboured listen

that s short on much diversity


Formed in 2002, Funeral For A Friend have quickly established

themselves as one of Britain s biggest rock acts, releasing four albums

and generally becoming a popular mainstay of festivals such as

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Yet while they undoubtedly deliver the stadium-sized monster rock

tracks with relish and possess a sound that s equally at ease on either

side of the Atlantic, their music suffers from the same feeling of

over-familiarity that blights a lot of heavier rock acts


Vocalist Matthew Davies and co seem to think that so long as there s a

fair smattering of genre requirements, the fans will swarm


Hence, opening blasts such as 10:45 Amsterdam Conversations and This

Year s Most Open Heartbreak just pound away at your nerves and

eventually get on them!


They even repeat this trick late on, with new tracks such as Captains

of Industry and Wrench resorting to the same type of heavy

verse-melodic chorus structure of their earliest material


The compilation briefly rallies during its middle section, when a more

radio-friendly, melody based style of songwriting creeps into their

music. Hence, tracks like Red Is The New Black and Streetcar make a

better fist of mixing heaviness with restraint


History, meanwhile, is the standout track a power ballad that builds

really nicely amid decent verse structure, strong vocals and polished

guitar work


Into Oblivion and Walk Away also emerge as highlights before the

general aura of heaviness kicks back in and the album resorts to

formula


As Funeral For A Friend look to begin the next phase of their career

they might want to keep in mind that a little bit more diversity would

go a long way


Deluxe edition including a bonus cd of great rarities, b-sides etc