Night Enchanted

Trans-Siberian Orchestra | Format: MP3 Download
From the Album Night Enchanted

Product Details

• Original Release Date: November 25, 2008
• Label: Atlantic Records
• Copyright: 2008 Atlantic Recording Corporation for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States.
• Duration: 5:45 minutes
• Genres: Miscellaneous/Holiday
• ASIN: B001L2CJNC
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (30 customer reviews)

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2.0 out of 5 stars This is amazing? Really?, November 25, 2008

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This review is from: Night Enchanted (MP3 Download)

Oddly, there seem to be two pages for this actually single mp3. Therefore, this review is merely a copy of my other review.

I've been an incredible fan of TSO, not having missed a concert in four years, owning all of their albums. Additionally, I own every Savatage album, and some of Jon Oliva's side project too. So, with an extensive history in TSO, 'tage and O'Neill, I say: This is amazing?

Beethoven's Last Night is incredible. The pacing of songs is well done. This song, however, is merely a chorus. There are no catchy riffs, no emotional buildups... I'm not saying that talent-wise, this track is poor. The vocals are impressive, especially the beautiful female singer. However, there is more to music than technical talent. This song is just plain boring. It has no builds, no crescendo. It fluctuates, sure, but the song as a whole builds to nothing. I find the chorus more obnoxious than well-utilized here - there is simply too much of it. The chorus works so well in Beethoven's Last Night because it is used sparsely and wisely, at excellent moments of crescendo or power. In that album, the chorus is my favorite aspect. Here, however, the chorus dominates the entire song here. Additionally, the overproduction is just painful. The song is so clean, it's sterile. I truly wish that this song had more soul - it SHOULD.

By utilizing a chorus, the song attempts to be "epic", surely. But the fact is that the song hardly achieves that goal, because it fails to build to a climax. There are many small ones, but they only serve to make the song disjointed. There was a level of majesty that could have been reached in "Night Enchanted" that was not. This is disappointing because their rendition of Carmina Burana is truly marvelous. I have high hopes for this album and certainly I will buy it the minute it's released. If it mirrors this track, however, it will be a disappointing purchase. Too much of a good thing is a time-tested adage, and it proves true here as well. Perhaps in the context of the album this song will be better. At least it tells us something - they've actually written more than one song, so maybe this album does exist and will be released one day.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Same as the other albums; good but not great, July 5, 2009

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Everett Olszewski "Sirrrus" (Erie, PA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Night Enchanted (MP3 Download)

I have not purchased the full mp3 but there is enough substance here to make an assessment. The most striking thing about this track is that it sounds eerily like a Danny Elfman composition (Composer: almost all Tim Burton's films, Beetlejuice, Spiderman); and more specifically it sounds like something out of Tim Burton's "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory". Pitch bending the choir, slamming the kick drum and overplaying the same guitar riffs do not make a great album. There is a nice melodic structure here and some decent harmony, but TSO seems to want to add flourish to the composition when substance is what is needed most. One thing that could really save this album is the quality of the songs that Rob Evan sings. He brought immense life to some rather dull composing on the Lost Christmas Eve album. I credit Bob Kinkel with the lyrics for all their albums, he's quite the lyricist and can sometimes give Sir Tim Rice a run for his money. But the music never lives up to the lyrics. Beethoven's Last Night was them at their best and even that was somewhat lackluster due to the fact that they borrowed half of the music on the album from one of the greatest and well-known composers rather than pursue more compositions in the style that Mephistopheles's songs were written. Paul O'Neil was supposedly holding this album in the studio to perfect it, let's hope his efforts are not wasted despite that this track makes me believe so.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Choral Music to get the TSO treatment?, November 27, 2008

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McKenzie E. Staples "LOTRKing" (Wichta, KS) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Night Enchanted (MP3 Download)

Now we've heard TSO's rendition of both O Fortuna and Dies Irae, two of my favorite choral songs. Seeing as how choral music is some of my favorite, if they plan to do other choral songs on their new album, it may become their best yet.