Customer Reviews

Smile Empty Soul (Clean)

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This album is one of the best albums i own. Smile empty soul is one of the better bands of this year.They have a distinctive sound and play in their own way.If you want an album that you can never get tired of and one that has it's own sound, i would recommend This one.

The product arrived ahead of schedule even in the middle of December and I would consider buying again on amazon.com.

This was their first album, the unedited cut is much better...language gives you the full emotion, and their second album ANXIETY is even that much better. SILLOHETTES is by far the greatest song on the album (IMO) and if you enjoyed this band, be sure you own ANXIETY as well. If you are an old fart and don't appreciate newer generation music, don't listen to it(in response to the first idiot to post on this band). SMILE EMPTY SOUL -> LYRICS ARE AMAZING & IT FILLS YOUR DEPRESSING MOODS!

Ok, I bought this album after I heard their song "Bottle of a Bottle". This is a wicked album.
1. This is a really good song. I think it sounds better with the word "Drugs" blanked out that it does with the word. 9/10
2. I really like this song. A good 'ole slow one. 8/10
3. Not much to say. This one rocks. 9/10
They're all pretty much like this. Really good lyrics, good music, and everything. The only REALLY REALLY REALLY good song on the album is #12, All My Problems. I can't stop playing it.
Overall this album is deffinately a 10/10. Perfect!

Before I begin, I would just like you to know that I harbor no ill wishes toward SMILE EMPTY SOUL or any other incredibly generic band. I just think that they really really suck. Pissed as I may be at their music, I'm sure these guys are really great people. Now the album.

SMILE EMPTY SOUL is a three-man-band led by vocalist/guitarist Sean Danielsen, and are the only band to disgust me slightly more than BREAKING BENJAMIN. Though no small task, SMILE EMPTY SOUL deftly captures everything unoriginal, fake, and clichéd about rock music.

I've listened to the album at least 20 times, and there is still absolutely NO redeeming qualities that deserve more than one star. The musical aspect of the album is amazingly bland, though some sections do have some pretty interesting guitar parts (see `Silhouettes', which also has the best vocals on the album). Derek Gledhill, the drummer, is pretty capable in his area of expertise, but that's about it. There's no mind-blowing, awesome solo, no catchy hook, no insanely cool riff. It's just some power chords built on the same old formula, for most of the album. `Bottom of a Bottle' is nearly the perfect song to describe the album as a whole. The introductory music doesn't capture me in any way. Sean's voice is actually very good when he's singing, but when the guy starts trying to scream or whatever he just sounds like he's trying to take a crap.

The lyrics are oh-so typical of the `hardcore-dude' image that everyone wants but no one wants to admit to wanting. It's retarded. They basically say:

"Hey, I'm my own man, and men who are their are their own man rebel against stuff, like the government and U.S. forces in Iraq. And parent's totally suck, cuz they don't let men who are their own man be their own man, because they don't let them do drugs and stuff, which is really dumb because drugs are f__king cool, and I'm cool, and so that's why I do it for the DRUH-UHGS!!!!! And religion sucks, because God and stuff like that is just stupid and it takes control of you and won't let you be your own man, unlike drugs. Drugs are the SH_T!!! Drugs liberate and free me from oppressive forces like the f__king government. And I'm against the f__king government. And religion. And parents, because they won't let me be my own f__king man. And i've got big bad emotional problems, so stay outta my big bad emotional way and let me be my own f__king man, or i'll write a song about how your controlling forces force me to not rebel against things. If I don't rebel, then I don't have a career, and men who don't have a career aren't their own f__king man. And religion sucks. F__k."

Completely unoriginal, retarded, crappy crap.

Thank you, SMILE EMPTY SOUL, for reminding me just how stupid 90% of modern rock music really is. These guys got signed because of their rebellious messages and (name)'s near-awesome voice, nothing more. Rebellion is what will sell records, and SES proves it. Completely, sickeningly generic music that is only worth it if you don't know any better. But since you do know better, there IS no excuse. DO NOT BUY THIS. 1 star.

Oh yeah. `This is War' is an AWESOME song, and probably the best on the album. Except the lyrics suck ("we`ll blow your f__king head off for our country"), trying too hard to sound deep and meaningful, rather than just BEING that way... so nevermind. Still 1 star.