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Trainwreck

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i understand the backlash that a cd like this would have with hardcore bno fans, but I too was a fan since the ep. hear me out.

Every band matures, grows, comes full circle again..this is not selling out to your scene. apparently young fans of the hardcore/punk/emo/screamo music do not understand this, and every time a band comes out with something creative they damn it to hell. [might as well fit all 'real' bands under genre-"scene"]

now i do understand the complete and utter abandonment of your genre, voice, and originality (see mcr).

connor sounds nothing like whatever bands you want to compare this bno record to. The new recruit in a bra sings audibly in one song. and through the pop singing and hardcore breakdowns, its still bno and you can clearly hear it in every song. The irony is in the songs, the most poppy song on the cd is when the patient wakes after killing his woman. They still keep their progressive nature and this time took it somewhere to make the cd one long ride..(with the help of producer Machine [who horribly f'd up Armor for sleep's theme cd] redeems himself with this one)

the story of the record is right there in every trustkill advertisement, in the lyrics, and not to mention the "doctor" tape recordings at beginning and end. its a theme record meant to be taken as a whole with a story that could easily be pulled off "make yourself sick." it's cliche, fun, and disgusting at the same time. so dance you prototypical non-comformist duchebags.

no they still arent like other "warped tour bands". its the maturing of the band..with a band potentially this early in its career they are learning. its time to look outside of you scene..cut your hair and please for gods sake buy your jeans a size bigger.

This album is a quite a change from Boys Night Out's previous records... There's less metal, less screaming, and more lyrical content than just killing people (albeit, killing people is still a major theme)...

The CD revolves around a story of a man who killed his wife while sleeping and the mental breakdown that follows until ultimately he dies.

The CD features several different musical genres... Ranging from Metal to Alternative Rock to Classic Rock to even a little bit of Country/Southern Uncle Kracker Style Rock... Yet, with all of the different genres, the CD manages to flow exceptionally well from one song to the next...

There are not many songs on the CD that just jump out and make you want to relisten over and over again... but that's the beauty of this album, the whole CD draws you in... Not just an individual song... The whole CD begs to be listened to again, as opposed to an individual song.

Not to get me wrong, the all of the songs on the CD are good... if not great.

Personally, I enjoyed Medicating, Composing, and Dying the most out of all of the individual songs.

Dying is one of if not the most haunting song the band has ever put out.

I would not recommend this CD to anybody who is just looking for a CD to pop into their CD play and mindlessly rock out. This album will be favorites of those who listen for lyrics as well as rock, and the story will consume those who really enjoy lyrics, songwriting, or writing in general.

Typically, I would name each track as part of my review and say something about each song. That would be pointless with this CD since all the songs are supposed to sound somewhat similar in their message and what not. Anyways, when I first bought this CD, I got it really cheap purely off of my friend telling me that Boys Night Out's new album was supposed to sound like JamisonParker's "Sleepwalker" (a great album). I listened to it on the way home and didn't pick up that it was a concept album. The songs didn't make all that much sense and the line "These lines I wear around my wrist are there to prove that I exist" really made me mad. I got home, read the lyrics, listened to the first track all the way through, and realized that it was a concept album. However, the story was rather disturbing, and I didn't find the music good enough to bypass the story, so I put it right in my pile to get rid of.

Later that night, I thought about it and decided to take a second listen. It was much better the second time around (although I didn't listen to all of it). This listen gave the CD another chance. Only recently did I listen to the CD in one sitting and let the story absorb me. That made the CD over 10X better! Although this story is disturbing, it is redemptive at the end.

This album chronicles a man who accidentally strangles his wife to death in his sleep, while dreaming of much happier things. He awakens to find his wife dead and calls 911. He is then trying to fully grasp what he has done before being placed in a mental institution. After convincing the doctor to let him out, I believe he chops his hands off with some machinery at work (I'm leaning towards that, but not entirely sure). He is then readmitted only to be released again. He kills some more in this song that the medicine is giving him, only this time, dismembering his victims. He is let in one last time. He hears his wife twice in his stays in the hospital, and she tries to convince him that the only way to finish the song is to kill the doctor. In the end, the doctor goes to the patient's apartment, only to find his wound's infection worse, and that he had starved himself to the brink of death. The doctor takes responsibility for this event because he gave the patient the medicine and says that he failed the patient. The patient, while in this stage of starving himself and letting himself die, realizes that he is the "trainwreck" and realizes the evil of what he has done. This is why he lets himself die, and lets the song keep playing. He spares the doctor's life and instead, lets his own end.

A disturbing, yet also somewhat emotional and moving story. I think that is how it goes...I could be wrong, but that's what I understood it as. The end leaves you depressed, but hopeful in man's ability to overcome even the most hellish experiences in life. I highly recommend it, even though I don't delve very far into this genre of music.

alright, i have been a huge bno fan even before make yourself sick came out. that album was by far, a great achievement. when i heard that they had a new album coming out, i was extremely excited. as soon as new songs went up on purevolume, i was listening, but i wasn't too impressed. i decided to buy the cd on it's release day anyhow. after a first listen, i was going to give it a 3 out of 5, it was ok in my opinion....not great. i gave it another listen yesterday morning, and found a few more things i liked. it got moved up to a 4. well then i took a trip to NY and took the cd with me. i played it a few times and finally realized how amazing and catchy this cd is. i think i listened to it about 14 times yesterday. i couldn't get enough. i even love the intro track.

alright....here's a quick rundown. trainwreck is a concept album, but unlike most concept albums, this one is easy to understand, and it's a great story from beginning to end.

story: a man wakes up to find that he killed his wife in his sleep. he get's sentenced to a psychiatric hospital and talks the doctor into letting him out. he goes to work and slits his wrists on a saw.....goes back into the hospital. he gets let out again and poisons his friends and family....so then he overdoses on medicine and alcohol, and the doctor goes to his house and finds him almost dead on the living room floor, but it's weird because he's singing.....then he dies.

yeah, i know....it's crazy, but that is a trademark of boysnightout.

for those of you who havent heard any new bno, it is artistic, but it's done very well, unlike some bands that decide to be artistic and fail miserably. plus there is only one guitar player on this album, which you will be able to tell after listening, but bno still brings a strong record to the table.

it may take a few listens, but after a while, the choruses will be stuck in your head and you will see how good this cd really is.

favorite tracks: waking, sentencing, recovering, disintegrating.

1. In some strange way this album reminds me of dark side of the moon by pink floyd. the rolling ups and downs in the songs and on the album as a whole.
2. they're serious about this - great songs, great muscianship and great artwork.
3. the album is dark and evil is cool.

"Trainwreck," the newest album from Boys Night Out, is far from being a musical trainwreck of any sort. The band's latest work of art expresses and is solely dependent and based upon human emotion. Each nook and cranny contains traces of insanity, loneliness, the desperation of love, betrayal, and lastly, death - all combined into a twelve track masterpiece. Through the use of these twelve tracks, "Trainwreck" tells the devastating story of the insanity adn disintegration of a man, The Patient.

Throughout the entire album, passion adn emotion overflows from each song. Lead singer, Connor Lovat-Fraser's vocals are superb, moving, and extremely awe-inspiring. From insanity, to loneliness, to unbearable despair, Lovat-Fraser conveys each emotion flawlessly. His voice and expression paints a detailed masterpiece that allows listeners to be a part of the grim story.

"Picture yourself in a nightmarish scene of such grotesque complexity that you'd kill to be dreaming." Describing the dreadful outcome of The Patient, Connor Lovat-Fraser's voice eerily rings out at the beginning of the final track of the album. After listening starought through the 53 minute compilation of intense emotion and after experiencing the tragedy the the story contains, one would definitely agree with such a description. For some, an album based upon such a concept may be frowned upon and considered overly abnormal. On the other hand, some are able to muster at least some amount of appreciation for the expression of such a raw display of human misfortune. Yet, lastly, there are those - the elite - that, too, declare "Trainwreck" to be morbid and devastating. However, the only difference with this group is that they also find the album and it's overall aura to be moving and strikingly beautiful.

Now don't get me wrong, there is still some screaming in this record, but not as much as their previous 2 releases. I'm sure everyone who's heard about this record knows by now that it's a concept album so I won't go into that. If people complain about concept albums it's that all the lyrics are slightly about the same thing, well that is kinda the point since it is trying to tell a story. The break down in 'Recovering' is worth buying the album alone. Boys Night Out has always been at their best when they were at their poppiest. That's not saying this is a pop-punk album but they are venturing into the indie rock realm. After MYSS, BNO were limited to the hardcore/emo/screamo scene and with Train Wreck they have broken their own mold and now the sky is the limit as to where they can expand their sound to.

...thats why all the songs have similar themes, its a story. i dont really know how i feel about concept albums, but this is definitely one of the better ones.

favorite tracks:
relapsing
recovering
medicating

this is the sophmore album from the canadian band, boysnightout and they survived. this album is alot more diverse than their first by straying away from the cliche screamo sound into a more broader, mature sound. no doubt, this is boysnightout but just more mature. similiar to brand new's "deja entendu", this is one of those albums you can get lost in and take you on an emotional ride. as everyone knows this is a concept album about a man who kills his wife in his sleep and then the story goes from there and is quite a disturbing one. i won't go into detail, you'll have to listen to it and create your own version of what's goin on. all in all, this is solid album that sounds similiar to their first but with a "bigger" sound and a minimum amount of screaming. i suggest if you're huge fan of the first, download some of this stuff first and go from there.

This CD at first didn't impress me as much as make yourself sick did. However, once I realized that the whole CD tells one continuous story (not as easy as you think when the songs are shuffled on an iPod) everything comes together. The disc means so much more. The lyrics aren't always obvious, and you're constantly discovering new parts to the story you didn't notice the first time round. Listening to the doctor speak at the beginning and end of the disc also sheds a more obvious light on the sometimes abstract ramblings of the patient. All in all, well worth the $10 I got the disc for at warped. It's worth it for anyone picking it up here too, just make sure you give it more than one listen before you judge.