Sing the Sorrow [EXTRA TRACKS] [IMPORT]

A.F.I.

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 11, 2003)
• Original Release Date: March 11, 2003
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Extra tracks, Import
• Label: Universal International
• ASIN: B00008MJ3H
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (33 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #60,372 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Track Listings

1. Miseria Cantare - The Beginning

2. Leaving Song, Pt. 2

3. Bleed Black

4. Silver and Cold

5. Dancing Through Sunday

6. Girl's Not Grey

7. Death of Seasons

8. Great Disappointment

9. Paper Airplanes (Makeshift Wings)

10. This Celluloid Dream

11. Leaving Song

12. ...But Home Is Nowhere

13. Synthesthesia [*]

14. Now the World [*]

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

Their debut album from Dreamworks includes two bonus tracks: "Now The World" and "Synthesthesia".

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

30 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars just buy the regular CD, June 5, 2003

By	hex "electronics whiz" (Denton, TX USA) - See all my reviews

This CD is one of the best I've heard in a long time, but don't buy this version, just buy the regular CD. This one cost ...more just for two bonus songs. Guess what? If you buy the regular CD and pop it into your computer, you get taken to a secret site where you can download both "bonus" songs. Pretty groovy, eh?

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars AFIs Newest Album, March 7, 2004

By	Death Bringer "chyldoffilth" (Kelso, WA) - See all my reviews

Sing the Sorrow is an album much debated amongsts the AFI so called "Fans" as a sellout cd. Well, this album isn't a sellout cd, it's just playable proof that a band can and will mature throughout their years, and attempt at making something thats down to earth and real, instead of kiddy and fun. Based off listening to this album, (I have the original Red and Black cover release, not the Black and White cover one) I have come to the conclusion that one, no, this is not their best cd, but two, this is not their worst either. Yet, I still gave it 5 stars, you wonder why that is? I gave it 5 stars because the subject mannor on this album, sound on this album, and all around improvement of the band clearly shows. They went from singing about Key Lime Pie and Cereal, to subjects that actually apply to the human race, that in itself, shows major improvement.
The cd itself is based (in my opinion) souly around melody, and synthesizers, but that's ok, they're trying something new. But, ofcourse, if youre anti-melody, or anti-morbid lyrics, you aren't going to like this.
I myself have never popped my cd into my computer and acceessed their secret site to download the bonus tracks, instead I just went on Kazaa and downloaded them manually and burnt them onto a duplicated Sing the Sorrow disc, along with the song "Reviers Music" which is another song scrapped from this album. And I will say..."Now the World" is definently worth the price of this cd, ten fold. The song is simply beautiful, and deserved to be on the original release, and in my opinion, it's their best new song on the album (and or not on the album) other than "Death of Seasons", and "The Great Dissappointment." Those 3 songs sum up (to me) the best of this cd, and neither of which are any of their singles.
Anyone who says AFI sold out with this cd needs to get their sh*t straight, because theirs a difference between selling out, and majorly maturing as a band. AFI could have easily sounded the same and re-done "Art of Drowning" with completely new songs, and the same sound. But why would I buy it? I don't listen to AFI praying that they'll always sound the same, infact as another reviewer had said, AFI have always used their morbid lyrics, it shows quite well in "Black Sails in the Sunset" and "Art of Drowning." Yet, fans want to start complaining NOW?! HAHA that's kind of stupid, fans wait 3 years to complain about something that's been aparently showing for the same 3 years.
If you're an openminded AFI fan like myself, you'll realize that they simply got better, and have improved if not musically, then lyrically. And infact that they didn't get softer, their fans just got harder. If a fan can't accept change and maturity in a band that the fan claims to be a "hardcore fan" of, then disband from the groups fan-scene, you don't deserve to be called a fan, because a band matures and gets better. So Shut Your Mouth and Open Your Eyes, and Sing the Sorrow. Or, go listen to bands that never ever change like NOFX and hop on the waggons of "I can't stand change, so i'm gonna ride this because it's boring and never matures or changes it's sound."
All in all, true AFI fans will appreciate this album, despite its very aparent fact that Davey and crew, have matured, and decided to take a slightly different route, musically.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars THIS IS THE VERSION TO GET!!!, November 22, 2004

By	campboy83 (Virginia Beach, VA United States) - See all my reviews

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OK, if you clicked on this import version by accident, this is your lucky day, because this is the ULTIMATE version of "Sing The Sorrow". If you've already got the US version (like I did), then this is worth an additional purchase. First reason: you may have already spun the grooves off your first cd, especially if you enjoyed it as much as I did, so a replacement is in need. Second reason: oh, just a couple of OUTSTANDING bonus tracks as good or better that the rest of the cd!!
Now, I will tell you up front, that I do buy a lot of import cd's , and I'm disappointed 90% of the time with the "bonus" tracks, because they're usually throwaway songs that weren't good enough to make the final cut. Well....AFI must have sandbagged these 2 songs because they fit right in with the rest of the cd, and help make it one of the BEST ROCK CD'S OF ALL TIME..period. I would GET THIS NOW before it goes out of print. You won't regret it.