My two cents on HIM music and releases
Hey sweeties. Since things have been going pretty slow lately and I’m getting depressed because of the lack of HIM related news (and everlong absence of Ville), I wanted to share with you some more joyful stuff such as what I think about every HIM era and what my HIM journey has been like. Please feel free to comment and give feedback on that ( Read more... )
gls: solid album that defined what HIM was about, even if a little too dramatic.
rr: most overrated album of them all. it's good, catchy and Billy Idol-y, but there's something missing and i cannot believe so many people want them to go back to this sound. the ratio of good songs/bad songs is the worst of all albums.
ds&bh: an experiment that went wrong, imho. still good but i feel like i should smoke a bong before listening to it to fully appreciate it.
lm: masterpiece. everything HIM's about in 11 songs. everything from the first album to sw can be heard in it.
dl: the songs from alsn sound very similar to dl, so they're included. it's the sound of a grown-up band. they finally found their niche and the right balance between the seriousness and cheesiness with the bonus of the best lyrics yet. not for a second do i buy into the "sold out" bs everyone talks about, because it seems so ridiculous that a band that puts nothing but blood, sweat and tears into the music would suddenly, five albums in, just go "well, fuck it, let's appeal to the us fans". not to mention that, though it's the biggest selling album, there's nothing sol out-ish about it, if you look at the big picture.
and i will never understand why dark light is so hated while ds&bh is seen as such an underrated album.
vd: another masterpiece, no complaints about it whatsoever, other than it being too depressing because of Ville's problems at the time.
sw: consistent album, and definitely an upgrade as far as lyrics are concerned, and the classic rock lover in my has already chosen disarm me as one of their best songs ever, but HIM belongs in darker shades of black, to paraphrase Ville. i don't listen to HIM to dance my troubles away, let's put it that way.
heh, this was fun.
oh, and it's "let the planchette in the shape of a heart glide to oui" on acoustic funeral. :)
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Anyway I don't "dislike" Dark Light because I think HIM sold itself to the US, but rather because the american sound makes the band lose all its appeal to me. Here in Canada the only thing we're fed with nowadays is music from the US or sellout wannabes that try to sound American. So that's why I'm not too fond of that, it's not catchy enough for my taste. Even Screamworks which was meant to sound american didn't irritate me for that matter. And as far as DSABH goes, I think it doesn't have to do with how typical of a HIM sound it has or hasn't, but rather that I like many songs from it a lot. I've never found anything similar to it and I've been pleased with the uniqueness of the songs compared to what I've heard before.
Oh and really, "let the planchette in the shape of a heart glide to oui"?? How HILARIOUS, I'm a native french speaker and I never heard that verse like such XD I'm pretty sure you're right though, I've listened to it again and it makes complete sense. Gosh I wonder if Ville meant anything by it. Honestly it doesn't make any sense to plug these french words in an already pretty metaphoric line... :S Just out of curiosity, where did you learn that? The verse I mean? I don't have the cd so I never read the actual lyrics anywhere besides on the internet.
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i completely understand about the american sound, though, it's definitely less appealing if all you're fed with on the radio and such are over-produced american-sounding bands.
well, ds&bh is definitely unique, i'll give you that. :p
i think Ville was just trying to rhyme "oui" with "real"? not that it actually rhymes, but i guess it's closer than "yes" lol
the lyrics came on the booklet of the album.
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Hum yeah I guess it rhymes... sort of.. ;) Ah he's so cute trying to say french words in his songs. I wonder if he just looks them up online or something, or if he knows bits and pieces from what he learned at school. Hum I guess he'd be more familiar with Swedish than french then... Whatever I'd die of laughter if I ever got the chance to tell Ville some french stuff with my heavy Quebecois accent. I'd be really curious to know if he thinks it sounds like porn, like he said about the German language XD
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oh it's Ville's Simmons board that you have here with the david star and the swastika......... though he said it was from the swastika novelty company (maybe his other one is) *shrugs*
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I'd really love to see an old one but it's not "fashionable" in France... sob.
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