So I got around to buying The Classic Crime “The Silver Chord” last night and I am listening to it now. This cd is simply amazing, epic in nature. This is quite possibly one of the best releases of 2008 right up there next to My Epic and Children 18:3 (as far as Christian related artists go). It is quite an entertaining listen from start to finish. The singer’s voice is so emotive and captures your attention with every sung vocal. If any band deserves to be on the radio as the next big star, it is certainly The Classic Crime. Go buy The Silver Chord today. Now I’m going to go buy some stuff off of Itunes right now like Chandelle, Kessler, Finch, Alakrity, etc. Bye!
The Classic Crime “The Silver Chord” Is Actually Good
Posted by Brandon on August-2-2008 | Filed under News | Bookmark or Share 
21 Responses
| 03/13/2010 10:41 am | News
Loading ...
Above The Golden State 
FFH 
Newworldson 
Wrench in the Works 
The Great Escape 
Memphis May Fire 
Face Your Giants 
Day Of My Escape 
Red Morning Voyage 
The Gun Show 
Not One Is Upright 
Sovereign Strength 
A Wayward Heart 
Divide the Sea 
Lybecker 
Meet Brett Callaway (Guitars & Vocals) of Close Your Eyes
Meet Sovereign Strength
Meet Moshe Dayan
We Came As Romans
Sean Patrick Rhorer, Director of A & R at Blood & Ink Records
This Armistice
Leroy Hamp of War of Ages
Creations
Mattie Montgomery of For Today
Vasely Sapunov of Saving Grace
The Fold
Aaron Sprinkle of Fair
Floodgates
Ryan Clark of Demon Hunter
Carlos Salazar of Before There Was Rosalyn
Laz from ALLORNOTHING
Chadwick Johnson of Hundredth
Ben Crist of The Glorious Unseen
Sons of God
it’s ok i guess. some of the songs are just down right easy to right, like 5805 and the way that you are. i really like the riff ripped from some horror movie in the bridge of medisin though.
I listen to a lot of music and this is far more than just “Okay”.
I also bought the new album from Alive in Wild Paint and it’s incredible.
Medisin, God and Drugs, Salt in the snow, 5805, plus the singles; this is an awesome album. Still don’t understand “Everything” tho…
“The Classic Crime “The Silver Chord” Is Actually Good”? Like that’s a surprise or what, did you not like Albatross?
“The Beginning” is my favorite song, but I like almost all of them. A lot of songs I hear these days are easy to write, but they’re still good. And since I didn’t write them, I also wouldn’t say they’re easy to write since I didn’t do it.
Colt, what are you hinting at about “Everything”?
The lyrics are kind of confusing. I just can’t decide if he is having an affair, or if “suck your sweet poison” is referring to his wife. If it is adultery of some kind, then there is no resolution at all. Seems a little strange for a major-keyed, upbeat number.
And if you haven’t bought the album, don’t let this^^^ stop you. It really is amazing.
I can understand if he wants to suck his wife’s sweetness. But…poison? It’s poison? :?
yeah a lot of songs are easy to write these days and still sound good, but some of these songs are… beyond “easy” to write. SOME of the chorus melodies are just plain juvenile, with lack of a better word to describe it. it’s beyond “easy to write.”
loved this album. I’d say the lyrical ambiguity of “Everything” (I think it’s talking about his wife -can’t explain the poison line though-) makes that song the weak point of the album, but apart from that one blemish, the album spreads its albatross-sized wings from “The End” to “The Beginning.”
i never understand the whole “it is easy to write and therefore not enjoyable” concept.
Yeah who cares if some little person critic thinks the song is “Easy to write”. Does that make it not enjoyable to the rest of us? No, of course not. While I believe their songs are not just simple rock songs, the ones that are still definitely interest me. If it’s got a good hook and I can sing along with it, then it’s fine in my book.
Colt, the songwriter (Matt) of the song “Everything” divulges what the song is about in this interview found here.
Here’s the excerpt:
My 2 cents? Great melody to the song, but he should have listened to the other guys and left it off the album.
yay. I am glad to know that “Everything” is about his wife (pretty much what I expected). but “poison?” Come on… That kind of relationship is not only allowed, but planned and encouraged by God. No offense, Matt; I still love your music.
yeah, if you listen to “Drink in my Hand” off Seattle Sessions, then “Everything,” you can see the similarities in how he speaks to/ off the woman. (Being on the road, telephone calls, deep personal relationship- in “everything” it’s hinted or mentioned)
This song is great for the bedroom, but not as good on this album. It’s the one part I always mention when I recommend it. This album’s great but…
i dont have the record yet, but this is why i love itunes(not the store, the app)and the ipod. i can just click the check box off and boom i don’t have to listen to a song i don’t want to :D its like hitting the skip button once and it does it forever (or shorter if preferred).
Who cares if he is singing a song about his wife’s body. If I were in a band I’d do the same thing because I love my wife. :)
It’s great he loves his wife’s body, I’m not knocking that at all. I just don’t think it should be ambiguously worded on a cd marketed to (mostly) teens and young adults, that’s all.
Just read the Songs of Songs/Song of Solomon. (It’s in the Bible folks)
people really need to stop getting so bent out of shape about one song about the guy’s wife.
Nah, I understand where mostly everyone’s coming from. I mean, it’s like Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes doing a sex scene in a movie…just because they’re married, does it make it okay? I know that’s extreme, and I’m not implying that it was exactly “wrong” for him to do this. It was necessarily explicit, so it shouldn’t be TOO big of a deal.
And anyway, Emery wrote a song about their condom breaking while having sex with a coworker on “I’m Only a Man”. How much worse can you get than that? xD
Now that interview at JFH is really good read. Yep. I wish some of the stuff said would really sink in…