Chiodos: All's Well That Ends Well

Chiodos front Cover Alls Well that Ends Well (Deluxe Edition, 2006)

Chiodos Front Cover Alls Well that Ends Well (2005)

"If you did a research on this band, as well on this album, one thing for sure that the word AWESOME is in relevance."

In the year 2005, I was a third year high school student, striving to learn some things. One thing I didn't miss is the silent participation in music. After school, After Study time, I would open up the t.v. tuning on the music channel. If i can turn back time, I would have gone to the internet, searched for this band, listen to its album, download etc.

There are quite some things, I have learned, IF I only sticked to the local music channel or to my usual routine in the maintream phenomenon, I can't view, discover other good bands, that has already fitted/trying to surpassed my taste in music. To tell you the truth, I discovered Chidos around 2007, when i was a freshman in college,(thanks a lot forgotten chat mate on yahoo messenger, who introduced/pimped me with this band, who happens to be a MCR hater..LOL). I mistakenly named this band as Chiodice, in a unknown/unusual cause of my state STM or short term memory.

So enough chit-chat, let's begin this review!

The following list are the tracks from the album. I have added my own personal comments,.:)

Track List:

1. "Prelude" – Kinda serene, in a beach, island, sound effect.Nice one, for an intro.:)
2. "All Nereids Beware" – Love the Bass lines in the beginning .:)
3. "One Day Women Will All Become Monsters" – I CRIED ON THIS SONG..REALLY
4. "Expired in Goreville" – "you cured me of my foolish obsession with love'
   i'll love you until my last breath takes you from me" The ending was magnificent.
   
5. "Baby, You Wouldn’t Last A Minute on the Creek" – LISTEN. GET HOOKED. and awesome music Video.
6. "The Words 'Best Friend' Become Redefined" – Not that much, but near for an LSS
7. "Interlude, Pt. 1" – ..AWESOME!
8. "There's No Penguins in Alaska" – SHE LOVES ME, SHE LOVES ME NOT!.
9. "Interlude, Pt. 2" – "..AWESOME!
10. "We’re Gonna Have Us a Champagne Jam" – "Hoping Words could move You"
11. "No Hardcore Dancing in the Living Room" – PLAIN AWESOME!
12. "Who's Sandie Jenkins?" – TERMINAL AWESOME
13. "To Trixie and Reptile, Thanks for Everything-The ending was MAGNIFICENT. AWESOME CHOICE

SOUND: Punk-Pop, Alternative Metal, Emo, Punk Revival. That is why, their sound is unique. They made their own sound, incorporated and never they didn't changed from their material.(unless from their recent album, which is kinda different from this) If a listener wishes to be isolated from a common sound, like if you say "Emo" and bands like Paramore, MCR, etc.. would pop up, I think the sound of Chiodos did surpassed them. Craig Owens(vocalist) had a sweet voice, which I think. He is the face of this band.

Lyrics and Singing: As stated above, Craig Owen's voice had a sweets voice, it only pertains this album really qualify for any music pimping folks out there. The lyrics is solemnly close related to William Shakespeare's works like King Lear(One Day, Women will all become Monsters) Assertion of lines such from the track There's No Penguins In Alaska" is made up from a number of Shakespeare's sonnets. The chorus comes from line 5 of Shakespeare's Fifth, the term "murderous shame" is borrowed from line 14 of his Ninth, and the lyrics "The worst was this; my love was my decay" are taken from line 14 of his Eightieth. The line "star-crossed lovers" from the song "Expired In Goreville" is derived from William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and n the song, "All Nereids Beware", the opening line "This spring of love resembles the uncertain glory of an April day" is a modern adaptation of a line said by Proteus in the Shakespearean play The Two Gentlemen of Verona.

Impression: In my own opinion, the album is a majestic entity with whom it denotes, BAD ASS awesomeness. and who could agree with me? If you did a research on this band, as well on this album, one thing for sure that the word AWESOME is in relevance. The tracks from the album that i highly recommend to listen to, is All Nereids Beware, Expired in Goreville, One Day Women will All Become Monsters, Baby, You Wouldn’t Last a Minute on the Creek,There's No Penguins in Alaska and We’re Gonna Have Us a Champagne Jam. Highly Recommended!

So go ahead now, try to download/buy this cd or just listen in the net, you won't be disappointed.