David Comes To Life

David Comes To Life is a punk rock opera by Fucked Up. A story about love, a bombing and that messes with the fourth wall of the story. The energetic music and performance create a fabulous album. The contrast between the tense vocals of the male singer and the female vocals are top notch. It is a long album, but it has a story to tell and that takes time. Great submission!

Look, I can understand some of the criticisms of this record: its length, the vocals might not be your thing… …but have you listened to “Turn the Season”? It’s a perfect song. No notes. One of my favorite songs of all time. If that song doesn’t make you feel alive, doesn’t get your head bangin’…man, I feel for you. Plus, this is an amazing guitar record. Big hooks, lots of layered parts and interesting interplay. It’s worth listening to this record attentively.

There's a sheer contrast between cleanly played punk music and the screaming vocals, but somehow it first well together.

At first when I saw this album from a group called "Fucked Up" from Toronto I thought this was the band I saw at the Bumbershoot music festival in 2009. That performance made a big impression on me. As I listened, though, it didn't seem right so I started digging around and then came to the realization that I had seen the Toronto based "Holy Fuck" band. Oops. Despite this confusion they are significantly different although both are something I'd recommend you listen to before you die. I love the juxtaposition of the female vs. male vocals of this band. And while they are a hardcore band darn if they don't make some pretty catchy hardcore tunes. I love the idea of this concept record and am glad to have made its acquaintance!

Rating: 8/10 Best songs: The other shoe, Serve me right, I was there, The recursive girl

Musically straightforward but well done, feeling more on the rock side of the spectrum to me. The primary vocal is doing the heavy lifting on the hardcore identification of this, which is a problem because I was really not up for a solid hour plus of that singing style. The additional vocalists were a welcome respite from all the growl-hollering but not enough of one. Try as I might I couldn't extract any of the narrative I read about this album having on Wiki or much of the lyrics generally.

Way too long

The music is alright, but I just can't with the singing. I don't understand the appeal. A little bit of shouting/growling/whatever you want to call it is okay, but as a general style of singing it just wears on me. 2.5 stars, rounding to 3.

Very screamy but kind of cool

Pretty dope

Wasn’t sure what to make of a band called fucked up, but this is very impressive and tight hardcore music. My only gripe would be the album is too long for my personal preference.

"Mom, I'm going to the Fucked Up concert! Love you!" I like the concept-album aspect of it and the musicality is really good. But the band name is stupid and the 77 minutes of screaming gets to you.

Not good

Serve Me Right // 2.5/5

This didn't have much in the way of redeeming qualities. Competent playing, otherwise derivative and boring.

This man doesn't appear to be in a very swell mood.

music isn't bad, there's just too much screaming

I'm not entirely sure what happened when I listened to this. I was on a moderate hike - about an hour and a half or so - and therefore easily should have had time to finish this. However, after about an hour or so I found myself thinking how samey everything was. I checked the playlist, and sure enough I discover that I'm listening to track 3. I guess this potential for confusion may stem from the one-trick nature of the vocals, which would be absolutely fine in a punk album lasting 25-35 minutes. He sounds very much like Warner Brothers' Tasmanian Devil. Again, not really an issue would that it were less than an hour 17 of it. Overall, way too samey, you can have too much of an alright thing.

I listened to this but honestly do not recall it