Disclaimer

by

Seether

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I love Seether, including their original work from South Africa before they moved to America. This band, originally from South Africa under the name Saron Gas is incredible. They formed in 1999 and this is their second album, the first was called Fragile and sadly is not available in the United States. (South African release)Yes, Shaun Morgan's voice can have a tendency to sound like Kurt Cobaine, and/or Aaron Lewis but I found it easy to distinguish between Shaun and others. And btw, this band doesn't sound like Creed as many people think. I would recommend this cd to anyone who enjoys good rock music. The cd is so varied it suits nearly everyone's tastes. Disclaimer is a fantastic CD. If you'd like a break down of the music on the cd continue reading otherwise SKIP TO THE END. Where I left a way to find more info on Seether's South African album.

The entire album of Disclaimer is broken into many different types of music:

Pride, Needles, FXXK IT, and Your Bore are all full of rage

69 Tea, Pig, and Gasoline all have grunge elements

Fine Again and Driven Under stand alone, it is not because they were released on the radio, it is merely coincidence.

Sympathetic, Fade Away, and Broken are very calm beats, so calm that it would surprise most people to know that the same band sings both Pride and Sympathetic.

The first song, Gasoline has a grunge element to it, it is a great song.

69 Tea has a similar riff to Gasoline but it's easy to tell the songs apart when listening to the lyrics.

Fine Again, the song I heard on the radio which made me fall in love with Seether is a great song, although it can be seen as depressing music when listening to the lyrics.

Needles starts off with great drums, it is a very hard rock song that I do indeed love but it's a hard song to explain.

Driven Under is by far my favorite song on the entire CD, I fell in love with this song before it ever debuted on the radio. "Do you know I'm faking when I'm lying next to you?" The song has wonderful instruments in the background and at the start of the song it sounds like what can be described only as harp music. Eventually the song turns into a rock song with the chorus "Then she told me she had a gun"

Pride is a song that is full of pain and rage and really doesn't fit after the harmonious ending of Driven Under, however it is still an excellent song to listen to, especially when you're in an angry mood.

Sympathetic is a very light song, with an upbeat tempo. It is a nice recovery after the brutality of Pride. It is similar to the 9th song on the track, Fade Away, in it's tempo. Yet both songs can be distinguished from one another.

Your Bore is a good song, again filled with anger and pain. The way the tracks on the album are arranged gives you the sensation of a musical roller coaster ride, from sadness, to anger, to acceptance.

Fade Away is one of the truly "happy", songs on the album, however just because most of the songs on Disclaimer seem to be negative this doesn't mean that they're by any means of poor quality.

Pig is a song similar to Gasoline and 69 Tea with it's element of grunge embedded within it. All 3 songs however are very different when you listen to the rhythm and lyrics.

FXXk It is a song similar to Pride in the tempo and rage of the song. This song seems to be the result of a messed up relationship. This is my least favorite song on the album, but that's not saying much since I love every song on the album.

Broken, is the final song on Disclaimer. This soft and slow melody is practically a whisper compared to the previous FXXk It.It sounds as though Shaun is heart broken over a love that he has lost touch with. "I don't feel light when you're gone away." It's a very mellow song that you could probably play in front of your parents and they'd ask you to burn it for them. (Mine did, lol)

I was happy that I bought this CD. It is not a cd that I buy, listen to once, then never listen to again, it is one of the few CDs that I can listen to repetitively and enjoy. I was so pleased with their music I did some research and found more songs they have released before and after Disclaimer.

Look online for these songs also by Seether/Saron Gas

Take Me Away,

Tied My Hands

Skin The Tiger

Senseless Tragedy

Dazed and Abused

Love Her

Stay and Play

Outta My Way (Freddy Vs Jason Soundtrack)

Hang On (Dare Devil Soundtrack)

Empty

Beer

(some of these songs are extremely hard to find but most of them are just as good)

I bought this CD because of the single "Fine Again," which is a really good, catchy, depressing song about alcoholism. I have to admit, my expectations weren't extremely high for this CD. I pretty much knew it was going to be another new-millennium grunge CD and that's exactly what it is. Seether really aren't covering any ground that bands like Staind or Creed haven't covered already, but they still have a good sound that makes this CD easy to listen to. My major complaint about this CD, like most of it's kind, is that pretty much all of the songs sound the same. There really isn't much to break the monotony. There are the standard "heavy" moments and the mellow moments. The CD pretty much chugs along at the same pace and is rounded out nicely by the acoustic closer, "Broken." Standout tracks: "Gasoline," "Broken" and "Fine Again." Do I recommend this? Sure. It's nothing new to mainstream rock, but there really isn't too much to fault Seether on. They're not trying to change the world.