Silverchair is Australia's most successful rock band with worldwide sales in excess of 6 million. Diorama is already being hailed as their finest work yet. Featuring the single The Greatest View. The album was co-produced by Dave Botrill (Tool, Peter Gabriel) with Daniel Johns. This limited edition includes, Full Color Booklet, Slip-over case + a 10 minute CD-ROM featuring never seen before footage & interviews.
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Diorama
Silverchair Manufacturer: Atlantic / Wea ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00006916I Release Date: 2002-08-27 |
Tracks:
- Across the Night
- The Greatest View
- Without You
- World Upon Your Shoulders
- One Way Mule
- Tuna in the Brine
- Too Much Of Not Enough
- Luv Your Life
- Lever
- My Favorite Thing
- After All These Years
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The early word was that Silverchair--who at one time could have adopted the hip-hop moniker Lil' Nirvana--on their long-awaited fourth album had morphed into the antipodean Radiohead. But that's a bit of a stretch. Diorama, the band's first release in three years, instead finds the Australian trio shedding the hollow teen angst and beefy riffs of its earlier records in favor of epic melodies, meaningful lyrics, and a markedly more refined sound. The results are staggering. Featuring an orchestra section arranged by Van Dyke Parks, "The Greatest View" is a sweeping and soulful anthem. "World upon Your Shoulders" is a Guns 'N' Roses-caliber power ballad--and that's no bad thing, either. And "Without You" exhibits a determined, gripping delicacy not seen since, well, the last Radiohead album. Another giant leap forward. --Aidin VaziriAlbum Description
2002 album including 'Across The Night', 'The Greatest View', 'Without You', 'Tuna In The Brine' and After All These Years' (includes the hidden track 'Outro'). This is an enhanced CD including the bonus short film 'The Making Of Diorama'.Customer Reviews:
Diorama.......2007-06-27
Thoroughly Well Done.......2007-06-13
Intricate orchestration, fantastic chord progressions, an apparently new style of songwriting/composition, with intricate melodies and harmonies, and the angelic vocals of Daniel Johns, come together with pristine mixing and production, culminating in a totally cohesive, outside the box journey through possibilities in music. Diorama is easy enough on today's ears that any layman should enjoy it thoroughly, yet complex enough to tickle the finely tuned senses of any musician. To call it progressive would be inappropriate only as there are already connotations attached to the word. (The album is not progressive compared to, say, Dream Theater's "Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory.") Daniel Johns, singer, guitar player, and songwriter, has described the album as "escapist," adding that he wanted to take the listener out of his/her world and into the colorful realms you will find in this album.
Johns' lyrics, generally simple and straightforward earlier in his career, have come to the point of poetry and intriguing riddles.
Tracks to hit:
"Across the Night", "Tuna in the Brine", and "After All These Years" are the most intricate and wonderful, followed by "My Favourite Thing" and "Luv Your Life."
Track reviews:
1. Across the Night
A sweeping two-part epic, in which Johns sings of his coming to peace/falling in love with the world which for so long seemed only to haunt and hurt him. Beginning with a nice harpsichord and vocal intro, the orchestra comes in with a bang and away we go, escaping into a "world within a world" (Johns' definition of diorama). In the glorious second part of the song, Johns perhaps expresses his feelings about being in a serious relationship.
2. The Greatest View
The first single of the album, melodic and relatively simple, a pleasant rock ballad.
3. Without You
Rock with poetic imagery, written in three, or six. The Chorus is a straight up rock waltz. A cool song, noteworthy on its own, though in this album, it may be considered a sort of lull, although its bridge is particularly nice.
4. World Upon Your Shoulders
A climbing, sympathetic, and encouraging piece, urging the listener to do what [one] can when one can bring one's self to do it, only put much more nicely. Ye of waning spirit, find an understanding soul reaching through these words! Perhaps this song shows us how Daniel climbed out of his bleak world view into a broader, more loving and accepting state of being.
5. One Way Mule
Dirty, Sexy, Gravel-voiced, Heavy, Slow, Sweaty. Hot. Good work. (Swoon)
6. Tuna in the Brine
Wonderfully, intricately, articulately orchestrated, this aquamarine epic dares to explore the dark, briny depths of addiction, deception, and fear. Sunlight trickles in through the surface from time to time, but we are definitely underwater here. This wonderful piece turns the listener around so many times with unexpected, disorienting, sophistocated changes that both chill and delight, putting shivers to the bone and goosebumps upon the flesh, that, pummelled by the crashing waves, we find ourselves near ocean floor, amongst the kelp, floating upright, captivated by bubbles rising, so deep that it may be difficult to tell which way is up; mercifully, Johns, Gillies, Joannou, Mac, and Parks guide us back through the murky, benthic depths to the sunlit surface; the build toward the climax a gulp of fresh air, but in the end, we are not off the hook...Johns leaves us with a haunted warning, and we are left floating...
7. Too Much Of Not Enough
A brief guitar intro soothes the unease and washes the palate clean of saltwater. A pleasant, yet burdened beginning builds to a chorus that is one of the hardest on the album. Lyrics also suggest that addictive behaviour was an inspiration for the song. Ends hauntingly.
8. Luv Your Life
One of the (Australian) radio favorites of the album, beautiful, charming. ('Doot Doot's even!) Lots of beauty between vocal harmonies and orchestra. More insightful than ever, words take us deeper into ourselves, with Johns lighting the way, teaching what he has learned, sharing his perspective. Uplifting, bordering on sappy at times, but if you let it be, this song is really nice. Parks' tasteful composition fills out the sound perfectly. Interlude is simply gorgeous. Tears form as though by command...
9. Lever
Hardest song on the album, and, oddly, the most like S&M orchestrally. Go figure. Gravel-voiced, hard rockin, a throwback to the angry days, perhaps; shows that Silverchair can still paint blacks, reds, and dark purples...when they want to.
10. My Favorite Thing
Way down from 'Lever', we are treated to a midnight lover's lullabye. Soft woodwinds and strings provide beautiful shading for this delicate, resolute, and passionate carress. Symphony, accoustic guitar, winds, strings, piano, and snare support and intertwine while Johns' precise, exceptional vocals complete the kiss. A beautiful, heartfelt song.
11. After All These Years
Piano and vocal, then orchestra. This is probably the most touching song on the whole album. Gentle, reflective, and reassuring, this gorgeous piece feels like it could have been written hundreds of years ago. In this arrangement, Daniel is both soloist and choir of angels. This is also by far the longest track on the album, but most of it is silence...bonus, a curious piano exploration awaits the patient (or those who fast forward), and takes us out of this 'world within a world.'
I can actually say that this album changed my life. huh.
afterthoughts:
Actually, my silverchair fanhood is a strange affair. my little brother bought frogstomp in 95 (6?), and i listened to it a fair amount then. i remember hearing quite a bit of 'abuse me' on the radio a little later, but i pretty much fell off the boat. i remember looking at freakshow at the record store, wanting it, but eventually not buying it. i have since listened to freakshow(2nd) and neon ballroom(3rd), and they are both good albums, showing the progress and growth of the musicians. "Cemetary" off freakshow and "Emotion Sickness" off ballroom seem to me forshadowing for diorama.
At the time I first heard this album, i thought Johns was the composer of all the orchestral parts, and was so thoroughly impressed that i was convinced he would be remembered for centuries as one of the great composers of our time.... which still may be true, but i was very seriously disappointed when i found out about Van Dyke Parks, who did the orchestration.
i had wanted to believe that Johns was truly the mastermind, but i suppose, in a way, he still was, for finding the right people to come together to bring out most completely his vision, even the parts that were relatively obscure/veiled to him.
To this day, the album has had an incredible effect on me as an artist. Certainly, it is some of the best modern music I've heard in my lifetime.
Actually 3.5.......2007-05-19
They can evolve, sure... but at best I feel this album is a step sideways... at best.
Silverchair's Masterpiece.......2007-04-20
I give this album my Highest Recomendation.
A magnificent album .......2007-03-11
Note also : Silverchair have just released their latest CD called Young Modern this month; it is the next one after Diorama.
Diorama scores 5 stars for holding my undivided attention for its entire length and for being simply wonderful. Buy it if you enjoy poetic lyric writing mixed with the sound of a rock band.
Highly recommended by me.
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Her Liquid Arms
ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00005JIIE Release Date: 2002-08-08 |
Tracks:
- Hla
- E Minor
- Advance
- Light
- Times Galore
- Hydro Drugs
- Photo
- Dar Meer
- Wingless
- Beamer
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Amaroid
Diorama Manufacturer: Accession Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B0007Z9PU4 Release Date: 2005-04-04 |
Tracks:
- Locic Friends
- The Girls
- Dear Brother
- Helmets Down
- Friends We Used To Know
- Someone Dies
- Random Starlight
- Prozac Junkies
- Unzerst
- Champagne For All
- Odyssey Into The Vacuum
- I Hear The Drums
- Two Boats
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Diorama
Silverchair Manufacturer: EMI Int'l ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B0000647JJ Release Date: 2002-05-07 |
Tracks:
- Across The Night
- The Greatest View
- Without You
- World Upon Your Shoulders
- One Way Mule
- Tuna In The Brine
- Too Much Of Not Enough
- Luv Your Life
- The Lever
- My Favourite Thing
- After All These Years
Album Description
Silverchair is Australia's most successful rock band with worldwide sales in excess of 6 million. Diorama is already being hailed as their finest work yet. Featuring the single The Greatest View. The album was co-produced by Dave Botrill (Tool, Peter Gabriel) with Daniel Johns. This limited edition includes, Full Color Booklet, Slip-over case + a 10 minute CD-ROM featuring never seen before footage & interviews.Album Details
Australian Hard Rock Group's First Album in Over Three Years. Features a Full Color Slipcase and Includes a 10 Minute CD-ROM with New Footage from the Studio and Interviews.Customer Reviews:
Dio-Drama? - Daniel "i am the ressurection" Johns.......2003-06-03
Bloody Brilliant!.......2003-04-17
This is a band that keeps pushing the envelope of what is possible on a rock album. I remember when Frogstomp was first released thinking that it would be a one off, and this hot new thing would be a flash in the pan. Happily I was very very wrong, and each subsequent album has impressed me more than the last. With Diorama, Daniel's song writing, and the musical talents of he Chris and Ben have all matured brilliantly.
The album is truly an auditory sculpture!
There is no such thing as "going soft", only growing up.......2003-03-22
Besides that, although Freakshow is my personal favorite, and probably why I became such a hard-core fan, I always figured Neon Ballroom was easily their best,and filled with the most honest and meaningful gut wrentching emotions Johns has ever thrown out there. It took alot risking that kind of dramatic change not only in the music, but the honest emotional clashing trauma that Johns was personally going through.
I like to think of Neon Ballroom as one of the greatest albums ever constructed. Not many people like it, besides other hard core fans like me, but I know ALOT of people, hell, probably every teenager that was going through things they couldn't handle has owned this album atleast once during their lifetime, or atleast should. It is the epitamy of life at its weirdest, and darkest times. But in the end, even after the events that were thought unimaginable to overcome..."steam will rise, esteem will rise."
So, after an emotional rollercoaster like Ballroom, I didn't care what kind of music Diorama would be. I just knew it would be excellent. I mean c'mon, why doubt Johns? Rather if its mad, glad, happy,sad, or just plain misunderstood, Johns knows what he's doing. I had (and still have) faith in the man, so Diorama was merely a waiting experience.
...And let me tell you, my GOD, the wait was worth an eternity. Only "brilliance"can explain Diorama. The backing of symphony orchestra, the beautiful riffs, and the all-out light heartedness of the album puts an overglow to everything that silverchair has done in its past. Rather if its the teenage madness of Frogstomp, the rage of Freakshow, the emotional war of Neon Ballroom, Diorama is the garnish-the finishing touch-the RESULT- of "all the troubled times" these three talented gents have been through. Diorama is silverchair evolving...plain and simple. They started out as angry confused teens, now they have matured to an understanding of the world they though they knew...and it aint so bad afterall.
It cant rain all the time.
Diorama is proof. (Kinda makes you think about the "rainbow" colored album cover, eh?)
Album of the year.......2003-02-07
All the songs are strong, amazing, dramatic - full of emotions ( I think that's why I love Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Screaming Trees, AIC etc. so much). With great step forwards by Diorama the band justified they're unbelievably talented young musicians and they're not just grunge clones. From Frogstomp until Diorama is a beautiful timeline to let us make sure they're magnificient. It is so ironic that debut was the great success and being greater and better got them out of mainstream. I can't really imagine I'll be so lucky I get into a concert of them ever, but I hope they come to Vienna at least (it is close to Budapest)to get a chance. I wish Daniel recover completely very soon and join the others in order to conquer the world by a frenetic tour.
YOU MUST BUY IT!!! ...
Their Best Yet.......2002-09-03
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Tomorrow
Manufacturer: Sony Music Australia Limited/Murmur ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000EEGAZQ |
Product Description
This rare Australian import is Silverchair's First professional CD. Produced as a result of winning a contest in Australia! It was a EP that in 1994 reached #1 in Australia, a year before Frogstomp was released. Tommorow has 4 tracks.~~~~ 1. Tomorrow,~ 2. Acid Rain,~ 3. Blind, ~4. Stoned.
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Pale (Re-release)
Diorama Manufacturer: Accession ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00002R31H Release Date: 2006-01-01 |
Tracks:
- Between the Shadow and Me
- Contradictive
- I wait for you
- Leaving Hollywood
- Said but true
- Kain's advice
- Belle?
- Masquerades and faces
- Another queen
- Bring me flowers
- Pale
- Don't be there
- You and ice
- Crop Of Illusions
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Synthesize Me
Diorama Manufacturer: Accession ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000MKYJRS Release Date: 2007-03-26 |
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A Different Life
Diorama Manufacturer: Accession ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000MKYJSM Release Date: 2007-03-26 |
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Diorama Singles Box Set
Manufacturer: Virgin ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B0000793RF Release Date: 2002-12-17 |
Tracks:
- The Greatest View
- Pins In My Needles
- Too Much Of Not Enough
- Without You
- Asylum
- Hollywood
- Ramble
- Luv Your Life
- The Greatest View (Live On Rove)
- Without You (Live On Rove)
- Rove Interview With Daniel Johns (Audio)
- Rove Interview With Daniel Johns (Video)
- After All These Years
- Across The Night (Van Dyke Premix)
- Tuna In The Brine (Van Dyke Premix)
Album Description
This beautiful singles box set is sure to please anybody who listens to Silverchair. This 2002 compilation features the singles, 'The Greatest View', 'Without You', 'Luv Your Life', & one single exclusive to this package, 'After All These Years' (featurinAlbum Details
The "Diorama Singles Box Set" Includes the Album's First Three Commercial Singles, Along with the Highly Collectable "After all These Years" Single (Available Only in this Box Set). Includes Two Previously Unreleased Van Dyke Parks Mixes of Album Tracks, plus a 15 Minute Interview with Ben, Chris and Daniel.Customer Reviews:
love it!!!!.......2004-04-30
Simply Great.......2003-06-15
well done silverchair!
Singles of Diorama.......2003-04-07
Additional to this singles box I recommend the DVD Emotion Pictures- if you`re a fan that is.
Jon
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The Art of Creating Confusing Spirits
Manufacturer: Accession Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00006L3M6 Release Date: 2002-10-18 |
Tracks:
- Velocity
- Last Minute
- Kiss of Knowledge
- Howland Road
- Staring
- All That Matters
- Brainwashed
- Home to Millions
- Forgotten
- A Few Days Off
- Klarheit
- Pain Management (Quick Relief)
- The Convenience of Being Absent
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