Eighteen Visions - Broken Hearted

[pen]

Goes for adds November 27th. This is the third single from their self-titled effort, the previous two being "Tonightless" and "Victim". This is a pretty duh selection. Slow-going, emo, with the whole lighter-waving singalong chorus thing going on (in the recording even!) that really just reeks of radio single.

[Diablo Cody™]

Link?

[fatalthirteen]

Wow I hope this is better than "Victim" cause that one was pretty much just novelty but catch nonetheless. Never heard "Tonightless"...I might check that one out.

[pen]

This is pretty similar to "Tonightless", really. It's on their MySpace if you want to hear it. So is "Tonightless" too, if you haven't heard that.

[Nicholas2.0]

Oh, god. I can't claim I'm surprised, because this was listed on the album sticker, but since neither of the previous singles ever took off really, this is one of the worst choices they could have made in terms of showing who they are as a band. Although I should probably calm down a little, because this is the third single after all, and it's unlikely to do anything at this point, either.

I disagree about it being "pretty similar" to "Tonightless." That one wasn't too much of a stretch from their "power-ballads" off their previous album (which makes sense, because it was the last song written from the Obsession session; too late to be included on the album). This, however, is a total cock-rock '80's "power-ballad." In fact, the verses and pre-chorus are straight-up Def Leppard rip-offs. (They're fully aware of that, too.) And what is that, kids chiming in on the main line in the chorus?? Geez...

I like the song just fine, actually (better than "Victim," technically), but I can think of nothing worse for Eighteen Visions than this being the song that breaks them through, unlikely as that may be at this point. (I mean, look what "The Theft" is doing for Atreyu. Not a whole lot.)

[tortuga]

Emo title!

[reception]

www.myspace.com/eighteenvisions

[friday]

Hmmm, I heard it for the first time today and really liked it. At the least, it's much better than "Victim," which struck me as too generic for me to get into. But the thing about this song that struck me the most was that it kinda sounds like a song you'd hear in the closing credits of a movie - perhaps even a 1980's high school romantic comedy.

I don't mean that as a slight, though. While I'll admit I'm not too familiar with these guys outside this album's singles, I'll agree that this does linger of desperation for them, moreso than the release of "Victim" did. At least, I'm assuming "Tonightless" was supposed to be a genre-defying type of song to show off the band's range, and then that either bombed or the label thought it would, so they pulled it in favor of a safer, harder, metal-sounding song. Who knows, maybe their label actually will try to sneak this into the score of a popular TV show or movie to try and jumpstart the album sales, a la "Chasing Cars." I hope not, since I hate to see that happen to bands and television shows for the sake of moving a few copies of an album to pad a label CEO's pockets. But like everyone else has said, I wouldn't be surprised if it failed to accomplish much.

[Crushcrushchris]

They'll be pushing this to pop in February.

[Nicholas2.0]

Pssh!

[Crushcrushchris]

They've now decided to break up.

[Nicholas2.0]

I read as much this evening.

I was on punknews.org reading how I Killed the Prom Queen were breaking up already partly because their guitarist joined Bleeding Through. Having no knowledge of this, I scrolled up to see if it had been stated at any point which guitarist had left Bleeding Through (I found out later at theprp.com that it was Scott Danough), when I came across instead the much, much worse news of Eighteen Visions breaking up. They couldn't have staggered these announcements for my benefit. That would've been too much to ask. This actually brought me to tears.

Do you wanna kill my cats and bust out some of my car windows while you're at it, God?

[pen]

I'm convinced breaking up is the new selling out. It's the trend now that instead of jumping ship to majors and making a radio-friendly album, bands are deciding to break up before they start actually having a career. Stay scene, and stay strong, that's the break up way in a break up world!

[halo19]

It isn't really a new thing, though. Look at Minor Threat and At the Drive-in, for example. I know, two totally different time periods. But musicians from those bands carried on through other endeavors.

[Nicholas2.0]

penance said:

I'm convinced breaking up is the new selling out. It's the trend now that instead of jumping ship to majors and making a radio-friendly album, bands are deciding to break up before they start actually having a career. Stay scene, and stay strong, that's the break up way in a break up world!

Of course, "selling out," jumping ship to majors and making a radio-friendly album is exactly what Eighteen Visions did. They didn't catch on and now, coincidentally or not, they break up.