Too Bad You're Beautiful
Occupation
- Benjamin Perri - Vocals
- Francis Mark - drums, vocals
- Brian Deneeve - Guitar
- Mike Pilato - Bass
Too Bad You're Beautiful is the first album of the band From Autumn To Ashes. The recordings took place until May 23, 2001 of 15. It was produced by Adam Dutkiewicz and released on Ferret Records, where it proved with 50,000 units sold as a great success, which led to a re-release in 2005. From Autumn To Ashes are therefore considered most successful band in the history of the label Ferret, for the subsequent album they received a contract with the much larger label Vagrant Records.
Content
The album contains mostly typical for the band songs with frequent loud- Quiet - Jump. Exceptions are the 49 -second Mercury Rising, which is almost exclusively " instrumented " vocal and its text is first spoken and increasingly screamed towards the end, and the song Chloroform Perfume, which was largely orchestrated acoustically and in a completely acoustic version also on the successful Punk goes Acoustic compilation of the label Fearless Records is included. Thematically, especially interpersonal relationships are discussed.
On the album, the band refers several times on the television series Dawson 's Creek, for example, by the song title Capeside Skirt ( Capeside is the Handlungsort the series) as well as samples. So in the intro is the song Take Her To The Music Store Katie Holmes heard that the looped line "You break my heart into a thousand pieces and say it's because i deserve better? " Speaking in her role as Joey, and at the end of Reflections Joshua Jackson ( Pacey, " ... I feel like I'm nothing ... ").
It should also be heard as a guest singer Melanie Wills of the band One True Thing with the song Short Stories With Tragic Endings. The nine minute title which forms the conclusion by the first time, united example most of the songs characterizing aspects, how long instrumental parts and cry parts that suddenly go in undisturbed parts and are sometimes accompanied by an acoustic guitar.
Title list
Republication
In 2005, the album was re-released with four bonus tracks. These are the songs published in 2000 EP Sin, Sorrow And Sadness. One of them, A Reflection Of Anguish On A Face So Innocent, is an earlier version of the Reflections already contained on the CD.