Silverchair - Young Modern CD

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 An amazing evolution in melodic rock!!
Artists who dare to introduce new great ideas will naturally be under heavy fire by their old-fashioned monotonous rock demanding fans, while it is certainly appreciated by people who are eager to hear something different and well worked. This album is full of amazing progressions and clever rock compositions from the first track to the last. I strongly recommend this album to whoever is looking for some amazing melodic rock work! give it a try and notice silverchair's great effort to change things up a bit for good :)
Submitted by ironblizzard (Montreal , QC, Canada)
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 A Heartbreaking Atrocity...
Yeah, I already know that the 'loyal llamas' are going to defend Silverchair to my review because up until a year ago, I was in their shoes and defended this band against anyone. I have been a loyal Silverchair fan for over 12 years now. Their progression from FROGSTOMP to FREAK SHOW to NEON BALLROOM was incredible. The music stayed beautiful and catchy with enough crunch and emotion to make Silverchair the very band who first got me into rock music. DIORAMA was quite a change for Silverchair but it was still recognizable as a work by them and at least a few songs featured each member of the band. Enter now YOUNG MODERN. This album is laughable at best (and that's if you are completely trashed on alcohol) when compared to their previous works. Not a single song on this album can even be taken seriously with all of the "oohh oohh oohh's" and annoying feminine vocal melodies (let it be known that I have nothing against female vocalists by the way as I love Within Temptation, Lacuna Coil, Era For A Moment, Lunatica, Evanescence, etc.) but come on! This is simply not Silverchair. It is The Dissociatives' second album or at very best, Daniel's solo album with the "Silverchair" name printed on the cover. This is not what any fan of Silverchair wanted to hear when we started listening to them. If I wanted to hear The White Stripes or The Polyphonic Spree then I would listen to those bands. When I listen to Silverchair, I want to hear Silverchair and ONLY Silverchair. The fact that what I hear coming from the computer speakers is the same band who created the same beautiful and catchy songs such as "Emotion Sickness", "Nobody Came", "Miss You Love", "My Favourite Thing", "Without You", "Shade", etc. is heartbreaking. Gone are ANY type of guitar riff or crunch or any raw emotion in Daniel's voice. In fact you are more likely to hear a guitar riff on a gangsta rap album than you are on YOUNG MODERN. There are 2 decent songs on this album that I can find somewhat worthy of being a Silverchair song (and that is simply unacceptable for a Silverchair album). Those 2 songs are "Waiting All Day" and "Straight Lines". The rest of the material on YOUNG MODERN (IMO) is utter garbage. The complexity of the music means nothing to me if I cannot enjoy it. For the first time in my life, I am utterly ashamed to be a Silverchair fan and after hearing this pop-funk horror of an album I can safely say that my loyal support of Silverchair through all 4 previous albums ends here. I want nothing further to do with Silverchair as they no longer have anything left to offer me if this is their new direction. This is the most disappointing album I have ever listened to in my life and it even makes the latest disasters by Metallica and Linkin Park seem like masterpieces in comparison. Daniel has stated that he hopes to reclaim the same fame in America that they had with their album FROGSTOMP and to that I say the guy is entirely delusional and has been brainwashed (I am guessing by Paul Mac). This stuff will not sell well on the commercial American market, plain and simple. Anyone who believes it will is just as delusional as the band themselves are. But that is totally fine with me if this album fails in America as I don't want many people to know about this disasterpiece and then hopefully it will disappear and be forgotten. The far happier ending is pretending that Silverchair died after DIORAMA, so that way I can find peace in believing that they at least went out with a little bit of dignity left. At this rate, we can all expect Daniel to trash his guitar for the next album and instead hear him pick up playing polka music with his accordion while yodeling (and of course the 'loyal llamas' will be right there to praise that decision also to help inflate Daniel's already immeasurably huge ego). I won't be purchasing this pathetic joke of an album. And if you all want to hear "keyboard rock" done right then check out The Panic Division.
Submitted by ToolDBZilla (Troy, OH, USA)
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 if it were possible, I wouldnt rate this trash at all!!!
no offense to anyone who digs this new silverchair, but I for one cannot bare to witness such a painful evolution of what was once one wicked awesome hard rock band now turned boy band just like those backstreet boys, Nsynk, etc... it's just TOO SAD!! lookin at comparisons of dissappointments, I could TOLERATE Brandon Flowers (of The Killers) criticizing Green Day for their masterpiece, I can TOLERATE those sick things the great and late MJ did or was accused of to say the least (R.I.P Michael Jackson), I can TOLERATE Metallica's sloppy drum work on "St.Anger", and a heck of alot more dissappointments I can tolerate, but THIS reaches as low as it can go, simply UNTOLERABLE, the only cure: go way back, get ur hands on Silverchair's "Frog Stomp", "Freak Show" and "Neon Ballroom" albums, stick em in ur stereo and play through and listen as the aching young modern rightfully fades away... otherwise, you can always turn your back on Silverchair for good if this is the direction of music these guys are lookin to carry out. If you want change of pace Daniel, Chris or Ben, then just start a side project like any other band, not completely tarnishthe once incredible awesome HARD ROCK band you once were!!! no offense, but if this is some PHASE of the band, then PLEASE dont do this again?! if not, then best of luck with this ne wline of work Silverchair, i know ull still have alot of fans at least staying true to you guys, and diffinately ALOT of newer fans to follow ya, but ya just lost one fan right here, peace
Submitted by Justin (St. Anthony, NL, Canada) 
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 They came back!!!
Every Silverchair album it's a trip for the unknown. Amazing. Young Modern makes you feel lost in somewhere in the past.
Submitted by niltonlegado (Fortaleza, CE, Brazil) 
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 A Modern Masterpiece
An absolutely brilliant sonic evolution for Daniel Johns and company. A true work of genius, a patchwork of influences not heard before from these guys. Classic rock, dirty blues, synth pop, electro-operatic orchestration, it's got it all. It's a refined, raucous, textural, adventurous album to be listened to by those with discerning ears and a good pair of headphones. Lyrically, this is by far his best. Expertly crafted, flawless. Not released in America...baffling, but the inflated import price is definitely worth the experience.
Submitted by christian (Los Angeles, CA, USA) 
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