Search - Boys Night Out :: Trainwreck

Disturbing, Yet Worthwhile Story

Danny | USA | 01/24/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Typically, I would name each track as part of my review and say something about each song. That would be pointless with this CD since all the songs are supposed to sound somewhat similar in their message and what not. Anyways, when I first bought this CD, I got it really cheap purely off of my friend telling me that Boys Night Out's new album was supposed to sound like JamisonParker's "Sleepwalker" (a great album). I listened to it on the way home and didn't pick up that it was a concept album. The songs didn't make all that much sense and the line "These lines I wear around my wrist are there to prove that I exist" really made me mad. I got home, read the lyrics, listened to the first track all the way through, and realized that it was a concept album. However, the story was rather disturbing, and I didn't find the music good enough to bypass the story, so I put it right in my pile to get rid of.



Later that night, I thought about it and decided to take a second listen. It was much better the second time around (although I didn't listen to all of it). This listen gave the CD another chance. Only recently did I listen to the CD in one sitting and let the story absorb me. That made the CD over 10X better! Although this story is disturbing, it is redemptive at the end.



This album chronicles a man who accidentally strangles his wife to death in his sleep, while dreaming of much happier things. He awakens to find his wife dead and calls 911. He is then trying to fully grasp what he has done before being placed in a mental institution. After convincing the doctor to let him out, I believe he chops his hands off with some machinery at work (I'm leaning towards that, but not entirely sure). He is then readmitted only to be released again. He kills some more in this song that the medicine is giving him, only this time, dismembering his victims. He is let in one last time. He hears his wife twice in his stays in the hospital, and she tries to convince him that the only way to finish the song is to kill the doctor. In the end, the doctor goes to the patient's apartment, only to find his wound's infection worse, and that he had starved himself to the brink of death. The doctor takes responsibility for this event because he gave the patient the medicine and says that he failed the patient. The patient, while in this stage of starving himself and letting himself die, realizes that he is the "trainwreck" and realizes the evil of what he has done. This is why he lets himself die, and lets the song keep playing. He spares the doctor's life and instead, lets his own end.



A disturbing, yet also somewhat emotional and moving story. I think that is how it goes...I could be wrong, but that's what I understood it as. The end leaves you depressed, but hopeful in man's ability to overcome even the most hellish experiences in life. I highly recommend it, even though I don't delve very far into this genre of music."

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Charles R. Jarvis | 08/02/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"1. In some strange way this album reminds me of dark side of the moon by pink floyd. the rolling ups and downs in the songs and on the album as a whole.

2. they're serious about this - great songs, great muscianship and great artwork.

3. the album is dark and evil is cool.



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