Human Drama - World Inside (15 tracks) +Album Reviews

A haunting and intense album from, apparently, nowhere.

04/13/1999

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Someone in passing once gave me a tape of the music he liked best. Only the song titles were written on the card folded into the back of the cassette tape. Three of the songs had the same voice. They carried me back across the country. Years later, I searched for the album from which these three songs came and found them. I bought this album having never heard of this group before but having, most definitely, felt their music in my soul: melodramatic, truthful, intensely felt, with superbly executed, diverse instrumentation. Listen. There's much more than that."

Excellent

07/10/1999

(5 out of 5 stars)

"A friend wanted me to listen to this, and I finally bought it. Great music. I think this is the best album by Human Drama that I have heard. Its got a sort of Goth midevile folk feel with some progressive rock thrown in. something like the Cure, but less winey. I cant explain, you must listen!"

Emotionally written both musically and lyric wise.

06/15/1998

(5 out of 5 stars)

"One of my favorites from this band. Johnny Indovina knows how to capture his deepest emotonal fears, haunts, the shadows we all face and he puts it to well written music that carries a rock foundation with the overlays of a dark folk sound incorporated with the sounds of haunting classical strings."

My Favorite CD

Patty K. | California, US | 06/08/2000

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I've been listening to Human Drama's The World Inside for a year more so than any other of my cd's. It is by far my favorite, and has helped me wade through the pit of doom that had been my senior year in high school. Given that my roomate was German in the bording school, he couldn't really piece together the lyrical intensity of the songs on this album, and didn't gain a full appreciation for the group. For instance, at the end of The World Inside, Indovina repeats himself ten times "here I will stay." If you don't relate, then it might of course sound repetitious, as it did for my roomate. For me, that part is akin to sexual orgasm, but under different circumstances. it didn't start off that way, but that's exactly what came about. Johnny Indovina, songwriter and a guitarist for the band, I guess, hadn't really been interested in making this as popular as it could have possibly become, so knowing of them in the first place is virtue #1. Johnny has in his work what almost no other group has the courage to imbue in theirs, and that's wholesale, unrelenting honesty; and the musical talent to make that matter. Although I don't agree with all the messages he sends out, and although some are on their face contradictory, Johnny has informed us that he think he DOESN'T have "all the answers." that's fine. in the album, you find your warm spot. where else do you hear such poetry? frankly, this is simply the best. sure, you might think every song has its lyrics, but this one contains metaphore of crucial factors and realities in the world man must live in. he explores a cornacopia of topics that can apply to many aspects of life: W.I.2 can relate to tyrants such as Cuban dictator Castro. This Tangled Web is like a treatise on life in general. W.I. is like an airplane, starting off at a simmer analysis of one's disconent, taking off into his power to change, all in three consecutive tiers. Color Me Red is like raining rose pedals. A Million Years is no ordinary love song--it's Johnny's, in his own way, and it's wonderful. Well, I think this is good enough."

My new favorite band!

Patty K. | 02/02/2000

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Within a month of getting Human Drama's live album, I've purchased most of their other CDs! That's an insanely terrific album, and The World Inside is just about as good. Their singer, Johnny, has one of the most powerful voices I've ever heard. The last song, a cover called "Times Square", gives me chills. So do "Tears" and "Winter's Life"...I could go on and on. If you don't have this album, do yourself a huge favor and buy it right now!"

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