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Tales Don't Tell Themselves | 
| Artist: Funeral For A Friend
Label: Warners
Category: Music
List Price: £11.99
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Rating:  51 reviews
Sales Rank: 2480
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
EAN: 5051442099522
ASIN: B000NVIKEO
Release Date: May 14, 2007
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| Tracks:
| • | Into Oblivion (Reunion) | | • | Great Wide Open | | • | Diary | | • | On A Wire | | • | Raise The Sail | | • | Open Water | | • | Out Of Reach | | • | One For The Road | | • | Walk Away | | • | Sweetest Wave |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
In Tales Don't Tell Themselves, Funeral For A Friend have penned their catchiest, most mainstream-friendly album to date. The band's previous album, 2005's Hours, saw Bridgend's emo-tinged rockers soften their sound slightly, hardcore breakdowns and shrieked metal vocals receding and a more tuneful, melodic edge coming to the fore. On Tales..., Funeral walk further down this road. There's little trace of the angry hardcore tykes who wrote songs like "The Art Of American Football", but songs like "Into Oblivion (Reunion)" and the Smashing Pumpkins-tinged "Open Water" are presented with the sort of anthemic widescreen that suggest My Chemical Romance should watch their back. Elsewhere, though, there's signs of a growing songwriting maturity that might one day spring F4AF out of the punk ghetto for good: Matt Davies' lyrics reach far beyond emo's typical boy-meets-girl concerns, individual tracks linked by a narrative about a shipwrecked fisherman desperate to be reunited with his family, while the violin peaks and mighty drum rolls of "Raise The Sail" suggest Funeral For A Friend are eager to extend their musical palette. An impressive evolution. --Louis Pattison
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| Customer Reviews: Read 46 more reviews...
 Great album September 22, 2008
I bought this album on the strength of the first track Into Oblivion but was pleasantly surprised by how good the rest of it is. The Great Wide Open is another stand out track. Well worth buying.
 What happened? April 21, 2008
I bought this album after being pleasantly surprised with seeing the band - one of my friends asked which albums I already had, and my reply was "just Hours" and he said "only go and get Casually Dressed". Well. I decided to ignore him and get both.
Oops.
Nothing appeals to me here at all.
The first song, Into Oblivion, some reviewers have said is the only good point. I think I could think of 10 FFaF tracks better than this one, which doesn't say alot for the rest of the album.
Instead of the nitty-gritty in your face styling of the previous albums, this one talks about a fisher on a boat. Plenty of dramatic pianos follow. Sorry, I know concept albums can work sometimes, but this one really doesn't.
In short, buy the other two albums, see them live, and ignore this.
A Bit of Perspective January 25, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Okay, so Funeral For a Friend are a band that you either like, or you hate. It's that simple. Now I'm no authority on the emo-side of rock 'n' roll, but there was something that didn't sit right with me about the fact that Madina Lake's latest album has 5 stars from 33/35 of the reviewers, yet FFaF are struggling to achieve 4 stars?
Now let's get a bit of perspective here - the reason Madina Lake seem to be rated (as far as Amazon is concerned) above FFaF is for one reason: people who listen to FFaF, albeit involuntarily, know more about rock 'n' roll than people who (evidently) listen to Madina Lake. And if you don't believe that, consider this: people who don't like FFaF that much seem to feel the need to write reviews for FFaF albums than people who don't like Madina Lake albums. That's because FFaF are far more relevant than Madina Lake.
Now I'll tell you a truth: if you're looking for heavy rock or heavy metal, go some place else, okay? Funeral For a Friend are so far past the stage when they'd listen to people who moaned about the album version of 'Juneau' being worse than the LP that it's not even funny. Seriously, nobody cares. Sell out? Well hell, FFaF never even approached metallic legitimacy in the first place. Take your elitist emo tendencies and shove them.
Bottom line: what FFaF have created here is a soft rock album that appeals across the gamate of young/old, male/female. Not happy about that? Review something else. Maybe Madina Lake, for example.
I write this review because I feel FFaF have gotten a massively unfair rap. This album is as good as anything you'll hear by any other soft rock outfit. It's not prog. It's not meant to be. It's not heavy. It's not meant to be. It is, simply, quite superb soft rock. And it's quite epic in places. They don't have awful videos that chop and cut their music like 30 seconds from Mars, they don't have "we want to be emo" tendencies and yet fail like late Blink 182 albums, and they aren't as blatantly awful as Madina Lake.
So listen, in my opinion, if you want a superior soft rock album, by this. "Casually Dressed..." is slightly better, but what the heck. Buy them both. It's not that expensive. My advice: buy this album: FFaF can actually throw a riff, unlike half the dross that most of their fans listen to.
And this is from a metalhead.
Great album. October 25, 2007
I like every songs on it. It's very melodic and meaningful. I think it's one of the best albums this year to buy.
A must buy October 17, 2007
The CD is great, every track ha its own variations that stops the album from being boring by the beat and rythem being similar unlike the three cheers for sweet revenge by my chemical romance. In all this Cd is a must have in any rock music lover's collection
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