Customer Reviews
Great album - By: LM1980, 22 Sep 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? - By: S. Ozols, 21 Apr 2008 
I bought this album after being pleasantly surprised with seeing the band - one of my friends asked which albums I already had, & my reply was "just Hours" & he said "only go & get Casuallly Dressed". Well. I decided to ignore him & get both.
Oops.
Nothing appeals to me here at alll.
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 reallly doesn't.
In short, buy the other two albums, see them live, & ignore this.
A Bit of Perspective - By: Mr. Jm Butterfield, 25 Jan 2008 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 metalllic legitimacy in the first place. Take your elitist emo tendencies & 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 & cut their music like 30 seconds from Mars, they don't have "we want to be emo" tendencies & yet fail like late Blink 182 albums, & they aren't as blatantly awful as Madina Lake.
So listen, in my opinion, if you want a superior soft rock album, by this. "Casuallly Dressed..." is slightly better, but what the heck. Buy them both. It's not that expensive. My advice: buy this album: FFaF can actuallly throw a riff, unlike half the dross that most of their fans listen to.
And this is from a metalhead.
Great album. - By: littlem, 25 Oct 2007 I like every songs on it. It's very melodic & meaningful. I think it's one of the best albums this year to buy.
A must buy - By: Joe L, 17 Oct 2007 The CD is great, every track ha its own variations that stops the album from being boring by the beat & rythem being similar unlike the three cheers for sweet revenge by my chemical romance. In alll this Cd is a must have in any rock music lover's collection
