first experience with diorama

[*shinytuna*]

i'm curious what the first listen to this album was like for you all.
i was never really interested in silverchair before i bought diorama. didn't own a single album. thought 'tomorrow' was ok...but fairly generic. i was really into Tool at the time. still am...but not to the extent i was.

anyway...so in 2003 or so i was in a used record store and came across diorama...bought it. i listened to it once through and was less than impressed. for whatever reason it just didn't strike me in an special way. i sold it back the next day.

cut to a year later....i see it again in some random music store, and for whatever reason buy it again. this time i listen to it several times and pretty soon become obsessed with the absolute genius of the album. over that month or so i bought every other SC album i could and delved into them....however diorama is still worlds better than any of those other releases.

i always find it odd that an album i would easily put in the top 10 of all time would leave me so unimpressed as to sell it back when i first heard it. i've had the album now 3 years...listen to every song about once a week on average...for a total of roughly 150 full album plays...and im still not even remotely bored with it.

any similar experiences?

Yeah I had a pretty similar experience in that it took a few listens before I thought any of it was that special. So STRANGE how that happens! And it usually happens that way with me with MOST Silverchair songs. What sounds simple or unoriginal or uninteresting at first becomes something so fantastic after a few tries. And the songs that start out as my favorites end up switching places with the ones I originally thought of as "average".
When I really became hooked on Diorama was after listening to Across the Night for about the 3rd time. While I was listening to it wasn't when it "clicked"; it was over the course of the next few hours when I couldn't get it out of my head; the chorus kept playing over and over in my head and I fell more and more in love w/the melody as it clanked around in my brain.
Silverchair's music is supremely special.

[|)RE\/\/]

After my first listen I thought it pretty good but not to the extent of now. I thought ATN was OK but I loved ACT 2 of that song from the first listen. I didn't like TGV much and my opinion of that song has only improved marginally. I loved WY. WUYS was OK. Can't remember listening to OWM. I thought Tuna was a piece of shit!!! and now is one of my all time favs. TMONE was crap, LYL was pretty good, The Lever was OK, MFT was meh and from the first listen of AATY it was my favourite song of all time and it still is

[Melzawelza]

I sort of don't remember how i first heard it. I've been a chair fan forever but not sort of 'actively' a fan like i am now. like i wasnt keeping up to date with what they were doing at that time. I know my friend showed it to me, because i remember being up at 3 in the morning with it playing non stop while we just talked and talked and while we slept too.

I's heard TGV, ATN and AATY due to radio play and loved them all particularly AATY, but hearing the other songs was amazing. i remember my mate showing me OWM and saying 'and people say they cant rock out anymore!'

So i got a copy. Unlike a lot of you guys i adored Tuna from the very beginning. Was hands down my favourite track, i listened to it over and over. But i listen to every genre of music and my dad is a jazz/classical pianist so it didnt seem overly weird to me you know? Weird for silverchair, but not that weird in general.

Then i didnt listen to it for ages, i think i forgot about it just with otehr albums coming out and stuff, and then re-discovered it and got angry at myself for not listening to it!! haha. On the second time round of obsessive listening i learnt to appreciate Luv Your Life (didnt really like it originally) and ATN (liked it but wasnt overly excited bout it).

Now the album is absolute perfection to me. There is not one song that i dont adore completely. Words cant express how much i love that album.

Im gonna go listen to it now!

[Lotti Di]

I was already a big fan from Neon Ballroom, so I was really looking forward to the new album. A few months before the album came out in the Usa I downloaded a couple of songs, they were My Favorite Thing and Greatest View..and already knew Hollywood from a while back. I really liked My Favorite Thing but didn't take too much to Greatest View, I mean I like it but it's not one that makes me go "wow"..usually I skip it. Anyway, I bought it, and sat with my headphones on and upon hearing Across the Night I immediately thought of Broadway musicals. I listened to the album, listening to some songs fully and others only partially, and my initial reaction was a big "what the hell?" but not in a bad way, just that it was totally different than what I was expecting and a bit of a shock (after this album, I learned to expect anything musically from the band ). I was liking it but it took me a couple more album listens to really get going and fall in love.

eta* just realized I put "hollywood" when i meant "one way mule"

[*shinytuna*]

Yeah I've heard Daniel say he was listening to/watching a lot of musicals while writing it...
and also a lot of Kate Bush...

[b0x3r4ll]

The first song that i listen was "suicidal dream" and a frend said to me "download across the night" wow ...it was like " this is silverchair????"
Hahaha but i love it ....And then i download the album...I defintly fell in love


Is my fucking favourite allbum

[bah]

I've had pretty involved discussions with two people about this record just this week. Its funny how you don't really have to explain yourself to another Diorama fan.

Still cant fathom how much i love this album.

[SLAGEN]

Well I first discovered silverchair back in 97 when I saw the 'Freak' video played on much music. Had my mom buy me the CD later that night. I listened to that album over and over. My sister then bought me 'Frogstomp' for my birthday. Then later that year my house burned down and I lost all my stuff. Anyways, I had completely forgotten about silverchair due to RAP music...RAP was pretty good back then ...and the fact that my house fire destroyed all my stuff.

But in late 2002, I was downloading a bunch of 90's rock songs and my sister reminded me how obsessed I was with silverchair. Downloaded my favorites from back in the day. Then I saw 'Across the Night' and downloaded it...and laughed and was like "WTF?". I didn't even think it was silverchair. But I went and downloaded most of 'Neon Ballroom' and 'Diorama'. Then I was downloading some live videos and was really impressed with how they sounded live. Went out a few weeks later and bought all 4 albums and the "Best Of" album...which I still don't understand why they had a "Best Of" when they were still together, but anyways, I've been a born-again fanatic ever since....

[[open_fire]]

The first song that i listen was "suicidal dream" and a frend said to me "download across the night" wow ...it was like " this is silverchair????"
Hahaha but i love it ....And then i download the album...I defintly fell in love


Is my fucking favourite allbum

go buy it, dont download it! support our silverchair so we can get more great music from it.

[*shinytuna*]

Is it safe to say that no other album compares to this?

In my opinion, it's one of a kind..

I f-ing love the Chairs for making this. You know? Just......f-ing......God bless 'em! hehe

sorry...just polished off a bottle of champagne...feeling a bit sentimental

Merry Christmas!

[Telephone Shoes]

I still remember the day I got it, which is a suprise given my terrible memory.

Anyway I was still in high school and had fallen for Neon Ballroom in a big way meaning Silverchair quickly became my favourite band.
I still remember I streamed TGV everyday when I got home from school, for hours very loudly.

Due to the age I was and the lack of trust in importing objects from the net, I decided to wait for the album to come out in the UK (which was July/August I believe). I went shopping with my bro and father, a month after the albums release in Oz I think, in a town a few miles from where I live. We popped into an independent music shop and after getting to the 'S' section front and center was Diorama. I nearly shat my pants, I remember begging my dad to buy it for me and take it from my pocket money, after him thinking about it I got it. Great times.

My first listen to it was in his car in a car park, I decided to stay in the car so I could listen to it. I remember my old man saying to me driving to his house "Is this that CD?" "Don't you want your money back" .

It was a perfect day come to think of it, weather aswell (sunny in Scotland ).

I doubt any other album will change my life (musically anyway) that drastically. I don't think it's a masterpiece as I can skip a couple of tracks but it's just fortunate the other 9/10 are unreal.

[Serotonin]

I have YouTube to thank for my getting back into silverchair. I seem to recall TGV being played once on Fuse some years back, bit I didn't get it at first. Then some random searching a couple of years back and saw the ATN video. So incredibly beautiful, the song and the vid. Bought a copy of Diorama right away, and every song on it just seemed so right for what I like musically. I know almost all the lyrics, lol.

[DorcasGood]

My first impresion...well i've been a fan of their music since like 1997 and i got album after album the day it was released in my country and i had the same impression as u, the first time i listened to it i dunno maybe i wasnt paying attention or i just was expecting something different but i didnt really get it at first i just listened it n shoved it in my cd rack it was till a year later that i took it out again n listened to it all the way to my art school n back (i had to comute for like an hour or so lol i begun to get it n love it so much it was so inspiring to me i even painted 2 paintings inspired by across the night and tuna in a brine, it still amazes me tho i've heard it hundreds of times i keep saying its like a very good academy award winning drama movie...just the way the order of the songs go, its perfect...like a movie a perfect movie.

[Aurora]

I remember hearing a few clips from chairpage, one was one way mule and i forget the other. I was in love with one way mule from the demo clip and it got me excited for the album. I ordered it from Australia as it wasn't going to be released in the states til a while later. I was instantly obsessed with it. I would drive around town for hours just so I could blast it and sing along without having to worry about anyone around me interrupting my joyous moment. After I got it I became addicted to it and I listened to it everyday until about a year before Young Modern came out. I never got sick of it, and I don't think I ever will, its a masterpiece.

[sphefx]

For me, it all started when I first heard Without You. I was completely blown away by the emotion and feeling in the song. That whole night I was thinking about it.

So, of course, I bought the whole album.