Too Bad You're Beautiful is the first full-length release from Long Island-based screamo band From Autumn to Ashes. The album is unique in that it features the dual vocals of Benjamin Perri and drummer Francis Mark. Perri provides the hardcore-esque shouts while Mark sings and occasionally contributes background screams. The album was reissued in 2005 with the Sin, Sorrow, and Sadness demo as bonus tracks at the end.
[edit] Track listing
- "The Royal Crown vs. Blue Duchess" – 3:58
- "Cherry Kiss" – 3:42
- "Chloroform Perfume" – 4:29
- "Mercury Rising" – 0:49
- "Capeside Rock" – 4:04
- "Take Her to the Music Store" – 5:18
- "The Switch" – 4:16
- "Reflections" – 7:30
- "Eulogy for an Angel" – 4:18
- "Short Stories With Tragic Endings" – 9:24
[edit] Re-release Bonus Tracks
- "Reflection of Anguish on a Face So Innocent"
- "Trapped Inside the Cage of My Soul"
- "Lie Will Always Defeat the Truth"
- "IV"
- Benjamin Perri - vocals
- Francis Mark - drums & vocals
- Scott Gross - guitar
- Brian Deneeve - guitar
- Mike Pilato - bass
- Adam Dutkiewicz of Killswitch Engage produced the album.
- Melanie Wills of One True Thing appears as a guest vocalist on Short Stories With Tragic Endings.
- The spoken dialogue at the beginning of "Take Her To The Music Store", which goes "You break my heart into a thousand pieces and you say it's because I deserve better?" and the spoken dialogue at the end of "Reflections", which goes "I can't stand it anymore. When I'm with you I feel like I'm nothing. I feel like am nothing. Thats why I flinch when you touch me, Why I never touch you why I don't even think of it 'cause when I do it only reminds me I am not good enough." Both quotes are taken from the break-up of Joey and Pacey in the Teen Drama Dawson's Creek and feature in the episode Promicide.
- "Take Her to the Music Store" is a reference to "getting fucked against one's will". Gross brought equipment to a local Long Island music store, Murphy's Music, for repair, only to get charged for labor expenses with them. They applied the title to a song about their friend's rape because their friend was literally "fucked against her will".[citation needed]It has also been said during stage banter at the Looney Tunes show/live album that the song is about a friend unknowingly getting ripped off on bad music equipment at Long Island's "Murphy's Music." The term "taken to the music store" became a slang amongst the band for getting "owned".
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