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Decemberunderground is the seventh studio album from California rock band AFI, and their first album to debut at #1 on the US Billboard 200, selling 182,000 units in its first week.[1] The album was released on May 29 2006 in the United Kingdom (UK), June 6 2006 in the United States, and June 16 2006 in Mexico. Regarding the album's title, lead singer Davey Havok said, "decemberunderground is a time and a place. It is where the cold can huddle together in darkness and isolation. It is a community of those detached and disillusioned who flee to love, like winter, in the recesses below the rest of the world."[2] Some believe that, like AFI's previous album, Sing the Sorrow, Decemberunderground is a concept album chronicling a tragic love story that may or may not tie into the chronicle of a man's death presented in Sing The Sorrow.[citation needed] The second single from the album will be "Love Like Winter".

Track listing

  1. "Prelude 12/21" – 1:34
  2. "Kill Caustic" – 2:39
  3. "Miss Murder" – 3:26
  4. "Summer Shudder" – 3:06
  5. "The Interview" – 4:16
  6. "Love Like Winter" – 2:45
  7. "Affliction" – 5:28
  8. "The Missing Frame" – 4:40
  9. "Kiss and Control" – 4:18
  10. "The Killing Lights" – 4:04
  11. "37mm" – 3:55
  12. "Endlessly, She Said" – 4:26

UK Bonus Tracks

  • "Rabbits Are Roadkill on Rt. 37" (UK & Australian bonus track) – 3:50
  • "Head Like a Hole" (UK bonus track) – 4:43 (Nine Inch Nails Cover)

Pre-Listening Bonus Track

  • "Don't Change" – 3:16 (INXS Cover)

iTunes Bonus Tracks

  • "On the Arrow" 3:07

Target Bonus Download Track

  • "Fallen Like the Sky" 3:22

Notes:

  • If the track "Prelude 12/21" is rewound past 00:00(to -00:20),then a hidden introduction to the track can be found.
  • Track 7's full name is "Affliction and Then I'll be Home". This is because the two songs "Affliction" and "Then I'll be Home" share the 7th track of the album. "Affliction" ends at 3:37 and, after a brief silence, "Then I'll be Home" begins playing.

Singles

  1. "Miss Murder"
  2. "Love Like Winter"

Release

The single, "Miss Murder", premiered on KROQ and LIVE 105 on April 13 2006. The full track list was announced on April 25 2006[3]

When fans preordered this CD at special pre-listening events, they received a CD including "Miss Murder" and "Don't Change". "Don't Change" is a cover of an INXS song.[citation needed]

According to a message posted on the official AFI message board and an email message sent to members of the AFI mailing list, lead singer Davey Havok said each album from the first pressing contains a "limited edition artwork" of a single portrait of one of the members of AFI, and that a rare few would include a portrait of the entire band.[citation needed]

Fan and critical responses

The album has been met with mostly positive reviews. There has been some disagreement over the bands departure from hardcore and punk in the direction of pop. For example, Rolling Stone awarded the album three stars out of five, a drop from the four-star album Sing the Sorrow. Rolling Stone said Decemberunderground feels like "something isn't right in the world of AFI" due to their turn towards a more pop-based musical structure "that", says the Rolling Stone, "would be at home on the soundtrack to the next Spider-Man movie".[4] However, allmusic.com disagreed, saying the "core of AFI's sound never strays too far from what listeners have grown to love about them in the first place." This album earned four stars out of five from allmusic.com.[5]

So far, "Miss Murder" has a strong airplay rotation on MTV much to the dismay of "old school" AFI fans.[citation needed]

Chart History

Chart Run

USA Billboard 200
Week 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10
Position
1
3
9
12
16
19
21
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30
38

Guests

References

  1. ^ "AFI Burns Brightly With No. 1 Debut". 2006-06-14.
  2. ^ "AFI Official Biography". AFI Official Website. Retrieved 2006-05-27. .
  3. ^ "AFI Reveals Track Listing". Aversion.com Music News. Retrieved 2006-05-27.
  4. ^ Strauss, Neil (2006). "Rolling Stone : Decemberunderground : Review" (HTML). Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2006-06-17.
  5. ^ Apar, Corey (2006). "allmusic ((( Decemberunderground > Review ))):" (HTML). allmusic.com. Retrieved 2006-06-17.
  6. ^ "Artist Albums Chart History - AFI". Billboard. Retrieved 2006-06-15.
  7. ^ [1]
  8. ^ "Top 40 Rock Albums". BBC Radio 1 Charts. Retrieved 2006-06-19.
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