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Decemberunderground
Decemberunderground cover
Studio album by AFI
Released UK May 29, 2006
Australia June 3, 2006
U.S. June 6, 2006
Mexico June 16, 2006
Recorded Conway Studios, Los Angeles
Genre Alternative Rock
Length 44:44
Label Interscope
Producer(s) Jerry Finn
Professional reviews
AFI chronology
Sing the Sorrow
(2003)		 Decemberunderground
(2006)


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 is "Love Like Winter".

On November 7, 2006, the album was re-released on 6 "icy clear" 7" vinyl discs, with all four band members pictures and "... a very special guest" being Smith Puget the band's manager, and a poster/lyric sheet.[3]

Contents

[edit] 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 Pre-Order Bonus Track

iTunes Bonus Track

  • "On the Arrow" – 3:07

Target Bonus Download Track

  • "Fallen Like the Sky" – 3:22

7" Vinyl Boxset

  • "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. This introduction can also be found in the director's cut of the "Miss Murder" video.[5]
  • 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.
  • A clue about the next song on the CD is given below the lyrics of the song before it.
  • The name of the album comes from a line in the song "The Interview".

[edit] 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[6]

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.

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.[7]

[edit] 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 a more synthpop and new wave oriented sound. 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 would be at home on the soundtrack to the next Spider-Man movie".[8] 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.[9]

[edit] Chart History

[edit] Guests

[edit] References

  1. ^ "AFI Burns Brightly With No. 1 Debut", 2006-06-14.
  2. ^ AFI Official Biography. AFI Official Website. Retrieved on 2006-05-27. .
  3. ^ [1]
  4. ^ http://afireinside.net/news/default.aspx?dt=05-01-2006
  5. ^ AFI - Miss Murder Director's Cut. Yahoo! Music. Retrieved on 2006-11-5.
  6. ^ AFI Reveals Track Listing. Aversion.com Music News. Retrieved on 2006-05-27.
  7. ^ http://www.afireinside.net/news/default.aspx/nid/1989
  8. ^ Strauss, Neil (2006). Rolling Stone : Decemberunderground : Review (HTML). Rolling Stone. Retrieved on 2006-06-17.
  9. ^ Apar, Corey (2006). allmusic ((( Decemberunderground > Review ))): (HTML). allmusic.com. Retrieved on 2006-06-17.
  10. ^ Artist Albums Chart History - AFI. Billboard. Retrieved on 2006-06-15.
  11. ^ http://www.ariacharts.com.au/pages/charts_display.asp?chart=1A50
  12. ^ Top 40 Rock Albums. BBC Radio 1 Charts. Retrieved on 2006-06-19.

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AFI
Davey Havok | Jade Puget | Hunter Burgan | Adam Carson
Mark Stopholese | Vic Chalker | Geoff Kresge
Discography
Albums and EPs: Dork | Behind the Times | Eddie Picnic's All Wet | This Is Berkeley, Not West Bay | Bombing the Bay | Fly in the Ointment | Answer That and Stay Fashionable | Very Proud of Ya | Shut Your Mouth and Open Your Eyes | A Fire Inside EP | Black Sails in the Sunset | Black Sails EP | All Hallow's EP | The Art of Drowning |The Days of the Phoenix EP | Sing the Sorrow | Decemberunderground
Singles: He Who Laughs Last | Third Season | Totalimmortal | The Days of the Phoenix | Girl's Not Grey | The Leaving Song Pt. 2 | Silver and Cold | Miss Murder | Love Like Winter
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