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List Price: $12.98 | | Label: Victory Records
Salesrank: 105450
Released: June 8, 2004 |
| Our Price: $7.49 |
| Used Price: $0.24 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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The Silence in Black and White Track Listing:
1. Life on Standby
2. Dissolve and Decay
3. Niki FM
4. The Transition
5. Blue Burns Orange
6. Silver Bullet
7. Screenwriting An Apology
8. Ohio Is For Lovers
9. Wake Up Call
10. Sandpaper and Silk
11. Speeding Up The Octaves
Editorial Review:
HAWTHORNE HEIGHTS are Victory's next high priority emo project, and are already generating a buzz with the Victory fan base. The Silence In Black and White record will appeal to fans of THURSDAY, TAKING BACK SUNDAY and SILVERSTEIN.
The Silence in Black and White Reviews:
meh 
2009-12-12 - I went through my lil emo phase years ago, even then I didn't fully appreciate this cd. It's very cliche and only at some moments is kind of catchy. The 1st song I'll always like because of the dramatic music and voice change, but other than that Nikki Fm and the Ohio song are the only ones that at one point I liked. The cd as a whole is a ok, it definately applies more for the scene kids and what not.
One of the Limp Bizkit's of the 2000's 
2009-03-03 - Well, it's been four years since this album has been released. It's still so much of a joke that reviewing this just to laugh at how bad it is, well, very encouraged. I hope that, in ten years from now, this album has reviews still being posted and people are still ridiculing this terrible _________. Not that these guys (and their lame comeback album) will ever find the success they once had, anyway.
Casey Calvert, hands, down, the worst screaming I have ever heard. Look, It's sad he had to die so young (since after all you don't go to heaven), but he sounds like an old man being strangled to death. Come on I can scream better than this. And if anybody still thinks he can scream, listen to anything by the Refused, Cryptopsy, Dillinger, Converge, Boredoms/Naked City, The Blood Brothers, Slayer, At The Drive In, ... you get me? Good grief, this makes Thrice's screaming (there decent, but they can't scream) sound like a banshee from the flames. He gets the award for the worst screaming I have ever heard.
The music? It's extremely dull. Considering that they had three guitarists at the time, how can a band like this seem like they have one guitarist? Seriously, clean picking that's been done a million times better before, wimpy power chords, dull attempts at being honey sweet (vomit worthy as it is), boring chug-chug-chug-chug guitars, it's all here. These guys ought to be arrested for their idea swiping, it's that bad. Plus, it will always feel it's watered down music, no questions asked.
the silence in black and white is truly the genre's badge of failure. Ohio Is For Lovers, for me, is the rollin' of the decade. Whiny lyrics, and the worst emo lyrics ever (cut my wrists and black my eyes), something not even Fallout Boy (dance dance is pretty catchy and doesn't contain any stupid lyrics about lost girlfriends) or even taking back sunday has ever matched. I think it's because of that one song, anything that was mentioned in the same breath (at the expense of Panic at the disco, mostly) as any of the fake "emo" trend bands were automatically deemed to consist of nothing (they didn't, but they still were terrible) but lyrics about cutting and crying about lost girlfriends. It doesn't end there either, including "a silver bullet through my heart cause I can't survive without you", and a lame tribute to that stupid movie where the boy holds a radio up to his girlfriends's window. Read a sample of these lyrics to see where all the stereotypes of emo lyrics came from.
Well heights. You most likely will become famous. However, it will be for all the wrong reasons. Enjoy your stay in the cage of the musical freak show, the Bee Gees, Limp Bizkit, Brittany Spears, Vanilla Ice, Winger, and Milli Vanillie (to name a few), while real people and bands laugh at you, throw things at you, take a _____ on you, and actually laugh at you for a good reason. This band will be remembered!
cut my wrists and blind my eyes
2008-08-29 - First of all i'd like to say that i like Taking Back Sunday, Brand New, From Autumn To Ashes, early Dashboard Confessional, and other things of that nature and STILL can't stomach this at all. It's complete disposable trash that seems to even be soon forgotten by fans. Ohio Is For Lovers was a catchy enough tune but this music is just wayyy too suburban privalaged white kid cuts themsleve, feels alienated, wears black, crys, no one understands, woe is me, i'd rather write 10 pages in my live journal about suicide then actually killing myself....self indulgent, black eyliner, hot topic, trl, neo-goth, garbage. if you are offended by any of this you should check out My Chemical Romance's album "I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love" (which i actually like) because it actually more effectivly (and artisiclly) captures this mood. All lyrical criticisms aside, the music is not good either.
give it a shot 
2007-12-29 - Stop the hate everybody this is an emo/screamo band, i've heard this album many times before (god bless mp3's) and I am actually about to buy it to pass my time in afghanistan, granted my favorite songs are the singles its still a good album. and just my two cents from a black kid who listens to anything from T.I. and jurassic 5 to avenged sevenfold, escape the fate, chiodos, thursday, TBS to The Forecast and Billy talent (check these two out) I definitely would say if you wanna rock out give this album a shot everybody loves a lil bit screaming mixed with depression
i would give it no stars if possible
2007-09-15 - i don't even know what compelled me to buy this. probably the fact that i was 13 at the time. it's pretty wretched music.
