Hawthorne Heights Album: “If Only You Were Lonely”

I love this cd! at first listen I liked it fairly well, but now it is one of my favorite cds, and I just cannot take it out of my cd player. Hawthorne Heights deals with heartbreak, and anyone who can relate will love this cd.

my favorite songs are "who We are," "Language Lessons," "Dead In The Water" and "where Can I Stab Myself In the Ears." All the other songs are great too. The only song that I didn't really care for was "decembers." It was just okay.

I recommend this album to anyone who loves emo/screamo music or has a broken heart. And to everyone who says Hawthorne Heights sucks, go phunk yourselves, because that just means that you have no appreciation for good music.

Anyway, go buy this cd, cause it rocks! (oh, and cd version A is exactly the same, except that it has a different cover on it. This one has the girl, that one has the guy.)

The sound of this album is really different from "Silence in Black and White". I cant decide whether the change is good or not, there last CD wasnt awesome but they kind of had there own sound. With this album they sound a bit more mainstream, but that can be good. I think its a breakthrough for Hawthrone Heights, especially track 10 (Cross me off your list). I also suggest that anyone that didnt like "Silence in Black and White" should give them another chance with this Cd, since there sound has changed so much from the last CD. In the end its a great CD, just wish it had a little more heart to it, songs like "December" and "Cross me off your list" are definally worth the price of the CD though.

Um...I think these guys are good, but they have to decide what genre they want to be. Are they trying to be emo, screamo, metal? I'm confused.

All the songs sound the same. The only ones I recognize when I have my iPod on shuffle are "Dead in the Water" and "Decembers".

The songs all have the same theme. They need to vary a little bit.

Their voices are soft. This clashes disasterously with the screaming. Either they should stop singing so softly, or stop screaming.

-That was a lot of negative stuff, but there are good things too.

Their music is good. Not too harsh, not too mellow (except for Decembers).

The reason I think their songs are all about the same thing is because they are trying to tell a story. The pictures prove that.

Their music is good to put on when you're writing a story or dark poetry (like I do). It's also good to put on when you're mad and just want to drown out the world (again, with the exception of Decembers. It's just too painfully mellow and slow. cough-they-sing-about-butterflies-cough)

...My final overview is, if you can find it cheap, buy it. I'd say under five dollars would be reasonable. You only need one version of it. I don't know why you'd buy two. But whatever. I'd wait for their next one anyways to judge them. They still have room for improvement.

I was turned onto Hawthorne Heights this past summer. I was a huge fan of their first album "The Silence in Black and White." This is an album that I listend to from beginning to end on a day to day basis. I was in high anticipation for their sophomore effort "If Only You Were Lonely" and I was not disappointed. I bought it the day it came out and listened to it three times through as soon as I got home. This is an album that you can definitely listen to from beginning to end. It starts off with one of the best tracks on the whole album "This is Who We Are" which is an appropriate title as this is pure and classic Hawthorne Heights. Standout tracks are "This is Who We Are," "Saying Sorry," and "Decembers." All HH fans need to go out and get this album. People that didn't necessarily like HH's first album should really consider checking "If Only You Were Lonely" out, it definitely is a progression for Hawthorne Heights.

I must be the only one who is completely confused as to how Hawthorne Heights have received so much buzz. As soon as I'm seeing them on MTV, in huge commercials, and playing late night shows, I'm finding I know little to nothing about their actual music. I put on their debut, "The Silence In Black And White," and was suprised to discover that the songs on that record were getting so much hype, so much attention; it was unclear to me what the "special" thing was with Hawthorne Heights. To me, they always seemed to be relatively run of the mill melodic pop touched with hardcore.

"If Only You Were Lonely" obviously had a nice budget; there is a dual CD cover for Gods sake, and the band has already done a DVD with one album under their belt. I put this album on and immediately was sucked into the catchiness of it all. Super-charged production on the guitars and vocals is brutally and terribly obvious, and it's not a super bad thing. It seems the singer's abilities to really project require a boost in vocal production, and that's fine. None of this bothered me a bit, for some reason, and I enjoyed the relatively harmless, predictable, and redundant vocal melodies and guitars for a bit. That's likely the best word to describe this record: harmless. The "growling/screaming" is present, (duhhhhh) and is even buried and as boring as the 3-4 chord interchange that backs it up.

So, should you buy this record? You probably are going to already, if you're the mass. But if you were on the fence with it, I'd say sure, why not. We could all use a dose of over-production and shameless, false vocal renderings to get us through the day. Regardless of how plastic and generic this band is, this album has relatively agreeable, pleasant melodies and vocal ramblings, and never steps outside of the box, keeping things clean, harmless, and entirely safe. After all, what else you expect from the cute boys of trendy hard-ass pop punk?