Boys Night Out - Trainwreck

Boys Night Out
Trainwreck
2005

1. Introducing
2. Dreaming
3. Waking
4. Sentencing
5. Medicating
6. Purging
7. Relapsing
8. Recovering
9. Composing
10. Disintegrating
11. Healing
12. Dying

Now this is an album that struck a chord with me the first time I listened to it. The follow up to 2003's Make Yourself Sick, Boys Night Out's Trainwreck made it's mark with me as being one of the first concept albums that I really loved. I mean, it can't get any better when the synopsis revolves around a man who murders his wife in his sleep, cuts off both of his arms, begins to hallucinate a song, and then starts to kill off everybody he knows.

Everybody.

Filled to the brim with sweet, delicious bits of tastiness, Trainwreck breaks me every time I set down with it. It's definitely one of the few albums that does it to me, and I'd probably thank the closing track, 'Dying', for causing this.

'The smell of her perfume struggles to cover everything. We were inseperable.'

With that, the album literally dies out. It's a rather beautiful and fitting ending to one of the most overlooked post-hardcore albums of the past decade. Trainwreck is among the best of it's kind. It's sad that the band's third album was a step back.

'These days they are allowing visitation to aid in my rehabilitation. To make these days mean so much more for me. I beg friends and family for forgiveness and now, for the first time, together we'll witness. Together we'll live this song that I've been living incessantly. So come sing with me through these poison pills and chemicals. I know that you'll hear something beautiful.'