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Smile Empty Soul
Released 2003

Nowhere Kids
04:17
96,341 plays

This Is War
04:28
82,698 plays

With This Knife
03:44
66,022 plays

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songs

- 1
- Bottom of a Bottle
- 03:41
- 275,113 plays

- 2
- Silhouettes
- 03:52
- 166,833 plays

- 3
- Nowhere Kids
- 04:17
- 96,341 plays

- 4
- This Is War
- 04:28
- 82,698 plays

- 5
- Therapy
- 03:05
- 46,751 plays

- 6
- For You
- 04:14
- 58,435 plays

- 7
- Your Way
- 03:06
- 35,844 plays

- 8
- The Other Side
- 03:59
- 51,236 plays

- 9
- Every Sunday
- 03:46
- 37,110 plays

- 10
- With This Knife
- 03:44
- 66,022 plays

- 11
- Radio in a Hole
- 03:09
- 31,903 plays

- 12
- All My Problems
- 03:18
- 52,164 plays

- 13
- I Want My Life
- 04:15
- 52,754 plays

- 14
- Eraser
- 04:14
- 46,327 plays

album review

Smile Empty Soul's debut release is a screeching, brooding affair that smiles little and swears a lot. Like the surly rebel in the back of class, Smile Empty Soul's mouthpiece, guitarist, and principal songwriter, Sean Danielsen, launches accusations at every conceivable authority figure. The song titles read like headings in an angry suburban kid's diary -- "Therapy," "Your Way," "With This Knife," "All My Problems" -- while his grim-faced lyrics paint his problems broadly, without depth and offering no silver lining. "Inside the cage/I see an image of the future we don't have" (from "Nowhere Kids"); "Kill me with the love you won't give to me" ("For You"); "Go home and beat your kids so they don't turn out as bad as me" ("All My Problems") -- it sounds like Danielsen hasn't had a nice bowl of ice cream in a long, long time. Musically, Smile Empty Soul is yet another young trio equally indebted to Kurt Cobain's trademark bark and the hard-edged melodics of Alice in Chains. The album's slower moments range from the crass antiwar sloganeering of "This Is War" to the faux Staind acoustic ballad "I Want My Life." ~ Johnny Loftus, All Music Guide

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- - Nowhere Kids (Edited)
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listener reviews

- - Smile Empty Soul
  - - By BloodDust66
    - 9/14/2008 19:19:26
  - The name of the band is like me!:3 Silhouettes is the song i can listen to forever! It's an okay band.
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