Deep Album Cuts Vol. 272: Evanescence
Movies and TV shows and memes are bringing old songs back all the time these days, but a couple weeks ago Evanescence's "Bring Me To Life" hit #1 on iTunes and nobody's even sure why. So that reminded me that they'd be a good candidate for a deep cuts playlist.
Evanescence deep album cuts (Spotify playlist):
1. Haunted
2. Breathe No More
3. All That I Am Living For
4. Tourniquet
5. Made Of Stone
6. Even In Death
7. Imaginary
8. Missing
9. Broken Pieces Shine
10. Secret Door
11. Whisper
12. Your Star
13. Lacrymosa (live)
14. Feeding The Dark
15. Say You Will
16. Weight Of The World
17. Farther Away (live)
18. Hello
19. Never Go Back
Tracks 1, 4, 7, 11 and 18 from Fallen (2002)
Tracks 8 and 17 from the Anywhere But Home (2004)
Tracks 3, 12 and 16 from The Open Door (2006)
Tracks 5 and 19 from Evanescence (2011)
Track 15 from Evanescence (Deluxe Version) (2011)
Tracks 2 and 6 from Lost Whispers (2016)
Track 10 from Synthesis (2017)
Track 13 from Synthesis Live (2018)
Tracks 9 and 14 from the The Bitter Truth (2021)
Evanescence are one of those bands that came out of the gate with a huge debut and were just never able to continue that momentum. The core trio of Amy Lee, Ben Moody, and David Hodges that wrote Fallen didn't stay together long -- within a year of the album's release, Moody and Hodges had left the band, and both embarked on pretty successful careers producing and writing for other artists, together or apart (Kelly Clarkson, Daughtry, Avril Lavigne, Celine Dion, etc.). Amidst the lineup change drama, it took Amy Lee 3 years to follow-up that 7x platinum debut. And while The Open Door had an amazing single (my favorite Evanescence song, "Call Me When You're Sober") that I think affirmed that Lee could write hits without Moody and Hodges, the album only went 2x platinum and it kind of felt like the band's big moment had already ended.
I was pleasantly surprised to find that Evanescence has a pretty consistent catalog outside of those two big albums, though. The last couple albums of new material had their moments including last year's The Bitter Truth. And Synthesis featured new studio versions of old songs, which is usually a recipe for disaster but actually sounded pretty good. And there was a live album with some new songs (I'm kind of surprised "Missing" or "Farther Away" didn't get a radio push while Fallen was still everywhere). And the rarities compilation Lost Whispers collected good stuff from the band's early indie album Origin and the Elektra soundtrack. There was a very weird thing with "Lacymosa" where Amy Lee claimed she'd been asked to write music for the first Chronicles of Narnia movie, but the song was rejected for being too "dark," and then producers of the film said she'd never been asked.
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