[Silence] Is a Weapon (double Disc Album)
Blackfire
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| Name | Artist | Time | Price | ||
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| 1 | Epilogue | Blackfire | 0:48 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 2 | The Possibillities | Blackfire | 3:40 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 3 | Overwhelming | Blackfire | 2:07 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 4 | Turn Out the Lights | Blackfire | 3:07 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 5 | [Silence] Is a Weapon | Blackfire | 4:28 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 6 | Peaks Song | Blackfire | 3:27 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 7 | NDN/Alien | Blackfire | 5:30 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 8 | Context | Blackfire | 3:15 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 9 | Common Ground Feat. Cyril Neville and Matt Lavelle | Blackfire | 3:26 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 10 | The Power Is Out | Blackfire | 2:33 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 11 | The Wars They Wage | Blackfire | 2:16 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 12 | How Can We Confess | Blackfire | 2:41 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 13 | Uprising | Blackfire | 4:50 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 14 | Dii Bee Shanah Nishijlgo Bee Naasha | Blackfire | 3:43 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 15 | Sha naagha | Blackfire | 1:40 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 16 | Nil honlshio | Blackfire | 2:03 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 17 | Alaaji Iil'ilsh'ja Ayoliith | Blackfire | 3:54 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 18 | Hai adaat'i | Blackfire | 4:01 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 19 | Baa Hozhoogoo Axeehhilyikai | Blackfire | 3:56 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 20 | Anaa K'e Goo | Blackfire | 2:02 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 21 | Ah Aleeh A'haleeh | Blackfire | 2:10 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 22 | T'ahadoo Ni Hahiyool | Blackfire | 4:53 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 23 | Naabaahil biyiin | Blackfire | 2:20 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 24 | American Indian Movement Song | Blackfire | 3:46 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 25 | Dahiliyeel | Blackfire | 3:33 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 26 | Prologue | Blackfire | 0:24 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| Total: 26 Songs |
Recent Customer Reviews
This album proved it self...
by Kid twistI was surprised that they incorprated traditional beats in the background. And my mom seemed to enjoy the songs. And was just down in Flag last weekend. If i knew they had talent like this i would have stayed longer.
Blackfire: absolute Flagstaff staple by Chipotle Frank
by TheNoiseArts&NewsBlackfire: absolute Flagstaff staple. Without exaggerating, they put Flagstaff and Northern Arizona on the map. Like that g*ddamned mountain everybody’s fighting about. Holy mountain or white man recreation? At this point, who gives a f*ck? Oh, I’ll say it one more time: F*ck Snowbowl. And f*ck their ‘reclaim the peaks’ bumper stickers and anyone who’s racist and insensitive enough to put one on their SUV. And of course the Snowbowl issue is just a tiny piece of the big issue here. How does one treat one’s neighbors?
Well, in Flagstaff, we build million dollar homes in gated communities while children live without electricity and clean water. But that’s cool, right? Let’s go fight some terrorists and have a hot dog. Don’t forget to fill up your tank before you go.
Okay, as for the album, just get it. You like melodic punk, right? It’s like Propagandhi but they’re not from Canada. Which is a constructed border, right? There’s no terrorists in Canada, and we know this because most of the people who live there are white, so we don’t really need to militarize that border very much. It’s not like there’s millions of poor people there who want a shot at that Dream we spew at the mouth about and ejaculate prematurely to.
Speaking of, there are parts of this album that make the little hairs on the back of my neck stand up in excitement. The last Flagstaff record to do that was the first time I heard Stab City Slit Wrists’ proper and only album.
If you’re familiar with Blackfire (and if you’re not, and you live here, who the heck are you?), then, as you might expect, and much like this review, it gets a little heavy handed with the sloganeering and propagandizing.
Make that really soulful propagandizing.
The title of the album is [silence] is a weapon and on the other side of the unbelievably gorgeous CD sleeve, it states, “the earth does not belong to us. We belong to the earth.” No sh*t. Tell that to the developers that hate rock music (or like rock music in that frat boy ‘f*ck you I won’t do what you tell me’ no context kind of way) and don’t give a f*ck what three very attractive Benallys and their dad thinks. (I’m not actually sure that we as humans belong to the earth. I think maybe we’re some sort of alien cancer, like those mollusks in Lake Powell, which, of course isn’t supposed to be there either.)
And yes, the packaging is just beautiful. Gatefold double CD with two full color booklets in die-cut cardstock. Ouch, it looks good.
My only real criticism, if it is that, or more like a extrapolation, or at least an item of interest that holds my curiosity: the separation between the “punk” tracks on one CD and the “traditional native” tracks on the other. Though the “native-ness” plays through the first CD, the second CD stands as what must be sort of a curiosity to the white punk listener. (Much like this one.) And this punk listener thinks the songs on the second CD would be listened to more if “assimilated” in with the rock tracks. And of course I choose my words deliberately, (hey, [silence] is a weapon) as I wonder how intentional and thought-out the split between sounds and cultures was. How direct of a statement is it? Is CD 1 Flagstaff, and CD 2, the reservation? Does the band feel so schizophrenic? Like the young man in Quadraphenia? Is punk “white?” Or was the band just making a rational marketing decision to not confuse the young listener who will just skip the non-guitar based tracks anyway? I have no idea. English 105 students take note, I’ve given you a freebie rhetorical analysis subject.
But Jesus H, just get this and blast this as you’re stuck in traffic, at full stop, in front of City Hall. Maybe it’ll work like osmosis.
WOW Guys!
by sibusisweWay to go!!!!! The album is great!!!! There is actually a review in rollingstone about your amazing album!!!!!
See You Later!!!
Cooneys
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