Sing the Sorrow

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Sing the Sorrow
AFI - Sing the Sorrow cover.jpg
Studio album by
AFI
ReleasedMarch 11, 2003 (2003-03-11)
RecordedAugust–December 2002
Studio Cello, Los Angeles, California
Genre
Length55:54
Label DreamWorks • Nitro
Producer Jerry Finn, Butch Vig
AFI chronology
The Art of Drowning
(2000)		Sing the Sorrow
(2003)		 AFI
(2004)
AFIvideo chronology
Clandestine
(2003)		 I Heard a Voice – Live from Long Beach Arena
(2006)
Standard edition
No.TitleLength
1."Miseria Cantare - The Beginning"2:57
2."The Leaving Song Pt. II"3:31
3."Bleed Black"4:15
4."Silver and Cold"4:11
5."Dancing Through Sunday"2:26
6."Girl's Not Grey"3:10
7."Death of Seasons"3:59
8."The Great Disappointment"5:27
9."Paper Airplanes (makeshift wings)"3:58
10."This Celluloid Dream"4:11
11."The Leaving Song"2:44
12."...But Home Is Nowhere"
"The Spoken Word" (hidden track)
"This Time Imperfect" (hidden track)		15:07
  • 4:16
  • 10:38
Total length:55:54

Notes

1. ^ On digital editions, "This Time Imperfect" isn't a hidden track, and includes "The Spoken Word" (listed as “…but Home Is Nowhere”) before it as track 12. [29] [30] [31] [32]
Japanese edition
No.TitleLength
13."Now the World"4:03
Total length:59:57
UK edition
No.TitleLength
12."...but home is nowhere"3:51
13."Synesthesia"3:30
14."Now the World"
"The Spoken Word" (hidden track)
"This Time Imperfect" (hidden track)		15:19 * 4:16
  • 10:38
Total length:1:03:28
Special limited edition DVD
No.TitleLength
1."Clandestine" (short film) (playable in two versions; Jade's soundtrack and Hunter's soundtrack)8:06
2."Death of Seasons" (Audio 5.1 Mix)3:59
3."Silver and Cold" (Audio 5.1 Mix)4:11
4."...but home is nowhere" (Audio 5.1 Mix)3:51
5."The Great Disappointment" (Audio 5.1 Mix)5:27
6."Reivers' Music" (Audio 5.1 Mix)3:22
Total length:28:16

B-sides and outtakes

All songs presumably recorded during the Sing the Sorrow sessions unless otherwise noted.

Personnel

Credits adapted from the album's booklet. [38]

Certifications and chart positions

Weekly charts

Chart (2003)Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA) [39] 65
Canadian Albums (Billboard) [40] 10
UK Albums (OCC) [41] 52
US Billboard 200 [42] 5

Year-end charts

Chart (2003)Position
US Billboard 200 [43] 107

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA) [44] Gold35,000^
Canada (Music Canada) [6] Platinum100,000^
United Kingdom (BPI) [45] Silver60,000‡
United States (RIAA) [5] Platinum1,000,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Release history

Legacy

In November 2022, the band announced that they would play the album in its entirety the first and only time at the Kia Forum in Los Angeles on March 11, 2023, the album's 20th anniversary. Jawbreaker, Chelsea Wolfe, and Choir Boy were slated to open the event. [46] The band dedicated "Paper Airplanes (makeshift wings)" to Jawbreaker and "The Leaving Song" to album producer Jerry Finn, who died in 2008. Additionally, the out-of-print vinyl album was reissued for the anniversary. [47]

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References

Footnotes

  1. ↑ An early idea for the album cover depicted a burning rose. [11] This was repurposed as the cover for some releases of the "Girl's Not Grey" single. [12]
  2. 1 2 The title can be found in the special limited edition book of Sing the Sorrow.

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