Growing On Me

Well, after a little hiatus, we are back up and running. This week we have a little ditty by Breaking Benjamin called "Sooner Or Later".

Formed in 1998 by vocalist Benjamin Burnley and drummer Jeremy Hummel, Breaking Benjamin quickly garnered a strong local following in their home state of Pennsylvania. The band derived their name from an incident when Burnley was covering a Nirvana song during an open mic night at a club when he dropped the microphone, breaking it. The person who owned the microphone came on stage and said, "Thanks to Benjamin for breaking my mic." In 1999 the band changed its name shortly to Plan 9 then in late 2001, after various line-up changes, the band changed its name back to "Breaking Benjamin"

This is a band that took me some time to get to appreciate. After hearing of them, I listened to a cd and quickly discharged it to the bin of music lost. But then I would hear them on the radio from time to time and they grew on me a little at a time. Now, I find I can enjoy some of their songs, but still they don't really hold my interest as whole.

This song i do enjoy. It is a modern day roller coaster ballad. What's that you might say? Its a song that has many different elements of musical emotion. It has a heavy anger element, then a sorrow filled melody and a light airy breakdown. This is a nice attempt at a ballad like song for them. It has a good sound and good material, dealing with the fact that eventually a relationship will fall apart, so just throw it away.

Good song, not the greatest, but I like to listen to it from time to time and maybe they will grow a little more on me as time goes on.