Diorama is the fourth album by the Australian band Silverchair, released in 2002. Although Silverchair is generally best known as a grunge band, by this time in their career, their music had progressed so far from its beginnings that this album can not really be considered grunge. However, it does still demonstrate some of the earlier grunge influence. An album (from Latin albus white, blank, relating to a blank book in which something can be inserted) is a packaged collection of related things. ... L-R Ben Gillies, Daniel Johns, and Chris Joannou // Early career The members of Silverchair were all born in 1979 in the Newcastle surf suburb of Merewether. ... 2002 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Grunge music (sometimes also referred to as the Seattle Sound) is an independent-rooted music genre that became a commercially successful offshoot of hardcore punk, thrash metal, and alternative rock in the late 1980s and early 1990s. ...

The sound of Diorama has been described by many as more refined than Silverchair's earlier work. It is probably more accurate, however, to view Diorama as the natural continuation of changes to their sound that began in Neon Ballroom. In any case, many of the songs can be described as progressive rock or progressive metal, including power ballads (e.g. "World Upon Your Shoulders"). One is reminded of Guns n' Roses' Use Your Illusion albums, except that a greater focus seems to be put on the symphonic arrangements (written by Van Dyke Parks). Other songs (e.g. "One Way Mule") exhibit more classic grunge riffs, albeit with more melodic, less angry vocals. Throughout the album can be heard time signatures other than 4/4, a throwback to Silverchair's earlier work and that of contemporaries Soundgarden. Neon Ballroom is the third album from the Australian grunge band Silverchair. ... The progressive rock band Yes performing in 1977. ... Progressive metal (shortened to prog, or prog metal when differentiating from progressive rock) is a heavy brand of progressive rock which is characterized by the use of complex compositional structures, odd time signatures, and other features. ... Power ballad is the name given to a certain genre of songs that were frequently included on heavy metal albums in the 1980s. ... The original line-up of Guns N Roses. ... Use Your Illusion I is an album by Guns N Roses. ... A symphony is an extended piece of music usually for orchestra and comprising several movements. ... Van Dyke Parks (born January 3, 1943) is an American composer, arranger, producer, and musician, noted for his collaborations with Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys on the song Heroes and Villains and the recently released cult-classic-album, Smile. ... A riff is an ostinato figure: a repeated chord progression or melodic figure, often played by the rhythm section instruments, that forms the basis or accompaniment of a rock music or jazz composition. ... }} Wiktionary has a definition of: Melody In music, a melody is a series of linear events or a succession, not a simultaneity as in a chord. ... The time signature (also known as meter signature) is a notational device used in Western musical notation to specify how many beats are in each bar and which note value (minim, crotchet, quaver, and so on) constitutes one beat. ... (L-R) Ben Shepherd, Chris Cornell, Kim Thayil and Matt Cameron. ...

Tracklisting

1. "Across the Night" (5:37)
2. "The Greatest View" (4:05)
3. "Without You" (5:17)
4. "The World Upon Your Shoulders" (4:37)
5. "One Way Mule" (2:46)
6. "Tuna in the Brine" (2:41)
7. "Too Much of Not Enough" (4:42)
8. "Luv Your Life" (4:29)
9. "The Lever" (4:22)
10. "My Favorite Thing" (4:14)
11. "After All These Years" (3:40)(on the CD the song lasts for 9:52 because of a "hidden" track that starts 8:48 into the song. The track is piano exit music with no vocals.)