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A Finnish friend of mine in chat said listen to this and I was hooked instantly. Everyone I have told to listen to POTF loves them. From 6 - 40+ years old. The US is really missing out. I need to get POTF some radio time I went to every music store I could to find COR but NO one had it or knew what I was talking about. Ended up going online. I now have all 3 (in a few days.. guess I need it in my hands before I own it?) I can't speak highly enough about POTF. THANK YOU ! CC

Welcome, CC! Enjoy your stay and keep spreading the word!

Thank you TheArtist I have no choice but to spread the word. As soon as I get the new CD, if it is like it was with the other two, it's all I will listen to for a while.

hi all,i am come from Hong Kong(China)
it is far away form finland
lucky max payne is quite popular in Hong Kong
i know POTF from the games
if no max payne 2 ,no Poets of the fall in my computer
i am disappointed that no mv,no cd in HK!!
so i can't buy the cd form the shop........no cd shop know them....
(sorry for i downloaded the mp3)
it is hard to introduce POTF to another people
i hope POTF can come to china to hava a gig

sorry for bad english

i've know them through my sister who listens 2 them 24\7!!!

I found them by chance in summer 2006.
I was just browsing some sites and I saw the name among other bands and it captivated me. In the next moment I was watching the video 'Lift' on youtube and it didn`t fail at all...
It`s been love at first listening. I couldn`t get CoR and LG out of my head and I didn`t even want to
Thenceforth Poets are my favourite and there`s no chance to replace them

a freidn of mine had "lift" added to her myspace profile and that song just stucked in my ehad

Oh my, I haven't posted anything in this thread yet? :-O
I was sure I did... hmm. Anyway, time to change it! :D

Well what a surprise, it all began with Max Payne 2.
It was one of my favourite games at that moment.
And of course, I've been hearing "that song" thorughout all the game - Mona, the cleaners, the janitor... At first, I didn't pay too much attention to it and when came the credits, I thought "oh, it's that song, how nice" and forgot all about it.
Then I played it for the second time and started noticing it more. After I beat it, it coudn't get it out of my head and it very soon got into my mp3 player (lacking any other sources, I ripped it from the credits' video file) and somehow I found out who's behind it.

From then, I was addicted. I couldn't get Late Goodbye out of my head. Then I palyed it to my friend and after some time, he told me that he downloaded both SoL and CoR (yeah, we got them illegally for quite some time, I confess and repent - my fully legal copies arrived along with RR about a week ago and said friend is getting his soon too).
For a while, they were just lying idly on my drives, since my player had quite limited capacity. Then I decided to try them out. I began with a few songs (Fire and Delicious, if i'm not mistaken) and it was good. Then I tried some more and it was getting better and better. Finally I got a bigger memory card with the room for both full albums and became an complete addict I'm now! :D

When I come to think of it, I've been actively listening to them only since October 2007. For "Bob"'s sake, it seemed I knew them longer... Like they've been with me for eternity.. :)

A bit off-topic, but:

I salvated one of my friends yesterday, yay I'd made this sample CD with mixed songs from all three albums (God, it took me long time to choose which ones!) that I brought along, and marvellously, the second it started playing no one changed songs even after the CD had gone around twice!

Well yeah, one time said friend switched back to Roses to hear it again before going on, but that was it.

Then he told me "I don't just like this band... I'm in love with it!"

And so I got him hooked for the upcoming gig. Go Poets! You just can't help but to love from first listen, you should be darn proud

So awesome that it worked

POTF did all the work, honey

Max Payne2 !!

Although i live in Estonia that is the neighbour of Finland, POTF isn't very famous here. That's sad, cause for me it is one of the best bands ever. It might be because of no POTF fan-stuff and cd's being sold in our music stores. I have no idea, why..

The way I found the band was a bit mysterious. I was feeling down .. again .. and i searched through my computer for good sad songs. I found from my received files a song i had never heard. It was Carnival Of Rust by Poets Of The Fall. I began to listen it and it was the only song i listened to for two weeks. Until i got over my depression. Then i started to search for other songs of POTF and i loved them all. It became my favorite. But when i asked from people, who had sent Carnival Of Rust to me, no one knew. And i asked from everyone.

Seems like i didn't find POTF, but they found me .

Great story, Miss Impossible. For me, it was Lift that broke through my depression. These songs seem to have a magic all their own, don't they?

Welcome!

Might be God

There's a very simple reason for that: media coverage, and above all, radio play (or lack of it). To really break in any country, you simply need lots of radio play, plus other media coverage. If you are not in the radio, not in TV, and not in newspapers, people are just not going to find you from the net alone, even in this modern age. Even just putting CDs in the stores is not enogh. You need marketing, marketing, and above all, marketing.

And to be in radio and other media, you usually need a big record company, since radios usually just play what big record companies tell them to, and big companies have the money to put ads in newspapers and TV etc. That's why it takes a little longer for POTF to break in other countries.

whatif i don't believe in God ?
well, it might have been some greater power, though. whatever it was, i'm really thankful.

thanks,
yes, they really have some special.. you can really call it magic, in them.
i feel sorry for people who have to deal with depression without their songs.. for me now it would be unthinkable.

Hi! This is my first post and I am really excited that I finally got a valid account because i made another one and got no email to activate it I could say that I discovered POTF twice. Someone gave me CoR and Lift about two years ago and I really liked them, but I could get no other songs then. In autumn last year I found those two songs again and this time I was able to get the two complete albums. Ever since I've been slowly but steadily getting obsessed

And I am the friend

But I have also original CDs now, all three albums along with T-shirt and I'm soooooo happy because of it

Welcome, Daughter of Arwen

I heard...I think Carnival of Rust on the radio. The song was so full of emotion and I wondered how it is possible to express so much emotion in a song by the way of vocals and instruments. I never had heard anything like it. And from that I had a sudden thought that this voice had impressed me before too (probably the song "Lift" on the radio), but for some reason I hadn't paid attention to it so much that I would have gone to the store and buy the band's record. Well, after I bought "COR", I absolutely wanted "SOL" too. And I loved them both and I still do.

Boy you were quick! Yes, I corrected the song's name, I meant "Lift".

last year, around october, i watched a video about an anime on youtube.
from the very beginning i realised that fabolous song.
it was carnival of rust...
from that day i am a huge fan =)

first I heard them on radio but paid no attention....I can't even remember what song it was ..... and later, when I was bored, I searched for interesting bands on Myspace..... when I found them there, I first thought "Poets of the fall? Don't know them".... Then I listened to the songs( LG, lift, COR and LUTS) und noticed that I do know them .... yeah, and then I bought COR and SOL(which was quite difficult to get )..... and since last september (when I had to move to another city because of my education) I hear them nearly without pause .....

Great stories, everyone! It warms my heart to read them through.

Welcome to the forum, everyone new!

I'm a typical victim of advertisement. I loved the POTF songs that I had heard on the radio (Lift, Stay, I&D, CoR etc.) for many years but I didn't buy their albums until I heard LUTS in the Heroes trailer (Finland). Shortly after I found myself standing in a record store...

nice news .. also , i meet POTF in my pc game Max Payne 2 in 2003. what a nice.. i like this Band and music and songs.....

So you just waited five years to check out their forum?