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Post by Flip on Oct 8, 2014 0:45:43 GMT -5
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Mikey
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Post by Mikey on Oct 8, 2014 9:10:24 GMT -5
35 ?
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Green Baron
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Post by Green Baron on Oct 8, 2014 20:44:18 GMT -5
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Mikey
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Post by Mikey on Oct 9, 2014 0:03:16 GMT -5
Wew that's a surprise...
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Lordef†ones
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Post by Lordef†ones on Oct 9, 2014 10:05:09 GMT -5
Pretty close to the 70 I would've given her. I guess I can't go over on guessing like price is right?
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Green Baron
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Post by Green Baron on Oct 10, 2014 20:28:26 GMT -5
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Post by Green Baron on Oct 18, 2014 18:56:20 GMT -5
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Post by Albie on Oct 18, 2014 22:53:08 GMT -5
Baron I have to admit that you're actually a good writer. And to top that off, I agree with your review based on the snippets I've heard. I'd actually forgotten about Yellowcard and would rather they stay that way. But oh well.
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Post by Green Baron on Oct 19, 2014 0:45:21 GMT -5
Baron I have to admit that you're actually a good writer. And to top that off, I agree with your review based on the snippets I've heard. I'd actually forgotten about Yellowcard and would rather they stay that way. But oh well. everyone says that like it's a surprise, lol. Y'know what, I'll be nice and offer what people call my best review. Who knows, maybe you guys will like it, Anberlin | Cities 96/100 *AOTY 2007* Originally posted on March 5th, 2014
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Lordef†ones
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Post by Lordef†ones on Oct 21, 2014 0:08:47 GMT -5
I'm surprised you gave Anberlin such a good review, considering they're terrible.
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Post by Green Baron on Oct 26, 2014 8:56:35 GMT -5
I'm surprised you gave Anberlin such a good review, considering they're terrible. SHUT THE FUCK UP!!
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Post by Green Baron on Oct 28, 2014 21:37:04 GMT -5
My next review will be of Bush's new album, Man on the Run.
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Post by Lordef†ones on Oct 28, 2014 21:38:31 GMT -5
My next review will be of Bush's new album, Man on the Run. A stellar album even if it's not as good as The Sea of Memories, in my poorly-written opinion.
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Post by Green Baron on Oct 28, 2014 21:41:17 GMT -5
My next review will be of Bush's new album, Man on the Run. A stellar album even if it's not as good as The Sea of Memories, in my poorly-written opinion. I still near to head it, lol
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Post by Green Baron on Nov 6, 2014 23:32:40 GMT -5
Bush | Man on the Run 57/100
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Post by Green Baron on Nov 6, 2014 23:33:33 GMT -5
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Post by Green Baron on Nov 27, 2014 18:11:53 GMT -5
Foo Fighters | Sonic Highways 68/100
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Post by Green Baron on Dec 10, 2014 17:49:23 GMT -5
Walk the Moon | Talking is Hard 58/100
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Post by Green Baron on Jan 22, 2015 0:57:07 GMT -5
THE WONDER YEARS - THE GREATEST GENERATION 92/100
"Growing up is hard to do. It’s difficult to watch the carefree days of the past slowly burn out and be replaced by newfound responsibilities and privileges that appear to be nothing more than unnecessary burdens. Often we as humans tend to gravitate away from our duties and obligations and focus more on the emotive outputs that arise as a result of our failures and flaws. Such is the mantra of The Greatest Generation, the fourth studio album by Philadelphia-based pop-punk band The Wonder Years. Behind the upbeat instrumentation and heartfelt vocals lies a web of fear and uncertainty for the future and a reflection on the mistakes made in the past. It’s not a record for mending broken hearts, it’s one for realizing that at 26 years old, nothing’s still been accomplished and will most likely never be. It’s for breaking down at the throes of melancholy and accepting the fact that depression will sooner or later win the eternal fight. It’s for holding on to that tiny sliver of hope left after a grandparent falls ill and trying to mask the fact that the fear of him dying is too much to handle. The Greatest Generation is Soupy Campbell doing his damned best to take on his inner demons, and if there’s a more passionate, emotionally moving way to do so than the crescendos of piano-ballad-turned-fiery-rocker “The Devil in My Bloodstream” or the summation of the album’s most genuinely sentimental passages on “I Just Want to Sell Out My Funeral”, Campbell hasn’t made it yet. The Wonder Years take the hardest parts of post-adolescent struggles and create perhaps one of the deepest, emotionally raw pop-punk albums to ever exist."
www.sputnikmusic.com/review/65723/The-Wonder-Years-The-Greatest-Generation/
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Post by Green Baron on Feb 9, 2015 17:52:59 GMT -5
I feel like no one uses this thread at all.
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Post by Green Baron on Feb 9, 2015 17:53:28 GMT -5
I feel like no one uses this thread at all.
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Post by Green Baron on Feb 9, 2015 17:55:50 GMT -5
FALL OUT BOY - AMERICAN BEAUTY / AMERICAN PSYCHO 32/100Post-breakup Fall Out Boy is, to put it bluntly, nothing but a f**king mess. There’s no way the same band who made the quintessential 2000s pop-punk radio smashes “Sugar, We’re Going Down” and “Dead on Arrival” are the same ones who tarnished Suzanne Vega’s good name on the absolutely limp and vocally awkward “Centuries”. After Save Rock and Roll proved that Fall Out Boy’s increasingly poppier direction was stripping away any sense of energy or identity that they had before calling it quits, one would think they would do something to improve. Yet, at least Save Rock and Roll had an “Alone Together” or a “Young Volcanoes”, a song that stood out amongst the “My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark (Light ‘Em Up)”s of the record. American Beauty / American Psycho has absolutely nothing. Well, at least close to nothing. Right off the bat, this album pretty much lets you know what to expect. If the sterile, vapid “Irresistible” wasn’t already enough of a turn-off, then maybe the title track will be, in all its electronic-infused, migraine-inducing glory. For those with a high tolerance for pain, surely “Centuries” will be the final nail in the coffin. After all, there’s no point in sampling “Tom’s Diner” if it isn’t over a lifeless, completely unmemorable faux-anthem destined to become ESPN’s go-to track for college football promotion, isn’t it? American Beauty / American Psycho just feels so hollow and worn out, like Patrick Stump and his crew are just recording for the f**k of it and not putting any real soul into the process. Fall Out Boy are slowly following the path of Maroon 5, and by that I mean focusing primarily on the lead singer and making the other members of the band do nothing but stand there and play their barely audible instruments. Sure, there’s the occasional noticeable guitar riff, and the drums are easy to hear at some places, but even if they’re not playing pop-punk anymore, that’s no reason to just take them out of the picture. Hell, the rhythm of “Centuries” is eerily similar to that of Levine’s “Animals”! Stump’s vocals are put on full display, which is a shame because they can be downright terrible. Whether it’s the “na na na”s on “Novocaine”, the ear-splitting “remember meeeeee for centurieeeeees or the entirety of “Immortals”, his whiny tone has a tendency to cause much a cringe. Whenever he’s not piercing eardrums, he sounds bored, tired of singing the same inane garbage over and over again. Slower songs like “The Kids Aren’t Alright” see him snoozingly spouting off nonsense lines like “stuck in the jetwash, bad trip I couldn’t get off / and maybe I bit off more than I could chew, and overhead of the aqua blue” over a formulaic drumbeat and occasional ten-decibel riff. There is, however, one saving grace to this whole psychotic mess, and that’s the closer, “Twin Skeleton’s (Hotel in NYC)”. After sifting through ten tracks and 35 minutes of directionless misfires, Fall Out Boy deliver an anthem with rousing guitar, a fist-pumping drumbeat and fiery vocals that epitomize everything this album should have been. The life and energy that is brought to that last track gives a tiny sliver of hope that maybe, just maybe, they’ll learn from their mistakes this time out and craft a better album on their next attempt. Or maybe they won’t. After all, American Beauty / American Psycho sold a baffling 218,000 copies in its first week, and in an era where album sales are a fraction of what they once were in the past, that’s enough to place in the upper echelon of openings over the past year. Abandoning their pop-punk wouldn’t have been a problem if Fall Out Boy had been able to put the same energy onto this as they did in the past, but what plagued Save Rock and Roll is the same thing that will be the downfall of this. It’s an overblown attempt at writing huge, arena-ready songs that just falls flat on its face. This brand of music just isn't their strong suit, and the quicker they realize that the better. After all, no one will remember this album in a year, much less a whole one hundred of them. www.sputnikmusic.com/review/65958/Fall-Out-Boy-American-Beauty---American-Psycho
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Post by Green Baron on Feb 24, 2015 0:55:48 GMT -5
ALL THAT REMAINS - THE ORDER OF THINGS25/100
Secretly, All That Remains frontman Phil Labonte must be a psychic, because it appears that he's gifted with the ability to predict the future. The Order of Things, his band's seventh album, contains a lead single entitled “This Probably Won’t End Well”. Opening the record with its watered down instrumentation, lazily written hook and generic sound, its title manages to forecast anything and everything about the other eleven songs. Although, to be fair, this outcome isn’t exactly that big of a surprise. 2012’s A War You Cannot Win allowed All That Remains to become the first metalcore band to score a #1 hit on the Billboard Mainstream Rock charts (with a song that actually lacked most traits of metalcore) while also giving them the opportunity to mess around with pop ballads and stale harsh vocals.
The Order of Things picks up right where A War You Cannot Win left off, and it should easily be established by now that the chances of All That Remains making another album like The Fall of Ideals is less than one percent. However, they don’t need to make another album just like The Fall of Ideals as much as they need to channel the energy and spirit that they had on “This Calling” or “Six”, back when it seemed like the band was at least having some sort of fun while making music. There’s simply no life left, and it’s not the decreased amount of harsh vocals that are to blame, because All That Remains have written good songs solely with cleans. It’s the complete lack of emotion, or anything resembling some sort of enjoyment that leads to this album’s downfall.
Lyrics like "Remember what made us great" and “What’s it like to gradually fade out?” from mid-tempo lullaby "The Greatest Generation" become ironically laughable after discovering the absolute lack of quality on this album. Acoustic ballad “For You” is as potent as the fine stylings of Theory of a Deadman, while the last few songs feature influence from deathcore, perhaps an attempt to reference their glory days without any of the actual glory. Other flaws include the irritating overuse of AutoTune on Lambonte’s voice, the Five Finger Death Punch-esque watered down instrumentation and the cheesy, unneeded female backing vocals. There's even a track titled, and I kid you not, "Tru-Kvlt-Metal" (Side note: also, I’m pretty sure the intro to “Victory Lap” was taken straight from Coheed and Cambria’s “The Suffering). The only redeemable aspects of this album come in the form of the seven-minute closer “Criticism and Self-Realization”, featuring the closest thing to atmosphere you’ll get on here. The harsh vocals don’t feel forced, the piano section is pretty, and although it borders on boring territory at times, it easily takes the title of best song on the album.
No one’s clamoring for All That Remains to make a direct sequel to The Fall of Ideals. It would help, however, if the end result was more inspired than the bland and insipid garbage that makes up most of The Order of Things. Undoubtedly, their recent success on the charts has played a role in the dumbing down of their sound, but it’s yet another step in the wrong direction. There are ways to remain (get it?) radio-friendly while still being musically interesting, although Phil must have not gotten the memo. How much longer can they continue down this road before finally caving into the pressure and returning to their metalcore roots? Then again, it’s not guaranteed that retracing their steps would do them any good either. The Order of Things is the sound of musical stagnation and apathy. The saddest part? It’s still not as bad as A War You Cannot Win.
www.sputnikmusic.com/review/66140/All-That-Remains-The-Order-of-Things/
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