Every song has a twist, each corner hides a surprise, yet it never seems like gimmickry. After the initial shock of each surprise wears off, there are a million reasons to come back for more
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The first 30 seconds of Jagged Little Pill preface the entire album ingeniously.
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The energetic spirit of punk lives well in the music, and front man Mike Ness writes simple songs with high energy and gusto. One would feel more sympathy for his woes if he didn’t make such enjoyable music from them.
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The problem with St. Anger comes in long hauls where the intensity sags. In those moments it sounds as though old age slipped in the back door and became Metallica’s fifth member.
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The Soft Bulletin was a game changer for The Flaming Lips
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In the wake of the fallout surrounding Taking Back Sunday in 2004, one would expect John Nolan to use Straylight Run as a way to unleash his anger. And he did, just not in the way everyone expected him to…
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Hardcore punk band Modern Life Is War got a lot of praise during its short existence, and every ounce of it was fully deserved.
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Talking Book still holds a place in the hearts of many baby boomers, as well as great musicians today who chose to take inspiration from their forefathers, so to speak.
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Brand New’s debut, 2001’s Your Favorite Weapon, is exactly the record a band coming out of the Long-Island-Post-Hardcore scene didn’t want to make: simple, meandering and containing only about 65 percent good ideas.
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From album opener “Grace Cathedral Park,” through the epic “Katy Song” and sobering “New Jersey,” the songs of Red House Painters deal with moving on, being left behind and sorting through the gray areas of life as they happen.
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What happens when you cross a Ra Ra Riot and a Vampire Weekend?
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Sonically it serves as a bridge from their youthful psychedelic impulses of The Piper at the Gates of Dawn and the mature blues-rock of the Dark Side. However, Obscured By Clouds is superior to the former: It exhibits evolution from their ’60s playfulness and preferable to the latter in that it never dissolves into histrionic self-importance.
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