they had some neato lyrics

I totally agree I thought this was an extremely underrated release, these guys do have some talent the first 8 songs on Shake Your Body Politic rock, but then it kind of falls off. I was hoping to catch them sometime to, oh well life moves on.

A lot of bands now are probably formed in college. Let's say, around their sophmore year. They have 2.5 years playing while in school, then try to do it once they leave/graduate. After 2 years of being out of school with no money, it's gets rough and you start reevaluating your current position and options, most of my friends and I have went through this. So you change paths and bam, band breaks up.

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Someone (January 14, 2006)

yeah and it also happens often when your band sucks

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Someone (January 14, 2006)

I bet any bands you were in didn't last long.

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givemeamuseumandillfillit (January 14, 2006)
Good call, but nowdays its more like this: Nowdays it can vary 15 years between people in a band, so, let's say, this band gets together because they're all into the same kind of sub-sub-genre. They play together for a while, change some members, make a demo, plays some shows, it's now 1½ year later, and they have quite a few myspace freinds from the demo, so they decide to record a cd. They loan some money from mommy and daddy to record a cd. With the cd done, they put up a song or two on their myspace/purevolume. Now the two core members with ambition kick half of the band out and replace them with better looking guys, who all have "their own thing" image-wise, but can barely play their instruments. They put up their new promoshot, and all of a sudden they get a call from equal vision. We're now at 2 years, because the first one and a half year "didn't count

show rest of commentGood call, but nowdays its more like this: Nowdays it can vary 15 years between people in a band, so, let's say, this band gets together because they're all into the same kind of sub-sub-genre. They play together for a while, change some members, make a demo, plays some shows, it's now 1½ year later, and they have quite a few myspace freinds from the demo, so they decide to record a cd. They loan some money from mommy and daddy to record a cd. With the cd done, they put up a song or two on their myspace/purevolume. Now the two core members with ambition kick half of the band out and replace them with better looking guys, who all have "their own thing" image-wise, but can barely play their instruments. They put up their new promoshot, and all of a sudden they get a call from equal vision. We're now at 2 years, because the first one and a half year "didn't count since they weren't a real band". Because they payed for the record with mommy and daddys money, the label only has to license the cd, so it's less of a hassle for them, and will make money quicker than the usual way. They do a support tour with some other equal vision/ferret/solid state bands, and then they release the cd, which is supported by tons of internet banners and purevolume payola. 2½ years. They go from being 4th support to being main support for a mid-size scene band and playing a few random headline shows for 150-200 kids. one of the 2 core members in the band quit, and he's taking the 2 guys he brought in a year earlier with him, the band is now only one member and the guy he brought in. 3 years. They get a new lineup including a guy who used to be in a mid-sized poppunk band. They continue touring the same way as usual, ap.net kids going crazy for new material, so they decide to record some. 3½years. They record the cd with support from the label, which gets them some cool hardcore/rock/emo/nu-metal producer, and a major label pop engineer to mix it. The cd is now released. 4 years. The online banners has created so much hype by now that they start off with a headlining tour, playing in 500-1000 capacity venues, with bands supporting them who were pretty big 2 years ago but lost it with their latest release. 3 guys quits again, including the guy the first guy brought in, so it's now the first guy and some random douche. They get a new band, play a few local shows, talk about "going back to their earlier sound" and write a few songs. They play demos for the label, but apparently their sub-sub genre is old now, no one cares about that genre, according to the label. So they go back and rewrite their material according to the latest trend. And here's where they either break up, like we're talking about, or drafted by a major label (which would need the headline to be changed to 2001-2008, after the label drops them). Why the hell did i write that much? I'm not even making sense! MEGA MEGA PANCAKES!
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redpatch (January 15, 2006)

whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat? pancakes? whaaat?

I went to CVS and bought some Twizzlers Twerpz. It's the best new candy I've had in ages.

Protest = Vagrant. Mark my words. This label has 2 good bands, infact 2 bands left: Hostage Life and Dead Letter Dept. Closet Monster were awful and "london" is a coke snorting egomaniac hypocrite. But yeah, bombs were great.

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danielsan (January 15, 2006)

hostage life are fucking awful I had to sit through that shit twice this year (opening up for rise against then again for the loved ones) the singer seemed like a total douche too

OH WAIT GOD NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO -Scott

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danielsan (January 15, 2006)

you set 'em up, you knock 'em down

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givemeamuseumandillfillit (January 15, 2006)

Jimmies chicken shack?

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redpatch (January 17, 2006)

hahahaha

Protest signed to Vagrant. but will remian on UO in Canada.