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F.o.N.

Adventures in Boredom
2002
Doc Hollywood

F.o.N. - Adventures in Boredom (Cover Artwork)


Review by: moldy
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Published on January 10th 2003

F.o.N’s album Adventures In Boredom is exactly that, an adventure in being bored to death by a melodic pop-punk that at least doesn’t take its sound from NOFX but instead plays what sounds like they took Pennywise’s Alien and used that for the basis of their sound. That’s strike one. They have seven members in the band, and they don’t play ska. What the fucks up with that? That just makes them try to hard to be arty and it really doesn’t come off, nor the two singers who sound so similar that is it really hard to tell them apart. Strike two. Let’s see can we go for 3, yes we can. The song topics aren’t that far from some of the more emoish pop-punk bands out there, focusing on topics like unpopularity A Day Too Late, confusion Fragile, and doing your thing and challenging what around you Professional Crastination, The Movement.

I will give this points for a couple of things - their drummer is only 14, a prodigy of Blink’s Travis Barker, and won “Best Undiscovered Drummer-18 and Under” by Modern Drummer in 2001, and they don’t sing about girlfriends or the lack thereof. You'll like this album if you: love Alien, let Teen People influence your musical tastes, are named Wuss Emo Rock.






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    Posted by Anonymous on Monday, January 13, 2003 at 5:40 PM (EST)
    My Score:

    You have to have 100 words to get a review posted

    Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, January 12, 2003 at 8:44 AM (EST)
    My Score:

    You'll like this album if you: love Alien, let Teen People influence your musical tastes, are named Wuss Emo Rock.

    By Moldy

    That's all you need my friend. That's all you need :)

    Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, January 11, 2003 at 5:58 PM (EST)
    My Score:

    i saw this band in san diego with nerf herder a couple years back...i thought it was a joke...the keyboard player does a old school rap at the end...i seriosuly wanted them dead. dead. dead. dead. dead . dead. dead . dead. dead .

    Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, January 11, 2003 at 4:23 PM (EST)
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    ilan rubin makes this band. I watched them play at warped tour and couldnt even gather the energy to stand up they were so boring..... Hopefully Denver Harbor, will from fenix tx's new band, will be better. It has Ilan and drums, and his brother, who plays guitar in FON on guitar i think or bass or something. Oh well this album sucks anyways.

    Posted by viceroymonarch on 2003-01-11 12:29:35
    My Score:

    That last line at the end makes the whole review.

    Posted by Melvyl on 2003-01-11 09:03:11
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    well, a band whose blueprint is "alien"... that sounds pretty good to me. too bad they don't pull it off that well.

    Posted by maverick on 2003-01-11 08:33:35
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    Fixed, moldy.

    You can actually blame me, since technically I'm the reviews editor, it's my job to make sure you fucks don't misspell shit.

    -Scott

    Posted by moldy on 2003-01-10 23:48:43
    My Score:

    "If you like this album if you"
    Christ, i gotta start doing more than spell checker on these things
    It should have read You'll like this album if:

    Posted by Anonymous on Friday, January 10, 2003 at 8:06 PM (EST)
    My Score:

    Travis doesn't "suck" but he's definitely not the best out there.

    Posted by Anonymous on Friday, January 10, 2003 at 7:00 PM (EST)
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    travis barker sucks? wow...you are amongst the most ignorant people on the face of the earth. i hate you.

    Posted by Anonymous on Friday, January 10, 2003 at 6:32 PM (EST)
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    maybe they should become a ska band. This score is for ska.

    Posted by recordings on 2003-01-10 17:41:46
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    good point on the 7 member thing. seriously.

    score is for the Wuss bashing. ha.

    Posted by maverick on 2003-01-10 17:04:17
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    This CD was absolutely terrible.

    -Scott

    Posted by Anonymous on Friday, January 10, 2003 at 4:21 PM (EST)
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    May I say PiL rip off? There's nothing wrong with huge bands, but they need to find something to do with all those people. And Travis Barker sucked, sucks, and will suck in the future.

    Posted by Melvyl on 2003-01-10 16:11:29
    My Score:

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!

    i love this site.
    the last comment is fucking great.