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Useless ID

No Vacation from the World
2003
Kung Fu

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Review by: greg0rb
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Published on February 18th 2003

Useless I.D. Vegan Meatloaf

This dish is an enticing blend of the standard pop-punk flavor with some heavier guitars and darker melodies. Even if your hungry family is skeptical of foreign foods, this Israeli dish will fool anyone into thinking it is from Southern California. This will please anyone with a taste for energetic pop punk, but may not be suitable for indie kids and jaded punkers.

Main Ingredients:
2 ½ pounds Israel punk rocker meat-less patties, extract any possible political juices
4 cups Ataris influence, “end is forever” brand if available
3 cans relationship lyrics
1 teaspoon Lagwagon-esque double time beats
3 cups of tight musicianship
just a dash of originality

For additional flavor:
1 cup Tony Sly arranging, and songwriting for “Stuck without a Ride”
1 tablespoon Moog goodness
2 dashes Joey Cape backup vocals

1. Prepare main ingredients in Israel, sprinkle with U.S. west coast pop-punk spices to entice flavor.
2. Marinate in Orange Whip studio sauce.
3. Add Angus Cooke production until a satisfactory Ataris / Nerfherder aroma is present.
4. Mix in additional musician ingredients and simmer in your stereo for 35 minutes.
5. Serves 3 pop-punkers looking for a non-threatening, not-too-original dish with only the right ingredients.



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    Posted by ABedForLiars on 2006-10-08 16:32:44
    My Score:

    That was a fun review! I love this CD though. Useless ID is the best.

    Posted by greg0rb on 2003-02-21 11:21:36
    My Score:

    JuKeBoX, I was talking to twat exclusively. You're comment was fine, I got no problem with ya.
    -Greg

    Posted by Anonymous on Friday, February 21, 2003 at 1:45 AM (EST)
    My Score:

    Never said bad thing about your review big boy. I actually like it.. i just letting my humble opinion into the air :)

    JuKeBoX*

    Posted by greg0rb on 2003-02-21 00:24:58
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    Hey twatty boy discoverd my new review, good job! In case you didn't realize, I didn't say I liked the album that much. I didn't hate it either, it's good but nothing new (I did say that it's not too original) and the review just explains the sound. Everyone else seems to like my review, so you must just be an ass... but i figured that out already.
    -Greg

    P.S. My last name is Simpson, not Brady. There you go, some more ammunition for your fight against... well I'm not sure, nothing important anyway. Good luck with that.

    Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, February 20, 2003 at 11:54 PM (EST)
    My Score:

    Hey Betty Crocker, what the fuck are you cooking with? Don't you know that no matter how much you season it or how many fucking side dishes you add to it, it's still going to be bland, boring and taste like everything else in the grocery store. See its funny cuz I’m not really talking about food, I'm really talking about this band. HAHA. Nice fucking review Martha Stewart. Where's my mother fucking pie greg brady. twat

    Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, February 20, 2003 at 8:22 PM (EST)
    My Score:

    how can you hate a band that likes falafel?
    wyzo

    Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, February 20, 2003 at 8:22 PM (EST)
    My Score:

    every genre of music has its duds, its not the type of music being played that ruins a band. The difference between useless ID and a simple plan (the plan being lots of money?) or a good charlotte is the character of the people in the band, and there intentions. This is not math rock, and is not groundbreaking (is anything really?), but it is decent, and the band are good people. So go ahead and make enemies of people who have no agenda other than playing music.

    But lets face it, there from israel, fuck the jews.

    that was a joke.

    sigh.

    wyzo

    Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, February 20, 2003 at 2:14 PM (EST)
    My Score:

    "No Vacation From The World," the new album from Useless I.D., takes the patented So-Cal pop-punk sound, and brings in darker melodies, brighter harmonies, and even the occasional moog keyboard to lift the eyebrows of the jaded punker. Guitarist Ishay Berger explains: "I think the energy is the same as anything we did on our older records, but since we got bored with playing simple and catchy pop punk like we did for so many years, we kind of wanted to write a powerful heavy record and create different sounds that we wanted to hear more on punk records we like."

    This is from the Useless Id website, like the other guy said, you can see the So Cal pop punk influence. I agree this is not the best cd ever created but hey it's not a bad effort and it's better than Bad Story, Happy Ending. It seems like I'm the only one who kinda like Useless Id but hey who cares anyway :) highlight are Crush & At least I tried. 7/10

    JuKeBoX*

    Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, February 20, 2003 at 2:04 PM (EST)
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    I can't beleive someone compare Useless ID with Good Charlotte. [b]Don't get me wrong, No vacation from the world is not the best cd of the year or the most innovative stuff i've ever heard but it's still decent[/b]. You can see the So-Cal generic pop-punk-sing-along influance in this one. I think it's better than End is forever from The Ataris. My favorite track are [i]My Therapy[/i], [i]Crush[/i] and [i]At Least I tried[/i]
    [br]
    7/10

    w3stbeach

    Posted by greg0rb on 2003-02-20 11:15:43
    My Score:

    THE reviewin'. Yeah.

    Posted by greg0rb on 2003-02-20 11:15:19
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    Thanks for the positive comments on my review everybody, it's so nice compared to the comments usually found on this site. And Melvyl, yeah that's exactly what I was goin for so I'm glad it was apparent. I guess I'll keep up he reviewin'.
    -Greg

    Posted by Melvyl on 2003-02-20 07:16:40
    My Score:

    this is amazing. a really good review of an average-pop-punk cd, the review doesn't praise it, or bash it, yet i know exactly how this sounds now.

    Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, February 19, 2003 at 11:35 PM (EST)
    My Score:

    NUFAN is the shit

    Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, February 19, 2003 at 8:08 PM (EST)
    My Score:

    Great review

    -Bemused-

    Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, February 19, 2003 at 7:55 PM (EST)
    My Score:

    thank god someone with a mind. oh look, a pop punk cd, it must suck. there is a difference between bands like this and good charlotte.

    stop being stupid critical punks.

    Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, February 19, 2003 at 7:20 PM (EST)
    My Score:

    stop your bitching ,its a good cd.The day one of you guys release a cd then maybe ill listen to you ,but for now shut up and think about what your saying.

    Posted by eyeball_kid on 2003-02-19 19:08:01
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    Yep, they're pretty stinky. The problem is, with all the GoodCharlotteSimplePlan type bands going around these days, they could almost seem respectable in the eyes of 'the kids'.

    Do not be fooled.

    Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, February 19, 2003 at 6:54 PM (EST)
    My Score:

    and don't forget the full toilet full of bullshit

    Posted by bruceless on 2003-02-19 15:14:29
    My Score:

    Decent songs.. will not offend me as a listener of music, but not exactly enough to draw me back. Decent effort of the review.

    Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, February 19, 2003 at 2:31 AM (EST)
    My Score:

    useless id fucking sucks .
    kund fu fucking sucks.
    the ataris fuckin sucks.
    no use for a name fuckin sucks .
    the artwork of all of the kung fu cd's fuckin sucks .

    the only decent thing of this cd is joey cape singin on some song .

    as for the band being "vegan" --- tell them to fuck off!!!

    Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, February 19, 2003 at 1:34 AM (EST)
    My Score:

    wah wah wah bitch bitch. sounds like this sounds like that wah wah.
    it's a good cd.

    Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, February 19, 2003 at 1:31 AM (EST)
    My Score:

    "Original review, wish I could say the same for the band. I'm not even sure why they even bother.
    -El Vaquero"

    Cause they have fun?

    Posted by pope_schlomo on 2003-02-18 23:57:54
    My Score:

    Another bland pop punk band from Kung Fu. The review was great it gets a 10. Now I'm going to go bake me a cake.

    Ramo

    Posted by WussEmoRock on 2003-02-18 21:33:08
    My Score:

    Greg...this review will stay a classic. It is great!!! To bad it's of Useless ID and not many people will read it =)
    good work man

    *****Wuss-Emo-Rock*****

    Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, February 18, 2003 at 8:16 PM (EST)
    My Score:

    BEST.REVIEW.EVER

    A 10 does not do this review justice. You my man, get a 20.

    Posted by JiveSide on 2003-02-18 20:15:59
    My Score:

    "3. Add Angus Cooke production until a satisfactory Ataris / Nerfherder aroma is present."

    Fucking excellent, this was my favorite part of the recipe. Great review.

    Posted by ElVaquero on 2003-02-18 19:17:53
    My Score:

    Original review, wish I could say the same for the band. I'm not even sure why they even bother.

    -El Vaquero

    Posted by Scotty on 2003-02-18 19:11:35
    My Score:

    Awesome review. See the stars.

    Posted by Bryne on 2003-02-18 17:54:50
    My Score:

    I'm hungry.

    Posted by viceroymonarch on 2003-02-18 17:03:07
    My Score:

    best review ever.

    Posted by joeg on 2003-02-18 16:17:16
    My Score:

    haha. this score is for the review as well. as for the band? i would give em a 0.

    Posted by AstroVince on 2003-02-18 15:00:29
    My Score:

    this score is for the review.