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Published on February 25th 2003
Buddyhead. Love it or hate it, you have to respect it. The runners of Buddyhead, Travis Keller and Aaron North, have some big balls. Let's face it, I bought this cd a year ago because Buddyhead is just fucking hilarious, how surprised I was when I listened to this for the first time. People who liked this also liked:           Please login or register to post comments. What are the benefits of having a Punknews.org account?
I wouldn't call this a Drive Like Jehu rip-off. It's obviously inspired by Drive Like Jehu, but where would music (or anything at all, for that matter) be without inspiration? reading this review before seeing them live tonight got me thinking... Cardamone looks absolutely wack on stage, and he sings/screams like a wacko as well. Even though it's destructive and depressing as hell, this is just fucking inspiring. And who's to say "this is what punk-rock should have evolved in to", well, this IS what punk-rock has evolved in to. This is like all great records, it makes everything else shite. The comparisons are Drive Like Jehu, Black Flag, Jesus Lizard and The Stooges with maybe a bit of Spacemen 3 thrown. With influences like those, this record couldn't be bad. this album is good. its very technical and very passionate. sounds like vaux,atthedrivein and refused type music. if u dig those bands, you'll like this, its darker though and less catchy. a darker and less commercial sounding vaux. its good but not amazing. its overrated. it won't change your life. it starts to sound all the same after the first half, but the first half is great. second half is ok. i can name a hundred 80's bands better than guns n roses. you fucking little kids gotta learn that guns and roses was probably had the best 80's album, i know thats not saying much, but appeite for destruction is one of the best rock albums ever. i mean seriously, grow up.next we'll have you little kids saying the beatles sucked. christ. go listen to some music. i bet the kid that said guns were an ok mainstream band thinks the all american rejects is the best thing to hit mtv in years. fuck! Buddyead used to be funny as hell. But you can only use the same one liners so many times before it becomes unfunny. Hey, if it still works for you great. Talk to me in six months, I'm sure your opinion will change after you read the same joke over & over & over & over..... trying to hard? i dont think those dudes put any effort into anything. my only criticism is how they give their friends favorable reviews even tho you can tell they want to rip into em. i thought buddyhead was supposed to be no holds barred? if you need an example just wait till the new cave in comes out. theyll give it a good review even tho its very boring. Buddyhead WAS the shit. Now they just try too hard. i find it funny how many people are actually offended by buddyhead. proof that sense of humor doesnt translate well into the written word i guess. i must be the only one who likes their review page too. its like asking a friend what they think of a cd and getting a funny response if it sucks.(my friends are assholes too yes). i think this type of informal reviewing compliments the more formal type pretty well. sometimes you just want a straight up opinion on a record rather cheesy pseudo poetic descriptions other reviewers try give. umm that was my home keyboard, it's broken at the moment, messing up the letters or not even typeing them in. well this album put my faith in punk rock again basically and other stuff i said. yeah it's great i liked reading this review, the icarus line rock. Whether you like Buddyhead or not (personally I do), they have some good bands. This album is really great and Your Enemies Friends is another awesome band. Dude that doesn't make any sense. no fuck all of you i will kill all of you ha .this album is a breath of fresh air . seriously even if you don't like at least there not some bullshit act trying to sound liek the locust the refused or at the drive in. godamn wo0o0o0o and it doesn't matter if axl is amazing or not cause he's fucing hot...i'd hit that owWwWwW 14 yo girls wo0o also buy the hoonay truth its quite amazing. Since when did music have anything to do with fucking loose hookers?! The ony reason chicks fucked Axl was because he was famous, I doubt he would have pulled ANY of that off without his fame! Look at him, he's skrawny, whinney and is just a flat out jerk......he whines when his shows are "slightly" inconvenienced. I'd love to see Axl deal with shit like Rollins wrote in Get in The Van...Axl probably would have quit or commited suicide the first night. Guns N Roses were OK for a mainstream act....but in comparison to Bad Religion they blew....BIG TIME. I never got into GnR and never really cared for them, even though they were far better than most hair metal garbage. Bad Religion, on the other hand, actually put some intelligent thought into their lyrics and, even funnier, started before GnR and are still in powerful existence 10 years after the demise of GnR. Guns N Roses are really overrated, especially their last albums. Their early stuff was OK, not great by any means. But their last 2 albums really blew bigtime. AXL- no "E" buddy, is brilliant. fucking guns n roses? where are you? yeah, slash and izzy were the backbone of that band, but without axl, the band would have been just another mediocre rock band. axl put them over the top. axl is also the only guy i can think of that can successfully get 7 hookers in a hottub installed on the back of a limo. motley crue came close though. if that isnt brilliant....maybe laying pipe is stephanie seymore isn't enough for you, but if hittin it with a victorias secret model isnt awesome, i dont know what is. they clearly don't like bad religion and pennywise. i don't either, those bands should quit. they are too damn old and boring...just like they were when they started out. buddyhead reviews are great reading. Good stuff.....but what's with Buddyhead....their reviews are pathetic. They gave Bad Religions ltest album an "Average" (?!?) and proceeded to label Pennywise as "jock rock".....I thought we were out of the labeling stage of our lives.....junior high is over you know! Plus they use Axel Rose as a scale for brilliance, when Axel is ANYTHING but brilliant! "I liked this band & this album until they played in my basement. While most of the people in the band were cool, one or two were complete fucking assholes and the Icarus Line has the distinction of being the only band ever to be chased out of my house. I think they're proud of that, but they really shouldn't be." "this have given faith in punk rock again, heard this over ago before i even heard of buddyhead, blew me away, thanks to this i been expose to the world to of the undergrounds thansk to the buddyhead site this have given faith in punk rock again, heard this over ago before i even heard of buddyhead, blew me away, thanks to this i been expose to the world to of the undergrounds thansk to the buddyhead site I liked this band & this album until they played in my basement. While most of the people in the band were cool, one or two were complete fucking assholes and the Icarus Line has the distinction of being the only band ever to be chased out of my house. I think they're proud of that, but they really shouldn't be. Never heard of these guys but just downloaded some of this.....sounds pretty damn good in my book. I'll have to check more out! Saw them live last year...Now I don't have any respect for them. i gotta find some shit by them... even if aaron idolizes f-minus. this sounds good. wow this review sums up exactly how i felt about this record. It wasnt what i expected (for some reason i thought it was going to sound like ATDI) for some odd reason i actually like this band Did any body here about their show in Philly awhile back with Dillinger Escape Plan where they played a single note for almost 10 minutes? It was genius, and sums up why this band is great. They don't give a fuck about anybody. remember SXSW! No, this is really good. I hate to say it, but this is the most punk rock thing out there right now. They are so pissed off and intense live it is unreal. It's everything punk rock should be, raw, angry, and hard. This is what punk rock SHOULD have evolved into. These guys are elitist dicks, but they back their shit up with a great album. This album is incredible, also, I remember reading somewhere that Dave Grohl was a pretty big Icarus Line fan. Just a cool little fact about a basically unknown band. this band is total crap that no one would care about if aaron wasn't in it. i felt the same way. this album is brilliant. i went from disliking the icarus line to liking to loving Didnt like it.. |
