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Published on March 28th 2003
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Pacific Standard Time was a GREAT album, pretty rockin This does sound like Jimmy Eat World....softer at times. And whoever said this should be rated higher because the band members are "nice"...thanks. I got a nice little laugh. this is generic, generic, generic......... Pop rock about relationships bore me. i smiled once This was one of my favorite albums when it first came out, and I just listened to it in its entirety. I question whether the reviewer here has even heard it - it doesn't sound anything like JEW, and "Familiar Streets" doesn't sound a BIT like "Bleed American." There are no aggressive sounding songs on the album, period, in fact. This is all about ultra melodic radio friendly pop rock and roll - there's no emo, JEW, or Weezer factor at all. Buy this album if you ever smile. i think its funny that everyone is doing so much arguing over a band thats so average they've got a song called boxcar? Scott: I never meant the fact that they were nice had anything to do with thier music, however, knowing their personalities, it does allow me to understand where their music is coming from. Besides, I like The Get Up Kids, and they are huge dicks. It doesn't even matter that they started writing the material for this album 3 years prior to recording it. Even Pacific Standard Time had this same style to it. Simple riffs, catchy melodies. They played in drop D then, and they play in it now. Although this new album obviously has better production on it, which is probably where you're drawing your narrowminded Jimmy Eat World bullshit from.In fact, when I first got my copy of PST, I thought they sounded a lot like Weezer. And I don't mean that the singer tried to sound like Rivers Cuomo or that the guitars sounded like wacky synthesizers. I'm saying that they had great, catchy songwriting. scott, you can say that you are rating it by what is on the album, but you aren't. you are rating it based on another band's album. Should we open our minds to the mundane, boredom of EVERY BAND TO COME OUT LATELY? I mean, come on. Everywhere I look I see fashion kids or "indie-rocks" wearing skin tight T-shirts trying their darnest to hit those high notes. You didn't answer my question, Kurt. Why should I care how nice the guys in the band are when I'm supposed to be judging the music, and the music only? You are really stuck on yourself. Since when does it matter if a band is nice or not? All people are generally nice, good people to *someone* out there, why on earth should that affect my review of the music they make? This is a great cd. Go ahead and accuse them of hearing a few JEW demos before they started writing this album 3 YEARS AGO, it is irrelevant. It just so happens that there are a lot of similarities. This band is awesome, the three guitars provide a big rich sound, and Jonathan and Zak's voices blend together very well. You guys on punknews need a zero rating for albums. 1 isn't low enough for this record. The only good bands left on hopeless records are mustard plug, digger, and atom and his package. thrice left to a major label, the weakerthans moved to epitaph, commonrider broke up, and avengesevenfold is terrible. Stairwell just doesn't add up to previous hopeless bands and never will. I like Jawbreaker's 'Boxcar' a little better. And by a little I mean a lot. JEW didnt invent pop/rock music. Comparing these guys to JEW is like having listen to your roommate say every pop-punk band sounds like Blink 182. Just because one band becomes popular doesnt mean that everyband after them in the same genre copied them, chances are that both bands write from the same roots. (Pop-punk normally being the Descendents, pop/rock being Beatles, Rollings Stones, etc). Ill give you the headphone thing though. You guys are dumb. Jimmy Eat World had been touring on the material that would be on "Bleed American" for some time before the album. Demo and live MP3s had been circulating for almost a year before the album came out [I remember downloading the title track and "Sweetness" in September of 2000]. Odds are, if the people in this band were a fan of JEW [and I'll bet my CD collection that they are], they had probably heard the direction this band was going in and they ran with it, too. and how long have they had those shirts? Is it Jimmy Eat World that has a pin with headphones around their name? for reference: To laco3000: haha awesome review, honestly. and what the HELL is up with the barcode as part of the album design? it only fills space, much like the music on the album fills time. This is the worst review I have ever read. One big thing the punk rock community needs to do is not only diversify stylistically but also to appreciate those artists who, although similar in style to others have that special aspect of greatness in them. Yes, Stairwell sounds like Jimmy Eat World, but what the heck is wrong with Jimmy Eat World? Stairwell is still trying to expand their sound and make some truly catchy well constructed tunes on this album not to mention their past work. It is kind of goofy that this is a two year old album on a new label but Takehold didnt have as effective a distrobution as Hopeless does. This band definately has potential to move towards great things, whether they sound like someone or not. In case you havent noticed, every band you listen to sounds like SOMEONE so suck it up. And while you are at it, check out Stairwell again, they are good. I dont own the album yet, but I have the mp3s and intend to buy it soon, Im positive its worth the money. great album...crappy review (it's not because i disagree it's because the entire premise that the review was based on, about comparing the album to that JEW album, makes no sense due to the mathematics pointed out below) someone that can draw comparisons from Fuel's new album should no longer be allowed to review music on this website that streaming thing doesn't work so it is 2003...and this was supposed to be released 2 years ago (i.e. 2001)...how exactly when they wrote the album would they have been copying an album that came out at the same time??...hmmmm, mysterious i'm sorry but the band name is terrible. reminds me of the project housing staircases in my building. great review, bravo. - bigjerk Scott is just brutal lately. I kinda like it. previous comment by ThisIsNotEmo a good pop/rock CD. This album was released 2 years ago, and was written 3 years ago, so take that into consideration before saying they're ripping off the current scene. It was re-released despite its age, because it is a very well written pop CD that many people havent heard. The CD is not well-circulated and there is no point releasing new material if the old stuff hasn't even been promoted. Oh yeah, I almost forgot: you dont see too many Shultz's. they always spell it with a c (Schultz), bastards. My grandpa took out the c so it would be easier to fill shit out. Much like this album! ohhh |
