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 Review by: TheEvilMonkey See others by this writer Catch 22 (link) Only registered users can post comments 
 
Published on November 7th 2003
Hey, Catch 22 fans! Are you ready for another round of the gritty vocal stylings of Tomas Kalnoky? Oh, that’s right, he left the band- but don’t worry! In his place, Jeff Davidson supplies witty lyrics along with his solid voice, making for a great follow up to Alone In A Crowd. Oh, that’s right! Jeff Davidson also left the band. So, naturally, Catch 22 has a great new voice for a new age of ska, right? Well, no, not exactly. People who liked this also liked:    ![A Wilhelm Scream - Diver [7 inch]](/images/covers/thumb/a_wilhelm_scream-diver.jpg)       Please login or register to post comments. What are the benefits of having a Punknews.org account?
Though their music went more melodic since the lead singer left and formed Streetlight Manifesto. I think this album is a work of art who cares ska music was lame 10 years ago. If you take someone who had no idea who Catch 22 or Streetlight Manifesto was, and played Keasbey Nights followed by Dinosaur Sounds and Everything Went Numb from Streetlight Manifesto, they would definetly argue that Everything Went Numb and Keasbey Nights where done by the same band. And Dinosaur sounds sounds nothing like either of them. any cd that I have to keep saying to myself "maybe if I listen to it again I'll like it the second time around" ... where the second turns to third.. the third to fourth.. and so on.. is just really depressing. Thank god for streetlight manifesto... ;) Defintely not the catch 22 album I was looking for. This entire cd has around 1 or 2 horn lines. No one makes any good ska anymore besides a few examples. I guess I can finally say that what happened to ska punk?? or just ska?? this shit is fucking emo-pop with horns. the one saving grace is that Motown Cinderella reminds me of something i'd hear off the Toy Story soundtrack. Dinosaur sounds is a good cd, but it has a very different sound than Keasbey Nights. It has a more punk sound. It reminds me of Less Than Jake, personally. It's good music with catchy tunes, but Keasbey Nights is definitely better. The secret to enjoying this cd is pretending it is a RBF release. You think to yourself "Hey, this isn't half bad for the fish." and listen in bliss. This is the truth: it's a good record. Hahaha. But both the Misfits and Catch 22 are from New Jersey...weird. Yeah, there are quite a lot of Keasbey Nights references on the Streetlight Manifesto album. Hell, "Point/Counterpoint" is (lyrically at least) like a happier "Keasbey Nights." For ska, this album is pretty good. Im not really into ska as much as i used to be, so im not a big fan of the record...musically its good. For those who compare KN and AItC, stop. Thats like comparing Danzig-era Misfits with Graves-era Misfits. 2 different sounds and philosophys. Lets just come to this conclusion. Its NOT a different band. This is the current incarnation of Catch 22 and it sucks. This is what Catch has come to be. Sadly one of my favorite bands has released the most dissapointing record of the year (good thing i wasnt expecting much). Don't have this cd, "Wine Stained Lips" is a decent song, just not Catch 22. "To the person waaay below, did Assorted Jellybeans really used to be Raquetball, as in the DC area Raquetball? I always wondered what happened to them, I still have their album ("Not the Game")." I don't know; I like this record. Best songs = "Chin Up" and "Dripping Faucet" - that song is awesome. Saw 'em live before it came out and yes, was quite impressed. this new record sucks.... it starts to sound like new mad caddies shit with poppish rock anthem lyrics and chorus'... where's the energy.... and for all you twats who say the band has to change and all... yeah well change is good but then change the band name cause it no longer sounds remotely like the music i came to expect of catch, with horns that could really stand out along with a mad skanking guitar.... this album sucks shit. "Putting the phrase "Saves The Day" in the same sentence as the word "effort" in talking about their new album should only happen when the words "lack of" are also included in said sentence. " I don't see why everyone feels the need to say Streetlight are better then C22..its like saying Desecndents are better then ALL, or Avoid One Thing are better then Bosstones...the shit is irrelevant. I owned this cd for a period of about 13 hours and then went and traded it in for Streetlight. About 10 of those hours i was sleeping, 2 of them I was crying, and the other hour I was listening to Dinosaur Shits making sure that I didnt accidentally pick up the latest from Mest. Here's a big resounding Fuck YOU Catch 22! You guys should have named this one "washed up and through the ringer"! I like how people keep saying "Don't compare this CD to Catch 22 and it's good." or "Don't think of this as a Catch 22 CD and it's good." But it is a Catch 22 CD. If we weren't supposed to think of it as a Catch 22 CD, the band would have (or should have) changed its name with the singer change. Everyone is bagging this album. I bought it on the way to their show on Friday, and when I popped it in, I was angrier than hell because the Catch 22 of old was dead. Then I went to the show and the new shit was amazing live, so I popped the cd back in. It is an all new Catch 22, and the songs are catchier than all hell. I love it and the real fans will too, you just need to open your mind a bit. more on racketball that i forgot: Rich is in a band called the Magnums now, and Yes Duffy was on a bunch of versions of MTV's Road Rules Racketball was actually from Rhode Island. They are not the same band as Assorted Jelly Beans. Jeff Hanks and Brian Bacon are now in a band called M-80 (www.m80punk.com). Dave Ladin was also in this band at one point but is now in a band called Badfish with Joel Hanks also of Racketball. To the person waaay below, did Assorted Jellybeans really used to be Raquetball, as in the DC area Raquetball? I always wondered what happened to them, I still have their album ("Not the Game"). Putting the phrase "Saves The Day" in the same sentence as the word "effort" in talking about their new album should only happen when the words "lack of" are also included in said sentence. Nah, Scotty, I think Count the Stars holds that honor. Or maybe the Juliana Theory. Props to Saves the Day on their effort as well, though. This score is for their lethal combination. Worst record of the year. The people on this site are so funny. I know im not the first to say this, but anyone defending this band, just give up. SM blows 'Catch 22' away, c22 needs to change there name becuase they dont have the right to use it anymore. Atleast some people realize this. Good review. most of the tracks that were to be on the basis for the album Keasbey Nights were written in 97 Sucks sucks sucks sucks sucks. He's helping an old lady tickle a midget in a tree. The highlight of Dinosaur Sounds in the last, kickass instrumental track at the end. Holy shit is it awesome. It ranks up there with Day in Day out, Point the Blame, On & On & On, 9mm and a 3 piece suit, Bloomfield Avenue and so on. That being said, the rest sucks. I've been listening to Catch22 since 1998. I saw the last show with Jeff in Quebec City. I loved Catch22 with Jeff, and I loved Catch22 with Tomas. AitC and KN were 2 different CDs, yet I still really enjoyed them both. Unfortunately, I don't like Dinosaur Sounds. And you know what makes C22 great live? The fact that we all know the songs by heart. Their live perfomance sucks, at least, the one I saw last December did. If it wasn't for all the kids singin their songs and going crazy (not because the band was going crazy, they were static as hell, this was about the middle of the tour, mind you) the showed would have sucked. The Getaway put on a better show. Got the kids in a frenzy, and no one knew their songs. No one! Now that is a good live band. yea i dont like the artwork and i don't think the review is bad at all. the reviewer mentioned the good and bad qualities of the cd and seemed to be giving an honest, straight-forward opinion. And, of course it's going to be biased. Unless you've never heard any form of music, you're going to go into any music with a certain bias. I don't have the album and I am just judging it from what I've heard online (wine stained lips and motown cinderella) and what I heard live. Even if you don't compare this to older c22, it still sucks for ska/punk standards. Uh, Keasbey Nights came out in '98, not '97. Sorry to burst your bubble. Just think of the lyric "One-seventeen-ninety eight, it's been a day that I come to ha-a-ate." I saw catch last night, they were fuckin sick as all hell. They put on a great show. And for all who bitch abomut them speeding up keasby songs, the only NOTICEABLE speed up, was Keasbey nights. This album isn't bad, but it's not catch 22. Sounds to me like somebody stole Reel Big Fish's newest cd and released it for themselves. "I like assorted jelly beans better" this review was biased from the start and doesn't give the cd a fair review. yep. i am diggin' the streetlight cd much more. you gave a shitdick (yes one word) review, i dont look at this cd as catch22, but rather yet a new band all together...and this new band is good. So I was at a show in 98 or 99 when these guys opened for Mustard Plug, The local hometown favorites. Nobody had heard of these guys but they ruled ass that night. There was an honest to god pit at that show that kept going even between the songs. This was right after they had switched singers (so you serious C22 fans will know the exact date of this show...cause i forgot). I went to the merch table after the show and wanted to buy their record. The guy who was hawking their shit (the new lead singer guy) asked me what I wanted. I told him I want the record that had the song 1234 1234 on it. He tried to sell me their new EP instead. I asked him "Well...is it any good?" He got all offended. I told him that I didn't care how good he thought his new EP was, I wanted their first record. He sold it to me and i was completely happy with it. When I fianlly heard the ep he tried to sell me, I was so glad i never bought it! This band has been sliding down the hill since that night for me. Too bad...they had such potential. Listen to this CD 10x in a row and don';t think of it as Catch 22 and I think you'll find it is a damn good cd. "Only kids who sit in their room and talk shit all day, without a clue as to what goes on in the actual band itself seem to post around here." im glad all the catch 22 supporters are sticking up for catch 22, their a great band that took a different root that is different than their previous albums, so what, its still great, i actually love it to death, same with the new less than jake cd, shoot me i dont give a damn, im seeing em in toronto on the 21st and im gonna have a great fucking time, and just for the record catch 22 is better than streetlight manifesto. There. This is a pretty poor effort...Streetlight Manifesto's songwriting puts this album to shame... Bad review from a bad writer. But who cares. If you liked the band you will see that if you listen to the album, its fucking great. I think some of the new songs blow the older ones away. Dinosaur sounds is far ahead of alone in a crowd and of course a bit different than Keasby Nights. Bands change in the course of time. Its inevitable. Only kids who sit in their room and talk shit all day, without a clue as to what goes on in the actual band itself seem to post around here. Its pretty sad if you ask me, although im aware that no one did. yet again no one ever asks for "your" opinions either. But anyhow, im rambling. The point is, no one cares, and the new Catch22 record is fucking awesome. and if you dont like it then dont listen to it, but get a new hobby besides talking smack from your comp. send your hate mail to: too everyone thats defending this cd....the only song ive heard is wine stained lips...would you say thats a bad representatiopn of cd, or do you like that song also? fuck, i cant beleive how bad this new album is, catch 22 was one of my favorite bands too... go listen to homegrown, homophobe.. this album is ok, nothing too great. it's not half as bad as you little faggots are making it sound. they got a new singer, get over it. oh yeah, jeff was the best singer but the guy does ok. i'm right, you're wrong. eat a bowl of dicks, queers. "The new record is better then KN and AiaC" fuck you guys, im seein catch 22, and i;m buying there cd, and im gonna like it. Its just WRONG to compare this cd to past catch22 cds, bands are supposed to adapt and change. The only band thats aloud to stay the same over an extended period of time, is NOFX, but thats a different story. I'm sure if this band changed there name to Catch 23 youd fucking love this cd and rave about the "new" catch with out jeff or tomas.. Eternal damnation to you all easily...to be continued Hey everyone, I just wanted to ask: which Catch 22 song do you like better: "Chin Up" or "To Be Continued?" Just a question. I'm glad I downloaded this album last week because it just sucks with the exception of two songs. haha. i like the less than jake stab. I like assorted jelly beans better Well, as Fat Mike once said, Dinosaurs Will Die. And by the way, I thought the "I'm mainly an optimist even though bad times persist" line in "Good Times" was pretty innovative until I remembered that Green Day had a much better verse: I must insist on being a pessimist/ I'm a loner in a catastrophic mind. BTW, anyone think a few select notes on "Chasing The Moon" sounds a hell of a lot like "Minority?" I like C22 alot, being from NJ, i've seen them countless times and have been a supporter since 1999. The new record is different, poppish is the word i'm looking for. However that's not a bad thing at all, the ska is still there as well as killer horns, regardless of what other people have said or want you to think. You can't compare this album to the C22 that wrote AIAC 3 years ago, or the C22 that made KN back in 97, those bands do not exist anymore. The songs are good, my only real complaint are the vocals..which to be honest aren't that appealing to me. Ryan's vocals shine on Chin Up and Motown Cinderalla, but on songs like Beguile The Time and Regression they just don't sound good at all. Jeff was always my favorite, even more so then Tomas..but oh well we can't get what we want all the time. Welcome to Catch 22 Version 3.0 My biggest problem is that EVERYONE wanted this record to suck....But it doesnt so not lets do a comparison to older stuff, that will make everyone happy becuase its differnt and "SUX" so lets give it a bad review...The best thing is that everyone talks about streetlight this and streetlight that-origional c22....WRONG...Jamie and Josh werent original c22 members....they replaced members that left. They all wrote the songs together, tomas just wrote the lyrics, tomas didnt write the drums or bass or the all the horn lines...NO...but hey, i guess they suck now...BULLSHIT...the new record is better then KN and AiaC I hate when an album I think is good gets a review that just knocks it down. What can you do though?? The only reason I wrote this review was to compare the three albums. The simple fact is that if this cd was not by Catch 22, I wouldn't have even sat through the whole album. The comparisons just give you a better idea of how different the new Catch 22 is. Disagree. I stand by what my review says, but just to add something I hadn't thought of, it almost deserves an extra half star for it's bitchin' dinosaur theme. Can't say I disagree with you, the new album blows. Go ahead, call me a hypocrite, I deserve it but realize this, Lamont's Lament may very well be the best thing the band has written in the post-Tomas era. |
