|
Review Navigator   FeaturesContestsReviews
| The RaptureEchoes2003 DFA/Strummer/Universal 
  Review by: Scott See others by this writer ![[staff]](/images/icons/staffsticker.gif){kind=icon}
The Rapture (link) Only registered users can post comments 
 
Published on January 16th 2004
"Hype hype hype. Hype hype hype hype hype hype. Hype hype hype hype. People who liked this also liked:           Please login or register to post comments. What are the benefits of having a Punknews.org account?
House of Jealous Lovers = One of the worst sonmgs I've ever heard. Anywhere, anytime. Pure fucking garbage. btw after seeing the faint (2 years ago i think...) im pretty sure that no one can dance. no review of 'echoes' is complete without the word 'hipster'. "God, can everyone please shut the fuck up already....Public Image Ltd?!.....get your own material asshole." So everyone's still failed to realise that the singer in this band sounds like a cat being skinned then? Righto, then. Dance music is not punk. I saw the Rapture about 2 years ago. I went to the show because my girlfriend at the time was into this kind of pretentious shit. I watched one song, then went outside to sit in the car and listen to the Pirates game. And I hate baseball. black eyes take bright eyes wipe their collective ass with it. man, i want to dance i'd rather pump some atom and his package. C&C Music Factory are waaaay better than this dribble. It's nothing like Bright Eyes,thankfully. And that guy below summed it up perfectly. The person below is definetly hilarious. And yes forty, my hipster ass will indeed go check out this "black eyes" you speak of. The person below is my hero. i bought this out of curiosity the day it came out cuz it was 7 bux at best buy. what a waste of 7 dollars. theres a reason disco died the first time around. skinny kids w/ the emo haircut can dance to this and then get coffee at starbux and store the cd in their across the chest side hanging book bag w/ ranier maria pins on it. ya know, one says ranier, one says maria. fuck this pretentious hipster garbage. repetititve, and annoying as fuck. 1234567 blah blah blah heaven heaven. how fucking stupid. these guys live in the house of jealous haircuts and cloth striped wrist bands. You guys should have posted this review a long time ago. Now everyone who's read bornbackwards, or pitchfork or buddyhead thinks they know more about this band than everyone else...or that they're so damn smart for knowing about this band. God, can everyone please shut the fuck up already....Public Image Ltd?!.....get your own material asshole. it's really nice when people forget about what other people have to say about a record and actually let their own opinion shine through in a review...oh wait... half the songs on echoes sound like public image ltd. particularly the title track, at first i thought it was a cover. I usually agree w/scott, but hype or no hype, this record is in my top ten. I meant Black Eyes, not this crap, by the way. yeah, he is quite the little hipster. Vandal, you should check them out, you'd probably like them. I have never heard of black eyes and i already like them better then this stuff. funkisdead here. black eyes are doing everything more interestingly than the rapture is "This review was good, but here's how I would make it better: black eyes kick so much ass, defiantly top ten of 2003. Black Eyes > A lot of bands, especially the Rapture This review was good, but here's how I would make it better: "Black Eyes > The Rapture" wow, then you're all losers. "perhaps most importantly, inagreendase is registered over on absolutepunk.net. scandalous." dont forget !!! my friends if i hadn't read this review, i wouldn't have left my warm apartment to roam the cold streets towards my nearest indie cd store.... i also wouldn't have seen the new statistics record on sale four days early, and then i would have missed out on some great rock. i don't really like the term "fantasy metal", yellowtrash: it sounds like a porno that Blackie Lawless would have done when he was down on his luck perhaps most importantly, inagreendase is registered over on absolutepunk.net. "I'd also like to second Adam's comment on sensibly priced CDs." Hey Scott, I don't think people get angry because you get free CDs, I think it's more because you have habit of saying shit like "I can't comment on album X because label Y hasn't sent it to me for free". That just annoys people who paid for it. "olio" was a good song when they first released it, this new version is terrible though. i like the rapture a lot when theyre using shitty sounding guitars to make dancy songs (like gang of four), but the electronics seem like a cop out for them. boring record "And I'd like to take a dump on you for giving Billy Talent 4 stars." this album shits all over deja entendu and you know it.
how is The Bens cd? Hey I've got The Bens ep aswell, I saw them when they came to Australia. Kweller and Folds were fantastic, not a real fan of Lee though. dance punk? try The Prima Donnas!! Isn't that one of the bootleg cereals? "Hey look Scott, Adam actually buys cd's. Maybe one day you will too." I'd say they're a mix of both. Now lets go questing... Rhapsody power metal? I would call them Fantasy Metal. too disco-y, singer sounds a little like Tom Verlaine....meh. i like it and i'm not a hipster. it's alright that you don't, but comparing any of the music on here to the twink techno on queer eye for the straight guy is like saying that the clash sound just like creed. Hey look Scott, Adam actually buys cd's. Maybe one day you will too. The actual dancebeat songs are good. The stuff that sounds like a cheap rip-off of The Clash/everything else, isn't. There are a lot more bad songs. And the singer is just trying to be Robert Smith. They're sure as hell not Rhapsody! House OOOOFFFFF There's a big article on the 80's in today's Pittsburgh Post Gazette, these guys took a huge chunk of it. Yeah, hyped til no end. Still, a really enjoyable and fun album. Something different for my collection. I just bought this album yesterday, mostly out of curiousity out of why Pitchfork's going so crazy about it (that and Universal slapped a price on it I couldn't refuse, don't deny the positive effects of sensibly pricing your albums)... and I think my opinion so far mirror's Scott's. This is a fun album, but I'm convinced they're getting far more hype than they're worth. you would be right! So liking this CD a lot makes me a hipster. Interesting. hahahaha the score is for the seinfeld remark scott, you should start taking requests for reviews. that would rock. so many shitty albums being reviewed, and when they are good....the review is usually by a shitty reviewer. no justice.
I've got a fever....and the only perscription... pfft so many nyc bands have adopted this sound already. |
