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Next In Line

Traffic (2003)
Indie Vision

Reviewer Rating:

Contributed by: Brian
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Published on February 3rd 2004

Meh. Very meh.

If I was Kevin Wade, that would be my review.

Unfortunately, I'm not Kevin, and this needs a bit further of an explanation. Next in Line are doing the halfway-radio-friendly pop-rock thing on an independent label, and it's not working. The songs sit in a mid-to-down-tempo state and do nothing out of the ordinary, save for the moog in "Frequency." With the good production, it comes off like an old Eve 6 album with less hooks...and Eve 6 isn't that good. The song "000" has that *tick, tick* noise from Fox's excellent "24" at the beginning and end, and both clips end up being the most interesting bits of the full-length. The lyrics weakly delve into introspective looks at one's youth, relationships, everything that would encompass the whole nine yards for this genre.

It was cool when Catch 22 did it on "12341234," but spending 13 minutes at the end of the last song thanking people instead of using the liner notes for it is a bit ridiculous, even when you splice short audio clips of bands you thank.

Next in line, please.

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"Michigan"
"Nil'd"

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Anonymous (February 5, 2004)

Since when was this about image and not music? Who cares what name a band has, half of them (names) are stupid anyhow.

CallingLondon (February 5, 2004)

i love it when a bad band has a name that just begs people to make fun of them. it's like they subconsciously come up with a name that tells how bad they are. i mean, does Something Corporate think they're being ironic, or what?

Jesse (February 5, 2004)

More like Next in Line to suck! HA!

This score is for me.

Anonymous (February 5, 2004)

NIL are a great band, period!

Anonymous (February 5, 2004)

Speaking of ass fucking, how's your mom doing?
twat

PetroBPettson (February 4, 2004)

Catch 22 has their moments....but yeah, I'm sure this sucks fucking ass-fucking ass.

Anonymous (February 3, 2004)

Never heard Catch 22 do that, but the first time I heard Sublime's 40 Oz. to Freedom "liner notes" over music I thought it was really cool... But then again, Next In Line isn't exactly Sublime.

-Painaxl