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Published on November 2nd 2004
I'll be the first to admit - this is almost a pointless review. Chances are that if you're reading this, you've already made up your mind on whether you hate, love, or carry no leaning opinion towards the once-East-Bay-hardcore-punk-outfit-turned-gothic-rockers AFI. So where does their Nitro Records perspective leave you?
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Nephilim is an old Hebrew word for giant if you never bought an AFI cd this ones for you but if your a true fan dont even bother buying this you already have 99.9% of these song Alas, poor tool. Best bassist ever? Bahahahahahaha-no. all u little pearanoid little basterds hiding in a corner thinking MTV is some kind of concpericy its just a TV station.idiots this CD kicked ass some of there best shit!! Ah... Wow, Dexter Holland and his punk-gone-alternative "let's copy everything that everyone else is doing in the rock scene right now" band known only as "The Offspring" must not be rolling in the cash like they used to... This is like, the most obvious sign of desperation on Nitro Records' behalf. Anywho... I would just like to say I'm a big fan of the punk scene... I drum and play bass to bands such as The Exploited, The U.K. Subs, old-school Misfits, the Damned, A Global Threat, the Unseen and the Ramones on a daily basis, and I'll be the first one to tell you that AFI has never been a punk rock band. But there's something about AFI that still makes their confused genre shit worth while - They've never been afraid to change and do what they want to do instead of what their fans want them to do. I can just imagine some stupid 12 year-old fat kid wearing a spike bracelet and a new found glory shirt after seeing a commercial for AFI's new album... "Ooohh nooo!!! They want to make more money while still making the kind of music that THEY want to make! How HORRIBLE, those stupid sell-outs! It's bad to be on TV 'cause I'm a punk rocker! Anarchy! Tee hee!" Psh, give me a goddamn break. Who said they were punk in the first place? Certainly not AFI themselves - They've always referred to themselves as post-hardcore and east-bay hardcore... The only reason they're labeled as punk is because of the scene they were formed in and the fact that they were signed to Nitro by that dumb fuck Dexter. By the way - I'm old enough to vote and I most certainly didn't vote for Bush though I'm an AFI fan... How ironic :-) But yeah this album is not worth a cent guys. 9 times outta 10 the only people that are going to buy this album are the zit-faced MTV fanatic-kids that saw AFI on there one day and decided they would pick them up as their favorite band for a month or so and become "punk rockers" so they could be "different" (all three thousand of them or so...), and they won't even see the real beauty of AFI's career or even give them the respect they've earned as musicians. Nitro was one of my favorite record labels until I saw this sack of bullshit released. Those bastards are hard up for money and I think it was low that they pulled that shit on AFI. Do you dorks even know what a nephilim is??? afi is my favorite band, but really, fuck this cd. LOOKING FORWARD "its not a bat dude its nephillim" this review was succinct, and fucking to the point. how else would YOU have wrote it? "its not a bat dude its nephillim" "sorry - nope. any music preaching negativity and depression is shit. always was, always will be." its not a bat dude its nephillim "sorry - nope. any music preaching negativity and depression is shit. always was, always will be." Best Release ever but think a whole NEW generation of posers will now have that stupid bat crappily tattooed on the zitty deltoid area of their upper arms thanks to this cover. grrrr. i love pleather-core. the cover sort of looks like the new good charlotte cd. "i guarantee almost all you so called punk rockers loved afi a couple of years ago.they grew up and their sound matured.this is a great cd for kids who may not know the older stuff.afi is still one of the best punk bands left." and this one's for the force's cd "i don't like you either". i always loved his voice. too bad you can't find that cd anywhere. Score is for The Force show @ Chain Reaction circa 1998/99. Only 50 people but everybody going OFF. The same people who like AFI are in no way old enough to vote... nice try though. i remember going to see a band called the force play. it was an awsome show. it took place in the basement of the veterans hall in santa cruz. the bass player from afi was the bass player for the force. it was the forces last show. i remember seeing hunter get jumped and piled on by a punch of punkers. i saw afi play back in santa cruz years back when they were playing clubs it was great. yeah they sold out now and adopted a new sound. i like their new sound but it seems like the good old afi days are gone. no more raw hardcore representing berkley style sound. "the same people who dig AFI now are most likely the same asses that gave Bush another 4 years." This is the 2nd best selling album on Interpunk right now. the same people who dig AFI now are most likely the same asses that gave Bush another 4 years. "i guarantee almost all you so called punk rockers loved afi a couple of years ago.they grew up and their sound matured.this is a great cd for kids who may not know the older stuff.afi is still one of the best punk bands left." i guarantee almost all you so called punk rockers loved afi a couple of years ago.they grew up and their sound matured.this is a great cd for kids who may not know the older stuff.afi is still one of the best punk bands left. i remember seeing the joe strummer birth and death date on the top of this webpage, now i think its time for this: Why did you review and submit it then? Fucking dumbass. nitro is genious. it obviously cost next to nothing to make, especially since it appears the artwork was done with no intent whatsoever to be aesthetically pleasing or representing of afi's style. thus, nitro is making wads on this shit, which makes them economically intelligent. bravo, nitro. a retrospective is lame because they have more records to make? why would this inhibit a band who is no longer on that label from writing new material. fuck there's a best of so i can't sit down on my own and write poetry. what fucking ever. "Ok...ive been really quiet about this for a long time, but I'm finally sick of all the shit going on with this band. I had followed them since the very beginning...and i was faithful to them until they started to become a gay "pound me in the ass" band on Dreamworks. i could give two shits about their "greatest hits" album. I want them to ditch the music scene, and become the transvestites that they want to become. that is all i have to say." "I'll be the first to admit - this is almost a pointless review." Ok...ive been really quiet about this for a long time, but I'm finally sick of all the shit going on with this band. I had followed them since the very beginning...and i was faithful to them until they started to become a gay "pound me in the ass" band on Dreamworks. i could give two shits about their "greatest hits" album. I want them to ditch the music scene, and become the transvestites that they want to become. that is all i have to say. good. i'd have to do something (not sure what) if they broke up. the weakerthans are playing a show tonight in chicago, and on thier website it lists more dates of the tour, so i really dont think they broke up. who gives a crap about AFI? The money that the average yap spends on this could easily go towards buying one of their prior full-lengths. Of course, they could always treat themselves to something better. This release is useless with only 14 or whatever tracks. Has anyone seen the commercial for this? "Go buy the latest Mike Watt album and the entire Minutemen discography before!" Awful The only good thing about this kind of release is that it might raise interest in this band's back catalogue. The band themselves discredited this CD on their site, saying how they feel a retrospective release is lame as they have more records to make. I'm with them, I have all these songs except the vinyl only ones and I'm not funding Dexter Holland's addiction to shitty music by buying this for those few tracks. "Go buy the new Strung Out" with this action, NITRO records sucks up totally.... I think, dexter and his fucking bad band offspring have made enough money too without this unnecessary record A real AFI fan already has heard these songs......I wonder how many 12 year old girls w/ black mascara are yearning to pop this in their Barbie CD player? this gets 3 stars and so does strung out? damn, those are awesome. how many people here are actually going to buy this? I like to leave completely irrelevant comments on a CD review. I like to stroke tigers in their most private areas. Joan of Arc--Deep Rush scott went internet tough guy on you. Very poorly written review... score is for failing to write at a 9th grade level. Cut him some slack. He's well hung, and his teeth are white....wait, are those teeth, or half-melted marshmallows? Where's the Ted Leo review? Holy shit! The cover art alone will give me nightmares! The Weakerthans just broke up. "it's disgraceful to have AFI on top of Strung Out" The Weakerthans just broke up. The list of reviews is almost always chronological. This wasn't even going up until the Methadones fiasco. Besides, there're plenty of pertinent punk album reviews in queue that should be posted in the coming weeks. I'm sure we may be able to squeeze End Hits in there, but no promises. Chinatown- If it's pointless, why did you post it? "End Hits" would've been much more pertinent for this site. Besides, it's disgraceful to have AFI on top of Strung Out. |
