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Published on August 9th 2005
I do not drink coffee; the vile odor and bitter taste drives my senses crazy. So unlike the majority of the world, I am left without that early morning pick-me-up. A bowl of cereal mixed with fruit is a healthy option, and on those days when my alarm fails to sound off, a Red Bull is a common option for a quick start. However, the ultimate pick-me-up-to get me started at work after a long evening kissing the bottle is a record that’s loud enough to jump-start my awareness, while maintaining a level of energy only found in a catchy singalong chorus. On War Profiteering Is Killing Us All, the Suicide Machines bring all of the added benefits of caffeine and a wholesome breakfast as well as a heavy dose of current events from the morning paper.
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my personal fav album by these guys. followd by a match, then dbd. A great final album from one of the last few punk rock bands that matter... Typically, I'm usually biased against overly-liberal albums, but shit man, this has gotta be the best ska-core album in sometime. Best Suicide Machines record. not a single skipper. yup. Someone mentioned the song lyrics were like reading bumper stickers. Yeah. That's it. This cd has some good songs on it, but a disappointing follow up to A Match and Some Gasoline, which was surprisingly good considering the terrible couple of releases they had after Battle Hymns. The energy is good, but there is a lack of the variety that makes the Suicide Machines really impressive. Bottomed Out is a great song Battle Hymes was fucking terrible for the mostpart. fuck you! dude you dont know shit u dumb peice of shit! you dumbass fucker! so go fuckurself what the fuck? this album is as reptetive as fuck. write more than like two verses you shitsandwich! the cd is fucking sweet what the say about the war is right fuck this war! fuck bush! This record is total shit. The lyrics are embarassingly meager and sound like the gang discovered liberal politics the day of recording and decided to write their lyrics by scribbling down bumper stickers they saw on the way to the studio. But you do. These guys have no idea whats going on in Iraq This cd is pretty decent, I don't think it's as good as A Match, but it has some thrash songs on par with Battle Hymns. This cd wasn't as varied as the last and has several filler songs, that could have been left off. Also, I thought the lyrical arrangement on some of the songs was a little weak. If this is the first cd you have heard by the Suicide Machines, you need to pick up a copy of Destruction By Definition and Battle Hymns. This is without one doubt one of the best albums of 2005. Amazing. ""it's probably cheaper at Best Buy" damn. GREAT show last night at the troubador. they played for about an hour. played some more new songs and almost ALL of destruction by definition. love the suicide machines. This album is one of the fucking best by TSM. Wow.. wow..WOW! Awesome album. Much more free flowing and natural than "A Match.." I felt the ska on Match was very forced and stale. It doesn't come close to the schizophrenic tempo and style changes that made Battle Hymns my favorite SM album; but this is damn good stuff. Only a few of the songs kinda blend together near the end, but not one bad song. I love this cd. "it's probably cheaper at Best Buy" dude below me , yes! track 3 is maybe my fav. on here... i mena i'm feelin in like 'islands' in a different kind of way...thats saying a lot. the first 5 songs are all fucking great. so much energy, this album just flows perfectly, better than any since battle hynms. Not nearly as good as "A Match and Some Gasoline" but it's still pretty good. I don't like the hard slow hardcore songs on this cd. Don't worry though there are still plenty of classic Suicide Machines style songs though. Song 3 is the exact type of song I love about this band. Song 12 is a really good ska song that sounds just like "Did you ever get a feeling of dread" and "High Anxiety". Just came back from the show in Corona. Great shit..as expected. Heres the setlist as listed on the setlist paper: record labels gain identity's. This cd is their best. I think it's better than D BY D. Also, I have to say that Capsule has to be one of their best songs EVER. "Also, sideone dummy doesn't fill me with much emotion labelwise. They seemed to have been created out of the warped tour, and I don't quite understand them." yea, i agree w/ the captain. this is much better than a match...the hardcore songs are much more intense and meaningful, the ska ones more original and less a retread of DbyD/battle hymns as the ones on a match were. The dude below me has no idea what he's talking about. This album blows A Match out of the water. No contest. It is probably their second best record, and it could even be argued that it's their best. man, this really isnt good. you guys had me expecting something sort of good. the only song i like on here is junk, and its not even that great. i really liked match and some gasoline actually, and this is easily the worst thing in their catalogue. what a waste of time listening to this, they tried to remake match and some gasoline, which wasnt even a great record, and pretty much failed across the board. eck hey this is a review not the band guy below me... shut up stupid band. you guys are horrible. stop making music, everything you have done is just shitty. you guys were only popular when ska was popular. can't you see you roll with the punches rather than create the punches. just stop! I'm 25 for the dude who asked about how old we are, and i've been listening to them since 97 for what its worth. How old are you people? Stop comparing their last 3 albums and get their first two. i dont see how you can complain about the "bitter taste" of coffee, but drink that red bull swill in its place. whoaaaa! i found it...dude. this kicks the SHIT out of a match and some gasoline! wow, i'm really really feelin this like mark hoppus. this is in my top 10 for the year as of now "Also, sideone dummy doesn't fill me with much emotion labelwise. They seemed to have been created out of the warped tour, and I don't quite understand them." This is damn good. TO anybody who has already attended their tour. Wizo us nussubg out BIG time. " the band relaunched their career with one of the greatest comeback records" it's probably cheaper at Best Buy "Who does SideOne's distro? I went to Best Buy AND Circuit City and couldn't find this fucker. I guess I can hit an indie on the way home, but I really wanted to listen to this today." I just got the record yesterday and I gotta say there is some classic songs on here but there is a lotta short song hard stuff filler that i thought made a match and gasoline suck a bit(it all sounds way to the same). Steal this record is a way better overall effort than either of the last two albums. Longer more clever put together songs that made that record great. 6 to 7 songs outa 13 and 14 song records that are under 40 minutes long just feels like kinda a rip off to me. I still love the band and will continue to support them live and by buying whatever they put out but well.......thats it. I prefer match & gasoline to war. well match is probably my favorite, I get kinda bored with the ska-SM although I loved battle hymns and destruction back then. never cared about the other 2. ¨can't believe they play warped tour even on one date, it's just so "anti-vans" right? yea steal this record had some great songs Why would you quit when you just put out arguably your best album? Another band that doesn't know when to quit. Listing A Match last wasn't a put-down on the album. I think it's pretty damn good.....I just like the others more. But I don't really look at it as being a "comeback" album, because I thought Steal This Record was great. Though it was cool to see them take a more raw and grassroots-ish approach. "Only 2 new songs!?!?!?!? "No songs from S/T or Steal This Record? Not one? What the fuck is that? WEAK fucking set list. Do they give out awards for longest run-on sentence? I have that shit in the bag if they do. This is straight from the setlist last night. It's mostly DBD and AMASG stuff and only two new songs . They are still just as amazing live as everyone says they are. Jason was definitely on the dance floor at least as much as he was on stage and I don't think he actually took the stage until the fourth song. Shit definitely had the feel of a hardcore show with him in the crowd leading some awesome sing-a-longs. After they finished what they said would be the last song they left and the crowd yelled for about 5 minutes before Jason came back out and said Dan was too drunk to continue and was super cool in talking about how they haven't hit Vegas in a long time because the shows were always shitty, but he was really touched by the crowd tonight. This was the third time i've seen them and the crowd was about 1/3 of what is was when I saw them in Pheonix and Minneapolis but they still put out great energy. It's impossible to not have fun at a Sucide Machines show. TheCaptain, why A Match last? To me that album was a great comeback after a couple subpar releases. Especially since you like War Profiteering, it seems to have a very similar feel to it. I would put Match third on that list, after DBD and War Profiteering. The other three have the occassional good song, but I'd be lying if I said I ever listened to them the whole way through. This is my first Suicide Machines cd and from the looks of it DBD is better but this still looks good. I'll buy this and then that simply because i heard of that Wal Mart thing and i wanna take advantage of that. My friend loves this band and i never really got into them until he let me listen to a bunch of their songs and i was angry at all I'd been missing. Its not even pop-punk. Its pop w/ a little rock, but not much. This album gets better every time I listen to it. So much better than the last one (though I liked it too). I think it's their most consistent album to date, and probably their best musically. I couldn't find this at Best Buy yesterday. They had Pennywise though. I was driving 4 hours home form indiana yesterday and i hit up every music store i passed to try to get this and Gogol Bordello's new one. At the second best buy i hit up in merrieville had about 20 copies of this. I wasnt able to find the gogol cd :( I went to best buy and a local indy store, neither had this ....wtf??? I WANT SOME BUTTS!! my band drowning adam has the honor of playing a second time with these guys on monday in sacramento. I cant wait to hear there new material live. When I saw them last month they played "Junk". This review was well-written. The intro is great, despite my disagreement over the dubious anti-coffee statements... Hell yeah, I think that "95% of the World is Third World" is the best song on the album. I wonder why they made it the :"hidden" track That score is for "95% of the world is third world" Who does SideOne's distro? I went to Best Buy AND Circuit City and couldn't find this fucker. I guess I can hit an indie on the way home, but I really wanted to listen to this today. uh, coffee tastes better than that Red Bull piss Apparently notfeelingcreative has never heard Battle Hymns. A lot of songs on Destruction By Definition were political as well. Wonderful record, when I first bought "A Match and Some Gasoline" it was kind of hard to accept political (though generalized) lyrics from the same band who wrote "the vans song" and "so long", this seems to pack a little more of a bunch than the aforementioned record, lyrically it's still pretty cliche but it's a hell of alot better than: "Well just today i was forced to say I'm goin' on a permanent holiday I'll drop what i'm doin', it's okayI'm goin' on a permanent holiday" This sounds like a band way past their prime trying way too hard to remain relevant. The whole record seems so forced, especially the lyrical content. After one listen: This album kicks ass. An eardrum assault, their most hardcore album to date, and a great companion to DBD for the shared title of best album. Hey, primeevil, you fucking geek, I'd first like to pat your back for standing up for The Suicide Machines, as they are one of the greatest bands going today... This album takes the cake for having the dumbest, most exploitative title in history. Although "Fuck World Trade" comes pretty close. Suicide Machines on thursday! Can you feel the love Every Wal-Mart in the country is having a sale on this for THIS WEEK ONLY! "Who does SideOne's distro? I went to Best Buy AND Circuit City and couldn't find this fucker. I guess I can hit an indie on the way home, but I really wanted to listen to this today." "Detroit’s Suicide Machines are known for pioneering fierce punk rock with infectious ska chords on their debut Destruction By Definition" Thought this was an Anchors review at first... "This album was terrible. This is one of those times where I wish I could get my time back from listening to something so bad." This album was terrible. This is one of those times where I wish I could get my time back from listening to something so bad. Well if Jello Biafra, The Clash, and Minor Threat qualify as "pop punk" then I guess I've been "brainwashed," but I've listened to them and college professors both and I can't really say the academics made any more sense. Actually a semi-decent review by this pussy. Though the one guy's comment about rails and Red Bull being for pussies was fuckin funny. 95% of the world is third world "I don't know about anybody else, but the music I listened to when I was 13 to 18 had a huge effect on how I've looked at the world ever since, and that includes my views on politics. If bands like this want to get them while their young, good for them. Unfortunately these days most "adults" won't change their minds for any reason." I don't know about anybody else, but the music I listened to when I was 13 to 18 had a huge effect on how I've looked at the world ever since, and that includes my views on politics. If bands like this want to get them while their young, good for them. Unfortunately these days most "adults" won't change their minds for any reason. "Wow, you all sure have hard-ons for TSM's new "political" schtick. Not quite as bad as Anti-Flag's shameless marketing ploys, but come the fuck on, talk about cashing in on an empty youth trend. "If "political" bands actually wanted to make a difference they would make music that doesn't exclusively target an audience too young to vote. Sort of funny how that 13-18 age bracket has the most buying power when it comes to rock music. Coincidence?" Wow, you all sure have hard-ons for TSM's new "political" schtick. Not quite as bad as Anti-Flag's shameless marketing ploys, but come the fuck on, talk about cashing in on an empty youth trend. i'll be at the troubador show too. a setlist would be very much appreciated. Has anyone seen them on their latest tour? If you have, do you remember what songs they played during their set? I'm going to see them at the Troubadour in L.A. on the 13th---they're still one of the best live bands around. Best yet and that's all I have to say right now. Woke up at 9 this morning to buy this. 9! That's early for me. Last guy, you're absolutely right. Last song slays. This is amazing. The last song (not the secret track) is fucking brilliant. Has anyone seen them on their latest tour? If you have, do you remember what songs they played during their set? I'm going to see them at the Troubadour in L.A. on the 13th---they're still one of the best live bands around. Good review. They had the new Pennywise out. Side One goes through ADA. Maybe it wasn't placed on the shelves yet? Some stores (particularly Best Buys) are notoriously lazy for putting CDs on shelves in the morning... Who does SideOne's distro? I went to Best Buy AND Circuit City and couldn't find this fucker. I guess I can hit an indie on the way home, but I really wanted to listen to this today. "Like little audio drops from heaven..." Like little audio drops from heaven... The first part is great, but it drags in the middle. Overall, I'd say that it's better than their last. Just picked this one up and I'm pretty happy with it so far. It sounds a lot like "A Match and Some Gasoline," which isn't a bad thing. "dude, i was really hoping the intro to this review was going to lead into a rambling statement about how you smoke rocks or rip rails before work. loser. red bull's for pussies." oh yea that last one was me dude, i was really hoping the intro to this review was going to lead into a rambling statement about how you smoke rocks or rip rails before work. loser. red bull's for pussies. "I'd rather listen to a band that's beeen playing hardcore consistently than a band that jumps back and forth like this. This isn't anything special." D by D. Should I buy this or Destruction By Definition? tSM rule. the only thing that i didnt like of theirs was the s/t album, and they've definitely made up for that with the last few cds. The boys are pissed off here and that's not a bad thing at all. It definitely surpassed their last album, which is more than enough to warrant a purchase. Suicide Machines and Madden 06' will have my attention for the evening. Will be buying this and Pennywise at luch today. "I'd rather listen to a band that's beeen playing hardcore consistently than a band that jumps back and forth like this." "I do not drink coffee; the vile odor and bitter taste drives my senses crazy" I'd rather listen to a band that's beeen playing hardcore consistently than a band that jumps back and forth like this. This isn't anything special. when do we start putting these guys in the discussion of ideal punk bands that upcoming artists should model themselves after? they have tweaked their sound, covered all the bases, and still put out kickass records after all these years. score is for longevity. 13 songs in 30 minutes isnt fucking brief. guess youve never heard the ukraine crane yea, without a doubt in my top 20 of '05, may even make it into the top 10 by the end of the year. this is probably the best heavier shit they've put out yet. Indeed, definetly in my top 20 this year. Kick ass album. And how about that cover art! I love the style they display on this one. It sounds new and fresh, but still maintains the elements that made them great before. Excellent mix of hardcore and catchy melodies. Great record. So many solid albums released this year. I'm a happy camper Is that 14th track hidden in the 13th song or actually the 14th track? Pretty damn good record! Good to see them staying on the right track. Not better than DBD, but what could be? it keeps up with the pace of A Match and Some Gasoline and picks it up! Can't wait to see these songs live! As strange as it sounds being dropped from a major was probably the best thing to happen to this band musically. Their last two albums are utterly awesome (which is even more amazing for how half-assed some of their earlier work was). Absolutely killer record. No bullshit, no gimmicks, just punk fucking rock. One of the best of 2005. you scraped hard to find defaults? Yep, this is basically the heaviest, not to mention the most schizophrenic SM album yet. You know how Match/Gasoline presented at least one song reminiscent of each of their past albums? This contains a little of everything within each song. It's bizzarre, but it works. |
