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Published on December 2nd 2005
Chicagoianites Mest are back with their fourth full-length album for Maverick, and it’s safe to say that no one thought it would be as ___________ (adjective) as this. For the better part of a decade, the band has been playing catchy, melodic pop-punk, which makes it no surprise and somewhat ___________ (adjective) that they would try and branch out into new territory.
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I'm gonna try filling this in. I'm gonna try filling this in. this is my favourite album ever!my fav songs are kiss me kill me and cry out for heaven(take me away).bt i love graveyard and cursed to.oh wot can i say.i love the mix of tonys soft voice and jeremiahs husky voice which is very sexy might i add. i feel that i can relate to alot of mests sngs and wud definitly advise listening to this album coz ul get hookd without a doubt this is my favourite album ever!my fav songs are kiss me kill me and cry out for heaven(take me away).bt i love graveyard and cursed to.oh wot can i say.i love the mix of tonys soft voice and jeremiahs husky voice which is very sexy might i add. i feel that i can relate to alot of mests sngs and wud definitly advise listening to this album coz ul get hookd without a doubt Shut up Alkaline Trio freakin sucks compared to Mest. This cd sucks.. Creed ew SUCKS! I'm still Oreo. no matter how hard they try, their is only one creed. creed rocks, baby! ^^ LOVE IT Oreo is my name and I am #1 MEST FAN! wow mest rocks, great album totally love it! Isnt Social Distortion embarrased that they took these guys on tour? No. You know what? Fuck that. No pansy-ass excuses. I posted something stupid. It was wrong to do so. I'm sorry. i couldnt be bothered with the record or the review. but i am digging on the artwork. What? Me? But I just said...never mind. Anyways, I'm sorry for the hostility, I was just venting some frustration. I shouldn't have even posted that shit. I don't even like Mest or Photographs all that much. I just can't believe you can't make the same case for this album as you did with the last one. I thought it was at least better than that crap. But this does mark the end of my putting any effort into Mest. haha good review Is your opinion of us so low you expect us to buy that bullshit line? just wanted to say....i love MEST they fucken rock and i dont give a shit what anyone else thinks cuz it's their personal oppinion...i'm just saying that ......MEST rox the sox off of all those shitty ppl like hilary duff and all those POSERS!!! at least mest does what they want.....even if you say that they're trying to be things that they're not....well i dont know how some ppl that beautiful can do that! sorry if i have now made enemies! Who cares about my opinion? Go listen to the music and make your own. I'm just trying to say what it sounded like. This shit didn't even break the Billboard top 100 so fingers crossed they give it up soon. addendum: i feel sorry for Alkaline Trio. seriously, they are (or 'were') a really great band. however, it's gotta be awful to be responsible for spawning the absolute shitfest of new bands (too many to count) that are tearing up the scene for 15 year olds everywhere. evil, booze, romance, come on man, get your own fucking ideas ya bunch of fakes. omg, so the pop-punk scene is no longer cool, let's put a chick on the front of our new album kissing a skeleton. darkness and romance is cool now right? we'll fit right in! Mest=one grand old dump in CD format. Chicagoianites Mest are back with their fourth full-length album for Maverick, and it’s safe to say that no one thought it would be as terrible as this. For the better part of a decade, the band has been playing catchy, melodic pop-punk, which makes it no surprise and somewhat predictable that they would try and branch out into new territory. I think that the people who are ripping on this review for being "cute" but "not conveying how the writer actually felt about the record" are really missing something. Look at the structure and what is given to you and what is intentionally left out. It's actually quite thorough and sensical, giving a really clear assessment of the record. I thought it was brilliant. Unmistakably having no beef with the producer from their previous albums, Mest brings back John Feldmann once again, resulting in a sound that is ___________ (adjective). that song 'cursed' is really good. i hate when the other guy is singing though, he ruins the first track as soon as he opens his mouth. I love it when people use such hilariously half-baked reasons for not "believing" in evolution. I mean, how stupid do you have to be to think that all those millions of scientists who have dedicated their productive lives to painstakingly proving evolution correct for the past 150 years wouldn't have thought of something that simple. I'll never understand why, after 700 years of progress, people still have a hard time seeing that if you disbelieve the scientific consensus you're probably being a fucking moron. I still say it was the toronto crowd that made these guys drop off the toronto tour and good riddence Just to clarify, I meant score, not review. Uh...I didn't laugh at the review. It actually pissed me off that I had to work at it and that I got no insight as to why the album got a bad review. I just noticed I spelled "proceed" as "pcoeed"... this place needs spellcheck, mainly for me. "I'd like to see a debate between him and Greg Graffin on evolution and pcoeed to watch Graffin school that douchebag on the subject, it would be the punkest thing ever!" “Stare at you as you slit my wrist / and as we share our last kiss / hold me as we die / empty bottle to deal with this.” bad review, even worse music. get that pest away from me. "If we came from monkeys, then why are there still monkeys?" - Tony Lovato i like jerkin off with my thumb in my ass while listening to this album these guys attempted shitty ska songs in 98. ride the trends motherfuckers, ride it. This album is a rip-oof of a rip-off of a rip-off. This band needs to get a fucking clue. Maybe they should go back to (allegedly, he hastens to add )being a white-power band? That shit sells these days. Wow, so this is the band everyone makes fun of. Now I even know kind of what they sound like (i.e. enough to know I won't bother listening to it, sounds crappy!). The cover reminds me of the German Movie "Nekromantic" where a street cleaner brings a rotting corpse back to his lover, the woman falls in love with it, and they have a three way. you mean you people have actually listened to this cd? wow Who cares about my opinion? Go listen to the music and make your own. I'm just trying to say what it sounded like. This review was pretty good, but here's how I would make it better: to the guy below me... i really like this album although it is goin into the good charlotte "chronicles of life and death" catergory with alot more mainstream music. overall i like the fact that the lyrics are darker and the fact mest still sound the same like older albums and didn't just completely change for the stupid review that was pretty sad ay if you didn't like it just say so rather than being a looser about it. if that reviewer could produce an album that sounds half as good as that i will not call him a blody idiot! I just noticed that this is the same guy who reviewed Mest's S/T, and he gave that album a respectable 3 stars. What a joke. For a while, I have been down on the quality of reviews here. This one was very good. Creative, yet effective. these guys used to sing about cadillacs and dress like travis barker from blink 182. now they're trying to sound like alkaline trio, trying to sound like hawthorne heights trying to impersonate afi Quite possibly the worst review ever written on this site. ahah is that the actual album cover? suck my fucking dick. i like this album, i listen to it alot, im going to shit on all of your families. one star means it was real bad. so start placing derogatory terms whereever applicable. and it's mest so who cares why exactly it sucked. kind of like trying to figure out what causes my shit to smell like dead children. This "no score" is for the "no opinion" of this review. That was a funny idea but how about writing it in such a way that we have SOME clue of what you thought of the album, besides your one star. The cover actually looks kind of cool..... if there was ever a band that was full of shit it is hawthorne heights. I haven't been able to take this band seriously since their evolution comment in Alternative Press. The fact that his opposition to evolution stems from a lack of understanding of it, and the arrogance to use that as an argument against it is pretty laughable. Wait, what Hawthorne Heights review are we talking about? The only one ever posted is still on the site as far as I know. If you take it for what it is, the music isn't horrible. But that cover is. Someone ought to post that Hawthorne Heights review in the comments some day, unless it's like contraband to have or something. greta review, not as funny as the hawthorne heights review that got ripped off the site after two days, but hilarious nonetheless! I felt dirty after I listened to this cd, dirtier than after the time I got fucked in the ass with rusty pole...and that was dirty... saw them with social distortion in toronto in october. they were being booed and heckled throughout their entire set, they were horible. also said something along the lines of "we are ready to carry the torch of punk rock and continue the legacy when SD pass it on." please, these dudes couldnt carry fuck all. Check the score. ok clever review, but did you like it? "If we came from monkeys, then why are there still monkeys?" - Tony Lovato very good revie, but im sure there will be some asshole who bashes it. This shit didn't even break the Billboard top 100 so fingers crossed they give it up soon. "If we came from monkeys, then why are there still monkeys?" - Tony Lovato this is more important than a propagandhi show review apparently. I don't get it. I don't get the album, or the hilarity of this review. where's a fuckin review for a propagandhi tour?! Nice review! Do they wear eyeliner now too? Death really is a hot theme in music these days, isnt it? How come 90% of the bands that sing about death are still alive if they like it so much? I dont understand. Best review I have read this year. How come the album is called Photographs, but they use a painting for the cover? Hilarious review!!!! Chilly hell of a review. Overall, Phototgraphs is a speedy brussel-sprout over their last album, 2003’s self-titled. It’s safe to say that thems suckle mad shit. agreed, amazing review for a shitty album. though i'll admit to liking Take Me Away since I downloaded that biotch. Mad libs! I'm a sucker for using "pickles" or "toilets" as stalwart nouns. That was a hell of a review, i just put the word fuck (or some form of it) in for all of them. I'm surprised punknews put it up without editing it. okayyy, score for the review disappeared. score is for the awesome review. I'd rather buy the Crimson re-release They try to sound like the Police on this thing. Hilarious and sad, all at once. |
