This album sounds like Queensryche.

Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, April 1, 2006 at 10:06 PM (EST)
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Are you saying that Mike Ness owns a major label? Because this album was definitely released by a major.

-Chinatown

Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, April 1, 2006 at 6:32 PM (EST)
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Shame on Mike Ness for having this associated with his label.

So.....the first 2 tracks are "less than stellar" yet this gets an almost perfect score?

To each his own, but I've always thought the opener was very critical of how the album is perceived.

So my friend's older brother was this badass dude who always was like years ahead of me in terms of music. He always had the sick metal and industrial shit that I would end up liking years later and would sit in his basement room and smoke weed and then beat the crap out of us whenever we asked him for drugs/advice/whatever. Anyway, 10 years later I run into this guy and we eventually get around to what he listens to now. He has forsaken all his old metal and underground hiphop and shit for Sunny Day Fucking Real Estate.. He's also an accountant , so that might explain something. I'll never be able to like this band since its a blatant reminder of one of my childhood heroes selling out.

-Ken

Weird, I always think of Diary as my favorite, but then I'll listen to LP2, and realize that it's so much better. But it never sticks with me.

Meh, I don't listen to this band much anymore.

-Pope Skeletor

It's good. But, Diary is possibl one of the best albums ever made. In my opinion, of course.

Posted by Anonymous on Friday, March 31, 2006 at 10:55 PM (EST)
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*the other two are*

-Chinatown

Posted by Anonymous on Friday, March 31, 2006 at 10:50 PM (EST)
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When all is said and done:

1. How It Feels to be Something On
2. Diary
3. LP2

And, at a distant 4th, this overall pretty average album. Haven't heard Live.

This band's first and third albums are essentials, but the other two is merely ordinary. It seems as though both times SDRE explored a sound (1-2: emo rock; 3-4: indie), they started out with tons of ideas and hooks...but then lost it all for the second foray. Oh well. Still one of the great bands of the 90s.

-Chinatown

Posted by cantsitstill on 2006-03-31 19:23:27
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i hate the band Live. HATE them.
shame on you for making me think of them!

Posted by Anonymous on Friday, March 31, 2006 at 5:45 PM (EST)
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uh. KIlled By An Angel is an incredible song...

meh. this album is ok, but...

diary and lp2 (the pink one) are much better.

i found diarreah to be so fucking boring i couldn't listen to more than three songs. those songs were like 5 minutes of the same mellow shit being repeated. it was hell.

Posted by vitustinnitus on 2006-03-31 14:10:05
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I would've given this a one after I had just bought it. However, I stuck with it and it turned out to be better than I thought.

After years of listening to both (as well as the other SDRE albums), I'm still gonna have to go with Diary as their best.

Posted by historypeats on 2006-03-31 13:03:48
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I really like this CD, although I don't think "Killed By an Angel" is as bad as the reviewer does...

front to back - great fucking record.....

diary is great but this LP is excellent as well. why are people so fucking retarded that one record has to stand as some sort of nail i the coffin? there are 300 rolling stones records out, and noone stopped with their first record for chrissakes.

Posted by Anonymous on Friday, March 31, 2006 at 12:23 AM (EST)
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meh

I know it's a cliche to say 'this band went downhill after ......' but in this band's case it's true.

I actually feel bad for these guys that they tried so hard to be part of the mid 90s mainstream alternative scene that was all over MTV, but never quite made it.

this album suuuuucks

This is my favorite SDRE album. I had already bought the first three from a friend, and honestly barely ever listened to them. I was in another friend's car, and I really dug what was on the stereo. I asked. It was this album. So, I bought it, and I love it.
And I think the first two songs are amazing, definitely better than "less-than-stellar".
This isn't my favorite type of music, but the pop in these songs is undeniable.

This has 3 or 4 good songs, but the production is way too slick and the keyboards sound really cheesy. Some of the lyrics are pretty bad too ("and it's candy!" or "she's cruel and free, like television").

The first 3 records and Jeremy's solo album are way better.