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 Review by: Chris See others by this writer ![[staff]](/images/icons/staffsticker.gif){kind=icon}
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Published on March 31st 2006
I try to have an open mind about music. I respect the bands Fat chooses to sign, because generally they don’t let me down. Unfortunately, disappointment is bound to happen sooner or later.
I want you to be my lover,But I regress. There are certainly some great songs on this album. Chon has great range in his vocals, and the musicanship is extremely tight, even on the tracks I didn't care for. I don’t have a bias against the love songs or slow jams, but I really think these fellas should work on establishing a firm identity on their sound before expanding in so many directions. This record is just all over the map. One minute we’ve got some Goth Bay hardcore, the next we’ve got Morrissey. We're jolted by another curveball on the album closer, "Truth Has Failed." Ironically, this one is really a great song. The slower, piano-driven melody intermingled with acoustic guitars and softer backing vocals blend into a very harmonically pleasing end to a seemingly chaotic record. Maybe this was the initial intention, but my focus dwindled along the way. Let me stress again, Love Equals Death is not a bad band, and Nightmerica has some really good songs. But the album itself lacks direction and seems almost rushed. Had a few songs been plucked to put out an EP, or maybe the band focused on a style, and then moved towards evolving that into another sound, they could be HUGE. But there’s just too much going on for one album. Especially from a band that many are not too familiar with. People who liked this also liked:           Please login or register to post comments. What are the benefits of having a Punknews.org account?
its very obviously a mid-period AFI ripoff. but it has great energy and the singer maybe ripping davey off COMPLETELY, but he does it damn well!! I get elements of Explosion, Alkaline Trio and definitly AFI. Are these guys trying to appeal to somekind of mainstream market from the get go? where is the bands identity What has happend to punk these days? theres a lot of really good songs on this album even the slower songs are good..but its sounds kinda weird at first.. Apparently, we're all "close-minded, bitter and jaded scene fucks" for not liking the band on Fat that's as close as possible to the stuff on MTV. I did not know that disliking goth-punk meant I was jaded and close-minded. I mean, I know I'm jaded. But, close-minded. Dude, I like everything from The Lawrence Arms to Blink-182 to Bob Dylan to Peter Gabriel to Whiskeytown to Matchbox 20. Most of us have pretty widespread tastes. This board has been lame for a long time. Yet, we keep posting. Oh man, this board has gotten LAAAAAAAME. Errr ... lame, this is. why does jones feel the need to put his email after EVERY POST? why does jones feel the need to put his email after EVERY POST? The Loved Ones - Good pop-punk to jockmcbored: to the person 44 comments down: To the person one comment below me: Person two comments down from me: The Loved Ones I think you guys are crazy if you don't give this band a chance. They are amazing and I'm sorry but this is one of the best albums to have come out in a while. I saw them live a while ago, and was blown away by their show, and I picked this album up because of that. Its a great album! I love it! It's hard to judge just based on the few songs I've heard but from what I heard this is basically the first Fat Wreck release in a while that I have no interest in buying or even checking out in any further manner. Seems like this band trys too hard to be to try all these different styles and the lead singer just sounds too much like he's trying to be in AFI. No regress, stupid fuck. I returned to a previous, less-developed statement. Weird, I graduated from Goth Bay Tech, I didn't know those guys were from there too. okay. No regress, stupid fuck. I returned to a previous, less-developed statement. you should still be a british colony This band COULD be good. They can obviously play instruments, they're into the straight up melodic punk that Fat specializes in, and the record has great production values -- BUT, as its been pointed out, their image and their songs are such a fucking JOKE. This shit is seriously cringe-worthy. "Between AFI and the Offspring, I don't think we need anyone else to sing anymore whoa's." "You took my strength. You took my passion and turned it into a fashion show. Dollar signs in your eyes, you begin to fantasize about how much money you'll be owed. You took my strength. You took my passion and turned it into a fashion show. Dollar signs in your eyes, you begin to fantasize about how much money you'll be owed. also, these guys look like the biggest rock-star wannabe douche bags in the world. and it's okay to judge a band by their looks when it comes to this kind of shit. forget what i said about "forgetting this band exists." fuck them and fuck fat wreck. there's nothing going on here that isn't money related. can we just pretend that this band doesn't exist? I was one of two people to go see them open for the Eyeliners in MN. They put on a great show. Some great stuff, some average stuff. I meant to post this in the news thread reserved to them, but my IP was banned at the time. so what your saying is that the songs are really good and not all the songs sound the same. That cover art could've been half-decent had that stupid girl been removed. Seriously, what the fuck? you can't judge a book by its cover...and you cant judge a band by its name and by the title of their album ahah I agree with the reviewer. There are some very good songs on here but overall it's not too great. maybe i shouldnt have put somalia, next time i'll put Denmark and Candyland I heard one of their songs...the description said it was "a tribute to the Misfits". It was kinda catchy, but not all that great. Basically, this is average pop-punk, the sort of late-90's Warped Tour style that was (I guess is) really popular. The horror posing is kinda stupid, and their logo is something like a heart, an equals sign, and a skull. Not worth the time it took to write this post. Jones- Gotcha, my bad. Sarcasm doesn't translate well in print... Jesse I saw this band with Strung Out--and it was just too hard to get that AFI comparison out of my head. So many Whoooooas. if these guys think america is a nightmare, why dont they try living in denmark or somalia. Looking forward to hearing this. All these guys are coming out of a lot of the same NorCal scenes that AFI cut their teeth in, and have had bands & shows with them, etc., over the years. It's not odd that they've got what sounds like a lot of diverse-in-an-AFI-kind-of-way sound on this record. i like how people are allowed to automatically write bands off because of the label, but if someone gives a band credit for being on a certain label, that is just wrong.... For those with the "you're lenient because its a Fat release"....consider this: This album is decent; nothing special though. I read on here that Fat has signed a couple new bands, but I didn't take much interest in listening to any of them. But, once I heard the Saint Catherines, I decided to pick this up without hearing any of it. you dont get it. end of story I don't know shit about Denmark except that they seemed a little weird to me since the things about the caricatures, I do know more about Somalia so what I know what you tried to say. That's all I got an incredibly different sound then I was expecting when I went to their purevolume page. From the two songs there it sounds actually pretty good. You'll probably right jones, my english grammar is really bad and there's a reason; I'm french. I understood though what you said and I don't agree, America is a really bad country trough is international politics. I'd say very All Hallow's, but not as good. I really like these guys as people, but the music seems kind of uninspired to me. Maybe it's the production. If you're going to go horror-punk style, be like the Misfits and have your music recorded like shit...I honestly believe it helps. On thaty note: go LSU, win me my money. Jones - You'll probably right jones, my english grammar is really bad and there's a reason; I'm french. I understood though what you said and I don't agree, America is a really bad country trough is international politics. sickboi, Why these guys shouln't say that America is nightmare. Do they have to go to Somalia to se real shit. Most of the problems in Africa are made up by the economical american standart that can't allow local iniative in those carry. I wouln't like to bear this shit on my shoulders, that would be a nightmare but you know, I'm just a stupid french canadian and I do live in a country that doing shit like this but at least my didn't made the rules. Suck it up dude, you live in a nightmare. The point? If this came out on Victory, it would be mocked on these forums. To those who don't know the band, it looks like a crass, cynical attempt to bandwagon jump on both the goth/emo trend championed by MCR and the quasipolitical trend started by American Idiot. It looks like either a cash grab or a band with no identity. Why these guys shouln't say that America is nightmare. Do they have to go to Somalia to se real shit. Most of the problems in Africa are made up by the economical american standart that can't allow local iniative in those carry. I wouln't like to bear this shit on my shoulders, that would be a nightmare but you know, I'm just a stupid french canadian and I do live in a country that doing shit like this but at least my didn't made the rules. Suck it up dude, you live in a nightmare. if these guys think america is a nightmare, why dont they try living in denmark or somalia. Does anyone else think it's funny that people below are saying things like "well, i dunno about this but it IS on Fat" Get off of fat mikes dick. He has put out bad bands before. If it looks like a duck and sounds like a duck...or should I say shit. I listened to Fat Mike's Podcast where they played a tune from these guys and I LOVE IT. I really was looking forward to picking this up.... but I listened to other samples from the FaT site, and they stink. Now I have mixed feelings about the record. horrible, horrible album art. I agree, first fat realease of all time I have absolutely no interest in. "Reason for a 6? I liked it more than hated it." Those questioning the score.... The first fat realease of all time I have absolutely no interest in. No regress, stupid fuck. I returned to a previous, less-developed statement. i really like this album some great songs.. http://www.wherethegoldat.com/ www.wherethegoldat.com I am still undecided with the whole album. It's a little slower than i had expected. Why keep stressing this is from Fat Wreck in the review? The first time I heard this band I thought it was nothing that great. Their name is awful, everything about it screams "you guys are taking the wrong path!" but whatever. Six seems like a pity score for what the review actually says, cause it sounds like you wanted to give this a two. Still no Sainte Catherines review? Booo! bombs over baghdad > bombs over brooklyn... Perhaps considering the review you gave, you should've given this a four or five. scruffys right. but that's essentialy what i said about the loved ones (although pop punk, and not mall emo) which is worse? Scruffy is 100% correct... Remember when Fat released that EP by The Fight, which was just bad pop punk? I agree with Scruffy. I haven't heard this yet. But from the time I first saw the cover of this on fat.com,read their bio and saw the picture of them I thought this was going to be some kind of from first to last kind of band. It's not really a tongue twister. To those who don't know the band, it looks like a crass, cynical attempt to bandwagon jump on both the goth/emo trend championed by MCR and the quasipolitical trend started by American Idiot. I disagree with almost everything in this review. This is one of the best releases so far this year. Scruffy is absolutely right. This record has sort of been exonerated because its on Fat, which just isn't right. I agree, for the past 11 years or so fat has been consistently good, with only a few exceptions, from what I've heard, this seems to be one of those exceptions for me. I'm really liking this album now, but I wish they'd picked a stronger song than Pray For Me to make a video for. Also, I think that their name is kinda lame. I don't know much about this band. I could like them. But for the sake of argument, I'd like to point out: I thought this was a really good review of the album. this shit just seems dumb i can see where youre comin from but this cd is incredible.. i think its my fav fat cd of 06 so far |
