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Clearview Kills

Wrap This Around Your Neck [reissue] (2006)
Orange Peal Records

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Contributed by: Brian
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Published on April 14th 2006

Awesome, I always wanted the latest 2nd-rate Thursday clone to incorporate metalcore influences!

Wait, what's that you say, Clearview Kills? You rip off 2 different Thursday songs in your shittily constructed intro track, "No Sympathy for a Fallen Angel?" Yes, you're right! I can hear moments of the exact guitar structure of both "I Am the Killer" AND "Autobiography of a Nation!" Good work!

And then you pretty much completely rip off the vocal patterns from any given song on This Day Forward's In Response on "Goodnight," ultimately failing to incorporate any original flavor of your own while you include half-hearted "hey!"s and dumb-as-nails breakdown riffs. "Sleep With the Lights On?" Absoultely loving the spoken word bit that sounds like it was straight out of A Static Lullaby's And Don't Forget to Breathe, for real dudes.

And your lyrics! Oh my! These are as refreshing as the use of my blatant sarcasm! The supremely cinematic scene is surely set in "Lost and Lonely," definitely worth blockquoting for:

I'll take my weapon of choice, hide it on the shelf above your bed
She said the window I want you
And I'll take some string, tie you up so I can watch you bleed
Your heart, this time I swear you'll die

Thanks for bringing back this subject matter into the fold, Clearview Kills, because it totally sucks that bands like Boys Night Out realized how childish and, from some angles, misogynistic it is.

And that one vocalist who sings in that sort of gravelly bellow? Hands down, the Luciano Pavarotti of our generation.

But the chorus in "The Stereo?" So playful! Thank the gods of nü-emo it lacks any substance whatsoever! And that you guys sound sloppy as fuck when those jangly chords come in, completely fucking the song up and making it all the more hilarious!

I think you guys say it best in "Make Up:" "So forget all these cliché melodies." I'll be sure to heed to this advice!

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Goodnight
Sleep With the Lights On
The Stereo

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strykker5400 (April 26, 2007)

shut up pussy.
take greenday out of your cd player and listen to real music.

Goon (April 11, 2007)

sure the production on this record wasn't the greatest, but this review is just uncalled for. Clearly the person that wrote it hasn't got laid in a long time. maybe he should stop spending all of his time on punknews and try match.com.

Anonymous (April 26, 2006)

ahhh your are out of your mind!
like seriuolsy go kill your self.
CLEARVIEW KILLS! IS AMAZINGG!
AHH YOU MAKE ME SOOOO MAD! I AM LIKE FLIPPING OUT!
YOU FUCKING PISS ME OFFFF

Anonymous (April 25, 2006)

WoAHH dude!
Are you out of your mind
Like why would you write such mental things about such an amazing band.
If you yourself could personally do better yourself then I want to see with my own eyes cause what u wrote like seriuosly discuusssssted me I am sooo shocked that anyone could everr right anything that rude about clearview I am amazed how much u think that they suck! Like I don't agree with u on one single thing.
Your always gunna be wrong.
Seriuosly NO one disses
WILL TANG!

Anonymous (April 25, 2006)

Anonymous (April 19, 2006)

these guys worked hard...thats all i have to say and i saw it first hand from the start when there wasnt even a cleavrview yet. I dont really dig the shit but i know they have the talent they just need to slow down and put more thought into it. and by the way better off dead fucking owns. Will is the man

Sally_Field (April 19, 2006)

YEAH PITTSBURGH!
sike.

Anonymous (April 18, 2006)

Fuck brian, this might not be the best thing ever but its good and the musicianship/songwriting would run circles around alot of stuff

danperrone (April 17, 2006)

"boys in bands still singing about killing their girlfriends"

Anonymous (April 17, 2006)

I ove this band and they are much better than boy's night out.

Anonymous (April 17, 2006)

This review is BS, these dudes are good.

Anonymous (April 16, 2006)

Brian:

Excellent review. Thanks for pointing out the misogyny in their lyrics. More bands need to get called out on that bullshit. Hating women isn't punk and never will be.

-Ken

Anonymous (April 16, 2006)

"That is both an ad hominem and red herring argument. TWO logical flaws. It doesn't matter whether a critic has a band, or if said band is bigger or better. What matters is whether their critique is true.

I have no opinion on this band, as I've never heard them. It's just that that argument ticks me off so much."

Exactly. It doesn't take Michael fucking Flatley to point out that retards with broken legs can't do the Riverdance. I loather when people try and use this as some kind of defense of a band. You don't need to have walked a mile in someone's shoes to tell them their band sucks.

kirbypuckett (April 16, 2006)

Score is for the Berlin Project.

- Kirby

Scruffy (April 15, 2006)

"i'm sure your band is bigger and better."

That is both an ad hominem and red herring argument. TWO logical flaws. It doesn't matter whether a critic has a band, or if said band is bigger or better. What matters is whether their critique is true.

I have no opinion on this band, as I've never heard them. It's just that that argument ticks me off so much.

Anonymous (April 15, 2006)

gotta love the shit coming out of pittsburgh right now! let's give it up for all of the shitty cliche bands plaguing the 'burgh!

Anonymous (April 15, 2006)

full lenth buddy!

givemeamuseumandillfillit (April 15, 2006)

Derp!

sceneupdates (April 14, 2006)

They have like 2 MySpace friends, how bad can they be! lolz
Score for review

lol_omg_wtf_nambla (April 14, 2006)

Y'know, before I got to the end I thought Brian was being a little mean, but then I read the lyrics. Now I'm glad that there's a good old fashioned barnburner up for a band that deserves it.