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Warped Tour 2006Warped Tour 2006: live in San Franciscolive in San Francisco (2006)Warped Tour Reviewer Rating: 3.5 User Rating: Contributed by: FuzzyJustin (others by this writer | submit your own) Warped Tour is an interesting beast for those of us who are getting "up there" in the years relative to the average punk rock enthusiast. As time goes by, many things falter: our interest in the newer bands in the scene, the inevitable tide changes of what "the current sound is" and our desire to st.
Warped Tour is an interesting beast for those of us who are getting "up there" in the years relative to the average punk rock enthusiast. As time goes by, many things falter: our interest in the newer bands in the scene, the inevitable tide changes of what "the current sound is" and our desire to stand out in the sun for 8 hours pressed up against hundreds of other smelly kids waiting to see thirty minutes of music from a slew of the large and the little of punk's current offerings. One thing that, hopefully, will never falter is our dedication to, and appreciation of, the music that makes all this happen. But that's for another review.
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"any kid who hears the opening lines of "True Believers" and isn't changed for the better isn't really cut out for this little sub-culture anyways." Cute essay. Should have been entitled: "Man, Why Am I Here: A Pedantic 24 Year Old Know-It-All Analyzes the Warped Tour". How clever and unorthodox, but why is this in the review section? Score is for the review. Which still remains to be seen. Very well written article. I like how the reviewer avoided taking on the jaded douchebag perspective, in favor of taking a realtistic view of the status of "underground music," while still remaining hopeful. I agree with the sentiment of this author. Loved the review, dude, even though I can see how some might not. I'm almost 27, though, so I think I liked it more because I related to it in that sense. I don't give a shit that you didn't mention a whole bunch of band names or whatever, because I (like most other people on this site, regardless of preferred sub-genres) only care about 10% of the bands on the tour. nobody understand what anyone else is saying, and nothing is articulated. Possibly the worst Warped review I've ever read. I understand and believe that Warped Tour is an experience and can't be approached like a normal show, but that doesn't mean you can vaguely mention bands, just to add to your critique of punk and the idea of warped tour. warped tour is pretty much like a popcorn hollywood movie. if you leave your brain at the door, you'll have a really good time. even if you hate a band on the main stage, you can always find another band somewhere else that will atleast be tolerable to your tastes. plus it's a whole day where a fat kid can sweat away a couple of pounds. werd I enjoyed this review much more than hearing the same WaRpEd ReViEW jocking the balls of against me! or nofx. against me! was awesome a few years back when their prefered percussion was the garage can. and nofx...who wants to hear about a bunch of 40 year old guys telling the same stupid jokes,playing the same sloppy music? It's possible, I meant whoever this dude is: Stoked. I dislike you WilliamMarinovic. Nothing wrong with going to Warp. Great way to spend a whole day with friends and meet easy chicks. Go and get laid everybody! "And while no one expects everyone there to suddenly become progressive, to vote every time, to get out there and engage in direct action or even start buying CDs, you know it has to be reaching a lot of them." You're 25 and ***STILL*** INTO PUNK ROCK!?!? Oh my God, dude! What a "True Believer" you are!!!! No way!!!111!! Didn't anyone tell you about the Band and Springsteen? That's true music, man!!! But punk is still cooooool. ...score is for kingofsuck. nice that he lives up to his namesake. Eh... I've never gone to this thing. Personal choice. It seems like everyone I knows who went this year went knowing it would suck and came out complaining... Okay, it's one thing to spend 10 bucks to see 3 lame bands and write a review bashing it. It's another to spend 30 bucks on a day's worth of terrible music supported by the army and a clothing company. dante - i think you are referring to number 2 in anti-flag, not justin sane. just thought i'd point that out. did kingofsuck write a review of warped tour? I was just wondering, because he didn't mention it ten times or anything. Good review. However, shouldn't the score be lower? It sounds very negative albeit realistic to me. Haven't gone to a Warped tour since the Suicide Machines played... man they fucking slayed that year. Score's for War Profiteering... e) Again, I didn't see the Army there. Can anyone actually confirm their presence? I spent five days on the tour this year and it really did feel like Ozzfest sans the bro-metal crowd. No one super exciting that I hadn't seen before. I also started to feel really old and I'm only 22. Toby, yeah dude but if you do like 30 pull ups you get a marines shirt...SWEET! I'd try if they let me kick one of the guys in the balls. I saw the Marines yesterday in Sac. I don't remember anything about SF, other than the fact that I was literally bringing the people around me to tears. TEARS. So fuck, the army coulda been there too. It's safe to say they're on the whole tour, although it was my understanding that they were not going to be recruiting on WT this year because bands took issue with it. It was 96 degrees out there yesterday and their big promotion was to get kids to do as many pull-ups as possible. Like, who the FUCK is gonna go for that? No wonder we haven't found Osama... this guy is a moron. all future warped tours should be postponed indefinitely for their callous interpretation of the scene most of us cherish "People need to stop writing like the pretentious twats in Rolling Stone and give the people what we want, set lists, and you know, actual discriptions of the bands playing." To Mr. Anonymous (Go ahead and Register!!!) This was a HORRIBLE review. I actually went to Sacramento yesterday and saw the WT for a second time...but sober! That Valient Thorr band is hilarious, and they really do live up to all the praise. AM!'s new songs are great and I bought a Mr. Pibb for $5. Then I made the 2 hour drive back to SF and dropped Floyd off in time for last call. Actually, NOFX played 14 songs in 8 or 10 minutes, ending with Fuck The Kids. It was hilarious. i liked the review. what exactly was another band by band account going to reveal anyways? NOFX wasted a lot of time talking? get the fuck out of here!! if you want your warped tour fix, there's about 50 of em in the archives section. My two cents: The Bouncing Souls fucking tore it up and were the highlight of the show for me. Actually a pretty good review. Score's for Justin. I don't think I'll be able to make it to Warped this summer which is really crappy. I wanted to see the Living End badly. Some how my last comment got screwed up: Just so a few of you know some of the bands weren't covered (i.e. Against Me!) because the San Fancisco show started at 10:30 (maybe 11) and Against Me! opened. "I didn't know Brian was publishing livejournal entries as reviews now. Interesting. Oh, yeah. I think that the most important thing you can give to a "new punk" is AMP magazine's "Your Favorite Bands' Favorite Albums" article. From that article, I found out about Fugazi, Gorilla Biscuits, Crass, Dag Nasty, Conflict, Elvis Costello, etc. I agree with the anon. post...to an extent. I believe that without some sort of "poser-punk" the punk rock "movement" would be completely lost. First of all, the corporate bands ARE needed to get kids into "real" punk. If not for buying Losing Streak by Less Than Jake, I would not now be looking for the reissue of Deviated Instinct (BTW, CD of Welcome to the Orgy/ Rock N Roll Conformity out 7/18!). Anti-Flag's politics didn't get me into more radical or active politics, but merely cemented my "I'm a Democrat!" mentality. Crass is really what got me into that, but without reading Against Me!'s favorite albums in some magazine, I would have never picked up Feeding of the 5000. Also, at heart, punk is a reactionary movement. How many bands do you know that offer an alternative to the current society, as opposed to just decrying it? (I'm guessing very few). Without pop-punk, or emo, or whatever, crusties would have nothing to be smelly, dreadlocked eliteists about, thus making them move to some other kind of music. Plus, without mainstream punk, I don't think the underground would be so vibrant - fewer kids interested in punk-ish rock means fewer older kids interested in punk rock. I'm so much punker than everyone because I consciously decided not to give Warped Tour my money this year, or last year, or the year before. The year before that, I was 15... I fucked up. yo. I find it pretty disturbing that everyone who reviews the Warped tour on this site feels like it's okay to point out that it's not that cool and then just go ahead with the review as though that's all that needs to be said. No mention of the 'army of one' booth (or whatever it's marketing scheme is this year), where kids can show up for anyone from underoath to against me! and go home as soldiers. No mention of the plights of the tons of tiny bands stupid enough to stand in the sun all day and drive all night just to play for 10 kids in some dusty field. No mention of the fact that hundreds of potentially great shows are essentially aborted in every town so that Vans (tm) and Kevin Lymon can have the only game in town all summer long... Score is for the reivew, because I couldn't find it. Great review Justin - one of the better Warped Tour ones. Justin, you know I love your hippy ass, but Scott was dead on....this wasn't a review, it was you yammering on about your day. To the kid below me: This is one of the worst reviews I've ever heard. You know you're suppose to review the bands at the fucking show right? We didn't click on this to read what you think about the current state of punk rock. good review. it's good because every other warped review ends up just being... this is a review?! yeeshh.. As soon as your birthday comes around, you *will* be 8 years older than me. Goddamn, and I feel like I'm one of the older ones at shows now. The first time I saw the Souls was at Warped Tour 2001. I had Hopeless Romantic and was a casual fan. After that day I'd say I was absolutly obsessed for about a year. Much better than that rating made it seem. My bad. Great review. One side dink, the other side jesus? Oh, yeah. My birthday's also in two weeks. Anyone looking for a gift can go here: I didn't know Brian was publishing livejournal entries as reviews now. Interesting. Hmm yes, let's keep pumping out Warped Tour reviews about Bouncing Souls and Against Me. It's so interesting. There are other things to talk about, it's ok, feel safe knowing I at least will not judge you for liking something else. Setlists, please! Setlists, please! As I was there I would like to take this time to mention how damn stupid Justin Sane looked at this show. The large gelled down mowhawk and the white belt look particularly awesome. Seriously, music aside, Anti-flag's image is nothing short of the scenes worst fashioncore bands. Good review. Much shorter than mine, which I'm sure everyone will like. haha "have u people ever heard Madball's cds? i dont see the tough-guyness.. seriously, show it to me" have u people ever heard Madball's cds? i dont see the tough-guyness.. seriously, show it to me |
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Warped Tour blows but this is a well written review and you make some good points. I mean, WAY back in 1998 Warped was my first "punk" concert...and although now I know it wasn't anything close to what real punk rock was....it still opened up those gates for me. It's just a shame that a REAL dangerous, confrontational and genre defying form of music doesn't crush everything right now. We need something new bad....everything has become institutionalized and tame. There need to be modern day equivalents of bands like Negative Approach, Flipper, Black Flag, Bad Brains, etc....not in the same style, but with the same explosive and extrememly threatening musical intensity.