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The Copyrights

Nowhere Near Chicago [7 inch]
2005
It's Alive!

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Published on January 30th 2007

Like fellow Illinoisers Screeching Weasel and the Methadones, the Copyrights play that bratty "Ramones-core" style like they first came up with the idea. This is pop-punk, no two ways about it -- and it's pop-punk done damn well.

And you better believe you're not getting full, individual reviews for the separate 7"s, as neither even eclipse the nine-minute mark.

The newer of the two, 2005's Nowhere Near Chicago, contains four songs, and at least three of them are fucking catchier than [insert sexually transmitted disease of choice]. The band bury hooks in you like aged seafarers, sporting a smiling set of raw power chords and infectious, simple lines like "meathead, you're rotting out your brain" and "girl, why you screwin' around on me?" Out the mouths of most other bands I'd groan, but like their influences the Copyrights are energetic, sincere and most of all succinct enough to pull it off.

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    Posted by SilentStorms on 2007-01-31 01:12:01

    "what the hell kind of weird review is this?
    i hate change."

    I'm glad you're progressive.

    Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, January 30, 2007 at 6:10 PM (EST)

    Looking forward to hearing the new album on Red Scare. It's gotta be good.

    Posted by rkl on 2007-01-30 14:11:26
    My Score:

    what the hell kind of weird review is this?
    i hate change.

    Posted by baseball on 2007-01-30 09:40:27
    My Score:

    one of the better pop punk bands going today

    fun live too

    Posted by 8dollarclarinetsolo on 2007-01-30 03:35:29

    yea, this stuff is the songs they took from their older bands, the funny thing is that they definetely have the better songs than the other 7". screwin around, at least, is amazing

    Posted by theonetruebill on 2007-01-30 00:26:57

    This record is awesome.

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