The Copyrights

The Copyrights: Nowhere Near Chicago [7 inch]Nowhere Near Chicago [7 inch] (2005)
It's Alive Records

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Published on January 30th 2007Like 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 .

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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SilentStorms (January 31, 2007)

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

I'm glad you're progressive.

Anonymous (January 30, 2007)

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

rkl (January 30, 2007)

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

baseball (January 30, 2007)

one of the better pop punk bands going today

fun live too

8dollarclarinetsolo (January 30, 2007)

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

theonetruebill (January 30, 2007)

This record is awesome.