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| FinchWhat It Is To Burn2002 Drive-Thru 
 Review by: Shane Leary See others by this writer Only registered users can post comments 
 
Published on April 1st 2002
You can't descibe this album with one genre. This band venture into new land with this album. People will be asking "Is this punk? Emo? Hardcore? Nu-metal? Rock?" All I can say, it is Finch. People who liked this also liked:           Please login or register to post comments. What are the benefits of having a Punknews.org account?
This album is sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo overrated beyond belief. Watered-down Diet Glassjaw blink-182 and you have WIITB. They have a great vocalist and are now one of my favorite bands. Why does everybody have to get all pissed about emo. I keep singing in reviews stuff like " Its just another emo album,uh oh we're all gonna die because its emo, AAAAAH" shut the fuck up. Emo rocks A secure 10 score for a amazing band preformance. How on "God's green earth" can a human being rate this record higher than a "one"? I mean I know its full of "heart-felt lyrics", and "bone-crushing breakdowns" (Really, bone-crushing), but come on people. Go buy a Quicksand record or something, or anything with Walter Screl="nofollow" hrefiels. Good golly. At least most of the comments were throughly amusing, as well as the review. it'd be a good record if the deftones didn't already put it out 3 times. -Eddie Punchclock how the hell can some of you not see the emo-ness in the songs? every song has it, but its a good cd. probably best from drive-thru (which almost stopped from buying this.) hard to pen these guys. i love the music but wouldnt call it punk at all. the singer has a good voice and they have one hell of a drummer. overall a good cd. the hardcore punkers wont like comparing it to heroin...is that really a good thing? i mean, doesn't heroin ultimately lead to death in most cases? This album is fucking awesome. It blends emo and metal who gives a shit. The only thing that matters is idiot preps won't be listening to it. They just can't handle it. Anybody who disagrees probably listens to dashboard confessionals or that mushy(sp) crap. I gave what it is to burn a 1 because it wouldn't allow me to give it less. I picked this album up because my friends had all told me how great it was and best buy was selling it for only $7. But when I got home and listened to it, I felt like I'd been ripped off. Every song that I liked was already on the ep. I was also very dissappointed that, despite claims of pop-punk meets hardcore, this was a complete nu metal album that for whatever reason, probably because they're on drive-thru, all these punk and emo kids seem to love. Finch is my new favorite band...I stumbled upon "Letters to you" like 4 months ago on the net, and I can't seem to get their songs out of my head..its great. Their drummer is fucking awesome, wow. The review was a little underplayed saying it was pop-punk which they're not. Overall one of the best albums of the year!! Oh....go buy a good album--->Yellowcard - One for the kids. THE BEST ALBUM no contest Finch is awesome, thats all i have to say, they did a great job putting this plastic together, 10!!! and sidelinedforlife sucks! i second this comment: is it just me, or isn't "emo" short for emotion - not just sappy, acoustic love songs? it's nice when a band can take all the cliche's of a given genre minus the talent and come up with a steaming pile of brilliance like this. Finch Rocks... thats all there is to it. This album fucking ruled. It even has a sappy song(letters to you) i told my girlfriend about so she doesnt mind listening to them now. It's not bad, but much like their EP, a lot of the songs get old really fast. mark trombino did the impossible...he polished a turd. You don't listen to heroin. Dont worry everyone my review is coming. . . Sorry, I find no emo in this album. I wouldn't call this pop, punk, "nu-metal", hardcore, or emo. It's just rock. Where do you get emo out of songs like Perfection thru Silence? Seems like everyone who sings their songs as opposed to screaming them is accused of playing emo these days (not that emo is bad....but everything out there is not emo, especially not Finch). And what exactly is a "punk beat"? "It's like a rollercoaster. It's like, the first song is punk, with some emo in it. Then the next song is metal, with some emo in it. Then you have some hardcore songs, but there's like, some emo in it. Then you have some emo...with some emo in it. Then they REALLY fuck you up, and play an emo song...but with some PUNK in it. It's like a rollercoaster. Or heroin. A rollercoaster or heroin." Like its been sayed many times..... |
