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| The SandwichesHitting Refresh to Drop Witty Comments2009 Death to False Hope 
  Review by: dlangl4 See others by this writer Download the Album Here (link) Only registered users can post comments 
 Published on August 28th 2009
Hitting Refresh to Drop Witty Comments, the first proper release by new punk group the Sandwiches, is not an album for which the band should feel ashamed. It really isn’t. Some people might say the six-song EP is a natural and immature by-product of a bunch of 20-something losers who have nothing better to do than to read Punknews.org all day while simultaneously dreaming about making a band about reading Punknews.org all day. Such critics might even view the resulting band and album as a pointless and superfluous extension of such nonsense.
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tell someone 2 get their ey fixed. and This album is a circular narrative in many ways. Where it kind of sums up the org in a time capsule. looks like someone took hand drawing lessons from Rob Liefeld scruffy = cry baby Less Sandwhiches, more Wierd Al. is scott heisel aware of this band? Score is for SydBarrett420 references in the comments. I think the site does a pretty good job of dismissing this band. The news posts seem to have neutral-at-best language. It's pretty... average-y. i don't see the deal behind the uproar about a review. plenty of shit gets reviewed here. if bands want to be reviewed, it takes all of $1 to send a CD to a staff reviewer or even less to send a mediafire link. there doesn't seem to be a shortage of lesser known bands getting reviewed, i doubt there's a stockpile somewhere. These guys won't be legit until they have a Horsebites tshirt and someone from Doomtree makes a reference to them. They've had four news posts. Fuzzy: I'm pretty sure people are talking about the fact that they've had a bunch of newsposts, not the actual review. I love the fact that you still accept cd's from anyone and you definently have a point about this not being a review from someone on the staff because then it would definently be judged more on its own merits. Remember when people wrote reviews and sent them in to the site? And they got published? Hopefully this will add some perspective regarding the 'this shouldnt have been reviewed' comments: brokencyde and i set my friends on fire have reviews on this site. Hahaha truth. I mean, you can read MattRamone's comments if you want the latest "Sandwich news." Yeah, as I said I was more talking about news posts than reviews, I'm all for every single band who can send in a record, even if it's a cdr - being reviewed. I'm not really trying to justify the band, but Punknews ' decision. I fail to believe that punknews is strict with band coverage. Like I said, we've been sent some really shitty bands to review (hello, youth dekay). This isn't taking the place of a band who wanted space -- if anything, the reviews that are of records that are now 10 or so years old is doing that. "...Giving them this much coverage as an ego-stroke for this website is a complete insult to the thousands* of bands that would give their left nut to get this much attention on one of the most important punk sites on the internet." I like this alot. Hey scruffy, I definitely would agree with you if there weren't other factors. One being that I know how many times Scotty and Wauz have tried to get their band covered -- it actually wasn't as easy as you'd think. I also know how some Staff guys feels about this band, and they don't like it -- it's hardly an ego stroke if most Punknews doesn't like memes and how shitty the comment section has become. The other factor is that Wauz is in a band (Red Tape Parade) that has already been covered on this website for a couple years. Also, it isn't generally that hard to be covered on Punknews. I've reviewed some pretty amateur shit. It's not that the music is bad. It isn't. This seems more like a defence of the band rather than an actual review... This is all a little too meta. I feel like I'm in some sort of post-modernist nightmare. I wasn't expecting much from a band formed of punknews members, because, you know, we're lazy, sit around making comments and being idiots most of the time, etc. STANDARDIZED So what are the usernames of the guilty parties? I think it's sad that the only reason this is getting shit on is the punknews references. I think its sad that the only reason this is getting reviewed is the punknews references. Only the song titles are about punknes... and one song. There's substance to all but one of these songs. I can understand dislike of the fact it seems like a big inside joke, but some of these really harsh comments are from sheer ignorance of the music. "This is so lame and stupid it makes me want to kill everyone who comes to punknews. this is fucking stupid and shouldn't exist. "This is so lame and stupid it makes me want to kill everyone who comes to punknews. don't get half the jokes. org song titles don't make org songs. I don't get it? This sounds nothing like orgcore to me. Definitely melodic skate punk kinda' thing. Anyways, some of the 90s emo bridges are awesome. Harmonies rule too. This is all a little too meta. I feel like I'm in some sort of post-modernist nightmare. "it's been an slow and old process, but this site has officially jumped the shark." "The medium is the message." Since when can pop punk be fun and not totally serious?! This is blasphemy. needs more beard and mayonnaise! Thanks Matt, Wauz and Scotty for making the internet eat itself in new and infinitely more surprising ways. This is like the Keyboard Cat wolf t-shirt. It’s a genuine release by a genuine group of musicians (that have never met in real life, mind you) that are trying to genuinely impact the punk scene by creating genuinely enjoyable music. it's been an slow and old process, but this site has officially jumped the shark. just when my respect cant go down any more, it does. hooray for memes! i heard these guys were into docking and shrimping I heard these guys are getting a digital release through Epitaph. Brett did add them on myspace... I hear the proceeds of this album are used to fund NAMBLA associated acts of terrorism. Stupid This is so lame and stupid it makes me want to kill everyone who comes to punknews. I'm just grumpy you were the only one to get any action that weekend. I stayed at Matt's house once. It smelled like dry semen and goatee I stayed at Scotty's house once. It smelled like cigarettes and Plan B. Phmeh. I don't get half of the jokes here either. I've was a lurker here for a while before making an account but still.. this is pretty decent musically, but i've been reading/commenting on this site since 2001 and i don't get half of the jokes. |
