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Edit: moving all my reviews to my personal website.

Cool entries so far. I didn't know Dee Dee used to be a male prostitute.

The glue sniffing is a perfect example of how they weren't just goofy. They were poor kids with no options other than sniffing glue in stairwells and dying of a heroin overdose, or starting a band to escape that nihilistic existence, but even when talking about girls and bananas they never sound anything less than desperate people making desperate music that's still nihilistic under the surface.

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I know 2 songs from The Get Up kids, Overdue and their cover of Alec Eiffel.



I didn't know they were pop punk tho, i thought they were alternative. Kinda wished i still thought that.

According to the very reliable Wikipedia, TGUK is emo, pop punk, alternative rock, and indie rock. So I guess you're right about the alternative thing. Personally, I think the pop punk tag was misused on this album, maybe because it was released the same year as pop punk classics like Enema Of The State, Through Being Cool, and Nothing Gold Can Stay. But I feel like this album is too sprawling, too ambitious to simply be pop punk, even if it has pop punk elements. I would describe it as an emo power pop album, kinda like Jimmy Eat World's Clarity (yet another fantastic 1999 release) and Weezer's Pinkerton. You should totally listen to it. I posted it so you don't even have to leave this page. I'll be doing this for every album I can. Maybe you'll be pleasantly surprised.

Even if you don't listen to it, or do listen to it but dislike it, I want to thank you for following my journal. It makes me feel good that at least one person seemingly likes my writing and finds my reviews worthwhile.

I skimmed thru like half the album and i didn't like it honestly. Not gonna write them off just cause of that tho. Not to be a dick but as i was hearing it i thought: "Tokyo police club and The Von Bondies are better than this" cause the alternative vibe in it made me draw a comparison to them for some reason. Do you know them?

Hey, no worries man! You're not being a dick at all. If we all had the same taste, life would be boring, right? Even though STWHA strayed from the pop punk style of Four Minute Mile, apparently by the time of their third album, On A Wire, they completely eliminated the pop punk formula in favor of a more indie rock style. I haven't listened to anything after Write Home, so I don't know.

I haven't heard of those bands, but I'll have to check them out. Thanks for the recs!

If you cover other Get up kids and Jimmy eat World albums I'll check them out too. I can vouch more for Tokyo Police club than The Von Bondies, here's some tracks i like from them.

TPC

https://youtu.be/et6HN2OHP4I

https://youtu.be/f9K25UgweOA

TVB

https://youtu.be/dwT94w48RiM

https://youtu.be/KSZ_xISJAdk

Maybe you'll like something in there worth exploring if not just ignore it and keep doing your thing man. :)

I'm always up to discovering a band I've never heard of before, so I'll check them out when I get home from work tomorrow morning.

It's funny you mention Jimmy Eat World, because Clarity is going to be my next write-up. It'll be either tomorrow or Sunday.

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