length: 10 songs, 33.8 minutes
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01 : You Know How I Do : 03:21
02 : Bike Scene : 03:35
03 : Cute Without The 'E' (Cut From The Team) : 03:31
04 : There's No 'I' In Team : 03:48
05 : Great Romances Of The 20th Century : 03:35
06 : Ghost Man On Third : 03:59
07 : Timberwolves At New Jersey : 03:23
08 : The Blue Channel : 02:30
09 : You're So Last Summer : 02:59
10 : Head Club : 03:02
It seems like prior to a few years ago, which is to say when i was young and a great deal more naive about things like love, sex, betrayal etc, i listened to music with much more of a writers ear. Which is a lot of posturing so that i can say i used to be more lyrically motivated to listen to records. Where the fuck am i going with this you might ask?
It's simple, if you haven't been under a rock you've heard what ever it is you've heard about this band, and I, gumpy, am not going to try and change what you've heard about this band. I don't care what shitty shit shit you've heard about Adam Lazar or fucking people leaving the band or what an MTV whore the record Louder Now was. Also don't fucking look at this post and think the words "scene" or "scene kids" because i will come to your fucking house and cut your fucking heart out. This band was around before the media and myspace and other fucktards coined "scene" to describe fans or shitty ass genres of music.
However, beyond everything i just said i am going to tell you despite it being a sort of messy, young, throaty, overly emotional and unpolished first press, this record has a multitude of poetic value. Boasting lyrics like:
hoping for the best just hoping nothing happened
a thousand clever lines unread in clever napkins
i will never ask if you dont ever tell me
i know you well enough to know you never loved me
or
you never knew cus i never told you
that everything i know about breaking hearts
i learned from you its true
ive never done it with the style and grace you have
but i've made long term plans
based of this mistake
It takes a lot of fucking guts to write that honest and to get on stage and bare your soul like that. I saw this band live when i was 17, it was a very impressive and emotionally draining show for everyone involved. I don't care what you've heard about this band, or what they sound like now. If you just look at this one record, and allow yourself to feel something other then food hunger or the need for masturbation you just might find that you like it. And if you don't then seriously, and honestly, please believe me when i say "FUCK YOU CHARLES!"
Hey im just kidding, but seriously go fuck yourself.
sounds like: Punk Rock motherfucker
Bang.
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