 | Tracklist:
1. We Broke The PA
2. Power Chord Blues
3. A Missed Chance For A Meaningful
Abortion
4. Gashing In
5. Half Brother, All Cop
6. My Wonder Years Never Got Cancelled
7. Breakbeat
8. Shop Till You Drop
9. War? What War?
10. The Tiki House
11. The Great Wall Of California
12. Naysayer
13. (D)anger(s)
14. We Have More Sense Than Lies
Release Date: 2006 | Ranking: #19 for 2006 | |
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| Summary: And nothing changes, if we don't change ourselves. |
13 of 13 thought this review was well written
Today, the world told me, "No." No, you can't try to teach yourself partial differential equations from scratch in four days and expect to pass that exam. No, you don't have enough time between work and school to finish your piano assignment. No, that police officer isn't just going to look the other way and not be a dick as you illegally cross that completely deserted street. Well this is me telling the world to fuck off for twenty-three minutes, before I tell it to change its goddamn mind. So for now: fuck off, world.
Dangers frontman Al Brown has been telling the world to fuck off for a good long while now. In a recent live video, he precedes their set with "This song is off an album called Anger, an emotion that I feel about twenty-three and a half hours a day." Based on this, set alongside his vitriolic songwriting and generally irate shenanigans, some people have chosen to quantify Brown as "mad." Well it's almost certain that these people are stupid fucking idiots who floss their pearly white chompers with coyote pubes, because Brown isn't just "mad", he's angry. And he's far too sane and conscious of such ignorant dimwits to be mad in the other sense of the word. Hence, he and three other pissed off dudes formed Dangers, and articulated a good deal of their frustration on 2006's appropriately named Anger.
Dangers aren't exactly angry in the common sense of the world. They don't do what they do just because they failed a test, because their daddies beat them, or on account of some moronic slag who fucked them over. They're mad because all four of them firmly believe the third line of the third track on Anger, 'A Missed Chance for a Meaningful Abortion':
I can't stand ten of ten people I see
it's like this world took a shit for a billion years
and shat it all right down on me.
Al Brown just isn't okay with the sort of situations and people that our current society breeds, be it 'liposuction soccer moms" or a chauvinistic police officer (who also happens to be his brother) - "a necessary evil, but an evil all the same." Unlike much of the punk scene's other habitants, these dudes don't see a whole lot of hope for the situation at bay. This temperament is reflected throughout Anger, from Brown's piercing screams to the scathingly anti-establishment songwriting, beneath every vicious drumbeat and in each seething guitar line. Closing track 'We Have More Sense Than Lies' communicates this attitude best, conceding that anger isn't the answer but it's at least the start of it. Simply put, Dangers can't imagine being anything other than infuriated all the time. They can't imagine it for themselves, they can't accept it on behalf on anyone else. If anything, their one hope is that people can one day wake up and break free from their obtuse perceptions of life and society. As much as I'd like to see that exam padded with a major curve, or to look on as that police officer is publicly castrated, I too understand that life merits very little fairness. Though Al Brown and I may agree on such a notion, I really can't say that I've got any right to feel on the same level of fury as he is. But I figure if you're going to look up someone for telling the world to fuck itself, you might as well take notes from the best.
So get angry.
Or change your goddamn mind.
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sweet approach for the review dawg
last paragraph you wrote "all brown" jus sayin
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"And he's far too sane and conscious of such ignorant dimwits to be mad in the other sense of the world."
I think you mean "in the other sense of the word"
other than that, great review. i've been meaning to get this album, i fucking love what I've heard from it.
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You should really put quotes in that first sentence
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4 u casey luh u babii
and thanks for all the little corrections dudes, wrote it a little quick I guess
and @tkxxx, I originally had quotes but there were so many of them that it looked real cluttered, so I just want with some sparsely used italics instead haha
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It'd look nicer like this:
Today, the world told me, "No." No, you can't try to teach yourself partial differential equations from scratch in four days and expect to pass that exam.
At least I think so
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I thought you meant me lol
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yeah I'll agree with you there, that looks a little nicer.
cool beans thanks bro
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no prob pos btw
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yet again another great review from Mr. Pickles, good job
this album is so awesome
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thanks brother, and yes it is.
so bitter
so hopeless
so me
lol jk i'm a straight white male in america
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We're going to be quoting American Tune for years to come
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some fag on last.fm was trying to say that AJJ suck
dude was making a straight FOOL out of himself
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i found his post: "I'd like AJJ if it didn't sound like a guy with a cold singing stupid lyrics over an out of tune guitar recorded through a tin can."
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FUCK ME, FUCK YOU.
Great review, great album.
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