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Why is it that you don't think pop punk can be elite?

Album Rating: 5.0

Its great when you catch allusions to really local stuff. Obviously Washington Square Park is a song

title and a big landmark, but its cool when you hear him mention a diner and you know you went to

that place hungover once a week for two years.



Its not the hood by any means but there's tons of kids who burn themselves out with drugs and just

quit on life too early. You can say that about any urban/suburban area but I challenge you to find

someone who phrases it quite as vividly and viscerally as Campbell. I Just Want To Sell Out my

Funeral is literally the anthem of anyone who ever made anything out of themselves, out of Central

Bucks/Montgomery counties.



And to all the idiots dissing the album because pop-punk can't be elite, thats a load of shit

because any genre has a series of canonical albums. This is pop-punk at its heart but hardcore

influences are definitively present.



And to defend my credibility, I do love me some Wonder Years but I'm seeing the National on Thursday

and have been jamming on Dillinger since the leak came out a few days ago. This is top tier music

through and through and anyone denouncing it will have a hard time pointing out any flaws. Even if

you don't connect with the experience because you grew up rich or in a true ghetto, (their true

appeal is definitely middle/lower-middle class) you can't deny that the lyrics are as vivid, real

and poetic as they get in music short of Bad Religion or some of the indie-folk out there.

Album Rating: 3.5

irrelevant

Album Rating: 4.5

"A lot of Suburbia was excellent, but weighed down by too much mediocre material."



false, that album's 5/5



but anyway this review is great, pos'd, gonna be spinning this over and over.

Album Rating: 4.5

hold on cleareyes, you're from bucks/mont area too?

Album Rating: 3.5

playing the "bro I was being facetious" card is such a transparent strategy. you were bested because your comments were stupid and educated, don't embarrass yourself by attempting to back-track.

bro do u even house boat

review is incredibly good but idk what youre trying to justify is a little too far fetched for me :D :D: D: :D: D:D:D

"playing the "bro I was being facetious" card is such a transparent strategy. you were bested because
your comments were stupid and educated, don't embarrass yourself by attempting to back-track."

I think you mean, uneducated. anyways, I was being facetious, I'm assuming hep kat was too. am I wrong
to assume so?

"dude srsly have u even heard the queers"

you either have elite albums in any genre or non cos seriously what defines something being elite? influential? okay there's influential albums in EVERY SINGLE GENRE
songwriting, how well they play their instruments how trve they are? that's all subjective shit so that doesnt count


but yeah its just because i dont care if i lose (this argument) because my heroes did too

oh yes u are very very wrong

why is that?

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i still want to know why archael thinks pop punk can't be elite. for serious discussion purposes..

because u r autist

the very nature of pop punk is to be fun, extremely simple, and accessible. a lack of innovation is part of what defines it, but that doesn't necessarily mean it'll be bad because of that.

if there ever was one, Park is probably the closest one I can think of. interesting and unique sound, profound and evocative lyrics, dynamic songs. but again, Park is arguably not pop punk.

Album Rating: 5.0

Yeah ProjFrek, lived in Lansdale then moved to Central Bucks later like Chalfont/Warrington area. I

still prefer to eat there and hit up the Ukrainian barber on Main Street.

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you 5'd Stay What You Are. do you not consider Saves the Day to be pop punk?



and if you ask me, the Wonder Years music is anything but simple. fun and accessible, yes. but try playing the drum part to any one of their songs, or singing like Soupy. not very simple.

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@Brofro, I don't think stay what you are fits the bill of being elite at all, even though it rules hard as fuck. :/

Album Rating: 4.5

This is a great album. It's more dynamic than What You Don't See.... That's only my opinion.

Album Rating: 4.5

This whole album reminds me of Ghost Man On Third by Taking Back Sunday. Not sonically, but I think the approach & the feeling is the same. "It's a campaign of distraction and revisionist history." That line kept popping in my head when I listened to this album. It's weird. I can't really explain it how I want.