Album Rating: 3.0
Agreed, each record was marketed masterfully and they had a central theme, identity, sound that was unmistakably them but different from their past work. I haven't seen any of that for this record.
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Album Rating: 2.2 | Sound Off
Reflektor was solid and had a consistent identity but it was too long, like the Suburbs.
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Album Rating: 3.0
3-5 tracks could have been trimmed from both records, but each have grown on me.
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Album Rating: 2.2 | Sound Off
The Suburbs is better than Reflektor for a number of reasons, one being that it's so diverse and feels like a musical journey through every style of rock the band felt like tackling. Actually the length is fine, I wouldn't cute anything from The Suburbs. With Reflektor, maybe they should've saved some of those songs for this, given how thin and skimpy on ideas this is.
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Album Rating: 2.5
"Reflektor was solid and had a consistent identity but it was too long, like the Suburbs."
A million times this
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Album Rating: 2.0 | Sound Off
You could cut one or two songs from Suburbs but it's perfectly fine as it is. Reflektor could drop 3-4 songs and would be much better.
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Album Rating: 2.5
Nah man Suburbs needs more trimmed than Reflektor
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Reflektor is a double album and thus automatically needs more trimmed
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Album Rating: 2.2 | Sound Off
I wouldn't omit any song from either, maybe just convert to bonus tracks or move some Reflektor songs to this.
Fantano's review of this was pretty spot on, even though I like Electric Blue.
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Album Rating: 1.5
Can someone clear up to me what "put on our first record" on Creature Comfort and Good God Damn means. In the narrative Win says "she was a friend of mine" so I always thought of it like the first album he heard when he and the gal met. Or is it a bullshit self reference
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Album Rating: 3.0
Am I the only one getting Jimmy Eat World vibes from 'Put Your Money On Me?'
Maybe I'm crazy I could just totally hear Jim Adkins singing those verses...
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Album Rating: 2.5
I think it's a self reference
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Album Rating: 3.0
I think the "put on our first record" reference is self fellatio
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Album Rating: 1.0 | Sound Off
Win clearly went to the Mike Love school of self-referential lyricism
kudos
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Album Rating: 2.0
Is this a serious release? Its absolutely horrendous.
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Album Rating: 3.5
Only album of theirs that I've liked.
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Album Rating: 1.5
Holy shit that's the first time I've seen BigHans in a thread in forever
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Album Rating: 3.0
Wait BigHans still exists? Whoah. Think it's been since 2011 maybe even 2010.
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Album Rating: 1.5
Nah man last time I saw him was maybe 2015... You must've not seen his reviews or been on threads he was commenting on
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Album Rating: 2.0 | Sound Off
I've seen him a number of times... He even shotboxed me a few weeks ago.
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