Album Rating: 2.0

Just shutup

Album Rating: 5.0

Don't believe this review. The album is actually pretty good. I find that reviewers are generally just losers who can't play music so they feel the need to criticise those who can.

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Don't believe this review. The album is actually pretty good. I find that reviewers are generally just losers who can't play music so they feel the need to criticise those who can.

Butt Hurt much!?!?

A review is essentially a persons opinion, the reviewer obviously thought the album was pretty terrible. You obviously think the album is amazing, if you think it's that bad write your own positive review and post it and quit whinning and criticizing.

lol atavan's list applies so much

"Don't believe this review. The album is actually pretty good. I find that reviewers are generally just losers who can't play music so they feel the need to criticise those who can."

1 comment. nice first

I kiiiiiinda wanna see what the fuck has been going on for 25 pages...kinda

Album Rating: 1.5

no you dont trust me.

dude you've obvoiusly never heard second in command

Album Rating: 5.0

This review is pretty harsh. It is a review, which is an opinion, which everybody is entitled too. I would just like to point out that I have read a good amount of reviews for this album, and this guy gave the worst review of them all. Almost all of the other reviews are positive. So going with general conscious of reviewers and listening to it a couple of times myself, I would have to say that this album is very good.



Looking at the band starting out with Tell All Your Friends and seeing how they progressed through New Again, this album seems a logical and smart direction for Taking Back Sunday. Their first effort was released in 2001, during the height of the “emo” stage and it was great. With 2 vocalists, it gave a breath of fresh air to the emo scene and every song had entertaining lyrics that were fun to listen too.



With a line-up change, 2004’s Where you Want to be was a great 2nd Record for the band and saw a more serious tone and a cleaner sound. Naturally with a more trained musician like Fred, they were going to be more polished and have more hits. Louder Now in 2006 was the first time the same line up produced 2 records in a row. It was a departure from the emotional music and more of a rock album. Kerrang! named it the best album of the year, and rightfully so. It had huge hits like MakeDamnSure and was awesome to listen to from beginning to end.



Next, Fred left and Matt came in. Once again the bands’ sound changed to a more pop focused orientation and New Again was released. What was interesting to me was that while some fans hated this album, I personally thought it was very enjoyable, reviewers loved it. Alternative Press named it the best album of 2009. The band was unhappy and exit Matts and welcome John and Sean back. So here were are with the review I just read about how awful Taking Back Sunday is and how bad this record is.



The CD is already getting great reviews and with the producer who was onboard during Louder Now, it deserves it. This Is All Now and Money, are “money” songs. They are so catchy and amazing to listen too. The guy who wrote this review has every right to say what he said, but looking at the general consensus of most other reviewers it seems like the general opinion is opposite to this guys' review. Listen to record yourself and then decide.

Album Rating: 2.0

Ok, im almost positive now that TBS has an internet street team or something dedicated soley to going on review sites and talking the album up/discrediting bad reviews, this is just ridiculous.

You know you only get one chance to make a first impression, Freddie88.

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So, anyway, this album is not horrible, but it is so bloated and stagnant that it is nearly impossible to enjoy listening to it. The production value is terrific, however this is only really desirable when the music warrants it, which is not the case on this record. I really need to listen to the two albums in between Where You Want to Be and this. I need to know what the hell happened to this band; they used to be so exciting, endearing, and just plain fun. The mediocrity and laziness that abound on Taking Back Sunday make me sad. Maybe I'm just getting to be too old to relate, but I'd like to think not. Also, I'm with Adam on the "Can you picture Christ hitting a child?" line. It made the hair on the back of my neck stand up with douche chills.

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Telex, I agree. There are some decent tracks on here, and there are flashes of greatness, hinting at what could have been. It just all falls apart by the end of the record. I don't know, I wanted this record to be great. I was cheering for TBS. This let me down. It sounds like a more recent Kings of Leon album; full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

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Thanks brother. I actually think it's a great review, and said as much about 15-20 pages back, but then I became enthralled by the unfolding "Japandriod Review Attack Scandal." It was like watching a plane crash in slow motion. Also, did it creep anyone else out that about five new users joined Sputnik between yesterday and this morning and seemed to share a collective consciousness with Japandroid?



Well, for now, I'm going to listen to this a few more times to see if it grows on me. I feel I owe it to them for giving my immature sadness an outlet in highschool. Fingers crossed.

So I agree with Freddie88 on alot of what he said, I think Adam was very biased in his review and didn't give this album a fighting shot... And for patrickfannon, I am confused about the Kings of Leon reference. They have 4 grammy's and are as good as any other band out there. But if you are saying they tried to copy them, then that is something esle. As for "You know you only get one chance to make a first impression, Freddie88." Really???

Album Rating: 4.0



"I kiiiiiinda wanna see what the fuck has been going on for 25 pages...kinda"

Yeah same... i could look, but i suspect its full of trolls, butt hurt and more trolls.



To be honest this review simply seems uneducated, since he claims they have never changed style. This simply isn't true, listen to Tell All Your Friends and then New Again?

Even if they had not changed their style, its no reason to give this a 1.5. Dot Dot Curve got a 1, are you seriously saying its .5 above that shite?

"The Grammy's are a joke." Huh, what reviews should I trust then, yours? Back to TBS, good album!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMoJ0ZjEI3s

Album Rating: 2.0 | Sound Off

The point of the comparison was that each band started out relatively modestly, with humble, yet meoldically and lyrically good tunes, and then progressed into a giant monolith of banality and phoned in emotions. I was intimating that both bands traded any vestiges of sincerity and passion for a distant, anthemic, hopefully-arena-filling album stuffed full of caricatures of songs. As the late, great Bill Hicks so eloquently pleaded, "Play from your fucking hearttttttt!" This album feels lifeless and hollow. All sound and fury, signifying nothing. See what I mean?

I see your point, I do. I just think that Kings of Leon have only gotten better with each Record, as reviews would show too, as have Taking Back Sunday. But I do get what you are saying now!