I resisted pointing that out but dude got JomBombed nevertheless
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holy crap, "JomBombed" is genius.
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umm
Alright, sorry I messed up. I'm not perfect, and I'm sorry if I come off as a jerk or something. That's definitely not my intention at all.
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it's so nice when the friendly neighborhood mod/staff reviewer drops by
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Yeah it is.
It must be hard for him to find time to do so though; I bet his job is really hard as a moderator, and I'm not being sarcastic.
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Album Rating: 3.0
Stay with me
You're the one I need
You make the hardest things
Seem easy
orly strikey?
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I know what I should do but I just can't turn away
Yes, the lyrics aren't super strong or full of depth really, but it is so easy to attach a certain level of sentimental value to the lines; particularly to the one above which I definitely relate too.
"Kill" is my favorite Jimmy Eat World song.
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Album Rating: 3.0
It's not that all lyrics have to been full of depth or anything, but come on most of these are a series of cliches. I mean, when the music is fun you can get past it.
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Yeah I agree. There are definitely a lot of cliches here.
If I hadn't listened to this growing up, I probably wouldn't have liked it as much as I do now. At the time when I first heard this, a lot of the cliches were new to me so it really felt new to me.
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hahaha jombombed
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Album Rating: 3.0
If I hadn't listened to this growing up, I probably wouldn't have liked it as much as I do now. At the time when I first heard this, a lot of the cliches were new to me so it really felt new to me
this. I found this cd in my room the other day. Gonna be listening to it again, haven't in a long time.
oh and lol jombombed.
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Album Rating: 4.0
I heard some JomBombing was happening over this side?
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Album Rating: 3.0
Thursday nights = half price jombombs.
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Oh well, at least I can be victim of the first, officially-titled jombomb.
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Album Rating: 4.0
23 makes this album.
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Album Rating: 2.5
"Yeti, explain yourself"
I thought my 'lol' would suffice, but if we're getting into specifics. *ahem*
'Keep my heart
Somewhere drugs don't go
Where the sunshine slows
Always keep me close'
lol.
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lol, now I gotcha.
The lyrics are pretty lolworthy I do agree.
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Album Rating: 2.5
most Jimmy Eat World pre-Futures is great, tho this is when they seriously started to slip I feel.
Tho would give the CD another spin after reading your review Strikey.
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Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off
thebhoy...
Hey, let's quote a single radiohead line out of context and call Yorke a terrible lyricist, how about that? Nobody's saying that Adkins is on the level of Mangum or Weiss but his ability to hit the nerve centre is right on the money. Clichés are less clichéd when they're used in a context like Drugs Or Me, which is actually a song about not recognising yourself. Lyrically this album is stellar; the songwriting is not what you'd call groundbreaking or revolutionary, but it's excellent. These songs mean something. Kill? 23? All the way through, it's universal but still hard-hitting. I HATE when this argument is used wrongly, but here I think it's justified... if you can write a record's-worth of lyrics that strike a better chord with young people, do it. Or find me someone who does it better. And don't say damn Elliott Smith, because that's clearly not what I'm getting at.
I don't expect most people to agree with this rating; I knew that before I posted the review just by looking at the pie chart. Still, I don't think it's justified to say the lyrics are lolworthy, and calling them clichéd just proves you're overanalysing something that's not meant to be picked apart like Shakespeare. Sometimes I think the only music some people will praise to high heaven is the stuff they don't understand.
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Nobody's saying that Adkins is on the level of Mangum or Weiss but his ability to hit the nerve centre is right on the money.
Bingo.
Props for Kill and 23 Strikey, those songs bring me back.
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