Album Rating: 3.5

Will do

Solid review DSS, although it occasionally reads awkwardly. If I'm not mistaken, you use "on" incorrectly twice early on. You also use "of" instead "off" somewhere. Just little nitpicks that a read-over will fix.

But what you are communicating about the album is good stuff... Informative, opinionated, detailed & concise.

Album Rating: 3.5

Thanks, DaveyBoy. Trying to improve. Can you give me the specif lines where I should correct the

mistakes?



I highly recomend CD2, since you seem to enjoy their experimental stuff.

"If we take a look on the reception" ... "on" should be "at"

"accessibility and competence on doing music" ... "on doing" should be "of playing", although there is still a word missing after "playing".

"simply composed by three singles of each of "... The first "of" should be "off".

Album Rating: 3.5

Thanks a lot, Davey. Those gramatical stuff are still tricky for me. Corrected everything you told me. Thanks again.

Album Rating: 2.5

Here's another thing I caught:

"and condemned for lack of creativity, repetition in songs’ structures and for a certain tendency to

recycle riffs and lyrics"



It's not parallel. The easy fix is removing "for" before "a certain tendency." Also, you might want to

add a comma after structures. I learned to put commas before the conjunction (and thus after the

penultimate word) in a series, though you may have learned otherwise.



By the way, do they recycle "lyrics" or "lyrical themes"? The latter I agree with, the former, not so

much.

Album Rating: 3.5

Oh dear. If If you want examples of lyrics recycled listen to Dear Agony again. I refered to both practises. Examples:



I will not break, I will take your breath away I Will Not Bow

You take the breath right right out of me Breath



The countless times he uses the sentence: There's nothing left



Sing something new, I have nothing left Without You

There's nothing left to loose, the fight never ends Without You

There is nothing left of you, I can see it in your eyes Anthem Of The Angels

Just turn around, there's nothing left Dear Agony



Those are what I remember without checking. I'm sure there's a lot more cases. Even the use of topics like Fade Away, Crawl, Hopeless and Without You is so recycled not only by them but all the mainstream rock bands that hurts.



Otherr than that, thanks for pointing out those mistakes. I'll be up to correct them.

Album Rating: 3.0

A: No but seriously, a Best Of album? Already?



B: I hate chronologically-ordered Best Of's. Seems lazy.



C: A lot of Breaking Benjamin's better songs aren't singles (coughHomecough).



Probably won't bother getting this, even though the singles are solid and so are the songs I've heard from the second disc.

Album Rating: 2.5

@DeadStarShine, alright. I never really listened to Breaking Benjamin for their lyrics, and they're not absolutely putrid like TDG or something, so I never noticed.

Album Rating: 3.0

Three Days Grace lyrics are so awful, and yet all their fans seem to think they're all deep and meaningful and stuff and it's so annoying

Album Rating: 2.5

I know what you mean. I used to tell people "Yeah they're so relatable, it's awesome." Jesus Christ, their lyrics are literally elementary. They could easily be created by an (unusually angsty) elementary student

Album Rating: 3.5

@thatdudeud0ntknow: I see what you mean, it seems lazy and when it's composed by singles it seems also designed to sell. However, the other perspective is new listeners get a more progressive and solid view of the band and its progress. I don't know if I would tell someone to get this, but CD2 is definitely worthwhile for fans.



@xtoxin: Ben can definitely write good things when he's not lazy or uninspired (e.g. Phase, So Cold, Forget It, Away, You, You Fight Me

Three Days Grace lyrics are so awful, and yet all their fans seem to think they're all deep and meaningful

They have four albums. They've been a band like for over a decade...whats wrong with releasing a best off?

Album Rating: 3.5

They've been a band like for over a decade...whats wrong with releasing a best off?

Pretty sweet review man.

Decent enough collection. Wouldn't lose anything by including Saturate in its entirety though. Esp. can't believe Sugarcoat isn't there - that song rules.

Album Rating: 3.5

Thank you Blast! Actually, I'd point Saturate as their most inconsistent effort, and worse yet, Sugarcoat as one of the worst songs in it. Don't flame me for that, dude. I appreciated your comment.

Haha, fair enough. Tis probably true on technicalities, I just liked them when they were a bit greener for some reason. I think it was pretty decent for a debut.

Album Rating: 3.5

Undoubtely, they grew a lot after that. But yes, no doubt, great a debut. Sometimes I think I should

have it in a 3,5, which would mean I'd have to 4 WANA. I'm about to review their discography. We

Are Not Alone and Phobia lack good reviews in my opinion.

Album Rating: 4.0

Lie to Me is a great song, along with Better Days. I like the raw sound, as if it wasn't even produced.



However, I'd like to see if they can make their next album like We Are Not Alone and Saturate. Phobia was great but I feel like Saturate and We Are Not Alone were better albums. I still feel like "I Wish I May", "No Games", "Next To Nothing" and "Medicate" were some of the best songs they have written.

Album Rating: 3.0

"However, I'd like to see if they can make their next album like We Are Not Alone and Saturate"



Agreed 100%. I'd say both those albums were superior in every way to Phobia and Dear Agony.