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G3N3R1C
July 20th 2011


1945 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

this = quite possibly my biggest guilty pleasure of the year. js.

TMobotron
July 20th 2011


7253 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

but uh' drew roulette did the cover art for tiger & the duke's re-issue. there's a relation for ya.




This was directed at me a long time ago so i doubt you'll see this, but cool- thanks for pointing that out to me i didn't know that.



He performed a wedding for 2 people when I saw him in concert in Tempe, AZ. After google searching just now I believe I found a blog post from the husband about it:



"I have a feeling most people reading my blog with already know this, but it is probably worth mentioning again. Nicole and I were privileged to have our good friend Drew Roulette from one of our favorite bands, dredg, marry us onstage last summer in Arizona"



I got the setlist from that show and it says "Wedding" on part of it as if it was a track named wedding. It was pretty cool. I'd like to give that to the couple if I could find it now that I'm thinking about it. They'd probably appreciate it more than I would.

fsharptrit0ne
July 20th 2011


4816 Comments

Album Rating: 1.5

this = quite possibly my biggest guilty pleasure of the year. js.



As long as you're not in denial

McMegaMountain
July 26th 2011


294 Comments

Album Rating: 2.0

Gave this a proper listen. Given that I am, and always will be, 100% behind Leitmotif as their best album, and El Cielo being their worst, I have to admit that this is definitely a disappointment. It's worse than El Cielo. However, it's not dreadful. Someone else mentioned that it's got a few decent tracks, spread across a lot of possibilities. There are multiple directions that were abandoned.



I like that the band is experimenting. But I feel their efforts are a bit blind here, especially on haphazard ventures. It's a misguided attempt at crossing over into new wave genres and their off-shoots.



The only really memorable track to me was "Upon Returning" which I felt was the most dredg like song on the album.



In conclusion, El Cielo still sucks, Leitmotif is untouchable, CWA is good, Pariah is decent, and this is pretty atrocious. I won't be listening to it again.

DocSportello
July 26th 2011


3383 Comments


this is so gross


Scoot
July 26th 2011


22231 Comments

Album Rating: 1.5 | Sound Off

Like aural herpes.

AutoRock
July 26th 2011


422 Comments

Album Rating: 1.0

Can't believe that the same band that brought us el cielo(which has it's flaws, but is still great) and some other ambitious albums has the guts to throw this bullshit at us.

balcaen
July 26th 2011


3183 Comments


this has kind of ruined el cielo/catch without arms for me because gavin's voice is in this and those. and now i get reminded of this

G3N3R1C
July 26th 2011


1945 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

At this point, the only songs on here that i just flat-out don't like are Down Without a Fight and Sun Goes Down.



btw, the ratings chart for this over at RYM is way better than the one here. just sayin.



http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/dredg/chuckles_and_mr__squeezy/

balcaen
July 26th 2011


3183 Comments


that's because we all exaggerate here. ratings aren't and shouldn't be a big deal.

G3N3R1C
July 26th 2011


1945 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

people exaggerate like hell over there too, lol. if anything that site is worse, at least sputnik doesn't have an option to rate an album 0.5. that rating is abused so badly over there.

coleba
July 26th 2011


808 Comments

Album Rating: 1.5

Album should be studied by fledgling governments as a model of how not to disintegrate.

G3N3R1C
July 26th 2011


1945 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

yeah i've already seen it. i have no fucking clue what they were thinking but i enjoyed it... for some reason.

coleba
July 27th 2011


808 Comments

Album Rating: 1.5

It's best just to imagine the guy pissing on them as literal.

thatoneguy726
August 4th 2011


1669 Comments


"The Thought of Losing You" is lame.

handoman
August 6th 2011


2386 Comments


these guys just played a free show at my downtown.. it was pretty amazing



benkim
August 8th 2011


4813 Comments

Album Rating: 1.5

Can a band release one of your all time favorite records then go on to release one of the worst records you have ever listened to? Apparently that is possible.

fsharptrit0ne
August 8th 2011


4816 Comments

Album Rating: 1.5

I hope they don't play a lot of the shit from this album live

G3N3R1C
August 8th 2011


1945 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

lol overreacting

Tulannical
August 9th 2011


2051 Comments


I honestly didn't even know that this album existed but just the fact of how badly-received it is makes me sad



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