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Album Rating: 2.0
The comparison to Chiodos is ridiculous, and would only work for Kezia. You also don't mention his massive improvement, nor do you elaborate on his screaming.
The comparison to Chiodos was not in a technique sense but in the sense of how bad they both are with their higher pitched vocals.
Almost the whole album is catchy, as I know most people will agree with.
Well catchiness is pretty subjective I guess, but I personally wasn't feeling any on most of these songs.
The complete lack of mention about the bass is somewhat offensive and implies you weren't really listening.
The complete lack of mention of bass was something I wondered about myself before submitting. But I'm not really sure where I would fit it in. I was neither impressed nor dissapointed with it. It was at least more audible in comparison to their previous effort, I felt. But it isn't really that amazing. This band is a guitar-centered band, thus, I focused on that and gave the drums a passing mention only because I think the drumming was impressive enough to merit one.
You don't have to individually point out each instrument. Tbh, reviews that do seem n00bish anyway.
Yeah exactly. Similarly, it seems everyone here is concerned with professionalism, but the fact is that no professional reviews a. make sure to mention each instrument every review, b. give detailed descriptions of a large variety of songs and their structure each review, etc. So I would just keep that in mind when you use that criticism.
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This review had be written, and I give you massive props for posting it man. It was really good, and think you're completely right. I know you're gonna take a lot of crap for it, but I really respect you for writing this.
I pos'd.
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pos'd. well written review, only fan-boys will neg it. ok, I don't agree with everything, but you made your point and got it across clearly. see, I don't feel like it's strong so much as just "well it sucked and everyone knows because i sound so firm about my opinion." obviously I agree, the album's pretty boring, but the why in here seems so muddled.
the intro's out now, though, so I'm pos'ing.
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^Why thank you.
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obviously I agree, the album's pretty boring, but the why in here seems so muddled.
Well I tried to summarize the reasons in the second paragraph; the lyrics and concept are silly, the vocals are unbearably annoying, the riffs aren't that good or memorable or catchy. Maybe instead of clearly summarizing my argument at the beginning, I should have waited until the end. Idk. Gonna think about that for future reviews.
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opening paragraph is stupid
i sincerely doubt that anybody that considers themselves a Protest the Hero fan does any of those things except maybe read fantasy novels.
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so
it's a stupid review. it's obvious you wrote this merely to please dfelon and his stupid contest.
I had this written down before the contest, actually. But yes, I did submit it to "please" dfelon's contest... just like I said in like my first comment on the review.
your criticisms are fine but what you use to back them up with is stupid. most obviously, your lyrical criticism is retarded. you use a line that NOBODY would consider deep and then say I HOPE YOU DONT THINK THIS IS DEEP YOU RETARDS. it's just stupid.
Well I used two examples, actually, but only directly quoted one. But hell I could have just posted the entire lyric sheet and let people decide for themselves. It wouldn't be a very enjoyable review though. The fact is that the lyrics are silly. They try to come off as great, even "literary," but when you realize they're actually just singing about the same stereotypical metal Dungeons and Dragons fantasy stuff, all the big words don't really mean anything.
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guys i took out the intro so you're kind of criticizing a non existent paragraph at this point
That being said I think you guys kind of misunderstood my point, probably because I wasn't clear enough. You look at the lyricist's quote that I gave above, and quite frankly, it was absolutely fucking retarded. My point was more that people like HIM try to talk as if they know philosophy and stuff, but it's clear he isn't really all that cerebral at all, because the quote is absolute bullshit. So I wrote it the wrong way, criticizing the fans, when I actually should have said HE would be that type of person, along with some PTH fans who are attracted to the music because they're the same way.This Message Edited On 07.02.08
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I can't wait until Cocaine comments.
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ilikemusicthatsucks, expect another neg to crash down, it's probably from Coke.
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Good review man, I voted.
Mark my words, in a couple of years time, no one will give a shit about this band, regardless of all these drooling fanboys who are getting genuinely angry because you happen to disagree with them.
And the singer really is incredibly annoying.
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I can't help but wonder if you listened to this album with metal barbs shoved into your eardrums.
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in a couple of years time, no one will give a **** about this band,
No doubt about that.
And everybody keeps telling me "Cocaine" is going to neg me. Is he like their biggest fan 0mg or something?
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No, he did this good 4.5 review of this album, he's a good reviewer, just a tad crankly all the time.This Message Edited On 07.02.08
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No, he did this good 4.5 review of this album, he's a good review, just a tad crankly all the time.
Oh. lawl. Well negs aren't a huge deal to me at this point anyway, I'm pretty sure I'm going to be getting them a lot.
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misogynistic? seriously? Have you even read the lyrics? I fail to see how some of the subjects tackled within are generic metal subjects. I don't recall any other songs dealing with the inherent flaws of the justice system or shortcomings of the school systems where it comes to gender. And I didn't realize th sacred feminine was a particular masculine subject. Or how Goddess Bound was in any way reminiscent of David lee Roth. Call them on pretentiousness if you want, they certainly are, but did you even read the lyrics?
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zuzek you point out that sentence but if you read it in context, it's a pretty lame song dude. it's so not-as-profound-as-it-tries-to-be, and that bothers me a lot in music. and it does a lot of people, really. and think of it in the context of that "song suite," and you realize that overall the lyrics fail because the convoluted storyline is just kind of retarded. they can use their thesauruses all they want but it doesn't disguse the fact that their "message" isn't any more shallow than anything any alt rock band is doing out there.
I'm getting your point to some extent, as I don't regard it as profound. Very little lyrics ever written are truly intellectual, PtH are no exception to that. It's the way the words are written, I believe you could call it philosophical poetry to some extent. It's not always self-explainable and requires a moment to pose and think, which is something I really don't see, or rather hear, much at all these days. If we disagree on that matter, I guess we can agree to that! Let me stress again though, your review is generally well written and I do respect it although we do not share the same opinions.This Message Edited On 07.02.08
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ilikemusicthatsucks: Cocaine is a big reviewer here...his review of this album has like 2000 something comments at this point...
He avidly defends PtH all the time, and extremely determined whilst doing so. That being said, the general prediction is that he will flip shit once he sees the review, but we'll just wait and see...
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Very little lyrics ever written are truly intellectual, PtH are no exception to that.
I totally agree. My question is why, then, do they pretend to be truly intellectual when they just plain aren't?
Let me stress again though, your review is generally well written and I do respect it although we do not share the same opinions.
Thank you.
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