Album Rating: 2.0
This album is the sound of a band jumping the shark.
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Album Rating: 4.0
I don't agree.
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Album Rating: 2.5
It's pretty boring for the most part.
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Album Rating: 2.5
passive actually kinda rules
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Album Rating: 2.5
Passive and the John Lennon cover are great, but the rest? Not so much.
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Album Rating: 4.0
I love the Gaye cover. Also the tone throughout is pleasing to me.
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Album Rating: 2.0
This is an extremely boring and pretentious album. Even by MJK's standards.
The only reason I have it as a 2.0 is because Passive rules and What's Goin' On is actually a good interpretation.
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Album Rating: 4.0
I understand many people just don't like this one, but when you genuinely like something you know. Whenever I hear this, I don't find myself annoyed or put off by it.
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Album Rating: 2.0
But it's so...repetitive. The songs don't go anywhere. They just sort of half-heartedly build. There are no sonic surprises anywhere, and no catharsis (except Passive) unlike the previous albums. Even Passive is pretty much the simplest and most straightforward 'good' APC song there is.
To me it sounded/sounds like this is the point where Billy Howerdel completely ran out of ideas and that the previous two albums were flukes. Fortunately he redeemed himself somewhat with the album Ashes dIvide's.
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Album Rating: 2.5
By and Down...
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Album Rating: 4.0
"Counting" has no catharsis, no build, doesn't go anywhere?
And Green is right, "By and Down" is a sign that Billy is still out of ideas.
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Album Rating: 2.0
Counting would be ok if it was possible to not compare it to Pet...
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Album Rating: 4.0
*smh* I guess I am lucky that I heard "Counting" first because it sounds infinitely better to me.
Actually, I think my interest in more bizarre, menacing sounding stuff may be why I like this more than most. I really like the direction they took here even if a couple of the covers are duds.
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Album Rating: 3.0
The whole "pretentious" argument is f'n weak. A lot of good shit can be considered pretentious, doesnt mean it sucks. Besides, why the fuck does it even matter?
That said, the album is a bit boring, but I still enjoy it every now and then.
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Album Rating: 2.0
When I said pretentious what I meant was that with this album makes it seem like MJK and co. believe that they don't have to actually try to make good songs, but that anything they record and commit to plastic or vinyl or whatever is automatically gold-plated brilliance. That's always been the vibe I got from this album.
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Album Rating: 4.0
Isn't that the story of Keenan's life, though?
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Album Rating: 2.0
Yeah, but at least prior to this most of the time he/they actually bothered to back up the bluster with good music.
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Album Rating: 3.0
This release was definitely odd, but I felt the theme was very appropriate in it's timing.
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Album Rating: 4.0
Yeah, this was near the start of the musician backlash against Bush.
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Album Rating: 2.5
Counting is the worst piece of shit on this album.
Those four songs I mentioned are the only ones I come back to
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