Album Rating: 3.5

Ah, Toon and co., it's too late. Sorry degree in philosophy, graduate thesis on analyzing whether some form of the social responsibility theory of the press underlies Aaron Sorkin's "The Newsroom," a show on HBO about 5 years ago. Literary content analysis is just something I do.

Album Rating: 3.5

Although I think Ben is a bit of an underrated lyricist, I'm not talking about the quality of his prose. I'm saying he's interesting as a philosopher, not a poet laureate.



Don't mistake simplicity of word choice or use of common, even trite, vernacular as a certain gauge of thematic or philosophical depth. Romantic poetry of the 18th century was written for the common man to understand, yet we're all taught William Wordsworth, John Keats, Samuel Taylor Coleridge et al.

Album Rating: 3.0

my reaction to your response is your avatar

Album Rating: 3.5

I understand that by claiming I'm a "Burnley whisperer," I invite a fair amount of incredulity. I'm seriously thinking about writing a review on this album. If I do, I'll provide my insight and arguments there.

Album Rating: 3.5

Yeah, if you're not open to having your assumptions challenged, you're just not open to it. That's not my problem.

Album Rating: 2.5

Mate, I'm very open to you explaining what you find deep about these lyrics. If I wasn't, I wouldn't have asked. The fact that you're writing us off says more about your viewpoint than ours.

Phobia>Dark Before Dawn>This

Album Rating: 4.0

Ill rate this between dear agony and dark before dawn. first 3 will remain the best

Album Rating: 3.5

ash,



No offense, but that rings a bit hollow, considering your comment before your last one, which was prior to my remark about open-mindedness directed at AaroN911, was a sneer at my taste in popular music. Zeuzo telling me to "shut up" in Polish doesn't exactly strengthen your case either.



But I don't want to escalate this further. I'll give you guys the benefit of the doubt. If I have the time, I'll write a review attempting to explain what I mean. You guys, and whoever else, are more than welcome to unleash the hounds on me then.

"Don't mistake simplicity of word choice or use of common, even trite, vernacular as a certain gauge of thematic or philosophical depth. "

Okay now you're just trying really hard to use fancy and complex words lol

Album Rating: 3.5

I always thought Ben just makes the lyrics in like ten minutes based on whatever phrases come into his head first, shows what I know

Album Rating: 3.0

I'd enjoy Close Your Eyes more if it didn't remind me so much of Korn's Prey for Me which thankfully slaps

Album Rating: 2.0

5 seconds in and this sounds very Breaking Benjamin

Nah, man. You have to understand that using complex words can be normal for some people, and at any point if they are called out for it, they will use it as an opportunity to belittle most for not expanding their vocabulary.

Source: I used to do that. Then I realized all it did was make me sound like a pompous ass.

But do they know proper comma placement tho

Album Rating: 3.0

Yeah honestly if you go back and listen through the entire chachere album and read the lyrics, they're cringe-worthy at least half the time. I like that album because it's really catchy like all of their other work, the Breaking Benjamin basically hit their Peak with phobia and the last 3 albums after it is basically been them riding that same train. Like they haven't progressed since phobia but they haven't gotten any worse either.

Album Rating: 3.0

Dear Agony was just as much an evolution as Phobia, it's ever since Aaron and Mark left where we've seen a regurgitation of their first 4 LPs; and I think that's down to Ben dominating the creative process these days.

Album Rating: 4.0

Ben already wrote most of the last record before the new lineup even happened tbh.



I honestly think Ben had more control over the songwriting back then than he does now.

Album Rating: 3.0

Disagree, Mark and co. were the ones who wrote/co-wrote most of the band's hit songs.

Regardless of who has songwriting control, this band seems unable to take more than baby steps in their musical evolution. They do a few things here and there, but not much has changed.

They're a solid enough band, and it's working for them, so I don't see why they'd change it up other than a desire to do something different. But they can just keep riding that gravy train until a majority turn on them.