Album Rating: 5.0

not trying to speak ill of the dead but you know that dude said he looked at CP right?

Album Rating: 5.0

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Album Rating: 5.0

Bach is right

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

Go on

Album Rating: 5.0

Nothing more to say really

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

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May 26th 2020





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Album Rating: 2.5



pretty lush is the ultimate straight edge anthem as it’s just shitting on a girl for drinking once while also being written and performed by a guy who smokes weed

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

I can’t believe daryl pumbowumbo or whatever his name is took a shit on someone

Album Rating: 5.0

Kinda wild to claim this album is held back by misogynistic themes but you still like the most famously misogynistic song on the record

Album Rating: 5.0

daryl “scat kink” pumbowumbo

Album Rating: 2.5

"bro you got a big black 5/5 and you're in here talking about misogyny"



my problem was never the lyrics, you can literally sing about whatever. my problem is when you give a bullshit apology all because some semi-related band got under fire



plus i gave that rating like a decade ago before the CP shit became common knowledge

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

you know i don't actually disagree with you. my issue with your complaint is that you and i already had this discussion like 8 years on in this very thread(just went back and looked lol). my grievance then and still now is that while yea i do agree it was lame of daryl to morally grandstand, disavow this, and then play the entire thing at the 20th anniversary show(not to mention all the merch they made for it), the whole situation has been beaten to death. shit even a few years ago i posted a comment itt that said something along the lines of "without fail someone every few years starts this discussion again".



though i will cut you some slack because at least you aren't like some of the now retired/banned white knights who'd come in here complaining about the lyrics as though they don't love and give passes to other extremely problematic artists. also the site is dead so we may as well shoot the shit. looking back though it seems you really had a thing for this album considering you've been commenting in this thread for over a decade. so was daryl's pc campaign just a total kill joy for you or did you just ironically bump this thread frequently?

Album Rating: 2.5

i've been reevaluating some of the music i used to listen to in high school and glassjaw was one of the first bands i started looking back on. ive met glassjaw fans in more recent years who have inconsistent opinions regarding extreme lyrics and bands, like its okay to write a song about drowning an infant girl but wrong to write something racist. In some circles the appeal is the hatefulness, but its an "acceptable" bigotry that doesn't attack anything they would agree with. Something like anal cunt or whitehouse is taking it "too far", when I think it would be the logical next step after listening to hurting and shoving.



A few years ago I didnt have a strong opinion on any of that, so i never got involved with those initial discussions on here besides saying "well they changed the lyrics". Basically just accepting whatever they did and said.



So perhaps its mostly a personal vendetta, but I do genuinely the middle portion of this album is not as good as the highlights and that this was ground zero for the modern day "melodic" pop-punk/core thats popular with the younger generation.

Album Rating: 2.5

Second album spanks this one

Album Rating: 4.5

Ugh, enough with the retarded PC nonsense please. Nothing is taboo and nothing is off limits when it comes to art or comedy…unless it’s straight up hate speech. Everyone here knows the difference.

Album Rating: 4.5

T/t and Siberian Kiss are phenomenal.

Album Rating: 5.0

who you fucking now

Album Rating: 2.5

Hate speech in art is only a problem if you're easyily persuaded

Album Rating: 4.5

literal hate speech aside, as someone who grew up a horror fan listening to whatever brutal death metal i could find when i was like 13: it's just one of those things where ya it's probably misogynistic but that's probably the point, confronting an ugly topic as gnarly as one can. i never read the whole shit cause i didn't care but i took the headline 'daryl apologizes for eyewtkbs lyrics [ahead of 20th anniversary tour]' as more of a clarification rather than a 'i wish i never made this.' sometimes an artists intent is completely misinterpreted and someone gets the complete wrong takeaway, look at something like fightclub satirizing masculinity leading to groups the proud boys.



but yeah idk i feel like people still hold weird double standards, like rap being too misogynistic for some boomer that grew up on like motley crue. and as for where this album stands for the current generation: there's shit like 'obsession' currently breaking industry records i'd like to think the average person is capable with dealing with something that's designed to be uncomfortable.



and back on the topic of hate speech i don't really care if someone likes a riff from some sketchy band but throwing money at them which gets redistributed into their label to some neonazis bail fund, yeah fuck that. i do own some sketch bands in my cd collection from like thrifting/used record stores but like that's my line in the sand i guess.

Album Rating: 4.5

Listened to this a few more times this morning and fuck, this truly hit me. Had to bump up, it’s at least a 4.5. I’m even thinking maybe a 5, and it might actually be my favorite Glassjaw album. Doing a discog run now so we’ll see how it all shakes out.



T/t is incredible.

Album Rating: 5.0

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