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 | Justin Bieber My World 2.0
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06.20.15 |  | Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin
| 5.0
06.19.15 |  | The Script #3
| 1.5
06.19.15 |  | Taylor Swift 1989
| 3.5
06.19.15 |  | Twenty One Pilots Blurryface
Oh boy, a relevant album to review. I want to start this review by saying I believe creating catchy songs is more of an art than some classic rock "purists" would have you believe. Artists like Taylor Swift, Paramore, and yes, twenty one pilots have managed to do this while still maintaining a semblance of great artistry with their lyrics and melodies. With their sophomore major-label album, Blurryface, twenty one pilots took this to the next level, combining some of the catchiest genres ever, (ska, electropop, and others) to create a new-sounding yet very familiar feel. To use an example, the song "Ride" draws heavily from the reggae and ska | 4.0
06.19.15 |  | The Offspring Greatest Hits
A widely ignored rule is that punk is supposed to be poppy, a push back against the highly formulated music of the early 70's or late 80's, the Bostons, Journeys, Rushes of the world. The original mid-seventies punk band, the Ramones, were trying to harken back to the early Beatles, at least with their early records. Ironically, the genre which we call pop-punk, with Green Day and the like, has evolved into a style even more complex than original punk. And, this makes some great albums. Eventually, however, one needs a dose of true youthfulness from punk. The Offspring, a singles band if there ever was one, provide just that with th | 4.0
06.19.15 |  | Pearl Jam Ten
My feeling about Pearl Jam, or at least this seminal debut, is that they are for arena rock what the Ramones or MC5 were for early R&R. That is, a revival of an otherwise mostly dead genre 5-20 years after the fact. Nirvana, their grunge counterparts, were the third in the R&R revival, bringing back punk with a more hardcore, moodier, noisier feel. But Pearl Jam, at least instrumentally, were the love child of U2's stadium rock and Aerosmith's hard-hitting riffs. Before addressing that, let's look at the message brought across by this album. Throughout, Eddie Vedder uses his Bono-esque voice to sing about topics like insanity, | 2.5
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 | Deviant. See my comment on your Swift review before posting any more reviews
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