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Post by The Curmudgeon on Feb 6, 2009 21:35:52 GMT 2
 This Metro needs its own 7/7.Sometimes it pays to be from the UK. I actually had to research exactly who created this wretched album after seeing the "Shake It" video on MTV and questioning whether I actually wanted to live anymore. This song was a big hit on your Pop 100, your Billboard 100 and the 546 other baffling music charts you American's somehow make sense of. Thankfully, it didn't even make the slightest dent over here. What can I say? Rule Britannia. It really got me questioning the listening habits of people, though. Seriously, how on EARTH could this band be popular? Who the hell signed these ugly, pointless dorks? How could this ha.. Ahh. Now then. Thanks to Wikipedia, I found out that the grotesque lead singer, a sort of stretched gargoyle with facial piercings, is the brother of none other than Disney's license to print money Miley Cyrus. Now it's beginning to make sense. If not for smiley Miley, this band would be unsigned, un-laid and unemployed. Sadist that I am, I actually listened to pretty much most of this record. Who knows? Maybe "Shake It" was just a gargantuan mis-step and the rest of the album was some "Let It Bleed" type masterpiece. Yeah, not quite. Put it this way, when the first track is called "Seventeen Forever" and the fifth track is called "Wish We Were Older", you're not exactly hoping for a classic. You can imagine the conversation at the record company, though; "hey, this 'emo' thing, isn't there a way we can make money out of that, but, y'know, without the lyrics about killing yourself? Basically a watered down, vanilla, non-threatening, non-parent frightening 'emo-pop' genre for stupid hormonal teenage girls? And isn't there a quick and easy way to get the band on MTV before emo becomes unfashionable, like having a famous brother or dad or something?" And to quote Frankie Howard, it came to pass. If there are any teenage girls reading this - be INSULTED that THIS music is aimed at YOU. You are the target demographic for this sort of thing, that bands like Metro Station and American Rejects are what record companies think teenage girls imagine "rock music" to be. That if the lyrics aren't syrupy, undemanding garbage and the tunes couldn't be played in the background of a clothes shop, that you simply won't want to hear it. Believe this - that's how little they think of you. Metro Station is Rock Music For Girls. Good God, are you willing to accept that?
See: Metro Station - Shake It |
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Post by DM on Feb 17, 2009 7:44:25 GMT 2
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Well said. My 12-year-old daughter -- whose taste in music is not particularly sharp even for that age -- plays this album (if you can call a 30-minute CD an "album") over and over again. I've already forbidden her from playing "17 forever" when I'm home, because I can't stand how it fills up my brain-space with its too-memorable emptiness, and I'm thinking of extending that ban to "Kelsey."
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Post by The Curmudgeon on Feb 18, 2009 9:40:40 GMT 2
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Good parenting there, DM. Although I would certainly call a 30 minute CD an album - a lot of records don't last much over 30 minutes, if you think about it. Never Mind the Bollocks, for example, is about 35 mins or so if memory serves.
Well there you have it - surely the first and only time the Sex Pistols will be mentioned in a review for Metro Station?
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Post by AnneBrooke on May 27, 2009 21:25:35 GMT 2
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All-American Rejects are better than Metro Station. I'm not going to say they're a ground breaking phenomonon that will be escalated to rock-legend status someday (because they won't) but I did buy their "Move Along" album and I like it. I won't be buying their new one though, one album by them is enough. At the very least AAR a) did not get their contract based on who they were related to. and b) they can sing outside a one octave range (which might actually be giving Metro Station more credit than they deserve.)
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Post by Brainhead1 on May 27, 2009 21:26:29 GMT 2
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All American Rejects are a band I would recommend to someone who finds Fall Out Boy to be just too hardcore for them. Freaking Hanson rocked harder than them.
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Post by The Curmudgeon on May 27, 2009 21:27:31 GMT 2
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There will be NO Hanson bashing here. Ever!
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Post by Brainhead1 on May 27, 2009 21:28:22 GMT 2
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Who's bashing Hanson? I was only said that they rocked harder and louder than all american retards. It's a compliment really, especially since they're a pure bubble gum pop group.
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Post by Pyanfur Chaner on Nov 4, 2009 11:02:41 GMT 2
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Heh - I really enjoyed reading your review - the inner rock snob in me feels much the same.
The bad news is, with a young daughter of my own I have to put up with a lot of the Disney and Disney-esque pop.
The good news is, I get to screen this stuff and I get to expose her to all sorts of the good stuff in my own collection.
Just remember two things:
1) Teenybopper music has its place...to get teenyboppers interested in music 'til they're old enough to be weaned off to the good stuff; and
2) Some of the best movements in rock history arose as a rebellion against the crap. Brittania's cranked out some crud too--thankfully it's always been just such dross that's turned another's work to gold. (ironic, the amount of creativity and innovation that was spawned by disco)
I'm definitely looking forward to reading more of your material.
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