LPF Album Reviews 2.0

[Stllmn8j]

I could do it, but you probably wouldn't want me to. It's got the barebones gtr, bass, and rock drums only. And from the sounds of it, it's probably hardcore or some kind of punk. We'll see...........

 

You should check out that Berg Sans Nipple album from atop of this page..........

 

Probably wouldn't be your type of CD to review,they're kind of a live-recorded,experimental metal/rock band,at least experemental as far as harder rock goes lately,as well as quite choatic with the noises at times.....actually I might like to see your take on it lol

[azemkamikaze03]

Ok Sorry for the size, I'm still trying this kind of review thing out.

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[Stllmn8j]

I can't read the words...

[azemkamikaze03]

ok i fixed it

[Toxic1]

Probably wouldn't be your type of CD to review,they're kind of a live-recorded,experimental metal/rock band,at least experemental as far as harder rock goes lately,as well as quite choatic with the noises at times.....actually I might like to see your take on it lol

 

What do you mean by live-recorded?

 

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azemkamikaze03: that is a kickass review format. Great job on that. But Kelly Clarkson? Come on about this "not corporate controlled" BS. That's just put out there so that people think it's different and bad ass and will be interested to buy it. A ploy if you will. It's still Kelly Clarkson any way you cut it. A no talent that is a hoar to the corporate music industry.

[Stllmn8j]

Thanks,good review! It's definently the first review I've ever seen the word poontang used in lol,anyways,great design/layout and good long track reviews!

[Stllmn8j]

What do you mean by live-recorded?

 

I don't think this newest album was,but their last album (which was with a completly different band besides the singer) was recorded with the whole band in one room just playing the album in order with short interludes of noise

[azemkamikaze03]

What do you mean by live-recorded?

 

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azemkamikaze03: that is a kick ass review format. Great job on that. But Kelly Clarkson? Come on about this "not corporate controlled" BS. That's just put out there so that people think it's different and bad ass and will be interested to buy it. A ploy if you will. It's still Kelly Clarkson any way you cut it. A no talent that is a hoar to the corporate music industry.

 

Thanks, and I say non-corporate because she is leaving her label because of disagreements with management etc. And I reviewed it because I mean whilst it's always good to learn about not so popular bands albums, it's always nice to see where the ones we hear about are headed. Plus, I just got this CD so I figured it'd be a nice first reveiw. thanks though. I understand where your coming from with the corporate stuff.

[azemkamikaze03]

Here's My Review of The LPF Sessions

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[Friðbjörn]

yeah my track was just a quick demo. and all the rough transitions you talked about probably come from the fact that I mostly improvised it.

but to be fair I really could've recorded it again

[Jeezy]

what you wrote about N.O.C.B.M.

 

made me laugh so hard...

 

good review

[Friðbjörn]

album: How strange, innocence

artist: Explosions in the sky

genre: post-rock

 

Another guitar driven post-rock band. Now fortunately post-rock is the kind of label that allows for many many different things. Such a broad term. However the music on this album isn't that broad. I mean this is good stuff and all, at times this gets really deep, but the songs sound kinda samey all the time. They sound either like Mogwai's earliest stuff (the kind of slower guitar driven songs) or Mogwai's Happy songs for happy people. Maybe I think of the latter because of all the harmonics melodies and the dynamic of slower quieter parts vs. heavy *let it all out in an explosion of guitars* parts.

To be fair though, this music is way more intelligent and progressed than most music out there. The problem is that a lame gift wrapped in pretty paper isn't worth much. It seems like EITS had the inspiration and all, but the inner core of the music is somewhat missing.

That's only if you dig deep enough though. This is after all interesting stuff to hear, for the most part. You've got some really beautiful melodic parts on this album.

 

Now I haven't listened to EITS's other works, but I hope as Toxic has said that they got better. This album is an alright start, but somewhat misses the target.

rating: 6,4/10

[Stenners]

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Artist: Various

Album: Transformers (The Movie) OST

Genre: Rock/Alternative

 

The movie soundtrack another sure fire way for record labels, bands &

hollywood to cash in, oftently on totally unoriginal material specificly recorded for

the movie.... just another way to milk their existing catalouge of songs for

every penny it's worth! Often these soundtracks just latch onto hot artists

and to no suprise are often full of Emo/Posuer Metal which will appeal to the general masses

who think that they are being 'different' and as usual the music choice is pretty awful.

The opening 2 choices 'What I've Done' and 'Doomsday Clock' are hardly the worst offenders

it's when the cheese fests from the bands such as 'Disturbed' come in that u know this is

going to be uhmmmm pretty damned terrible. The Used's 'Pretty Handsome Awkward' is

quite head bobbing enduscing due to the shuffeling guitar but like every other song they do

it's pretty uhm stale, predictable and at the end of it terribly cliche. 'Passions Killing Floor' by

'HIM' isnt too bad I spose... it's just more of this post 'hardcore' shit u expect to hear

on such things nowa days.

 

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O look that one from TBS has actually died from embarrasment, good!

Taking Back Sundays effort is truley shocking, in the same leauge of shocking as Disturbed

it's soooo soooo bad, but thats what I like sort of expected isn't it? So am I shocked? No

will teenage girls who have pretty boy posters all over their wall love it? Yes. Do I care?

NO! SOB's effort with Michale Shinoda isn't too bad, the beat is kinda minimalistic which I like

it's very much rock based but at the end of it all, pretty dull..... Mikes rapping isn't too good

on this one. 'Armor For Sleep' are soooo over the top that it's hard to take them seriously,

needlessley to say this continues.... 'Idiot Pilot' provide a slightly above average effort and

quite disheartingly throw out one of the more 'darring' tracks on the album, Julien-K puts out

the highlight of the album with his techno/rock/drum n bass out look on music being the only true

'different' thing here, Transformers theme is horrible and that alone deserves someone being

shooting.

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I guess u could say that the only credible band is Goo Goo Dolls, n they is old!

At the end of the day, this is nothing more then a collection of songs

that you will hear on the radio anyways, in the same exact order which is very likely

it's all fake alternative rock.... it's for the most part ranging from Uninspired to unbelivably

shit. The fact 'The Goo Goo Dools & Julien K' pull out the 2 most accomplished tracks

really speaks volumes & I have found whole new hatred for 'Disturbed' & 'Taking Back Sunday'

with 2 of the poorest songs I have heard all year, the theme song is so horrible it adds insult

to injury & makes u envy those who lost their hearing at Thunderbolt gigs!

Rating: 2.75/10

Reccomended: Linkin Park - What I've Done, Smashing Pumpkins - Doomsday Clock, The Goo Goo Dolls - Before It's Too Late & Julien K - K-Techniqual Difficulties.

[Hybrid Soldier]

I'd like to see either toxic or stenn review Surplus Sons' demo, heres a link if either are interested: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=MQI5I27K .

[Stenners]

Artist: Surplus Sun

Album:

[Stenners]

Artist: Surplus Sons

Album: Demos

Genre: 'Indie' Rock/ Guitar Pop

 

Painfully inoffensive, that alot of ways to descrbe most 'Indie' Rock bands

offering the same ideas over and over again, biting as many artists as possible

to sound as familiar as possible to prevent.... God forbid, alienation amongst the mainstream crowd.

This band yet to release any proper albums lash out some demos on us & more or less

all of them are dull derrived inoffesnsive indie rock songs. Using typical lyrics, predictable chord

progressions they just sort of drear on, nothing new nothing interesting. Actually the way i see them

they dont seem to be sure wether they want to be 'The Strokes' or 'Oasis. The opening track

starts with a please dance along guitar riff and isn't too bad, the melody is there the is some

form of hook it's all there but it lacks any charmo or indviduality, it sounds like a good 80 - 90% of

the stuff u hear on 'Alternative' *hehehehe* raido and music video stations. In fact I could say this

about all of the track, just varying in pace 'Someone Like You' is slower 'Step Stones' is around the same

pace as Cigty Nights...... In the end this album is dull, predictable n all been done before, they have

some ability to play but dudes your nothing new and will mearly drift away unless they do something quick

like actually try writing their own songs rather then biting other bands.

 

Rating: 3.75/10

Reccomended: Step Stones, City Nights

 

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Even their image is derrived of any individualtiy with each n every member looking like someone

from the brit pop era (90's & 00's)

[Toxic1]

Artist: Surplus Sons

Album: Demos

Genre: 'Indie' Rock/ Guitar Pop

 

Painfully inoffensive, that alot of ways to descrbe most 'Indie' Rock bands

offering the same ideas over and over again, biting as many artists as possible

to sound as familiar as possible to prevent.... God forbid, alienation amongst the mainstream crowd.

This band yet to release any proper albums lash out some demos on us & more or less

all of them are dull derrived inoffesnsive indie rock songs. Using typical lyrics, predictable chord

progressions they just sort of drear on, nothing new nothing interesting. Actually the way i see them

they dont seem to be sure wether they want to be 'The Strokes' or 'Oasis. The opening track

starts with a please dance along guitar riff and isn't too bad, the melody is there the is some

form of hook it's all there but it lacks any charmo or indviduality, it sounds like a good 80 - 90% of

the stuff u hear on 'Alternative' *hehehehe* raido and music video stations. In fact I could say this

about all of the track, just varying in pace 'Someone Like You' is slower 'Step Stones' is around the same

pace as Cigty Nights...... In the end this album is dull, predictable n all been done before, they have

some ability to play but dudes your nothing new and will mearly drift away unless they do something quick

like actually try writing their own songs rather then biting other bands.

 

Rating: 3.75/10

Reccomended: Step Stones, City Nights

 

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Even their image is derrived of any individualtiy with each n every member looking like someone

from the brit pop era (90's & 00's)

 

Positives: they have technical ability

 

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Negatives:

 

They lack at least one good songwriter in the group.

 

The songs are very typical and they wear their influences on their sleeves. Big time.

 

The purposely gritty rock vocals are not my thing. Never has been.

 

The lyrics, from what I could catch on one listen, sounded kinda typical..........again. Nothing really hit me.

 

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Stenners score seems reasonable. I'd give it a 3 out of 10 because I could never bear to listen to it purposely on my own equipment ever again.

 

I give this band a 50/50 chance of hitting it big though, which is helluva lot bigger odds than practically most other bands in existance. But will they last past a debut or sophmore slump? Probably not. They are pretty dispensable sounding to me.

 

By the way, I wouldn't really classify this as indie pop or even indie rock for that matter. Just "Rock" would work.

[Friðbjörn]

I haven't heard this band but isn't rock a bit too wide a term

[Toxic1]

I haven't heard this band but isn't rock a bit too wide a term

 

Mainstream rock. You could hear this alongside Jet on the radio easily. Eeeek...........Jet.

 

:-!

[Stllmn8j]

Mainstream rock. You could hear this alongside Jet on the radio easily. Eeeek...........Jet.

 

:-!

 

God do they suck!

[Friðbjörn]

ah that kind. or isn't Jet the band with Are you gonna be my girl and all that?

[azemkamikaze03]

yea.

such a weird ass wanna be old school band.

[Stenners]

Artist: Various

Album: Spin/Smashing Pumpkins Tribute

GENRE: POST HARDCORREEEEE xCORE sXe rawwwwk!

 

So many bad things have been said bout post hardcore bands such as I dunno Hawthorne Heights in the past by me n my snobbish ways.... so for u guys im gonna write an honest review where I DONT insult them! K here goes

 

 

 

 

 

the vocals kind of make up for the fact

 

And I guess sometimes the improved production

 

Yah

 

Cherry pie is nice

 

+44 arent too off the money, the production isnt too glossy

 

 

 

 

Reccomended:

 

Overall: 2/10

 

Hawthrone heights should be fucking ashamed of there rendition of Bullet With Butterfly Wings the prissy pussy's, sorry =(

[azemkamikaze03]

your getting some hate mail tonight stenners

[HaziLPTonz]

ooh can you link me to that cd??? i cant find it on the net...i mean theres the individual tracks on the myspace, but iono how to rip off myspace, and this would honestly be better quality lol