Kitsune's Music Reviews

I decided to do a template, as a guide and also for a new way to do this thread. First if you wanna know what band or artist Im reviewing just hover your cursor over the Album art or the band pictures I put and it in a few seconds will tell you.
[rating] 5/5[rating]

Same for the right image and section.
[rating] 5/5[rating]

FUTURE ROCK CLASSICS
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TWO ALBUMS OF THE WEEK
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Bayside is back after a tour van accident that took the life of drummer John "Beatz" Holahan, and put bass player Nick Ghanbarian in the bed for several months. One would expect their next album to be a downer and a desperate cry out for pity. You wouldn't know it though. The Walking Wounded is a different sound for Bayside. Songs like Duality is a change up to the old punch-line-lyrics howled out by Anthony Raneri, yet they have a few connected to Bayside's Sirens and Condolences( first debut), like Dear your Holiness. "I think its funny you've been /quiet for so long /When you're quiet no one proves you wrong /And dear your holiness /Your armies safe and sound /Down here dying for you ". This is either a really good thing or a really bad idea. "Landing Feet First" is Bayside's first (hopefully not their last) happy song they have ever done."And if I'm on the road for Another thousand years or so/I hope you know a part of me's at home/ Not trading brick for straw in /The house I built around my heart... " It's a change from the depression that lays on the back of the bands reputation. The album takes a stab at the record business and how uncomfortable they are in a scene consisting of money hungry musicians with sharp tongues and a way with words on tracks like Rite of Passage and Pop(ular science). What do you expect though, they're signed to Victory records?However this leaves the album in a complex mess. Ryan O'shea lays down a handfull of solos and riffs that make this sad band a melodic up beat act. The album titled track The Walking Wounded is a solid song featuring Vinny Carunan ( currently of I Am The Avalanche) yet its not enough for the average Bayside listener. Overall the Walking Wounded is a bitter-sweet end to the premature Bayside, and the bands future in making music is as fitting as the name of the album. If this is wounded then Bayside's next album should blow you and I away.
[rating] 4.5/5[rating]

Taking Back Sunday's third album Louder Now set the stage for the bands maturity and lets everyone know there here to stay comfortably on top. Even pursueing a future with Warner Bros. they gained soo much more than they could have achieved with the limited space offered on Victory records. The album rocks that's a fact. After Where you want to be and [i] Tell all your friends [i/], Louder now serves as the **** eating grin served with a bag of vindication to the flack laid on the five lads from Long Island , New York for being an Emo band. Taking Back Sunday is leaving Emo behind and picking up a more Rock and Roll sound that even contemporary rivals Brand New and Straylight-Run are unable to compete. They really broaden there horizons on this one. From risque tracks like My Blue Heaven and Twenty Twenty Surgery to the stalker anthem of summer (2007) Make Damn Sure . Louder Now is as loud as is gets aside from the desperate cry for the ending to a relationship thats ran it course on Divine Intervention". "Despondent, distracted,You're vicious and romantic"/"Yeah, we're stubborn and melodramatic,A real class act." Louder now takes back to TBS's humble emo band roots and then shits on it with songs like Miami a toast called for a guitai solo something the band has never done in its past records. You can expect a lot of improvising from Taking Back Sunday on their live performances when your hear Louder Now.
[rating] 5/5[rating]

FUTURE ROCK CLASSICS
SUBLIME

Take a trip to the shady streets of LBC and sulk in the dirty atmosphere while crossing through all of the Marijuana smoke, the women workin the streets, and the problems with police, and youll find Sublime around the corner. "Well Life Is/ So Love The one yah got/ Cuz yah might get run over/ Or You might get shot/..Lovin' is what I got". Most people wont realize it but Brad Knowles is a lyrical genius on par with greats like Bob Dylan, Bob Marely, and Kurt Cobain. Sublime's self-titled album is one of the greatest contributions, to Punk, Ska , Reggae and Rock in general. The bands tell all tales of living on the dirty and jaded streets of Long Beach California is really the soundtrack of where the band started and left off. Knowles writes about a place of prostitution, gang violence, and the day to day life of your average puttz just trying to make it by. He even has a song dedicated to the participation in the L.A riots. "April 26, 1992/ there was a riot on the streets tell me where you/ Next stop we hit up was the music shop/ took only one brick to make that window to drop/ then we got our own P.A./ where do you think I got this guitar your hearing today." Sublime is the Beach Boys on crack in your face playing upon the diamond of the gutter life style carried through the words of Knowles. You'd think he was a black man when listening to his ryhmes (just ask Gwen Stefani a close friend of Knowles). To bad Bradley's herione addiction got the best of him. This was a Trio with promise and a large oppurtunity to make it big resting firmly on their shoulders. Definitely check this album out if like good vibing music