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Fall Out Boy – From Under The Cork Tree
An utterly unavoidable album. From Under The Cork Tree remains one of the defining releases of the 00s. Accessible, poetic, poppy and witty. Respected by the underground and saturated in the Mainstream. Fall Out Boy cresting on their successful ambitions. Rounding off the sharper edges of the post-hardcore scene, blending it with pop-punk and mixing…
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Panic! at the Disco- A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out
Now I’m of consenting ageTo be forgetting you in a cabaretSomewhere downtown where a burlesque queenMay even ask my nameAs she sheds her skin on stageI’m seated and sweating to a dance song on the club’s PAThe strip joint veteran sits two awaySmirking between dignified sips of his dignifiedPeach and lime daiquiri… A Fever You…
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Alkaline Trio – Crimson
There’s someone down below blowing you a kissThey watch from their windowsAs all arms fall to their sides, and all eyes fixOn the death of tomorrow Alkaline Trio’s Crimson is a portrait of a band in flux. But then, they’d always been in motion. From their hard-scrabble roots as bicycle messengers on Chigaco’s West Side,…
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Paramore – Riot
This is how we’ll dance whenWhen they try to take us downThis is how we’ll sing, ohThis is how we’ll stand whenWhen they burn our houses downThis is what we’ll be, oh, glory My time in the middle of the Pop Punk and Emo tornado was really only three full years, 2004, 2005, 2006. That…
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Taking Back Sunday – Tell All Your Friends
She said“Don’t, don’t let it go to your headBoys like you are a dime a dozenBoys like you are a dime a dozen” She said“You’re a touch overratedYou’re a lush and I hate itBut these grass stains on my kneesThey won’t mean a thing” Part of an elite club of albums on the cusp of…
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Jimmy Eat World – Static Prevails / Clarity / Bleed American
Let’s disappearWe’ll take a trip of no return to outer spaceAnd swim in pools which keep us warmCleaned off the sand from off your feet We’ll dance off time to the songs we’ve never likedAnd sing off-key, thinking it sounds all right 1996’s Static Prevails is actually Jimmy Eat World’s second album- their limited-edition debut…
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My Chemical Romance – The Black Parade
“Another contusion, my funeral jagHere’s my resignation, I’ll serve it in dragYou’ve got front row seats to the penitence ballWhen I grow up I want to be nothing at all” Very rarely do bands set out to make a classic album and succeed. My Chemical Romance wanted to make a modern capital-R Rock album which could stand aside…
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Relient K – Mmhmm
“I watched the proverbial sunriseComing up over the Pacific andYou might think I’m losing my mindBut I will shy away from the specifics” I think of Reliant K as “goody good boy Pop Punk”. And I mean that affectionately. It’s wholesome, brightly sunny and never fails to crack a smile with me. But it’s sincere,…
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