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F.T.T.W.
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by H2O
Sales Rank: 872777
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List Price: $10.98
$10.43
At Amazon
on 11-29-2008.
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1. Faster Than the World
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2. Empty Pockets
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3. One Life, One Chance
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4. Guilty by Association
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5. Fading
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6. Bootstraps
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7. Can I Overcome
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8. Found the Truth Within
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9. Old School Recess
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10. Helpless Not Hopeless
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11. On Your Feet
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12. Day by Day
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13. Force Field
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14. Ez.2.B. Anti
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15. M&M
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16. Reputation Calls
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17. Liberate
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18. Follow the Three Way/Not Just Boys Fun
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Like the title for this review alludes, this CD possesses a distinct writing style with many quips and some crafty wordplay that really is smart and refreshing to hear. The music is nothing out of place for your typical punk bands; they have limited capabilities in what they can offer musically. They're not going to mesmerize you with long, amazing guitar solos or do extensive experimentation with their instruments. They're hard, they're fast, and they're punk and that's what they want to be and in that context they change up their music well enough and never fall into a rut just forcing the same guitar riff over and over again slightly modified. However the reason only 3 stars, fitting right, are gold above and I gave this album a 7 of 10, so 3 and a half really, is that they do stumble into a very easy trap, something that I still can't figure out how Pennywise eluded their whole career. This trap is when penning these "we got your back" songs after too many instances it is unavoidable that you're going to write a really cheesy song with lyrics that just make the listener squirm for the person that wrote them. You start to feel this way towards the middle part of the album like the lead singer is going to suggest buying your guy friends a bouquet of flowers to show how much you appreciate them. The other thing that marginalizes this album is when they write these songs that are simply sermons inside of a punk music melody. Also, it seems they think these words are so gripping that they just throw any derivative punk rock sound in the background so you can hone in on just the words. Big mistake, we don't want to be lectured and checking our belief systems while getting down to music. There's nothing wrong with writing a song trying to convey your thoughts about the world around you, just don't overdo it to the point where they'd need to bring a pulpit onstage! All in all this is a satisfactory nearing good album, however there's already a band who used this identical formula, Pennywise, and did it perfectly, so there's not much need that I can see after having listened to this, for listening to this when you can buy PW's self-titled and be on your way nicely.
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F.T.T.W.
Available from Amazon
Price: $10.43
Updated on 11-29-2008.
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