booyahachieved Posted December 17, 2007 Share Posted December 17, 2007 spin magazine's #1 album of 2007. kudos! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slymer Posted December 17, 2007 Share Posted December 17, 2007 I think the Ocean is pretty strong. Great closing track. The only downers for me are Animal, Thrash Unreal, that duet (Born On The FM...) and Stop. The rest are strong as hell. I'd say Thrash Unreal is probaby my favorite song of 2007. Well that and Umbrella. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brentoage Posted December 17, 2007 Share Posted December 17, 2007 great album. i love that borne of the fm waves tune, though. seems to be hit and miss. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minty Posted December 17, 2007 Share Posted December 17, 2007 Yeah I love it too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skumbucket Posted December 17, 2007 Share Posted December 17, 2007 it's a great album. i'd only ditch "animal" i think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyle Posted December 17, 2007 Share Posted December 17, 2007 it's a great album. i'd only ditch "animal" i think. Exactly my thoughts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minty Posted December 17, 2007 Share Posted December 17, 2007 I want the opaque version of this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
impact Posted December 17, 2007 Share Posted December 17, 2007 I want the opaque version of this. I dont need one, but my collection does Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flood Posted December 18, 2007 Share Posted December 18, 2007 ditto. impact whats yer feelings on the album? personally i love it.. altho i know im in the minority. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j4m35 Posted December 18, 2007 Share Posted December 18, 2007 i'm just gonna say this: i didn't go into it expecting it to be RAR against me -- i think a lot of people did. first 5 or 6 songs minus STOP, which is pretty goddamned awful albeit catchy, are good. not great. good. americans abroad is a good one too. only songs i really don't like are - ocean, animal, stop and piss and vinegar. i just feel dirty when i listen to animal. not like sexual dirty. like, violated dirty. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
impact Posted December 18, 2007 Share Posted December 18, 2007 at first i didnt like it but it sure has grown on me. it def. has its stand out tracks, while there are other tracks that i wish it didnt have, or that i always skip through.. the sound of the album gives off a stadium rock type tone, but there are def. still some against me tones to it. i read in an interview that Tom wanted this album to be the one that breaks them through into the mainstream, and I personally feel like it has succeed so far. It does suck now that they are on MTV as artist as the week, etc etc, and that they totally abandoned their initial views/roots. But then again, people change and they sure have gone a long way from dumpster diving for drum parts ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
impact Posted December 18, 2007 Share Posted December 18, 2007 i'm just gonna say this: i didn't go into it expecting it to be RAR against me -- i think a lot of people did. first 5 or 6 songs minus STOP, which is pretty goddamned awful albeit catchy, are good. not great. good. americans abroad is a good one too. only songs i really don't like are - ocean, animal, stop and piss and vinegar. i just feel dirty when i listen to animal. not like sexual dirty. like, violated dirty. ocean? Ocean is def. a stand out track on that album, one of the strongest. I read somewhere that Tom was coked up in France when he wrote that song..anyways, I dont think any of us expected this to be the next RAR. After "Dont Lose Touch" was released, and knew they were going for more of mainstream sound, and have totally out grew their original folk/punk sound from their earlier releases. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flood Posted December 18, 2007 Share Posted December 18, 2007 thrash unreal is one of the best pop songs of the last 5 years as far as im concerned... soooo good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dante3000 Posted December 18, 2007 Share Posted December 18, 2007 thrash unreal is one of the best pop songs of the last 5 years as far as im concerned... soooo good. Perhaps only matched by Kelly Clarkson's "Since U Been gone" and Justin Timberlake's "Goes Around/Comes Around". Say what you will but those songs a pop fucking gems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
impact Posted December 18, 2007 Share Posted December 18, 2007 ha, when i think of Pop, i think of. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magalvsr13 Posted December 18, 2007 Share Posted December 18, 2007 thrash unreal is one of the best pop songs of the last 5 years as far as im concerned... soooo good. Perhaps only matched by Kelly Clarkson's "Since U Been gone" and Justin Timberlake's "Goes Around/Comes Around". Say what you will but those songs a pop fucking gems. dude, that JT song is just a cheap try at making another "Cry Me a River" - now THAT song is amazing....agreed on the since u been gone though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dante3000 Posted December 18, 2007 Share Posted December 18, 2007 Perhaps only matched by Kelly Clarkson's "Since U Been gone" and Justin Timberlake's "Goes Around/Comes Around". Say what you will but those songs a pop fucking gems. dude, that JT song is just a cheap try at making another "Cry Me a River" - now THAT song is amazing....agreed on the since u been gone though The difference is that "Goes Around" is encapsulated perfectly in a thematic album. "Cry Me a River" was a little too, "this is a song about Britteny fucking me over" but the whole last JT album flowed so well and seemed like such a complete piece of work that "Goes Around" comes off as the better song to me....I'm gonna stop before my wife becomes my beard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j4m35 Posted December 18, 2007 Share Posted December 18, 2007 i'm just gonna say this: i didn't go into it expecting it to be RAR against me -- i think a lot of people did. first 5 or 6 songs minus STOP, which is pretty goddamned awful albeit catchy, are good. not great. good. americans abroad is a good one too. only songs i really don't like are - ocean, animal, stop and piss and vinegar. i just feel dirty when i listen to animal. not like sexual dirty. like, violated dirty. ocean? Ocean is def. a stand out track on that album, one of the strongest. I read somewhere that Tom was coked up in France when he wrote that song..anyways, I dont think any of us expected this to be the next RAR. After "Dont Lose Touch" was released, and knew they were going for more of mainstream sound, and have totally out grew their original folk/punk sound from their earlier releases. i agree, but what i was trying to say is that people expected too much out of it. this was the obvious direction against me was going to go in and i wish people would just accept it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyle Posted December 18, 2007 Share Posted December 18, 2007 Anyone else think that New Wave was Against Me! getting their feet wet as far as really recording and everything goes and that their next record is going to be some epic modern day London Calling or something? Thats kinda where I see them going, but I could be wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riddle350 Posted December 18, 2007 Share Posted December 18, 2007 Anyone else think that New Wave was Against Me! getting their feet wet as far as really recording and everything goes and that their next record is going to be some epic modern day London Calling or something? Thats kinda where I see them going, but I could be wrong. I really wouldn't be suprised. I think all their stuff is great even though it all sounds fairly different from each recored to the next. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magalvsr13 Posted December 18, 2007 Share Posted December 18, 2007 dude, that JT song is just a cheap try at making another "Cry Me a River" - now THAT song is amazing....agreed on the since u been gone though The difference is that "Goes Around" is encapsulated perfectly in a thematic album. "Cry Me a River" was a little too, "this is a song about Britteny fucking me over" but the whole last JT album flowed so well and seemed like such a complete piece of work that "Goes Around" comes off as the better song to me....I'm gonna stop before my wife becomes my beard. i havent actually listened to either album in whole, so ill give you this. But goddamn if Cry Me a River isnt the catchiest song known to man not sung by Kelly Clarkson. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
captainmorgan Posted December 18, 2007 Share Posted December 18, 2007 Anyone else think that New Wave was Against Me! getting their feet wet as far as really recording and everything goes and that their next record is going to be some epic modern day London Calling or something? Thats kinda where I see them going, but I could be wrong. Man, I hope so. I love everything AM! has ever done EXCEPT for New Wave. Hell, Searching is my favorite of their albums. But I was really disappointed in New Wave. Mostly the lyrics, I guess, but also there are just too many songs that I don't care for to make it worth listening to. Personally, I'm hoping this is AM!'s "growing pains" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magalvsr13 Posted December 18, 2007 Share Posted December 18, 2007 Personally, I'm hoping this is AM!'s "growing pains" Tom totally works as Kirk Cameron if he grew a sick mullet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickheitman Posted December 18, 2007 Share Posted December 18, 2007 ha, when i think of Pop, i think of. anyone ever seen santa clause 3 with jack frost? also, ocean is one of the best on the album. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamlikesmusic Posted December 18, 2007 Share Posted December 18, 2007 Ocean is epic. I don't dislike anything they've put out. As different as it all is, I still enjoy it all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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