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Review by: soulbleed See others by this writer Official Site (link) Only registered users can post comments Published on April 22nd 2005
With their fourth release, Gatsbys American Dream has finally realized all of the potential and promise they've been playing around with and put it to a record. Volcano is the culmination of ideas and sounds that the band has been experimenting and perfecting since their formation, and it takes all of the good from each of their past releases and attaches it to some truly stellar musicianship. Whereas their first record, Why We Fight, only announced their intentions, and their second (the better), Ribbons And Sugar, merely turned some heads, and their third, In The Land Of Monsters, just confused the hell out of people, their fourth, Volcano, projects its brilliance to the world with not a single qualm.
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This should be on everyone's list of 'greatest albums of all time'. Just amazing in every way. The songs never get boring and the band are all incredibly talented musicians. Every song on this album is unstoppable. You have to listen to it from start to finish, you can't help it. I love it. My new favorite band. this band is incredible i love them they have a very talened drummer who plays doulbes whitch has become very normal to hear still i love them and i think theyre on of warped and taste od chaos biggest bands ever being a skeptic of most new music, i was incredibly impressed by this shit. the reviewer said it best: short, but sweet. I love this album and band. One of the best band's in the past few years. Enjoyable album. Island was better than brave new world, whoever mentioned that. i really don't see how my reasons were 'problematic'. i said he was long-winded and the novel was boring and didn't interest me. you're just flogging a dead horse at this point. an opinion is an opinion -- that's what this all started as. let that be the end of it. oh for fucks sake. enough already with the fucking faulkner. it's really getting old. "although i do care that you said what i said was 'irresponsible' .. you act like i just drove while i was intoxicated and hit a child. jesus christ dude, there are bigger problems in the world than me saying faulkner sucked." score is for shotgunning beast ice. then going on a 10 game winning streak in beirut. although i do care that you said what i said was 'irresponsible' .. you act like i just drove while i was intoxicated and hit a child. jesus christ dude, there are bigger problems in the world than me saying faulkner sucked. i didn't bait people to respond. i didn't give a fuck. i still don't. hahahahahahaha. TOBB totally showed you guys!!! you were like a teacher asking a question in the socratic method and, in response, he made a loud farting noise against the fat of his stubby arms. "At its best, some of this was trying to stop people from being irresponsible in their postings and incisively looking at the music of the band this whole string of postings is supposed to be about" ......ummmm yeah. Your original comments were not just an opinion that differed from others', but irresponsible crap that baited people to respond. it's good to know you have a worthless degree in literature though. i commend you, sire. you're such a better citizen than i! (to the kids who commented on my faulkner comment) well, when it all comes down to it, my original comments were of course my opinion. you all are very obviously enamoured with yours and take things way too seriously. you act like you were sleeping with faulkner the way you defended him. get a life and stop insulting me personally just because i, like every one before me, made an opinion. TOBB, me get 1210 on SAT's and graduate from University of Pittsburgh...yet me still stupid and me unable to quote any author and no remember much of anything other than beer bong w/ 2 beers and shot of vodka stronger than shotgunning single beast ice. im glad people are enjoying flexing their intellectual muscles, name-dropping their favorite authors and what not, but give it a fucking break please? if you've taken one fucking AP english course, are waiting for june to come around so you can get your high school diploma and enroll in some overpriced private college and have scored 1100 on the SAT's...it still doesn't mean we've got to listen to banter about Virginia fucking Woolf. save it. the band has a reference to a book in their name, which is not witty and or creative. we know. whooptie-fucking-do. With all of that said, I think we can all agree that Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse is a terribly boring read. Archangel, I think everyone needs to take a deep breath and realize that this is the Gatsby's American Dream comment thread on punknews.org. 1984 is a prerequisite to being the punx oi oi oi (actually, i'm only half joking about that haha) "Gatsby's American Dream bores me. And they think they're clever for making pop-lit references. The point of it all seems to be nods to those who catch them (though they are not obscure, weighty, or even particularly intellectually complex or nuanced), rather than augmenting and improving the concept or feel of the songs. Maybe they should just write better songs" It's not the fact that Soulbleed mentioned working at a bookstore (while that is somewhat neither here, nor there he was trying to say that he spends a lot of time around books and people who supposedly like books and seems to pick up on osmosis) and it has little to do with formal education. "i really really want to hate this band. i saw them live about a year and a half ago and i was sure it would be possible to hate them. then i heard this record, and while i might still hate them, this isnt bad. score is for the guy who mentioned confederacy of dunces, which i just finished. good book. For once, I agree with Chinatown. for all the hype they are mighty ok, sounds like they could be on drive thru . lord knows i loath drive thry i really really want to hate this band. i saw them live about a year and a half ago and i was sure it would be possible to hate them. then i heard this record, and while i might still hate them, this isnt bad. Hey soulbleed, fuck you. You obviously haven't read Faulkner's short stories; they are anything but long-winded. Long-winded is a description better suited for contemporary writers such as Franzen and Wallace - both of whom I enjoy immensely. Just because you work at Barnes & Nobles in the highbrow section doesn't give you any kind of literary authority, bitch. It seems like your "good reason" for dissing The Sound and the Fury is that you are Benjy Compson's intellectual equal. "Yeah, soulbleed, you're a literary genius. The saying is "breathes new life" not "breeds new life." Way to tout those literary skills, Einstein! What exactly are you breeding chihuahuas? Now kindly shut the hell up about books, you freakin' moron." I like both versions of Badlands equally. anybody heard the just like heaven cover gatsbys did for the punk goes 80s comp yet? i love it. "The new version breeds life into a previously unaffecting track" R&S didnt display any band growth or song writing maturity Lord of the flies - best high school novel and dont fucking kid yourselves! soulbleed, how can you say Ribbons & Sugar is better than Why We Fight? if anything they are equally as good. R&S didnt display any band growth or song writing maturity, nor any more catchiness or talent. i dont know where you get that from. personal preference i guess... i've loved this band since Why We Fight and they haven't given up their style. the guitars used to be a lot quicker and the drums more technical but for some reason they felt the need to slow it down so to speak. also in this record, they throw in a few chorus' which isn't like them. overall though Volcano is a sick record, and gatsbys american dream is by far one of my favorite bands ever. Wow, the new Alkaline Trio is god awful. well, to the kid that was talking trash because i dissed the sound and the fury, i have good reason. Whoever said the Sound and the Fury sucked, good call. I don't care how intricate your writing is or whatnot, I couldn't understand a damn thing that was happening in that book. Just a lot about soiled underpants and people named Quentin. I didn't understand, why were these people so fucked up? Why are they so goddamn lazy and stupid and listless? I didn't care about any of them. God I hated that damn book. what age the phantom tollbooth is written for is of no consequence. it is still one of the most well-written books out there. if anything, it proves just how it good it is that it can be written for such a young audience but enjoyed everyone. as opposed to say, harry potter, which was written for adults and only kids can enjoy on a large scale. of course you people would think ayn rand is crap, cause your all neo communists everyone likes to say they read joyce's masterpieces, but few really have. Trainspotting is the best book ever written and The Great Gatsby is equivalent to MTV's Cribs in the 1920's except with more killing. i don't get the hype surrounding this band Soulbleed, "wow that was a pretty good run for me on this site. it took a couple hours and like 30 posts to get a 'you're a fucking moron' comment.a new record!" Yeah Phantom Tollbooth is for like 4-6th grades, but it is still a fun read. wow that was a pretty good run for me on this site. it took a couple hours and like 30 posts to get a 'you're a fucking moron' comment.a new record! I had never heard of the Phantom Tollbooth before so I looked it up and it says recommended for ages 9 to 12. Granted I had to read Charlotte's Web for a college Lit course. Wow, Soulbleed really showed himself to be an absolute imbecile. Downright fucking stupid and full of dump. the great gatsby sucked ah, high school books. i liked these: i saw it in china and it had english subtitles.. i was pretty surprised. that movie had awesome fight scenes but that's it though. score is for kung fu hustle Ahh yes...The Phantom tollbooth. I read that book in 6th grade and 7 years later, it's still a great book. 1984, One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, and Brave new World. the only book worth reading from high school is the catcher in the rye. my score is for this band, this album, and this review. the great gatsby is a great book, Score is for East of Eden. Score is for F. Scott Fitzgerald Dear Fearless, I am totally off today. George Orwell would kill me. really good, but didn't really blow me away one dude below , thats 1984, not 1942 This is an ambitious, brillliantly produced album that completely fails as a musical statement because of its generic themes and poor songwriting. The end result is a disc filled with the same overwrought and underbaked bleating that marks David Bowie's worst efforts. I feel completely comfortable saying that this is one of the single worst albums I have ever purchased: the only reason I haven't thrown it out is that I'm sure some record store in the D.C. area will be foolish enough to buy it (barely) used. the great gatsby is a piece of trash. Boo Radleys is a once famous UK indie band Ken, I'm serious. I enjoyed the movie, but the book gives him a little more wicked side. Well maybe not wicked, but he does some messed up shit. And they don'thave the tear-jerker ending. Weak review for one of the weakest bands of all time. A band whos intentions were good but unfortunately took a good concept and destroyed it. This record took a lot of spins to sink in, but once you really focus on the intricacies in each song, the whole album comes to life. Very, very well done. Sickboi, c'mon. I think you're just saying that to be cool. If the book was better than the movie, we'd call it the bible. That movie gets better everytime I see it. oooh Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man was really good in my opinion too. I wasn't angry, i just thought it was strange that a highschool curriculum included the Giver. Maybe my forgetting to close the italics tag made it look that way... and yea, i'm serious about heart of darkness. I haven't been that wrapped up in a book's imagery in a long time. Kenjamin, are you serious about Heart of Darkness? That might be one of the most anti-climactic books ever. Also, Marlow's narrative is borderline PAINFUL at times. I think the best book I read in school was Forrest Gump. (and I read it prior to the movie) WHAT THE GAY?? oo.. i liked both the phantom tollbooth and animal farm. 1942 is the best book you have to read in HS. That or animal farm. I think I read them both in 9th grade. Score is for the comment from the guy below me. I just copyrighted that band name. To the guy who said his favorite book from highschool was The Giver; dude we had to read that book in sixth grade. Did you go to a special school? My favorite book from HS was Heart of Darkness. It was waaay more evil than Lord of the Flies. Also Paul, proper MLA states that italics should be used when the title is typed out. Underline when you are hand-writing. Their name sucks. Maybe they should rename to Boo Radley's Mockingbird Nightmare. This is pretty good. I don't think it's quite as good as the last Ep. Best book is either Mouse And The Motorcycle, or possibly the Phantom Tollbooth. haha this site never fails to amuse me Which CD should I pick up? the book is ok but i think the best book ever is, without a doubt, confederacy of dunces Score is for a Mind Of Metal And Wheels, by far the most amazing track on this album that's otherwise only "pretty good." Score is for Joe Vs The Volcano. and yes...i did just add the word 'lost' for no reason this album is just...bleh. can't really understand the hype around it. however, i really enjoyed 'land of lost monsters'. I still don't know what the band sounds like. Which CD should I pick up? Fable is the one about Lord of the Flies Wasn't really sure about these guys until I got this record a month ago. It REALLY surprised me. I love The Strokes knock-off song. It's almost a blantant enough rip off to make me laugh. I heard this band sucked. Agreed. This album is really really good. The only high school book that i remember that was worth reading was the giver... that shit's crazy pass. Ive never heard anything by this band. There should be a rule at this site where the number of stars the reviewer gives the album shouldn't be posted until at least 6 months after the review is posted. And prior to the score being announced, the reviewer should have to go back and really evaluate whether that score was worth it. "Stunningly profound rock with a purpose?" This took a while to grow on me, but man is it ever good. I don't know if it is truly a 5, but definitely the best album i've heard this year. don't like it. nice collaboration effort though, kumar and ashton! I agree, best band name ever, and best book ever. I don't think any one album towers over the other, but this is now three great/consistent releases in a row from the band. I don't know of too many others who produce like that. i heard that this sucked... but then again i haven't heard it or anything else by this band Score is for the cover. |