Siren Song of the Counter-Culture

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Siren Song of the Counter-Culture
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Artist: Rise Against
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2004-08-10
Music Label: Dreamworks
Soundtracks:
  1. State Of The Union
  2. The First Drop
  3. Life Less Frightening
  4. Paper Wings
  5. Blood To Bleed
  6. To Them These Streets Belong
  7. Tip The Scales
  8. Anywhere But Here
  9. Give It All
  10. Dancing For Rain
  11. Swing Life Away
  12. Rumors Of My Demise Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

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Free Music Review: Siren Song Of The Counter Culture
Hit: 5 Stars

I would seriously nominate this as one of the best political punk albums of all time, and one of the best punk albums, right up there with Suffer and The Empire Strikes First (By Bad Religion) Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables, The Clash by the Clash, and Never Mind the Bollocks by the Sex Pistols. This combines (besides the obvious elements of good lyric and music writing) two important elements; passion and compassion.

1. State Of The Union (8/10): Great opener, loud, fast, and true.
2. The First Drop (8/10): Great opening guitar riff, great backing vocals too.
3. Life Less Frightening (10/10): Great bass stuff, the lyrics, are untouchable, blunt, but extremely compasionate, and infused with passion. Perfection.
4. Paper Wings (8/10): Great lyrics, really great, and he utilizes a beautiful voice on this track, as well.
5. Blood To Bleed (7/10): Great opening. Still one of the album's weaker tracks.
6. To Them These Streets Belong (9.5/10): This is a great song, great lyrics, great imagery. His voice and the music are both good, but not great.
7. Tip The Scales (11/10): Great guitar in this song, beautiful lyrics.
8. Anywhere But Here (9/10): The music here is pretty good, I like his voice in this one, the lyrics are pretty good, but not great. A bit more catchy, I think.
9. Give It All (8/10): Catchiest song on the album, a real sing a long punk song. I'm not a fan of the music in this one, but the lyrics more than make up for the lack of excellent guitar riffs.
10. Dancing For Rain (8.5/10): The opening acoustic was okay, I love their acoustic stuff, but that wasn't that great. I love the bass in this song though, and the lyrics are very nice. The guitar gets to be better in the middle of the song, though.
11. Swing Life Away (11/10): Excellent lyrics, excellent voice, very nice music. End of story.
12. Rumors Of My Demise Have Been Exaggerated (100/10): I have not the words to describe this beauty. This song's lyrics are untouchable.

This is certainly my favorite album of theirs, and I've heard all four. Tim McIlrath is in my holy trinity of punk lyricists (Consisting also of Brett Gurewitz and Greg Graffin, who were major influences on Tim, not surprisingly).

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Rise Against are a political punk band from Chicago who recorded Siren Song of the Counter-Culture with Rage Against the Machine producer GGGarth and Rage and Nirvana mixer Andy Wallace. The four band members came together from punk bands 88 Fingers Louie, Pinhead Circus, and the Enemy, and the emo band Baxter, and play old school punk (e.g., Descendants) with a strong political point of view.

Siren Song of the Counter-Culture has drawn rave reviews from key publications. Rolling Stone praised the band's "rousing, intelligent fury," while Alternative Press said "the band's engrossing hardcore is an urgent siren song that's appropriate for these angst-ridden, uncertain times."

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