Say Anything - Is a Real Boy
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Artist: Say AnythingBrand: Baker Drivetrain
Edition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2006-09-18
Music Label: J Records
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Belt
- Woe
- The Writhing South
- Alive With The Glory Of Love
- Yellow Cat (Slash) Red Cat
- The Futile
- Spidersong
- An Orgy Of Critics
- Every Man Has A Molly
- Slowly, Through A Vector
- Chia-Like, I Shall Grow
- I Want To Know Your Plans
- Admit It!!!
- Wow, I Can Get Sexual Too
- Little Girls
- Most Beautiful Plague
- It's A Metaphor, Fool
- Total Revenge
- Metal Now
- I Will Never Write An Obligatory Song About Being On The Road And Missing Someone
Free Music Notes for Is a Real Boy
Free Music Review: This is what emo was suppose to sound like at the turn of the centrury
Hit: 5 Stars
Bear in mind that this album was originally released in 2004 but now has been re-released with some new bells and whistles. So without further ado I take credit for the following review for regardless of rather or not it is a re-release will undoubtedly go down as one of the best albums of the year but one of my personal favorites of the last ten years.
The scene is dripping with irony from top-to-bottom. Thrift store connoisseurs decked out in flamboyantly colored kicks and payless shoes adorn the landscape. Cheesy synths have taken over indie music and wailing 80's heavy-metal riffs overflow out of the retro-loving chalice of modern music in search of a definate meaning in reviving the old. Irony is the new pink, and pink is the new black let's all together and face it people it all comes down to the hipster New York fashion crazes and high school politics. I find it somewhat odd that punks can be in a sorta way as pretentious and conceited as all those "jocks" and "preps" that most everyone else blames for ruining their teen years. It's all about being cool, making sure that you say the right words to be considered the coolest. It's a continual progression hoarding deeper and deeper into the trough of egotistical self-absorption.
Say Anything. 18 months, a few visits to psychiatric hospitals and hundreds of cancelled shows later, Max seems fit and ready to bring his fans what they desperately deserve, new Say Anything tracks. Over a year after "...is a Real Boy"'s initial release, major label, J-Records took this pop rock gem and released it the masses en masse. Only this time, it came updated with seven new tracks. Though they might have a little bit sleeker production, the new tracks show not only has Bemis retained his self deprecating, tounge-in-cheek songwriting capabilities which are strikingly just as convincing and convicting. But that it has gotten better as time has elapsed.
I won't say anything (Damn I am a funny guy) about the actual album itself aside from if you don't own it, you need to own it. Do NOT download it or get it from a friend because that would be not doing Mr. Bemis any justrice. It is worth whatever money Target or Best Buy is charging. And along with these seven new tracks, you have no excuse not to get it.
The second disc, titled "...was a Real Boy," kicks off with "Wow, I can get sexual too," a track you might have heard as you entered the band's website. Bemis picks up right where he has left off, chronicling tales of internet and phone sex. "You're too young to be this empty girl/I'll prepare you for a sick dark world/Know that you will be my downfall/But I call and I call," croons Bemis. But throughout most of this disc, Bemis appears to be lashing out about his recent success and his reaction to it. "Little Girls" tells of his distain for little girls who do not fear him, though he feels they should. "Total Revenge" tells about Bemis' stays in hospitals and their constant supervision. And "I Will Never Write an Obligatory Song about being on the Road and Missing Someone" is about...well...duh what the title implies smarty.
If you have never heard Say Anything before, now would be an excellent time to get on this. You certainly will not regret it. If you have been a fan for a while, it is something that will re-wet your palate. If you are a fan of "...is a Real Boy," this is not the new Say Anything full length. Though you might gripe and groan about having to re-buy the CD to get the seven extra tracks, they are worth it. And by now, if you played your cards right and listened the hell out of that CD, you are probably due for a new one anyway and let us hope we don't have to wait long. This is what emo was suppose to be at the turn of the century.
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This version contains a bonus disc with seven unreleased tracks.Originally released in 2004 on a small So-Cal indie label, Say Anything's ...Is A Real Boy has stood the test of time thanks to its universal themes and whopper punk hooks. Emo in name only, it is a disc that veers far away from the genre's typical navel-gazing lyrics and shines its light on the trappings of rock stardom, taking on everything from groupies to music snobs in no-nonsense songs like "An Orgy of Critics" and "Every Man Has A Molly." Max Bemis may not be a great singer but he's a great frontman, channeling his well-publicized struggles with bipolar disorder into songs that ring with defiance. This package includes a bonus second disc that includes seven new Say Anything tracks, a number of which delve even deeper into Bemis' psychiatric troubles, plus the somewhat self-explanatory "I Will Never Write An Obligatory Song About Being On The Road And Missing Someone." --Aidin Vaziri
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