The All-American Rejects

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Artist: The All-American Rejects
Edition: Music CD
Format: Enhanced
CD Release Date: 2003-02-04
Music Label: Dreamworks
Soundtracks:
  1. My Paper Heart
  2. Your Star
  3. Swing, Swing
  4. Time Stands Still
  5. One More Sad Song
  6. Why Worry
  7. Don't Leave Me
  8. Too Far Gone
  9. Drive Away
  10. Happy Endings
  11. The Last Song

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Free Music Review: Shockingly good, one of the best of 2003
Hit: 5 Stars

I wanted to hate this record, I really did. After hearing about how these guys were "emo" and sounded like all of the boring, cheesy pop punk on the radio today, I didn't buy this until about a year and a half after its release, and even then it was only for $1 in a used CD store "for a laugh". Surprise surprise, its a tight record of compact power pop songs brimming with emotion and pure enjoyment. The album is vaguely reminiscent of one of my all-time favorites, Candy's "Whatever Happened to Fun?", in that underneath the deceptively simple and upbeat song structures lie serious emotional themes. Lyrics and key words are repeated - "breathe," "fade," "cheating," "crying," "away" and many more. It's almost as if they wanted to create an epic album, as evidenced by the full production and dramatic vocals, but when they got to the lyrics department they couldn't think of anything except how much some girl hurt them. And that's kind of a cute premise, if ultimately a bit melodramatic. Now, I understand that pushes the record dangerously close to hideous "emo," and maybe in the lyrics that's fine. But rest assured that this is musically closer to Jimmy Eat World (great band) than Dashboard or any similarly styled artless bleeding heart garbage. It doesn't hurt that the band is so clearly tuned in to the classic pop-rock of Rick Springfield and Def Leppard, and this album should appeal to fans of those artists as much as any of the teen beat stuff around now. Overall, I only found one clunker on the whole record ("Drive Away" is silly Good Charlotte cheese, but even my favorite Candy record had ONE dud). The rest is proof that even silly teenagers can create enjoyable melodic rock, and maybe even mean something while doing it.

Best Tracks:
"My Paper Heart" - OK, OK, this is pretty much emo 101 - the falsetto vocals are more than a little overdone. But, the xylophone and drum machine provide a lot more than you expect in a song like this, and the outro draws from Springsteen in effective melodrama.
"Your Star" - A Def Leppard ballad meets classic Elvis Costello bounce, with a bit of Green Day thrown in. Don't believe me? Check it out, you'll be surprised.
"Swing Swing" - A deserved hit. Surprised they couldn't turn any of the other gems here into a similar smash.
"Time Stands Still" - The fourth track here, and the fourth raging success. Acoustic lead in gives way to a monster chorus. Great song.
"Why Worry" - This is the tune that really made me appreciate what these guys are doing here. So simple, both in the instrumental and lyrical departments, but so sincere. It's the AC/DC ethic in the pop punk arena - less is much more. This song is simply a gorgeous power pop neo-classic. It's almost as if the narrator is alone and repeating these lines to himself thinking of what could have been, hopeful but ultimately unwilling to face the facts that a relationship is over.
"The Last Song" - Well, the opener was epic, with the ultra hopeful finale of "spring blossoms you to me". This closing track is stunningly defeated in its view, after all the sad tracks the singer is finally giving up. But it's also optimistic in a sense - maybe he isn't giving up so much as moving on. Maybe I'm reading too much into this album - I mean, it's hardly classic literature - but I find the bookend tracks to be a great lesson in creating mood in an otherwise silly genre (pop punk).
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