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| 0.0 | VaxXi | July 31st 17 |
"That awkward moment when an Emo parody album is better than most "serious" Emo albums.
Jarrod Alonge is a genius."
stop listening to shit records.
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| 4.5 superb | coma2rium | August 7th 17 |
Way better than this has any right to be. I thought Beating a Dead Horse may have been a fluke, and despite it's successes, it was already an old joke about genres well past their prime. Awkward & Depressed shows that Jarrod Alonge can keep current with the trends in today's scene and lampoons the genres offered here with a startling amount of talent. Shots are fired at every genre from over-enunciated emo pop akin to Modern Baseball and The Front Bottoms to pseudo-intellectual spoken word drivel a la Being As An Ocean, with a few stops to mock incomprehensible math-rock noodling and the all too common switch that punk bands make into "Fisher Price's My First Shoegaze Album" territory. The main difference being that these songs are all super solidly written from a compositional standpoint, usually better than the source material it is aping, and are filled to the brim with witty lyrics. The jokes aren't limited to music, as Alonge pokes at the mentality of hipsters, the blatant racism masquerading as southern pride those in the south love to tout, and throws in a bevy of nostalgic throwbacks to myspace and post-hardcore bands of yesteryear in another fantastic medley towards the back end of the album. Joke albums are typically stupid to me and I tend to write them off as unnecessary. This is the rare exception where I can guarantee that you'll get some enjoyment out of this if you're even remotely familiar with its source material.
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| 3.5 great | furpa | July 29th 17 |
Jarrod's a funny dude and this album has a few solid laughs. Enjoyable record.
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| 4.5 superb | cman23kid | July 27th 17 |
The return of Jarrod Alonge with his brand of musical satire is funny and enjoyable as the original songs. Going over the top on parodying classic emo bands, Jarrod takes shots at other topics, including entitlement and Donald Trump as well.
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| 4.0 excellent | angrytortilla | June 5th 19 |
I think this is Jarrod's funniest album to date. Not only that, but I think it's the most musically interesting thing he's done too.
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| 3.0 good | SpinLightTwo | August 25th 17 |
It's all made me chuckle, and some of the tracks (Average Joe, Great Again, Pink Wednesday) feel like parody as much as genuine pop-punk, which is nice, but all together it just feels like too much. It is done well, performed well yet not so cohesive in sound as it is parody, which may be okay for some. But the humor does not disguise the fact that it feels all over the place; even if it's trying to make fun of every facet of pop-punk it still feels like there is no centric nature to the record. Which bugs me. May not bug others. Idk, fuck it. I like it.
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| 4.0 excellent | Ebola | August 7th 17 |
This is so fucking brilliant. Holy shit. I'm in love.
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| 4.0 excellent | Mutantsnowstorm | July 29th 17 |
If I had any complaints, it would be that he should've made a serious emo/indie album. the instrumentals here are absolutely stellar and if the lyrics were replaced with serious topics this would be on repeat for months to come (in truth it'll be on repeat regardless.) Still, the subject matter is hilarious and it's worth checking out.
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| 4.0 excellent | Watch | October 23rd 21 |
| 3.5 great | Trebor. EMERITUS | February 6th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | josh | June 10th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | Josh | September 23rd 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | ARTV | July 14th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | Sarah | April 12th 18 |
| 3.5 great | tellah | September 11th 17 |
| 3.5 great | Keira | August 31st 17 |
| 3.5 great | jmh886 | August 9th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | Donul | August 9th 17 |
| 4.5 superb | Smorge | August 5th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | ian b. | August 2nd 17 |
| 3.5 great | Rmazer | August 1st 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | NBA | July 30th 17 |
| 1.5 very poor | Soupy | July 29th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | jesper STAFF | July 28th 17 |
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