I love Goodbye Mr A. And Worst Case Scenario. And Worried About Ray.
I buy CDs when i love three of that album's songs - sometimes the rule is broken because i buy a CD like Panic At The Discos new album becuase i love them, or because i dont buy a CD due to insufficient money funds (which happens fairly regularly) but rarely is the rule regretted.
There have only been three recorded incidents in which this rare event has occured - The Killers and Hot Fuss, 30 Seconds To Mars and Beautiful Lie and, yes you've guessed it, The Hoosiers and Trick To Life.
It's not that this record is bad. It's more that there's not enough good. other than my magic three songs the only other sparkling tune is Cops and Robbers. The rest, I' sad to say, are fillers, that hated word used to describe the truly awful idea of invesnting 'arty' songs which dont really mean anything, and sound really deep because they've been written in 5 seconds.
And so this album, which could have… more »

I love Goodbye Mr A. And Worst Case Scenario. And Worried About Ray.
I buy CDs when i love three of that album's songs - sometimes the rule is broken because i buy a CD like Panic At The Discos new album becuase i love them, or because i dont buy a CD due to insufficient money funds (which happens fairly regularly) but rarely is the rule regretted.
There have only been three recorded incidents in which this rare event has occured - The Killers and Hot Fuss, 30 Seconds To Mars and Beautiful Lie and, yes you've guessed it, The Hoosiers and Trick To Life.
It's not that this record is bad. It's more that there's not enough good. other than my magic three songs the only other sparkling tune is Cops and Robbers. The rest, I' sad to say, are fillers, that hated word used to describe the truly awful idea of invesnting 'arty' songs which dont really mean anything, and sound really deep because they've been written in 5 seconds.
And so this album, which could have potentially been so good, is turned into a hare-and-the-tortoise incident. So - Hoosiers, Killers and other bands ready to follow in their footsteps - Respect your not-that-stupid fans, listen to Aesop and produce a good album slowly rather than a quarter of an album quickly.