Browsing Category Retro Reviews
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Even The Greatest Slip : A Look Back At Jay-Z’s Kingdom Come
“When I come back like Jordan/Wearing the 4-5, it ain’t to play games with you” – Jay-Z “Encore” June 14th, 1998. It’s game six of the the 1998 ...
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8ScoreRetro Review – Cartel: Chroma
To be completely biased, I think the mid 2000’s (especially 2005) produced some of the most memorable works that we in our early/mid-20’s still turn to whenever we ...
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8ScoreRetro Review – Nine Inch Nails: With Teeth
It’s hard to believe that With Teeth turns ten this year. It’s one of those Nine Inch Nails releases that I listened to as if I was reading ...
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Album Reviews 5
10ScoreRetro Review – Green Day: American Idiot
Does it make you feel old knowing that ten years ago one the most iconic rock albums of the 21st century was released? I’m talking about an album ...
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Retro Review – Simple Plan: Still Not Getting Any…
Way back in the mid-2000s, I (as well as a lot of other staff members) were facing day-to-day challenges caused by society’s unofficial Hunger Games battleground – middle school. Like many others who absolutely hated ...
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Album Reviews 14
9.5ScoreRetro Review – Alexisonfire: Watch Out!
It has currently been just over ten years since the St. Catherines, Ontario, Canada-based post-hardcore band Alexisonfire released their second studio album Watch Out! It’s always an interesting ...
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9ScoreRetro Review – Various Artists: Garden State Soundtrack
Everyone loves Zach Braff. Ever since he took the small screen by storm with his quirky antics on Scrubs, Braff has managed to maintain his relevance and cool-boy ...
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Retro Review: Eminem – Encore
I think the majority of us have seen Rocky 3, where it’s a tale of a champion who loses his way and gets downright shellacked in order for ...
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The Killers: Hot Fuss Retro Review
When looking at the track list for indie rock quartet The Killers’ debut album Hot Fuss after ten years, it’s almost as if I’m looking at the band’s ...
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Alexisonfire: Crisis (Retro Review)
After releasing Watch Out! in 2004, and having the album reach gold certification in Canada, how does a band manage to follow that up while keeping the intensity ...
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Retro Reviews 5
Panic At The Disco: Pretty. Odd.
Within the first few tracks of Pretty. Odd., it becomes evident that Panic at the Disco’s fever has long since been sweat out. In their debut studio album, ...
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Kanye West: The College Dropout (Retro Review)
“We all self-conscious/I’m just the first to admit it”, spit now-superstar Kanye West on his 2004 debut, The College Dropout. Of course, ten years later, anyone who’s even ...
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Emery: The Weak’s End
For awhile, you’ve seen us here at Mind Equals Blown giving you the scoop on new music, but more recently we’ve been diving into the discographies of artists ...
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Biffy Clyro: Blackened Sky
Looking at the way they’re currently headlining huge European festivals, you wouldn’t guess that Scottish three-piece Biffy Clyro released their debut full-length Blackened Sky to literally no acclaim ...
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Album Reviews 9
The Wonder Years: Suburbia, I’ve Given You All and Now I’m Nothing
Written By Guest Writer Justin Graci The Wonder Years set themselves apart from all of their peers with their incredible record The Upsides. They showed hope and promise ...
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The Wonder Years: The Upsides
I’m not sad anymore. They were the opening words to a song, no, an album that would propel the somewhat buzzing realist pop-punks from maybes to somebodies. The ...
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Album Reviews 6
The Wonder Years: Get Stoked On It!
It would be a massive understatement to say that Philly pop-punk flagbearers The Wonder Years have come a long way since their debut LP. Get Stoked On It! ...
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Fall Out Boy: Folie à Deux
Folie is a very good album, though I have to admit that my musical tastes weren't yet ready to accept and appreciate it when the album was first ...
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Album Reviews 4
Fall Out Boy: Infinity On High
This was written by guest writer Jacob Tender of Under The Gun Review. Follow him on Twitter! What is “good” is totally subjective. I stand by that with ...
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Fall Out Boy: From Under The Cork Tree
When fans look at Fall Out Boy’s discography, they often draw a line in the sand. There is the aggressive pop-punk of Take This to Your Grave, and ...
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Album Reviews 2
Fall Out Boy: Take This to Your Grave
Fall Out Boy has done some pretty risky and unique things for the release of Save Rock and Roll. In fact, the existence of this album is a feat in itself considering ...
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Bring Me The Horizon: There Is A Hell Believe Me I’ve Seen It, There Is A Heaven Let’s Keep It A Secret
Remember when Suicide Season came out? I actually don’t but that’s beside the point. I do however remember when someone showed me the music of Bring Me the ...
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Bring Me The Horizon: Suicide Season
Suicide Season. The breakthrough LP for UK-based Bring Me the Horizon. As much as Count Your Blessings is jarring to listen to in comparison to even this record, ...
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Bring Me The Horizon: Count Your Blessings
Count Your Blessings seems to be the odd one out when it comes to the comparison of Bring Me the Horizon records. While musically it is certainly less ...
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Senses Fail: The Fire
Senses Fail might be the most consistent group of guys in the scene today. If you have ever listened to this band, you will find little, if anything, ...
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Album Reviews 5
Senses Fail: Life Is Not A Waiting Room
Life Is Not a Waiting Room is not Senses Fail’s only Top 5 album. Now, when I say Top 5, I am basing it solely on what other ...
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Senses Fail: Still Searching
Sometime back in 2006 a friend of mine left a couple of CDs in my room. One of these would be a classic I still listen to, and ...
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Senses Fail: Let It Enfold You
During the emo takeover of the early 2000s, bands like Dashboard Confessional and Jimmy Eat World were stealing their fans’ hearts with their catchy, heart-on-sleeve alt-rock. However, on ...
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Album Reviews 5
Senses Fail: From The Depths Of Dreams EP
Please note that this review will cover the re-released version of the EP, which includes two tracks not on the original. Back in the early parts of the ...
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Justin Timberlake: Futuresex / Lovesounds
Let’s face it: it’s no secret that Justin Timberlake has quickly become one of the most sought-after musicians, actors and sex symbols of the 21st century. With the ...
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Justin Timberlake: Justified
I often forget that Justin Timberlake’s career started in N*Sync, the immensely popular boy band from the ‘90s. This isn’t because their music is terrible (we all listened ...
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Album Reviews 1
Shai Hulud: Reach Beyond the Sun
Reach Beyond the Sun is a peculiar milestone for Shai Hulud. Not that they haven’t achieved plenty already or that this is somehow tarnished. No, LP4 is quite ...
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Album Reviews 3
Shai Hulud: Misanthropy Pure
It’s always an interesting journey to revisit a record you once wrote something about – only to write something about it again. For Misanthropy Pure, young twentysomething me ...
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Album Reviews 7
Shai Hulud: That Within Blood Ill-Tempered
In the second chapter of Shai Hulud’s musical journey, we learn that things tend to happen when you don’t release an album for almost six years. The release ...
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Shai Hulud: Hearts Once Nourished With Hope and Compassion
In 1997, hardcore was probably in a different place than it was in 2003, 2008 or even today in 2013. But for the most part, I can’t really ...
