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except its amazing

Some of it is, and some of it's objectively garbage. Nothing wrong with that.

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I was listening to MCR's debut in the wake of their break up, it was pretty fun, and I still remembered all the words despite not listening to it in about 7 years.

So all those post-punky bands from the middle of the 2000s are great fun. Listening to the Bloc Party, Franz Ferdinand, Arctic Monkeys, Futureheads, and Rakes debuts are kind of the most fun I have with music: nostalgia and pretty good music is a nice cocktail.

this is what happens when I'm drinking

Unfortunately I wasn't too impressed, I don't think it's aged well.

On the flipside, I put on Neon Handshake by Hell is for Heroes the other week - same nostalgic feeling, still an excellent, excellent album!

"remember when we _____ and this song was on the radio?" See, that's GREAT!!

I'm currently trying to listen to all my CDs and review them, and the process is bringing up quite a few like this (Jackson 5, Saves The Day). I'm really enjoying listening to stuff I've not heard for ages, and keep getting that warm nostalgic feeling when I hear something I grew up with. I love that music reminds you of certain times of your life and songs that soundtracked certain events can trigger the same feelings many years later.

Started a blog for my reviews. They're not that good really. http://alphabetalbums.wordpress.com/

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but HIFH were nowhere near as good as HR when they both played them in full last year. an enormous crowd of people singing along to the whole of IAOS, clearly all there for a nostalgia hit was just so good.

I thought HIFH were twice as good, if not more. Just because more people sang along to HR doesn't mean they were better. They have aged awfully (especially Colin's voice/energy levels) whereas Neon Handshake still sounded amazing and Justin's voice / stage diving were still in great nick too.

It's still a full-on thrilling album but in the light of what followed I always feel somewhat sordid for listening to it.

which I didn't even like at the time all that much (or wouldn't admit to myself that I did like it), I just downloaded it illegally and listened to it lots when walking to my girlfriends house in September 2006. "You don't need a degreeee to deconstruct this melody"....yeah

or there needs to be some sort of quantifiable point at which nostalgia is acceptable. Fucking Arctic Monkeys?! 7 years is clearly not any sort of reasonable timeframe in which to get misty-eyed.

it's poo

I ruddy love a horribly hungover/still drunk singalong to From Here To Infirmary by Alkaline Trio, really shakes the cobwebs out

But it has a couple of songs that trigger the senses, overall I think I realised it was mostly crap then.

I openly maintain that a lot of songs on Three Cheers and The Black Parade are really solid pop songs. I remember being OBSESSED with those records. They're pretty badass, in hindsight, even if they are so over-the-top.

Big, dumb, ridiculous, but a lot of fun.

I definitely think The Neon Handshake has aged better as well. HR just have bigger 'anthems'.