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Your review sucks.
Thanks Mike!!
well...actually...house of heroes rocked...i saw them in concert and i liked them a lot...ur full of crap
House of Heroes - What You Want Is Now
WARNING: The following review is unabashedly self-indulgent and includes repeated self-references to the writer. Do not continue unless you have an inordinately strong stomach.
I sincerely wanted to dislike What You Want Is Now. The amateur artwork, pansy song titles, and images of these dark haired heartthrobs and their complicated shoes plastered everywhere on the Compact Disc made me shiver with disgust. Well, not disgust, but distaste. House of Heroes eroded my hot ugly music critic breath with the first 5 tracks save the instrumental 4th (why do pop-punk bands think they need an instrumental song) and then proceeded to spray Bonaka down my throat on "Your Wurlitzer." Mixing their apparent love of Weezer, Jimmy Eat World (dominant influence in HOHs' sound), and a dash of Sunny Day Real Estate (the lead singer attempts to morph his voice like a Jeremy Enigk, the man-Bjork at times). This is not to say some of the songs made me gag, "Uncomfortable (What You Want Is Now)" begins with 'there was dew on the grass' (ouch, dude) and needs a swift kick in the testes, stat! While "Something of an Optimist" comes straight from the gospel of Mr. Acoustic himself – Chris Carrabba... WYWIN reminds me of the new Ace Troubleshooter, which I wrote up a review for in issue 97, but it never saw the light of day (blasted editors). So if you dug on that, then you should dig on this. [VANISHING POINT] JEFFREY ELLINGER
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