Wall of Mouths

I have one promo and one regular, impressed at Dano’s synchronisity at pressing play, though ;)

Auto_Surgery wrote:

I’ve been votin for weeks and they aint moved from -19. What does that mean anyways?

I don’t think 19 is the chart position it’s at. It’s the number of the video.

Title: punk is back and it’s called Therapy?

What an album !!!
Received it this morning from Amazond, been listening to it on my way to work, I’m deaf by now :D

Who said Rust was heavy ? ;)

IT ROCKS !!!

Citizen Erased wrote:

Does anyone else think the whole thing sounds more cinematic than previous albums? I think it’s got a soundtracky feel to a lot ot the tracks.

Yeah, I though that to. Be cool if one track (or a few) popped up on a soundtrack!

Must confess I already had the promo copy on my computer for weeks. But only really picked it up since a few days, because like a few more here; it didn’t really impress me on the first listen, but it really grows on you. It’s great.

And I bought it today :)

opalmantra wrote:

I just spinned it round a few times…mainly the first tracks…i get distracted easily. ;-)
Not sure what to think of it, yet.
It comes closest to Shameless if I may say…

I don’t think it’s uhm…very heavy…
It’s punky, maybe? :P

Not blown away by it…yet. :D

actually this is the only opinion i can believe at the moment. i havent heard it yetbut i dont want to get too excited with this mass hysteria over the new album.
this is happening every time for every record of every band, so i’d better wait till i get the album in my hands.
i hope i’ll love it of course

Title: From the U.S.

I checked around some of the local music shops here and found out it will arrive on the 20th. I’m trying so very hard to wait for it here, to boost the U.S. sales hopefully, so I haven’t heard anything yet. The radio stations where I live suck anyway, I’ve never been able to get them to play T? before, but there’s always hope! Reading your reviews though has me really excited!

Peace

I GOT IT!!!
KICKS ASS!!!!!!

There’s no song that makes me wanna pass by…

THANK YOU GUYS!!!

I agree, My Voodoo Doll is the weakest track on the album, I would have made it a b-side.

It’s not a terrible song, I just think that they could probably have done better for the album and left this one as a b-side. Much the same as I still ponder how Bowels of Love ended up on IL (sorry Opal Mantra!).

it’s the first time i see a moderator ruining a topic. oh well…
i heard ha yesterday. here’s my verdict:

good album, different than i ‘d expect. it is very uplifting and happy. not focused enough though. the drumming in some songs is very poor. andy’s vocals are weird. some songs (like nobody here but us) sound like they are not worked enough.
favourite songs:

my voodoo doll
if it kills me
stand in line
not in my name

least favourite:

last blast
who knows
never ending

and some songs remind me very much of other bands
overall a nice album

Title: @ teethgrinder & hooch:

yeah, what kind of moderators are you? no moaning about spam, no thread closing and even worse: critical. pah, i’m of to a board where 13 year old newbees don’t get atention and the moderators think they own the place!

I listened to it double loud all the way thru with a massive grin on my face.

I love all the trax.

Who Knows has a great chorus :D
Stand in line is ace too.
Watch you go and Voodoo Doll are GREAT ! :P

Not in any name and Rust are wicked :cool:

The weakest song for me is last blast. But still better than Stinkin’ Fart ( linkin park )

Overall…9/10 deffo. :O

Oh…and if you listen to 2 cds at once, isnt that mono then, you would have to set one stereo to left and the other to right.

:cool:

don´t want anybody to get angry cause of this post …
but in my opinion HA (and i heard it really often the last weeks) it sounds like a b-side collection of troublegum …
don´t get me wrong, but i cannot get rid of this feeling, when i hear the album

Title: again a nice review, from amg this time, got 4 stars out of 5

High Anxiety is Therapy?’s first set of new material since 2001’s Shameless, their first for Spitfire, and the debut of ex-Beyond basher Neil Cooper behind the drum kit. It might be the best example yet of Therapy?’s sound, which can only be described as literate metal. Cooper, guitarist/cellist Martin McCarrick, bassist Michael McKeegan, and guitarist/mouthpiece Andy Cairns have always been courageous enough to sludge through the swamps of Black Sabbath and Motörhead while holding melody and intellect high overhead. High Anxiety’s “Nobody Hear But Us” and “If It Kills Me” are driven forward by hard-edged, unforgiving riffs and concussive reports from Cooper’s drums. But despite limited vocal range, Cairns pulls off melodies that make the songs much more than simpleton soundtracks for crushing cans on foreheads. Similarly, Cairns’ lyricism straddles the line between metal midget and genre-busting brainiac. The biting, cynically funny “Hey Satan - You Rock” brilliantly skewers heavy music’s penchant for religious controversy while it tramps through the cathedral with muddy boots and a lit cigarette. “Wanna storm the gates of heaven, backstage pass in hand,” grumbles Cairns. Later, he sends a postcard to hell, flirts with the Virgin Mary, and breaks into God’s liquor cabinet. But as each verse begins with “I wanna,” it’s clear that the song is a dream, a fantasy. The song extinguishes metal’s flashpots and bombast and replaces them with a cerebral sound that can still spar with the toughest of strutters. After a ten-plus year career that has seen them outlast competitors and outwit industry attempts at categorization, High Anxiety proves Therapy? are still head bangers with their thinking caps screwed on tight. — Johnny Loftus