Audio CD review:
Face to Face - Reactionary

Face to Face - Reactionary

Band: Face to Face Title: Reactionary Rating: Release Date: 20 June, 2000 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: Disappointed 2: Out of Focus 3: What's in a Name? 4: You Could've Had Everything 5: Hollow 6: Think for Yourself 7: Just Like You Said 8: Solitaire 9: Best Defense 10: Icons 11: Shame on Me 12: Estranged

Customer Reviews Raw passion and energy, this album is flawless! They have run the gamut of styles and side projects throughout their history. Face to Face is an awesome punk band but they are also very diverse, which may or may not be a good thing. Some people like them for some aspects or albums more than others but IMHO this band is truly at their best when they are clean, hard, and fast. Reactionary takes its place with Big Choice as the two must-have albums showcasing this band's best moments. Reactionary is nonstop from the very first cut, the cleanest most aggressive and yet emotional punk album I have ever heard. Every song contains the spirit of jilted anger or resentment or impunity that makes you want to tear your heart out while at the same time propelling you with the fury and energy that only these guys can deliver. This album stayed in my cd player for over a year while I got over a breakup, this band and this album resurrected my life! After listening to it religiously I bought the follow up "How to Ruin Everything" and was TOTALLY disappointed. I don't know where they were going with that one. Big Choice and Reactionary are peas in a pod. If you cannot afford or don't care to collect every album of every artist, Reactionary is a keeper. All the other albums are too experimental, too raw or arrived before the band's sound and talent matured. . . Thumbs WAY up!. Reactionary to what? Quality? I'm in agreement with allmusic. For a band that has earned a reputation as one of the best and most-respected punk rock bands in the genre, Face to Face's 2000 imprint, Reactionary, seems like a misstep. com - it does take more than pissed off vocals and fast tempos to make a good punk album. Face to Face has unfortunately made an album here that is very average - ordinary message, weak lyrics, simple song structure - clearly not the benchmarks of one of punk's best and most respected bands. Check out self-titled or How to Ruin Everything to hear the band in top form. NOT ESSENTIAL. Great Album! This CD has the energy and style that most Face to Face fans are accustomed too. I'm glad to see Face to Face go back to their roots. The album to me, seems to be a cross between Don't Turn Away and their self titled album, which makes it great, and full of energy and style that makes Face to Face who they are. . You can see a complete list of all Face to Face discography, or go back to the Face to Face tabs