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Screeching Weasel - Emo Audio CD

A fair review of the Screeching Weasel "Emo" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Screeching Weasel reviews here, or go back to the Screeching Weasel tabs.

Screeching Weasel Band: Screeching Weasel
Title: Emo
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Release Date: 1999-06-01
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Acknowledge 2: Sidewalk Warrior 3: Static 4: Scene 5: Let Go 6: Regroup 7: Passion 8: Linger 9: Last Night 10: 2-7 Split 11: On My Own 12: Bark Like a Dog

Not as bad as people say
i think after a few listens you'll undertsand what Ben weasel was trying to do. This is not SW best album by no way but it seems like a reflective album that it takes some time to get into. best songs:" acknowledge", "sidewalk warrior", "static" and "bark like a dog".


Some of the best punk I have ever listened to
A refreshing change from political or simply satirical punk, Emo takes the personal and emotional and makes it so affecting that you can't ignore it. Screeching Weasel fans, take note: This is not an album to pop into your player and listen to casually. Many people, expecting another album like Beat Is On The Brat or Teen Punks In Heat may be disappointed. However, anyone that listens to this album openly and tries their best to grasp the meanings should be pleasently suprised. From "Acknowledge" a manifesto of personal enlightenment, to "Passion" a track about embracing life, SW has created a perfect album, marred only with the presence of "Linger", a cover of the Cranberries that seems unsuited and ill-fitting when placed among the pieces of genius this album contains. Though it has recieved many negative reviews in the past, this album is the best of punk: deep, affecting, and resonant. I heartily reccommend you purchase this album, whomever you are.


it seems to me you shut out anything that might confuse
The first time I listened to Emo, it blew me away. For starters, I'm glad that now, about 2 years after the release of the album, people are starting to give this album good reviews. It is easily 2 steps beyond anything put out by Screeching Weasel previously. Take the best songs from their earlier albums (Anthem for a New Tomorrow, I Robot, My Brain Hurts, Slogans, It's All in my Head, Going Home, I Wrote Holden Caulfield) and put together an album comprised almost totally of songs of that caliber and you have Emo. The only weak songs are Sidewalk Warrior and the cover of 'the Cranberries' Linger (which would have been good somewhere else, but wasn't up to par for this album). In the liner notes, Ben said that he didn't expect the kids to like the album. I thought he was being, as always, his own worst critic. Nope, he hit the nail on the head. Poor reviews poured in. Without the two aforementioned weak songs, this would have been my favorite album of all time. Tip for all the SW 'fans' who didn't like Emo: don't pretend to be his friend when you're just standing on his head.


Ben Weasel Jumps on the Band Wagon
Ben Weasel basically formed an entirely new band prior to writing this album, and then rehashed his sound. This album is NOT the Screeching Weasel we know and love. Don't be fooled, though: This rehash is more vomit than metamorphosis. Like many other "punk" bands in the modern era, Ben Weasel attempted to turn his efforts toward softer, gentler, quasi-poetic, quasi-emotional music. The result: An entire mistake. Like "Bark Like A Dog," this album lacks the catchiness. It is sadly devoid of the raw sound that made Screeching Weasel good. Watch out for anything that is self-described as "Emo," especially when it comes from one of the foremost punkers of the old school. Reattach your balls, Ben.


A Kindler, Gentler, and More Humane Ben Weasel
This is a manifesto of personal beliefs, a dark and deeply emotional record, and Screeching Weasel was a very unlikely source for such an album. For someone who had lost faith in music in general, punk in particular, this album came as quite a surprise. Coming back from a few very lackluster albums for Fat Wreck Chords, Ben Wesel takes over guitar once again and delivers what is, more then any other before, essentially HIS album, a solo expression of the beauty and pain of life. The music recaptures the energy of their finest album, Anthem for a New Tomorrow, which in my opinion they had never come close to equaling before. This album is similar in many ways to that one, being as it is focused on more serious issues then one would usually exect from the always uneven Screeching Weasel. The music is rough and to the point. It is the lyrics that get the spotlight, and for good reason. On firt listen, with no lyrics sheet, it is a standard SW album, but somethign seems darker. Possibly it's the near-lack of the characeristic backing vocals. But on a read-through of the lyrics-sheet you begin to realize what it is all about, and not only the album. There is raw emotional honesty, a directness of thought, that has been lacking in so much muisc of the last few years. For anyone who appreciates truly emotional music, even those who belive they hate 3-chord punk rock, this album deserves to be heard. It renewed my hope, in music and even just in life. This is the kind of album that can make you just look a the world and be thankful for who you are even in the toughest of situations.


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