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Screeching Weasel - My Brain Hurts Audio CD

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Screeching Weasel Band: Screeching Weasel
Title: My Brain Hurts
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Release Date: 2005-03-22
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Making You Cry 2: Slogans 3: Guest List 4: Veronica Hates Me 5: I Can See Clearly 6: Cindy's on Methadone 7: Science of Myth 8: What We Hate 9: Teenage Freakshow 10: Kamala's Too Nice 11: Don't Turn Out the Lights 12: Fat Head 13: I Wanna Be with You Tonight 14: My Brain Hurts

An Essential Album
It's pretty close to a perfect punk album, and the only thing that could improve it would be more songs. This is quite simply a masterpiece. I have every Screeching Weasel song in one form or another, but this is one CD that I can listen to over and over and it always makes me feel awesome. I consider it an absolutely essential record for anyone who likes punk music.


My Brain Likes It
Melodic and slightly more raw than their ultimate release (Anthem for a New Tomorrow), My Brain Hurts is chock full of amazing songs. My Brain hurts captures Screeching Weasel during some of their finest moments. Ben Weasel is one of (if not my all time) favorite punk rock song writers and the lyrics on this disk are inspired. Check it out!.


If I want to do something right, I gotta do it myself
Gone is the same old, same old pseudo-hardcore blasts that were all over their first two Lps. From the opening chords of this pop-punk blueprint, it is very clear that Screeching Weasel went through some changes during their brief hiatus after BoogadaBoogadaBoogada. In its stead, is a bouncy, melodic, keyboard accented sing a long that lasts for all of its 30 minute glory.

But don't let the infectious melodies fool you, this isn't all bubble gum pop. Sure, there are fractured love songs like Guest List, Veronica Hates Me and Making You Cry, but there are also some cerebral oriented lyrics in here too. Science of Myth explores the relative merits of Religion and Science, Slogans plays like an outsider's national anthem, and My Brain Hurts is designed for anyone with a D. I. Y. attitude.

This album invented a genre that gave birth to many uninteresting imitators, but this, the original, is proof that pop-punk can't be written off as mindless drivel for the retarded. If you don't get it, you don't get it, and I say "Why don't you go away?".


F*ck you.
One of my favorite albums of all time. A pop-punk classic. Period.


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