
To go along with my interview restoration project, and Drew and Craig’s review project, there are a handful of classic AbsolutePunk reviews that I also think should be saved for posterity as well. This post will be continually updated as new reviews get brought back from the graveyard.
Here’s the first batch added back into our database:
- All Time Low – Put Up or Shut Up
- Dashboard Confessional – The Shade of Poison Trees
- Fall Out Boy – Folie à Deux
- Gatsbys American Dream – Volcano
- Jimmy Eat World – Futures
- Motion City Soundtrack – Commit This to Memory
- Relient K – Mmhmm
- The Maine – American Candy
- Acceptance – Phantoms
- The Gaslight Anthem – The ’59 Sound
- Manchester Orchestra – Simple Math
- Taking Back Sunday – Tell All Your Friends
- Underoath – Define the Great Line
- The Wonder Years – The Upsides
- The 1975 – The 1975
- Saosin – Saosin
- A Wilhelm Scream – Partycrasher
- Blink-182 – Dogs Eating Dogs
- The Wonder Years – The Greatest Generation
- Relient K – Forget and Not Slow Down
- Thursday – Full Collapse
- Motion City Soundtrack – Even if It Kills Me
- Jack’s Mannequin – Everything in Transit
- Against Me! – White Crosses
- All Time Low – Don’t Panic
- All Time Low – Future Hearts
- All Time Low – The Party Scene
- The All-American Rejects – Move Along
- Angels and Airwaves – I-Empire
- Blink-182 – Take Off Your Pants and Jacket
- Blink-182 – Neighborhoods
- Box Car Racer – Box Car Racer
- +44 – When Your Heart Stops Beating
- AFI – Decemberunderground
- Anberlin – Cities
- City and Colour – The Hurry and the Harm
- Copeland – Ixora
- Name Taken – Hold On
- Relient K – Five Score and Seven Years Ago
- The Starting Line – Direction
- Thrice – Beggars
- Jimmy Eat World – Chase This Light
- Motion City Soundtrack – My Dinosaur Life
- Yellowcard – Lights and Sounds
- Yellowcard – Southern Air
- Yellowcard – The Underdog EP
- Yellowcard – When You’re Through Thinking, Say Yes (Acoustic)
- Yellowcard – When You’re Through Thinking, Say Yes
- Jimmy Eat World – Invented
- Underoath – Lost in the Sound of Separation
- A Wilhelm Scream – Career Suicide
- Against Me! – Transgender Dysphoria Blues
- Armor for Sleep – Smile For Them
- Hawthorne Heights – If Only You Were Lonely
- Hellogoodbye – Would It Kill You?
- Nightmare of You – Nightmare of You
- Noah Gundersen – Ledges
- Panic! at the Disco – Pretty. Odd.
- Steel Train – Steel Train
- The Menzingers – Rented World
- Transit – Listen & Forgive
- Transit – Young New England
- Valencia – We All Need a Reason to Believe
- Autopilot Off – Make a Sound
- Box Car Racer – Box Car Racer
- Boys Like Girls – Crazy World
- Brandtson – Hello, Control
- Copeland – In Motion
- Days Away – Mapping an Invisible World
- Deftones – Koi No Yokan
- Every Time I Die – From Parts Unknown
- Finch – Finch EP
- Finch – Say Hello to Sunshine
- Frank Turner – Positive Songs for Negative People
- Gym Class Heroes – The Quilt
- Hit the Lights – Invicta
- Josh Ritter – The Beast in Its Tracks
- Joyce Manor – Of All Things I Will Soon Grow Tired
- Less Than Jake – In With the Out Crowd
- Midtown – Living Well is the Best Revenge
- Modern Baseball – You’re Gonna Miss It All
- My Chemical Romance – The Black Parade
- Name Taken – The Silent Game
- New Found Glory – From the Screen to Your Stereo Part II
- New Found Glory – Resurrection
- Panic! at the Disco – Vices & Virtues
- Set Your Goals – Burning at Both Ends
- The Dangerous Summer – Gold Record
- The Dear Hunter – Act II: The Meaning Of, & All Things Regarding Ms. Leading
- The Maine – Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop
- Thursday – Common Existence
- 1969 – Maya
- Arctic Monkeys – Who the Fuck Are Arctic Monkeys?
- Butch Walker – I Liked It Better When You Had No Heart
- Butch Walker – Left of Self-Centered
- Butch Walker – Letters
- Butch Walker – Peachtree Battle
- Butch Walker – Sycamore Meadows
- Butch Walker – The Rise and Fall of Butch Walker and the Let’s-Go-Out-Tonites!
- Butch Walker – The Spade
- City and Colour – Bring Me Your Love
- Every Time I Die – Gutter Phenomenon
- Hellogoodbye – Zombies! Aliens! Vampires! Dinosaurs!
- Lydia – Illuminate
- Marvelous 3 – Hey! Album
- Marvelous 3 – Math and Other Problems
- Marvelous 3 – ReadySexGo
- Saosin – In Search of Solid Ground
- Silverstein – A Shipwreck In the Sand
- Stars – In Our Bedroom After The War
- Sufjan Stevens – The Avalanche
- Thrice – The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II
- Chiodos – All’s Well That Ends Well
- From First to Last – Heroine
- MxPx – Secret Weapon
- New Found Glory – Coming Home
- Rock Kills Kid – Are You Nervous?
- The Academy Is … – Almost Here
- The Academy Is… – From the Carpet EP
- The Cab – Symphony Soldier
- The Early November – The Mother, the Mechanic, and the Path
- A Day to Remember – Homesick
- A Static Lullaby – A Static Lullaby
- Alexisonfire – Crisis
- Allister – Before the Blackout
- Anthony Green – Avalon
- Bayside – Killing Time
- Boys Night Out – Boys Night Out
- Chuck Ragan – Till Midnight
- Coldplay – A Head Full of Dreams
- Eisley – Combinations
- Every Time I Die – New Junk Aesthetic
- Four Year Strong – Enemy Of The World
- Frank Turner – England, Keep My Bones
- Gatsbys American Dream – Gatsbys American Dream
- Hawthorne Heights – Hope
- House of Heroes – The End is Not the End
- Mayday Parade – Anywhere but Here
- Modest Mouse – We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
- Over It – Step Outside Yourself
- Park – It Won’t Snow Where You’re Going
- Saves the Day – Under The Boards
- Say Anything – Say Anything
- Senses Fail – Still Searching
- Senses Fail – The Fire
- Steel Train – Trampoline
- Straylight Run – The Needles The Space
- Sum 41 – Underclass Hero
- Tegan and Sara – Heartthrob
- The Dear Hunter – Act III: Life and Death
- The National – High Violet
- The Starting Line – Based on a True Story
- The Starting Line – Say It Like You Mean It
- Alkaline Trio – My Shame Is True
- Death Cab for Cutie – Narrow Stairs
- Justin Timberlake – FutureSex/LoveSounds
- Lifetime – Jersey’s Best Dancers
- New Found Glory – Tip of the Iceberg EP
- Yellowcard – Ocean Avenue (Acoustic)
- A Day to Remember – Common Courtesy
- A Day to Remember – Old Record
- AFI – Crash Love
- Alexisonfire – Old Crows/Young Cardinals
- Alkaline Trio – Agony & Irony
- Alkaline Trio – Damnesia
- Anti-Flag – The People or the Gun
- As Tall as Lions – As Tall as Lions
- Closure in Moscow – First Temple
- Cobra Starship – Viva La Cobra!
- Days Away – L.S.D.E.P.
- Eisley – Deep Space
- Fireworks – All I Have to Offer Is My Own Confusion
- Forgive Durden – Razia’s Shadow: A Musical
- Forgive Durden – Wonderland
- Houston Calls – A Collection of Short Stories
- John Mayer – Continuum
- Lydia – Assailants
- Minus the Bear – Omni
- Mutemath – Odd Soul
- Paper Route – Absence
- Person L – The Positives
- Rise Against – The Sufferer & The Witness
- Say Anything – Anarchy, My Dear
- Tegan and Sara – Sainthood
- The Hush Sound – Goodbye Blues
- The Maine – Pioneer
- The Used – Vulnerable
- Thrice – The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV
- Underoath – Survive, Kaleidoscope
- All Time Low – Dirty Work
- Anberlin – New Surrender
- Bon Iver – Blood Bank
- Bruce Springsteen – Human Touch/Lucky Town
- Chiodos – Illuminaudio
- Circa Survive – Juturna
- Copeland – Eat, Sleep, Repeat
- Crime in Stereo – Is Dead
- Dead Poetic – Vices
- Green Day – 21st Century Breakdown
- Jimmy Eat World – Bleed American
- June – Make It Blur
- Minus the Bear – Menos El Oso
- Norma Jean – Redeemer
- Relient K – The Bird and the Bee Sides
- Senses Fail – Life is Not a Waiting Room
- Spitalfield – Better Than Knowing Where You Are
- Story of the Year – The Constant
- The Dangerous Summer – War Paint
- The Living End – State of Emergency
- Thursday – A City By The Light Divided
- Weezer – Raditude
- Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness – Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness
- Bayside – Shudder
- Breathe Carolina – Hello Fascination
- Bruce Springsteen – Born To Run
- Bruce Springsteen – The River
- Death Cab For Cutie – Codes and Keys
- Death Cab For Cutie – Kintsugi
- Deftones – Saturday Night Wrist
- Eisley – Currents
- Emery – …In Shallow Seas We Sail
- Foo Fighters – Echoes, Silence, Patience, & Grace
- Fun. – Aim & Ignite
- John Mayer – Paradise Valley
- Kacey Musgraves – Pageant Material
- O’Brother – Garden Window
- Panic! at the Disco – A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out
- Plain White T’s – Big Bad World
- Scenes from a Movie – The Pulse
- Bayside – The Walking Wounded
- Cassino – Sounds of Salvation
- Circa Survive – On Letting Go
- Circa Survive – Violent Waves
- City and Colour – Little Hell
- Converge – No Heroes
- Forgive Durden – When You’re Alone, You’re Not Alone
- Four Year Strong – Rise or Die Trying
- Hit the Lights – This Is A Stick Up… Don’t Make It A Murder
- Jason Isbell – Southeastern
- Josh Ritter – The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter
- Less Than Jake – GNV FLA
- Make Do and Mend – Everything You Ever Loved
- Mansions – Dig Up The Dead
- mewithoutYou – Brother, Sister
- mewithoutYou – it’s all crazy! it’s all false! it’s all a dream! it’s alright
- Modest Mouse – Strangers to Ourselves
- Panic! at The Disco – Too Weird To Live, Too Rare To Die!
- Say Anything – In Defense Of The Genre
- Silverstein – This Is How The Wind Shifts
- Straylight Run – Un Mas Dos
- Taking Back Sunday – Taking Back Sunday
- The Almost – Southern Weather
- The Graduate – Only Every Time
- The Hold Steady – Stay Positive
- All Time Low – Straight To DVD
- Anchor & Braille – Felt
- Balance and Composure – Separation
- Balance and Composure – The Things We Think We’re Missing
- Bayside – Covers, Vol. I
- Bruce Springsteen – Nebraska
- Cartel – In Stereo EP
- From First To Last – From First To Last
- Hawthorne Heights – Hate
- Hit the Lights – Skip School, Start Fights
- Modern Baseball – Sports
- MxPx – Panic
- New Found Glory – Radiosurgery
- No Trigger – Canyoneer
- Propagandhi – Failed States
- Senses Fail – Follow Your Bliss EP
- Simple Plan – Simple Plan
- Sugarcult – Lights Out
- The Republic of Wolves – No Matter How Narrow
- The Swellers – Ups and Downsizing
- A Rocket To The Moon – On Your Side
- A Static Lullaby – Faso Latido
- Anberlin – Lowborn
- Avril Lavigne – Avril Lavigne
- Bruce Springsteen – Darkness on the Edge of Town
- Bruce Springsteen – Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J.
- Bruce Springsteen – The Wild, The Innocent & The E Street Shuffle
- Daphne Loves Derby – Good Night, Witness Light
- Dustin Kensrue – Please Come Home
- Emery – I’m Only A Man
- Justin Timberlake – The 20/20 Experience (2 of 2)
- Katy Perry – Prism
- Knuckle Puck – Copacetic
- Mayday Parade – Black Lines
- Mayday Parade – Monsters In The Closet
- Millencolin – Pennybridge Pioneers
- Plain White T’s – All That We Needed
- Real Friends – Maybe This Place Is The Same And We’re Just Changing
- Sherwood – Sing, But Keep Going
- The Almost – Monster Monster
- The Colour Revolt – The Cradle
- The Jealous Sound – A Gentle Reminder
- The Lawrence Arms – Buttsweat and Tears
- The Menzingers – Chamberlain Waits
- Tiger Lou – The Loyal
- You Blew It! – Keep Doing What You’re Doing
- Basement – colourmeinkindness
- Bruce Springsteen – Live At Hammersmith Odeon, 1975
- Cute is What We Aim For – Rotation
- Dashboard Confessional – Alter the Ending
- Four Year Strong – Go Down In History
- Hey Monday – Hold on Tight
- Into It. Over It. – Intersections
- Into It. Over It. – Proper
- John Nolan – Height
- Kelly Clarkson – All I Ever Wanted
- Lucky Boys Confusion – How To Get Out Alive EP
- Man Overboard – Heart Attack
- Man Overboard – Man Overboard
- Mat Kearney – Just Kids
- Nightmare of You – Infomaniac
- Sherwood – Sherwood
- The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die – Whenever, If Ever
- Walk the Moon – Talking is Hard
- You Blew It! – Grow Up, Dude
- A Day to Remember – For Those Who Have Heart
- Angels and Airwaves – We Don’t Need to Whisper
- Maroon 5 – Overexposed
- Neck Deep – Wishful Thinking
- The Story So Far – What You Don’t See
- Young the Giant – Mind Over Matter
I’ll update this post as I revive various other artifacts.