Hey remember AbsolutePunk.net? Once upon a time I used to write a lot of reviews. Hard to believe, I know. Jokes aside, Twitter and Jason’s “Re-Ranking The Decades” series dialed up the nostalgic side of me. I wanted to see if I still had some of the reviews I’d written over the past decade or so. Turns out, my iCloud Drive has a lot. Now I won’t be re-publishing every thing I’ve ever written (some of these documents deserve to stay buried in the depths of my hard drive), but I wanted to share the reviews that brought about a ton of lively discussion and debate on the records that defined that site and a lot of our musical interests. Cool? Cool. Now to see if I can bring back scene points….
- Bon Iver – Bon Iver, Bon Iver
- Every Time I Die – Ex Lives
- Frank Ocean – Channel Orange
- Fun. – Some Nights
- Sufjan Stevens – The Age of Adz
- Thursday – No Devolución
- Underoath – Ø (Disambiguation)
Three new (old) reviews re-added:
UPDATE • Sep 1, 2020- +44 – When Your Heart Stops Beating
- A Static Lullaby – A Static Lullaby
- AFI – Decemberunderground
- Against Me! – Transgender Dysphoria Blues
- Alexisonfire – Crisis
- Alexisonfire – Old Crows/Young Cardinals
- Alkaline Trio – Agony & Irony
- Alkaline Trio – Damnesia
- Alkaline Trio – My Shame Is True
- Alkaline Trio – This Addiction
- All Time Low – The Party Scene
- Allister – Before the Blackout
- Anberlin – Cities
- Arctic Monkeys – Who the Fuck Are Arctic Monkeys?
- Armor for Sleep – Smile For Them
- Bayside – The Walking Wounded
- Boys Night Out – Boys Night Out
- Breathe Carolina – Hello Fascination
- Chiodos – All’s Well That Ends Well
- Circa Survive – Violent Waves
- City and Colour – Bring Me Your Love
- Closure in Moscow – First Temple
- Converge – No Heroes
- Deftones – Koi No Yokan
- Deftones – Saturday Night Wrist
- Eisley – Combinations
- Eisley – Currents
- Eisley – Deep Space
- Emery – …In Shallow Seas We Sail
- Every Time I Die – From Parts Unknown
- Every Time I Die – Gutter Phenomenon
- Every Time I Die – New Junk Aesthetic
- Finch – Finch EP
- Foo Fighters – Echoes, Silence, Patience, & Grace
- Forgive Durden – Razia’s Shadow: A Musical
- Four Year Strong – Enemy Of The World
- From First To Last – From First To Last
- Fun. – Aim & Ignite
- Gym Class Heroes – As Cruel As School Children
- Gym Class Heroes – The Quilt
- Hawthorne Heights – Hate
- Hawthorne Heights – Hope
- Hellogoodbye – Zombies! Aliens! Vampires! Dinosaurs!
- Hit the Lights – Invicta
- Hit the Lights – This Is A Stick Up… Don’t Make It A Murder
- Into It. Over It. – Proper
- Jack’s Mannequin – The Glass Passenger
- Lifetime – Lifetime
- Make Do and Mend – Everything You Ever Loved
- Man Overboard – Heart Attack
- Mansions – Dig Up The Dead
- Mayday Parade – Black Lines
- Mayday Parade – Monsters In The Closet
- mewithoutYou – it’s all crazy! it’s all false! it’s all a dream! it’s alright
- Minus the Bear – Omni
- Moneen – The Red Tree
- Motion City Soundtrack – My Dinosaur Life
- Mutemath – Odd Soul
- New Found Glory – From the Screen to Your Stereo Part II
- Nightmare of You – Nightmare of You
- Norma Jean – Redeemer
- Norma Jean – The Anti Mother
- Panic! at the Disco – Pretty. Odd.
- Reply To The AbsolutePunk Legends, Myths, And Rumors Thread • forum.chorus.fm_
- Rise Against – The Sufferer & The Witness
- Saves the Day – Under The Boards
- Say Anything – Anarchy, My Dear
- Say Anything – In Defense Of The Genre
- Scenes from a Movie – The Pulse
- Senses Fail – Follow Your Bliss EP
- Senses Fail – Life is Not a Waiting Room
- Senses Fail – Still Searching
- Senses Fail – The Fire
- Silverstein – A Shipwreck In the Sand
- Silverstein – This Is How The Wind Shifts
- Spitalfield – Better Than Knowing Where You Are
- Stars – In Our Bedroom After The War
- Story of the Year – The Constant
- Straylight Run – The Needles The Space
- Sufjan Stevens – The Avalanche
- Taking Back Sunday – Taking Back Sunday
- Tegan and Sara – Heartthrob
- Tegan and Sara – Sainthood
- The Academy Is… – From the Carpet EP
- The Almost – Monster Monster
- The Almost – Southern Weather
- The Dangerous Summer – Gold Record
- The Early November – The Mother, the Mechanic, and the Path
- The Graduate – Only Every Time
- The Hold Steady – Stay Positive
- The Hush Sound – Goodbye Blues
- The Used – Vulnerable
- The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die – Whenever, If Ever
- Thursday – A City By The Light Divided
- Thursday – Common Existence
- Underoath – Lost in the Sound of Separation
- Valencia – We All Need a Reason to Believe
- You Blew It! – Grow Up, Dude
- You Blew It! – Keep Doing What You’re Doing
I’ll update this post as I continue to bring back some of these reviews from the graveyard. Enjoy!