Now that I have enough chocolate and coffee pumping through my veins, here is a review of Punk Goes Acoustic 2 which, unles you've been living under a rock or have no concern for anything that's important to me because you're some sonuvabitch that landed on this site quite randomly, I've been raving about for the longest time.

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Ever since Fearless Records announced that a second Punk Goes Acoustic was coming out, I, together with the rest of the music-loving world, have been thrilled. The first Punk Goes Acoustic offered wonderful songs by bands like Yellowcard and Glasseater, and the second one promised songs from The Spill Canvas, Daphne Loves Derby and Jack's Mannequin.

Listening to the album, however, has made my stomach turn over and over. It fell short of my expectations, needless to say. It is, I fear, what all the punks said it would be: an album of sissy-fied punk songs. It just didn't do justice to most of the songs.

But one must give credit where it is due, so here is to the wonderful songs by All Time Low (Jasey Rae), Mayday Parade (Three Cheers for Five Years), Relient K (Who I Am Hates Who I've Been) and Sherwood (The Only Song).

Daphne Loves Derby, how tragic, came out with a song entitled Sun, which I thought was going to be new material. Turned out it was One, from one of Kenny's side projects with Camerafone. *headdesk*

The Spill Canvas, with their acoustic version of Staplegunned, also disappointed me. The song sounds just like the way it would if you took out all the overdrive from the original. And maybe that's the point of making it acoustic, but I expected more creativity. I wanted to be surprised, and I was - unpleasantly.

All in all, the album is good though it is not good enough that I would recommend you to spend X (amount) in Y (currency). You're prolly better off using your money to buy ciggs which, now that I think about it, is what I should have done instead of getting this album.

The verdict: Get the album, but only if you can get it for free.

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kitten posted @ 10:56 AM