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PLAY QUEUE 1 Belt		save
PLAY QUEUE 2 Woe		save
PLAY QUEUE 3 The Writhing South		save
PLAY QUEUE 4 Alive with the Glory of Love		save
PLAY QUEUE 5 Yellow Cat (Slash) Red Cat		save
PLAY QUEUE 6 The Futile		save
PLAY QUEUE 7 Spidersong		save
PLAY QUEUE 8 An Orgy of Critics		save
PLAY QUEUE 9 Every Man Has a Molly		save
PLAY QUEUE 10 Slowly, Through a Vector		save
PLAY QUEUE 11 Chia-Like, I Shall Grow		save
PLAY QUEUE 12 I Want to Know Your Plans		save
PLAY QUEUE 13 Admit It!!!		save

AMG Review of ...Is a Real Boy

Corey Apar
All Music Guide

Despite some of the hype surrounding its release, Say Anything's self-described ock opera ...Is a Real Boy still caught many in the punk scene off-guard, seemingly coming out of nowhere with its theatrical tone and critical, perceptive lyrical makeup. At the helm of the album is the self-conscious 20-something singer/songwriter Max Bemis, who ultimately is Say Anything: he wrote and plays pretty much everything but percussion on the record. The songs were originally written as part of a play, complete with a cast of characters, full story, and spoken interludes. A rise-and-fall plot of sorts, the story line was to be: a band is mediocre until its idealistic frontman (who also suffers from alienation and anxiety in a world of hypocrisy) becomes cursed to spew his innermost thoughts in the form of honest songs that alter the band into wildly popular stars before their own hypocrisy leads to their undoing. And though the proposed story line didn't completely transfer to the album, it's almost too easy to see parallels between the real band and the made-up one, envisioning Bemis (with his own history of anxiety, depression, and paranoia) as the actual hyper-aware lead character. Sure, one could look at this album as self-indulgent, overzealous, and egocentric, but when the songs are as catchy, cutting, and enjoyable as these, it really doesn't matter. The compelling ock of "Belt" starts things off with its thuggish army of background singers, leading into the self-conscious, wry realms of "Woe" (choice lyrics include: "she took pity on me, horizontally, but most likely because of my band"). Urgent drumbeats and harmonizing vocals open the singalong "Alive with the Glory of Love," a song that is so catchy, one almost forgets the dark, almost Holocaust-like nature of the lyrics (a sample line reads "when our city...falls to the axis, they'll search the buildings, collect gold fillings, wallets and rings...you'd look finer with each day in hiding"). Musically, the songs are about as full of life as you'll likely find on any indie/punk release in the early 2000s, and Bemis' great lyrics only add to them. Criticisms on popular culture appear alongside self-deprecating, introspective, and sarcastic lines of love and fear. In "Every Man Has a Molly," Bemis implores kids to spend a lot of money on band merchandise after his girlfriend breaks up with him for writing about her in songs ("because for you I won't ever have rough sex with Molly Connolly again"). At one point, he tells the industry to "go choke on your irony" ("The Futile"), and frustrations with today's scene come to a sharp peak in the confrontational and biting "Admit It!!!," where an empowered Bemis raises two impassioned middle fingers to the elitist crowds that may reject him and his music. Considering the new-school genre of punk that Say Anything is associated with -- and the audience the album is geared toward -- the record is quite ironic. After all, aren't some of the kids eating this music up the same ones with the elitist, condescending personas Bemis was reacting against in the first place? Either way, ...Is a Real Boy comes off as an impressively well-done, multifaceted effort that deserves multiple spins and makes Say Anything truly a band to watch.

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lee anthony of Save Your Stares/Play Me Broadway

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A very tedious job..

over 2 years ago

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New Favorite Song #1

over 3 years ago

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Alive with the Glory of Love

Damn catchy. Not sure how long it'll last as a fave but for now it'll work.
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The futile, the futile. It outweighs the beautiful.

over 3 years ago

♪ What do the old people teach us but how to die? ♪♪ And what do those hissy fits teach you, except how to cry, pussy, cry? ♪♪ Yeah the futile, the futile, it outweighs the beautiful. ♪♪ The futile, the futile, it outweighs the beautiful. ♪♪ I'm eating rat poison for dinner. Pull the cord from the phone. ♪♪ I am dining alone, Tonight, rat poison for din
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nudge nudge wink wink

over 2 years ago

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Read This Because It's The Popular Thing To Do

over 2 years ago

So I hate to fall into trends especially when it involves music. Why because music is part of an organic reaction in the brain that allows the listener to relate and in turn own a part of the music for emotional pourpuoses. Which is why when someone tells me what to listen to just because it happens to be what every teenager in northern america listens to, I gennerally don't. But in some insten...
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New Favorite Song #1

over 3 years ago

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Alive with the Glory of Love

Damn catchy. Not sure how long it'll last as a fave but for now it'll work.
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Unknown song

over 2 years ago

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Wow, I Can Get Sexual Too

What group sings this song? The chorus line is "I called her on the phone and she touched herself." I saw the end of the video on mtvU. It was reminiscent of the Bloodhound Gang.**It's by Say Anything. I spent an hour trying to figure it out.
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lee anthony of Save Your Stares/Play Me Broadway

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A very tedious job..

over 2 years ago

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about 1 year ago

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Metal Now

Maxim Adam Bemis is absolutely. Amazing.With lyrics that aren't only clever, but pull on me and everything I am.It's weird to think there is someone out there who goes through a lot of what I go through. The Truman Show feeling and all that. When I read that he felt like I do, I almost cried and I felt, honestly, shocked. Like that weird shocked feeling where all of the blood in your body rushe...
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