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Music CD - Cute Is What We Aim For: The Same Old Blood Rush with a New Touch
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Music CD: The Same Old Blood Rush with a New Touch
Artist: Cute Is What We Aim For
List Price: $12.98
Our Price: $9.30
Your Save: $ 3.68 ( 28% )
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Manufacturer: Fueled By Ramen
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Tracks:
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1. Newport Living
2. There's A Class For This
3. Finger Twist & Split
4. Risque
5. Sweat the Battle Before the Battle Sweats You
6. The Fourth Drink Instinct
7. Sweet Talk 101
8. The Curse of Curves
9. I Put the "Metro" In Metronome
10. Lyrical Lies
11. Moan
12. Teasing to Please (Left Side, Strong Side)
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0645131208729
Label: Fueled By Ramen
Manufacturer: Fueled By Ramen
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Fueled By Ramen
Release Date: 2006-06-20
Studio: Fueled By Ramen
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Hoping They Get Better
Comment: I took my 13-year-old daughter to a Fall Out Boy show and Cute is What We Aim for was one of the opening bands. They sounded like many other bands and nothing was out of the ordinary about them (except for that lead singer Shaant Hacikyan is one of the hottest of the latest crop of hotties under 30).
But staring at a good-looking guy flinging his hair around gets old after 10 minutes no matter how gorgeous he is.... Then they did Curse of Curves and the crowd went wild so I made a note to myself to check out the song. I promptly much forgot about them after the show (Fall Out Boy blew all four opening acts off the stage) but my daughter played Curse of Curves a few times and the song kept getting stuck in my head so I put it on my MP3 player and really enjoyed it.
I delved a little further and listened to the rest of the CD and it's not bad. The #1 problem is that the songs tend to get stuck in my head and even though **SOME** of the lyrics are catchy and witty, they're too often repeated a ridiculous number of times (the main lyrics of the song Risqué are repeated no less than EIGHT times in under four minutes) and they're all pretty much "shallow as a shower" (to steal a line from "Curse of Curves").
I've read several online reviews where people deem Hacikyan a "lyrical genius" and that's a very sad statement regarding today's youth--especially considering that when Led Zeppelin released their first recording which contained "Good Times Bad Times", "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You", "Dazed And Confused", and "Communication Breakdown" and when The Who wrote and recorded their first album that had "My Generation" and "The Kids Are Alright" on it, they were the same ages as these guys.
I want to like CD more and this band has good potential but the CD falls short of what they can probably do. I can only listen to about half of it before I have to turn it off to hear something more substantial--even with the catchy hooks and cute lyrics.
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Summary: 2-1/2 stars -- Punk-flop
Comment: Cute Is What We Aim For is yet another band trying to join the ranks of the pop punk elite with such artists as Fall Out Boy and Good Charlotte. But the problem with their album The Same Old Blood Rush with a New Touch (aside from the fact that it might take a few minutes to say the band's name and the title of the album) is that it could use a touch of talent.
Okay, maybe that's not entirely fair, but lead vocalist Shaant Hacikyan (good luck trying to pronounce that) and the rest of the band really don't have a whole lot to say. Most of the songs make no sense at all, like "I Put the `Metro' In `Metronome'", "There's a Class for This" or even the smooth "Lyrical Lies". "Sweat the Battle Before the Battle Sweats You" is another mistake (especially the way Shaant says "prove" before every chorus), and the album's closer, "Teasing to Please", has very disorganized production during the hook. Even the obligatory song with a message, "The Fourth Drink Instinct" (which deals with date rape), fails.
I don't know exactly what the band is aiming for, but what they really need to do is get their skills sharpened in a hurry because right now, the only rush you'll get is hurrying over to the STOP/EJECT button when this album is playing.
Anthony Rupert
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Summary: Love them
Comment: i love this CD. but you cant really listen to the songs too much because they get old fast.
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Summary: songs with a twist
Comment: Especially love the album cover. I like how they bring in a bit of honesty and straight forward. Like on "Newport Living" about being fake and selling out..you couldnt even do that right. I love that. Its each one of the songs on here has that lyrical bite to it. But at the same time the songs are fun as anything to listen to and i plan on doing a lot of that now and in the future. I had no idea about this band before i purchased the CD. But with that purchase i know have a better idea of what Cute Is What We Aim For is about musically speaking.
Love it the cd and all that as well. Great songs + fun had while making and listening to the cd = a worthwhile purchase in my book.
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Summary: ROCK ON!
Comment: Cute is what we aim fo is one of the best bands ever!!! They have such an aristic talent..they work together to make a most awesome band! so all i have to say is KEEP ROCKIN!!!!
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Editorial Reviews:
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This Buffalo, NY group is best known for their countless hooks, pop sensibility, and witty lyrics. Their debut was produced by Matt Squire (Panic! At The Disco, Thrice, Northstar). Their online presence is unlike anything Fueled By Ramen has ever experienced. They've consistently been in the top ten on purevolume.com for over six months, racking up over 1.6 million plays. Alternative Press named them one of the 100 Bands You Need To Know In 2006.
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