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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A must have for BFS fans, and new fans, 17 Feb 2007
I've been a fan of BFS since "Let's Hear It For Johnny", have seen them live and was thrilled to hear a couple of month's back that they had a new album. It's a cliche to say, but they just get better and better with every release.
At first when i heard "High School Never Ends" I assumed it would be another fun, punk rock melody album with feel good songs, but it was even better to hear such a variety of styles. Not saying BFS have been repetitive in the past, but this album really shows the talented song writing and maturity of the band. By creating a new sound perfectly, it shows why they are the good band they are.
The album starts with very catchy, anthem type songs like "High school never ends", "I'm Gay" and "A Friendly Goodbye". but halfway through, theres more edgier songs like "Much more beautiful person" and more ballady and touching song like "when we die" - a first for BFS.
"Much more beautiful person" and "when we die" are my personal favourite tracks, but the whole album rocks. I can't seem to remove it from my stereo either!
so definitely buy this album. or while your at it, see them live aswell!!!
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Another Sunny Album In A Cold Time, 17 Feb 2007
When The Black Parade was released to the number one spot last year, it became apparent that emo was the new cool, sadly, because I can't find anything inspiring about music that 'encourages' death. So you can imagine nothing could be better than finding a new Bowling for Soup album in store.
It seems like with every album, BFS are always improving themselves without the wealth of fame getting to their heads and certainly for them to improve on their predecessor is by any means to easy task. So did they succeed?
Well its a yes and its a no for The Great Burrito Extortion Case. Lead single High School Never Ends follows pretty much the same formula as 1985, since it is a memories song and its message is amusing in its honest truth ('The whole damn world is just as obsessed with whose the best dressed and whose having sex). And if you didn't know how happy this band is then I'm Gay should give a much more clearer indication.
Of course, and this may be the downfall, TGBEC is where BFS has started to mature with songs such as When We Die and If You Come Back To Me. Hell there's even songs about the depressed teenager ('Much More Beautiful Person') and domestic abuse ('99 Biker Friends') but its the music that stops it from being a disaster.
Regardless of the setbacks, this is probably the happiest collection of songs you'll hear all year, whether its the misconcepted A Friendly Goodbye, the high school chant of Friends Like You or the extremely catchy Epiphany and Love Sick Stomach Ache, The Great Burrito Extortion Case is a wonderful album.
It may not have the immediate impact of its predecessors, but its certainly a worthy addition in their catalogue, hopefully they can keep this spark when maturity fully hits them.
Buy Now :-)
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good to Great, 29 Mar 2007
BFS became one of my favorite bands a couple of years back when Let's Hear It For Johnny laid siege to my in car CD player (I actually bought it by mistake, because I thought it had "Girl all the bad guys want" on it. Duh!). That album though was GREAT. 20 something tracks of pop-punk genius.
I was really hoping for the same again here but, to be honest, the album does not really come to life until track 9. Before that it's good but all very standard BFS fare with plenty of clever/funny lyrics and good harmonies (which admittedly make them better than most bands anyway) but not offering the kind of killer hooks of the last 2 albums (I say last 2 albums ignoring the best ignored "BFS at the Movies" compilation.)
That being said, when it does get into it's stride, with stand out songs definitely being "99 Biker Friends", "Much More Beautiful Person" and "When We Die", it rocks BIG TIME!
If you're a BFS fan, buy this as it won't dissappoint in any way but if you are new to the band get "Lets Hear it..." or "Drunk Enough..." first to really get the BFS bug.
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