Presenting I-Roy/Hell And Sorrow - I-Roy

Advantages: A strong album packed full of melodic punk rock anthems.
Disadvantages: Not as hard hitting as some of the bands albums.

...the fine sound of 'Sorrow' across. 'Broken' is another incredible track from this album, far more instrumentally hard hitting than 'Sorrow' and once more the vocal approach taken here is hugely effective. 'Broken' is a definite favourite of mine from this album, it took me a while to really appreciate much of this album but 'Broken' was one of the few tracks that I loved right from the very first time that I heard it. 'Broken' and 'Sorrow' are equally excellent in their approach, these two tracks do I feel progress the strongest of all those present on this 'The Process of Belief' album. 'Destined For Nothing' and closing track 'Bored And Extremely Dangerous' are two further favourites of mine from this album; both are exquisite offerings of punk rock and with each of these tracks the music of Bad Religion really is very well put... Read review

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Advantages: An excellent album featuring fifteen fantastic Pop Punk anthems
Disadvantages: Lyrical intelligence can at times be at a minimum

...Busted were an English Pop Punk band which released two albums and nine singles during their four year history. Active between the years of 2001 and 2005, Busted were a massively popular pop phenomenon with four Number One's to their name, and eight of their nine singles in fact having reached the top 3 in the Official UK Chart. The ninth can in fact be discounted entirely as it was only a Limited-Edition single which never could have entered the charts anyway. 'A Present For Everyone' I feel is the best of the two albums the band released and is in fact one of my favourite albums of all time. Of their four Official UK Number One's, three came from this album; 'Crashed The Wedding', 'Who's David', and '3am'. In the album charts, 'A Present For Everyone' peaked at number 2, eventually becoming a Triple Platinum selling album. After... Read review

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Advantages: legally listen to all tracks for free online, great album
Disadvantages: none

.... Their second UK tour, ‘A Ticket For Everyone Tour’ will take place in March 2004, where 4 extra dates have had to be added due to popular demand. They have become huge in the UK, Germany, Japan and Australia and are going to have a try at America in May 2004. Good luck to them. Their second album, A Present For Everyone, which I am reviewing now, was released on 17th November 2003 and sold 27,000 copies in it’s first day. 1,000 more copies than Michael Jackson’s greatest hits album. Michael Jackson and his album got a lot of publicity during the week so it entered the album chart at number 1 and Busted’s album only reached number 2. * Album cover * The cover of Busted’s album is a picture of them pulling faces at the camera. The message they are trying to put across is that they’re not taking themselves too seriously. The Busted logo... Read review

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