Collaborations
This CD is one of my favorites because there are so many guests singers. Not only that but he has really good beats. He made the layout perfect! He would put his humerous songs then go to his serious ones then he would switch back. Ones I would recomend would be #9/9.5. Revenge of the Nerds has funny parts and good beats. Mullet Pride is no rapping, just guitar and singing. KJ talks about how he use to have mullet. #16/16.5 are also good. 16 is laying down the law. He says "...There is only one way to get to Heaven, thats Jesus Christ..." Then of course there's Coke Fry Cheeseburger that is all about people getting his order wrong. After all that, I would give this CD 5 stars.
EP
This is one of my favorite EP's. Strength In A Breath is a good and punk'd up song. This song starts drums only and gets louder and they start singing. The vocals in this song are the best part. Small screams in the middle-end of the song. Bad Days has really good guitars and vocals. There isn't a lot of bass that you can hear clearly. In Memory Of... is a really good song because they got louder soon in the song. Red Behind the Eyes starts real fast and screamy and ends the same way.
I would give this 5 stars.
The Beautiful Letdown
This CD has less electric guitars that you would think. That doesn't mean it's bad. Most of these songs are good for worship. Meant to Live is a really good. To me it means that we are meant to live so much better in heaven. Dare You to Move is a good worship song.This song to me means that Heaven is a lot better than earth and no one judges you.
I would give this CD 4 stars.
Where Do We Go From Here
This is a really good CD! I think Pillar w/ Flicker Records is better than them with MCA Records. This CD is a all around rock CD. My favorites are Hypnotized, w/ a slow beginning and gets into heavy metal on the chorus, Bring Me Down is a Heavy Metal all around song and it has a good message saying "Back in the day when nothing really mattered to me, I only saw with my eyes what they wanted to see..." In the chorus what I got out of it is telling Satan he can't hurt any of us. Rewind is the only slow song on the CD but I think it is a good song. It talks about how we've sinned and sometimes we really want to take back what we've done. Frontline is just saying we have to stand up for what we believe in. I would also give this 5 stars.
For The Kids
This CD is kind of a mix of Alternative/punk. Kid Innocence is a good and rocky song. This song is kind of talking about when you get away from God your life is not better. Blessings from Tragedy is about the lead guitarist's sister, Olivia, dying. It is saying that God meant for everything to happen how id did. 39 is about how God cares about you even if no one else does and that he's done so much for us. My Friend (campfire version) is about if you have a friend and you do one wrong thing, it could ruin your relationship. That doesn't mean you kill yourself everytime you make one big mistake. It is also saying God will always forgive you.
I would give this 3 stars.
Payable On Death
This CD is really good. It is softer yet harder than Sattelite. The song Wildfire is one hardcore song. The chorus is "One leads with the passion, the rightous will burn again, one bleeds everlasting, tribal fire will never end" I think that is a good song. Execute the Sounds is a totally different sound than everything else they've done. It sounds like one of the Baha Men singging. It has a good catchy sound and the song is so easy to get stuck in your head!!! Revolution is my favorite song on this CD because of the verses. They are really good lyrics! Asthma is the most awsome and heavy metal song on this CD. Eternal has really good guitars.
I would also give this CD 5 stars.
I just saw KJ in concert the other day and he did pretty good! He only played 2 1/2 songs so I didn't like that much. He played "Rock On" and it was good but it would have been better if Rob Beckley helped out! He talked about the story of the "Dear Slim" series and he played "Dear Slim Pt. 2" and that was my favorite part. He gave more emotion in the concert rather than on the CD. And last he played half of "Where Were You?" which he did pretty good but would have been better if he had Golden Child help him out also! Out of all that, I would give the show 4 stars.
Blood, Cuts, Glory
This is a pretty good CD because it is a different style than a lot of other things. "New War Same War" what I think is saying is that if we get in a war, (not neccessaraly a real war) most of the reasons are the same, like if you get in a fight with your sibling or parents or even friends, sometimes the reasons why you argue are silly. "Masquerade" is kind of saying that bad things can happen, or you feel so pressured and you think you'll be like this the rest of your life but you will eventually get rid of the pressure. "...the wieght of the world on my shoulder, and I'll be just fine." "Brainwashed Youth" has good lyrics like "...win some, lose some, don't watch your back you get stuck once but a life without regrets means you never learned anything..." That means if you fall, you have to get up, you learn from falls. Just like the song, I get knocked down, but I get up again, ain't nobody that'll keep me down. Overall, I give this CD 4 stars.
Life After Work
This is one of my favorite bands! "Carry On" is my favorite song on the CD. I think its saying that you need to carry on because God is with you and you don't give up. The next song is "It's A Wonderful Life". Some words are "...some days, they seem to go wrong like a sad country song on the radio..." Also "...you give me what I need, I've got it made..." "Moving" is another good song. It says that you need to get moving and work for what you have to. "Summertime" really talking about how they love the summer. It talks about about how they want to get away from winter and get to summer, so not much of a meaning to it. " Somthing about a Ford" is talking about the bands love of their old van that broke down. " There's somthin' 'bout a Ford that'll move me, there's somthin' 'bout a Ford that's just alright, there's somthin' 'bout a Ford that made my mama cry, there's somethin' 'bout a Ford that changed my life." The song is a quartet of Johnny Come Lately. I will give this CD 5 stars!
This movie is awsome! Everything is cool. Laughs, adventure, and cries. I almost cried when... never mind you just have to see it yourself. This is about plankton's atemt to take over the world. He steals KIng Neptune's Crown and sends it to Shell City. Neppy thinks Mr. Krabs did it so Spongebob and Patrick have to go to shell city and get the crown back in six days...Mr.Krabs will die if they don't make it. A buch of funny parts(expecialy David Hasselhoff) I give it1000 stars (5 stars)
Olivia the Band
I love this CD! The songs are harder, more punk, more worship, more everything! The lead singer (Reed) has a more matured voice and that gives the whole band a new sound. if you like RK you would love Olivia. The song "Saturday" is the song that stood out to me. its about how God gives us such a great time on Earth and such Click The song name to see the video) This is such a great album and I know they will be big soon. I give it 5 stars!
The Great Depression
This is an awesome CD! It has the coolest songs on it. I'll start out with the song "This Is A Heartattack" It has an awesome Chorus. The lead singer, Christian, went to South Africa and kinda got inspired to write a new CD so early after the other CD. This song is about kids in Africa that have a sickness and don't do anything about it because they don't know about it. So all of a sudden they are in terrible pain. The second song that stood out to me was "Fell In Love With The Game" This is the single, it has an awesome video that they just made That makes the song even cooler. It is about someone that falls in love with something and it takes over their life. in this case it is gambling. This man was a good man and he loved God but once he got into gambling he almost didn't care about God. It could be something else for other people but for this guy gambling took him over.The last song that stood out to me was "Come to Rest" It is the hardest song on the CD and my new favorite.. I haven't gotten the chance to think of the real meaning behind the song but i still love it! this is a great CD! 5 stars go and buy it now!
The Question
This CD might almost be better than Blindside's! Songs that stood out to me are "So Cold You Could See My Breath","Studying Politics"(their singles) and "Listening To Freddie Mercury". On "So Cold You Could See My Breath", There are awesome vocals with little sprinkles of great screaming in it. As soon as I heard it I wished I was a little emo kid. This song is about how some people think they know about everything and feel they have to teach the world anything. "Studying Politics" is my favorite song on the CD. It has no screaming like every other song of theirs' but is awesome. It more of like a melodic hardcore without the screaming. The meaning is kind of about like reading behind the lines and using your actions to talk(actions speak louder than words). Some songs have more than one meaning and that is kinda one of them. now the song "Listening To Freddie Mercury" is a song that totally shows their faith. Most bands seem like after they get more mainstream, they stop talking about being Christian or they hide it by talking in metephors. not this band (they still talk in cliche`s but they show their faith and you can tell even without reading the lyrics. I also give this CD a 5. This one you should go out and buy!
