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Allroy Saves

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Punk with a brain. Not just a band with a cool video and a catchy hook. Witty, smart lyrics that make you laugh and think and pogo your little beatle boots off...Thats how I would describe ALL. This is my favorite album by the rawkers. From the cute kid charm of 'Frog' to the worldly aware "just living", "sum" and "educated idiot" you will dig this amazingly fun and wildly amusing bunch of punky tunes. Think Pinhead Gunpowder or Cringer but only more cool and fun and smart...

This is, in my opinion, the BEST ALL album. Everything came together so well on this one. The odd time signatures, the tempo changes, Stephen Egerton's squeaky, pop-punk-prog, diminished fifth guitar style, Alvarez' flying, thumping dit-dit-dit bass work, it's all melding so well on this release. Top it off with Scott Reynolds totally on top of his game, and you've got an album that both stands alongside the Descendents best work, and stands on it's own.

With Allroy Saves, ALL took the complexity of the music to the highest possible level without sacrificing melody or coherence. It's smart, it's meaningful, but it's still a hell of a lot of fun.

I think one of my favorite things about this album is the unusual melancholy undertone to it. Still catchy as hell, and driving, but not all shine and sugar. It makes for a memorable collection of songs. Standout Tracks: "Just Like Them", "Prison", "Educated Idiot", "Crawdad"... "Frog" and Freaky" lighten things up a bit.. "Ratchet" kicks ass...

This album is a genre-topping, if not defining, landmark classic. It should be in all the books that document such things.

I know a lot people think punk suxs and this is some of the most baisic musical numbers you will hear, but the lryics are great the ablum starts off really sad. Than later gets a bit more happy one of the best things about this cd is the lryics and the fact that it is an ablum worth buying because the single tracks aren't so great alone but work out great in the albums order. This has a few musical surprizes as well so it isn't completely blah musically.

I am a big fan of the All/Decendents lineup and I must say that no matter what music this lineup puts out, It will always be great!!!! This CD is one of the best All CD's in the history of All.

so in 1990 when this came out i always thought ALL was a great band (just starting to get used to the transition from the descendents)i even did not mind scott renyolds on vocals(i really did miss dave smally) with the awesome allroy revenge i thought they could not do better!! boy was i wrong this is like the kind of punk i like and desevers a great review.this album has talent energy great craftminship of songs and its really fun and serious ALL at the same time with a mixture of punk jazz country and ALLSORTS of other kinds of music.this realise is one of the greatest of ALL ALbums to date.(ALL ALWAYS HAS LOTS TO SAY MUSICLY AND LYRICLY)there albums are not very long but there is plenty of time do listen to another ALL cd after(this one goes great with percolater the album that came after this one) ..so if you are in search for some lost chords you will dig this one greatly.or maybe you would rather seddle for some teeny bopper blah blah ...i think not.......BUY BUY BUY AND YOULL BE SATISFIED.......