Dead FM

Strike Anywhere | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 5, 2006)
• Original Release Date: 2006
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Fat Wreck Chords
• ASIN: B000GIWGTO
• In-Print Editions: Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #93,760 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Sedition

2. How to Pray

3. Prisoner Echoes

4. Instinct

5. The Promise

6. Speak to Our Empty Pockets

7. Two Thousand Voices

8. Hollywood Cemetery

9. Allies

10. Gunpowder

11. Dead Hours

12. Iron Trees

13. House Arrest

14. Ballad of Bloody Run

Editorial Reviews

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Customer Reviews

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5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best Albums, May 16, 2011

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This review is from: Dead FM (Audio CD)

Such an amazing album with many good songs I highly recommend it to any fan of Strike Anywhere or just punk music in general alot of the songs also have good lyrics to back them up with messages which makes it that much better

5.0 out of 5 stars Strike Anywhere's best album, January 29, 2009

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A. Frost "coedude" (Mendon MA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dead FM (Audio CD)

This album i felt was there most consistant, all the songs besides "how to pray" are awsome songs, and how to pray is still a good song. plus it has a few that are future classics such as "speak to our empty pockets" "prisoner echos" "allies" "two thousand voices" and "the promise". Although i felt that thier best songs were on "to live in discontent" it was not as consistant as this one and had less songs. Also the vocals on this album were awesome and the other instruments mixed it up a little, because the whole 444 entire song thing was getting old. If you dont have this album already get it now!
-coedude

5.0 out of 5 stars Seriously an amazing CD, April 16, 2008

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Nick Colosi "Nick" (Chesterland, OH, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dead FM (Audio CD)

I bought this CD at the perfect time. It was like a year ago and I was standing in the record store with Jared and Jake and I remember I was on Spring Break and had a lot of money for some reason and was looking for new music to try. The name "Strike Anywhere" had been thrown around a little here and there among fans of bands like Rise Against and the like, so I thought why not? I bought this CD with two other, and ironically I don't remember what the two others were.

Probably because this one was sooooooo good. I popped this in for the first time on a 4 hour car drive from New York to Ohio, not knowing what to expect because I'd only heard one Strike song before. The CD opened up with Thomas's typical screaming vocals to a peaceful little guitar riff, then continued to hit me in the face with fast paced, catchy as god punk rock with amazing vocals and incredible energy. Every time I thought the CD was going to slow down for a second, like the intro to "Instinct" because the previous 5 or so CDs I bought before that followed a formula where the 2 or 3 fast tracks were first and then it relapsed into ballads and crap, but then it would pick up again and continue assaulting my ears in the best way possible. This CD basically came at the best time possible from a band that I had known basically nothing about.

Musically, this is a gem. The two six string guitars work together perfectly, rarely playing the same thing but sounding very well together and also giving Garth's bass time to shine as well in bass driven songs like "How to Pray." I actually give credit to the drummer in this CD as well, and I rarely do that 'cause I am a guitar player and know nothing of rhythm or drums, for knowing when to spread himself about the whole kit and when to blast the living be-jesus out of the snare. Thomas's voice is one that I instantly fell in love with, because he's one of three vocalists who are both equally talented at screaming and singing and can go back and forth interchangebly (The other two are Tim McIlrath and Jay Navarro). The lyics on this CD are the most insightful political lyrics I've ever listened to, and I listen to an unbelievable amount of political music. You can tell that Thomas did his research before writing the really political songs like the opening track by the little footnotes in the booklet, but then there are also times when you can tell that he was just in a real manic mood and just took the pen to the paper with all the malice he had, and those songs are really good too.

In conclusion, if I was going to be stranded on an island for the rest of my life with a CD player and 5 CDs, this would be one of the ones I chose to take with me, because it's seriously awesome. I bought their previous two works and they don't compare, (even though they're still really good, especially "Change is a Sound") It's also cool that these guys are big enough that their CDs can be found in FYE's all over the country but small enough that they don't acquire all the haters and "SELLOUT!" hype that bands like Rise Against do. It helps them stay truer to their sound. I'd recomend this to everyone except deaf people, and I'd say new fans should start here because you really can't do any better. I'm a tough tough critic but this piece of work blew me away. Standout tracks are pretty much every one but if I had to pick three they'd be "Sedition" "Hollywood Cemetery" and "Iron Trees," but again, that was hard to do because every track is perfect. GET THIS CD!