A Love Hate Masquerade

Kids in the Way | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 18, 2007)
• Original Release Date: 2007
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Flicker Records
• ASIN: B000UVLSVY
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #47,988 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Fallout in the Way, September 29, 2007

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This review is from: A Love Hate Masquerade (Audio CD)

Let me say first off (as a little background), I think Apperations of Melody was a fantastic album. That said, I move on.

"Love Hate..." is rediculously catchy, pop-punky, sing-alongable, and entirelly dissapointing. There doesn't seem to be any track on the album (besides "fiction" which was released on the special edition Apperations of Melody) that sounds like the distinct, orignal Kids in the Way that we knew before. Instead we get - Fall Out Boy (or Fallout in the Way, as I shall be refering to them from now on).

IF you like modern pop-punk like Fallout Boy, then "Love Hate..." will fit your fancy quite well. However, this album fails to capture the raw emotion of David's voice and songwriting as it did in past efforts. Choruses are filled with "who-oh's" and "yea-eh's", and David's voice rarely fades into his signiture scream. Indeed, for the first few tracks his voice, which on their previous two albums (especially Appirations) was very distinct and original, could not be told apart from dozens of other bands in the genre. To me, this was dissapointing. To you, it might not be.

A solid, catchy record it may be, but Kids in- rather, Fallout in the Way may have lost a fan with this album. I hope to be proven wrong...

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Kids' Hair Metal Album before breaking up, March 9, 2008

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This review is from: A Love Hate Masquerade (Audio CD)

2 stars if your a fan of Kids in the Way early sound. 3.5 if you're not and into modern big rock, pop metal. I would love to be more enthusiastic about this album, especially as Dave Pelsue of Kids in the Way, is a great guy. But if you loved the Kids in the Way sound and vibe of the previous albums, it is hard not to be jarred at the difference on this album. The band sounds different and Dave sings different and the lyrics and themes are so different [almost entirely it seems about girls and relationships with girls] that you think it's an entirely different band. There are some great pop metal chorus's, though for me, I can't help but think such would better fit being done by Def Leppard, Loverboy, etc. If you're a fan of hair metal and the modern take on it, than this is a solid album, much better, for example than bands like the Donna's and their modern pop metal take. But if you are not and are expecting the Kids in the Way sound or alternative rock, emo, or punk songs, than this is not the album for you, see their previous work.

5.0 out of 5 stars Kids in the Way, September 28, 2011

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This review is from: A Love Hate Masquerade (Audio CD)

I'd heard the name Kids in the Way for a few years now, but it wasn't until I heard the song "Your Demon" that it finally sunk in! I liked the song so much I had to check out more music by them and I wasn't disappointed at all by this album! I also managed to score a copy of their album "Apparitions of Melody" from my niece and it too is worthwhile!