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Pulley

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Great album...will NOT disappoint. It didn't take me long to like all of the songs. Notables: "Nothing To Lose," "Working CH," "Gone," "Pie" and "Over It." The album is so cool because it talks a lot about friendships (not love type of relationships, but buddy type of relationships) that fall apart and how some friends can let you down and how even though you may pretend that you don't care you actually are hurt. It's this type of honesty that I really like.

Okay, so Pulley is not an original band with a sound all their own. Their style of punk rock has been around a long time and will continue on long after this band calls it quits. I've listened to most Pulley albums and this is definitly their finest hour (well 40 min). What's cool about Pulley isn't that they bring something new to the table, but that they take what was already there and rock it's ass off!
I listen to this album and can just hear the passion seeping through the speakers. It's obvious these guys love what they do and it shows. Punk rock is a way of life for Pulley, they're not out to make a million, they're out to write good songs and wrap their music in an intensity for their love of the genre.
No Pulley album gets that point across quite as well as this one.

Pulley are my second favorite melodic punk band, behind 10 Foot Pole. I do have a few good reasons for this. Number two, Scott is an amazing vocalist, bringing back the old British Clash-like snotty vocals. Number two, Scott is a great lyricist, writing about all of his issues, not just staying on one like most bands today. Number three, and lastly, Pulley are some very talented musicians. They have great bass, guitars, and drums, mostly because of the extreme speeds that come out of them. My favorite songs are "Second Best" and "Nothing to Lose", but all of them are great. Also check out All and Millencolin.

So far to date, this is Pulley's best album. A notable improvement over "6o Cycle Hum" "working-class-whore" and "soberbean" are great opening songs. Solid effort. Good good.

Absolutly Pulley's best CD...it totally rocks. The melodies are incredible, and the lyrics actually have meaning.

i like pulley but their old stuff was a lot better. this is a lot more pop punky.

a few days ago, my friend and I went to Strawberries, and he reached for Let's Go, by Rancid. I said, "Hold it, you have two Rancid CDs already. Get a different CD." I am NOT saying Rancid is bad. So I said, "Get a CD of Ten Foot Pole, or Pennywise, or Pulley." So we stayed there for a few more minutes, and he got Pulley. And let me tell you, it ROCKS!!! GET IT NOW!!!!! Damn, it is good!

This CD is really good non-stop listening. It has great catchy tunes with grinding guitars, but you don't get sick of it. I guess Pulley cracked the code for great kickin' punk music. I especially like the song "Sick"-- there is kind of a heavy metal effect to that one.

I did not really like their 2nd record but this one you can buy without listening to it. Great catchy songs. Watch out: "Nothing to lose" is going to be a hit!!!!!!!!!!!

There's nothing particularly special or unique about Pulley as a band, yet the songs on this album have the capacity to evoke a smile or strike an angst-ridden cord in anyone and sometimes that's all you really want from a punk band. Let Bad Religion do the intellectual and muscial genius thing and let NOFX and The Vandals focus on being devastatingly witty and absurd, Pulley is neither, but they don't attempt to be. There are a few bland tracks on this album, (ahem Soberbeah) but most of them hit the mark by being both musically and lyrically adequate. This is not one of those classic genre-defining albums that the boys from Bad Religion, Rancid and NOFX have produced, but it's where Pulley arguably attained their sound and if you only ever buy one Pulley album, make it this one.