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Satiate

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i dont know where to start with avail.
i cant believe no one has reviewed this album!
this was one of the first avail albums i heard.
it still remains, as most of their other records do, one of the best. it has two of their best songs, "mr morgan" and "connection"
it has all the energy of their other albums and is the blue print for what avail is. alot of people call them hardcore, and alot of hardcore kids love avail. i was a hardcore kid who loved avail. but they are much more than any hardcore band. it is mainly really amped up rock and roll, even southern tinged rock and roll, but definitely punk music. the songs are like anthems and you can sing along to so many of the choruses, which makes their live shows SO much fun. they are one of the best live bands consistently now for years. the anthemic quality and "sing-along value" of the songs make it fun for hardcore kids to get into. but they have a huge crusty punk following and tons of other people just cant help but love the catchy rock hooks, the amped up speed and the awesome sing along lyrics. tim always has good things to say, and the band always rocks even if they want to slow it down just to build it back up again. they have an groovin rhythmic punch that is guaranteed to make you move, even if its just bopping your head. you cant miss with these guys. more of you fans should check out this album. and you should definitely see them live. nuff said.

This is one of Avail's older albums.

the first album i had ever heard was Dixie and i fell in love immediately. i quickly purchased 4am friday followed by Over the James and then Satiate.

each album is down right amazing in it's own right, though what sold me on Satiate was when i heard connection.

14 years later this is one of my most frequently listened to records. i can never get tired of it.

5/5 - a diamond in the rough

1992's Satiate was the debut album from Richmond, VA institution Avail. I've never really been a hardcore guy, but as soon as I heard Avail's Over the James I became an instant fan of this band. I love their melodic approach to hardcore and their similarity to bands like Bad Religion and Social Distortion. You don't hear a lot of that on Satiate though. Sure, it's a melodic album, but it seems (to me at least) to lean heavily towards the early `90s punk rock sound. Not pop-punk, but it definitely fit Lookout's reputation more than say Revelation Records. It's got a great energy though, and you can pick up hints of what was to come on later albums.

I still don't think Satiate is anywhere near as good as the Avail albums that came after it, but it's still a very solid first effort, and one I continue to dust off from time to time (I'm spinning it right now). If nothing else, it's cool to revisit the band's early sound and see how far they came in the ten years that followed.

avail has been around for years in the punk community. there positive lyric base makes them a very insperational band, that just makes you want to get up and tear down the walls of racism, sexism, and "macho-ism" with they're many "sing-a-long" parts, you cant help but join in the chorus. a very good buy if you are into "punk"

"Take heart, all of you who've mourned the absence of Avail from the Richmond scene these past several years. Freeman, a new band who've been around for the past year or so, reunites 3/5 of the classic Satiate/Dixie lineup of Avail, bringing them back together for the first time in fifteen years. Guitarist Joe Banks is still technically a member of Avail (since they are technically still together), but drummer Erik Larson left after 1998's Over The James, and Avail bassist Chuck McCauley, who is playing rhythm guitar in Freeman now, last played with Avail in 1994. Along with former Wheelbite vocalist Freeman Martin and former Mason Dixon Disaster bassist Chris Rigo, they make up Freeman . . . celebrating the release of their debut LP, It Doesn't Matter. The album is currently available . . . and it's pretty excellent, bringing that same driving, melodic, somewhat emotional sound that Avail always had together with more overt hardcore influences and Freeman's voice, which is reminiscent both of Hot Water Music's Chuck Ragan and of Dave Smalley during his Down By Law days. The album definitely continues in the tradition established by Avail's classic 90s albums, and Freeman should easily win a place in the heart of that band's longtime fans."

avail was the first show i ever went to. it was a tiny show in a tiny hole in the wall of a club, but it was incredible. i'm so glad that avail has gotten as big as it has because this is definitely a band that deserves to be heard. satiate is one of the first of avail's albums and i think it's still the best. pick this cd up as soon as you can!

Satiate has its own sound when you compare it to the rest of Avail's disks. The sound to be called GLAMROCK. But this is the cd that got me listening to Avail, and still remains my favorite. This cd is definitely a must have for anyones collection. . .