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School Boy Humor

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School Boy Humor is pretty much a regular pop punk band. If you're looking in this genre for something unique and different, I should tell you: you're not gonna find it. That being said, I love this genre and School Boy Humor is alright and deserves more than the 2 star rating it has (at the time I wrote this.) It's catchy, energetic albeit a bit repetitive, but I think that's fine. If you a fan of We The Kings, All Time Low, Mayday Parade, June, etc. you'll find this right up your alley.

It has a few standout songs: Paint Me Envy, Camera Shy, Please Stand Up, and a fantastic closer with What If.

It's definitely worth getting if you're into the pop punk scene.

I was turned onto this band by a friend of mine who said they were from my hometown. I listened to the whole album all the way through and could not find one thing about that it stood out as being good or unique. If you're into the kind of music that follows the same predictable formula in every song, this will be your album come true. However, if you're looking for a "thinking man's album," stay as far away from this record as possible. It's not intended to be a thought provoking album, however it does not inspire or move me at all. Instead, it just reminds me that most labels these days are looking for filler bands to make a quick buck off of.

Apart from a few uncommitted stabs at electronica (a drum machine here, some DJ scratches there), School Boy Humor's debut is a fairly commonplace emo-pop album, stuffed with the same pummeling guitars and adolescent carpe diem lyrics that have become the genre's clichéd calling card. That's not to say that the self-titled School Boy Humor is lazily constructed; on the contrary, it's polished to a spit-shine glow, with crisp percussion and multiple guitars all stacked together in neat, even blocks of sound. Producer Geoff Rockwell deserves those accolades, however, and his prominence in the liner notes -- where he's awarded co-writing credits on all but one song -- indicates his hefty influence over the record. When left to their own devices, School Boy Humor traffic in stereotypes and predictabilities, offering up a stream of youngster mantras ("you have to fight for what you believe in," "take a chance you won't regret") without backing up those rallying calls with anything remotely revolutionary in the music itself. "Camera Shy" does wield a genuinely fun melody in the chorus, and the bandmates' ever-present harmonies -- although likely Auto-Tuned -- give the hook some added weight. Elsewhere, however, School Boy Humor offers very little in terms of originality, and what it adapts from existing formulas is neither captivating nor commanding.

I see these guys as uprising stars since i first say their ad on Alternative Press, and when i first actually heard their music one thing's for sure the whole thing is worth a second listen.Since this is THE exact kind of music you'd expect to hear at Hollister: emo-pop, yet it's also the kind of music that, STRICTLY AT FIRST TIME, seems so repititive like some songs will use the same composing for its verses, yet after at least 3 to 4 listens even the (once thought to be weak opener)"Paint Me Envy" will be heard as decent."Camera Shy" and "Don't Look Back" seem to be the most popular songs out of this whole thing and who could blame them? Seems to sound the most original, many of you might notice they inject electronic and DJ scratching into each track for at least 5 seconds but it simply adds up to the party mood the tracks provide.

I'd recommend this CD to: anyone who knows what i mean by the "music you'd expect to hear at Hollister".