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the agenda. the agenda-tron. the awesome agenda-tron. the super awesome, never faulting aganeda-tron. this music is great. who cares if garage rock is the new emo? then don't listen. i am sure you were just sooooo into this before it was cool huh? and i am sure you liked rites of springs before your neighbor did huh? if you take this music for more than what it is, a catchy, fun, and simple album, then you are thinking too hard.
have you seen the video for crash!crash!? it is one of the best visual documentations of a song ever completed in the history of mankind. it is truley scrumtrulescent....
listen to le'le'....

This album is cool. It's just great high-energy rock music. I don't think I'd call it punk, even though it's fast and borders on low-fi, but whatever. I like it. You're going to get a lot of fast, distorted guitar, '70s-ish keyboard, drums that go "snare! snare! snare! snare!" and a singer who literally howls, and is, more often than not, un-understandable. But it's fun and energetic and you'll probably beat your steering wheel with your fists if you listen to it in the car. I would recommend it if you like the rock music. Also, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs are awesome.

The new wave of garage rock is like classic rock in car commercials: everyone is doing it, some better than others. The Agenda! are doing pretty damn well, thank you.

Within the first 2 seconds of the laser hitting the disc, you're in for a great ride at the speed of sound. The Agenda! have no time to slow down, everything is urgent and right now, which is a good thing. You can feel the energy with every note and every scream. You can almost see the basement party spring up around you when you listen to this disc.

There's not too much variety, to be sure, but who cares? "Last Chance for Action" through "No More Dancing" are superb, 1000 bpm songs about young lust and living in the moment. You won't put this on while having your girlfriend over for dinner; this is the soundtrack for the guys night out at the strip club and the bar crawl that follows into the morning.

This CD is awesome! It makes me want to jump around in my bedroom while screaming CRASH! CRASH! a million times. Forget the Hives and The Strokes, The Agenda is the real deal. This is the party record of 2002. Exclimation Rock!

If you're the kind of kid that goes wild at every concert and never stands still, this is your kind of record. With the smashing guitars and slamming drums and echoing vocals. This is an album that will make all punks dance, dance,dance!

Garage rock is the new emo [which in turn was the new ska, which was the new pop punk, which was the new... ah, you get the point]. It is a trend, and everyone and their mother is trying to capitalize on it. Sure, some of it is top notch, but on the opposite side of the spectrum, you have dozens of albums of bands seemingly thrown together in a heartbeat in order to rape this once-potent music of any originality.

So where does the Agenda! [yes, there's actually an exclamation point there] stand? Somewhere in between, teetering between greatness and mediocrity.

The Athens, GA quintet has all the prerequisites to make it big in this garage-rock hungry world:

Each member has a clever moniker [J.R. Suicide, Switchblade Steve, etc.]

Every song seems to be cranked up to 11, tempo-wise - more rock in less time equals lots of frat boys rocking out on repeat

They have a gimmick with the exclamation points [seriously, every damn sentence on this album ends with one of those things]

They all have matching armbands [hmm, where have I seen that before?]

This band will probably succeed in modest numbers, just because they're underground enough to do so. Scenesters sick of the Hives due to their astonishing mainstream popularity will latch onto this like a flea to a dog, claiming the band as the "real deal" in rock and roll.

After repeated listenings of this, I have to wonder if this band is a joke. The back of the CD says this:
"We Don't Believe In The Future! We Live For The Moment! Dance To The Sound Of Right Now!"
It's almost like they're admitting they're a flavor of the week. Further puzzlement arouses from the this quote on the liner notes:
"No Art Was Used In The Making Of This Album!"
It's hard not to agree. This, at it's core, is 11 songs of cut-rate garage rock that ends before a half hour passes, so you don't get worn out on it too soon. Download the MP3s and decide for yourselves - I'm still not sure if I'm passing on this yet or not.