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Vans Warped Tour: 2007 Compilation

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Again Warped Tour made an amazing compilation! It hits every band that america should listen to on the mainstream but refuses to listen to because of truth...we americans hate truth. I love this tour and these CDs so much because they remind me of all the great bands out there! now if only america would be more like me...kidding. But seriously, No seriously, These songs, Bands deserve tons of respect everything single band is worth listening to even if there "best" song isn't on the compilation.

Shipping & cost were great. The music is good, but not great. 2 discs for the price of one is nice though.

I have bought all the Warped tour compilations since early 2000's and I have been pleased for the most part. 50 songs ranging from crunchy punk to melodic catchy pop for the price of a Hamburger, fries and a Coke, isn't a bad deal. I have seen these sets on sale for $5.00, but even are full price your bound to like more than you do not. It's also a inexpensive way to learn about bands you may never hear of. I know I didn't know any of these bands before buying these sets. I own 8,000 CD's and I'm glad to have some obscure, but good new material to check out. The Warped Tour sets are worth looking into!

this year's compilation has a lot of great songs on it though maybe a few less than the past two years'. first of all, if you don't like screamed vocals, don't look twice at this cd and for that matter, why are you here? you should know better by now. but the screamo on here is really great.

second of all, you can expect both cds to have the latest installment of crap from dinosaur bands like bad religion and casualties etc. but thats understandable i guess. a good amount of tracks are the abrasive punk style of the 90s hardline which had its place and needs to get left off the comp in the future.

what i really dont get is, for the third straight year the gogol bordello crap factory somehow manages to abort a baby onto a studio master copy and submit it to the compilation and somehow it gets on!! how on earth does this keep happening when there are so many good "one off" bands?! i can understand the novelty of it for one year but this is enough. there are also a lot of wear-out-the"next"-button-on-your-cd-player songs on this comp from all the sub-genres.

the ska sub-genre isnt represented very well this year though thats to be expected too these days.

anyway, some highlights from this year are:
as i lay dying and norma jean, human abstract and blinded black for the real hard chaotic firebreather stuff;
killswitch, i am ghost, madina lake, chiodos, and vanna for the melodic, moderately hard stuff;
lovehatehero, amber pacific, smoke or fire, and tokyo rose for the catchier, punkier stuff.

also, mayday parade's black cat (mislabelled here on amazon) is a great swingpunk-ish song and i love it, but not their best in my opinion and ive heard it way too much. speaking of not their best, piebald, the used and strung out put some cool songs on here but not really amazing songs.

two great songs that i dont know how to really categorize are insurance? by higher and paramore's this circle. this circle isnt paramore's usual neo-punk stuff but is great. sounds almost indie (at least as far as the guitars go). insurance? is one of the catchiest songs ive ever heard. it falls in that undefinable super-produced pop category thats not-really-pop and therefore cool enough for scene kids to listen to. whatever genre that is, its not punk. but its definitely scene. i still like it.

favorite songs from both cds:
summer in b by amber pacific (that characteristic punk beat and speed, super catchy melody, wild bluesy-solo guitar, GREAT ENDING),
mea culpa by the human abstract (guitars sound like classical music with a boner, a lot of double bass, not too crazy on the sceaming. this is the future of the genre mark my words)
insurance? by higher (this is what hellogoodbye and panic and the academy is wish they could be if they were all rolled up together.)

warped tour is amazing they have a lot of my favorite bands in one place i totaly plan my whole year around it. its amazing.

I think this year's warped tour had a lot of good punk songs and even more ska songs. TOO MUCH EMO I CAN"T STAND THAT! Here are the good songs you should listen to on the cd.

Fire Down Below- Alkaline Trio
Summer In B- Amber Pacific
Requiem For Dissent- Bad Religion
Duality- Bayside
Until We Burn In The Sun- Bedouin Soundclash
Steady Riot- Big D and the Kids Table
Song of Babylon- The Briggs
I'm Not Dead- Buck-O-Nine
In It For Life- The Casualities
Lyrical Lies- Cute Is What We Aim For
60 Revolutions- Gogol Bordello
Sympathy of Voices- Guff
Insurance?- The Higher
Amity- LoveHateHero
State of Mind- Mad Caddies
House of Cards- Madina Lake
Little Maggots- The Matches
Black Cat- Mayday Parade
The Shake (The Feeling)- My American Heart
M-80- Olympia
Take Me- Only Crime
Oh The Congestion- Piebald
Killing Through Song- Ryan's Hope
This Song Is Definately Not About A Girl - Set Your Goals
The Patty Hearst Syndrome- Smoke or Fire
Fading American Dream- Street Dogs
Calling- Strung Out
Afterworld- Tiger Army
Your're Gonna Pay- The Toasters
A Pound of Silver- Tokyo Rose
At Point Black- The Unseen

These are the good songs trust me other are crap.

OMG I love this CD more than i say
It was so amazing to have it and then see all hte bands perform when I went to Warped

Holy mother of Magnuson, I had heard punk music had gotten bad recently, but this is absurd!

To be fair, I'm not between 11 and 14 years old, so I'm outside of the modern target market for pop punk acts, but my early 80's birthdate in no way disallows me to distinguish between what's good and what flat out sucks. This compilation flat out sucks.

If you like or have ever liked Millencolin, Good Riddance, Ten Foot Pole, Pulley, Lagwagon, No Use, Pennywise, Strung Out, the Vandals, or any of the other classic pop-ish punk bands of the modern era, you will hate this compilation. If you like or have ever liked Reggie and the Full Effect or Piebald you might well enjoy this compilation, but if that's the case you're already used to listening to someone throw up directly into your ears, so that's really not saying all that much.

Disk one features a sub par selection from the Alkaline Trio, as well as a new song from Bad Religion (surprise! it sounds like every other song they've ever released). The Tiger Army track After World is actually pretty solid, but it's the only one on this half of the comp. Amber Pacific comes close to registering a good song with "Summer (in B)", a track that might remind a few people of Unwritten Law's sound on Blue Room and Oz Factor, two albums that these kids clearly learned a fair amount from. Tragically, they didn't learn quite enough.

Disk two features a great song from Strung Out (gotta hand it to them, even after completely changing their sound they're still irrefutably good), as well as a surprisingly good track from Bayside, which is a band I'd never heard of before (though their song isn't anything resembling punk, it's still a good track). Meg and Dia's "Monster" is catchy in a "man, I really hope none of my friends catch me listening to this" kind of way, and... well, that's about it. The rest of cd 2 is HORRENDOUS.

Yep, that's about it. Okay, bye now.