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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
It Makes You Laugh, But Unlike Creed, The Music's Still Good, June 12, 2004
What is this world coming to? What is wrong with today's music patrons? What is it, I ask you? There must be something wrong. And, do you want to know what I think that it is? I think that today's young music 'fans' are all media-brainwashed, uninterested, unopinionated minions. Tell me that I'm wrong. You can't. If I were wrong, then you wouldn't come upon a huge poster advertising D12's new 'album' in the front of the Sam Goody store as you journey to the I's to find the last remaining copy of this incredible album, which you will buy for $20, since it won't be on sale. If I were wrong, then I wouldn't have some idiot standing next to me at the 'MTV Campus Invasion Tour,' waiting for the recycled, almost-dead sounds of Hoobastank (and, to a lessor extent, Lostprophets), and shouting "get off the stage!" to this groundbreaking band as they put on a disturbing-yet-great show.Yes, people these days don't want anything new. They don't want artists to expand on musical genres, they want artists to grab hold of them and stretch them thinner and thinner. It's like when a person hires another painter to fininsh painting the world's largest house, because the painter working on it before got too old, and instead of using new paint, the new painter just throws some paint thinner on the paint and then spreads it around the wall, hoping that it would expand the paint slightly. (Okay, that was kind of a weird example.) But, you get what I'm saying. And, there's one more thing that you should understand: This band rocks. This album opens with the single 'Dynomite.' This is a cool song, and a great way to get things going. Also, at about 2:20 in length, this song helps set the pace for the entire album. Song, No. 1 is also a great number, and helps reassure that the album's gonna break more ground than a Garden Claw and the tracks won't be recursions of 'Dynomite' or of 80's new wave (which is what they often get accused of.) From here, it's pretty much smooth sailing, from the electro-punkish acid downpour "Here Come The Bombs" to the frantic chimes of "A is For Action," to the phenomenal sing-along anthem "Alive." This album's only real flaw is that it's over far too soon, only a little over a half hour in length (and only if you include the ten-or-so minutes of silence before the well-placed hidden track "Black Jettas," a song that you'll be thanking your lucky stars you won't really have to count against this band.) As with all great bands, though, the album is only half the experience. You haven't experienced Ima Robot unless you've seen the live show. They have so much energy, and they use the coolest of antics, including the bassist's ability to play a bass with-- get this-- another bass. I was fortunate enough to see them at the MTV Campus Invasion Tour, which I mentioned earlier, and I will see them again this summer on the Van's Warped Tour. However, as you will note, both of these venues kind of counteract with Ima Robot's style. They shouldn've booked them on the Lollapalooza tour, in my opinion, especially since this year's looking kind of dry. Ima Robot is to 80's new wave like Tim Burton's '89 Batman flick is to the 60's TV show: You could see it as a rehash, but you'd be dumb to deny the brilliance and the potenial of it all, a work of art that could have existed even if the 'original' did not. And if anyone who wrote Ima Robot off as a 'retro band' had actually listened to 80's new wave, they would know that Ima Robot are very new, very now, and playing music for the future, not the past.
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