A Boy Band with guitars and a Violinist

OH MY GOD. IT IS TOUGH BEING AN EMO KID.FIRST MY GIRLFRIEND DUMPS ME AND THEN SOME BIG AND TOUGH HEAVY METAL GUYS BEAT THE CRAP OUT OF ME AND SHOVED ME IN MY LOCKER UNTIL I CRIED AND PUT THIS RECORD ON.THE WORLD IS SO CRUEL I JUST WISH THAT MORE BANDS LIKE THIS WOULD COME OUT BECAUSE THEY ARE THE ONLY WAY I CAN SYMPATHIZE AND FEEL SORRY FOR MYSELF.

I love this CD!

I love "Ocean Avenue"! It's one of my favorite CDs. My top 5 songs are (not in order):

1. Only One

2. Twenty three

3. Believe

4. Miles Apart

5. Life of a Salesman

Buy this CD and you won't regret it!

Sonic Diarrhea for the Ritalin Generation

Ocean Avenue, the most successful release to date from Florida emo outfit Yellowcard, is neither daring nor ambitious. Tending towards the homogenous and generic, the album is quite representative of the anthemic party-line SoCal power-pop that has kept armies of over-stimulated suburban pre-teens cranking their stereos and pounding their fists for slightly over a decade.



Recalling several dozen releases from the same genre, Yellowcard's thirteen track ode to adolescence is rather undistinguished and unremarkable. Heavy on energetic and incessantly catchy guitar pop tunes, Ocean Avenue manages to go absolutely nowhere substantive, and more often than not finds itself rehashing the same phenomenally banal themes explored by similar artists. By the end of the record you'll find yourself praying for the tawdry poop and fart jokes characteristic of artists like Blink-182.



Because they've got a fiddle player and their music is ideal for pissing off anyone over the age of 16 with discerning musical taste, they get two stars. Sympathy vote? Maybe...