Red Int / Red Ink
2007
Metro Station
About This Album
Take away Metro Station's affiliation with Disney's Hannah Montana franchise, and what remains is strikingly similar to fellow emo-pop outfit Panic! at the Disco: a group of teenaged boys with an affinity for teenaged girls, MySpace, and techno beats. Both bands owe their initial success to a computer-obsessed age where groups are signed on the strength of their <a href="MySpace">MySpace} plays, regardless of their history as a live act (which, indeed, is how both of these acts were awarded contracts). It's a genre that relies as much on style -- the members' haircuts, the cut of their jeans, the swoons they'll induce -- as substance, and Metro Station is certainly all about style on this glossy debut. To the band's credit, there are some fine cuts here, particularly the tracks where keyboardist/programmer Blake Healy runs amok. He is the band's secret weapon, supporting his two frontmen with enough bubbling synth to keep everyone float. However, it's below the surface that the quartet runs into trouble, as not much exists beneath the polished sheen of teenaged lyrics and electronica-lite. Take the club-worthy "Shake It," whose stirring chorus is a genuine call to the dancefloor for even the most dedicated of wallflowers.
Track List
(try tracks 1,2,3,4,5,6 and 7)
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i wonder were they went i want more of them they should come back and make more of there cool sound's!!!!! Dude i miss them!!!!!!!! !
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ILOVE METRO STATION!!!!! ! ! ! ! I SAW THEM AT A CONCERT WITH HEY MONDAY, COBRA STARSHIP, FALL OUT BOY, AND ALL TIME LOW!!!!!!!!! T H E Y WERE AH-MAZING!!! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! X D
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I LOVE METRO STATION!!!!! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
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I love true to me because it's a good life-like song that's about me but the guy would be singing it.
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shake it is only there most popular song becuz it is the most normal... people cling to the familiar pop sound... but if u r open and forget there image and really listen it is in my opinion one of there worse songs (i still like it tho)... there other songs push the envelope and really go out on to a limb, if u r able to get over all the stereotypes. . .
p.s. they r AMAZING in co |
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the other songs are pretty good.. everyone is just so addicted to shake it.. i think some of the others are better
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they aren't like TOKIO HOTEL,which has more grown people and they know what thier doing the these guyz are....
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These guys are young and still trying to find there own style. Give them time to grow and mature and maybe they will get out of the pop phase.
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all of the songs have the same style. i mean they're great!, but they are all the same, except for disco its a lil out there compared to the rest. so if they just changed their intense vocal and electronic sounds then they will own.
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it is a typical pop band.... not bad music, just- it all sounds the same. two stars
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this is such a sweeeeeeeeee e e t ! album!
gosh! finally something different! ^-^ |
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metro station is my favorite band EVA! everybody has been waitin 4 the one cd that just AWESOME .. . . well here it is
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it's awsome i've been waiting for something like this for years now i can't stop listening!
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i tottaly agree ecxept geting the cd, im going to buy them on rapsody.
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This album is pretty much a must-have. The songs are catchy and have a great rhythm to them and make you want to dance. Metro Station is most def in my Top 3.
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