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0 of 2 found the following review helpful:
 I love this band but... Feb 02, 2007
This album [...]. Not sure what happened to NUFAN, but it's time to get back to your roots. This album starts off well but it's all down hill from there. I listened to it once, and it's never been back in the CD player. Remember Making Friends? Leche Con Carne? Daily Grind? This album is more like New Found Glory or Simple Plan. Just because they're "maturing", doesn't mean they have to write radio friendly pop [...]. I'm sure the lyrics are inspiring, thought provoking, embolden, etc., but if you can't get passed the music, you can't get into it. But I digress...we all need to make money.
2 of 5 found the following review helpful:
 1.5 stars May 05, 2006
what happened to NUFAN? they got old, thats what. In my opinion this CD sucks. its boring, slow, and boring. There is no energy but into it. These guys used to be a good punk band, faster stuff and much better stuff has been made. Do not buy this album, unless you are a hardcore fan, and if you are a hardcore fan, chances are you wont buy it either cause it SUCKS! there is one good song on this CD, "there will be revenge" other than that this CD is bad. slow. boring.
7 of 8 found the following review helpful:
 NUFAN fan? Eat this and shutup. Mar 13, 2006
Holy crap! Look at all the comments... Sell out's? How can a band like No Use be sell out's? Seriously, these guys came to the bottom of the world to play in the Adelaide UniBar all night for 15 bucks a pop in an over-18 concert to skater punks and other randoms a couple of years ago, while Good Charlotte hired out a stadium down the road and played to a hoard of hysterical 13 year old girls and their parents who all paid 60 bucks to hear them spew crap for about 20 minutes. Who sees a difference? Hands?
I get the point, and agree, that their sound nowadays has more broad appeal, but is that a bad thing? And could it be that this was where they were going anyway, not what the bottom line lured them into?
For those who've journeyed with these guys since Leche or Daily Grind, hopefully you're not still living with your parents and trying to figure out how best to pop pimples. Hopefully you're not in the same place you were then, just like these guys aren't in the same place anymore. That's life: a roller-coaster ride. For me, the only reason No Use are still in my car glove box is because they've changed with me:
-When I was 15/16 - Feeding the Fire aptly summed up my pent-up, hormone-driven, I-wanna-get-the-hell-outta-this-place frame of mind.
-When I was 17 - More Betterness took my frustration and made it understandable. This album made me normal, and helped me to deal with high school crap. This album was also the first No Use album to have the flavour of girls in it. Appropriate for me; I was in my first real relationship.
-When I was 20 - Rock Bottom upped the ante on the girls again, actually a little too much I reckon (this one's their weakest offering, in my opinion). The beats were a little slower, and the topics were more mature. 9/11 had made its mark on Tony's lyrics, and he seemed to be able to explain the world around me succintly and poetically. His distain for organised religion, his anti-conservatism, his fight to make something of himself, all of these came through in this album that summed up my life.
Now I'm nearly out of uni, and their latest album is different again. More melodic and more literal again in the lyrics. I think this album shows everything from their past albums and more. Its got the fast-paced energy of yore (Bullets, Killing Time, etc), and the pollitical activism of Betterness and Rock Bottom (in Divine Let Down and Its Tragic among many). But its also got the girls (Fiona) and the self-deprication (Apparition).
Maturity is coming (slowly), for better or worse into the music of No Use. If you're growing up with them, you'll appreciate this offering. If you still want the angst there are legions of young punk rockers out there, but No Use have moved on. Deal with it! They aren't sell-outs, and they aren't pathetic sad sacks. They take the world and slice it up into 2-and-a-half minute postcards that give you a well thought out, alternative frame of reference. Its not boring or bland, but its not so completely angry either. I like the range of emotional expression on this album. I like the mix of logic and feeling. I like high production values. I like the melodic voice.
If you haven't heard it yet, you really are missing out. The best way to describe Keep Them Confused is that its where you would guess No Use would be if you watched them grow from Leche onwards. The only quirk might be that *tears of pride* Rory finally learned a couple of new beats! I really felt listening to Rock Bottom that he'd stagnated a bit, and every drumline was the same... Its a bit less punk, and a bit more emo, but they are still a long way from dressing in black and painting their faces (cf Green Day!). Its the same old No Use, with a splash of Something Corporate.
From me, I give Keep Them Confused 4 stars. Why? This is a damn good album, but I can't give an album I've only heard a few times the same rating I'd give More Betterness, the best CD on the planet. If I still love this CD in 6 years, it'll be a 5. That might be a bit arbitrary, but this album does seem to lack the gut-churningly haunting pain and beauty of More Betterness that I'm so thankful for.
In a sentence: This album absolutely stinks of awesome, and its exactly what I expected. You're almost definitely going to like it..
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 Progression is good Mar 10, 2006
I don't write reviews like this usually, but felt like this was something I needed to do. No Use has been one of my favorite bands since I started listening to them in the mid 90's. I have all of their albums since Leche Con Carne, and I love them all. Their music has taken a turn, and that's not a bad thing. I think everybody who hates this album is stuck in the past. Leche Con Carne (a very good album) was released 11 years ago. Each album since has been a steady progression towards the sound you are hearing on Keep Them Confused. In my opinion, if you like No Use's more recent albums (More Betterness, Hard Rock Bottom), you will definitly like this one. Like every new cd I buy, I had to listen to it a few times before I really got into it. Since then I have been having a hard time removing it from the cd changer in my car. And just to let everyone know, I'm not into emo, tennie bopper music (and that is not what this album is). A few of my all time favorites besides No Use include: Strung Out, Pennywise, Lagwagon, AFI, Unwritten Law, Tiger Army and Bad Religion.
1 of 5 found the following review helpful:
a little soft Jan 21, 2006
Tony, what happened??? I'm listening to Hard Rock Bottom right now, another awesome album, but what is this crap - I think I used it to scrape my windshields this winter (or was that the 50 cent album somebody left in my car)? I've never heard anything that sounded like nothing in my life, nothing there - what's up?
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