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 over produced Jun 27, 2009
i think metro station is good but way over produced. i mean have you herd them live they suck!!
 So Young, But So Talented May 06, 2009
I love this kind of music. It is so "feel good" and creative. No matter what I'm doing, I always find my hips swaying to this type of sound. MetroStation really puts their gut into their instruments and the vocals back it up. They are catchy, but not in the annoying mainstream way- and have got really great talent.
Produced by band members of Motion City Soundtrack, MetroStation is saved with its creative music.
The set-back? Their lyrics are those of a fifteen year old boy's. I couldn't relate to the words hardly at all, seeing as I'm no longer a teenager, young, and scared.
If you can get past the lyrics, you're set- this album rocks!
If not, then you can purchase it for your teenaged daugher/ niece/ cousin and let them love it as much as it should be loved.
 broken case Apr 26, 2009
this cd came in a broken case... it was suppose to be a b-day present... I had to take the cd out of the case and put it in another blank case, rearange the whole thing and write a little note w/apologies to the receipient. I read someone elses reviews that they received their cd in a broken case as well.. but I was xrossing my fingers it won't be in my case. Unfortunatelly, it did,so, in the future , I won't be ordering through this vendor
 51 & LOVE IT!!!!!!! Mar 22, 2009
I LOVE THAT SHAKE SONG. BY THE WAY AT THE AGE OF 51, I HAVE YOU ALL BEAT AT THE MOMENT. I AM NOT ASHAMED TO SAY I LOVE ALL THIS MUSIC!!!! I HEARD IT ON THE RADIO & ASK MY DAUGHTER AGE 31 ABOUT IT. SHE TOLD ME THE NAME OF THE BAND. I HAD TO CHECK THIS OUT. I LOVE ALL THE SONGS. IT IS A GREAT PICK ME UP WHILE DOING HOUSE WORK & DOING THE DISHES. I DON'T CARE WHAT THE AGE OR WHAT THEY LOOK LIKE AS LONG AS THE BEAT IS GREAT. AT MY AGE I'VE SEEN AND HEARD IT ALL. I LIKE THIS BAND AND I HOPE THEY DO MORE OF THE SAME. IF THEY DO I WILL PROBABLY BUY IT TOO. I GUESS THERE ARE DIFFERENT TASTES FOR EVERY ONE. I DO LIKE THE SOUND OF THIS MUSIC. AN OLD GRANNY WOMAN
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Next! Feb 26, 2009
Wow. I was not expecting this. At all.
I took a chance on this album after hearing one of their big hits, Shake It, on the local alt-radio station. I didn't really love it, but it was good to hear something I've had almost no exposure to (I'm just going to call it "digi-rock", and I recommend that you do as well). Usually when I take a chance like this, it turns out to be a good gamble (Mobile Estates, You Can't Stop The Bum Rush, Diesel and Dust, A Slight Case of Overbombing). There have been a few so-so albums, but nothing really disastrous.
And then I got Metro Station, and it just about blew me away. I've never seen such a mixture of hot and cold, good and bad, great and terrible in a single album:
***** - The music. Part rock, part, er, "electronica" (ugh), part plain 'ol pop, part teenybopper, just a hint of angst...a little of everything. And it works: As Enya showed us repeatedly, put enough work on the technical side and even a mediocre song can sound great. This is just plain fun to listen and dance to, and I can easily play it from front to back.
**** - Lively, energetic, cheerful. A winning combination any day, and pretty much the only thing preventing Shake It from getting annoying. These teens are living happy and proud of it.
*** - Subject matter. Good overview of modern teen life, but doesn't really dig deep and plays it *really* safe with the lyrics. ("No, it's not about sex, it's about...er...getting dressed for a date!") Don't really care much either way about this.
** - Short, short, short. By far the least content I've ever seen in a commercially released album (and the other reason I can easily play it from front to back...sometimes it doesn't even last the work commute). There's nothing wrong with an occasional short track, but a complete inability to go beyond 3:20 points at a decided lack of creativity, or worse, sheer laziness. If they're going to have any success, they need to break out of this rut, and fast.
* - TOO REPETITIVE! Shake It is the worst case, of course, but you hear the numbing repetitiveness here from beginning to end. Add in plenty of filler words ("Whooo-ooooa!"), and you're left with an entire album with hardly any substance.
Metro Station looks to be in the same boat as Len was after You Can't Stop The Bum Rush. It's great to play around and have fun with the debut album, but unless they pick a viable commercial route, and fast, they're going to crash and burn. Club techno? They're going to have to figure out how to stretch a song to to 4, 5, and even 10 minutes. Mainstream pop? Better lyrics, more variety in the tempos and harmonies. Full-bore punk? They have to *get* angry. And so on.
This is the first time I've ever actively hoped a band releases a second album...because this *can't* be it. C'mon, guys, what else ya got?
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