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Song Shots: Papa Roach – Still Swingin

“Still Swingin’” is the brand new song from Papa Roach featured on their latest album, The Connection. This is a no holds barred, fast paced rock song with a fantastic break down and chorus.

Record Review: The Killers – Battle Born

From the first few lines to the last few chords, you are in for a ride! It is a very simple ride: the sort you might experience going to and from work each day, or maybe on that hour-long trip to Grandma’s for the holidays. While there were a few tracks that stood out, this album is the travel equivalence of a police car pulling over a speeding motorist.

CCP Ep. #16: The 2nd Law by Muse

This week we talk about New York Comic Con, the latest from Muse, The 2nd Law, and music’s role in Reality TV.

CCP Ep. #15: The Sound of the Life of the Mind by Ben Folds Five

This week we review the latest album from Ben Folds Five, The Sound of the Life of the Mind. Then we discuss public personas and the positives and negatives celebrity status can bring to one’s career.

Trigger Tracks: Pain

Physical or emotional, pain takes many forms. The worse it gets, the more frantic and desperate a person can feel. Sometimes, without a way to cope, it could bring you through a downward spiral of uncontrollable rage and misery. “The End” by Blue October is riddled with this pain and torment in every lyric and beat.

Trigger Tracks: Indifference

Ever just feel kind of in-between? Not quite depressed, but void of a specific emotion? You only want to sit there staring at the wall. You feel apathetic to life at that moment. You are an average person on this big spinning blue rock. The song “Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm” by the Crash Test Dummies always conveyed this to me.

CCP Ep. #14: ¡Uno! by Green Day

This week we talk about what’s in our headphones, we review Green Day’s latest, ¡Uno!, and get into an in-depth discussion about what constitutes a “zero” rating.

Trigger Tracks: Longing

It’s three in the morning; you’re driving home; it could be raining; it could be eerily calm. Whatever the circumstances, it’s time for that thing we all do when we’re completely alone with our own thoughts… that’s right, we think! And it doesn’t always lead us to the best of places.

Song Scales: Matt

At this point in time, you’ve received both Steve and Jon’s point of view on how we review things. As for me, sometimes I feel that I have an easier time rating these albums, having enjoyed a broad range of musical tastes and preferences throughout my life. I’ve been listening to music as far back as I can remember, and my dad raised me on everything from Classic Rock to Motown, Pop, and R&B. I know that, as of yet, I am the only one of us to have given five stars to anything, and I’m hoping that an explanation of my rating system will help everyone to better understand why.

Song Scales: Jon

It is very true that Steve has a fine ear for hearing music on an artistic scale, so he tries to rate it that way. Matt, on the other hand, has professed on numerous occasions that his ratings are based on his own musical preferences. I try to follow the fine line between both ideas. My first response is usually a like/dislike gut reaction, but I always try to nit-pick and pull out the positives and negatives as I go, especially if they contradict my initial idea.

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