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Universal acclaim- based on 15 Ratings
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Positive: 13 out of 15
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Mixed: 2 out of 15
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Negative: 0 out of 15
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Jul 26, 2011Meh. Just another attempt to make real music. This was a pretty boring album overall. With way too many songs (who has 18 songs on an album nowadays?!) and the same sound for every song, you can skip this album... it's not going to make any "best of the year" lists.
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Aug 4, 2011
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Feb 20, 2013
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Sep 10, 2012
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May 21, 2013It's fun. Some are calling this a 'return to form' and for the most part I can see why. 'Can't keep Jonny Down', the album's opener, is my favourite TMBG tune. For me, however, rather than run out of energy the album tries to be too weird by the end. Not bad by any stretch of the imagination though.
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Q MagazineAug 16, 2011The trouble is, for all its inventive wordplay and expert pastiches, Join Us swiftly becomes the musical equivalent of that witty, but rather-too-clever male party guest who always ends up going home alone. [Sept. 2011, p. 119]
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Aug 3, 2011Cautiously, I submit that Join Us, their 15th album and first non-children's release in four years, has that old-school TMBG feel, as if the Unlikely Rock Band ditched the self-conscious weirdo-geek shtick for a more genuine weirdo-geek non-shtick shtick.
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Jul 29, 2011The band's latest album, Join Us, expresses the group's signature nerd pride with a combination of simplicity and fantasy fit for ex-losers, children and those weird kids in high school.