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- Record Label: Fueled By Ramen
- Release Date: Aug 19, 2008
- Summary: The third album for the pop punk group from Chicago was produced by Sam Hollander and Dave Katz.
- Record Label: Fueled By Ramen
- Genre(s): Rock, Pop, Alternative
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Top Track
| About A Girl | |
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| One song about a girl I can't breathe when I'm around her I'll wait here everyday In case she'll scratch the surface She'll never notice I'm not in... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Positive: 3 out of 7
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Mixed: 4 out of 7
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Negative: 0 out of 7
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Songs like 'About a Girl' and 'Coppertone' are sunny, jangling, and easily melodic--ideal dog-days-of-summer distractions.
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Fast Times at Barrington High doesn't go to the hoop with every song, but it scores more than enough points to make it a career highlight, not to mention one of the best emo albums (whatever that means) of 2008.
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This is a streamlined, plain-spoken record full of breaking hearts and sticky choruses, and it’s also the band’s best.
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Q MagazineIt may ultimately be as disposable as dime-store popping candy, its sugar rush still hits the spot. [Nov 2008, p.107]
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The tunes are peppy and driving, the performances and production polished to a fault, and the lyrics simultaneously celebratory and wistful.
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Either way, previous Academy Is... fans will surely dig the tunes, but Fast Times is probably not the album that will see the band expand their scope too far out of the high school/Warped Tour crowd.
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Beckett vividly renders what it's like to be a kid facing real-world issues, dealing with adult relationships ("Beware! Cougar!") and leaving home.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 2 out of 2
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Mixed: 0 out of 2
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Negative: 0 out of 2
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AlexR.Aug 25, 2008
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ReillyR.Aug 26, 2008
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