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• Kyle! said:

  hey. thankyou guys so much. do this for me now completley opened up my eyes. this really helped me and my girlfriend out. it completley opened my eyes. and distraction helped me cope with my uncles death in the war. you guys are ahhmazing. tom ur awesome. im glad you became a part of angels and airwaves. my friend mike would go gay for you. seriously! you guys are awesome. david, ryan, atom rock on. never give up and never quit writing music. you guys are my favorite. LONG LIVE ANGLES & AIRWAVES!!!!! Aug 26

• Scotty said:

  so first of all napoliam, you are using someone elses words, so the oh snap was totally not necessary. the second thing, as a musician and music student myself, you need to realize that all that stuff is only half of what music is, this review states that all of these techniques and such are dated, and how he is using things from bands in the 80's. well every piece of music since i dont know, before Mozart, has been a compilation and of trick, tools, and modes used in the renissance and consecutive periods in musical history, nothing is truly new, just reorgainized and refashioned. a musician doesnt make "new" music, he creates a rhythm, a pattern of music that is descerned as belonging to him (or her). my point about this technical stuff being only half is that the other half is the soul of music. it is emotion, hope, and all those untangible things that you feel when you listen to music. Robin Fredrick, an accomplished composer and song producer, has produced over 500 songs for a variety of needs, including television and record albums, gives workshops on songwriting, and she states that emotion is just as important as actual songcraft. she says, "If you have emotions but no craft, people will not understand you. If you have craft but no emotion, people will not care." you should really check out this website, http://www.robinfrederick.com/write.html, you might learn a thing or two for yourself... and just a side note, distraction is my favorite song, not because it has awesome guitar solos, or an amazing vocalist, even though i personally am jealous of his control and overall range, but because the whole is greater than the sum of its parts, its like consciousness. no science can explain the conscience, why people do things totally out of character in certain circumstance... its the soul, and it is music... oh and one last pointed, dated? arent some clothing styles from the 80's coming back with a new millenium flare? its about what the people want to hear, psgamer25 had a good point in saying that they made top ten in many countdowns. and if i am not mistaken, they were held in the top ten for many weeks on most of those shows... May 16

• Scotty said:

  so first of all napoliam, you are using someone elses words, so the oh snap was totally not necessary. the second thing, as a musician and music student myself, you need to realize that all that stuff is only half of what music is, this review states that all of these techniques and such are dated, and how he is using things from bands in the 80's. well every piece of music since i dont know, before Mozart, has been a compilation and of trick, tools, and modes used in the renissance and consecutive periods in musical history, nothing is truly new, just reorgainized and refashioned. a musician doesnt make "new" music, he creates a rhythm, a pattern of music that is descerned as belonging to him (or her). my point about this technical stuff being only half is that the other half is the soul of music. it is emotion, hope, and all those untangible things that you feel when you listen to music. Robin Fredrick, an accomplished composer and song producer, has produced over 500 songs for a variety of needs, including television and record albums, gives workshops on songwriting, and she states that emotion is just as important as actual songcraft. she says, "If you have emotions but no craft, people will not understand you. If you have craft but no emotion, people will not care." you should really check out this website, http://www.robinfrederick.com/write.html, you might learn a thing or two for yourself... and just a side note, distraction is my favorite song, not because it has awesome guitar solos, or an amazing vocalist, even though i personally am jealous of his control and overall range, but because the whole is greater than the sum of its parts, its like consciousness. no science can explain the conscience, why people do things totally out of character in certain circumstance... its the soul, and it is music... oh and one last pointed, dated? arent some clothing styles from the 80's coming back with a new millenium flare? its about what the people want to hear, psgamer25 had a good point in saying that they made top ten in many countdowns. and if i am not mistaken, they were held in the top ten for many weeks on most of those shows... May 16

• seahawk317 said:

  man u guys really made a great breakthrough.,oh and im curious are u gonna make another album???? #1 Fan,Seahawk317 Aug 26

• fridayimb0ken said:

  i love angels and airwaves the adventures kind of reminds me of me my best friend just died and it like just is what it is i guess but the soung just reminds me of my situation ILoveIt so much! ILoveAngelsAndAirwaves bitches. Dec 21

• psgamer25 said:

  Okay Napoliam I must say you sound like you know your stuff but give it up man. They sound amazing. I don\'t care what you gotta say. They\'ve made the top 10 countdowns on many music shows. You\'re right they\'re music is breakthrough. Its simply amazing. Sounds great. The vocals don\'t sound nasally to me. Tom makes this cd something new. Its nothing like all the other bands and rock out there. This is alternative rock. This is what I\'ve been looking for. I don\'t know about any of their other fans but for me they get my vote. Angels and Airwaves sure hit a mark. Tom did a great job of making another hit band. Aug 02

• dancexwhoa said:

  you guys are amazing. wow i love \"the adventure\" is absoluting the best song in the universe. ily guys. you should deffinatly have a concert in charlotte! Jul 03

• Napoliam said:

  oh snap May 29

• Napoliam said:

  Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine How do you know that former blink-182 leader Tom DeLonge intends for his post-blink project Angels and Airwaves to be taken seriously? Because throughout their debut album, We Don\'t Need to Whisper, he relies on sounds and textures borrowed from 1988, the era when college rock was filled with atmospheric sonics and earnest politics. Specifically, he layers delayed guitars ripped from U2 over soundscapes equally inspired by the Cure, New Order, Peter Gabriel, and The Unforgettable Fire, all in an attempt to fashion a modern-day protest record. Lord knows it\'s an admirable break from his juvenile past, but good intentions don\'t necessarily make for good music, as We Don\'t Need to Whisper makes abundantly clear. DeLonge\'s main problem is that by relying on \'80s college rock as his template, he\'s fallen into a lot of traps that have made albums of that era sound hopelessly dated: overlong intros, lasting upward of 90 seconds; formless songs that never seem to peak, only drift; cold keyboards that work a factory preset too heavily; an over-reliance on delay pedals, not just on the guitars (which never once sound like anybody other than the Edge), but on the keyboards, which has the unfortunate side effect of making the somber \"Distraction\" sound like an homage to Paul McCartney\'s gleefully moronic \"Wonderful Christmas Time.\" That\'s not the only unintentional chuckle here DeLonge\'s thin, nasal voice cuts against the moody murk of his band, as if he were a little kid recording over his big brother\'s music. It also doesn\'t help that his screeds about war, society, and life are overly written, with words piling on top of each other in free-form song structures that tend to collapse under the weight of his ambition. Since DeLonge was starting to edge toward an interesting fusion of dark post-punk, tuneful pop-punk, and mature concerns on the last blink-182 album, such an over-reach is a disappointment, but it is understandable; it\'s a classic case of post-breakup indulgence. It may not make for a successful record, but it does make for an interesting one, particularly in how DeLonge\'s desire to be taken seriously has led him to use the serious music of his adolescence as a signifier that he\'s serious now, but We Don\'t Need to Whisper is too doggedly dour and amorphous to be more than a curiosity. May 29

• YOURWORSTENEMIEStBESTFRIEND_XX said:

  fucking amazing. everyone knows this band because tom from blink is in it. but the musakk is SO much different. theyre both amazing in their own ways..but this is just fucking amazing, no other words can really explain it. and thats all i have to say. May 20

• Brokensocialboy said:

  The Drummer from The Offspring is in this band and so are members from Hazen Street, Box Car Racer and The Distillers. Once again should be an awesome album. May 20

• Brokensocialboy said:

  I think I\'ll remember Tom for being in Angels and Airwaves more than being in Blink 182. The tracks provided are different from Blink182 and that\'s a good thing. Hey I heard the drummer from The Offspring is in this band. That\'s cool. May 20

• Stevie Steves said:

  This CD goes on the \"top 100 CDs you must listen to before you die\". I cant wait until 5/23/06. You guys rock. Tom you are the most inspirartional person ever. May 20

• KevinKokoski said:

  i have listened to 10 tracks off this album and it;s not as good as i expected t to be tom i really like the music you\'ve made with blink, but when you say youre gonna make the best f***ing rock and roll album... do it. i think you should have just stayed with blink.... you guys were my fav band and a big inspiration on music i write... May 19

• volcom007 said:

  i must have it!... Its soo awesome...Nice Work Guys May 19