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Title: why is this so popular?
Review: to me, dashboard confessional represents the heighth of insidious "underground trendiness." it's the kind of band that muddled 15-year-olds weaned on mainstream radio will listen to, thinking that it's revelatory. getting right down to the heart of the matter, though, this is simply a man with an acoustic guitar singing songs about breakups and heartache. what is new/original/interesting about this? it feels like i've heard it a million times before. at least the strokes could live *up* to their hype. dashboard surprised me because they didn't even come *close*. i mean, listen to it! so bland and self-involved! it's as if carraba's taken the already-sophomoric verse of jimmy eat world and put it into a "sixth-grade poetry translating machine" of some sort. seriously, if you like radiohead, modest mouse, sunny day real estate, fugazi, sleater-kinney, or *any* band with interesting instrumentation and thoughtful lyrics, stay away from this cd. it's bafflingly bad.
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