Say Anything

The lead singer of this 'Nom de Band’, Max Bemis and his other stalwart Coby Linder change fellow band members as often as they do their medication. ',.Is a Real Boy’ is their second album and has just been re-released by their record label. You would have thought that a record company would only RE-release albums which were good, but then there you go, the world never does quite what you think it will.

So the story goes, when recording this album, Bemis was so distraught at how generic the band sounded that he changed the track list around and tried to form this into some sort of Rock Opera. During the course of recording, in a cannabis fuelled haze, he had a nervous breakdown which led to him being diagnosed as having Bipolar disorder and paranoid schizophrenia, the latter of which is tempered by his new aversion to huge spliffs.

It’s no wonder he had a nervous breakdown. This is about as much as Rock Opera as Jordan is a literary great and quite why the two lads thought this was steering away from being generic can only have plenty to do with the excessive amount of cannabis they no doubt smoked, coupled with a complete inability to hear properly.

To top it all off, Say Anything have been on tour recently with Dashboard Confessional, who are so crap the album may as well be sold with a pooper scooper so you at least won’t get your hands dirty when removing it from of your CD player.

Apparently, Bemis’ claim to fame is that he was in the poster for the movie 'Raising Arizona’ and was an extra in 'Face Off’, which is sort of ironic as that movie’s about as entertaining as this album. This review has no specific musical criticism.