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| Fast Times at Barrington High | 
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| Artist: The Academy Is...
Label: Fueled By Ramen
Category: Music
List Price: $13.98
Buy New: $7.00
You Save: $6.98 (50%)
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Avg. Customer Rating:  20 reviews
Sales Rank: 3383
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 512263
UPC: 075678989803
EAN: 0075678989803
ASIN: B001CCHPFI
Release Date: August 19, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
The Academy Is...BACK! August 27, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
After being severely disappointed with the sophomorically jinxed Santi (critically acclaimed, really?), I was pleasantly surprised to see this band back to form. This is no Almost Here (and I wouldn't want it to be) but it is far superior to Santi. The melodies and riffs are back and I can't stop humming most of the songs. Some bands never learn from their mistakes and I can tell that The Academy Is...did. Automatic Eyes is easily my favorite song while His Girl Friday can be kind of annoying. Overall, I think this album will bring back fans of the band who had given up on them after Santi. Welcome back guys!
 the academy is... kinda sucky August 24, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
A disappointing effort from the academy is... Each time I listen to this album I keep hoping for these songs to grow on me, but they simply don't. Lyrics are vague and uninspiring. The new single is dire. But what hurts the most is that this album seriously lacks the energy, pace and catchiness that we find in 'Santi' and 'Almost Here'.
It is only towards the end of 'Fast Times' that things pick up slightly with songs such as "beware! cougar!" and "Paper Chase" which sound a little more like the academy is as we'd expect, but even then, they still don't quite get the job done. I hate to write a negative review about such a cool band, lets hope the next album picks up where they left of with 'Santi'.
 love it! August 25, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
XD i love it , its catchy , its fun , its energetic and has great songs , great summer cd. obviously people dont understand that they dont want to write the same stuff over and over again this is them expirimenting and progressing trying to still have fun.
I do like this album August 25, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Sure it's juvenile and seemingly backwards progressing in terms of what they did on Santi. But these songs are for the most part instantly likeable and they reverberate. Similar to Cartel's eponymous album, this is a summer-time-like album that deserves 4 stars but that's a temporary review in terms of staying power... in less than a month, this album won't be all that listenable. But, far better than that terrible 'Cute Is What We' album.
Don't be fooled: It's actually NOT an artistic regression, not at all October 1, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I totally get the feelings of disappointment that people may feel when initially hearing these songs. I mean, compared to "Santi" this album is a total detour from that darker rock sound into a blatantly simple shiny pop sound. At first, listening to the album made the band seem like they had regressed into a more generic pop style, but it makes a lot more sense when viewed as a concept album. It's really centered around that youthful high school time, which would, for most, entail simple lyrics with simple melodies. Once I kind of realized that it wasn't just an arbitrary, redundant use of high school experiences and boldly colorful melodies, but started seeing it as being deliberately reflective of a teenager's high school experience, I finally got a sense of the band's growth. Without being aware of that, it will seem like an awful deviation from their former album, "Santi" which was a lot less bright and pop-sounding than "Fast Times", but that sophomore album clearly wasn't going for the vibe of an adolescent's life. I think the band's found a home in the power-pop genre. I'm sure that if this wasn't a concept album, the melodies would be a little more variant among the different tracks and the lyrics would involve issues less simplified and beyond the realm of a high school kid's field of concern All in all, don't be an idiot like me, and be conscious upon your first listen that all the references to high school, 80's pop culture, and all of the other seemingly young or immature aspects of the album, are deliberately based on a predetermined aim and concept that the band probably had to begin with. Because a lot of the time, what appears to be idiotic becomes intelligent when you realize it was on purpose.
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