Agony & Irony | 
 enlarge | Artist: Alkaline Trio
Label: Sony
Category: Music
List Price: $15.98
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Rating:  30 reviews
Sales Rank: 3658
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.7 x 0.2
MPN: 717247
UPC: 886971724721
EAN: 0886971724721
ASIN: B0019M82W6
Release Date: July 1, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Calling All Skeletons | | • | Help Me | | • | In Vein | | • | Over And Out | | • | I Found A Way | | • | Live Young, Die Fast | | • | Love, Love,Kiss,Kiss | | • | Lost and Rendered | | • | Ruin It | | • | Into The Night |
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Album Description
Alkaline Trio's 2008 album Agony & Irony. Alkaline Trio have been playing their unique brand of hardcore Punk music to legions of fans for over ten years. With Matt Skiba on guitar and vocals, Derek Grant on drums and Dan Adriano on bass, the band emerged from the working class suburbs of Chicago,Illinois in 1997. The Trio released their first two albums with indie label Asian Man Records and then joined Vagrant Records in 2001. Over the past decade, Alkaline Trio's sounds and lyrics have evolved from raw, loud, and uninhibited as to refined, poetic and profound as heard on their last release, Crimson. The album was produced by Josh Abraham (Staind, Korn) and features the lead single 'Help Me'.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Good but not great August 8, 2008
Robert Clayton (Little Rock, AR)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Overall a solid album, but in my opinion not as good as Crimson or Good Mourning. If you are a fan of the group I don't think you will be disappointed it is just not as good as the previous albums(which I love).
 A Pleasing New Album August 4, 2008
Julie K. Lary (Seattle, WA USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Agony and Irony is a great new album. Some die hard Trio fans are finding this new sound hard to take but I find it rather refreshing and it really isn't that different to me. The lyrics are still dark and brooding and although the music is a lot catchier than that of the past, it is still some of the best musicianship in the business. Alkaline Trio are growing as a band not withering away, and Agony and Irony is proof of that. Each track is sheer perfection. I would expect nothing less of this band.
 SO what if its not like the highly overrated old cd's. August 4, 2008
paulsubpopman
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I probably am one of the only people out there that think cd's like "Good Mourning" and "Crimson" were much better than "Godamit" or "Maybe Ill catch fire". To me those cd's were amateurish at best with no real catchy melodies. A classic release like "Crimson" showed them completely grown up and making the best cd of the year and their career. I think all these haters need to grow up and blossom like The Alkaline trio did. As for the new cd, "Agony and Irony", besides the tacky title, I like this cd alot! Sure there are some throwaway's but for the majority, this cd has plenty of great songs. And so what if they were on "The Hills"! All in all, this ranks as no.3 on my top Alkaline Trio cd's with"Good Mourning" 2nd and "Crimson" in first. Good job guys.
 Boring July 28, 2008
M. C Wright (Indianapolis, IN USofA)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I just couldn't figure out what was wrong with this album, it just wasn't that good. I mean they got chops but the melodies sounded rehashed and the lyrics were extremely uninspired (I swear "hell" must be Matt's favorite word) and the art work was pathetic, I mean seriously guys you're on a major now now I'd expect better. Who knows? I mean maybe this is good but most people doubted this and most people were right and while I usually don't rely on the majority I rely on them in this instant. Boring, contrived, avoid. Alkaline Trio, again, continue to disappoint.
Solid, albeit a bit redundant in methodology... July 24, 2008
Ryan K. Frace (Easton, PA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I've been enjoying A3's music for about a decade now. I accept that they've changed for good since their Chicago days, and am able to enjoy elements of every release they have. With that said, a number of songs on this album are gems, and several are varied enough to keep your interest through and through. My one concern, and it's pretty significant, is the fact that almost every song (or far too many, at the very least) follows the same exact blueprint. Each song stays low key throughout the main verses, and then they break into this overly-polished (over-produced/poppy/programmatic?) chorus. Listen to the first 5 or so tracks and it's difficult to feel like each song becames stale & predictable in all the wrong ways - that is, you know exactly what the coming chorus will sound like without having heard it because every damn song is approached the same way (compare this to Good Mourning, for instance, which is extremely varied from song to song). The music becomes more varied as the disc moves on, so perhaps listening to it on random would mitigate this a little. All complains aside, though, I'm just grateful that there's a new full length available, and that it is solid in most respects.
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