You mae go back to Mae's main paege... Destination: Trash Can Overall Album Score: 4.3 out of 10 This is a band with problems. ... And this is a country with problems. People are actually buying this album, listening to it, and liking it ...... THIS ALBUM IS HORRIBLE!!!!!! WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE!!!!!!! Oh man, where do I even begin... BY FAR the most glaring flaw of this band is the lead singer. His voice is technically fine ... he manages to hit the right notes all the time. It's just not good to listen to! There is never ever an ounce of personality in that voice. Not an ounce of soul. NOTHING! And it really gets annoying sometimes ... such a whiny, wimp of a voice. ... Seriously, this guy needs to hit the road. Get a job in accounting or something. Singing is simply not his field. Another big problem is the instrumentation. GOLLY these guys are AWFUL instrumentalists. ... It's not quite as bad as the voice, just because ... it's not a voice, I guess. But, these guys also have NO innovation. ... WOW ... A crappy singer? A crappy band? ... Yeah, Mae is Destination: Nowhere. I will say this for them. Whoever produced this obviously had a clue. The first song on here and the best, "Embers and Envelopes" is so polished that it almost hurts. (And, incidentally, that is one of two songs that I can tolerate.) The songwriting, for what it's worth, isn't too bad, either. But, really, if you don't have a band capable of performing them, then what's the point? Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh, and there's a follow-up album ... the music reviewing life sucks sometimes. Overall Album Score: 4.3 out of 10 (Ohhhhhhhhhh, be sure never to listen to this album.) Average Song Score: 4.8 (There's only two good songs in here ... and I probably was being charitable...) Album Tilt: 4.0 (Waaaaaaaaaay too spotty. The scores range from an 8.5 to a 1.5 ... This is simply a horrid album to have to force yourself through. This is pop-oriented music, too! ... The last thing it should be is horrible to sit through.) Artist Rating: 4.0 (They manage to screw a lot of things up in this album. ... Some of these might have made decent songs, too.) Track Reviews Embers and Envelopes 8.5/10 The melody really isn't too horrible here ... But the presentation leaves a lot to be desired. Yeah, the production is polished and the singing is technically perfect, I guess. (This guy's a pretty terrible vocalist, though ... he's the principal reasons this band is no good.) But there's absolutely nothing here that seems to indicate that Mae was ever into this song. Technically, this is excellent, but there's no heart in this song whatsoever. This Time is the Last Time 3/10 This is a bad song not because the melody is bad, but those choppy chords throughout much of the song is mind-numbingly annoying! YIKES!!!! The singing, again, sounds like the lead singer is sucking on cheese. Lastly, the chorus stinks! ... Yeah, it's pretty safe to say that this song sucks a lot. All Deliberate Speed 3/10 *Buries face in palm* ... Ooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, the first three minutes of this is just painful to sit through! This is just utterly soulless!!! Again, though, the instrumentation is annoying and ... you know, it sounds like somebody was trying to be creative in this band ... and I totally respect that ... but they're just VERY spotty at that. There's a little bit of redemption at the end of the song, but ... my respect for it was pretty much wasted by then. Runaway 6/10 They really should stop doing those choppy guitar chords! I don't know what the point of them are if you're not going to be danceable with it! I thought that's why that was invented! ... And, speaking of danceable, where's your bassist? Surely this band has a bassist! 'Cause whoever's the bassist should take it upon himself/herself to spice these freaky crappy songs up! ... "Runaway" is certainly better than those previous three songs, but it's no picnic in the park. The chorus is fairly listenable, but ... it's principally the choppy guitar chords that messes this up so horribly! Sun 4/10 Honestly. I'm really trying. I don't want to hate this band! I don't want to hate these songs! ... It doesn't help that these songs suck, though! ... OH, GOODNESS GRACIOUS ARE THESE SONGS TERRIBLE!!!! ... While this song doesn't have anything particularly annoying about the instrumentation, there's just very little here in terms of melody. Even worse, this whole song is too unfocused to really even be considered a song in the practical sense. ... Not being more than five minutes long also would have been beneficial. Last Call 8.5/10 MUCHHHHHHHHHHHHH better this time. This one sounds more like a regular old pop song that ain't offensive to the ears. ... There's nothing great about this song, though. The melody has only a few hooks in it and, again, the vocals keep this song from becoming excellent. ... Skyline Drive 6.5/10 The first minute of this made me squirm in my seat ... but fortunately, this six-minute slowly-paced does pick up steam... the best parts, incidentally, is where there is no singing. Those parts are rather calming ... they're not great, but ... it's as great as this freaking album will ever get. When we get to the three-minute mark, the song starts getting excruciating again (and, incidentally, features overdubbed vocal tracks). Soundtrack to Our Movie 6/10 ...They're going a little New Wavey here. And they have a bass mixed in here loud enough that I can hear it! ... Yay! ... The melody of this song is decent except the chorus, where the melody is downright annoying. ... And the more I'm listening to this, the more I'm convinced that this lead singer is the worst singer EVER. I think I want to hit him. Summertime 2/10 At the beginning of this song, at least, the melody here is one of the album's worst. Not a hook in sight. No soul in the song. The vocals are as bad as ever. The instrumentation is worse than ever (in spite of the fact I can hear the freaking bass). This song is just horribly done. I don't think this would fare very well on American Idol, either. ... The only redeeming quality about it is that brief calm part in the middle of the song ... It was like the eye of a particularly damaging hurricane. Giving it Away 1.5/10 Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!! I ... WANT ... TO ... STOP ... LISTENING ... TO ... THIS ... NOW! Not only is this song another toneless heap of crap, but ........................... this is a toneless heap of crap that's FIVE AND A HALF MINUTES LONG. I'm tired of this album! I'm tired of constructive criticism! This band can eat it! Goodbye, Goodnight 4/10 The Castle AGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!! Can people honestly look me in the eye and tell me they like this band? ... This is just excruciating to me! ABSOLUTELY HORRID!!! AND ... I'm so glad this is over. ... I don't know what it is about them. It's not difficult to play your instruments and make them sound nice ... Again, this song is mostly horrible except for a decent part in the middle of this. ... But really, it's horrible ... This album sucks. Be a person to tell me so here! maekicksassyousuck@hotmail.com (HAH) received Sept. 26, 2005 Mae rocks and YOU have problems. GOD you make me mad I LOVE MAE. Goodbye, Goodnight is my FAVOURITE SONG EVER! I think its soooo good!! HOW can you NOT appreciate this. You make me sad. VERY SAD good bye.

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