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Blame it on Green Day. Ever since Billie Joe and Co. released 2005's epic American
Idiot, the trend in pop punk has been to pile it on rather than strip
it back. New York's Bayside may not have the name recognition of neo-maximalists
like My Chem, Fall Out Boy and Panic -- sadly, they're best known for the 2005
tour-bus crash that killed drummer John "Beatz" Holohan. That may change
thanks to their fifth disc. Bayside remain a punk band, but The Walking
Wounded runs on chugging Metallica guitars and big rock production values.
An over-the-top thrash riff powers the title track, as singer Anthony Raneri wails,
"Scientists, they couldn't fix me/I'm so tired of getting out of bed."
The first single, "Duality," which has the makings of a radio hit, mines
a similar vein of despair, perhaps born of the band's tragic accident: "You're
the flame that burns me/So I know that I'm still alive." If this is Wounded,
Bayside will be scary when they reach full strength.
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Track List
- The Walking Wounded
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They're Not Horses, They're Unicorns (track not available in Rhapsody)
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Duality (track not available in Rhapsody)
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Carry On (track not available in Rhapsody)
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I And I (track not available in Rhapsody)
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Choice Hops And Bottled Self Esteem (track not available in Rhapsody)
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Head On A Plate (track not available in Rhapsody)
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Dear Your Holiness (track not available in Rhapsody)
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Landing Feet First (track not available in Rhapsody)
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Thankfully (track not available in Rhapsody)
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A Rite Of Passage (track not available in Rhapsody)
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(Pop)Ular SciencE (track not available in Rhapsody)
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