AFI Makes People Do Bad Things

[Katie Schmitz]

AFI (http://www.absolutepunk.net/afi) write disturbing lyrics and should not be listened to. At least according to this article (http://www.pluggedinonline.com/thisweekonly/a0002767.cfm).

[disfiguredid]

spitalfield says stop doing bad things

[Erkin]

Gotta love how everything but the right things get blamed for causing trouble.

[ironlionOROKU]

whoever wrote that article is a cumfart.

[JohnDorian]

'Green Day-esque guitars' :-D

[Four]

yeah, fuck that.

High school football hero!

[leafsacc]

hahahahaha. That's what happens when you try to write on a subject which you are completely clueless about. Ever heard of figurative language?

[Cerpin Taxt]

I don't have anything to say about this article, but I feel the need to ask a related question: how fucking awesome is Decemberunderground?

[badstarsfall]

This person is a professional dumbist. Something tells me that to be a writer, you should be familiar with the definition of 'metaphor'.

[Ponyboy]

ha the writer said they were unknown before this album.
how many the sing did sorrow sell again?

what a tool

[miltownrob]

is it just me, or is their new cd really poorly mixed?

[DroppedUrPocket]

:devil:

[solanka]

Well maybe this will encourage all the 12year old twats on mysapce name XmissXxXxMurderXXX to kill themselves.

[LMB]

is it just me, or is their new cd really poorly mixed bad?
Fixed.

[unwritten]

hahaha, such idiots.

[miltownrob]

Fixed.

yea really, i want to sit down and listen to it, but i can't make it through the first song because of the way its produced.

[idobi]

pluggedinonline.com is a pop culture site fun by Focus on the Family, an evangelical christian organization responsible for pushing things like abstinance-only programs in schools. It's the last place you should be looking for music reviews. And if you do, just remember that they have an agenda...

[1Roth4]

He failed to mention that AFI writes about suicide and murder, and Nickleback makes people kill themselves and others. Preferably the lead singer of nickleback (chad)

[*crying stars*]

Country music causes more deaths than AFI or any other bands.

The writer knows nothing about the band. Haha.

[sell the sunris]

What amuse me is the fact that the reviewer clearly liked the album. Someone's being naaaaughty!

[IATA4224]

i have never read something so rediculous in my entire life... Its the same thing when they said Marilyn Manson and KMFDM are resposible for Columbine...

[FreddyKrueger]

Davey Havok is a weiner

[thereisalight]

that site criticises everything. the movie reviews are funny

[ACA]

People turn TO AFI in times of hardships and depression. Do you know how many people claim "AFI has saved my life"? A fucking a lot.

A lot more than Green Day ever saved..unless you count that grenade incident ;)

-ACA

[CWeezer]

that article was ridiculous. if the author maybe presented their argument with facts instead of bullshit, i could maybe then see their point. they obviously knew nothing about this band. i also would never classify AFI as pop?? or maybe that's just me.

[sell the sunris]

People turn TO AFI in times of hardships and depression. Do you know how many people claim "AFI has saved my life"? A fucking a lot.

A lot more than Green Day ever saved..unless you count that grenade incident ;)

-ACA
Oh come on, now. You can't say that when I've heard the same exact thing said about Green Day (btw you missed the coma incident hah!).

Don't get me wrong, I fully believe most of what you said is true, and I'm certainly not attack you, I just don't subscribe to the bit about 'AFI saved more lives than Green Day.' There's no way we could know that.

[AShannon04]

Apart from the fact that I completely disagree with the ridiculousness of this article, this person can't write for shit either. Learn to use compound sentences, pal.

And oh yeah, it's called the catharsis theory of media use...

[atticusfinch]

Haha. Gotta love those neoconservative religious zealots.

[Reiver]

They misqoute him. They make it seem like he's gay, when he's not. Its "I met my love before I was born" not "I met my love before he was born."

[CHRISRIPPEDOUT]

I agree with the should not be listened to, but the reasons aren't the same as mine.

[dukeboy1986]

Haha. Gotta love those neoconservative religious zealots.

Yeah, there seems to bea lot of them in SC....I remember there was this crazy fundamentalist group who were trying to start a theocracy down there around Greenville....

[Heartcore]

focus on the family sucks

[tbag311]

That was interesting...Should we not read books than that deal with killing? Should we not watch movies about the war?

[bertinthesuburb]

I never really saw anything special in AFI, after listening to all their albums, only 2 or 3 really stood out. Green day esque guitars on decemberundergound? i'd say that, but then again green day didnt really revolutionalise the guitar did they? (rhetorical)

All i can say is, this guy has a sweet job, writing articles about nothing in particular.

[underthetalking]

Actually you really shouldn't listen to AFI because they write crappy music.

[dropkickromance]

i love how every article on the bad things in music always have the words "marilyn manson" in them.

[mm30]

HA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thats some funny shit...Actually I talked to God today and he told me to tell this website(i mean the article this site came from not absolute obviously) and everyone involved to go fuck themselves!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Mercy Medical]

Sometimes Christians just need to shut the fuck up, seriously. I'm a Christian myself, but they're always thinking that popular culture is trying to change everyone and become some type of bad influence. I don't know, frankly if some idiot kid is going to dive that deep into the lyrics and then decide based on that they're going to kill themselves or something...well good riddance then...

[B_0202]

isn't this the same website that wrote the condemning review of Fall Out Boy's FUCT?

[Beloved Broken]

Just wait till Hunter gets that guy.

[armegeddon]

ha the writer said they were unknown before this album.
how many the sing did sorrow sell again?

what a tool

I think that is it was before iTunes.

[FallToGlory]

whoever wrote that article is a cumfart.

hahahaha

[joz]

i just listened to afi. i want to kill myself. oh please.
i love that the lyrics are dark, but most of them are beautiful at the same time.
untitled on sing the sorrow is one of the most beautiful things i have ever heard - thats why its in my sig. yeah its about dying, but its amazing.
i can just imagine the person writing it being 55, divorced and bald.

[senortetas]

Here is what I had to say:

Dear Adam-
Your writeup on A.F.I.'s newest album is so misguided and disgustingly Christian that it scares me how wrong you are on so many levels. Being a longtime A.F.I. fan I know that their music is, and always has been, pretty much metaphorical for the most part. Just like the bible, which I'm guessing you're quite familiar with, you can't and shouldn't take those writings literally but rather as metaphor's for other things in life. Don't plant the idea of A.F.I. being a bad band or spreading a bad message to people who are not familiar with them when you've clearly not digested what they're singing but rather merely judged them on their appearance. I'm going to go out on a limb and say you also voted for Bush because of his repetitive 'God Bless America' chants, and you now see how well his presidency has turned out. There's nothing Christian about being intolerant of other people's views or ideas. I look forward to your response.

[sk8erpunk52]

I TOTALLY disagree. That is bullshit and whoever wrote that article should go kill THEMSELVES and get all AFI fans out of THEIR misery.:dry:

[crazycatlady]

i feel the need to respond to this article with a big fat pshhhhhhh.

[sk8erpunk52]

That reporter needs to lay off the meds and getc back to reality. AFI is totally awesome and nobodyshould say otherwise.:devil: :devil: :devil: :devil: :devil:

[bung]

haha damn christians, but the new afi is a little on the weak side anyway.

[The Revisionist]

Here is what I had to say:

Dear Adam-
Your writeup on A.F.I.'s newest album is so misguided and disgustingly Christian that it scares me how wrong you are on so many levels. Being a longtime A.F.I. fan I know that their music is, and always has been, pretty much metaphorical for the most part. Just like the bible, which I'm guessing you're quite familiar with, you can't and shouldn't take those writings literally but rather as metaphor's for other things in life. Don't plant the idea of A.F.I. being a bad band or spreading a bad message to people who are not familiar with them when you've clearly not digested what they're singing but rather merely judged them on their appearance. I'm going to go out on a limb and say you also voted for Bush because of his repetitive 'God Bless America' chants, and you now see how well his presidency has turned out. There's nothing Christian about being intolerant of other people's views or ideas. I look forward to your response.You are putting assumptions into a letter... that is against a review full of illogical assumptions?

You are a moron.

[xPaulWallx]

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000FFJ85I/ref=pd_bxgy_text_1/103-4738733-0705400?v=glance&s=music&st=*

[wtfemokid]

captain ridiculous

[screwtape]

the lyrics to this album are very bad. so i guess i'm an idiot like the author of the article.

[atticusfinch]

Yeah, there seems to bea lot of them in SC....I remember there was this crazy fundamentalist group who were trying to start a theocracy down there around Greenville....
ha, yeah. I hate living here.

[TheBaroness]

I'd love to hear their thoughts on an Alkaline Trio album...