V/A - Take Action Volume 9
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RIYL
Warped Tour CompilationsB-Sides
Good Causes
Release Date
02/09/2010
Label
Sub City/HopelessTracklist
Disc: 11. We The Kings - PSA
2. We The Kings - The Middle (Acoustic)
3. Mayday Parade - The Silence (Hurley Studio Acoustic)
4. There For Tomorrow - Backbone (Acoustic)
5. A Rocket To The Moon - Fool Everyone
6. The Ready Set - Drain Notes
7. We Are The In Crowd - Never Be What You Want
8. Every Avenue - Picture Perfect (featuring Tom Higgenson)
9. The Bigger Lights - Queen of Broken Hearts
10. This Providence - Keeping On Without You
11. The Friday Night Boys - Permanent Heartbreak (Acoustic)
12. Anarbor - Passion For Publication (Acoustic)
13. The Dangerous Summer - Surfaced (Acoustic)
14. Hit The Lights - Liars and Cheats
15. The Summer Set - Punch-Drunk Love (Acoustic)
16. The Swellers - Feet First (Acoustic)
17. Frank Turner - Rock and Roll Romance
18. Fake Problems - Mr. Rock and Roll
Disc: 2
1. 3OH!3 - Don't Trust Me (Casey Bates Remix)
2. Cobra Starship - Hot Mess (Innerpartysystem Remix)
3. Let's Get It - Maps (Joey Sturgis Remix)
4. The Secret Handshake - TGIF
5. Lights - Saviour (Colin Munroe's Unsung Mix)
6. VersaEmerge - Whisperer (Brian Southall Remix)
7. Bring Me The Horizon - Sleep With One Eye Open (Tek One Remix)
8. August Burns Red - Indonesia (Alternate Mix)
9. EATMEWHILEIMHOT! - xXBurritoXx
10. I Set My Friends On Fire - Things That Rhyme With Orange
11. Taking Back Sunday - Swing (Live in London)
12. All Time Low - Poison
13. The Downtown Fiction - I Just Wanna Run
14. The Almost - Birmingham
15. Set Your Goals - The Lost Boys
16. Take Notice - Northward Winds Were Bound To Happen
17. Broadway Calls - Jump At Shadows
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The Take Action compilation is a yearly release that is for a good cause. Five percent of each CD sale goes to a different cause every year with this year's money going towards Driving For Donors and Do Something. While the release doesn't have the greatest songs, for around $6 you can get a total of 35 tracks to add to your iPod (which is roughly 17 cents per track).
Most of the songs on here are new b-sides, remixes, acoustic songs, and unreleased material from some of the most known (and relatively unknown) signed bands in the music scene right now. The release opens with We The Kings doing a public service announcement telling what the release is about and the cause that the money is going to. The band also has a cover of Jimmy Eat World's “The Middle” that is definitely worth a listen. With every compilation album, there are also filler tracks that seem very unnecessary, such as the Casey Bates remix of 3OH!3's “Don't Trust Me” and Bring Me The Horizon's “Sleep With One Eye Open” Tek One remix. It is always nice to hear some of the b-sides that these compilations have to offer such as Set Your Goals' “The Lost Boys”, a b-side from This Will Be The Death Of Us that features New Found Glory's Jordan Pundik. Hit The Lights also brings a pretty nice acoustic track, “Liars and Cheats”, to the table.
The main bummer about this release is the absence of a DVD with music videos, something that has been a part of past compilations that many have enjoyed. It's always nice to see some of those music videos on your television rather than on youtube. Another blunder for this release would be all of the remixes that are included. None of the remixes seem to stand out at all and most seem to be thrown together just to fill up space and pad out this release. Some of the acoustic tracks seem to just be thrown on here too, but at least some of them sound decent. The release also seems to lean towards a pop punk audience with only a few hardcore tracks thrown into the mix.
If you want an honest opinion, you should probably skip this year's Take Action compilation. If you have an extra few bucks that you want to throw to a good cause and get something in return, then go ahead and pick this up. With 35 songs for you to listen to, it really isn't that bad of a deal.
--Dylan Newell
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Minnesota
There really wasn't anything on this albums to make it worth the (very affordable) price. It's like they took everything they could find from the cutting room floors and garbage cans that hadn't been emptied yet and tossed what they could onto these two discs. Lame.
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