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01 - March Of Potshot 02 - Set Me Free 03 - Forever Together 04 - A Mililon Lights　Miles Away 05 - Walk With You 06 - Standing In The Shadow 07 - Lovely Thing 08 - Dance With Me 09 - Waltz For Two 10 - Ready Go Ok! 11 - Piece Of Scene 12 - The Shine In You 13 - Power To The Children 14 - Bad Dream 15 - One Fine Day 16 - No Eternity |
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Honestly, it's been pretty hard trying to review this album. Not that it is filled with so much variety and general goodness that I can't find the words to describe it. Not even that it is atypically hard to describe. But it's the opposite of all of those reasons that normally make review writers struggle with adjectives. No, Potshot Beat Goes On left me so uninspired and is so typical that I find myself struggling instead to remember to listen to and think about it. Why turn off that album that has soul or creativity to listen to a ska punk album that you've already heard and grown tired of on twenty different occasions (but with different album names)? Well, I couldn't really find more of a reason other than to inform the general public that Potshot still hasn't found their way and they still haven't found an ounce of originality or inspiration. Potshot Beat Goes On is a pretty pathetic final album, but it's fairly fitting that it's just as yawn-worthy as their last few. The problem is that Potshot actually used to be a fairly decent band. Well, just about as good as a simplistic (yet fun) ska-punk group can be without reinventing or even reworking their sound at all in eight years of existence. See, back around 1997 Potshot released their debut record (Pots And Shots) and that record was pretty terrific. It summed up everything that was great about third-wave ska-punk;, it was fast, fun, catchy, and had tons of gang vocals and great horn sections. Even a couple of the records following their debut were pretty good. But still none of them really came close to the original and instead relied on the same formula without the inspiration or timeliness of that first time out. After six albums of the same nonsense it's become noticeable that Potshot is completely content with rewriting the same melody, song, and album year after year leaving any of their last four records completely interchangeable. Their "classic" formula is taking upbeat punk anthems and adding horns and back-up vocals pulled straight from Slapstick or Less Than Jake. After the music is derivative enough, they top it all off with Ryoji's god-awful, though strangely fitting, English lyrics and vocals. This used to work really well when the band was still fresh out the gates and full of working ideas that were somewhat new for the ska-punk scene that started primarily in America. But on Potshot Beat Goes On, that formula is starting to show more than an acceptable amount of wear and tear. A lot of the chord progressions and melodies sound scarily familiar and not even just from their own songs. Thankfully, they haven't really bothered to try to make their final album anything like the expected epic swan song; none of the songs even reach three minutes! If anything, it's pretty refreshing that they've managed to maintain their economy through the years. On the flipside though, they didn't really try very hard to do much of anything. There aren't any classic songs like "Freedom," "Radio," or "Mexico" from their previous albums; the entire album blurs together with the rest of their material. "Walk With You" and "Piece Of Scene" are minor highlights, thanks mostly to the change of pace from the tired anthems that dominate the disc. For a final release, Potshot Beat Goes On is awfully forgettable and I'm afraid the same can be said for the band themselves, despite their strong contributions in the late 90's. |
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