{"id":488,"date":"2005-09-16T02:16:35","date_gmt":"2005-09-16T07:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skateandannoy.com\/reviews\/?p=488"},"modified":"2013-12-21T23:44:36","modified_gmt":"2013-12-21T23:44:36","slug":"the-dogs-suburban-nightmare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skateandannoy.com\/reviews\/music\/2005\/09\/the-dogs-suburban-nightmare\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dogs: Suburban Nightmare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/skateandannoy.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2005\/09\/dogs-suburban.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/skateandannoy.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2005\/09\/dogs-suburban-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"dogs-suburban\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1178\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skateandannoy.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2005\/09\/dogs-suburban-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/skateandannoy.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2005\/09\/dogs-suburban-275x275.jpg 275w, https:\/\/skateandannoy.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2005\/09\/dogs-suburban-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/skateandannoy.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2005\/09\/dogs-suburban-160x160.jpg 160w, https:\/\/skateandannoy.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2005\/09\/dogs-suburban.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Dogs: Suburban Nightmare<br \/>\nLabel: Dionysus Records<br \/>\nRelease Date: 2003<br \/>\nReview Date: 9\/15\/05<\/p>\n<p>The same Dogs that did <em>A Younger Point of View<\/em>. (Can you tell where I\u2019m getting my Dogs education?) Suburban Nightmare features the original Dogs lineup in it\u2019s entirety. Musically,  Suburban Nightmare sounds like a lot of MC5\/Stooges inspired Detroit-style grunge being rehashed by so many bands these days. These guys  are from the era and location (Lansing Michigan), unlike bands that have managed to update or pay tribute to the genre. The Dogs probably had a lot of fun getting back together and recording these tunes. It\u2019s hard to tell when they were written. The sort of awkward bravado of the lyrics and vocal delivery is straight out of the time capsule. The vocals in Suburban Nightmares suffer in the mix and the recording isn\u2019t as powerful as the attitude. Basically, the performances weren\u2019t quite captured. It\u2019s not at all embarrassing like a re-formed and out of touch middle-agers trying to relive their youth, but the finished project tends to just fade into one long blur and nothing outstanding comes to mind. It\u2019s a fun record that has a mix of serious angst and juvenile humor, but it\u2019s not nearly as memorable as similar current efforts like the D4\u2019s 6Twenty (a comparison I\u2019m sure they\u2019ll hate).  If you judge it as a reunion album or against the current trend, the results are about the same..<\/p>\n<p>Online Action: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedogsrock.com\">www.thedogsrock.com<\/a><br \/>\nOnline Action: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dionysusrecords.com\">www.dionysusrecords.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dogs: Suburban Nightmare Label: Dionysus Records Release Date: 2003 Review Date: 9\/15\/05 The same Dogs that did A Younger Point of View. (Can you tell where I\u2019m getting my Dogs education?) Suburban Nightmare features the original Dogs lineup in it\u2019s entirety. Musically, Suburban Nightmare sounds like a lot of MC5\/Stooges inspired Detroit-style grunge being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1178,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[206450,206449],"class_list":["post-488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-dionysus-records","tag-the-dogs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/skateandannoy.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2005\/09\/dogs-suburban.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skateandannoy.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skateandannoy.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skateandannoy.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skateandannoy.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skateandannoy.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skateandannoy.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skateandannoy.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skateandannoy.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skateandannoy.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skateandannoy.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}