SAY ANYTHING 04/24/2001 (The self-affirming defiance in the

(The self-affirming defiance in the chorus "He can't even run his own life/I'll be damned if he'll run mine

leaving a nearly perfect homage to a lost pop era that probably never existed but that never-say-die types like Schneider believe in nonetheless

They may be gone but they'll never be forgotten

with a swinging shuffle beat and a DJ-friendly sense of progression

A2                   Alison Hell

SAY ANYTHING 04/24/2001 (The self-affirming defiance in theClocking in at 46 minutes nearly half the running time of 2007's IN DEFENSE OF THE GENRE Say Anything's fourth album is both trim and tuneful, with Sam Bemis devoting more focus than ever to the tightening of his quirky, unchained pop songs. "Focus" is a relative term, of course; the frontman still finds time to run wild throughout this disc, rearranging conventional song structures like Picasso and sampling from multiple genres emo, rock, punk pop,