a onblur=”try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}” href=”http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1133/636/1600/Division%20Day%20-%20The%20Mean%20Way%20In%20cover.jpg”img style=”margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;” src=”http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1133/636/320/Division%20Day%20-%20The%20Mean%20Way%20In%20cover.jpg” alt=”" border=”0″ //aJust like a solid mix tape, it’s hard to determine the audience, their tastes and preferences and willingness to listen to whatever it is that you think is good.span style=”" /spanIf you start with a song too rigid, or hard, you risk the chance of quickly alienating your listener.span style=”" /spanOn the opposite end of the spectrum, attempting to build a foundation with a powerless song can have quite the opposite effect.span style=”" /spanIn that case the mix can easily be categorized as something essentially useless; unless used as a sleep inducing opiate.span style=”" /spanNone the less, i style=”"a href=”http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=as2path=ASIN/B0002ELWLAamp;amp;tag=culturebully-20camp=1789amp;creative=9325″The Mean Way In/aimg src=”http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=culturebully-20l=as2amp;o=1a=B0002ELWLA” alt=”" style=”border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important;” border=”0″ height=”1″ width=”1″ //i avoids this conflict altogether with its opening track “Bad Black Moon;” offering up a truly solid opener.span style=”" /spani style=”"a href=”http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=as2path=ASIN/B0002ELWLAamp;amp;tag=culturebully-20camp=1789amp;creative=9325″The Mean Way In/aimg src=”http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=culturebully-20l=as2amp;o=1a=B0002ELWLA” alt=”" style=”border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important;” border=”0″ height=”1″ width=”1″ //i offers a series of well polished rock songs which characterize just what I thought rock was missing in 2004.span style=”" /spanMy only interjection of criticism would be that the final song “Wings and Bones” completely wipes the slate clean of all things rocking.span style=”" /spanNone the less when reading into the band’s history I had to ask myself, “Self?span style=”" /spanWhat exactly is the intended outcome of a band who claims both Deerhoof and The Beach Boys as influences?”span style=”" /spanFurthermore, this bastard child of seemingly all things hip has played with now-defunct rockers Mclusky.span style=”" /spanSufficed to say, until Mclusky, Deerhoof and Brian Wilson presume metaphysical form and spawn a non-screamo EP circa 2004…i style=”"a href=”http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=as2path=ASIN/B0002ELWLAamp;amp;tag=culturebully-20camp=1789amp;creative=9325″The Mean Way In/aimg src=”http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=culturebully-20l=as2amp;o=1a=B0002ELWLA” alt=”" style=”border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important;” border=”0″ height=”1″ width=”1″ //i will do.br /br /a href=”http://www.divisionday.com/music/bbm.htm”Division Day “Bad Black Moon”/abr /a href=”http://www.divisionday.com/music/tint.htm”Division Day “There Is No Telling”/abr /br /a href=”http://www.divisionday.com/”Division Day: Official Home Page/abr /a href=”http://www.myspace.com/divisionday”Division Day: My Page/a