Not only is the title of this review amazing, but so is this cd! I got this album about a year before anyone else on the planet had heard of Breaking Benjamin, so I was able to cherish this little secret all to myself for quite a while. Still, I'm glad the band is getting more exposure.

On Saturate, the songs are mostly all pretty aggressive, really thick and swingy-sounding. I don't think the band's structural techniques are as awesome as most people here seem to think, but it's still really cool and well inacted. The lyrics don't float my boat at all, but I guess the music is the main thing. I really like the song Home though. Those lyrics are probably the most imaginative and thoughtful on the entire album.

Some songs aren't very innovative, like Natural Life. The song Phase is fantasic in its soft, exotic buildup and refrain. The last song Shallow Bay might be the most forgettable of the lot, but the secret hidden track is to die for. If you like a good ballad, stick around for that hidden song!

Overall, the album is good stuff. I don't know why everyone's getting all nutty about this album. It's all in the eye of the beholder anyway.

James McClean

First off before my review. I dont think ive ever heard another band sound anything like Nickleback. Nickleback is the most least talented bands ever. They only get play time from their pop-rock mainstream singles which you only get one per album. The rest of their songs are just filler. Breaking Benjamin doesnt sound anything like them and well, they're just better than Nickleback. Saturate is a great cd but i do agree with another reviewer about We Are Not Alone being better. The little accent thing that Burnley does is a little annoying when used for every line but he does improve upon it in their sophomore cd. Overall this album gets 4 stars bc of Polyamorous and No Games.

Yeah, okay, you're right. When Breaking Benjamin plays one chord super-duper fast, it's hard. The intro to "Phase" has FOUR chords, and that automatically validates its relevance because - *duh* - four is bigger than two, yo. The band's collective left foot proficiently writes all of Breaking Benjamin's songs, and does it far better than I. Their blazing "dual guitar attacks" and "countermelodies" display a songwriting capacity that is "way above average" in these latter days, meriting great bucketfuls of awe and reverence. Yes, modern "punk" is indeed a travesty, and I'm sure that Breaking Benjamin perform their material with equal strength live as they do on record... though, as neither I nor Albert Einstein wear socks, that complicates their ability to "friekin' blow them off." But still.

Congratulations on correctly guessing that I am a lambasted ninny who plays the tuba and nothing else, so of course I could never understand the "advanced" notion that unmotivated, by-the-numbers music embodying everything that is corrupt and evil in the entertainment world is "difficult to coordinate." Your statements of personal attack are in no way fallacious, and thereby do not in any way discount your presumed value of "legitimacy" and "respect."

You courageously pointed out that "blindly bashing someone because you don't understand is the lowest form of stupidity." I would like to thank you deeply for making sure you thoroughly understood my assertions and my relationship with music before "bashing" my credibility or making outlandish claims against me. To have done so would have been, as you call it, "stupid," and rather flagrantly hypocritical of you, wouldn't you agree?

On a less personal note, this band is nothing but a more darkly perceived parody of - oh PLEASE, you knew it was coming! - Nickelback; a "cookie-cutter band" in every sense of the phrase. Seeing as your personal preference tends to lean toward groups of this nature (see: Staind, Three Days Grace, Seether, etc.), it may be difficult to realize this for a very long time. I know it did for me. But soon (again, like me) you will regard many of these current favorites with the same apparent abhorrence that you hold for "pop-punk bands of idiots who think they're still in high school." I know it may not make much sense today, but who's to say what tomorrow brings?

But I'll humor you. Someday, after returning to "school" and re-evaluating my life, I hope to meet you in "the same league." Until that glorious day, descending upon one another with glinting blades on a blood-stained field of battle, my friend, I bid thee farewell.