Dashboard Meat Loaf

In a moment of weakness and based on 30 second sound bites, several months ago I downloaded from e-music three or four cuts of Dashboard Confessional. This morning I finally got around to listening to them in their entirety. Oops -- we all make mistakes. Let's just say this: can there be any doubt that Dashboard is this generation's answer to the recently career-resurrected Meat Loaf?