First of all this album simply sucks, the music sucks and the lyrics suck. This is their worst material ever. What’s the point of this album? I didn’t get it. Was it not sounding the same, was it limiting their talent, was it being more mainstream, was it being more fun? Well if that last two options were the case, it failed to be that as well. I expected so much more from Project 86, since all of their previous albums are really great. I mean their sound and lyrics represent a lot, a lot of emotion, a lot of what is going on today, on personal problems with spirituality, the society, the government, etc. But this last album failed to do any of that. I keep listening to it over and over again in order to “get it” but I just don’t. It is the least entertaining in any way or form, even artistically, that is except for 2 songs, the only 2 songs worth listening to; “Evil (A Chorus Of Resistance)”, that being the one they’ve promoted and sounding quite cool while having good lyrics and “Caveman Jam”, that at least have some sort of decent lyrics and sound, although not “mind blowing”. But these 2 songs doesn’t really save the album, the album is a real waste of time and a waste of our money. Don’t even try to download it or anything cause it simply sucks. Go buy any of the other albums, even the first one, it wasn’t that good, but it’s definitely better than Rival Factions. Just one last thing; a question for Andrew Schwab, lyricist and vocalist of Project 86; “Dude what the f**k is wrong with you? I mean, really.”
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Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero
All I have to say is “what the hell is this piece of s**t?” I should throw it in the garbage where the rest of all their albums belong. The only decent album they’ve ever made was [with teeth], other than that, all of their efforts are a waste of time and talent. Trent Reznor doesn’t really suck, nor his band, it’s just that… I don’t know, both together, doing this “industrial” garbage just doesn’t work for me. Not that industrial music is garbage, cause I’ve heard other bands and enjoyed them, ex; Rammstein, but Nine Inch Nails doesn’t really do it for me, and like I said before [with teeth] is their best work ever. I can listen to [with teeth] over and over again and still enjoy it. The inspiration that album gives it’s endless, but Year Zero just failed to do that. They went backwards with this album, ten years into the past, when they didn’t know the meaning of really meaningful music and songs. Year Zero is boring musically and lyrically and the only semi-good song is Survivalism, but that doesn’t even make the album any better. Anyway, I hope for Nine Inch Nails the best, maybe in the future they’ll make another album just as good as [with teeth], with meaningful songs and really good music.
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Velvet Revolver - Libertad
"Libertad"? Why is this album called "Libertad"? Well, not much can be said about this album, but at the same time it can. The music is good, but kinda boring and the voice of Scott Weiland sounds like sober Backstreet Boy member. I mean, it’s not that bad, he could’ve sound worse. I guess what I’m trying to say here is that Libertad is an album to be enjoyed in a quiet comfort of your home, maybe while resting in your bed as you read a book, or sitting on a chair while you playing cards with your friends from the church. I don’t know. I expected a lot more from Velvet Revolver. Don’t get me wrong, this album doesn’t suck, it just that it could’ve been done a lot better, it could’ve been a more rock-your-ass-to-hell-kinda album. It doesn’t pumps you, it kinda puts you down with the fact Scott doesn’t yell, doesn’t sing with his weird but unique voice, and most of his lyrics makes sense. One of the things that I thought make Weiland an original singer/song writer was the way he wrote the lyrics and the way he sang them, only he could be so imaginative. But as I was saying there are no loud, fast driven riffing songs in this album. But just simple, soft, may-you-be-in-peace-with-God-kinda songs. This album is not intolerable, it just that is not that entertaining. Other than that, it’s cool.
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Queen Of The Stone Age: Era Vulgaris
Great album. Excellent job guys! Keep the good work. It blew my mind away. Can’t say anything bad about this album. Just that I have been waiting for an album like this. Really artistic, while being really real with today’s situations, and not limiting to do things differently but carefully done. Great, great, great material. Saw the video a few days ago and it’s good as well. "Songs For The Deaf" is their second best album, "Era Vulgaris" their first. Like I said before, excellent job guys!
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Tori Amos: American Doll Posse
Yeah, yeah, I know this album is a few months old and I shouldn’t comment on it as if it was new. But hell, a few months ago I didn’t have the idea to make a blog where I commented about how good or s***y albums are. So yeah, American Doll Posse is a good album with great lyrics. Not much innovation here but Tori doesn’t needs it, cause she’s just great. The song Big Wheel is really funky, kinda cowboyish, a real fun song with really great and meaningful lyrics. The rest of the album follows that path, being completely entertaining while being well written. Very, very, very artistic! The songs that outstand the others are "Code Red" and "Dark Side Of The Sun" (that have been months in my mp3 player). These two songs are simply beautiful and inspiring! Great job Tori, I didn’t expect less from you. You are the queen of meaningful and beautiful songs and of art itself. I guess I’ll wait for the next album to be just as beautiful and artistic as this one.
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KoRn - "Untitled"
I’m not sure if the album is really called "Untitled" or not, but that’s how stores everywhere has it labeled. I guess it’s the fact that KoRn never put an actual title for the album that forced the music stores to think “I guess the album should be named Untitled since they never gave us any information about the actual title of the album and we can’t simply named it KoRn, since there’s already a KoRn album with the same name (the first one).” Other than that stupid joke-comment I just made up, the "Untitled" album is good, it’s not all that great, but for how KoRn’s See You On The Other Side album turned out to be, Untitled is better. You can call it “the refined version of SYOTOS”, that’s how I perceive it when I listen to it. The mistakes they made SYOTOS while experimenting with sounds, they didn’t make it here. Cause in my opinion SYOTOS had many s***y composed songs, songs that musically didn’t make much sense, and the ones they “got away” with weren’t all that incredible. But on Untitled they refined that “new” sound A LOT! It’s true that they “copied” some techniques and styles from bands like Marilyn Manson, Orgy, Kidney Thieves and a bit of Evanescence (yuck!). But all in all, the album is good, has good “vibe” to it, and definitely it’s not a waste of talent and efforts. These “new” tune ups that they experimented with here turned out pretty well. Don’t get me wrong, it won’t ever be the classic KoRn that we used to know, but I guess that sometimes can be good, not always though, but KoRn, you see, already was “burning out”. So they needed to change their sound a little in order to stay in the mainstream business as well as the music business. The songs that stand out from the rest are; “Starting Over”, “Ever Be”, “Hushabye” and “I Will Protect You". This is their fourth best album (in my opinion) and this is the order where I have them catalogued; 1) KoRn (Duh! Cause it’s a classic), 2) Follow The Leader (This is when the Nü Metal “boom” began to rise), 3) Untouchables (Cause it’s a very, very, VERY well done album) and 4) Untitled (Cause here they refine their “new” sound, making it sound a lot more professional). So to end my opinion on KoRn’s new album Untitled, I’ll say this; Give it a try, give these guys a chance, they are really trying, and this time around they didn’t mess up as much.
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