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Ooh yay I get a free Trapt t-shirt! No, you'll be screaming at the store you bought this from for your money back. The t-shirt isn't worth $20, it's worth $10 max. This is a pretty lame excuse to get money, sell a t-shirt and give a 3 track single. Wow. They picked the worst songs too. They have live versions of "Made of Glass" and "Echo", although "Echo" is a good song, it gets very repetitive. "Made of Glass" is pretty cheesy too, probably my least favorite on the full album. Oh, let's not forget "Promise". They try to throw in a little extra bonus track for you. Forget it, just download the song and you'll be happy. I officially hate Trapt, I hate it when bands don't release any new material and just keep thriving on the debut album while they release stupid bonuses like this along the way...It shows early signs of weakness and sell-outs.
Review Written by: BLASTT
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like the songwriring very much.that mixed with heavy guitar riffs and thundering drum beats makes this a 4 but even heavier jamming would have been awesome
Review Written by: colonelforbin420
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this c.d is just great i love it. all the songs are just out of this world good. i think NFG just keeps on getting better with each c.d they make. jordons voice is great it still sames the same but his voice is cool. their sound is still the same theis band knows what works with them and their fans and they have not yet change i think this band should stay the same. this is them and their fans love them for it they don't put on a show what you see is what you get thats great unlike alot of bands they act different when their on tv and in person this band is not that shows and their c.d's they like to have fun and their music is fun and at the same time their music is great. each song off this c.d is awsome.
Review Written by: fairiekisses
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I have to start off this with I LOVE this CD! As a teen I find blasting this music a "get away" it's great to scream to when nothing is right, it's like Amy Lee's voice is describing everything that's wrong, which makes it all seem ok... like she understands? (I'm not a depressed person, and I have great and loyal friends) I concider my taste in music to be good, I myself sing and value a good voice... a real voice. (unlike that of Brittany Spears)
Thanx -xoxo
Review Written by: FarrahCarress
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Stand up and take a bow Boston and your surrounding Massachusetts area. No, not because the Red Sawx finally won the World Series. No, not 'cause you’re football team (The Patriots) is simply superior to some of the greatest teams in history. Take a bow for the constant waves of talented musicians you’ve slowly given the rest of the world over the years. From Aerosmith to the Dropkick Murphys, and back again last decade with recent commercial successes like Staind and Godsmack, Beantown is growing metal like Idaho grows potatoes.
Peel your eyes open in the future for what may be considered yet another budding Boston artist, Rubikon. Chock full of hard edge, raw power and firm vocal efforts, their debut LP “ The Hollow Men” is the new mold to this day and age of metal, but it also manage's to branch out into its own identity. Shoveling together simplistic chords of melodic metal, acoustic nap time, and harmonics, songs like the lead track “Severence” blend the last 20 years of hard rock. Similar to Trust Kill recording artists Armsbendback, the chorus in Severence is that of bi-polar. At one moment you’re experiencing your average verse to bridge build-up, only to take a left turn rather quickly into the chorus. “SEV-ER-ANCE!!!, SEVERANCE!!!”
Though I believe I would be doing lead singer Jae an injustice by comparing his vocals to anyone, most listeners make an automatic distinction in regards to vocal comparisons. His lungs seem to own the similar capacity and tones of Aaron Lewis (Staind early days), Chad Kroeger (Nickelback), Lajon Witherspoon (Sevendust) and even Chris Cornell (Soundgarden/Audioslave) at times. Taking the ‘Get Drunk And Jam Out’ award will be track 12 “Acid Rain” for its enormously heated courage and aggressive ending.
Yea, yea…I heard you the first time. 'If they’re so good, why haven’t I heard about them already' The atmospheric truth of “The Hollow Men” is as blinding as it is blending of so many different commercial genre. Almost seemingly backfiring a bit are tracks like “TrapDoor” which spotlight repetitive bridge runs that would make Nu Metal act RA proud. While the title of track 10 “Monster” speaks for itself, for the first time on the disc, the independent recording rears its ugly face as the lead vocals play second fiddle to the arms length of the instruments.
Moving on from the cheap, unfortunate, but necessary artist charting, there is simply too much potential and raw energy here to ignore. While most tracks on this disc will sound like every fourth song from the good ole late nineteen hundred and nineties, during tracks like “A2”, these Bostonians manage to show just how much original flavor and contemporary energy they may be harboring. "1.6” is an easy twist of fate, almost like an intermission. Slow and barely alive, the tune creeps up like an attacking snake of misunderstood angst changing from a whisper to a scream. 'Blacked-out' is a phrase that consistently pops into my head while listening to this song, reminding me of an off topic Arclight Records (Austin, TX) project "The Book Of Knots."
Wild and out of control, this album is easily a keeper. As for its withstanding status amongst my collection, I will have to leave 'em in the top 200 pile. That’s where all artists who don’t reach with their full potential go. But be careful, if these guys should peel just a little deeper, I may be stuck eating the words of this review.
Rubikon can be reached at www.rubikonmusic.com
3.5 out of 5 stars
Review Written by: hstisgod
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It's easy to immediately dismiss Avril Lavigne as yet another flash-in-the-pan pop/rock princess designed by the labels to help rake in the neverending supply of cash generated by that musical whore, MTV's Total Request Live (TRL). Fortunately for those who don't subscribe simply to what is deemed popular by those in power, Avril Lavigne's Let Go shows some definite promise (and is actually quite catching to boot).
Don't be fooled, however. This is by all means a calculated morsel of pop perfectionism. It's all there; the catchy hooks, the "can't get it out of your head" choruses, and (of course) the image. The days of being a beauty queen, song-and-dance Britney Spears remake have been fading fast. Not caring is the new cool - and Lavigne has this down pat. A skater-girl rocker with just enough sensitivity to be real but just enough sass to make her dangerous, she's a record label's dream.
Especially since she's actually a talented artist.
The majority of Let Go features your basic pop-rock confection: guitar laden rock tracks which would have fallen under the "alternative" category back in the early 90s and have since become part of the pop-music world. Still, Lavigne manages to do her part right for the most part. She's a fairly proficient guitarist (especially since she's just 17 now - just wait until she's in her 20's!) and her vocals are extraordinarily strong. At times sounding like the vocal meanderings of Alanis Morissette meets the guitar-pop sensibility of Michelle Branch, she still manages to retain an identity all her own.
Where the album does falter is at the songwriting level. At time she'll stumble, like "We rock each other's world!" in "Sk8r Boi." But honestly, she's singing to her age group, and it's something to be commended more than anything. Like any teenager, she's bound to say some things that just don't work (whether in a song or just in life). The honesty and reality of her songs will undoubtedly win her a steady fanbase. It's a safe bet to say this isn't the last we'll here of Avril.
Above all, Lavigne is easy to associate with - we all know what it's like to deal with people not being who they are. Let Go focuses on this idea a lot. She's the kind of girl you can look back to your high school years and know she was that kind of naughty girl you secretly wanted but never had the balls to talk to. The bonus track "Why" is below what I expected. It's just that "Let Go" offers waaaaay better material, because this one is Michelle Branch-like or even Jewel-like. Seriously, this bonus tarck does not make the whole thing prettier.
She'll get the boys looking, and get the girls listening - but she's no Britney Spears. Instead she's just what pop music has been missing.
Review Written by: love_flag
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My review of Beautiful Life – A Classic Guy Album
The album as a whole marks a step in Guy’s journey through music. With Just As I Am, his debut album, I was on first listen disappointed– expecting an immediate extension of what had been heard during the few months prior to its release. However, I then played it the second time and listened as if the first time, and was completely and utterly hooked. It was a brilliant album considering the time constraints – and if the time constraints were taken out of consideration, it was an almost brilliant album.
So, having watched and listened to this young man’s voice for the last 10 months (a late arrival to Guy’s talent), I was on tenterhooks for this album and I haven’t been entirely disappointed.
His talent and voice are sublime, his timing superb and musicality supreme, and with the background of 10 months of his musical ability, together with several years of prior appearances on gospel cds and videos which I have now collected, my expectations were extremely high and probably not necessarily in the right direction.
Beautiful Life is certainly a Marker on his journey, and he and BMG can be justifiably very proud of it. The diversity of the songs contained in the album does Guy justice, showing his writing ability with such well known supremos in the industry. I am so impressed with this album I feel like a doting parent! I really wasn’t aware he was THAT good in that way.
My only grizzle? I want the passion he showed during the last few months of 2003, I don’t need so much of the higher register and indeed love his deeper register which was displayed during the competition and the slight rasp that sometimes shows up. This morning I listened to “Hosanna” (it being Sunday and I was feeling a little “Godly”), and his passion shows there. Some songs on Beautiful Life have hints of the passion, “Wait” in particular at the end tends to show this, but generally they are so diverse that the passionate type ballads have apparently been overlooked, yet these were the ones that originally hooked so many fans.
Beautiful Life is a Classic Guy Album, performed with finesse, feeling and when occasion requires, gusto. A wonderful album which could be added to anyone’s collection with pride. There don’t appear to be any skip tracks, and there’s something for everyone.
So after the proposed gospel album (which should contain a great deal of passion), can we please have some passion and lower register in the next? I miss my toe curlers!!!
Lyn
Review Written by: prinia
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You can hear right away that it´s The Hives your a listening to! It sounds just like their old albums, and to some people that may be a bad thing but not to me!
The best songs are " No pun intended " , " B is for Brutus ", " Two-timing touch and broken bones, " Love in plaster " and " Antidote " the rest are mediocre!
The guitar sounds great in "
B is for Brutus " and that´s the only reason I like it.
" Walk idiot walk " wich is a single from this album is quite boring if you compare it to the others....
I can just say that if you liked the earlier albums buy this, because it sounds excactly the same.... // Ida
Review Written by: redhot
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