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...Dead,” Tommy Lee, Mick Mars, Vince Neil and Nikki Sixx are celebrating their victory over drug overdoses, STDs and near fatal car accidents with a three month national tour promoting their compilation album. This act and the CD itself are simply further self-aggrandizements of a band built entirely on overt personal satisfaction without any musical foundation. The group makes it very clear as to why they got into rock and roll in the pedophilia-proud lyrics of their anthem “All in the name of”: “She's only fifteen...
...songs stand out in an overly drawn out and interchangeable set of drum patterns, chord progressions and whiny Vince Neil vocals. This is likely because the band lacked any ingenuity or real musical drive; their music was commercially calculated to reinforce their wild lifestyle. The only song lively enough for lap dancing is the Crüe’s most memorable hit, the drug-dealer-mock-heroic “Dr. Feelgood.” Covers of The Beatles’s “Helter Skelter,” The Sex Pistols?...
...band can only handle so much boot-tappin’ and gyratin’ in acid-washed jeans before their fans wander on in search of drunker pastures. The second disk is void of any of the songs that gave the Crüe their extended fifteen minutes of fame. Mötley Crüe made its name in mindless driving rock to which one could swig a beer; in trying to highlight their accomplishments of the post-grunge, semi-cleaned-up 90s, they recede into a softening sound and fading tattoos. Where the first half of the album...
Since their break-up, no band has done more to channel the spirit of the seminal Neutral Milk Hotel than Portland, Oregon’s Decemberists, who have dropped two albums in the last three years packed with sea shanties, cautionary character sketches, and pure pop. Think Edward Gorey set to music. They also released an extended-play single retelling Irish epic Táin Bó Cúalnge in music. Now frontman Colin Meloy is taking a break to do a little touring on his own, and what kind of record should he be promoting? Yes, that?...
...band combines the energy of earnest hardcore vocals and rapid drum beats with mathematically precise, compressed guitar parts in the eight short songs of this one-sided LP. Their lyrics encompass both the angry screaming of those radically dissatisfied with politics (“…been told before this power is an unstoppable force to dictate a vision against its people / is what has been done before still out of reach? / vote, assassinate, impeach”) and the more tortured monologues of those alienated by mass culture and society...