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...decade ago Beck played a song called “Mountain Dew Rock”, and despite making some spastic music in the past, only with this EP has he achieved something truly worthy of the moniker. Neon-green-tinted and jitter-inducing, the EP is like that oft-maligned beverage: the buzz fades quickly, but it may give you enough of a jolt to finally defeat Bowser --- or your Sea Change doldrums...
...Cent’s “Tip Drill,” and Mobb Deep’s “Hit It From the Back,” the “Wild Side” of Tommy Lee comes out like the theme song for a convention of middle-aged bikers...
...tley Crüe’s can’t even muster a power love ballad without overt attempts at controversy. “You’re All I Need,” a plodding rock song about the emotions we all go through when being sent to jail for killing an unrequited love, sounds like a mediocre Meat Loaf tune except instead of taking the words right out of her mouth, they take her life. Truly a universal story, one to which anyone can relate?...
...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?...
...Meloy is equally dipping into the band’s catalog as with the new collection of Mozzer tracks, including the EP’s closer, the epic “Everyday is Like Sunday.” When alt-crunchie Natalie Merchant covered it, Morrissey wrote a spiteful song in rebuttal—time will tell how he deals with this indie-pop update from a songwriter of more comparable talents...