Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Nickelback - Dark Horse (2008)

Drunken-Sex-Core / Awesome Rock / Brilliant

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Currently the biggest rock band in the world lament that life is passing them by a little faster than they thought, and they want to spend a little time with you, preferably with something in your mouth.

Special Guest Reviewer Theodore Retar

Wednesday, September 21, 2005

Moments in Grace - Moonlight Survived (2004)

Bland, uncompelling crap.

Stratus
The Patient
Broken Promises
My Dying Day
We Feel The Songs
My Stunning Bride
Monologue
Distant and Longing Light
The Blurring Lines of Loss
No Angles
Don’t Leave
The Past

If the vying-for-a-position-at-an-Italian-restaurant (in terms of sheer ability to grate cheese) vocal melody that comprises “My Dying Day”’s verse riff doesn’t put this record in a coffin, the staggeringly oblivious, unintentional melodrama that is [...]

Thursday, September 1, 2005

As I Lay Dying - Shadows Are Security (2005)

Faulkner would be reduced to four letter words over this.

Meaning In Tragedy
Confined
Losing Sight
The Darkest Nights
Empty Hearts
Reflection
Repeating Yesterday
Through Struggle
The Truth Of My Perception
Control Is Dead
Morning Waits
Illusions

Take a listen to the sound samples and tell me any two of those sound at all different. It’s the same damn manic panic drum beat set against the same solid [...]