even the artists in my opinion are " poor " sorry
933726
not quiet what i expected. i have been a " phantom " fan for almost 70 years. i have come across very few writers of the calibre of Lee Falk. even the artists in my opinion are  " poor " sorry.
705025
To guy who gives one star who didn't say buy Exile or Beggar's Banquet, which are great as well. (I don't understand his review on this one, it's one of the great Stones albums so if you like the Stones, you should like this, I certainly do.) No, the other guy, please disregard him completely, look at his list of what he gives one star ratings, he doesn't appear to like any kind of music that I could gather, besides Will Smith, who is an alright actor, but not particularly regarded for his musical ability, I don't think, but I don't listen to that particular genre anyway.  But besides that he doesn't like other rap that I have heard regarded highly by people who listen to rap, so I can't figure it out.  He makes a couple of references to punk, so I am guessing he probably likes some kind of whiny skater type music or something, which should never even be mentioned in the same breath as Stones. (Crap, I just did.)  All I can conclude is that he is too cowardly to put up what he likes for derision, but he feels fine deriding everybody else, and according to me, he has terrible taste as far as I know, so don't pay attention to him, he's just dumb.
2982274
i knew this cd was in trouble as its not even in itunes top 200 in its first week. I did not like the art work, the name or the songs. Sometimes when you stay away , the public can forget about you. The cd is not that good, its a uneven mix of songs, I agree with alot of other reviews it all seems lazy and not well crafted as the last. Sometimes its hard to catch fire 2 times. no fire here. I have a feeling with the first song being a flop, I can say this cd will be to. And that is too bad, because I really love Nelly, This cd missed the mark. I really hoping this was gonna be great. But sadly its not.
3643839
Rather than buy this set of second rate music, why not just write a check and send it to Britney?

It does the same thing.

There is no good music here.  Only an artist who wants your $$$.
1121243
I thought this was supposed to be remixes of the original artists songs. This is other people singing these artists songs, and then they are remixed. BOOOOOOOOOO! :(
3905487
man i just heard these guys and they are crappy! Dear synthitic elepahnts YOU MAKE ME VOMMIT your are scum between my toes. you your music is reaaly bad it sounds like as if some one is vommiting out of their butts and thats not a pretty sight. You music has nothing but little middle school girls  for a fan base saying i love you guys as if yoru N fruit bakin SYNC! thats really sad you guys. YOu guys sing about hwo crapy your LIVES ARE! then you go around telling other people how screwd up thier lives are. You guys jump up and down  like the reatard Arny Grape form whats eating gilbert grape. all you guys do is skank other people and each other. after that you guys can live a guitl free live and light candles and worship statues that look like eltons JON!
well formyou favorite fan ALFALFA!
3063281
Talk about taken advantage of purchase cd with great love for the artist and his body of work but was terribly disappointed. Lets face it,he is completely out of ideas and decided to do what others have done cash in. This albun is not needed and should not have been made,it adds nothing to his superb career if he needs money sell something but this is nonsense. Iam a highly sophisticated fan who has most of his work in my collection,i am appalled at this poorly concieved project and can not recommend it.
1026662
I reviewed their last album and and I said, "This group and their album are disrespectful to the hip hop culture. Not because they are white, not because they are females, but because they have no skills, weak production, and do not deserve props for anything they do. Hip hop is a culture that many people take seriously... this group mocks that culture and treats rap music as a joke." Even with slightly better production I stand by that statement. This time though I will hip you to some real female emcees to check for. MC Lyte, Jean Grea, Roxxane Shante (greatest female emcee of all time), ANG 13 (Chicago's Finest), Rita J (Family Tree member), Queen Latifah, L-Boogie aka Lauryn Hill, Bahamdia, Ladybug Mecca, old school Salt-N-Pepa, and many more...hell listen to some JJ Fad just don't support this group.
924997
Kevin dear, you are obviously terribly mistaken about who you are, where your talents lie and who wants to listen to you. You were quoted saying, "I'm just an artist who has to pay his dues"...well Kevin, pull up your pants and let's talk about that for a minute, can we? First, let's go over the word ARTIST. The word artist implies someone with some kind of ability, or someone with a creative vein to offer others. That does NOT apply to you. Stop using it.

Now let's talk about "paying your dues". If you had to pay your dues, your wife would not have paid to start your own record label to release this atrocity, and you would not have made your wife demand that your pathetic excuse for music be distributed by her own label, Sony Records. No, you would have done a number of demo tapes, taken them around to various studios, played back-up to some lesser artists, maybe for YEARS tried to get noticed, you know, "paid your dues".

You suck donkey poop and everyone on the planet knows it but your posse of total wanna be losers and your already a loser wife. Paying your dues might get a little ego bruising, Kevin, but it is high time for you to face reality...you are no singer and are a lousy dancer at best.
3674703
I'd like to write to the person who felt something like Dylan's betrayed him. let's "take arms against (this) sea of troubles, & by opposing end them."
what a joke! no one owns an artist in the public forum. you can say yea or nay all you want, but America is free. what makes an artist viable or
morbid IS public opinion, the sale of his music his concert gate...popularity. ...sir? Dylan has become a legend in his time, BECAUSE he has
pushed the envelope & done it in grand style...a lesson to the cognoscenti & all artists here in the home of the free.
2496063
There are certainly many issues facing those who are trying to climb up from low paying and/or minimum wage jobs.  However, this author's attitude that all those in this position are helpless victims doomed to lifelong poverty is ridiculous!  As is the idea that anyone NOT mired in a tedious, low-paying job is somehow bad and to be blamed for those who are.  She identifies with the poor almost pathologically without fair consideration to all involved, including the employers.  And I found that very strange considering she is a well paid, successful writer living in a very high-rent area of this country (Key West, Florida) in her everyday life!

She herself enjoys all the benefits of the upper middle class lifestyle, and more power to her for earning them, yet, she rails relentlessly about others in this position and blames them for the plight of the working poor.  When she works as a maid for a cleaning service, she comments about how insulted she is by one of the home-owners choice of books!  Huh?  She is angered that another home-owner has the audacity to own a set of copper pots and other home furnishings and decor that she finds disdainful as if these people are somehow at fault for being successful and having purchasing power, and heaven forbid, opinions and tastes that she does not share.  She makes it clear that she herself does not regularly employee domestic help as that would just be, well, disdainful, yet, she admits to having done so on certain justifiable occasions.  Really Barbara, you can't have it both ways!!

When an immigrant dishwasher at a restaurant where she works is caught red-handed stealing from the storehouse, she immediately identifies with the thief and becomes defensive of him.  So stealing is OK if you're working for minimum wage?  Would she have been so protective of the thief if he'd stolen say HER laptop or HER car or HER food?  I wonder.

And did anyone notice that on two different occasions, regarding two of her jobs, the author brought up the widely held (and grossly misguided) concept that employers "hold back" the new employees first week of pay?  As a human resources professional, I've battled this misconception amongst both white and blue collar employees for years and find it unfathomable that a person with a Ph. D. does not get it that the time she works this week is not actually paid for until the following pay period, usually the next week.  There is no "holding back" of any pay, merely a lapse in time in which payroll processing takes place and a check printed.  I found it incredible that this author did not grasp the logistics of this simple concept, and instead, clung to the ignorant idea that an employer would actually "hold back" pay until some such future date at their self-declared discretion, a practice that would be in fact, illegal.

Where is the balance in this so-called reporting?  It's all and only about one side of the picture.  And where are the suggestions? solutions? ideas for a better system?  The concept of this book has great potential, but sadly, it falls flat and short of meeting it.
900308
If this is the extent of the artist's vocabulary, then someone else can deal with it. I'm no prude, but I don't see the value in this kind of expression. It's not clever and actually constrains the meaning. I'm really amazed that AMAZON allows the "F' word since they censor it on the music forums. Shame.
4069584
I've never been much of a fan of this kind of music nor this band, they always seem to take themsleves far too seriously considering the amount of music talent they don't seem to have. I'm not saying you have to be a Jimi Hendrix or Eric Clapton to be in a band but these barely go past the most basic three power chords. On top of that the singer is just plain awful. His voice is weak and pathetic. Then there's the lyrics which haven't improved at all from the earlier albums. It reminds me alot of early computer poetry, the themes are there but you get the feeling that the words aren't really understood and they have simply taken the themes wholesale from others bands. They don't seem to have any disernable emotional content or empathy.

The only people I can see buying this album are the screaming 12 year olds and those who are so obsessed beyond objectivity with the band that they could be conned into buying anything the band could be bothered to produce. A real music fan should probably stay away from this album.
4901299
Art is poor:
- Pixelated lines in the "eyes" pasted onto vehicles
- Same construction dude copy/pasted (and sometimes mirrored) repeatedly
- All skyscrapers, same image repeated
- One little construction dude apparently getting buried alive
- Red bucket on front loader looks like it was drawn by child

Cardboard is sturdy enough and piece shape and size is great but the art is ridiculously poor. Looks like someone's kid discovered "clone" in an 90s paint tool. Ravenberger stuff us usually better than this. My 3yo doesn't care though, and does the puzzle all the time.
3539646
So I was watching the Grammy's this weekend, and to my surprise, Arcade Fire won album of the year. So I thought - hey, they must be up to par with SSP since they're an awesome band and they didn't win last year. So I decided to give the album a listen. Boy was I disappointed! This album is mediocracy at its finest. I don't know how they beat out Eminem and Lady Gaga. Granted, I'm not a hater of "Indie" type of music (my favorite bands are SSP & Metric), but an advocate of pure talent and quality in music. The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences nomination committee must have been full of Indie fans this year because it's really puzzling to me how they won.
3522830
Almost all of these songs were rip offs (lyrically and instrumentally).  They ripped off Thursday, Random Task, Jets to Brazil, Saves the Day, and the majority of underground NJ bands (which most mentioned other than one ARE, and where they are from).

The song about Steven was written about a kid that was killed in their school (Lakeland Regional in NJ, I knew these kids when they were in high school and before they dropped out too). . .they made fun of the kid and never talked to him ever, but it was a good excuse to come out and write a song so they could get big quickly, which they did within 6 months of starting.  They had and have no passion for music and just wanted to get famous and tour and get chicks, and many many people in NJ KNOW of this (the ones who are in their early 20s to mid 20s), and I helped put on shows for them and they were stuck up and thought they were God's gift to the music scene.

Read through their lyric sheet and you will completely see how horrible their grammar and spelling is, plus the fact that all the lyrics were mumbled and they stole lyrics from Jets to Brazil and Random Task for a few songs.  They stole ideas from Saves the Day for most of how their lyrics are and were written, and they obsessed over Thursday and wanted to sound exactly like them, and they do.  They are not to be admired at all because they are wannabees just trying to get some cash in their pockets.

The singer even had to get vocal surgery because he didn't sing right. . .how lame.  give me a break and learn to be original and come up with your OWN material and then maybe i'll like you a little.  And thanks for putting me in your thank you section of this album Senses Fail, you obviously enjoyed my humour of peeing on your car with Sheila.  next time it won't be in the rain where it easily washed off.  get over yourselves.
1756200
Just not very convincing. No connection between the artists