Sorry, this album is awful
351713
These guys were supposed to be one of my favorite bands, then they put out this turd. No redeeming qualities whatsoever. And it's not as if they went out on a limb trying something different and failed - the whole thing is just boring, uninspired tracks.
662578
My girlfriend left this at my house and said, "Here, you might like this."  Found it tonight while I was cleaning, threw it in and my mouth has been hanging open ever since.  It's just... bad.  There's no other way to describe it.  I'm old... grew up on Black Flag, DK's, Circle Jerks, Misfits and the like.  I also dig Snoop, Cyrpus Hill, The Distillers, Queenadreena... a wide variety of things beyond the scope of this review.  Basically anything but new country and opera has its high points.

But this.

My god.  Lyrics are almost cool in places but if they hit on a catchy or cool phrase, they repeat it about 100 times.  This isn't song writing.  This is crap.  Repetitive. Boring.  Crap.  "I'm not done misbehave'n" constitues about 70% of the lyrics on the entire album it seems like.

The lead vocals are horrible.  I like good screaming... hell, you don't even have to sing to impress me.  But this is just annoying.

Tunes are almost catchy but the words are so insipid as to be offensively boring to even the most inexperienced high school punker.  Do yourself a favor... listen to the samples realllllly close before you buy this one.  Then pass and go buy the Misfits Earth A.D. or The Distillers Coral Fang or Peaches or QueenAdreena or... maybe a circular saw from the tool department.  Any of these will sound better.

I'm on the bonus track now... I'm not sure whether to sell this disc or put it in my skeet thrower.
1427098
This is my introduction to APP. I don't recognise anything vaguely like prog-rock or concept album. Sure, the lyrics are all about the moral degradation of society, but that does not make for a concept album and this is hardly original subject matter. And as a collection of pop songs, neither does it work. It all sounds too much like low-grade Supertramp. Shrill vocals, predictable boring pop beats, nothing at all noteworthy in the musicality of the band... only diehard fans would make apology for this. As a newcomer I find this such a poor album that I doubt whether I want to hear any more of APP. IF you want 80s pop rather get the real stuff like Thompson Twins or Yazoo. Utter disappointment all round and I would give this 0 stars if the site would allow that, meaning that I rate it so poorly that I think it should never have been recorded.
2657982
Here is my reason I don't like this album.  It's cliche.  It's like a second rate version of Job for a Cowboy or The Red Chord.  If you like this music I would recommend either of those bands.  It's like the only thing this band wants to do is play breakdowns . . . . over . . . and over . . . and over . . . . and over . . . .  Get quality, not junk that is based around lousy ideas, songwriting, lyric writing, repetitive phrasing, breakdowns, repetitive vocal patterns and anger.
852785
This was the first album I traded in way back when.  I just played it on a streaming service to see if I was wrong.  I wasn't.

Pointless riffing, overdrawn song endings, endless repetition, meandering instrumentals, too much inter-song crap (including 3 minutes of band tuning at the start of "Free Form").  Songs don't really resolve, they just end when everyone gets tired of playing.

There are much better versions of "Evil Ways" out there; this one is OK, but seems rushed and I'm not that fond of Miles' howling throughout.

I truly don't get the 5-star reviews of this.  I've never been that stoned, including when I bought this new.  If "Hey man, lets get together and jam." is your thing, then maybe you'll dig this.  I don't.

Oh yeah, it's miked badly too.
4778470
I'm an AnC fan of old. This album has no zing, no punch. It's filled with crusty droning melodies. I saw Jerry Cantrell a couple times, and his music sounded the same as this.  The mastering of the album is so bad, that I don't want to listen to the album again. The music ebbs and flows as waves on the ocean, sound comes in, sound goes out. It's very distracting. It's very boring piece of work.
1999537
Without a doubt, this album is the worst thing that Face to Face have done to date. I've been a fan of this band for over 20 years, and I am bitterly disappointed by this album. I understand the need for the band to experiment, but this pales in comparison to their other "experimental" album: ignorance is bliss. To me, this sounds like the Stray Cats mixed with Dad rock.
612464
Sullying a name these ladies spent years nurturing, this album walks away from the charm, wit, and musicality of their earlier records for a new "pop" aesthetic they clumsily wear like an ill-fitted suit. Exactly what not to do if you're jumping ship for the mainstream, this album can't even supply the grooves or hooks that make dumb music accessible. This album is tepid at its best, cringe-inducing at its worst. Albums like this are so embarrassing for the listener not because we, as the audience, were somehow betrayed (though we were) but because you can hear in every song that the writers betrayed themselves.
3845281
This is not the best album of all time or even the best Traffic album.  It isn't even an official Traffic album.  It was released to complete a contractual obligation.  The sound is horrible, which prevents any chance of this being a decent album.  Traffic has a much better live album called On The Road.
This concert was poorly recorded and the original LP sounded pretty bad.  The first CD release was even worse.  This new remastered CD is about what the LP was.  There is not much you can do when the original masters are bad.
There is only one very good song on the album, an 11 minute version of Mr. Fantasy and it alone might make this album worth buying.  There is also a nice 6 minute version of 40000 Headmen which is an added bonus.  Mr. Fantasy shines in spite of the sound problems, but 40,000 Headmen suffers a little.
Medicated Goo is just like the studio version on Last Exit, so it adds nothing new.  There are two Dave Mason solo songs that are nice, but there are better versions on Mason's solo albums. There is no reason to own these poorly recorded, substandard versions of these songs, when much better versions already exist.
Gimme Some Lovin' is a noisy, sloppy mess.  All you can hear is the theme repeated over and over.  The musicians performance and "interplay" is sloppy and seems as if the band members are tripping over each other.  However, if this track did have decent sound quality, it might be enjoyable.
This album was released to complete Steve Winwood's contractual obligation to release 5 records for United Artists.  At this time, Traffic was already recording Low Spark of High Heeled Boys for Island Records, but were afraid of a lawsuit if they released it before completing the United Artists contract.  Traffic was going to do a major tour, but settled on a few dates in UK.
This album was never released as a Traffic album.  It was simply known as Welcome to the Canteen, and was done by the seven musicians listed.  But, there is a Traffic emblem hidden on the label of a bottle of beer on the cover.  And this album includes all the "official" members of Traffic. The CD releases actually now say Traffic. The album sold poorly, partly because it sounded band and partly because Low Spark of High Heeled Boys was released shortly afterwards.
Traffic has had more breakups and reunions than almost any other band.  They broke up between every album, and reunited for the next release.  Dave Mason was an original member and on the first 2 ablums (in the US release, was not listed as being on the second album, even though he wrote half of the songs).  Mason was kicked out of the band 3 times.
198736
This album is one of the worst albums I've ever bought. Tried giving it away and it gets returned. This is not the Goodie Mob I'm used to.
1760794
It's a good thing this band has a strong back catalogue, because otherwise this album would be invisible in the mountain of similar generic, unremarkable electronic music made by newbies. I'm sorry, but this is just not good Combichrist. Many of the songs are slow, plodding messes without any hooks or contagious sounds. Not interesting, not powerful, not threatening, just as bland as sonic hands-full of dough. Andy has an awful singing voice--it's weak, it's very much out of tune, and yet he tries and tries to sing on so many tracks! Andy's voice is made for industrial-strength shouting, like in "Sent to Destroy" and "All Pain is Gone"--THOSE are killer songs. Andy's sounding more tired here.

There are a few stabs of harder songs, but they're not actually very interesting. F---machine is an un-creative as they come: heap misogyny and abuse on a woman, tell her she deserves it--that's the whole song. It's crap. It's trite. It's not rebellious, it's typical woman-hating sexism without even the benefit of any interesting music (just a bunch of loops piled on top of each other to accompany Andy's rather wretched and SERIOUSLY disappointing sexism). Hey Andy: abusing women isn't edgy. It's not creative. It's not sexy. It's not fun. It's not even shocking. It makes you seem like a tool. It's just dull.

So there it is--the album I've awaited more eagerly than any other this year, and it's dull. Sure, some Combichrist fans will suck up to it, telling Andy another thousand times how awesome he is, but come on...they know. They *know* this album is weak. The songs are sludgy and so generic that only a couple are even conspicuous. They *know* Andy's singing voice stinks (but apparently nobody was brave enough to tell him that). This sounds like a gazillion other electro-industrial bands you've never heard of because they weren't noticeable, now forgotten in random COP and Cleopatra catalogues of 1994.
3438190
I literally don't know what to say about this. The title sounds pretty decent, even the artwork doesn't look too bad. But this album has a far big meaning of ear raping, and that's what I feel about this album. It's ear raping!!! Every second of this album is like a kick to my "happy-sack" every single time I listen to it!

The editing is a mess. I would be more forgiving if the editing was great, but it's not! I felt like Lou Reed just wanted an album that'll torture people until their heads explode!! There's not much to talk about because the whole album is a big compilation of loud and obnoxious noises!!

But the worst thing about this album is it's SOOOO BOOOOORING!!! With the album's painful length, and messy production, it feels like a very very long album!!! Every time I look at the time on my cell phone, only a few minutes go by, and the fact that there's an hour of nothing but screeches, squeals, and noises makes it even worse.

This is the worst people!! This is literally the WORST album I've ever heard in my entire life, and that's worth saying alot because I've listened to alot of bad music!! Words can't describe how horrible this album is!!! And for those who thinks Lulu is worse, I dare you to play this album with the volume turned up really high, wear earphones, and listen to the whole album at one sitting!! I defy the day i've ever listened to it, it gets worse everytime I listen to it, and I spit at this album's grave!!! *SPIT*
3132346
What an awful awful album. I've been a fan of Adams' work up until now, and I really liked Whiskeytown, but this is the worst type of middle of the road pseudo-country imaginable. This is either bad country-rock or bad rock-country, whatever you want to call it, it's just plain bad. Check out Whiskeytown, or Old 97s, just don't waste your money on this middle of the road mediocrity.
646021
I never cared too much for Attack Attack, they're previous album was okay, I liked it because it was something a little unique & fun. This new CD I thought I'd give a shot and before purchasing I had never listened to any of the new songs. I really like buying albums and supporting bands since I know music downloading takes a huge toll on these guys. Listened to album a few times through thinking I'd start to "feel it", not so much. This album just sounds the same the whole way through, it's utterly boring, the lyrics are stale and stupid, and it's just not good at all. I don't feel like any heart and/or soul was put into making this record. I hate to say it, but this was definitely not only a waste of money, but a waste of time altogether. Sorry AA, not digging it.
1567686
I tried, I really tried to like this album.  It came highly recommended but, wow, this is one self-indulgent ear bore.
2069787
This contains one of the most boring songs ever, that I'll say right now. That song is called "Sludge Factory". Dear god, that song is awful! I shudder when I hear the high-pitched singing at the start, the lyrics are pure uninteresting crap, and musically it's just generic AIC. It's a bad song! Oh, and seven minutes of it? Um, no. Wikipedia called it "One of the more popular songs on the album" or something like that, but whoever wrote it must've been the kind of hardcore AIC fan who'd give this mess of an album a 10. And that's not its only problem: there are a bunch of "generic AIC" songs on here: "Shame in You"; "Brush Away"; "Head Creeps"; "Nothin' Song"; "So Close" and "Frogs" are all uninteresting melodically, don't have anything new to say, run out of steam way before they end, and in fact make up 7/10th of my "bottom 10 AIC songs" list. You can also find "Hate to Feel", "Whale & Wasp" and "Love, Hate, Love" on that list, if you were wondering, which I'm sure you weren't. A couple songs do have some cathartic force ("Over Now"; "Again"; "Grind"), "Heaven Beside You" makes for a great "light-and-shade" song, similar to Led Zeppelin's "Over the Hills and Far Away", but in a minor key, and "God Am" makes excellent use of synthesizers. But as a whole, this is one sad album. Kind of like that dog on the cover.
166166
No Doubt is (are?) the most overrated band, even more so than [...]. This is among the worst music ever. Gwen Steffani sounds like she has something caught in her throat, and they play the dullest stuff you can imagine besides. Hollaback Girl wasn't much better, either.
Underneath It All, Hella Good, Hey Baby and I'm Just a Girl stand as the weakest tracks, but everything here's bad. Underneath It All is my alltime least favorite song, or at least one of them.
I've bashed this album on many fronts, so I'll end on a good note...you could do worse...wait wait, I got this mixed up with my future Led Zeppelin review.
I've bashed this album on many fronts, so I'll end on a bad note: this is crap.