Rose Tattoo - "The Meanest Band In The World"
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Rose Tattoo - "The Meanest Band In The World" - is a group I'd heard of, but never actually listened to. Now this DVD was a decent overall introduction to them for me, but will be of interest for more established fans because this is part of a festival show, and their set is only an hour long and some of the performances seem rushed, and the sound mix wasn't as good as it could have been. Let's take a look at the bands history, then we'll look at the DVD's somewhat abbreviated setlist.

Wikipedia:
Rose Tattoo is an Australian rock and roll band, now led by Angry Anderson, that was formed in Sydney in 1976. Their sound is hard rock mixed with blues rock influences, with songs including "Bad Boy for Love", "Rock 'n' Roll Outlaw", "Nice Boys", "We Can't Be Beaten" and "Scarred for Life". Their first four albums were produced by Harry Vanda and George Young who also worked with AC/DC. They disbanded in 1987, subsequently reforming briefly in 1993 to support Guns N' Roses on an Australian tour. They reassembled again from 1998 and have since released two more studio albums.

We didn't reform until '92. In '93, the word got around, because we had reformed with our existing drummer Paul DeMarco. The Gunners heard we were out playing again and said, 'We want you to do our support gigs throughout Australia.' We did those two [Guns N' Roses] raceways gigs - Eastern Creek in Sydney and the raceway down in Melbourne[cite this quote]."

Rose Tattoo supported Guns N' Roses on the Australian leg of their Use Your Illusion Tour. Anderson, Wells, Cocks, Leach and new drummer Paul DeMarco from Wells' solo band reunited for the 1993 tour.

According to Australian rock music historian Ian McFarlane, Rose Tattoo are "one of the most revered bands of all time. The Tatts played peerless, street-level heavy blues with the emphasis on slide guitar and strident lyric statements". Guns N' Roses, L.A. Guns, Keel, Nashville Pussy, Motosierra, Pud Spuke and Helen Schneider have covered Rose Tattoo songs. On 16 August 2006, they were inducted into the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) Hall of Fame. Five former members have died in recent years including four of the original recording line-up, Dallas Royall (1991), Peter Wells (2006), Ian Rilen (2006) and Mick Cocks (2009), and Lobby Loyde (2007), who was a member between October 1979 and September 1980.
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The setlist from the DVD is as follows:

1. Out Of This Place
2. Bad Boy For Love
3. Assault & Battery
4. Tramp
5. The Butcher & Fast Eddie
6. Rock N' Roll Is King
7. Street Fighting Man
8. Rock N' Roll Outlaw
9. One Of The Boys
10. Nice Boys
11. Going Down

There are no extras on the disc, so what you get is a 54 minute concert from the Boggo Road jail. Again, this is a good disc for established fans, but I'd advise newcomers to search out other concerts that Rose Tattoo has available. 6/10.
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The tattoos are horrible lol I mean laughable!  The last one is not even a real tattoo, its marker... I bought this as a surprise for my husband for his tattoo station at his new shop... it's up on the wall to be laughed at lol
3295299
Band went pretty much downhill after this. This one has the hardest sludge-guitar you ever heard. "Supernaut" is a brilliant song. Contrary to the consensus here, I'm actually fond of "St. Vitus'  Dance." It has a kind of plaintive jauntiness you wouldn't expect from  Sabbath. I'm also not convinced that "Snowblind" is all it's  cracked up to be.
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What's wrong with BHG? Besides everything? Is it possible for them to write more than one good song in their pathetic lives? My sister burned this CD from a friend, most likely because she likes the Bad Touch song, and I'VE been the one having to hear it in the morning when she's getting ready for school. It's pathetic. I don't know how much I can stress the word "pathetic", but it's the only way to fully describe it. Out of 18 tracks, there's one, count it, ONE good song, "The Inevitable Return of The Great White Dope", because it's nothing like their other songs. Everything else on this album is just like "Fire Water Burn", "The Bad Touch", "Hell Yeah", you get the picture. Palm-muted, droning, songs with extremely explicit lyrics, which is the only reason people will remember them. Isn't it about time to come out of the 13-16 year old stage? Having lyrics about sex won't get you any. Bands like Blink-182, Sum 41, and System of a Down have funny songs, but they have their limits.

About the "music": 1)Palm-muting doesn't make a song good. I get it. You can palm-mute. So can most people who play guitar or bass. 2)Make your music more diverse and varied, or at least change your patterns. Elastica's self-titled album has 4-chord patterns, except they play faster, and the songs aren't much longer than two and a half minutes long (not that I'm comparing BHG to Elastica). 3)Do what you do "best", and don't try metal. "Magna Cum Nada" is BHG's horrible attempt to make something metal-ish. Stop.

The problem with Bloodhound Gang is that they just won't die. People like them somehow, and so they feel compelled to squeeze out more and more crap that gets worse and worse as it progresses, not saying that they were ever good.

Why don't we go through the songs and rate them, shall we?

1. I Hope You Die: See track 15

2. The Inevitable Return of The Great White Dope: Best song by BHG, but still not great.

3. Mama's Boy: See track 15

4. Three Point One Four: See track 15

5. Mope: See track 15

6. Yummy Down On This: See track 15

Catch my drift yet? I don't think I can fully show my displeasure with words. "1 star , because 0 is not an option" is exactly correct.

People, if you actually want Bloodhound Gang, copy it from someone. Maybe if they see their record sales go down, they'll actually think about quitting.

p.s. Track 15 is called "This is Stupid."
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At what point does the left-wing become the right? Round about here. Dangerously intolerant views in the lyrics on this CD. An average punk racket at best in terms of the music which is more unforgivable than the narrow-minded diatribe within. I dunno why this is called "Anarcho-punk", seems to me these guys have got the answer to everything and won't tolerate any deviancy from their party line. That ain't anarchy to me.
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Do not confuse this strange "garbage music" (best I can describe this and call it "music" at all) with the gr8 HXC band, Ringworm. It would be a real shame to buy this thinking it was actually a "Ringworm" release, only to find out it is this sad, sad, unfunny crap. I don't understand how they can use a bands' name, when it already has copyrights. This is more of a warning than a review, but from what I heard it is bad music entirely.
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Wow, i remenber seeing "the berzerker" opened for ,syl,nile, and, napalmdeath...Boy,  even a guy on the crow yelled at "the berzerker",  this>( you suck!) that's how bad they were. I mean, i like alot of death/grind bands and even gore-grind but  this stuff just does not cut it. For better bands in the likes ot the berzerker try "sikfuk" , "bound &gagged" , "torture sever" ,and, "malignancy" okay ? The berzeker's "berzker"  is just plain horrible and they realy do suck. Don't waste your money!
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The quote in The Hunt for Red October describes this mess perfectly; "You arrogant ass. You've killed *us*!" I've seen this band many times and I was getting annoyed at Jared's arrogance.  This is Thirty Seconds to Mars "Capricorn One's" Fake mission, return to base!
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GRrrrrr, PEople Like Her Make Me Mad. Saying Stuff Like about how great nirvana is and how bad led zepplin is, and making fun of the beatles, and RAY CHARLES!?!?! She probably didn't evn know that ray charles was blind!! Saying Good Charlotte were the makers of punk, ha, sorry i believe that was The Sex Pistols, ever heard of them, probly not, Sence "all the stuff before this sucked", and good charlotte isn't even punk, its like poser pop punk, but its ok if u like them, but i mean don't compare them to the good old clasics. And not All not well-known bands are bad, Nirvanna wasn' well known for atleast three years, good charlotte is just one of those bands that are baught, and brag about how they wrote three whole songs on the album. I personally see no possible comparison.

Now for an actual review of the cd, personally i think its great. I really enjoy Smells Like.. but all their stuff is great. i Really think you should pick it up.
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Tantric is nothing but a bunch of whiny junk.  They owe their existence to Travis Meeks (leader of Days of the New... the only band that's doing anything truly musical besides Dave Matthews Band) no matter what anyone else says.  They copied Meeks' sound and made people believe it was their own.  They even tried to get a singer whose voice sounds like Travis.
Every song sounds exactly the same.
Sorry ex-members of Days of the New... your band Tantric just doesnt cut it.
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[...] Anyway, I'd just like to say that if you want Heaven with REAL balls (and not the rather-more-light-weight Hair-Metal that appears on this release) then try and find their first album, 1982's "Heaven Bent" (or just "Bent"). This was when the band were still an Australian Hard Rock/Metal act in the vein of AC/DC (Scottish-born lead vocalist Alan Fryer, the only original member of the band appearing on the "Knockin'.." album, actually tried-out as Bon Scott's replacement, before missing-out to Brian Johnson) and Rose Tattoo, with ex-members of both bands and with songs that genuinely rocked, and hard. Unfortunately most of those members left after the band shifted to the U.S which helps explain the more commercial sound of this album. So, whilst this album isn't crap, it's by no means the band at its best. Check out "Bent", and hear how the band REALLY rocked!
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old singer was WAY better, I like ripper on the Priest albums, these lyrics are stupid, you cant even sound tough singing them: In the video hes all tryign to look angry singing "Destiny spawned us, it's the reckoning

This time it's our blood, don't tread on me " how many bands have had don't tread on me? Extreme, metallica? this music

s u c k s! glam metal and progressive metal s u c k s!, nevermore would be a better band for this type of music. So you all can keep your glass shattering vocals crap with real dumb lyrics!!

R.I.P Iced Earth
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Some seriously heavy guys from South Dakota, Texas & Minnesota who play mean-assed bluesy biker metal with thick & sludge-distorted chords, unexpected trippy interludes, old-school organ swirls, loud & mega-cranked guitar riffs and raw, gruffly menacing vocals.  Recalls bands like The Midnight Ghost Train, High On Fire, Heavy Eyes, Motorhead.  Im thinking this is one for the mean n nasty Devil-worship rockers.
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I hate this band. They were the flagship band representing what has been referred to as the "medio-core" movement... rock with no balls or brains (also see third eye blind, eve 6, marcy playground, etc.) It doesn't provoke you to think, feel, or do anything. plus, the lead singer is probably the one of the most annoying humans to watch or listen to on the face of this planet.
by the way, that's a nice original album title, chumps. layne (a REAL musician from a REAL band) should come back from the grave and kick your asses.
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This is really bad. I mean on par with Pearl Jam's Riot Act. Well, no. Not even Riot Act is that bad and that album sucks holy bull balls! Though, maybe Thom Dorke and Eddie Mueller should team up for an album and call it "Crybabies in Arms" and donate the money to some stupid cause like PETA. Don't buy this record if you like eating meat. Buy Be Here Now by Oasis instead. Noel Gallagher will punch you in the face if you buy this awful record.
1975360
THIS IS IT. NO MORE, AC/DC IS AWFUL. EVERY OF THEIR ALBUMS SUCK ESPECIALLY THIS. THEIR LEAD SINGERS JUST SCREAM. THEY HAVE THE LEAST TALENT AND ARE ONLY MEANT FOR 12 YEAR OLD GIRLS WITH NO TASTE IN MUSIC. CAN I PLEASE GIVE THIS LP BELOW 1 STAR? I HATE

THIS MORONIC BAND! WANT A LOVELY CD? THEN GET FOREIGNER 4 INSTED.
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Album: Alphabet. Alphabets.
Artist: Trophy Scars
Released: June 13, 2006

Lyrics: The lyrics to this album are great and awful what I mean by this is like on Aligator the lyrics are a 5/5 but on Accents the lyrics are 1/5 pathetic and funny and not in a good way when he says let the beat drop oh man oh man so lyrics are 2/5

What the songs are emotionally about: They lyrics are very angry and emotionally scarred from either break ups or hardships you feel the anger not so much the sadness only on a couple of songs but anger all throughout. 4/5

Rhythm/Beat: The beat and rhythm are okay sometimes it feels as if they are off timing and things should have come in a different time and stuff and the sometimes over power the vocals so 2/5

Length: The length is 51 mins so good length 4/5

Vocals: Now this is either the best part of the album or the worst I'm not sure they scream and scrills of the vocalist add a very anger and dramatic feel to the song however, the screams seem weak sometimes I can't hear them over the loud guitar playing over him and don't even start with me when he starts rapping... fine his rapping is okay for the most part but when he says "Let the beat drop" that just made me lol if he is trying to makes us feel sad and listen don't ever say let the beat drop and he says it so serious it so hard not to laugh so 2/5

I would recommend this if you love different sounding music this is honestly like anything I've heard its hardcore rock with rap and instrumental and some post-rock is so weird so if you like to try new things and don't care wasting 9.00 then give them a try but if you don't like complete wacky music do not buy this

Top Four Songs:
1. Alligator. Alligators.
2. Assistant. Assistants.
3. Artist. Artists.
4. Assassin. Assassins.

Overall Rating: 3/5
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