Bad is better but still bad
589008
It is an interesting argument and easy to see why it could be popular--it gives us an excuse to indulge in things we know are not really good for us. He make a convincing case that our most mindless activities have become more complex and cognitively engaging, but forgets this is time not spent on other kinds of fun, relaxing and enjoyable activities.

A video game can have a small positive influence on a child but not in the complex and multifaceted way that playing a social sport like baseball or basketball can. Watching 'reality TV' can train people about social behavior but not in the far more meaningful way that merely having a conversation with a real person can. Listening to pop music cannot engage a person the same way as singing or playing an instrument. The list goes on and on.

The lowest common denominator may, as Johnson argues, be higher--but that really should not be what we aspire to.
2050117
This is a good album but ...And Justice For All is better. Don't get me wrong this is a good album but worst of the first 5.
Battery: 10/10 BEST Metallica song their is
Master of Puppets: 9/10 Good
The Thing That Should Not Be: 10/10 Heavy
Sanitarium: 10/10 Very Good
Disposible Heros: 10/10 Good song
Leper Messiah: 0/10 The WORST Metallica Song (Close between this and The God That Failed but those are the only two I hate.)
Orion: 7/10 O.k.
Damage Inc.: 8/10 Not too bad
All good till Leper Messiah. Still not a bad album but not the best
4649997
This song is just a terrible, awful mess from start to finish. I can't believe this garbage got no. 1 on the charts. Are people's taste that low these days? This is also the reason why people say the south sucks. Do everyone a favor and go cop T.I's new album "King". You'll get something to dance to with much better beats and lyrics.
525367
I always loved the original album.  Great songs. I never understood why people called it a bad album.  Paul's Let it Be, Get Back and Long & Winding Road were all #1 singles and all were better than any of his songs on Sgt. Pepper, for example.  And the harder songs on LIB really cook. (Lennon screaming "I told you so" on Dig a Pony is fabulous.)  The original LIB gets 5 stars in my books.  I'm not saying it's the best album ever but I'd put it up against any album by anybody.  Let's just say a less than perfect Beatles album beats the best album of most performers. LIBN, however, cannot be rated based solely on the songs because its not giving us new songs.  We know them already.
Paul's been a bit uptight for the past 33 years over an album called Let it Be. Anyone else see find that as hysterically ironic as I do? John must be laughing somewhere. It's "new" Beatles stuff - so - hey, I bought it. I'm an addict. But really, it's nothing we haven't heard before. And it's still not really the definitive version of Let it Be. Aside from the fact two members of the band did not and could not have participated in track selections, ordering, edits and remixes, the alternate versions of some songs (Don't Let Me Down, in particular) chosen for this release - while interesting - clearly aren't even the best takes. (The single of DLMD is far superior). I mean - if this was supposed to be the album the way it was supposed to be, wouldn't they have used the best takes?  It seesm to me different versions were put on here for the sake of being different.
And with the CD format, they should have put more jamming and rehearsals from the LIB sessions, like Maggie May and Dig It, instaed of removing them. Everyone knows there's a ton of that out there.  Two stars due to the lousy title and cover art, less than honest marketing and not giving us anything really new.
1640325
After releasing 3 of the finest metal albums in history, they made THE BLACK ALBUM. The band's changes are quite obvious: the songs are shorter, and they hired BoB Rock to be their producer which gave the record a more 'commercial' sound. Nothing against it.. but this is an album of contrasting highs and lows.

It certainly starts off good with "Enter Sandman" and "Sad But True," but then falls to a bottom with "Holier Than Thou."

"The Unforgiven" and "Wherever I May Roam" is then followed by "Don't Tread On Me," another bad song.

Other bad songs include "the God That Failed," and "The Struggle Within." The rest of it is pretty good.

This was their biggest album, but ther are certainly a few songs I can cut from this, and maybe make a pretty good EP out of it. But it only gets worse from here. From here, we would have Reload, S&M, and Lars suing Napster! Leaving the BLACK ALBUM to stand as their last album worthy of any praise.
2206473
this cd is esham so this cd is 5 stars it is awesome however there are some flaws...Esham's best album is closed casket then probly kkkill the fetus...now lets count how many songs are from them 4 from closed casket NONE from kkkill the fetus! and the remix of mental stress is one of the worst songs i have ever heard its so bad - the original was the wicket $h! t, the remix sounds so gay that its not funny. i duno why they put that remix on it instead of the original..just doesnt make sense. this album is still very good but the choice of songs could have been a lot better
2276987
After seeing the theatrical release of Gods & Generals in February (and because I really do enjoy Civil War history) I made a second attempt to watch Gods and Generals on DVD. Sadly, nothing has changed, it is still a stunningly bad movie. Whenever I see a new Turner production has been released I think they can't get any worse than the others, but Gods and Generals has proven me wrong again, it approaches Ed Wood dimensions for plumbing the depths of dullness, tedium, and sloth. There are very few positive moments in Gods and Generals - Robert Duvall is always good (think how much he would have improved Gettysburg) and the scenes depicting Joshua & Fannie Chamberlain [Jeff Daniels/Mira Sorvino] are also very good, but after that you can stop watching this mess of a motion picture. Name any movie made about the Civil War - Glory, Red Badge of Courage, Shenandoah, The Birth of a Nation, Disney's Johnny Shiloh, and yes, even Gettysburg - they are all better productions than Gods and Generals.
4702498
This is an ambitious album ruined by bad mixing. Why bands continue to hire Rich Chycki is beyond me. Anybody that has heard his work with Rush should also confirm this. The heavy parts on this release are muddy with no dynamic range and the drums sound like a drum machine. The latter is not a slam on Mangini but the actual sound of his drums. The new trend in rock seems to be the more popular the band or artist the more horrible they sound from a production standpoint (Minus Steven Wilson releases). Also, Myung has to be the most waste of talent in prog these days. Absolutely nothing memorable from him on this release and what is there is barely audible.

So the content of the music. This does seem heavily influenced by a 2112 type theme and a Wall vibe. Act 1 is solid with a good contrast of heavy, lite rock and ballads. Act 2 suffers from too many ballads and I was hoping for a more dramatic conclusion overall. While it would take a while to break down each song I will say it's nice to see DT branch out and try something different. All the great prog bands like Rush, Yes, Pink Floyd and Jethro Tull took the same chances later in their careers. While those chances seemed unpopular at the time you'll find a lot of diehard fans reference those as their personal favorites years after release.

3 stars for bad production and the absence of John Myung's talent.
4870858
Infamous was a bland album which focused more on sounding like other albums, rather than developing something unique. A great number of songs borrowed massively from the sounds of other artists such as Marilyn Manson, Slipknot, and Bleeding Through to name a few. While this in itself sounds like an intriguing concept, its been poorly executed here. With this in mind, Im here to talk about the newly revised version of the album; not the original release.

I actually rather enjoyed Motionless in Whites album Creatures, despite finding every band that fell under the category of metal-core to be rather generic and dry (besides a few very talented artists). I enjoyed Creatures; not because it was innovative or creative, but because it was fun to listen to. Creatures had a very unique atmosphere; unlike most bands of the genre, Motionless in White centered their themes on horror films and Gothic imagery. I can admit that because of this, I was very excited to see what they did on their sophomore release.

After being severely disappointed by the original release of Infamous, then came the deluxe edition which after reading more about, I discovered was completely re-hauled and served as a far more satisfying record in comparison to the original Infamous. While it still lacks in its lyrical department, this re-issue of Infamous proved to be light years ahead of its predecessor. Vocally, a lot has been altered; this is good in some areas, but not in others. While the delivery of the clean vocals on the previous release sounded extremely unimpressive and often times terrible; here they sound almost robotic and overly compressed, giving a flat sound to them. Some of the lowly screamed vocals sound like theyve been heavily altered and they often times sound very unimpressive and fake. The Marilyn Manson-esque vocals on the third track AMERICA have been surprisingly replaced by a deeper, more unique sounding set of vocals; as well as more varying vocals from low to high screams.

Some of the songs like Devils Night sound more original on this release than they did previously due to the fact that Devils Night sounded like a carbon copy of Slipknots Psychosocial both vocally and instrumentally. Here, it sounds similar in its riff, but thats about it. Another example of vocal changes are the more frequent uses of Chris Cerullis extremely high shrieks which seemed almost absent on the previous release of the album. In my opinion, one of the higher points of Creatures was the vocals, which were very unimpressive on the sophomore release.

The mix itself has been drastically changed on this edition of Infamous; the instruments often come off as flat and hollow, despite being instrumentally better than the original in the fact that riffs have become more complex and some solos have been thrown in. This version of the album is also extended as it features two new songs as well as three remixes and one alternate version of the song AMERICA. The new tracks Fatal and Sick from the Melt are both rather promising and both stand out as above average songs while at the same time adding to the album.

The overall sound on this edition of the album is more like their previous album Creatures each song brings back the familiar atmosphere Creatures created and Id highly suggest this album to anyone who enjoyed Creatures but was fairly disappointed with Infamous.
2728814
This album is a mixed bag of the worst sort as far as Dead studio efforts go.  Some good, some horrible, and now thanks to the re-release, some great.
  First off, the bad: Some of the Dead's worst studio efforts grace this '77 release.  "Dancing in the Streets" is a horrible cover and when performed live, it is redeemed only by a stellar Garcia solo which turns this disco travesty into a swaggering beast.  No such solo in the studio track.  "Sunrise" is a Donna Godchaux song that contains the lyric "I remember breezes from winds inside your body", which may be the worst Dead lyric ever.  And two Dead songs which would become live classics- "Estimated Prophet" and "Samson and Delilah"- sound weak and anemic here.
  The good: Phil Lesh's "Passenger" sounds good.  The Dead never did much with this live other than rock it harder than it is here, but that doesn't detract from this version.  And the centerpiece of this album, "Terrapin Station" in its full multi-part incarnation, is great.  What us live fans know as "Terrapin Station" comprises just over half of what we have here and thanks to a clear, full production, these parts sound great. Jerry's guitar sounds particularly sweet.  After the epic jam that closes out the live version, several more parts to the suite, including some creepy lyrics and a percussion based segment complete with production noises, add several more layers to the epic song.  All in all, a heavily produced- strings, studio flourishes- number that sounds like nothing else the Dead officially released.
  The great: again, as with the other re-releases, the bonus tracks help make the purchase of the album a little more tempting.  The instrumental outtakes won't change your life, but they are sweet and well-played. "Catfish John" and "Equinox" are two tracks that never made it in the band's live sets (though the former found a home with the JGB), but both are worth a listen.  "Equinox", in particular, sounds like it had the potential to be a live powerhouse. Finally, the highlight of the whole album, "Dancing in the Street" ends things with a live version that includes an aforementioned Jerry solo that takes this horrible cover to a whole other level.
  Not a great album, and at times, really not a good album.  But thanks to a couple great treats- "Terrapin", "Dancing" live, a handful of bonus tracks- it is an album worth hearing.  There are much better efforts in the Dead canon, but if you can afford it, this is worth owning.  If your money is limited, pass this up for a more consistent Dead release.
344152
I have been a Poison fan since I first heard "Talk Dirty To Me" in 1986. I stayed true with Native Tounge, when a lot of fans bailed. I bought the Greatest Hits, craving anything new. I loved Crack a Smile and  have listend to it every day since it came out, but Power to the People is  a huge let-down. PTTP is a decent track, and I hate every bone... is  interesting with CC on lead vocals. But the tracks are poorly produced and  the band is too hard. I listen to a lot of harder bands than Poison and  love them, but that's not Poison. I'm all about change, but this was not  the direction for Poison to take. The live cuts are also overkill. We heard  these songs on Swallow This Live, and again on Crack A Smile: Unplugged.  It's getting old. I'm still a fan and love the tunes. But unless you are a  die-hard fan of the band stick to the Crack A Smile and Flesh and Blood.
4853674
I thought todays music was bad, with the likes of Brittney Spears, Christina Aguilera and such, now we get bombarded with the worst of the 80's.  What's going on.  Styx once again flaunts their overtly pretentious, overly produced, and in one word which sums it up Bad music.  Why don't these "has beens" just go away. As for REO what can you say about them now that you couldn't 18 years ago.  They were bad then and their even worse now.  It's embarassing to see Kevin Cronin as a 50 year old up there on stage in his spandex pants belting out fluffy little tunes in his high helium filled voice.  These 2 bands together make me think that I'm watching Spinal Tap again.  The only difference is Spinal Tap's music is better.
116852
After Kid A, which is a very detailed and clever album, people expect the songs on this one to grow on them, even if they do not sound right the first few times. Indeed the music is original and clever. However it is hardly likeable. It seems that having the guts to make such unexplored music is one thing, but actually being able to make it good music is another thing entirely.
Take 'Like Spinning Plates' for example. The first time you listen to it it sounds terrible. You'd expect this album, like Kid A with say 'Everything In Its Right Place', to eventually grow on you. However, instead it just turns out to be a fractured and a very average song. This is the same as 'Hunting Bears' and 'Life in a glasshouse', leaving people nodding at the end "hmmm.... wasn't that clever". However, is there any point in it being clever if it doesn't sound that good? Kid A accomplished this problem and is what makes better.
Despite such flaws, there are some very good tracks on this album. 'Pyramid Song' is one of my favourites from Radiohead and lives here. 'I Might Be Wrong' and 'Knives Out' (thats all three singles) are also good catchy tracks with some experimentation invoved. 'Pacht Like Sardines...', the opening track is additionally original and yet impressive.
However, now I am starting to struggle a little again. 'Pulk Revolving Doors' is saved and respected for its creepy words that suit the dodgy sound effects. 'You and Whose Army' is also fairly likeable, but bloody miserable and gets old after a while.
The rest are poor. The remake of 'Moring Bell' is absolutely terrible and this originality is only original because its rubbish and no one else would want to do it. It, itself brings the album down, especially when there's a much better listening of it on Kid A. Furthermore, 'Dollars and Cents' is a useless load of noise with really cringable cheesy vocals. However, I think it is fair to disagree here as I did at first like this song. But now it has become one of the worst.
So here you have it. The most difficult album they've done because half of it never becomes likeable even when you do begin to appreciate it. However, despite my criticism it is still pretty good, just poor compared to the three albums prior to this.
3750609
its so bad pleas just don't  there are better options
2828752
As mentioned by some other reviews, this disk has its ups and downs. I am a huge fan of Roadrunner Records so when this CD came out i just had to have it. It was what i expected, and not what i expected at the same time. First the bad. The worst songs on this album are definately Constitution Down, which is an ok song, It just has a sucky chorus (constitution down, allocate the unsound) or whatever that means...yeah...whatever that is supposted to mean, i really don't care, it sucks. It's unfortunate because the riffage is intense, solos amazing, and druming insane. Next is "In The Fire." This is a huge disappointment because the song itself is amazing. Awesome breakdowns, insane riffs. But the vocals just don't seem to grow on me. King Diamond sounds a lot like Dani Filth IMO, and I just can't get used to the "being choked to death" lyrics. Again, i emphasize, with a different lyrical approach, this may be one of the top 5 best songs on the CD."Roads." Hmmm. Mabye this was supposted to be a clever idea for a break in heaviness. They achieve this, but it just plain sucks. This seems to me to be a filler song and is TOO slow and is very random. "I Don't Wanna Be(A Superhero)" has some sort of pop-punk-rockish combination that is not only repetitive, but dull and boring. There's some pretty good riffage, but thats about it. Now for the better songs. First up, and also the intro track on the cd "The Dagger." Love Howard Jones, but the bass/drums chorus isn't to my liking. It seems very out of place in the song. Other than that it's a great tune. That man has got to have one of the best voices I've ever heard. "The End" is also one of the best on there. At only 19 years old, Matthew Heafy has sure made a name for himself. This is probally the track most people will pick up the CD for, and with good reason. "The Enemy" is another high-point of this CD. Big Chimaira fans will love this song, as Mark Hunter does a great job fronting this one. If you are a fan of heavy music or of Roadrunner Records, definately pick this one up. If you find it at a reduced price definately pick it up. If its $18, like it is here on Amazon, don't bother.
3960759
Okay this is bad. The director (Editor?) jerks you from scene to scene, the writing's labored and some things just don't make sense. In the beginning of the movie, for instance, it's stated pretty clearly that plain water will kill a vampire. (Disregarding of course the fact that blood itself is 83% water.) Later on though one of the heroes specifically chooses holy water as weapon so it's a little hard to figure. And as much as I like Michael Madsen I have to say, yeah, he's just awful here. That said though, this isn't as bad a movie as some of the reviews would lead you to believe. Most of the cast gives an honest effort (The Romanian prostitutes aren't half bad.), Kristanna Loken is about the sexiest vampire slayer ever and Michelle Rodriguez is a pretty close second. And in my book anyway, any movie with Meat Loaf in it gets an automatic two stars for cool. And while some of the special effects look like, well, special effects, some of the gore is pretty good. So here's what I'm thinking. If you're not into gore or vampires, don't bother with this one. But if you're sitting on the fence, yeah, go ahead, give it a try. Cause really, hot chicks and vampires, what have you got to loose? (Just, you know, bring popcorn.)
3044533
This album has a couple REALLY good tracks, like My Time, Stay, I Miss My Love, and a few others but it also has some tracks that are absolutely horrible such as Lullaby.  I definitely think Fab could have delivered a little bit better on this album, although it beats out most of the competition at the moment, it doesn't top Fab's catalog.  IMO this is at the bottom of his catalog, I think almost all his other albums were better than this.  In a nutshell this album is good lyrics, bad hooks.  I'd rather hear that then bad lyrics, good hooks but it's not what I expected from Fab.  The DVD that was included was ok at best.  It started out alright but ended really bad.  Lyrically (as far as the verses) this is what you can expect from Fabolous, crazy metaphors, good bars, and alright content.  BUT THE HOOKS ARE ABSOLUTELY HORRIBLE.  I wish he did his own hooks and didn't rely on features so much.