Uninspired and Unfortunate at best....
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(4/10)
After all the incredible reviews I was optimistic, even hopeful, that this album would live up to the hype. While you can at least listen to it, unfortunately it "Falls to Pieces". The first time I listened To the disc I was genuinely bored by the time I got to the 5th track, "Spectacle".
This album is a tired rehash of what once was. If you looking for something that will make you yearn for days gone by, this is it. I guarantee that as you listen to this, you'll be wishing you were back in the glory days of hard driving rock-n-roll and not listening to this time washed offering.
The only saving grace is easy to listen to lyrics and some (definitely not enough) decent riffs. Other than that, the album just tries to hard to be bad, but comes off as weak. The parental advisory on this album is there only because it has to be for the ratings system (there are plenty of f-you and MF-ers). But, I never really believed the tracks! They all seem so contrived to present a hard core rock-n-roll image, but there is no real raw edge to any of it. It's got a - trying to hard not to be a super band, wanna be a bar band - feel to it.
There's very little originality to it, and the couple of exceptions hurt instead of help. First, there's the genre confused "You Got No Right." It's like a grunge meet's the 60's meets a rock ballad thing that just doesn't fit. It found myself hoping it would end sooner rather than later. Second, the last track "Loving the Alien" gave me the image of a tired Slash accompanying a bad Pink Floyd cover band, uggh. Wasn't that a Matrix allusion, come on! Actually, that pretty much describes the way I felt listening to the whole CD. I was ready for it to be over before it was even half way through. There are no great signature song's that scream the bands identity. I can only guess that all the glowing reviews are from die hard STP/GNR fans longing for days of old. Let's hope that the live show, or a second offering, brings some life to this otherwise lame effort.
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