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Lighten up people. This isn't meant to be more than what it is. Radio friendly rock. A lot of people still like the 90's sound and POM does a nice job continuing the tradition. Besides some unneeded reliance on f-bombs the songs rock. Blurry is sing along rock song that gets pop radio play, and Drift and Die is just plain awesome.
July 17, 2008Puddle of Mudd really does sound like everyone else out there, which really is disappointing!! I thought She Hates Me was fun...and Psycho too...but then the rest of the clips could all just be the same song, ya know?? It's getting old, boys...
April 24, 2008 | | Too Much Snobbery Going On... | |
Wow - you all know your grunge music history. Congratulations on achieving such vast musical knowledge, in general. Now, please shut up and stop trying to make other people feel ignorant or uncool because they happen to like Puddle Of Mudd. Being a reformed "music snob" myself, I have now reached a point where I'm over with dissecting every band and its songs until I am incapable of enjoying the music. Certainly, Puddle Of Mudd has its flaws, but isn't that true of any other band? Don't they all rip somebody off? All of us "old people" don't need to flaunt our age by growling ferociously while protectively clutching our collections of grunge cds every time some new, green talent presents their offerings. I consider Puddle Of Mudd to be fluffy and fun to sing along to in the car sometimes. And that's good enough for me.
November 19, 2007I am 36, and I don't understand why so many people hate this cd! I love it! Maybe because I was never a huge Nirvana fan? I don't think Wes can help the fact that his voice sounds like Kurt...if he was "trying", he probably would have slipped up by now and reverted to his own voice. Could it be a curse that he does have such a similar voice to someone who was so idolized? I love the song "Control"...especially the acoustic version, and anyone who doesn't like it was obviously never in a relationship that involved any sort of internal struggle..."Blurry" was a huge song for them, everyone loved it, "she hates me" is just plain fun...lighten up guys...music is FUN! When we saw them live, they dove in to "summer lovin" from the movie Grease, and it was awesomely funny. I love "never change" and "said"...I don't expect Puddle of Mudd to sound perfected and polished. I love their rawness, and I love the gruff twang of Wes' voice. I saw them live and liked them so much I got tickets for the show the next night...Now their NEW cd....not quite as good...In MY opinion. Much more fluffy nonsense, much less depth of lyrics.
October 11, 2007 | | Buy it for the Songs You Know | |
Many reviewers, both amateur and professional, have accused Puddle of Mudd as attempting to imitate Nirvana. For the most part, I think that's true: it brings the post-grunge sound that Nirvana created ten years before this CD came out and attempts to make it poppier. Heavy guitars and Cobain-esque lyrics dominate most of the album's forty-eight minutes. For the most part, though, the band sounds like they know what they're doing even if they are imitators. The singles are the best songs: all are hard-rocking, particularly "Control" which has this great aggressive buildup before leading into "Drift & Die". The latter is one of the best songs on the album because of its acoustic verses and loud choruses. The lyrics are probably the album's weakness; lead singer Wes Scantlin seems to run out of things to say at some points, so he starts singing louder to try to make his words sound more meaningful. The songs are structured in one format and never seem to veer out of it. To make things worse, Nirvana fans will likely be hugely annoyed at the similarity of Scantlin's voice to Kurt Cobain's (even the way they both yell "yeah!" sound alike). There is some originality here, though. "She Hates Me" is a great tune that stands alone from the other songs because of it's lighter guitar, and a deeper cut "Piss it All Away" features a mandolin strumming over drums which create a more peaceful presence to the end of the album. It's almost as if Scantlin has solved all his troubles and is at peace once the album is at an end. Scantlin and company do an okay job at making a good listen, but the deeper cuts are only mediocre. Buy this CD for the singles that you like.
August 9, 2007More reviews at Amazon.com ...
