Papa Roach - lovehatetragedy

For their second major-label release, Northern California's Papa Roach follow the same recipe of other rap-metal crossovers: aggressive, thick-chugging riffs, angst-driven lyrics, and touches of good ol' classic rock. Tracks "Time and Time Again," "Born with Nothing, Die with Everything," and "She Loves Me Not" have big, fat, clever choruses, which would fit with ease on harder mainstream radio. Elsewhere, they are far more engaging: "M-80 (Explosive Energy Movement)" bashes away with punk stylings, and the sweeping "lovehatetragedy" includes interesting chord and tempo changes. Jacoby Shaddix (the vocalist formerly known as Coby Dick) gives an impressive performance, and while he might not have the power of most of his contemporaries, he makes up for it with his more melodic approach, even within his raps. The only thing that's lacking is a distinction factor that sets them apart from everyone else, but at least they didn't steal any Iron Maiden riffs this time. --Gail Flug Amazon.com

Still pretty decent three years later...

I got this album roughly three years ago, during the summer of '02... I was sixteen, I loved "Infest" (which I could also squeeze out four stars for), and I had heard that "P-Roach" was going back to their rock roots. I heard and liked "She Loves Me Not" (turns out it was an earlier version, which I still think is superior), so I figured, worth the purchase.

Upon first listening, I simply said, "meh". However, after a few additional listens, I fell in love with it. Catchy, had a nice flow, not too juvenile, and it could rock a little. To this day, the songs (my favorites being "Life Is A Bullet", "Time And Time Again", "Decompression Period", "Black Clouds", although they're all at least half-way decent) still remind me of the summer of '02: ... well, nothing you folks at home would be too familiar with, but personal memories. (Well okay, one you remember: Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3.)

So, these days, although I'm not huge into "nu-metal" anymore (I'm not even that into Slipknot anymore, whatever that tells you), Papa Roach's first two albums (Infest and this) are still pretty good. I may not adore them as much as I do Zep, Pantera, Tool, Hatebreed, Nirvana, Green Day, et cetera, but they're still kinda catchy and good. Check it out. You might like it, you might hate it. Whichever. I like it. It gets four stars from me. (although I would've given it an easy five, three years ago.)

By the way, ignore the Parental Advisory sticker. It's not that explicit. I've heard much worse on non-PA albums. July 3, 2005

Outstanding, follow up hit.

This album really blew me away the first
time i played it. Its definitly different
sounding from infest, but the similarities
are that they both rock. Jacoby S. steers
away from his super fast lyrics in this
album, and focuses on a more slow and
diverse style of singing. But thats the
only real change, Jerry H. & Tobin E. still
rock hard, and Dave Buckner shows large
improvements on the drums. Overall this is
a great album and I reccoment it! March 22, 2005

Uneventful

After really enjoying Getting Away with murder, I thought I would pick this cd up as I was told there was no rapping on this. I found the mix to be terrible, as the instruments are hard to hear, and the band sounds very poor. Whomever the producer was should have made a clearer mix. I did like Black Clouds, and a few other tracks, but this was a very discombobulated effort that went in too many directions. Also, the lyrical writing was very poor. October 15, 2004

Papa Roach. Lovehatetragedy(3 bonus tracks)

First off,go read the review for Papa Roaches 1st album Infest.(It should be just above this one.)Back? Good.Notice how I described it RAPMETAL.Ussaly you would expect their follow up album to be the same style of music,right? In this case, NO!!!
Papa roach are shedding their skin and becoming an Alt. Metal Angst band, adding deeper emotional lyrics, and shedding their original identification,their rap.That doesnt mean this album is no good. Certainly not. That means that its another type of music and at its roots its still papa roaches angry metal background. You can tell in songs like code of energy and she loves me not Shaddix is showing deep emotions. In songs like Born with nothing die with everything, you can tell tobin and jerry have improved their guitar and bass skills. And songs like Singular Idestructable Droid S.I.D that David has improved upon his drumming skills aswell. Favorite Songs:Code of Energy, She Loves me Not, S.I.D,Born with nothing die with everything. August 12, 2003

The other style of Papa Roach

Following their first release "Infest" in 2000, produced by Dreamworks Records. They released their second cd LoveHateTragedy in June 2002, also produced by Dreamworks Records.

THis CD is awesome! It displays P-Roachs more mellow sound and feelings more openly on this CD. There's more melodic tunes, if you have "Infest", you would find this CD very different from it. There isn't much rapping, other than in the hit song "She Loves Me Not". Their first song on this album "M-80 Explosive Energy Movement", contains a really punky tune and really fast guitar playing, it still displays some power packed in their first album "Infest".
In my opinion, "Time and Time Again" "She Loves Me Not" and "Life Is A Bullet" are the best songs on the cd.
So, what are you waiting for? Go for it now! August 6, 2003

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