Album Rating: 1.5 | Sound Off

Obviously I just made it up but these guys are basically a hard rock band playing pop songs

Is this album good or does it suck

Album Rating: 1.5 | Sound Off

Wow, when did you become Betray? Yeah, it's good for what it is but I personally can't stand it. If the opening track doesn't immediately grab you then it's probably unlikely the rest of it will

it's somewhere in the middle

Album Rating: 3.5

Out of the Black WILL grab you.

Just listened to it pretty decent I guess

Album Rating: 4.0

Dude, Out of the Black isn't even the best song.

Album Rating: 3.0

The dude is hiding his pedal board secret like his life depends on it.

Out Of The Black isn't the best song [2]

Album Rating: 3.5

Album is the tits.

It's awesome.

Album Rating: 3.5

Out of the Black is the best song [3]

Nah man, it's Top 3 for sure but Come On Over and Little Monster >

Album Rating: 3.5

those are also my top 3

Nice to see we agree on that.

Album Rating: 3.5

yeah, and then Figure It Out

Yeah, it's pretty cool too. Whole album is, except You Can Be So Cruel.

Album Rating: 4.0

Yeah this isn't even close to pop. And I'm not normally a grammar nazi but...just no.



Also for those of you criticizing this for being too "derivative" and "been done before" -- it's ALL been done before. Just because The White Stripes, Black Keys, QOTSA, etc. played a similar style a decade ago doesn't mean they own it forever. It doesn't even mean they did it the best. Because guess what? Before those guys, there were the Ramones, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, etc. decades before. And before them, there was Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson, and all the old blues guys decades before that. And for every new era and every new group, there were the snobs who whined and complained that it had all been done before. But guess what? That doesn't stop it from being enjoyable music, and it seems to have held up pretty well.



In short, just because you have some personal attachment to, for instance, The White Stripes -- doesn't mean they're the only band that can ever do the garage/punk/blues/rock/whatever thing justice. Just admit your prejudice and move along, no need to drag a hardworking artist through the mud while you're at it.

Album Rating: 1.5 | Sound Off

What makes you think this isn't close to pop at all? these all sound like pretty basic pop songs but just played in a style to make it sound more heavy

Album Rating: 2.5

' And before them, there was Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson, and all the old blues guys decades before that'



yeah but taking influences from and wholesale ripping off are not the same thing