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Review Summary: Good follow-up of One-X. They've followed their way to become more of a mainstream rockband, including faster and heavier songs. The album-opener "Bitter Taste" has a great riff and a nice chorus to go with it, but it's quite repetitive. The follow-up "Break" emphasis the way to become a mainstream band. The riff and the chorus are catchy, inviting you to sing along. Third song on the album is called "World So Cold", referring to the dark setting of the lyrics. The lyrics are, although well-chosen, a bit repetitive. The song builds up nicely, with a great transition of the rhythm in the middle of the song. The next song "Lost In You", is a bit different from the others. It's relatively slow, but becomes heavier towards the end. "The Good Life" lightens the setting to a more positive view on life. The song is pretty generic and isn't very special, not in lyrics nor in sound. The next song turns the setting right around. The negative sides of life are being displayed, more or less. By slowing the rhythm down a bit, this negative setting is achieved quite nicely. "Last To Know" definitely stands apart. Adam's great voice gets a lot of attention, with the soft piano playing in the background. As the song progresses, the instruments get a bit louder and at the end the guitars really come into play. Whether this should have been a complete soft song, is up to you. I imagine a lot of people can identify with their next song: "Someone Who Cares". The chorus is attracting, the couplets ain't bad and the riff is good. I will be short about "Bully": catchy chorus. The song "Without You" is one of the lighter songs. It features a good guitar-solo, builds up well and focuses on Adam's great voice. Hatred and anger is what the next song "Goin' Down" is about. Apart from the good riff, the song is very repetitive and doesn't deliver anything more than some good screams in the chorus. The last song of the album "Life Starts Now" lives up to it's name and manages to display the contrast between the good and bad things in life. The intro is nice, the riff is good and the overall buildup is good too.
No song from "Life Starts Now" can really be called 'bad'. There is a lot of overlap between the songs, including overlap with songs from other albums. This can make some songs sound rather generic. Some may find the lyrics the same for every song, some may find it varying enough: it's up to you. Adam Gontier performs great in every song, providing a very nice, raw and unique sound.
For all the TDG-fans: Definitely get this album! It's a good follow-up of One-X.
People who like this genre: Some songs are pretty good, and the others aren't bad. It may sound generic, though. The lead-singer performs great.
Sorry for my bad English, as it isn't my native language.
Any feedback is appreciated.
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Album Rating: 1.0
This looks lonely. Review wasn't needed, nor album. Sorry for inconveniencing you with my hate and criticism.
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Some of the song descriptions aren't too bad, but you need to break this into paragraphs. Also, track-by-track descriptions are frowned upon here. This sort of album doesn't really lend itself well to track-by-track anyway. What's preferred is to take an overall view of the album, using specific tracks as examples. That way you don't have filler descriptions like this: "I will be short about "Bully": catchy chorus."
There's some good ideas here, you just need to expand on them. Your English is pretty good though, grammar isn't really an issue here. Just keep in mind what I've said, and welcome to Sputnik!
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Thanks for the feedback!
Converting my feelings about music is already difficult in my native language, but in English it's really hard. That's why I choose for a (more easy) track-by-track description, instead of a (more time-consuming) story line.
But I'll certainly keep your advice in mind!
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You're on the right track. One thing though, if you want to continue doing track-by-track reviews for now, you need to be more descriptive with each track.
Most folks hate this album here, but I'm one of the few who enjoys it. I didn't really catch it in the review, what's your favorite song(s) here?
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For now, I'll read some more reviews, so I can learn from them. (the way they're written)
Fav songs:
World So Cold
Life Starts Now
Someone Who Cares is nice too.
But I prefer songs from their old albums. (I love "Home")
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Break, World So Cold, No More are probably mine. But yeah, One-X has most of my favorites.
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Three days shame. Don't mind them, just not paticularly fond of em either.
| | | Album Rating: 2.5
First, welcome to Sputnik!
This isn't an awful review or anything, but these are a few things to consider for your next review:
-break it into paragraphs: introduction, body, conslusion. it doesn't have to have a rigid 5-paragraph essay structure or anything, but it shouldn't read as one big blob either.
-avoid track by track reviews. it is good that you at least put it into something of a paragraph, but instead of talking about every single song, choose a few as examples of points you want to make about the album. For instance,
"There is a lot of overlap between the songs, including overlap with songs from other albums. This can make some songs sound rather generic."
Choose one or two songs that you feel prove this point, and elaborate on it in a few sentences before moving on to your next point.
Finally, for English not being your native language, this is a pretty damn good first review. Keep up the good work and keep improving!
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Welcome to the site, man. Good first review. Like everyone said, this is a wall of text, it needs to be split into paragraphs. Also, add an introductory paragraph, the beginning is a bit awkward.
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