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Mg 11-13-2007

Dirty Sweet

Picture if you will. A concert. Smoke machines are not necessary, because we as the audience will provide our own. (Both legal and not so legal) Cell phones, not here, I just jammed my lighter up so it will shoot a 10-foot flame. Wait in line for a six-dollar beer. Hell no. I brought my own in a deer skin flask tucked in my back so I can partake in the Frisbee and beach ball toss during the intermission. Dirty Sweet acknowledges and embraces those times. I found this cd because it was the best song played over an hour of new music on the rock station of on demand music. Baby Come Home was the track and I figured it was my month for new music so why not. Loud guitar, at times with a duel lead. Catchy riffs with sing along choruses never a bad thing. Yes not all tracks are perfect and it does slow down in the middle. They at times come a little too close to aping Black Crows too. But Delilah is the best song I’ve heard about a girls jeans, and Sixteen, Man’s Ruin, and Isabel sure help the cd end a strong rawking note. Some will call this a cliché, but some of my best concerts created that cliché. So excuse me as I put my Fog hat on, and find a toilet paper roll or coke can so I can create a bowl. Would normally be a 3.5

Frank Zappa

So what is a great guitar part? The ones that shows off your chops so you can prove that you are the fastest and write around increasing complex time signatures. Or the simple riff that three days later you are still humming along to. Is it Steve Vai’ s Flexible or is it The Edges I Will Follow. Ken has supplied us a cd with interesting musical arrangements and undeniably breathtaking skill. But there really aren’t too many songs here are there. Most of the cd is just an excuse for the members of the band to show off over interesting time signatures. Maybe Frank Zappa should be considered the grandfather of Math rock. What I found truly lacking was a sense of song structure, because most of the time it was just a long drawn out guitar, drum, keyboard, bass solo played at the same time. And it can be done just ask Jeff Beck. I’ll take the Edge. 1.5 .5 for each song that had lyrics.

Depeche Mode

Personally I could have lived without hearing Personal Jesus ever again. But I did three more times and hope to never again. The problem with this cd is that it never does anything great. Enjoy the Silence, Policy of Truth are nice tunes but is there really a great track on this disc. And its not because it’s a synth record. Personally I think the worst thing that happened to Depeche Mode was the band losing the importance of pop with each record. Moodiness and a dark atmosphere is not a replacement for a good song, and on Violator this seems the case. 2

Whatever it’s called

Okay I get it. Lets see if we can write an cd’s worth of songs and let them all be about a minute long. I am pretty sure there was a band called the Minutemen who tried to do this. But that is the problem I have with these guys their songs are to short. They are like incomplete sentences. Just when it seems that they have an idea it ends. And that is a pity because most of the songs here are pretty good. If they got rid of the novelty idea and finished the thoughts to well rounded songs we might have had a great cd. Instead we have a lot of potential. 2.5