Wall of Mouths

boring as hell

the album’s really grown on me. the best since “lifeblood”, which nobody else but me seems to like.

favorites: some kind of nothingness, golden platitudes, the descent, hazelton avenue, a billion balconies…

really like it a lot as a whole. wouldn’t have thought so at first.

i’ve heard the album. doesn’t sound like aerosmith. it’s more or less all variations of “autumn song”. “radio-friendly” - at least in their minds - hard rock songs with lots of strings on almost every one of them. a bit frumpy and too convenient, too catchy at times… but all in all not a bad album. if you liked “send away the tigers”, you should like this one.

just the ones i know well enough

The Head on the Door —- 8
Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me- 8
Disintegration ————- 7
Bloodflowers ————— 6
The Cure ——————- 7
4:13 Dream —————- 4

i think they say their next album is gonna sound like aerosmith. that alone is enough to piss you guys off, isn’t it?

hey guys!

got a question, maybe you can help me out: how do you call that when you dismiss the importance of something by replacing the first letter with a “shm”.

example: “radiohead shmadiohead”

is there a term for that?

am in Cracow right now and love it. Spent the weekend in Warsaw. Was awesome. Will probably go there again on thirsday to see AC/DC or Rufus Wainwriht on Saturday.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txqiwrbYGrs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTCm8tdHkfI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mtjxrf2Vg7g

mrs h wrote:

I love the word ‘pissbuck’ :D

reminds me of “mother pussbucket”

i’m in poland at the moment. only here would girls cover bands like…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ph5KcaWlP2g
so awesome.

he’s also very cute
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8WxtCl9Jw4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdJieF0_DsM

talented guy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErMWX—UJZ4

http://shutupwomangetonmyhorse.com/

polish lords of the dance:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TviTCFAGr6w

biggest pimple ever:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xf8G-c_eAhs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05h83_OsM8s&translated=1

don’t really get why EVERYONE goes on about how the story is clichéd, shallow, whatever. I think the story was okay, but the whole thing was too long and overblown.

the whole movie was solid, but the long production and the movie’s ultimate success blows everything out of proportion. this holds no candle to Terminator 1 & 2, Aliens and even Titanic. I really don’t want this to be the most successful of all time, dammit.

Taunty Dan wrote:

Well for a start i woouldn’t bother with the last season peep show! :D Seriously, its pretty lousy. They’ve been scraping the barrel since the third season…

no way. season 4 was the peak. season 6 is admittedly weak.

This is sad. Chris Cornell’s falling even further from grace. I was a huge fan of early 90’s rock for a long time, but all these reunions help me realize: It’s time to let go.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-vjbuodBEU

Billy Blue wrote:

I was at the Bristol show and it was awesome. Best Wildhearts gig I’ve seen for ages. I first saw them in ‘95 I think. I’m a big fan of Chutzpah!, I think it really grows on you, the doubters should give it a while to sink in, it’s not as throwaway as you think.

Interesting comparisons with T? albums though, strangely accurate!!!

Earth Vs / Troublegum = Classic, big seller
Endless Nameless / Shameless = Nice try, didn’t work
Phuq / Infernal Love = Big, epic, awesome
Chutzpah! / High Anxiety = Straight up good rock
Don’t Be Happy, Just Worry / Babyteeth = Under produced, great potential
Fishing For Luckies / Suicide Pact = Successfully experimental

Bottom line: Therapy? + Wildhearts = Brilliant

I’d rather compare SPYF to Endless, Nameless.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj-x9ygQEGA

@vagabond:

i know that jerry has always been the main songwriting force, but what bothers me is that now he’s also the main vocalist with his voice always being louder in the mix or him being the main and only singer on many tracks.

>> not one memorable riff? damn, i heard three songs and at least “check my brain” has a killer intro/verse-riff … those bended notes, to me, are very very memorable. you just don’t hear that kind of stuff often these days. so there’s one at least.<<

fair enough. to me that particular “riff” is not memorable at all. not in 2009.

>> a mid-tempo affair. again, nothing new. AIC have always been a mid tempo affair. those grinding riffs just work best that way …<<

i didn’t mean that I expected thrash metal or anything, but most of the new songs aren’t heavy, they don’t rock. yeah, i know that aic used to do a lot of slow, acoustic songs in the past, but these new ones don’t have the emotional impact of “nutshell” or “brother” or “rotten apple”. “your decision”, “when the sun rose again” and “black gives way to blue” are just, well, boring. “private hell” is good, but at least 2 minutes too long.

>> production sounds good to me. want to hear AIC with retro-production or timbaland-production like on cornell’s new stuff? well i don’t … it sounds fat (but not overcompressed) and that’s how it’s supposed to be for that kind of music<<

obviously, there’s not only two ways of producing an album. i much prefer “dirt“‘s production over BGWTB’s. it’s meaner, drier. the new album could have been produced by bob rock. there’s a lot reverb on the guitars and the vocals. this is what mainstream rock music sounded like in 1990.

>> lyrics … they don’t need to be autobiographical, even if they’re written that way. as an artist you can take inspiration from anywhere and transcribe it into your way of thinking and then write about it.<<

okay. then why do they choose the exact same topics they’ve written about when they were still in their 20s? it was believable then, now it’s just… childish. i’m not saying they aren’t allowed to express whatever emotion they want, but would you want the arctic monkeys to sing about girls looking good on the dancefloor in 2029? now, please, don’t start a discussion on the arctic monkeys. it was just an example. the topics or the way they are approached should change as an artist gets older, IMO.

>>and besides, the who did sing my generation, at least up until 2003. it’s on the royal albert hall - dvd … ;)<<

yeah, i know. i listed them as a bad example for bands overstaying their welcome, breaking promises. by that I don’t mean that the who or alice in chains were supposed to have died young, BUT they can’t go on singing stuff like that when they’ve turned into old farts. it’s devoid of any meaning.

>>if your main points in criticism are those, then i wonder why you bothered to buy the album at all or why you even liked the band in the first place. because mid-tempo riffs, dark lyrics, fat sound and a lot of singing from jerry has always existed in the AIC-world<<

i loved alice in chains, that doesn’t mean i’m going to praise any carbon copy of their previous work.

I don’t know what’s going on, why I always have to say bad things about new albums by bands I used to like. I’m not just doing it to take the piss, I promise. Still, this new AIC album… oh, well. It’s not awful, it’s not the catastrophe it could have been without layne. Still, it’s an unbalanced affair. Jerry is clearly the creative leader, but now he’s also become the main singer. Which is why “Black Gives Way To Blue” sounds more like his last album “Degradation Trip” than AIC. It’s hard to make out Duvall at all, and when you hear him - like you do in “A Looking In View” and “Check My Brain” - he sounds restrained. Respectful yes, but maybe too respectful. He doesn’t leave much of an impression.

There’s not one really memorable riff on the album, either. “A Looking In View” is as riff-heavy as it gets. Most songs aren’t heavy to begin with. “Black Gives Way To Blue” is a mid-tempo affair for the most part. With the old-fashioned (outdated?) production the album sounds like a mixture of early 90’s Metallica and Guns N’ Roses with AIC-vocals on top of that.

Another thing that I find a bit problematic is that now we have people in their 40s still complaining about living in their “Private Hell”. I don’t know. Sure, you can be unhappy at any stage in your life, but it’s just not very grown up to write about it in the same way. Besides, this is the band that promised us “We Die Young”. It’s like The Who still singing “I hope I die before I get old”, if you catch my drift.

Wow, I’m just listening to Chutzpah and I hate it. I might have outgrown the Wildhearts… weird seeing how I think Ginger’s solo-doublealbums were really, really creative.

But this new one… it’s one awful tune after the other, especially the ones sung by other band members. Why is Ginger going Weezer/Conor Oberst on us? These songs sound like fucking Blink 182.

The Jackson Whites and the title track are okay, Low Energy Vortex could be interesting, but isn’t really, Mazel Tov Cocktail has a nice acoustic gtr solo. And that’s it for me. There are no other highlights, IMO.

Favorite album would have to be Fishing For Luckies or phuq.

er, last week i was at charlie p’s (local pub), and they (jack daniels girls) were handing out therapy?-tickets… for free. me and my mate got like 8 free tickets. ok, i guess?

what the fuck is belladonna’s problem? like, who does he think he is without the band?

anyway, the setlist doesn’t include my favorites, which are all covers come to think of it (anti-social, got the time, friggin in the riggin). have i ever been an anthrax-fan? i just don’t know anymore.

yeah, the first album they did together (they recorded another one, didn’t they?). i think it’s okay, but again, the songs just aren’t memorable enough, imo.

here, here! girlfriend of ten years is about to leave me. feel like shit all day. cancelled holiday and ended up paying 1300 euro for nothing. yep. it’s a pretty shite summer alright. thanks for asking.

Dennis wrote:

Yeah, I only found out about that track from the Anthrax forum just last week and have ordered the Last Action Hero OST on that there internet - £2.99 was cheap enough that it seemed like a worthwhile purchase.

then the Alice In Chains and AC/DC songs will steal your attention away from the Anthrax song. Hell, even the Queensryche and Def Leppard songs on that soundtrack aren’t half bad.

Anyway… does anyone have a setlist from the reunion tour Anthrax played with Belladonna? I’d love to see how much 90s and newer stuff they played with him. And why didn’t they continue with him?

oh, my list:

1. this is my truth…
2. everything must go
3. lifeblood (hated it at first, now i think it’s extremely underrated)
4. the holy bible
5. generation terrorists
6. know your enemy
7. gold against the soul
8. send away the tigers
9. journal for plague lovers (i don’t hate it, though)

Taunty Dan wrote:

JDB hasn’t been this invigorating vocally or musically in 15 years

I couldn’t disagree more. Everything the Manics did up until and including LIFEBLOOD was full of soul and inspiration. Even JDB’s solo album was awesome. THEN it went downhill, when they tried to re-record EVERYTHING MUST GO and THE HOLY BIBLE with SEND AWAY THE TIGERS and JOURNAL respectively.