Album Reviews 3/21/2011

Drowning Pool - Drowning Pool - Brain dead sludge metal, as expected.

Godsmack - The Oracle - A note to Godsmack: If you're going to rip off Metallica, at least have the common sense to not rip off the lowest point of their career, the "Load" / "Re-Load" / "St. Anger" era. This album did have one song on it that I liked: "The Oracle" a solid heavy metal song where Godsmack had the human decency to not let Sully sing during the entirely instrumental song.

Clay Aiken - Tried & True - An album of standards. It's not like Clay doesn't do a good job singing them, but it's still an album of standards, and that has never interested me.

Miley Cyrus - Can't Be Tamed - A decent pop album. Most of the songs are rather unremarkable, but a few are actually pretty good. Not exactly my usual speed, but not as unpleasant as I expected it to be.

3OH!3 - Streets Of Gold - Lame frat boy hip hop / pop. This is some serious lowest common denominator stuff here.

Bret Michaels - Custom Built - A below average country rock album with no notable songs.

The Jonas Brothers - Jonas L.A. - Boring kiddie pop. I'd say more, but reality has already been far more harsh to these kids than I ever could be.

Sully Erna - Avalon - This album suprised me. Sully Erna is apparantly much better at ballads than he is singing metal songs with his band Godsmack. Of course, it still isn't all that great, but at least it wasn't horrible.

Alter Bridge - AB III - Another dreary neo-grunge album from Creed minus Scott Stapp.

Hinder - All-American Nightmare - A hair metal revivalist album that alternates between treacly ballads and horrible screaming fits. The difference between this and other hair metal revival bands is that this album isn't fun in the least.

PHASE ONE COMPLETE - March 21st - 3:40 PM



2010 Song Project Report - 3/21/2011 - I finished the remaining 10 albums today and completed Phase One of the 2010 Song Project. I had time left over at the end of the day, so I began Phase Two. The final number of songs identified for Phase Two consideration is 3618. After just under two hours of Phase Two, there are still 3578 songs remaining to be evaluated.