Yeah Yeah Yeahs, New Found Glory, and Chris Cornell
Hey folks! Another week, Another New Music Tuesday Review Post!!!
So just click below and enjoy the three albums that are discussed today.
First one out the box is Yeah Yeah Yeahs', It's Blitz!
I have always been a huge fan of this trio from Brooklyn, loving pretty much everything they've done from Fever to Tell through the third and latest effort, which is a bit different. It's Blitz! is a much darker album from its predecessor Show Your Bones, but by no means is it any more adventurous. If anything, I think it might be my new favorite.
From the word go, YYY start off with the ringer, Zero, which was their single. Right away, you get a feel of a more positive beats than the angst-ridden ballads of their previous work. They evolved, delivering more dance floor friendly music that could be found in any number of clubs through the spring. However, there are some stellar tracks that deserve special recognition. My favorite song, Hysteric, has sweet lyrics that make it easy to relate to with its lovely chorus: “You suddenly complete me”. This seems to be a more intimate album, with tunes like: Skeletons and Runaway, only resulting in a lovely album.
I honestly can't say bad things about it, just go out and buy it. Don't hesitate, just get it now.
Choice tracks: Hysteric, Soft Shock, and Runaway
If you want to hear the whole album, here is the link for it legally. last.fm
Second, is New Found Glory's, Not Without a Fight
Punk is Back, folks! Embrace it. This is just the beginning of it. With Blink 182 and Green Day relaessing new albums this year, NFG are first out the gate. Another album to their collection of punk-pop, they don't hold back with their realist approach to relationships, leaving behind their “happily ever after” attitude evident on previous albums. They still sing about unrequited love, but gear toward the darker side as unanswered phone calls, breakups letters and broken hearts. Some critics find NFG the sort of punk-rock wannabes, trying to live up to the new generation kings like Green Day and Blink-182, but as they continue to produce good album after good album, they seem to forge their own path, finding humor in the despair that love tends to give us all.
Not Without a Fight starts with the thumper, Right Where We Left Off, playing off the trivial off-again-on-again relationships they we are all guilty of having. It continues on the same tangent until the dark turn I'll Never Love Again and the slower Reasons. It picks up again however with Such a Mess, making their trademark adolescent anthems that made them the alternative to the mainstream punk/emo pop that was popular in the late 90s.
Simply, there isn't anything new with this album. If you've enjoyed NFG in the past, you'll find this new installment just as carefree and entertaining. A pleasant listen indeed.
Choice Tracks: Listen to Your Friends, 47, I'm a Fool
Lastly, Chris Cornell's Scream
I don't know... I wanted to like this album. I really, really did. I have always enjoyed Cornell, from Soundgarden to Temple of Dog to Audioslave... it was always solid rock. Than someone introduced him to Timberland, and somehow that sound was changed to urban pop. I'm not saying that I hated it, I just wasn't that big of a fan. I grew up listening to Soundgarden, hearing it on the alternative rock stations in the car with my father and wondering how anyone could find such angst in their voice like Chris Cornell, whom I still believe has one of the most distinguishable voices in modern rock today. I'll always like him, but I can't say that his latest effort is one I'll be playing such as mush as Soundgarden's Superunknown, which stays in my stereo.
It's a new sound, a new genre for Cornell, one that I'll just have to get used to. Everyone is entitled to experiment, try something new. I'm by no means opposed to this genre, but his voice... it just doesn't fit. He has a raw, powerful voice that has always been associated with heavy riffs or shockingly subdued acoustic ballads that can bring about goosebumps. This album has a few tracks that are still resonant to that sound, including: Climbing Up the Wallsand Two Drink Minimum, the latter giving me those familiar goosebumps. The other sound that can be found on this album isn't terrible. I want to stress that, I don't dislike it, not in the slightest and I'm sure I can find my booty shake to it on the dance floor, but for Cornell, I just didn't expect it. I had heard snippets of songs over the past year, but hearing them all together, it seemed to still catch me off guard. One song, Ground Zero, is Cornell's view of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, sending up his distaste with the government and the policies that followed. The title track, Scream, is also the longest track on the album, giving light to his central aim with this album, changing his sound and appealing to a new generation.
I've spoken to a few people about this album, and it varies. Some think it's brilliant, changing it up and others think that he's another passenger of the Timberland/Timberlake epic fail train. You know my opinion, love to hear yours!
Choice Tracks: Long Gone and Two Drink Minimum
Okay, people. Tell me your thoughts and if I forgot any album that you feel deserves recognition, speak!
So just click below and enjoy the three albums that are discussed today.
First one out the box is Yeah Yeah Yeahs', It's Blitz!
I have always been a huge fan of this trio from Brooklyn, loving pretty much everything they've done from Fever to Tell through the third and latest effort, which is a bit different. It's Blitz! is a much darker album from its predecessor Show Your Bones, but by no means is it any more adventurous. If anything, I think it might be my new favorite.
From the word go, YYY start off with the ringer, Zero, which was their single. Right away, you get a feel of a more positive beats than the angst-ridden ballads of their previous work. They evolved, delivering more dance floor friendly music that could be found in any number of clubs through the spring. However, there are some stellar tracks that deserve special recognition. My favorite song, Hysteric, has sweet lyrics that make it easy to relate to with its lovely chorus: “You suddenly complete me”. This seems to be a more intimate album, with tunes like: Skeletons and Runaway, only resulting in a lovely album.
I honestly can't say bad things about it, just go out and buy it. Don't hesitate, just get it now.
Choice tracks: Hysteric, Soft Shock, and Runaway
If you want to hear the whole album, here is the link for it legally. last.fm
Second, is New Found Glory's, Not Without a Fight
Punk is Back, folks! Embrace it. This is just the beginning of it. With Blink 182 and Green Day relaessing new albums this year, NFG are first out the gate. Another album to their collection of punk-pop, they don't hold back with their realist approach to relationships, leaving behind their “happily ever after” attitude evident on previous albums. They still sing about unrequited love, but gear toward the darker side as unanswered phone calls, breakups letters and broken hearts. Some critics find NFG the sort of punk-rock wannabes, trying to live up to the new generation kings like Green Day and Blink-182, but as they continue to produce good album after good album, they seem to forge their own path, finding humor in the despair that love tends to give us all.
Not Without a Fight starts with the thumper, Right Where We Left Off, playing off the trivial off-again-on-again relationships they we are all guilty of having. It continues on the same tangent until the dark turn I'll Never Love Again and the slower Reasons. It picks up again however with Such a Mess, making their trademark adolescent anthems that made them the alternative to the mainstream punk/emo pop that was popular in the late 90s.
Simply, there isn't anything new with this album. If you've enjoyed NFG in the past, you'll find this new installment just as carefree and entertaining. A pleasant listen indeed.
Choice Tracks: Listen to Your Friends, 47, I'm a Fool
Lastly, Chris Cornell's Scream
I don't know... I wanted to like this album. I really, really did. I have always enjoyed Cornell, from Soundgarden to Temple of Dog to Audioslave... it was always solid rock. Than someone introduced him to Timberland, and somehow that sound was changed to urban pop. I'm not saying that I hated it, I just wasn't that big of a fan. I grew up listening to Soundgarden, hearing it on the alternative rock stations in the car with my father and wondering how anyone could find such angst in their voice like Chris Cornell, whom I still believe has one of the most distinguishable voices in modern rock today. I'll always like him, but I can't say that his latest effort is one I'll be playing such as mush as Soundgarden's Superunknown, which stays in my stereo.
It's a new sound, a new genre for Cornell, one that I'll just have to get used to. Everyone is entitled to experiment, try something new. I'm by no means opposed to this genre, but his voice... it just doesn't fit. He has a raw, powerful voice that has always been associated with heavy riffs or shockingly subdued acoustic ballads that can bring about goosebumps. This album has a few tracks that are still resonant to that sound, including: Climbing Up the Wallsand Two Drink Minimum, the latter giving me those familiar goosebumps. The other sound that can be found on this album isn't terrible. I want to stress that, I don't dislike it, not in the slightest and I'm sure I can find my booty shake to it on the dance floor, but for Cornell, I just didn't expect it. I had heard snippets of songs over the past year, but hearing them all together, it seemed to still catch me off guard. One song, Ground Zero, is Cornell's view of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, sending up his distaste with the government and the policies that followed. The title track, Scream, is also the longest track on the album, giving light to his central aim with this album, changing his sound and appealing to a new generation.
I've spoken to a few people about this album, and it varies. Some think it's brilliant, changing it up and others think that he's another passenger of the Timberland/Timberlake epic fail train. You know my opinion, love to hear yours!
Choice Tracks: Long Gone and Two Drink Minimum
Okay, people. Tell me your thoughts and if I forgot any album that you feel deserves recognition, speak!