I wanted to say that this sounds like a cross between The Killers and Springsteen, but The Killers' new direction makes that a tad tautological. However, I then realised that Springsteen covering ‘Mr Brightside’ is still a valid description, and figured I’d go with that.
So yes: this song is precisely that fucking annoying. A mixture of clunking, clichéd riffs; utterly fucking idiotic piano; piecemeal, nonsensical vocals and a general aura of overinflated nothing. It’s like The Darkness trying to be deep: a fundamentally facile vocal about winning on the horses which’ll suddenly drop in some sort of Character Analysis gubbins, apparently merely on the grounds that it rhymes, so you look askance and go, “What? Where the fuck did that come from? Why am I even listening to this rot? Who wrote this? Is such mediocrity even legal? Can nothing be done to stop this sort of thing?”
The kind of music which brings you out in a despairing rash.
ouch !
That bad ?
how..
did it get 3?
You're wrong
It deserves as least a 6...it's a pop song with a bit of purpose to it with some half-decent lyrics
Bit confused
that you give this a 3 & give Untitled Musical Project a 6! The latter deserved a 1 for doing nothing but creating lots of aimless noise; the former deserves a much higher rating for some intriguing lyrics.
Bullshit
review.
Hold Steady in no way deserve a review that forgets to include the word "is".
Bad review
How are you writing for this site?
have you..
...heard the record? for a start the record has roughly 15 seconds of piano in and it's barely audible. there are songs on this record, most notably 'stuck between stations' which sound like bruce springsteen, this is not one of them. they have never denied their classic rock influence. in fact they celebrate them.
to compare the hold steady to the killers is just moronic. craig finn at least has some reason to be sounding like bruce springsteen, he has cited him as an influence for over 10 years, even when his records (in Lifter Puller/the Brokerdealer) sounded nothing like the Boss. The Killers on the other hand are jumping on what remains of the born to run reissue bandwagon and will probably sound like the Klaxons this time next year.
In conclusion this is from maybe The Hold Steady/Lifter Puller's worst album, but the album deserve at least a 7 and the song at least an 8. Whereas the Killers deserve to choke on the corporate cock they like so much
this review
is great.
no idea what this bunch sound like, it's just a great review; properly got that air of "what the fuck are they playing at?!" that some bands incite.
This band is horrible
They sound like Dave Matthews Band playing Rooster songs.
this review is great
says someone who's "no idea what this bunch sound like". Hmmmm.
shit review:
looking at your list of 'bands I like and don't like', what are you even doing reviewing this? It's a waste of your time and ours, surely? Surely the job of a good reviews editor is to get reviewers to write about stuff they at least are going to be able to comment on constructively, as opposed to people predisposed to not liking the record and producing amateur-sounding, throwaway pieces of rubbish like this?
i don't
normally criticise reviewers but seriously, 90% of people who post on this site have better writing skills than this writer. And the Hold Steady are great.
Loser
What an embarrasment you are to reviewing. You should be sacked for that one review alone. I hope you don't get paid for such complete and utter nonsense. Jesus. One letter and two numbers for you: P45.
I like this.
A lot.
the song I mean,
not the review.
this review
was clearly written by a twat.
It was written by an A Level student,
what more do you expect?