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Review title: Weak, Overproduced, Over rated, effort from DMB .
Product review: I considered CRASH to be a fine album filled with diverse toe thumping tunes and bone chilling ballads. The problem with BEFORE THESE... is that they try to top themselves with overwrought melodies, multi instrumentation (and then some!) and Dave trying to give himself nodes and a hernia to boot by trying to out sing himself and the music. What the listener gets is jarbled overdone over the top mush. The soulfulness evident on the previous albums has been replaced by a "how loud and disassembled can we sound" recording. They are simply trying too hard. I realize much of the response has been good on this album, but I cant help but put my opinion out there on this one. This effort by the DMB should be classified as garbage. As for the CD, it makes a good coaster!
