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Title: Ugh
Review: I read lots of great reviews both for this album and its predecessor, Is This It, and I went out about bought Room on Fire on a whim. I listened to it all the way through once. I tried to listen to it again, but...couldn't. It was just so bad. The bass figures are the sort of simplistic crap you expect from a high school garage band, the guitar doesn't do anything interesting on all but maybe one or two songs, and the vocals are buried so deep in the mix that you can't even hear them (though after looking at the lyrics in the liner notes, I decided this wasn't necessarily a bad thing). The whole thing just seemed bland and uninspired. I really did want to like the album, honest. But bottom line, if these guys are supposed to be the "saviors of rock and roll," I don't think I want to be redeemed.
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