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Title: its loud, it pounds, but so do jackhammers
Review: Okay, first off, let me use this little soapbox to talk about reviewing music. What good does it do to say "this is great"? You can say it and your grandma can say it, but I doubt you are talking about the same thing. You gotta let people know where you are coming from, so they can decide if your opinion is one they'd want to hear about.So ... me ... I like driving rythms with lots of energy, which this collection has plenty of. but I also like some melody with it, or some unexpected shift that gets your attention. Too many of these tracks are just thump thump thump... one riff, repeated endlessly, gets to be dull no matter how good it is. And any playing with mixing threads of melody or shifting rythyms on this disk are predictable and unimaginative, if present at all.Maybe its coz i am 43... in my youth, I didn't care that the Sex Pistols or Ramones had no music... I just needed that pounding beat. But any more, i need more than this collection gives.
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