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Title: Cookie Cutter Corporate Rock
Review: I heard the raves about The Vines (on the radio, Rolling Stones article) and decided to purchase this album. I read how the lead singer wants to compare himself to Kurt Cobain. Well, this album is nothing like Grunge Rock. And the lead singer is no Cobain. The Vines do not sound like a garage band. They sound and appear to be an exact replica of what producers and record execs want--clean, boring, pseudo-angst driven. But then again, the album's graphic designs should hint at that. What do you think the target age group here is?? There's none of Grunge's sensitive introspection and emotion here. This album as well as the whole new 'Brit-Pop sound' is a complete laugh, and so are the comparisons to a former Northwestern Grunge music.If you want to listen to garage-style music, try something else. If you want Grunge, try the Nixons, Replacements, Vaselines, Melvins, Alice, Tad, Mudhoney, Sebadoh, Soundgarden, Nirvana, etc., not this.
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