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Title: Tragic
Review: This album astounds me. What possible motivation could Petra (or maybe just Bob?) have had to record this? Here's a message to the guys in the band from a long (and I mean long) time fan: If you want to write NEW songs, write new songs. Don't completely rebuild old songs. There is a reason that people liked the originals. For instance, the tune "Beat The System" bears only a passing resemblence to the original. The hooks are all gone, stripping the song down to a disjointed mess. If Petra's goal was to make some old classics less "catchy," mission accomplished. Put it this way, this disk is enough to make me think twice about buying the next one (and I've been a pretty hard-core fan for almost twenty years)!
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