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Title: Music is okay, message is too preachy
Review: Goldfinger took a risk and made an album exclusively for vegetarians. It was difficult/impossible for me to enjoy this CD because it was so anti-meat. How can you enjoy a song when it's basically criticizing you? While a lot of them felt like previous poppy, sing-along Goldfinger songs, it made the critical lyrics stick out that much more. Example from the title track: "A shot to the head, so you can be fed. Won't you wake up wake up. Whoahhhhh. Open your Eyes." I love the vocals and music on this, but how do you sing along and not feel like a hypocrite? I don't blame them for making the album. More power to anyone who sings about something they feel, but you risk alienating some listeners, especially with the crap in the liner notes. It certainly doesn't help that this album was worse musically than their previous albums. The song "Dad" is so unbelievably bad. Put it this way, this was the only Goldfinger CD I've traded away.
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