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Title: Listen First
Review: I have all the crows ablums in my collection. I bought this one without listening to it first.VERY BAD MOVE!!!I would say that they have soldout, but then again, they have always fit into the center of mainstream pop. But, my attraction to them came with the soulfulness and truth of the music. I liked them in spite of their popularity.Like them no more. This disc is overproduced, overwrought garbage. It takes some particularly pungent aspects of eighties music and forms it into a CD of concentrated trash. I can't understand why so many people rate this ablum highly.The big struggle here is that I can't even respect their direction. It's one thing to be experiemental (a la Kid A of Radiohead or even Zooropa for U2). But this is just a big ole' sell out. There I said it. It's sellout. It is one of the most poppy bands in America selling what's left of their musical dignity to sell more ablums.I guess the Crows have grown up. They have a mature sound in all of the worst ways.
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