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(reviewed by Robert Grazer)
HIGH POINTS: Something Must Break. LOW POINTS: All of the others.
You see, you see, this is one of the reasons that I don't like punk rock. Ninety Pound Wuss is supposed to be some sort of angry punk, which is sure a lovely idea, but when I can't tell one song from another, there is a serious problem. They breeze by one after another, and I don't notice. I'm just bored. And the lyrics are childish, like a lot of punk music, and don't help me enjoy this record at all. Why can't all punk bands try to be like Pennywise (who of course were just trying to be like Bad Religion, but better, except for the lyrics)? Whatever the case may be this certainly is quite a boring album.
Three factors save this from being complete and total crap. First, there's the album cover, which simplistic and dumb as it is, pretty much sums up what punk tries to be. Second, one of the songs starts out with a neat cover of "The Eye Of The Tiger," which I can't listen to for fear that horrid memories of Rocky III will surface, but is catchy nonetheless. Third, one of the songs is called "Something Must Break," which is the only one I can tell from the others, and is a nice little angry punk song about politics or something.
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(reviewed by Robert Grazer)
HIGH POINTS: Heresy, Sick And You're Wrong, Queen Maggot, Broken Circles, Junk. LOW POINTS: Anything not listed as a high point falls into a sea of mediocrity.
Better. We get some really good angry punk songs from these guys, and a bunch of forgettable tunes that I won't even bother talking about. Let's focus on the good. Ok, not entirely. There are certainly a lot of bad things about this album, the biggest being the fact that if the band was angry before, they've gotten much much worse by now, not caring about much besides the attitude. As such nearly every trace of a thing called melody is gone. I guess you can view this as somewhat like Limp Bizkit's debut, but without the rap and much better.
Some of the songs are still good, though, most notably "Heresy," built around a catchy bass line and chorus to come out as an all around great punk song. "Broken Circles" breezes right by, but still manages to leave somewhat of an impression, and "Junk" might be the angriest of them all, at least during the beginning when the music could have easily slid into a newmetal album, but it simmers down to an interesting conclusion to the song. Where the Meager Die Of Self Interest gets messy at times, but it might be one of the better examples of angry punk I'm familiar with, at least from the 90s.
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