Our look at the closing lines of reviews of the week’s biggest new music continues with a look at the reviews of Take It To The Limit by the patriotically minded Oklahoma band Hinder, which lands in stores tomorrow:
• “It’s also not enough to overcome the most glaring flaw here: Hinder wants so badly to live up to Motley Crue’s standard of debauchery that having fun starts to seem like an exhausting obligation.” [Hartford Courant]
• “So if you were ever young and in love, dumb with drink, and had a head swimming with not just Boone’s Farm wine but also Def Leppard, Bon Jovi, and AC/ DC (to name these guys’ most blatant anthemic influences), you may be willing to forgive Hinder’s lack of originality and preponderance of madonna/whore issues. If only the whiplash they induce resulted from real headbanging, not from trying to follow Hinder’s song-to-song indecision about whether to be studs or wimps.” [EW]
• “[F]rontman Austin Winkler is a bad representative for emotional frat dudes, especially when he suggests on one wistful power ballad that we ‘live life with no regrets.’ Thanks for the advice, bro.” [RS]
• “Like them or not Hinder is one of the bands leading the revival for straight up rock-n-roll and Take It To The Limit is going to go a long way in helping the cause.” [Hard Rock Hideout]
I am enjoying the idea of writers pitching these reviews.
Hard Rock Hideout should stay hidden.
This album is going to bomb so hard and I’m really happy about that fact.
That album cover looks like a rejected late 90s No Limit Records release.
@Audif Jackson Winters III: Or an ad for Rock Of Love IV: Quintuple The Pleasure, Quintuple The Chance Of Needing A Valtrex Scrip.
@Audif Jackson Winters III: Plus — I can’t believe I’m advocating for more crudeness, but — why isn’t there another scantily-clad torso on the cover? Do these guys actually think their fanbase wants to see their ugly mugs?
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I’ve always wondered who actually wears all the over-stylized t-shirts and blazers on the rack at Express Men.
@Chris Molanphy: There are three versions of the cover, each more nasty than the other.
This Hinder roadblock is getting annoying…