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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]
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.
I am enjoying the idea of writers pitching these reviews.
This Hinder roadblock is getting annoying…