3 listens was all I could stand too.
I actually ordered the box set seeing as it was mis-priced on Amazon at less than a 3rd of the correct price. It arrived today and is now on ebay for a quick profit, hopefully :-)
Dave
> I've listened three times through today and I don't think
> I can bear anymore.
>
> First off Meat sounds great (best in years) but the
> positives stop there.
>
> The main problem are the songs. A couple are mediocre;
> Elvis in Vegas (a Bon Jovi throwaway?), If I Can't Have
> You (Kara sounds like she's on helium) & If It Rains, but
> the rest are horrid. Song of Madness is a poor attempt at
> early Queen and/or Iron Maiden, California & Love Is Not
> Real wouldn't make Darkness b-sides, Running Away From Me
> (urgh), and a Jessica Simpson cover (WTF!).
>
> In fact I don't think I like anything. Whoever was in
> charge of quality control (Meat?) has dropped the ball big
> time.
>
> The lyrics are also very poor & too many to list, but
> these three lines stand-out:
>
> 'When we look at what we're going through and desaturate'
>
> "If history is violence and sex, I'd rather not pay my
> respects'
>
> "Let's go upstairs until we've both had enough'
>
> From watching the Meat videos he did during recording it
> seems that they called in (any old) writers to Rob
> Cavallo's house to try & churn something out over a few
> days, and most of the songs sound just like that (2 or 3
> different ideas cobbled together). There seems no effort
> or craft to most of the writing?
>
> The production is top notch but the arrangements (Cavallo
> & Meat?) seem pretty generic. No real hooks, hardly any
> piano (thunder) and far too many (widdly widdly) guitar
> parts.
>
> I would say this is Meat's worse album (song wise). Sorry
> Meat if you're reading but give Jim or Paul Jacobs a call
> next time.
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