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BUY IT!!
Are the Red Hot Chili Peppers the best of the alternative-rock bands? This reviewer (who generally thinks alternative rock is an evil corporate piece of crap) says yes. And this is a great way to get into the group, containing all the big songs (Give It Away, Under the Bridge, Suck My Kiss, Breaking the Girl, Californiacation, Scar Tissue, Higher Ground), although there is one big mistake this album makes: WHERE IS THE ZEPHYR SONG? It sure as hell was a hit - in fact, it was a big one. And I loved it, unlike most other big rock hits of 2002. I also would've appreciated Aeroplane, as well as some of the older stuff (Johnny Kick a Hole in the Sky, True Men Don't Kill Coyotes, especially Knock Me Down). But I highly recommend this album, as well as the classic rock and funk that influenced the Chili Peppers.

its chili peppers, so you know its good
however, its not what it could be. its missing some notable songs, including their biggest recent hit Can't Stop. it also has some fairly obscure 'hits' like Universally Speaking. however, it is a great album. although it may seem weird to consider the Red Hot Chili Peppers rock legends, they will be elligible for the rock and roll hall of fame in less than 3 years.

Red Hot Chili Peppers Greatest Hits not so hot
Not the best compulation I would have come up with. Only had one or two songs on it that I liked. But oh well Its in my collection now. Maybe it will grow on me later. ... Read more

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It may be too cynical to assume Hybrid Theory changed its name to Linkin Park in order to appear right next to Limp Bizkit in your local record bin. But rock-rap workouts like "One Step Closer" and "Papercut" do make Linkin Park a comfortable fit with Fred Durst and his ilk. Producer Don Gilmore (Pearl Jam, Lit, Eve 6) and twin vocal threats Chester Bennington and Mike Shinoda serve up industrial-strength rap and rock melodicism with equal aplomb on this woulda-been-self-titled debut effort. "Points of Authority" aims to sound like Trent Reznor wanking it up with Lars and company, whereas guitarist Brad Delson's Edge-y harmonics help "In the End" and "Pushing Me Away" evoke a dark romanticism akin to A Perfect Circle. Curiously, the band gets by with no bass player, while sample-happy DJ Joseph Hahn's step into the spotlight on the instrumental "Cure for the Itch" suggests a potential for eclecticism that could help Linkin Park outlive its seemingly transient genre. Read more

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angry why Wait?
Maybe this is angry music, but its not anger contained and bottled and packed in an album with some metro scrawl cover art to envoke nu hipsters into buying another release of angry music. What I'm saying is these songs will having you singing along like a cat in a ball of yarn in no time. From the first to the last track, nothing but exceptional, and the best vocal delviery of the century! Voicing the truth that I as a listener am futile in any attempt to voice my true inner emotions that fuel my anger, atleast unable to voice those emotions as long as I have this cd playing loudly.
Linkin Park's Theory
The rap techno group Linkin Park made their debut back in late 2000. The band consisted of two singers, a tenor and barritone. A drummer, bassist, guitarists, and a talented keyboardist back up the two singers with their rhymes. Linkin Park has a very distinct sound of a rap lyrics sung on top of heavy electronical rock progressions. The end product is well worth hearing and HYBRID THEORY is a great piece of work for this type of genre. The rhythm section is not anything really special for this record, but it works for the very melodic vocals given by Chester Bennington. The thing about this album, is that its sound was still in the experimental stage. It is a major work that helped pave the way for future techno fusion genres. HYBRID THEORY is a good album, and one that should be given some attention.
not rebellious or challenging
this cd sounds like anything else in the past 10 years: 4 chorded pop punk, simular vocal melodies that follow the expected pop sound, and the worst and most cliche lyrics ever.
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Buy Them A Star On The Boulevard...
Most people who bought this CD probably did so because they wanted the title track.That's no surprise, because it's the best track on here lyrically.I love some of those lines..."Space may be the final frontier, but it's made in a Hollywood basement...""Buy me a star on the boulevard it's californication"
YES!
Any music you can describe is probably not worth listening to.This is indescribable.It doesn't come out of anything but the band's Jam.I've been waiting for many years for some geat Rock.Thank you, RHCP!

delivered as promised
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Meteora
First off, I have to say that even though I gave this album 5 stars, Linkin Park will never be able to outdo themselves on Hybrid Theory. Every song on Hybrid Theory was well wrote, played and sung. Although Meteora is a VERY good CD and well worth the money, the songs just aren't as catchy as the ones on this album.
Meteora In the Park
Fans of this rap grudge techno band were left waiting three years for new studio material to hit the airwaves. Linkin Park had released a remix album, but nothing new had been produced for thirty six months. METEORA delivered what the fans were demanding; more of the rap techno grudge style that had become imensely popular over a three year period. This time around, Linkin Park performed harder in their rock part, had more melodic melodies and harmonies, and delivered gritty rhymes. The band is built of the rhythm section and becomes incredibly original with the performance of the keyboardist counterpointing the vocalists. The product is definately some of Linkin Park's best work and leaves the listener wanting more. METEORA marked an outstanding return of Linkin Park and keeping them the masters in the genre the perform in. The record landed the group a spot to the soundtrack of S.W.A.T. The record is just so well put together and performed. Sadly, once again, its been three years since the band has released any new studio material and not just remixes. METEORA is a great album and one to add to the collection of music fans.
These guys are good!
WOW!!!This is an amazing CD, just like their debut album Hybrid Theory.As soon as i heard the 1st song (don't stay) i knew this album was gonna ROCK-LIKE-A-MUTHA!Right off the top of my head I can name like 7 tracks that could easily be singles [thats how good this is] you get top-notch quality through out the whole disc.
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Not since the days of the Clash and the MC5 has rock seen such political force as in the uncompromising debut from this L.A. quartet. Expanding the hip-hop/metal style of bands such as the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rage tap the spirits of vintage Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin, coupled with hardcore punk intensity and Public Enemy-style grooves. "Bombtrack" opens the LP with a shot of adrenaline and singer Zack de la Rocha's infuriated chorus of "Burn, burn, yes, you're gonna burn!" The intensity doesn't let up an inch on the militant "Killing in the Name" (with the inspiring chant, "Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me!"), the ultrafunky "Bullet in the Head," and the engrossing "Fistful of Steel." Tom Morello combines time-honored metal guitar riffs with sounds that suggest a hip-hop scratcher over a rhythm section that simply takes no prisoners. Intelligent and aggressive, this is unimpeachably one of the best hard-rock records ever made. Read more

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With the D the E the F the I the A the N the C the E
Ah, how can you describe Rage? I will in one word, Briliance.Its hard to belive this album came out in 1992, 14 years ago. Wow. Listening to it today, it still blows away pretty much everything on the scene today. This album started it all. It really did, RATM only released 3 albums in the 90's and they are easily one of the most powerful and influential bands from that decade.
Killer Funk Metal Riffs!
4 Stars = Classic
A must have.
This album is what, 14 years dated? Yet young new listeners LOVE this album. Its funky, its hard, its rebellious, full of passion. This album alone, not RATM has its place in history, is a classic already in many avid music fan collections. It was ahead of its time, it was the band's best, ultimate life effort squeezed into one album. Unfortunately they could never live up to it. Released in a time of jaded generation X, rebellious punk/undustrial movement, it GOT the recognition it deserved. Not overrated, but maybe under appreciated. There are no synthesizers, sampling of music. All the funky sounds played through REAL talent. It blows away any alternative / industrial music produced today. Even new young fans ask - where are bands like this today? There just arent, so sad. RATM, holds its legendary place is music history. Paved the way for the Linkin Parks, the LImp Bizkits, the Korn - but no one could touch RATM's style. ... Read more

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Young, aggro, and from Los Angeles--it's tempting to put Incubus in the already crowded category populated by Korn, System of a Down, and their other loud and heavy brethren. But that would sell Incubus short, because Read more

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With deeper listens...
....I have found that Incubus' masterpiece "Make Yourself" is much more of an obscure Progressive Metal album than a Nu-Metal album. Take some deep listens into this album, and you will see that the musical progression of each song fits perfectly into the moniker of Progressive Metal,with a lot of funk, Hip Hop and Nu-Metal tossed into the mix. Each song progresses with perfection and every note played is placed in just right. Even Brandon Boyd's amazing vocals are progressive, as is the concept of the album, which is making yourself out of your own ideas, thoughts and beliefs, not letting the Government, Authorities and the world shape what you believe and feel. One of Incubus' Best
Here's some 1999 Incubus. This is the album that helped make the band a lot better known to the public. Their singles "Pardon Me" and "Drive" were the ones that got them on the radio and on MTV. At one point "Make Yourself" was my favorite by the band but that changed as soon as I discovered "S.C.I.E.N.C.E.". I still love this album and it's one of the best albums that I own in my collection. "Make Yourself" in my opinion is probably Incubus' second best album. Again as with S.C.I.E.N.C.E. it has so much variety to it. I love every moment of this album. My favorite tracks are probably "Pardon Me", "When It Comes", "Nowhere Fast", and "Clean". Here are my track ratings...
Boring
This is a boring album from a boring band. It just want to turn it off everytime i hear it. Dont recomend it to any "real" music fan. ... Read more

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Kid Rocks best album to date
when i first started listenin to Kid Rock, i was blown away. it was something totally new for me. well, heres my review
Kid Rock Rocks
Everday i smoke a carton of ligets, chew an entire tin of timber wolf, drink a 30 of stones and listen to this CD. Its how Kid would want it.

Oklahoma was never like this!
This music chews!And I'm complimenting him by CONSIDERING it music.Not a tiny bit of originality in this.I agree with the other reviewer, Mozart is way better!
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Great
This album is NOT as good as the first one or Battle for L.A., but that does not mean it's not good, because this album (mostly during the first half) blew me away.
good, not great, a bit overbearing
The first 4 songs ROCK!. The remainder sounds too much like the beginning. The band needed to expand its horizons. I listen to children of the sun (a great song) and get pumped up. I pop this is my car every 18 months. I cannot imagine riding around with repeated listens, They just are not that good and the sound gets tiresome.

Less than Impressive
I gave it three stars because of the songs "Bulls on Parade," "Revolver," and "Down Rodeo," which are really good, but other than those three there's not much on here worth buying. I found "People of the Sun" and "Year of tha Boomberang" to be really annoying, and the rest were ok, but there was nothing that really grabbed my interest. Just go with their first album, it's much better. ... Read more

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Having successfully fused music and politics from their start, inspiring both moshing and young minds in the process, Rage Against the Machine emerges in peak form with merely their third album in seven years. Guitarist Tom Morello is one of the most distinctive and innovative players of his era, and his foil, vocalist/lyricist Zack De La Rocha, is as unrelenting and inspiring as ever on Read more

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Fantastic Album
Rage Against the Machine is a band I only started listening to out of curiosity. I'd never heard any of their music, but I had gotten into Audioslave and wanted to see what these guys were like. Rage is a unique band in many ways. First off, this album (their final album, which was called Album of the Year by many Rock magazines; Even Time Magazine in fact) is amazing. Every song is good and not just in the sense, it's not bad. You can listen to each of these songs a few times over, there's not one track I'd skip over while listening to it. Tom Morello (who does stuff with a guitar that the best guitar players in the world couldn't do) is in top form; Tim Commerford cranks out some great basslines here (most notably in "Calm Like a Bomb"), and Brad Wilk is of course great. Zack De La Rocha's vocals and lyrics are very angry and very political here; He makes some genuine points though. That's one of the things I find most impressive about Rage. A lot of bands that do political songs, wind up with good lyrics and bad songs. It doesn't even matter if you're listening to the lyrics on this album; The music is still completely enjoyable. If you're looking to buy a really good CD, then get this. Here are the tracks and occasional in-depth commentary:
Better than "Evil Empire."
This is a definite improvement from "Evil Empire," which incorporated too much alternative elements, these tracks are more hard-rockish than on the previous album but not quite at the level on their self-titled.Tom Morello touched up his unique style of solos into something that sounds good rather than weird in EE, especially in "Guerilla Radio."If you're a big fan of Timmy C.'s basslines, this is where he shines the most.Zach's lyrics and rhyming are really centered around the problems in Mexico and the 2000 Presidential Election, these have also improved from their sophomore slump.
Worth owning for one song, but the rest are very good too
I'll keep this short and sweet since, while I think this album was excellent, I don't view "The Battle of Los Angeles" to be the band's finest work.I think that's a toss-up between their debut and the nigh-perfect "Evil Empire."This band told it like it was, is, and will likely, unfortunately, continue to be each and every time they released an album.
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Almost perfection..but bogged down bya dying style...
Judging by their latest release "A Murder of Crows", Incubus have ditched their funk/Nu-Metal/Progressive/Poppish style for a more straight forward rock sound. And for good reason. The moniker genre they were usually placed under has long since died out, and the remaining bands that attempt to release material even remotely close to Nu-Metal usually replicate the Nu-metal bands that came before them. Lets face it, Nu-Metal is dead, and it never really was that great to begin with. Incubus was one of the few great bands that incorporated Hip Hop/Funk/Metal/Jazz and a DJ all in one package. Bottom Line: Great Music
Incubus just knows how to make good music. Even though Morning View is not another SCIENCE, its a great album. And I don't know how you can call this album soft. Sure its not has hard or fast as old incubus, but its not soft. Morning View is a more upbeat uplifting album, but it does have some heavy and hard rifts in it. The lyrics sound great as well, and it has some addictive hooks in it.
Critically, Id consider this their best release to date.
I discovered incubus one night in 1999 or so, just before Make Yourself was released. I heard "Pardon Me" on the radio and i was hooked. Two years later, Morning View is released. By then, i was already familiar with their songs and was eager to see how they had evolved/built upon their earlier work. Lemme tell ya, this record did not dissapoint. Incubus has a knack for evolving with each cd they release. I say "evolve" rather than "change," because it is extremely graceful rather than forced.
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not the way to experience 311
i used to be a rather large 311 fan due mainly to the comparisons to sublime. they are pretty good in my book but i must say, this cd is a weak compilation...one has to understand..each of the albums represents a different 311 universe. being reduced to 2-4 songs off of each album mushed together on one gets old very fast.
All the 311 you need.
311's albums are really hit-or-miss. Soundsystem and Transistor and the only two I can think of offhand that are really worth listening to all the way though. Their older stuff is much too rap-oriented for my tastes and their newer stuff sounds like your typical homogenized radio-friendly rock; maybe a little better than average, but nothing very exciting. Despite all this, they really have written some great songs, enough to put together a solid, classic album.
Great place to start
This CD is a great place for a someone with a curiousity in 311 or an interest in music that is genre-defying. With roots in punk, rap, funk, and rock (and probably a few others I can't think of) there is no close comparison or substitute for the melodies, beats, or the feel of this band. 311 is one band that always has a message and that message of positivity is the reason for their rabid fanbase.
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The Original Artists
1. Microphone fiend - Eric B and Rakim
Music Orientated When Hip-Hop Originated, Fitted Like Pieces Of Puzzles....Complicated...
In My Opinion this is just another work of pure genious by RATM, the fact that every song on here is good only adds to that...
Inconsistent but good
The music is all good; the lyrics are a mixed bag."I'm Housin" has the line, "So I stepped back and started sprayin' niggers."What the hell kind of song is that for a band, supposedly concerned with human rights, to cover?On the other hand, the parade of political agitators in "Renegades of Funk" is pretty awesome to listen to, and Dylan's "Maggie's Farm" is the absolutely best song on earth for RATM to have done of cover of.Not only that, but they improve on the original (musically) possibly more than any other cover song I've ever heard.Like I said, a mixed bag. ... Read more

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It's Bragging When You CAN'T Back It Up
This was the biggest musical disappointment of 2001 by far.The first five songs on "Cocky" are quite decent and largely in the same style as "Devil Without a Cause," even if they fall a bit short of the classic-caliber stuff that appeared on that album.From there, Kid alternates between metal and country twang/Bob Seger-like stuff, with some hip hop or screaming metal elements thrown in for good measure.The album ends with a bonus rap track with Snoop Dogg, where Kid and Snoop take turns rapping explicitly about their groupies.
Raw but immature
I'm not a rap fan so that may color my review.I am rock fan, and while Kid Rock does produce some cool rock stretches in his songs the rap seemed to take away from what could be a rockin' CD.Kid can groove, I just wish he would do more of it.The constant profanity does not offend me, it just sounds stupid and gets boring.Overall, this is a fun CD, but I can't listen to more then 2 or 3 songs at a time.

Kid Rock- Cocky
I've never really been much on "Rappers", but here's just something about Kid Rock that appeals to me. Maybe it's the simple fact, he tells it the way it is.I just love his work, he and maybe Uncle Cracker are the ONLY 2 Rappers' I'll listen to.
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When you think about it, House of Pain really were ahead of their time. Tracks like "Jump Around" may have been light on the content side, but they delivered in the production department--they played with sounds in the same way that Missy Elliott and Timbaland have popularized, and they crossed over to a rock audience long before Puffy ever tried it. On Read more

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Its like a greastest hits compiled of originals
The second solo album in Everlast's career, 8 years after Forever Everlasting, is by far his most selling album. It has sold over 3 million and rising. Of course What Its Like, the CD's main single, is an amazing song, thats not the only reason to buy this cd. Track 3, Ends, also reached the Rock Top 10. Painkillers, a track on the CD about him having surgery, at the time was just a story, but it became very real when Everlast had a heart attack during recording. He still managed to finish this cd, and 2 others in years to come. Another song on the CD, "Get Down", has the best production of any hip hop song I've ever heard, and I have heard numerous songs. The cd also has two spots by Sadat X, a spot by Casual, and another by Cee-Lo. I own every Everlast album, and if I were to suggest buying only one, this would be it.

Whitey Ford sometimes sings the blues...
This album is worth having, if only for the 3-4 good songs out of the chuff that constitutes the rest of the album.
Everlast expands himself, but stays true.
What a great album.Everlast, after dissapearing for a little bit after he left House of Pain, comes solo.I was skeptical about getting this album when I saw an interview Everlast did, since he stated he was trying to get away from being a hip hop artist and show that he could do the guitar and go into rock and blues.But I saw the guest list on the back, Sadat X of Brand Nubians not on one but two tracks and Casual of the Hieroglyphics crew, aww man I was struck since I was living in the area at the time and loved the group.Prince Paul had a sketch.So I got the album.Wow, this was just tight.My favorite tracks are Money (Dollar Bill) with Sadat X on the Hook.What It's Like, Get Down, which has a tight beat and an accoustic guitar to compliment it, Tired, which Everlast just tears the tracks apart with his lyrics and the beat was just bangin, Painkillers, Funky Beat with Casual and Sadat, and Next Man, the bonus cut, which was just plain sick.Those are my favorites, but pretty much everytrack is good for repeats.This is a must have.One of the classic cd's, in my opinion. ... Read more

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Arriving out of Atlanta like high school sophomores who stole mom's car to hit spring break in Daytona Beach, the 3 brothers and 2 others of Family Force 5 deliver their debut, Read more

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Shake It Like An Earthquake!
This cd is one of the most awesome breakout cd's I've heard in a long time. They've definitely got a unique style and I love blaring them as I'm driving in my car. I have yet to meet a person who didn't like the cd when I had them listen to it. I've had over 15 people listen to the cd. That's a wide variety and many of them don't share my normal tastes in music. Seriously, buy this album, support this band, there's not many people with these guys' talent.

There's hope for music yet...
I stumbled across FF5 online not long after reading an interview of theirs in a Christian indie band magazine. As soon as I heard 'Kountry Gentleman' on their website, it was all over.
Favorite with the whole family!
I heard the song "Love Addict" on the radio and liked it so much decided to buy the cd. All of the songs are good. My only complaint is that it leaves you wishing there were more songs on the cd. Everyone in our family likes this group. It keeps getting passed back and forth between us. ... Read more

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