Title: Lights, Camera, Revolution
Artist: Suicidal Tendencies
Released: 1990 RATING: 4/5
The Good: The follow up to 1988's impressive crossover effort How Will I Laugh Tomorrow..., Lights improves on the key attributes that made the latter album a success. The album benefits from even stronger lyrics, more consistent songs overall, and several key, important tracks that make the album stand out in a big way. "You Can't Bring Me Down", the opening track, is enough to floor the listener from the onset; it's hugely powerful, and is never boring despite its lengthy duration (5:50). The remaining tracks are similarly stellar, and make this album a true classic. Rocky George's guitar work is incredible, as usual. The songs are not really melodic, per se, but there is a lot of attitude, combined with some grooves (in the form of lyrics) that keep the group from sounding like a straight-thrash or straight-punk band. Recommended for fans of Thrash and Punk alike; it covers both grounds excellently.
The Bad: One of the things that has kept me from listening to this album repeatedly (though it did take a while) has been Mike Muir's voice; he can sound really angry and emotional sometimes, but other times his voice can have this sort of plodding-along tone, where his voice sounds the same whether the topic is happy, angry, or anything else. It gets too repetitive sometimes, and can bore you to death after listening to several songs (or albums) straight. Otherwise, a very strong album
No comments:
Post a Comment