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Loved it 0 0%
Liked it 4 30.77%
Meh 5 38.46%
Disliked it 2 15.38%
Hated it 2 15.38%
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Old 09-28-2017, 10:18 AM   #11 (permalink)
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This post just made me remember that Rose of the Devil's Garden is a song and now I have to go listen!!! Thanks for mentioning Tiger Army... will have to give this one a review and get back to you
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Old 09-28-2017, 11:08 AM   #12 (permalink)
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Old 09-28-2017, 02:15 PM   #13 (permalink)
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When I listen to this, it's hard to concentrate because I think "****ing white people and their gimmicks that they take seriously" about once a minute when I hear this cheesy crap. It just feels so watered down to me, it lacks the kind of bite and passion that makes punk great and amplifies all of the elements of punk that annoy the hell out of me and rockabilly isn't that great to begin with. I alternated between boredom, impatience, and annoyance throughout the album. Pretty good for a DJ pick though. 2/10
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Old 09-28-2017, 02:18 PM   #14 (permalink)
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When I listen to this, it's hard to concentrate because I think "****ing white people and their gimmicks that they take seriously" about once a minute when I hear this cheesy crap. It just feels so watered down to me, it lacks the kind of bite and passion that makes punk great and amplifies all of the elements of punk that annoy the hell out of me and rockabilly isn't that great to begin with. I alternated between boredom, impatience, and annoyance throughout the album. Pretty good for a DJ pick though. 2/10
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Old 09-28-2017, 05:51 PM   #15 (permalink)
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Not really sure where all the hate for this is coming from. I mean, it's not groundbreaking or great or anything like that, but it's good fun. Of course, I'm not familiar with psychobilly so maybe this is just an example of it done really badly, but I never had the impulse to turn it off or hope it ended. Don't quite remember much standing out - it was all pretty much the same - though around the time it hit "Twenty Flight Rock" it began to dip, recovered with (as everyone else has said) "Outlaw Heart", definitely the best track on the album and probably the only one I'll remember, then it kind of went back to business as usual.

I wouldn't be looking to hear any more from this particular army, but all in all not the worst I've heard. I'd give it a decent 5/10.
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Old 09-28-2017, 07:03 PM   #16 (permalink)
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Let me start out by saying I like this more than anything DJ has ever played in plug.dj, Kudos to DJ for picking it. However I do not like it as much as some of the other 50s Rockabilly, Rockabilly revival, and other Psychobilly stuff I really dig. This wasn't horrible, but it also was not the "gem in the rough." Seems like DJ fulfilled his own prophesy:

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The album does have a certain spunk to it, but none of it is particularly memorable. Like most psychobilly, it's kind of in one ear and out the other. Tons of fun in the moment though. Sounds like a great live band. Anyway, not much else, performances were good, songwriting was meh, etc. etc. 7/10

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The album does have a certain spunk to it, but none of it is particularly memorable. Like most psychobilly, it's kind of in one ear and out the other. Tons of fun in the moment though. Sounds like a great live band. Anyway, not much else, performances were good, songwriting was meh, etc. etc. 7/10
I kept thinking the same thing while I was listening to it. As a studio album, not particularly memorable (except for "Outlaw Heart"), as a live band (especially in a small venue), probably a lot of fun.
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