| Puddle
of Mudd, "Drift and Die" |
Kurt
Cobain and Layne Staley are now both dead. Please stop trying
to sound like them. Especially when you end up sounding like,
well... Creed, instead. Of course, what else can you expect from
Fred Durst's label? |
| "One
Last Breath" by Creed |
I'm
thinking maybe six feet is not far enough down to keep Scott Stapp
buried. Why the hell do people keep buying this crap? Does the
CD come with a large rock of cocaine free in the jewel case or
something? And if so, why wasn't I notified? |
| "Hero,"
by Chad Kroeger and Josey Scott |
On
the one hand, it's refreshing that the two ugliest men in pop-rock
feel sufficiently comfortable with themselves to fill an entire
video (and this is not a short one) with image after image of
their faces. On the other hand, that in no way excuses the music.
Challenging Creed for cheesiest rock ballad of the decade. |
| Spin's
already-old "Real Life Rock Stories" comic |
Was
it really that long ago that Sean Landers' Genius Lessons elevated
this rag above being a merely slightly-less-lame Rolling Stone?
Well, those days are over now. Zev Borow held the fort briefly,
then there was a slippery-slope-type to Travis Millard's partially
tolerable series on "Truth Lion." And now this. Does
an uninteresting, unfunny story about Garbage's Shirley Manson
taking a dump really help sell that many copies? |
| Kelly
Osbourne's "Papa Don't Preach" video |
Okay,
missy, we're going to tell you the same thing we told all the
other reality TV "stars." Nobody cares whether you can
sing or (in this case) not. And we sure as hell don't need to
see you prancing around in skin-tight Madonna clothes any more
than we already have to. You've had your brush with stardom. Now
go back to your mansion and leave us alone. |
| The
quadrennial return of the Red Hot Chili Peppers |
*Groan*.
Is it that time again already? Can't they just reissue an old
album under a different name? |
| Disturbed,
"Down with the Sickness" |
Ah,
subtle, understated wit. Thy name is Disturbed. |
