Buckcherry - 15

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Artist: Buckcherry
Brand: Baker & Taylor
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2006-04-11
Music Label: Eleven Seven Music
Soundtracks:

So Far
Next 2 You
Out Of Line
Everything
Carousel
Sorry
Crazy Bitch
Onset
Sunshine
Brooklyn
Broken Glass

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Free Music Review: Overproduced, Overplayed; A Great Rock Album From An Underrated Band
Hit: 5 Stars

Buckcherry never achieved solid popularity when they released their debut album Buckcherry in 1999. They broke up after releasing their terrific (and very hard to acquire) album Time Bomb and no one really noticed. Singer/lyricist Josh Todd did a couple movies and a great album with an unsigned band he found in Utah and everyone else just faded off the radar. 15 is their comeback album and they came back in a big way.

This overproduced album with a sound tailor-made for radio is great. I don't like much new music and Buckcherry's demographic does seem to be teenage kids, but Buckcherry brings back the sex, drugs, and rock `n' roll aspect in the vein of Guns N' Roses that's been missing for a long time. 15 is not an album that will appeal to the people who like "real rock music" that doesn't get radio play, but what this album has is catchy, heavy, rock songs that I compulsively listened to. It's already a Platinum album and has spawned quite a few radio hits, which causes music fans to lose respect for a great album needlessly...But, if you can dig what I'm saying, read on; if you don't, you're not going to agree with what else I have to say, so just stop...

This album can be separated into two categories: Great and Good.

GREAT:
Next 2 You, Out of Line, Everything, Carousel, Sorry, Crazy B****, Sunshine, Broken Glass, and Back in the Day (Bonus Track, available on some editions).

GOOD:
So Far, Onset, Brooklyn, and Pump It Up (Cover song; Bonus track).

The album starts off with "So Far," which I don't dislike, but I find kind of annoying. I hate the chorus and I think it shows the less talented side of the band. The album kicks into high-gear on the second track "Next 2 You." This gets radio play a lot and is just a great, catchy rock track. It's got a great vocal melody, funny lyrics, and is just a great party song. The band gets serious on its next four songs. "Out of Line" and "Everything" show perfectly how Josh Todd can (at least, in the studio) go from screaming to singing and project emotion into the lyrics he's singing. Both songs are incredibly overproduced, but these songs are two of my favorites...Especially "Everything" which has some great vocals on it. "Carousel" has a country-tinge to it that Buckcherry pulls off wonderfully.
It shares themes with the next song "Sorry," but sort of the sequel or prequel to that. "Sorry" is overplayed and is a love it or hate it song; the lyrics are something a lot of people can relate to, while not entering the realm of deep or thought-provoking. We've
All heard "Crazy B****." I can hardly listen to this song anymore, but I listened to it for a long time and always loved it. "Sunshine" has a great guitar riff and is just another catchy track. "Broken Glass" has been in commercials and is probably the heaviest song on the album, while still retaining a pop essence to it. The bonus track "Back in the Day" is a short, catchy song that could easily be played on the radio.

The "Good" songs are pretty good and I've listened to them many times, but they just aren't as good as the aforementioned tracks.

When Buckcherry re-formed to do this album, the only original members were Josh Todd and guitarist Keith Nelson. These two are the core of the band and almost were in the spots later filled by Dave Kushner and Scott Weiland in Velvet Revolver. Nelson is a very talented guitar player, who is responsible for writing the riffs that have made the band as big as they are. Also along for the ride here is Stevie D. (rhythm guitarist), Jimmy Ashhurst (bass), and Xaviel Muriel...They're all solid players, but it's Todd and Nelson that makes this band what it is.

Buckcherry is, in my opinion, underrated. Taken into consideration that they're a relatively newer band with a teenage following, they're certainly better than My Chemical Romance, Saving Abel, and most of the stuff they play on rock stations that sounds the same. Todd has a great rock voice; not an "impressive" vocalist, but a great singer for what he's singing. He also has moments of lyrical ingenuity (unfortunately coupled with moments of lyrical FAIL) that typically go unnoticed with songs like "Crazy B****" ruling the airwaves.

I love this album and have listened to it more than most of the CD's I own. This was my introduction to Buckcherry and they entered into my life at a really unique time. Their music touched me and has stayed with me since. This is a great band, this is a great rock album...Definitely worth buying.

GRADE: A

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15 Poster

The band who broke onto the national scene in 1999 returns. "I am playing the hell out of it. It combines all the best elements of Aerosmith and Guns N Roses in their prime" - Eddie Trunk (Q104 NYC syndicated radio host and VH1 Classic on-air personality). "Coming on like the Black Crowes by way of AC/DC, this LA-based band is at its best blasting its way through hard-hitting riff rockers" - Entertainment Weekly.

Buckcherry reestablish their status as one of the most raucous and delightfully dirty-minded acts in the industry today with 15, a truly bombastic rock & roll blast. Vocalist Josh Todd leads this high-energy act into battle with the colossal one-two-three punch of "So Far," "Next 2 You," and "Out Of Line," each anchored by the weighty rhythm section of drummer Xavier Muriel and bassist Jimmy Ashhurst, then elevated by the Olympian guitar attack of Keith Nelson and Stevie D. But while an appropriate levity prevails on those tracks and others--such as "Crazy Bitch," "Broken Glass," and the good time stomp "Brooklyn"--the band also find time to show a more sensitive and mature side with the hit-worthy and country-inflected "Carousel," plus the unapologetically melancholy "Sorry." If there's a fault to be found on 15 it doesn't reveal itself easily, and if there's a fault to be found with Buckcherry it is perhaps that they imbue listeners with a zest for living. But that clearly is no crime. --Jedd Beaudoin

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