Butch Walker - Rise & Fall of Butch Walker & The Let's-Go-Out-Tonites
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Free Music Notes for Rise & Fall of Butch Walker & The Let's-Go-Out-Tonites
Free Music Review: A Batter than Average Album
Hit: 4 Stars
The music is certainly good, in fact it could at times be called infectious. Highlights from the album include Hot Girls in Good Moods and Bethamphetamine.
If their is some issue to be taken with this album, it is in the comparison it draws between itself and seminal David Bowie album, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. While at times a similarity can be found, Mr. Walker ceratinly hasn't attained that level.
With that said, this album is still well-worth purchasing, as is his previous work.
Free Music Review: Let's Label it: The Worst of the Best
Hit: 3 Stars
You will notice that the Let's-Go-Out Tonites appear on one album and one album only. This might be because the go-go dancer, tambourine players really didn't add anything to Butch Walker's album that he himself couldn't achieve. Butch Walker's third album was a venture into a more mature and folk influenced sound that wasn't all that it could have been. The album had its staple anthems such as, "Bethamphetamine (Pretty Pretty)" and "Hot Girls in Good Moods." However, songs that really should have been given credit like, "Taste of Red" and "Canyons" fall by the wayside on the CD to make room for "bigger" songs. Had Walker used a song like "Canyons" as a template for the album instead of "Hot Girls in Good Moods," he would have had a much better album; a more appropriate stepping-stone to SYCAMORE MEADOWS.
The RISE & FALL OF BUTCH WALKER & THE LET'S GO-OUT-TONITES falls short of what it is so desperately trying to do. The album has its gems such as "Song Without a Chorus" [which coincidentally is better on the Hotel Cafe Tour 2005 CD], "Taste of Red", and "Canyons." However, Butch Walker could have made a more solid album that better reflected his growth as an artist.
Free Music Review: This is what happens when you sell all your best ideas...
Hit: 2 Stars
I have been a fan of Butch Walker for a long time. His work with Marvelous 3 can be summed up by the first word of the band... and "Letters" has to be one of my all time favorite CDs. I suppose that maybe my love for "Letters" gave Butch a hard act to follow, but it feels that with this CD, he doesn't even try.
Shortly after the demise of Marvelous 3, Butch began to work with the likes of Avril Lavigne, Bowling For Soup, Pink, and even Lindsay Lohan. In fact, most of these songs that he writes with/for these artists are pretty good. However, working with such a plethora of artists has left Butch Walker dry for ideas, I believe. He sells his good ideas to artists whom will actually make a buck performing them, and saves the reject ideas for himself. Butch seems to take the Lindsay Lohan warped-voice technique, which makes his voice seems very drained out. The numerous references to cocaine makes me feel that he needs to lay off the drugs and begin saving his good ideas for himself.