Rollins Band - Weight
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Free Music Review: Weight
Hit: 5 Stars
I can't say enough about Henry Rollins. A true punk rock / hardcore icon. His albums are motivational music for generation x. Liar is the popular one on this album but "Shine" is a good pick me up. Free Music Review: Its A Must Have
Hit: 5 Stars
Its not my particular favorite Rollins Band album but its a must have. YOu HAVE to own this one. I think my little cousin even has this one! But its just a great piece of history really. Its one of those albums that puts u back in time and more importantly- Henry Rollins makes u THINK!....and as for the previous review of this album....Henry isnt pessimistic... he always shoves REALITY in your face and educates your a*s wheather u wanna be educated or not! He's one of my top 5 all time favorite people. He NEVER fails to DELIVER! Always some of the best music ever. Guys are jealous...ladies are....well....I wont comment on that! HAHA! (wink!)
"Liar" is- of course-the best known song on the CD and the best known song in the Rollins catalog-BUT other stand-out trax here are- "Fool" and "Step Back".
This one NEVER gets old. ...PS.....my personal favorite Rollins Band album is COME IN AND BURN...but theyre ALL stunning!
Free Music Review: Aggressive Wordsmith Henry Rollins
Hit: 4 Stars
To a new listener, Henry Rollins may have a different effect than those who have followed his music since the days he sang with Black Flag. Weight is one of the more popular albums of his career and to me it just gets more addictive over time.
Subtle jams and electric thrashes mix in and out with Rollins singing a poetic style that really weighs heavily on small but important sociological and psychological issues. Rollins brings out not an angry voice but one that often questions the hypocrisy a person can experience on any given day at any given time. The Song "Disconnect" has a lot of flair in displaying a variety of guitar arrangements that mix in and out with Rollins' wordsmithing. Other favorites are Icon, Liar and the drudging, driving beat that introduces the song "Volume 4".
If a person ever feels like they are misunderstood or that the world can sometimes not necessarily be a sad place, but a really confusing one, they need to just play "Weight" and realize that the soundtrack of these matters is already out, with Rollins at the helm.
Free Music Review: Staid. Dour. Unnecessary.
Hit: 2 Stars
OK Rollins devotees, get your mouse fingers ready to give this review a negative vote!
Circa '94 Rollins was a demi god so I bought this ablum - what a waste of my hard earned!
Rollins is blessed with a somewhat evocative voice and a set of biceps that, like Pete Steele, got the ladies in a flutter. And he's able to speak intelligently which is always a bonus. But he also has a downside - a very pessimistic view of things that permeates this record to it's core. He also has virtually no ability to pen much of a musical melody. His almost conversational style of lyric delivery borders on rapping (see track 4 - Civilised). He also, at least on this record, has too much emphasis on his vox and the band aren't up far enough in the mix.
And really there's no point trying to outweigh the bad here with the good because there is almost no good. There are some tasty bass lines here but that's about it. Too much hi-hat drumming, too much 'done me wrong' whining and while this perhaps caught some attention from the 90's slacker generation the fact that this and all subsequent Rollins Band albums stiffed is a pretty fair indication of how little rapport with his audience Henry had. Really, anybody who scored THAT much spin doctoring should of been selling millions.
As for some more musically specific reasons not to buy this. How about the loose, morbid song structurs. On almost every track. Or the boring arrangements. They've used a bit of jumping around (from boring motif to boring motif) to stop the listener getting comfortable since then they'd realise that there were no real chords or hooks to sustain interest in the songs main musical theme. Or that there is hardly a decent riff on the whole thing (except Wrong Man) and it's the bass that drives the songs - that's when they are being driven at all. Perhaps if you could extract the lyrics here and glue them onto a Korn album you'd have a perfectly acceptable nu-metal album. But - as I write in 2007 - not even Korn are so one dimensional as the collection of lyrical concerns here addressed.
No wonder ol' Henry has since concentrated on his spoken word tours where he is apparently a far more engaging listen. And it's probably a hell of a lot cheaper than taking a band out on tour.
OK, you can give that negative vote now.....
Free Music Review: Hanks Takes
Hit: 5 Stars
This is one of the best Rollins albums. This is the culmination of Melvin Gibbs stellar bass playing, "sugar" Sim Cain on the skins, Chris Haskett on the 6 string thing and Henry Rollins- throat. Perhaps his best lineup to date- although his current lineup is really good. Rollins destroys all comers on this one and calls out gun toting gangster wannabes on the powerful "Civilized" - getting your mind off some guys record, he makes his money off fools like you, singing about killing like it ain't no thing, but you do the time when you're living for real, paying his way from your death row cell, you're the last one to see you got sold out! Disconnect is another great track with a consatnt groove going on, the video has Henry recalling a Deniro-like Taxi role- classic. The version of this disc to grab is the remastered one with 4 bonus live tracks all from this album. The highlight of the live tracks would be "liar" played in England with Henry agging on the British crowd as they chant back at him- "you can chant all you want and all your voices put together aren't as loud as mine" "you know all those things I've said about you all these years- about your shi&&y music and your shi^^y food...I'm sorry" "I'm the one who makes you forget this shi&&y little rainy country you live in" And check out Melvin Gibss bass lines on the live "Civilized"- classic. Go to [...]to grab this version.