Featuring one of the most interesting combinations of musicians
\nassembled in recent memory, the Neurotic Outsiders are a surprising
\ngroup. The lineup features Steve Jones from the Sex Pistols, Matt
\nSorum and Duff McKagan from Guns N’ Roses, and most suprisingly,
\nJohn Taylor from Duran Duran. The lineup in itself is interesting,
\nfeaturing members from three of the most recognized bands in
\nhistory. The Sex Pistols took punk to the mainstream. Guns N’ Roses
\nstill have one of the biggest selling debut albums ever, at over 11
\nmillion copies shipped. Duran Duran anchored the 80’s as a pop
\nstaple.<\/p>\n
What is even more interesting is that this unusual combination
\nturned out a suprisingly solid album. When I first heard of this
\nband, I figured the album would be a mess of different styles and
\nmuddled messages. In reality, the cranked out a very solid hard
\nrock album. It’s not that this is a breakthrough album, it’s not.
\nIt’s just an enjoyable listen that has the ability to relate a
\nmood.<\/p>\n
The album starts out poorly, “Nasty Ho” is a lame track about,
\nyou guessed it, a raunchy hooker. Lines like, “Yeah you…feel so
\ngood…dick is like a stiff hard piece of wood” are a real head
\nscratcher. It gets better, “But you don’t mean a thing if my ding
\ndong don’t swing”. Hmmm.<\/p>\n
Fortunately, the album gets better from here. “Always Wrong” has
\nsimple chord changes and a thumping rhythm that makes you want to
\ngrab a beer and crank the stereo up to 11. The theme is one we all
\nknow, a troubled relationship. Ever feel like no matter what you
\nsay or do, your partner will always find fault with you? These guys
\nsum it up well with lines like, “You’re the kind of pain I can do
\nwithout.” This isn’t to say that you should throw in the towel
\nevery time you have trouble, but when it’s hopeless, this song
\nfeels like I have felt many times.<\/p>\n
“Good News” is another relationship hate song that has a cool
\nmelody and a bitter message that I’m not sure I agree with. “The
\ngood news is, you’re dying, the bad news is, I’m alive” summarizes
\nthe message. I guess I don’t agree because I’ve never hated anyone
\nthis much. Regardless, my job here as a reviewer isn’t to rate
\nevery song based upon my own morals. My job it to rate the song
\nbased upon how well the song is done, which it is, very well.<\/p>\n
My favorite is “Feelings Are Good”, another song about pain that
\nfeatures a catchy drum beat compliments of the very polished Matt
\nSorum. What’s interesting here isn’t the message of pain, which we
\nall know of and have heard before. The interesting passages speak
\nof pain in a way that we usually don’t think about, that pain is
\nsometimes good for us. It brings us somewhere. It also speaks of
\npain and the confusion that surrounds it. “This feeling thing has
\ngot me not knowing what to do…with the feeling.”<\/p>\n
\nNeurotic Outsiders<\/i> is a dark album not suitable for a cheery
\ndate. But it’s very human, and speaks of things that most of us
\nhave experienced before. (Even “Nasty Ho” is human – if it wasn’t
\npopular, it wouldn’t be the oldest form of employment) Although the
\nmessage gets repetitive, this is still a good album. If you’re the
\nlucky one who hasn’t felt this dark thing called pain, it may help
\nyou to purchase this album to experience what pain is like, because
\nyou will feel this way when you listen to this album. For the rest
\nof us, this album speaks in simple terms that makes us realize that
\nwe’re not alone. When you listen to this album, you’ll say, “These
\nguys feel just like I feel!” The difference is, you’ve probably
\nnever expressed it. We all have a dark side that we hide, stashed
\nlike a skeleton in the closet. Sometimes, it scratches to get out.
\nWhen it does, the Neurotic Outsiders are waiting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":24373,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[5701],"rating":[5612],"class_list":["post-35577","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-neurotic-outsiders","rating-rating-b-minus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/35577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/35577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35577"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=35577"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=35577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}