Just when you thought it was safe for corporate rock to come out
\nof the woodwork, the third volume in the ever-growing catalog of
\nA Fistful Of Rock N’ Roll<\/i> leaps forward to deliver a serious
\nass-kicking.<\/p>\n
The brainchild of executive producer Sal Canzonieri, this third
\nvolume picks up right where
\nVolume 2<\/i> left off – that is, not quite as strong as the
\noriginal volume, but impressive nonetheless. In this particular
\ndisc, you can hear the influence of some modern-day bands in the
\nwork of the newer groups – and some of the influences might
\nsurprise you.<\/p>\n
Unlike the previous two volumes,
\nA Fistful Of Rock N’ Roll Volume 3<\/i> does not have a single
\nweak track on it. (Not that the other two volumes were filled with
\n’em; each probably had one – two, at most, that were a little
\nsubpar.) It’s nice to be able to sit down with this particular disc
\nand know that I don’t have to worry about getting up from my easy
\nchair and go running towards the “fast forward” button on my CD
\nplayer.<\/p>\n
But what this third volume doesn’t quite have is the infectious
\nmanic energy that made the first two discs so spectacular. Sure,
\nthere’s plenty of music you can really get into on
\nVolume 3<\/i>, like the cuts from New American Mob (“Liberty”),
\nHookers (“Ride The Dragon”) and The Pollys (“Damn”). But I found
\nmyself really caught up in the first two discs; I didn’t have quite
\nthe same feeling this time around.<\/p>\n
If you listen to this disc, don’t be surprised if you find
\nyourself saying often, “Gee, this song sounds like [insert band
\nname here]”. Libertine’s track, “Beautiful Disaster,” sounds like a
\ncross between Richard Butler of Psychedelic Furs and Smash Mouth –
\nand it’s beautiful as hell. Likewise, I hear more than a little
\nSmashing Pumpkins (pre-
\nMellon Collie<\/i>) on “Let Me Out” by Fumes, and Rocket 455’s
\n“Ain’t Right Girl” sounds like it could have come from the early
\ndays of The Misfits.<\/p>\n
Yet each one of these songs does the ultimate honor by taking
\nthe influences of the groups and tailoring it to their own styles.
\nDon’t dare say that these bands are copying the bigger names; if
\nanything, they are putting what they learned into action, and are
\ndoing it well.<\/p>\n
As I’ve said for each of the volumes so far, this is the kind of
\ndisc that anyone who has ever enjoyed punk rock, even in the
\nsmallest doses, will appreciate far more than someone who has been
\nraised on a diet of strictly Top 40. After three volumes of this,
\nyou have to wonder how Canzonieri can continue to find bands of
\nthis high-caliber quality… and next week, we’ll see if he can
\ncontinue the trend with
\nA Fistful Of Rock N’ Roll Volume 4<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[5827],"rating":[5617],"class_list":["post-36653","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-various-artists","rating-rating-b-plus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/36653","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/36653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36653"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=36653"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=36653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}