Boy, computers are great. Technology affords me the luxury of watching Tigers baseball, sending e-mail and updating MySpace instant- and simul-taneously.<\/p>\n
Now, that\u2019s multitasking. Of course, that has nothing to do with Blanco Diablo.<\/p>\n
Unlike the \u201906 Tigers, they stink. Thanks to this great age of technology, though, none of the time I spent listening to Paper Poison Revolution was wasted (Tigs lost, by the way).<\/p>\n
The PR that came with this disc promised \u201cblues-drenched soul\u201d from the Charlotte, N.C., three-piece. I didn\u2019t know a third-rate Black Crowes cover band could be considered \u201csoul-drenched\u201d. Well, if I had stopped appreciating music in ninth grade and I had never heard real soul, I guess I might think \u201cJealous Again\u201d was the pinnacle of songcraft, too, but I digress.<\/p>\n
I won\u2019t get into the ridiculous descriptions that lead singer\/guitarist Jamie Ray gives of his favorite songs from the 10-track set (\u201cDon\u2019t get downwind of the Crow or you\u2019ll get a speeding ticket listening to this damn song \u2026). Yikes, someone needs a reality check.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs the Crow Flies\u201d is a good example of introspective songwriting gone really, really wrong. \u201cPills will fill your soul \/ Pollution fills your mind \/ Your family and friends divided \/ Taken for a ride,\u201d Ray sings. What? Sounds personal. Good luck with that.<\/p>\n
\u201cPour me something strong \/ Don\u2019t wanna (sic) to know what\u2019s going on \/ I gotta get right before I do \/ Something wrong,\u201d from \u201cI Feel Fine\u201d furthers my urge to wince from Blanco Diablo\u2019s 8th<\/sup> grade poetry contest lyrics karaoke\u2019d over predictable metal guitar riffs that went out of style 20 years ago.<\/p>\n Of course, I don\u2019t think BD is being retro on purpose. Based on his notes, I really think Ray sees \u201cShe feels like home \/ She never feels along \/ It\u2019s raining in my head \/ Things we left unsaid,\u201d as some serious poetic justice for \u2026 um, something. And hey, a paper poison revolution sounds sweet, if only I could figure out what the fuck that is.<\/p>\n I\u2019m fighting the instinct to dismiss this record with an \u2018F\u2019 rating because despite its elementary stanzas, Ray can shred him a mean solo. However, this kind of mindless, boring cock rock won\u2019t change your life. It barely altered my Sunday afternoon baseball-watching routine.<\/p>\n Good rock music and to a much greater extent true \u201csoul\u201d music must connect with the listener in some capacity. I hope Jamie Ray likes the record he made for himself, because I sure as hell don\u2019t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":28456,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[7793],"rating":[11203],"class_list":["post-39907","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-blanco-diablo","rating-rating-d-minus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/39907","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\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/39907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=39907"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=39907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}