This is NOT a Dane Cook comedy album. It is a modern rock sampler, and not a good one at that.<\/p>\n
In fact, the only reason Cook’s name is on this is because, at the time, he was a hot comedy property and so anything associated with him was guaranteed to sell like gangbusters. Hence, some up-and-coming artists attach themselves to the project and, bang, instant exposure! Cook’s only appearance is between songs, with short snippets of dialogue (not stand-up bits, but jokey phone calls, unfunny asides and stuff like Cook pouring water on a fellow comedian’s taxes and saying “This is not Taxgasm.” Har har). <\/p>\n
So with the “comedy” bits thrown out, the listener is left with a dozen rock songs, some of which are quite good, including My Rich Friends’ “Everything You Wanted” and Truepenny’s “Straight To Video.” Tandemoro turns in a chilled-out tune called “The Movers & The Shakers” that sounds a little bit like Sublime meet the Violent Femmes, while “Don’t Lie Down” by Jealousy Curve updates the Stone Temple Pilots for the My Chemical Romance crowd.<\/p>\n
Ride the Blinds goes back in time for a bluesy classic rock sound on “Got To Get It,” which sounds almost like the early Stones, and it’s a relief to hear bands still using this music for inspiration. I’m so grateful to hear a series of guitar solos these days, I dare to call this the best song on here. The Black Angles even use a harmonica (!) in what sounds like a Stooges throwback song in “Bloodhounds On My Trail;” it’s better than Mateo Denali’s rather boring ska\/reggae mix “What I Give” or ColdFusion’s “On My Own,” which is generic nu-metal that has been done to death. <\/p>\n
The set closes, after Cook’s tribute to his fans, with the instrumental and mandolin-driven “First Lullaby” by The Angel\/Devil, lending an air of hope to the proceedings. But it’s not enough to salvage what feels like a superfinger given to Cook fans by Rhino. Be warned; this has almost nothing to do with Dane Cook, but as a sampler of new blood in rock music, this isn’t half bad. Shame on Rhino, though, for not marketing it as such.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":28684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[5827],"rating":[5619],"class_list":["post-40174","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-various-artists","rating-rating-c"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/40174","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\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/40174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=40174"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=40174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}