Wow... another come back, we're full of them these days. So, happy
to learn that a band I liked very much in my old Bon Jovi days are back
: I'm putting the CD into the player, waiting for this month second
coming back (after Axxis). Well... I quickly understood I would NOT
enjoy that one as much as I did for Axxis... even though the first track
is "listenable" ... but for the rest I'm afraid... it's really
bad !! Nothing, absolutely nothing, not even a nice melody to catch
on... ballads sucks, and are not worthy of calling them as such. The
vocalist is still a good singer with a good voice, but the songs have
absolutely nothing... keyboard seems to have been used only to bother
you, guitars are so bad I shouldn't even mention them, not a riff to
hold on to. Frankly when you want to come back you don't just record
songs like that and try to sell them... for god sakes these guys could
write fantastic songs like Never Stop or Winners Or Losers
which are still carved in my memory and so Shout should stay...
a memory (now even that is ruined) ! A pathetic song has been written
for the new millennium... called y2k... and I really hate this one...
perhaps more because of all the commercial crap turning around y2k than
the song itself... even though it's really not good song. So there's
no way Shout are coming back with such a loser album ! I don't even
understand how a producer would try to make such an album... (we want
quality !! not quantity !) and if the band ever read that... do you
want to come back ? then do like Axxis did... go find out what's in
your roots, what made you play and love music when you were just boys
!