Black Stone Cherry - "Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea"
August 2nd 2011 10:44
Black Stone Cherry are middle of the road, inoffensive hard rock with crunching riffs for the guys and sweet melodies and soft songs for the girls. Its adult contemporary rock music that FM radio will lap up like it does for Nickleback and other rubbish of the same lines.
The album “Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea” is generic sounding, lacking originality. I can't fault the music or the slick production and it does what it's meant to achieve but you won’t hear this in a pub or club. It's stadium rock so perfectly designed it almost seems manufactured.
The perfectly timed slow songs/ballads every few tracks. The tongue in cheek opening track "White Trash Millionaire" which probably aims to poke fun at people like Kid Rock and Britney Spears but in the safest manner possible. A biting sarcasm track needs...biting sarcasm and not safe prodding on a subject with bland references and mediocre humour. "Blame It On The Boom Boom" has some of the dumbest lyrics I've heard in quite some time. Boom Boom I believe is meant to mean sex/lust. It's so pre pubescent lyrically it's sad and not funny as I think it's meant to be.
What's stopping me from liking this is the cliche of the overall product. It lacks something in the songs. On the surface, it’s perfect. Flawless but theirs no soul to these songs and I can’t shake the feeling that all this is, is a tried and tested formula to sell records. I’m sure it will shift units and that saddens me.
The album “Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea” is generic sounding, lacking originality. I can't fault the music or the slick production and it does what it's meant to achieve but you won’t hear this in a pub or club. It's stadium rock so perfectly designed it almost seems manufactured.
The perfectly timed slow songs/ballads every few tracks. The tongue in cheek opening track "White Trash Millionaire" which probably aims to poke fun at people like Kid Rock and Britney Spears but in the safest manner possible. A biting sarcasm track needs...biting sarcasm and not safe prodding on a subject with bland references and mediocre humour. "Blame It On The Boom Boom" has some of the dumbest lyrics I've heard in quite some time. Boom Boom I believe is meant to mean sex/lust. It's so pre pubescent lyrically it's sad and not funny as I think it's meant to be.
What's stopping me from liking this is the cliche of the overall product. It lacks something in the songs. On the surface, it’s perfect. Flawless but theirs no soul to these songs and I can’t shake the feeling that all this is, is a tried and tested formula to sell records. I’m sure it will shift units and that saddens me.
Black Stone Cherry - Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea
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