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During the summer of 2008 Chris Cornell was down
on the bill at the UK Download festival which takes
place at Donington Park every June, he was down
as the co-headliner for the Sunday playing just
before the Lostprophets, however he pulled out very
near the last minute so he could concentrate on
working on his new solo album, well the solo album
is now finished and is a Timbaland production called
‘Scream’ which is due for release any
day now and Chris Cornell is also back on the Download
Festival line up for this year but has had to settle
for a much lower down spot on the bill, could this
be to do with the fact he pulled of last year’s
festival or due to the fact that he has made a very
brave move with his new album?
Chris Cornell has made a very brave move with ‘Scream’
in the way that he has totally changed his sound,
the song features 14 tracks which were all written
by himself and then Timbaland went on to produce
the songs given the album a hip-hop rock power pop
feel, now it will be interesting to see if the hardcore
Chris Cornell fans who have followed him throughout
his solo career so far and also his time in bands
such as Audioslave and Soundgarden really dig his
new album ‘Scream’ or not. The way I
see it Chris Cornell is going to gain a whole new
range of fans but the same time he is going to lose
some fans whilst other hardcore fans become converted
and like his new style.
‘Scream’ opens up with the albums lead
single ‘Part Of Me’, now this song is
actually the best song on the album so if you have
already heard it and aren’t that keen on it
then there is not really any point of you carrying
on listening to the album, but if you are like me
and like the song then the album might just well
be for you. The introduction to ‘Part Of Me’
sounds like a major Hollywood movie starting up,
then seconds later the song goes on a catchy journey
with its full on disco beats, hip-hop style groove
and every so catchy lyrics of “That bitch
ain’t a part of me, No that bitch ain’t
a part of me”.
The second track on the album ‘Time’
comes in without you even noticing, you think your
still listening to ‘Part Of Me’ for
about a minute and then you start to wonder where
are the lyrics “That bitch ain’t a part
of me’ and that’s when you notice that
the track has finished and ‘Time’ is
a good minute through, the song has a catchy groove
and becomes a powerful track.
All the tracks on the album kind of bleed through,
it’s done so there is over one hour of constant
music with no breaks in-between songs and the idea
of it was intended as a resurrection of the original
album format back in the day, it works well here
but I can’t see it catching on with every
band taking on this idea when creating their album.
There are many strong tracks on the album such as
the fast vocally paced ‘Sweet Revenge’,
the title track ‘Scream’ and the fun
dance track that is ‘Enemy’ the song
is fast and full of rhythm and style and will have
you wanting to bust some moves on the dance floor,
sadly at the same time there are also lots of bad
sounding tracks such as the ever so annoying ‘Ground
Zero’ which is bound to piss most people off
after a couple of listens, also ‘Take Me Alive’
is a piss poor sounding track.
What I have noticed is that most people have put
‘Scream’ down before they have even
listened to it, in reviews I have read for it people
have just mentioned the first track which happens
to be the single and then wrote a few more words
and the review is over with the album getting 1
out of 5 or 10 which to me seems that they haven’t
even bothered to listen to the album all the way
through just because they don’t like hip-hop,
but I feel when doing reviews you need to be open
minded and don’t bring your personal preferences
too much into place or you will never have a positive
thing to say about anything, Chris Cornell deserves
5 out of 5 for having balls to do something totally
different but on the music front of things ‘Scream’
deserves no more than 3 out of 5 as it has some
great moments but by far too many tracks act as
fillers.
3/5
Review by Trigger |
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1. Part Of Me
2. Time
3. Sweet Revenge
4. Get Up
5. Ground Zero
6. Never Far Away
7. Take Me Alive
8. Long Gone
9. Scream
10. Enemy
11. Other Side Of Town
12. Climbing Up The Walls
13. Watch Out / Non-Musical Silence / Two Drink Minimum
14. Lost Cause |
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- Top Cheese
- Brilliant
- Pretty damn good
- Ok I guess
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