I have just purchased another batch of CDs so I better publish the reviews of the last batch fast. Expect another few on the way. Writing an album review can be at times tedious. Sometimes it takes 5 to 10 rounds for me to get into an album. Sometimes I need to refer to some of the older releases to make comparison.
Hinder is a new band from Oklahoma City and their debut “Extreme Behavior” sounds awfully like the band Nickelback. Hence, some listeners may slam it down as unoriginal though to me, while Nickelback’s song quality tends to be uneven within the album, “Extreme Behavior” as a whole sounds decent.
Again, here are the YouTube links of some of my favorite songs from the album. I bought “Extreme Behavior” because of one song – “Lips of an Angel”. If you have been listening to the radio lately, you should be able to recognize the song immediately. Follow up to that powerful slow rock is “Better Than Me”. It is hard not to love that song if you have already fallen in love with “Lips of an Angel”. Their powerful opening “Get Stoned” probably rounds up what Hinder’s sound and lyrics are all about. I especially love the video. It is hot.
Besides the not-too-original-but-yet-contagious rock sound and the frontman’s characteristic coarse voice, lyrically it is sexy and mainly talks about defunct relationship (versus Nickelback’s lyrics on defunct family). The opening song “Get Stoned” has set the tone of the entire album: Go home and get stoned cause the sex is so much better when you’re mad at me … the break up is worth the make up sex you’re giving me. Some found the lyrics of “Room 21” extremely sexy about a girl the singer picked up and what went on behind closed doors. “Lips of an Angel” is about an attached man who is still in love with his previous love: Well my girl is in the next room, sometimes I wish she was you … and I never wanna say goodbye but girl you make it hard to be faithful, with the lips of an angel. “Homecoming Queen” is a fun song: It’s been five years since I’ve seen her face, she is the holy ghost lost without a trace … Shame, shame, shame that our homecoming queen had a lot to prove and so many to please, she’s just somebody’s daughter looking for somebody to love her.
Since highly anticipated albums from bands like Linkin Park (click here to view their brand new video … what a reward for those readers who stay on reading this blog!) and Bon Jovi (click here to view their new single played in American Idol) won’t be hitting the stores till a later day, you may satisfy your craving for rock music with Hinder’s “Extreme Bahvior”.