A City Dressed In Dynamite

Frustrating LP – some creative, fun, and insanely layered instrumentals going on that deserve a fitting vocal line, but instead, get Tom Waits 2.0 for over 50 minutes. I have never understood why people enjoy this style of singing (it gets right on my nerves and just plain irritates me) and I was disappointed that such great instrumentals had to sit beneath it. All a matter of taste I suppose, but I for one think we should leave Tom Waits and his questionable vocals in the past where he belongs.

Disliked the lead vocalist who was putting us on with a fake Tom Waits voice.

ick

Garbage

I couldn’t make anything of this

For me, this is right there in the arty-farty corner with Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart. Acts I both don't care for very much. That Handsome Devil actually do a good job of sounding like a 'wannabe' Zappa/Beefheart. Annoying.

I appreciate that it's trying to do something different but it just comes off as a bit too cheesy and trying too hard to me. The vocals are kind of over the top.

Temu wannabe Tom Waits sounds like he wears a zoot suit ironically as he doesn't have the balls to admit he likes wearing a zoot suit. The more I listen to it, the more it reminds me of the frat house gang rape soundtrack of G Funk and the Special Sauce. Such terrible affectation. Genuinely quite, quite, shit. Best Tracks: Rob The Prez-O-Dent; Pills for Everything; Viva Discordia;