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SR-71
Tomorrow
label: RCA
released: 10.22.02
our score: 2.0 out of 5.0
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Attention rock fans: SR-71 is now hardcore. Don’t
believe me? Check out the Motorhead shirt lead singer Mitch Allan
now sports. It seems like just yesterday the boys were singing
shallow punk-pop about being kicked while high. Gone are the days
of such fluff, and in its place we get such deep, introspective,
and hardcore lyrics as “I drowned my girlfriend in her wishing
well/I’m not afraid of afterlife hell/Cause I live it everday”
from the song “Lucky”. In even more girlfriend killing
fun, the song “She was dead” contains such sweet lines
as “Everday I’m gonna make her cry/Till the minute
that we say goodbye/I’m gonna make her wish…She was
dead!” Look out Eminem; there are new bad boys on the block.
In today’s pop music environment the most
mainstream and popular rock acts seem to be the pseudo-heavy acts,
with the likes of Nickleback, Default, and Lifehouse leading the
recycled rock way. It would be cynical to think that SR-71’s
abrupt sound change had anything to do with the success of these
bands (read: album sales and money); it would be cynical and probably
correct.
It is, however,
probably a tad bit unfair to pin all the troubles of our current
pop music on one bad album. Yes, Tomorrow is a pretty
awful album, but there have been plenty of awful albums this year
that provided a steady stream of radio hits. Who would really
blame them for striking it rich while the “return of the
rock” mantra is still in full effect? This album is, after
all, a Kiss FM, TRL-ready production, and in that vein they succeed
quite nicely in balancing the right amount of power chords with
the right amount of heartfelt lyrics that is sure to be a delight
with the MTV crowd.
Who knows,
maybe the SR-71 boys can show all those teeny boppers that think
Lifehouse is hardcore what rocking is really all about. So to
all of those out there that answered Chad Kroeger when he asked
us all “Are you having fun yet?”, this album is for
you. For everyone else out there already bored with the same tired
“hard” rock formula: stay away.
11-Jan-2003
5:44 PM
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Tracklist:
1.
They All Fall Down
2. Tomorrow
3. My World
4. Hello Hello
5. Truth
6. Goodbye
7. She Was Dead
8. Best Is Yet to Come
9. Broken Handed
10. Lucky
11. In My Mind
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