Alternative Rock Compilations music reviews

This is what I pop in when the radio is just not cutting it. All the songs are good. Great mix of some of my favorites.

I am a big fan of track 14, _Rudy_, beautifully sung by the Be Good Tonyas. The song was written by Danny Dolinger whose music & performance is also well-worth checking out. He does great guitar work and writes songs with a social conscience - the kind of stuff I need to hear these days.

I really enjoy listening to this album. Its a nice change from the traditional Christms music (eg. Bing Crosby), with a good selection of artists. The BNL and Sarah McLachlan song is excellent, but so is most of the album.
The iTunes version has 19 songs - not sure why the difference.

Buy this and the new Diana Krall christmas CD.

Worthless crap except for "Silent Lucidity" by Queensryche. Thank God that pathetic decade is over. BARF!

im usually a big fan of the 80s music (thats when MTV used to play videos )the 90s decade was musically ruined by garage bands that couldnt sing for ****. quite to the contrary, the 90s had some decent songs .... its just not featured on this box set (whatever)

Great compillation, capturing the full sound of the 90s, including all the retrospectively embarrassing stuff we all used to swear by! Just one problem... there's nothing here by the most notorious band of the 1990s: Nirvana. I don't understand how Tad, Mudhoney, L7 and Bikini Kill are all collected here, without the presence of the band that got these bands commercial recognition to begin with!

Not even "Smells Like Teen Spirit?" Come On!

Okay,I'm a casual fan of tribute CD releases.But,this one of the Melvin's repertoire is 'okay'.Total of eighteen cuts.Features bands like Mare,Pig Destoyer,High On Fire,Dog Fashion Disco among others I've never even remotely heard of before paying tribute to Buzz Osbourne(no relation)and crew.One good thing about 'We Reach...' is that it'll simply have most fans craving to hear the original versions of these songs.

If you buy this then you are either a fan of Melvins, one of the bands on this tribute, or both. Either way, at best a tribute album will just make you want to listen to the original band, and this one is no exception. The bands on here are of three varieties: those that try to do faithful renditions of the original song, those that make the original song their own, and those that make songs that have no resemblance at all to the original. The bands that do well here are of the middle category...taking the source material and adding some of their own sound.
1) Mare (Nightgoat)--Haven't heard this band before, but their "cover" doesn't contain a single note of the original song--a very forgettable bit of keyboard and vocal looping

2) Dillinger Escape Plan (Honey Bucket)--Try to do a faithful cover which is marred by horrible production...it sounds like it was recorded with a boombox

3) Mastodon (The Bit)--Great band that plays this song live from time to time...pretty much a note for note cover, but still good

4) Strapping Yound Lad (Zodiac)--One of the best tracks here...they take the original and add some great keyboard flourishes that create a much more ambient experience than the original

5) Pig Destroyer (Claude)--Note for Note cover marred by weak vocals...why bother trying to sound just like Melvins? Think they're trying to be hardcore by covering a rare track...

6) High On Fire/Keelhaul--Pretty good, faithful to the original and Matt Pike sounds like Lemmy, which is cool

7) Meatjack (Shevil)--Good, note for note cover that will just make you want to hear the original

8) Strapadon Factory (Joan of Arc)--members of SYL, Mastodon, and Fear Factory--one of the better covers here

9) Isis/Agoraphobic Nosebleed (Boris)--see #7

10) Absentee (Revolve)--note for note...silly vocals

11) EyeHateGod (Easy As It Was)--awful...sounds weak compared to the original...horrible production and vocals are really bad

12) Dog Fashion Disco (Anaconda)--I think they thought this was a Faith No More tribute...

13) Disengage (Raise A Paw)--see #7

14) Blessing the Hog (Hog Leg)--the mighty Sean Ingram--this rocks like Coalesce, so it's all good

15) CKY/Gnarkill (Laughing with Lucifer...)--why cover this? but it really isn't as bad as it could have been I guess...heavy, plodding riff...

16) Maritime Murder (Copache)--trying to hard to be Melvins

17) Made Out of Babies (Bar X...)--Great cover...their singer is awesome, and this is a hard song to cover

18) Pincer 2 (Echohead/Don't Piece Me)--by far the worst song on the album--is this Mike Patton or a guy who really wishes he were? Not a single note here, just Patton-esque vocal masturbation...what an insult