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I have both the Transform and Tonight The Stars Revolt albums in studio quality ma'am, love how hard Free sounds
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Powerman 5000... damn, now there's a band I haven't thought about in a long time...
My thoughts? Well... I've heard some songs of their early 90's albums, and it's not bad, but I haven't listened to one in full, so I can't comment on good faith.
I jumped on at Tonight The Stars Revolt in the early 2000's after hearing "When World's Collide" in Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 when I was, like 12, and it blew my mind: peak Powerman, right there.
Shelving Anyone For Doomsday was the worst mistake in Frontman Spider One's career. That thing SLAYS. Still has that scifi feel, but heavier in every way. Danger is Go had no right to go that hard, but it doesn't care.
Transform was pretty good for what it was, Action being my favorite song off the album, but man, that sound that was nailed in Revolt and Doomsday was sorely missed... and it's political messages were/are shit.
Destroy What You Enjoy was... not good. In isolation, it's bland pop rock trying way too hard to be punk, and doing a poor job of both, but in the context of their previous discography, it's massive step down in quality even from just Transform. Best song off the album was the live recording of Heroes and Villains, which wasn't even recorded for that album. Enemies did give me the juvenile urge to take pleasure in shopping cart stunts like those popularized by Jackass, but that's as much good as I can say for it.
Somewhere on the Other Side of Nowhere was actually a nice fusion of everything the band had ever done before (though Spider's politics still suck). Dave Pino was the best guitarist that band ever had, and the amount of energy he could put into each song was great. Show Me What You've Got was the best song the band wrote in years. Elements of songs could get a bit to repetitive at times, but it was a nice collage of all that was Powerman 5000 that didn't overstay its welcome. It could have been a great foundation for the band moving forward...
... aaaand, Builders of The Future fucked it all up. It was to Nowhere what Destroy was to Transform; all the best parts of Nowhere strained out while the worst traits of Nowhere were copy/pasted with impunity, taking the concept of repetition being a trope of music and magnifying it to a nauseating degree.
And that... was actually where I moved past the band. I'd bought all their albums (on CD, I might add) from Revolt up to Builders, but I kind of just gave up on them after that point. I heard New Wave was terrible even by bad PM5K album standards, but The Noble Riot actually wasn't half bad, but I haven't heard either, so I can't comment on either from a position of informed authority.
So, in conclusion: good niche radio rock/MTV metal band with one or two true platinum quality records, but the biggest problem is that the band was/is just The Spider One Show, constantly trying to reinvent his band's sound and cycling through styles and fast and with as much disregard as he cycles through the revolving door of band members... and I flush Spider's politics down the toilet on a daily basis.
... Oh hey, there's a thicc as fucc dragoness Rayquaza here.
My thoughts? Well... I've heard some songs of their early 90's albums, and it's not bad, but I haven't listened to one in full, so I can't comment on good faith.
I jumped on at Tonight The Stars Revolt in the early 2000's after hearing "When World's Collide" in Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 when I was, like 12, and it blew my mind: peak Powerman, right there.
Shelving Anyone For Doomsday was the worst mistake in Frontman Spider One's career. That thing SLAYS. Still has that scifi feel, but heavier in every way. Danger is Go had no right to go that hard, but it doesn't care.
Transform was pretty good for what it was, Action being my favorite song off the album, but man, that sound that was nailed in Revolt and Doomsday was sorely missed... and it's political messages were/are shit.
Destroy What You Enjoy was... not good. In isolation, it's bland pop rock trying way too hard to be punk, and doing a poor job of both, but in the context of their previous discography, it's massive step down in quality even from just Transform. Best song off the album was the live recording of Heroes and Villains, which wasn't even recorded for that album. Enemies did give me the juvenile urge to take pleasure in shopping cart stunts like those popularized by Jackass, but that's as much good as I can say for it.
Somewhere on the Other Side of Nowhere was actually a nice fusion of everything the band had ever done before (though Spider's politics still suck). Dave Pino was the best guitarist that band ever had, and the amount of energy he could put into each song was great. Show Me What You've Got was the best song the band wrote in years. Elements of songs could get a bit to repetitive at times, but it was a nice collage of all that was Powerman 5000 that didn't overstay its welcome. It could have been a great foundation for the band moving forward...
... aaaand, Builders of The Future fucked it all up. It was to Nowhere what Destroy was to Transform; all the best parts of Nowhere strained out while the worst traits of Nowhere were copy/pasted with impunity, taking the concept of repetition being a trope of music and magnifying it to a nauseating degree.
And that... was actually where I moved past the band. I'd bought all their albums (on CD, I might add) from Revolt up to Builders, but I kind of just gave up on them after that point. I heard New Wave was terrible even by bad PM5K album standards, but The Noble Riot actually wasn't half bad, but I haven't heard either, so I can't comment on either from a position of informed authority.
So, in conclusion: good niche radio rock/MTV metal band with one or two true platinum quality records, but the biggest problem is that the band was/is just The Spider One Show, constantly trying to reinvent his band's sound and cycling through styles and fast and with as much disregard as he cycles through the revolving door of band members... and I flush Spider's politics down the toilet on a daily basis.
... Oh hey, there's a thicc as fucc dragoness Rayquaza here.
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