So I recently acquired the new Dot Dot Curve album, Dead Beat (it took a lot of mission impossible type stunts), and I'm ready to review it. Please note that I will not give my opinion on songs I already reviewed.
Track one is an intro called Lost My iPhone, and it was weird, but DDC always has weird intros, however, considering the lyrics in this one, the next one will probably just be too weird.
Track two is called Where's My Pants, and I already talked about this one in my review of Pound Sign EP, which I will post a link to at the end.
Track three is called Zoom!, and it sounds like if Skrillex did Rocketship to the moon. If you know who Skrillex is, you'll get the reference.
Track four is called Bologna, and I already reviewed it.
Track five is called What Happened!? (The first really new song on the album), and I like it. The beat's good, the lyrics are good, my only real complaint is that the lyrics sound like a generic party song.
Track six is called seXXX, which is like Zoom!, but with Yea I'm The Sex, and they managed to drag it out to three minutes and twenty seconds, oh, and they actually used a full verse.
Track seven is called David Banner, and I already reviewed it.
Track eight is called StonerBoySwag, and I thought, did they really put that song on this album, but I soon found out, it's another remix, but they dragged it out to four minutes and thirty-six seconds.
Track nine is called Right Now, and I already reviewed it.
Track ten is called POPbottles, and basically, it's like Zoom!, but with Boys Pop The Bottles.
Track eleven is called Vampire ft. N!tro, and I already reviewed it.
Track twelve is called FreakGeekWithStretchedEarl0bes, and I already reviewed it.
Track thirteen is called PocketFullOfChange, and it's something I really would've liked to see on I'm Still Here, because it sounds like something that would be on that album, and it's really good. Great rapping, great beat, and some screaming too.
Track fourteen is called TearThisPlaceUp and it's like Zoom!, for what seems to be FreakGeekWithStretchedEarl0bes.
Track fifteen is called Tampax and I haven't reviewed this, but it isn't brand new. Now, this sounds like something that would be in a rap movie's soundtrack... only with gross subject matter. I like the rap verses, and the beat, but the chorus and the name, are kinda gross.
Track sixteen is called WTFamIthinking ft. Baybay, and it starts out with others joined in, and Baybay starts rapping, pretty good, and then chorus (who is that?), and then a Spanky verse, which sounds like a typical spanky verse. Overall this song was too short to be really good, but for what it was, I liked it.
Track seventeen is a remix of Rocketship to the moon, (a full one), and it starts out leaving you thinking WTF? It sounds like spanky's singing in a cave, considering the echo. It's basically a long Zoom!.
The eighteenth and final track is a remix of Yea I'm The Sex, and the beat sounds like it was made for a pop singer, but then gets better.
Overall, I was a little disappointed with Dead Beat, because it was basically an EP filled up with remixes, and songs we've heard a hundred times. But I don't blame Spanky, I believe that the fans are to blame. They wanted Dead Beat, and they wanted it now. But the thing is, Spanky can't release an album quickly for you and still make it good. If I had to choose, I'd wait and get a better album. And because we were so impatient, we got this. Thanks a lot, DDC fanbase.
Well, I'm glad this review is over, and I look forward to reviewing Marilyn Manson's Born Villain, and Linkin Park's Living Things, among other albums this year.
Oh, and BTW, here's the links to the reviews of songs off this that I already reviewed:
Pound Sign EP:
http://clockworks2.blogspot.com/2012/04/revenge-of-pound-sign-ep-review.html
Smiley Mixtape (incomplete due to early release):
http://clockworks2.blogspot.com/2011/08/dot-dot-curve-smiley-mixtape-review.html
