Blood On The Dance Floor are like the Stephen Kings of music, not in that they're fantastic at what they do, but because they spit out so much music each year, that it's hard to keep up with. They've released two full length albums just this year, and last year released a full length album called "All The Rage", which I will review today. Keep in mind I am going into this review completely unbiased, I am not the type that thinks "BOTDF is awful and should die" but I'm also not the type that thinks "BOTDF is the greatest band alive". I am one that thinks Blood On The Dance Floor is a mouthful and BOTDF is a necessary acronym. So here is my review of All The Rage by BOTDF.
Track one is called Dark Dreams, and opens with a 1 minute, 20 second build up, that is completely unnecessary. Then you get to the song itself. It's okay, but nothing special for BOTDF. Pretty typical considering their previous work. But then you have lyrics by Lady Nogrady, and sadly, that is the only thing separating this song from the rest. A little guest vocal isn't going to save this song from sounding repetitive.
Track two is called Find Your Way, and it opens with Stephen Hawing voice, and then more annoying electro beats. I hate this song musically, lyrically it's a good message, especially for BOTDF's target audience, but again, repetitive. Better than Dark Dreams... I guess.
Track three is called Happy Violentines Day, and I love this song musically, it's okay lyrically, not bad. I enjoyed this, but there are a few cliches such as the counting, the na-na-na, despite this being one of the dark, violent BOTDF songs.
Track four is called Bewitched featuring (yet again) Lady Nogrady, and as far as I can tell, this is a love song about Nicole Kidman, sung by Will Ferrell. It's basically a generic love song, sprinkled with BOTDF's Halloween theme. The thing that separates this from the others, is Lady Nogrady gets an entire verse, and the only thing separating this from other stupid love/breakup songs is the witch theme.
Track five is called Nivana, and unlike Dark Dreams, this starts pretty quick. It's pretty stupid lyrically, awful musically, and it ruins the name of an awesome band. It's basically Atlas Shrugged for bullying victims. BOTDF is their John Galt, Nirvana is their Atlantis. Pretty stupid if you ask me.
Track six is the title track, and it's pretty annoying vocally, and doesn't stop until the chorus. It's okay lyrically, not bad musically, but the vocals by Dahvie I presume, are so annoying you'll want to snap the disc. Not a great title track.
Track seven is called The Untouchables, and this is just dumb. The first verse doesn't fit with the rest of the song, and the rest of it is just as dumb. Basically there is not lyrically consistency, and musically it's just as bad, but at least the music is consistent.
Track eight is called X x 3, and this is one of those sex songs like on their album Epic. Lyrically, it's a generic sex song, musically, it's okay, I mean, for an electronic sex song. The whole thing is pretty mindless and repetitive. Not very good.
Track nine is called P.L.U.R., and while the whole Peace Love Unity Respect message is great, it doesn't fit with their contradictory violent songs, or their sex songs. Vocals are okay, pretty good musically, good lyrically, but what redeemed this song in my eyes is when he said Music is my religion. That one line rocked.
Track ten is called Star Power! and the family guy sample was an awesome way to kick it off, but it gets worse from there. For some reason this song had to be the video game song. Every generic electronic group has one, and this was it. Horrible lyrically, good musically, not horrible vocally. Overall, the family guy sample was the high point.
Track eleven is called Yo, Ho, and for some reason, they decided to make a pirate song. Lyrically, this is horrible, vocally, okay until the pirate voice. Despite this, it's pretty damn good musically, until the chorus. This was worse than Dark Dreams, and that's really saying something.
Track twelve is a bonus track called The Loving Dead/Love Sucks, and considering the name and length of this song, it's most likely two songs crammed into one. Surprisingly, The Loving Dead was good, musically and lyrically, and I was very happy to see another enjoyable song on this awful album. Then we have Love Sucks, and while it's a message their fan base can relate to, it's pretty bad lyrically and musically. The bad thing is, it's so damn catchy.
Track 13 is a remix which I won't review.
Track fourteen is called G.F.A., and since I'm sick of BOTDF, I'll finish this quickly. It's great musically, okay lyrically, I guess. The members of BOTDF are pretty bad vocally, but this also features Nick Nasty, Lady Nogrady and JJ Demon (yay). The others were pretty good but JJ Demon kicked ass. I'm probably thinking biased here, but this might be the best song on the entire album.
Overall 5/10. It seemed like every song was lacking somewhere, if not musically, then lyrically or vocally. I did enjoy a few songs on the album in every aspect, but that isn't saying much, considering I liked every single song on Linkin Park's new album. Maybe they learn from their mistakes and improve in their next album Evolution, or maybe they do what sells and confirm every suspicion I had about them.
That's all for today, tune in next time when I review Tre by Green Day, unless I get around to something else first.
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