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Powerman 5000. Some of you cringe at the name alone. This reviewer cringed at Destroy What You Enjoy, the album currently up for review. While I enjoyed the unbridled fun of Mega!! Kung-Fu Radio and the sci-fi inflected semi-reinvention found on follow-up Tonight the Stars Revolt! -- even with its pseudo-Nü-Metal gimmickry in tow -- this is an altogether different beast. Somewhere along the line, maybe around the Anyone for Doomsday? record being scrapped or the band being shelved until the woeful Transform came out, or maybe when AfD actually got (unofficially officially) released, the band died. Oh, sure, Rob Zombie's little brother Spider is still there but that's it. Now he's got an ex-Alien Ant Farm axeman and one from Halfcocked to go with his Transform rhythm section and on the new album (more) Punk is the order of the day. Almost insipid, lifeless, and wholly unoriginal sounding Punk that plagiarizes The Clash and The Misfits while wrapping the whole affair in a drape of Pop Rock, that is. Well, except for album oddity "Miss America" with its curious neo-Country thing goin' on fecklessly. One may ask if the transformation is complete. Who can say besides Spider? Darwin suggested that evolution leads to survival. It may lead to the virtual extinction of this arachnid, regardless of who big brother may be. But hey, has anyone actually heard his last album? Maybe it's time he stuck to movies....
| Tracklist |
| 1. Construction Of The Masses Pt. 1 |
| 2. Destroy What You Enjoy |
| 3. Return To The City Of The Dead |
| 4. Wild World |
| 5. Enemies |
| 6. Murder |
| 7. Now That's Rock 'N Roll |
| 8. All My Friends Are Ghosts |
| 9. Walking Disaster |
| 10. Who Do You Think You Are? |
| 11. Construction Of The Masses Pt. 2 |
| 12. Miss America |
| 13. Heroes And Villians (Live) |
: 38.28
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