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Album Review
by Klam Meraffe
23-3-2003
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Miscellaneous: 'Meteora - Ghosts - Gone - World'
(Various)
Linkin Park, Placebo, The Cardigans, Sir Macca
Linkin Park
‘Meteora’
(WEA)
If you are 15 (or under), then the issues raised here make sense; if you are over that age group, this is rap/nu-metal by numbers that will excite you as much as grass-cutting. It actually is no more than very loud pop music... Still, even if only half the people who bought ‘Hybrid Theory’ dig into their pockets for this one – that’s 6 million sales. Frightening.
4/10
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Placebo
‘Sleeping With Ghosts’
(Hut)
Placebo’s fourth album, in a nutshell and its title, indicates return to the sound of the debut album; a bit too early for self-prescribed nostalgia, perhaps? It is amazing they’ve come this far after being cool for about a nano-second… Well, the same old krap, then.
5/10
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The Cardigans
‘Long Gone Before Daylight’
(Polydor)
After a long time – we hoped they thought better of making another album but this time a pessimist got disappointed – The Cardigans’ release new album with a pretentious title. ABBA were brilliant, claims our punk expert (relative of Johnny Rotten, actually) but, do we need more Swedish pap-rock? Haven’t we got enough of our local (anti) talent to import on top?
To cap it, Nina Person ain’t attractive enough to be forgiven for mediocre songs.
3/10
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Paul McCartney
‘Back In The World’
(Parlophone)
Sir Macca and another live album… yeah, there may be songs he never recorded-performed-whatever before, but – do we need to hear ‘em again?
If you are a fan you gonna buy this: better still, you can have my copy!
1/10
Klam Meraffe
23-3-2003
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