My CD reviews as promised...

Ok the first one is Seether Karma and effect. Overall great CD here's how I break down the tracks:
Track 1- "Because of Me" Good song, a lil too headbanger but good lyrics to back it
up, listen to it a few times and then you will understand how dark it really is.

Track 2- "Remedy" Best song on the album nasty riffs (again) that seriously kick ass and gets the most playtime. One of the best songs of 2005 so far.

Track 3- "Truth" Nasty song (anyone notice a theme here? but I digress) but has some meat too. Refrain kicks some major ass, and the background lightens up and comes back in seamlessly.

Track 4- "The Gift" Starts off very light almost acoustic, and almost falls into the category of wuss rock, I usually skip this track.

Track 5- "Burrito" Ah back to the nasty riffs and headbanger stuff I sort of like, good intro and overall great song.

Track 6- "Given" A little wussy, but then the refrain kicks in and back into the good old nasty stuff, a little hard to understand sometimes but song is listenable.

Track 7- "Never Leave" Starts off acoustic, and goes into wussy stuff, even the best of bands are allowed a few bad tracks per album.

Track 8- "World Falls Away" Nice song, very good message, for recluses like I was (and still kinda am). Very catchy too, gotta like that.

Track 9- "Tongue" Wussy, skip it.

Track 10- "I'm The One" Hard ass rock song, probably the 2nd nastiest song on the album behind Remedy. All you need to know is the first verse of the song to show how nasty (and good) it is:
Here she's coming and she's drunk again
She's only seventeen
Her daddy said "well that's enough of that come be my little queen"
And now he's touching her wrong again
He's gonna give her disease
He never wanted it anyway
He only does as he please wow,damn that's really something, still 1000% better than rap though.

Track 11- "Simplest Mistakes" Nasty again (these guys are good at it though) and the background riffs are amazing but the lyrics are kinda a let down.

Track 12- "Diseased" starts off very slow but seriously picks up and good lyrics to back it up. Good ol' screaming at the end too

Track 13- "Plastic Man" starts off acoustic and it's a letdown for the album.

So lets review everyone: 13 tracks, 4 wuss tracks and 9 nasty listenable tracks, that means a nearly 70% chance that you will hear a good song on this album (if you like my style of music). Worth the buy, even with the 4 wuss tracks I still give it a 10/10.
Onto Audioslave Out of Exile. First some background; this is one of the bands that got me turned onto music. Their first album was amazing and kicked some major ass, all 13 tracks got airtime on our local rock station. That is beyond rare, that is unheard of. The band is Chris Cornell backed up by Rage Against the Machine. The riffs you will hear on the albums you will hear nowhere else (until they release their other 15 tracks they have in the can already). This is a top 5 band today period(possibly even #1 ahead of my precious Linkin Park). Seether is close but needs 1-2 more kick ass albums before I can put them that high. now to the songs:
Track 1- "Your Time Has Come" Great sond, very catchy, very anti-war (I think refering to Nam but I could be wrong) but good, I can put politics aside for music and this is no exception

Track 2- "Out Of Exile" starts off slow but picks up and some major kickass riffs, a little slow but Chris saves it with his lyrics.

Track 3- "Be Yourself" Very catchy, great song (best one on the album I think)

Track 4- "Doesn't Remind Me" ok song, kinda wierd (might have been smoking the peace pipe on this one) but it's not bad but not good.

Track 5 - "Drown Me Slowly" Overall good song and dark but good lyrics.

Track 6- "Heaven's Dead" This is a song I will knock because it flat out sucks, he's done so much good though that he's allowed a bad track.

Track 7- "Worm, The" Strange song, but catchy and good

Track 8- "Man Or Animal" Great song, moves fast and is one of the better ones on the album

Track 9- "Yesterday To Tommorrow" Starts off kinda techno but has good lyrics and a very catchy refrain.

Track 10- "Dandelion" I don't like this song, nothing to say

Track 11- "#1 Zero" starts off slow and takes awhile for the lyrics to start and the lyrics are kinda lame

Track 12- "Curse, The" Finishes strong (unlike Seether) with a good riff and ok lyrics, not a great song, but not bad either.

So to review: 12 track, 3 bad songs, 5 good songs, 4 ok songs. So that's a 75% rate that you won't hear something "bad" and once again another 10/10, worth the buy. Not as good as their first album but that was a tall task to live up to anyway.

Good God, I've spent nearly an hour on this post. Enjoy my reviews everyone (for the love of God I put a lot of effort into it!)