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Hinder - Take It To The Limit
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| Hinder achieved multiplatinum success with 2006 debut "Extreme Behavior," thanks to the pop-metal hit "Lips of an Angel," and follow-up "Take It to the Limit" still rocks like it's 1988. Overdosing on huge hooks, raucous harmonies and proficient fretwork, alpha-male rockers like "Use Me" or "Heaven Sent" would make Ratt or Poison proud, while the rowdy "Up All Night" updates Def Leppard's anthem "Pour Some Sugar on Me." Having mastered every Jack Daniels-fueled riff in the book, Hinder explores the dark side of fame on "Loaded and Alone," while the slick "Without You," one of several sincere power ballads, comes with a twist (girl leaves guy, guy feels great). Deliciously decadent, "Take It to the Limit" has even more melodic power than its predecessor, delivering tons of guilty pleasures that sound fresh and familiar and strangely exciting. —Sven Philipp...full text |
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Remember when hard-rock albums felt reckless, not like the results of market research? In the age of Hinder and Nickelback, it's tough. These bands strain to please two demographics at once: teen boys, who presumably want to be pummeled with aspirational odes to cheap sex, and those boys' girlfriends, the sure target for contradictorily sweet (but still loud) ballads about devotion and wistful farewells. Any couples who buy Hinder's Take It to the Limit may end up slamming separate halves into their iPods. Lads, you'll want tracks 1, 2, 4, 6, and 7, raunchy, alcohol-fueled stomps that promise to keep hotties ''up all night/Doing things your dad won't like!'' Ladies, prepare to download songs 3, 5, 8, 10, and 11, and sigh along with sentiments like ''I hope most of you will never know what it's like to let a love go.''...full text |
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Hinder seems like a band full of guys who watched Mötley Crüe on VH1's "Behind the Music," took in the fatal car crashes, the near-fatal overdoses and the debauched rock 'n' roll lifestyle and thought, "Awesome." It shows on Hinder's second album. "Take It To the Limit" (Universal), the follow-up to the Oklahoma band's multi-platinum 2005 debut, is a brawny record indebted enough to Mötley Crüe to qualify for an appearance by an actual member of Mötley Crüe : guitarist Mick Mars, who guests on the title track....full text |
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