Blackbird * by Alter Bridge Review

Furthermore I'd like to add that your review of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon demonstrates a similar level of incompetence. Maybe you _should_ have a go at smoking some reefer, see if that expands your mind past your front door and next week's McDonalds visit.

Matty, sweetheart... I find your ridiculous commentary on the Blackbird album to be painfully transparent. It's excruciatingly obvious that you have little (to) no idea about what makes a) a good singer or b) a good song.

I'd recommend first knowing (even just the tiniest bit, cowboy) a little about music before subjecting the digital age to your punishing drivel.

In conclusion, I'd recommend that you never review a rock album again, given that you clearly are not qualified to do so.

This is totally wrong. Miles Kennedy with weak pipes? Did you seriously just say that to the best singer rock has seen in years? Even Led Zeppelin was playing with this guy for shits and giggles. You are plain out wrong if you think that his vocals are weak by any standards. He has a 4 octave voice, 31 second held note in the song "Blackbird" (an F#) AND he plays the guitar + the first part of the solo in "Blackbird" while singing.

The song "Blackbird" is hands down amazing, and one of the most meaningful and powerful songs I've heard in a long long time.

This is Modern Rock at it's best. I don't skip a single track on this album, for the consistent amount of strong tracks on this album it hands down gets a 5/5.

It's sad they let people post such poor reviews.

Wow, Myles Kennedy weak? Are you kidding?

Myles Kennedy's pipes are not weak. You definitely have that all wrong. To anyone who thinks his pipes are weak, I suggest that you try to sing the parts yourself with the power and accuracy he has. It's a tough job for even a great vocalist to cover his tunes accurately. That "warbling" you are talking about is either vibrato or emotion. NOT weakness. A singer can't be weak and accurately hit notes with the power he regularly demonstrates throughout that album. I wouldn't call "blackbird" a perfect album, but it deserved a far better review from a more competent reviewer than you. You only got one thing right. There wasn't enough variety on the album. I guess you want to hold on to the Creed sound forever, but Altar Bridge has to grow beyond that sound as it limits them both creatively and it limits their audience to Creed fans. You criticize them for being unoriginal on Blackbird when in my opinion rehashing the old Creed formula would have been the unoriginal thing to do.

Great job. Thanks

Last edited on Oct 30, 2007 at 10:14PM