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<blockquote data-quote="Motorik" data-source="post: 9349" data-attributes="member: 162"><p>Well, I have mixed feelings about this album, so I'll try to come up with a coherent opinion. Objectively, this album is terrible. Bad sound, bad performance, terrible songwriting, etc. However, I follow a website called "Brad's Completely Useless Record Reviews". The owner of the page gave "Never Say Die" a seven and said that, while this album is terrible, is so bad that it becomes good. That the album is really entertaining in its "terribleness". I decided to listen to it with that mindset, and guess what? It is entertaining. This work is bad, but is so uniquelly bad that I can enjoy it. Compare it with their post "Mob Rules" output, which sucks and it's also boring and generic. However, there are songs that I genuinely like here. "Air Dance" is beautiful, and the only true, "unironical" classic here. The title track rocks and is catchy and uplifting. "Junior's Eyes" has cool bass and drum parts and the wah effect is mesmerizing. "Breakout" is really interesting for the inclusion of sax and brass sections. "Johnny Blade" hides a cool multipart song behind the nasty sound quality, the stupid and dated synths and the distortion of the guitar. The other songs are abysmal, but they can be considered a guilty pleasure. "Shock Wave" has an idiotic melody with mutilated guitars, but the mix of the usual Sabbath heaviness with the poppy vocal performance is funny. "A Hard Road" is mildly catchy and definitely overlong, but listening to Black Sabbath making an optimistic song full of vocal harmonies is hilarious. "Over to You" mix the guitars of "Hard Road" with the piano of "Air Dance", and that combination is so out of place that I can have a good time with it. Last and definitely least, "Swinging the Chain" is a blues song, but you can only tell in which style is set because of the harmonica and the (terrible) vocal performance of Bill Ward, since the vomit inducing sound of the guitar makes impossible not only to guess the melody, but also the genre it's supossed to be playing. In conclusion, I used to hate this album, and I still do it in a certain way, but is so full of strange and unique ideas by the standards of this band that it's quite an experience. My advice? Don't listen to "Never Say Die" expecting a good album and you'll enjoy it plenty. Still, I can't give it the seven that the reviewer I mentioned gave it, since that score is only for genuinely good music. Final score: a four out of ten in objective terms, a six out of ten for the fun it provides.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Motorik, post: 9349, member: 162"] Well, I have mixed feelings about this album, so I'll try to come up with a coherent opinion. Objectively, this album is terrible. Bad sound, bad performance, terrible songwriting, etc. However, I follow a website called "Brad's Completely Useless Record Reviews". The owner of the page gave "Never Say Die" a seven and said that, while this album is terrible, is so bad that it becomes good. That the album is really entertaining in its "terribleness". I decided to listen to it with that mindset, and guess what? It is entertaining. This work is bad, but is so uniquelly bad that I can enjoy it. Compare it with their post "Mob Rules" output, which sucks and it's also boring and generic. However, there are songs that I genuinely like here. "Air Dance" is beautiful, and the only true, "unironical" classic here. The title track rocks and is catchy and uplifting. "Junior's Eyes" has cool bass and drum parts and the wah effect is mesmerizing. "Breakout" is really interesting for the inclusion of sax and brass sections. "Johnny Blade" hides a cool multipart song behind the nasty sound quality, the stupid and dated synths and the distortion of the guitar. The other songs are abysmal, but they can be considered a guilty pleasure. "Shock Wave" has an idiotic melody with mutilated guitars, but the mix of the usual Sabbath heaviness with the poppy vocal performance is funny. "A Hard Road" is mildly catchy and definitely overlong, but listening to Black Sabbath making an optimistic song full of vocal harmonies is hilarious. "Over to You" mix the guitars of "Hard Road" with the piano of "Air Dance", and that combination is so out of place that I can have a good time with it. Last and definitely least, "Swinging the Chain" is a blues song, but you can only tell in which style is set because of the harmonica and the (terrible) vocal performance of Bill Ward, since the vomit inducing sound of the guitar makes impossible not only to guess the melody, but also the genre it's supossed to be playing. In conclusion, I used to hate this album, and I still do it in a certain way, but is so full of strange and unique ideas by the standards of this band that it's quite an experience. My advice? Don't listen to "Never Say Die" expecting a good album and you'll enjoy it plenty. Still, I can't give it the seven that the reviewer I mentioned gave it, since that score is only for genuinely good music. Final score: a four out of ten in objective terms, a six out of ten for the fun it provides. [/QUOTE]
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