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Overall Album Score: 5.8 out of 10 Never before have The Moody Blues let out such a huge, smelly fart onto the world! Sur La Mer is a near-artistic disaster! Fortunately, there are a few pretty good songs on here. The album opener "I Know You're Out There Somewhere" is excellent and "No More Lies," "Vintage Wine," and "Want to Be With You" are all pretty strong. The rest of the songs range from mediocre to just downright awful! Plus, if you thought the 80s production of The Other Side of Life was bad, just wait until you get a load of this! ... It's tragedy! ... However, the songs that I identified as "good" are general exceptions to that. Those tracks were done all right. On my scale, this album would flunk, but only barely. (If this were a grade card, it would have a 58 % - F.) ... I'm a teacher now! Bwahhahhahhhah!!! Overall Album Score: 5.8 out of 10 (By far the worst Moody Blues album ever. I flunk it!) Average Song Score: 6.4 (About half the songs are alright ... the rest are piles of horse manure.) Album Tilt: 5.5 (It's too inconsistent to get high marks here.) Artist Rating: 5.5 (This is a very disappointing effort from The Moody Blues. They're cool a lot of the time ... and there's no excuse for this poo.) Track Reviews I Know You're Out There Somewhere 9/10 Calm, quiet, tuneful, happy ...... Aw! I don't know what I was going off about on the album introduction! I Know You're Out There Somewhere doesn't suck that much! This is a pretty good track, even though it's overproduced 80s weird stuff. It's an entertaining song! If you don't think so, then you can kiss my fat buttocks reminiscent of cottage cheese! Want to Be With You 8/10 Verrrrry goofy 80s music. It's not a badly written song, really ... it's just a piece of 80s Moody Blues nonsense. It might be pleasant to listen to, but it doesn't seem to have much of a real purpose. ... That's kind of like Bill Clinton, actually. River of Endless Love 5/10 The word "ouch" escapes my lips ... I can't say that this was a totally awful and washed-up song, but ...... wow! This is absolutely pointless and the melody isn't even that good. The 80s synths are totally messed up. Uhhh ... I'll give it a 5, though. It's not unbearably awful. No More Lies 8.5/10 Sappy adult contemporary, but the melody is really good and catchy. The instrumentation, even, doesn't seem that awful (when it's not repeating too much). ... Yeah, this is alright. It's no flop. Here Comes the Weekend 5/10 Screw the weekend. Vintage Wine 8/10 Cheesy!!!!!!!!! And it's not any better than anything else on this godforsaken album. I absolutely hate that flute! ... I crapeth on thy floot ... Although, that said, the instrumentation does sound happy-go-lucky. It's a lot like ABBA, actually. But ... really ... this song is too cheesy for me. Breaking Point 4.5/10 Wow ... when the Moody Blues bite, they sure *BITE* ... Bits of the melody and production are alright, but overall, this is just one big mess. Excruciating to listen to. Miracle 6.5/10 This is a tolerable Moody Blues 80s pop song that sounds remarkably similar to Paul McCartney's "Coming Up!" ... They can't even rip that song off properly. Love is On the Run 5.5/10 Oh man ... if you're going to make stupid sappy songs like this, you might as well overproduce 'till no tomorrow so that I could at least enjoy *that* about it. This being the 80s and this being the Moody Blues, the song is already overproduced, but it could have been overproduced oh so much more! Deep 4/10 Now, this song *is* overblown ... but it isn't overblown in a good way. This is overblown in the respect of it being WAY TOO LONG and it being ABSOLUTEY POINTLESS THAT IT'S SO BLOODY LONG! "Deep crap" more like it. Is something lurking inside of you telling you to send me a site comment about this album? If so or if not, then send me something here! |
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