Search - Grand Theft Audio :: Blame Everyone

Big, silly, melodic fun

Ethan Straffin | Palo Alto, CA USA | 05/28/2005

(4 out of 5 stars)

"What an unexpectedly cool find. _Blame Everyone_ reminds me of nothing so much as Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine at their creative peak, updated for the 21st century with even louder guitars. The one-two-three sonic punch that opens this album -- two-thirds of which was featured on multiple movie soundtracks, and justifiably so -- is hard to beat for making that new set of speakers earn their keep, or for blasting with the top down on a summer day. Things fall off surprisingly little after that, and the anthemic "As Good As It Gets" in particular pretty much lives up to its name.



I highly recommend taking a chance on this one (and not even all that much of a chance, given how ridiculously inexpensive the used copies available here tend to be at this point).



"No brakes but you know we got a radio / You gotta move when we're rockin' on your stereo"? They really do have a point there."