Home Town Hero
"S/T"
(Maverick Records) 

I have been listening to rock and roll for twenty years now, and I can honestly say that this one of THE MOST BORING ALBUMS I HAVE EVER HEARD! Home Town Hero are a band that plays a lame excuse of (what barely passes for) pop/punk/alternative music, pop being the dominant musical force here. They sound like they are influenced by bands like Green Day and the Goo Goo Dolls, but certainly can't hold a candle to those bands! They sound, as wrestling superstar The Rock would say, like the millions, AND MILLIONS, of other bands who play this style of music, completely indistinguishable from their contemporaries. A cookie cutter band, in other words (and not a very good one at that), who sound like the just rolled off a musical assembly line. As I said, their music is as boring as hell! Most of the album's songs are snail paced, limp, plodding, one-chord numbers, each just like the other. It's almost impossible to tell the songs apart. Even the ones that rock out a little more (and those are few and far between!) are not that interesting. These guys can barely even play! If there had been some more harder rocking tunes on here, it would have made things a little more bearable (a hint for your next album, guys, if you read this.). Home Town Hero should go back to their home town and learn how to play! We don't need any more bands like this, there are already too many of them! They'll never be my heroes, that's for sure!  

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