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<description> Hmmm...interesting album. 6 mid-paced/ballad-ish tunes, same metallic Churko production. Some very good songs, but overall it leaves me feeling rather cold.

I felt the same way about AAN at first and then warmed to it over several listens. Although WTTF is very much its mirror image and I'd rank both a long distance behind Extreme Behavior and Take It To The Limit.</description><link>http://www.melodicrock.com/phorum52/read.php?1,921078,921078#msg-921078</link><lastBuildDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 08:23:50 +1000</lastBuildDate>
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<title>Re: Yep, very uninspired</title><link>http://www.melodicrock.com/phorum52/read.php?1,921078,921203#msg-921203</link><description><![CDATA[ Still look forward to hearing it - hopefully it is a grower as you said. I actually love AAN - but it did take a few listens.<br /><br />G.]]></description>
<dc:creator>Gill</dc:creator>
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<title>Re: Yep, very uninspired</title><link>http://www.melodicrock.com/phorum52/read.php?1,921078,921196#msg-921196</link><description><![CDATA[ TITTL won them many friends around here, but I believe it was pretty much a commercial failure due to it's heavy 80's influence.]]></description>
<dc:creator>Coco</dc:creator>
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<title>Re: Yep, very uninspired</title><link>http://www.melodicrock.com/phorum52/read.php?1,921078,921195#msg-921195</link><description><![CDATA[ The middle of the album just seems to be one ballad after another after another.<br /><br />I'll stay with it, though. See how it goes, but it's s far cry from the TITTL style that won them so many friends.]]></description>
<dc:creator>rocknut</dc:creator>
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<title>Re: Hinder - Welcome To The Freakshow</title><link>http://www.melodicrock.com/phorum52/read.php?1,921078,921188#msg-921188</link><description><![CDATA[ Listened to it twice, hope Coco is right and it's a grower but I reckon he's damn right when he says that there are too many ballads! I loved every previous album (even AAN) and I wish I could see them live sooner or later. Rockers ain't bad after all, less hooks than TITTL thou.]]></description>
<dc:creator>electricgypsy</dc:creator>
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<title>Re: Yep, very uninspired</title><link>http://www.melodicrock.com/phorum52/read.php?1,921078,921186#msg-921186</link><description><![CDATA[ Half of the album is great, and is an extension of the 'All American Nightmare' style, but with the other half they have tried to do things a little differently by adding a pop feel to the songs, and it just doesn't work that well. The songs aren't crap, they're just not as good as their previous work, and five ballads is three too many, but as I said, it <i>is</i> an album that grows on you.]]></description>
<dc:creator>Coco</dc:creator>
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<title>Re: Yep, very uninspired</title><link>http://www.melodicrock.com/phorum52/read.php?1,921078,921170#msg-921170</link><description><![CDATA[ Makes you wonder what the band were thinking when the result is comments like this.<br /><br />Haven't yet played it, but doesn't sound too promising.]]></description>
<dc:creator>Andrew</dc:creator>
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<title>Yep, very uninspired</title><link>http://www.melodicrock.com/phorum52/read.php?1,921078,921168#msg-921168</link><description><![CDATA[ And just plain boring. I've heard the album run through once, and it was far too many times. What happened to that whole <i>Take It To The Limit</i> vibe??!?<br /><br />Fail]]></description>
<dc:creator>Benno</dc:creator>
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<title>Re: Hinder - Welcome To The Freakshow</title><link>http://www.melodicrock.com/phorum52/read.php?1,921078,921159#msg-921159</link><description><![CDATA[ I wouldn't doubt this maybe their last sadly. Their first 2 were amazing.]]></description>
<dc:creator>d2cheer</dc:creator>
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<title>Re: Hinder - Welcome To The Freakshow</title><link>http://www.melodicrock.com/phorum52/read.php?1,921078,921125#msg-921125</link><description><![CDATA[ They seem to get worse with each album. It's all been downhill since the debut for me. AAN was fucking garbage!<br /><br />Gav]]></description>
<dc:creator>Gav1</dc:creator>
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<title>Re: Hinder - Welcome To The Freakshow</title><link>http://www.melodicrock.com/phorum52/read.php?1,921078,921108#msg-921108</link><description><![CDATA[ It's a grower, Steve. Initially I wasn't that impressed by it, but over time it has grown on me. It is their weakest album though, with way too many average ballads. It's an album that's confused about what it wants to be.]]></description>
<dc:creator>Coco</dc:creator>
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<title>Re: Hinder - Welcome To The Freakshow</title><link>http://www.melodicrock.com/phorum52/read.php?1,921078,921106#msg-921106</link><description><![CDATA[ OK, so I've only heard the 30&quot; clips, but they don't sound that bad to me. Definitely a lot more straight forward again and yes, ballad heavy.]]></description>
<dc:creator>Peter M. Bietenholz</dc:creator>
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<title>Re: Hinder - Welcome To The Freakshow</title><link>http://www.melodicrock.com/phorum52/read.php?1,921078,921103#msg-921103</link><description><![CDATA[ very disappointing.Like most other bands of that genre now,it's music by numbers.]]></description>
<dc:creator>machinehead</dc:creator>
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<title>Re: Hinder - Welcome To The Freakshow</title><link>http://www.melodicrock.com/phorum52/read.php?1,921078,921101#msg-921101</link><description><![CDATA[ Haven't heard it yet, but i guess you could predict i would turn out this way. They get a lot of radio airplay for a ballad off their last album then pull an Aerosmith and do an album that's all ballads.<br /><br />Dam shame.]]></description>
<dc:creator>Scott Watson</dc:creator>
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<title>Re: Hinder - Welcome To The Freakshow</title><link>http://www.melodicrock.com/phorum52/read.php?1,921078,921089#msg-921089</link><description><![CDATA[ It's a real disappointment, actually. Not very good at all.]]></description>
<dc:creator>rocknut</dc:creator>
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<title>Re: Hinder - Welcome To The Freakshow</title><link>http://www.melodicrock.com/phorum52/read.php?1,921078,921087#msg-921087</link><description><![CDATA[ It's the band's worst album to date.To me it feels like leftovers from AAN and isn't anywhere near as good as that album. The band now seem to be stuck inbetween wanting to be critically acclaimed musically and doing what they do best.<br />Mike]]></description>
<dc:creator>MIKE</dc:creator>
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<title>Hinder - Welcome To The Freakshow</title><link>http://www.melodicrock.com/phorum52/read.php?1,921078,921078#msg-921078</link><description><![CDATA[ Hmmm...interesting album. 6 mid-paced/ballad-ish tunes, same metallic Churko production. Some very good songs, but overall it leaves me feeling rather cold.<br /><br />I felt the same way about AAN at first and then warmed to it over several listens. Although WTTF is very much its mirror image and I'd rank both a long distance behind Extreme Behavior and Take It To The Limit.]]></description>
<dc:creator>Robert</dc:creator>
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