Puddle of Mudd - Come Clean
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Artist: Puddle of MuddEdition: Music CD
Format: Explicit Lyrics
CD Release Date: 2001-08-28
Music Label: Interscope Records
Soundtracks:
- Control
- Drift & Die
- Out Of My Head
- Nobody Told Me
- Blurry
- She Hates Me
- Bring Me Down
- Never Change
- Basement
- Said
- Piss It All Away
Music reviews of Come Clean
Music Review: It's just not very good
Rating: 2 Stars
Puddle of Mudd had potential. They were a group of boys who are trying to achieve the American dream. They came out of no where to be signed to a major label by Fred Durst (who, love him or hate him, is an undeniably big name in the music business). Their debut sold millions of copies and spawned a string of hit singles. So all should be well in the Puddles camp, right? Well no, actually. Their debut, 2001's "Come Clean," didn't receive many positive reviews, and Puddle of Mudd aren't going to be nominated for a Grammy any time soon. Why not? Because, simply put, this C.D. is just not very good.
There are a couple of decent songs on here (i.e. "Control" and "Blurry") which might get stuck in your head, but almost every other song sounds exactly the same. Puddle of Mudd almost never deviate from their hard-soft-hard-soft-soft-hard and intro-verse-chorus-verse-chorus-bridge-outro song structure, so the songs become very predictable and repetitive. So, this C.D. eventually gets so boring that it becomes almost unlistenable. Even catchy songs like "Drift and Die" aren't memorable, because they follow the same formula as every other song.
When I saw them in concert, I was (briefly) a big fan of this band, so I listened to "Come Clean" with an open mind. And I try to like every C.D. I purchase...I really do. In order to like all of my C.D.'s, I can't afford to make comparisons. I have said "It's not as good as...but it's good in its own right" or "It's a good listen" many different times about many different C.D.'s. For example, I didn't like Staind's last album, "14 Shades of Gray," as much as their "Break the Cycle" album, but it was still a good listen. "Come Clean," however, just isn't good or catchy enough to ignore its hard rock cliches. Soft-hard verse-chorus song structures are no longer new, and they are, in fact, very stale and old. Some bands, like Staind and Mudvayne, use the soft-hard song formats and are able to make them work. Unfortunately, Puddle of Mudd is not one of those bands, so the songs on "Come Clean" come across sounding very formulaic. The only song that breaks the monotony is the acoustic album closer, "P-ss It All Away"; but an entirely acoustic song at the end of an album isn't exactly a new concept, either.
It's also almost impossible to dismiss Puddle of Mudd's blatant imitation of other grunge bands, like Nirvana and Alice in Chains. If Puddle of Mudd were more talented or made more catchy songs, nobody would care that they're a Nirvana imitation, and that every one of their songs follow the same overused structure. But Puddle of Mudd only have rudimentary songwriting skills and instrumental abilities, so they just can't re-create the great verse-chorus friction that Nirvana had.
Since their music is so cliche, Puddle of Mudd fall under the "secondhand" or "imitation grunge" genre. And Wes' vocals don't help his band to escape that label. He draws too heavily from his influences, thus resulting in corny vocal styles (singing in the verses, then yelling over the hard choruses.)
This album has one final, major downfall. The subject matter is about nothing else besides Wes' tortured, hopeless life. Not a single ray of hope shines through these lyrics, but Wes isn't the true head case that Kurt Cobain was, so he can't recapture the primal urgency that Nirvana had. Plus, Wes groans, moans, and drones so incessantly, and with no conviction, that the listener doesn't understand why they should care how bad his life is.
If "Come Clean" had been released ten years ago, it would have been this band's meal ticket. But this is the 21st century, and too many bands (before Puddle of Mudd) have made this C.D. So, the songs on Puddles' debut are not only indistinguishable from one another, they are also indistinguishable from a lot of other bands' songs.
In conclusion, "Come Clean" is not a terrible album; it has some catchy, listenable songs, but a catchy song isn't necessarily a good one. And you've probably heard those songs a hundred times on the radio. Ultimately, all this album is good for is proving that grunge is dead, it died over a decade ago, and it died for a reason.
Description of Come Clean
International edition of the alternative metal act's hit 2001 album includes two bonus tracks 'Control' (acoustic version) & 'Control' (video). 2002.Possessing a likable, arena-rock amalgamation of grunge, alternative, and nu metal, Kansas City's Puddle of Mudd are at once emotional and straight-ahead. Indeed, their no-frills lineup puts one in mind of a less uptight Creed. Singer Wesley Reid Scantlin possesses an Eddie Vedder earnestness that on hard-hitting tunes like "Nobody Told Me" takes on a Cobain-like urgency. Ranging from acoustic-based yet lush midtempo rockers such as "Drift and Die" to the gimmicky fun of "She Hates Me" to the edgy Nirvana-esque "Bring Me Down" to the dynamic and direct "Control," the 11-song-strong Come Clean is an assured, accomplished, and varied debut likely to resonate with rock fans of many tastes and temperaments. Katherine Turman
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