Beautiful Creatures
"Deuce"
Hardcore Creatures

So I'm very quickly learning that not everything that rocks is necessarily good. Case in point: Beautiful Creatures. Everything about this band screams rock-the down-tuned guitars, sinister vocals, fiery leads, but everything on the record sounds like rehashed suck. These are the 22 year olds in your high school that just wouldn't graduate and just kept banging the new freshman.

I mean this could be worse. It could be "Tommyland," but it's plain to see that rock has once again become homogenized thanks to the new breed of well-manicured cock rock bands. Guys, Velvet Revolver is huge, but you don't see them wearing hair spray.

I guess I'm just angry because bands that have been stroking the cock (rock) for years, like Electric Frankenstein and The Hellacopters can't sell crap to a manure farmer, and shit like "Deuce" gets put out on a weekly basis. Talk about asking for too much of a good thing.

Reviewed by: George Koroneos
Reviewed on: September 21, 2005