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Got Beat Up by Bad Massed Albert

Mike Adams | Fairfax, VA | 01/08/2002

(1 out of 5 stars)

"I was listening to Got Beat Up that a friend gave me and was like, wow, these fellas are good. They have their thing going. So, I went out to buy some of their other stuff. Lucky me picked this album up and thought it should be good. I put it into the cd player and was so shocked. Only "Summers Over" reminded me of their older stuff. Probably because it was the only one not sung or written by Mr. Snyder. I mean, I know that artist like to "grow" with each album, but how do you go from punk-pop to beach boy wannabes? So, if you are thinking about buying this album because you liked other earlier Weston albums, you might be disappointed, like me."

What happened to Weston?

Slaughterhouse Joe | AMERICA | 05/23/2005

(1 out of 5 stars)

"Where did Weston go? I think they've "grown up" and are "taking themselves seriously" and have made a terrible album in a desperate attempt at joining that long gray line of awful contemporary "alternative" music. Enough with the quotation marks already! I found this album in a bargain bin for fifty cents and I was really excited about it. I'm a huge fan of Got Beat Up and Matinee, but had never even heard of this album. After a few listens through, I think fifty cents was too much to pay for this pile of steaming excrement. You can argue that Weston is just trying something new and that Dylan tried something new when he switched to the electric guitar and look what that did for him, etc. I'm not against a band's personal growth. I think any band that has any kind of staying power has to experiment with their sound; however, this album is just awful. Even if it wasn't Weston, it would still suck. If you're into Got Beat Up or Matinee, PLEASE save your fifty cents."