Sitting down to what I thought was a brand new Puddle Of Mudd album, I was interested to see what it sounded like, considering the only material I have ever heard from them was their seminal 2002 Come Clean, when they were at the peak of their popularity.
It took me all of a few seconds into the first two tracks on the album to realise that I had made a glaring mistake. Re(disc)overed is not a new studio album, but a covers album, seeing Puddle Of Mudd covering tracks from the likes of Elton John, Free, Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, and a tonne of other massive names.
I managed to get a handful of seconds into All Right Now, the Free classic, before I had to skip. Wes Scantlin’s whiny voice really didn’t do the track justice, and even I knew that it was a poor imitation of the song Paul Rodgers made famous (I am hardly a big Free fan anyway). I tried a few seconds of the next track, before I had to turn off.
One to avoid.
Unrated – I didn’t really listen to it long enough to form a justified opinion, but it was clear from the outset, to me at least, that this is nothing more than a compilation of great songs, performed in a manner weaker than the original recordings.
Not for me.
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