Myspace Records 1

The problem with this CD is, like many people said, it’s made mostly of stuff one can hear on your local alternative radio station. And of this complation, what you can’t hear on the radio, sounds like what you do hear on the radio anyways.

The selection is not ecclectic in the least. All of it seems to be men with guitars and typical drab percussion, and an occasional female with guitars (and typical drab percussion), and the same style of singing and lyrics. In other words, it all seems to be of one genre.

boooooooring.

I really would have liked to see a compliation of artist who got their start on myspace. Stuff few people have ever heard before. Something that’s worth purchasing from myspace because you can’t buy it anywhere else.

Otherwise, what’s the point?

Chances are anyone who would buy this CD already owns stuff by those artists anyhow.

Save some money and make your own mix.
Rating: 1 / 5

I admit I am a big fan of Myspace. I love discovering new, unsigned or independantly signed artists on its vast website. It was inevitable that a compilation of various Myspace artists would come out. Unfortunately the artists listed on the compilation are pretty bland and uninteresting. 95% is dime store emo (aka whiney white boy rock) and former Playboy model Tila Tequila posing as a rock star. It is so obvious that the founder of Myspace likes this emo. Look at the artists he chose for volume one. Fine if he wants to thrown in artists he likes but from one genre? How boring. There are thousands of artists and bands on Myspace. There should have been a good diversity of different types of music on this compilation rather than sticking to the dime a dozen emo bands which you can’t tell from night and day. There are so many great little known artists and bands on Myspace, this would have been a great way to introduce the public to them but instead what the public gets is an obvious attempt at making a few extra bucks from the emo crowd. Here is hoping that future volumes don’t look as bad as volume one but frankly I am not holding my breathe anytime soon.
Rating: 1 / 5

Anyone who would actually consider buying this in probably only in it for the four extra pictures you can upload once you buy the CD.

It is a pure piece of crap.

Instead of putting major-record artists on this album, why not put some artists who got their start on Myspace?

–Edit: I don’t know why it’s saying I gave this CD five stars, because I sure as heck did not.
Rating: 5 / 5

(…)If you like to spend your hard-earned dollars on bands that dissolve faster that an Alka-Seltzer tablet, then invest on this crap-tastic helping of lousy music. If I were in Weezer, I’d be quite upset that I got lumped into this pathetic collaboration of caca. (…)GOsh, you people are sheep.

(…)
Rating: 1 / 5

To tell you the truth, I also enjoy using Myspace a lot now. It took a long time for me to get used to it, because it seemed so scene-and-trend-based for awhile… Then I found some of my favorite artists on there and even got to hear unreleased songs and albums before they were out. This compilation is disappointing if you’re looking for the unsigned/independent bands, but otherwise it is not really that bad. A natural problem, though, is that only the first two tracks are unreleased.

The AFI song is pretty good, an outtake of “Sing the Sorrow” that would’ve fit on there okay. I wasn’t a real big fan of the New Years Day song, however…. Then there’s other songs which I already have a hold of that are decent, like the Weezer song. However, that’s one of the weakest on “Make Believe” and is a bit silly. Against Me! are a nice contrast to the mix as well, acoustic-based punk done well. I’m not a big fan of AAR and Dashboard was too obvious of a choice, but both tracks are okay.

A lot of these do fall in the emo/pop-punk territory, but what’s disappointing is that it doesn’t really use what’s great about it. The Click Five can’t write song lyrics to save their lyrics and when the vocals are that clear and the music isn’t interesting enough, hearing those words annoys me. It’s a little catchy though I admit, but that’s not always a good thing. More of it is lackluster than anything else; hopefully subsequent compilations are more useful than this.

I would give it 2.5, but because of AFI and sympathy, I’m rounding it up a half star.
Rating: 3 / 5