SONG REVIEWED: "Last Resort "
FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER, I AM AMMENDING A REVIEW... PREVIOUSLY, I LUMPED THIS BAND IN WITH THE ROCK/RAP CROWD. UPON FURTHER INSPECTION (AND AFTER LISTENING TO MORE OF THE DISC), I CAN SEE THAT THEY'RE MORE OF A HARDCORE ACT THAN ANOTHER ONE OF THE KID ROCK/LIMP BIZKIT TYPES... NORMALLY, ANY MUSIC THAT REARS ITS HEAD ON MTV's "TOTAL REQUEST LIVE" ISN'T WORTHY TO BE CRAPPED ON BY A SYPHILLITIC DONKEY...LET ALONE GET SPACE ON THIS SITE...HOWEVER, PAPA ROACH SWAYED MY OPINION AND HERE'S WHY: THE WHOLE ROCK RESURGENCE IS STARTING TO SHOW SOME PROMISE. PAPA ROACH SOUND LIKE THEY GREW UP WITH A HEALTHY DOSE OF METAL IN THE MID 1980s... THE MAIN RIFF IN "LAST RESORT" MIGHT HAVE BEEN FOUND IN A MID-80s IRON MAIDEN ARENA ANTHEM; IT'S VERY METAL (YEAH, I'M TAKING THAT OFF VIVIAN'S JACKET FROM "THE YOUNG ONES"...BIG DEAL).
INITIALLY I CATEGORIZED THE SONG'S LYRICS AS BEING ABOUT TEENAGE-ANGST AND GIVING AUTHORITY FIGURES THE FINGER ON A DAILY BASIS....BUT AFTER GIVING THE SONG ANOTHER LISTEN, IT SEEMS TO GO A LITTLE DEEPER... THE SONG HAS MORE OF A SOMBER, SELF-DESTRUCTIVE TONE TO IT THAT I HAD NOTICED... (I ALSO PAID ATTENTION TO THE VIDEO THIS TIME...THAT HELPED A LITTLE)... RATHER THAN TEEN-ANGST, THE SONG FOCUSES ON A MORE SUICIDAL THEME (WHICH IS ALSO A PREVAILING THOUGHT AMONG YOUNG PEOPLE... USUALLY IN THE SUBURBS...GO FIGURE), PAPA ROACH HAS WRITTEN A PRETTY COOL HARD ROCK TUNE. I'D BE INTERESTED IN HEARING WHAT A FEW YEARS AND A FEW MORE HAIRS ON THEIR CHESTS CAN DO FOR THEIR SOUND. THEY'RE OFF TO A GOOD START THOUGH.
I'M GOING TO GO PULL MY HEAD OUT OF MY ASS AND WRITE ANOTHER REVIEW.
