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The Darkness
- Record Label: Atlantic
- Release Date: Nov 29, 2005
- Summary: The British band's second album was produced by Roy Thomas Baker (Queen).
- Record Label: Atlantic
- Genre(s): Rock
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 12 out of 24
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Mixed: 9 out of 24
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Negative: 3 out of 24
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Alternative PressThe best Def Leppard album "Mutt" Lange never wrote. [Feb 2006, p.126]
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BlenderBaker... somehow makes them sound more outrageous--and more convincing. [Dec 2005, p.148]
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Even the best jokes don't bear repeated listening. A great song, however, is worth hearing over and over again. One Way Ticket... has both, but there's more of the latter than the former.
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Not so much a letdown as a comedown, One Way Ticket to Hell...and Back just shows that the giddy highs of Permission to Land aren't so easy to get the second time around.
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One Way Ticket To Hell...And Back is a sturdy rock album with some saucy titles and odd instruments, but sadly it is less than it could or should be.
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Los Angeles TimesThe challenge in coming back for Round 2 was to make it more than a one-note joke, but the Darkness remains in its Spinal Tap mode for most of "One Way Ticket." [6 Dec 2005]
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So the mission statement of this CD is clear; this is a product made by the emotionally and culturally sterile for people who either have no conception of love, depression, or any other emotional state outside of pop culture cliché, or those so desperate for entertainment that they would deceive themselves into thinking the feckless chicanery of this masturbatory ensemble resembles soulful expression in any way.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 25 out of 34
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Mixed: 1 out of 34
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Negative: 8 out of 34
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Feb 23, 2013
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AlbertoGDec 20, 2005The best rock band in this moment
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AndrewLJan 20, 2006
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JoeSDec 6, 2005a very good album that's overproduced in places but still has some great songs.
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AnonAmoseOct 25, 2006Not bad at all. It's entertaining if you take the album for what it is supposed to be.
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MarkLDec 6, 2005
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SteveDec 6, 2005Very poor uninnovative music from a bunch of talentless egomaniacs. They should stop what they're doing for good. Put us all out of our misery.
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