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Mar 19, 2013Real to Reel would have benefited from more diversity.
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Mar 14, 2013Some tracks (the Rick Springfield-augmented The Man That Never Was) sound like Foos-by-numbers. However, Grohl and Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic have coaxed a jewel from Paul McCartney: the raging, White Album-ish Cut Me Some Slack must be the rawest thing he's recorded in over 40 years.
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Mar 12, 2013Real to Reel is otherwise lacking in the kind of tension that's required to produce an album that's more than the sum of its talented parts.
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Mar 12, 2013Sound City: Real to Reel sounds exactly like what it is: a bunch of old rockers jamming in a studio. Often, this is quite enjoyable, as they're all excellent musicians playing through a top-notch board, but the songs do have a tendency to drift away from the point, sounding like exceedingly well-executed first drafts.
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Mar 12, 2013Perhaps due to understandably lower expectations, Sound City has a better batting average when Grohl is collaborating with a lesser tier of legend--or with no legend at all.
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Mar 13, 2013It’s too bad that many of the other collaborations here feel as generic and laborious as a ProTools tutorial.
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Mar 12, 2013Sound City: Real to Reel has its highlights, but the bad songs are hard to justify. Some collaborators don’t mesh with others, and all of them suffer from embarrassing lyrics.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 15 out of 20
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Mixed: 5 out of 20
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