Bam's Music Reviews

  I'm Bam. I like possums, I like music! Let's get into it~ Fallen is the debut album by alternate metal band Evanescence, released on March 4th, 2003 through Wind-Up Records. Recorded over the course of four months in late 2002, the album was marred by executive meddling, including turning the lead single, "Bring Me To Life", from an electronic metal track into nu-metal style rap rock. Despite fairly high sales, two of its tracks featuring in the soundtrack of the movie Daredevil , and generally positive praise from critics at the time, the album is more so known for many internet memes associated with some of its tracks (Wake Me Up Inside and the My Immortal fanfic being the two biggest ones that I'm personally familiar with). With the album receiving a 20th anniversary remaster (that happened to be released today as of the writing of this review!), a big question has to be asked: has this album stood the test of time and does it work as an alt-metal album, or ...

  I'm Bam. I like possums, I like music! Let's get into it~ The Dark Side Of The Moon Redux is a progressive rock/spoken word album by Roger Waters. It was released under his own label, SGB Music Limited, on October 6th, 2023 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon , and serves as a "re-imagining" of the original 1973 album. According to Waters, the album's style was inspired by The Lockdown Sessions , an album he had released the previous year which contained several stripped-down versions of older Pink Floyd songs, the most notable of which being " Comfortably Numb 2022" , a song he would use as the opener during his controversial This Is Not a Drill tour (which will not be discussed in this review, as it does not pertain to the quality of it). Even before release, many people saw it as a polarizing concept, a notion which wasn't brightened in the slightest once singles like " Money"  started rolling i...