Audio CD review:
Rob Zombie - Educated Horses

Rob Zombie - Educated Horses

Band: Rob Zombie Title: Educated Horses Rating: Release Date: 2006-03-28 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: Sawdust in the Blood 2: American Witch 3: Foxy Foxy 4: 17 Year Locust 5: The Scorpion Sleeps 6: 100 Ways 7: Let It All Bleed Out 8: Death of It All 9: Ride 10: The Devil's Rejects 11: The Lords of Salem

it sucks. rob zombie can draw, he can sing, compose music and direct movies but he can't do em all at the same time and make em worth while. yes im gonna say it. this album was the first album by rob I ever took directly back tot he music store after listening to it and tryed to return it because it sucked so bad. there's barely anything on here worth listening to and the songs that ar eokay have pieces to em that seem like he was just going through the motions or should ahve stopped a little earlier than he did. dont ge tme wrong, listenign to sherry moon zombie moan 'oh yeah give it to me baby" in a loop is hot but it gets annoying after you hear her say it after tow or three loops. the only song really that sticks out is let it all bleed out as worth listening to. hoefully this album is not a sign of things to come for mr. zombie and he'll get back to his hellbilly roots we've all known to love. . Got it for the Foxy Foxy track Well, it's ok, but not quite as good as I had expected. Now, I'm not a huge Zombie fan, but I really liked Hellbilly Deluxe, and once I recently saw the video for Foxy Foxy, I figured I should invest in another Zombie album. 3 stars. Now I wish I would have just downloaded the individual tracks in mp3, but Amazon didn't have that option, at least not yet at the time. From an 8 year Rob Zombie fan (as of 2008) And having bought "The Sinister Urge" when it first came out, as well as owning "Hellbilly Deluxe" and "American Made Music to Strip By", I bought "Educated Horses" when it first came out around two years ago. I've been a fan of Rob Zombie's for nearly eight years, since I was a child of 11-12. It's not that the album is horrible as it is showing that Rob is limiting his musical style, and stripping away the gaudy comic/gothic horror element of his previous three albums. It is less of the comic/gothic horror, and more of the trashy style we've come to expect from him as of late, so that's really no surprise. The surprise comes from the fact that ALL of the songs on this album follow that format, rather than having some variety. The same goes for his musical and vocal stylings. No more does he do the throaty singing style prevelant in songs like "The Great American Nightmare", "Dragula", the chorus of "Superbeast", or the scratchy shrill-pitched ones like "I'm Your Boogeyman", the vocals of "Superbeast", etcetera. Instead, he uses the same singing style as in songs like "Dead Girl Superstar" and "Feel So Numb". The style isn't terrible, I just wish Rob would use more variety to his singing voice like he used to. Little else is very memorable to the album regarding the guitar or drums or bass. One of the best songs on the album is "The Devil's Rejects" which feels the way it probably was meant to be, a sequel to the song (and movie) "House of 1000 Corpses", managing to be its own song while sounding related to the first. Rob Zombie Educated Horses This is my second copy. I thoroughly enjoyed the lyrics and the sound is great. A real letdown (My mother's still praying for me. I love Zombie's music, I really do. ) I hav to say, I wish I'd never bought this album. Some of the songs are OK, not Zombie's best, but still OK. The ones that aren't OK remind me of a hair band flashback. They don't even sound like Zombie. Overall, the songs are forgetable, nothing there will stick with the listener after the CD's been put back in it's case, nothing here I want taking up space on my iPod, nothing destined for a future "best of" album. My advice would be to skip this one, it's just not worth the money. You can see a complete list of all Rob Zombie discography, or go back to the Rob Zombie tabs