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**Lara Emily** · 06-10-2006, 05:21 AM

Well it's easily his worse solo album. Blah, half the songs have this annoying almost happy tone to it, there's nothing that even comes close to Sinister Urge's best song (House of a 1000 corpses). American Witch and The Devil's Rejects are probably the only tracks to me that even remotely capture the essence of the horror film (something that had always been his strong point even on his less than stellar Sinister Urge album, Devil's Rejects catpures more of the Westernish on the run road horror, basically the song fits the movie of the same title perfectly, much like House of 1000 Corpses fit House of a 1000 Corpses ). I'm honestly really dissapointed. Sinister Urge wasn't all that great either but at least it still maintained the unique Rob Zombie feel, Educated Horses just sounds and feels completely generic, on top of that even the songs that do somewhat feel like Rob of old (Let it all Bleed out is the best example) are often ruined by ridiculous screaming delivery (Rob screaming Let it all Bleed Out is highly grating and pretty much destroys the song)

The best tracks are the instrumental ones and that's not a good thing. As for the worst track while in tough competetion with almost every single one of them, Foxy Foxy has to be the worst song on the album and probably the worst song Rob has ever done (except maybe Reload), it's way to happy. A lot of this CD, even when dealing with images of the macabre come off way to happy, he might as well be singing about rainbows, sunshines and cute little puppy dogs. Let me just say thank god Death of it All didn't turn out to be the Rob Zombie Metal Ballad that the intro almost seems to promise (Rob is the last guy I want to hear sing a ballad)

Final Summary:
Best Tracks: The Instrumentals (but they aren't worth uying the album for)
Best Songs: American Witch, Devil's Reject, Lords of Salem (same as above)
Worst Tracks: Pretty much everything else especially Foxy Fox

In the end Educated Horses is an Utterly forgettable album without really a single great song on it.

06-10-2006, 05:21 AM	#11
Lara Emily Hey Posts: 15,662	Well it's easily his worse solo album. Blah, half the songs have this annoying almost happy tone to it, there's nothing that even comes close to Sinister Urge's best song (House of a 1000 corpses). American Witch and The Devil's Rejects are probably the only tracks to me that even remotely capture the essence of the horror film (something that had always been his strong point even on his less than stellar Sinister Urge album, Devil's Rejects catpures more of the Westernish on the run road horror, basically the song fits the movie of the same title perfectly, much like House of 1000 Corpses fit House of a 1000 Corpses ). I'm honestly really dissapointed. Sinister Urge wasn't all that great either but at least it still maintained the unique Rob Zombie feel, Educated Horses just sounds and feels completely generic, on top of that even the songs that do somewhat feel like Rob of old (Let it all Bleed out is the best example) are often ruined by ridiculous screaming delivery (Rob screaming Let it all Bleed Out is highly grating and pretty much destroys the song) The best tracks are the instrumental ones and that's not a good thing. As for the worst track while in tough competetion with almost every single one of them, Foxy Foxy has to be the worst song on the album and probably the worst song Rob has ever done (except maybe Reload), it's way to happy. A lot of this CD, even when dealing with images of the macabre come off way to happy, he might as well be singing about rainbows, sunshines and cute little puppy dogs. Let me just say thank god Death of it All didn't turn out to be the Rob Zombie Metal Ballad that the intro almost seems to promise (Rob is the last guy I want to hear sing a ballad) Final Summary: Best Tracks: The Instrumentals (but they aren't worth uying the album for) Best Songs: American Witch, Devil's Reject, Lords of Salem (same as above) Worst Tracks: Pretty much everything else especially Foxy Fox In the end Educated Horses is an Utterly forgettable album without really a single great song on it. Last edited by Lara Emily; 06-10-2006 at 05:50 AM.