Company Line: Transform is essentially a return to the band’s roots, one that Spider realizes may raise a few eyebrows. He can’t help but see the humor in the little image problem he’s created for himself, remarking: “I’m just waiting for people to say, ‘Wait a minute – weren’t you the guy in the spacesuit two years ago?’”
The Good:
Nothing exceptional, not even sure it’s worth buying this record.
The Marginal:
“The Shape Of Things To Come” – About the only track worth another listen.
“Theme To A Fake Revolution” – Sounds a lot closer to what brother Rob Zombie is into.
“Free” – The riffs sound like we’ve heard them chug on ever other rock album out today. There isn’t anything overly impressive, if anything PM5K now sounds like everyone else, and that’s not as good as it sounds. Fans know what I mean.
“A Is For Apathy” – Perhaps its actually for agony.
The Bad:
“Song About Nuthin’” – It’s either really hard to come up with ideas for songs or titles, I’m guessing with this song it’s both.
Frankly: The new, transformed Powerman 5000 isn’t the ‘new and improved’ its just ‘new’. Nothing has grown, nothing has matured and worse yet they took all they had going for them; a gimmick. They costumes are gone and so is the oddball sound, but it only made them sound average, perhaps they were average all along and we just never noticed it.
+ rae gun
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