31-10-2010, 12:24
This came out last year in Canada, where the group is from, but just released in the states.
Got rather boring the more I heard.
Grade - 1.5
released Oct 26th, 2010
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from the album - Little Too Late - grade 2.0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wzc_Nlc5udI
from all music
Bio
Vancouver's Default fit the definition of straight-ahead hard rock in the early years of the 21st century: the guitar textures and melodic bent of grunge; the dark, brooding earnestness of post-grunge; and the deep, thick-sounding production (but not the rap influences) of new alternative metal. Default was formed as the Fallout in summer 1999 by guitarist Jeremy Hora and drummer Danny Craig, four-year veterans of the local Vancouver music scene; after auditioning several vocalists, they settled on former high school classmate Dallas Smith, whose power made up for his inexperience. The group recorded a demo with an unidentified bassist, and it fell into the hands of Nickelback's Chad Kroeger, who knew Hora and Craig from one of their previous bands. Kroeger offered to produce their independent recording sessions, and the group began gigging around Vancouver. In 2000, they entered a talent competition sponsored by a local radio station and won a spot on the Vancouver Seeds 2000 sampler CD, shortly before they changed their name to Default. Their song "Deny" subsequently became a smash hit on local rock radio, which led to a deal with TVT Records. Bassist Dave Benedict joined the band full-time not long after. Thus constituted, Default entered the studios with producer Rick Parashar in spring 2001 and recorded their official debut album, The Fallout; it was released later that year. Their follow-up, Elocation, came out in late 2003.
Album Review from zme music
You probably didnât know this, or perhaps youâve simply blocked it out of your memory, but back in the earlier part of this decade, Chad Kroeger wasnât just the annoying, frog-faced, inexplicably popular lead singer of turd-rock band Nickelback. No, in the dark days of Space Year 2002, Kroeger tried his hand at being something of a mogul, and with his attorney friend Jonathan Simpkin, founded a record label: 604 Records. To date, the only band Iâve heard of from this helpful Wikipedia list is Theory of a Deadman (a.k.a. Nickelback Jr), which suggests Kroegerâs talents as an A&R man are roughly equivalent to his talents as a rock singer. (Also, upon further investigation, all of the bands listed are uniformly awful, although The Organ are redeemed slightly by their hilariously lewd band name. Snigger.)
Admittedly, this isnât strictly relevant to this review â Iâm just a sucker for any opportunity to point out what a scum-sucking, vomit-spewing, painfully ugly, cancerous sore on the diseased, puckered, inflated lymph nodes of the music industry Chad Kroeger is, both as singer and as Record Label Fella #24. Which makes his relationship with Default all the more surprising.
You see, Default (who also presumably considered band names such as âNeglectedâ, âAbject Failureâ, âInadequate Bandâ, and âOut-of-the-box Video Game Settingsâ) somehow managed to rise about the deadly, vice-like Kroeger grip of assured awfulness, and stake their claim at inoffensive mediocrity fairly convincingly. Despite discovering the band, and having a hand in writing and producing their first two albums, Kroegerâs influence has all but faded by now, and the Canadian band have been mostly left to their own devices. In Defaultâs case, those devices are distortion pedals, rhyming dictionaries, and dreams of stadiums in which to play the resulting product.
Surprisingly enough, they make it sound entertaining at times â as radio-rock anthems go, âTurn It Onâ and âAll Over Meâ are boisterously competent, sounding more like a castrated, blunted Motley Crue effort than the work of their fellow Kroeger-protegés. Itâs just about sexless and safe enough for mainstream radio play, but it at least sounds like they had fun recording it. Guitarist Jeremy Hora occasionally gets to flex his soloing muscles, and comes up with some moderately interesting instrumental hooks, and Dallas Smith (who has a name befitting a fictional jock from a bad high school movie) sings with conviction, even if the words are rarely more meaningful than a crude drawing on the back of a soaked beermat. Sample lyric: âAll I want is you all over me.â
But, of course, being an âalternative/post-grungeâ rock band, theyâre legally obliged to include a number of utterly flaccid, torpid, by-the-numbers ballads, most of whom sound like a distant cousin to the Goo Goo Dollsâ ubiquitous âIrisâ, not least âShow Meâ which actually seems to steal the formerâs string arrangement. And they run out of steam towards the end of the record â they never quite become objectionable, but certainly boring and samey, like a packet of Skittles containing only green sweets. Itâs like, hey, I like green Skittles, and theyâre definitely better than orange ones, but theyâre not as good as red ones, and I definitely donât want a whole bag of them. I want to be able to Taste The Rainbow, but Default cruelly leave me suckling a mere one-seventh of the whole spectrum.
But hey, better one seventh of a rainbow than a muddy puddle left over from yesterdayâs rain, right? And thatâs why Default are a lot harder to write off than Nickelback and Theory of a Deadman and their ilk. Unfortunately, theyâre a hell of a lot easier to write off than plenty of other bands. They define middle-of-the-road rock: music thatâs hard to dislike, but impossible to recommend.
Track Listing
1 Turn It On Default, Frederiksen, Marlette 4:02
2 Goodbye Default, Maloy, Marlette 3:02
3 Little Too Late Default, Frederiksen, Maloy, Marlette 3:58
4 Show Me Default, Frederiksen, Marlette 3:55
5 All Over Me Default, Marlette, Marx 3:49
6 Hold Onto You Default, Maloy, Marlette 3:50
7 Supposed to Be Default, Frederiksen, Marlette 4:09
8 Comes and Goes Default, Frederiksen, Marlette 3:49
9 Caught in the Moment Default, Maloy, Marlette 4:37
10 Fascination Default, Frederiksen, Marlette 3:39
11 Yesterday's Song Default, Maloy, Marlette 3:26
12 Innocent Man
Got rather boring the more I heard.
Grade - 1.5
released Oct 26th, 2010
from the album - Little Too Late - grade 2.0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wzc_Nlc5udI
from all music
Bio
Vancouver's Default fit the definition of straight-ahead hard rock in the early years of the 21st century: the guitar textures and melodic bent of grunge; the dark, brooding earnestness of post-grunge; and the deep, thick-sounding production (but not the rap influences) of new alternative metal. Default was formed as the Fallout in summer 1999 by guitarist Jeremy Hora and drummer Danny Craig, four-year veterans of the local Vancouver music scene; after auditioning several vocalists, they settled on former high school classmate Dallas Smith, whose power made up for his inexperience. The group recorded a demo with an unidentified bassist, and it fell into the hands of Nickelback's Chad Kroeger, who knew Hora and Craig from one of their previous bands. Kroeger offered to produce their independent recording sessions, and the group began gigging around Vancouver. In 2000, they entered a talent competition sponsored by a local radio station and won a spot on the Vancouver Seeds 2000 sampler CD, shortly before they changed their name to Default. Their song "Deny" subsequently became a smash hit on local rock radio, which led to a deal with TVT Records. Bassist Dave Benedict joined the band full-time not long after. Thus constituted, Default entered the studios with producer Rick Parashar in spring 2001 and recorded their official debut album, The Fallout; it was released later that year. Their follow-up, Elocation, came out in late 2003.
Album Review from zme music
You probably didnât know this, or perhaps youâve simply blocked it out of your memory, but back in the earlier part of this decade, Chad Kroeger wasnât just the annoying, frog-faced, inexplicably popular lead singer of turd-rock band Nickelback. No, in the dark days of Space Year 2002, Kroeger tried his hand at being something of a mogul, and with his attorney friend Jonathan Simpkin, founded a record label: 604 Records. To date, the only band Iâve heard of from this helpful Wikipedia list is Theory of a Deadman (a.k.a. Nickelback Jr), which suggests Kroegerâs talents as an A&R man are roughly equivalent to his talents as a rock singer. (Also, upon further investigation, all of the bands listed are uniformly awful, although The Organ are redeemed slightly by their hilariously lewd band name. Snigger.)
Admittedly, this isnât strictly relevant to this review â Iâm just a sucker for any opportunity to point out what a scum-sucking, vomit-spewing, painfully ugly, cancerous sore on the diseased, puckered, inflated lymph nodes of the music industry Chad Kroeger is, both as singer and as Record Label Fella #24. Which makes his relationship with Default all the more surprising.
You see, Default (who also presumably considered band names such as âNeglectedâ, âAbject Failureâ, âInadequate Bandâ, and âOut-of-the-box Video Game Settingsâ) somehow managed to rise about the deadly, vice-like Kroeger grip of assured awfulness, and stake their claim at inoffensive mediocrity fairly convincingly. Despite discovering the band, and having a hand in writing and producing their first two albums, Kroegerâs influence has all but faded by now, and the Canadian band have been mostly left to their own devices. In Defaultâs case, those devices are distortion pedals, rhyming dictionaries, and dreams of stadiums in which to play the resulting product.
Surprisingly enough, they make it sound entertaining at times â as radio-rock anthems go, âTurn It Onâ and âAll Over Meâ are boisterously competent, sounding more like a castrated, blunted Motley Crue effort than the work of their fellow Kroeger-protegés. Itâs just about sexless and safe enough for mainstream radio play, but it at least sounds like they had fun recording it. Guitarist Jeremy Hora occasionally gets to flex his soloing muscles, and comes up with some moderately interesting instrumental hooks, and Dallas Smith (who has a name befitting a fictional jock from a bad high school movie) sings with conviction, even if the words are rarely more meaningful than a crude drawing on the back of a soaked beermat. Sample lyric: âAll I want is you all over me.â
But, of course, being an âalternative/post-grungeâ rock band, theyâre legally obliged to include a number of utterly flaccid, torpid, by-the-numbers ballads, most of whom sound like a distant cousin to the Goo Goo Dollsâ ubiquitous âIrisâ, not least âShow Meâ which actually seems to steal the formerâs string arrangement. And they run out of steam towards the end of the record â they never quite become objectionable, but certainly boring and samey, like a packet of Skittles containing only green sweets. Itâs like, hey, I like green Skittles, and theyâre definitely better than orange ones, but theyâre not as good as red ones, and I definitely donât want a whole bag of them. I want to be able to Taste The Rainbow, but Default cruelly leave me suckling a mere one-seventh of the whole spectrum.
But hey, better one seventh of a rainbow than a muddy puddle left over from yesterdayâs rain, right? And thatâs why Default are a lot harder to write off than Nickelback and Theory of a Deadman and their ilk. Unfortunately, theyâre a hell of a lot easier to write off than plenty of other bands. They define middle-of-the-road rock: music thatâs hard to dislike, but impossible to recommend.
Track Listing
1 Turn It On Default, Frederiksen, Marlette 4:02
2 Goodbye Default, Maloy, Marlette 3:02
3 Little Too Late Default, Frederiksen, Maloy, Marlette 3:58
4 Show Me Default, Frederiksen, Marlette 3:55
5 All Over Me Default, Marlette, Marx 3:49
6 Hold Onto You Default, Maloy, Marlette 3:50
7 Supposed to Be Default, Frederiksen, Marlette 4:09
8 Comes and Goes Default, Frederiksen, Marlette 3:49
9 Caught in the Moment Default, Maloy, Marlette 4:37
10 Fascination Default, Frederiksen, Marlette 3:39
11 Yesterday's Song Default, Maloy, Marlette 3:26
12 Innocent Man