Customer Reviews

To Be Loved: The Best of Papa Roach

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3 star:		(1)
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1 star:		(3)

 

 

First off, Papa Roach is awesome and this is a very good cd.

The reason why you shouldn't buy this album is because this album is released by Papa Roach's ex-record label and they are releasing it against Papa Roach's will (as stated on their website also). If you care about supporting bands, you will not buy this album! This album is released because of some greedy people at the record label company who are mad because Papa Roach left them.

This CD features (in my opinion) great music but if you're a fan of this band: don't buy it!

About the songs:
Papa Roach covered quite a wide range of musical styles throughout their career, so it is a good choice to keep it (almost) in a chronological order.
It starts off with "Broken Home" and "Last Resort" from Papa Roach's major label debut album 'Infest', featuring pure Nu Metal, strong guitars with rapping and singing of frontman Jacoby Shaddix.

The next two songs "Time and Time Again" and "She Loves Me Not" are from their second album 'Lovehatetragedy'. These songs already show that Papa Roach was going to change away from Nu Metal and its rap influence rather to rock.

The next three songs ("Scars", "Getting Away with Murder" and "Just Go (Never Look Back)") are from my favourite Papa Roach album 'Getting Away With Murder' featuring great, hard guitar riffs, but also show a softer side with Scars. The last one, Just Go, could be the one reason for you to buy this CD even though you already have some of the songs, because it is a B-Side and was not released on the actual CD. You also can't find it on many legal download stores like iTunes.

The songs "Reckless" and "Forever" from Papa Roach's forth album "The Paramour Sessions" take away a bit of the hard rock sound of the previous album and show a much softer approach.

The finishing songs "Had Enough", "Lifeline" and "Hollywood Whore" are from the (at the moment) latest album "Metamorphosis". As the title suggests Papa Roach now completed their transformation into rock, great guitars, great drumming and great singing.

The very last song, an acoustic version of Scars might be another reason to get this as it was not on the normal versions of the studio albums (I don't know about international editions), but only on the single of "Scars".
But you can easily get it as a single download e.g. on iTunes without having to buy the whole CD.


As you will have noticed: I personally like Papa Roach, but as always in music, you have to find out for yourself if you like it or not as we all have a different taste in music. Listen to the previews or look up some songs on youtube.
But generally, if you look for solid rock, this is good music!


So why do I only give 2 Stars?

It's because the reason I buy music CDs and don't just download it illegally is that I think musicians deserve to be paid for their music.
Papa Roach has changed to an independent label a few months ago and this collection was made without their support.
No money that you spend on this CD will actually go to the artists!
One extra star only for the music.

I recommend to you to buy their single studio albums depending on your taste of music, because this CD is not supported by Papa Roach and because it leaves out many of the "best" songs of the albums.
If you like Nu Metal go with the first ones, if you hate rap and love hard rock guitar riffs go with the last ones.


For more information see this news on the official Papa Roach website:
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Yeah yeah yeah, we already know about the supporting of the band, and how this pile of trash wasn't even released from the band itself. (This is probably a good thing, because this is pretty bad) But on to the actual album. This is definitely not the best of Papa Roach, I can tell you that right here right now. Aside from the band's fan favorites like "Broken Home" or "Lifeline", or maybe even "Last Resort", this album doesn't contain any reference to the true "Best of" Papa Roach. I mean for goodness sakes, "Between Angels and Insects" isn't even here. What the heck is that about? That just being the most common complaint. But since I'm already a Papa Roach fanboy, I already own all of this stuff, and it is by no means anything I've never heard before. As for the lesser people trying to gain an interest for the band? Well, my advice to you is to avoid this at all costs, considering this would easily be the worst place to start. I would look in the albums Lovehatetragedy or Infest if you want a taste of what the band is all about.

I just didn't like it - too juvenile, I guess. The one big hit on here wasn't even the original studio recording - it was a live version and nowhere near as good. Can't even think of the name of it now, that's how much it didn't impress me.

This release is pretty cool. But there are some problems... No censoring the audio or video, Like on the Limp Bizkit Greatest Videoz Geffen DVD (Which was a joke!), other than the word "pill" being censored on both versions of the "Time And Time Again" videos, which is gay. There's no directors or the band talking over the start of the videos. The video quality is great. Most of the videos are included. Looks like Geffen either finally wised up a bit as to what the fans want, better late than never, or Papa Roach refused to break down and make this release censored. And if that's the case then bravo, and my hat is off to you. I can't tell you how tired I am of censored releases! They should at least put out a censored and an explicit version. I hope the rest of the music industry is paying attention to this release. Everyone wonders why music video collection aren't selling. Gee I wonder. Do I really want an incomplete collection of Limp Bizkit's "greatest" (ha ha) videos that's censored on top of the omissions. Thank God someone finally got it right for a change! Now for the rest of the bad news... Reckless (Web Video), despite being on the Best Buy exclusive product web page track list, isn't on my DVD. And the Kick In The Teeth & Time Is running Out videos aren't included either. Pretty disappointing to have something listed as being on the DVD and it turns out it's not. Looks like Geffen still has a ways to go on perfecting giving the fans what they want...

Basically they created music that is not theirs anymore, it's Geffen's property. When Papa Roach decided to leave the label, Geffen decided to release this album as an attempt to profit for the last time from Papa Roach. They can sing the songs live, but it's not theirs, that's the label belief.

This CD is amazing and worth every penny. It came on time and in great condition. A must buy for all Papa Roach fans.

I like this collection alot...all the highlights and none of the "fluff". Especially great if you don't have $$$ to buy all their individual albums. I'm sorry the band had differences with their former label, but at least I bought this collection unlike millions of others who just steal music. Papa Roach will get a cut of the profits, just like Guns and Roses did when their former label released a greatest hits collection against their wishes. I support rock and roll, and I appreciate the convenience of getting all of the PR hits in one package!