Extreme Behavior [EXPLICIT LYRICS]

Hinder

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 27, 2005)
• Original Release Date: September 27, 2005
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Explicit Lyrics
• Label: Republic
• ASIN: B000B7QOR0
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (205 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,830 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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In the liner notes to their major label debut, Oklahoma City's Hinder endorse tequila, Belvedere, Crown Royal, Jägermeister, and Mr. Watson 540. In "Get Stoned," photogenic Austin Winkler (who sounds tougher than he looks) rasps, "Let's go home and get stoned." Later, he adds, "The break-up is worth the make-up sex you're givin' me." In "Bliss (I Don't Wanna Know)," the lead singer laments, "The vodka's running on empty." This is a problem because, "I can't stay sober/if it's over." But things pick up in "Room 21" where he meets a "b*tch" with "red lipstick and pale pink boots," who shows him a good time (yes, he said boots). And he doesn't even know her name! The days of big hair-and-spandex metal may be long gone, but in songwriting terms, Hinder's music is a throwback to the politically incorrect Sunset Strip days of Guns N' Roses, LA Guns, and Faster Pussycat. For some hard-rock aficionados, they will surely come as a breath of fresh air. For those with more refined tastes--a blast of stale cigarette smoke. That said, "Homecoming Queen" is surprisingly tender ("She never walked on water/'cause no one really saw her"), proving that way down deep inside, the frisky fivesome does have a teeny, tiny, little beating heart. Overall though, if the platinum long-player, which was cowritten with producer Brian Howes, has a message, it's this: Girl, you broke my heart and I hate you for it. Oh, and alcohol is good. --Kathleen C. Fennessy

Customer Reviews

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17 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars i guess the marketing team tried their hardest, October 25, 2006

By	resident_out_of_touch (Schenectady, New York United States) - See all my reviews

For a few years I have been waiting for some band to come along and refresh everyone's memory as to what rock music is "meant" to be. Apparently Hinder, along with their label execs and PR team have picked up on this gaping whole in popular music as well, precluding their debut album with all sorts of trumpeting about how badly behaved they are. Look guys, we drink and have sex all the time, just like those guys in the 80s did! In case you weren't sure, our album is even called Extreme Behavior!!

Right from the start, this struck me as desperate and a sure sign of wankery. Its like that whole paradox of gangsta rap- REAL gangsters don't talk about themselves, so it can be logically assumed that the rappers who talk the most about gang banging in fact do the least. Why would you make such a big deal about "living like a rock star"? I encountered all kinds of hype about this band before hearing their music, at which point their true nature became quite clear to me. Why put on that sex, drugs, rock&roll front? Because their music sucks!

Yes, it's true, its just another Nickelback/Trapt/Staind/Creed knockoff. Frustrated with their inability to actually create a new or (perhaps more importantly) a more authentic sound, they instead have relied on a press blitzkrieg to forge an IMAGE of being different from the rest of the pack, and thus worth your attention and your $15. Thirty seconds into any song on this album however, you will find yourself knee deep in that same dull, monotonous, ear-numbing muck that has been filling the so-called "rock" airwaves for the past 6 years. Another forgettable band slogging through what sound like watered down covers of STP and Alice in Chains, trying to figure out what they are doing wrong and what GnR did right.

Comparing these non-rockers to the greats of the 70s and 80s is hugely inappropriate, especially when the only grounds for doing so is the fact that Hinder loves talking about drinking and sex. Once again, probably at the behest of PR team.

11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Radio Rock Clone #569084334, April 11, 2007

By	Bill Lumbergh "yeaahh..." (Initech) - See all my reviews

This is just what we needed. We needed yet another band to write sappy, uninspired, sleep-inducing music that has been rehashed too many times. We already had Creed and Nickelback making us paranoid, along with a bunch of other bands that sound exactly like them, and now we have Hinder.

What is there to say about this "music"? Well, first off, the vocalist sounds terrible. Listening to him attempt to sing "Lips of an Angel" makes me rather listen to a 3500 mHz square wave for the duration of that song. "Get Stoned" sounds like a really poor man's Buckcherry, just softer and watered down. And how did this get on a major label? Pfft, guess like Puddle of Mudd's 15 minutes of fame came to an end, and Nickelback grew tiring, so they signed an equally horrible band to rake in the profit. Hinder is none more than a marketing tool. There are better alternatives to this, even some of the music played on the radio (good examples: Nine Inch Nails, Tool, Alice in Chains). Just don't buy this and don't believe the hype.

11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Just another mediocre addition to the music scene., July 14, 2006

By	N. Malcolm (Iraq) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Absolutley NOTHING special about this band. Follows pretty much every mainstream rule. A rather pathetically short album of ten tracks at 35 minutes in length. If you're all about Nickelback, Creed, and all those other trendy drama queen bands, this will probably agree with your musical cravings. I found this to be just another waste of music's space and completely unoriginal.