Papa Roach Album: “Best of Papa Roach: To Be Loved”

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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To Be Loved: NOT the Best of Papa Roach.....

The omission of Between Angels and Insects and the addition of only some Live songs instead of the studio versions really devalued this for me. Add that to the negative endorsement given to it by the band themselves, and you make for a bad collection.

However, I give it 2 stars, because it gives a brief look for newcomers to Papa Roach. Just be warned though, this is definitely not the 'Best of' by any standards.

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.

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.

I admit that this may sound laughable to others, but for some reason, I was influenced to check out "To Be Loved": The Best of Papa Roach after recently hearing remnants of their music in a dream. I have also been familiar with their music since the early 2000's and count the following musical tracks as songs that I find catchy, that are also featured on the greatest hits collection: "Scars", "Getting Away With Murder", "To Be Loved", and "Forever". "Papa Roach: To Be Loved" is a good collection for those who like some of the songs by this group and/or listeners of hard rock music.