Puddle Of Mudd Album: “Life on Display [UK Bonus Tracks]”

This is a great album to own if you enjoy mainstream rock!! You will be listening to every single song over and over until you're spinning around, and going heel over head, lol!!

I can't stand all the Nirvana fans who blast this band. It saddens me that you cannot get over the loss of your favorite artists (which was like what.. 10-15 years ago) and begin to re-recognize great new music when you hear it. Just because it may sound similar to another band, doesn't mean you should hate it. I don't hate Pepsi for tasting similar to Coke.

A brief lesson on recycled grunge. First you had the Brilliance of Nirvana, Pearl Jam, and Alice in Chains. Then came STP and Candlebox who were slightly derivative but great nonetheless. Starting to get ugly, bands like 7 Mary 3 and Creed were to follow and finally you have utter waste like Nickelback ("I like your pants around your feet..." nuff said) and Puddle of Mudd. The faux-grunge is recycled every few years and with each new band it becomes more and more watered down. Not buying it? Look at lyrics alone. Read the lyrics of Nirvana (sheer poetry), Pearl Jam or even Candlebox. Now read the lyrics of ANY Puddle of Mudd album and compare. At least the first album had a couple of somewhat catchy tunes. What does Life on Display bring to the table? Nothing. I think it actually leaves a vaccume. Sorry guys you're a day late and a dollar short.

Lots of you seem to think that if a band gets on TRL or MTV that it is a good band. Well, that's just not the case. TRL is top 40. Who the F*** cares about TRL. It is designed for POPULAR music. Teeny boppers and preps are the only ones who get into this imitation music. If you pay attention to your music like I do, you'd notice that 1) Wes can't sing worth anything, and 2) POM is just a bad ripoff of all the great grunge bands of the late 80's and early 90's. True grunge bands have talent all around so that all instruments can get involved and contribute to the music. The great bands write music so that the bass can carry the melody at times and the drums do more than just keep the beat. Oh, and stop comparing POM to Led Zeppelin, Nirvana, and Pink Floyd . Unlike POM, these bands have left a legacy, and have contributed to the industry, for years to come. So, my point is, don't worry about what critics say, listen to it, pay attention to it, but don't listen to what other people say. Make your decisions based on the qualiy of the music and stay away from Puddle of Mudd because they just aren't quality

This album was definetly better the first time I heard it back in the 90's, by a band called Alice in Chains. I cannot believe that a group of supposedly talented musicians could come up with a CD full of such garbage. On this album absolutely 0% originality is achieved. Basically it sounds like a mix tape of really good 90s rock music. Of course, to the ear it sounds ok, but when you realize that every sound and every sentence of lyrics you hear are things you've heard before, put into a blender- it's pretty bad. This CD is for sure going to start the bands downfall (if they were ever actually high enough to fall). They should be embarrased with this release. Don't waste your money on this. If you must hear it download it. Support good music, not this crap.

I'm aware they have their critics - some of them really quite vicious - but I actually like Puddle of Mudd. Sure, they are clearly inspired and influenced by Nirvana but so what?

was one of my top ten buys of 2001, with songs like "control", "drift and die", "she hates me", "p*** it all away" and my all-time favourite tune, "blurry".

So I was really looking forward to this release in 2003 and I bought it as soon as it came out. It isn't as good as "come clean", there's no running away from that fact, but it's still a pretty good selection of songs and I thoroughly enjoy playing it. "Away From Me", "Change My Mind", "Think", "Sydney" and "Time Flies" are my favourite songs on the album though. (I just love the instrumental break ending to "Time Flies"). At least they write and play their own songs (very capably, I might add) and the fact that they manage to carry it off (sounding reminiscent of Nirvana, that is), is worthy of admiration in my mind. True, Kurt Cobain and his cohorts were phenomenally talented and successful but that doesn't make them sacrosanct. As far as I'm concerned, it's no different to Frank McComb sounding awfully like Donnie Hathaway. If Wesley Reid Scantlin and his bunch of dudes can continue as they started, I say more power to them.

A new album,

, is due out soon. Personally, I can't wait.