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11 tracks - playing time: 45:17 min.
MTM Music
Rating: 1/10
 
I was going to give the album 2 points out of 10 for the heart warming story that accompanies this CD but then I took it away because he shouldn`t use the emotions of people to sell this.

It`s not that this record is bad, it`s that it`s SO bad that I`m now afraid of Norwegians. This has to be some of the worst crap I`ve heard since Rolf Harris covered “Stairway to heaven”..(the bastard!). From the moment I popped the CD into the unlucky CD player I was actually cringing as a result of this piece of work. The record comes with the heart-warming story of a bed-bound Norwegian (Morten Holm) who started to write songs as an outlet for his non-eventful life. Unfortunately it seems he has managed to put 13 years of his boredom onto this one CD !

In summary: 1) The entire album sounds like reject pop-rock from the eighties.

2) Lyrics are about as inspiring as watching a puddle of water drying in summer. 3) The music (guitars that border on country music and bland sterile drum beats) is repetitive throughout the whole CD. (Well I`m lying actually, cause I could only stand to listen to track 7, at which point my girlfriend had to coax me back off the 3rd floor window-ledge to face life again.) 4) Jesus Christ, you actually need a fourth point?? If you see this in a record store I suggest buying it and burning it in ritualistic form...I`m off to listen to Carcass for 12 hours to recover from the horror that I`ve just experienced!

(Mark)

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