Puddle Of Mudd-Come Clean

Like Nirvana's Nevermind album,Puddle Of Mudd's Come Clean hit the teen angst market with themes of isolation and depression,but Puddle Of Mudd also added relationships especially the breakdown of relationships as the main themes to their songs.Wes Scantlin's voice voice is quite similar to Kurt Cobain but that's no reason why people should be dissuaded from listening to this album.In fact this album is a masterpiece and it has gone on to become one of my favorite rock albums.

The first song Control is a very energetic song with strong vocals backed up by distortion.The song is about a past relationship that went sour and has a full on heavy rock sound.The next song is totally different from Control.This song has more of a mellow acoustic feel.There's a decent guitar solo at the end of the song with heavy guitaring."Nobody Told Me" is a really useless song.I tried to be impartial but this song just doesn't fit in the album."Out Of My Head" sounds like a typical Nirvana song.This may not be the best song bu Puddle Of Mudd but its worth a listen.All hail "Blurry",the second single of the album.I actually lack words to describe the song.It's probably the best song of the album and perhaps one of the best songs ever.The song is about Wes Scantlin's son and it's very touching in parts.I loved the chorus of the song,very creative indeed."She Hates Me",the 3rd single is also a good song but its not good enough ti sit with the likes of "Blurry","Drift and Die" and "Control"."Bring Me down" is full of energy and some solid drumming but the lyrics are really depressive."Piss It All Away" has some bongo style drumming and acoustic guitar but the song is bad and it fails to captivate you.

Overall,this is not so bad a record.There may be a couple of bad songs but looking at the positives the album has produced some great tracks like "Blurry","Drift and Die" and "Control".This album takes you back to the days Nirvana and Soundgarden.

Band:Puddle Of Mudd
Album:Come Clean
Genre:Post-grunge
Year:2001
Rating:7.2/10