Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Corey Smith's Album is Lackluster with the Help of an Advil

Corey Smith’s live album, From the Georgia Theater, is as lackluster as his lyrics (extremely). Trying way too hard to fit in with the college crowd, Smith sings songs such as “Party”, which is so redundant it gives me a headache.
From Georgia, Smith sings country music that the world would never miss if he had never gotten in the music scene. Useless and just plain boring, Smith misses his college days so much, he is trying way too hard to tell stories that he thinks make him seem cool to the college crowd. No one cares about when the police were corrupt during his college days in a small town in Georgia that no one has heard of.
Smith talks about a total of three things in his songs: the bible, drinking and getting arrested. These three things are brought up way too much in his songs and make me wonder whether or not he just ran out of material for his lyrics. The songs tell some of the most uninteresting stories I have ever heard. Maybe the only reason the audience is getting so drunk at his concerts is to drown out the redundant guitar notes and his country-boy and downright annoying voice.
Instead of “getting drunk and obnoxious”, like track 12 says, I find myself wanting to fall asleep and take an Advil to get rid of the ringing in my ears and the pounding headache. Smith’s voice could pass for any other country singer in a small town bar in Alabama.
“Maybe next year”, we won’t have to hear another one of Smith’s dull and monotonous albums.

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