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Deserved a better fate

Darkhorse04 | Long Island, NY | 03/09/2005

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Just when I thought Crazy Town had recovered from the "Butterfly" incident they broke up but left an amazing album behind. "Darkhorse" is the crazytown that should have made it big but critics decided to kill this band. Don't listen to the bad wrap, buy this album you wont be disappointed. It's not as much rapping and suprisingly more rock in certain songs. It's a wide range of music and an awsome CD that shoulda been more than what it was let to be."

To quote below: 'Deserved a Better Fate".. however.

Joe Howard | Meriden, CT | 12/28/2005

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Crazy Town holds a special place in my heart. I think they are the only caucasian rap-rock group that were ever acceptable lyrically, and flow-wise enough to be even considered hip-hop.



Shifty Shellshock and Epic Mazur flip bushels of multies on this, especially on songs like 'Change'.



The vocals are amazingly improved over the last album, and this is a surprisingly sober, mature, and even sometimes, a beautiful album. TO examine the songs is redundant to me now because I all have personal memory attachments to them. But what I can say is Drowning never grows old, the harder edge songs such as 'Take it to the Bridge' and 'Wasting Time' stay sharp even after the release hits it's effects.



Then Crazy Town does something different at the end.. (well, not Crazy Town....).. this foreshadows what was to become of Shifty Shellshock, the bonus track (#23) forget the tracklisting after having the album three years.. lol.. but it's actually a fun, funky, driving banger with a cute, yet mature instrumental.. then (#32) - Them Days, is a straight up hip-hop lyric fest, which is actually impressive.



Pick this album up.



Shifty released a stellar yet extremely undersold album following this release entitled 'Happy Love Sick'. That album spawned of the smash single 'Slide Along Slide', the lukewarm followup 'Turning Me On'.. and the best Shifty Shellshock recording commited to audio in 'Lolita'."

Hey, they're every bit as good as P.O.D.!

Darrell Wong | Hawaii, USA | 05/23/2007

(4 out of 5 stars)

"It took me a long time to figure out just what to say about this album, mainly because it didn't grab me the same way The Gift of Game did, but also because I didn't know what to make of the incredible (and incredibly bizarre) criticism I've seen on this site about this band. Seriously, what can you say about Butterfly that you can't say about a hundred other grossly misrepresentative breakout hits? (Paging the Baha Men!)



They did a complete break from the freewheeling, genre-hopping styling of their debut album, apparently wanting to stick to their roots. The result is a fairly powerful, slightly not-work-safe outing from start to finish that...well, it sounds very similar to P.O.D.'s Satellite, in style if not in theology. Nothing earth-shaking or overly controversial, but then, that's never what they were going for.



This is an sophomore album that's a lot different from the first, which is good, but shoots more toward the mainstream which...well, it's not bad, but you expect a *little* more from a band that really had nothing to lose."