Although this album is mostly great, "Good Friends And A Bottle Of Pills" is without doubt, one of the most ridiculously pointless "songs" Ive ever heard. And is IMO Pantera's worst ever song. Even a lot of their songs from the glam days slay this one!

Anyways, songs like "Strength Beyond Strength", "Slaughtered", and "5 Minutes Alone", show Pantera at their punishing best. xD My 2 fave songs on this album though, are the cruelly underrated "Shedding Skin", and the awesome "Hard Lines, Sunken Cheeks", which contains another of my fave Dimebag solos. Another couple of fillers like "25 Years" drag the album down, even though none of them are as woeful as "Good Friends"... But then not much is! lol

Written by Angelic Storm on 28.07.2010 at 18:09

Although this album is mostly great, "Good Friends And A Bottle Of Pills" is without doubt, one of the most ridiculously pointless "songs" Ive ever heard. And is IMO Pantera's worst ever song. Even a lot of their songs from the glam days slay this one!

Anyways, songs like "Strength Beyond Strength", "Slaughtered", and "5 Minutes Alone", show Pantera at their punishing best. xD My 2 fave songs on this album though, are the cruelly underrated "Shedding Skin", and the awesome "Hard Lines, Sunken Cheeks", which contains another of my fave Dimebag solos. Another couple of fillers like "25 Years" drag the album down, even though none of them are as woeful as "Good Friends"... But then not much is! lol

It's funny how this and Sarcofago's Hate were released the same year. Both have a pointless cacophonous track (for Sarcofago, it's The Beggar's Uprising).

Otherwise I agree somewhat, except that the groove style gets a bit stale after a while.

Written by vezzy on 28.07.2010 at 20:06
It's funny how this and Sarcofago's Hate were released the same year. Both have a pointless cacophonous track (for Sarcofago, it's The Beggar's Uprising).

Otherwise I agree somewhat, except that the groove style gets a bit stale after a while.

Ive never heard that song, but if it's anything like "Good Friends And A Bottle Of Pills", I dont want to! Phil must have been totally off his face when he wrote those lyrics, or I hope he was.

I think any style gets stale after a while... I listen to lots of different styles anyways, so I never have a chance to get bored with one particular style. lol

Written by Angelic Storm on 28.07.2010 at 23:16

Written by vezzy on 28.07.2010 at 20:06
It's funny how this and Sarcofago's Hate were released the same year. Both have a pointless cacophonous track (for Sarcofago, it's The Beggar's Uprising).

Otherwise I agree somewhat, except that the groove style gets a bit stale after a while.

Ive never heard that song, but if it's anything like "Good Friends And A Bottle Of Pills", I dont want to! Phil must have been totally off his face when he wrote those lyrics, or I hope he was.

I think any style gets stale after a while... I listen to lots of different styles anyways, so I never have a chance to get bored with one particular style. lol

Nah, it's just that it kind of lacks something. I can't quite put my finger on it, but they seemed to have realized this when making TGSTK.

I am not a fan of Pantera but this is the only album I can stomach. 5 Minutes Alone is awesome.

Its not as great as the previous but its very good. "Strength beyond Strength", "Becoming" and "5 Minutes alone are awesome but the rest is not that great

Not as perfect as "Vulgar" but it kicks ass too. "Becoming" and "5 Minutes alone" are still one of my favourite Pantera songs.

Written by Angelic Storm on 28.07.2010 at 18:09

Although this album is mostly great, "Good Friends And A Bottle Of Pills" is without doubt, one of the most ridiculously pointless "songs" Ive ever heard. And is IMO Pantera's worst ever song. Even a lot of their songs from the glam days slay this one!

I would agree it isn't a "song" in the style of their songs. But that is one song I really come back to in this album a lot. I haven't heard any of their glam metal albums but I find that song addictive especially for the groove. Far from their worst song ever IMO.

I'd be happy to never hear "Good Friends and a Bottle of Pills" again. Overall, a disappointing album for me, especially after the very good album that came before it. I couple of songs kick tail but too many mediocre songs that are forgettable. Don't mind the cover of "Planet Caravan", which is quite faithful to the original song but still sounds cool. An unexpected ending to the album.

It's strange, back in the day when I listened to Pantera a lot this was my least favourite of their 90s albums. However, having not listened to them in a while, I felt like giving them a go today and got drawn back to this one. Ended up being a decent album for working out to. It's also a lot less front-loaded than I used to think - used to zone out after 'Slaughtered' ended but I think 'Use My Third Arm' might be the best song on the album along with Hard Lines, Sunken Cheeks, and I dug 'Throes of Rejection' and 'Shedding Skin' more than I can previously rmeember. Not a great album but a fun exercise in aggression that's more unrefined and obviously hooky than Vulgar Display Of Power, but after so long, is actually perhaps slightly more appealing to me right now because of that.

Really great album. Love the Sabbath cover, great way to end the journey.

This album is horrible. I don't even like the album covers. They show skeletons and a drill shoved up your anus. Not to mention Phil Anselmo is a swearing machine. Language aside, they songs are bad. I'm Broken goes to show how miserable they are, 25 Years goes against Honor Thy Mother and Father, for they love you. Use My Third Arm is an anti-police song. Don't the police beat up bad guys? All of these songs are bad and aggressive and I can't trust they won't warp my pure mind. The worst of the worst has to be S'd! They criticize Jesus and teach you how to worship Satan and S in his name. I saw in an interview that Phil Anselmo wants to build religion up to tear it down. How could that friggin idiot do such a thing? How must he be feeling to do this? So I ask you all to boycott this Satanic album and instead listen to the pure old Glam albums (excluding the I am The Night title track and D trap).

After masterpiece Vulgar Display Of Power this album was big disappointment.

The lyrics are really dumb

IMO the album in general lacks of the straightf-forward and cleaner riffs and hooks that made its predecessors so great. It also has a couple of fillers as well. Without a doubt it has very powerful songs, but after CFH and VDOP, in the ever-growing grunge-scene, the bar was really high for PANTERA.
Good but not great.

5 minutes alone and i´m broken, what masterpieces. Rest of the album is just unlistenable

A very disappointing album. There's maybe two songs that are memorable and the rest are just meh. Around this time Pantera focused too much on sounding heavy rather than writing superb material.