So I’ve spent, admittedly, not very long with Chickenfoot’s self-title Chickenfoot. Honestly, I’m probably not the sort of person who should be reviewing it, but I am anyway. What I mean is that Chickenfoot, as you may know, is a rock supergroup comprising musicians from Van Halen and Red Hot Chili Peppers, and I’m not really that into mainstream rock.
The Van Halen influence is certainly detectable. As for RHCP influence: I honestly cannot say; I can’t force myself to listen to enough RHCP to really know what they sound like. Chickenfoot just sounds to me like really uninspired, mainstream rock. Sure, some of the tracks are a little catchy, but they’re mostly forgettable.
I forsee Chickenfoot going down in my personal record books next to Black Stone Cherry’s self-titled as sorely and quite intensely mediocre.
Criticism aside (and hey, this is Critacracy), I do actually like some of the songs. The fourth track—and their second single—”Oh Yeah”, despite its unimaginative title, is pretty good. It’s good in the way Black Stone Cherry’s “Rain Wizard” is good: good enough to probably be in one of my playlists somewhere for like jogging or something.
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