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If you've missed out on the raw anger of "Mother******" and the quizzical pointedness of "Skin Turns Blue", you owe it to yourself to give this album a listen. I count it among my favorite purchases of 1996.


It's not *bad*, really...   May 13, 1998
 8 out of 9 found this review helpful

Do you remember that mega-hit from _Cable Guy_, "Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth With Money In My Hand"? DO NOT buy this album just for that song--none of the others come close to matching it, and I suspect it was mixed by somebody else. The other stuff is vaguely catchy, but overall mediocre. "Rocket" is entertaining, "Are You Happy" is interesting, and "Motherfucker" is thought-provoking; but the rest--like "Oo-Mau" and "Woman" are cliched and forgettable. Ah well, you win some, you lose some...let's see if PRG becomes another one-hit-wonder band, or if they manage to pull something worthwhile to follow up the initial boom.


GREAT album   August 17, 2000
 8 out of 8 found this review helpful

This is definitely one of the best albums I own. I hadn't heard "Standing Outside..." when I bought it 4 years ago. I just bought it b/c it was cheap and new. I still listen to it very often and have yet to find anything to take its place. When I want to hear PRG, there just isn't anything else that will do. "Standing..." is a great song, but the rest of the songs on the album are incredible as well. Especially "Rocket" and "Women". The album is a great example of the pseudo-hard rock that was beginning to lose popularity (unfortunately) in the late 90's, and I highly recommend it to anyone who doesn't have narrow taste in music.


gets better with repeated listens   February 13, 2004
 8 out of 9 found this review helpful

i won't mince words here. i HATED this album the first time i heard it. i was expecting more songs like "standing outside..." with keyboards and drum machines and stuff like that. what i got was what sounded like some washed up hair-metal crap to me. i threw it in the "to sell" pile.
then a friend who shared a lot of musical taste with me saw this album in the pile and told me to forget "standing outside..." and just listen to the cd as a rock album. i was pleasantly suprised to find that the songs stuck in my head and became something more than a one hit wonder's filler for his single. this stuff is actually pretty good. very melodic and powerful especially tracks 1,2,4,and 10. just don't expect anything like the single.