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In the liner notes to their major label debut, Oklahoma City's Hinder endorse tequila, Belvedere, Crown Royal, Jaegermeister, and Mr. Watson 540. In "Get Stoned," photogenic Austin Winkler (who sounds tougher than he looks) rasps, "Let's go home and get stoned." Later, he adds, "The break-up is worth the make-up sex you're givin' me." In "Bliss (I Don't Wanna Know)," thelead singer laments, "The vodka's running on empty." This is a problem because, "I can't stay sober/if it's over." But things pick up in "Room 21" where he meets a "b*tch" with "red lipstick and pale pink boots," who shows him a good time (yes, he said boots). And he doesn't even knowher name! The days of big hair-and-spandex metal may be long gone, but in songwriting terms, Hinder's music is a throwback to the politically incorrect Sunset Strip days of Guns N' Roses, LA Guns, and Faster Pussycat. For some hard-rock aficionados,they will surely come as a breath of fresh air. For those with more refined tastes--a blast of stale cigarette smoke. That said, "Homecoming Queen" is surprisingly tender ("She never walked on water/'cause no one really saw her"), proving that way down deep inside, the frisky fivesome does havea teeny, tiny, little beating heart. Overall though, if the platinum long-player, which was cowritten with producer Brian Howes,has a message, it's this: Girl, you broke my heart and I hate you for it. Oh, and alcohol is good. --Kathleen C. Fennessy

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1 out of 5 stars

This Is How You Remind Me of Nickelback October 18, 2005
117 out of 233 found this review helpful

Picture, if you will, a group of musicians (Hinder) sitting around their rehearsal area when on the radio comes Nickelback with one of their many generic Nu Metal pop hits like "Someday". The guys sitting around the radio comment that Nickelback has it so easy...they just pump out similar sounding song after similar sounding song and hit-radio eats it up. Girls love them. And they make tons of money.

The group of musicians (Hinder) have an epiphany! But the manifestation in their rehearsal area is not Jesus or Moses...It's...it's...Chad Kroeger of Nickelback! Chad says to the group: "Be not ashamed to make music that people enjoy. Our hits make the masses happy, but they piss off a lot of musicians that work hard and become jealous of our success with songs that all sound the same. Now go and do what we do and hope that the radio picks up on your music but doesn't notice that you sound exactly like Nickelback."

The group of musicians look at each other with glee and declare, "We can be like Nickelback!" They make a CD called Extreme Behavior. It indeed sounds just like Nickelback. The radio picks up the track "Get Stoned", and Hinder is on their way.

2 out of 5 stars

Hindered By Unoriginality June 27, 2006
83 out of 125 found this review helpful

Another day, another band. That pretty much explains Hinder's music. If you didn't pick up on the Nickelback comparisons already, let me just add that there's nothing on this album that Velvet Revolver and Buckcherry haven't done already. All 10 songs are instantly radio-ready (which doesn't have to be a bad thing), predictable, and cliched. If it isn't the sexed up album cover, it's the song about "getting stoned" or the psuedo-bad-boy band images. All the familiar bases are covered with Hinder's debut, "Extreme Behavior."

Now, I can't fault the guys too much. At the very least, they are decent at what they do. Songs like "By The Way" and "How Long" are good listens in their own right, but Hinder fail to create an identity for themselves here. Unoriginality isn't always a problem as long as a band has something somewhat unique to offer. Hinder do not. I could go on and on about how unoriginal they are, but I won't. Save it to say that there are a select few good moments on this disc, but nothing that will remain a memory. If you like the safe, same-old modern-rock radio fluff, Hinder might do you some good.

1 out of 5 stars

a joke? August 24, 2006
19 out of 28 found this review helpful

Are these songs really different? They all sound the same, screaming, heavy breathing and loud drums. This is not music, this is just noise with a beat!

1 out of 5 stars

I think that the song lips of an angel should be renamed "I'm just not that into you or my girlfriend either" November 8, 2006
18 out of 22 found this review helpful

Extreme behaviour? I think not. Perhaps extremely bad lyrics. Was this dude stoned when he wrote the lyrics or really that shallow? I just love that romantic song that they play on the radio all the time about the dude that's cheating on his girl friend w/ another woman and they dare to call it lips of an angel? Could it get any sicker? I think the song should be retitled Welcome to Hell.

1 out of 5 stars

i guess the marketing team tried their hardest October 25, 2006
17 out of 21 found this review helpful

For a few years I have been waiting for some band to come along and refresh everyone's memory as to what rock music is "meant" to be. Apparently Hinder, along with their label execs and PR team have picked up on this gaping whole in popular music as well, precluding their debut album with all sorts of trumpeting about how badly behaved they are. Look guys, we drink and have sex all the time, just like those guys in the 80s did! In case you weren't sure, our album is even called Extreme Behavior!!

Right from the start, this struck me as desperate and a sure sign of wankery. Its like that whole paradox of gangsta rap- REAL gangsters don't talk about themselves, so it can be logically assumed that the rappers who talk the most about gang banging in fact do the least. Why would you make such a big deal about "living like a rock star"? I encountered all kinds of hype about this band before hearing their music, at which point their true nature became quite clear to me. Why put on that sex, drugs, rock&roll front? Because their music sucks!

Yes, it's true, its just another Nickelback/Trapt/Staind/Creed knockoff. Frustrated with their inability to actually create a new or (perhaps more importantly) a more authentic sound, they instead have relied on a press blitzkrieg to forge an IMAGE of being different from the rest of the pack, and thus worth your attention and your $15. Thirty seconds into any song on this album however, you will find yourself knee deep in that same dull, monotonous, ear-numbing muck that has been filling the so-called "rock" airwaves for the past 6 years. Another forgettable band slogging through what sound like watered down covers of STP and Alice in Chains, trying to figure out what they are doing wrong and what GnR did right.

Comparing these non-rockers to the greats of the 70s and 80s is hugely inappropriate, especially when the only grounds for doing so is the fact that Hinder loves talking about drinking and sex. Once again, probably at the behest of PR team.

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