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 enlarge | Artist: Buckcherry
Label: Atlantic
Category: Music
List Price: $18.98
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Rating:  26 reviews
Sales Rank: 591
Format: Enhanced, Explicit Lyrics
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.8 x 0.2
MPN: 511262
UPC: 075678993145
EAN: 0075678993145
ASIN: B001B8PV40
Release Date: September 16, 2008
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 Buckcherry NEVER disappoints! September 16, 2008
Maggie (New York State, USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Buckcherry were definitely a favorite of a lot of teenagers at my high school growing up! I have continued to follow their music through today and am really impressed with their latest effort. It blends their signature sound with some different approaches to production and writing. I'm a fan!
Great CD September 16, 2008
Ronel Scheller (Washington, NJ)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is buckcherry's best CD to date. It builds off the same sound of the previous 15 album and has some killer rock and ballad tracks. I won't make this a long review, but i just wanna express how great this CD is. I downloaded it from Amazon this morning (Its not on itunes for some reason...) and am happy with the entire thing. My favorite tracks so far are Cream and A Child Called It. Great CD and Highly recommended to any rock fan, whether it be classic or current.
 Great Album:Amazon Kinda Sucks! September 18, 2008
Jimi Mack (San Francisco Peninsula)
2 out of 9 found this review helpful
I just received this album today, listened twice, and it's the best Buck Cherry album so far. Not a single complaint about the record.
My complaint here is about Amazon. I'm finding that it's almost NOT worth pre-ordering certain items. A month on pre-order @ $12.99 and the date it's released, it drops to $9.99. This has happened to me on many occasions and even though once in a while I will receive notification about a credit, they've all been for $1.00. Think I just might stop pre-ordering stuff. Oh well, I still love the CD. Thanks Buck Cherry!
You Won't Be Disappointed September 16, 2008
Joshua Miller (Coeur d'Alene,ID)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Buckcherry has been around since the late `90s. They released two albums ("Buckcherry" & "Time Bomb") and then broke up. Frontman Josh Todd formed a self-titled band and released one album, "You Made Me." In 2006, Buckcherry re-formed with an additional guitarist and a new rhythm section for the effort "15," which featured hits like "Crazy B*tch," "Sorry," and "Everything." The album went platinum, yet all this flew under the radar for me. I didn't discover Buckcherry until March of 2008, through the "15" CD. I fell in love with and soon had the other two CD's, Josh Todd's solo album, etc. Buckcherry is the most played band in my Ipod, something about them hit me. The songs are uber-catchy, I love Josh Todd's voice even though a lot of it lies on the production, and the lyrics connected with exactly what I was going through ("Sorry" and "Without You" are particularly poignant). The first Buckcherry album was good, "Time Bomb" was even better, and their efforts all culminated in their masterpiece "15." It was what they'd been building up to, catchy, poppy, over-produced rock music. Needless to say I had extremely high expectations for "Black Butterfly," which I've had for a week now (I might've stolen it off the internet). On my first listen, I was completely disappointed. The first reason was the lyrics. Todd's lyrics have always been simple, but here they are repetitive and un-original, for the most part. In "Too Drunk..." he sings "young and dumb and full of cum." In both "Don't Go Away" and "All of Me," he sings the same line ("you opened up my eyes and made me realize."). Breaking away from the sex, drugs, and rock `n' roll attitude they've had on the previous three albums, they wrote two songs about child abuse. The first, "Rescue Me," is too vague to notice that. The second is, unfortunately, titled "A Child Called It." Yeah, they aren't messing around. Then, with the track closer "Cream," Todd sings "Cream on me..." and you wonder "what was he thinking?" As for the songs; the band found a comfortable medium. The sound is a mix between the first album and "15." It's not over-produced, in fact it's produced just right with a hint of being just slightly under-produced. This album isn't as good as "15," and it took some time to grow on me, but most great albums are like that. "Black Butterfly" is not a masterpiece, but the songs it has have their merits. The opener "Rescue Me," is a terrific track that could be a first single. It's much better than "So Far." The next song "Tired of You" is one of my favorite songs on the album, catchy as hell with great vocals. Odd choice of words in the lyrics though, "you're addicted to medicine." The next song is "Too Drunk..." which is a total party song. I myself have been sitting in the backseat of a car, drunk, blasting this song. The lyrics are immature, but the song is great. "Dreams" is really good with lyrics that pretty much anyone can relate to. It's just as good as "Sorry," just not as accessible. "Talk to Me" is good, but you won't return to it a lot...Then you have "A Child Called It." This is likely one of the worst Buckcherry songs I've ever heard. I don't know what they were thinking when they wrote this song, but chances are (when you listen to it), you'll be thinking "epic failure." It's not really a bad song, but one that shouldn't have been written. "Don't Go Away" is one of the first singles off the album. It's not a masterpiece, but it's a great song and Todd's vocals are great. "Fallout" reminds me of "Slammin'" from the "Time Bomb," album..."Rose" is a terrific, country-tinged ballad in the vein of "Carousel." "All of Me" and "Imminent Bail Out" are two of the weakest tracks on the album. Oddly enough, they are great songs...Just not as accessible as the other songs on the album. The album closes with "Cream," which has lyrics that will leave you scratching your head but is a really good song and a great way to close the album. This is arguably Buckcherry's best album; they're really comfortable as a band at this point and they've found their comfortable medium on the production. I prefer "15" but many people will love this album. Josh Todd, in the studio, has the perfect rock voice. He doesn't have a 4-octave range or anything, but he can sing, moan, and screech with the best of them. Buckcherry is one of the few bands that have come out within the last ten years that I can see as having staying power and "Black Butterfly" continues the trend of putting out terrific albums that won't come out of your CD player. Pick this up, you won't regret it.
Lyrics: C+
Production: B+
Songs: A-
OVERALL: A-
Black Butterfly - 12 Tracks September 18, 2008
Steven Swan (Illinois)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
So Far this one after a few listens has settled into my 3rd favorite Buckcherry studio album. I do know I like it quite a bit better than their last studio release "15".
This is a very solid blues based hard rock album, although not perfect by any means; it remains an important step in Buckcherry's evolution, some may argue it's just rock 'n roll, and all they sing about it sex and drugs....partying, but hardcore fans of the band know this is not the case. You listen to this CD along with say ...the Backyard Babies latest release (2008 S/T), and you've got 2 solid hard rocking albums that seem to further enhance the genre. I do like the Babies newest release a little better than this one, but they are very good sounding/feeling albums to come out this year.
It starts out with another lead track that is a rocker in "Rescue Me", this one is a solid song and set's the tone for the CD as so many other lead tracks have done on all 3 or their other releases.
Nice guitar work on the album overall, nice fills, some solo's which are used in an abbreviated fashion at times, but nonetheless used wisely with the flow of each song. A slightly heavier feel on this one over "15" at times, and to be honest that is exactly what I was hoping, although there are a few songs that drag the momentum down too far for me. Really though for some reason I just don't think they've hit the peak of their music yet, on this one they get close in many places though...and that is a good sign, they are expanding and growing a bit, but still of course rolling down that sleazy part of town where the weekend is all that matters and having a good time.
"A Child Called 'it'", "Imminent Bail Out", and "Fallout" are my 3 favorite tracks on here after a few listens, and I would consider them some of the best stuff they have recorded. To give an idea of how many good songs I hear here the song "Too Drunk" is about in the middle of my favs. "Rose" followed by "Imminent Bailout" sound great. "Cream" is another song I would define as expanding their horizons a bit, pretty unique song for the band, it starts out like another ballad, but once the drums kick in it's kinda like ...'where is this song going now?'....and it works pretty well. "Talk To Me" and "Dreams" are decent songs on here also that work well mixed in with the others.
Unfortunately there is a few low spots IMO on here, most notably what I now refer to as Brooklyn II in a song called "All Of Me" which has sunk to the bottom of my all time favs list along with the boring and familar going through the motions of a song called "Don't Go Away" which is I believe may be the second single and with a video and all, to me that song is very dull.
Favs in order
1. A Child Called "it"
2. Imminent Bail Out
3. Fallout
4. Rose
5. Rescue Me
6. Cream
7. Too Drunk
8. Tired Of You
9. Talk To Me
10. Dreams
11. Don't Go Away
12. All Of Me
I also recommend picking up the Fan Club edition with two bonus song on it. I would rate the song "Nothing" on that one higher than "All Of Me" and "Don't Go Away" on this one...maybe even over "Dreams" as well?
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