Platinum Rock

During your sometimes long (if you’re lucky), draining life there comes along something that you realise you’ve been waiting for without even knowing that you were waiting at all. It could be the man of your dreams, a winning scratchy card or even the best orgasm of your life. However it could be something as simple and small as a CD. A totally awesome CD filled with classic rock tracks that bring back your heyday of when you were once king of high school or BMOC (Big Man On Campus). The tracks that helped you out through exams and break ups and the tracks that sent shivers down your spine (not that you’d admit it) when you heard it live. This is that CD.

Platinum Rock delivers what it promises. With the one hit wonders from Semisonic and Weezer mixed in with the more commercially popular bands like Red Hot Chilli Peppers and Blink 182, you can’t go wrong. A little bite from every plate makes for a hearty meal. Alice in Chains brings some heavier metal whilst the slow new age rock of Tonic and Goo Goo Dolls balance out the 2 disc album that serves especially well for long drives.

What is most appreciative (at least from my 20 year old something perspective) is that Platinum Rock highlights the age of the late nineties to the very early naughties; a time when people thought that emo was simply a misspelling of Elmo. There’s not one emo note in this collection which is very refreshing to listen to. Yes, some songs may have had their overplayed time on the radio but one can’t help but jump up and down, shouting out long forgotten lyrics to songs like Semi-Charmed Life, She Hates Me or POD’s (what happened to those guys?) Alive.

Platinum Rock delivers what it promises

A fantastic compilation album, one that brings back memories you had (almost) buried deep in your past. Whether those memories were good or not, the songs they are associated with aren’t and, as if someone magically plucked out all your and your mates’ high school theme songs, they are all here to be enjoyed (or cried over) again and again.

Disc 1
1. Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun
2. Live - All Over You
3. Alice In Chains - Would?
4. Puddle Of Mudd - She Hates Me
5. Temple Of The Dog - Hunger Strike
6. Lit - My Own Worst Enemy
7. Creed - My Own Prison
8. Filter - Take A Picture
9. P.O.D. - Alive
10. Blind Melon - No Rain
11. Staind - It's Been A While
12. Sublime - What I Got
13. Everclear - Santa Monica
14. The Feelers - Pressure Man
15. Tonic - You Wanted More
16. Weezer - Undone (The Sweater Song)
17. Collective Soul - Where The River Flows

Disc 2
1. Shihad - Home Again
2. Stone Temple Pilots - Interstate Love Song
3. Incubus - Are you In
4. Faith No More - Epic
5. Third Eye Blind - Semi Charmed Life
6. Seven Mary Three - Cumbersome
7. Queens Of The Stone Age - No One Knows
8. Cranberries - Zombie
9. Semisonic - Closing Time
10. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Higher Ground
11. Fuel - Heamorrage
12. Grinspoon - Secrets
13. Jane’s Addiction - Been Caught Stealing
14. Blink 182 - Dammit
15. Spacehog - In The Meantime
16. Goo Goo Dolls - Iris
17. HLAH - Cornbag

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