In the liner notes to their major label debut, Oklahoma City's Hinder endorse tequila, Belvedere, Crown Royal, Jägermeister, 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)," the lead 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 know her 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 have a 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

I can listen to this CD over and over again. Almost every song on here is amazing which you don't always find on CDs now adays. Many of their songs have a similar theme (girls, breaking up, relationships) but that makes each song seamlessly flow into the next. "Lips of an Angel" is by far the best song on the CD. I highly recommend this CD.

Get tired of hearing... "The cheating guy song." Hey, excuse me...listen to the song. The song is about TWO people being in a relationship and realizing they still love one another. Hince..."Does he know you're talking to me? Will it start a fight?" in the second verse. There you have it folks. So don't be ready to call the "Lync Mob" on just the guy. TWO people are involved with this so called "Cheater" song. Love works that way sometimes. It's cold yeah, but it does. I recommend taking time to fully heal the pain before moving on to another relationship though. Using people to help get over someone else always causes fireworks.

Other than this, the CD is great. Good music. Love "By The Way". Great song too.

Great Band I love every song on the CD looking forward to the next CD coming on Nov 4th 2008

I bought this album simply because I liked the cover art. Little did I know that I was in for a surprise when I listened to it. If the effort put into this album is any indication of things to come from this band then they have a very bright future ahead of them. Most of the songs on this album are great. Instead of mentioning the more popular ones, which are good and you can hear them on the radio, I will instead mention the even better songs on the album such as Better Than Me, Room 21 and Bliss. Those three tracks alone were worth the purchase of the CD as they were full of energy, feeling and well put together lyrics. I will buy their next album just because they release it since I was so impressed with this one.

I never got the product from the seller but my credit card was charged. It's been over a month so I just went to the store and bought it.