AwolNation: The Best Songs Off of "Megalithic Symphony."

The best songs on the AwolNation album "Megalithic Symphony" are: "Sail," "Kill Your Heroes," and "Burn It Down." "Soul Wars" doesn't have to be completely thrown away either. However, this album is a very hit or miss batch of sounds and grooves.

"Megalithic Symphony": An intro that is cool if you are at the concert and this is playing letting you know finally the band is coming out, but on an album as a track: who cares?

"Some Sort Of Creature": Just a dude talking for twenty some-odd seconds about a hobo lady carrying a weird creature.

"Soul Wars": 80s funky synth meets disco meets 50s rock rhyme hits industrial pop preacher with a drum for a pulpit? And throw in some Neanderthal hoo-hah for good measure. Catchy-ish, not one I would put on repeat though.

"People": Singer reminds me of a Christian pop rock group that had a hit single in the 90s I think it was. I cannot think of the name of the band, but they made fun of Marilyn Manson in one of their lyrics or something. This is just as bland and weak as that crap was.

"Jump On My Shoulders": More la la la sunshine Jesus pop rock more ear wax than candy, crusty, dull.

"Burn It Down": Fast drum electronic rock beat with the vocals coming like Little Richard giving a sermon meets a slight punk vibe into the chorus. Almost cool, stretches out to be, but cool remains just out of reach as the song collapses into a messy collage before it ends.

"Guilty Filthy Soul": Just repetitive distorted guitar strum meets bad Mick Jagger impression gospel preach screech. Terrible. Sounds more like a kid playing with trying to make a song in his basement as opposed to really being something worth laying down the dollar for.

"Kill Your Heroes": This time the inspira-rock formula earns some kudos for the message about we're all going to die, don't be afraid, kill your heroes and fight. Good-ish song in sound it is not the strongest delivery method, but lyrically it earns the a placing ribbon.

"My Nightmare's Dream": Not a song, just a rough tape-like recording of a choir doing a couple of lines lasting twenty some-odd seconds.

"Sail": This is the song I heard on the radio that made me want to check out the rest of AWOLNations's album. Distortion with bass beat, claps, and guitar sounding fuzz, makes this a bob your head slowly while crawling through traffic track. It's got atmospheric power beyond the depth of actual content. Cool track, grittier than the others before it.

"Wake Up": The preacher is pacing the stage again and then the group rock chant lyrics delve into Maroon 5 territory for the chorus, but without the smoothness. The nails are falling out and Jesus is falling of the cross, into a heap of flesh and blood on the floor and everyone loses interest.

"Not Your Fault": A semi-interesting puzzle of sounds, jump over the basic pieces onto the dance beat section and then fun off of those into the rock yell pieces for the chorus, but then the basic pieces of the song come back, and hitting fast forward through a song does not make for good listening exactly. Okay.

"All I Need": An Elton John impersonator ripping off Sinead O'Conner, not landing the success of either artist attempted and becomes a mellow failure.

"Knights Of Shame": Less a song and more of a beat scheme. There are lines of lyric repeated throughout, but mostly someone playing with sound machines again. It rolls eventually into some mellow rap, which is where it almost shines. Not as okay as it could have been, experimental leave it running background music.