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"I'm Not Happy" is the fourth album from LA sleaze rockers Love/Hate. The first two albums are masterpieces of the genre. With "I'm Not Happy" the band continues in their same, sleazy, hard driving, rock and roll style. The band have a raw, biting and fairly heavy sound and Jizzy Pearl's raspy vocals are charismatic and a big part of the charm of this band.
There are some great tunes on here that really could have been included on "Black Out" or "Wasted in America" such as the short album opener "Superfragilistic", the melodic "The End", the melancholic "Love Me Down" and the pissed-off rocker "I'm Not Happy". The later is a bit repetitive and has that same angry vibe as on Dangerous Toy's 1994 album "Pissed". I suppose the name of the album itself should have been a hint to the overall angry vibe of the album. "Hey Man" starts off a straight-up blues number and builds up into a slow, plodding rocker. This song sounds more like an obscure b-side track than something that should have been placed as the second track on the album. Other songs just sound like left-over tracks from past recording sessions, or perhaps b-side cuts. "Ola Mola" is one such song. The song a great guitar crunch but is overly repetitive and it almost sounds if Jizzy is just scatting and making things up as he goes rather than actually singing lyrics. The album ends with a cover of The Beatles "I Am the Walrus".
I'd be hard pressed to say that "I'm Not Happy" was of the same caliber as "Black Out" or "Wasted in America", but it's certainly not a bad album either. The songs are a hit and miss making the album as a whole not solid.
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