Despite the flute, piccolo bass, constant talk about living in Dixie and the fact it's some sort of super old civil-war era song or something I've apparently played it 11 times the whole way through. Sure, 'Nessun Dorma' is nothing if not proof that opera is damn hard to pull off and best left to professionals, but how many other metal vocalists could make 'An American Trilogy' sort of (sort of) work? It should sound awful, and I guess if you're looking at it objectively than it is, but as it's hard to hate, say, a retarded duckling, so it is hard to hate Adams' full on, give-everything-to-the-song-and-sing-glory-glory-hallelujah-unironically-over-and-over-again thing that he does in that tune. Adams' vocals are always goofy, but always super earnest, as charismatic as Hitler, always passionate, manly as shiiiit and they always sound supremely excellent. The vocals here are a big part of what makes the filler tolerable and the better (heavier) tunes so excellent. This probably requires some explaining I guess the simplest way to put it is that an album is an album is an album, not merely a collection of random songs thus, if the album as a whole gets my dick hard and my neck hurting, I can and will sing its' praises irrespective of how head scratchingly weird some of the song choices are. Ninety percent for an album in which near half the songs could best be described as 'eccentric' or 'strangely endearing' at best, or 'godawful' or perhaps 'what the hell, an opera cover?' at worst, depending on mood.
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