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Mr. Big- Get Over It

One star (out of a possible five stars)

Mr. Big, best known for its mellow acoustic chart-topping hit "To Be With You (from 1991's Lean Into It)" are back after a seven year hiatus with their fourth studio album, Get Over It.

The band, whose members had a strange obsession with playing their instruments with power drills fitted with guitar picks on-stage, haven't changed much for the year 2000. Not only that, but their outdated, stale hair metal musical style is more corny and juvenile than ever before.

In fact, Get Over It is a kind of painful experience, bringing forth horrible memories of tight spandex, big hair, wrist sweat bands, fluorescent pink guitars and everything else that made the American music scene of the eighties so unbearable.

Everything about Get Over It contributes to its poor attempt at creating an honest, decent rock album.

Lead singer Eric Martin spews forth more mindless '80s lyrics with an annoying high pitched shrieking. On the song "Electrified," Martin sings painfully, "Flick my switch, smack my lips, let's go/I gotta fuse that's abused and it's ready to blow...Shock me once/Shock me twice/You've got me electrified, oh shock me!"

On the song "Superfantastic," Mr. Big attempts to recapture the mellow hit that brought them their limited success. Over an acoustic-driven monster rock ballad, Martin sings "Superfantastic, everything is beautiful/Nothing's too tragic in the heads of happy people."

In compliance with '80s rock standards, the album is full of sporadic "yeah's" and "ow's," but that's just not enough to save it.

During a performance on Mr. Big's 1993 Japanese tour, guitarist Paul Gilbert got his drill caught in his long hair. He later stated "Spinal Tap wish they'd thought of that." How poignant.