Whoever thinks "Deep End" is about suicide should really listen carefully to the lyrics. Whoever thinks MadChild doesn't listen to bars should consider that maybe MadChild doesn't give a [damn] and considers that his style. I love Bad Dreams as well as every one of my Swollen CD's. Each MC's style is unique: Prevail is brainy. MadChild uses ancient and fantasy based ideas. Bad Dreams is the cd that you pop into the cd player in your car during a long midnight highway drive. Excellent.

i really like this one... but for real.. they get better with time.. so im waiting for beautiful death machine... mad child is a lil genious

When i first heard this album i was blown away by the lyrical genius of swollen members, especially Mad Child.Who was once homeless and living in the cd store where he worked in Canada...That was until he appeared on a track with Q-bert called 'Pregnant'...Mad Child, Prevail And Moka Only formed the group, before Moka decided to leave the group to pursue a solo career. First Lp Balance was a worldwide underground hit and left people hanging for their next release which came the next year.Stand out tracks are Fuel Injected, Camouflage, Dark Riders, and Bad Dreams ...you can tell they were dungeons and dragons playing nerds when they were at school,but that just adds to their individuality...definately an album to get a hold of along with the first Lp Balance....

i was on my computer on msn and one of my friends was like there's a new swollen song on much. i'm like damn so i flip to it and sure enough fuel injection was playing. i had to have it. luckaly my sis bought it for me for xmas. i listend to it right away. though i find more songs than usual aren't up to my standards for swollen but most of the songs were damn good. this album is more rythmical than balance i think so its real good. if i were you i'd buy it.

I was really impressed with the quality of beats and music that this album produced. Prevail was outstanding and his flow was amazing. The song "Deep End" is easily one of the best hip hop songs I've ever heard, the flow, lyrics, beat and sound all work together incredibly well. However, the rest of the album is heavy with great beats and solid lines from Prevail, but Mad Child doesn't seem to count bars well, or even at all. There are parts in several songs in which he seems to delay, to set something down, but he doesn't continue with anything that ties together his rhymes. There are several songs in which pauses would be okay if done well, but he is without cadence or any sembelence of counting the beats or bars at all. There are several really good songs, like "Killing Spree", "The Reflection" and "Ventilate" that could be made into amazing songs with a bit more work. This album, if the timing on the lyrics was better, would easily be 5 stars, as the beats are some the best I've heard, and "Deep End" is one of the top 5 best rap/hip hop song I've heard.